惠州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Both Class 3 and our class won't be able to finish the work unless we ______________ each other.

A.come up with B.team up with

C.put up with D.catch up with

2、________ some teenagers don’t realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs.

A．That; how

B．Which; what a

C．What; what

D．What; how

3、The bungalow near the south school gate will be ______ into classrooms for music and art.

A. transmitted   B. transferred   C. transformed   D. transported

4、– You’re left the light on.

-- Oh, so I have. _____ and turn it off.

A．I’ll go

B．I’ve gone

C．I go

D．I’m going

5、   by a large number of towering complexes，the community attract many people who adore convenient life.

A.Having surrounded B.Being surrounded

C.Surrounded D.Surrounding

6、—Can we make it to the concert with such heavy traffic?

—Absolutely not.The pianist_______for about half an hour when we arrive.

A.will be playing B.has played C.will have played D.has been playing

7、The most exciting moment during the Spring Festival is_____ the family enjoy the big dinner together.

A．what

B．why

C．which

D．When

8、Nowadays, the Internet is a popular ________ for the public to access information and voice their opinions.

A. track B. trend

C. channel D. lane

9、The public were expecting the _______ of further details about the accident until thorough investigation.

A.receipt B.release

C.request D.reference

10、Our high-tech zone has__________guidelines for sustainable development in the next five years.

A.fallen for B.got over C.broken down D.laid out

11、Though he started late. Mr. Guo played the piano as well as, if , Miss Liu.

A.not better than B.not better C.no better than D.better

12、Christine is ______ about anything but her dress as she doesn’t really care about what she looks like in the eyes of others.

A.cautious B.optimistic

C.particular D.curious

13、The number of Hutongs in Beijing is decreasing, ______ they still attract tourists from all over the world.

A．or

B．and

C．but

D．so

14、The school has a system of________ and punishments to encourage good behavior.

A．prices

B．funds

C．awards

D．rewards

15、 In my view, London's not as expensive in price as Tokyo but Tokyo is ______in traffic.

A.the most organized B.more organized

C.so organized as D.as organized as

16、University majors should not be ________ market demand and the government should give more support for “unpopular” majors such as literature, history and philosophy.

A. in the form of B. in the process of

C. at the mercy of   D. at the risk of

17、To produce the goods satisfying the environmental ______, the company  has  brought in advanced technology to remove the chemicals in the course of production.

A.burdens B.requirements C.pollution D.evolution

18、Each member of the community should acquire good habits and ______their behavior in an attempt to create a harmonious atmosphere.

A.refresh B.regulate C.resemble D.reveal

19、They’d won 12 ______ games before they lost.

A．vivid

B．straight

C．typical

D．flexible

20、－That must have been a terrible experience.

－Yeah. I________ in the damaged car, unable to move.

A. was stuck   B. have been stuck

C. am stuck   D. had been stuck

21、My 21-year-old niece, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. Many now routinely speed up their lectures when learning offline — often by 1.5 times, sometimes by even more. Speed learning is not for everyone, but there are websites where students discuss how odd it will be once they return to the lecture theatre. One contributor wrote: “Normal speed now sounds like drunk speed.”

Education was adapting to the digital world long before Covid-19 but, as with so many other human activities, the pandemic has given learning a huge push towards the virtual. Overnight, schools and universities closed and teachers and students had to find ways to do what they do only via the internet. “This is a time for schools and systems to reimagine education without schooling or classrooms,” says Professor Yong Zhao. Dr Jim Watterston in Australia thinks that, while the traditional classroom is still alive and well, education needs to be more adventurous and flexible. Earlier this year, Zhao and Watterston co-authored a paper in which they identified some major changes that should happen in education post-lockdown.

The first concerns the content, which should emphasize such things as creativity, critical thinking and leadership, rather than the collection and storage of information. “For humans to progress in the age of smart machines, it is essential that they do not compete with machines.”, they wrote, “Instead, they need to be more human.”

The second is that students should have more control over their learning, with the teacher’s role shifting from instructor to supervisor of learning resources, advisor and motivator. This is where so-called “active learning” comes in with a growing body of research suggesting that comprehension and memory are better when students learn in a hands-on way — through discussion and interactive technologies, for example. It’s also where the concept of “productive failure” applies. Professor Manu Kapurin argues that students learn better from their own or others’ failed attempts to solve a problem before or even instead of being told how to solve it.

If the progress of the times is unable to hold back the coming revolution in education, it seems unlikely that the traditional classroom is going to have any luck in its attempts trying to turn back the clock. As Laurillard puts it, “It took a global pandemic to drive home what we’ve been saying for 20 years.”

【1】By giving examples of “speed learning” in the first paragraph, the author wants to show that _________.

A．digital world is dramatically reforming the way of learning.

B．speed learning completely replaces normal speed learning.

C．returning to the lecture theatre is strange after speed learning.

D．education begins to adapt to digital world after Covid-19.

【2】According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．It is essential for smart machines to be more human.

B．Students should possess more information about creativity.

C．Students value others’ failure over their own failure.

D．“Active learning” calls for diverse ways of involvement.

【3】According to Zhao and Watterston, the major changes in education should include _________.

①learning mode       ②learning motive             ③learning attitude               ④learning focus

A．①④

B．②③

C．①③

D．②④

【4】According to the passage, what does the author most probably agree with?

A．Speed learning harms students’ learning efficiency.

B．The coming revolution in education is irreversible.

C．Teachers will play a less important role in the future.

D．The traditional classrooms will eventually disappear.

22、   Nao, a small robot, looks like a person. If Nao begged you not to shut it off, what would you do?

Scientists did a study to see how people treat robots that act like people. Eighty-nine people volunteered for the study. They were asked to help to improve Nao’s social skills by finishing two tasks with it.

The tasks with the robot didn’t matter, though. What the scientists really wanted to see was how the participants reacted once the tasks were over. They were asked to talk with Nao and finally shut Nao off but it was not easy to do. Some people did not want to turn the robot off while others took a long time to do it.

People often communicate with non-human objects such as TVs and computers nowadays. But robots seem more like humans. Robots can show social characters themselves, like speaking with human voices or taking the shape of a human body. Scientists said people might have seen Nao’s cries as a sign of independent thought. In turn, this could have led people to see the robot as having the human-like character.

For thousands of years,humans lived in a world where they were the only ones who could have conversations. Our brains learned to react to social situations in a certain way. But our brains are not used to telling the difference between real people and fake people. The robot expressed feelings and desires and that got people to want to treat the robot as if it were alive.

【1】Why did scientists use Nao in the study?

A．To learn about how people react to robots.

B．To communicate with humans.

C．To help people finish their daily tasks.

D．To improve people’s social skills.

【2】What did participants do when asked to turn off Nao?

A．All of them refused to turn it off.

B．Not all of them took action immediately.

C．All of them found it hard to operate it.

D．All of them followed the order soon.

【3】Compared with TVs, robots________.

A．are more similar to humans

B．often depend on humans

C．have independent thought

D．know well about different voices

【4】What can we know about our brains?

A．They are much cleverer than robots.

B．They can recognize fake people.

C．They can ’t tell the difference between real people and fake people.

D．They teach robots to show their feelings.

23、Last year scientists reported using a neural implant (神经植入物) in a man’s brain to restore his ability to communicate. The man has been partially paralyzed and unable to produce comprehensible speech since suffering a severe stroke. It is the latest advance in the exploding field of brain-computer interfaces (接口), or BCIs, which allow computers to read information out of a living brain.

Brain-computer interfaces are possible because of two facts. The first is that your brain contains hundreds of tiny maps. Each represents specific features of your physical feelings and intended actions. And crucially, the basic set of brain maps and their locations within the brain are very similar across individuals.

Thanks to their specialized functions and universal locations, brain maps are ideal entry points for BCI technologies. Picking up signals from a brain map is only the first step in making a useful BCI. Although the location of a brain map is the same across individuals, the details — what patterns of activity within the map mean — differ from person to person. In a sense, the unique features of your specific brain maps serve as a kind of encryption (加密), safeguarding your specific thoughts and feelings from would-be spies.

That brings us to the second fact that makes BCIs possible. Thanks to advances in machine learning, scientists have developed programs that can learn to recognize key patterns in a vast sea of numbers. They train these programs to decode (解码) brain signals by feeding them tons of examples. Researchers developing BCIs often create such examples by instructing an individual to think specific thoughts at specific times, creating a neural curriculum for the program to learn from.

While the universal features and locations of brain maps make them obvious entrances for BCIs, the unique features of your brain maps tend to protect them from spying eyes. In cases where BCIs have successfully read specific thoughts or intentions from a brain, it has been with the permission of the individual whose brain was being read. But there are surreptitious ways to train decoders on your brain without your knowledge. This can happen if your neural data falls into the hands of companies with detailed information about your activities.

Like all technologies, brain-computer interfaces are not necessarily good or bad. Yet while harvesting the benefits of BCIs, we need to ensure that we have the means to protect ourselves from corporations with every motive to take advantage of this technology for their financial gain.

【1】What can we learn about brain maps?

A．They carry unique messages.

B．They can process encrypted signals.

C．Their functions vary from person to person.

D．Their locations reveal human thinking patterns.

【2】What can we infer from the passage?

A．BCIs can boost brain signals dramatically.

B．BCIs could help recover from brain injuries.

C．Machine learning enables BCIs to read mind.

D．The decoding of brain may be affected by BCIs.

【3】What does the underlined word “surreptitious” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Secure.

B．Stable.

C．Standard.

D．Secret.

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The future trend of BCIs.

B．The potential risks of BCIs.

C．The working principle of BCIs.

D．The general applications of BCIs.

24、8:30 PM

Outlook

Outlook is back with a new series of reports to keep you up date with all that’s new in the world of entertainment．Stories go all the way from the technical to the romantic, from stage to screen．There will be reports of the stars of the moment, the stars of the future and the stars of the past．The director with his new film, the designer with the latest fashion, and the musician with the popular song are part of the new Outlook．The program is introduced by Fran Levine.

9:00 PM

Discovery

When a 10-year-old boy gets a first class degree in mathematics or an 8-year-old plays chess like a future grand master, they are considered as geniuses．Where does the quality of genius come from? Is it all in the genes or can any child be turned into a genius? And if parents do have a child who might become a genius in the future, what should they do? In this 30-minute film, Barry Johnson, the professor at School of Medicine, New York University, will help you discover the answer.

10:00 PM

Science / Health

Is it possible to beat high blood pressure without drugs? The answer is “yes”, according to the researchers at Johns Hopkins and three other medical centers．After a study of 800 persons with high blood pressure, they found that after 6 months, those devoted to weight loss-exercise and eating a low-salt, low-fat food lost about 13 pounds and became fitter．Plus, 35% of them dropped into the normal category （范畴）．This week, Dr．Alan Duckworth will tell you how these people reduce their blood pressure to a level similar to what’s achieved with Hypertension drugs.

【1】The main purpose of writing these three texts is ______.

A.to invite people to see films

B.to invite people to topic discussions

C.to attract more students to attend lectures

D.to attract more people to watch TV programs

【2】From Outlook, you can get a great deal of information about ______.

A.story tellers B.famous stars

C.film companies D.music fans

【3】Who will be most probably interested in Discovery?

A.Parents who want to send their children to a school of medicine.

B.Children who are good at mathematics.

C.Parents who want their child to become another Albert Einstein.

D.Children who are interested in playing chess．

【4】According to the third text, which of the following has almost the same effect as Hypertension drug?

A.Exercise plus a healthy diet.

B.Loss of thirteen pounds in weight.

C.Six months of exercise without drugs.

D.Low-salt and low-fat food.

25、Last week, I drove to Joe’s Hardware to get a few items. Upon returning to my _______, I noticed a cat underneath and bent down to investigate. At this point, my wallet fell _______ — but I didn’t notice it was _______ until about an hour later. I _______ my steps, asked around and tore my car inside out. Nothing. I lost my wallet.

After this fact sank in, I was about to call the bank and have them _______ me a new credit card when a little voice inside my head said, “Whoa! _______. Someone must have picked it up. An _______ citizen, just like you. What would she or he do?”

So I _______ and I was going to give it a day. Then, early that evening, I was surfing the Internet for a new wallet when I heard a knock on the door. There was a man who I did not _______. Could it be?

After we exchanged ________, he handed me my wallet. He found it in the parking lot, thought of dropping it off at Joe’s Hardware but decided to drive over and return it ________.

He told me his ________, but I was overcome with emotion and cannot be 100% sure. I think it was David. I offered him a cash reward ________ he refused. He was just a regular guy doing the right thing.

I’m grateful for having my wallet ________. David, thank you for reinforcing my belief that there are some good and ________ people around.

【1】

A．bike

B．home

C．bank

D．car

【2】

A．off

B．through

C．behind

D．apart

【3】

A．broken

B．empty

C．stolen

D．missing

【4】

A．recovered

B．recorded

C．retraced

D．reduced

【5】

A．loan

B．send

C．show

D．pass

【6】

A．Come on

B．Cheer up

C．Slow down

D．Look out

【7】

A．honorable

B．distinguished

C．senior

D．average

【8】

A．thought back

B．looked back

C．held back

D．took back

【9】

A．doubt

B．recognize

C．admire

D．remember

【10】

A．enquiries

B．questions

C．greetings

D．congratulations

【11】

A．in order

B．in time

C．in person

D．in turn

【12】

A．story

B．hobby

C．name

D．job

【13】

A．however

B．while

C．although

D．but

【14】

A．recovered

B．released

C．requested

D．registered

【15】

A．decent

B．courageous

C．cautious

D．humble

26、假如你是李华，上周末你参加了学生会组织的社会实践活动，参观周恩来纪念馆，缅怀“人民的好总理”。请你给你的美国朋友 Charles 写信介绍这次活动，内容包括：

1.活动介绍；

2.活动意义；

3.期盼交流。

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。

参考词汇：周总理 Premier Zhou 周恩来纪念馆 Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall

Dear Charles,

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Yours,

Li Hua