朔州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 terrible earthquake struck the southwest of the country last week, ________ 6 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

A. causing   B. to cause   C. caused     D. having caused

2、Jenny can’t resist _____ to buy the things that she doesn’t really need while shopping.

A.being persuaded B.persuading C.to be persuaded D.to persuade

3、   is amazing that such an old man can climb a 1,000-meter-high mountain.

A. That   B. What

C. It   D. Which

4、As students, we should study hard and________ our parents’ expectations.

A．look up to

B．live up to

C．end up with

D．enrich

5、You _______ how angry the boss was had you been here with us.

A. would see   B. had seen

C. would have seen   D. saw

6、We must and we will find another democratic, lawful and constitutional means ______ the Scottish people can express their will.

A．with which

B．within which

C．in which

D．by which

7、The design of modern buildings________ usefulness rather than decoration.

A．concentrate on

B．apply for

C．look out for

D．appeal to

8、My car happened to ______ in the middle of the street, causing a road block．

A．break up

B．break down

C．break into

D．break out

9、More cycles have been shared in our city, ________ it much easier for the bus drivers to drive on the road.

A．having made

B．made

C．be made

D．making

10、________ popular belief, not all cats like fish. Some kinds of cats even hate the smell of fish.

A．Owing to

B．Regardless of

C．Contrary to

D．With the help of

11、 a smiling or sad face added to a post, your reader can "see" your facial expression.

A.When B.With C.As D.By

12、He didn’t _________ when he would arrive at the airport.

A．say it clear

B．make clearly

C．make clear

D．make it clear

13、 to perform at the birthday party, little Linda felt nervous and excited.

A．Invite

B．Inviting

C．Invited

D．To invite

14、Andy is convinced that it's a good idea to live on a boat, but I'm deeply              about it.

A.certain B.curious C.positive D.sceptical

15、The surgeons in a London hospital __________ a new technique to help replace the injured part of the body with an artificial one. It’s a great breakthrough in medicine.

A．accessed

B．monitored

C．pioneered

D．equipped

16、You should keep silent and be modest unless_________to speak.

A．permitted

B．permitting

C．to permit

D．having permitted

17、______in her best suit , the girl tried to make herself _____at the party.

A．Dressed ; noticed

B．Dressing ; noticing

C．Dressed ; noticing

D．Dressing ; noticed

18、The millionaire looked forward to ________ his old house in his hometown, but when he arrived, he found his hometown much ________.

A．find; change

B．finding; changing

C．found; changed

D．finding; changed

19、--- I’m sorry to bother you.

---- You didn’t bother me, , I like your company.

A. on the contrary   B. in other words

C. for one thing   D. on the other hand

20、He showed us a magazine an article about him was printed along with his photograph.

A. when   B. in whom

C. in which   D. which

21、— Ben is now in charge of the project.

— ? The project has nothing to do with our business.

A. How come B. So what

 C. Why not   D. What for

22、This is the best film_____I have ever seen.

A.which B.that C.what D.whose

23、The rule states that no kid________ be allowed out of school during the day unless accompanied by an adult.

A．can

B．shall

C．may

D．need

24、—We have been working the whole day. Shall we have a rest?

—________ Let’s have some tea.

A．I couldn’t agree more.

B．Just forget it.

C．You are welcome.

D．You are joking.

25、It was ________ that the old man still remembered all his students’ name after 30 years.

A．being amazed

B．to amaze

C．amazed

D．amazing

26、About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!

There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green － a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

【1】 The passage is mainly about _____________.

A. color blindness

B. women being luckier than men

C. danger caused by color blindness

D. color and its surprising effects.

【2】According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can_______________.

A. tell different shapes

B. tell orange from yellow

C. kill mosquitoes

D. see in a weak light

【3】Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?

A. Women are more careful.

B. There are fewer color-blind women

C. Women are fonder of driving than men.

D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

【4】Which of the statements about the color- blind is true?

A. All of them see everything in shades of green.

B. None of them can see deep red.

C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

D. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.

27、Walking is so simple and convenient that it couldn’t possibly count as exercise, right? Wrong．Study after study shows that regular walking can help you lose weight and reduce your risk of heart disease．

The study published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice shows that the blood pressure of the overweight men being tested improved and the amount of body fat greatly decreased．

That’s good news, because walking has now become the most popular fitness activity in the United States．Convenient, simple, and gentle on the joints, walking is perhaps the easiest form of exercise to maintain．According to a survey, four out of five women who start a walking program continue to walk, while half of women who attempt other types of aerobic exercise(有氧运动), such as swimming, drop out during the first few months．

Here are some basics for walking exercise．

Walk at a pace that makes you breathe heavily, but still able to talk．

Your goal, first and foremost, is to walk five days a week, 30 minutes a walk．Do that, and you are getting the base-level amount of exercise that research says should maintain your health and vigor(精力)．

Walk for as long as you are comfortable the first week, even if it is just to your mailbox and back．Each following week, increase that amount by no more than 10 percent．

Start every walk with five minutes of easy-paced walking, about the same pace at which you do shopping, to get your body warmed up．Then, cool down at the end of each walk with another five minutes of easy-paced walking．This allows your heart rate to gradually speed up and slow down．

【1】The survey mentioned in Paragraph 3 shows that ________．

A. 80％ of the women surveyed are walking as a means of exercise

B. 50％ of the women surveyed want to swim as a means of exercise

C. walking is more easily maintained than other types of aerobic exercise

D. the effect of walking is as good as that of other types of aerobic exercise

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE about walking for exercise?

A. Walking five days a week, 30 minutes altogether, is the goal．

B. Increase at least 10％ of the amount of each previous week．

C. Each walk should start with the pace of doing shopping．

D. Walking as much as you can in the first week is suggested．

【3】What is the purpose of the easy-paced walking in every walk?

A. To help reduce your blood pressure．

B. To help reduce your risk of heart disease．

C. To help your body lose fat．

D. To help your heart rate change gradually．

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

A. How to Keep Healthy?

B. Walking for Exercise

C. Different Ways of Exercise

D. Is Walking a Type of Exercise?

28、Put your car keys away and forget about your travel pass--it’s time to do a bit of walking.

National Walking Month is organized every May by Living Streets.an organization that campaigns for the tights and the needs of pedestrians. So the organization is previously known enjoyable spaces for people to live, work, shop and play. By putting people feel happier, healthier and more sociable.

The annual campaign gives participants a great opportunity to experience the many virtues of walking. These include the physical health benefits of becoming fitter; the environmental advantages of not using vehicles; the delight of local discoveries --seeing more of your local areas on foot; the enjoyment of walking with other people, whether family, friends or work colleagues and finally the stress relief that comes from walking-- walking can clear your head.

Walk to School Week 18 to 22 May, is part of the month’s activities and its aim is to encourage parents to send children to school on foot, rather than take them in the car or let them use pubic transport. The movement was started in 1995 with only the five participating schools and now two decades later, more than one million children take part.

Similarly, there is Walk to Work Week, 11 to 15 May, where grown-ups are encouraged to walk. In the morning, getting off the bus a stop early or parking a few streets away is a good way to add more steps to the daily total. And during the working day, after having lunch at the desks or in the canteen, take a walk and get some fresh air. Walk home with your workmates and chat away about everything under the sun but work!

【1】【1】what’s the purpose of Living Streets?

A. To let people keep away from vehicles.

B. To build safer walkways for pedestrians.

C. To help people enjoy walking in the street and enjoy life.

D. To make people aware of environmental pollution.

【2】【2】Paragraph 3 is intended to show that walking is __________.

A. so interesting   B. very relaxing

C. perfectly safe   D. highly beneficial

【3】【3】What can we learn from Walk to School Week?

A. It is organized by the government.

B. It is held before Walk to Work Week.

C. It has developed rapidly over the last 20 years.

D. It encourages students to walk to school alone.

【4】【4】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. An introduction to Walk to Work Week.

B. A nationwide health movement.

C. The influence of working day.

D. National Walking Month’s history.

29、English spelling has been changing for over a thousand years and the spelling difficulties we have today is the result of many different things that have taken place over this time.

It was a tricky beginning for English spelling. Quite simply, the 23-letter Roman alphabet has never been enough — even Old English (spoken 450-1150) had about 35 sounds, and the number is now even bigger. But the English spelling was and still is based on the Roman alphabet.

More spelling problems came in when the French introduced new spelling rules — their own of course? and not always helpful. Using “c” instead of “s” for words like city was confusing because “c” also sounds “k” in words like cat.

And then printing arrived in the 15th century — and with it more mess (混乱). William Caxton (who set up the printing machines in the first place) liked Dutch spellings and so he introduced the “gh” in ghost and ghastly. Some printers were Europeans and they introduced favourite spellings too from their own languages. Such spelling rules were not helpful either!

One of the biggest problems for English spelling has always been changes in pronunciation. Printing helped to stablise (使……稳定……) the spelling of words, but then some sounds changed their shape? and others even disappeared altogether. Think of those silent letters in words such as walk, through, write, right, know — these were once pronounced.

Many silent letters appeared just because some famous busybodies wanted to make the language look more beautiful. This caused serious mess. Let’s take rhyme as an example. It came from the French word rime. But it was changed to rhyme to give it a nicer look. It was an interesting idea, but hardly helpful for someone trying to spell the word! The 16th and 17th centuries saw many extra letters introduced in this way.

All these events lead to the messy spelling system we have today. But you know, there are in fact over 80% of words spelled according to regular rules.

【1】How many letters are there in the Roman alphabet?

A．23.

B．26.

C．35.

D．48.

【2】Which word is most probably spelt according to the French rules?

A．Sit.

B．Cycle.

C．Calm.

D．Knee.

【3】What is paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．Sound changes.

B．Silent letters.

C．Borrowed spelling rules.

D．Printing mistakes.

【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?

A．To call for a much simpler spelling.

B．To tell how to recognize foreign words.

C．To explain why English spelling is so difficult.

D．To show how to pronounce difficult words.

30、完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We were standing at the top of church tower. “Look down, Elsa,” Father said. I gathered all my _______and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets_______to the square.

"See, my dear," Father said gently. "There is more than one way to the ________ Life is like that. If you can't get to the place where you want to go by one road, try _______"

In the years that followed I often remembered the_______father taught me. I knew where I wanted to_______in life. I wanted to be fashion designer. But on the way to my first small success I found the road ________

That year I was busy getting ready to show my winter fashions. Then just 13 days before the _______the sewing girls were called out on strike. I found myself _______with one tailor and woman who was in charge of the sewing room! I was as gloomy as my models and salesgirls. “We’ll never ________it,” one of them cried.

Here, I thought, is the________of all tests for Father’s advice. Where is the way________this time? I wondered and worried. I was certain we would have to________the presentation or else show the clothes unfinished. Then it ________ to me. Why not show the unfinished clothes?

We worked hurriedly. And, exactly 13 days later, right________time, the Schiaparelli showing ________

What a showing it was! Some coats had no sleeves; others had only one. Many of our clothes were still in a(n) ________stage. They were only patterns made of heavy cotton cloth. But on these we________simple pictures and pieces of material.

All in all, the showing was different. It was so different that it was a great success. Our ________showing caught the attention of the public, and ________for the clothes poured in.

Father’s wise words has guided me. There is more than one way to the square always.

【1】

A．courage

B．interest

C．information

D．savings

【2】

A．leading

B．coming

C．getting

D．falling

【3】

A．city

B．square

C．church

D．village

【4】

A．other

B．another

C．this

D．that

【5】

A．text

B．material

C．lesson

D．class

【6】

A．rest

B．relax

C．come

D．go

【7】

A．taken

B．paved

C．followed

D．blocked

【8】

A．competition

B．ceremony

C．presentation

D．introduction

【9】

A．left

B．tired

C．burdened

D．connected

【10】

A．have

B．lose

C．make

D．hit

【11】

A．text

B．test

C．tip

D．example

【12】

A．in

B．out

C．up

D．round

【13】

A．bring down

B．bring forward

C．call up

D．call off

【14】

A．occurred

B．belonged

C．happened

D．objected

【15】

A．in

B．over

C．on

D．behind

【16】

A．took on

B．took off

C．took down

D．took place

【17】

A．mature

B．beautiful

C．early

D．late

【18】

A．took

B．drew

C．collected

D．pinned

【19】

A．normal

B．unusual

C．beautiful

D．common

【20】

A．orders

B．designs

C．patterns

D．changes

31、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

“Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling look at the making of a Teen Influencer

Liza Mandelup, the director of “Jawline” a new documentary about the teen- influencer, has said that she filmed for a year before she found her 【1】, Austyn Tester. He curls around his cats, who sometimes slink into the 【2】 as he broadcasts on YouNow, a platform for real-time, chat-based live streaming. “Broadcasting”is what YouNow calls it, and so does Austyn, his voice puffing up to meet the importance of the word--his vocation in life. He’s set up a rig in his small bedroom, where he records himself 【3】 to a small number of viewers, mostly teen-age girls he barely knows. On the Web site’s dash, we can see that he is 【4】 at No 28 under the hashtag guys. The conversations are plain, adorably ordinary. In an early scene in the film, he apologizes for a minor problem in his 【5】. “I know I need to get better Wi-Fi.”

Tester lives in Kingsport, Tennessee, with his mother and his brother. They don’t have money. Tester’s father is absent; when he was around, the family says, he was a(n) 【6】 and was physically abusive. Tester’s brother, Donovan, is 【7】 of his sibling’s dreams, which will make him known around the world. For what? For being famous. For being positive. Social-media 【8】 has been engineered such that the path to fame requires only the 【9】 of fame. “When you become famous, you have a lot of people who look up to you,” Tester says. On YouNow, he is a telegenic preacher, a philosopher of cliched words, delivering himself to his small flock of followers. Both parties are prey to a decentralized economy that has monetized teen-age anxiety, 【10】 and general fragility. In such a tempest, they are making each other feel seen. Remember: storms don’t last forever, Tester promises. “Whatever you’ re going through, it’s not going to last forever.”

32、Teens英语报社拟成立“微笑俱乐部”，现向全球征募会员，要求申请者提交一篇题为“I want to smile”的英语短文。请你以申请者的身份，根据以下思路图的提示用英语写一篇短文。

注意：1、根据思路图适当展开，以使行文连贯；

2、词数：100左右。