白山2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、How many of the following sentences are WRONG?

a. What really matters is that each of them is able to find meaning and happiness no matter what his or her life is like.

b. During the Renaissance, many great minds contributed on valuable artworks and made important scientific discoveries.

c. People view the death of Lord Carnarvon at different perspectives and the pharaoh's angry spirit is not necessarily the real cause.

d. The purpose of the experiment Lyn Hymers took part in was to see whether a modern-day family was capable to survive in the 1940s.

A.1 B.2 C.3 D.4

2、It is very important to keep________ in a bad and dangerous situation(情况).

A．calm

B．quiet

C．silent

D．aware

3、Russia’s navy said it _______ a warship to Somalia’s coast and would conduct regular anti-piracy patrols (反海盗巡逻) in the area.

A．sent

B．had sent

C．will send

D．have sent

4、My parents are very ________ to allow me to go swimming.

A．possible

B．probable

C．likely

D．probably

5、Among the countries listed in the 2021 World Happiness Report, those at the bottom were mainly underdeveloped countries ________ issues such as political conflicts have been widespread in recent years.

A．of which

B．where

C．what

D．when

6、One of the waiters in the restaurant was not polite to the customers, ________ made the manager very angry.

A．that

B．when

C．who

D．which

7、— I called you yesterday afternoon. But you didn’t answer me.

—Yesterday afternoon? Oh, I ________ in Olympic Sports Center.

A. am swimming B. swim C. was swimming D. will swim

8、I really don’t know________I put my wallet after I paid the bill.

A．where was it

B．it was where that

C．where it was that

D．where was it that

9、I got up early this morning，but I ________ so because I was not on duty today．

A．mustn’t have done   B．needn’t have done

C．didn’t need to do   D．can’t have done

10、The young man found it difficult ______ the volunteer club.

A．join

B．to join

C．joining

D．joined

11、The young kids are very ________ to see the ________ movie “Monkey King”.

A. excited; exciting   B. excited; excited

C. exciting; excited   D. exciting; exciting

12、Jackie ________ voluntary work ever since he graduated from college.

A. was devoted to   B. devoted to

C. has been devoted to   D. had devoted to

13、Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, ________ the old town into a dreamland.

A．turn

B．turning

C．to turn

D．turned

14、_____Mrs. Zhang’s explanation, the students think, Mr. Gu’s is ________one.

A.Compared with; a more confused B.Comparing to; a more confused

C.Comparing with; a more confusing D.Compared to; a more confusing

15、Hurry! The plane ________. You know, it ________ at 3:15.

A. takes off, takes off

B. is taking off, takes off

C. takes off, is taking off

D. is taking off, is taking off

16、Peter works out in the gym ________, 4 times a week, to be exact.

A. regularly   B. swiftly

C. carefully   D. wildly

17、—Could you please tell me the telephone number of Huian Guesthouse?

—Wait a minute, please. I’ll          in the telephone book.

A．look at it

B．look for it

C．look it up

D．look it over

18、Can you tell me the way ________ I can improve my English?

A．to which

B．which

C．of which

D．in which

19、Life is unpredictable; even the richest ______ become the poorest.

A．shall

B．must

C．need

D．might

20、I ________ an old friend of mine in the street yesterday.

A．have a frog in my throat

B．came across

C．one by one

D．graduate from

21、Who _____ this book _____?

A. did; written   B. was; written by

C. did; written   D. was; written

22、This gift was the Amber Room, ________ was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it.

A．that

B．which

C．why

D．what

23、_________ by a serious illness, the patient had to lie in bed for a few days.

A．Wearing out

B．To wear out

C．To be worn out

D．Worn out

24、English was invented by people, not computers, and it________ the creativity of the human race.

A．is reflected

B．had reflected

C．reflects

D．was reflected

25、American women usually identify their best friend as someone ________ they can talk frequently.

A. who   B. as

C. about which  D. with whom

26、Waterways have played an important role in transportation throughout the history. The following are three of the most beautiful canal cities in the world.

Cape Coral, Florida, U. S.

Cape Coral city in Florida is known for its 400-mile-long waterfront. It is longer than the canal system of any other city in the world. The city has both freshwater and saltwater lakes. The long waterfront gives a unique look to the city. The man-made canals of Cape Coral were built back in the 1970s. The canal system also provides water for irrigation and protects the city from floods.

Birmingham, England

With 1.9 million residents, Birmingham is the largest city in England next to London. Apart from the busy side of this city, there are 100 miles of pretty, navigable canals.

The first canal in Birmingham city was built in 1769. Back in the 18th century, there were 174 miles of canal in the city. Only 100 miles of navigable canal is left today. A peaceful sail through the canals of Birmingham will bring you a magical view of the city.

Venice, Italy

Venice is a wonderfully unique city that lies on a group of 118 islands separated by canals. The islands of Venice are connected together by bridges. There are 170 canals and more than 400 footbridges in Venice. This geographically unique city can be termed as the most beautiful canal city on the planet.

Venice is the largest car-free city in Europe. The traditional boat is the main way of transportation in Venice. Your visit to Venice will not be complete without a boat ride. The 3,800-meter-long Grand Canal is the main waterway in Venice.

【1】Which of the following cities has the longest waterfront?

A．Venice.

B．London.

C．Cape Coral.

D．Birmingham.

【2】What can we learn about Venice from the text?

A．It is famous for boat rides.

B．It is surrounded by 118 islands.

C．It is named the most beautiful city on earth.

D．It has the largest number of cars in Europe.

【3】Why does the author write the text?

A．To tell the history of famous cities.

B．To introduce three canal cities.

C．To show development of transportation.

D．To protect the ancient culture.

27、   Larks are most likely to be healthy, wealthy and wise, according to the old saying.

But those who are early to bed and early to rise do not always have the upper hand, researchers say. They have found that night owls are generally brighter and wealthier than those able to get up early in the morning.

Experts from the University of Madrid carried out tests on around 1,000 teenagers and found that those who preferred to stay up late proved the kind of intelligence associated with honored jobs and higher incomes. “Larks” or “morning people”, however, often acquired better exam results, possibly because lessons are held at the wrong time of day for night owls. The researchers examined the habits and body clocks of the youngsters to determine whether they liked to stay up late and sleep in later in the morning, or preferred to go to bed early and were at their peak in the morning. School performance and inductive（归纳的）intelligence, or problem solving, were measured and academic grades in the major subjects were also taken into account. The results showed that evening types scored higher than morning types on inductive reasoning, which has been shown to be a good estimate of general intelligence and a strong indicator of academic performance. They also had a greater capacity to think conceptually as well as analytically. Such abilities have been linked to innovative（创新的） thinking, more admired occupations and better incomes.

Famous night owls include President Trump, Obama, Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Keith Richards and Elvis Presley. George W. Bush, who is regularly in bed by 10 p.m., Thomas Edison, Napoleon, Condoleezza Rice, who wakes at 4:30 a.m., and Ernest Hemingway are among those known as larks. Jim Horne, professor of psychophysiology at Lough borough University, said, “Evening types tend to be the more active and creative types, the poets, artists and inventors, while the morning types are the deducers（推断者）, as are often seen with civil servants and accountants.” A previous study of US Air Force recruits found that evening types were much better at thinking to solve problems than larks.

【1】What does the word “lark” mean in the text?

A.A bird of prey that flies in the morning.

B.A bird of prey that is a symbol of wisdom.

C.A kind of person who goes to bed early and wakes up early.

D.A kind of person who has honored jobs and higher incomes.

【2】What characteristics do night owls have?

A.Night owls are much healthier, wealthier and wiser.

B.Night owls are not good at inductive reasoning.

C.Night owls stay up late and wake up early in the morning.

D.Night owls are expert in analyzing and innovative thinking

【3】What’s the author’s attitude towards night owls?

A.Doubtful. B.Objective.

C.Subjective. D.Negative.

【4】From the passage, we can infer that ______________.

A.The early bird will catch the worm.

B.Morning types have a tendency to do some creative jobs.

C.Night owls can do better in the examinations if lessons are held in the right time.

D.President Trump, Winston Churchill and George W. Bush are models of night owls.

【5】According to the writer, what kind of job is an evening type likely to do in the future?

A.A fashion designer B.A social worker

C.An accountant D.A government employee

28、   Leaving Earth and entering space was once a dream that only highly trained pilots could achieve. But with the rise in space tourism, we might be able to observe our planet from on-high by the end of this year.

The US spaceflight company announced on Feb 25 that tickets for its future private commercial space tourism flights would be on sale again. This has come 14 months after its first successful test flight of its spacecraft called VSS Unity.

The company said that it would begin a process called “One Small Step”, which allows people to book a place online to become a passenger on an upcoming flight for $1, 000.

But while Virgin Galactic’s mantra (信条) is to make it easy for everyone to get into space, it is currently only available to the wealthiest one percent. Among these confirmed famous figures are Canadian singer Justin Bieber and US actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

For this, passengers will receive one of the six available seats on VSS Unity capable of reaching Mach-3 (three times the speed of sound). They will be treated to a suborbital (亚轨道的) view of Earth from at least 80.5 kilometers and will float in zero gravity (重力) for a few minutes before gliding back to the ground.

“We are at the vanguard (前沿) of a new industry which will open space to everybody,” said Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branston.

Speaking to CNBC, the company’s CEO George Whitesides said, “The plan is to have five spaceships by 2023 ... and we do desire to build next-generation Mach-3 vehicles that can go point-to-point like regular airliners.”

This dream may sound like something out of Star Wars. But with ever-increasing investment and growing public interest, who knows what kind of space advances you may witness in your lifetime.

【1】What can we learn about VSS Unity from the text?

A．It will open its flight reservation.

B．It is cheap and available to most people.

C．It can seat hundreds of passengers per flight.

D．It is a private spacecraft developed within 14 months.

【2】Passengers on VSS Unity will __________.

A．travel at the speed of sound.

B．get an excellent view of the moon.

C．experience a bit of weightlessness.

D．enjoy Justin Bieber’s beautiful songs.

【3】What is the author’s attitude toward the private commercial space tourism flights?

A．Uninterested.

B．Doubtful.

C．Worried.

D．Optimistic.

【4】Which might be the best title for the passage?

A．Life in outer space.

B．Space tours for all?

C．Exploration or tourism?

D．Pilots’ dream coming true.

29、The Taj Mahal (泰姬陵) is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian architecture. It is in northern India.

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jehan,who ruled India in the seventeenth century. It was in memory of his favourite wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. The building was designed by a local architect (建筑师), Ustad Ahmad Lahori. The Taj Mahal stands at one end of the garden tomb with marble (大理石) paths. The room is softly lighted by the light that passes through double screens of carved marble set high in the walls. The building now is kept in good condition.

The Taj Mahal took about 20 years to build. Shah Jehan planned a similar building,but in black instead of white, to lie on the other side of the river. But before it could be built, Shah Jehan was imprisoned (监禁) by his son and buried next to his wife in the Taj Mahal.

【1】The Taj Mahal was built for　　　.

A．Mumtaz

B．Shah

C．either Mumtaz or Shah

D．both Mumtaz and Shah

【2】The passage mainly tells us 　　　.

A．why the Taj Mahal was built

B．the love story between Shah and Mumtaz

C．some information about the Taj Mahal

D．the Taj Mahal—the pride of Indians

【3】From the passage we can learn that 　　　.

A．the Taj Mahal looks more beautiful than before

B．the Taj Mahal doesn’t exist now

C．the Taj Mahal has completely changed

D．the Taj Mahal has become a place of interest

30、I had spent the 22 years following my childhood dream-becoming a professor of marine biology. However, in graduate school I saw how applying for research funding is a constant source of _______ for many professors. I decided I did not want to _______ a career in research after all.

I began to _______ career panels (咨询组), from which I expected to get some _______ proposals. I walked into the room with other _______ graduate students, confident that the panelists would have the _______ I needed. Well-learning as the panelists were, they fell _______ when I brought up my _______. I felt totally lost.

I went to my professor for help _______. After listening to my complaint, my professor told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should ________ what l am good at and what makes me ________ at least 80 % of the time. These words surprised me at first, but it ________ being exactly what I needed to hear.

I was relieved to finally have practical ________. But I discovered that finding overlap (重叠) between what I enjoy and what I'm good at was not ________. I love diving, but the physical demands are a(n) ________ for me. I'm good at teaching but I don't like ________ the same content every year.

To ________ the waters, I started a blog about the history of scientific discoveries. I found that I loved the ________ to choose what to write about, and I never ran into a challenge I didn't enjoy. After 3 years of ________, I was offered a position as a science writer. It's ________ like my childhood dream. But I am happy — more than 80 % of the time.

【1】

A．honor

B．worry

C．desire

D．interest

【2】

A．shorten

B．investigate

C．grasp

D．develop

【3】

A．introduce

B．serve

C．combine

D．attend

【4】

A．useful

B．rigid

C．secret

D．secondary

【5】

A．frightened

B．disappointed

C．excited

D．astonished

【6】

A．performance

B．answers

C．success

D．experiences

【7】

A．unconscious

B．silent

C．sick

D．apart

【8】

A．puzzle

B．solution

C．drawback

D．criterion

【9】

A．generally

B．casually

C．eventually

D．unexpectedly

【10】

A．take account of

B．make a difference to

C．think little of

D．get the hang of

【11】

A．dependent

B．nervous

C．happy

D．skeptical

【12】

A．gave up

B．got on

C．ended up

D．put off

【13】

A．excuse

B．advice

C．career

D．promise

【14】

A．helpful

B．equal

C．strange

D．easy

【15】

A．challenge

B．congratulation

C．request

D．direction

【16】

A．accepting

B．repeating

C．exchanging

D．overlooking

【17】

A．boil

B．find

C．test

D．save

【18】

A．freedom

B．strategy

C．ambition

D．trick

【19】

A．delivering

B．complaining

C．teaching

D．writing

【20】

A．everything

B．something

C．nothing

D．anything

31、课文原文填空

Students at Shady Side are 【1】 to a challenging curriculum in a safe and caring environment; the joy of learning becomes their bridge to becoming lifelong learners.

In the course of this journey they are 【2】 an experience in Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade, which enables them to mature【3】, physically, emotionally and socially. As they walk down the halls during their years together at Shady Side, our boys and girls——so soon to become men and women——are learning to think, to work, to question, to be 【4】 and responsible, to relate with others, to laugh at their mistakes and to act graciously when success 【5】 their way.

32、书面表达（共一题，满分25分）

假设你是晨光中学的学生会主席李华。学生会将举办每年一度的英语演讲比赛，本年度的主题为“The English Novel I like Best”作为组织者，你将在演讲比赛开幕式时发言，请你根据以下提示用英语写一篇发言稿。

1. 说明比赛的意义，如提高英语听说能力，养成读书习惯

2. 说明比赛的注意事项，如每人演讲不超过5分钟，语言流利，发音准确

3. 预祝比赛圆满成功

注意：1.词数不少于100词

2.可适当加入细节，使行文连贯

3.发言稿的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入词数

Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman,

Welcome to this year’s English speech competition.

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Thank you!

Yours,

Li Hua