2025-2026年台湾台中高二上册期末英语试卷(含答案)

1、Henry devoted his life and profession to helping people without expecting anything ______.

A．in hand

B．in vain

C．in return

D．in order

2、   you keep away from them, they won’t do you any harm.

A．As long as  B．Even if C．As far as D．As if

3、—Patrick, we are going to try some new methods to promote the sales of the new products.

—Good, but be sure to suit the customers' needs, ________ method you choose.

A. what   B. which   C. whatever     D. whichever

4、 ______ at my classmates' faces, I read the same excitement in their eyes.

A. Looking   B. Look    C. To look   D. Looked

5、People ________ interest is exploring the relationship between art and science will enjoy Singapore’s Art Science Museum.

A．that

B．which

C．whose

D．what

6、---Who is the man giving the speech?

---  Well, if you ________ know, his name is Lyric.

A. may   B. can   C. shall   D. must

7、Out there, in the midst of the snow,______ in long, black clothes.

A. sat a woman B. sitting a woman was

C. a woman sat D. a woman was sitting

8、—English has a large vocabulary, hasn’t it?

—Yes. ________ more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate.

A．Know

B．Knowing

C．To know

D．Known

9、 When are you going to ______ your novel __________?

A. get, to publish   B. get, be published

C. have, publishing   D. have, published

10、You can’t imagine what great trouble they will have _________ the problem _________at the moment.

A．to solve... discussed

B．solved... to be discussed

C．unless solving... discussed

D．solving... being discussed

11、It’s Sunday tomorrow, so ______ is no need for you to get up early.

A．it

B．as

C．that

D．there

12、You can complain, but I doubt ________ it'll make any difference.

A．what

B．though

C．if

D．that

13、The producers of the talk show denied that the joke was too offensive, insisting that they merely ________ to add a slight touch of humor.

A．were meant

B．had meant

C．have meant

D．had been meant

14、________ the right kind of training, these teenage soccer players may one day become the international stars.

A．Giving

B．Having given

C．To give

D．Given

15、The company lost $7 million this quarter ________ a profit of $6.2 million a year earlier.

A. in contrast to   B. with regard to

C. in favor of   D. at the sacrifice of

16、The Belt and Road Forum, ________ a total of 1500 visitors have attended, focuses on the goal of promoting common development and prosperity.

A. when   B. where   C. which   D. that

17、–Did you blame the accident on him?

–Yes, but I’d ________.

A. better not   B. rather not have

C. better not have   D. rather not

18、I wish I ___ able to tell him all about it last night.

A.should be B.were C.had been D.was

19、Alice tried to keep calm, but her red face________the fact that she was nervous.

A．blamed

B．burdened

C．buried

D．betrayed

20、Studying Wendy’s menu, I found that many of the items are similar to _____ of McDonald’s.

A. those B. ones C. any D. all

21、He had ______ to go, but on second thoughts, he gave up the idea.

A．intended

B．managed

C．tried

D．pretended

22、She got better after the operation and doctors ________ her progress every day and night.

A．opposed

B．printed

C．monitored

D．complimented

23、— Did Vicky come back early last night?

— Yes. It was not yet nine o’clock   she arrived home.

A. before   B. when   C. until   D. That

24、—Do you think students’ using mobile phones has any advantages?

—______.

A. Yes, I think not B. No, I suppose so

C. Yes, just in case  D. Well, it just depends

25、My friend Mike is __________honest boy. You can believe him.

A.a B.an C.不填 D.the

26、It is easy to be doubtful about announcements of drugs that claim to slow the progress of Alzheimers, the most common form of dementia (痴呆). A new drug called Lecanemab, however, may be the real deal. Results of a clinical trial, conducted by its makers, Eisai, of Tokyo, and Biogen, of Cambridge Massachusetts, have just been announced in the New England Journal of Medicine (November; 2022). After18 months, it had slowed the progress of symptoms by a quarter.

The trial involved 1795 participants who were in the early stages of the illness. Half received the drug. The others, a placebo (安慰剂). It showed two things. One was the modest but measurable slowing of progression. The other was that an explanation of Alzheimers called the Amyloid Hypothesis seems correct.

Amyloid is a protein which accumulates (积累) in parts of the brains of those with Alzheimers, which is an established sign of the illness. Lecanemab, containing a special antibody, is found to be able to attach itself to amyloid and then attracts immune-system cells to clear the protein away (and measurably did so in those receiving the drug).That suggests amyloid does indeed directly create problems associated with dementia and that Lecanemab can slow down the development of the disease.

This is a small first step. Some experts question whether the test used to show an improvement in symptoms is clinically meaningful because amyloid can be detected only with the help of a piece of expensive equipment, which is not something that can easily be turned into a routine program. Moreover, Lecanemab also caused swelling and bleeding of the brain in a number of participants. Now that the new drug has been shown to work, it can be followed up with further tests. Hope for more good news soon.

【1】What can be learned from the first two paragraphs?

A．The public shows confidence in new drugs for Alzheimers.

B．The new drug had an obvious effect on the participants.

C．All participants didn’t receive the new drug.

D．It took 18 months to make the new drug.

【2】The author explains the effectiveness of the new drug by ____.

A．illustrating how the drug interacts with amyloid in body

B．making comparisons between two groups of participants

C．describing how immune-system works in detail

D．quoting the comments of other scientists

【3】Which of the following is a drawback of the new drug?

A．It can’t be accessed easily in daily treatment.

B．It needs to be further tested before its launch.

C．It costs too much for ordinary families.

D．It can cause some side-effects.

【4】What does the author think of Lecanemab?

A．Reliable.

B．Groundbreaking

C．Promising

D．Risky.

27、One night at the kitchen table a few years ago, my oldest son asked me for homework help. But when I took a look at his assignment, I realized I had no idea how to help him. He was taking computer science (CS) at his high school, and I had zero knowledge of this subject that experts call as important as reading, writing and math.

In fact, the headmaster at the high school where I teach business education had asked me to learn how to teach CS several times before, but I always said no. After all, I have three teenage sons and a lot on my plate already. I thought I had no time to go back to school and learn a new subject.

But that night when I was unable to help my son, I began to question my resistance (抗拒). I later sat in on his CS class, which was taught by a teacher trained by TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools). She hadn’t had CS experience before, but she sure seemed like she knew what she was doing!

So I decided to jump in with the support of TEALS. I wanted to give my students at Chelan High School the chance to learn CS. I took a TEALS training course before I started teaching. My sons also sat next to me as I tried out assignments, and they guided me when I got stuck. Finally, with the help of industry experts who made conference calls (电话会议) in my class, I felt like I could become a CS teacher.

I wasn’t shy about not being an expert. I told my students, “I’m learning alongside you. I don’t always have the answers, but we can find them out together.” And honestly, they teach me as much as I teach them! They encourage me, too. They egg me on to be more creative. They push me to keep learning, and keep trying because I have to keep up with them!

【1】Why does the author mention the underlined part in Paragraph 2?

A．To show she loves her sons very much.

B．To show she is too busy to learn something new.

C．To show she has set a good example to her sons.

D．To show she is tired of being a high school teacher.

【2】What happened on the night when she failed to give her son help?

A．She decided to teach CS at her school.

B．She turned to a CS teacher from TEALS.

C．She regretted that she refused to learn CS.

D．She found CS to be both interesting and important.

【3】What is the author’s opinion on the training course and service from TEALS?

A．They are very helpful.

B．They are easy for her to accept.

C．They should be offered by experts.

D．They should be offered free to students.

【4】What does the author expect of herself?

A．To become a CS expert.

B．To have more knowledge of CS.

C．To learn more from her sons.

D．To answer all her students questions.

28、   Will human beings find intelligent alien (外星的) life anytime soon? Probably not, according to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Hawking made the prediction during the Breakthrough Starshot announcement in New York City on April 12. At the news conference, Hawking, along with Russian billionaire sponsor Yuri Milner and a group of scientists, detailed a new project that aims to send a large number of tiny, wafer-size (薄饼大小的) spaceships into space to the neighboring star system Alpha Centauri (半人马座阿尔法星).

If these tiny spaceships travel at 20 percent of the speed of light, they'll be able to reach Alpha Centauri in just 20 years, Milner said. Once there, the spacecraft will be able to do a 1-hour flyby of Alpha Centauri and collect data that's impossible to gather from Earth, such as taking close-up photos of the star system, studying space dust molecules (分子) and measuring magnetic fields (磁场), said Avi Loeb, chairman of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee and a professor of science at Harvard University.

In addition to learning about space technology, the audience wanted to hear about aliens--specifically, when scientists might find them.

Hawking took questions from reporters in advance so that he would have time to prepare his answers.

Hawking has famously predicted that intelligent aliens might threaten humankind. Indeed, when asked about what Earthlings should do if we came across intelligent alien life, he said, “We should hope that they don' t find us.”

Other researchers at the conference offered a more optimistic view of alien life.

【1】What are the wafer-size spaceships mainly designed for?

A.Looking for aliens. B.Doing a 1-hour flyby.

C.Landing on Alpha Centauri. D.Collecting data about Alpha Centauri.

【2】Stephen Hawking might agree that________.

A.pretty soon human beings will find alien life

B.we may find alien life a danger to human beings

C.Alpha Centauri is suitable for human immigration (移民)

D.scientists should be sent into space to collect data

【3】The underlined word “Earthlings” in Paragraph 6 probably means________.

A.sponsors B.reporters

C.human beings D.scientists

【4】The next part of the passage will probably deal with________.

A.analysis of the data collected

B.other questions from reporters

C.possible ways to defend us against aliens

D.other scientist’ opinions on alien life

29、An American friend recently told me of a reunion with the son of the German family whose home he had lived in for a year as an exchange student. My friend had spent the year acquiring fluent German, which he spoke to the family. The reunion, several decades later, took place among a crowd who were speaking English. Afterward, the German son said to my friend, “I never realized you were witty.” Because in German, he never was. It was too hard to joke in a foreign tongue. Anyone who has learnt another language will be familiar with this. We are more ponderous(沉闷的) in our acquired language. We are slower on the understanding, having to construct each reply in advance.

But is it also possible that we make more dispassionate(不带感情的) decisions when thinking in a foreign language? Academics at the University of Chicago think we do. Writing in the journal Cognition, they describe a well-known moral dilemma. You are watching a runaway carriage dashing down a railway. In its path you see five people tied to the track. On your left is a large man. If you push him into the carriage's path, you will kill him but save the five. Do you do it? The Chicago academics put the dilemma to a group of 800 native German speakers. About half considered the dilemma in German and half in English. Those people answering in their second language were more likely to favor pushing the man onto the track. To the Chicago faculty, this was no surprise. There have been several experiments, with similar results, about the effect of language on the track dilemma, with native speakers of English, Korean, Spanish, French, Hebrew, German and Italian.

The question the Chicago team try to answer in the cognition study is why the change happens when people decide in another language. Their hypothesis is that we visualize people and objects more sharply in our native tongue and this affects our decision-making. In particular, when thinking in our own language, we can clearly picture the large man and are reluctant to push him to his death. Why should this be? The Chicago study argues that the images we form in our minds are based on the memories we have of people and objects. Because we have more experience of people in our native language, we find it easier to picture them.

To test this, they asked 359 native English speakers to imagine various scenarios and objects—a sunset, hands-clapping, the feeling of sand, running upstairs, the taste of salt, the smell of paint, a sore throat—and to rate the intensity of the feeling. Half did the experiment in English, half in Spanish, their second language. Those who did it in English reported more vivid sunsets, handclaps, sand and step-running than those who answered in Spanish. There was little difference for sore throats and none for paint or salt.

The Chicago team thought people had more vivid images in their native English because they were more likely to tap into their memories than if they did the thinking in another language. However, the reason why the smell and taste images were sharp in Spanish might have been that the English speakers had rich associations of flavorful Mediterranean cuisine.

Generally, the use of a foreign language reduces vividness because it limits access to memories. How seriously should we take this? An increasing number of people are now working in organizations that operate in English, mixing native and second-language speakers. It is certainly worth thinking about whether people seem more considered, and make more dispassionate decisions in English than the native speakers do. The non-native speakers may seem less witty but pay more attention to their opinions.

【1】Why does the author mention his friend in the first paragraph?

A．To argue that learning a second language is beneficial at workplace.

B．To tell us that people often find it too hard to joke in a foreign tongue.

C．To compare the differences between telling jokes in different languages.

D．To indicate that speaking foreign languages makes people more careful.

【2】Which of the following statements about the moral dilemma experiment is TRUE?

A．Those people answering in native language are more unwilling to kill the man.

B．800 native German speakers were asked to give their answers in English.

C．People were required to consider the dilemma in four different languages.

D．People can’t picture the large man when judging the dilemma in English.

【3】The Chicago team believe ________.

A．a foreign language usually provides a more in-born mode of thinking

B．people can easily tap into their memories when communicating in English

C．using a foreign language creates a plain image for a lack of related experience

D．the taste images are sharp in Spanish because people eat much Spanish cuisine

【4】Which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with?

A．Organizations need to hire more non-native English speakers.

B．People should relate to more memories in a second language.

C．We should communicate in foreign languages at work.

D．The non-native speakers are likely to be more attentive.

30、It was a cool spring day and I was walking through the forest. When I left home my mother told me the forest was dangerous and _____ me against going too far, but the interesting things were always _____ in the forest.

The shadows made me feel like they were going to hug me. I _____ my new book Different Kinds of Birds from my bag. Mindlessly, I opened it and read about various kinds of birds. _____, I ran into an old tree. When I lifted my head and looked at the entire forest, I found tall trees were here and there, with light glancing off their leaves. I _____ an apple from a huge apple tree. It was so juicy and sweet.

I finished my apple and was just about to grab another one when I _____ a beautiful hummingbird(蜂鸟). It was flying near a flower. I looked for its wings. They were beating at such a _____ speed that I could barely see them. I looked at my book and _____ for “hummingbird” in it. Later, I found another hummingbird in a _____ with two baby hummingbirds inside. I quickly took out my brand-new ______. I had already taken many breathtaking photos, but this would be my best so far. When I looked at the baby hummingbirds ______, I was surprised! Unlike their parents, they were so ______ and were nearly naked and blind! I was very interested in them, so I said to myself, “Maybe I will stay here a bit longer.”

When I ______ that the shadows were growing longer and that the sun was setting, I began to walk back to my ______ slowly, careful enough not to disturb the birds. I said to myself, “I have to come back tomorrow, and ______ lots of food to feed them.”

【1】

A．protected

B．warned

C．supported

D．followed

【2】

A．deeper

B．higher

C．heavier

D．fewer

【3】

A．gave away

B．sent off

C．added up

D．pulled out

【4】

A．Suddenly

B．Possibly

C．Gradually

D．Luckily

【5】

A．observed

B．hung

C．picked

D．shared

【6】

A．touched

B．hurt

C．saw

D．fed

【7】

A．clear

B．high

C．slow

D．familiar

【8】

A．asked

B．thought

C．headed

D．searched

【9】

A．bottle

B．nest

C．hill

D．book

【10】

A．watch

B．hat

C．camera

D．box

【11】

A．simply

B．seriously

C．closely

D．correctly

【12】

A．dirty

B．healthy

C．big

D．ugly

【13】

A．noticed

B．suggested

C．allowed

D．insisted

【14】

A．school

B．office

C．house

D．factory

【15】

A．clean

B．eat

C．waste

D．bring

31、   Lesson 26：…My sister is only seven， but she always tells me 【1】 my pictures are good or not…She looked at it 【2】 for a moment． 'It's all right，' she said， 'but isn't it upside down？'

Lesson 27：…Late in the afternoon， the boys put 【3】 their tent in the middle of a field…The boys felt tired so they put out the fire and 【4】 into their tent．

Lesson 28：…Now he has put 【5】 ugly stone head over the gate． It is one of the 【6】 faces I have ever seen．

Lesson 29：…Since then， Captain Fawcett 【7】 passengers to many unusual places． Once he landed on the roof of a 【8】 of flats and on another occasion， he landed in a deserted car park．

Lesson 30：…I turned to look at the children， but there weren't any in 【9】： they had all run away! The man laughed when he realized 【10】 had happened．

32、假如你是校学生会主席李华，学校安排你本周末作为导游带领外教Mr. John 进行一次远足活动。请你用英语给Mr. John 写封电子邮件，包括以下内容：

1. 自我介绍； 2. 出游时间，观赏风景； 3. 需要提前做的准备。

注意：1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. John,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua