秦皇岛2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、I have no desire other than to lead a quiet life, ______ from anxiety.

A. absent   B. separate

C. free   D. short

2、 At present, many new workers ________ and in six months they will be sent to build a new railway.

A. are being trained B. are training

C. will train   D. will be trained

3、Never for a second in our life _______ the importance of keeping our family company.

A. had we forgotten   B. we have forgotten

C. we should forget   D. should we forget

4、She is in a poor _____ of health, which worries her mother much.

A. state   B. situation

C. position   D. condition

5、It still remains a mystery why some people are ______ certain flower fragrance while others are not.

A.allergic to B.typical of C.senior to D.aimed at

6、Don't you think it is time you ______ the plan?It is_______ the managers wanted to see________ soon.

A.set out discussing; that ;to be carried out

B.should set about discussing; that ; to carry out

C.should set out to discuss ;what; to be carried out

D.set about discussing, what; carried out

7、Our class ________ 52 students is ________ into four groups.

A．consists of; divided

B．consisting of; divided

C．consists of; separating

D．consisting of; separated

8、My English teacher, who is strict ________ us, contributes some articles ________ the newspaper every month.

A．with; to

B．with; for

C．in; to

D．in; for

9、One's _______ of literature largely depends on one's level of art.

A.assumption B.application C.appreciation D.advocation

10、The poor man, ________ , ran out of the dark cave.

A．trembling and frightening

B．trembled and frightened

C．trembled and frightening

D．trembling and frightened

11、I always believe that a good mother can _____ her children to do anything right.

A.trust B.believe C.trouble D.true

12、She seemed to be very tired, but if she could ______ for more than 5 minutes, she could break the record in the long-distance race.

A. take on   B. hang on

C. work on   D. depend on

13、 It is a widely held belief____honesty and integrity (正直) are the qualities ____ a leader should be made of.

A．that; that

B．that; what

C．which; what

D．what; that

14、—What are you going to do this afternoon?

—I ________ my room.

A．clean

B．cleaned

C．have cleaned

D．am going to clean

15、A new exhibition on _______ art is on from 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

A．distinct

B．abstract

C．embarrassed

D．worthy

16、Which of the following can best describe Qian Xuesen?

A．Humorous and devoted.

B．Patriotic and knowledgeable.

C．Strong-willed and cautious.

D．Outstanding and proud.

17、—Have you watched the movie called Amazing China?

—Sure, I have. _________great achievements our country has made!

A．What a

B．What an

C．What

D．How

18、More and more cancer patients _________ in hospital owing to polluted environment and people’s bad lifestyles.

A. treated   B. have treated

C. have been treated   D. had been treated

19、With more forests _______, a huge quantity of good earth _______ every year.

A．being destroyed; is being washed away

B．are being destroyed; is being washed away

C．being destroyed; are being washed away

D．destroyed; are being washed away

20、—Have you got everything ready for the meeting?

—Not yet, we need _________.

A．three another chair

B．other three chairs

C．another three chairs

D．more three chairs

21、—What do you think of Jeremy Shu-How Lin’s overnight success?

—I think it is not good luck but hard work _____ has made him what he is today.

A. that   B. which

C. when   D. where

22、He ______ we should study hard with the final exam approaching.

A．reflects

B．urges

C．weeds

D．adjusts

23、The book which is ________ 100 yuan is not worth ________.

A. cost; buying      B. worth; to be bought

C. worth; buying     D. paid; buying

24、Doctors are doing research to find out what happens physically when people______ smoking.

A．quit   B．decline   C．prevent   D．reserve

25、----Do you live in the neighborhood near Nanjing Road?

----No. I ________ there these days to visit my uncle.

A. have stayed   B. would stay   C. had stayed   D. am staying

26、Uncle Tom gave little Vicki Black a birthday gift one week before her birthday. He told her not to open it until her birthday. She knew her mother wouldn't tolerate any disrespect to the kind man who helped them out after Vicki's father passed away. Besides, Vicki didn't want to get Uncle Tom angry. But little Vicki didn't want to just hold it and guess what was in it. After all, she looked forward to his coming to show her interesting things, like how to turn an old sock into a doll.

All the day, Vicki couldn't stop thinking about the gift. While her teacher was giving a lecture, Vicki sat still in her seat, drawing paper dolls inside the box. When school was done, she raced home. Walking into the room, again, she shook the present, but she heard nothing. Holding her breath, she opened the box and looked inside. Seconds later, she cried. When Mrs Black saw the box, she said angrily, "Didn't I tell you to leave it alone?"

Vicki sobbed (抽泣) and said, "Mommy, you don't understand."

"Don't cry to me. You have missed everything now, just because you couldn't wait," Mrs Black accused. "What will Uncle Tom think now?"

"Uncle Tom gave me nothing," Vicki cried and handed the empty box to her mother. "He played a trick on me."

Mrs Black said doubtfully, "Uncle Tom is not like that. You must have dropped it."

Vicki kept crying. Only a rapid knock on the door made the house quiet. It was Uncle Tom. He looked at the empty box. "You have already done it? I told you to wait for your birthday."

"You didn't give me a gift." Fresh tears filled her eyes.

"I try to give you something. I know your birthday is a special day. I tell myself to give you something valuable to last your whole life. I think hard and get an idea to give you an important lesson. If you open it on birthday, I see you learn. Then I will make a big party to celebrate, Maybe next year you listen, and then you will understand the gift better."

Vicki's cheeks flushed (发红).

【1】We can learn from the text that Vicki .

A. often received gifts from her father

B. expected Uncle Tom to give her something expensive

C. was sad because of her father’s death

D. liked and respected Uncle Tom

【2】What kink of person is Uncle Tom?

A. Thoughtful B. Humorous C. Mysterious D. Funny

【3】What did Uncle Tom want to teach Vicki?

A. How to respect others

B. The meaning of gifts

C. How to deal with gifts

D. The value of a promise

27、Studies have suggested that about one-fourth of people in the world suffer from some kind of mental illness related to anxiety. Worrying is a feeling of showing major concern or anxiety about the situations at present or in the future. Constant worrying can actually have a negative effect on a person’s life. 【1】

Make every effort to distance yourselves from people who look at everything in the most negative way, especially they are your friends, family or even co-workers. 【2】 It will increase your confidence and help you reduce your worries.

Keeping a worry journal allows you to write about the anxieties in your mind freely. Not only is the journal a great way of expressing strong feelings, ideas or energy but it is the best way to deal with difficult problems, concerns, and many strong feelings you may be having.

【3】 Your loved ones can easily provide you with extremely good advice and support. Moreover, as a long-term worrier, you may consider getting help from a professional.

Mindfulness can make people focus on their surroundings and what they are feeling without any interruptions in the moment. 【4】 Because it helps us to know exactly when we start to get anxious and focus on what could be the cause of their fears or disturbances.

There are many other different effective techniques that can be used to calm down your mind, from taking a deep breath, trying to end a disagreement by discussion, or even listening to music. 【5】

A．Choose to be in the company of positive people.

B．Happiness is when your life satisfies your own needs.

C．Take a look at the great methods to help you stop worrying.

D．There are a million different experiences that might lead to anxiety.

E．You can even experiment with different methods to help you find the best way.

F．Practicing mindfulness can certainly help the mind and body relax and reduce stress.

G．Sharing your thoughts and concerns with a trusted friend or family members may give you the relief.

28、   If you watched TV in the 1980s, you probably remember the Head &Shoulders advertisement warning, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”

Now new research suggests that this isn’t totally true. For a paper called “The Tipping Point of Moral Change: When Do Good and Bad Acts Make Good and Bad Actors? “ published in Social Cognition, Nadav Klein and Ed O’ Brien, psychological scientists at the University of Chicago, ran several experiments designed to discover how quickly people are willing to change impressions.

In one online study of 201 participants, an office worker known as “Barbara” started off, but occasionally committed (做) a series of positive or negative actions. Sometimes she held doors for people. Other times she would cut in line. Subjects answered how long such behavior had to go on for their view of Barbara to tip in various directions.

The result? Barbara had to do nice things for more weeks to become regarded as a good person than the number of weeks she had to do bad things to become bad. Another online experiment involving 200 female participants also found that people were quick to judge when Barbara was doing wrong and much slower to believe she’d changed for the better.

“People only need to commit just a few bad actions to appear greatly changed for the worse, but need to commit many good actions to appear greatly changed for the better,” the authors write.

If you’ve made a good first impression on a group of people, don’t get too comfortable. Flub something, and they’ll quickly change their impression for the worse. But if you made a bad first impression? Then the Head & Shoulders advertisement is on to something because, as Heather Huhman, president of Come Recommended, puts it, “People are always quick to judge, and we like our opinions-we don’t like to change our minds.”

“It is difficult to change a bad first impression, but not impossible. Don’t try to force new relationships. Let relationships develop naturally and don’t do things just to make people like you. Be yourself, “ Huhman advises.

【1】What did the Head & Shoulders advertisement show?

A.First impressions are lasting.

B.First impressions are not reliable.

C.First impressions can work wonders.

D.First impressions are the most natural.

【2】What are the findings of the studies?

A.People are quick to judge.

B.It takes more time to become bad.

C.It’s hard to change bad impressions.

D.People always focus on bad actions.

【3】What does the underlined part “Flub something” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A.Show something. B.Do something bad.

C.Try something new. D.Keep on doing something.

【4】What’s Huhman’s advice?

A.Be the real you. B.Make people like you.

C.Create a good impression. D.Ignore people’s judgements.

29、   The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness, which is probably why there are more myths(神话) about it than any of the other illnesses.

The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected(感染的) people from the outside world by way of packages and mails dropped from airplanes.

At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be doused(浸入) with cold water, and then stood about dripping（滴干 ）wet in drafty（通风的） rooms. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion．Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

If cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? In spite of the most painstaking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms.

【1】The fact that the Eskimos don’t suffer colds shows that .

A.colds are really full of myths.

B.viruses are the factors causing colds.

C.colds are more severe than other illnesses.

D.the idea that cold leads to colds doesn’t stand up.

【2】The experiments mentioned in Paragraph 3 made it clear that   .

A.being doused with cold water did harm to one’s body.

B.taking hot baths made the volunteers easy to be tired.

C.it was viruses not wet and cold that made people have colds.

D.people who would like to exercise in the rain got colds more easily.

【3】According to the passage, colds are commonly seen in winter because   .

A.there is great difference between indoor and outdoor temperature.

B.viruses can go into people’s warm bodies more easily in winter.

C.staying together indoors makes it easier for viruses to pass on.

D.people are usually weak because of the extreme cold in winter.

30、I arrived late in Thessaloniki after my flight was delayed (延迟) over three hours. _______, my Airbnb hostess still picked me up from the _______ and made the 40-minute _______ to her place. We got there at around 11 pm!

Sadly, I realized I had almost reached my _______limit. I decided that I wouldn’t be spending any money on dinner that night. _______, I’d choose a budget-friendly breakfast the next day.

Upon hearing this, the mother of the lady running the Airbnb gave me a _______, said something in Greek, laughed, and left. I _______this was a goodnight embrace (拥抱) and I prepared to go to bed.

A little bit later the older lady _______, with a big plate of cheese, boiled eggs, and salad. She wouldn’t allow me to go to bed _______a late-night dinner. I was totally ________by this kind gesture towards a stranger (me).

The meal was delicious, and ________I tried to offer the lady money as a thank-you for her ________, she refused. All the worries of the day disappeared and I went to bed smiling and with a(n) ________stomach.

When I was leaving the next morning, I left 20 euros and a thank-you note, and I ________them to make sure they would be found after I left.

This hospitable (好客的) Greek family fed a hungry stranger and really ________my time in Greece. I loved everything Thessaloniki had to offer in the way of history, culture, and natural beauty.

【1】

A．Luckily

B．Strangely

C．Eventually

D．Hopefully

【2】

A．station

B．harbor

C．airport

D．border

【3】

A．walk

B．drive

C．cycling

D．race

【4】

A．age

B．speed

C．time

D．budget

【5】

A．Anyway

B．Instead

C．Otherwise

D．Thus

【6】

A．smile

B．hug

C．warning

D．signal

【7】

A．expected

B．admitted

C．discovered

D．assumed

【8】

A．left

B．escaped

C．returned

D．followed

【9】

A．after

B．beyond

C．despite

D．without

【10】

A．surprised

B．annoyed

C．confused

D．disappointed

【11】

A．unless

B．since

C．although

D．if

【12】

A．politeness

B．encouragement

C．patience

D．generosity

【13】

A．painful

B．full

C．upset

D．strong

【14】

A．hid

B．kept

C．changed

D．replaced

【15】

A．wasted

B．occupied

C．made

D．limited

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