沈阳2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Two friends were talking about education, _______, about the kind of education that they received in their youth.

A． or else   B． worse still

C． or rather   D． above all

2、You had better ______some time every day for sports so that you can keep yourself energetic.

A．set aside

B．take up

C．put away

D．give out

3、________ is this book?

A．Who’s

B．Whose

C．What’s

D．How do you like

4、— I promise her daughter ____ get a nice present on her birthday．

— Will it be a big surprise to her?

A． should   B． must   C． would   D． shall

5、It’s reported that in many countries there are rescue centers for girls who are forced into early marriages, and boys who to look after farm animals.

A. drop in   B. drop away   C. drop off   D. drop out

6、—— At the end of the day we can gather our guests to enjoy fine wine.

—— You seem to be getting off the point．How is that _________ to the discussion?

A．suitable B．tentative C．parallel D．relevant

7、More than one doctor _____ involved in the rescue that took place after the earthquake．

A． was   B． is   C． were   D． are

8、He made great achievements in spite of his lowly _______.

A. resource   B. belief   C. origin D. source

9、—I’m planning to go to Kingdom of Cambodia this summer vacation. I think the trip will be exciting.

—____, as it’s the rainy season then.

A. Yes, it will   B. Of course not

C. You can say so    D. It’s hard to say

10、The creation of art can fly with the wings of________, but make sure art workers walk on solid earth.

A. imagination   B. determination

C. seriousness D. realization

11、Recently, a new research has suggested the possibility in a popular magazine ______ pleasant smells might reduce pain.

A. why B. whether C. that D. how

12、As we know, the circle ________ made with three raised fingers means “OK” in the western countries.

A．sign

B．signal

C．movement

D．mark

13、I want to learn about your holidays. Could you tell me how you usually_______ Thanksgiving Day in your country ?

A. Congratulate   B. remind

C. remember   D. observe

14、--The weather is too cold ___ March this year.

-- It was still ___ when I came here years ago.

A. for; colder   B. in; cold

C. in; hot   D. for; hotter

15、The animation film, Ne Zha,  has been welcomed by Chinese audience, because it has ______ a range of elements, from Peking Opera and Lunar New Year paintings to Chinese animation techniques.

A.imagined B.invented C.applied D.abandoned

16、I had to catch my flight. That was ________ I left Tom’s party so early yesterday.

A. what    B. how    C. why       D. when

17、—Sorry I was not able to help.

—___________.

A．It just depends

B．It’s my pleasure

C．Not in the least

D．Thank you all the same

18、To survive in the world, we have to act _______ others, but to survive as ourselves, we have to act alone.

A. in honor of   B. in concert with

C. in light of   D. in contact with

19、________ more coffee could ________ people’s life span, as coffee drinkers would have a lower risk of death, a new study shows.

A. Drinking; diverse   B. Drinking; extend

C. To drink; conservative   D. Being drink; adopt

20、The Roma originally lived in northern India in ________ is now Pakistan, and later tried in vain to settle down ________ they could live and trade peacefully.

A.where; where B.which; in which C.which; where D.what; where

21、

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesn’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech—“I Have a dream”, you may notice that he stumbles(结巴) over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you don’t remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.

People care a lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speechmaking as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human.

As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being perfect. Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely.

【1】The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ______.

A．be smarter than you  B．notice your mistakes

C．do better than you   D．know what you are talking about

【2】You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because________.

A．your attention is on the content

B．you don’t fully understand the speech

C．you don’t know what the speaker plans to say

D．you find the way of speech-making more important

【3】It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A．giving a speech is like giving a performance

B．one or two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

C．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

D．the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be

【4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Be a Perfect Speaker

B．How to Make a Perfect Speech

C．Don’ t Expect a Perfect Speech

D．Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech

22、It is breakfast time. Just when you reach for the delicious piece of fruit on your counter, you see something that makes you much less hungry: a swarm of fruit flies!

Fruit flies are tiny insects that are attracted by ripe or rotting fruits and vegetables. The flies not only eat the fruit, but also lay their eggs there. 【1】 Most people want to get rid of these bugs as quickly as possible. Some people use pesticide sprays on the fruit flies. 【2】 Luckily, there is a safe way for you to get rid of fruit flies in your house.

【3】 Clean up any spilled juice or bits of food that might be on the floor. Doing all of these things will stop new fruit flies finding food or places to lay their eggs.

【4】 First, fill a small bowl with a few spoons of vinegar. Then, put a piece of very ripe or rotting fruit into the vinegar. Cover the bowl very tightly with a sheet of plastic wrap and poke a few very small holes in the wrap with a fork.

If all goes according to plan, the flies will enter the trap through the holes. 【5】 You can either kill these flies or release them outdoors.

A．They are so disgusting.

B．It will catch all of the remaining fruit flies.

C．So how did these fruit flies end up in your kitchen?

D．A small fruit fly problem can become serious very quickly.

E．The first step is to remove all fruits or vegetables from your counter.

F．This will kill the flies but spread harmful poison all over your kitchen.

G．You can also make a trap to catch the remaining fruit flies in your house.

23、Grand Canyon National Park

Located entirely in northern Arizona, the park covers 277 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands. One of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world, Grand Canyon is unmatched in the incomparable vistas it offers to visitors on the rim. Grand Canyon National Park is a World Heritage Site.

Park Openings and Closings

The Village and Desert View on the South Rim are open all year and park entrances remain open 24 hours a day. North Rim facilities open mid-May and close mid-October. Park entrances remain open 24 hours a day during this time. Hours for visitor centers and businesses vary throughout the year.

Park Information

The park produces a Pocket Map with a North Rim and South Rim edition that contains a map and information about services, facilities, and park ranger programs. It is available in French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. A hiking brochure is available for those planning to hike one of the park’s main trails down into Grand Canyon. Obtain publications at entrance stations, visitor centers, or at go.nps.gov/136ojl.

Accessibility

Many of the facilities at Grand Canyon are historic and built before current accessibility standards were set. The terrain is rugged with narrow, rocky trails and steep cliffs. Visitors using wheelchairs or having visual impairments may need assistance. For more information about accessibility in Grand Canyon National Park, see go.nps.gov/1rtxl2.

Park Entrance Fees

Fees collected support projects in the park. Admission to the park is $35 per private vehicle; $30 per motorcycle; and $20 per person entering the park via Grand Canyon Railway, park shuttle bus, private rafting trip, walking, or riding a bicycle. The pass can be used for seven days and includes both rims. Pay fees at park entrance stations or at some businesses outside the park. Every year the National Park Service offers entrance fee free days. For complete fee information, including Annual, Active Military, Senior, and Access passes, visit go.nps.gov/y5uu6f.

Sustainability

Grand Canyon National Park incorporates sustainability into all aspects of its operations. Use your refillable water bottle to fill up on free Grand Canyon spring water at major trailheads, visitor centers and grocery stores. Please recycle – recycling containers are conveniently located and as common as trash bins. Discover what else you can do to protect the environment while traveling here and beyond at go.nps.gov/1b2rzt.

【1】People with physical disabilities can find detailed information on park facilities designed for them by visiting ________.

A．go.nps.gov/y5uu6f

B．go.nps.gov/1rtxl2

C．go.nps.gov/136ojl

D．go.nps.gov/1b2rzt

【2】What is the admission fee if you and your parents plan to go on a ten-day vacation to Grand Canyon National Park by driving a car?

A．$35.

B．$60.

C．$70.

D．$120.

【3】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．Visitors have year-round access to every corner of the national park.

B．Hikers who can only speak Chinese cannot explore the North Rim without an interpreter.

C．The Grand Canyon features is one of the world's most visually breathtaking landscapes.

D．Visitors are forbidden to leave any trash in the National Park to maintain sustainability.

24、A new study, published in Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.

“One big difference between people who think intelligence is malleable (可塑的) and those who think intelligence is fixed is how they respond to mistakes,” says Jason S. Moser, of Michigan State University. Studies have found that people who think intelligence is malleable say things like, “When the going gets tough, I put in more effort.” or “If I make a mistake, I try to learn and figure it out.” On the other hand, people who think that they can't get smarter will not take opportunities to learn from their mistakes. This can be a problem in school. For example, a student who thinks her intelligence is fixed will think it's not worth bothering to try harder after she fails a test.

For this study, Moser and his colleagues gave participants a task that was easy to make a mistake on. They were supposed to identify the middle letter of a five-letter series like “MMMMM”, “MMNMM” or “NNMNN”. Sometimes the middle letter was the same as the other four, and sometimes it was different.

While doing the task, the participants wear a cap on his or her head that records electrical activity in the brain. When someone makes a mistake, their brain makes two quick signals: an initial response that indicates something has gone wrong—the “Oh, crap” response, as Moser calls it—and a follow-up signal that indicates an attempt to correct the mistake.

A bigger second signal was displayed in the participants who were better able to recover from making a mistake—that is, those who believed that they could learn from such a mistake—than in the participants who had negative feelings about a mistake and believed that their failure was due to their own shortcomings.

“This research might help us understand why exactly the two types of individuals show different behaviors after mistakes and could help in training people to believe that they can work harder and learn more, by showing how their brain is reacting to mistakes,” Moser says.

【1】Why won't some people learn from their mistakes?

A．Their brain doesn't react to mistakes.

B．They don't think they can do better.

C．Their brain doesn't deal with mistakes.

D．They don't think they have made a mistake.

【2】What was the purpose of the five-letter series?

A．To make the participants make a mistake.

B．To test the participants' ability to identify letters.

C．To help the participants to identify the middle letter.

D．To train the participants to be careful with mistakes.

【3】What happened in the brain of those with negative feelings about a mistake?

A．There was no follow-up signal.

B．There were a few follow-up signals.

C．There was a bigger follow-up signal.

D．There was a smaller follow-up signal.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Avoiding Mistakes Is Possible

B．How You Respond to Mistakes Matters

C．Why There Are Brain Signals After a Mistake

D．Brain Reactions to Mistakes Show Intelligence

25、Afel was only a very small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. It had lots of pictures of children _________ in big white fields. He asked, “Mum, what are those white fields?” His mother laughed, “That’s snow, and they are making a snowman!” She tried to _________ what snow was. Afel didn’t really _______ because there was no real snow where he lived. But he showed great _________.

One day when he was 12, Afel was watching a programme on TV at his uncle’s house. The programme was full of snow. And not only snow — there were people _______ across the snow. They looked like fantastic birds. They had hats covering all their heads and big goggles over their eyes. And on their feet, they had _______ shoes.

“What are those?” he asked his uncle _________. “Skis,” replied his uncle. “And those people are called skiers.” At that moment, he _________ to be a skier. He asked his uncle what the programme was. “The Winter Olympics,” said his uncle. “It’s like the normal Olympics, but for _________ where you need snow — ski jumping, bobsleigh (长橇), those sorts of things. They __________ it every four years.”

Afel found out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Beijing, in 2022. “Perfect,” he thought. “Enough __________ for me to become a brilliant skier.”

“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?” Afel ________ them. He made himself a pair of skis from two pieces of wood. He tied them to his feet and practised skiing __________ two sticks in his hands. He practised again and again until he could __________ quite quickly across the sand. He __________ to fly down the hills like the people on TV, but he couldn’t.

“Never mind,” he thought. “It’s a __________…”

“How will you go to the Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country doesn’t ________ have a team that goes to the Winter Olympics. We have good runners and win lots of medals at the Olympics. But no skiing, no.” Afel didn’t __________.

So every night, out in the middle of the desert, Afel now practises skiing down sand hills. He __________ that the yellow sand and brown earth are as gold as the medal he will bring home with him, when he is the __________.

【1】

A．drawing

B．playing

C．dancing

D．hiking

【2】

A．announce

B．stress

C．conclude

D．explain

【3】

A．mind

B．respond

C．understand

D．regret

【4】

A．interest

B．concern

C．patience

D．confidence

【5】

A．walking

B．riding

C．running

D．flying

【6】

A．strong

B．strange

C．fashionable

D．comfortable

【7】

A．politely

B．hopefully

C．excitedly

D．nervously

【8】

A．promised

B．claimed

C．agreed

D．decided

【9】

A．projects

B．fields

C．sports

D．courses

【10】

A．gain

B．have

C．accept

D．mark

【11】

A．time

B．energy

C．experience

D．determination

【12】

A．avoided

B．ignored

C．corrected

D．criticized

【13】

A．pushing

B．pulling

C．holding

D．waving

【14】

A．roll

B．march

C．jump

D．move

【15】

A．needed

B．prepared

C．pretended

D．attempted

【16】

A．start

B．chance

C．solution

D．strategy

【17】

A．even

B．often

C．shortly

D．finally

【18】

A．refuse

B．inquire

C．care

D．complain

【19】

A．dreams

B．predicts

C．assumes

D．realizes

【20】

A．authority

B．champion

C．genius

D．celebrity

26、 近年来电信诈骗案件频发，前不久即将步入大学的徐玉玉还因此失去了年轻的生命，因此，学习和掌握一些应对电信诈骗的知识非常有必要。请以“How to deal with telecom fraud”为题写一篇文章。内容要点包括：

 1．电信诈骗的概念

 2．应对的具体措施

参考词汇：电信诈骗：telecom fraud/scam 汇款：remit money

要求：1．词数100左右

2．注意语义连贯。