毕节2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Kate ________ by the teacher for she had made an excellent contribution to group discussion.

A. praised        B. was praised

C. has praised       D. has been praised

2、The week-long rainfall has ______ landslides and flooding in the mountain areas.

A.set about B.brought about C.come about D.go about

3、Studying Tom’s menu, I found that many of the items are similar to ________ of McDonald’s．

A．those B．ones C．any D．all

4、— Do you know how Chinese acupuncture reduces pain?

— Well, well, _______．I’ve never read about that.

A． I can’t tell you

B． you really have me there

C． there is some doubt

D． what a shame

5、Humor, if ________ properly, will help us break the ice and gain affection of others in social communication.

A.using B.used C.to use D. to be used

6、_____ we cannot control what happens around us, we can control how we react to our surroundings.

A．Since

B．While

C．Unless

D．Once

7、Foreign Ministry spokesman said China had made representations to Canada, requiring it ______ the reason for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei.

A. clarify   B. would clarify   C. clarifies   D. will clarify

8、. He dressed himself quickly and ___________ his schoolbag, went to school.

A.carried B.to carry C.carrying D.Carries

9、We’ll have our sports meeting on the playground next week, but I have no idea ________.

A．when to have

B．how long it will last

C．what will the weather be like

D．where we shall have it

10、It has been foggy for five days． How I wish it______ sunny now!

A． would be   B． were

C． had been   D． is

11、— Mom! Jack has broken a cup!

— Doesn’t matter. Accidents ________ happen.

A. should   B. must   C. will   D. Shall

12、Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but ______didn’t help．

A．he

B．which

C．it

D．one

13、—Dora, do you think Jack’s proposal reasonable?

—I’m sorry I have missed that, but actually I ________ about another one.

A. thought   B. have thought

C. had thought   D. was thinking

14、 The three of us __________around Europe for about a month last summer.

A．travelled

B．have travelled

C．had travelled

D．travel

15、The troop was ________ with the most advanced weapons.

A. offered   B. afforded

C. sold   D. armed

16、______  you can make your dream come true depends on hard work more than luck.

A. Whether   B. That

C. What   D. How

17、The manager promised to deal with the complaint ________ he reached the office.

A．at the time

B．every time

C．the moment

D．at the moment

18、--Thank you for the suggestions you kindly offered us.

--______. It is really an honor to help you.

A. Don’t mention it  B. Go ahead

C. Don’t worry about it   D. Go away

19、 The purpose of a class is to teach you to think creatively and not to follow your teacher_________.

A. willingly   B. blindly

C. carefully   D. closely

20、A total of 19 Golden Rooster Awards ______, The Wandering Earth took home the award the Best Picture.

A.to present B.having presented C.being presented D.presented

21、In a grey office building of Helsinki a social worker is meeting six elderly people from around town for lunch- via tablets on heir kitchen table. For the next half-hour she talks to them about their day and reminds them to have something to drink, because dehydration is particularly dangerous for older people.

The virtual lunch group is part of Helsinki's remote-care program for its elderly. While many counties with large elderly populations are building new care homes. Finland is not planning to do so and, instead, is looking after people in their own homes for longer. The guiding principle in Finland is that for anyone, no matter what their age. “home is best”.

In Helsinki's home -care program about 4, 000 old people are equipped with various safety devices. These include wristbands with GPS, a fall detector and a phone line linked to care workers who monitor the wearer' s location on their computer screens. Most of the old people are too weak to walk about much, so they rarely leave their homes. But if they venture out in the middle of the night, care workers are to find them. Local tech companies have developed systems that use a network of motion sensors to gather data on things like how much a person moves about, visits the bathroom or opens the fridge. Not opening the fridge as much, for example, is a sign that memory problems may be getting worse.

Technology sometimes misfires. Wristbands give out the wrong location, setting off false alarms. A sensor may fail because Grandpa covers a towel over it. Some elderly people forget to charge their tablets. Such problems can be fixed. The biggest gain from technology may be that it makes it easier to keep old people fit enough to remain in their own homes for longer. This is much cheaper than an institution, and usually nicer, too.

【1】What does the underlined word “dehydration” in paragraph 1 refer to?

A．Talking less.

B．Eating alone.

C．Watching their tablets.

D．Losing too much water.

【2】Why does Finland carry out the “remote-care program”?

A．To build more lunch groups.

B．To make the old stay at home.

C．To guide elderly people to care homes.

D．To care for the old in their own homes.

【3】What is the function of motion sensors?

A．To find the missing old people.

B．To monitor the wearer’s location.

C．To collect the wearers' activity data.

D．To check people's memory problems.

【4】What may cause technology to fail?

A．Grandpa uses a towel.

B．The tablets are out of power.

C．Wristbands send out an alarm.

D．The elderly forget their location.

22、Like lots of other girls and boys，when Lisa Cao was a kid，she used to watch the Olympics. “I always wanted to be good at sport and I found athletic potential in my body”， the New York City citizen tells her friends. But there was no sport available so she took up piano lessons. Then，at the age of 15，she decided to drop the lessons and put her athletic potential to the test with running. At age 18，Lisa Cao ran her first-ever marathon in New York City. And now，the 27-year-old  has 54 marathons (26. miles) and ultramarathons (100miles) under her belt.

What does it take to be an ultramarathoner? A lot of devotion，even when difficulties occur sometimes. “Making time for running is really hard when life is so busy，” she says. “There’s a big work-life balance that I have to keep. I have to wake up earlier on the weekends. And oh，the potential for excuses! With NYC’s wild winters as of late，it’s easy to blame the weather，roll over in bed and put off a solid run. I have a fix for this，though，” she says. “Cute clothes. With the horrible weather， I bought cute clothes as motivation to run and actually wear them. ”

While she’s training during low season in the winter，Lisa Cao tries to run a “base” of 20 to 30 miles per week to stay prepared. During high season in the spring and summer，she’ll run around 30 to 40 miles，but she also gets a lot of quality miles from her races.

【1】 When did Lisa Cao run her first marathon?

A. At the age of 27.

B. When she was 15 years old.

C. Three years after she began running.

D. Nine years after she dropped her piano lessons.

【2】 What made Lisa Cao have the desire of joining in sports?

A. Being different from other kids of her age.

B. Wanting to join in the Olympics.

C. Having no interest in piano lessons.

D. Having athletic potential.

【3】Why does Lisa Cao buy beautiful clothes in terrible weather?

A. To have a better sleep.

B. To motivate herself to keep running.

C. To protect herself from any harm.

D. To save time for further training.

【4】Where is the text probably taken from?

A. A sport website

B. A science book.

C. A college poster

D. A football magazine.

23、More than a billion people around the world have smartphones, almost all of which come with navigation (导航) apps such as Google or Apple Maps.This raises the question we meet with any technology: what skills are we losing? Talking with people who’re good at finding their way around or using paper maps, I often hear lots of frustration with digital maps.North/South direction gets messed up, and you can see only a small section at a time.

But consider what digital navigation aids have meant for someone like me.Despite being a frequent traveler, I’m so terrible at finding my way that I still use Google Maps every day in the small town where I have lived for many years.What looks like an imperfect product to some has been a significant expansion of my own abilities.

Part of the problem is that reading paper maps requires specific skills.There is nothing natural about them.In many developed nations, including the U.S., one expects street names and house numbers to be meaningful references, and instructions such as “go north for three blocks and then west” make sense.In Istanbul, in contrast, where I grew up, none of those hold true.For one thing, the locals rarely use street names.Why bother when a government or a military group might change them again? Besides, the city is full of winding, ancient alleys that meet newer avenues at many angles.Instructions as simple as “go north” would require a helicopter or a bulldozer (推土机).

Let’s come back to my original questions.While we often lose some skills after leaving the work to technology, it may also allow us to expand our abilities.Consider the calculator: I don’t doubt that our arithmetic skills might have dropped a bit as the little machines became common, but calculations that were once boring and tricky are now much more straightforward—and one can certainly do more complex calculations more confidently.

【1】Paragraph 1 is centered on ________.

A．people who’re experts at finding way

B．the drawback of digital maps

C．the significance of digital maps

D．the disadvantage of smartphones

【2】Which of the following does the author agree with?

A．Everyone can read paper maps with ease.

B．Road instructions are meaningful in Istanbul.

C．Digital navigation aids are quite helpful.

D．Using digital devices brings much trouble.

【3】Why do locals seldom use street names in Istanbul?

A．Because street names are changed again and again.

B．Because street names are forbidden by the government.

C．Because old ancient alleys are replaced by new roads.

D．Because people there use paper maps a lot.

【4】What does the author imply in the last paragraph?

A．Love paper maps, love digital maps.

B．A calculator a day keeps a skill away.

C．Using paper maps is objecting to digital maps.

D．Technology doesn’t necessarily mean abilities worsening.

24、The narwhal is a mysterious resident of the remote Arctic. The species, a relatively small whale is known for growing a spiral tusk （螺旋长牙）that resembles the historical description of a unicorn's horn.

Experts have long speculated why narwhals have this strange long tooth. Some think that the tusk is a tool for survival, as they could possibly use it to break up ice or spear fish for meals. However, the vast majority of female narwhals don't have tusks, and females tend to live longer than males. Most scientists now think the tusk provides no advantage for survival, but rather acts as a sex characteristic and determines the social rank. But the tusk may also have another purpose. A 2014 study found the narwhal's tusk is full of sensitive nerve endings that allow the whale to detect changes in the environment, such as changes in temperature and salinity. The finding suggests that the tusk might also be a sensory organ.

Narwhals are an important subsistence resource （生存资源）for high Arctic communities. They provide the humans with high-calorie fat, protein and nutrients, vital and hard to come by in the harsh northern winters. Narwhal tusks were carved into artworks and sold to support families with few job opportunities.

Narwhal tusk is protected now. But similar to all other Arctic wildlife, narwhals are likely to struggle in the face of climate change. Warm temperatures in the Arctic have caused sea ice to disappear at an alarming rate. New shipping channels have become accessible, threatening narwhals and other marine mammals. Researches suggest that narwhals are the most vulnerable （易受伤害的）marine mammals to human activities in the Arctic because these isolated creatures are highly sensitive to ship activities. Their response to changing conditions near the pole could provide insight into larger changes in Earth's future.

【1】What does the underlined word "speculated" in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Known.

B．Guessed.

C．Overlooked.

D．Concluded.

【2】What did the 2014 study find about the narwhal's tusk?

A．It is an indicator of gender.

B．It reveals narwhals' social rank.

C．It can sense changes in the water.

D．It can be used to dig fish for meals.

【3】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．The conservation of narwhals is a must.

B．The situation of climate change is under control.

C．Some human activities affect mammals slightly.

D．Narwhals are under the threat of being hunted.

【4】What might be the best title for the text?

A．Research on Narwhals' Tusk

B．Insight into Climate Changes

C．Narwhals ： Feature and Behavior

D．Narwhals ： Mysterious Sea Unicorns

25、When Williams, once a librarian, now 54-year old, became an elementary school teacher and tutor in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she ________ some kids had limited ________ to books. To Williams, the ________ was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, she ________ gave away 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be ________ with that.

“I wanted to do something that’s going to ________ my faith, my work ethic, my everything.” So she ________ a new goal for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t complain in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field.”

So she got down to ________, first by persuading friends to donate books.or ________ buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’s project ________, strangers started leaving packs of ________ on her front porch.

As quickly as the books come in, Williams ________ them to local schools—free of charge. She also ________ a book club for prisoners in the local jail.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has ________ more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her ________! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too important for kids with ________ options. “Reading can take you anywhere. You can travel in time and ________. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

【1】

A．teaching

B．reading

C．drawing

D．writing

【2】

A．assumed

B．predicted

C．realized

D．heard

【3】

A．access

B．energy

C．time

D．experience

【4】

A．proposal

B．method

C．enthusiasm

D．solution

【5】

A．reluctantly

B．occasionally

C．constantly

D．readily

【6】

A．astonished

B．disappointed

C．satisfied

D．embarrassed

【7】

A．lose

B．restore

C．break

D．stretch

【8】

A．set

B．achieved

C．kept

D．expected

【9】

A．unavoidable

B．unreachable

C．irresistible

D．unreliable

【10】

A．promoted

B．discovered

C．posted

D．wrote

【11】

A．travel

B．debate

C．talk

D．work

【12】

A．money

B．projects

C．libraries

D．advertisement

【13】

A．came

B．spread

C．transported

D．controlled

【14】

A．novels

B．food

C．books

D．drinks

【15】

A．offers

B．returns

C．takes

D．lends

【16】

A．continues

B．prefers

C．hosts

D．joins

【17】

A．recommended

B．contributed

C．bought

D．searched

【18】

A．responsibility

B．judgement

C．plan

D．goal

【19】

A．few

B．strange

C．special

D．wise

【20】

A．wonder

B．space

C．adventure

D．passion

26、假定你是学生会主席李华，你校外籍教师Mr. Brown在英语戏剧社纳新期间协助招募新成员。请你用英语给Mr. Brown写一封电子邮件表示感谢，同时请他推荐话剧表演的剧目并给以指导。内容包括：

1. 感谢帮助；

2. 请求推荐话剧：

3. 希望指导。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 参考词汇：recruit new members纳新。

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