广东省揭阳市岐石中学2023年高二英语测试题含解析

1、广东省揭阳市岐石中学2023年高二英语测试题含解析一、 选择题1. -Do you know the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson died of heart disease?- Yes. But I thought he _. A. might die of skin cancer B. might have died of skin cancer C. should have died of skin cancer D. must die of skin cancer参考答案：B2. -So much work needs to be finished in

2、such a short time.-_Ill give you a hand.A not to worry B so what? C you cant be too careful D thats right参考答案：A3. He got completely when he saw both Lucy and Lily, who are twin sisters. A. confusing B. confused C. confuse D. confuses参考答案：B4. How could you this word? The sentence makes no sense witho

3、ut it.A. give out B. let out C. leave out D. make out参考答案：C5. _her prettiness,Li yuchun, one of the super girls, is smart and natural as well.A In spite of B Except for C But for D Apart from参考答案：D略6. I _ for several years when I was young.A. smoked B. was smoking C. has smoked D. had smoked参考答案：A7.

4、 Thanks for your help, but can you do me one more favor, please? _, Sir. Whats it then?A. Just a minute B. My pleasure C. Thats right D. At your service参考答案：D8. It was said the president of the university had to resign as he was _ of bribery. A. charged B. blamed C. accused D. appealed 参考答案：C9. At l

5、ast nothing but some trees remains, with some branches_ the wall.A. stick out of B. stuck out of C. sticking out of D. to stick out of参考答案：C10. A serious study of physics is impossible _some knowledge of mathematics.Aagainst Bbefore Cbeyond Dwithout参考答案：D11. Its quite difficult to learn _ foreign la

6、nguage well in _ absence of a native language environment.A. the; an B. a; / C. /；/ D. a; the参考答案：D12. The Louvre is the most famous French museum where many priceless art works are _ , including the Mona Lisa. A.covered B. adopted C. lain D. housed参考答案：D略13. Was it the guide with _help all of you,

7、the mountain climbers, were rescued_signaled the local police?Yes, I cant thank him enoughA. whom; whoB. whom; that C. whose; what D. whose; that参考答案：D14. The teacher demanded that the exam _ before eleven.A. must finish B. would be finished C. be finished D. must be finished参考答案：C15. The G20 summit

8、（峰会）in London could be remembered as the turning point when the_ between the developing and developed world ends for ever.A. tendency B. intention C. appreciationD. distinction参考答案：D二、 完型填空16. I started my travel business 6 years ago. I didnt have a _41_ budget(预算), so I simply told everyone I was f

9、amiliar with my business. _42_, I had got very few clients(客户).Late one evening I received a call from a woman _43_ about a cruise(乘船游览) she had booked. I didnt _44_ her voice so I asked her where she lived. She replied, “Montana.” I told her that I didnt have any clients in Montana and that she mus

10、t have been _45_. “Sir, I have your _46_ written down right here on my piece of paper,_47_ I must have booked it with you. Could you recheck it, please?” she _48_ responded. _49_, she had my website but I wasnt her travel agent(代理人).I _50_ her name, phone number and sailing information and told her

11、I would call the cruise line and see _51_ I could find out. She greatly _52_ my offer to help. The next day I called to tell her that I found out that one agency did have her _53_ and gave her its number. The woman was very _54_ with the solution. We also talked for a few minutes about her _55_ and

12、I gave her some tips while on board. She thanked me again and I told her it would be my _56_ to help her any time in the future. After a few days, I completely _57_ about the encounter.Several months later, much to my _58_, I got a call from the ladys sister from Montana, who wanted to get married o

13、n a cruise ship. Thats just the beginning of the story. My little _59_ to the lady in Montana brought 30 brand new clients! Time will only tell how many new clients will come my way, _60_ one simple offer.41A. marketing B. travellingC. housingD. training42A. Unusually B. UnbelievablyC. Unfortunately

14、D. Unreasonably43A. Commenting B. complainingC. debatingD. asking44A. understand B. rememberC. bearD. recognize45A. mistakenB. misunderstoodC. misledD. amused46A. numberB. nameC. websiteD. address47A. forB. butC. so D. though48A. excitedlyB. politelyC. curiously D. coldly49A. ThereforeB. BesidesC. I

15、nsteadD. Indeed50A. checked outB. put downC. took outD. turned down51A. whatB. howC. whenD. where52A. refusedB. acceptedC. appreciatedD. weighed53A. applicationB. bookingC. passwordD. signature54A. embarrassedB. annoyedC. confusedD. satisfied55A. familyB. cruiseC. career D. agency56A. pleasureB. cre

16、ditC. shame D. reward57A. thoughtB. worriedC. cared D. forgot58A. sadnessB. astonishmentC. relief D. disappointment59A. rudenessB. generosityC. kindnessD. sympathy60A. in terms ofB. on account ofC. in honor ofD. in need of参考答案：41-50 ACDDA CCBDB 51-60 ACBDB ADBCB 文章主要讲述了作者市场营销预算少，所以客户也少，但是通过一次偶然的机会帮助

17、了一位弄错订单的客户，后来得到了大量的新客户的故事。41考查动词辨析。句意：我没有营销预算。A. marketing销售；B. travelling旅行；C. housing给提供住房；D. training训练，培养。根据“I started my travel business 6 years ago.”（六年前我从事旅游生意。）以及下文“I had got very few clients.”（我的客户很少。）可知，作者营销做的很不好，市场预算不够。故选A。42考查副词辨析。句意：不幸的是，我的客户很少。A. Unusually不寻常地；B. Unbelievably难以置信地；C. U

18、nfortunately不幸地；D. Unreasonably不合理地。根据“I had got very few clients.”（我的客户很少。）可知，故选C。43考查动词辨析。句意：一天傍晚，我接到一位女士打来的电话，她询问她预订的一次游轮旅行。A. commenting评论，注释；B. complaining抱怨；C. debating辩论，争论；D. asking询问。故选D。44考查动词辨析。句意：我没有认出她的声音，所以我问她住在哪里。A. understand理解；B. remember记得；C. tolerate容忍；D. recognize承认，识别。故选D。45考查动词

19、辨析。句意：我告诉她我在蒙大纳没有任何客户，她一定搞错了。A. mistaken错误；B. misunderstood误解，误会；C. forgotten忘记；D. amused娱乐，逗乐。根据前一句“I told her that I didnt have any clients in Montana”（我告诉她我在蒙大纳没有任何客户。）可知，作者确定女士弄错了。故选A。46考查名词辨析。句意：我把你的网站写在我的一张纸上了。A. number数目；B. name名字；C. website网站；D. address地址。根据“she had my website”（她有我的网站。），故选C。

20、47考查连词辨析。句意：我把你的网站写在我的一张纸上了，所以我一定是和你订了。A. for因为，由于；B. but但是；C. so因此；D. though虽然。这一句前后为因果关系，故选C。48考查副词辨析。句意：她礼貌地回答。A. excitedly兴奋地，激动地；B. politely礼貌地，客气地；C. curiously好奇地；D. coldly冷地。根据“Could you recheck it, please?”（你能再检查一遍，好吗？）可知，女士很有礼貌。故选B。49考查连词辨析。句意：她确实有我的网站。A. Therefore因此；B. Besides除之外，还有；C. Ins

21、tead代替，顶替；D. Indeed的确，确实。上文提及女士有作者的网站，想让作者确认，本句是在确认。故选D。50考查动词短语辨析。句意：我记下了她的名字、电话号码和航行信息。A. checked out检查；B. put down记下，放下；C. sorted out分类；D. turned down拒绝，减少。故选B。51考查连接词。句意：告诉她我会打电话给邮轮，看看我能发现什么。what什么；how怎么；when表时间；where表地点。see后为宾语从句，从句中find out后缺少宾语，故填what。故选A。52考查动词辨析。句意：她非常感谢我提供的帮助。A. rejected拒绝

22、；B. accepted接受；C. appreciated欣赏；D. weighed权衡，称的重量。对于作者提供的帮助，女士很感激。故选C。53考查名词辨析。句意：我发现一个旅行社接受了她的申请，并给了她那个旅行社的电话。A. application申请，试用；B. booking预定；C. password密码，口令；D. signature签名，署名。根据上文“Late one evening I received a call from a woman _3_ about a cruise she had booked.”（一天傍晚，我接到一位女士打来的电话，她询问她预订的一次游轮旅行。

23、）中末尾的booked提示选B。54考查形容词辨析。句意：对这个解决方案非常满意。A. embarrassed尴尬的；B. annoyed恼怒的，气恼的；C. confused困惑的；混乱的；D. satisfied满意的。作者帮助了女士，这位女士的感情色彩应该是积极的。故选D。55考查名词辨析。句意：我们也聊了几分钟她的游船。A. family家，家庭；B. cruise巡航；C. career职业；D. agency代理，机构。根据上文“Late one evening I received a call from a woman _3_ about a cruise she had bo

24、oked.”可知，故选B。56考查名词辨析。句意：她再次感谢我，我告诉她将来能帮助她是我的荣幸。A. pleasure愉快；B. credit信誉，信用；C. shame羞愧；D. reward报酬。Its my pleasure to do sth做某事是我的荣幸。故选A。57考查动词辨析。句意：过了几天，我完全忘记了那次遭遇。A. thought想，以为；B. worried担心；C. cared关心；D. forgot忘记。已经过去几天了，上文所提的事只是小事，所以作者几乎是忘了。故选D。58考查名词辨析。句意：几个月后，令我吃惊的是，我接到了一位来自蒙大纳的女士的电话。A. sadne

25、ss悲伤；B. astonishment惊讶；C. relief宽慰；D. disappointment失望。几个月后很长一段时间的，接到的电话是上次的女士，所以作者接到她的电话反应根据常识应该很吃惊。故选B。59考查名词辨析。句意：我对蒙大纳女士的一点好意带来了30个全新的客户！A. rudeness粗鲁；B. generosity慷慨；C. kindness仁慈；D. sympathy同情。故选C。60考查介词短语辨析。句意：时间只会告诉我有多少新客户会来，原因是一个简单的（好意的）提供。A. in terms of就而言；B. on account of因为；C. in honor of

26、向致敬；D. on behalf of代表。故选B。三、 阅读理解17. Whos in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, its other peoplesociety, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young. But we were brainwashed. We discovered tha

27、t feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”So when pe

28、ople tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to ke

29、ep getting their fix (一剂毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedomthe freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their o

30、wn agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, theyre more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time

31、. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process. So how can we take back control? I think theres only one waymake a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of value

32、s-not values imposed（强加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.57. What Oscar Wilde says implies that _.A.

33、 we have thoughts similar to those of others B. most people have a variety of thoughtsC. most peoples thoughts are controlled by othersD. other peoples thoughts are more important 58. What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph?A. We may lose ourselves to please others.B. Changing opini

34、ons may cost us our freedom. C. We need to pay for what we want to get.D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.59. In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _.A. care about others opinions and change opinions all the timeB. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside

35、C. persuade others to accept our opinions D. stick to our own values60. It can be concluded from the passage that _.A. we shouldnt care what others think B. its better to do what we likeC. we shouldnt change our own opinions D. its important to accept others opinions参考答案：略18. About 15 years ago, I t

36、aught A Problem from Hell, a book on genocides (大屠杀), to a group of 18- and 19-year-olds in a mid-west university in the US. In my class there was a young man who had spent his boyhood in Bosnia as NATO bombed his hometown. My other students, amazed by his connection to the genocide in the textbook,

37、 asked him what it was like to grow up in a war-zone. “A pretty normal childhood as you had here,” he said. “We played cards inside a lot, and when there was no bombing we kicked a ball in the street.”In the past few years, the world has seen a rapid increase in refugees (难民), with the number hittin

38、g 60 million. Viet Thanh Nguyens story collection The Refugees reminds us that literature is news that stays news. Set in the Vietnamese communities in California as well as in Vietnam, the stories do not aim to surprise us with new twists or shock us with wonderful details, as war and refugee stori

39、es could easily choose to do. Rather, like the young man from Bosnia, Nguyens characters tell these stories because they are the only ones known to them.Included in the collection are two of the most touching pieces, both about siblings (兄弟或姊妹) separated by geography and history. In “Black-Eyed Wome

40、n”, the narrator (讲述人), a young Vietnamese woman, is visited by the ghost of her elder brother, who died young on the boat when the family took flight from the war. The tale of love and loss, violence and violation, may not be unfamiliar to the reader, but the determination of the brothers ghost (he

41、 has taken decades to swim across the Pacific to reach America) and the sisters abandoning herself to a half death make the story lasting.As an echo, the closing story, “Fatherland”, explores a more complex situation between two siblings. The narrator, a young Vietnamese woman, meets her half-sister

42、, visiting from the US for the first time. Adding to the tension is the fact that her father has named the narrator and her siblings after his first set of children. Two sisters, one American and one Vietnamese, yet named the same by the father it may sound strange, but isnt it the fate many refugee

43、s have to face: a life left behind, that could have been theirs; and a life in an adopted country.The theme of doubleness choice and inevitability (不可避免性), home and homelessness, starting afresh and being stuck is present not only in the stories of Vietnamese refugees, but also of those who have bec

44、ome refugees from their own homes and loved ones. “Smiling at your s never got you very far, but smiling at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did.” So a pilot, who fought in the Vietnam war and is now revisiting the country for the first time, thinks while waving at the locals from a tour bus. H

45、es distant from his daughter, just as a Mexican American in the collection is distant from his wife, or a young man from Hong Kong is distant from his father.The collection is full of refugees, whether from external or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each

46、other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation (和解) but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to insult anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters.45. The first paragraph is intended to .A. describe the boring life of war victimsB. appeal to

47、the readers to help war victimsC. criticize NATOs killing of innocent peopleD. introduce the story collection The Refugees46. Which of the following about The Refugees is True?A. It tells the news in a literary form.B. It is full of surprising twists and plots.C. The author experiences the stories h

48、imself.D. Its characters narrate their own stories.47. How are Black-Eyed Women and Fatherland mainly developed?A. By giving examples.B. Bymaking contrasts.C. By providing evidence.D. By making classifications.48. We can infer from Paragraph 5 that .A. s hate their loved ones for being left behindB.

49、 separation from loved ones tends to make them distantC. people become refugees due to their double characterD. smiling is a good way to keep loved ones together49. Which of the following is the theme of The Refugees？A. Despair, suffering, and regret.B. Anger, humour and hope.C. Sympathy, regret, an

50、d reconciliation.D. Dream, hope, and expectation.50. The Refugees mainly focuses on .A. the problems of identity, love, and family for refugeesB. the miserable lives of refugees in the adopted countriesC. the refugees reunion with their families after separationD. the various reasons for peoples being reduced to refugees参考答案：45. D 46. D 47. B 48. B 49. B 50. A文章介绍了Viet