神农架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 crazy fans______ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till Ang Lee,the winner of best-director Ocar arrived.

A. were waiting   B. had been waiting

C. had waited   D. would wait

2、Life is not always easy.You ________ some moments when you were disappointed.

A．must have

B．should have

C．must have had

D．should have had

3、He will ________ trust me ________.

A．not… any more

B．not… more

C．any more

D．did… any more

4、 Mr. Johnson was so much afraid of losing his job that he had to _______ his pride when the boss called him names in public.

A. abuse   B. clarify   C. decline   D. swallow

5、I ________ to help you with your homework but I couldn’t spare any time, I ________ a composition last night and I’ll finish it today.

A．wanted; was writing

B．wanted; wrote

C．have wanted; wrote

D．had wanted; was writing

6、 People who do not smoke have less ______of suffering from lung cancer than those who do so.

A. potential   B. pattern

C. preference     D. prejudice

7、Some students think that studying grammer is not helpful _______.

A．not at all

B．at all

C．all

D．very

8、EBOLA（埃博拉） is said_______ another big health challenge to our humans over the past several months .

A. becoming   B. to become

C.having become D. to have become

9、 I was wondering what to do with my car which won’t start ______ a kind man offered to help.

A. while   B. and C. so D. when

10、During the break, some students went to relax on the playground, but the rest ________ reviewing their lessons in the classroom.

A．are

B．was

C．were

D．is

11、Father made a promise ______ I passed the exam, he would buy me a PS4.

A．if B．that if C．whether D．that

12、I’ll never forget _______________.

A. How kind is Tina B. how Tina is kind

C. how kind Tina is  D. Tina is how kind

13、All rights reserved. The content above shall not be reprinted _____ without permission, thanks.

A. arbitrarily   B. barely

C. offensively   D. optionally

14、People are wondering which of the five sons will ________ their father as general manager after his death.

A. follow   B. serve

C. succeed   D. remove

15、There are many online shopping payment methods in China, and you can choose, when the order is _____, cash, POS or checks, to pay for the goods.

A. deposited   B. delivered

C. deduced   D. defined

16、Some passers-by witnessed the car accident ______ five passengers were killed, a baby included.

A. where   B. which  C. that D. when

17、—Good news !  There's a supermarket   in this area next month!

—Cool! It will be convenient for us when it's open

A．building B． built

C． having built   D． to be built

18、 _______ with his research work, the professor cared little about any other things.

A. Occupying   B. Occupied

C. Having occupied   D. Being occupied himself

19、 ______ with the researchers' expectations, they found a positive connection between the strength of role identity and the length of time people continued to volunteer.

A.Content B.Consistent C.Creative D.Controversial

20、Have you asked him ____he is going to the party tonight with us?

A.which B.whether C.what D.that

21、“I wish I didn’t have to go to school, Grandpa." complained Alex, throwing his bag on the ground and sitting m the bench beside him. "It's such a waste of time. I’d much prefer to be out working. I could be earning money already If started working now at a restaurant like Big Chicken, I’d be earing good wages as well as good tips and I’d be able to travel and see the world like you did!"

Grandpa smiled across at Alex and looked at him a moment. “It reminds me of a story I once heard-an old tale from China.”

"Long ago in China, there was a kite. Although it rose higher than all the other kites, it longed to go higher. It saw the clouds and the birds way above and hated not being able to go up there. In fact it scolded the string for holding it back. The string was not happy with this situation and thought it was unfair."

"One day, the wind was particularly strong. The kite went up rapidly as the string was let out quickly. “Aw, not again, string!" yelled the kite to the string. 'Stop holding me back! Let me go higher this time! Let go of me!" The string let go and dropped towards the earth, no longer pulled up by the kite. Without the tension of the string holding it, the kite dropped quite quickly down. The kite was badly injured. Do you see the lesson in this for your situation?"

”YES! Thanks Grandpa! I understand now." exclaimed Alex. "What the story is actually saying is that sometimes you need constraint in order to reach your potential. Sometimes it's the things you think are holding you back that are actually mostly responsible for your growth. The string is to finish school and the kite is my future potential being realized. And the wind is my education lifting me higher and higher."

Grandpa smiled back. "Exactly, Alex. Well done. I am proud of you, young man.

【1】What do we know about Alex?

A．He couldn't fit in with his classmates.

B．He behaved badly at school.

C．He desired to do what he wanted to do.

D．He wanted to earn money to support his family.

【2】In the old tale, why did the string show dissatisfaction to the kite?

A．Because both of them dropped towards the earth.

B．Because the kite blamed the string for holding it back.

C．Because the string hated not being able to go higher.

D．Because the kite could see the clouds and the blue sky.

【3】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The kite and The String

B．The Grandpa and The Grandson

C．Making yourself a good kite

D．A Story full of fun

22、Pacific Asia Travel Association is warning people travelling to East Asia and the West and Central Pacific region about the ongoing threat of typhoons coming from the Pacific. The region covered by this warning includes countries in East Asia and the West and Central Pacific. Typhoons in these areas of Pacific may occur all the year round. However, historically, the most active months are June through November. Travellers in the region should pay attention to local weather reports and take appropriate action as needed.

People traveling abroad in these areas during the typhoon season may be forced to delay their travel or return home because of damages to airports and limited flight availability. In the event of a typhoon, you should be aware that you may not be able to leave an affected area within 24 to 48 hours or more. We recommend that you buy travel insurance to cover unexpected expenses during an emergency.

You may meet with uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous conditions after storms pass while you wait for transportation back home. In many places, typhoons are often accompanied by damaging high tides and flooding. If you are living close to the ocean, you may be at higher risk. Landslides and mudslides are also serious concerns during heavy periods of rain. Be sure to check with local authorities for safety and security updates. Because weather conditions can damage local facilities, security personnel and other emergency responders may not be   able to assist you at all times.

Minor storms in these areas can develop into typhoons very quickly, limiting the time available for you to move safely. Please tell your family and friends where you are and keep in close contact with your operator, hotel staff, and local officials for evacuation (疏散) instructions in the event of a weather emergency. Protect your travel and identity documents against loss or damage as the need to replace lost documentation could delay your return home.

【1】What may happen to travelers in a typhoon?

A．They may be forced to leave home.

B．They may be offered free travel insurance.

C．They may fail to get the latest weather reports.

D．They may stay in the affected area for over 48 hours.

【2】What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Why travelers should keep in touch with others.

B．What travelers should do when a typhoon comes.

C．How travelers can move from the affected area safely.

D．When travelers need the travel and identity documents.

【3】What is this text?

A．An official notice.

B．An introduction to an association.

C．A feature story.

D．A document from a travel agency.

23、On a hot summer day in 2017, 9-year-old Hayli Martenez set up a lemonade stand outside her home in Kankakee, Illinois. She thought it would be a great way to earn money for college. Hayli’s lemonade stand was a success. In June 2019, a local newspaper wrote an article about her.

But the news coverage turned out to be bad for Hayli’s business. Officials from the local health department soon demanded that she shut it down. They said Hayli needed a permit for her lemonade stand and that it didn’t meet health code requirements. Although Hayli thought it was unfair to prevent a kid from selling lemonade in her front yard, she had no choice but to stop.

News of Hayli’s shutdown spread and caught the attention of an official in the county government. Inspired by Hayli’s story, he came up with a bill, which would make it easier for kids to run lemonade stands. He invited Hayli to speak in support of the bill to a committee of state senators (参议员) in March 2021.

Although Hayli was excited to get the chance to tell her story, she was worried about addressing the group of senators. She was jittery at first. Her voice started to shake and she talked too fast, running out of breath. But Hayli quickly gained confidence when she remembered who she was there to represent.

Hayli’s speech was convincing, and the bill eventually passed. Last July, the bill came into law. Hayli’s Law officially went into effect on January I of this year. It allows kids under 16 in Illinois to sell lemonade and other drinks without a permit. Hayli was back in business and sold her lemonade again this summer. Hayli hopes her experience and the law that was passed in her honor will encourage other young people not to let anyone stop their dreams.

【1】What was the main cause of Hayli’s stand being shut down?

A．The newspaper report.

B．The stand’s illegality.

C．The taste of lemonade.

D．The lemonade stand’s position.

【2】What does the underlined word “jittery” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Excited.

B．Confused.

C．Nervous.

D．Curious.

【3】What did Hayli regard the meeting with the senators as?

A．A trial for her own wrongdoing.

B．A battle against all the unfair laws.

C．An occasion to show her outstanding ability.

D．A chance to appeal for the benefit of children.

【4】What does Hayli wish young people to learn from her story?

A．Being brave to realize their dreams.

B．Being independent of their parents.

C．Establishing a business at a young age.

D．Attaching importance to higher education.

24、According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Readers were “listeners attentive to a reading voice,” and “the text addressed to the ear as much as to the eye.” The significance of reading aloud continued well into the nineteenth century.

Using Charles Dickens’s nineteenth century as a point of departure, it would be useful to look at the familial and social uses of reading aloud and reflect on the functional change of the practice. Dickens habitually read his work to a domestic audience or friends. In his later years he also read to a broader public crowd. Chapters of reading aloud also abound in Dickens’s own literary works. More importantly, he took into consideration the Victorian practice when composing his prose, so much so that his writing is meant to be heard, not only read on the page.

Performing a literary text orally in a Victorian family is well documented. Apart from promoting a pleasant family relationship, reading aloud was also a means of protecting young people from the danger of solitary（孤独的）reading. Reading aloud was a tool for parental guidance. By means of reading aloud, parents could also introduce literature to their children, and as such the practice combined leisure and more serious purposes such as religious cultivation in the youths. Within the family, it was commonplace for the father to read aloud. Dickens read to his children: one of his surviving and often-reprinted photographs features him posing on a chair, reading to his two daughters.

Reading aloud in the nineteenth century was as much a class phenomenon as a family affair, which points to a widespread belief that Victorian readership primarily meant a middle-class readership. Those who fell outside this group tended to be overlooked by Victorian publishers. Despite this, Dickens, with his publishers Chapman and Hall, managed to distribute literary reading materials to people from different social classes by reducing the price of novels. This was also made possible with the technological and mechanical advances in printing and the spread of railway networks at the time.

Since the literacy level of this section of the population was still low before school attendance was made compulsory in 1870 by the Education Act a considerable number of people from lower classes would listen to recitals of texts. Dickens’s readers, who were from such social backgrounds, might have heard Dickens in this manner. Several biographers of Dickens also draw attention to the fact that it was typical for his texts to be read aloud in Victorian England, and thus literacy was not an obstacle for reading Dickens. Reading was no longer a chiefly closeted form of entertainment practiced by the middle class at home.

A working class home was in many ways not convenient for reading: there were too many distractions, the lighting was bad, and the home was also often half a workhouse. As a result, the Victorians from the non-middle classes tended to find relaxation outside the home such as in parks and squares, which were ideal places for the public to go while away their limited leisure time. Reading aloud, in particular public reading, to some extent blurred the distinctions between classes. The Victorian middle class defined its identity through differences with other classes. Dickens’s popularity among readers from the non-middle classes contributed to the creation of a new class of readers who read through listening.

Different readers of Dickens were not reading solitarily and “jealously,” to use Walter Benjamin’s term. Instead, they often enjoyed a more communal experience, an experience that is generally lacking in today’s world. Modern audiobooks can be considered a contemporary version of the practice. However, while the twentieth and twentieth-first-century trend for individuals to listen to audiobooks keeps some characteristics of traditional reading aloud—such as “listeners attentive to a reading voice” and the ear being the focus—it is a far more solitary activity.

【1】What does the author want to convey in Paragraph 1?

A．The history of reading aloud.

B．The significance of reading aloud.

C．The development of reading practice.

D．The roles of readers in reading practice.

【2】How did the practice of reading aloud influence Dickens’s works?

A．He started to write for a broader public crowd.

B．He included more readable contents in his novels.

C．Scenes of reading aloud became common in his works.

D．His works were intended to be both heard and read.

【3】How many benefits did reading aloud bring to a Victorian family?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

D．5.

【4】Where could a London steel worker possibly have gone to for reading?

A．Working place.

B．His/her own house.

C．Nearby bookstores.

D．Trafalgar Square.

【5】What change did reading aloud bring to Victorian society?

A．Different classes started to appreciate and read literary works together.

B．People from lower social classes became accepted as middle-class.

C．The differences between classes grew less significant than before..

D．A non-class society in which everyone could read started to form.

【6】What is likely to be discussed after the last paragraph?

A．New reading trends for individuals.

B．The harm of modern audiobooks.

C．The material for modern reading.

D．Reading aloud in contemporary societies.

25、After high school, I went on a road trip with a friend. Father stood in the cold morning to_________us off. “Highways are_________, so don’t drive too_________.” he said, “every time you stop for gas, you should check the oil and do take a break every two_________”. At the time I thought his long speech was pretty_________and unreasonable. I still sped up and overtook other_________.

“Have you_________the oil in the car?” Father used to say to me, his version of “Hello, hope you are well.” Our calls always_________the car, with few other things mentioned. My car was like the_________upon which Father wrote his love, his____________always expressed in this way. Father had____________love to give, but it was often supplied through the medium of____________advice and actions, which I failed to notice then.

Why can’t our fathers just say “I love you”? The point is: That’s____________what they are saying. You just have to____________from the language that is Fatherlish.____________closely enough and the phrase “I love you” can be heard in words like “I could come around this Saturday and____________your garden.” The words “You made my life better from the moment when you were born” maybe____________heard.

Dad’s long gone now. But after all these years, I____________that if I had owned a copy of the Fatherlish-to-English____________, I’d have understood that the____________I so casually ignored was simply Dad’s attempt at affections. The thing I always wanted had long been with me.

【1】

A．drop

B．see

C．turn

D．put

【2】

A．dangerous

B．efficient

C．necessary

D．convenient

【3】

A．far

B．fast

C．slowly

D．early

【4】

A．minutes

B．seconds

C．days

D．hours

【5】

A．common

B．easy

C．boring

D．interesting

【6】

A．signs

B．vehicles

C．stations

D．highways

【7】

A．checked

B．tasted

C．cleaned

D．brought

【8】

A．dealt with

B．applied to

C．focused on

D．set aside

【9】

A．road

B．toy

C．pen

D．paper

【10】

A．happiness

B．comfort

C．disappointment

D．affections

【11】

A．some

B．no

C．much

D．little

【12】

A．logical

B．practical

C．critical

D．legal

【13】

A．extremely

B．fortunately

C．exactly

D．regularly

【14】

A．change

B．date

C．suffer

D．translate

【15】

A．Listen

B．Come

C．Watch

D．Follow

【16】

A．tidy

B．remove

C．find

D．buy

【17】

A．eventually

B．occasionally

C．rarely

D．repeatedly

【18】

A．realized

B．doubted

C．admitted

D．promised

【19】

A．brochure

B．dictionary

C．newspaper

D．magazine

【20】

A．story

B．lesson

C．voice

D．speech

26、假定你是李华，你是你校英语报的学生编辑。你的美国笔友Anna最近获得了学校“最佳志愿者”奖，请写信给她，要点包括：

1. 表达祝贺；

2. 阐述你对此事的看法；

3. 请她介绍志愿活动的经历并提供图片。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Anna,

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Yours,

Li Hua