芜湖2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、— Did Bob take the job in the supermarket? — No, but I think he _________.

A．will have

B．may have

C．should have

D．must have

2、After the earthquake, the first thing the government did was to provide ______for the homeless families.

A. accommodation B. resources C. furniture D. recreation

3、I have reached a point in my career ________ I need to decide which way to go.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．why

4、--Sorry, it's already 6 o’clock. I have to be off for an appointment.

--OK. ________.

A．It couldn’t be better

B．You really have me there

C．Let’s call it a day

D．Take your time

5、I had been feeling so bad ______ she turned up and told me she would give me another chance.

A.after B.while C.as soon as D.until

6、We ____________ have proved great adventurers, but we have done the greatest march ever made in the past ten years.

A.needn’t B.may not

C.shouldn’t D.mustn’t

7、Our natural ________ are limited. This means that they will not________forever.

A.energies; occur B.materials ; erupt

C.resources ; last D.sources; bury

8、- When can we move to the new apartment?

- Well, it ______, and hopefully, the job will be done in a couple of weeks.

A．is being decorated

B．is decorated

C．was decorated

D．had decorated

9、From time to time Bruno saw Pavel ________ a glance ________ the direction of his knee.

A. give; in B. give; to C. throw; in D. throw; to

10、—Tony, we are moving this weekend.

—___! Wish you happiness in your new flat.

A.Go ahead B.Congratulations C.Made it D.Definitely

11、To keep himself ________, Bruno spent a long Saturday morning and afternoon creating a new diversion.

A. entertained B. entertaining C. entertainment D. to entertain

12、---Must he come to sign this paper himself?

---Yes．He______ ．

A.need B.must C.may D.will

13、The number of cars made in China _________ sharply in the past decade.

A.has risen B.rose C.have risen D.has been risen

14、Some wild mushrooms are poisonous but________.

A．some don’t have

B．some are not

C．are poisonous

D．some are poisonous

15、22. While building a tunnel through the mountain, _______.

A.an underground lake was discovered B.there was an underground lake discovered

C.a lake was discovered underground D.the workers discovered an underground lake

16、He admits that recently he has become________ to playing online games.

A.addicted B.addictive C.addicts D.addict

17、Practicing Chinese kung fu can not only ________ one's strength, but also develop one's character.

A.set up B.take up C.build up D.pull up

18、But for your error, it _______ easier for you to pass the driving test. After all, you had high－quality training.

A．must have been

B．should be

C．might have been

D．could be

19、Why ________ it rain on Sundays? We can’t go camping as planned. What a pity！

A. should B. can

C. must D. may

20、____, you will feel a little nervous when you first perform for the public.

A. Luckily B. Naturally

C. Hopefully D. Partly

21、Catherine is color-blind and can’t ______ red from green as easily as other children.

A. remove B. choose

C. distinguish D. preserve

22、They are living with their parents for the moment because their own house ____.

A．is being rebuilt

B．has been rebuilt

C．is rebuilt

D．has rebuilt

23、Although the boss appears to wear a smile most of the time, his smile is by no means sincere or genuine, instead, it could be somewhat   and hostile at times.

A.hospitable B.friendly C.tough D.sinister

24、—Can I smoke here?

—I'm afraid not. We don't ________ smoking here.

A.agree B.forbid

C.promise D.permit

25、The old man opened his cape, and the boy was ___________ by what he saw. The old man wore a breastplate of heavy gold, covered with precious stones.

A.recognized B.revealed

C.charged D.struck

26、Staying with family members or receiving professional care? Seniors in Harbin have a new choice to enrich their life in retirement(退休), as harbin.dbw.cn reported.

The seniors can take a bus to a day-care nursing home every day between 8 am and 5 pm, just like others go to work, and go back home to be with their families in the evening.

In the nursing home, they will receive professional care, have lunch, take part in activities such as calligraphy(书法) and singing, and take university courses designed for them.

According to a research, there were 1.75 million seniors by the end of 2015. Less than 10 percent choose to stay in the nursing home while most live at home. Loneliness and shortage of care are the major problems facing the stay-at-home seniors.

"After my mother passed away, I struggled to take good care of my father," said Zhou, an office worker.

Those who have retired parents agree that their parents spend a boring and lonely day at home, watching TV all day and filling their stomach with food. The situation becomes worse in winter when elders are unable to go out due to the cold.

However, the cost of such nursing homes is different from person to person but stands at around 2,000 yuan ($290). Another problem is the shortage of facilities (设施). Even if two seniors share a room in the nursing home, the city still lacks(缺少) at least 100,000 such rooms.

【1】In the day-care nursing home, the seniors can ________.

A．go to work

B．stay with their families

C．attend university

D．get professional care

【2】What is the main problem for seniors staying at home?

A．A lot of seniors choose to live at home.

B．They are lonely and short of care at home.

C．Their children won’t take care of them.

D．They are unable to go out especially in winter.

【3】What information can be inferred from the passage?

A．People have no trouble attending their retired parents.

B．The day-care nursing home is getting popular among seniors.

C．The price of staying in the nursing home remains the same.

D．Two seniors must share one room in the day-care nursing home.

27、   Ninety­five percent of American families are now online, with adults spending averagely five hours a day at home on the computer, which greatly influences their life, according to a new study. Yes, we’re connecting more with friends, but we’re also having dinner quickly so we can update our Facebook status. Does your life suffer from too much time spent online, and do you properly protect your family’s identity when you share their information online? Here’s how to take control of them.

According to Sherry Turkle, professor of psychology at MIT, many people use their computers to avoid the messiness of real life. It’s difficult to refuse a friend, but it’s easy to send out an e­mail to do that. When you find yourself hiding behind your screen, make an effort to reconnect with people face to face. “It’s not because the technology is bad,” says Turkle. “It’s a matter of figuring out its place.”

Proud parents can’t help posting photos of their kids. But publicly sharing your kids’ information, such as your child’s full name, birth date, and place of residence could put him in danger. To avoid the risk, invite the people you know well to view the photos on password­protected (加密的) websites such as Flickr and Snapfish. If you use Facebook, create a group of your inner circle specially for sharing photos and news of your kids.

Need a handy way to measure your family’s online habits? Check out the family plan on rescuetime. com. It tracks how each member of your family spends time online, and it shows the data by hour, day, and week. The website, which also offers personal plans, even allows you to block distracting (分心的) websites from your loved ones and yourself.

If reaching for your phone to check for messages and e­mails has become an uncontrollable habit, try this trick. Keep your devices on but turn off every message reminding, vibration (振动), and so on. Check for updates only when you finish a task.

【1】Sherry Turkle probably agrees that ________.

A.Internet is just a tool for people

B.people have to know their social status

C.technology can help improve friendship

D.going online helps people lead a happier life

【2】How are family members’ online habits tracked by rescuetime.com?

A.By offering plans and blocking unsafe websites.

B.By blocking unwanted contact and information.

C.By tracking their online time and sorting out data.

D.By making plans and storing collected data.

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

A.Important Tips on Protecting Online Information

B.How to Take Control of Families’ Technology Time

C.Key Advice on How to Avoid Unsafe Websites

D.How to Break Away from Bad Online Habits

28、Learning Chinese could be one of the most important decisions you ever make. Chinese is becoming the language to learn in the 21st century. With the world’s largest population and a rapidly growing middle class, China stands to become the engine of the world’s economy in the coming years. This will make learning Chinese very important for people in many industries, or for those of us who wish to visit China or learn from its culture and history.

There is an ongoing effort to modernize the writing system and standardize the language. An increasing number of people learning Chinese are learning the Mandarin, so unless you absolutely need to learn another dialect (such as Cantonese), be sure you are studying Mandarin.

For native English speakers Chinese is one of the most difficult and most different languages to learn. The vocabulary is wholly unfamiliar and unlike anything we know. In addition, in the Chinese tone system, words are spoken in rising or falling tones, which help to distinguish between them. Furthermore, there is the Chinese writing system--- a collection of thousands of individual ideograms (表意文字), or symbols, which represent a word or an idea. These ideograms have no phonetic value---that is to say, we can’t tell how the word is pronounced by how it is written. There is a method to present written Chinese in a phonetic script called pinyin. If you are learning Chinese, you’ll be working with this pinyin system, but the beauty of the traditional writing system shouldn’t be passed up. All these factors make learning Chinese difficult for us. Yet, for a determined learner, there’s always a way to overcome it.

【1】Learning Chinese is becoming more and more important, because ______.

A．Chinese engines are very welcome

B．China has the world’s largest population

C．there are more and more rich people in China

D．China has become important to the world economy

【2】From the text we can learn that ___________.

A．the author thinks Chinese is as difficult as English

B．the author is interested in the Chinese language and its culture

C．foreign languages can play a great role in industrial development

D．as long as the pinyin system is learned well, one can learn Chinese well

【3】The last paragraph mainly tells us about ____________.

A．the difficulties of learning Chinese

B．the advantages of learning Chinese

C．the Chinese tone system

D．the Chinese writing system

【4】What would be probably written following this text?

A．The sources of Chinese characters.

B．The importance of learning Chinese.

C．The advice on how to learn Chinese.

D．The difficulties of learning other languages.

29、An artificial intelligence that navigates(导航) its environment much like mammals could help solve a mystery about our own internal GPS.

Equipped with virtual versions of specialized brain nerve cells called grid cells, the AI could easily solve and plan new routes through virtual mazes. That performance, described online May 9 in Nature, suggests the grid cells in animal brains play a critical role in path planning.

“This is a big step forward in understanding our own navigational neural circuitry(电路),” says Ingmar Kanitscheider, a computational neuroscientist at. The University of Texas at Austin not involved in the work. The discovery that rats track their location with the help of grid cells earned a Norwegian research team the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology to medicine. Neuroscientists suspected these cells, which have also been found in humans, might help not only give mammals an internal. coordinate(协同) system, but also plan direct paths between points.

To test that idea, neuroscientist Caswell Barry at University College London, along with colleagues at Google DeepMind, created an AI that contained virtual nerve cells, or neurons, whose activity resembled that of real grid cells. The researchers trained this AI to navigate virtual mazes by giving the system reward signals when it reached its destination.

The AI bested a human expert player at solving the virtual mazes, and proved savvier than other artificial neural networks in planning ways through mazes larger than those traversed during its training. When a door opened to provide a shortcut through the maze, the new AI took the more direct route. By contrast, AI systems without artificial grid cells ignored the open door and took long the way around.

These findings support the idea that grid cells do more than help mammals orient themselves in time and space; they also help animals plan the most straightforward direction to destinations. AI also appears to be “a very powerful tool" for testing other neuroscience theories, Barry says. He and his colleagues suggest that virtual experiments on artificial neural networks that imitate different regions of the brain may eventually replace some animal testing.

But there are limitations to using AI to study the brain. Because the system is meant to learn on its own, researchers can't tell why the system made a specific decision, says neuroscientist Francesco Savelli at Johns Hopkings University, whose commentary also appears online May 9 in Nature.

【1】What's the function of the virtual grid cells?

A．Helping animals adapt to the environment.

B．Controlling the growth of nerve cells.

C．Assisting the AI in finding a way-out.

D．Promoting the cooperation between AI robots.

【2】The underlined word “savvier” in Paragraph 5 most probably means“_________”.

A．slower

B．nearer

C．earlier

D．wiser

【3】We can infer from Paragraph 6 that________.

A．Animals are as intelligent as humans

B．Animal testing on the brain will be reduced in future

C．Humans will' be equipped with' the virtual grid cells

D．Grid cells are more important than other nerve cells

【4】What is Francesco Savelli unclear about?

A．How the AI system works.

B．Ways of AI learning on its own.

C．How effective reward signals will work on a robot.

D．The relationship between different regions of the brain.

30、   Years ago, I was working in a Victorian-era house. The house had been changed into a(n) _______. I would be the only worker present every now and then. As it was _______ from any other building, I would always be the only person for miles.

One day, a group of biker guys stopped here. Our yard was _______ to the public, so they spent some time there. I just _______ them. But since people often _______ to explore the yard without ever entering the museum, I didn’t _______ too much about it.

Then, two of them, big and strong, _______. Being in the service industry, I always keep a(n) _______ face on, but I’m a pretty small woman and couldn’t help feeling a little _______. Biker guys had never come inside before.

They asked some questions about the house, and I ________. And then I went ahead and told them about the tour options (选择) of the museum. The lead guy smiled and said, “No, we don’t ________ those. But we stop here every year, so we have decided to give something toward your building fund (基金). Do you ________ anything like that?

I gave him a ________ back and said that ________, we did take donations. They went outside and collected some ________ from the rest of their group. I ________ it up on my way to the donation box. To my ________, it was about $40.

So many tourists would be unhappy about having to ________ to enter the museum, and yet here were these biker guys paying more than entrance fees just because they ________ to visit the yard on their yearly trip. How ________ these biker guys were!

【1】A.library B.office C.store D.museum

【2】A.free B.sate C.far D.different

【3】A.important B.familiar C.open D.helpful

【4】A.watched B.followed C.joined D.admired

【5】A.prepared B.pretended C.promised D.stopped

【6】A.think B.talk C.require D.hear

【7】A.broke in B.came in C.passed by D.showed up

【8】A.serious B.pleasant C.funny D.honest

【9】A.lost B.upset C.nervous D.impatient

【10】A.recorded B.avoided C.ignored D.answered

【11】A.appreciate B.want C.accept D.believe

【12】A.have B.try C.imagine D.admit

【13】A.surprise B.smile C.hand D.present

【14】A.finally B.actually C.interestingly D.strangely

【15】A.information B.solution C.advice D.cash

【16】A.counted B.picked C.held D.divided

【17】A.relief B.shame C.amazement D.puzzlement

【18】A.learn B.book C.pay D.wait

【19】A.determined B.agreed C.managed D.liked

【20】A.sweet B.brave C.intelligent D.energetic

31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Scientists have proved what students have long suspected: Maths equations can actually trigger physical pain.

Regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical 【1】 were activated in those fearful of maths when they were presented with a tough equation, researchers have found. The higher a person’s anxiety of a maths task, the more it 【2】 activity in regions of their brain associated with visceral (内脏的) threat detection, and often the experience of pain itself.

However, the researchers say their study examines the pain response associated with anticipating an anxiety-provoking event, rather than the pain associated with a 【3】 event itself. A maths task itself is not painful but 【4】 the thought of it is highly unpleasant to certain people.

“Maths can be difficult, and for those with high levels of mathematics-anxiety (HMAs), math is associated with tension, apprehension (忧虑) and fear,” the researchers said in their paper titled. When Math Hurts. “【5】, this relation was not seen during math performance, 【6】 that it is not that math itself hurts, rather, the anticipation of math is painful. These results may also provide a potential neural mechanism to explain why (people with) HMAs tend to 【7】 math and math-related situations, which in turn can bias (使有偏见) (those with) high levels of mathematics-anxiety away from taking math classes or even entire math-related 【8】 paths. We provide the first neural 【9】 indicating the nature of the subjective experience of math-anxiety.

Other forms of psychological stress, such as social 【10】 or a traumatic break-up, can also elicit feeling of physical pain.”

32、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

I have been in the teaching profession for more than thirty years, and one of the best teachers I have ever known is Mr__Rowe. I was lucky enough to teach fourth grade together with him.

Mr. Rowe had endless patience and understanding and I learned so much from watching him. He could perform miracles, like the one he performed with Steven, one of the unhappiest kids I had ever seen. Steven couldn’t stand school. He didn’t like being picked last for kickball. He didn’t like the kids who raised their hands and knew all the answers, and most importantly, he didn’t like himself.

The first day he walked into Mr. Rowe’s classroom, he ignored the other students, looking angry and annoyed, and slid into his chair, knocking a couple of textbooks onto the floor.

Mr. Rowe walked over to him and touched Steven’s shoulder, but Steven pulled away. Nevertheless, Mr. Rowe welcomed him: "Hi, Steven. I’m happy you are in my class. We are gonna have a great year." Steven looked around the room as if Mr. Rowe must be mistaken. No teacher in his right mind would want Steven to be part of his classroom.

So, while Mr. Rowe seemed cheerful and relaxed that day of school, it seemed like Steven was angry and confused.

That day after classes, Mr. Rowe chose Steven to pitch(投球) the kickball at recess. "Hey, Steven," Mr. Rowe commented, "You are good at pitching. Let me show you my secret trick." Mr. Rowe taught Steven one of the tricks that not a single kid could perform. Steven learned fast and did quite well! Everyone cheered for him!

After the kickball, Steven sat as close to Mr. Rowe in classes as he could. When a question was asked, Steven lit up; when he knew the answer, he raised his hand; when he answered the question, his voice shook. However, he got the answer right! He said, with Mr. Rowe, his days of the fourth grade promised wonderful.

That is not to say that every day went smoothly, but it was obvious that Steven grew to love Mr. Rowe more and more with each passing day.

注意:

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好；

4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

Time passed quickly that year, and before we all knew it, it was the last day of school.

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Paragraph 2:

Many years later, Mr. Rowe and I were surprised when a handsome young man walked into our classroom, dressed in the army uniform.

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