黄冈2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Group activities can help children gain the concept_______team spirit is crucial to more achievements.

A.that B.where C.what D.which

2、The publishing firm is doing a survey and they are delighted with the replies they________ from the public so far.

A．received

B．receive

C．are received

D．have received

3、It’s _______ for people to blame traffic jams, the cost of gas and the great speed of modern life.

A. reasonable B. available

C. accurate D. cautious

4、Ted couldn’t remember the exact date of the storm, but he knew it was   Sunday because everybody was at   church.

A. /, the   B. a, /

C. /, a   D. the, /

5、-Do you still want to become a professional footballer?

-That ambition has never died. I'm still as__________ and determined to make it.

A.elegant B.embarrassed C.explicit D.enthusiastic

6、_____ the yard, I found it _____ with lots of _____ leaves.

A. Entering; covering; fallen

B. Having entered; covered; falling

C. Entering; covering; falling

D. Entering; covered; fallen

7、---You look very tired. What's wrong with you?

---How bad luck today is! By the time I arrived at the airport, the plane________.

A．left

B．was leaving

C．has left

D．had left

8、This ___________an improvement, but “breakthrough” was an overstatement.

A．can have been

B．should have been

C．may have been

D．need have been

9、I'm certain David's told you his business troubles.____，it's no secret that he owes a lot of money to the bank.

A.However B.Anyway

C.Therefore D.Though

10、There are nearly one hundred foreign students in our university, most of________ are from America and Australia.

A.which B.them C.whom D.those

11、________ the opportunity to speak at the graduation ceremony made me overjoyed.

A. Offering   B. Offered

C. To offer   D. Being offered

12、The teaching of Confucius________ ancient Chinese wisdom, influencing Chinese life and thought for centuries to come.

A．respects

B．rescues

C．replaces

D．represents

13、As is often the case, there are always some obstacles in the way，something ________ before we realize the real goal of education.

A. to be got through B. got through

C. getting through D. having been got through

14、Water can absorb and give off a lot of heat without big changes in temperature , thus creating a   environment .

A.peaceful B.sensitive C.common D.stable .

15、— It’s reported that human got the first picture of a black hole on April 10, 2019.

— ________

A.Good news. B.All right. C.So what? D.How come?

16、The minister refused for reasons of _______ rather than religion to sign a new law legalizing abortion.

A. comprehension   B. conscience   C. consequence   D. conservation

17、—Are your parents satisfied with your performance at home?

— ______ but not exactly. They want me to do more housework.

A.Kind of B.Just the opposite C.On average D.By all means

18、For some students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills,  _______   , can be the difference between having a job and not.

A. all other factors are equal

B. all other factors to be equal

C. all other factors being equal

D. if all other factors being equal

19、It is known that water is not an endless resource, ________ can it be made once more, so we should save and protect it.

A．so

B．as

C．thus

D．nor

20、—It’s nearly a quarter to eight. Beth hasn’t turned up yet.

—She________ the time. Why don’t I call and see what happened?

A．shouldn’t have forgotten

B．might have forgotten

C．needn’t have forgotten

D．must have forgotten

21、   A new study published in the journal Educational Studies shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education.

The research was carried out by Josip Šabić and Boris Jokic at the Centre for Educational Research and Development of the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia. The authors wanted to discover the main factors affecting pupils’ intention to continue to higher education as they reach the end of elementary school.

To find out children’s aims, they asked just over 1,000 pupils aged 14-15 at 23 elementary schools in Zagreb to complete three separate questionnaires during their last two years at elementary school. The researchers also obtained information on the pupils’ academic grades, as well as on the size of each school and its classes, the grade point average (GPA) for each school, and property prices in the area around each school as a measure of socioeconomic status.

The study revealed that none of the school-level factors, including school and class size, the GPA of the school and property prices, had any influence on the desire to continue to higher education. In contrast, several factors related to parents and home life, such as parental educational aspirations, maternal (母亲的) academic support and having a desk to work on, did have an influence. As did gender, with girls more likely than boys to want to continue to higher education. And while school-level factors didn’t have any influence, performance at school did: high academic grades were the single strongest predictor of a pupil’s desire to continue to higher education, while enjoying school was also an important factor.

“The major finding arising from the present study is that none of the school level variables used in our analysis contributes to the explanation of pupils’ aspirations (志向) for higher education,” said Josip Šabić. “Another important finding is that parents can influence their child’s aspirations by expressing their expectations regarding the child’s educational path and by providing the basic conditions for completing homework and learning.”

【1】What does the research focus on?

A．Where do pupils go for help in choosing college?

B．Who gives pupils more support to go to college?

C．What makes pupils choose to attend college?

D．Which do pupils like most in choosing further education?

【2】Which of the following do the researchers care least in designing the research?

A．Class sizes.

B．Family incomes.

C．Property prices.

D．Academic grades.

【3】What can we infer from paragraph 4?

A．The GPA of school blocks pupils from going to college.

B．Gender has little influence on choosing a college.

C．Decisions of parents make pupils choose what to do.

D．Pupils’ preference to their school is important.

【4】What does Josip Šabić stress in the last paragraph?

A．School level variables.

B．Financial support to pupils.

C．Parental academic supports.

D．Learning environments for pupils.

22、   Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable traits. It can be used to produce tastier fruits and vegetables, crops with greater resistance to pests, and larger animals that can be used for meat.

Perhaps the earliest example of selective breeding is the domestic dog. Scientists believe that the domestic dog evolved from the wild gray wolf, and through artificial selection, humans were able to create hundreds of different dog breeds. As people domesticated and bred dogs, they favored specific traits, like size or intelligence, for certain tasks, such as hunting, shepherding, or companionship. As a result, many dog breeds vastly differ in appearance, a unique phenomenon in the animal world, as different breeds of a single species generally look like each other. The Chihuahua and the Dalmatian, for instance, are both dogs, yet they share few physical features.

Selective breeding has also been practiced in agriculture for thousands of years. Almost every fruit and vegetable eaten today is a product of artificial selection. By picking out wild cabbage plants with specific characteristics, farmers were able to create a variety of vegetables from a single source, each with differing flavors. Broccoli, for example, was developed from wild cabbage plants that hadn't enough flower development while kale came from Brassica oleracea with larger leaves.

Corn is an unusual product of selective breeding. Unlike rice, wheat, and cabbage, which have clear ancestors, there is no wild plant that looks like corn. The earliest records of corn indicate that the plant was developed in southern Mexico 6,000—10,000 years ago from a grass called teosinte. Scientists believe that early Mexican farmers selected only the largest and tastiest seeds of teosinte for planting. This process allowed Mexicans to develop corn very quickly, as small changes in the plant's genetic makeup had dramatic effects on the grain's taste and size.

Without selective breeding, many of the plants and animals on earth today would not exist. However, every coin has two sides.

【1】What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 1 ?

A．Introduce a new topic for discussion.

B．Add some background information.

C．Provide scientific data for readers.

D．Explain a scientific study method.

【2】Chihuahua and Dalmatian are mentioned to show          .

A．selective breeding is very successful

B．selective breeding leads to biodiversity

C．selective breeding brings difference in appearance

D．selective breeding might bring about new species

【3】What is special about corn as a product of selective breeding?

A．It has genetic makeup opposite to teosinte.

B．It is the earliest plant developed by Mexicans.

C．It hasn't an ancestor in Mother Nature.

D．It shares few physical similarities with its ancestors.

【4】What might be discussed in the paragraphs following the last one?

A．More examples of selective breeding.

B．Disadvantages of selective breeding.

C．Influence of selective breeding on species.

D．Comparison between natural and selective breeding.

23、How to Order Coffee at Starbucks

Learning how to order coffee at Starbucks can be tricky, and if you think that ordering coffee at Starbucks is confusing, you are not alone.

【1】Things move quickly as their employees try to serve customers as efficiently as possible. Orders are generally taken at one of the cash registers. You will be asked for your first name, which you should state clearly. 【2】. Don't be offended if they spell your name incorrectly. People who have unique or hard — to — spell names will sometimes use an easy 'Starbucks' name when ordering, like Mike or Amy.

【3】 Their terms for size are：Tall, Grande, Venti, and Trenta. Although if you order a small, medium, large, or extra-large drink they will still understand you.

For ordering basic coffee, beyond specifying the size you want, you will need to tell the server whether you want regular or decaffeinated (脱去咖啡因的)coffee.【4】  If you intend to add cream or milk to your coffee, say with room for cream, or simply, with room. If you want a full cup, say no room. Read the list above the counter ahead of time, because they may not ask you which you would like. 【5】.

When you order, say the size you want first, then give the name of the drink, and finally add the special instructions last.

A.Starbucks is often a very busy place

B.Starbucks offers all kinds of coffee

C.Otherwise，they will assume that you want regular

D.Sometimes they will write your name in short forms

E.The ordering process is complicated because they use terms to describe drink size

F.Finally, if you are very particular about the freshness of your coffee, ask in advance

G.Your name will immediately be written on your cup and called out when, your drink is ready

24、A competition making up Versailles literature was launched on Sina Weibo recently. So what is Versailles literature?

Actually, the term has nothing to do with the French palace nor with literature. It came from The Rose of Versailles, a Japanese manga series about aristocratic（贵族化的）life at the palace of Versailles in France in the late 18th century, and was coined by a Chinese influencer earlier this year. Known as humblebragging, it is a boast（吹牛）disguised as a complaint. “I have too many houses. How can I decide which one to decorate?” and “I thought I lost weight this morning. So disappointed when I realized it was because I took off the huge diamond ring my boyfriend gave me last night” are some examples of Versailles literature. The intention is to show off --- usually things of materialistic values, yet one ought to pretend that’s not the point.

As the 19th century English author Jane Austen famously wrote, “Nothing is more deceitful（欺诈的）than the appearance of humility（谦逊）.” The psychology behind humblebragging is to be recognized for one’s successes and be liked by others at the same time, according to scholars. In her article titled Why do people hate humblebragging? published in Psychology Today, psychologist Dr. Susan Krauss Whitbourne at the University of Massachusetts Amherst noted that humblebragging is a “strategy in pursuit of respect” because it draws attention to one’s accomplishments in a circuitous way.

However, studies on social media users show that humblebragging as a self-promotion strategy does not work. In the essay Humblebragging: A distinct and ineffective self-presentation strategy, the University of North Carolina researcher Ovul Sezer and Harvard University scholars Francesca Gino and Michael Norton concluded from their research that humblebraggers are perceived more negatively than straight braggers due to the former’s insincerity. “The critical factor differentiating the two groups of people is sincerity. People don’t like braggers, but they at least see them as more sincere than humblebraggers,” said Francesca Gino.

So, how can we annoy humblebraggers back? “Just pretend you don’t get whatever it is they try to show off,” a netizen advised. “And respond with genuine sympathy for their complaints.”

【1】Which of the following statements is typical of “Versailles literature”?

A．You know who my father is? My father is Li Gang.

B．Got five offers to date. I’m at a loss which to choose.

C．It’s a headache how to make my son tidy up his room regularly.

D．I’m fed up with living in the countryside with no shopping malls around.

【2】What is the psychology behind humblebragging?

A．To win others’ sympathy.

B．To earn others’ admiration.

C．To show his/her sincerity.

D．To mask his/her complaint.

【3】What does the underlined world “circuitous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Roundabout.

B．Straightforward.

C．Ambiguous.

D．Double-edged.

【4】What can’t be inferred from the passage?

A．Braggers are relatively more sincere than humblebraggers.

B．Humblebragging is an artificial appearance of being humble.

C．To respond with real sympathy will discourage humblebraggers.

D．If you want to be perceived positively, avoid using Versailles literature.

25、I was about to sleep when someone knocked on my window. Knock, knock. Then a three-second pause. Knock, knock. Immediately I knew it was my best friend, Ben. The knock _________ was our emergency call which never means anything good.

“What’s going on?” I rushed to open the window and asked.

Ben climbed in. “Bad news.” He gave me a _________ look, and I immediately knew what it was. My heart _________ . I gave him a nod, and he sighed in response.

“Where to?” I asked.

“Virginia.”

“That’s far from Florida.”

We looked at each other knowing we were thinking the same. Both Ben and I had parents in the airforce. We were used to frequent moves.

Ben and I became close friends since I crashed into Ben’s stand and sent plastic cups of lemonade flying into the heavens. At first, I _________ Florida. Everything changed, though, when I _________ rollers-kated into Ben’s lemonade stand.

“It must have been fate!” we claimed. But I think that, maybe, there was some _________ in that lemonade, and that as it rained down on us, it cast a spell making us friends forever.

“Maybe your family will get moved to Virginia too.” Ben said.

“Yeah, maybe.” I knew the chance was low, but I chose to hope.

Ben grinned at me. Though it looked sad, I saw _________ in him too.

“I’ll have a lemonade stand _________ for you.”

“Then I’ll pack my roller-skates.”

“Then I’ll wear a poncho (雨披).”

We _________ . The humid Florida night closed around us, and I felt a tiny drop of liquid splash on my arm. I knew it was probably rain, but still, I thought that, maybe, it was a drop of magic lemonade, because nothing on earth can break the __________ between us.

【1】

A．sound

B．pattern

C．number

D．symbol

【2】

A．playful

B．grateful

C．cheerful

D．meaningful

【3】

A．failed

B．softened

C．sank

D．relieved

【4】

A．hated

B．missed

C．explored

D．appreciated

【5】

A．gradually

B．narrowly

C．constantly

D．accidentally

【6】

A．sign

B．magic

C．flavour

D．wish

【7】

A．hope

B．joy

C．courage

D．support

【8】

A．necessary

B．convenient

C．ready

D．useful

【9】

A．struggled

B．argued

C．laughed

D．compromised

【10】

A．rule

B．bond

C．barrier

D．balance

26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

日前，某寄宿制中学（boarding school）明文禁止学生叫外卖（order take-away food），学生中议论纷纷。假设你是学生会主席李明，请代表全校同学给校长写一封信，信中内容包括：

1）向校方反馈同学们对此规定的看法。

2）向校方提出的意见和建议。

（文中不得出现考生姓名、学校等任何真实信息）