2025-2026学年安徽宿州高二(上)期末试卷英语

1、All over the city, history and modernity come together to make _______ an essential place for tourists to discover.

A. each   B. this   C. one   D. it

2、The mail was   for two days because of the heavy snows.

A.held out B.held up C.held back D.held onto

3、Tell the children ________ there ________ make so much noise.

A．plays, don’t

B．playing, not to

C．played, not to

D．to play, don’t

4、The boy’s dream was to have his own laboratory ________ to try out some of his own ideas.

A． from which   B． in which

C． by which   D． at which

5、—________ is it from the train station to your home?  — About twenty minutes’ drive.

A.How many B.How much C.How far D.How long

6、Only when he returned home ______ what had happened.

A. did he realize

B. he realized

C. he did realize

D. has he realized

7、In the face of failure in exams, what we need to do is to ______ our learning methods and make some possible adjustments.

A．pass down

B．look on

C．comment on

D．reflect on

8、Science and technology have ______ in important ways to the improvement of agricultural production.

A.attached B.assisted C.contributed D.committed

9、—I’m still working on my project.

—Oh, you’ll miss the deadline. Time is ________.

A. turning out   B. going out

C. running out   D. picking out

10、She is one of the girls in our class who ______ for the coming sports meeting now.

A．is being trained

B．are trained

C．is training

D．are being trained

11、Artificial Intelligence   as an academic in 1956 has developed rapidly in the world.

A. founding   B. to found

C. founded   D. having founded

12、The well of the village extended hundreds of feet in _______ .

A．deep

B．deeply

C．deepen

D．depth

13、Look, ___beautiful flowers the girl ___carrying that she becomes the focus in the room.

A. such; is  B. so; are  C. how; is  D. what; are

14、— I feel terrible. I didn’t do well in the math test.

— _______. You’re already making progress and will surely learn it well.

A. Don’t dream away your time   B. Don’t take things for granted

C. Don’t put the cart before the horse   D. Don’t take it too hard

15、—Have you moved into the new house?

—Not yet. It ________.

A．has been built

B．was built

C．is being built

D．had been built

16、Students surf the internet _______ more information about the university they are dreamt of.

A. found   B. finding

C. having found   D. to find

17、Peter’ shirt looked just the same as Tom’s，but it cost ______ his．

A． as much twice as B． twice as much as

C． much as twice as D． as twice much as

18、You should keep in mind ________ you should behave while travelling abroad.

A. that    B. what    C. how        D. where

19、He was sentenced to death ______ what he has stolen from the bank.

A．that

B．since

C．because

D．because of

20、 --- Jack， you look so great！

--- Thanks! I have lost 20 pounds since I ______ my personal trainer six months ago．

A． hired   B． have hired

C． hire     D． had hired

21、D

   Many years ago, I went through a tough time. One afternoon, I picked my girls up. It was late when we returned home. I went to unlock the door and found my key wouldn’t go in. I kept trying while my daughter went to get a flashlight. When she returned with it we found somehow the lock had been “stuffed” with sunflower seed shells. Thinking that one of the neighborhood children had been up to no good, I really didn’t give it much consideration.

 I found all windows were locked up tight. So I returned to the back door. Oh my God, I will never forget the shock of that moment. The house was empty! Other than a few things remaining on the back porch, everything was gone! Then I heard a car pull into the driveway and found two policemen walking up. They inquired why I had broken into the house. They then asked me for proof that I lived at that address, so I asked them to wait a minute while I went to get my rent receipt and identification from inside the house. I explained the matter to them and showed them the door lock.

   At this point they were not buying any of my story. I could tell from their actions and tone of voice that they thought I was breaking into an empty house for somewhere to sleep.

   I asked a neighbor for the phone number of house owner and the officer made a call. The owner was quite shocked to hear my story. She said that my roommate had been going through an eviction(驱逐) process with the court when I moved in with her and had lost the case. She had been ordered to move by 10 am on that date. The court order had been issued the same day I had paid her 1/2 of the rent and a deposit of $300,000.

   The owner was very kind and understanding but there was nothing she could do. The house had been rented already and the people were to move in the following weekend.

    The officers let me go and I went to gather my girls into the car. They were both exhausted and old. Also very frightened, because they thought their mamma was going to jail. I had to pull over because the tears took control. I couldn’t believe it! Everything we owned was gone, I had used up all our money moving in and paying my “friend” our share of costs. I knew very few people in town, as we had just moved there recently.

 I went to sit back in the car with the girls, I talked to the girls, explaining our situation to them so that they wouldn’t be afraid. During this time there was a “street person” with a bag, looking in the garbage for cans, bottles, and anything that might bring him some cash. But I didn’t pay much attention to him. I decided to get the girls something to eat for breakfast. We grabbed some bread, and chips and returned for a “picnic”. When we got there, I noticed that the man was not alone. He was with a small group of others like him and they were passing a hat amongst themselves.

 I was busy setting up our little “picnic” when I heard a voice saying, “MaAm, please excuse… but…well…I overheard the situation you are in, and well… I and the fellows took up a collection for you and your little girls. It’s not very much, but maybe it’ll help a little.” I looked up at this man---dirty, needing a shave ----and saw the face of an angel. I started crying. The man tried to hand me $30. I folded his hand back over the money and just hugged him as tight as I could. I told him, “Thank you for your more than generous offer, but we are going to be just fine.” He didn’t believe me at first, but I convinced him that it was okay.

   Later that afternoon I went to the market and bought the making for a barbecue and off to that little park. It didn’t take us very long to find those gentlemen and invite them to join us for lunch. I had a wonderful afternoon that day, sitting there with those old guys, singing songs. They had some of the most entertaining stories and they shared the dreams they once had. They shared themselves… from the heart.

【1】The writer couldn’t open the door because ________

A. she didn’t have the right key

B. there was something else in the lock

C. someone had changed the lock

D. the owner of the house refused her living there

【2】How did the writer come into the house?

A. She came in with the help of the policemen.

B. She came in by breaking the glass.

C. She came in with the help of a flashlight.

D. She came in from the back door.

【3】When the writer came into her house, she must feel _____

A. excited   B. confused

C. shocked   D. frustrated

【4】The writer was not allowed to stay at the house because ____

A. she was cheated by her roommate and the house had been rented to others

B. the house owner was angry about her breaking the glass of the house.

C. she hadn’t paid her share of rent.

D. she was ordered to move out by the court

【5】The underlined sentence “At this point they were not buying any of my story” may mean

A. the policemen didn’t have enough money

B. the policemen didn’t believe the writer’s words

C. the policemen helped the writer to break the window

D. the policemen wanted to get rent receipt

【6】Which of the following is WRONG according to the passage?

A. The street person was poor and didn’t dress well

B. The writer accepted the money the street person gave her

C. The street person didn’t know the writer before

D. The writer got along well with the street person and his fellows

22、Is that “empathy”（移情） or “sympathy” you’re showing? While the two words are often incorrectly used interchangeably, the difference in their emotional impact is important.

Empathy, literally “walk a mile in others’ shoes”, goes beyond sympathy, a simple expression of concern for another person’s misfortune. Empathy requires the ability to recognize the suffering of another person from their point of view and to openly share their emotions, including painful distress. Since it requires shared experiences, people can generally feel empathy only for other people, not for animals. While people may be able to sympathize with a horse, for example, they cannot truly empathize with it.

Sympathy is a feeling and expression of concern for someone, often accompanied by a wish for them to be happier or better off. “Oh dear, I hope the new plan can really work.” In general, sympathy implies a deeper, more personal, level of concern than pity, a simple expression of sorrow. However, unlike empathy, sympathy does not imply that one’s feelings for another are based on shared experiences or emotions.

Psychologists say that empathy is essential in forming relationships and acting toward others. Since it involves experiencing another person’s point of view — stepping outside one’s self —empathy enables genuinely helping behaviors that come easily and naturally, rather than having to be forced.

Empathetic people work effectively in groups, make more lasting friendships, and are more likely to step in when they see others being mistreated. It is believed that people begin to show empathy in infancy and develop the quality through childhood and adolescence. Despite their level of concern for others, however, most people tend to feel deeper empathy for people similar to themselves compared to people outside their family, community, race, or cultural background.

However, taken to extremes, deep or extended feelings of empathy can actually be harmful to one’s emotional health. Empathy can make people angry — perhaps dangerously so — if they mistakenly perceive that another person is threatening a person they care for.

For years, psychologists have reported cases of too empathetic patients endangering the well-being of themselves and their families by giving away their life savings to random needy individuals. Such too empathetic people who feel they are somehow responsible for the distress of others have developed an empathy-based guilt.

【1】What does the phrase “walk a mile in others’ shoes” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Put oneself in others’ situation.

B．Walk a long distance in others’ shoes.

C．Accompany others in the long jogging.

D．Walk with others to share their experiences.

【2】How do you understand the level of concern according to Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3?

A．Pity = sympathy.

B．Sympathy = empathy.

C．Pity ＜ sympathy.

D．Sympathy ＞ empathy.

【3】Which of the following statements about empathy is true?

A．Empathy is a feeling that exists between human beings and animals.

B．Empathy is essential to form relationship, so the deeper, the better.

C．Empathy is to just express sadness to other without shared experiences.

D．People are more likely to show empathy to those who have something in common.

【4】What is the best title of the passage?

A．Empathy, Good or Bad?

B．Two Important Human Feelings.

C．Empathy vs. Sympathy.

D．Empathy, A Must in Relationship.

23、A nervous 11-year-old called Anthony showed up at Peter Mutabazi’s doorstep around 3 a.m., wearing blue sleepwear and a gray Batman blanket over his shoulders. Having been abandoned at a hospital by his adopted parents and desperately needing a place to stay for the weekend, he carried a bag holding a sweater, a pair of sneakers and not much else.

It was January 2017. Mutabazi wasn’t ready to take in more kids—he had just said goodbye to two foster(寄养的) brothers and needed time to regroup. Then he remembered what it was like to feel scared, alone and unwanted. As a boy, he fled from his home where his parents abused him and lived on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, before a stranger paid his high school tuition(学费), leading to a college scholarship and an eventual move to the US.

Within minutes of his arrival, Anthony asked Mutabazi if he could call him dad. The boy, who had been in the foster care system since he was a little kid, never left Mutabazi’s house that weekend as planned. Mutabazi adopted him and gave him his last name.

Last month, Mutabazi formally adopted two more children: brothers who had lived with him for three years. Mark, 8, is the new boss of the house while Luke, 7, is a shy boy with a sweet smile. Their family is an unconventional one—he is Black, and his adopted kids are White—but Mutabazi, 49, believes that love transcends racial differences.

Since becoming a foster father in 2016, he has hosted about three dozen kids of all races and cultures. Some of his foster children are reunited with their families, while others remain in his care. Mutabazi shares glimpses of his life as a foster dad with his 328, 000 followers on Instagram to encourage other men to be active fathers and signal that a healthy family is based on love, not skin color.

【1】Why did Anthony show up at Peter Mutabazi’s doorstep?

A．He hoped to help Mutabazi.

B．He begged for more sneakers.

C．He fled from a hospital secretly.

D．He wanted Mutabazi to adopt him.

【2】What happened to Mutabazi when he was young?

A．He was abused by his brother.

B．He was brought to the US by his parents.

C．He was sponsored by a stranger for education.

D．He loved playing on the streets of Kampala, Uganda.

【3】What does the underlined word “transcends” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Goes beyond.

B．Walks through.

C．Runs after.

D．Takes off.

【4】What does the author want to convey in the text?

A．Hard work pays off.

B．Love really makes a difference.

C．Education is a key to success.

D．The roses in her hand, the flavor in mine.

24、Social distancing is nothing new to honey bees. When a colony is infected with the deadly Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), bees are less likely to touch or feed their sick nest mates, according to a new study.

Not much is known about how bees act when infected with viruses. Adam Dolezal, an insect physiologist at the University of Illinois, who studies IAPV, teamed up with a computer scientist Tim Gernat, who had developed an automated system to monitor bee behavior. They identified a behavior called trophallaxis, in which honey bees feed their fellow workers by regurgitating (反刍) food from their bodies.

They put infected bees into their colony. After 5 days of recording, the team found that heathy bees were avoiding contact with the infected bees. The findings show how bee behavior in a real colony can prevent an infection.

But the virus appears to have an alarming counterattack (反攻): When sick bees try to enter a new colony, they do a better job of getting past the guards than uninfected bees. That has led the scientists to predict that the virus has developed a way to spread to new colonies.

Bee colonies are usually guarded by bees to keep foreigners out. Guards use their special organs in the head to detect a collection of chemical signals on the outside of their bees, which is used to identify them as members of the colony or foreigners.

As for why IAPV is so successful at tricking the guards, it might be that it changes the number of various chemical signals, which differed between the sick and healthy groups. This makes the guards more likely to misjudge and accept the infected bees. The sick bees were also gentler when challenged by guards and more likely to offer them food, and those behaviors may also help them spread the disease.

IAPV isn’t the only pathogen (病原体) bees can bring. If IAPV helps other pathogens spread, that could be a big problem for commercial beekeepers who pack colonies together for efficiency. “There’s very little you can do if you suspect a virus infection,” Dolezal says. Instead, they have got to increase the space between colonies.

【1】What’s true about the colony with infected bees?

A．Sick bees don’t feed healthy bees.

B．Infected bees were less likely to be fed.

C．IAPV made sick bees unable to share food.

D．Infected bees practiced distancing willingly.

【2】What has puzzled scientists according to the fourth paragraph?

A．The impacts of IAPV on colonies.

B．The connections between colonies.

C．The safe social distancing between bees.

D．IAPV’s ability to spread among colonies.

【3】What is the last but one paragraph mainly about?

A．How sick bees infect other bees.

B．How the virus confuses guard bees.

C．How sick bees get accepted by others.

D．How guard bees defend their colonies.

【4】What can we infer from the text?

A．IAPV controls bee behavior within a colony.

B．Bees first learned social distancing due to IAPV.

C．Distancing of colonies is needed to protect bees.

D．Beekeepers should learn to recognize infected bees.

25、Koch began her second year as a first grade teacher in a virtual（网络虚拟的）classroom at an elementary school in Michigan in 2020. One September afternoon a few weeks into the school year, she received a ________ from Susan, who was having technical difficulties with her granddaughter’s tools for ________ learning.

Koch immediately knew ________ was wrong with Susan. The two women had spoken many times before, but Koch had never ________ the grandmother sound quite like this. Her words were so jumbled（混乱的）that Koch could ________ understand her, though she was able to ________ that Susan had fallen four times that day. Koch ________ her principal, John, who assured her that he would call and check on Susan himself.

Just like Koch, John could barely understand Susan. He ________ she might be having a stroke（中风）—he recognized the ________ from when his own father had suffered one. John was able to distinguish the word kids and ________ became concerned that Susan’s two ________, ages six and eight, were probably home alone with her. John asked his office manager to send a(n) ________ to the grandmother’s home. Then John called two deans in the school district to tell them what was going on. Both of them ________ everything and drove to the family’s ho me.

When they ________ less than ten minutes later, the EMTs were treating Susan while the two girls, looking ________ shaken, were outside with a neighbour. The quick response from Koch and John ________ Susan’s life. She arrived at the hospital in time to get ________.

“If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be here,” said Susan from her hospital bed about a month ________ her stroke. “I’m proud of the people I work with, that they responded so quickly and that it did ________ for Susan,” says Koch. “I am so pleased to be part of such a ________ community.”

【1】

A．call

B．letter

C．word

D．gift

【2】

A．offline

B．classroom

C．online

D．reality

【3】

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

【4】

A．predicted

B．heard

C．knew

D．examined

【5】

A．casually

B．hardly

C．simply

D．obviously

【6】

A．break out

B．stand out

C．turn out

D．make out

【7】

A．warned

B．threatened

C．contacted

D．demanded

【8】

A．concluded

B．spotted

C．advocated

D．suspected

【9】

A．signs

B．sighs

C．signals

D．sights

【10】

A．constantly

B．apparently

C．immediately

D．consequently

【11】

A．grandchildren

B．children

C．nephews

D．nieces

【12】

A．car

B．ambulance

C．truck

D．lorry

【13】

A．carried

B．distributed

C．dropped

D．threw

【14】

A．showed off

B．pulled up

C．put up

D．gave in

【15】

A．merely

B．temporarily

C．permanently

D．visibly

【16】

A．built

B．changed

C．rescued

D．recited

【17】

A．trial

B．reward

C．recovery

D．treatment

【18】

A．after

B．before

C．until

D．as

【19】

A．make no difference

B．make a difference

C．make a mistake

D．make a choice

【20】

A．typical

B．awkward

C．caring

D．disturbing

26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Much time and effort has been devoted to researching the mental health benefits of flexible work environments, but can the ability to leave work early to watch your son’s soccer game, or arrive at the office a bit later in the morning in order to see to some personal matters, have physical health benefits besides making you feel a bit relaxed?

According to new research published in the Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews, it seems so. In a review of 10 previous studies examining the health effects of unfixed work conditions for more than 16,000 people, researchers from the U.K.. Durham University and University of Newcastle, as well as the University of Montreal, found that flexible work schedules, for instance, when employees can shift their starting times, were associated with improvements in a person’s overall health. In addition, perhaps, unsurprisingly, in all of the studies included in the review, researchers found no evidence for negative effects of more flexible work schedules.

This initial analysis was intended to throw light on the potential health benefits of flexible work options, which are increasingly popular throughout Scandinavia, and have recently gained some ground in the U.K. For example, last April, the British government implemented a policy that allowed parents of children aged six and under to request flexible work arrangements to include parents of children aged 16 and younger. In the U.S., the phenomenon is a bit slower to catch on. Yet, the economic slowdown of recent years may have contributed to growth in workplace flexibility—as companies unable to reward employees with bonuses or raises may turn to other forms of compensation, Reuters reported early last year.

Original analysis too, of course, indicated the benefits of flexible work environments toward positive mental health outcomes. And while these latest findings are promising, the researchers stress that more study is vital to understanding the detailed relationship between flexible work and improved health outcomes. To truly grasp the benefits of flexible working conditions, the researchers say, additional study analyzing health outcomes among a wide range of workers—from high-ranking executives to hourly employees – is critical, which helps to gain a deeper understanding of the issue, and to shape future workplace policy.