石家庄2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、According to strict guidelines, Japan’s new era name(年号) ______ only two characters should be easy to read and write. ______ that, it should not employ common names or the first character of any of the last four eras.

A.making up; Apart from B.consisting of; Aside from

C.which made up of; Besides D.which consisted of; Except for

2、Tom should not be sent to carry out the task for three reasons. ________, he hasn’t had enough experience.

A. For a start B. In other words

C. On the other hand D. At first

3、It was not until he came to my support________I freed myself from constant worries.

A.that B.when C.which D.so

4、He began to run ______ restaurant after he was out of ______ work.

A.a; the B.a; / C./; / D.the; the

5、Years ago we didn’t know this , but recent science______that people who don’t sleep well soon get ill.

A.showed B.has shown C.will show D.is showing

6、This phrase doesn’t just describe work, but can describe any situation ______ someone is very busy.

A.where B.when C.that D.which

7、Don't move any more；in my opinion，you must________to live a stable life.

A.sit down B.stay down

C.settle down D.come down

8、The fact troubles me much ________ I have been unable to pass the driving test up to now.

A．which

B．because

C．how

D．that

9、His dream has at last _____.

A.come true B.been come true C.realized D.being realized

10、She heard the terrible noise, brought her heart into her mouth.

A.it B.which

C.this D.that

11、________ the star leave the court, the girl quickly picked up her camera and ran over to him.

A．To see

B．Seeing

C．Seen

D．Being seen

12、We are very honored to invite the famous teacher and writer who ______ many books to give a speech to us.

A. have taken out B. have left out

C. has picked out D. has put out

13、You will never gain success ________ you keep working hard.

A．when

B．because

C．if

D．unless

14、This _________ picture of the little shrimps is such a lovely example of his work.

A.delighted B.delight C.delightful D.delighting

15、I had an uneasy feeling with the teacher____me doing the paper.

A.to watch B.being watched C.watched D.watching

16、—What do you think of your boss?

—He is easy-going most of the time, but sometimes he ________ be hard on us.

A. should B. might C. can D. must

17、___________you’ve got a chance, you might as well make full use of it.

A. Now that B. After

C. Although D. As soon as

18、Word came ______ his poem won the first prize.

A.that B.whether C.as D.because

19、All of her time _______ to carrying out a further study on the cause of Alzheimer’s disease

since she left school.

A. has been devoted   B. devoted

C. has devoted   D. was devoted

20、The problem was so_________that he had a_________look on his face .

A．confusing; confusing

B．confused; confused

C．confused; confusing

D．confusing; confused

21、The house I grew up___________has been taken down.

A.in that B.where C.in D.in which

22、The medical supplies should be kept for those ______ need them urgently.

A.which B.who C.whom D.that

23、— What do you think made Mary so excited?

—   the annular solar eclipse(日环食).

A.As she watched B.Watched

C.Watching D.Because of watching

24、A lot of new wooden furniture, as well as some latest household appliances, ________ by the Smiths for their new house a week ago.

A. has been bought B. have been bought

C. was bought D. were bought

25、The construction work is progressing properly. ________, the bridge across the river will be open to traffic in ten months.

A. Thankfully B. Fortunately C. Gradually D. Hopefully

26、   Want to explore new cultures,meet new people and do something worthwhile at the same time?You can do all the three with Global Development Association(GDA).Whatever stage of life you're at,wherever you go and whatever project you do in GDA,you'll create positive changes in a poor and remote community(社区）。

We work with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds.Most of our volunteers are aged 17-24.Now we need volunteer managers aged 25-75.They are extremely important in the safe and effective running of our programmes.We have such roles as project managers,mountain leaders,and communication officers.

Depending on which role you choose,you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures.You might also design an adventure challenge to train young volunteers.

Not only will you help our young volunteers to develop personally,you'll also lean new skills and increase your cultural awareness.You may have chances to meet new people who'll become your lifelong friends.

This summer we have both 4-week and 7-week programmes:

GDA ensures that volunteers work with community members and local project partners where our help is needed.All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

There is no other chance like a GDA programme.Join us as a volunteer manager to develop your own skills while bringing benefits to the communities.

Find out more about joining a GDA programme:

Website:www.glodeve.org

Email:humanresources@glodeve.org

【1】What is the main responsibility of volunteer managers?

A.To seek local partners. B.To take in young volunteers.

C.To carry out programmes. D.To promote cultural awareness.

【2】The programme beginning in August will operate in______.

A.Egypt B.Algeria C.Kenya D.South Africa

【3】The shared goal of GDA's projects to________.

A.explore new cultures B.protect the environment

C.gain corporate benefit D.help communities in need

27、   If you're a junk food lover, you will know this：No matter where you shop or what brand you buy, when you tear（open a bag of potato chips, it's almost always half filled. This can be quite disappointing. I always hope those bags are quite full. But there's actually a god reason for this--and no, the food companies are not pulling a fast one on you.

In the manufacturing industry. “slack fill” is the empty space that's placed around a product on purpose. The idea is that the extra room can "protect" your Lays or Tostitos（brands of chips）. The trip from the production machine to the market can be grille long and hard！If it weren't for "slack fill', your chips would probably look more like breadcrumbs（面包屑）.

But wait, there's more, Think that the bag of potato chips was filled up with air？It actually is nitrogen gas(氮气). Chips manufacturers fill bags with this gas to help kelp chips fresh If it were filled with regular air, the chips would likely turn wet and soft in 1994, scientists found that exposing chips to nitrogen not only heaped to prolong the shelf life（保质期）, but also made them stay crisp（脆的）What's more, nitrogen is a natural gas and completely harmless.

Still feel you are tricked by the empty bag？There's a way to tell the amount of potato chips in your snick bug before you break it open. In 1966, the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act was passed. which requires manufacturers to show the net weight of their products' contents. When shopping for your next bag of potato chips, pay attention to the net weight that's printed on the bag. This way you'll be able to know if it is worth your money.

【1】What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 mean?

A.Doing a test. B.Playing a trick.

C.Changing its focus. D.Reaching an agreement.

【2】What do we know about “slack fill”?

A.It makes the chips’ bag look empty. B.It can shorten the products' trip.

C.It is only used or Lays or Tostitos. D.It can prevent damage to the chips

【3】Why do chips' manufacturers choose nitrogen to fill up the bag?

A.To keep chips tasting good. B.To make chips look good.

C.To reduce the products cost. D.To avoid causing harm to humans.

【4】What are we advised to do in the last paragraph?

A.Value a product by its net weight. B.Work out the products net weight.

C.Notice the products' shelf life. D.Pay more attention to the empty bag.

28、   When you are reading something in English and you see a word or words you do not know what do you do? Do you pause and look up the meanings? Or do you put down the reading and find something different to read?

Neither solution is satisfying. Unless you are reading at a level that is clearly too high for you, avoiding reading may leave you feeling defeated. And pausing to look up every word can slow down your reading. Using context clues works. A context clue is a piece of information that appears near an unknown word or phrase and makes its meaning clearer. Context clues are right there in the text. But sometimes we don’t see them. There are some kinds of context clues that can help you become a better reader.

The first kind is synonyms. As you come across unknown words while reading, look for synonyms. A synonym is a word or phrase that has a similar meaning to the unknown word. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of a word. One way to identify an antonym is to look for contrast words, such as “but”, “however”, “though”, “although”, “unlike”, “whereas” and “despite”. These words signal that some opposite idea or meaning is coming. Another kind of clue is appositives. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that comes after another noun, where the second gives the meaning of the first. Examples can also help explain the meaning of a word or idea. In English, the most common ways we introduce examples are with the phrase “for example”, “for instance”, “such as” and “like”.

And now for some closing thoughts. Leaning to use context clues can take time. Don’t pressure yourself to be great at the skill too quickly. Also, it is often not necessary to know the meaning of every word to understand what you are reading. So next time you come across a word you don’t know, ask yourself whether you can understand the sentence without it.

【1】When you meet with new words in English reading, what should you do?

A.Use context clues. B.Ask teachers for help.

C.Look them up in the dictionary. D.Stop to read another new book.

【2】What may be the result of giving up reading when you come across new words?

A.Becoming a better reader. B.Slowing down your reading.

C.Creating a sense of failure. D.Making the meaning clearer.

【3】How many clues are mentioned in paragraph 3?

A.Two. B.Three. C.Four. D.Five.

【4】What is the purpose of this passage?

A.To inspire us to learn English. B.To tell us English is easy to learn.

C.To persuade us to buy an English dictionary. D.To introduce a way of English learning.

【5】Which of the following shows the development of ideas in the passage?

A. B. C. D.

29、

MEMORANDUM (备忘录)

To: All members of the sales department

From: Annette Derringer

Re: Year-end party

Date: November 26

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This is just a quick note to let you all know the arrangements for next month’s year-end party. As you know, the party will be held at the Green Vale Country Club, which we have reserved between 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on the evening of December 21st. I’ve received replies from almost all of you confirming attendance, but if you haven’t let me know yet, please do so in the next day or two. Tickets for all employees have been covered by the company.

The Green Vale manager has asked me to explain one or two things to those of you who have not been there before. Basically, there is sufficient parking space for only 100 vehicles, so they would like to ask those of you planning to drive, try to car-pool as much as possible. Also, the number of lockers available is small, so guests should try to keep belongings to a minimum.

Thanks in advance.

Annette

To: Annette Derringer aderringer@belway.com

From: Kyle Berwick

Date: Nov 28

Subject: Year-end party

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Annette,

This is to let you know that I will be able to attend the year-end party at the Green Vale Country Club on the 21st although I don’t think I will be able to arrive before 8:30. I was wondering if it would also be possible to bring a couple of guests. I know it is a bit of a last minute request, but my brother and his wife are planning to visit us at that time, and I know they’d love to see the Green Vale. If it is not a problem, then can you let me know how much I should pay for their tickets? Also, assuming this is OK, I was planning to drive down in a single car, to reduce the need for parking and also to allow us to keep our belongings in the car.

I have a couple of days off before the party, but I’ll be in my office until the 17th, so could you get back to me before then? Thanks a lot,

Kyle

【1】What’s the main purpose of the memorandum?

A.To explain the arrangement for an event.

B.To encourage people to travel by car.

C.To ask for help arranging a party.

D.To thank people for attending the party.

【2】Why does Kyle Berwick write to Annette Derringer? Because he wants to ________.

A.ask the price of movie tickets B.explain why he cannot come to the party

C.request directions to a hotel D.ask if he may bring guests to the party

【3】What can we infer from the passage?

A.The manager of the Green Vale doesn’t hope they go there by car.

B.Annette takes charge of the arrangement of year-end party.

C.They can take as many belongings as they can with them when going to the Green Vale.

D.Kyle Berwick won’t bring the guests to go to the party if he has to pay the tickets.

30、A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complain about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _______ — porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain-looking and _______, some delicate (精致的) and expensive — telling them to _______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you _______, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were _______, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _______for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _______ of your problems and stress.It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. _______ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the _______ cups. And then you began ____________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and ____________ in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and ____________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the ____________ of life we live.Sometimes, by ____________ only on the cup, we fail to ____________ the coffee.

【1】

A．tools

B．materials

C．cups

D．gifts

【2】

A．cheap

B．simple

C．beautiful

D．valuable

【3】

A．invite

B．allow

C．help

D．adapt

【4】

A．noticed

B．admitted

C．accepted

D．relaxed

【5】

A．sold out

B．taken up

C．broken

D．abandoned

【6】

A．normal

B．unfair

C．selfish

D．painful

【7】

A．way

B．value

C．judgement

D．source

【8】

A．Why

B．Although

C．Unless

D．What

【9】

A．ordinary

B．best

C．special

D．strange

【10】

A．using

B．washing

C．eyeing

D．introducing

【11】

A．position

B．kindness

C．character

D．temper

【12】

A．improve

B．contain

C．mix

D．limit

【13】

A．way

B．pace

C．direction

D．quality

【14】

A．concentrating

B．relying

C．keeping

D．holding

【15】

A．drink

B．enjoy

C．share

D．boil

31、Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a【1】 voice in the year before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 【2】Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a【3】 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year 【4】. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black 【5】 to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （总领事）to Haiti.

As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 【6】 taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system 【7】 up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the 【8】, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass 【9】 the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美国宪法修正案）, which 【10】 African-Americans the right to vote.

32、主题：Chinese martial art

如今，中国武术越来越受欢迎。不仅一些成人经常练习武术，而且它还颇受青少年甚至外国人的喜爱。中国武术拥有悠久的历史，它被视为中国文化的代表之一。

练习武术对人们身心皆有积极影响。 一方面，从小习武能发展平衡能力、力量和柔韧性，这样能帮助人们强身健体、保持身材。另一方面，武术还能起到护体、防敌的作用。练习武术也有助于人们提高自信，从而带来新的精神面貌。

写作要求：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Chinese Martial Art

Currently, Chinese martial art is becoming increasingly popular.

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