吕梁2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、The science competition is a good opportunity to show students _____ creativity can add new value to their school life.

A．where

B．whether

C．how

D．when

2、  It’ll be another 50 years _________ China is expected to reach the level of a medium developed country.

A. since B. before C. that   D. when

3、I expect you ______bored with working at the Post Office by this time next year and_______ for a more interesting job.

A．have become; will have looked

B．found; will have planned

C．will have become; will be looking

D．had found; had been planning

4、The local people are now________ Hong Kong, which was once ________the British for one and half a century.

A. in charge of; in charge of   B. in the charge of;in the charge of

C. in the charge of; in charge of   D. in charge of; in the charge of

5、A sudden stop can be a very frightening experience, ______ if you are travelling at high speed.

A．especially

B．strangely

C．gradually

D．eventually

6、A room ________ we do experiments is a lab.

A. where   B. that

C. which   D. in that

7、The library _______at present will be put into use next month.

A. building   B. being built

C. built   D. to build

8、Jim, ________ for months to find a job as an engineer, finally took a position in a factory ______ cars.

A. struggling; producing   B. struggled; produced

C. having struggled; producing   D. to struggle; to produce

9、When it comes to modern communication, network safety is always a major ______ .

A.concern B.advantage C.opportunity D.solution

10、Welcome to my lecture. Hopefully, there are enough seats for each visitor to have .

A. it B. ones C. one D. that

11、Don’t promise anything ______ you are one hundred percent sure.

A．whether

B．after

C．how

D．unless

12、At that time I was very worried about ____ I would become out of work.

A. whether   B. if   C./   D. why

13、Please remember to remind them that the products inside are ________ and must be handled with great care.

A. artificial   B. dynamic

C. unconditional   D. fragile

14、Instead of blaming the child who had broken the window, she gave him a _____ smile and let him go.

A.tolerant B.grateful C.cautious D.wild

15、The teacher’s encouragement has ____ my confidence; I decided to participate in the contest again.

A. restored   B. resolved

C. relieved   D. resisted

16、The woman who used to be in ________ charge of a big company is in ________ charge of a nurse at present.

A．the；不填

B．the；the

C．不填；不填

D．不填；the

17、The meaning of a word can be guessed according to the context, so you will not necessarily refer to a dictionary the next time ______you come across a new word.

A. that   B. which   C. when   D. /

18、 Students who graduate with experience will be given ________ over those who never work in any company.

A. prediction B. preference

C. presence   D. Preparation

19、PE has become part of the high school graduation examinations. ________, you’ll have to be strong enough and healthy to graduate.

A.In a word B.In fact C.In other words D.In the end

20、---What do you think of Nicks performance last night?

---To be honest, his singing didn’t ______ to me.

A. appeal   B. belong

C. refer   D. occur

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【1】What must all the visitors do before visiting the library?

A．They must book timed-entry passes.

B．They must show their health codes.

C．They must keep distance from each other.

D．They must visit the Know Before You Go page.

【2】What can visitor enjoy while visiting the library?

A．A guided tour.

B．A performing opportunity.

C．Resources for researchers.

D．Exhibitions of a new brand.

【3】What is this text probably taken from?

A．A website.

B．A brochure.

C．A biography.

D．A magazine.

22、A gust of wind blew a canvas chair across the yard. My eyes followed the circling dirt out to the road and down toward the school bus stop. I was going to miss walking down the road to catch the big school bus that took us into town to school. I enjoyed being with the teachers and the  other  students.  Now  that  I  was  finished  with  school  I  seemed  to  have  lost  some  of  the excitement from my life.

As  I was  folding  the  canvas chair, Chatita Chávez drove  into our yard  in her  father’s old truck.  It made short loud sounds and sent out a trail of black smoke out of its tailpipe. She got out smiling as usual and excitedly pointed toward the storm that seemed to be moving toward us.

“I can’t stay long, Nilda. There’s a storm coming and I need to beat it home.” I was glad to see her. “Yes, I think we’re in for some bad weather. Come on in and have a cup of coffee at least,” I said as I took her into our kitchen.

“I’m so excited, Nilda! You’ll never guess what I just did!”  I stopped pouring the coffee and turned and looked at her.

“I just went over to Edinburg and registered for junior college,” she said and looked at me and smiled. “Don’t you want to go take classes with me?”

I was astonished. I didn’t know what to say. How could I go to college?  I didn’t have any money.  I  gave  Chatita  a  cup  of  coffee.  “I  don’t  know.  I  don’t  think  I  can.  Isn’t  college expensive?”

Chatita  sat down  at  the  table  and began  adding  sugar  to her  coffee.  “Not  really,  and I’m working part-time at the packing shed(棚)on Canal Road. You could work there, too.”

The wind  began  to  gust  causing  the  house  to  occasionally make  sounds  and  shake.  The lightbulb  hanging  over  the  table  flashed  off  and  on  and  I  heard  a  low  roll  of  thunder  in  the distance.

I hesitantly asked, “Do you think I could get a job at the packing shed?”

“Sure. My cousin is the boss. He’ll give you a job.” Mamá  came  into  the  kitchen  and  exchanged  greetings with Chatita. She must have heard our conversation.

“I  think  it’s  nice  that  you’re  going  to  go  to  college, Chatita. What will  you  study?” my

mother asked as she joined us at the table.

“I want to be a teacher.”

“A teacher! How nice!” Mamá said as she patted Chatita’s arm.

“A teacher?” I asked. “Don’t you need a degree?”

“You can start teaching before you get your degree. Clarence Duncan has been teaching in Brownsville since last year and I think Zulema will start this year.”

The lightbulb blinked again and went out. Mamá quickly arose from the table. “I’m going to have to bring in the lanterns. I knew I shouldn’t have packed them away.”

“Well, Nilda, do you want to go? Because, if you do, you can go over to Edinburg with me tomorrow.”

I hesitated, then said, “Yes. I want to go.” My heart was beating fast. I couldn’t believe how happy I was feeling.

“But I have to talk to Mamá and Papá. What if they won’t let me?”

“You can at least go with me tomorrow and find out what it’s all about. I’ll come by for you around eight.”

Chatita left me sitting at the table staring at my cup of coffee. It seemed so unreal, this idea of me going to college. My parents had never had the opportunity for much education. Juana had quit school  to get married and Roberto and Zeke had graduated from high school as I had. But college? I would be the first one in my family to go to college. Yes, college was exactly what I wanted.

The day had  turned dark and  the  rain had started. My mother  came back  into  the kitchen with two lanterns.

“Mamá, I need to ask you something.”

She picked up a cloth and began to clean the dust from the lanterns. She looked at me and smiled.

“Mamá,  if  I  could  find  a way  to pay,  could  I  take  classes  at  the  junior  college?”  I  asked, trying to control my excitement.

She stopped cleaning and raised her eyebrows. “What would you study, my daughter?”

“I think I want to be a teacher,” I quietly replied.

Mamá sat down at the table across from me. “Then, I would like for you to go to college,” she said in a serious tone.

“What about Papá? Do you think he will allow me to go?”

“Your  father wants  you  to  be  happy.  If  going  to  college  and  being  a  teacher makes  you happy, then he will probably allow it,” she answered.

I didn’t say anything. I was enjoying the feeling of happiness and sense of wonder that had come over me. The two of us sat in the darkened room without speaking until  I saw my mamá rubbing her eyes with the edge of her apron.

“What’s wrong, Mamá.”

“Nothing,” she replied. “I probably got some dust in my eyes. That’s all.”

【1】This story is told from the point of view of___________.

A. Chatita  B. Mamá C. Nilda   D. Papá

【2】Chatita responds to Nilda’s hesitancy about going to college with___________.

A. acceptance  B. disappointment

C. encouragement   D. indifference

【3】According to the underlined sentence from the story, what feeling does this realization create for Nilda?

A. Sympathy.  B. Frustration.

C. Annoyance.   D. Satisfaction.

【4】The real reason for Mamá’s tears is most likely because she is___________.

A. proud that Nilda wants to become a teacher

B. concerned about missing Nilda once she leaves

C. worried her husband will stop Nilda from leaving

D. happy that Nilda can work at a job with her friend

【5】How does Nilda most show respect for her parents?

A. She picks up a chair from their yard.

B. She seeks their approval to go to college.

C. She sits with her mother without speaking.

D. She tells her mother she plans to become a teacher.

【6】Which sentence from the story best supports Nilda’s sense of fulfillment?

A. “Now that I was finished with school I seemed to have lost some of the excitement  from my life.”

B. “I haltingly asked, ‘Do you think I could get a job at the packing shed?’ ”

C. “ ‘Mamá, if I could find a way to pay, could I take classes at the junior college?’ ”

D. “I was enjoying the feeling of happiness and sense of wonder that had come over me.”

23、Named after the “quest (探索) for heavenly truth”, Tianwen 1, China's first Mars probe (探测器), has given us breathtaking images of the red planet.

These are the first close-up images of Mars' surface taken by China, which were made public by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on March 4, this year. The probe shot high-definition pictures while traveling in Mars' orbit. Craters (撞击坑), mountain ridges (山脊) and sand dunes (沙丘) can clearly be seen. CNSA estimated that the largest crater in the image could be about 620 meters in diameter (直径).

The pictures were taken at different distances from Mars. The two black-and-white images were taken by the high-resolution (高分辨率的) camera on Tianwen 1 when the probe was about 330-350 kilometers above the Martian surface. As for the color image, it was taken by Tianwen 1’s medium-resolution camera.

It is the shooting modes that determine if the images are black-and-white or colored. The high-resolution camera can take both color and panchromatic (全色的) images. Panchromatic images, which are black and white, are the clearest, containing the largest amount of data for scientific study. The medium-resolution camera, although featuring automatic exposure and remote control, can only produce lesser clear images. Scientists combined the panchromatic and color images, obtaining a clear and beautiful color image.

Tianwen 1 was launched on July 23rd, 2020 and landed on Mars on May 15th, 2021. The success of Tianwen 1 mission makes China another nation after the U.S. and the Soviet Union to land on Mars. Now China is among the leading countries in planetary exploration by virtue of advanced technology and Chinese spaceflight spirit.

【1】Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Panchromatic images are colored.

B．The images were issued on March 4.

C．Tianwen 1 landed on Mars in May this year.

D．China is the third nation to land on Mars.

【2】What do we know about the pictures of Mars taken by Tianwen 1?

A．CNSA released five high-resolution images of Mars recently.

B．Mountain ridges are not clear enough in the pictures.

C．The panchromatic images include more data.

D．They are the first close-up images taken of Mars.

【3】How were these images taken?

A．They were all taken by a high-resolution camera.

B．They were taken in different shooting models.

C．The colors of the images were adjusted by a remote control.

D．They were taken when the probe passed Utopia Planitia.

【4】What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article?

A．To describe the techniques Tianwen 1 used to take these pictures of Mars.

B．To tell us the difficulties in taking pictures of Mars.

C．To introduce pictures of Mars released by CNSA.

D．To inform readers of the importance of these images of Mars.

24、Finding fish is going to get harder as climate change continues to heat the world’s oceans. A new study finds that warming seas over the past 80 years have reduced the sustainable catch of 124 species of fish and shellfish. Sustainable catch refers to the amount that can be harvested without doing long-term damage to the health of populations of some species.

Overfishing has made that decline worse, researchers say. Overfishing refers to catching so many fish that the size of the population falls. In some parts of the world, such as the heavily fished Sea of Japan, the decrease is as high as 35 percent. That’s a loss of more than one in every three fish.

Researchers examined changes in 235 populations of fish and shellfish between 1930 and 2010. Those fish populations spread far apart across 38 ocean regions. Temperature changes vary from one ocean site to another. But on average over that time, Earth’s sea-surface temperatures have risen by about half a degree Celsius.

On average, that warming has caused the sustainable catch to drop by 4.1 percent, the study found. About 8 percent of the fish and shellfish populations the team studied saw losses as a result of the ocean warming. However, about 4 percent of some populations increased. That’s because certain species have thrived in warmer waters. One example is a kind of black sea fish. It lives along the northeastern U.S. coast. As warming continues, these fish will reproduce faster until they reach their limit.

About 3.2 billion people worldwide rely on seafood as a source of food. That means it’s urgent for commercial fishing fleets and regulators to consider how climate change is affecting the health of all of those fish in the sea.

【1】What does the new study discover?

A．Overfishing is to blame for fish health.

B．Warming seas cause fewer fish and shellfish.

C．Seafood matters to people’s health worldwide.

D．The living regions of fish and shellfish are different.

【2】What does the underlined word “thrived” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Survived narrowly.

B．Disappeared soon.

C．Decreased sharply.

D．Developed quickly.

【3】What do we know about species of fish and shellfish?

A．About 8 percent of them suffered from a great loss.

B．About 35 percent of them survived in the Sea of Japan.

C．About 3.2 billion species have been saved up to now.

D．About 80 species have died out because of warming seas.

【4】From which is the text probably taken?

A．A cooking guide.

B．A science magazine.

C．A news review.

D．A health brochure.

25、The town of Pressure and the town of Pleasure were neighbors but they had _________ in common. Residents built walls to _________ influence from the _________ town.

In Pressure, everyone struggled to be the very best. When women_________birth, they would compete to have the baby with the _________cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because_________was the symbol of success, people were always _______making money, with no time for relaxation. Some young people couldn’t bear the intensity and chose to drive to escape.

_________, over in Pleasure, the motto was “As long as you like it, do it.” People _________without pressure and could do anything __________liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn’t care __________students came or not. Workers might sit around the office __________drinking coffee and doing nothing. __________ the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was pleasure that mattered. No one had the slightest thought of moving __________, either for themselves or for the town. The computers they used __________old methods from the town of Pressure.

Some of the young were addicted to __________because of the emptiness of their lives. Then, people in the two towns began asking themselves. “What is life __________?” But just before life in the two towns completely failed, there came a great person—Mr. Reason. He went from door to door, __________ with people and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be content with what they had, while people in Pleasure began to make plans. They __________the wall between them and built a road to connect the two. The towns’ people ________ to realize the truth---there is no gap between Pressure and Pleasure if they don’t go to extremes.

【1】A. anything   B. nothing   C. everything   D. something

【2】A. keep out   B. look out   C. work out   D. give out

【3】A. another   B. any   C. every   D. other

【4】A. gave   B. took   C. offered   D. brought

【5】A. loud   B. louder   C. loudest   D. loudly

【6】A. wealth   B. healthy   C. health   D. wealthy

【7】A. lazy   B. busy   C. easy   D. hard

【8】A. At that time   B. Meanwhile   C. At one time   D. Once in a while

【9】A. got up   B. brought up   C. set up   D. grew up

【10】A. we   B. you   C. they   D. it

【11】A. whether   B. who   C. where   D. what

【12】A. all day long   B. all night   C. all along   D. all the way

【13】A. Because   B. Thanks to   C. Owe to   D. According to

【14】A. backward   B. downward   C. upward   D. forward

【15】A. was   B. are   C. is   D. were

【16】A. drugs   B. money   C. work   D. books

【17】A. in   B. to   C. for   D. to

【18】A. talked   B. talking   C. talks   D. to talk

【19】A. went down   B. put down   C. pulled down   D. wrote down

【20】A. went   B. came   C. happened   D. returned

26、请阅读下面短文,并按照要求用英语写一篇 150 词左右的文章。

When we get some money as a gift, how to deal with the money becomes a problem we must face. From my perspective, the answers are diverse in different periods. However, no matter how you deal with the money, the most important thing is to use it wisely.

In my childhood, when the cartoons about the car race extremely attracted me, I would use the money I received to buy toy cars. But when I entered the school, toys could not attract me. In this period, the things I wanted most were some electronic products. I always hurried to buy the up-to-date mobile phone immediately I received money as a gift.

Now I have got a job, the things above me not important for me. I do not need some useless things or something I have already had. Probably, saving money in the bank is my best choice.

In conclusion, if I receive a sum of money, in different periods I may have different choices. Whatever I choose to do with the gift of money, it must make me feel happy.

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