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、Unemployment in USA is likely to remain high in 201l, and ________for the next few years.

A．possibly

B．necessarily

C．gradually

D．normally

2、There are hundreds of scenes in English novels _______ characters walk through a landscape of fallen leaves _________ mirrors the feelings of the characters.

A.where; that

B.that; when

C.which; where

D.when; which

3、She has been dreaming a future ________ she can spend more time growing flowers．

A．that    B．when    C．where         D．which

4、(2016·北京)I love the weekend, because I _________ get up early on Saturdays and Sundays.

A．needn’t

B．mustn’t

C．wouldn’t

D．shouldn’t

5、We believe the time and hard work _______ in completing such an important project are worthwhile.

A. involved  B. involving

C. to involve   D. to be involved

6、A(n) _____ dressed speaker is more likely to leave a pleasant impression on the audience.

A. appropriately   B. informally

C. casually   D. complexly

7、— Dad, we _________ the zoo-trip you promised us last week.

— Sorry my girls. I _______ to take you there this week, but I’ve been too busy.

A. expect; intend

B. had expected; had intended

C. are expecting; had intended

D. expected; intend

8、The first child in the world ________ a double hand transplant has been able to fulfill his dream of swinging a baseball bat.

A. undergone   B. underwent

C. to undergo   D. undergoing

9、The naughty boy _____ quickly, otherwise he would have been caught by the angry headmaster.

A. had run away B. ran away

C. should run away D. were to run away

10、______ with the feedback my students had given me, I began to make a plan for the next term.

A.Arming B.Having armed C.Being armed D.Armed

11、Anyone ______ boarding with knives would be stopped by security inspectors.

A. being found   B. found

C. finding   D. to find

12、You _____ the exam, but you were too careless.

A. must have passed B. must pass

C. could have passed   D. could pass

13、______ we want to get to Chicago by sunset, it means having to leave at dawn tomorrow.

A. If   B. After

C. While   D. Where

14、I can’t help _________ if he is always making noise.

A. that   B. this C. one D. it

15、When ________ a test, one may feel shaky, sweaty, with his heart beating quickly.

A．having

B．have

C．had

D．having had

16、 It is such an interesting book ________ we all like.

A. that   B. which

C. as   D. what

17、He insisted ______ alone in the mountain.

A. on to live   B. on living

C. living   D. in living

18、If you have your kid _____ so badly, he may not get along well with others．

A. to behave   B. behaves

C. Behaving   D. behaved

19、Nowadays, an increasing number of museums are open to visitors free. However, free ______ might lead to some social problems as well.

A. accommodation B. attraction

C. admission    D. adjustment

20、The girl arranged to take violin lessons at the training center with her mother ________ she would stay for an hour.

A. where   B. who   C. which   D. what

21、When you learn a new subject, you may always consider how much time you need to truly understand it all. Here we give you some advice about how to study, so you'll be able to take on more information with shorter study sessions (时段)．

·Study in small sessions. Our ability to store the information we take reduces (降低) after around 30 minutes, so you'd better cut your studying sessions into smaller parts. 【1】

·Find a study area. Don't study in a place where you sleep！Don't study in your bed, where you play games, or in front of the TV. Why? 【2】 You need to program your mind to study in a place where you always study and nowhere else.

·Take good notes. 【3】 And review them after class to increase your understanding.

·【4】 To be a good student, you should be a good teacher. You cannot teach something you do not know.

·Read your textbook effectively (有效地). Always use the SQ3R method. You need to survey, question, read, recite (背诵), review to actively remember the information. 【5】

A．Train your mind.

B．Just reading it is not enough.

C．Be ready to teach what you've learned.

D．It's a good idea to study in a familiar place.

E．You can do some fun activities during your breaks.

F．Find a note­taking method that works best for you.

G．Doing so will only mix up your mind as to what to do.

22、   To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what's the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question.

Educators have long recognized that there is something of a "sweet spot" when it comes to learning. That is, we learn best when we are challenged to grasp something just outside of our existing knowledge. When a challenge is too simple, we don't learn anything new; likewise, we don't expand our knowledge when a challenge is so difficult that we fail entirely or give up.

So where does the sweet spot lie? According to the new study, it's when failure occurs 15% of the time. Put another way, it's when the right answer is given 85%of the time.

Researchers at the University of Arizona came up with the so-called "85% Rule" after conducting a series of machine-learning experiments in which they taught computers simple tasks, such as classifying different patterns into one of two categories.

The computers learned fastest in situations in which the difficulty was such that they responded with 85% accuracy.

"If you have an error rate of 15% or accuracy of 85%, you are always maximizing your rate of learning in these two-choice tasks," said Professor Robert Wilson.

When we think about how humans learn, the 85%Rule would mostly likely apply to perceptual(感知的)learning, in which we gradually learn through experience and examples, Wilson said. Imagine, for instance, a radiologist(放射科医生)learning to tell the difference between images of tumors(肿瘤)and non-tumors.

"You need examples to get better at figuring out there's a tumor in an image, "Wilson said. "If I give really easy examples, you get 100% right all the time and there's nothing left to learn. You're not going to be taking as much from that as a situation where you are struggling a little hit. If I give really hard examples, you'll he 50% correct and still not learning anything new, while if I give you something in between, you can he at this sweet spot where you are getting the most information from each particular example."

【1】Which of the following is linked with the sweet spot?

A.15 percent accuracy. B.50 percent accuracy.

C.85 percent accuracy. D.100 percent right.

【2】Why did the researchers teach computers simple tasks?

A.To find out where the sweet spot lies. B.To see how well computers carry out tasks.

C.To compare the results of their experiments. D.To conduct some research on machine learning.

【3】What is the purpose of the "examples" mentioned in the last paragraph?

A.To teach what to do in the treatment of tumors. B.To teach how to determine there is a tumor.

C.To help to remember what is learned. D.To help to learn how a tumor develops.

【4】According to the text, what is the most effective way of learning?

A.Not taking failure too seriously. B.Learning through experience and examples.

C.Struggling a little bit, but not too much. D.Learning things that are completely new.

23、   Shot in more than 40 locations in L.A., the musical La La Land is “a love letter to the city”. To coincide with UK release, we asked a local writer to pick some of the film’s amazing settings.

Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange

La La Land’s opening scene is a six-minute dance that plays out in L.A.’s bad traffic. It is also where the film’s leading roles, struggling actress Mia and jazz pianist Sebastian, first encounter each other—in a road anger incident. The scene is said to have been filmed over two hot days in south L.A.

Smokehouse Restaurant, Burbank

This is the setting for the scene in which Mia discovers Sebastian’s talent for the piano. The fictional Lipton’s restaurant---where jazz purist Sebastian was reluctant to play Christmas music---is in reality a place long frequented by actors, producers and other show business types. It has been on this spot, across the street from the Warner Bros studio, since 1949. In the film, the outer wall of Lipton’s is the You are the Star mural (壁画). which features Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and others, which is on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Wicox Avenue in Hollywood in reality.

Warner Bros Studios, Burbank

Mia works at the studio’s coffee shop, where Sebastian comes to meet her. As they wander the studio’s lot, Mia points out “ the window that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman looked out in Casablanca.” It’s one of the film’s numerous nods to movie history. Warner Brons is still a working studio, with 35 sound stages, 14 exterior sets and visitor tours.

Cathy’s Corner, Mount Hollywood Drive

This section of the road that winds through Griffth Park is the setting of their dance play. It overlooks the San Fernando Valley and features on the film poster. Cathy’s Corner is near famed Mulholland Drive, but prepare for disappointment if you’re expecting a park bench and street lamps, which only exist in the movie.

【1】In order to encounter some film stars, you may go to _______.

A.Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange

B.Smokehouse Restaurant

C.Warner Bros Studio

D.Cath’s Corner

【2】Mia mentioned the underlined sentence so as to _______.

A.stress Warner Bros is still in function

B.show respect for movies of previous generations

C.illustrate La La Land was filmed at Hollywood Center Studios

D.compare Mia and Sebastian’s love story with Humphrey and Ingrid

【3】In which section of a website can you most probably find this passage?

A.Nature and Environment. B.City and Transport.

C.Travel and Recreation. D.Food and Health.

24、There is a very instructive incident involving the life of Alexander, the great Greek king. Alexander, after conquering many kingdoms, was returning home. On the way, he fell ill and it took him to his death bed. With death staring him in his face, Alexander realized how his conquests, his great army, his sharp sword and all his wealth were of no consequence. So, he lay helplessly waiting to breathe his last. He called his generals and said, "I will depart from this world soon, I have three wishes, please carry them out without fail."

"My first desire is that," said Alexander, "My physicians alone must carry my coffin." After a pause, he continued, "Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be strewn（撒满） with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected." The king continued， "My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept hanging out of my coffin.” Alexander's favorite general kissed his hand and pressed them to his heart. "Oh King, we assure you that your wishes will all be fulfilled. But tell us why do you make such strange wishes?"

At this Alexander took a deep breath and said, “I would like the world to know of the three lessons I have just learnt. I want my physicians to carry my coffin because people should realize that no doctor can really cure any body. They are powerless and cannot save a person from the clutches of death. So let people not take life for granted.

The second wish of strewing gold, silver and other riches on the way to the graveyard is to tell people that not even a bit of gold will come with me. I spent all my life earning riches but cannot take anything with me. Let people realize that it is just a waste of time to chase wealth.

And about my third wish of having my hands hanging out of the coffin, I wish people to know that I came empty-handed into this world and empty-handed I go out of this world.” With these words, the king closed his eyes. Soon he let death conquer him and breathed his last.

【1】The first paragraph suggests that Alexander _________.

A. was conquering many kingdoms.

B. realized that what he got in his life was nothing to him at all.

C. wanted to leave as he came empty-handed.

D. regarded his conquests, his great army, his sharp sword and all his wealth as the most important things.

【2】The underlined word “clutches” in paragraph 3 means “_______”.

A. sentence   B. attention

C. control D. shadow

【3】The author intends to ________.

A. tell us the story of Alexander

B. introduce readers to the instructive lessons of Alexander

C. stress the powers of Alexander the Great

D. persuade people to realize what Alexander said

【4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Death of Alexander.

B. The Greed of Alexander

C. Three Wishes of Alexander

D. The Life of Alexander

25、   My brother Ken was born with a brain disease. Though Mama was extremely _______, she never babied Ken. She _______ him to do whatever we did.

I remember once we got a slide in our backyard. Ken was _______ at first sight. But unable to _______ the steps with the braces (支架) on his legs, Ken could only looking up at the rest of us from the _______.

One day, Mama put Ken in the backyard, this time without his braces, and watched him _______ with great difficulty right over to the slide. For the next three hours, Ken climbed the ladder and fell, climbed the ladder and fell, _______. He skinned his knees, and his head was _______.

Our neighbor _______ at Mama, “What kind of woman are you? Look at the blood. Get that boy off that ________________!” Mama told her kindly that if it ________________ her, she would have to close her curtains. Ken had ________________ to go down the slide, and down the slide he would go. It took a couple of days of ________________ before he could go up the ladder and down the slide as well as the rest of us, and another week before he could do it with his braces on.

Ken was not supposed to make it to his tenth birthday but he has ________________ his disease and is now a 42-year-old man who lives ________________ and even holds down a job. He ________________ everything the way he did that slide so many years ago. What a(n) ________________ Mama gave him that day by expecting him to be the ________________ he could be.

Though I often feel I fall short when I compare my ________________ to hers, it gives me great comfort to know that her spirit is ________________ me, somewhere — preparing me to make “mothering magic” of my own.

【1】A.loving B.generous C.selfless D.considerate

【2】A.forced B.persuaded C.invited D.expected

【3】A.addicted B.annoyed C.attracted D.astonished

【4】A.manage B.see C.remove D.reach

【5】A.room B.ground C.window D.slide

【6】A.run B.move C.jump D.D. ride

【7】A.once in a while B.step by step C.time and again D.here and there

【8】A.lowered B.covered C.bleeding D.spinning

【9】A.laughed B.glanced C.nodded D.yelled

【10】A.tree B.chair C.roof D.ladder

【11】A.disappointed B.scared C.failed D.bothered

【12】A.decided B.agreed C.pretended D.hesitated

【13】A.walking B.trying C.training D.observing

【14】A.treated B.prevented C.suffered from D.lived with

【15】A.simply B.painfully C.independently D.hopelessly

【16】A.loses B.approaches  C.accepts D.misses

【17】A.promise B.gift C.award D.suggestion

【18】A.healthiest B.happiest C.best D.first

【19】A.mothering B.schooling C.sufferings D.belongings

【20】A.within B.beyond C.for D.from

26、假如你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件，以“A New-year Gift for Our Motherland”为题，介绍你和同学参加2020年元旦快闪活动全过程。

注意：词数不少于60。

提示词：快闪flash mob

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