2025年辽宁铁岭高考英语第二次质检试卷

1、In the face of unfair phenomenon, we should not________ from defending social justice.

A．swallow

B．swell

C．shrink

D．stroke

2、Raymond’s parents wanted him to have_______ possible education.

A.good B.better C.best D.the best

3、The thief_____ the papers all over the room while he was searching.

A.abandoned B.vanished C.scattered D.deserted

4、 — I am so glad that I caught you at home. I need your help!

— ____, John?

A. What else B. So what

C. How come   D. What’s up

5、______ we’ll do is to leave a note for Mum to tell her we won’t be back till late.

A．That

B．Which

C．What

D．How

6、When you are   ，I will appreciate   if you pay in cash.

A.checking out； that B.paying off； it

C.paying out； / D.checking out； it

7、Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will build a 200-million-euro factory in France________potential challenges and obstacles.

A.owing to B.regardless of C.apart from D.instead of

8、Carter was saying all the right things, but his smile was   , and I knew I couldn't trust him.

A.influential B.fantastic C.artificial D.sincere

9、Go for a walk in the countryside, you can enjoy the beautiful views and a peaceful atmosphere.

A．when

B．which

C．where

D．what

10、Some parents want their children to show complete ________ to their wishes, which is harmful to their kids’ character building.

A.submission B.addiction C.limitation D.admission

11、Ever since the new park was opened to the public last month, I ______ a walk in it every morning.

A. am taking    B. take

C. have taken   D. have been taking

12、We are determined that our teacher training programs should ________ current developments in the field of education.

A．catch sight of

B．make room for

C．take pride in

D．keep pace with

13、Peppa Pig, a Bristish cartoon character with a face ______ like a hair dryer, is placed on the cup ______ blue, green and celadon colors.

A.shaping; featuring B.shaped; featuring

C.shaping; featured D.shaped; featured

14、I writing the paper as scheduled, but my mother’s illness interfered. I hope you will excuse me.

A. am to have finished   B. was to have finished

C. was to finish   D. ought to finish

15、________ the concert to raise money for hunger relief and to make the public aware of the problem, Geldof invited many famous musicians to take part in it.

A. Intended B. Intending C. Having intended D. To intend

16、Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will give up the name “royal” ____ they withdraw from official duties and embrace new lives, the couple confirmed on Friday.

A.unless B.while C.as D.although

17、—If we work on the project together, I do believe we should be able to complete it ahead of schedule.

— ______! Many hands make light work.

A．You bet

B．Have fun

C．Good job

D．Forget it

18、-- Is Lucy knocking at the door?

-- No. It ______ be Lucy. She is in France now.

A．needn't

B．can't

C．mustn't

D．daren't

19、We believe the time and hard work _______ in completing such an important project are worthwhile.

A．involved

B．involving

C．to involve

D．to be involved

20、When he ______ the bill in the restaurant, he suddenly realized that he had left his wallet in the car.

A.paid B.would be paying

C.was to pay D.had paid

21、

A．all the rental has been paid 7 days before arrival

B．a travel plan has been sent to the booking office

C．1/3 rental and a signed booking form have been received

D．advice on how to book the cottage has been responded to

【2】If you want to stay in Wessex Cottages for a holiday, you are required to ________.

A．reconfirm your booking

B．leave before 10:00 a.m.

C．use your own bed sheets

D．arrive later than 7:00 p.m.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the brochure?

A．Electricity isn’t included in the rental in most Wessex Cottages.

B．Overseas visitors are required to deposit more than domestic ones.

C．If you hire bed sheets, you’ll be charged 6 pounds per day per person.

D．Deposit should be made by credit card at the time of booking.

22、The world can be a scary place when you’re young. It can be even scarier when you’re a young little blue penguin（企鹅），the world’s smallest penguin.

Luckily, there are some humans willing to help, who stepped in to protect Billy, a blue penguin that appeared on a beach in Christchurch, New Zealand. Spotted on Nov. 29 at Moncks Bay, in Christchurch, the little penguin immediately attracted a small crowd. Jeff Mein Smith saw the crowd while he was bicycling that afternoon, and he hiked home to get his camera. When he returned to the scene, he found that the penguin had received a little sign，reading “Hi,I’m waiting for my mum to come back. DOC （New Zealand’s Department of Conservation） knows I’m here. Please leave me alone. Keep your dog away. Thanks, Billy the baby blue penguin. ’’

Billy, perhaps able to read somehow, or just pleased by all the attention, didn’t wander far from the sign, and some people had set up “a little penguin protection team” to keep the penguin safe, Mein Smith said.

Little blue penguins are primarily found in New Zealand and the southern coast of Australia. The DOC arrived later that afternoon to pick up Billy. “It's unusual for a blue penguin to be out in the open on the beach during the day. Normally they are at sea or in burrows（洞穴）during the day，” Anita Spencer, a DOC official said. “The bird is a female penguin，is around 2 months old and is underweight for its age. It weighs a mere 550grams, less than a standard basketball. A blue penguin should weigh around 900 gram this age. Most little penguins grow up to weigh 1 kilogram，” she added.

Billy was taken to the Christchurch Penguin Rehabilitation Center after being taken from the beach. The center will help the little penguin gain some weight before it allowed to return to the ocean.

【1】As for the little penguin in Paragraph 1，how does the author feel?

A．Curious.

B．Crazy.

C．Sympathetic.

D．Satisfied.

【2】What did the locals mentioned in the text do to Billy?

A．They took photos of it.

B．They kept away from it.

C．They offered to protect it.

D．They hiked it to the beach.

【3】What do we know about Billy?

A．It was abandoned by its mum.

B．It was found on a beach in the morning.

C．It will be kept in DOC before it goes home.

D．It seldom went to the beach in daytime.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Leaving Me Alone

B．Waiting for My Mum

C．Keeping the Little Penguin

D．Protecting the Little Penguin

23、   “Jewel wings fly around like little helicopters until they see preys (猎物), usually smaller flying insects,” said Bellido, a biologist at the University of Minnesota. “Then they dash at their meals in a burst of speed.”

You might mistake jewel wings for their cousins, dragonflies. New research shows that these two insects share something more significant than their appearance, however. In a paper published in Current Biology, Dr. Bellido and the dragonfly colleagues reveal that the neural (神经的) systems behind jewel wings’ vision are shared with dragonflies, with whom they have a common ancestor that lived before dinosaurs. But over the centuries, this brain wiring has adapted itself in different ways in each creature, enabling sharply different hunting strategies.

Jewel wings’ behavior involves attacking what’s directly in front of them, the team found. But recordings made in the lab by Dr. Gonzalez and her colleagues confirmed that dragonflies rise up in a straight line to seize unsuspecting insects from below. Researchers are particularly interested in the neurons (神经元) that send visual information to the wings.

To look closer at the neurons linking vision and flight, the researchers equipped jewel wings with sensors and showed them a video of a moving dot, comparing it with earlier dragonfly research. When a neuron fired, a popping sound filled the researchers’ ears, allowing them to tell exactly which movements-left, right, up, down or some combination-each neuron responded to. Jewel wings best see what’s right in front of them, they found, while dragonflies’ clearest vision is just above them.

The team was interested to find that while jewel wings’ neurons didn’t always respond like those in dragonflies, the number of neurons and organization were similar. That suggests that the system that conveys this information from the eyes to the wing muscles did not evolve recently, but has roots that are millions of years older than the oldest dinosaurs. And that ancient common ancestor likely had already developed remarkable speed in both vision and flight. Then, in the following years, the system has evolved to suit individual insect species.

This shared neural system may be more than 250 million years old, but it is also flexible enough to transform itself to meet the needs of a variety of creatures in different eras and environments, the findings suggest.

【1】Jewel wings usually catch their meals ________ them.

A.on the right of B.on the left of

C.straight ahead of D.at the back of

【2】What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A.What actions jewel wings take to catch preys.

B.How jewel wings ‘neurons respond to vision.

C.When jewel wings start to hunt for their preys.

D.Where researchers did the research into jewel wings.

【3】What can we learn about dragonflies and jewel wings from the passage?

A.The two insects possess similar neural systems.

B.Jewel wings’ vision is sharper than dragonflies’.

C.Dragonflies ‘brain wiring is the same with jewel wings’.

D.The oldest dinosaurs react as rapidly as the two insects.

【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?

A.To analyse the habits of two similar insects.

B.To tell the difference between dragonflies and jewel wings.

C.To assess the effects of different insects ‘hunting strategies.

D.To present the result of a study on two insects neural systems.

24、Taylor grew up on the coast of New South Wales, Australia and swimming in the ocean was part of everyday life. She began spear fishing and worked her way up in her early 20s to become one of very few women who were professional spear fishers and was named the Australian Ladies National Champion.

However, as she spent more time underwater, especially with the sharks, she had a change of heart. “I learned straight away that sharks are nowhere near as dangerous as the media would have us believe. And I learned that they all have different personalities—there’s the shy guy, the cross guy, and the aggressive guy; they’re all different.” From that point on, she decided, along with her late husband and world spear fishing champion, Ron Taylor, to hang up her spear and to only shoot them with her camera.

As a pioneering shark conservationist, Taylor succeeded in many firsts throughout her life’s work. She was the first person to dive with sharks cageless. The first person to test the power of a shark bite; she hand-fed a Great White and petted it. There’s nothing she wouldn’t do to help correct the false image that sharks are dangerous, man-eating beasts. Her research has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today and she succeeded in becoming the first person to get Grey Nurse sharks protected in a specific area, the first shark species in the world to receive protected status.

When asked about what could be done to help save the sharks, and the oceans, Taylor said she was quite pessimistic about the whole thing. “Change has to come from the government level.” But she also recommended, “The thing that works the best is to get a good story and then get it on camera. Then go on television and speak to the public. Say it to the mothers, ‘Wouldn’t you like your child... when they’re old enough, to be able to see this wonderful, friendly shark?’”

【1】What sort of girl was Taylor in her early 20s?

A．Far-seeing.

B．Demanding.

C．Accomplished.

D．Environmentally-aware.

【2】What might be Taylor’s inspiration to change her heart?

A．Her desire to be rich.

B．Her understanding of sharks.

C．Her ambition for becoming rich.

D．Her marriage with Ron.

【3】Why are Taylor’s firsts mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A．To prove her great influence on shark conservation.

B．To urge the protection of sea animals.

C．To present her achievements as a female fisher pioneer.

D．To show her efforts to correct people’s false impression on sharks.

【4】What does Taylor think is a better way to protect sharks?

A．Raising public awareness.

B．Turning to experts for advice.

C．Inventing stories about sharks.

D．Relying on the government only.

25、   It started on a Friday______when the 5-year-old and his older brother were playing______ their home near the resort town of Aspen, Colorado. Hearing the sound of_____, the mother raced to her front yard to find a ______sight: A mountain lion was bent over her 5-year-old son, biting him. The poor boy was completely under the cat and was______to get free.

So the mother ______. She charged at the animal, pulled away one of its ______suddenly with a lot of force and discovered her son’s whole head was in its mouth. She didn’t back down. The mother ______ the lion’s mouth and got it open,______ the boy. She then quickly picked him up and ran away.

The boys’ father had just returned from a run when the ______ occurred. He ______into the car with his wife and sons and called 911 shortly before 8 p.m., as they ______ to a hospital in Aspen. The boy suffered cuts to his______, face and neck. The mother ______ bite marks on her hand and scratches on her leg. Aspen Valley Hospital reported that the child was not seriously injured and in______ condition and has since been ______ to Children’s Hospital in Denver for his recovery.

The mountain lion was estimated to be about 2 years old and was not fully grown. It was, perhaps, forced out to hunt on its own. Young lions may be keen on easy______, like pets and small children.______,it wasn’t a big cat. Had it been a 110-pound lion -- which was once seen around there -- this would have been a much ______ story.

The mother, who had to physically remove the lion’s paws from her son's face, is credited with ______ his life. She’s a real hero.

A．morning

B．afternoon

C．evening

D．noon

A．inside

B．outside

C．towards

D．under

A．screams

B．laughter

C．applause

D．cheers

A．surprising

B．magical

C．moving

D．terrifying

A．running

B．waiting

C．struggling

D．walking

A．sprang into action

B．burst into tears

C．thought twice

D．pulled out

A．eyes

B．paws

C．ears

D．teeth

A．grabbed

B．covered

C．beat

D．kissed

A．comforting

B．scolding

C．stopping

D．freeing

A．error

B．attack

C．headache

D．comedy

A．crashed

B．looked

C．jogged

D．jumped

A．sped

B．drove

C．crawled

D．got

A．legs

B．feet

C．head

D．bottom

A．suffered

B．carved

C．drew

D．removed

A．terrible

B．fair

C．bad

D．poor

A．carried

B．advised

C．sold

D．transferred

A．plants

B．toys

C．targets

D．animals

A．Occasionally

B．Generally

C．Eventually

D．Fortunately

A．beautiful

B．happy

C．different

D．awesome

A．wasting

B．saving

C．ending

D．risking

26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

A new study suggests many Americans have not visited the most popular places of interest around the country or even in their hometown.

The study found that 25 percent of Americans have yet to visit "iconic landmarks" in their own cities. Twenty-three percent said they had not visited any of the nation’s natural wonders, famous buildings or historic battlefields.

The study was a project of the research service OnePoll and Zipcar, a car-sharing company.

Researchers questioned 2,000 Americans. Only 33 percent of them said they had been to Niagara Falls and just 28 percent had been to Arizona’s Grand Canyon. The study showed that only 30 percent had been to New York’s Empire State Building. Only 22 percent had ever visited the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Many Americans say they would like to travel more. More than half of those questioned said they would like to get out more. Forty-nine percent reported being "creatures of habit." By that, they mean they generally do the same things in the same way. That would leave little time to visit local or national landmarks.

The researchers found that the main reasons keeping Americans from exploring their cities or the country were money, lack of time and a lack of good transportation.

On social media, one Twitter user reacting to the study named a few reasons for not visiting famous places. The writer noted that “most of us don’t get paid days off, get punished for taking a day off, or simply can’t afford to visit anything or go anywhere anymore."

The Twitter user added, "Childcare costs more than College, College Loans costs more than a mortgage payment, and jobs don’t even pay for one of those things.”

The study found that three of the places Americans wanted to visit were Grand Canyon National Park, Yellowstone National Park and the Statue of Liberty.

The researchers also found that, on average, Americans go to a new coffee shop every five months, and a new restaurant every four months. They also spent time at a lake or near the ocean once every six months, and go to a park every five months.