资阳2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Much time _____ siting at a desk, office clerks are generally troubled by various health  problems.

A. being spent B. having spent

C. spending   D. spent

2、— I’d like to buy the new style of computer here, would you please tell me something more about your product?

---_______________.

A. Thank you   B. At your service

C. You are welcome   D. It’s a pleasure

3、His well-paid job   five thousand dollars a month for his family.

A.brings up B.brings in C.brings down D.brings out

4、— Why did you put the wood near the fire? It’s dangerous!

— Don’t worry. Wet wood won’t  easily.

A. burn   B. burnt   C. be burnt   D. be burning

5、 —Will you come over to Beijing next summer?

—I’d like to, but my family ______ London that summer.

A. are visiting  B. are to visit

C. will be visiting  D. will visit

6、—I’m thinking of going back to school to get another degree.

—Sounds great! ______.

A．How come

B．Go for it

C．Never mind

D．No wonder

7、Digital teaching has ______ our way of learning and excited us to focus in class.

A. guaranteed B. revealed

C. evaluated   D. transformed

8、--Thank you very much for everything．You've been so helpful．

--- . Just let me know if there is anything else I can do for you．

A．My pleasure   B．With pleasure

C．Never mind D．Please don't say so

9、The driver was at ___ loss when ____word came that he was forbidden to drive for speeding.

A. a; /   B. a; the

C. the; the   D. /; /

10、 ---What do you think of the film 2012?

---Well, it’s good. At least it’s ________ the one I saw last time with Jean.

A. as bad as B. not as good as

C. no worse than   D. not better than

11、The environmentalists said wild goats’ _______ on the vast grassland was a good indication of the better environment.

A.escape B.absence C.attendance D.appearance

12、 Luo Jiahui, ____ typical Asian American, was elected governor of the State of Washington in 1996, the first to win ____ honor.

A. a ; an B. the ; an C. the ; the D. a ; the

13、—Will you attend the meeting this afternoon？

—But I ________ told anything about it．

A. haven't been   B. am not

C. wasn't   D. won’t be

14、Although repetition helps memory, psychologists doubt ________ it helps long-term memory.

A.why B.how C.whether D.what

15、I usually sleep with the window open ________ it is really cold.

A. if    B. unless    C. now that        D. in case

16、What a pity! I missed meeting my boss at the airport because my car was _________in the traffic jam.

A.broken up B.kept back C.held up D.kept up

17、Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was an influential person globally, ________ devoted to helping those suffering from poverty.

A.one B.one who C.that D.who

18、This unjust _______ of people on the basis of skin color was challenged.

A.determination B.adaptation C.separation D.submission

19、_____ he is enthusiastic and qualified for the job, I see no reason to remove him from office.

A. Provided that   B. Even though

C. Unless   D. As if

20、You are fortunate enough to escape ______ for drunk driving, but don’t drink again.

A.fining B.fined C.to be fined D.being fined

21、Everyone has one or the other talent. It’s up to you to identify and admire the talent of the people around you. Bringing out the best in others can gradually change the world.【1】

With patience, you can gradually find the admirable characteristics of people around you.

The nature of giving is a good way to find out the good qualities in others. Being kind doesn’t just mean helping anyone financially. You can assist them with your advice, talent and so on.

【2】During this process, you will know how they deal with their problems in life yet don’t give up.

Talent adopts several forms and it puts people in a few extraordinary circumstances. Thus, you need to be flexible to discover good qualities in others. Some people you come across may have different attitudes towards life from you. 【3】

Nobody is perfect and everyone has some or other shortcomings. However, shortcomings are useful to you.【4】Start by first realizing the shortcomings in others and in this process, you can easily find out the good qualities they already have.

【5】One of the finest ways to discover good characteristics in others is to ask them something about their success and failure. The more you develop curiosity, the more you will know about a person.

A．To spot talent in others, you need to be in the present.

B．Develop an interest in others to explore the good in them.

C．For that, you need to learn to explore good qualities in others.

D．After discovering the good in others, you bring out the best in yourself.

E．Knowing the weaknesses in others is a great way to find the good in them.

F．When you help a person, you will know what difficulty the person is facing.

G．Your biggest challenge is to put aside your own mind and see the light in them.

22、One of the big knocks against solar panels (太阳能电板) is how much land they take up compared to how much power they produce. But what if there were a ready-made source of open land nearby to cities and towns that were guaranteed not to be used for anything else?

As it turns out, landfills (垃圾填埋场) are built into solar farms all over the country. While they present a bigger challenge than building one on flat ground, the idea of turning landfills and brownfields from their waste state into a new service for the community is deeply appealing.

For example, Nexamp’s Solar Star Urbana Landfill community solar farm occupies nearly 40 acres on a landfill. It features nearly 14,000 solar panels and produces 5.2 megawatts of clean energy for low and middle income residents (居民), who receive discounts on their energy bill if they sign up to take on the solar energy. Annapolis Maryland has one too-55,000 panels on an 80-acre landfill, producing power for 2,500 people.

It isn’t the easiest thing to build a solar farm on a landfill. For one thing, the traditional method of securing the panels on concrete struts (支柱) buried in the ground is out of the question, as it would break the cap on the landfill. This also currently puts a landfill solar panel out of the reach of current technologies that allow the movement of the panels to follow along the sun.

However there are also aspects which are easier, for example there are usually communities that live nearby landfills, and the local cheap power access can help save them money. Furthermore, there’s no risk of facing high land prices.

There are more than 10,000 closed or capped landfills around the country, and perhaps as many as 4,000 of them could be turned into solar farms immediately.

【1】How do residents benefit from taking on the solar energy?

A．They pay less for the energy bill.

B．Their land is paid for higher prices.

C．The energy they use is much cleaner.

D．They receive more energy than promised.

【2】What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．The disadvantages of a traditional method.

B．The slow progress of current technologies.

C．The potential danger brought by solar energy.

D．The technical challenges of building a solar farm.

【3】What’s the author’s attitude towards building landfill solar farms?

A．Critical.

B．Ambiguous.

C．Favorable.

D．Objective.

23、   Cetaceans(鲸目动物) communicate through sound to find food and to interact socially. Their sounds vary between species and within communities. The long-finned pilot whales can mimic (模仿) artificial noise, but nobody had previously recorded them. A new study, however, found overlap in the cetacean sound book.

Pilot whales and orcas(虎鲸)，the two largest species of cetaceans, are often seen in the same environments and are similar sizes, and both live in social groups with strong union, says Charlotte Cure, a researcher at CEREMA Lab in France, who was not involved in the study. Orcas compete for food with long-finned pilot whales and are potentially their predators.

Evidence from orca stomachs shows they do occasionally eat pilot whales. But pilot whales can mob(成群田住) and chase them away, the only cetaceans seen defending themselves from the strong enemies in this way.

Mimicry could serve as additional defense; “One assumption is that if they use similar sounds, they may not be recognized as prey," Erbe says. Pilot whales eating orcas' food remains might go unnoticed if they use orca-like calls. “This is all underwater," she adds, “so these animals rely on sound for detecting their prey and predators.”Long-finned pilot whales have shown an ability to distinguish between orca calls with different meanings; Cure suggests that instead of tricking orcas, the callers could instead be presenting a new orca sound to other group members.

Additional work would confirm whether mimicry is actually occurring. Researchers could pair their listening data with direct observations of the animals' interactions in the wild or perhaps even play orca sounds and watch the whales' reactions.

But if a future experiment used predatory sounds, it would need to be done. very carefully.“A reaction to a predator can be very strong," Cure says.“In some protected areas, you are not allowed to do more than two predatory playbacks per year."

【1】Which of the following is NOT shared by the pilot whales and orcas?

A．They communicate through sound.

B．They often live in the same environments.

C．They can defend themselves through mimicry.

D．They always live together with other group members.

【2】What do we know from the fourth paragraph?

A．The pilot whales mimic the sounds to detect their prey.

B．The pilot whales only mimic one kind of the sounds of the orcas.

C．The pilot whales can pretend to be orcas to share the food remains.

D．The pilot whales can distinguish different meanings of orca calls to trick them.

【3】How do the researchers confirm whether mimicry is actually occurring?

A．By observing the whales from the distance.

B．By mimicking the sounds in the experiment.

C．By analyzing the data from the cetacean sound book.

D．By listening or playing the sounds and watching the whales' reactions.

【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Pilot Whales: Copy Orca Calls

B．How Orcas Mimic Pilot Whale Calls

C．How Pilot Whales Defend Themselves

D．Orcas and Pilot Whales: Predators and Prey

24、The Tour de France is a bike race, which lasts over three weeks and covers 3,351 kilometers. Held in France in July, it is really tough and bikers have to race up and down mountains, on winding, dangerous roads. Every day, he riders finish a different part of the race, called a "stage". Every stage can have a different winner, and each lay, the total time is added up. The person who is leading wears a yellow shirt to show that they are winners.

But there are no women in the Tour de France. For years, women have been trying to change that. From 1984 to 2009, there was a women's Tour de France, run under different names by different organizations. But in 2009, it ended completely.

The Tour de France is organized by Amaury Sport Organization (ASO). In 2014, ASO began holding a race for women called La Course. But La Course is not a long, challenging race.

To make people more aware that a women's Tour de France is necessary, a French cycling club has taken on an unusual project called "J-1". As part of J-1 , since 2015 , a group of women has been riding the exact same come as the men' s Tour de France，just one day earlier.

Women look part in the J-1 project again in 2021. But next year, they won't have to. That's because ASO has announced that in July of 2022, they will be holding the Tour de France Femmes.

The Tour de France Femmes will be an eight-day race with many stages which will start when the men's Tour de France is finished. Christian Prudhomme, the organizer, says this time they are hoping to set the race up in a way that it will make money, allowing the event to continue.

【1】What is mainly talked about in paragraph 1?

A．The challenges bikers face in races.

B．The symbolic meaning of yellow shirts.

C．The introduction to the Tour de France.

D．Different winners in the Tour de France.

【2】What is the purpose of holding "J-1"?

A．To satisfy women's desire to cycle.

B．To raise people's awareness of exercise.

C．To select excellent riders for big competitions.

D．To call attention to the need for a women's Tour de France.

【3】What can we learn about the 2022 Tour de France Femmes?

A．It will involve more participants.

B．It will be sponsored by Prudhomme.

C．It will be designed to make no profit.

D．I will be after the men's Tour de France.

【4】How does the author develop the passage?

A．By listing figures.

B．By following time order.

C．By providing examples.

D．By making comparisons.

25、   If you examine the birth certificate of every soccer player in the last Word Cup tournament, you will most likely find the excellent players were born in the earlier months of the year. If you then examine the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup, you will find this phenomenon even more _______ .

What might account for this strange phenomenon? Some guess a certain astrological sign(星座) _________superior soccer skills; others maintain that winter-born babies have higher oxygen capacity which increases soccer stamina(it t ).But Anderson Ericsson, a 58-year-old professor who is called the expert on experts, believes in neither. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved _______ training a person to hear and repeat a random series of numbers. "With the first subject after 20 hours of training, his digital span rose to 20, Ericsson recalls, "and after about 200 hours of training he could repeat up to 80 numbers

This success, coupled with later research showing memory itself is not _______ determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is a cognitive( i in a) exercise, which means whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are _________ by how well each person encodes the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as _________ practice. It involves more than simply repeating a task _______ playing a C-minor scale 100 times hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. _______ it involves stepping outside your comfort zone, setting specific and well-defined goals, focusing on _______ areas of expertise, obtaining immediate feedback from professionals and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.

Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying high achievers in a wide range of ________ including soccer, golf, chess, piano playing and darts. They gather all the data they can and make a rather shocking statement: the trait we commonly call talent is highly ________, And yes, expert performers are nearly always made.

Ericsson’s formula seems appealing to many tiger parents: "practice makes perfect" is naturally ________ to genetic determinism. By________ innate ability as insignificant, many are confident they can make a concert-level pianist or an Olympic figure skater of their kids as long as they push them hard enough. Ericsson, ________ believes what parents should learn from the science of expertise is not the effect of logging thousands of hours, but how to get kids to. ________ the importance and challenge of effective practice

【1】A.understandable B.misleading C.appealing D.noticeable

【2】A.promises B.improves C.compromises D.masters

【3】A.numbers B.subjects C.memory D.practice

【4】A.physically B.genetically C.fundamentally D.psychologically

【5】A.overshadow B.demonstrated C.strengthened D.produced

【6】A.enormous B.deliberate C.desperate D.persistent

【7】A.on average B.more importantly C.for instance D.in particular

【8】A.Besides B.Nevertheless C.Therefore D.Rather

【9】A.various B.comprehensive C.targeted D.minor

【10】A.pursuits B.occupations C.performances D.assumptions

【11】A.underestimate B.overrated C.flexible D.demanding

【12】A.equal B.inferior C.preferable D.beneficial

【13】A.dismissing B.lacking C.recognizing D.highlighting

【14】A.likewise B.therefore C.besides D.however

【15】A.study B.practice C.reflect D.embrace

26、重庆市三峡博物馆拟举办一次主题为“让艺术走进校园”(Lead Art into Campus)的活动，在全市大中小学校中征集一个场所进行一次馆藏名画展览，假设你是新华中学的一名学生李华，准备给博物馆写一封推荐信，推荐由自己的学校来承办这次展览。你的信必须满足以下要求：

1. 表明推荐自己学校承办这次画展的目的；

2. 说明你的理由（浓厚的艺术氛围；现代化的图书馆展厅等）；

3. 希望能及时得到回复，表示感谢。

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