宜昌2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、You’ve missed your ______ to speak and you have to wait for another round.

A. turn   B. chance   C. order D. opportunity

2、--- I’d like to have a picnic tomorrow.

--- _________. We’re too busy these days.

A.Forget it. B.So what?

C.That’s all right. D.It’s a pleasure

3、--- How old can you guess your new English teacher is?

--- It’s hard to say．But I guess him to be _________ between 35 and 40.

A. anything   B. anywhere   C. anybody   D. anyway

4、The movie Wolf Warrior II ________ positive reviews since it was released.

A. receives   B. has received

C. received   D. had received

5、One problem with online shopping is that customers can’t know whether the goods are ______.

A.artificial B.conventional C.authentic D.intellectual

6、After several rounds of competition, the little girl _________ because of her excellent spoken English and quick response.

A. put out B. picked out

C. broke out D. stood out

7、The number of foreigners that ________ to China ________ increasing at a rate of about 10% per year.

A．come; is

B．comes; is

C．come; are

D．comes; are

8、 It’s useless envying others their success. It’s time you _______ hard.

A. must work   B. must work  C. work D. Worked

9、______struck me most in the movie was the father’s deep love for his son.

A. That   B. It C. What   D. Which

10、—How do you like the advertisement of the way to losing weight?

—Don’t fall for it. In the beginning, that may do, but after a while you will end up back ________ you started.

A. as if   B. where

C. even if   D. when

11、______ these conditions are fulfilled can the application proceed to the next stage.

A.Only if B.Now that C.Even though D.If only

12、The pop singer is talented and elegant. ____ is no surprise that she has so many fans around the world.

A. It B. There   C. That D. What

13、Though he is always thinking much of himself, he ______ be helpful when staying with others.

A. can   B. must   C. should   D. need

14、________ was most important to her, she told me, was to keep healthy.

A.It B.This

C.What D.As

15、A broad smile spread_____ Jack’s face when he eventually gained a scholarship.

A. across   B. through   C. at D. in

16、It is generally believed that Watson and Crick’s discovery about DNA was ____ beginning of _____ enormous advances in _____ field of genetics.

A. the, the, the    B. /, /, the   C. the, /, the D. the, the, a

17、The new hospital will be located in used to be a wasteland and a huge shopping mall will also be constructed there used to be a school many years ago.

A．where; where

B．what; in which

C．what; where

D．which; where

18、Many education experts stressed in the meeting that scores should not be viewed as the only ____ of success in one's study．

A． instruction    B．criterion

C．proportion   D． trick

19、- _______ do you study English text?

-By making vocabulary lists.

A．What

B．When

C．How

D．Who

20、_______most kids still love burgers，chicken wings and pizza，there are a lots of other foods that are to kids' taste．

A．While B．Since

C．Before D．In case

21、   For those who are too young to know what a Tamagotchi is, it’s an egg-Shaped plastic device with a black-and-white screen on which appears a little pixelated (像素化的) pet. With the three buttons below the screen, you can feed the pet, care for it and clean up its mess. And just like a real pet, it gets sick and dies if neglected.

When it was first released by Japanese company Bandai in 1997, this virtual (虚拟的) “pocket pet” was so popular with school children that it was frequently sold out at stores all over the world. For many people, the Tamagotchi was their first ever experience of raising and caring for a “pet”.

A lot has certainly changed in the last 20 years — especially when it comes to technology — so would it be a good idea to reintroduce the Tamagotchi to today’s world?

Bandai obviously thinks so since it’s going to re-release it next month, marking the device’s 20th anniversary. “We are going after that nostalgia,” said TaraBadie, director of Tamagotchi’s brand management, according to The Verge.

Modern features:

Nostalgia is all the rage these days. Just look at Nintendo’s Pokemon Go — the 2016 smartphone game originated from its 1996 version — and Nokia’s 2017 version of the 3310 — the mobile phone released in 2000 that it seems nearly everyone in the world owned. But these companies didn’t just simply copy from the past — they managed to update the old version and adapt it for the modern world.

With Pokemon Go, Nintendo successfully combined cutting-edge (前沿的) argumented reality (增强现实) technology with the game’s original storyline.

“Pokemon Go tells us about the future of software and the nature of reality-and how they integrate (整合) into what we think of as entertainment,” technology writer Om Malik wrote on The New Yorker.

And although Nokia’s new 3310 stayed faithful to the original phone’s design, it added a few modern features like a color screen, camera and internet access. It even kept the symbolic game Snake, which many of today’s adults would have spent hours playing as teenagers.

But while nostalgia is certainly a selling point to many people, not everyone is a fan.

“I'm so sick of nostalgia as a ploy (噱头) for profit. From the ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan, to the endless Star Wars and X-Men movies, we’ve become a world obsessed with looking backward for lazy sources of joy”, wrote tech reporter Thomas Ricker on The Verge.

But will the magic of nostalgia work with the Tamagotchi? According to Julia Alexander, editor for video website Polygon, it seems pretty unlikely.

After trying the new product, Alexander soon found out that little has been changed since the original.

“I grew up and, unfortunately, the Tamagotchi didn’t,” she wrote.

So when it comes to nostalgia, maybe the fond memories of our favourite childhood products are best left as that-fond memories.

【1】What is the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?

A.To promote the new Tamagotchi.

B.To compare some hit video games.

C.To explore why “nostalgia” is valued these days.

D.To analyze whether it was wise to bring the Tamagotchi back.

【2】According to the text, the success of Pokemon Go and Nokia’s new 3310 lies in the fact that they both_________.

A.use argumented reality technology

B.look exactly the same as the original version

C.made creative adaptations from the old version

D.changed what we think about entertainment

【3】Why isn’t Thomas Ricker a fan of using nostalgia for profit?

A.It could make people less inventive.

B.The original products were often bad.

C.It could make people become addicted to the past.

D.It ruins our tonal childhood memories.

【4】It can be inferred from the passage that the author__________.

A.isn’t completely supportive of re-releasing old products

B.believes that nostalgia is a great selling point

C.believes the new Tamagotchi will appeal to the public

D.loves products that can help revive her good memories

22、People solve some new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solutions to the new problems. That process, known as analogical reasoning (类比推理), has long been thought to be an ability only humans have. But now people might have to make room for a new kid on the block.

Psychologists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) claim that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence (AI) language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests.

But the psychologists raise the question: Is GPT-3 copying human reasoning as a by-product of its massive language training data set or using a fundamentally new kind of cognitive (认知的) process? They also say that although GPT-3 performs far better than they expected at some reasoning tasks, the popular AI tool still fails completely at others. “It can do analogical reasoning, but it can’t do things that are very easy for people, such as using tools to solve a physical task,” says Taylor Webb, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher in psychology.

Webb and his colleagues tested GPT-3’s ability to solve a set of problems inspired by a test known as Raven’s Progressive Matrices, which ask the subject to predict the next image in a complicated arrangement of shapes. To enable GPT-3 to “see” the shapes, and make sure that the AI tool had never met the questions before, Webb transformed the images into a text format that GPT-3 could process.

The psychologists asked 40 UCLA undergraduate students to solve the same problems. Surprisingly, not only did GPT-3 do about as well as humans but it made similar mistakes as well. GPT-3 solved 80% of the problems correctly — well above the human subjects’ average score of just below 60%, but within the range of the highest human scores.

【1】What is analogical reasoning usually considered?

A．A simple learning skill.

B．A unique human ability.

C．A vital thinking process.

D．A solution to any problem.

【2】What did Webb want to stress about GPT-3’s performance at other tasks?

A．Its system has some limitations.

B．Its application hasn’t been popular.

C．It needs to be trained for these tasks.

D．It is good at copying human reasoning.

【3】Why were the shapes changed to a text format?

A．To add difficulty to the questions.

B．To enable GPT-3 to see the results.

C．To guarantee the foreignness of the tasks.

D．To test GPT-3’s ability to identify text.

【4】What might the psychologists conclude about GPT-3 from their tests?

A．It will replace humans in some cases.

B．It rarely makes mistakes like humans.

C．It is able to do things very easy for people.

D．It runs undergraduates close in reasoning.

23、I can't stop thinking about the video of a 10-ycar-old girl facing her fears at the top of a ski jump. Her fear, her courage, her joy, her pride-the whole thing has really struck a chord (触动心弦) in me. Of course, the video makes me reflect on the times when I experienced the similar feelings. I remember how in those moments every cell in my body vibrated (颤动) with life. But it also reminded me of the times I didn't choose the more risky options.

I've always been a little bit of a chicken when it comes to my physical safety but I definitely pushed myself more when I was younger. Now that I'm a mom, I feel like I have to stay safe. I worry about what my kids would do without me and that leads me to make safe choices.

But as I watch this fourth grader overcome her fears, I think about how much this experience will mean to her in the future; she'll always have this as a reference point when she comes up against something scary or difficult. She'll be able to look back on this and say, “Well, I did that and the worst part was the bad feeling at the beginning.”

I know I want that view for my 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son. I know I want them to take risks. Maybe not every day, maybe not ski-jumping, definitely not extreme sports, but I deeply hope that they will push themselves to their limits, facing down fear with whatever tools they can use and enjoying the great rush that comes from attempting scary things and getting to the other side of them.

So if I want that for my kids, I have to honestly look at my own relationship with risk and say that yes... I play it safe. And I have to ask myself another question: Am I doing enough? Or do I need to make some changes in-my life so that my daughter and son can be inspired to make their own brave decisions?

【1】How did the author react when watching that video?

A．She felt ashamed of herself.

B．She realized that sport was dangerous.

C．She thought of her own past experiences.

D．She regretted taking part in some risky activities.

【2】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 most probably refer to?

A．Making safe choices is important.

B．Taking a risk isn't as scary as it seems.

C．Taking a risk can make you feel bad.

D．Overcoming fears requires a long time.

【3】The author most probably thinks that she should ___________.

A．let her kids play with the girl in the video.

B．certainly allow her kids to try ski-jumping.

C．use some tools to practice her kids' courage.

D．participate in more risky activities to set an example.

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

A．Pushing ourselves to our limits

B．Paying attention to kids' activities

C．Learning a kind of risky activity

D．Encouraging kids to choose what they like

24、   Writing Contests

Vassar Miller Prize

A prize of $1500 and publication is given annually for a poetry collection. The famous poet Rosanna Warren will judge. Using the online submission (投稿) system, you submit a copy of 50 to 80 pages with a $25 entry fee.

Short Story Award

A prize of $2500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories is given three times yearly for a short story by a new writer whose fiction hasn't appeared in a print publication with a circulation of more than 5000. Using the online submission system, submit a story of 1000 to 12000 words with an $18 entry fee between September 1 and October 31.

Award For Fiction

A prize of $15000 is given annually for a book of fiction published during the year. Four finalists will each receive $5000. The winner and finalists will also be invited to read at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Andrea Barrett and Alex Espinoza will judge. Submit four copies of a story collection with 20000 words.

Scholarship For Essay

A nine-month fellowship, which includes a scholarship of $45000 for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, is given annually to a nonfiction writer working on a book that focuses on the history of the American Revolution and the nation's founding ideas. Submit an essay within 10 pages by November 1.

【1】Which will you contribute to if you are interested in poems?

A.Vassar Miller Prize. B.Short Story Award.

C.Award For Fiction. D.Scholarship For Essay.

【2】What can we learn about Short Story Award?

A.It is submitted offline. B.Its prize is given once a year.

C.It intends to support new writers. D.Its publication has the highest circulation.

【3】What will the winner get for writing about national foundation?

A.$1500. B.$45000. C.$2500. D.$15000.

25、For the past five years, I have been writing a book. It is almost ________ and now it is time for my publisher and me to agree on a title. It has not gone ________.

The book is about a ________ day in history, a date ________ at random. My idea is that there is no such thing as a(n) “ ________ ” day. If you ________ deeply enough into the events of any 24 hours, you will find enough drama, humor and so on. I always ________ that the book would be titled “One Day,” with three ________ drawn from the hat “12/28/1986.”

________ that is clearly not how things are done anymore. Publishers believe books must have subtitles; the more wordy, the ________.

This wasn't my first such ________ . Years ago, I wrote a book about dogs. The title was to be "Old Dogs," for that was what the book was about. On the cover would be a ________ of an old dog, connecting with the ________ elegantly. But the publisher insisted on a subtitle. The ________ came out thus: "OLD DOGS: Are the best dogs. "Whenever I see it, I feel embarrassed. This ________ me wondering what old book covers would have been like in the new age.

【1】

A．exposed

B．written

C．finished

D．gone

【2】

A．fairly

B．naturally

C．freely

D．smoothly

【3】

A．single

B．rough

C．special

D．big

【4】

A．named

B．given

C．chosen

D．scheduled

【5】

A．bad

B．ordinary

C．long

D．previous

【6】

A．dig

B．fall

C．run

D．break

【7】

A．showed

B．admitted

C．assumed

D．planned

【8】

A．pictures

B．words

C．numbers '

D．signals

【9】

A．Therefore

B．Otherwise

C．Meanwhile

D．Nevertheless

【10】

A．easier

B．better

C．older

D．worse

【11】

A．agreement

B．question

C．puzzle

D．experience

【12】

A．photo

B．film

C．toy

D．story

【13】

A．cover

B．theme

C．ending

D．opinion

【14】

A．book

B．saying

C．cover

D．change

【15】

A．caught

B．left

C．witnessed

D．prevented

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1. 写信目的；

2. 时间安排和报酬；

3. 期待回复。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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