2025年吉林四平高考二模试卷英语

1、Minor Snow ______ the time when it starts to snow ______ in China’s northern areas and the temperature continues to drop.

A．sticks to; initially

B．objects to; ultimately

C．refers to; mostly

D．contributes to; entirely

2、About China, the most frequently used word by people is "exciting", since the country every day.

A. is changing   B. changes

C. has changed   D.was changing

3、An increase in cars has resulted in the ______ of public transport.

A．boom

B．decline

C．deadline

D．absence

4、Hippomenes was deeply struck by the beauty of Atlanta ________ he met her.

A. at the first time B. the first time

C. for the first time D. at first

5、He was reported ________ in the supermarket when he was doing shopping yesterday.

A.to treat badly B.treating badly

C.to be treated badly D.to have been treated badly

6、The question came up at the meeting ________ we had enough money for our research.

A．whether

B．that

C．which

D．what

7、Faced with a bill for $10,000, _____．

A．Smith has taken an extra job

B．the boss has given Smith an extra job

C．an extra job has been taken

D．an extra job has been given to Smith

8、I recommend ____ an English-Chinese dictionary, which will be of great help to your studies.

A．buying

B．to buy

C．being bought

D．to be bought

9、The speech given by Dr. Zhong Nanshan was ______ and touched my heart.

A．inspiring

B．inspired

C．being inspired

D．to inspire

10、Excuse me, but______ you suggest?

A. what is it exactly that     B. what is exactly

C. is it what exactly D. what is it exactly

11、—Can I use the telephone on the table，sir?

—Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

A． anyone is allowed   B． nobody is allowed

C． is anyone allowed   D． is nobody allowed

12、It is in Canada, where Doctor Bethune was born,   the story of the book takes place.

A.where B.when C.that D.which

13、Only by imagining and creating ____________ a difference.

A.can make B.you can make C.can you make D.you have made

14、 Many buildings in the city need repairing, but the one ____ first is the library.

A. repaired   B. being repaired

C. repairing   D. to be repaired

15、How could I lie to her   she lived for the truth，whether it was found in music or people?

A. unless   B. when

C. while   D. though

16、We live in a beautiful cottage with a yard, which ______ 20 feet from side to side.

A. measures   B. is measured

C. measured D. has been measured

17、Alice didn’t know ____________ made her lose her patience and shout at her brother at that time.

A. what was it that B. what it was that

C. why was it that   D. why it was that

18、_________ every student aware of the importance of study, they would study efficiently.

A. Were   B. Should   C. May D. Had

19、Hearing the dog barking fiercely, away _____.

A．fleeing the thief

B．fled the thief

C．was fleeing the thief

D．the thief was fleeing

20、The mother used to her son’s pockets while he was asleep, looking for letters from his girfriend.

A.get through B.watch out C.go through D.search for

21、We were designing a wheelchair for a college engineering course. My classmates were certain that we needed to use steel and they felt only steel would be strong enough. I thought steel would be too heavy and aluminum would be a better option. But the student who strongly advocated steel worked at a bike shop. A few days later, when the big and heavy steel arm kept dropping down, I wished I had shown more determination to defend my position.

I enjoyed doing handiwork and my parents would come home and see artworks I had finished that day—painting, clay sculpting, sewing stuffed animals, etc. But when I studied engineering in college, these pursuits were deep-sixed. Not only was I stretched for time, but I didn’t think they were relevant to my academic work. I hesitated to highlight my female crafting (手工艺) interests in the male-dominated engineering environment where I already felt like an outsider.

When I went on to pursue a Ph.D. — early in the pandemic, I felt anxious and turned to crafting. One day I was making a set of dice as a gift for a friend. While putting the liquid resin (树脂) into the silicone mold (硅胶模具), I made a joke to my partner that I was “injection molding” — a standard engineering manufacturing process. I suddenly realized that although resin art is not injection molding in the technical sense, it shares the spirit and probably some skills.

Soon I saw connections between engineering and crafting that I had previously overlooked. When working on the wheelchair project, I used my sewing skills to create cushioned grips for the handles. I saw how crafting taught me to persevere when my product didn’t match my initial vision and to consider the failed creation a learning experience, just as an engineer must.

Since then, I’ve built crafting back into my free time. I’ve also stopped hiding it from my colleagues. I mentioned my dice-making experience at a robotics conference and explained in a team meeting how we could gain inspiration from art experiences. I was glad that the responses were positive — not rude or dismissive, as I used to fear.

【1】What can we know about the author and her classmates?

A．They had a sort of love-hate relationship.

B．They worked part-time at a local bike shop.

C．They had disagreements when creating a wheelchair.

D．They knew nothing about the structure of wheelchairs.

【2】What does the underlined word “deep-sixed” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Put aside.

B．Backed up.

C．Followed through

D．Dug out.

【3】How did the author feel about the engineering environment in the past?

A．It helped show off her talent.

B．It was unfriendly to females.

C．It helped promote cooperation.

D．It was beyond all her expectations.

【4】What did the author realize after making a gift for a friend?

A．She should take up more hobbies.

B．Crafting needs great practical skills.

C．She should become more determined.

D．Crafting can help make her a better engineer.

【5】Which of the following words can best describe the author?

A．Creative but sensitive.

B．Confident but stubborn.

C．Ambitious and strong-willed.

D．Emotional and straightforward.

22、   Most Western people slept in long nightshirts until the early 20th century. British colonists brought home with them comfortable sleepwear worn by inhabitants of their colonies. 【1】

By the 1920s, the fashion trend had found its way across the Atlantic to America’s shores. 【2】 Envious of the appearance and comfort of men’s pajamas (睡衣), women soon began trading in their nightgowns for fashionable trousers with jacket tops (上衣) made from silk for nighttime sleepwear.

【3】 The 1934 film It Happened One Night, a romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, is sometimes attributed to having started the trend of women wearing this style of sleepwear. In one scene, Colbert is seen wearing a pair of pajamas borrowed from the character played by Gable.

【4】 Kids also found them to be warm and comfortable for sleeping, as well as for watching TV before going to bed. Often decorated with cartoon characters or kids’ favorite action heroes, a new set of pajamas given as a gift during the holidays became something of a tradition.

Today, it’s become acceptable in some circles for women to leave the house wearing sleepwear while dropping the kids off at school in the morning, shopping or running errands (办事). 【5】  A judge in the US has attempted to ban sleepwear for people appearing in his courtroom.

The popularity of pajamas has been boosted by celebrities who publicly wear pajamas featuring original designs from major fashion brands. It’s obvious that stylish pajamas are a trend both in the bedroom and on the streets.

A．Hollywood also played a part.

B．There are, however, apparently limits.

C．Pajamas weren’t reserved only for adults.

D．Soon there were pajamas designed for women.

E．This kind of comfortable clothing is increasingly welcomed in various settings.

F．Loose-fitting pajama trousers slowly became men’s favored sleepwear.

G．People throughout the UK soon found the lightweight clothing ideal for sleeping.

23、We are naturally drawn to friends and colleagues with familiar voices, scientists have found. People prefer those who have a similar accent, intonation and tone of voice to themselves, they discovered.

Previous research has focused on how male or female a voice sounds. Men with deeper voices and women with slightly higher voices were thought to sound more attractive, because they suggest a bigger or a smaller body.

But the new study, published by a linguistics expert in Canada, suggests there is a more complex mechanism (机制) at play. Dr Molly Babel, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, said, “The voice is an amazingly flexible tool that we use to construct our identity. Very few things in our voices are changeless, so we felt that our preferences had to be about more than a person’s shape and size.”

She recorded 30 volunteers’ voices and asked each to rate the others’ attractiveness on a range from one to nine. Each participant was from western America, with similar accents. The people we assessed were all in the same dialect group, but they showed that dialect to different degrees.

“We seem to like people who sound like we sound, and we like people who fit within what we know,” Dr Babel said. She also found that breathy voices in women—typified by the famous American actress Marilyn Monroe-were seen as more attractive.

The breathy tone, caused by younger and thinner vocal cords (声带), implied youthfulness and health. A creaky (咯吱作响的) voice, suggesting a person has a cold, is tired or smokes, was seen as unattractive. The participants preferred men who spoke with a shorter average word length and deeper voices.

【1】The main purpose of the text is to   .

A. compare male voices with female voices

B. inform readers of the new findings of voices

C. argue against women’s voices of speaking

D. encourage men to use deeper voices to speak

【2】Dr Molly Babel mentions Marilyn Monroe in order to   .

A. explain a breathy voice

B. introduce a creaky voice

C. challenge previous research

D. promote her reputation

【3】In terms of voice preferences, the new findings stress   .

A. body size and shape

B. shorter word length

C. thicker vocal cords

D. the same social groups

【4】Whose voice may be unattractive according to the text?

A. A young lady with a thin voice.

B. An old lady with a silvery voice.

C. A deep-voiced man with a dry throat.

D. A little man with a quiet and gentle voice.

24、Saving a drowning woman is all in a day’s work for two boys who had already collected their swimming and lifesaving merit badges (奖章).

A June heavy storm hit Columbia in Missouri with little warning, causing floodwaters from rivers to burst their banks and overflow zones to turn into ponds.

When 15-year-old Dominic Viet and 16-year-old Joseph Diener passed a basketball court that had turned into a pool, they heard the frantic shouting of a young woman desperately trying to keep her head above water under the force of a current (水流). The boys had seen the woman swimming with a friend there before, but it was now obvious that she was drowning.

“The first thing that came into my mind was to get into the water,” Dominic recalled. “We didn’t have time to think. Her head was barely above the water and we could see her sinking more down every second. We didn’t think about the risks. We had to get her out.”

Heroes will do as heroes do, and pulling her up onto their shoulders, Dominic and Joseph got her ashore, where emergency services arriving at someone else’s call performed first aid and rushed her to the hospital.

The fire department honored the two boys with a “Citizen Life Safety Award”. Assistant Fire Chief Jerry Jenkins described the boys’ act as heroic and courageous. He added, “Floodwaters are no conditions to be swimming in. There can be waste water runoff, loose chemicals, downed power lines charging the current with electricity, or pieces of wood, metal, or brick, etc.”

【1】What does the underlined word “frantic” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Angry.

B．Low.

C．Terrified.

D．Patient.

【2】What were the two boys’ first reaction when hearing the woman shouting?

A．They worried about the risks.

B．They performed first aid at once.

C．They called emergency services.

D．They jumped into the water to save her.

【3】Which of the following can best describe the two boys?

A．Helpful and brave.

B．Humorous and polite.

C．Generous and modest.

D．Ambitious and gifted.

【4】What message does Jerry Jenkins want to convey?

A．We must be careful with floodwaters.

B．Children should learn how to swim.

C．Swimming in floodwaters is attractive.

D．Performing first aid is a must for children.

25、Many athletes can light up the scoreboard with their skill. But it takes a special kind of athlete to light up a child’s ______.

Runner Sanya Richards Ross, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, was born in Kingston, Jamaica (牙买加). Though living in Texas, she is ______ helping young people in her ______ through her Fun 4 Kidz Foundation, which deals with illiteracy (文盲) and ______ a healthy lifestyle. “Jamaica ______ its share of poor people who don’t have the ______ to get a great education. I had great support growing up, but not everyone is so ______.” said Sanya.

Houston Texans All-Pro J.J. Watt is all business on the football field. But with children, he is ______and fun-loving. He ______ the Justin J. Watt Foundation to provide after-school sports opportunities for the______ children. He said, “At one of the first schools where we ______ uniforms, a kid told me, ‘It’s the______ day of my life.’ Simple things like that ______ me helping kids.”

Mia Hamm is one of the greatest soccer players in U.S. National and Olympic history. ______ by her brother, who died from a rare blood disorder, she started the Mia Hamm Foundation to ______ awareness and money for those in need of bone marrow (髓) or cord blood transplants. She said, “We do charity soccer games, bringing together unrelated donors and recipients (受助人). To see that ______ is one of the most powerful things you can see. There are a lot of tears when people meet their donors, who are their ______heroes. It was they who ______ them a second chance at life.”

For these athletes, there’s no better feeling than to bring joy to people and to those ______, and seeing a smile on a child’s face at a foundation event really makes it all so ______.

【1】

A．home

B．field

C．face

D．school

【2】

A．eagerly

B．confidently

C．temporarily

D．cautiously

【3】

A．team

B．state

C．neighborhood

D．homeland

【4】

A．exposes

B．promotes

C．submits

D．considers

【5】

A．has

B．finishes

C．tries

D．reserves

【6】

A．means

B．right

C．manners

D．source

【7】

A．impressed

B．acknowledged

C．celebrated

D．blessed

【8】

A．careful

B．respectful

C．merciful

D．playful

【9】

A．found

B．attended

C．established

D．achieved

【10】

A．overcharged

B．underprivileged

C．underfed

D．overworked

【11】

A．sent out

B．took out

C．gave out

D．brought out

【12】

A．best

B．saddest

C．very

D．fateful

【13】

A．prevent

B．keep

C．suggest

D．find

【14】

A．Forced

B．Touched

C．Amazed

D．Inspired

【15】

A．earn

B．build

C．raise

D．recover

【16】

A．reunion

B．tension

C．dream

D．lesson

【17】

A．grateful

B．modest

C．desperate

D．selfless

【18】

A．allocated

B．gave

C．owed

D．awarded

【19】

A．in debt

B．in return

C．in need

D．in advance

【20】

A．adequate

B．rewarding

C．demanding

D．suitable

26、假定你是李华，在伦敦做交换生。你校学生会主席Linda想让你做一次关于中国传统文化的演讲。请你给她写封邮件，内容包括：

1．接受邀请；

2．对演讲效果的期望；

3．商谈具体事宜。

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．

Dear Linda,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua