保定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 selection of the date was rather _______, since it mattered little to most of the club members who were free during the holidays.

A. fundamental.   B. arbitrary.   C. ambiguous.   D. thorough.

2、Living in the north, I prefer a local university to________in the south, for it is convenient to go back home.

A．that

B．it

C．one

D．this

3、If you miss this opportunity, it may be years ______ you get another one.

A．since

B．as

C．after

D．before

4、I’m going to spend the summer vacation in Shanghai, _______ lives my grandmother and some other close relatives.

A. which   B. when   C. that   D. where

5、With the night falling, the crowd gathering around the accident scene began to_________.

A. break up B. break down

C. break out D. break away

6、 _____ increasing public discontent, the government is determined to push the bill through.

A. In terms of   B. As a result of

C. In favor of   D. In spite of

7、The other day, my brother drove his car down the street at ________ I thought was a dangerous speed.

A. as   B. which   C. what   D. that

8、Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

A. figured out   B. built up   C. held up   D. taken off

9、The first decade of the 21st century _____ the breathtaking and non-stop development of China．

A．witnesses B．witnessed

C．will witness

D．had witnessed

10、— David was late for the biology class this morning.

—________? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

A．So what

B．How come

C．Why not

D．What for

11、This church is a ______ example of Gothic .

A. prepared   B. perfect

C. personal   D. practical

12、We'll have a _________ holiday, what about going to Huang Shan ?

A.seven days B.seven day C.seven-day D.seven-days

13、 --- Do you mind if I leave my car here for a minute?

--- ______.

A. Great! I love cars

B. Of course not. It’s not allowed here

B. No, you can’t

D. I’d rather you didn’t, actually

14、   basic first-aid skills, according to the expert, will help people respond effectively to emergencies.

A. Known   B. Having known

C. Knowing   D. Being known

15、Today, none of the artist’s other works is __________ this one.

A.fondly remembered as B.fondly remembered such as

C.as fondly remembered as D.such fondly remembered as

16、When reading English novels, I often idiomatic expressions that I can't understand．

A. come across B. go over

C. get across  D. take over

17、The price of vegetables is now much ______ than ten years ago.

A.more higher B.more expensive C.dearer D.higher

18、—When are you leaving?

—My plane _________ at six.

A. took off    B. is about to take off

C. takes off    D. will take off

19、Much to our relief, though the airport was foggy, our plane ________ smoothly.

A．picked up

B．took off

C．got away

D．turned up

20、I would rather ________ with her about it, but I couldn’t control my feelings at that time.

A. didn’t argue B. hadn’t argued

C. wouldn’t argue D. not have argued

21、Dear Colleague,

I am writing with information about BAC University Summer Term’s four exciting programs for high school students. These programs provide the opportunity to study at a world-renowned university, strengthen English-language skills and enjoy summer in Boston. Here is a brief overview of our programs:

High School Honors is a six-week residential or online program in which students take BAC University undergraduate courses and earn up to 8 transferable college credits. Students must be entering Grades 10-12 in fall 2024.

Academic Immersion (AIM) is a three-week non-credit residential program for students to focus intensively on a single academic topic. This summer we are offering three AIM tracks: Introduction to Experimental Psychology, Introduction to Medicine, and Creative Writing. All three tracks combine classroom work with hands-on experiential learning activities. Students must be entering Grade 11 or Grade 12 in fall 2024.

Summer Challenge is a two-week residential or online program in which students take two non-credit seminars of their choice and experience college life. Students must be entering Grade 12 in fall 2024.

Summer Preview is a one-week non-credit residential program in which students explore one subject of interest while previewing the college experience. Students must be entering Grade 9 or Grade10 in fall 2024.

Our Summer Term’s programs provide students with rigorous and collaborative college life experiences that enable them to gain a strong sense of their personal and academic potential. Every year, our students form strong friendships as they undertake challenging coursework and participate in social events.

I have enclosed a poster and a program brochure. I hope you will share this information with your students. Please feel free to contact us via email at summerhs@bac.edu if you have any questions about our programs.

Warmly,

Amanda Nelson

Associate Director

BAC University Summer Term

【1】A Grade 11 student in fall 2024 who prefers online programs could choose ________.

A．High School Honors

B．Academic Immersion

C．Summer Challenge

D．Summer Preview

【2】According to the passage, students can ________.

A．get at least 8 transferable credits in High School Honors

B．gain both knowledge and practical experience in AIM

C．earn credits from the courses in Summer Challenge

D．engage in in-depth research in Summer Preview

【3】What’s Amanda Nelson’s purpose in writing the letter?

A．To evaluate a summer camp.

B．To promote pre-college programs.

C．To recommend university courses.

D．To introduce college learning projects.

22、Stan Lee, co-founder of the Marvel Universe(漫威宇宙) and co-creator of many of its most popular superheroes, died at the age of 95.

Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York in 1992. As a son of working-class Jewish immigrants from Romania, times were hard and he lived with his family in a shabby single-bedroom apartment. After graduating from high school at 16, Lieber landed a job as an assistant at Timely Comics. By the early 1940s, he was a temporary editor for the company. It was at this time that he began using his pen name--Stan Lee. In 1947, two years after returning from serving for the U.S. Army, Lee married his wife, Joan. The two began their 70-year marriage and had two children.

In the late 1950s, DC Comics breathed new life into its classic superhero and experienced a significant success with its updated version of the Flash, and later with super-team the Justice League(正义联盟) of America.

To compete against DC Comics, Lee was given the task of creating their own group of superheroes. In 1961, Timely Comics changed its name into Marvel Comics after Atlas Comics, and that November saw the debut(首次亮相) of the Fantastic Four. Lee’s later famous and lasting creations of comic-book superheroes included Spider-Man, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and the X-men.

Over the course of his career, Lee was an icon of Marvel Comics. As a writer and editor and, at various points, both the publisher and vice president of Marvel Comics, Lee not only introduced interesting characters to the industry, but changed the way that comic books came together. He also created a cooperative workflow between writers and artists, which became known as the “Marvel Method”. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008 for his innovations that revolutionized (=completely changed) American comic books.

【1】What do we know about Lee from paragraph 2?

A．He served for the U.S. Army for two years.

B．He suffered from an unfortunate marriage.

C．He had a tough and struggling childhood.

D．He adopted his pen name at the age of 16.

【2】What was the company called when Spider-Man was created?

A．Timely Comics.

B．Marvel Comics.

C．Atlas Comics.

D．DC Comics.

【3】What does the underlined word “icon” in the last paragraph?

A．Theme.

B．Character.

C．Assistant.

D．Symbol.

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

A．Stan Lee, the Godfather of Marvel Comics.

B．The Development of Marvel Comics.

C．Stan Lee, a Superhero in Comic Books.

D．The Popular Superheroes of Marvel Comics.

23、Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms（蚕）do produce pink silk, a team of scientists has discovered. To see if they could produce pre-dyed silk-silk that comes colored, straight from the source-the team fed ordinary silkworms mulberry（桑树）leaves that had been sprayed（喷洒）with fabric（织物）dyes（染色剂）. Out of seven tested dyes, only one worked, producing a thread that reminded me of pink-dyed hair.

And yes, the worms themselves take on some color before they produce silk. Their colorful diets did not affect their growth, the team, which included engineers and biologists from the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in India, reports in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. (The researchers didn't look too deeply into how the dyes affected the silkworms' health. After all, silkworms die when people harvest their silk.)

The team made dyeing silk this way because coloring fabric normally uses large amounts of fresh water. The water gets polluted with dangerous chemicals in the process, requiring costly treatment before factories can send it back into waterways. Dyeing silk directly by feeding silkworms would avoid those water-washing steps. Scientists are just starting to study this idea. However, it remains to be seen if it's commercially successful. In this experiment, the Indian team tested seven dyes, which are cheap and popular in the industry.

The scientists found different dyes moved through silkworms' bodies differently. Some never made it into the worms' silk at all. Others colored the worms and their silk, but the color disappears before the silk is turned into fabric. Only one dye, named "direct acid fast red", showed up in the final, washed silk threads. By the time it made it there, it was a pleasant, light pink.

【1】The text is most probably a(n) ________.

A．science report

B．tourist guide

C．animal experiment

D．fashion advertisement

【2】Silkworms can produce pink silk because ________.

A．they are born pink

B．they are dyed pink

C．they grow in pink water

D．they are fed dyed food

【3】Where is the experiment carried out?

A．In America.

B．In India.

C．In Israel.

D．In China.

【4】How many dyes have been proved successful in the experiment?

A．One.

B．Three.

C．Five.

D．Seven.

24、Tales From Animal Hospital David Grant

David Grant has become a familiar face to millions of fans of Animal Hospital. Here Dr Grant tells us the very best of his personal stories about the animals he has treated, including familiar patients such as the dogs Snowy and Duchess, the delightful cat Marigold Serendipity Diamond. He also takes the reader behind the scenes at Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital as he describes his day, from ordinary medical check-ups to surgery. Tales From Animal Hospital will delight all fans of the program and anyone who has a lively interest in their pet, whether it be cat, dog or snake!

£14.99 Hardback 272pp Simon Schuster

ISBN 0751304417

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer Micheal White

From the author of Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, comes this colorful description of the life of the world’s first modern scientist. Interesting yet based on fact, Michael White’s learned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him. Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history  where magic ended and science began.

£18.99 Hardback 320pp Fourth Estate

ISBN 1857024168

Fermat’s Last Theorem Simon Singh

In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world’s greatest mathematical problem: Fermat’s Last Theorem ( 定 理 ). First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Polytechnique. Through unbelievable determination Andrew Wiles finally worked out the problem in 1995. An unusual story of human effort over three centuries, Fermat’s Last Theorem will delight specialists and general readers alike.

£12.99 Hardback 384pp Fourth Estate

ISBN 1857025210

【1】What is Animal Hospital?

A.A news story. B.A popular book.

C.A research report. D.A TV program.

【2】In Michael White’s book, Newton is described as  .

A.a person who did not look the same as in many pictures

B.a person who lived a colorful and meaningful life

C.a great but not perfect man

D.an old-time magician

【3】The person who finally proved Fermat’s Last Theorem is  .

A.Simon Singh B.Andrew Wiles

C.Pierre de Fermat D.a French woman scientist

25、I was once a painfully insecure teenage girl. I felt ________ all day, and rejected by my classmates. My ________ comfort was to be the stage assistant at our school’s theater.

One day, to my ________, actors from the great Oregon Shakespeare Festival came to perform for the school. One of them was Barry Kraft, who was a ________ leading actor. As I ran around backstage ________ him, he treated me with the casual ________ that he would show for friends in his living room. I ________ thought he was just making small talk to ________ the time before the performance.

That summer, I traveled to ________ Kraft’s performance at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. During one performance, I gathered my ________ and dropped him a note at intermission (中场休息), saying that if he ________ he could see me in the 15th row. Almost immediately I ________ sending the note, thinking he was too busy to see me.

After the ________, surprisingly, he was waiting for me! He smiled broadly, saying, “Would you like to visit backstage?” And off we went. Every time we ________ someone, he introduced me and said, “She helped me a lot.” I found him ________ sincere with people. It was then that I ________ I’d been wrong about him that day.

My ________ just increased 800%. After all, a well-known man like Kraft was willing to take the ________ to communicate with me, which ________ I mustn’t be so bad. From then on, I felt like a different person. ________, I successfully entered my dream university.

【1】

A．responsible

B．prepared

C．hopeless

D．confused

【2】

A．only

B．new

C．extra

D．secret

【3】

A．surprise

B．delight

C．curiosity

D．disappointment

【4】

A．reliable

B．lucky

C．famous

D．generous

【5】

A．interviewing

B．following

C．watching

D．assisting

【6】

A．friendliness

B．eagerness

C．forgiveness

D．skillfulness

【7】

A．temporarily

B．originally

C．probably

D．finally

【8】

A．share

B．save

C．kill

D．find

【9】

A．assess

B．see

C．advocate

D．polish

【10】

A．memories

B．materials

C．strength

D．courage

【11】

A．looked down

B．backed off

C．set out

D．stepped forward

【12】

A．suggested

B．stopped

C．regretted

D．finished

【13】

A．discussion

B．show

C．travel

D．introduction

【14】

A．asked

B．reminded

C．informed

D．met

【15】

A．gradually

B．normally

C．merely

D．really

【16】

A．agreed

B．predicted

C．forgotten

D．realized

【17】

A．contribution

B．confidence

C．competence

D．experience

【18】

A．risk

B．chance

C．time

D．measure

【19】

A．indicated

B．witnessed

C．expected

D．repeated

【20】

A．As a result

B．In that case

C．As usual

D．in contrast

26、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你们班上周五组织了一次参观农业大学园艺基地的实践活动。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给校刊“英语园地”写一篇英文稿件，介绍活动的全过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

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