2025-2026年广东江门高二下册期末英语试卷(含答案)

1、After the excitement of Tokyo, there are the Beijing Winter Olympics to ______ .

A．work out

B．look forward to

C．fall behind

D．take over

2、China's most celebrated martial art novelist and essayist, Jin Yong, under________influence many people have become interested in martial arts, passed away in a Hongkong hospital.

A.his B.whose C.which D.whom

3、--- What do you think I should do?

----________your teacher’s advice, in my opinion, and everything will be OK.

A．Follow

B．Following

C．to follow

D．Followed

4、The overall consumption scale is expected to reach 201 billion yuan this year, meaning an increase of 18.5 percent over ________ of 2018.

A.that B.it C.the one D.those

5、______ , I think, in another two weeks, and you will realize your dream.

A. If you doubt your efforts   B. Making greater efforts

C. When you make greater efforts   D. A bit more efforts

6、--I feel so upset. I’m afraid I’ll be fired for the terrible economic crisis.

--________!Things are not so bad as they seem.

A．Go ahead

B．Good luck

C．No problem

D．Cheer up

7、It’s easy to get lost when you drive in a new city, so it’s important to ______ a good map before you set out.

A.study B.display C.deliver D.publish

8、The Nintendo Switch released a game in 1995, and over the past two years, a new system______ its player a chance to play the game better.

A.gives B.has given

C.would have given D.given

9、Can it be ______ in a fast-changing world we don’t know what to teach our children today?

A.which B.that C.why D.since

10、Mr. Zhang gave the textbooks to all the pupils except_____ who had already taken them.

A．the ones

B．ones

C．some

D．the others

11、New York is the fashion capital of the world, says a new study on Feb 4. 2014 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM), Pairs ____ second, with Shanghai ______10th while Hongkong 20th.

A. coming, ranks   B. come, ranked   C. comes, ranking   D. coming, ranking

12、—It’s really great to have a computer to store my photos.

—Don’t count on it too much. It ______ break down and you’d better make a copy of them.

A.must B.can C.should D.need

13、Mr.Green is always devoted to his work and has a sense of responsibility. That’s why he was asked to _______the company when manager’s health was declining.

A. take over   B. hand over

C. turn over   D. trip over

14、________ all this put under debate is whether they need to move their cattle to another field for nutrition purpose.

A．How

B．Why

C．What

D．That

15、The company is making a long-term__________to breaking into the American market.

A.complaint B.comment C.commitment D.contribution

16、By 2025, when the number of consumers worldwide has reached 4.2 billion, people with high income will be, for the first time, more than_______ struggling to meet basic needs.

A．one

B．that

C．ones

D．those

17、It will be a great help if you go to the store and get what we need for dinner.________I'll set the table.

A．As a result

B．In the meanwhile

C．On the whole

D．As a matter of fact

18、These diagrams are especially helpful when we have a concrete problem ______ at hand.

A. be solved   B. to solve   C. solved   D. being solved

19、You can’t use the computer now, ________ the upgrade of the system is under way.

A. until B. unless

C. as D. after

20、—Robert speaking. Could you get me through to Mr. Smith in Room 501?

—I’m sorry, he isn’t here. He ________ this morning.

A．checked in

B．dropped in

C．checked out

D．dropped out

21、   Some experts say muscle loss begins around age 50. But others say it can start as early as age 30. Although muscle loss may be a natural part of aging , you can do some things to slow it down. Lost muscles are not gone forever. It is better to start building muscles when you are younger and in good health. Experts may not know exactly when muscle loss starts , but it is never too late to start strength training.

Simply put , strength training is what makes one's muscles stronger, Let us talk about some of the health benefits of strength training. This information comes from Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit health and research organization in the United States.

Harvard University researchers say that strength training puts pressure on your bones. This pressure can aggrandize the thickness or density of bones. This can reduce your risk of developing osteoporosis — a disease that weakens bones, making them easy to break, usually when people get older or because they do not have enough calcium or Vitamin D. And experts say strength training can reduce the problems of many long-term disorders, such as back pain, heart disease, diabetes and depression.

Considering it's easy for people to run to fat when getting older, strength training can help you take control of your weight. Muscle weighs more than fat. But muscle increases your metabolism （新陈代谢），and a higher metabolism helps you burn more calories.

Strength training can improve your ability to take activities. For example, having stronger muscles makes it easier to lift and move things. So, your risk of falling or getting injured may be lessened. As we age, this can greatly add to our quality of life. And some research shows that regular strength training, when combined with other kinds of exercise, may help older adults think and learn better.

The aging process affects the human body in many ways. It is believed that strength training can have a major effect on a person's life, so consider motivating others to join you in the many physical and emotional benefits of strength training.

【1】What can we conclude according to the first paragraph?

A.Muscle loss has become a big threat for the young,

B.Lost muscles can come back by taking strength training.

C.Experts will do research about when muscles lose.

D.Being inactive in life can speed up the aging process.

【2】Which can replace the underlined word “aggrandize" in the third paragraph?

A.Protect. B.Improve. C.Prevent. D.Influence.

【3】What benefit can strength training bring to the old?

A.It can lift the level of calcium or Vitamin D.

B.It can control the metabolism to some extent.

C.It can cure some of their long-term disorders.

D.It can help perform their routines easily.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.Why You Need to Start Strength Training

B.What You Should Do with Everyday Activities

C.When Building Your Muscles Matters a Lot

D.How Strength Training Affects Your Thinking

22、   Terracotta Warriors from Xi’an, Shanxi province, are well-known worldwide for their significance in history. Behind these relics, conservator-restorers work day and night to piece fragments together and restore these ancient figures.

Lan Desheng is one of these restorers. Having majored in cultural heritage at Northwest University in Xi’an, he has restored more than 150 figures in the past 25 years. He imagines himself as a doctor from the Qin Dynasty (221—206 BC), the time when these warriors were created. “There are many different types of doctors in the world, but few could have diagnosed and treated those Qin warriors, who lived over 2,000 years ago,” said the 52-year-old restorer.

Over the years, the technology used to restore the figures has changed, but the fundamental methods remain the same. Abiding by the rule of minimum intervention, Lan and his team try to restore the relics by examining fragments and fitting them into the Terracotta Warrior figures.

The process demands great attention to detail and also enables him to get to know his “patients” better. Lan said the figures have colorful painting and sometimes even the fingerprints of the artisans who made the figures. The artisans’ names were also carved into the warriors, but these signatures might be hard to find. “If you look closely at the fragments, you can see traces of the artisans’ fingerprints and complete palm prints left after they heavily slapped the clay. There are also traces of the hairs they shed,” said Lan.

After decades of experience, Lan can already tell the differences between works of Qin Court craftsmen and those of local artisans. Without a doubt, patience is essential when restoring these figures. Sometimes it might take years for missing fragments of a figure to be found, if it can ever be recovered. “In some cases, we have been unable to locate the remaining parts of Terracotta Warriors that have been assembled for the past year or two. When this happens, there is nothing to do but stop work,” Lan said.

Despite these difficulties, Lan said this is his ideal job. He is proud to have contributed to the process of restoring these historic relics. “We employ materials used in the Qin Dynasty to restore and repair the warriors and their horses―a legacy we will pass on to the next generation,” he said.

【1】What can we know about restoring Terracotta Warriors?

A．The less intervention in restoration, the better.

B．Restorers receive the same training as doctors.

C．Restorers have to have a degree in cultural heritage.

D．The methods have greatly changed due to advanced technology.

【2】What could you find if you observe the figures of Terracotta Warriors closely?

A．Names of the warriors.

B．The figures’ palm prints.

C．Details of the figures’ hair.

D．Traces of the figure makers’ fingerprints.

【3】Why is restoring Terracotta Warriors difficult?

A．Restorers are sometimes forced to stop assembling.

B．Restorers don’t know where to find the remaining parts.

C．It may take a long time to find all of the missing parts, if ever.

D．Restorers have to work together to piece fragments together.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．Why repairing the relics is important.

B．What difficulties Lan has experienced in his career.

C．What the future generation can do to restore the relics.

D．How conservator-restorers repair the figures of Terracotta Warriors.

23、It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and started socializing with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front.

German troops held up Christmas trees with signs, “Merry Christmas”. Thousands of troops ran across the battlefields covered with dead bodies. They sang Christmas songs, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared food and even played football. Soldiers hugged men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if their officers forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.

Fear ran through the military leaders on both sides. They felt that their power was being challenged: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals declared this unexpected peacemaking illegal and said that participating soldiers would face a military court. Those found guilty would be imprisoned or even shot.  By March 1915 the socializing movement had been destroyed and the killing machine was back in full operation. Over the next three years more than fifteen million people died in the war.

Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce (休战). On Christmas Day, 1988, a local radio host in Boston played “Christmas in the Trenches”, a song about the Christmas Truce, several times and was stunned by his listeners’ response. Thousands of people called in, praising the song, with many moved to tears by the amazing events it described.

You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It lets us see the world as it can be and says, “This really happened once.” It shows us the potential we have as humans, and contradicts all of those TV and newspaper stories that tell us how mean and heartless people are. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really can be different.

【1】The soldiers began socializing with the enemy because ________.

A. they couldn't bear the meaningless killing

B. it was the best way to avoid being killed

C. they feared that they would be caught

D. their enemies were from similar backgrounds

【2】How did the generals finally put an end to the soldiers’ socializing?

A. They sent the soldiers’ loved ones to prison.

B. They moved the two groups of soldiers further apart.

C. They increased the number of officers to control the soldiers.

D. They warned the soldiers that they would face severe punishment.

【3】The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 4 most probably means ________.

A. satisfied B. shocked C. amused D. confused

【4】The author uses the story of the soldiers to imply that human beings ________.

A. are not trustworthy under stress

B. are naturally aggressive and war-like

C. are basically caring and kindhearted

D. will always do what is in their own self-interest

24、Since English biologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have vastly improved their knowledge of natural history. However, a lot of information is still of the speculation, and scientists can still only make educated guesses at certain things.

One subject that they guess about is why some 400 million years ago, animals in the sea developed limbs (肢) that allowed them to move onto and live on land.

Recently, an idea that occurred to the US paleontologist (古生物学家) Alfred Romer a century ago became a hot topic once again.

Homer thought that tidal (潮汐的) pools might have led to fish gaining limbs. Sea animals would have been forced into these pools by strong tides. Then, they would have been made either to adapt to their new environment close to land or die. The fittest among them grew to accomplish the transition (过渡) from sea to land.

Romer called these earliest four-footed animals “tetrapods”. Science has always thought that this was a credible theory, but only recently has there been strong enough evidence to support it.

Hannah Byrne is an oceanographer (海洋学家) at Uppsala University in Sweden. She announced at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Oregon, US, that by using computer software, her team had managed to link Homer’s theory to places where fossil deposits (沉积物) of the earliest tetrapods were found.

According to the magazine Science, in 2014, Steven Balbus, a scientist at the University of Oxford in the UK, calculated that 400 million years ago, when the move from land to sea was achieved, tides were stronger than they are today. This is because the planet was 10 percent closer to the moon than it is now.

The creatures stranded in the pools would have been under the pressure of “survival of the fittest”, explained Mattias Green, an ocean scientist at the UK’s University of Bangor. As he told Science, “After a few days in these pools, you become food or you run out of food... the fish that had large limbs had an advantage because they could flip (翻转) themselves back in the water.”

As is often the case, however, there are others who find the theory less convincing. Cambridge University’s paleontologist Jennifer Clark, speaking to Nature magazine, seemed unconvinced. “It’s only one of many ideas for the origin of land-based tetrapods, any or all of which may have been a part of the answer,” she said.

【1】Who first proposed the theory that fish might have gained limbs because of tidal pools?

A. Alfred Romer.   B. Charles Darwin.

C. Hannah Byrne.   D. Steven Balbus.

【2】Why were tides stronger 400 million years ago than they are today according to Steven Balbus?

A. There were larger oceans.

B. Earth was closer to the moon.

C. The moon gave off more energy.

D. Earth was under greater pressure.

【3】The underlined word “stranded” in Paragraph 8 probably means “________”.

A. found   B. settled

C. abandoned   D. trapped

【4】What is the focus of the article?

A. The arguments over a scientific theory.

B. The proposal of a new scientific theory.

C. Some new evidence to support a previous theory.

D. A new discovery that questions a previous theory.

25、   Fifteen years ago, apps were new and few truly understood their potentials. Retailers (零售商) barely knew that consumers could browse in stores while comparing _________ from other providers through apps before _________ making the purchase online. Ten years ago brick-mortar-and (实体店) retailers were threatened as Amazon released an “evil” promotion that encouraged consumers to use Price Check app while visiting _________ stores. Any purchase completed through the app was given rewarding _________, which significantly stimulated sales and _________ many shop owners to bankruptcy (破产).

“Media have reported these apps as a threat to physical stores,” says a retailer. “However, less _________ is the fact that it is also an opportunity for us.” Retailers need to accept any sensible buyer tends to _________ prices. You’d better offer in-store Internet access to _________ these consumers. With caring services combined with acceptable prices, the store might persuade consumers to make the deal _________.

A study indicates it’s __________ to limit the item price to at most 5 dollars higher than what online stores charge. After all, for some consumers, getting the absolute lowest price is not their __________. Many of them, instead, are willing to pay __________ in exchange for favorable shopping experiences, such as the pleasant store atmosphere with a reasonable price __________.

Besides, adopting a strategy of __________ channels is also essential. With many sale channels under control, retailers surely have access to the lowest price. Therefore, when a customer pulls out a mobile device in store, retailers can be spared the __________ that was unavoidable for them ten years ago.

A．prices

B．locations

C．experiences

D．similarities

A．genuinely

B．generously

C．particularly

D．finally

A．domestic

B．physical

C．imaginary

D．parallel

A．alternatives

B．deposits

C．refunds

D．discounts

A．cornered

B．introduced

C．contributed

D．sentenced

A．criticized

B．mentioned

C．predicted

D．recommended

A．pursue

B．neglect

C．question

D．compare

A．assist

B．prohibit

C．monitor

D．expose

A．out of place

B．on the spot

C．within reach

D．at random

A．wise

B．senseless

C．risky

D．challenging

A．reputation

B．greed

C．priority

D．devotion

A．tax

B．much

C．cash

D．extra

A．disorder

B．gap

C．loss

D．reduction

A．accessible

B．multiple

C．loyal

D．concrete

A．doubt

B．effort

C．fear

D．guilt

26、假定你是李华，你的外国朋友Tom来信询问你的近况。请根据以下提示给他回复一封邮件：

1. 4月30日参加了高三成人典礼，并代表高三学生发言；

2. 个人的感受以及对高中剩下的日子的规划。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。