运城2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Students loan are supposed to provide financial support for the students who would ______ not able to go to school.

A．otherwise

B．though

C．nevertheless

D．therefore

2、—What courses are you going to learn next term?

—I don't know.But it's about time ________ on something.

A.I'd decide B.I decided

C.I decide D.I'm deciding

3、 You haven’t changed at all —— you still look________ the same as before.

A. actually B. hardly   C. properly D. exactly

4、At the ceremony, the president delivered a thank-you speech ________ the company.

A．in favor of

B．in charge of

C．on behalf of

D．in terms of

5、She is now determined to push further and keep on going ________ she once felt like giving up.

A.where B.as C.in case D.now that

6、His face ________ when the boss told him what a nice job he had done.

A．brought up

B．lit up

C．held up

D．took up

7、The stranger   to walk into the building in the early morning was probably a salesman.

A. seen   B. to see

C. to be seen   D. seeing

8、So sudden ______ that the enemy had no time to escape．

A．did the attack

B．the attack did

C．was the attack

D．the attack was

9、—Have you ever visited the Opera House?

—Yes. When I was in Sydney, I ________ it twice.

A．had visited

B．visited

C．have visited

D．would visit

10、The student, who gave his life to save a child, was ______ honor to our school. A   memorial is held here every year in ______ honor of him.

A.an; the B.an; / C.the; the D.a;/

11、He wanted to know    made her change her mind at the last minute.

A. what was it that   B. that it was what

C. what it was that   D. that what it was

12、The growth of information available on-line has led to ______ new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery.

A．a great deal of

B．a great number of

C．a great amount of

D．a great many of

13、—What do you think of the Huawei P7?

—Terrific, I would buy one if I ______ an iPhone 6 Plus last year.

A. didn’t buy

B. don’t buy

C. hadn’t bought

D. haven’t bought

14、Tom in the library every night over the last three months.

A. works     B. worked

C. has been working D. had been working

15、She didn't recognize the man who hit her because she could only   a dark shape moving towards her．

A．turn out   B．make out C．set out D．bring out

16、It was not until I returned to China this winter after living so long abroad ________ I began to experience safety and happiness.

A. where   B. before

C. that   D. so

17、It’s burning hot today. Shall we rest in the shade   these trees?

A. over   B. beneath

C. outside D. to

18、The road began sinking some months back, with dips becoming _____ in the road.

A.apparent B.arbitrary C.approximate D.ample

19、---Excuse me, dad, but I’m going to the club to meet my friends in the football team.

---OK. _______ .

A.Good luck   B.Congratulations

C.With pleasure D.Have fun

20、The paper ox my grandmother _________ for me is my most valued birthday gift.

A. cut    B. will cut   C. had cut   D. cuts

21、   Popularly known as the “Oriental Hawaii,” Sanya in South China’s Hainan province is considered as one of the best diving resorts in the South Pacific Ocean.

The followings are the top five places for diving in the city.

Wuzhizhou Island

Regarded as the best place in Hainan province for underwater diving, it is one of the few islands in the world without rocks or pebbles.

The island covers an area of 1.48 square kilometers and is in an irregular butterfly shape. The sea around the island is clear and transparent, providing a visibility of 6 to 27 meters.

Yalong Bay

The underwater world at Yalong Bay is one of the earliest diving bases in Sanya.

It is thought as one of the best scenic spots in China to carry out undersea tourism, with the world's largest and most complete soft coral. Its beautiful blue water has a visibility of 7 to 9 meters.

Xidao Island

Xidao Island, the largest of a series of small islands in Sanya, is shaped like a turtle living in the tropical area.

Located 8 nautical miles off the coast, the island enjoys idyllic surroundings of rocky caves and an interior filled with palm trees. It also boasts crystal clear waters with a wide array of marine life and extensive coral reefs to explore.

Dadonghai Bay

Embraced by hills on three sides, it is a crescent-shaped bay located about 4 km southeast of the downtown area of Sanya.

It is also richly endowed by nature with vernal sunshine, soft breezes as well as fine sand. Though the water here is not as clear as that in Yalong Bay and Wuzhizhou Island, this diving spot is easier to get to.

Fenjiezhou Island

Nicknamed the Sleeping Beauty Island, it is a national 5A scenic area in Lingshui Li autonomous county.

The island boasts extremely clean beaches and rich marine ecological resources. It is the only site in the country that allows visitors to dive with dolphins.

【1】Which diving resort looks like a turtle?

A.Wuzhizhou Island B.Yalong Bay C.Xidao Island D.Dadonghai Island

【2】What do the places for diving have in common?

A.They are very close to the coast.

B.They provided clear waters to dive in.

C.They are surrounded by hills and palm trees.

D.They have coral reefs and marine life to explore.

【3】What is special about Fenjiezhou Island?

A.It is the best place in the world for underwater diving.

B.It is the most convenient for visitors to get to.

C.It is filled with the largest soft coral and clearest water.

D.It is the site permitting visitors to dive with dolphins.

22、It is an unpleasant extinction that will change the world and how people communicate: within 20 years, two thirds of all the planet’s languages will be dead.

Experts agree that nothing can stop it happening but one academic is trying her hardest to slow it down. Professor Antonella Sorace is one of a growing number who believe learning a second language has enormous untapped benefits for the human brain. This is true not only for young children but also for adults and people at risk from dementia (痴呆), where research consistently shows that learning a new language could delay the start of the disease for four to five years — a better result than with any medication to date.

It is those benefits of bilingualism (双语) that should encourage us to preserve and protect Europe’s minority languages — Gaelic, Manx, Cornish and Ulster Scots, she says.

Already her work and the project she founded three years ago in Edinburgh, Bilingualism Matters — now expanding across Europe and in the US — have convinced the Scottish government to introduce languages to primary schools. From 2023 all Scottish children will be learning a language other than English in their first year at school, with two other languages to be introduced later.

Bilingualism Matters is also working to encourage businesses to consider the benefits of their staff learning languages. “In business, people say ‘English is the language of business, why would I need to learn another language?’” said Sorace. “Maybe it would mean you could do better business.”

Just as disappearing forests take with them secrets of undiscovered medicines, disappearing languages can take the key to a longer and better quality of life. The first battle is to unpick the popular assumption that bilingualism might damage children’s brains. There were even suggestions it could encourage schizophrenia (精神分裂症).

Study after study has shown the opposite to be true, says Sorace. “These prejudices are deeply rooted, but we are perhaps halfway to persuading people that the brain can cope. Then we have to persuade people that it is actually of benefit.”

【1】What will happen to the majority of the world’s languages?

A．They will become extinct in decades.

B．They will be learnt by more academics.

C．They will prevent the risk of dementia.

D．They will help people better communicate.

【2】What’s Bilingualism Matters intended to do?

A．Find a replacement for English.

B．Teach businesses marketing skills.

C．Promote minority language learning.

D．Influence governments’ policy making.

【3】What’s the top priority in preserving minority languages?

A．Getting rid of people’s fear for mental illnesses.

B．Finding the key to promoting people’s welfare.

C．Unlocking the secrets of undiscovered medicines.

D．Correcting the misconception about Bilingualism.

【4】Which can be the best title for the text?

A．The benefits of Bilingualism

B．The founding of Bilingualism Matters

C．A new challenge facing language teaching

D．A professor fighting to save minority languages

23、   The saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover, means you should not guess the worth or value of something based on how it looks. That message was clear at a recent event called the Human Library Project. The event took place at the Northern Virginia, or NoVa, Community College, outside of Washington. D. C.

The Human Library began 19 years ago in Denmark. It grew from a youth organization called “Stop the Violence”. Today, it is a worldwide movement. At the NoVa event, students got the chance to learn from a person—a “human book”—instead of a library book.

Patricia Cooper organized the event. She said that human books celebrate variety by telling their life stories in an easy-going setting. “The goal of the human library is to talk to people in your community who you may otherwise not speak to because you have your own prejudices (偏见) and hopefully to break down some of these barriers.”

This is the third year that NoVa has held such an event. The collection of human books included a civil rights activist, a scientist from the American space agency NASA, and an opera singer.

Artist Brian Dailey was a human book. He spoke about his travels to 113 countries in seven years. Dailey said that, during his travels, he asked people whom he took pictures of for a one-word answer to a series of other words—such as love, freedom and war. He discovered that people in different countries often had very different reactions to the same word.

When Dailey asked people in Africa about the word “war” they used words like justice, liberation and peace. When he asked the same question to people in Syrian refugee camps, the answer was: “tears, hunger, fear, destruction”.

【1】Why was the human library organized?

A.To replace the traditional library

B.To offer a lot more information to readers.

C.To make people communicate with each other

D.To improve the living conditions of neighbors.

【2】What do we learn from the human book of Brian Dailey?

A.His struggle for human rights.

B.His reactions to different cultures.

C.His great achievements in science.

D.His international travel experiences.

【3】What was the attitude of African people towards war?

A.Positive. B.Critical.

C.Disapproving. D.Uncaring.

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

A.Prefer a Human Book rather Than a Real Book

B.Talk With a Fellow Human from This Library

C.Treat Each Other Kindly to Avoid the Violence

D.Enjoy Reading with the Help of Others

24、Have you ever had such an experience? When chatting on WeChat, you sent someone a voice message where you thought your voice was clear and moving, but when you heard your own recorded voice, you couldn't help wondering: Is this really my voice? Why is it so ugly?

It's not your fault. The discomfort we have over hearing our voices in audio recordings is probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology.

For one, the sound from an audio recording is transmitted differently to your brain compared with the sound made when you speak. When listening to a recording of your voice, the sound travels through the air and into your ears—what's referred to as “air conduction”. However, while some of the sound is transmitted through air conduction, much of the sound is internally conducted directly through your head when you speak. Thus, people generally learn their voice as deeper and richer. The recorded voice, in comparison, can sound thinner and higher, which many find annoying.

Another reason why hearing a recording of your voice can be so discomforting is that it really is a new voice—one that exposes a difference between your self-perception and reality. Dr Silke Paulmann, a psychologist at the University of Essex, says, “we sound more high-pitched than what we think we should, which makes us uneasy as it doesn't meet our internal expectations; our voice plays a massive role in forming our identity and I guess no one likes to realize that you're not really who you think you are.”

So if the voice in your head criticizes the voice coming out of a recording device, it's probably your inner critic overreacting—and you're judging yourself a bit too harshly.

【1】What does the author think of the fact that people dislike their recorded voices?

A．Instructive.

B．Ridiculous.

C．Reasonable.

D．Confusing.

【2】What does the underlined word “transmitted” mean in paragraph 3?

A．Declared

B．Passed

C．Guided

D．Admitted

【3】What would the author agree about the recorded voice?

A．Scientists can make it meet our expectation.

B．People don't have to care about its difference.

C．It travels in the air faster than our own sound.

D．It narrows the gap between self-expectation and reality.

【4】What problem does the author focus on in the text?

A．How do people chat politely on WeChat?

B．What do the recorded messages contain?

C．How do people change their recorded voice?

D．Why do you hate your own recorded voice?

25、A side by side photo of a man's back with a 13-year period of time apart took over Chinese Internet recently. An Lei, 38, is a _______ of the Law Enforcement Team from the Department of Traffic and Transportation in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The _______ on the left was taken in 2008 when An, _______ a jacket printed with an “earthquake relief” slogan, assisted in disaster-relief efforts in Wenchuan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, _______ it with a picture of him in 2021 when he, wearing a protective suit with the slogan “Go, Jinpu!”, volunteered after the COVID-19 pandemic _______ in the Jinpu New District of Dalian.

In 2008, _______ a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck the Wenchuan area, 25-year-old An _______ to the front line to join in the disaster recovery and relief work. A photo of him carrying the insulation (隔热) boards of emergency shelters was taken by someone. _______ a decade later in December, 2020, An was on the frontline again, serving as a volunteer in _______ of transporting close contacts of COVID-19 cases in his hometown Dalian after new coronavirus clusters emerged there.

When An ________ a throwback photo of himself from 2008 next to a snap from 2021 on his WeChat social media account, the then-and-now photos began to ________ on Chinese media. Winning nationwide applause for his dedicated service, An considers what he has done as nothing ________. “During the epidemic, I'm just one of tens of thousands of ________ here,” he said, adding that as a member of the Communist Party of China, he felt ________ to help others in the best way he could. Besides, his 9-year-old son called An after seeing his father on media, saying, “I ________ to be someone just like you when I grow up, Dad.”

【1】

A．member

B．victim

C．director

D．winner

【2】

A．video

B．photo

C．painting

D．portrait

【3】

A．dressing

B．using

C．making

D．wearing

【4】

A．printing

B．drawing

C．designing

D．contrasting

【5】

A．appeared

B．stopped

C．continued

D．disappeared

【6】

A．after

B．before

C．until

D．while

【7】

A．walked

B．rushed

C．stepped

D．wandered

【8】

A．Over

B．Less

C．For

D．On

【9】

A．fear

B．case

C．charge

D．favor

【10】

A．downloaded

B．took

C．scanned

D．posted

【11】

A．cut off

B．give off

C．show off

D．take off

【12】

A．terrible

B．urgent

C．special

D．good

【13】

A．bosses

B．volunteers

C．workers

D．students

【14】

A．sad

B．proud

C．embarrassed

D．terrified

【15】

A．wanted

B．pretended

C．hated

D．liked

26、假定你是李华，周末和同学在某餐馆聚餐时不仅发现食物存在质量问题,而且服务也不好,严重影响了用餐心情，所以你决定向该餐馆老板写信投诉。内容包括：

1.上菜慢，并且上错菜。

2.饭菜不干净。

3.店员态度差。

注意：1、词数100 左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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