宣城2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、As a new diplomat, he often thinks of ______ he can react more appropriately on such occasions.

A.what B.which C.that D.how

2、Although Jane agrees with me on most points, there was one on which she was unwilling to ______.

A. give out B. give in

C. give away D. give off

3、Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century __________ his musical gift was fully recognized.

A.when B.which C.that D.how

4、—I am going to the library. Do you have any books_______?

—No, but thank you all the same.

A.to return B.returned C.to be returned D.returning

5、______________ their final medical check, the astronauts boarded their spacecraft.

A．Received

B．Being received

C．To receive

D．Having received

6、After winning China’s first ever Olympic gold medal in snowboarding, Su Yiming, encouraged other youngsters to ______ their goals.

A．apply

B．pursue

C．adapt

D．change

7、–What would you like, beer or juice?

–______. Give me some Cola please.

A. Either  B. Neither  C.Both  D. None

8、The cost of living in big cities ________ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.

A. is climbing B. is being climbed

C. has been climbing D. has been climbed

9、I needn’t have been in that hurry. The flight to Chongqing ______ due to the foggy weather.

A. has cancelled B. was cancelled

C. will be cancelling  D. had cancelled

10、People have difficulty accepting that their pictures were webcast live to millions of viewers, ______ the fact that some of them were not so graceful.

A．no doubt

B．no denying

C．nothing like

D．not to mention

11、_____ the plant once a week if you are to get fruit in the autumn.

A. Watered   B. Watering   C. To water   D. Water

12、_______by flowers and applause does not necessarily mean one is living a happy life.

A.Being accompanied B.Having accompanied

C.To be accompanied D.Accompanied

13、Due to the reform and opening­up, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved ________ over the past decades.

A．considerately

B．approximately

C．appropriately

D．considerably

14、He has written two articles for the journal，one to be published in this issue，the other to___________ in the next.

A. turn out B. come out

C. bring out. D. leave out

15、A Chinese student’s print-like handwriting caused controversy among British Internet users, _____ both praise and questions about individuality.

A. having drawn   B. drawing     C. to draw   D. drew

16、Recently, scientists have started a debate on _______the computers will “think” like human in half a century.

A．where

B．whether

C．whose

D．which

17、Zhurong is the god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology,________echoes with the Chinese name of the red planet, Huoxing.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

18、Some institutions have established reading clubs to promote reading, but the effort, though ________, is far from enough.

A．appreciated

B．appreciating

C．having appreciated

D．to appreciate

19、Peppa Pig, a Bristish cartoon character with a face ______ like a hair dryer, is placed on the cup ______ blue, green and celadon colors.

A.shaping; featuring B.shaped; featuring

C.shaping; featured D.shaped; featured

20、Eventually the two sides reached an agreement ___ could not be taken the place of.

A. whose the details B. the details of whose

C. whose details     D. of which details

21、   Since birth, Joy and Miriam were left at the gate of an orphanage  (孤儿院). For the disabled sisters, who both have spina bifida (脊柱裂), it may have seemed that all hopes were lost at that time. But after being adopted by a British couple, they have become two of the country's most promising wheelchair basketball stars.

In 2005, the Haizes adopted them. Then, they moved to the UK when Joy was six and Miriam was seven. The girls discovered the wheelchair basketball through a chance conversation, which Mr. Haize had with a friend in 2011. They hadn't known wheelchair sports before, but Joy was hooked from the beginning.

While Miriam loved the sport, it took her a little longer to become a serious athlete.  “I used to have really low self-respect,” she said. “It's only when Joy got into the Under 25s European Championships in 2013 that I started to take basketball seriously. It gave me a path to follow.” Miriam was then chosen to play at both regional trials and the Sainsbury's School Games in 2014. Of course, she earned herself a place at the famous GB Futures training camp.  “GB Futures helped me a lot. It helped me take basketball to another level and learn more about the game and its history. It also helped me be more independent,” said Miriam. Meanwhile, Joy is currently the youngest player on the GB women's team — but she is making her mark on the international stage, having represented Great Britain in tournaments (锦标赛) all over the world.

The teenagers are now eager to encourage others to explore the world of wheelchair sports. “You should have confidence in yourself. That's the one thing to help you succeed. Having setbacks helped me grow into a person and player. No matter what people said to us, we just tried our best,” said the girls.

【1】What happened to Joy and Miriam when they were born?

A.They were adopted by a British couple. B.They were abandoned to an orphanage.

C.They moved to the UK with their parents. D.They lived with parents in an orphanage.

【2】The sisters first got to know the wheelchair basketball from ________.

A.GB Futures training camp B.their P.E. teacher by chance

C.a conversation in a TV program D.a talk between their father and his friend

【3】It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A.the Haizes aimed to train Joy to become the world champion

B.Joy set a good example to Miriam in the wheelchair basketball

C.it took Joy a long time to take the wheelchair basketball seriously

D.Miriam is the youngest player on the women's basketball team

【4】What suggestion did the disabled sisters give to others?

A.Put your heart into work! B.A good beginning is half done!

C.All roads lead to Rome. D.Believe in yourself!

22、   When I was kid, I’d often come downstairs for breakfast and find my grandmother in the kitchen talking to herself, often going over what she was going to do that day. I thought it was the strangest thing. 【1】

Back then, I thought healthy people didn’t talk aloud when nobody else was around, did they? 【2】 It is a healthy, widespread behavior among children and adults. Research suggests the practice is most beneficial when it combines thought and action. Talking to yourself, when employed in the proper context, can even energize you mentally. Encouragement helps a person gain self-confidence and self-esteem, which contribute to success.

A study published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise had 72 tennis players take part in five rounds of play: one baseline assessment, three training sessions, and a final round. 【3】. Though both groups followed the same training program, only the experimental one was asked to practice self-talk. By the final assessment, the experimental group showed heightened self-confidence and reduced anxiety. The self-talkers also improved their game.

【4】 An in-depth analysis looked at the validity of the self talk strategy for improving athletic achievements. Totaling 32 sport studies and 62 effect sizes, it showed a positive, though moderate, effect size.

【5】 As Dr. Julia Harper, an occupational therapist said, “If we’re talking to ourselves negatively, research suggests that we’ll more likely guide ourselves to a negative outcome. However, when self-talk is neutral - as in a statement like ‘What do need to do?’ or positive, such as ‘I can get this done,’ then the outcome is much more effective.”

A．Researchers divided the players into two groups.

B．Participants with low self-confidence don’t like self-talk.

C．Unfortunately, human nature is ready for negative self-talk.

D．This effect only holds true if one’s self-talk remains encouraging.

E．These performance-energizing benefits aren’t just for tennis players either.

F．In fact, science has now shown that talking to yourself has a number of benefits.

G．Even though nobody else was around, hearing her would make me feel awkward.

23、A snake-robot designer, a technologist, an extradimensional physicist and a journalist walk into a room. The journalist turns to the crowd and asks: Should we build houses on the ocean? Like a think-tank panel, members of the team dream up far-out answers to the crucial problem, such as self-driving housing units that could park on top of one another in the coastal city center.

The setting is X, the enterprise which considers more than 100 ideas each year, in areas ranging from clean energy to artificial intelligence. Although only a tiny percentage become “projects” with far-reaching creativity, these projects exist, ultimately, to change the world, like Waymo, the biggest self-driving-car company. In the past 60 years, something strange has happened. As the academic study of creativity has thrived (蓬勃发展), the label innovation may have covered every tiny change of a soda can or a toothpaste flavor, but the rate of productivity growth has been mostly declining since the 1970s. John Fernald, an economist, points out that the notable exception to the post-1970 decline in productivity occurred when businesses throughout the economy finally figured out the breakthrough technology-information technology. John Fernald says, “It’s possible that productivity took off, because we picked all the low-hanging fruit from the IT wave. ”Actually, the world economy continues to harvest the benefits of IT. But where will the next technology shock come from?

Breakthrough technology results from two distinct activities-invention and innovation. Invention is typically the work of scientists and researchers in labs, while innovation is an invention put to commercial use. Seldom do the two activities occur successfully under the same roof. They tend to thrive in opposite conditions; while competition and consumer choice encourage innovation, invention has historically progressed in labs that are protected from the pressure to generate profit.

Allowing well-funded and diverse teams to try to solve big problems is what gave us the computer and the Internet. Today, we fail to give attention to planting the seeds of this kind of ambitious research, while complaining about the harvest. “Companies are really good at combining existing breakthroughs in ways that consumers like. But the breakthroughs come from patient and curious scientists, not the rush to market,” says Jon Gertner, the author of The Idea Factory.

“Technology is a tall tree, ” John Fernald said. “But planting the seeds of invention and harvesting the fruit of innovation are entirely distinct skills, often mastered by different organizations and separated by many years. ” As for me, both of them are essential for technology, although they are relatively independent. I don’t think X is a planter or a harvester, actually. It is like building taller ladders. Nobody knows for sure what, if anything, the employees at such enterprises are going to find up on those ladders. But they’re reaching. At least someone is.

【1】What is the main purpose of the first two paragraphs?

A．To present the process of group discussion.

B．To illustrate X’s worry about big problems.

C．To reveal the importance of the crazy ideas.

D．To stress the varied backgrounds of the team.

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Breakthroughs must stand the test of the market.

B．Innovation on necessities can promote productivity.

C．Invention develops slowly under the pressure of profit.

D．The harvest of innovation lies in some ambitious research.

【3】Regarding John Fernald’s view on technology, the author is ____.

A．supportive

B．cautious

C．uncertain

D．critical

【4】What can be inferred about X from the passage?

A．It will focus on innovation.

B．It will have its outcome soon.

C．It may give in to its fruitless reality.

D．It may bring an encouraging outlook.

24、The Rise of Voice Technology

Voice technology has come a long way. Just a few years ago, it would have been unusable. But now, those who follow the technology know that it has got considerably better.

Writing with your voice raises several interesting questions. How difficult is it actually? Human speech involves a lot more starting and stopping with errors and the need for repairing broken sentences than you may think. Even gifted speakers make mistakes. To turn the spoken word into reasonable writing requires lots of planning. You’ll need some kinds of notes or other organisers to make it work.

Another question turning speech into writing raises is the style. How would writing make the change that people speak their writing rather than type? Chances are that it would come up with many more short sentences and more concrete language, which is good. It would probably also rely on prepared phrases a lot more often, which is not available when you are speaking quickly.

To confirm this, a column was not written, but dictated (听写). It was composed from brief notes written down for structure only, and it was edited for length, with all of the original errors kept in. Here were the results. The first was that the literal accuracy was extremely high. There weren’t many cases where the software had heard one word incorrectly and written down another. But the other result was that the readability of this column was rather bad. Obviously, the blame is not with the technology at all, which turns out to be rather good. Speaking into writing relies on a better human brain than the one we currently possess. Writing is hard. There’s a reason it can’t be done at the speed of speech, in real time.

To clarify the matter, this time paragraph breaks were added after the whole writing. Punctuations (标点) had to be spoken aloud, and after a full stop, the first word in the new sentence was capitalized automatically. Some minor punctuation marks were added to make it clearer. To improve accuracy, people “trained” the software beforehand, reading a prewritten passage aloud. Actually it turns out to be more effective. All of these ensure the satisfactory completion of turning speech into writing.

Language is the most important tool for human interaction, and voice is one beautiful part of language. With the maturity of modern technology, it has given birth to a great change in the human-computer voice interaction.

【1】According to the passage, which helps to turn speech into writing in terms of style?

A．There is careful planning in advance.

B．Errors and broken sentences are avoided.

C．People type words as fast as they say them.

D．The writing contains more prepared phrases.

【2】To achieve better results, the author mentions some changes for ______.

A．processing errors in a column.

B．adding minor punctuation marks.

C．increasing the number of brief notes.

D．integrating short paragraphs in writing.

【3】The author suggests that ______.

A．human brains are responsible for poor dictated writing.

B．writing with voice promises to improve the quality of writing.

C．writing is an unnatural act that can hardly be learned and improved.

D．technology has a long way to go in the human-computer voice interaction.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．Why people fully intend to turn speech into writing.

B．What role voice technology plays in improving readability.

C．Where the human-computer voice interaction is at an advantage.

D．How voice technology enables the change from speech into writing.

25、One day, rain was falling. I saw an old, wet dog walking to my house. The leather collar around his neck was _______and faded. I could see the ribs (肋骨) sticking out of his sides and knew he hadn’t had a (n) _______ meal in many days. My heart _______! I ran into my kitchen, _______ an old bowl, filled it with some food and went outside.

The old dog _______ me with alarm. I could see he didn’t completely trust strangers. I called him _______, put the bowl down and _______ a few steps back. I kneeled down in the wet grass and _______. Finally, the old boy smelt food and moved slowly forward. His own smell came before him. He hadn’t had a _______ in a long time either. I wondered if he was ________ or just lost. He bent down his head and rapidly ate the contents of the bowl ________. Then for just a moment he gave me a(n) ________ little smile. I hurried inside, refilled the bowl, and went backout but he was already gone. I had wanted to ________ him and give him a home. Instead we just shared a meal and a moment of love. I sent up a little ________ that his future would be better.

Every moment of love you create is a ________. But caring doesn't necessarily go the way we want it to.

【1】

A．worn

B．tight

C．rare

D．delicate

【2】

A．superb

B．full

C．simple

D．ordinary

【3】

A．raced

B．failed

C．ached

D．danced

【4】

A．fetched

B．noticed

C．prepared

D．grabbed

【5】

A．eyed

B．kicked

C．nosed

D．attacked

【6】

A．jokingly

B．cheerfully

C．anxiously

D．gently

【7】

A．skipped

B．took

C．followed

D．tripped

【8】

A．waited

B．trembled

C．hesitated

D．shouted

【9】

A．meal

B．walk

C．bath

D．break

【10】

A．affected

B．adopted

C．injured

D．abandoned

【11】

A．skillfully

B．attentively

C．greedily

D．leisurely

【12】

A．awkward

B．curious

C．familiar

D．happy

【13】

A．rescue

B．protect

C．observe

D．reward

【14】

A．belief

B．prayer

C．promise

D．request

【15】

A．recreation

B．treasure

C．commitment

D．comfort

26、假定你是李华,上星期五你班举行了“劳动光荣”的主题班会。请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：

1. 班会目的；

2. 班会进程；

3. 班会反响。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A Theme Class Meeting

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