武汉2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、The electronic red-packet has been so ______  that AliPay and Tencent Wechat compete against each other openly and secretly since the beginning of this year.

A. popular     B. convenient

C. favorable     D. arbitrary

2、——Why do you refuse the offer from the local company?

——In fact, the idea of working abroad more _____to me .

A. belongs

B. appeals

C. adapts

D. brings

3、He hasn’t decided _____ he will go abroad next year.

A. whether   B. when

C. where   D. why

4、At the ceremony, the president delivered a thank-you speech ______ the company.

A. on account of  B. in charge of

C. on behalf of    D. in terms of

5、—Are you free now? I have something important to tell you.

—OK, ________ you make it short. I will have to finish this report before noon.

A. now that   B. as soon as

C. every time   D. as long as

6、— I’m sorry．I ________  at you the other day．

— Forget it．I was a bit out of control myself．

A．shouldn’t shout

B．shouldn’t have shouted

C．mustn’t shout

D．mustn’t have shouted

7、According to the weather forecast, this airport will not be suitable for landing, and   50 miles away.

A.nor the one will B.nor will the one

C.so the one will D.so will the one

8、–Why？This is simply a common bike!

–_____ sir．It’s our special offer today．

A． Don’t mention it

B． Let me see

C． So it is

D． Neither do I

9、At that moment I had a hint of the truth: it is by growing our hearts with love we find our happiness.

A.that B.what C.how D.when

10、Not many of us really get to see the hard work that happens ______ the scenes to make our favorite movies come to life.

A. without B. to C. behind D. by

11、When he was at college, he _____ go to that coffee shop to do a part-time job every weekend.

A.must B.should C.might D.would

12、—How did you make so rapid progress in your English? Do you have any secrets?

—No.Only ________ hard working.

A．in terms of

B．in honor of

C．by means of

D．on behalf of

13、_____ his great courage, the boy was left alone in a dark room, no lighted candle_____ it up．

A． Considered；lighted

B． Considering；lighting

C． Having considered；lighted

D． To consider；lighting

14、--- Do you remember when I first met you?

---- Of course. I ___________ at Oxford University.

A. studied   B. had studied

C. have studied   D. was studying

15、—I would like you to help me tomorrow.

—Can you be more ______?

A．specific

B．particular

C．tender

D．regular

16、In return for the love and care from the parents, we should remember that taking care of them is the ________ responsibility.

A. unshakeable    B. unbelievable

C. undescribable   D. unapproachable

17、You must ____ the mail in person and take along some form of identification.

A.attach B.select C.collect D.observe

18、I’ve the habit of calling in on my grandparents on my way home from school.

A. come into   B. gone into   C. got into   D. run into

19、 It’s standard practice for a company like this one______ a security officer.

A. employed     B. being employed

C. to employ     D. employs

20、Between the two halves of the football game is a 15-minute break, __________ the audience can have a rest．

A．when

B．where

C．which

D．that

21、The first time I heard the actual London Bridge was in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, I thought it was a joke. A stupid joke at that. I mean, what sort of moron would take a perfectly good, perfectly famous bridge and move it halfway around the world to some no-name town in northwest Arizona? Back in 1962 when all this started, Lake Havasu City was nothing. A couple of shops, a couple of homes, and no tourism at all.

It turns out Robert McCulloch is the moron in question, and he wasn’t quite the moron I thought he was. His 2.45 million dollar investment in the 130-year-old bridge—which the British government was selling because it was about to fall into the Thames—ended up being the investment of a lifetime. You see McCulloch was a real businessman, among other things, and his money paid off big. He turned Lake Havasu into one of the most visited tourist attractions in Arizona.

It took nine long years to take down the bridge, ship it brick by brick to the middle of nowhere, and build it up again. When it finally did open up in 1971, it was a huge deal covered by the international press.

The bridge is now a popular tourist attraction, and there’s even a mini “English Village” at the foot of the bridge with souvenirs and real British food so you can have a good old time.

Nowadays Lake Havasu is a busy town with a population of about 56,000 citizens and another2.5 million visitors each year. Most of that is during spring break when the town overflows with energetic boys and girls. Even MTV and the Girls Gone Wild people get in on the action. All thanks to that little bridge.

I don’t know about you, but I’m saving my pennies. When the French get sick of that Eiffel Tower, I’ll be the first to put money on it. It’ll look great in my backyard.

【1】The underlined word "moron" in the first paragraph means .

A. a brave person   B. a foolish person

C. a famous person D. a strange person

【2】Why did the British government put the London Bridge up for sale?

A. It polluted the Thames.

B. It was no longer popular.

C. It was going to fall down.

D. It could bring them the needed money.

【3】What was Lake Havasu City like before 1962?

A. It was a good place for investment.

B. It was known for its English Village.

C. It was a small town with no tourism.

D. It had a population of 56,000 citizens.

【4】In the last paragraph, the author tries to be .

A. polite B. friendly   C. practical   D. Humorous

22、Allergies（过敏）cause loads of trouble. Some people suffer from seasonal hay fever as pollen（花粉）flows through the air. Others react to materials at their very touch. And some sorry souls go into shock at the mere presence of certain foods, particularly peanuts and shellfish.

The cause in each case is an oversensitive immune system. This creates annoying and sometimes life-threatening symptoms. Over-reactive immune systems may not, though, be an entirely bad thing. Another role played by the immune system is to destroy malignant tumors（恶性肿瘤）before they take hold—work carried out recently by Annette Wigertz of the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, and her colleague suggests that the immune systems of those with allergies may be particularly good at this.

This finding came after Doctor Wigertz and her team interviewed 1, 527 people with gliomas（a type of brain tumor）in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the southeast of England. The researchers asked the patients in question whether they had a history of allergies, and then compared the results with those for 3, 309 otherwise similar individuals who did not have brain tumors. As Doctor Wigertz reports in the American Journal of Epidemiology, the tumor-free were more likely to suffer from allergies. The presence of an allergy was associated with a 30% reduction in the likelihood of having a glioma.

This was not all that surprising. Previous research had detected similar correlations, suggesting that a welcome side effect of allergy was resistance to cancer. But this new study went further. It looked carefully at the time in the patients' lives when their allergies were active, and it found that this timing was crucial. Doctor Wigertz noted that the absence of allergy was correlated with the time when the glioma first formed.

Awkwardly, this result is open to two rather different interpretations. The optimistic explanation is that the hyperactive immune system associated with allergy does protect against tumors. The other interpretation is that tumors are doing something as they grow that stops the immune system and thus allergic reactions. Either way, tumor and lack of allergy coincide. And either way, something interesting is going on.

【1】What accounts for most allergies?

A．Pollen in-the air.

B．Presence of some food.

C．Sensitivity of the immune system.

D．Overreacting to the world.

【2】How is this finding different from those from the previous research?

A．It indicates a benefit of allergy.

B．It uncovers the cause of allergies.

C．It proves the correlations between allergy and cancers.

D．It discovers the cancer started when there was no allergy.

【3】What's the last paragraph about?

A．What explains the finding of the research.

B．Why the research on allergy is of significance.

C．Whether cancer is related to the absence of allergy.

D．How allergy protects people against cancers.

【4】What can we learn from the research findings?

A．Bad news has wings.

B．When we win some, we lose some.

C．Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

D．One man's meat, another man's poison.

23、Mapping Antarctica

Antarctica was on the map long before anyone ever laid eyes on it. Nearly 2,400 years ago, ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle believed that a great continent must exist at the bottom of the world. They though it was needed to balance out the continents at the top of the world. In the 1500s, mapmakers often included a fanciful continent they referred to as Terra Incognita(Latin for “unknown land”) at the bottom of their maps. But it was not until the 1800s -----after explorers had sighted and set foot on Antarctica----- that mapmakers got down to the business of really mapping the continent, which is one—and—a –half times rhe size of the U.S..

While the coastline could be mapped by ships sailing around the continent, it took airplanes—and later, satellites---to chart Antarctica’s vast interior(内陆). That job continues today. And it is a job that still require a mapmaker, or cartographer, to put on boots and head out into the wild.

Cole Kelleher is familiar with that. He is a cartographer with the Polar Geospatial Center(PGC), which is based at the University of Minnesota and has a staff at McMurdo Station. PGC teamed up with Google to use the company’s Trekker technology to capture images of Antarctica for the Internet giant’s popular feature, Street View. A Trekker camera, which is the size of a basketball, is set about two feet above a backpack. The camera records image in all directions. “It weighs about 50 pounds. I was out for two and a half days, hiking 10 to 12 hours each day,” says Kelleher. It was hard work, but really an incredible experience.” According to Kelleher there are plans to use the technology to create educational apps for museums.

The PGC staff at McMurdo Station provides highly specialized mapmaking services for the U.S. Antarctic Program. For one project, Kelleher used satellite images to map huge cracks in the ice. That helped a team of researchers know whether they could safely approach their field camp on snowmobiles. Another recent project was to help recover a giant, high—tech helium(氦气) balloon used to carry scientific instruments high into the atmosphere. These balloons are launched in Antarctica because there is no danger that they will hurt anyone when they fall back down to Earth. Using satellite images, Kelleher and colleagues created maps of where the balloon could be found.

Antarctica may no longer be Terra Incognita, but it still holds countless mysteries. Cartographers and the maps they make will continue to be essential in helping scientists unlock those secrets.

【1】From the passage, we can infer that Antarctica was on the map in the 1500s when________.

A.mapmakers knew it was much larger than the U.S.

B.Aristotle named the continent Terra Incognita

C.no one had ever seen or been to the continent

D.it was such an interesting continent as was often referred to

【2】Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A.It needs much work for the mapmakers to head out into the wild.

B.The interior can only be mapped by planes and satellites.

C.It is relatively easy to map Antarctica’s coastline by ship.

D.Antarctic is a vast but still mysterious continent.

【3】The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) works with Google initially_________.

A.to capture images of Antarctica for Street View

B.to test the company’s Trekker technology

C.to create educational apps for museums

D.to hike for an incredible experience

【4】The fourth paragraph mainly talks about _______.

A.satellite images which are used to map huge cracks in the ice

B.a high-tech helium balloon for carrying scientific instruments

C.how to safely approach the researcher’s field camp and the balloon

D.the specialized mapmaking services provided by the PGC staff

24、Why do people long for celebrity news? At least some of the hunger centers around schadenfreude—having joy from the suffering of others. People often act as if joy is dependent on achieving material gain. Seeing people that seem to “have it all” suffer (going through divorce, drug abuse, mental illness, etc.) momentarily destroys that thought. And then people can think, “Perhaps it’s OK that I don’t have my own television show, and own four large houses.” Let’s chat a bit more about schadenfreude and related concepts. If you’ve been alive a couple of decades, you’ve certainly seen plenty of examples showing that money does not bring happiness. But what does bring happiness? One of the keys involves learning to fully attend to and enjoy the present moment—not just learning this as information, but, through practice, developing the skill of living mindfully in this moment.

Other keys to happiness involve developing the skill of compassion (同情) and loving kindness. This may seem strange to readers: developing a skill of compassion? Don’t you just have or not have compassion? There are some types of meditation (冥想) originating from Buddhist traditions that are designed to develop compassion and loving kindness.

The four related qualities developed by these types of meditation practices are termed: loving kindness, calmness, compassion, and sympathetic joy. Sympathetic joy is the exact opposite of schadenfreude—with sympathetic joy, we get joy from the joy of others. Think of a close family member doing well and notice the joy you feel—that is sympathetic joy. To develop more sympathetic joy, when something good happens to another person, say to yourself (with as much meaning as possible), “I’m happy for you. May your good fortune continue. May your good fortune grow.”

When a person, celebrity or not, is suffering, you can practice a compassion meditation. Close your eyes and imagine a scene that naturally brings forth sympathy, such as hugging a loved one, or holding a baby. Then imagine saying to the person suffering, “May you be free from suffering,” or “May your suffering ease.”

【1】What can make us happy according to the author?

A．Having a well-paid job.

B．Owning great popularity.

C．Focusing on celebrities’ news.

D．Learning to live in the moment.

【2】What does the author mainly talk about in paragraph 2?

A．Compassion and loving kindness.

B．The origin of some traditions.

C．Happiness and meditation.

D．Meditation practices.

【3】Which of the following is sympathetic joy?

A．You cheer up when a celebrity gets divorced.

B．You crow over it when your schoolmate gets injured.

C．You’re delighted when your classmate wins a competition.

D．You’re pleased when a celebrity practices attentively meditation.

【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A．To show celebrities’ real life.

B．To introduce the findings of a study.

C．To stress the importance of happiness.

D．To correct the negative attitudes to other people’s sufferings.

25、I felt anxious when going into my room from school. Every day, my room was something different. The hours away at school were long enough to cause a terrible change to my peaceful harbor. Today was no ________.

As I entered the house, Mom ________ me with a smile. It seemed like nothing was ________. But I was still doubtful about it. Yesterday, around the ________ of my favorite figurine (小雕像) was a chocolate cookie.________, Callie had enjoyed the cookie so much that she wanted to share it with my angel.

I ________ Callie, who had just turned three. I didn’t see her, but I heard the TV blaring (发出声音) in the other room. As I ________ the family room, I noticed it was pretty ________. There were toys all over the floor, but none of them seemed to be mine. Maybe she hadn’t entered today. I was so ________ that I breathed a sigh of relief.

I pushed my room door open and saw damage! There were a few headless dolls, some broken blocks, and a few juice-stained stuffed animals. “She did it again!” I screamed in ________. My mother ran up to me, embarrassed. She ________ to put a Callie-proof lock on my door tonight. I felt ________, because I knew that soon my room would truly belong to me. However, I was still angry with my little sister so I went into the family room to tell her how she had made life ________ for me. “Callie,” I started. “Hooray!” she shouted.

She leaped off the sofa and hugged my knees with such happiness that I could only look down at her and smile.________, she was only three and learning about the world in her own way. And she always chose to explore and ________ my room because she loved me, her big sister.

【1】

A．evidence

B．answer

C．exception

D．intention

【2】

A．cheered

B．greeted

C．attracted

D．claimed

【3】

A．usual

B．perfect

C．wrong

D．impossible

【4】

A．head

B．hair

C．leg

D．mouth

【5】

A．Luckily

B．Obviously

C．Normally

D．Curiously

【6】

A．looked around for

B．put up with

C．got close to

D．broke away from

【7】

A．examined

B．decorated

C．described

D．protected

【8】

A．noisy

B．large

C．messy

D．empty

【9】

A．nervous

B．proud

C．tired

D．hopeful

【10】

A．anger

B．sorrow

C．regret

D．anxiety

【11】

A．desired

B．pretended

C．promised

D．preferred

【12】

A．warmer

B．better

C．braver

D．freer

【13】

A．unpleasant

B．strange

C．unfortunate

D．adventurous

【14】

A．Above all

B．After all

C．In advance

D．In addition

【15】

A．hunt

B．clean

C．leave

D．destroy

26、Direction: Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.

The protection provided by COVID-19 vaccines declines after four to six months, a large United Kingdom study has found. Researchers from health science company ZOE, a spin-out from King’s College London, recently have found that a full course of the Pfizer vaccine was 88 percent effective at preventing infection after one month, and this protection fell to 74 percent after five to six months.

Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology who led the research, said that the data is broadly consistent with various other studies on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy over time, including a recent survey from Oxford University that found protection from the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs against the Delta variant weakened within three months.

However, Simon Clarke, an associate professor in microbiology at Reading University, who was not involved in the research, said the claim that protection may dip below 50 percent this year “is not based on any strong analysis of data” and seems “more like a finger in the air prediction”.

“Immunity is a complex process and we cannot assume people’s immunity will fade at a uniform rate over time,” Clarke said.

Peter English, a former chairman of the British Medical Association’s Public Health Medicine Committee, who was not involved in the research, said that the data is limited as it did not provide information about vaccine efficacy at preventing severe disease.

“There is a world of difference between efficacy against, on the one hand, any infection and on the other hand, illness severe enough to require hospitalization, critical care, or to cause death,” English said.

Spector said that, in light of the new research, “we urgently need to make plans for vaccine boosters”, or third shots aimed at combating fading immunity. He told the BBC that these shots should be reserved for certain groups, and that a widespread booster campaign would be a “huge waste” and “ethically dubious”.

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