衢州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Good morning, and in case I _____ you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

A.won't see B.wouldn't see C.don't see D.didn't see

2、Twenty percent of the people on the earth have no ______ to clean drinking water.

A. right B. supply

C. experience D. access

3、 Sorry to have kept you waiting so long, but it’ll still be some time ______ Mr. Smith is available.

A. when B. before C. after D. since

4、His aunt’s letters _______ his beautiful days when they used to live together in his hometown.

A.clear up B.come up C.catch up D.call up

5、Public service ads，also PSAs，often _________ for free，_________ to educate people about health，safety or any other problem that affects public welfare.

A. run；meant   B. are run；are meant

C. are run；mean   D. run；are meant

6、A brand of chocolate made with camel’s milk, from a company in that country, will soon be __________ for sale.

A. available   B. accessible

C. fashionable   D. comfortable

7、— Oh, you sounded just like a native.

— ______. I still have trouble expressing myself.

A. Well, not quite

B. I don’t care

C. Yes, you’re right

D. I’m glad you like it

8、You ______ scold such a pupil who always keeps silent so seriously that you ______ hurt him.

A. should; can   B. may; will

C. mustn’t; may   D. can’t; must

9、It sounds like something is wrong with the car’s engine. ________, we’d better take it to the garage immediately.

A.Otherwise B.If not

C.But for that D.If so

10、_______he has finished writing the novel is unknown.

A．If

B．Whether

C．When

D．While

11、16. Charles Babbage is generally considered _______ the first computer.

A．to invent

B．inventing

C．to have invented

D．having invented

12、Studying hard is definitely important, but proper rest is no doubt______important.

A．equally

B．merely

C．largely

D．simply

13、It makes sense that those introverted people can make up for _____ they lack in social skills with sincerity.

A.which B.what C.if D.that

14、Nowadays smart phones have_____. There is a growing need for them and many companies are trying to launch a new generation of it.

A.come about B.gone up C.checked out D.taken off

15、Some of our history were glorious, others best left in our historical records, never ______.

A.to repeat B.to be repeated

C.being repeated D.having been repeated

16、Reducing the figure of fishing can safeguard the future sustainability of small-scale fisheries and the communities ______ livelihood is dependent on them.

A.where B.which C.whose D.who

17、I know daydreaming benefits invention, but the fact   that it has no solid evidence.

A. will be remaining   B. remained

C. remains   D. had remained.

18、I was looking at the photos on the noticeboard________ I heard a voice behind me.

A．while

B．as

C．when

D．before

19、 People can find so many good things, such as useful information and lovely pictures on the web, __________ it is also a global village filled with bad things.

A. what B. when C. where D. while

20、It is beyond awkward when everyone around you ______________ laughing at a joke that you do not find funny, especially if it’s a joke told in a foreign language.

A. run into   B. bursts out C. yells out D. falls into

21、Standing in line for the latest iPhone at the Apple store, queueing for tickets to Wimbledon or even just waiting at the post office might just have got a lot easier.   Japanese car- maker Nissan announces that it has just the thing to relieve the painful legs of tired queuers.

The new system of“self-driving”chairs is designed to detect when someone at the front of the queue is called, and automatically move everyone else one step forward in line. The new invention is shown off in a company video, which shows a busy restaurant with customers waiting outside.

In the video, diners are sitting in a row of chairs, but will not have to stand when the next hungry diner is called to a table. Instead, the chairs, equipped with autonomous technology that detects the seat ahead, move along a path toward the front of the line. When the person at the front of the queue is called, the empty chair at the front can sense it is empty and so moves out of pole position.Cameras on the remaining chairs then sense the movement and follow automatically.

The system, which is similar to the kind used in Nissan’s autonomous vehicle technology,will be tested at select restaurants in Japan this year, Nissan said. “It appeals to anyone who has queued for hours outside a crowded restaurant: it eliminates the boredom and physical pain of standing in line,”Nissan added.

Although Tokyo has some 160,000 restaurants, long queues are not uncommon. Chosen restaurants that meet the criteria will be able to show the chairs outside their restaurants next year. Nissan also released a short video showing the chairs being used in an art gallery, moving slowly in front of the various paintings to let viewers appreciate the art without the need to stand up.

【1】What can we know about the “self-driving”chairs from the text?

A．They are in hot demand like iPhones.

B．They are intended for queueing diners.

C．They are the invention of a car company.

D．They are completely different, from vehicle technology.

【2】What enables the chairs to detect the seat ahead?

A．Pole position.

B．Autonomous technology.

C．Cameras equipped on them.

D．Sensors equipped along the path.

【3】Which of the following can replace   the underlined word“eliminates”in Paragraph 4?

A．rids

B．ignores

C．steals

D．hides

【4】What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A．Queueing is a rare scene outside Japanese restaurants.

B．“Self-driving” chairs are the most useful in art galleries.

C．Japanese people prefer eating in restaurants to at home.

D．“Self-driving”chairs haven’t been in official use in restaurants.

22、Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

~Thomas Fuller

My father was always an enthusiastic gardener. I think his Irish blood called to the earth in much the same way his own grandfather had. One of my earliest memories is standing barefoot in the freshly tilled soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground, still a bit cold from the turning. As a small child, the garden was an amazing fairyland, full of possibility. As a teenager, though, it was often a source of conflict between the old man and me.

As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Daddy pushing the tiller ahead in perfectly straight lines. His gardening gloves, banana yellow, would grip the handles of the old tiller; the roar of the machine was pleasantly deafening. After a while, he would stop and pull the gloves off to wipe his brow. Daddy loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows and rows of yellow corn, and our favorite -- ruby red tomatoes.

As I grew into a teenager, I didn't get so excited about gardening with Daddy. Instead of the magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of medieval(中世纪的) prison. It was one more thing on a list of demands that I imagined no one else in the world had to deal with.

Dad would say, "Tina, come help me plant the garden today. It's a beautiful morning to be outdoors."

"Aww, Dad, I was going to the movies with my friends," I would replied.

"Tina, I could sure use a hand weeding the garden today," he would remark.

"Today? Sorry, Dad, I already made plans," I would stubbornly say, digging in my heels. "Why do we have to have a garden, anyway? It's stupid. You can buy carrots for a quarter at the grocery store," I would point out. He would just smile knowingly. I usually got my way, and didn't have to help out if I really didn't want to. After all, I had better things to do with my time.

As Dad grew older, his passion for gardening never declined. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. His garden took up most of his backyard, which was quite a stretch. Even when he was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer, he still put out his garden. Still, he planted the zucchini and yellow squash, the juicy cucumbers, the spicy jalapenos, and of course, the tender tomato plants. Sometimes, I would come over to visit. He would share the rewards of his garden with me, as we would walk together through the carefully weeded rows.

But then, something changed. The cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body and stole his livelihood, his independence, his humor. Unfortunately, the doctor had run out of treatments. Hospice(临终关怀) is a whole other ballgame. Somebody has to be with the family member twenty-four hours a day. I found myself in all kinds of uncomfortable situations with Dad, and more than once I felt his anger at his helplessness. Little by little, I had to do the things he used to do. Soon I was cutting his grass, paying his bills, putting his pills in a cup, and adjusting his oxygen. These things he resisted, but I knew things were definitely changing when I began caring for the garden.

Though I had heard the words of the doctor as well, what really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. That year, he only planted tomatoes. Too tired to weed them, he simply tied them with twine to the fence and let them be. So I would come over and water them occasionally, and pluck out the weeds.

Five years ago, Dad planted his last little patch of tomatoes. For the first few years after he died, I couldn't even bear to look at anyone's garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, though, something changed, and I decided to plant my own garden. I decided I would start out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, I got out the old tiller and it roared to life, almost as if it had been waiting. After breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, standing barefoot in the freshly tilled soil, his hands blackened from digging in the earth.

【1】Which word best describes the author’s feeling about gardening as a teenager?

A. uninterested   B. satisfied

C. doubtful   D. indifferent

【2】 The author’s father______.

A. devoted a lot in gardening in order to cut down the daily expenses

B. was quite angry at his daughter’s absence of gardening

C. was not as enthusiastic as before about gardening after his children’s growth

D. was probably an Irishman or had Irish blood lineage

【3】What makes the author realize the approach of her father’s death is______.

A. what the doctor told her

B. when some one had to be with her father always

C. the state of his garden that year

D. his anger when he felt helpless

【4】What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. It was unbearable to see other peoples’ gardens were poorly managed.

B. It was unbearable to see other peoples’ gardens were well managed.

C. Memories of Dad rushed to me the moment I saw other peoples’ gardens.

D. The idea of gardening made me feel like being in a bucket with cold water.

【5】 It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. dad preferred tomatoes a lot because of its wonderful taste

B. dad refused all things I did because I didn’t love gardening

C. the desertion of Dad’s garden resulted from his laziness

D. the author restarted gardening with a new understanding of it

【6】The best title of the passage is ______.

A. Gardening benefits health

B. Dad’s tomatoes

C. Bridge the father-and-daughter gap

D. My love of gardening

23、   Tam the aunt, granddaughter, daughter ,and sister of Baptist ministers. Service was as essential a part of my upbringing as eating and sleeping and going to school. The church was a center of Black children's social existence,and Black adults were buffers(缓冲）against the segregated(种族隔离的）outside world that told us we weren't important. But our parents said it wasn't so.

We couldn't play in public playgrounds or sit at drugstore lunch counters and order a Coke, so Daddy built a playground and canteen behind the church. There were no Black homes for the aged in Bennettsville, so he began one across the street for which he and Mama and we children cooked and served. And we children learned that it was our responsibility to take care of elderly family members and neighbors.

We learned early what our parents and extended community “parents” valued. Children were

taught-not by teaching, but by personal example-that no kindness, however small, was ever wasted. I remember a debate my parents had when I was eight or nine as to whether I was too young to go to help clean the bed of a very sick, poor woman. I went and learned just how much the smallest helping hands could mean to a person in need.

The adults in our community made children feel valued and important. They struggled to find ways to keep us busy. And while life was often hard and resources scarce, we always knew who we were and that the measure of our worth was inside our heads and hearts. We were told that the world had a lot of problems, that Black people had an extra lot of problems, but that we ought to and were able to struggle and change them, that being poor was no excuse for not achieving, and that we had the responsibility of sharing with the less fortunate.

【1】What does the underlined word "it" in paragraph 1 refer to?

A.Service was very important.

B.Church was where blacks could stay.

C.Blacks were not as important as others.

D.Black adults were protectors against the outside world.

【2】Why did the author mention the example of the poor woman in paragraph 3?

A.To call on others to help the woman.

B.To prove children learn by personal example

C.To stress the influence of parents on children.

D.To indicate even the smallest good deed counts

【3】Black children learned from their parents that   .

A.they had to struggle and share

B.they had little chance of success

C.they were too young to help others.

D.they caused extra problems to the world

24、An explosion on Thursday killed one and injured 21 in a busy street in Tongren, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

The bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin in the city’s commercial hub（商业中心），where lots of shops and restaurants are concentrated.

The ear-splitting blast was heard around 12∶50 p.m.，said a local newspaper, citing witnesses. The power of the blast shattered（使粉碎）nearby shop windows and ripped the stainless（不生锈的）steel rubbish can to pieces.

One passer-by，identified（确认）only as Zhang，said she was shocked by the noise and saw a lot of pedestrians lying on the ground when she got to the scene.

Thirteen of the injured were taken to a local hospital after the explosion. A doctor there said five were in serious condition but already out of danger after emergency treatment. The others were just slightly

The cause of the explosion is still under investigation, said an officer with the Tongren police, but refused to speculate as to the cause.

【1】【1】It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. All the injured were taken to a hospital

B. 8 of the injured were not taken to a hospital

C. The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a restaurant

D. The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a shop

【2】【2】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. One passer- by, identified only as Zhang, saw the man throwing a bomb into a bin.

B. Some customers in restaurants were injured.

C. The writer didn’t get to the scene.

D. All customers in shops got hurt.

【3】【3】In the last paragraph the underlined word“ speculate” probably means ________.

A. tell   B. guess   C. discuss   D. talk

【4】【4】What of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Bomb Hidden in a Rubbish Bin

B. The Cause of the Explosion

C. A Terrible Thing

D. Market Blast Kills 1 ,Injures 21

25、   It was a warm Sunday. When Randy arrived to perform in the hospital room, Pam worried it was already too _________. Her 88-year-old stepfather, Strobel, had just been moved to the palliative (保守治疗) care unit. Pam could _________ that something had changed in him. A nurse told her Strobel's _________ was near.

'You're probably _________ your time, ' Pam told Randy. But Randy _________ with her what medical professionals had told him: _________ may be the last sense to go.

'Let me go in and _________', Randy said. 'It's as much for you as it is for him.'

Randy is a country and folk musician. When he was in his childhood, his mother encouraged her young son's _________ talent. When she was dying of cancer, he put their _________ of songs to its greatest use. He __________ crawl into her hospital bed with his guitar and sing her favorites. His mother seemed to relax, a(n) __________ look crossing her face.

'That moment allowed her and me to __________ like we used to when I was singing as a kid,' Randy recalled. It emphasized to him the __________ of music. When he __________ a non-profit organization called Swan Songs which arranged free musical last wishes, Randy __________ the program.

That was the case with Pam's stepfather who enjoyed __________ music, and Swan Songs sent Randy. That's __________ Randy arrived at the hospital that day, when Strobel seemed ready to say goodbye. Randy played some songs and after 45 minutes, Pam asked for just one more song. Randy __________ Love Me. He sang the last note and Strobel took his last __________.

'Oh my! We just experienced one of the most magical moments in our lives. It was a gift for us all. At a really sad time, it was __________,' says Pam.

【1】A.long B.late C.far D.early

【2】A.tell B.explain C.guess D.announce

【3】A.failure B.relief C.time D.recovery

【4】A.saving B.sparing C.spending D.wasting

【5】A.shared B.traded C.discussed D.exchanged

【6】A.Taste B.Hearing C.Smell D.Touch

【7】A.observe B.check C.chat D.play

【8】A.athletic B.creative C.musical D.literary

【9】A.instruction B.love C.choice D.assessment

【10】A.would B.must C.might D.should

【11】A.embarrassed B.regretful C.confused D.peaceful

【12】A.comfort B.pray C.connect D.escape

【13】A.power B.rhythm C.style D.sound

【14】A.set up B.broke up C.heard about D.talked about

【15】A.lived up to B.signed up for C.caught up with D.got down to

【16】A.modern B.popular C.classical D.country

【17】A.when B.why C.what D.how

【18】A.chose B.analyzed C.wrote D.enjoyed

【19】A.chance B.action C.lesson D.breath

【20】A.delightful B.hopeful C.beautiful D.painful

26、写作一(满分l5分)

请结合材料按要求用英文写作，词数不少于60字

Although failures always make us depressed，it still will make us stronger，which no other

success can do．

要求：1．应紧扣材料，有明确的观点；

2．词数不少于60；

3．在答题卡上作答。