台州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Only when the war was over in 1945 ______ able to get back to work.

A. was he   B. did he C. could he D. could he be

2、Dogs have a far wider hearing range than humans, _________ them able to detect sounds far above a human's hearing limit.

A. making   B. made

C. having made   D. to be made

3、Maria has a great interest in sports and ________swimming classes four times a week over the past three years.

A．took

B．is taking

C．takes

D．has been taking

4、Tu Yoyo devoted herself ________to her research and it made her famous in her field.

A. strongly B.partly C. entirely D. freely

5、Now a lot of new technology can ________ problems in industry.

A．be applied to solve

B．be applied to solving

C．apply to solve

D．apply to solving

6、The number of smokers in China dropped by 17 percent last year, ________ was reported in today’s news.

A．which

B．when

C．where

D．who

7、_____ the project as planned, we’ll have to work two more hours a day.

A．Completing

B．Complete

C．Completed

D．To complete

8、Many findings, ________ hundreds of years, turned out to be wrong nowadays.

A．dated back

B．dating back

C．to date back

D．dates back

9、______ with animals in his father’s zoo when he was young, Pi knows how to keep them under control.

A.Growing up B.Having grown up C.Grown up D.Being grown up

10、For those with family members far away, the personal computer and the phone are essential in staying________.

A．connecting

B．connected

C．being connected

D．to connect

11、She'd lost her job． ______ ， she'd lost her house and her children， too．

A. As a result of B. In conclusion

C. Worse still D. In consequence

12、Mr. Smith was really annoyed that the watch he had repaired was nowhere .

A．to see

B．seeing

C．to be seen

D．seen

13、He has been living in this country _______ since May 2012, with no visa.

A. apparently   B. relatively

C. legally   D. illegally

14、The Chinese government’s strong attitude towards the problem of the Diaoyu Islands arouses wide good ________ around the world.

A. response   B. reflection

C. sympathy   D. offence

15、Last month, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ____ effects the people are still suffering.

A.that B.what C.which D.whose

16、Commercially packaged caramel apples from the USA were reported to have killed at least 7 people and sickened 32 before July 24, 2015, officials said. Typically, problems arise _______ caution is absent.

A. that   B. what

C. where   D. in which

17、After _________ a wallet on the front seat, the old man stood guard for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

A．dropping

B．spotting

C．carrying

D．returning

18、________, the party was a great success, for everyone there was very happy.

A．After all

B．Above all

C．In all

D．All in all

19、The question is ______ the disease can be controlled next year.

A．that

B．whether

C．where

D．what

20、It was when she first arrived in China ______ she developed a passion for paper-cutting.

A．which

B．that

C．where

D．what

21、The ______ to success is to make good use of the chance to education.

A．access

B．fountain

C．potential

D．document

22、I am afraid Mr. Dewey ____________ see you now. He’s busy.

A．mustn’t

B．can’t

C．shouldn’t

D．needn’t

23、Are you ________ about losing the race?

A．disappointing

B．embarrassing

C．disappointed

D．embarrassed

24、We treated them _______ dignity and respect.

A．by

B．to

C．for

D．with

25、We are still dealing with problems ________ errors made in the past.

A．making up

B．consisted of

C．resulted in

D．resulting from

26、My grandparents are in the middle of a month-long visit with my family. This means they are staying in my bedroom while I share my sister Indi’s room.

“Isn’t it fun that we get to be roommates?” she asked exeitedly.

However, things didn’t turn out that way. It was time to sleep. I intended to turn off the big light and could just use my mini booklight to read.

“Wait!” said Indi. “I can’t fall asleep with any light on and without listening to The Adventure of Jeremy Owl.” “I don’t want to listen to anything,” I said. “I want to read.” “I promise you’ll change your mind when you hearit. Jeremy has an upside-down party, and you’ll never guess what happens. Indi presssed the play button on her CD player.

I had no way but to tolerate (忍受) it. That night, between the fan, Jeremy Owl’s upside-down-adventure and-Indi’s surprisirgly-loud snoring (鼾声), I had an extremely hard time concentrating on my book and an even harder time falling asleep.

Sharing a room doesn’t get any easier during the day. My things kept getting mixed up, covered and lost.

That night, we had a family meeting to come up with some solutions.“How about we just move to a big house with lots of bedrooms?” my little brother, Tex, suggested.“It could have a swimming pool and a basketball court,” “If we had a few million dollars lying around, that would be a fantastic idea,” said my dad, laughing.

        But how could we solve our problem? Dad said we both need to be considerate of others and show each other mutual (互相的) respect. No mini booklight. No bedtime stories. And nobody is allowed to touch the other person’s things.

Finally, we both get some privacy and we become happy roommates.

【1】Why does the author have to share a room with Indi?

A．To have some fun.

B．To strengthen their ties.

C．To make room for her grandparents.

D．To have her own room painted.

【2】How does the author feel about Indi’s playing the bedtime story?

A．Unhappy but supportive.

B．Unfavorable but toleyant.

C．Understanding and appreciative.

D．Annoyed and dissatisfied.

【3】How did the father respond to Tex?

A．Sadly.

B．Humorously.

C．Doubtfully.

D．Seriously.

【4】What does the author aim to stress through her experience?

A．It’s hard to maintain family ties.

B．Great things may be done by mass efforts.

C．Putting yourself in others’ shoes is important.

D．Teaching by example is better than teaching by words.

27、Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me. "I never knew he was your stepfather." You see, I never called him that. At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.

Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright possibilities. "We'll plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers," he said. And just these little touches made our house different from all the others. More important, a real family was forming. Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it meant to have a father.

Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, but I always thought it was wonderful. Saturday mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special, but I, who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with extreme delight. Looking back, I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.

Soon after we moved to the suburbs, one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me. She had already met my mother and Leo. "You know," she said, "you look just like your father." I knew she was just making conversation--but even so... "Thank you", I said. Why tell her anything different?

【1】The writer's purpose in writing this passage is _______.

A．to show his pride to have a good stepfather

B．to show how interesting a person Leo was

C．to remind us of our parents

D．to explain why they moved to the suburbs

【2】The phrase “put down roots”in the second paragraph means  _______.

A．farmed   B．planted   C．settled D．worked

【3】In the writer's opinion, _______.

A．it is not easy to live with a stepfather

B．not all the stepfathers are as good as Leo

C．the husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorce

D．in stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious

【4】The last sentence “Why tell her anything different?”means that _________.

A．he should have told the truth

B．he wouldn't tell her the truth

C．he wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with Leo

D．he wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors

28、Bookstores are second homes for readers. Although many people can now buy books online, many readers still like the feeling in bookstores. They can touch the books and smell the print.

In China, there are many special bookstores. Sanlian Taofen Bookstore became the first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing at the beginning of April. Popular Holdings in Shanghai is a film-themed bookstore. It has film books and posters. Eslite Bookstore in Taiwan often has activities like talks with famous writers.

At the same time, bookstores outside China can be very colorful, too. Scarthin Books is a small bookstore in the UK. It sells new and second-hand books. There are more than100,000 books lying on the shelves of the store’s 12 rooms. Bart’s Books in the US is a good place to enjoy the sunshine while you are reading books. It’s an outdoor bookstore. Bookshelves are on the street. When the store is closed, people can still buy books. They just put money into the door’s coin box. Where can you find a cafe, bar and bookstore in just one place? The answer is probably El Pendulo in Mexico. Books line the walls of the store. On the second floor, visitors can order everyday meals in the cafe and drinks from the bar. In order to keep cool, there are green plants and trees inside. Does it look like a park?

【1】________ special bookstores inside China are mentioned in the passage.

A．Two

B．Three

C．Five

D．Six

【2】Scarthin Books is ________.

A．a 24-hour bookstore

B．an outdoor bookstore

C．in the U.S.

D．small

【3】People can still buy books at ________ when it’s closed.

A．Bart’s Books

B．Popular Holdings

C．Eslite Bookstore

D．El Pendulo

【4】Readers can ________ at El Pendulo.

A．talk with famous writers

B．order meals

C．enjoy the sunshine

D．buy film posters

【5】There are ________ inside El Pendulo in order to keep cool.

A．12 rooms

B．bookshelves

C．green plants and trees

D．coin boxes

29、Women are friendly．But men are more competitive．Why? Researchers have found it's all down to the hormone oxytocin （荷尔蒙催生素）．Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently．

"Women tend to be social in their behavior．They often share with others．But men lend to be competitive．They are trying to improve their social status," said Professor Ryan．

Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions （互动） such as falling in love or giving birth．

But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy．

Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship．

Professor Ryan's recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37．Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin．The other half received placebo （安慰剂）．

After a week, the two groups switched with participants．They went through the same procedure with the other material．

Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions．Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions．The questions were about telling friendship from competition．And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions．

The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men's ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better．

Professor Ryan thus concluded: "Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people's abilities to better distinguish different social interactions．And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors （因素） that are mainly hormonal．"

【1】What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?

A．Placebo．

B．Oxytocin．

C．The gesture．

D．The social status．

【2】What can we learn from Professor Ryan's previous experiment?

A．Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way．

B．Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love．

C．Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success．

D．Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences．

【3】Why did Professor Ryan conduct the recent experiment?

A．To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions．

B．To know the differences between friendship and competition．

C．To know people's different abilities to answer questions．

D．To test people's understanding of body language．

【4】The author develops the text by______．

A．explaining people's behaviors

B．describing his own experiences

C．distinguishing sexual differences

D．discussing research experiments

30、When I was 17 years old, I left my comfortable home in a wealthy Midwestern suburb to live as a foreign exchange student in a lower-middle-class neighbourhood in a foreign country. I _______ in an apartment with no elevators, no dishwashers and one washer for 150 families. I _______ to wash my clothes by hand in the bathtub and _______ water was so costly, I trained myself to _______ my hair in less than five minutes.

At that time there were no cell phones and the Internet didn’t exist. So for six months I had no _______ at all with my family or friends in the US. I had no relatives there so I _______ to face the fact that my ability to adapt and create a life for myself entirely depended on myself. At age seventeen my need for friends was _______ and not knowing a soul was, needless to say, a bit stressful.

What _______ to my stress was that I didn’t speak the local _______ and had no familiarity with the monetary（货币的）system nor the transportation system. One more ________ that I faced was my host family, who spoke the least (or worst) English.

Living abroad and developing ________ in a foreign language required persistence and ________ I made many mistakes ________ the way. Now I’ve ________ my disagreeable memories into my medals of honour. They’re the treasured stories that offer wisdom and provide me with ________ that I can surpass future challenges.

【1】

A．lived

B．moved

C．turned

D．took

【2】

A．agreed

B．expected

C．learned

D．reduced

【3】

A．since

B．although

C．unless

D．once

【4】

A．arrange

B．comb

C．wash

D．adopt

【5】

A．contact

B．quarrel

C．choice

D．chance

【6】

A．turned

B．needed

C．pretended

D．stopped

【7】

A．impossible

B．hopeless

C．beneficial

D．strong

【8】

A．adapted

B．applied

C．added

D．attended

【9】

A．truth

B．language

C．fact

D．word

【10】

A．scene

B．strength

C．fault

D．challenge

【11】

A．fluency

B．trouble

C．faith

D．fame

【12】

A．imagination

B．consideration

C．determination

D．preparation

【13】

A．over

B．along

C．until

D．during

【14】

A．confirmed

B．traded

C．convinced

D．transformed

【15】

A．disadvantage

B．confidence

C．promise

D．future

31、根据课文内容填空

Through Snow’s tireless efforts, water companies began to sell clean water and the threat of cholera around the world saw a 【1】 【2】. However, cholera is still a problem. Each year, millions of people around the world get cholera and many die 【3】 it. Fortunately, we now know how to prevent cholera, thanks to the work of John Snow. Moreover, in his use of maps and 【4】. Snow 【5】 the way scientists study diseases. For this reason, Snow is considered the father of modern epidemiology.

32、假定你是李华，你的朋友Daniel 给你发邮件说他想在美国办个主题为“中国风”的（Chinese-themed）摄影展，他想来你的家乡收集素材。请给他回一封邮件，内容包括：

1. 表示欢迎；

2. 提出建议；

3. 安排接机。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Daniel,

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Yours,

Li Hua