北海2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Many experts thought that there is a definite between citizens’ heart problems and their ways of life.

A．consequence

B．connection

C．contact

D．conscience

2、 ________ you are travelling near or far, we’ve got tips on saving money and packing smart.

A. When B. Where C. Whether D. If

3、Peter’ shirt looked just the same as Tom’s，but it cost ______ his．

A．as much twice as

B．twice as much as

C．much as twice as

D．as twice much as

4、—We’ve only got this small bookcase―will that do？

—No．_____ I was looking for was something much bigger and stronger．

A．What   B．Where   C．That   D．Which

5、After years of learning Chinese, I still can’t understand everything , particularly in the rural areas. These are my most ______moment---when I can’t understand what people say.

A. sceptical   B. awesome   C. optional   D. Awkward

6、Some of the fallen trees had left a clear impression in the hardened mud.

A.印象 B.印象画 C.印记 D.印章

7、The crazy fans______ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till Ang Lee,the winner of best-director Ocar arrived.

A. were waiting   B. had been waiting

C. had waited   D. would wait

8、Instead of blaming the child who had broken the window, she gave him a _____ smile and let him go.

A.tolerant B.grateful C.cautious D.wild

9、— Your grandpa was allergic to onions and so am I.

— I think ________. Me too.

A．it is the same with you

B．it runs in the family

C．it’s true for me

D．it works in the family

10、I saw her in the office this morning. She ______ back to work without the doctor’s permission.

A. couldn’t come   B. couldn’t have come

C. should have come   D. should not have come

11、To her delight, the sufferer has decided to give up _________.

A．to smoke

B．smoke

C．smoking

D．smoker

12、Built mainly on natural resources , the prosperity of the city was _______ and its economy almost collapsed when coal prices began to fall in 2012.

A. sensitive   B. flexible   C. fragile   D. Subtle

13、With the night falling, the crowd gathering around the accident scene began to_________.

A. break up B. break down

C. break out D. break away

14、Walk along this road for 100 meters ________ you’ll see the hospital.

A．or

B．otherwise

C．and

D．or else

15、As a new diplomat, he often thinks of ______he can react more appropriately in emergency situations.

A．what

B．how

C．that

D．which

16、Since people would like to find an apartment near the university, there are very few ________ apartments in this area.

A. free   B. empty   C. hollow   D. vacant

17、The girl made a cake for her dad by ________.

A.himself B.herself C.themselves D.itself

18、Would you please ___ the paper for me and see if there are any obvious mistakes?

A．look around

B．look into

C．look up

D．look through

19、--- Four dollars a pair? I think it’s a bit too much.

---If you buy three pairs, the price for each will _______ to three fifty.

A．come down B．take down

C．turn over D．go over

20、----I’m dead tired. I can’t walk any further, Jenny. ----_______, Tommy. You can do it.

A．No problem

B．Come on

C．No hurry

D．That’s OK

21、   For days, Hunter Mollett had little to eat but he insisted on heading to Enterprise High School in Mississippi. He never complained; he’d simply do his work, hang about with friends and attend band practice. Finally, after four days, Hunter’s mom found some peas and cornmeal and made a meal for them.

In high school, Mollett experienced various degrees of homelessness. However, as one of the smartest students in his grade, when struggling to find stable housing, he also wanted to attend Harvard University.

Jackie Lewis first learned of his dream when she met him in her ninth-grade algebra class. “He told me he was going to Harvard,” she said, “but I was unsure if he was going to make it.” However, after having Mollett in class, Lewis changed her views on his chances in the Ivy League.

Mollett first decided on Harvard when he was in Grade One when he was watching Boston Legal with his mother. He asked her how the characters became lawyers. She said they went to Harvard. Though he didn’t know if she was just joking, Mollett decided that was where he wanted to go.

When Mollett’s teachers learned of his unstable housing, they started helping when they could. If Mollett needed some books, a teacher would buy them for him. If he needed a ride, someone would take him. Meanwhile, Mollett worked hard toward his goal of becoming a lawyer. He took his tests and started applying to colleges, including Mississippi State University and Harvard.

Soon he learned Mississippi State University accepted him and offered him a full scholarship. Then he got an e-mail about financial aid at Harvard even before his university acceptance letter. He felt bewildered.

“I sat there for 16 minutes just staring at my phone. I couldn’t believe I got in.” Mollett said.

【1】What made Hunter Mollett set the goal of going to Harvard?

A.His mother’s joke. B.The inspiration from a TV play.

C.His friend’s encouragement. D.His teacher’s support and help.

【2】Which word can replace the underlined word “bewildered” in Paragraph 6?

A.Confused. B.Satisfied. C.Frustrated. D.Upset.

【3】Which of the following words can best describe Mollett?

A.Social and intelligent. B.Confident and patient.

C.Ambitious and considerate. D.Determined and diligent.

22、   A few years ago, a doctor gave a wrong prescription to a 9-year-old boy because he had accidentally clicked the next medicine listed in the drop-down menu. Unfortunately, the boy died.

Dr. Gidi Stein heard the story and felt forced to do something. “It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button,” Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.”

Several things were immediately obvious to the 54-year-old Stein, who had previously studied computer science. “If you look at this problem from a bird’s eye view, there were so many places down the line where this decision could have been stopped — from the physician to the pharmacy (药房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have a judgment call that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient.” For Stein, it represented a systemic failure.

Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern of how we use our cards comes out: the grocery store, the gas station in our local town. If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, ‘Hey, was that you?’”

But nothing like that existed in the field of prescription drugs. So Stein set up a company called MedAware. He came up with a machine learning outlier detection (异常检测值) system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.

The system is already used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel.

【1】What led to the boy’s death?

A.The doctor’s carelessness. B.The drawback of the computer.

C.The doctor’s poor medical skill. D.The incomplete health care system.

【2】What does Stein feel about this medical accident?

A.Angry. B.Frightened.

C.Embarrassed. D.Regretful.

【3】What can MedAware’s technology do?

A.Help doctor choose right medicine. B.Reminds patients to take medicine.

C.Introduce new drugs to doctors. D.Check the prescription.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A diary. B.A guidebook.

C.A magazine. D.A science fiction.

23、I read somewhere that we spend a full third of our lives waiting. But where are we doing all of this waiting, and what does it mean to an impatient society like ours? To understand the issue, let’s take a look at three types of “waits”.

The very purest form of waiting is the Watched-Pot Wait. It is without doubt the most annoying of all. Take filling up the kitchen sink (洗碗池) as an example. There is absolutely nothing you can do while this is going on but keep both eyes fixed on the sink until it’s full. During these waits, the brain slips away from the body and wanders about until the water runs over the edge of the counter and onto your socks. This kind of wait makes the waiter helpless and mindless.

A cousin to the Watched-Pot Wait is the Forced Wait. This one requires a bit of discipline. Properly preparing packaged noodle soup required a Forced Wait. Directions are very specific. “Bring three cups of water to boil, add mix, simmer three minutes, remove from heat, let stand five minutes.”I have my doubts that anyone has actually followed the procedures strictly. After all, Forced Waiting requires patience.

Perhaps the most powerful type of waiting is the Lucky-Break Wait. This type of wait is unusual in that it is for the most part voluntary. Unlike the Forced Wait, which is also voluntary, waiting for your lucky break does not necessarily mean that it will happen.

Turning one’s life into a waiting game requires faith and hope, and is strictly for the optimists among us. On the surface it seems as ridiculous as following the directions on soup mixes, but the Lucky-Break Wait well serves those who are willing to do it. As long as one doesn’t come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

We certainly do spend a good deal of our time waiting. The next time you’re standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you’ll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don’t be desperate. You’re probably just as busy as the next guy.

【1】While doing a Watched-Pot Wait, we tend to ________.

A．keep ourselves busy

B．get absent-minded

C．grow anxious

D．stay focused

【2】What can we learn about the Lucky-Break Wait?

A．It is less voluntary than the Forced Wait.

B．It doesn’t always bring the desired result.

C．It is more fruitful than the Forced Wait.

D．It doesn’t give people faith and hope.

【3】What does the author advise us to do the next time we are waiting?

A．Take it seriously.

B．Don’t rely on others.

C．Do something else.

D．Don’t lose heart.

【4】The author supports his view by ________.

A．exploring various causes of “waits”

B．describing detailed processes of “waits”

C．analyzing different categories of “waits”

D．revealing frustrating consequences of “waits”

24、Secrets About Getting a Good Night's Sleep

Getting a good night's sleep is so essential for functioning well in your daily activities. 【1】Here are several secrets for making sure you’re getting plenty of shut-eye.

Check your medicines if you can't sleep.

【2】So when you complain of insomnia, they may not think to connect your sleeplessness with some drugs you're taking. Yet many medicines can disturb sleep. If you're seeing your doctor about insomnia, make a list of all drugs you’re taking.

Calm those restless legs with a bar of soap.

You go to bed, ready to get a solid eight hours. However, your legs jerk.【3】

We have a good solution: Slip a bar of soap under your legs and the restlessness should disappear in about 3 to 5 minutes.

【4】

In one study, researchers found that women with restless legs syndrome were deficient in folic acid, which is required for proper brain and nerve function. Supplementing with this vitamin improved symptoms. Take 400 to 800 micro-grams of folic acid a day, along with 50 micro-grams vitamin.

Exercise at the right time.

It has been shown that exercise can help you sleep better. But when you exercise, time is important. It's not something to do just before bedtime. Instead, plan your exercise for early evening-about four to six hours before bedtime. 【5】

A．Skip the sleeping pill.

B．Take a vitamin for better sleep.

C．But some of us are just struggling with it.

D．Doctors should ask you what medicines you're taking, but they rarely do.

E．This is the time it takes for your body's temperature to drop after exercise.

F．That helps you feel less anxious about not falling asleep so you can fall asleep.

G．And they continue to do this, either keeping you from falling asleep or waking you up.

25、I walked into a bank in town a couple of days ago and waited in the queue. I was the second______and I couldn’t help overhearing the_______in front of me. The bank clerk must have been having a(an) _______ day and after asking how the_______was and so on, he began to complain about our government, _______them for not doing enough to_______the coast from storms and floods as this had been much on the news at the time.

He was in_____spirits and you could tell that he was really_______about a lot of things going on in the world.

My heart went out to him. I was _______ next and all I could do was_______. 1didn’t have any words. Afterwards, it _______to me something that had been running under my own thoughts.

So I left the bank, found a_______and on it I wrote: Sometimes the bad parts of the world seem so_______. There are so many sad things going on in the news. They make it hard to see _______going on around us. But that doesn’t_______life right now can’t be beautiful. All you have to do is open your eyes. It’s in the gaps(缝隙) that beauty is_______.

I_______the postcard back into the bank, wandered around and_______ it on a table, ______that the bank clerk would find it. Whether he did or not, I never found out, but it_______would do someone some good, which I’m certain of.

【1】A. in sight   B. in the way   C. in line   D. in time

【2】A. story   B. noise   C. quarrel   D. conversation

【3】A. perfect   B. bad   C. nervous   D. unfortunate

【4】A. customer   B. farmer   C. thinker   D. officer

【5】A. praising   B. blaming   C. doubting   D. punishing

【6】A. prevent   B. remove   C. separate   D. protect

【7】A. low   B. high   C. good   D. strange

【8】A. excited   B. trouble   C. cautious   D. curious

【9】A. served   B. paid   C. refused   D. invited

【10】A. comfort   B. smile   C. scream   D. criticize

【11】A. seemed   B. happened   C. came   D. looked

【12】A. pen   B. desk   C. postcard   D. book

【13】A. disappointing   B. encouraging   C. delightful   D. interesting

【14】A. fight   B. pollution   C. luckiness   D. beauty

【15】A. tell   B. feel   C. mean   D. teach

【16】A. found   B. built   C. missed   D. neglected

【17】A. passed   B. mailed   C. took   D. lost

【18】A. wrote   B. hid   C. announced   D. left

【19】A. advising   B. hoping   C. watching   D. guessing

【20】A. surely   B. suddenly   C. hardly   D. lately

26、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Imagine you receive an e-mail like this ： ARE YOU GOING TO CLASS TODAY? This e-mail “sounds" like the writer is yelling because using all capital letters in an e-mail is usually the way that people shout online. Knowing when to use capital letters is one example of online etiquette （礼仪）・ Following are some dos and don'ts for communicating appropriately with others in cyberspace.

First, always remember that you are sending messages to a real person, not just to a computer. So don’t type anything you wouldn't say to someone's face. Also, remember that the person who receives your message cannot hear the tone of your voice, or see the expression on your face. So make sure your meaning is clear.

Internet is a big place with lots of information, and there are many new things to discover. However, don't take anything without paying for it, unless it's free. Don’t use information that someone else has written, and say it's yours. Do share your knowledge of the Internet with others.

It's okay to express your opinions online in forums like chat rooms or message boards, but don't start arguments with people. "Flame wars" in online discussions can be interesting to read, but are often unfair to other members of the group. Express your ideas, but remember that fighting on or offline is not appropriate.

Remember that people judge you by your words as well as your actions, so do try to write well. Good writing skills, as well as correct grammar and spelling, do matter. Send polite, well-written messages to others. If you are uncertain about how to spell a word or which phrase to use, look it up. There are lots of helpful books and websites.

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