泰州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、---It's a complete pity that you missed the wonderful lecture.

---Terribly sorry! _____my former colleague not come to me unexpectedly.

A.Should B.Would C.Had D.Did

2、Bears ________ fat stores throughout the summer and fall to have energy enough to last them through winter sleep.

A.build up B.pack up C.bring up D.take up

3、The three parties will meet next month to ______remaining differences.

A．carry out

B．pull through

C．get out

D．work out

4、________  parents say and do has a life-long effect on their children.

A That B Which C What D As

5、Our mothers sat us down to read and paint, ____ all we really wanted to do was to make a mess.

A. since B. as C. unless   D. when

6、None of the underwater workers has been harmed by the great fish．______，most fish were so friendly that they played with the instruments．

A．Instead B．Even though

C．However D．Though

7、This is the only way that I can think of _______ the problem of water waste in urban areas.

A．settling

B．to settle

C．settle

D．settled

8、The growth of economy is influenced by a number of factors, ________are beyond our control.

A.most of them B.most of that C.most of what D.most of which

9、Jack lost his father to AIDS last year, since when he has lived on a monthly ______ of £200 from the government.

A.receipt B.allowance C.revenue D.finance

10、Look! Here’ s a photo ______ in my classroom at primary school. Can you recognize me in it?

A. taken   B. taking

C. to take   D. being taken

11、See things in a negative light and you will find faults everywhere and problems where there are really _______.

A.none B.no one C.something D.nothing

12、I have been writing a novel which is based on a real love story and it ________ be finished early next month.

A．can

B．must

C．should

D．need

13、Do you still remember how many years ago_________ we first met on campus?

A. was it that   B. it was that

C. was it when       D. it was when

14、The doctor’s dilemma was _____ he should tell the patient the truth.

A. whether

B. which

C. that

D. what

15、The old couple, ________ country life, were unwilling to move to the city to live with his son.

A. accustomed to B. buried in

C. addicted to D. exposed to

16、On April 22 every year, people around the world mark Earth Day by _________ the environment.

A．adapting to

B．benefiting from

C．caring for

D．relying on

17、The Chinese government has made it clear________ it tries to achieve in space science in the next 5 years.

A.how B.that C.what D.which

18、Eventually the two sides reached an agreement ___ could not be taken the place of.

A. whose the details B. the details of whose

C. whose details     D. of which details

19、The boy tried to stretch the shoes, but still his feet didn’t ___ them.

A. fit into B. go for

C. take on   D. make from

20、Mary __________ up the toy car and let it run across the room.

A.worked B.walked C.washed D.wound

21、   Tansel Ali used to curse his terrible memory. He struggled to remember phone numbers. But now he has won the Australian Memory Championships four times and has represented Australia at the World Memory Championships, where he was able to memorise 80 words in 15 minutes and 41 names and faces in five minutes.

So how did Tansel's memory improve so much? The key, he says, is in encoding information into an image. Tansel also creates images when remembering numbers. That involves a lot of "pre-work", he explains. “I've got images already pre-memorised from 0 to 99. So, for example, 17 is a dog and 71 is a cat, so if I get the number 1771, I'm going to picture a dog chasing a cat.” And it works.

“If you want to strengthen your own recall skills, Tansel suggests reading something incredibly dry and boring, such as a “terms and conditions” page. While doing so, create a story in your mind. If you can make a story out of what you're trying to remember, you car essentially memorise anything.”

Psychologist Sharon Draper says there are other ways to boost your memory, including doing brain challenges such as puzzles, crosswords and Sudoku at least once a day. "Being physically active, avoiding smoking, reducing alcohol intake and aiming for a solid night's sleep can also help protect your memory from going through the sieve", Draper adds. And dietitian Kathryn Hawkins notes that sticking to a well-balanced diet—with plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables and fish high in omega-3 fatty acids—will promote brain health and thus memory.

There's no denying that Tansel now has a great memory. But it's not the only thing to improve since he started training his brain: his confidence and self-esteem have skyrocketed, and his stress levels have fallen dramatically as a result. “The better you become at sharpening your memory”, Tansel has learnt, “the easier life becomes.”

【1】Which of the following was adopted by Tansel to improve his memory?

A．Eating a balanced diet.

B．Doing brain challenges.

C．Creating a story in his mind

D．Guaranteeing a good night's sleep.

【2】Why does the author mention Tansel's case in the last paragraph?

A．To share more techniques of living an easy life.

B．To introduce more benefits of training our brain.

C．To illustrate the importance of having a good memory.

D．To show the relationship between confidence and self-esteem.

【3】Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A．The Legend of Tansel

B．The Secret of Tansel

C．The Power of Memory.

D．The Improvement of Memory

22、Creativity Improves Your Health

Creativity helps us create works of beauty, solve problems, and refresh our bodies and our minds. It’s fun. When you are having fun, you are positively impacting your health. Studies show that engaging in creative behaviors improves brain function, mental health and physical health.

You’ve probably heard of flow — it’s the state you get in when you’re completely absorbed in something. Have you ever been working on a project and completely lost all sense of self and time? That’s flow. It reduces anxiety, boosts your mood, and even slows your heart rate.

It’s not just being in flow that makes you happy. Repetitive creative motions like knitting, drawing, or writing help activate flow, and are all tasks that create a result. When you succeed in creating a result, your brain is flooded with dopamine, a natural anti-depressant that actually helps motivate you, whether or not you’re aware of your increased happiness.

Creativity is also an effective treatment for patients with dementia — a serious illness of the mind. Studies show that creative engagement not only reduces depression and isolation, but can also help people with dementia by sharpening their senses.

The average person has about 60,000 thoughts in a day. A creative act such as crafting can help focus the mind, and has even been compared to meditation due to its calming effects on the brain and body. Even just gardening or sewing releases dopamine.

Creativity reduces anxiety, depression and stress. Studies have found that writing helps people manage their negative emotions in a productive way, and painting or drawing helps people express their mental injury or hurtful experiences that they find too difficult to put into words.

Studies show people who write about their experiences daily actually have stronger immune system function. Writing, a creative work, increases your CD4+ lymphocyte count, the key to your immune system.

Playing music can also function well in your immune system. Studies show that our left brain is responsible for the motor functions, while our right brain focuses on melody. When the two parts work together, our cognitive function improves.

It’s pretty amazing that doing the activities is good for us. Get a pen and start writing or coloring. Get your hands dirty with pottery or gardening or pick up an instrument. Whatever you decide to do, it’s time to start getting creative!

【1】Which situation shows that you are in flow?

A．You are working with a difficult task.

B．You are having a boring repetitive action.

C．You get lost and don’t know where to go.

D．You are absorbed in a work that interests you.

【2】The underlined word “dopamine” in Paragraph 3 is probably ________.

A．an awareness of how to be successful

B．a thought having calming effects on the brain

C．an activity to fight against your negative emotions

D．a material for the functioning of the nervous system

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Repetitive actions can cure patients with mental diseases.

B．Creative activities help you build a stronger immune system.

C．Meditation makes your anxiety, depression and stress disappear.

D．Telling others your hurtful experiences helps improve your health.

23、   Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human,” with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance(不满,不平). But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan’s and Dr. de Waals study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.

In the world of capuchins, grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber(without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to induce resentment(愤恨)in a female capuchin.

The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such cooperation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation(愤慨), it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

【1】In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________.

A. making a comparison B. justifying an assumption

C. making a conclusion D. explaining a phenomenon

【2】The statement “it is all too monkey” (Last line, Paragraph I) implies that ________.

A. resenting unfairness is also monkeys nature

B. monkeys are also outraged by slack rivals

C. monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other

D. no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions

【3】Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys ________.

A. prefer grapes to cucumbers

B. will not be co-operative if feeling cheated

C. can be taught to exchange things

D. are unhappy when separated from others

【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions.

B. Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild.

C. Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do.

D. Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source.

24、   You can take fish oil. You can invest in a language class. or some hours of exercise every week. There are countless ways to improve your memory and cognitive functioning(认知功能). You know, the brain-training industry is expected to reach $ 8 billion by 2022. But the cheapest, easiest and most time-tested way to sharpen your brain is right in front of your face. That's why moms are always on their kids' cases to turn off the TV and pick up a good book. But there's something astonishing about how it can make it.

The most basic effect occurs in the area associated with language reception. Processing written material - from the letters to the words to the sentences to the stories themselves - takes your attention to interpret the information. Typically, when you read, you have more time to think, judge and even criticize. And the very nature of such an ordinary activity encourages the brain to work harder and better, deepening your understanding of your course and your future career.

And the benefits of reading continue long after you've put down that great book. It is clarified that some of those benefits last for five days. We call that a shadow activity, almost like a muscle memory - that means, even if you are a retired sportsman now, some skills can still be stored in your memory. That means the language part of the brain would get a workout from reading.

What if you are a poor, or even a dyslexic, reader who feels as if you’ll never be able to read enough to get these benefits? A book can fix that problem too! According to a study, one hundred hours of remedial(补救的) reading classes significantly improved the quality of the brains' white matter. where information is processed. So turn off your phone and your computer, set aside a good hour or two - and just read on a regular basis.

【1】The text is mainly written to

A.show the power of knowledge B.persuade people to read regularly

C.clarify the benefits of good books D.introduce how to improve memory

【2】What does the underlined “such an ordinary activity” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Judging. B.Thinking. C.Learning. D.Reading.

【3】What does the third paragraph suggest?

A.Reading has a long-time influence. B.Books are needed if you want to graduate.

C.The retired sportsmen have good memories. D.Reading a lot is beneficial to one' s muscles.

【4】For whom is the text mainly intended?

A.Parents. B.Office workers.

C.College students. D.University graduates.

25、   Last week I met a homeless man over the phone when I was calling Father Benno’s, a soup kitchen（贫民救济处）. I invited him to have lunch with me at the Soup Plantation  _______ he could eat as much as he wanted to fill his stomach, I felt ________ inside made me invite him to lunch. Since he did not have a ________, I offered to pick him up.

We had a ________ four-hour lunch. I learned a lot about his ________ but more importantly, I left lunch feeling ________ for a roof over my head, warm shower, comfortable bed, and food on the table-all of which we may not ________ twice about. He, too, ________ the connection, his lunch, and a rest from spending his afternoon on the streets.

I learned long ago that one person alone cannot ________ the homeless epidemic（泛滥）in California or the U.S. ________, each person can make an effort to ________ the homeless in their own way. Did you know that 40% of the U.S. population get salary that barely cover the ________ living expenses. Should a ________ emergency or burden occur, any one of those 40% can end up ________ on the streets.

For this holiday season, perhaps you may want to ________ something new to help the homeless. Buy a meal for the person asking for money instead of giving him spare ________. If you can make the time and find courage, invite them to ________ a meal with you. Jesse Jackson once said, “Never look down ________ anybody unless you are helping them up,” and Rumi ________ us, “When we practice loving ________ and sympathy, we are the first one to profit.”

【1】A.as though B.so that C.unless D.although

【2】A.everything B.anything C.something D.nothing

【3】A.table B.bed C.roof D.car

【4】A.wonderful B.terrible C.regular D.free

【5】A.talents B.products C.emotions D.struggles

【6】A.convenient B.grateful C.responsible D.thirsty

【7】A.think B.talk C.argue D.worry

【8】A.saw B.established C.enjoyed D.regretted

【9】A.solve B.cause C.consider D.tolerate

【10】A.Besides B.However C.Otherwise D.Therefore

【11】A.understand B.release C.avoid D.help

【12】A.vast B.high C.basic D.extra

【13】A.financial B.natural C.national D.medical

【14】A.fearless B.careless C.homeless D.useless

【15】A.buy B.try C.refuse D.notice

【16】A.meal B.room C.time D.change

【17】A.cook B.share C.treat D.provide

【18】A.on B.at C.for D.with

【19】A.persuades B.requests C.reminds D.warns

【20】A.appreciation B.honesty C.approval D.kindness

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

When I was a kid, I was always eager to know what was inside the colorful boxes under the Christmas tree. But when that curiosity was satisfied beforehand, fun would be absent.

One Christmas Eve, my sister Tina and I decided to peek at our presents before our mom got home. Since Tina was older, and that put her in charge, she opened the first present while I was ordered to stand guard at the big picture window in our front room. I was to report any suspicious activity or person, namely our mother.

I was so excited that I could barely stand still. I couldn’t keep my eyes on the window very long, either. My head moved from the window to Tina and back to the window again. I felt like I was watching a Ping-Pong match.

“All right!” Tina shouted. She pulled out an empty jewelry box. “You know what that means, don’t you?”

I jumped up and down. “Yeah, it’s my turn!”

“No.” she said. “It means that there must be some jewelry under here.” I watched my sister search through the presents under the tree trying to find one she thought was small enough to be a necklace or earrings

“Hey, that’s not fair!” I protested, stomping my foot

“Are you watching for mom?” was all that she said. I couldn’t do anything except stand guard as she opened present after present. Finally, when she had finished wrapping her last present back up, we traded places.

My heart hammered so hard that it felt like my chest was moving in and out. Tina reminded me to be careful so I wouldn’t tear the wrapping paper.

After unwrapping a few presents, I found it faster to open one end of a present and peek inside. “Cool! Mom and Dad got me headphones (耳机) for my stereo!” I exclaimed as I pulled them out of the box.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右;

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I was about to put them on when Tina shouted that Mom was coming.

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The next morning, Tina and I pretended to open our presents as if nothing had happened.

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