云南昆明重点中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

When is Grandpa's birthday?

What does the girl advise the man to do?

Where will the man go for the holiday probably?

Where are the speakers?

What happened to Peter's bike?

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The State of Colorado has four of the best parks out of the 58 national parks in the United States. The parks have some of the best scenery of all the national parks.

Black Canyon (峡谷) of Gunnison National Park

This park offers the most breathtaking views from up in the mountains into the canyons below. While exploring the canyons, you will find that the walls drop nearly straight down into the narrow valleys of the snake-like rivers below. Visitors are offered more than 100 camping sites, and a lot of bird species and many animals are native to the area.

Rocky Mountain National Park

It is the only national park in the north central region in the state of Colorado. Elevations in this park are anywhere from 8,000 feet to 14,259 feet at the top of Longs Peak. While traveling throughout this park you will notice two very different climates because of the difference the upper peaks of the Rocky Mountains make. You can enjoy 359 miles of hiking trails, a lot of places for camping, horse-back riding and beautiful scenery.

Mesa Verde National Park

This is probably the most interesting national park, offering a fascinating trip back in time to 600 AD up to 1300 AD. This park was declared a protected national park in 1906 because of the cliff dwellings(住所) that were found throughout the area, which were once home to American Indians. Many of these dwellings can be walked through, while you imagine what each room may have been used for so many years ago.

Great Sand Dunes (沙丘) National Park

The Great Sand Dunes National Park lies in south central Colorado, about 127 miles from Pueblo. This park has the tallest sand dunes in all of North America and has trails for hiking. The natural sandy beaches around the small rivers and lakes are good for swimmers.

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After a terrible electrical accident, which caused him to become both blind and deaf, the whole world became completely dark and quiet for Robert Edwards for almost ten years. The loss of sight and hearing threw him into such sorrow that he tried a few times to put an end to his life. His family, especially his wife, did their best to tend and comfort him and finally he regained the will to live.

One hot summer afternoon, he was taking a walk with a stick near his house when a thunderstorm started all at once. He stood under a large tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. Witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in muddy water at the base of the tree. He was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: a plough and a wall. When Mrs. Edwards came running up to him, shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years.

The news of Robert regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread, and many doctors came to examine him. Most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. However, none of them could give a convincing answer as to why this should have happened. The only reasonable explanation given by one doctor was that, since Robert lost his sight and hearing as a result of a sudden shock, perhaps, the only way for him to regain them was by another sudden shock.

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Read a lot, I mean a lot! You have to increase your ability for reading. Many students are in the habit of reading only when their exams are approaching while some others read only what they are taught or things that must be read because it is in their curriculum (课程). But listen to me now, I am telling you from my own experience that it is a very bad habit and it is not enough to improve your intelligence.

You have to learn and get ready to becomeversatilein your reading. The fact that you are studying medicine in school does not mean that you should not know one or two things on politics. Many people have complained to me that they find it hard to read stuffs like novels but I just shake my head in pity for them because it is obvious they have failed to realize the truth in that wise saying by Margaret Fuller that "today a READER, tomorrow a LEADER!"

When you read, you get to "see" so many places and it will be as if you have visited those places in real life. This is because reading will improve your imagination and creativity and understanding. You also get experience from learning about how people dealt with their various problems therefore saving you from going through the pains and difficulties they must have gone through!

Reading will also help you in improving your vocabulary because you will certainly start coming across so many new words which you will try as much as possible to get accustomed to with the help of the dictionary! The good thing about increasing your vocabulary is that it will also improve your thinking ability. After all, we think in words and the more words you know, the easier it will become for you to express yourself or your thoughts.

And when you read, make sure you read so wide because the more you read the more you know and the more you know the more intelligent you can become.

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My passage into eighties a few weeks ago gave me a moment's reflection and the thought that I should watch how others in this situation have been affected. After a while it seemed to me that the first 80 years are the hardest.

Once you reach 80, everyone wants to carry your baggage and help you up steps. If you forget your name or anybody else's name, or an appointment or your own telephone number, or promise to be three places at the same time, or you can't remember how many grandchildren you have, you need only explain that you are 80.

Being 80 is a lot better than being 70. At 70 people are mad at you for everything. At 80, you have a perfect excuse no matter what you do. If you act foolishly, it's your second childhood. Everybody is looking for symptoms of your failures of the brain.

Being 70 is not fun at all. At that age they expect you to retire to a house in Florida and complain about your arthritis( 关节炎) and you ask everybody to stop mumbling (咕哝) because you can't understand them. (Actually your hearing is about 50% gone.)

If you survive until you are 80, everybody is surprised that you are still alive. They treat you with respect just for having lived so long. Actually they seem surprised that you can walk and talk sensibly.

So please, folks, try to make it to 80. It's the best time of life. People forgive you for anything. In response to the question of what years were the most difficult, an 80-year-old responded "those between 10 and 70."

Life begins at 80.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Learning a new language is a long, difficult process. This process can become easier if you set goals.. This passage guides language learners to set goal about accents and pronunciation.

●It's OK to have an accent.

After your physical growth has stopped, the brain loses some of its ability to change the way it controls the muscles of the mouth.. In other words, having an accent is a natural part of the aging process of the brain.

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Your accent does not mean that your language skills are poor. You can reach a stage where your pronunciation is easy for people to understand, and where it never causes a problem..

●Change the way you pronounce step by step.

Focus on certain areas of pronunciation that you can improve, instead of trying to sound like a native speaker. Choose one or two sounds that are difficult for you to pronounce.. When you have improved, study other sounds. Progress might be slow for you, but don't give up!

A. This is what results in an accent

B. First of all, set a reasonable goal

C. Then, work to improve those sounds

D. There are even benefits to having an accent

E. Improving your pronunciation is certainly possible

F. So, English learners should never lose heart about their pronunciation

G. However, if you set unreasonable goals, you will probably suffer from them

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41～60题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Eating fruits and vegetables is part of keeping a healthy diet. Health experts 1 people should eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. A(n) 2 way to remember this is to try to eat each color of the rainbow (彩虹) 3. This is because different colored fruits and vegetables contain different vitamins and minerals. 4 you eat one of each color each day, you are sure to 5 the necessary nutrition your body needs.

6 fruits and vegetables is good for the heart. There are many delicious 7 in this group. Have an apple with lunch. You can 8 have a red pepper for a hot tasty small meal. 9 some tomatoes and put them on your sandwich. Or 10 you can have strawberries after dinner. When you 11 red, your heart works better.

Orange and yellow fruits and vegetables contain vitamin C. Vitamin C helps the 12 protect itself against disease. In this way it helps your body stay in good health. 13, these wonderful foods are good for your sight. So it is a great 14  to have a glass of orange juice with breakfast. Then put some peaches in your lunchbox. Are you afraid of catching a cold? 15 that from happening by eating a juicy tangerine (a type of small sweet orange).

Green fruits and vegetables have long been widely known as healthy foods. 16, they are especially good for keeping teeth and bones strong. When you eat green, your smile will thank you! Your bones will thank you too!

Blue and purple fruits and vegetables are useful to the 17. They help with memory. Put blueberries in your bowl. You can easily 18 where you put your keys!

Eating the rainbow is an easy way to 19 yourself. So make your eating habits a little more 20!

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

My wife is addicted to shopping on the Internet.  seems that she can't control herself well, just clicking constantly with the mouse. Let me tell you what (happen) last night. It was the fourth time she had shopped online for hours. I had already reminded her (think) twice before buying anything, but my wife ignored  I said and replied confidently, "With the New Year (approach), preparation is necessary. Besides, I haven't bought things on the Internet for a whole week." (hear) her words, I was really speechless. In most cases, the things she bought aren't good value for money. Maybe she just enjoys the process of buying online.

Nowadays,  the development of technology, online shopping is becoming more and more convenient. Those stay at home can buy whatever they want. In the meanwhile, it causes a series of (problem). One of them is more spending than before, because people are (easy) attracted by the discount. So how to keep a good state of mind in front of temptation（诱惑）is an important lesson many people need to learn.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I'm Li Hua, the student of Xinhua middle school. Knowing volunteer of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games are in demand, I'm writing to apply to the precious chance.

First of all, there is no difficulty for me to be communicate with foreigners due to my experiences as an exchange student previous. Second, with a variety of voluntary experiences, there is no doubt whether I will serve with care, kind and smile. Last but not least, it's so a valuable chance to get close contact with outstanding athletes that I couldn't be more exciting.

I would sincerely appreciate if you could offer me the chance.

请以A person I admire 为题，写一篇文章。

生活中有许多人值得我们敬佩，他\她可能是伟人，是名人也或者是一名普普通通的人，请选择一个这样的人进行写作。

要求：1）写出这个人的主要事迹。

2）你敬佩他\她的原因，值得你学习的地方。

注意：1）词数100左右；      2）表达清晰，语言通顺。