衡水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 frozen waterfall has attracted floods of tourists to_______ the natural beauty.

A. cherish   B. admire

C. observe   D. discover

2、---I don’t know when _____ tomorrow.

---I will call you as soon as he_____.

A. will he come; arrives   B. he will come; arrives

C. he will come; will arrive   D. will he come; will come

3、 It’s illegal for a public official to ask people for gifts or money ________ favors to them.

A. in preference to  B. in place of

C. in agreement with   D. in exchange for

4、My father, ______ was often the case, came with me to grocery shops and taught me how to pick out produce by smell and touch.

A．as

B．that

C．what

D．who

5、“What you can’t imagine is how terrible life will be ________ you get addicted to drugs,” our teachers often warn us.

A．unless

B．because

C．until

D．once

6、 Pablo is a(n) person. At parties, he always spends time talking to anyone who looks nervous and out of place.

A. conservative  B. enthusiastic

C. sensitive D. Stubborn

7、— Do you think it's a good idea to make friends with your students？

—________, I do．I think it's a great idea．

A．Really B．Hopefully

C．Actually D．Eventually

8、. --- I hear Jane has gone to the Holy Island for her holiday.

--- Oh, how nice! Do you know when she ______ ?

A．was leaving

B．had left

C．has left

D．left

9、—What a drive! I’m tired out.

—No wonder! You have been driving for such a long time ________ taking a break.

A. by    B. without    C. through        D. in

10、He ________ his last chance of winning the election when he said the wrong thing on TV.

A．gave in

B．gave up

C．gave away

D．gave out

11、Enough has been said about health. _______ we should be aware that nothing is more valuable than health which is a solid foundation of one’s success.

A.In all B.In bold C.In approval D.In conclusion

12、Mr. Mao, who_________as a construction worker for over 8 years, is now a distinguished lawyer in this country.

A. has worked   B. had worked

C. worked D. has been working

13、Sorry to have kept you waiting so long，but it’ll still be some time____Mr．Smith is available．

A．when   B．before C．after D．Since

14、—It______________to plant trees and grass on the hillside.

—Yes. They help stop soil from being washed away.

A. makes sense B. makes money

C. makes a living D. makes a mistakes

15、As a mother of three naughty boys, her spare time is fully _______ with her children.

A.destroyed B.occupied C.disturbed D.wasted

16、—The T shirt I received is not the same as is shown online.

— ? But I promise you we’ll look into it right away.

A. Who says    B. How come

C. What for     D. Why worry

17、We can become a smart shopper by choosing for value, not for looks; _______, choose good quality goods with plain packages.

A. in particular B. in other words

C. in addition   D. in any case

18、After he was officially pronounced the world’s oldest man, he offered this simple ________ for a long and happy life.

A.affection B.formula C.preference D.desire

19、---I heard your husband had left for Vienna by air．Why didn’t you go there with him?

---I_________．But I________ a fashion design competition two days away．

A．was scheduled to; will have attended

B．had been scheduled to; will be attending

C．was scheduled to have; am attending

D．had scheduled to; am attending

20、With electric vehicles becoming popular, charging stations are   in parking garages and public spaces.

A. springing up   B. dropping out

C. breaking down   D. getting along

21、My, what a big beak you have!

For humans, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed houses and bigger flood defenses may help to make the effects of a warmer world less harmful. 【1】 In a paper published in Trends & Evolution, a team led by Sara Ryding, a PhD candidate at Deakin University, shows that is already happening. Climate change is already altering the bodies of many animal species, giving them bigger beaks (喙), legs and ears.

In some species of Australian parrot, for instance, beak size has increased by between 4% and 10% since 1871. Another study, this time in North American dark-eyed juncos, another bird, found the same pattern. 【2】

All that is perfectly consistent with evolutionary theory. “Allen’s rule”, named for Joel Asaph Allen, who suggested it in 1877, holds that warm-blooded animals in hot places tend to have larger body parts than those in temperate (温带的) regions. 【3】 Being richly filled with blood vessels, and not covered by feathers, beaks make an ideal place for birds to get rid of heat. Fennec foxes, meanwhile, which are native to the Sahara Desert, have strikingly large ears, especially compared with their Arctic cousins.

Ms. Ryding is not the first researcher to take that approach. But it is hard, when dealing with individual species, to prove that climate change was the cause of an anatomical (解剖学的) changes. All sorts of other factors, from changes in prey to the evolving reproductive preferences of males or females, might have been driving the changes. 【4】 The team combined data from different species in different places. Since they have little in common apart from living on a warming planet, climate change is the most reasonable explanation.

【5】 That may change as warming accelerates. Since any evolutionary adaptation comes with trade-offs (妥协), it is unclear how far the process might go. Bigger beaks might make feeding harder, for instance. Larger wings are heavier, and bigger legs cost more energy to grow.

A．However, looking at the bigger picture makes the pattern clearer.

B．For now, at least, the increase is small, never much more than 10%.

C．Animals will have to rely on changing their bodies or their behaviors.

D．It seems that the future world is going to be hotter than humans are used to.

E．Therefore, the negative effects of a warmer world are visible in these animals’ bodies.

F．Such adaptations boost an animal’s surface area relative to its body, helping it to release extra heat.

G．Similar trends are seen in mammals, with species of mice and bats evolving bigger ears, legs

and wings

22、It’s often interesting to take a look at some of the lists that arrive toward the end of the year such as top devices, best gadgets, most desirable high-tech gift and more. Apart from cell phones and tablets, and Apple and Samsung products, this year many other gadgets made it on the most wanted list from Yahoo Tech and the most searched list from Bing. com. Read on to find out what they are.

Wireless headphone

Portable Bluetooth headphones represent the next evolution in headphone technology. If you have a compatible smartphone with Bluetooth, the obvious benefit is that you can get rid of the wires snaking from your backpack or pocket. Many of the wireless headphones in the market also have a built-in microphone for taking calls hands-free.

Product to buy: Beats Studio Wireless

Features:  Signature look, and powerful audio performance with intense bass and high-mid boosting, plus plenty of accessories.

Price: 1898 yuan

Smartwatch

The primary advantage of a smartwatch over traditional watches is that they reduce how often you have to pull your phone out of your pocket. With it, the information on your smartphone goes straight to your wrist, and you can decide first if they are worth dealing with.

Product to buy: Pebble smartwatch

Features: Understated design, with easy setup and instant information, and customizable watch faces, plus synes（同步）with Android or IOS.

Price:  $99 (about 612 yuan)

Portable Bluetooth speaker

Bluetooth speakers are steadily growing in popularity because they let you take the party anywhere. They can be paired with your music device, and they are able to withstand incidental bumps. Though small in size, Bluetooth speakers provide a steady soundtrack for even the lengthiest bacchanalia (狂欢)。

Product to buy:  Logitech UE Boom

Features:  Water and stain resistant, 360-degree sound, 15 hour battery life, with a variety of color patterns.

Price:  1499 yuan

Fitness band

Basically, fitness bands are smartwatches without the watch. They keep track of your exercise progress and, at the same time, allow you to monitor vitals such as your heart rate, calories burned and amount of time spent exercising. Some even monitor your sleep patterns.

Product to buy: Fitbit Flex

Features:  Long battery life (five days), with silent vibrating alarm, and wireless syncing to smartphones.

Price: 898 yuan

【1】According to the first paragraph, a smartphone that __________ is a compatible one.

A. goes with other devices

B. has a large capacity

C. represents technological evolution

D. has signature look

【2】How much money is he likely to spend on some of the products if a man is an enthusiastic musical fan?

A. 3397 yuan   B. 1510 yuan   C. 2397 yuan   D. 2510 yuan

【3】Which of the following words can best summarize the common feature of the above products?

A. Wearable   B. Cheap   C. Android   D. Wireless

【4】Which of the following statements is Not True according to the passage?

A. Smartwatch and Fitness band are similar products to some extent.

B. Beats Studio Wireless features plenty of accessories.

C. All the products can sync with Android or iOS

D. Tablets are on the most wanted list of high-tech products of this year

23、Television has transformed politics in the United States by changing the way in which information is spread, by altering political campaigns, and by changing citizen’s patterns of response to politics. By giving citizens independent access to the candidates, television reduced the role of the political party in the selection of the major party candidates. By centering politics on the person of the candidate, television accelerated the citizen’s focus on character rather than issues.

Television has altered the forms of political communication as well. The messages on which most of us rely are briefer than they once were. The stump speech, a political speech given by traveling politicians and lasting 1 to 2 hours, which was popular in the nineteenth-century, has given way to the 30-second advertisement and the 10 second “sound bite” in broadcast news. Increasingly the audience for speeches is not that standing in front of the politician but rather the viewing audience who will hear and see a short video of the speech on the news.

In these simplified forms, much of what comprised the traditional political speech of earlier ages has been lost. In 15 or 30 seconds, a speaker cannot establish the historical context that shaped the issue in question, cannot detail the probable causes of the problem, and cannot examine alternative proposals to argue that one is preferable to others. In short videos, politicians assert (断言) but do not argue.

Because television is an intimate (亲密的) medium, speaking through it requires a changed political style that is more conversational, personal, and visual than that of the old-style stump speech. Reliance on television means that increasingly our political world contains memorable pictures rather than memorable words. Schools teach us to analyze words and print. However, in a world in which politics is increasingly visual, informed citizenship requires a new set of skills.

Recognizing the power of television’s pictures, politicians craft televisual, staged events designed to attract media coverage. Much of the political activity we see on television news has been crafted by politicians, their speechwriters, and their public relations advisers for televised consumption. Sound bites in news and answers to questions in debates increasingly sound like advertisements.

【1】What do we know about “stump speech” in paragraph 2?

A．It’s an event created by politicians to attract media attention.

B．It’s an interactive discussion between two politicians.

C．It’s a kind of political presentation typical of the nineteenth century.

D．It’s a style of speech common to televised political events.

【2】It is suggested in paragraph 4 that ________.

A．politicians need to learn to become more personal

B．attractive politicians are favored by citizens

C．citizens tend to favor a politician who analyzed issues

D．citizens need to learn how to evaluate visual political images

【3】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Political presentations today are more like advertisements than in the past.

B．Politicians today tend to be more familiar with the views of citizens than in the past.

C．Citizens today are less informed about a politician’s character than in the past.

D．Political speeches today focus more on details about issues than in the past.

【4】What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Television: an Agent of Change in Politics

B．Television: a Platform for Political Debate

C．Television: an Alternative to Stump Speech

D．Television: a New Medium for Communication

24、Time and money are arguably life's most valuable resources. The phrase“time is money” is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin,who used it in an essay (Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748). 【1】. He encouraged people to treat time like money. However, most people think about time and money in vastly different ways.

【2】 Poor or rich, we all have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Thus, each of us faces the choice of how to spend our time. In a world of scarcity (短缺), choosing one thing means not being able to do something else.

The value of time varies from person to person. Time is relatively scarce for people with higher incomes, partly because their time is more valuable. So, to have lots of time, rich people hire other people to do their house-hold chores. 【3】.

Time cannot be stored. One of the reasons we give little thought about how we use our limited resources is that we cannot save time. 【4】.You can't bottle time and exchange it for an object or event. However, when people are made aware of their mortality (生命的有限) they wonder if they did make the most of their lives.

In sum, time is anything but free. As a nonrenewable resource, time is quite expensive. 【5】. Do we want to spend these precious moments on social media or spend that time learning something new? Skills and knowledge take time, so the more time you spend on them, the more you improve.

A．However, it cannot be bought at any price

B．Actually, time and money are greatly different from each other

C．Time is our most limited resource

D．On the other hand, a nonworking person may spend more time on household chores

E．Knowing that time is finite encourages us to ask how we are using our time

F．It means time is a valuable resource

G．Time moves on whether we choose to spend it or not

25、Private jets receive ridiculous tax relief that hurt the environment

The blue jeans and T-shirts of the global elite are no more comfortable than those worn by the middle class. They drink the same coffee and carry the same smartphones. But a(n) ________ is growing between the rich and the rest when they fly. Ordinary folk ________ sleeplessly into cheap seats. The elite stretch out Hat, taking naps. This would be no one else’s business but for two things. First, private jets are horribly polluting. Second, they are often and ________ subsidized (补贴).

Private airlines were ________ hard by the global financial crisis, when both companies and individuals sought to reduce expenses. But now private jets are booming again, partly because new booking services and shared-ownership schemes are cutting the cost of going private and ________ busy executives away from first— and business-class seats on regular flights. But the boom is also a result of tax relief, which is even more ________ than those offered to ordinary airlines. America’s rules are ________ still. Its tax reform allowed individuals and companies to avoid paying 100% of the costs of a new or used private jet against their federal taxes, creating extraordinarily cheap jet purchases.

Flying on a private jet can help ________ on time for those whose time is extraordinarily valuable. Since companies can avoid paying their corporate-tax bills by presenting how much these flights cost them, in some countries the use of a private jet is a tax-free ________ for executives. But a growing volume of research suggests that flying them ________ is often a waste of money for shareholders. The jets are often used to fly to places where corporate seniors are more likely to have holiday homes than business meetings. ________, users of such planes are more likely to commit deception: a careless attitude to other people’s money sometimes shades into complete criminality. The environmental effects of corporate jets are awful. The emissions for new supersonic business jets under development will be many times higher. Amazingly, these emissions are largely ________. Airlines are not covered by the Paris agreement to limit climate change, and most private jets are ________ from CORSIA, a carbon-offsetting (碳补偿) scheme involving most airlines.

All air travel is bad for the environment. The tax breaks for cooking the planet in this way cannot be ________. They should all be abandoned. Carbon emissions should be ________, not subsidised by the sleepless masses and the even less fortunate souls who never fly.

【1】

A．gap

B．dispute

C．disapproval

D．debate

【2】

A．fall

B．slide

C．lean

D．squeeze

【3】

A．reluctantly

B．heavily

C．moderately

D．decently

【4】

A．hit

B．driven

C．pushed

D．stimulated

【5】

A．warning

B．preventing

C．tempting

D．forcing

【6】

A．severe

B．generous

C．immediate

D．efficient

【7】

A．stricter

B．crazier

C．mature

D．simpler

【8】

A．economize

B．revolutionize

C．centralize

D．socialize

【9】

A．investment

B．compensation

C．inheritance

D．bonus

【10】

A．secretly

B．safely

C．efficiently

D．privately

【11】

A．Nevertheless

B．Conversely

C．Moreover

D．Therefore

【12】

A．projected

B．tightened

C．unregulated

D．isolated

【13】

A．excluded

B．distinguished

C．transformed

D．assembled

【14】

A．simplified

B．guaranteed

C．justified

D．eliminated

【15】

A．ignored

B．taxed

C．compensated

D．reduced

26、假定你是李华，两周前你从网上订购了一套英语书虫系列读物（Bookworm Series），昨天才到货，且包装破损，数量不足。请就此向网店客服写一封电子邮件投诉。要点如下：

1、介绍购物情况；

2、反映存在的问题；

3、提出解决方案。

注意：

1、词数120左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3、电子邮件的开并没有和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

To whom it may concern,

Looking forward to your reply!

Regards,

Li Hua