2025-2026年广东河源高二下册期末英语试卷带答案

1、Dragon Boat Festival is held ________ Qu Yuan, a well-known poet in ancient China.

A．in honor of

B．in search of

C．in the hope of

D．in the face of

2、You can get   you want as a gift for your fantastic performance in the final examination for you and your friends.

A.whoever B.whichever C.however D.whatever

3、While meeting with Trump on April 7th at Florida resort, President Xi Jinping suggested that the two sides ________ the annual exchange programs they have ________.

A. carry out; agreed on   B. carried on; agreed to

C. carry out; agreed with   D. carry on; agreed with

4、 Success is not final, and failure is not deadly. It is the courage to continue ______ counts in life.

A. that   B. which

C. where   D. when

5、This book is said to be the special one, which ________ many events that cannot be found in other history books.

A. covers B. writes

C. prints D. reads

6、She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.

A.phoned B.had phoned

C.was phoning D.has phoned

7、—How can you know so much about the incident?

—It took place only 50 yards from ______ I was standing.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

8、What I finally believe is that it's of no importance ______ others think about you，and what matters most is the attitude of your own .

A.what B.how

C.that D.way

9、—Is Peter coming?

—No, he   his mind after a phone call at the last minute.

A.changed B.has changed C.had changed D.is changing

10、--Can I use the telephone on the table，sir？

--Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs．

A．anyone is allowed  B．nobody is allowed

C．is anyone allowed  D．is nobody allowed

11、In order to satisfy the needs of the market, the electric company has ______ its focus to tablet computers and smart mobile phones.

A.switched B.shaped

C.directed D.discovered

12、You could get into a situation_________you have to decide immediately.

A.what B.which C.where D.that

13、The newly elected president required at the meeting that the problem ________ be solved before the National Day.

A. must   B. need

C. can   D. should

14、I didn’t ________ having to do the cooking myself, or I would have learnt one or two dishes from my mom.

A. expect B. anticipate

C. forecast D. preview

15、Nowadays, basic health care services are ________ to almost all the Chinese people. This accounts for the fact that the average life expectancy of all the Chinese has already risen to 75.

A．accessible

B．abundant

C．accurate

D．attractive

16、Some elderly people find it hard________ the things that happened while they were children.

A．remember

B．to remember

C．remembering

D．remembered

17、The Internet has made ______ easier than ever to start a business.

A. it B. that C. this  D. One

18、Jack wasn’t appointed chairman of the committee, ______ not very popular with all its members.

A. to be considered   B. considering   C. having considered   D. considered

19、He wrote a letter ________ he explained what had happened in the accident.

A. that B. which

C. where D. what

20、They______ jewellery since eight o'clock and had only just finished when two robbers broke in .

A.had been arranging B.were arranging

C.have been arranging D.had arranged

21、   If you’re looking for someone to make a realistic, three-dimensional (3D) portrait of your pet cat using felted wool, you’ll have a tough time finding someone better than Wakuneco, a Japanese artist who started creating needle felt art back in 2015. Using different colored wool, this artist creates life-like cat portraits. Just have a look at what she can do with a needle and wool thread.

Looking at some of the cat portraits created by the talented Japanese artist, it’s hard to believe they are made of felted wool and not taxidermy (动物标本剥制术) masterpieces. To achieve this level of realism, which translates as “frame cat”, Wakuneco spends hours on end poking wool with a needle to create solid layers that imitate cat fur, applying realistic glass eyes and finally adding the whiskers. After everything is just as she wants, the 3D portrait is framed and sent to the owner who ordered it.

Losing a beloved pet is never easy, but Wakuneco’s realistic cat portraits — made using photographs of real cats as a reference — help owners deal with their loss. And while not all of her customers are owners looking for something special to remember their pets, many of her portraits are ordered as a means of copying.

Wakuneco currently offers her amazing wool felting skills through Yahoo Auctions, but only to Japanese customers. However, after photos of her amazingly detailed portraits spread quickly online, she did express her intention to start taking international orders in the near future. In the meantime, you can admire her amazing creations on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and watch videos of the creative process on YouTube.

For more amazing felted wool artworks, check out the creations of Gardenia Miru and Terumi Ohta, two other very talented Japanese artists, as well as the felted wool animal portraits of Dani Ives.

【1】What does the author mean by saying the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1?

A．No one can do better than Wakuneco.

B．Wakuneco is too busy to be visited or invited.

C．It’s hard for you to get along well with Wakuneco.

D．You’ll find many other skillful persons like Wakuneco.

【2】What do we know about the 3D cat portraits?

A．They’re widely considered as taxidermy masterpieces.

B．Their eyes are made of felted wool in most cases.

C．They’re made by modeling the pictures of authentic cats.

D．Their fur is taken from animals no longer alive.

【3】What can be learned from the last two paragraphs?

A．Dani Ives’s wool animal portraits are gaining in popularity.

B．Only the Japanese can buy Wakuneco’s artworks for the time being.

C．Wakuneco decided to show her creative process on Twitter.

D．Wakuneco is unsure about selling her artworks internationally.

【4】What is the best title for the text?

A．3D Technology Used in Art.

B．Four Talented Japanese Artists.

C．Needle Felting: An Art in Danger.

D．Wakuneco’s Realistic 3D Cat Portraits.

22、   An obvious reason for learning a new language is to be able to communicate with the people who speak it.【1】 People in every country prefer it when tourists make an effort to speak the local language, even if all you can say in it is “hello” and “please”.

Cultural understanding

Speaking a new language helps you to get to know another people and culture, as language and culture go hand in hand.【2】 It shows new ways of looking at the world. In addition, when you speak another language, you can enjoy literature, film, and music in the original language. It is extremely difficult for a translation to be a perfect replica (复制品) of the original. 【3】.

Business and careers

【4】 Schools and employers tend to prefer candidates who speak one or more foreign languages. Even though English is widely spoken in much of the world, the fact is that the global economy depends on communication. When dealing with France, for example, someone who speaks French will have an obvious advantage over someone who doesn’t.

Language improvement

Learning another language can help you to understand your own. Many languages have contributed to the development of English.【5】 Also, in learning how another language differs from your own, you will increase your understanding of your own language. For many people, language is innate (与生俱来的) — we know how to say something, but we don’t necessarily know why we say it that way. Learning another language can change that.

A.Language is helpful in making foreign friends.

B.The best way is to read what the author actually wrote.

C.Learning another language opens one’s mind to new ideas.

D.Your trip will be comfortable if you speak the local language.

E.Speaking more than one language will increase your market ability.

F.It is true that mastering another foreign language is very beneficial.

G.Learning those will teach you where words and even grammatical structures are from.

23、Did you throw together the stuff you had on hand and amazedly found it good? Here’re some foods that never would have happened if someone hadn’t created them by mistake.

ICE CREAM CONE

Before the ice-cream cone (蛋卷筒), people ate ice-cream out of dishes. This changed in 1904. A vendor (摊贩) ran out of dishes to serve ice-cream. Luckily, another vendor was selling waffle (华夫饼). The quick-thinking vendor rolled his waffle into a cone. The ice-cream vendor filled it with ice-cream for his customers, who were deeply impressed by its flavor and got a second treat when they realized they could eat the cone with ice-cream.

POTATO CHIPS

It is the result of a complaint. In 1853, a man ordered fried potatoes at a restaurant. He sent them back to the kitchen because they weren’t crispy (松脆的) enough. The chef was so angry that he sliced the potatoes extremely thin, put lots of salt, and fried them Then they became a specialty.

TOFU

Tofu is made by fresh soya milk, and was accidentally invented in China 2,000 years ago, when a cook added seaweed to soya milk. Tofu is a great example of how messing up a recipe can create something unexpectedly good.

CHEESE PUFF

One day, an employee working in a company making animal feed watched workers pouring cornmeal (玉米粉) into the machine. It came out of the machine in ribbons. He took some of the ribbons home, added oil and flavors to them, and voila! Cheese puffs!

【1】Why did ice-cream customers want a second treat?

A．Because of the lack of dishes.

B．Because of the portability of the cone.

C．Because of the half price of two snacks.

D．Because of the taste of the combination.

【2】What can we know from this text?

A．Tofu is a surprising outcome of a mistake.

B．Potato chips were criticized for excessive salt.

C．Ice-cream was served with waffle before 1904.

D．Cheese puff was invented by a snack company.

【3】What do the listed foods have in common?

A．They were created by accident.

B．They are western popular snacks.

C．They were developed in the kitchen.

D．They were invented for pleasant flavor.

24、   We are not who we think we are.

The American self-image is spread with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable—a place where brains, energy and ambition are what count, not the circumstances of one’s birth.

The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: The “rags to riches” story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top.

That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap their way into the top. Meanwhile, an incredible 42 percent of children born into that lowest are still stuck at the bottom, having been unable to climb a single rung of the income ladder.

It is noted that even in Britain—a nation we think of as burdened with a hidebound (守旧的) class system—children who are born poor have a better chance of moving up. When the studies were released, most reporters focused on the finding that African-Americans born to middle-class or upper middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than did their parents.

One of the studies indicates, in fact, that most of the financial gains white families have made in the past three decades can be attributed to the entry of white women into the labor force. This is much less true for African-Americans.

The picture that emerges from all the correlations and percentages is of a nation in which, over all, “the current generation of adults is better off than the previous one”, as one of the studies notes.

The median income of the families in the sample group was $55,600 in the late 1960s; their children’s median family income was measured at $71,900. However, this rising ride has not lifted all boats equally. The rich have seen far greater income gains than the poor.

Even more troubling is that our nation of America as the land of opportunity gets little supper: from the data. Americans move fairly easily up and down the middle rungs of the ladder, but there is “stickiness at the end”—four out of ten children who are born poor will remain poor, and four out of ten who are born rich will stay rich.

【1】What did the Economic Mobility Project find in its research?

A．Children from low-income families are unable to bootstrap their way to the top.

B．Hollywood actors and actresses are upwardly mobile from rags to riches.

C．The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality.

D．The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.

【2】It can be inferred from the writer that America, as a classless society, should ________.

A．perfect its self-image as a land of opportunity

B．have a higher level of upward mobility than Britain

C．enable African-Americans to have exclusive access to well-paid employment

D．encourage the current generation to work as hard as the previous generation

【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The US is a land where brains, energy and ambition are what count.

B．Inequality persists between whites and blacks in financial gains.

C．Middle-class families earn slightly less with inflation considered.

D．Children in lowest-income families manage to climb a single rung of the ladder.

【4】What might be the best title for this passage?

A．Social Upward Mobility in America

B．Incredible Income Gains in America

C．America: Land of Unequal Wealth

D．America: Not Land of Opportunity for all

25、Juliette Lamour, a university student from Ontario, has won a $48-million jackpot (头奖)，becoming the________Canadian ever to win such a big prize.She bought her first lottery ticket after her grandfather gave her the________. “He said to me: ‘You just________18, go buy a lotto ticket and test your________’. So, I did,” said Lamour, when________her win at a media event.

Lamour said she had________all about the ticket until she heard news that someone from her________had won the jackpot. When she went to________her ticket through a mobile app, a jingle started to play and “Big Winner” flashed________

Now here’s where the story gets interesting. Thirteen years ago, Soo Today published a(n)________ story about two young sisters________their piggy bank to help people in need. It all started when Lamour had recently celebrated her 5th birthday and a catastrophic earthquake had just________Haiti, leaving much of the country in ruins. Lamour was________ to help without hesitation, donating a total of $61.38 in the piggy bank. That five-year-old girl who________donated all her savings to charity is now $48 million richer than any of her peers.

During the check________ on Feb 3, 2023, Lamour was asked about that story: “Is the universe somehow________you now for your childhood act of kindness?” “I don’t know,” she replied. “Everyone that’s reached out to us has made some________comments and I just keep________: ‘You deserve it. Good things happen to good people. Everything happens for a________.’I still don’t know why this happened, but I’m really just so________and I’m planning to do good things with the winnings.”

【1】

A．first

B．youngest

C．fastest

D．richest

【2】

A．key

B．chance

C．right

D．idea

【3】

A．passed

B．earned

C．turned

D．grew

【4】

A．value

B．luck

C．virtue

D．kindness

【5】

A．discussing

B．interviewing

C．announcing

D．celebrating

【6】

A．prepared

B．learned

C．spent

D．forgotten

【7】

A．hometown

B．family

C．country

D．company

【8】

A．confirm

B．submit

C．check

D．exchange

【9】

A．to her phone

B．in the computer

C．on the screen

D．on the wall

【10】

A．heartwarming

B．amusing

C．thrilling

D．shocking

【11】

A．cleaning

B．selling

C．sponsoring

D．emptying

【12】

A．reached

B．struck

C．stuck

D．sunk

【13】

A．made

B．determined

C．supposed

D．persuaded

【14】

A．merely

B．poorly

C．happily

D．hardly

【15】

A．presentation

B．performance

C．contribution

D．exhibition

【16】

A．praising

B．envying

C．charging

D．rewarding

【17】

A．specific

B．objective

C．positive

D．aggressive

【18】

A．hearing

B．praying

C．replying

D．writing

【19】

A．result

B．reason

C．purpose

D．truth

【20】

A．confident

B．sorry

C．selfish

D．grateful

26、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友David写邮件告知你他打算购买 《红楼梦》 (A Dream in Red Mansions) 英文版，但不知道纸质版本和有声版本哪个更适合。请你给他提出建议，要点如下:

1.你的建议；

2.你的理由(至少两条)；

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇:有声读物audio book

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