延安2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、As I held my father’s hands one night, I couldn’t help but ______ their roughness.

A.noticing B.notice C.to notice D.noticed

2、The law requires equal treatment for all,_____race,religion,or sex.

A.with regard to B.regardless of C.in relation to D.in terms of

3、As is reported, it is 115 years ______ Peking University was founded.

A.when B.before C.after D.since

4、People were ________ at his sudden death. It was really ________ to them.

A．shocked; shocked

B．shocked; a shock

C．shocking; a shock

D．shocking; shocking

5、He has a heart trouble and the doctor finds it difficult ______.

A. treating B. in treating C. to treat D. for treating

6、The explosion of a chemical plant in Yancheng Jiangsu province last month led to over 100 people ______ to hospital for treatment, ______ their relatives to be in deep sorrow.

A. sending; causing B. sent having caused

C. being sent; causing D. to send; to cause

7、Kathy ________ a lot of Chinese when she was working in Beijing during the summer vacation.

A. took up B. picked up C. brought up D. turned up

8、16．He is heavily ____ now, so he can’t pay for a new house.

A.out of debt B.get into debt C.in debt D.get out of debt

9、As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began his chant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads to the ground, and__________ the chant. Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left.

A. picked up B. looked forward to

C. aimed at D. took up

10、There is a common belief among the students in our school _____ they should make great efforts to learn and reach the peak of their academic performances.

A.which B.that C.whether D.if

11、In his own restaurant，he would immediately fire any employee who was ________ to a customer.

A. rude B. considerate

C. accessible D. selfish

12、Tony was very unhappy for ______ to the party.

A．having not been invited

B．not having invited

C．having not invited

D．not having been invited

13、The company ___ a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A．has been promising

B．has promised

C．promised

D．promises

14、——Dad, I feel like quitting Chinese; it's so hard.

——Never give up halfway. ____________, you know.

A. All that ends well is well

B. A man cannot spin and reel at the same time

C. A man becomes learned by asking questions

D. All things are difficult before they are easy

15、---I don’t like to go there by train. ---Why not ________there by plane?

A．trying going

B．try going

C．trying go

D．try to go

16、— That must have been a long trip.

— Yeah, it ________ us a whole week to get there.

A．takes

B．has taken

C．was taking

D．took

17、All children should get access to a high-quality education_______ their race or family income.

A.depending on B.regardless of C.due to D.apart from

18、— Would you like to help look after the children _____ I do the shopping?

— I’d love to!

A.since B.as C.while D.for

19、Cats ________ be quite friendly towards humans, but they live mysterious lives of their own.

A.need B.must C.shall D.can

20、She heard the terrible noise, brought her heart into her mouth.

A.it B.which

C.this D.that

21、—Have you got any particular plans for the coming holiday?

—Yes.________I'm going to visit some homes for the old in the city.

A．If ever   B．If busy

C．If anything   D．If possible

22、There are ________ things about city life in the future which are not certain.

A.plenty of B.a plenty of C.a great deal of D.many a

23、In this lecture, I can only give you a purely   _view of how we can live life to the full and make some suggestions about the future.

A.progressive B.personal C.unique D.popular

24、Rafael Nadal is a tennis champion equipped with a big heart,   to win and resolution to defeat all his opponents.

A.persuasion B.determination C.fascination D.accumulation

25、At last, we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and ________ down to eat our picnic lunch.

A.sitting B.having sat C.sat D.to sit

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If you have answered YES to the above, we would like to hear from you:

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☆ Free uniform

☆ Excellent training

Contact at us at careers@golden-care.com

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We want people who are: chatty, interesting, enthusiastic, skilled.

Contact us at info@wowee.com

CALLING ALL MODELS

Think you could be a model? If so, we'd like to meet you!

Working as a successful fashion model isn't easy but it is very exciting and could be a great chance.

Girls should be over 16 with a minimum height of 172 cm and boys should have a minimum height of 182cm. If you are under 16 and do not yet have the required height, we would still be interested in meeting you, but you must bring a parent.

Contact us at info@top-model-agency.uk

WORK FOR COFFEE BEANS

Join Britain's number one cafe at Coffee Beans, where every cafe has the same aims: to create family-like teams and to give excellent customer service.

Many different kinds of people come and work with us, so start your career at Coffee Beans today:

☆ Choose the hours you work

☆ Get management experience

☆ Share your love of coffee

Join us as a Team Member, Assistant Manager of Cafe Manager, depending on your skills and experience.

Email us at jobs@coffeebeans.co.uk

【1】Which address should you email at if you want to be a support worker?

A. info@wowee.com B. jobs@coffeebeans.co.uk

C. info@top-model-agency.uk D. careers@golden-care.com

【2】A writer working for Wowee Magazine can______.

A. get a free uniform B. bring a parent

C. receive free tickets to events D. choose working hours

【3】What can we learn about the jobs from the job postings?

A. The chance to be a model is only for adults.

B. There is no need to be trained as a support worker.

C. Employees at Coffee Beans have few management opportunities.

D. Applicants to Wowee Magazine are supposed to be sociable and enthusiastic.

27、What comes to mind when you think of the word “museum”? Do you picture paintings hanging on a wall? Quiet halls full of relics from the past? Or do you think of airplanes suspended from the ceiling? Perhaps science experiments come to mind.【1】

There are many different types of museums around the world. Each one might display certain types of exhibits based on subject matter.

【2】 One of the most famous is the Louvre in Paris, France. It’s the home of the Mona Lisa. Paintings are not the only forms of art that museums put on display. They usually contain all sorts of art, from sculptures to fabric art. Many cities now have children's museums. What do they display there? 【3】These give kids a chance to explore their imaginations by interacting with exhibits on a personal level. Science and space museums can take children on a trip all around and even beyond earth. Do you wonder about the world around you or what's “out there”?【4】 And there are good old-fashioned history museums. It can be so great to see the original documents and artifacts that shaped history!

【5】 Have you ever been to a zoo or botanical gardens? These are museums with living exhibits that are right out in the open instead of hanging on a wall or sitting behind glass. Do you think you might want to work in a museum someday? It can be fun to work around interesting items and show the public how important they are. There are many fun and fascinating careers related to museums.

A．They usually feature many hands-on activities.

B．Not all museums are buildings, either.

C．The designs of museums vary from place to place.

D．If so, you’ll want to find a science or space museum to tour.

E．Actually, all of these things and more are possible in museums.

F．What makes museums so important to cultural development?

G．If you love art, there’s no shortage of art museums around the world.

28、   Would you BET on the future of this man? He is 53 years old. Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune. A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison. Driven by heaven-knows-what motives, he determines to write a book.

The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years. That former prisoner was Cervantes, and the book was Don Quixote(《堂吉诃德》) . And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before？

We've all known people who run out of steam before they reach life's halfway mark. I'm not talking about those who fail to get to the top. We can't all get there. I'm talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years.

Most of us, in fact, progressively narrow the variety of our lives. We succeed in our field of specialization and then become trapped in it. Nothing surprises us. We lose our sense of wonder. But, if we are willing to learn, the opportunities are everywhere.

The things we learn in maturity seldom involve information and skills. We learn to bear with the things we can't change. We learn to avoid self-pity. We learn that however much we try to please, some people are never going to love us-an idea that troubles at first but is eventually relaxing.

With high motivation and enthusiasm, we can keep on learning. Then we will know how important it is to have meaning in our life. However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos(自我) , whether to loved ones, to fellow humans, to work, or to some moral concept.

Many of us equate(将……等同于)  “commitment” with such “caring” occupations as teaching and nursing. But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment. People who work toward such excellence-whether they are driving a truck, or running a store-make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They've learned life's most valuable lesson.

【1】The passage starts with the story of Cervantes to show that _____________.

A.loss of freedom stimulates one's creativity

B.age is not a barrier to achieving one's goal

C.misery inspires a man to fight against his fate

D.disability cannot stop a man's pursuit of success

【2】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A.End one's struggle for liberty.

B.Waste one's energy taking risks.

C.Miss the opportunity to succeed.

D.Lose the interest to continue learning.

【3】What could be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A.Those who dare to try often get themselves trapped.

B.Those who tend to think back can hardly go ahead.

C.Opportunity favours those with a curious mind.

D.Opportunity awaits those with a cautious mind.

【4】What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A.To provide guidance on leading a meaningful adult life.

B.To stress the need of shouldering responsibilities at work.

C.To state the importance of generating motivation for learning.

D.To suggest a way of pursuing excellence in our lifelong career.

29、Lessons in the Lost Art of Listening

When was the last time you listened to someone? And when was the last time someone really listened to you? I once asked people what it meant to be a good listener. The typical response was a blank stare.

Of course, technology plays a role. People find phone calls interrupting them, preferring text or wordless emoji. Besides, schools and colleges rarely offer classes or activities that teach careful listening. You can join clubs to perfect your public speaking, but who attempts to achieve excellence in listening? The loud unpleasant mixture of sounds of modern life also stops us from listening.

Generally, listening goes beyond simply hearing what people say. It also involves paying attention to how they say it and what they do while they are saying it, in what context, and how what they say is related to you. It’s not about merely holding your peace while someone else holds forth. Quite the opposite. A lot of listening has to do with how you respond—the degree to which you facilitate the clear expression of another person’s thoughts and, in the process, have a clear mind of your own.

Good listeners ask good questions. They engage in exploring the topic, not to divert attention. There are curious questions like “Wouldn’t you agree…?” or “Don’t you think…?” These questions have strong tendencies. They will greatly influence the other person to change his or her view. And you’d better stay away from some personal questions like “What do you do for a living?” or “What part of town do you live in?” Just try to find out what excites people. Ask about the last movie they saw or for the story behind a piece of jewelry they’re wearing. Also good are expansive questions, such as, “If you could spend a month, where would you go?” Research indicates that when people who don’t know each other well ask each other this type of question, they feel more connected than if they spend time together achieving a task.

Because our brain can think a lot faster than people can talk, be careful with the tendency to take mental side trips when you are listening. Smart people’s attention is easily taken away by their own runaway thoughts. They may also assume they already know what the other person is going to say.

The reward of good listening will certainly be more interesting conversations. Researchers have found that attentive listeners receive more information from speakers, even when they don’t ask any questions. We are, each of us, the sum of what we attend to in life. The gentle voice of a mother and the criticism of a boss both ultimately form and shape us. And to listen poorly, selectively or not at all limits your understanding of the world and prevents you from becoming the best you can be.

【1】One of the factors that influence listening is that ________.

A．our confidence in listening is decreasing

B．our speech creates a lot of noise around us

C．listening skills are seldom taught in school

D．texting causes a better effect than phone calls

【2】What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．Why the art of listening gets lost by itself.

B．Why effective methods are used in listening.

C．How people make themselves well understood.

D．How people can reclaim the lost art of listening.

【3】According to the author, what should people do when they are listening?

A．Avoid being absent-minded.

B．Come up with curious questions.

C．Focus on the speaker’s personal information.

D．Try to find common interests with the speaker.

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Listening and speaking deserve equal attention.

B．Good listeners maximize the benefits for themselves.

C．Bad listening ultimately contributes to people’s failure.

D．Listeners’ clear mind facilitates speakers’ expression of thoughts.

30、   When my daughter was in grade school, she brought home four tiny twigs one day. They were small _______given to the students to plant. None of them looked very hardy, but with a _______ for the future, I planted them in our backyard. Over the years the _______ soil brought an end to three of them.

All that was _______ was a single evergreen. It never got very tall and _______ to one side. Then, I noticed that it was starting to _______. The lower branches were becoming brown. Only the top ones of the tree were still _______.

I did my best to _______it by feeding it a lot of fertilizer (肥料), but it seemed hopeless. One morning I went out and looked at it again, _______ if it would be better to just cut it down. As I walked over to take a closer look at it, ________, I noticed something moving among the branches. It was a bird ________ building a nest (巢) in the topmost branches. I smiled and ________ that maybe this old tree had some life and usefulness left in it yet. It may not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a ________.

This tree ________ me that all of our lives have a purpose. It doesn’t matter if we are young and strong, or old and sick. Until our last ________ we still have things to do: love for us to give, and joy for us to share. We can help to make this world a better and lovelier place.

【1】A.flowers B.seeds C.trees D.vegetables

【2】A.life B.hope C.chance D.end

【3】A.rich B.soft C.poor D.deep

【4】A.left B.gone C.deserted D.planted

【5】A.turned B.bent C.sank D.flew

【6】A.take B.lose C.grow D.die

【7】A.green B.brown C.tiny D.pretty

【8】A.change B.cut C.use D.save

【9】A.regretting B.asking C.wondering D.knowing

【10】A.however B.therefore C.moreover D.otherwise

【11】A.freely B.busily C.gently D.vividly

【12】A.whispered B.shouted C.decided D.wished

【13】A.home B.purpose C.branch D.way

【14】A.upset B.reminded C.ensured D.affected

【15】A.night B.lesson C.word D.breath

31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the 【1】 for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and 【2】 articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his 【3】 story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into 【4】 Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned 【5】 from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he 【6】 in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its 【7】 and imprecision. Following these financial setbacks, he filed for  protection  from  his  creditors  via  bankruptcy,  and  with  the  help  of  Henry  Huttleston Rogers 【8】 overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.

Twain was born 【9】 after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it, too. He died the day after the comet returned. He 【10】 himself as the  “greatest American humorist of his age”, and William Faulkner called Twain “the father of  American literature”.

32、假如你是在宁夏学习的英国留学生Mike，最近从《新消息》上得知有大量的红嘴鸥（gulls )落户银川的湖泊，请你给该报报社写一份信， 内容包括：

1. 表达自己的喜悦心情 ； 

2.对保护红嘴鸥提出一些建议。

注意：1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir/Madame,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely

Mike