2025-2026学年浙江宁波高二(上)期末试卷英语

1、The teacher came in the classroom, book in _____ hand. After that, he put the book in ____place.

A. the, / B. the, the   C. his, the   D. /, /

2、You ________ reach him on his mobile now his mobile is still under repair.

A．shouldn’t   B．wouldn’t

C．can’t     D．mustn’t

3、Mum is coming. What present________ for your birthday?

A．you expect she has got

B．you expect has she got

C．do you expect she has got

D．do you expect has she got

4、The school took the students’ request into consideration that a party ________ be held to celebrate the victory.

A. could   B. might   C. would     D. should

5、The island, _____ to the mainland by a new bridge, is much easier to visit.

A. joining   B. having joined

C. joined   D. to join

6、It worried her a bit _________ her hair was turning grey.

A. while B. that C. if   D. For

7、Yangzhou, ________ the amazing gardens capture the hearts of visitors, has been modernizing its transportation.

A.whose B.which C.of which D.of whom

8、I haven’t decided which hotel ______; I’ll let you know by tomorrow.

A．to stay

B．stayed at

C．to stay at

D．staying

9、The machines made in our factory are as good as ________ made in Japan.

A. that   B. ones   C. them   D. those

10、Switzerland joined UN after having been ________for decades.

A. natural   B. neutral

C. noble   D. novel

11、It is so good a habit to instruct children to lay things _______ they belong when they are young.

A. to which   B. that

C. in which   D. where

12、____ back made her parents angry and sad.

A.Not her coming B.your coming

C.Her not coming D.Her no coming

13、   white symbolizes purity and innocence, it is used in many important situations.

A. While   B. Once

C. Since   D. Though

14、Most of the students in the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong ______ have participated for more rights, but what they did caused serious effects on people’s living.

A. should   B. might

C. would   D. Can

15、She said she was unlucky _______ the train, and had to spend another day here.

A. missing B. to have missed

C. to miss  D. having missed

16、The spokesman was seated in front of all the journalists at the press conference, _______ to answer all kinds of questions.

A. prepared   B. preparing

C. to be prepared   D. having prepared

17、Financial markets will be disturbed as ______ business adjusts its working approaches and policies from an assumption of 3-3.5% potential output growth.

A. compulsory     B. conventional

C. contradictory   D. contemporary

18、You'd better prepare some candles at home the power fails．

A． even though   B． in case

C．as long as   D． in order that

19、The more _________ we take the safety standards, the further we can speed up the development of the school bus industry.

A. constantly   B. seriously

C. generally   D. immediately

20、Using traditional Chinese medical records, Youyou Tu rediscovered an ancient plant-based treatment for malaria that worked ________ modern therapies failed.

A. until B. unless   C. although D. where

21、Students to get more sleep

When your alarm clock rings and you drag yourself out of bed, you probably wonder: Why on Earth does school have to start so early? 【1】

A law in California, passed on Oct 13, requires that public middle schools begin classes no earlier than 8:00 am and that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 am. The law will go into effect by July 1, 2022. Starting school at 8:00 or 8:30 in the morning may not sound like too big of a change. 【2】

“The effect of that one hour is something they will be feeling as 40-year-old adults,” Sumit Bhargava, a sleep expert at Stanford University, told The New York Times. 【3】

Some might say that urging students to go to bed earlier could have been a much easier solution than changing the school timetable across an entire state. But according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, teenagers go through biological changes when they enter adolescence. 【4】 So when school starts at 8:00 or earlier, they can hardly get the ideal 8.5 — 9.5 hours of sleep that experts suggest they need to do their best in the daytime.

【5】 In the short run, students’ school performances should improve immediately. Kyla Wahlstrom, a researcher, found that students who have enough sleep are more alert in class and get better grades. This is why when the new law came out, its author, Anthony Portantino, said, “Generations of children will come to appreciate this historic day and our governor for taking brave action.”

A．Students can benefit a lot from more sleep.

B．Fortunately, there is a new law to back you up.

C．Here are some tips to help you solve this problem.

D．But it could mean one more hour of sleep for students.

E．Regular sleeping schedule is definitely good for students.

F．Not having enough sleep can increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.

G．It’s difficult for them to fall asleep before 11:00 pm during that period.

22、There's an old joke about how you can never buy beer——just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? But that's the case. Many people who will be loading their iPads or Amazon Kindles with bestsellers or classics won't have any idea how limited their rights are as their books' "owners". Unlike the owners of a physical book, they won't have the unlimited right to lend an e-book, give it away, or resell it.

All these restrictions "raise obvious questions about what "ownership' is," observes Dan Gillmor, an expert on digital media. "The companies that license stuff digitally have made it clear that you own nothing." The rules are based on the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), with which Congress hoped to balance the rights of copyright holders and content users. "In the digital environment, that's always been the trickiest balance to achieve, "Annemarie Bridy, a specialist said.

Both camps have important fights to protect. In the digital world, technology allows infinite(无限的）copies to be made. One could give away an e-book and still have it to read. This becomes a great threat to the livelihood of authors, artists, filmmakers and musicians. So some limitation is sensible. That's usually done through digital rights management, or DRM, which encodes copy limitations into the digital file. The DMCA protected DR M. The question is whether the balance has given an unfair advantage to the booksellers, at the consumers expense. The answer is yes.

For one thing, DRM has put far too much power in the hands of digital booksellers. In 2009, Amazon simply deleted some e-books from buyers, Kindles secretly. An uproar(鼓噪）followed. Amazon then promised never to steal a book back from a Kindle without the device owner's permission. But in early 2012, the company shut down the access of Linn Jordet Nygaard, a Norwegian Kindle owner, to her library of 43 e-books. Another uproar followed, and Amazon backed down again, restoring Nygaard's account.

Another problem of e-book DRM is that most e-books are tied to the seller's reading device. Buy a book from Amazon, and you can read it only on a Kindle or Amazon app. This lock-in gives the booksellers power over not only consumers but publishers.

Moreover, nowhere does Amazon, Apple or any other distributor promise to support its digital formats forever. There are ways to protect your e-books by changing the format. But is it legal? No one is quite sure.

The guiding principle must be that an e-book owner's rights and responsibilities parallel those of a printed book owner, and the same must apply to authors, publishers and booksellers.Clarify these rules, and the book market will reap the benefit.

Leave the rules as vague (模糊的) as they are, and the victims will be authors, consumers and publishers.

【1】The author mentions the old joke to say that________.

A．book buying is easier in the digital age

B．buyers do not really own their e-books

C．it is a good choice just to borrow e-books

D．e-books are convenient compared with physical ones

【2】Which of the following is TRUE about the DMCA?

A．It turned out to benefit digital booksellers.

B．It seems a little unfair to digital booksellers.

C．It has become a threat to the livelihood of authors.

D．It actually played a trick on copyright holders and content users.

【3】The underlined part "backed down" in Para. 4 probably means________.

A．felt guilty

B．gave in

C．broke a promise

D．made an apology

【4】What is the author's suggestion?

A．Booksellers should be punished by la w for their marketing strategy.

B．Booksellers should make a formal public apology to the victims.

C．E-book readers should buy e-books directly from publishers.

D．E-books should be treated the same as physical books.

23、The negative impacts of plastic have been well-documented. Half plastics produced annually worldwide end up in landfills or the environment. Now, French start-up Carbios wants to help relieve the world’s plastic pollution problem with a bacterial enzyme (细菌酶) that digests PET—the most plentiful plastic used to produce packaging, and plastic bottles—and turn it into its chemical building blocks. The resulting material can be used to create anything and, more importantly, can be continuously recycled.

“Mechanical recycling is limited,” explains Carbios CEO Martin Stephan. “To make a plastic bottle with that technology, you need a plastic bottle as an input material. After several cycles of recycling, the plastic is of lower quality and can only be used for something like the backing of a carpet before it is thrown away entirely. So it’s not a solution for plastics, whereas our solution is a limitless recycling solution.”

The company’s search for the ideal plastic-eating bacteria began about a decade ago, with 100000 promising candidates. The list was soon cut down to one, which was first discovered in 2012. Once the perfect competitor had been identified, Carbios scientists began to improve its plastic digesting power and keep its table at 65℃—the ideal temperature for fast degradation (降解). The improved enzyme was able to downgrade a ton of plastic in less than 10 hours.

To breakdown the plastic, the waste is placed in are actor with water and the enzyme and heated for 16 hours at 65℃. The resulting mix is then purified. This allows for the recovery of the building blocks that makeup PET plastics.

The recycling process, which is currently in its pilot stage, will be tested on a large range by 2021. Carbios hopes to launch the technology commercially in the near future. Though Carbios’ recycling technique will certainly help reduce plastic pollution, it is only part of the solution. Only if people do a better job of ensuring plastic waste ends up in a recycling can, can we win the battle.

【1】What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The reason for collecting materials.

B．The effective solutions for plastic waste.

C．The drawbacks of mechanical recycling of plastics.

D．The characteristics of a new plastic-making technique.

【2】What’s the first step towards the new plastic recycling technique?

A．Find a bacteria efficient at breaking down plastic.

B．Identify the ideal temperature for fast degradation.

C．Gather as much plastic as possible.

D．Place plastic in a reactor.

【3】What does Carbios expect of their new technology?

A．It’ll be environmentally friendly.

B．It’ll reduce their production costs.

C．It’ll go into the experimental stage.

D．It’ll bring about profits.

【4】What’s the best title for the text?

A．Garbage Sorting Benefits the Whole World

B．Carbios has Developed an Plastic-Eating Enzyme

C．Carbios: a Pioneer in Protecting Nature

D．Plastic Pollution: a Serious Problem

24、In 2013 alone at least 20,000 African elephants were killed for their teeth. In South Africa over the last two years more than 2,200 rhinos were killed for their horns. These numbers are alarming, because current rates of illegal hunting are faster than birth rates, which could lead to extinction for these ecologically important creatures in their environment. Indeed, some elephant and rhino populations are on track to be locally extinct within the next decade.

If you are reading this, you may already be aware of these facts. But you might not know that wildlife trafficking (走私) not only threatens the existence of elephants and rhinos but is also leading to extinction of other species, such as tigers, tortoises, sea turtles—and the world’s most trafficked mammal—pangolins (穿山甲).

Pangolins are the only mammals that are entirely covered in tough scales (鳞)，which makes them look very strong. But actually they are endangered mammals. There are eight different species of pangolins, four in Asia and four in Africa, and all are threatened with extinction. Although pangolins are protected throughout most of the countries where they live, high demand in East Asia, where the delicious pangolin meat is considered a delicacy and where their scales are used in traditional medicines, is driving an illegal trade in both live animals and pangolin parts. The number of pangolin trafficking is shocking. Experts believe that over the last 10 years more than 1 million pangolins were taken from the wild. It is estimated that between 40,000 and 81,250 pangolins were killed for the illegal trade in 2013 alone.

In February, the United States released a plan to deal with wildlife trafficking, which lays out the steps we will take to fight the illegal trade in wildlife, including pangolins. We are strengthening the carrying out of the plan; building international cooperation and contribution to protect wildlife; raising awareness to drive down the demand that is fueling the illegal trade.

Get involved and remember World Wildlife Day (March 3) by spreading the plan. Use social media and tell everyone that now is the time to get serious about wildlife crime and end the demand that threatens species, big and small, from the huge elephant to the shy pangolin.

【1】How many endangered creatures are mentioned in the passage?

A. 4.   B. 5.

C. 6.   D. 7.

【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A. Eight species of pangolins live on the same continent.

B. Pangolins are not protected in most of their natural habitats.

C. The scales of pangolins can be used as an ingredient for cooking.

D. High demand contributes to the illegal trade of pangolins in East Asia.

【3】What can we know about the plan released by the US?

A. Social media will be used to spread World Wildlife Day.

B. Whether the plan will be worked out remains to be seen.

C. The demand leading to the illegal trade in East Asia is to be brought down.

D. The US will work together with other countries to protect wildlife.

【4】What is the author’s intention of writing the passage?

A. To inform us something about World Wildlife Day.

B. To raise awareness of protecting endangered wildlife.

C. To explain why pangolins are illegally traded in East Asia.

D. To show how the United States is to fight the illegal trade in wildlife.

25、Mom looked at the awards banquet (宴会) invitation as though she had received_______ news. Her lips turned down at the edges and her eyebrows twisted together as she read the paper again. “Baby, it might be a _______. Sometimes they accidentally send these things to the wrong people.”She spoke with apology in her voice.

The year before I’d started kindergarten, my mom bought pre-school workbooks. She began my education with _______ that was visible in her smile but only _______ shouting. Her voice and face made me think I had done something very _______ . So whenever she tried to teach me anything, from writing ABCs to tying shoes, I was_______by the process of learning.

Mom expressed her _______ about me possibly having a learning disability to the teacher. But I made it through kindergarten just _______Then first grade. My_______ progress was never a topic of conversation. I had no idea where I ________ , below average or smart. I didn’t care. I just ________ doing all the worksheets and activities. I wasn’t ________ . I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t frustrated.________ I wasn’t bringing home gold starred medals, either.

At the awards banquet, I sat by my best friend, ________ all through the meal. But Mom looked like still expecting bad news. The further we got into dinner, the ________ she became. All the subject awards were given out, but “Rebecca” was still not called. I caught my mom’s________ . She was near tears.

The over-all achievement medals were given out last. Mom’s head ________in her hand. She________over to me “I tell you what. Let’s go get some ice cream and forget this whole thing. Sweetheart.” Seconds later, “Overall achievement for first grade—Rebecca!” I________   heard my name because I was thinking about ice cream. Later I returned with my medal, still not understanding its ________ I had outperformed every first-grader at my school that year, and I was smart! I asked, “Can I still have ice cream?” My mom nodded, crying and laughing at the same time.

【1】

A．bad

B．welcome

C．latest

D．incredible

【2】

A．joke

B．mistake

C．promise

D．trap

【3】

A．pain

B．courage

C．perseverance

D．eagerness

【4】

A．ended up

B．added to

C．gave up

D．thought of

【5】

A．wrong

B．natural

C．remarkable

D．risky

【6】

A．motivated

B．interrupted

C．embarrassed

D．entertained

【7】

A．expectation

B．concern

C．hesitation

D．responsibility

【8】

A．free

B．hard

C．early

D．fine

【9】

A．academic

B．mental

C．behavioral

D．technical

【10】

A．targeted at

B．fitted in

C．stood out

D．started with

【11】

A．boasted

B．hated

C．reported

D．enjoyed

【12】

A．struggling

B．surviving

C．declining

D．promising

【13】

A．So

B．Because

C．But

D．If

【14】

A．arguing

B．laughing

C．confused

D．saddened

【15】

A．hungrier

B．happier

C．quieter

D．calmer

【16】

A．attention

B．interest

C．face

D．breath

【17】

A．remained

B．rose

C．nodded

D．rested

【18】

A．greeted

B．handed

C．sighed

D．whispered

【19】

A．clearly

B．frequently

C．barely

D．eventually

【20】

A．intention

B．wisdom

C．significance

D．impression

26、假设你是李华，作为选派的交流学生在美国某中学学习了一年，寄住在Mr. Brown家里，刚回到国内。回国后，你发现自己的一本英语词典遗忘在他家，因此给他写了一封信，请他帮助寄回词典。信的主要内容如下：

  感谢在美国期间他所提供的帮助

  一本英语词典忘记带回

  词典是美国老师送的，非常珍贵

  词典很可能丢在卧室的书架上

  邮资自己付

  注意：

  1、词数100左右；信的开头和结尾已为你写好。

  2、可适当增加细节，使行文连贯

  2、参考词汇：邮资postage

Dear Mr. Brown，

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Yours

Li Hua