四川省成都市重点中学2023-2024高二上学期12月阶段考试英语试题（含答案无听力音频有听力原文）

高2025届高二上期12月阶段性测试
英语试卷
考试时间：120分钟 满 分：150分
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答
题卡上。
第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）
听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选岀最佳选项, 并
标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每
段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the man want to do
A. Reserve a cheap hotel. B. Go to Mexico on business. C. Relax and enjoy himself.
2. What will the woman get
A. Carpet cleaner. B. A paper towel. C. A glass of wine.
3. What is the woman
A. A teacher. B. A student. C. An assistant.
4. Where are the speakers headed
A. To a swimming pool. B. To a beach. C. To a restaurant.
5. Why is the museum of great significance
A. It’s a museum for old art.
B. It will be built on a small island.
C. It’s the first of its kind in Indonesia.
第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选
出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题给出
5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。
6. How much does an entrance ticket cost
A. Two dollars. B. Five dollars. C. Seven dollars.
7. How does the woman pay
A. In cash. B. By cheque. C. By credit card.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。
8. Where did the tomato sauce come from
A. A local farm.
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第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）
第一节（共 15 小题;每题 2. 5 分，满分 37. 5 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Welcome to our stand-up comedy classes
This is the workshop where beginners have grown into headliners and headliners have grown into stars.
Our workshop stresses stand-up comedy writing and performing — the two key components of stand-up comedy.
Our classes are conducted by award-winning, comedy director and writer Stephen Rosenfield and his stand-
up staff. They are conducted so that when it’s time for your club performance, you will have solidly written,
funny material and you will be well rehearsed and ready to perform beyond your expectations. These stand-up
comedy classes are offered to both beginners and advanced students. The workshop consists of group classes,
private coaching sessions and a performance at Gotham or West Side Comedy Club.
Seats available: 2
Start date: May 17th
In-person show: May 20th at Gotham Comedy Club
Live streamed show: May 22nd on YouTube
Fees: If you are a first-time student: $410. If you are a returning student: $350. We accept cash, checks or
credit cards.
Your instructor: Becky Veduccio
Becky has been a professional comedian, writer and actress for over 15 years. She has performed stand-up
comedy in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and London. Besides, she has appeared in commercials, theater
and feature films. And she competed in the 2018 season of America’s Got Talent.
Her film works include Return to Me, Maid in Manhattan and Random Hearts. As a writer, she was chosen
as one of ’s top five “Favorite Mommy Bloggers” for her humorous articles on the website. In
2015, she won the New York Press Club Award for humorous writing. As an instructor, Becky has taught stand-
up comedy to every age group — from elementary school kids and teenagers to university students and adults.
She believes everyone has a comedic voice.
21. What can be learned about the workshop
A. There are three seats left at present. B. It focuses on both writing and acting.
C. There are online shows on May 20th. D. It is specially designed for headliners.
22. How much will a returning student save on the fee
A. $10. B. $50. C. $60. D. $80.
23. What can we say about Becky
A. She hosted America’s Got Talent. B. She contributes a lot to magazines.
C. She belongs to one of the top instructors. D. She is a proficient performer.
B
I was driving when my phone alerted me to a new email. Filled with eager anticipation, I pulled over, turned
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on my hazard lights, and opened it. My emotions quickly changed as I learned, for the sixth and final time, that
I had been denied a promotion to full professor. My institution didn’t seem to value what I brought to the table.
But when I told my family that night, my children offered a surprisingly positive response. They were excited
to see what I was going to do next, they said. They apparently knew long before I did that losing my bid for a
promotion would turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to me.
This had been the final step in a long process spanning 15 months and involving so much effort. I had
started by studying successful promotion bids and asking senior scholars for frank discussions about my
readiness. I had carefully prepared my application packet, summarizing everything I had achieved in my career.
For more than a year, I had spent hours every day trying to prove my worth to my university.
To my surprise, having a final answer brought a welcome sense of closure. As a first step toward healing,
I decided to put first my own values and follow my own internal compass. I disconnected from people in my
life who violated my values, cultivated my relationships with those who share my priorities and bring out the
best in me, and spent more time with my family. I founded a nonprofit that helps first-generation and low-
income students and young professionals advance in the workforce while serving their community. The idea
had long been a dream of mine, but I never pursued it because typical academic hiring and promotion don’t
reward such efforts. Now, such considerations were no longer my North Star.
Five months after that email from top leadership, I found myself in the car again, experiencing another
career-defining moment. I may have lost my bid for a big promotion, but in the end, it brought me to the right
place.
24. What did the author feel after he read the email
A. Anxious and annoyed. B. Embarrassed and ashamed.
C. Relieved and peaceful. D. Disappointed and sorrowful.
25. What is the second paragraph mainly about
A. What contributions the writer had made. B. What preparations the writer had made.
C. How successful the career had been. D. How tiring the process had been.
26. Which of the following would the writer probably agree with
A. Success is more than a title or a rank.
B. One’s internal compass is to be developed.
C. Serving the community may heal a broken heart.
D. One’s real value first lies in his family interaction.
27. What can be the best title for the text
A. Emails: my North Star
B. Full professor: a double-edged sword
C. A career setback becomes a great opportunity
D. An academic career witnesses a failed promotion
C
Like many teenagers, I was once troubled by anxiety and dissatisfaction—feelings that my parents often
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met with puzzlement rather than sympathy. They were already in their 50s, and having grown up in postwar
Britain, they struggled to understand the sources of my dissatisfaction.
“The problem with your generation is that you always desire to be happy.” my mother once said. I was
puzzled. Surely happiness was the purpose of living, and we should spare no efforts to achieve it at every
opportunity. I simply wasn’t prepared to accept my unhappiness as something that was beyond my control.
But I have noticed a shift in thinking, and I am now coming to the conclusion that my mother’s judgement
was spot on. Over the past 10 years, numerous studies have shown that our obsession with happiness and high
personal confidence may be making us less content with our lives, and less effective at reaching our actual goals.
Indeed, we may often be happy when we stop focusing on happiness altogether.
While greater contentment is achievable, don’t expect miracle, and accept that no matter how hard you try,
feeling of frustration and unhappiness will appear from time to time. In reality, certain negative feelings can
serve a useful purpose.
When we feel sad, it’s often because we have learned something painful but important, while stress can
motivate you to make some changes to your life. The last thing you should do is blame yourselves for
occasionally feeling bad when plans don’t work out.
Eventually, you might adopt the old saying “Prepare for the worst, hope for the best and be unsurprised by
everything in between.” As my mother tried to teach me all those years ago, ease the pressure off yourself, and
you may find that contentment arrives when you’re least expecting it.
28. Which of the following best explain “spot on” underlined in paragraph 3
A. Confusing. B. Correct. C. Ridiculous. D. Controversial.
29. According to the passage, which of the following mainly leads to teenagers’ unhappiness
A. High expectations. B. Low living purposes.
C. Inadequate efforts. D. Improper preparations.
30. Which of the following statements is the author most likely to agree with
A. Stress in your life will probably ruin your happiness and life.
B. Higher personal confidence makes us more satisfied with our life.
C. You needn’t be guilty of feeling awful since you may learn a lot from it.
D. If we try hard, feelings of frustration and unhappiness will disappear from our life.
31. Which of the following can be the best title for the text
A. Can we benefit from negative feelings
B. Why it’s time to stop fighting for happiness
C. How can we overcome our unhappiness
D. Can we generation be happier than our parents
D
An artificial intelligence can decode words and sentences from brain activity with surprising—though still
limited—accuracy. Using only a few seconds of brain activity data, the AI guesses what a person has heard. It
lists the correct answer in its top 10 possibilities up to 73 percent of the time, researchers found in a study.
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Developed at the parent company of Facebook, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help thousands of
people around the world unable to communicate through speech, typing or gestures, researchers report on
August 25 at arXiv.org.
Most existing technologies to help such patients communicate require risky brain surgeries to implant
electrodes. This new approach “could provide a practical path to help patients without the use of invasive
methods,” says neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King, a Meta AI researcher in Paris.
King and his colleagues trained a computational tool to detect words and sentences on 56,000 hours of
speech recordings from 53 languages. The tool, also known as a language model, learned how to recognize
specific features of language. With the help of a computational method, the team tried to decode what
participants had heard using just three seconds of brain activity data from each person. The team instructed the
AI to match the speech sounds from the story recordings to patterns of brain activity that the AI computed as
corresponding to what people were hearing. It then made predictions about what the person might have been
hearing during that short time, given more than 1,000 possibilities. The correct answer was in the AI’s top 10
guesses up to 73 percent of the time, the researchers found.
The new study is “decoding of speech perception, not production,” King notes. Though speech production
is the ultimate goal, for now, “we’re quite a long way away.”
32. What is the main idea of paragraph 1
A. The principle of human brain activity.
B. The limitation of human brain activity.
C. The definition of the artificial intelligence.
D. The new function of the artificial intelligence.
33. Whom might the AI be beneficial to
A. People unable to hear. B. People who can’t move around.
C. People who are unconscious. D. People unable to communicate normally.
34. What is the purpose of paragraph 4
A. To analyze the features of the study. B. To state the significance of the study.
C. To introduce the process of the study. D. To present the achievement of the study.
35. What can we infer about the AI from the passage
A. It performs well in the speech production.
B. Its accuracy is far from the researchers’ satisfaction.
C. It will help patients avoid dangerous brain surgeries.
D. Its language learning ability is beyond expectation.
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
My, what a big beak you have!
For humans, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning,
better-designed houses and bigger flood defenses may help to make the effects of a warmer world less harmful.
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36 In a paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Sara Ryding, a PhD candidate at
Deakin University, shows that is already happening. Climate change is already altering the bodies of many
animal species, giving them bigger beaks (喙), legs and ears.
In some species of Australian parrot, for instance, beak size has increased by between 4% and 10% since
1871. Another study, this time in North American dark-eyed juncos, another bird, found the same pattern.
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All that is perfectly consistent with evolutionary theory. “Allen’s rule”, named for Joel Asaph Allen, who
suggested it in 1877, holds that warm-blooded animals in hot places tend to have larger body parts than those
in temperate (温带的) regions. 38 Being richly filled with blood vessels, and not covered by feathers,
beaks make an ideal place for birds to get rid of heat. Fennec foxes, meanwhile, which are native to the Sahara
Desert, have strikingly large ears, especially compared with their Arctic cousins.
Ms. Ryding is not the first researcher to take that approach. But it is hard, when dealing with individual
species, to prove that climate change was the cause of an anatomical (解剖学的) changes. All sorts of other
factors, from changes in prey to the evolving reproductive preferences of males or females, might have been
driving the changes. 39 The team combined data from different species in different places. Since they
have little in common apart from living on a warming planet, climate change is the most reasonable explanation.
40 That may change as warming accelerates. Since any evolutionary adaptation comes with trade-
offs (妥协), it is unclear how far the process might go. Bigger beaks might make feeding harder, for instance.
Larger wings are heavier, and bigger legs cost more energy to grow.
A．However, looking at the bigger picture makes the pattern clearer.
B．For now, at least, the increase is small, never much more than 10%.
C．Animals will have to rely on changing their bodies or their behaviors.
D．It seems that the future world is going to be hotter than humans are used to.
E．Therefore, the negative effects of a warmer world are visible in these animals’ bodies.
F．Such adaptations boost an animal’s surface area relative to its body, helping it to release extra heat.
G．Similar trends are seen in mammals, with species of mice and bats evolving bigger ears, legs and wings.
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Five years ago, a friend asked me to look after his cat while he went on holiday, and I realized the idea had
potential on a bigger scale. So I moved to London and decided to 41 cat sitting.
For me, cat sitting is about 42 two groups of people who need what the other can offer. I get to stay
in people’s 43 without rent while they’re on holiday. The owners get 44 cat sitting. It also means that
there is someone to keep an eye on their homes while they are away. It seems a fairer 45 than just watering
plants or walking dogs — I’m more of a cat person.
I have always loved cats, and their gentle temper makes them ideal 46 for someone working from
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home. Cats have such different personalities, so it’s not surprising that I 47 more with some than others.
An owner once told me not to 48 her cat to sit on me, as it had happened only once. But just four days
later, the cat came over and sat on my lap. I sent her a photo!
Cat sitting helps me with my 49 anxiety disorder, too. I want to be around people, but sometimes I
can’t. Sometimes, this anxiety even 50 me from leaving the house. But since becoming a cat sitter my
mental health has 51 . Having my own 52 gives me the power to plan my day. I can recharge when
I need to and can go out and meet people when I want. The cats have 53 helped.
Now I have stayed in 25 houses, 54 30 cats and saved more than 10,000 pounds that would have
gone on 55 . One day I want to save up for a flat so I can have a cat of my own.
41. A. study B. start C. observe D. train
42. A. connecting B. judging C. comparing D. teaching
43. A. offices B. hearts C. lives D. homes
44. A. free B. tough C. serious D. possible
45. A. test B. game C. dream D. exchange
46. A. employers B. assistants C. instructors D. companions
47. A. hate B. bond C. mind D. trust
48. A. guide B. order C. expect D. scare
49. A. musical B. cultural C. social D. personal
50. A. saves B. discourages C. protects D. tells
51. A. improved B. suffered C. worsened D. formed
52. A. cat B. job C. flat D. space
53. A. hardly B. nearly C. really D. narrowly
54. A. attended to B. given away C. brought up D. left out
55. A. holiday B. rent C. sale D. credit
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
On a recent Sunday afternoon, 15 young people 56 (lie) cozily on colorful rugs and threw pillows
arranged in a circle. Their eyes were closed, some with their legs 57 (stretch) forward and others curled
up, looking as if they were asleep. Kong Yi sat cross-legged before them, using a special hammer to 58
(gentle) hit metal bowls in front of her, 59 (arouse) a sound that reverberated (回响) long inside the
quiet room.
Following Kong’s instructions, they participated in 60 two-hour sound healing and meditation
session. Listening to the slowly fading sounds of ancient musical instruments such as singing bowls and gongs,
participants reached a deeper center and a semi-conscious state, 61 they were led to imagine that they
were talking to a wise man dressed 62 white and they could ask questions and get answers from him/her
in half an hour.
“In that session, many people asked the meaning of life but at the end everyone got different answers from
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the wise man — actually 63 (they),” said Kong, who runs a studio offering healing courses
incorporated with art forms like painting, music and dance.
Such spiritual, meditative 64 (experience) that can lower stress and anxiety and ease depression
have become the latest option for the country’s stressed-out younger generation seeking 65 (relax) and
inward exploration. “They get rid of some thoughts that are not beneficial to life and feel relaxed at the end,”
Kong said.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40 分）
第一节（满分 15 分）
假定你是李华，是学校国学社的社长。伦敦孔子学院的学生来你校参加国学夏令营，请你在开营
式上发言，内容包括：1. 表示欢迎; 2. 介绍活动安排; 3. 表达祝愿。
注意：
1. 词数应为 80 左右，请按如下格式在答题卡上作答。2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
参考词汇：国学社 Sinology Club 孔子学院 Confucius Institute
Dear teachers, students and friends,
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第二节（满分 25 分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
The Meredith family lived in a small community. As the economy was in decline, some people in the town
had lost their jobs. Many of their families were struggling to make ends meet. People were trying to help each
other meet the challenges.
Mrs. Meredith was a most kind and thoughtful woman. She spent a great deal of time visiting the poor. She
knew they had problems, and they needed all kinds of help. When she had time, she would bring food and
medicine to them.
One morning she told her children about a family she had visited the day before. There was a man sick in
bed, his wife, who took care of him and could not go out to work, and their little boy. The little boy — his name
was Bernard — had interested her very much.
“I wish you could see him,” she said to her own children, John, Harry, and Clara. “He is such a help to his
mother. He wants very much to earn some money, but I don’t see what he can do.”
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After their mother left the room, the children sat thinking about Bernard. “I wish we could help him to earn
money,” said Clara. “His family is suffering so much.”
“So do I,” said Harry. “We really should do something to assist them.”
For some moments, John said nothing, but, suddenly, he sprang to his feet and cried, “I have a great idea!
I have a solution that we can all help accomplish(完成).”
The other children also jumped up all attention. When John had an idea, it was sure to be a good one. “I’ll
tell you what we can do,” said John. “You know that big box of corn Uncle John sent us Well, we can make
popcorn(爆米花), and put it into paper bags, and Bernard can take it around to the houses and sell it.”
注意：
1. 续写词数应为 150 左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡上作答。
Paragraph 1: When Mrs. Meredith heard of John’s idea, she thought it was a good one, too.
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Paragraph 2: With everything ready, Bernard started out on his new business.
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高2025届2023-2024学年度上期12月阶段性测试
英语试卷 参考答案
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30 分）
1-5 CBABC 6-10 BACCC 11-15 ABACB 16- 20ABABA
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50 分）
第一节（共15 小题;每题2. 5 分，满分37. 5 分）
21-23 BCD 24-27 DBAC 28-31 BACB 32-35 DDCC
第二节（共5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分12.5 分）
36-40 CGFAB
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30 分）
第一节 （共15 小题；每小题1 分，满分15 分）
41-45 BADAD 46-50 DBCCB 51-55 ADCAB
第二节(共10 小题;每小题1.5 分，满分15 分)
56. lay 57. stretched 58. gently 59. arousing 60. a
61. where 62. in 63. themselves 64. experiences 65. relaxation
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40 分）
第一节（满分15 分）
略
第二节（满分25 分）
略
听力原文：
第一节
Text 1
【原文】M: I need a vacation. I haven’t had a day off in eight months. It’s about time I did something fun.
W: I agree. You’ve been working hard lately. Why don’t we go to Mexico I can get us a good deal on a hotel.
Text 2
【原文】W: I just spilled red wine on the carpet. Do you have any carpet cleaner
M: No, I just ran out. Get a paper towel and try to get the stain out with water and some salt. Hurry!
Text 3
【原文】W: Mark, please be quiet. We’re in the middle of a test. If you need something, our teaching assistant
Brittany is here to help you.
M: Sorry, Mrs. Smith. Susie asked to borrow a pen, and I was just telling her I don’t have an extra one.
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decided to give it a try recently.
W: I’m an okay cook, but I don’t enjoy it very much. It takes a lot of patience, which I don’t have.
Text 8
【原文】W: Hello. My name is Christina. I’m just stopping by to bring you some cookies and to introduce
myself.
M: Hi, Christina. I’m Bryce. It’s very nice to meet you. Please come in.
W: Sure.
M: Thank you for the cookies. Would you like something to drink
W: Water is fine. Thank you.
M: Here you go. Take a seat. So, where were you living before
W: My husband and I were living in Nebraska, but he got a job out here, so that’s why we moved. I’ve never
been to the West Coast before. I love Washington so far.
M: I’ve been in Washington for ten years now. I was born in Texas and came out here for college. I’ve stayed
ever since.
W: What do you do for work
M: I’m a computer programmer. It’s a good job, but my real passion in life is making furniture.
W: That’s interesting. I do a lot of painting in my spare time, although I’m a banker during the day.
Text 9
【原文】W: What are you wearing
M: A Fitbit. It’s a watch that helps me keep track of my health.
W: How accurate do you think it actually is
M: I’m not sure. I read a study recently that said the Fitbit’s heart rate monitor doesn’t do a great job at
measuring your heartbeat during physical activity. It gives a higher reading than it should.
W: Oh, I thought it would have been the other way around.
M: Me too. Of course, Fitbit was very upset by the study and said it wasn’t true.
W: Well, a study like that will probably really hurt its business.
M: Well, their products are very popular, so people will still most likely buy them.
W: Do you wear your Fitbit often, or just when you’re exercising
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M: I wear it all day, every day. I even wear it when I’m sleeping.
W: Wow, that’s impressive. Isn’t it uncomfortable
M: No, not at all.
W: Maybe I should get one.
M: You should. I really like mine. There are many different kinds you can choose from. They’re expensive, but
I think they’re worth the money.
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【原文】Duolingo is a free language-learning website and app. It offers ad-free courses for those who want to
learn a new language. As of 2016, Duolingo has fifty-nine different language courses for twenty-three
languages. Over 120 million people are registered with the program. Duolingo was created in 2011 by
Professor Luis von Ahn and his graduate student Severin Hacker, who was born in Switzerland. Prof. Luis von
Ahn was born in Guatemala, and he was upset by how expensive it was for people in his town to learn English.
He wanted to create a program that offered free education to anyone in the world. Because most of the services
are available free of charge, Duolingo originally used a special business model to make money. Members of the
public were able to translate content and vote on correct translations. The content came from large websites
such as BuzzFeed and CNN.com, which paid Duolingo to translate their webpages. Many private investors
have given money to the company, including actor Ashton Kutcher’s firm. Duolingo has also been used in
public schools in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
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