铜陵2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、He expressed his ______ for music in his new book.

A. patent   B. passion

C. pension   D. patience

2、John, take good care of yourself! comes first no matter what you do.

A．Confidence

B．Health

C．Quality

D．Wealth

3、China’s  Silk  Road  Economic  Belt, ____ accomplished, will  quicken  the  economic  growth  of  the countries along the route.

A. as   B. once

C. though   D. unless

4、--- Believe me, all your efforts will _______ some day. --- Thanks for your encouragement.

A．pay back

B．pay down

C．pay off

D．pay for

5、Some people don’t show _______ in their choice of books, reading whatever they can get.

A. discrimination   B. combination

C. conservation   D. reservation

6、It was three weeks since this iconic actress ______ positive due to close contact with viral clusters.

A．has tested

B．tested

C．had tested

D．were tested

7、Don’t worry. You had excellent performances and are   to be admitted to the company.

A. willing B. ready

C. lucky D. bound

8、We’re looking for a headmaster, ________ who will devote himself entirely to the cause of education.

A. he    B. that    C. the one        D. one

9、—Where is Peter? I can’t find him anywhere.

—He went to the library after breakfast and ________ his book there ever since.

A．has been writing

B．wrote

C．had written

D．is writing

10、--- How do you find the speech made by the headmaster? It’s said to be a bit boring.

--- Oh, it’s______ boring; in fact rather inspiring and interesting.

A. anything but B. nothing but

C. all but   D. no more

11、   you could imagine, if the first aid was given in time, the injured would be saved.

A.When B.If C.Unless D.As

12、The flowers ______ sweet in the botanic garden attract countless visitors.

A.smell B.smelt C.smelling D.to smell

13、Joe has always thought of himself as a good journalist and never fails to ______ everyone of it.

A. remind B. cure C. accuse D. warn

14、I didn't want ________ of the two notebooks and the salesman had to show me ________.

A．either; another

B．all; the others

C．both; others

D．neither; the others

15、He still ________ regularly to the magazine “New Scientist” after retiring.

A．hesitated

B．contributed

C．adjusted

D．offered

16、After a long journey, we came to a village______ was surrounded by water.

A. that   B. where   C. in which   D. 不填

17、She never rejected ________ those homeless persons.

A．to helping

B．help

C．to help

D．helping

18、The professor_____ out the project made a comment on the report.

A.was opposed to carry B.opposed to carry C.opposed to carrying D.opposed carrying

19、The rain yesterday was heavy and ______ the roads were flooded.

A. however B. otherwise

C. therefore   D. consequently

20、Without your timely help during the accident, I ________ to the interview.

A．mustn’t have made it

B．can’t make it

C．couldn’t have made it

D．shouldn’t make it

21、We should ________ adjust ourselves to the development of our society.

A.strictly B.hardly C.occasionally D.constantly

22、When the boy came to himself, he found himself ________ by his teacher and classmates.

A．surrounding

B．surround

C．surrounded

D．surrounds

23、When it comes to sports passion, nothing _______the craziness in fans more than football.

A. picks out   B. makes out

C. brings out   D. figures out

24、Only when all of us join efforts to ________ pollution at all levels can we expect to have a better environment.

A．evaluate

B．eliminate

C．encounter

D．perpetuate

25、According to our school rule, all the students ________ attend the assembly every Monday morning wearing school uniforms.

A. may   B. shall

C. need   D. might

26、According to body language expert Robert Phipps, the way people sleep at night actually determines a lot about the type of personality they have. Phipps has identified four sleeping positions that affect personality.

Phipps found that worriers, those who stress the most, tend to sleep in the fetal(胎儿的)position. He found that this is the most common bedtime position, with nearly 58 percent of people sleeping on their side with knees up and head down. The more we curl up(蜷曲), the more comfort we are seeking, according to Phipps.

The second most common position is the log. Sleeping with a straight body, with arms at each side, as if they are standing guard at Buckingham Palace, indicates stubbornness, and these people(the 28 percent who sleep this way)often wake up stiffer than when they went to sleep.

“The longer you sleep like this, the more rigid your thinking is and you can become inflexible, which means you make things harder for yourself,” according to Phipps.

Yearner(向往型)sleepers are next on the list. About 25 percent of people sleep in this style—on their side with arms stretched out in front, looking as if they are either chasing a dream or perhaps being chased themselves.Yearners are typically their own worst critics, always expecting the best results, explained Phipps. These people often wake up refreshed and eager to face the challenges of the day ahead.

Perhaps the most peculiar(奇怪的)of sleep styles is the freefaller position. This sleep style makes up 17 percent of the population. They sleep face down with arms stretched out. These people, according to Phipps, feel like they have little control over their life. Not only is this the strangest of sleep styles, but also the least comfortable, and people may wake up feeling tired and have no energy.

In conclusion, Phipps has only one more thing to add: “A good night's sleep sets you up for the following day and our sleeping positions can determine how we feel when we wake.”

【1】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．A good night's sleep sets you up for the following day.

B．Your personality depends a lot on how you sleep at night.

C．How you sleep at night affects what you do the next day.

D．Which sleeping position helps you sleep comfortably.

【2】Which of the following pictures is the fetal position?

A．

B．

C．

D．

【3】The underlined word “rigid” is closest in meaning to “________”．

A．stubborn

B．flexible

C．comfortable

D．strange

【4】Which sleeping position indicates that the sleeper tends to seek perfection?

A．The fetal position.

B．The log position.

C．The freefaller position.

D．The yearner position.

27、One of the most efficient ways to achieve peace and speed up economies (经济) is to provide girls with better education and more rights. Today, girls’ lack of access (进入) to basic education is getting more serious when it comes to the use of digital (数码的) technology, leaving them far behind boys. And because the world is even more digital, those who lack basic internet skills will find it increasingly more difficult to take part in the formal economy, to get a quality education, and to have their voices heard.

Since 2013 the global gender gap (性别差异) in male and female access to the Internet has actually increased from 11 to 12 percent. Worse yet, women and girls living in the poorest countries are 31 percent less likely than men and boys to have access to the Internet. In developing countries, some 200 million fewer women than men own a mobile phone, the most common means of internet access there. This digital divide is increasing, and should it continue at the present pace, it is projected that over 75 percent of women and girls will lack internet access and digital skills.

There are many causes of the digital gender gap. They include girls’ exclusion (排斥) from basic education, from specific technology education and high costs of mobile phones and internet access.

Indeed, one of the so-called reasons why girls may be discouraged from learning how to access and use digital technology is also a groundless one: that girls are simply not good at using technology.

Without the help of the government, most of the benefits of technological change will be enjoyed only by men, exacerbating gender inequality.

【1】What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. Women suffer a lot from the poor economy.

B. Digital technology is greatly beneficial to men.

C. The digital gender gap needs to be closed.

D. Girls are lacking in basic education.

【2】How is Paragraph 2 organized?

A. By giving reasons.   B. By giving numbers.

C. By following time order.   D. By giving examples.

【3】What is the writer’s attitude to the idea that girls are simply not good at using technology?

A. Positive.   B. Negative.

C. Acceptable.   D. Unconcerned.

【4】What does the underlined word “exacerbating” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. worsening   B. causing

C. reducing   D. improving

28、Beethoven is a giant of classical music. And the one with the most influence at least when it comes to piano compositions. That’s according to a study in the journal EPJ Data Science.

If you’re wondering how data analysis could determine something as abstract as cultural influence, it’s worth remembering the great thing about music: it’s the most mathematical of the art forms we actually can deal with because a lot of it is symbolic. The music is written in symbols that are connected in time.

Juyong Park is a theoretical physicist at the Korea Advanced institute of Science and Technology. Park and his colleagues collected 900 piano compositions by 19 composers covering the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, from 1700 to 1910. Then they used that mathematical quality to their advantage by diving each composition into what they called “code words,” a group of notes played at the same time—in other words, a chord. They then compared each chord to the chords that came before it. “Our computer model allows us to calculate the degree of shared melodies between past and future works.” said Park.

The composer with top marks for novelty was Rachmaninoff. But when the researchers looked at those chord transitions across all 19 composers, it was Beethoven who was most heavily borrowed from—meaning, at least among the composers in this analysis, his influence was the largest.

Their study comes with a couple caveats. The researchers only considered piano compositions in this work—-not orchestral works. And by only studying chord transitions, their conclusions wouldn’t capture artists who had influence in other ways. “It’s well understood that Mozart’s contribution to music mainly comes from the musical forms that he devised. That was not very well captured by our mathematical modeling.”

【1】How did the researchers conduct the study?

A．They turned music compositions into written symbols.

B．They looked at how chords differed from previous ones.

C．They collected 900 pieces from contemporary composer.

D．They calculated the number of chords in each music piece.

【2】What can be known from the research findings?

A．Beethoven was best at coming up with new chords.

B．Beethoven borrowed heavily from another composer.

C．Rachmaninoff’s chords were most unlike previous ones.

D．Rachmaninoff’s chords were copied by future composers.

【3】What does he underlined word “caveats” probably mean?

A．warnings

B．benefits

C．costs

D．proofs

【4】Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A．Beethoven Regarded as a Giant of Classical Music.

B．Similarity between Music and Math Investigated.

C．Beethoven’s Major Musical Contribution Confirmed.

D．Computer Analyses Confirm Beethoven’s Influence.

29、On May 15, 2013, Sarah and David Brown heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 13 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped . breathing. The baby had just moments to live.

“I saw him gasp, but the doctor said it was no use, ” Sarah said. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily. ” Still, the couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Sarah asked to hold him. “I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us, ” Sarah told the Daily Mail five years later. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments. ”

Sarah unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join the boy and the girl in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.

“We were trying to make him stay, ” Sarah said. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him. ” Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.

Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The Browns only recently told the kids the story of their birth. “Emily burst into tears, ” Sarah said. “She kept hugging Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more. ”

【1】Which phrase is closest to the meaning of “resigned themselves to” in Paragraph 2?

A．devoted themselves to

B．submitted themselves to

C．committed themselves to

D．applied themselves to

【2】What did the couple do to make Jamie stay?

A．They unwrapped the boy and hugged him.

B．They just talked to him how they loved him.

C．They begged the doctor not to give up treatment.

D．They got the twins skin to skin in one bed and talked to him.

【3】What can be the best title of this passage?

A．First-time Parents

B．Premature Twins

C．Life-saving Contact

D．Miraculous Moment

30、   There is always something nice or kind we can do, just waiting to be discovered. Ogre, Giant, and Abominable were three monsters （'怪兽），who had stayed in_______for many years. They were willing to_______there , because they realized that it wasn't a good way to make a_______by frightening children. Since then, they had been sad and bored. Making children_______was the only thing they used to do well. They lost all_______, and felt useless. They had already finished their sentences （刑罚），but when they were told they were_______,they answered by asking where they could go, and what they could do.

However, things changed when they met Nightmare. Nightmare was a little monster, who devoted little time to frightening others and spent most of the day_______ But when awake, he was great fun. He told many stories of how he had changed people's _________to make them more amusing, and of how these changes always turned out so badly that they almost _______ anyone. Ogre, and his friends, __________Nightmare's stories, but they had to wait for him to________to tell them stories. It even seemed that an earthquake was ________ to wake Nightmare.

Until one day, when the three monsters combined their frightening shouts, Nightmare woke up ________ He looked at them, but there was no__________   found in his two small dark eyes.________ ,he seemed happy, “Great! ”he said, "I've always ________  to get up early to enjoy the day better but failed. You should work as alarm clocks, I know many sleepyheads(瞌睡虫)who would really __________   you for it. " The three monsters were so ________   to hear those words because they could be of some use! And they could make money without frightening or bothering children. That very day they________   the prison, ready to make their first alarm call. Soon they because famous for their ________ for sleepyheads.

【1】A.prison B.church C.hospital D.school

【2】A.struggle B.arrive C.stay D.suffer

【3】A.decision B.face C.mistake D.living

【4】A.educated B.astonished C.frightened D.depressed

【5】A.hope B.money C.friends D.relatives

【6】A.rich B.ill C.old D.free

【7】A.working B.sleeping C.reading D.playing

【8】A.weight B.dreams C.ages D.height

【9】A.terrified B.suspected C.amused D.attacked

【10】A.wrote B.told C.learned D.loved

【11】A.stand up B.get up C.turn up D.break up

【12】A.hard B.natural C.simple D.common

【13】A.finally B.gradually C.lately D.silently

【14】A.joy B.bravery C.anger D.curiosity

【15】A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.Besides D.Instead

【16】A.refused B.wanted C.managed D.hated

【17】A.thank B.punish C.pay D.forgive

【18】A.disappointed B.worried C.happy D.nervous

【19】A.entered B.left C.fled D.ruined

【20】A.service B.donation C.respect D.challenge

31、Directions：Fill in the blanks according to the text. One word for each blank only.

A different form of reading might also be done, 【1】 【2】 【3】 in the past: reading aloud. Few 【4】 bring a family closer together than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the quiet hour ends, the TV networks might even be forced to come up with better shows in order to 【5】 【6】 【7】 from our newly discovered activities.

32、暑假即将来临，你班同学讨论了假期计划，提出了不同看法。请根据提示写一篇有关讨论的英语短文，并谈谈你的看法。

注意：1．短文写在答题卡上的指定区域，词数80—120（不含已写好部分）。

2．短文必须包括表中所列要点，可根据内容分段表述。

3．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

The summer holiday is coming. Our class have had a discussion about what to do during the holiday.

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