宜昌2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、—Jack should have calmed down at the party!

—But the kids made so much noise that he couldn’t help but _______.

A. face the music   B. eat like a bird

C. mend his ways   D. fly off the handle

2、This Monday morning I was informed I _____ as one of three exchange students from our school.

A. had been chosen    B. was chosen

C. had been choosing  D. was choosing

3、I needn’t have been in that hurry. The flight to Chongqing ______ due to the foggy weather.

A. has cancelled B. was cancelled

C. will be cancelling  D. had cancelled

4、It was when she first arrived in China _____ she developed a passion for paper-cutting.

A. where B. that

C. how D. why

5、People expect Shanghai Disneyland Park to offer better service than ________ of Tokyo’s.

A. this  B. it   C. one D. that

6、--Would you like to enjoy the ballet performance at the Grand Theatre with us?

---Oh, sorry. I ____to see the film Interstellar by Christopher Nolan.

A. arranged B. had arranged

C. have arranged D. arrange

7、We’re trying to ring you back, Bryan, but we think we your number incorrectly.

A.looked up B.took down C.worked out D.brought about

8、His strong sense of humor was make everyone in the room burst out laughing.

A．so as to

B．such as to

C．so that

D．such that

9、Any information of the oral test paper are regarded as strictly ______ before it is open.

A. conventional B. analytical

C. controversial D. confidential

10、People are ________ the use of alternative energy sources because the rate ________ we are now assuming fuels like gas and oil is shocking and they may run out one day.

A. wrestling with; by which

B. pushing for; at which

C. catching up on; at which

D. accounting for; on which

11、She is quite________to office work. You had better offer her some suggestions when necessary.

A. familiar B. similar

C. fresh D. sensitive

12、I have such a bad cold that I have lost all __________ of smell.

A.scene B.sense C.strength D.scent

13、 The joy of living comes from ______ we put into living.

A. what   B. that C. where D. How

14、As is known to us all, ___ in a good atmosphere is what all parents wish for.

A. the children educated

B. the children are educated

C. the children’s being educated

D. the children to be educated

15、Lily is so ______ . She is always making you feel you can talk quite naturally to her.

A．critical

B．available

C．magnificent

D．dramatic

16、- Jenny, could you repeat the answer to this difficult question?

-Sorry, Miss Zhang. I ________ something else then.

A．am thinking of

B．thought of

C．had thought

D．was thinking of

17、Nowadays mobile internet devices are pushing up demands for online education, which makes businessmen see it as one of the most _______ new market.

A. demanding   B. damaging   C. promising   D. leading

18、Peppa Pig, a Bristish cartoon character with a face ______ like a hair dryer, is placed on the cup ______ blue, green and celadon colors.

A.shaping; featuring B.shaped; featuring

C.shaping; featured D.shaped; featured

19、Whether something is alive or dead is a crucial ______ and it is one that children have no difficulty understanding by the age of five.

A. declaration B. distinction C. division D. distribution

20、 —Sorry for being latethis morning.

—Never mind. The weather was terrible and many people ______ the bus.

A. miss B. will miss C. missed  D. have missed

21、Imagine sitting in your house, when suddenly you receive a phone call through your shirt. You answer the call and converse with the person on the other end. Sound crazy? This might soon be possible because of a new research from engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their partners at Rhode Island School of Design.

These scientists have created a fabric that can hear sounds around you and inside your body. They published their research in the journal Nature. “Wearing such a shirt, you might talk through it to answer phone calls and communicate with others,” says lead author Wei Yan, a professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

To create the shirt, the team wove a flexible piezoelectric fiber (压电纤维) into fabric. Piezoelectric materials generate internal electrical charge from applied mechanical stress. When the fiber is exposed to sound waves, vibrations create electrical signals similar to how our ears work. The team wove the fibers in with a kind of traditional thread to create panels, which they then sewed into a shirt. They clapped at various angles away from the shirt, and found the fabric was able to detect the angle of the sound to within 1 degree at a distance of 3 meters away. They also tested whether clothes could act as a fabric stethoscope (听诊器) by sewing a single fiber into the inner part of a shirt, according to MIT. Yoel Fink, a co-author from MIT, says that this could be used in pregnant women’s clothes in the future.

The resulting fibers can pick up noises like human speech, birds singing, etc., and they can also make sounds louder, which could help those who are hard of hearing. This solution could also be used to help detect broken parts in buildings or be woven into a net to monitor fish, the researchers say.

According to Fink, their goal is to put other digital operations within fabric, including information storage and signal processing. “Computers are going to really become fabrics,” he says. “We’re getting very close.”

【1】What can be the function of the fabric from the text?

A．It can read your mind.

B．It can hear your heartbeat.

C．It can regulate your pulse.

D．It can sense your feelings.

【2】Why did the researchers clap at various angles away from the shirt?

A．To test how sensitive it is to surrounding sounds.

B．To figure out how effectively the panels function.

C．To make out if it is able to function as a stethoscope.

D．To test its ability to detect sound direction and distance.

【3】What aspect of the fabric does the text focus on?

A．Its physical materials.

B．Its possible applications.

C．Its potential problems.

D．Its positive health benefits.

【4】How do the researchers expect to deal with their fabric?

A．Make it available in the near future.

B．Use new-materials to make it durable.

C．Develop more digital operations within it.

D．Enable it to monitor users’ physical conditions.

22、What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.

“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.

In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.

The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.

“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”

Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.

Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”

Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.

Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”

During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.

He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.

【1】The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.

A. public colleges

B. land-grant schools

C. research universities

D. initial higher education

【2】Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?

A. People enjoy a quality life.

B. People live longer and longer.

C. The freedom to move around.

D. An environment that is sustainable.

【3】Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?

A. Restructuring the teachers College.

B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.

C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.

D. Enrolling more students from poor families.

【4】Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?

A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.

B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.

C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.

D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.

【5】With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.

A. enroll 40% of its students online

B. keep costs down without a loss of quality

C. provide an even greater number of courses

D. attract the most gifted students all over the world

23、The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, according to research led by Ohio University professor Ryan Fogt, and Kyle Clem, who is a current postdoctoral research fellow in climate science. According to the study, this warming period was mainly driven by natural tropical (热带的) climate variability and was likely strengthened by increases in greenhouse gases.

Clem and his team analyzed weather station data at the South Pole, as well as climate models to examine the warming in the Antarctic interior (内陆). They found that between 1989 and 2018, the South Pole had warmed by about 1. 8℃ over the past 30 years at a rate of +0. 6℃ per decade—three times the global average.

The study also found that the strong warming over the Antarctic interior in the last 30 years was mainly driven by the tropics, especially warm ocean temperatures in the western tropical Pacific Ocean that changed the winds in the South Atlantic near Antarctica and increased the delivery of warm air to the South Pole. They suggest these atmospheric changes along Antarctica's coast are an important mechanism driving climate anomalies (异常事物) in its interior.

Clem and Fogt argue that these warming trends were unlikely the result of natural climate change alone, stressing the effects of added warming related to human activities on top of the large tropical climate signal on Antarctic climate have worked together to make this one of the strongest warming trends worldwide.

“From the very beginning, Kyle and I worked very well together and were able to accomplish more as a team than we were individually,” Fogt said. “We have published every year together since 2013, with one of our continuing collaborations being the annual State of the Climate reports. Our work on this project together each year ultimately led to this publication documenting the warming at the South Pole. However, most importantly for my family and me, apart from being a fantastic scientist and collaborator, Kyle is also considered as one of our closest friends.”

【1】What is the major cause of the South Pole's warming according to the research?

A．The weather station.

B．Lack of winds.

C．Increases of greenhouse gases.

D．Natural tropical climate change.

【2】What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The tropical climate signals in the Antarctic interior.

B．The effect of human activities on the warming trends.

C．The detailed explanation for the South Pole's warming.

D．The unpleasant consequences of natural climate change.

【3】Which of the following does Fogt most probably agree on?

A．Cooperation is valued in scientific research.

B．Getting science paper published is difficult.

C．Friendship is more important than science.

D．Family support plays a key role in science.

【4】From which is the text most probably taken?

A．A chemistry textbook.

B．A science magazine.

C．A travel brochure.

D．A science novel.

24、   Latest research provides some good news for those who hope to someday live in a world where women coders and surgeons are as plentiful as their male workmates: Today s elementary school girls are actually more interested in pursuing a STEM（science, tech, engineering, math）career than their male classmates are.

What’s more, while young boys’ ideal jobs have stayed relatively unfluctuating over the past 20 years of the century, young girls’ career dreams have grown more ambitious. Back in 1998, a study found that 11-year-old boys were most interested in becoming an athlete, a service member, or an engineer. Now, a new survey of children 10 and younger found that boys` career dreams have stayed relatively stable. In this study, girls said they aspired（渴望）to be teachers, nurses and hairdressers.

Also notable: Overall, girls are more likely to say they are interested in a STEM job than their male workmates. Indeed, 41% of girls express interest in technical careers, vs. 32% of boys.

"Yet while girls’ increased interest in scientific careers is clearly something to celebrate, there is still progress to be made to make it a reality," said Simon Isaacs, a researcher. "We can celebrate the girls’ focus on STEM, but if we look at children aged 1 through 10 right now, we still have a long way to go with regard to getting girls involved in engineering, computer programming and other tech fields." Other recent studies have similarly found that despite their great interest in STEM careers, most American girls believe they are relatively unlikely to end up in a job that requires computer science or engineering skills simply because they don’t think these jobs belong to girls. "Even as we talk about being a generation that is growing up more gender-non-conformist（无性别意识的）than any other generation, we aren`t necessarily seeing that translate into what kids want to be," said Isaacs.

Isaacs said that he decided to pursue this research to better understand how today’s culture of role models—who are as diverse as Mark Zuckerberg and Malala Yousafzai—are hugely shaping the next generation of students’ career ambitions.

"What we find at the elementary level is that kids are often basing their aspirations on whatever they’ve been exposed to in the media," said Tony Wagner, an expert. Wagner says that gender standards described in the media have begun to change, specifically with regard to female characters in medicine and science. Wagner has found that girls are more interested in careers that are described as having a direct human connection, like medicine and education. "What they don’t understand is that much of engineering and other STEM work, is profoundly human-centered. The problem lies in how it’s taught," he said.

【1】According to the latest study________.

A．there will be more female engineers and doctors than males in the future

B．more girls show interest in having a job in STEM related areas than boys.

C．boys’ career choices have greatly changed compared with those of 20 years ago.

D．most girls would like to become teachers, nurses and hairdressers in the future.

【2】The underlined word "unfluctuating" can be replaced by________.

A．necessary

B．unchanging

C．wider

D．impossible

【3】Simon Isaacs and other recent surveys tend to indicate that________.

A．more boys under 10 years old prefer STEM

B．there are more girls in tech fields than boys

C．girls who will really work on STEM are not as many as imagined

D．many boys can’t end up with STEM careers, either

【4】It can be inferred that________.

A．we can’t see the change in careers between girls and boys

B．gender difference still exists in career tendency

C．there is no sex difference in career choices for kids

D．we can’t expect that all children like STEM

【5】What is the main influence on kids’ tendency of the career choice?

A．Social culture.

B．School education.

C．Family influence.

D．Economic development.

25、Forgiving My Father

I grew up on a small farm. My father worked in the city as a welder (焊工). He was quiet, distant. He was a man made of leather and chewing tobacco who tried to teach me useful things, including respect. He also had a _______. I did not like him very much.

One day I came home from school. Once inside, I was told by my mother that he didn't feel well. His back hurt. Multiple myeloma, I _______, is a type of blood cancer. For the last year of my father's life, his entire day consisted of rising from his hospital bed in the living room and walking to his _______to sit and think. He was _______in that chair when I came home one day during the ninth grade. I do not remember where my mother and brother were, but the two of us were alone. He asked me to sit down.

What followed still _______me these decades later. He told me about his _______: his family growing up, what it was like in the Pacific during World War II, his loves, his heartbreaks. It was as if a pipe had _______, his inner self rushing out to me in a great flood. He had been speaking for maybe an hour or more when I realized that he was doing more than _______. He was asking to be _______. All it took was understanding that that was what he________, and I forgave everything, immediately.

When he died, I didn't ________to school for a few days. My biggest ________going back was gym class. It was poorly ________, and bullies ran the show. On my first day, I was standing there when a (an) ________voice yelled, 'Lensch! ' It was a guy who had given many of us a few lumps (包，肿块) over the years. I turned to face him and said, 'What do you want? ' The other boys didn’t say a word as they waited for the ________.

'I heard your dad died, ' he said. 'Is that true? '

I quietly replied, 'Yes. '

He didn't ________me. He didn't even move. Instead, he said, 'I'm sorry. '

I was________. I'm sure I cried. Those two words are how I have remembered that kid ever since. What do you do when your 'enemies' reveal that they are also ________? I think you either forgive and move ________or hold on to resentment (怨恨)and live in the past. I'm certainly not glad that my father got________, but at the same time, I realize that if he hadn't, I might never have come to love him.

【1】A.temper B.taste C.fame D.nerve

【2】A.meant B.doubted C.learned D.felt

【3】A.bench B.chair C.bedroom D.balcony

【4】A.predictably B.acceptably C.hopefully D.surprisingly

【5】A.touches B.annoys C.educates D.encourages

【6】A.life B.career C.youth D.achievement

【7】A.burst B.leaked C.moved D.frozen

【8】A.teaching B.telling C.supporting D.complaining

【9】A.known B.forgiven C.mistaken D.forgotten

【10】A.found B.received C.needed D.escaped

【11】A.contribute B.adapt C.head D.return

【12】A.relief B.favor C.lesson D.fear

【13】A.understood B.prepared C.regulated D.attracted

【14】A.angry B.warning C.pitying D.familiar

【15】A.defeat B.quarrel C.miracle D.fight

【16】A.punish B.beat C.disappoint D.scold

【17】A.frustrated B.shocked C.thrilled D.frightened

【18】A.classmates B.friends C.humans D.families

【19】A.backward B.away C.around D.forward

【20】A.depressed B.hurt C.sick D.lost

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。

Once upon a time, two brothers, who lived on adjoining（毗邻的）farms, fell into conflict. It was the first serious fight in 10 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labour and goods as needed without a hitch.

Then the long cooperation fell apart. 11 began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.

Very early one morning there was a knock on the older brother's door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. " I'm looking for a few days' work,“ he said. "Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there. Could I help you?"

"Well as it happens there is." said the older brother.

“1 do have a job for you. Look across the stream at that farm. That’s my neighbour. In fact,   it's my younger brother. Once there was a meadow（草地）between us and last week he took his bulldozer（推土机）and plowed a stream between us. Well, he may have done this to hurt me, but I'll go one better than that. See that pile of wood by the barn? I want you to build me a fence. a 2-metre-high fence, so I won't need to see him or his place anymore. "

The carpenter said, "I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole   digger and I'll be able to do a job that pleases you.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

3.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The older brother helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day.

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The neighbour, his younger brother, was coming across the bridge merrily with his hand outstretching to the older brother.

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