绍兴2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Self-confidence is a kind of quality and that is it takes to do everything well.

A．why

B．that

C．what

D．which

2、The witness told the police everything she had seen, being careful not to ______ any details.

A.put out B.give out C.leave out D.look out

3、Though he has made a big fortune, he is____a happy man.

A.nothing but B.anything but C.more than D.other than

4、-I had butterflies in my stomach before I gave that talk.

-I__________nervous too if I had been in you shoes.

A.was B.would be C.had been D.would have been

5、________  parents say and do has a life-long effect on their children.

A That B Which C What D As

6、 The “Chinese Dream” is ________ dream to improve people's well－being and ________ dream of harmony, peace and development.

A．the; a

B．a; a

C．a; the

D．the; the

7、Why ______________ to go abroad to study, when there are so many good universities at home?

A. imagines B. bother

C. consider D. prevent

8、The weather turned out to be fine. I _____________ the trouble to carry the umbrella with me.

A.should have taken B.must have taken

C.couldn't have taken D.needn't have taken

9、The house still needed a lot of work, but ___ the kitchen was finished.

A.instead B.altogether C.at once D.at least

10、Diligence and self-discipline are ________ need to make it to our ideal university in the near future, especially at this particular moment.

A.all that B.all what C.that all D.what all

11、Think carefully before you answer questions online. You may be ______ into giving away very important personal information.

A. caught B. addicted

C. seized D. trapped

12、—Why are you so mad at her?

—She should have given in to _______ and opened my handbag without my permission.

A. concern   B. curiosity   C. consideration   D. convenience

13、After a night of wrestling with his________, he decided to go to the police office to give himself up.

A.consensus B.conscience C.consciousness D.convention

14、People are ________ the use of alternative energy sources because the rate ________ we are now assuming fuels like gas and oil is shocking and they may run out one day.

A. wrestling with; by which

B. pushing for; at which

C. catching up on; at which

D. accounting for; on which

15、You ______ worry about me. I’ve decided to join a local health club.

A. mustn’t  B. can’t  C. needn’t  D. daren’t

16、——What are you reading, Tom?

——I’m not really reading, just ___ the pages.

A.turning off B.turning around C.turning over D.turning up

17、—Were you hurt in the accident?

—I was shocked, but wasn’t hurt at all. My car was damaged, ______.

A.instead B.otherwise C.anyway D.though

18、—Michelle, have you got your admission to the Pennsylvania State University as a state-financed student?

—I hope so, but I’m not so lucky. I have to ______ my pocket to pay for my further study.

A.turn to B.dip into C.refer to D.see to

19、It’s strongly advised that smokers not be allowed to smoke in any room ________ babies currently occupy.

A. where B. whose

C. that D. as

20、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.

A. has stayed   B. had stayed

C. stayed   D. am staying

21、Reading is essential but how can one choose the right books to read and where can one find them? A few famous people may give you some helpful tips.

● Read books from past eras.

【1】 Otherwise, you’d be “completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of your times,” just as Alert Einstein put it. “Somebody who reads only newspapers and books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who dislikes eyeglasses,” he said.

● 【2】

Reading too wide a variety in too short a time would keep the teachings from leaving a lasting impression on you. Seneca the Younger, a first-century Roman philosopher, suggested that “you must linger (流连) among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would obtain ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”

● Shop at secondhand bookstores.

Virginia Woolf believed the works in secondhand bookstores have an attraction which the usual volumes of the library lack. Browsing through these books gives you the chance to run into something that wouldn’t have risen to the attention of librarians and booksellers. 【3】

● Check out authors’ reading lists.

In his 1940 guide How to Read a Book, American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler talked about how to choose books. He attached importance to those that other authors consider worth reading. 【4】 Mortimer wrote that “one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

● Make the final decision by yourself.

【5】 It’s you yourself who should choose what, how and when to read. Theodore Roosevelt recommended choosing books on subjects that interest you and letting your mood guide you to your next great read.

A．Interest is the best teacher.

B．Great authors are great readers.

C．Leave some room for older works.

D．Learn more about those great authors.

E．Don’t jump too quickly from book to book.

F．There’s no “best books” list that everyone should follow.

G．Usually they are much more selective in organizing their collections than secondhand book owners.

22、Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people were always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experienced ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research. Over the years I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in various experiments.

In one of the experiments, I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, asking them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper, saying, “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and you will win $50.” This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more nervous than lucky people, and this anxiety affects their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to gatherings concentrating on finding their perfect partners and miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually showed that lucky people are skilled at noticing opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition (直觉), are open to new experiences, and adopt a never-say-die attitude that transforms bad luck into good luck.

【1】What’s the purpose of the author’s research?

A．To discover what luck means to people.

B．To find lucky people and unlucky people.

C．To distinguish between good luck and bad luck.

D．To figure out why people are always lucky or unlucky.

【2】Why did the unlucky people miss the message in the experiment?

A．There was too much information to be read in detail.

B．They were too focused on looking for photographs.

C．It took too much time to go through newspapers.

D．The words were too small to be noticed.

【3】What leads to lucky people’s good fortune?

A．Their ability to spot opportunities.

B．Their ability to become relaxed.

C．Their ability to communicate.

D．Their ability to make friends.

【4】What’s the key message of the last paragraph?

A．What lucky people are looking for.

B．How lucky people generate good luck.

C．What lucky people can do with opportunities.

D．How lucky people transform bad luck into good luck.

23、Newspapers, advertisements, and labels surround us everywhere, turning our environment into a mass of texts to be read or ignored. As the quantity of information we receive continually increases and as information spreading is shifting from page to screen, it may be time to ask how changes in our way of reading may affect our mental life. For how we receive information bears vitally on the ways we experience and interpret reality.

What is most obvious in the evolution of reading is the gradual displacement of the vertical (垂直的) by the horizontal—a shift from intensive to extensive reading. In our culture, access is not a problem, but proliferation (激增) is. And the reading act is necessarily different than it was in its earliest days. Awed by the availability of texts, the reader tends to move across surfaces without allowing the words to resonate (共鸣) inwardly.

Interestingly, this shift from vertical to horizontal parallels the overall societal shift from bounded lifetimes spent in single locales to lives lived in wider geographical areas amid streams of data. This larger access was once regarded as worldliness—one traveled, knew the life of cities, the ways of diverse people…. It has now become the birthright of anyone who owns a television set.

How do we square the advantages and disadvantages of horizontal and vertical awareness? The villagers, who know everything about their surroundings, are blessedly unaware of events in distant lands. The media-obsessed urbanites, by contrast, never lose their awareness of what happens in different parts of the world.

We may ask, which people are happier? The villagers may have found more sense in things owing both to the limited range of their concern and the depth on their information. But restricted conditions and habit also suggest boredom and limitation. The lack of a larger perspective (视角) leads to suspiciousness and cautious conservatism, but for the same reason, the constant availability of data and macro-perspectives has its own decreasing returns. When everything is happening everywhere, it gets harder to care about anything.

How do we assign value? Where do we find the fixed context that allows us to create a narrative of sense about our lives? Ideally, I suppose, one would have the best of both worlds—the purposeful fixity of the local, as well as the availability of enhancing views: a natural ecology of information and context.

【1】What can we learn about the first two paragraphs?

A．Readers today tend to ignore deep engagement with texts.

B．It’s difficult to shift from vertical to horizontal reading.

C．Where and how we read texts shapes our mental life.

D．People are tired of information proliferation.

【2】According to the passage, villagers .

A．have a deeper understanding of their surroundings

B．show no interest in what happens in the world

C．are less bored than media-obsessed urbanites

D．cannot adapt to changing situations

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Vertical awareness allows us to care about others.

B．Changes in our reading habits lead to the societal shift.

C．It’s wise to keep a balance between a local and a global view.

D．Horizontal reading affects our mindset more than vertical reading.

24、   Luo Xinlin, 22, experienced her first ride in a self-driving taxi in Changsha, the capital of China's Hunan Province “I made an appointment soon after setting the starting and ending points in the app,” said Liu. “A safety supervisor contacted me and the taxi arrived in about 10 minutes.”

“The taxi drove very smoothly by itself. and the safety supervisor and technician sitting in the front basically didn't have any manual control of it,” said Liu after a 10-minute-long test ride. “The taxi passed through three or four intersections and it was a safe ride without any unexpected situations.”

The self-driving taxi, named Robotaxi, is operated by Hunan Apollo Intelligent Transportation Co., Ltd. based in Xiangjiang New Area in the city. On April 21, the company announced that a group of 30 self-driving taxis had entered public use in the city and users can hail one for a free ride.

“The in-car touch screen can display barriers and dynamic predictions within the 360-degree field of vision and clearly present the conditions of passing vehicles, intersections and traffic lights,” said Cheng Li, director of the test and vehicle operation department of the company. Cheng added users can learn information such as the vehicle's sped and remaining distance through the screen in real time.

In September 2019, the company launched a trial service for a group of citizens, who had to first complete training and other procedures. The technical personnel have started testing self-driving taxis and accumulated a lot of test data since the second half of last year.

China allowed local governments to arrange road tests for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs), which cover different degrees of autonomous driving, in April 2018. An increasing number of cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, have issued license plates for road tests of ICVs.

【1】What is Liu's attitude to self-driving taxis?

A．Mixed.

B．Cautious.

C．Uncertain.

D．Supportive.

【2】What do we know about the Robotaxi's test ride?

A．It had unchanging routes

B．No one but the passenger was in it.

C．It allowed passengers to have free use.

D．A safety supervisor controlled it.

【3】Which of the following is unavailable on the in-car touch screen?

A．Vehicle operation.

B．The vehicle's speed.

C．Road conditions

D．Remaining distance.

【4】In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Fashion.

B．Technology

C．Society.

D．Business.

25、About 30 years ago, I left Cuba for the United States with my 4-year-old son. After getting ________finally in Brunswick, New Jersey, I enrolled（注册）my son in ________Several weeks later, my son’s teacher asked me to meet him at his ________.

In the teacher’s office, an exchange of ________was followed by his questions: “Is your son mentally retarded （弱智的）, Does he suffer from any kind of ________disability?”

Was he talking about my wonderful Scola? No, no it can’t be. What a ________. lonely moment! I told him that Scola was a quiet, sweet little boy, instead. I asked him why he was asking me all these questions.

My son could not ________the teacher’s directions, he told me, and ________. Scola was disrupting the class. Didn’t he know my son did not speak English yet?

He was ________; “Why hasn’t your son been taught to speak English? Don’t you speak English at home?”

No, I didn’t speak English at home, I ________, I was sure my son would learn English in a couple of months, and I didn’t want him to forget his ________language. Well, wrong answer! What kind of person would not speak in English to her son at home and at all time? “Are you one of those people who come to this country to save dollars and send them back to their country, ________wanting to be a part of this society?”

________, I tried to tell him I was not one of “those people”. Then he told me the ________was over, and I left.

As I had ________, my son learned to speak English ________before the school year was over. He went on to graduate from college and got a ________, earning close to six figures. He travels widely and leads a well-adjusted, contented life. And he has ________from being bilingual（双语的）.

Speaking more than one language allows people to ________with others; it teaches people about other ________and other places something very basic and obviously lacking in the “educator” I met in New Jersey.

【1】A. solved   B. settled   C. situated   D. involved

【2】A. school   B. company   C. community   D. kindergarten

【3】A. office   B. home   C. house   D. workshop

【4】A. questions   B. greetings   C. information   D. requests

【5】A. physical   B. emotional   C. educational   D. mental

【6】A. careless   B. helpless   C. useless   D. worthless

【7】A. hear   B. repeat   C. follow   D. explain

【8】A. thus   B. however   C. otherwise   D. though

【9】A. angry   B. calm   C. surprised   D. sad

【10】A. refused   B. replied   C. reminded   D. rewarded

【11】A. spoken   B. written   C. second   D. native

【12】A. often   B. never   C. seldom   D. once

【13】A. Needless to say   B. Beyond words   C. For no reason   D. To make matters worse

【14】A. instruction   B. blame   C. meeting   D. discussion

【15】A. planned   B. noted   C. suggested   D. expected

【16】A. easily   B. fluently   C. hardly   D. exactly

【17】A. job   B. degree   C. chance   D. scholarship

【18】A. suffered   B. benefited   C. learned   D. grown

【19】A. deal   B. stay   C. communicate   D. match

【20】A. languages   B. customs   C. traditions   D. cultures

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

At age 10, I stood in front of my new class, my new classmates looking at me with mild interest as my teacher introduced me. I joined in the middle of the school year. There were 41 students in my new class. I was the 42nd.

All my classmates sat in pairs except for this one girl, Kate. I went and sat down next to her and gave her a small, uncertain smile. She smiled in return. The class started and we didn’t talk until lunch time. At lunch time, I pulled out my lunch box, packed by my mother. It had fried rice with home-made cakes and a small box of fruits. Clearly my mom had spent time packing this yummy lunch. This girl took out a small box with bread butter inside. In India, it’s pretty rare for kids to just get bread butter for lunch. The only time I had bread butter for lunch was if my mom was unwell. So I thought that was what the problem here was. I offered her a small part of my lunch and forgot all about it. The next day, she again had bread butter. Well, I thought, her mother might have fallen ill, so she was taking time to recover. I again offered her a part of my lunch. This went on for a week. Then one day, I asked the one question that I shouldn’t have. “Is your mom not well?”

In fact, I wasn’t prepared for the answer. Later, I knew that her mother, who worked in a supermarket, was in poor health. She constantly stayed at home with no income. I didn’t know what to do. So I did the most obvious thing. I went home and told my mom that my lunch wasn’t enough and I still felt hungry after eating it. My mom started packing a bigger lunch. And in school, I’d tell Kate that my mom had packed me a lunch too big, so could she please help me finish it? Then I asked her what her favorite dish was. “Naan,” she whispered.

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150左右;

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When I told my mom that I wanted very much to have Naan, she felt puzzled.

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I moved out of that school soon after and didn’t stay in touch with Kate.

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