黔南州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、It seemed so sad that the two, who had been lovers, pretended not to recognize ________ when they met in the street.

A．neither

B．the other

C．each other

D．another

2、John was usually so careful, this time he made a small mistake.

A. still     B. yet

C. thus  D. even

3、The law ______ equal rights for the students in senior high schools.

A．guarantees

B．confirms

C．suspects

D．overlooks

4、Millions of people around the world suffer from a painful addiction to biting their nails，which can be harder________than smoking cigarettes．

A．to be quitted B．to quit

C．to have quitted D．to quitting

5、The school board has teachers to spare no effort to help the students who have fallen behind in studies.

A. looked into   B. turned into

C. called for   D. cared for

6、The singer’s music video   nearly 9 million times since it was posted on the Internet four weeks ago.

A. viewed   B. has viewed

C. was viewed   D. has been viewed

7、It worried her a bit _________ her hair was turning grey.

A. while B. that C. if   D. For

8、The power supply in this city has been completely________, causing a factories to stop their production.

A．knocked down

B．knocked out

C．broken up

D．broken away

9、The director was fully convinced that this moving story, if ______ for television, would be a hit.

A. adapted   B. being adapted

C. to be adapted   D. having been adapted

10、— Why are you still here! Everybody has gone to attend the lecture by the president!

— Oh, I ____ about it!

A. wasn’t informed   B. didn’t inform

C. haven’t informed   D. hadn’t been informed

11、By the end of last year, another new gym ________ in Beijing.

A．completed

B．had been completed

C．has been completed

D．was completed

12、I ______ sooner, but I didn’t know he was waiting for me.

A.would come B.had come C.would have come D.was coming

13、When the engine would not start, the mechanic inspected all the parts to find what was at ______.

A．wrong

B．trouble

C．fault

D．difficulty

14、Reading her biography, I was lost in admiration for _____Doris Lessing had achieved in literature.

A. what

B. that

C. why

D. how

15、The argument has gained currency throughout the world ________ listening to classical music regularly improves the brain dramatically.

A.whether B.that C.what D.where

16、We must keep them from ________ to know our plans.

A.got B.getting C.to get D.gets

17、The problem lies in______ we’re now giving him a fish, not teaching him how to fish.

A. what B. that C. which D. if

18、The audience burst into laughter because of the____of the tongue from the host, who said, “Good ladies, evening and gentlemen”.

A. slip   B. slide   C. seal   D. spit

19、A great deal of hotel business comes from people travelling not just for holidays but by people travelling ________ their business activities.

A. in harmony with   B. in conflict with

C. by order of   D. by virtue of

20、Let me take down ________ you’ve said ________ I forget.

A. that, when   B. what, before

C. which, before D. what, when

21、Do you ever pull your phone out of your pocket, thinking it is vibrating (振动), only to find that it isn't?

This phenomenon, which scientists call "phantom(幻觉的) phone vibration", is very common. Around 80%o of people surveyed say they have imagined their phones vibrating when they were actually still.

So, what leads to this universal behavior? According to the BBC, the explanation lies in your brain’s ability to discover signals from the outside world.

When your phone is in your pocket, there are two possible states it is either vibrating or not. Meanwhile, you also have two possible states of mind: the judgment that the phone is vibrating, or that it isn’t. Ideally, you match the four states correctly. Howewer, sometimes your brain decides that the consequences of missing a call are more serious than a "false alarm". Therefore you become more sensitive to vibrations so that you don’t miss anything.

This is just like the fire alarm in your home- it can be annoying when it goes off in response to just a tiny bit of smoke. But that's a small price to pay compared to a fire really breaking out because the alarm fails to alert you. Now, you might still ask why can’t our brains just make every judgment correctly without being too sensitive to false signals? The answer is that your brain bears a heavy burden every day. “You get a large amount of sensory information that’s coming from your eyes, ears and skin, and you can’t deal with all that information all the time,” Michael Rothberg a researcher at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, US, told Live Science.

For example, the rustling(沙沙声) of clothing or the growling(咕咕声) of your stomach may both lead your brain to believe that they come from the vibration of your phone -it is like trying to hear your name being called in a noisy room.

So, perhaps you should just check your phone whenever you think it's vibrating. It's not too much trouble to do that. is it?

【1】According to this passage phantom phone vibration

A．is common among people with mental problems

B．happens when our brains react sensitively to false signals

C．can measure people’s ability to collect information

D．helps our brains to make decisions quickly and accurately.

【2】Why did the author use the example of hire alarm in this passage?

A．To help us understand the cause of phantom phone vibration better.

B．To tell us the phone vibration usually happens when a fire breaks out.

C．To show us the fire alarm is as sensitive as the phone vibration,.

D．To convince us it's important to check our phones like checking a fire alarm

【3】Accordingto Michael Rothberg which is mainly responsible for phantom phone vibration?

A．A lack of much attention

B．A noisy background.

C．An overflow of sensory information.

D．A heavy burden every day.

【4】What does the author suggest we do about phantom phone vibration?

A．We should always fully believe our own sense of listening.

B．We should just check our phones whenever we think they’re vibrating

C．We should ignore the vibration bothering when our phones are actually still.

D．We should think of the vibration carefully.

22、It's hard to tell if plants grow faster with classic rock or hip hop. Heidi Appel was a teen when The Secret Life of Plants hit the stores in 1973. This bestselling book devoted a chapter to music's effect on plant growth. Appel read the book. "I was fascinated, but skeptical," she recalls.

Appel is now a plant biologist. Seven years ago, she had conversation with colleague Rex Cocroft. He studies leafhoppers(叶蝉). These insects signal each other by sending vibrations through plant leaves. "When an insect starts to eat the leaf, I can't hear a thing," he said. "It’s just deafening." Then Appel recalls, "We looked at each other and said, "Do you think plants might use insect feeding as a source of information?"

She and Cocroft designed an experiment to see if plants do in fact "listen" for predators. They placed a piece of reflective tape onto a plant leaf. Now they trained a laser beam onto the tape. If the tape moved even slightly, the signal from the laser light reflected by the tape would vary too. And how quickly it varied with time provided a measure of the leaf's movement.

As caterpillars feasted on the plant's leaves, they recorded the vibrations(颤动). Then, they recreated them for another plant. Finally, they placed actual caterpillars onto plants that had listened to the feeding sounds. Other plants had received the silent treatment. Two days later，compared to control plants, those that had earlier heard the chewing sounds had made about 30 percent more defense chemicals.

“In almost every science fair I've ever judged,some high school student is testing if plants grow better to rock 'n' roll or classical music,” Frank Telewski jokes. But the new study is the first "to clearly show a plant responding to a sound that's related to its survival--the chewing vibration of an insect pest," says Telewski. "If a plant can recognize danger and respond biochemically to up its defenses, that's a key advantage."

【1】When Appel was a teen, she doubted whether________

A．the Secret Life of Plants was a bestseller.

B．plants grew better with classic rock.

C．music influenced the growth of plants.

D．she had a gift for researching plants.

【2】What did Cocroft find when he studied the insects eating the leaves?

A．They left his sensitive microphones useless.

B．They always ate the leaf of his plants.

C．They destroyed his ability of hearing.

D．They made trouble in his recording insects' vibration.

【3】What role does the laser play in the experiment?

A．To measure the movement of plant leaves.

B．To stop the caterpillars eating the leaf.

C．To break down the leaf's defense chemicals.

D．To shine the caterpillars into silence.

【4】According to Telewski, he thinks________

A．it makes sense for plants to respond to sounds.

B．what students are tested at school is meaningless.

C．plants defend themselves from pests with different sounds.

D．different kinds of music make plants grow.

23、Racket, din clamor, noise, whatever you want to call it, unwanted sound is America’s most widespread nuisance. But noise is more than just a nuisance. It constitutes a real and present danger to people’s health. Day and night, at home, at work, and at play, noise can produce serious physical and psychological stress. No one is immune to this stress. Though we seem to adjust to noise by ignoring it, the ear, in fact, never closes and the body still responds—sometimes with extreme tension, as to a strange sound in the night.

The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us. Indeed, because irritability is so apparent, legislators have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement programs. The more subtle and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much less attention. Nevertheless, when we are annoyed or made irritable by noise, we should consider these symptoms fair warning that other thing may be happening to us, some of which may be damaging to our health.

Of many health hazards to noise, hearing loss is the most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals. The other hazards are harder to pin down. For many of us, there may be a risk that exposure to the stress of noise increases probability of disease and infection. The people more likely to be affected may experience noise as a complicating factor in heart problems and other diseases. Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in health persons may have serious consequences for these already ill in mind or body.

Noise affects us throughout our lives. For example, there are indications of effects on the unborn child when mothers are exposed to industrial and environmental noise. During infancy and childhood, youngsters exposed to high noise levels may have trouble falling asleep and obtaining necessary amounts of rest.

Why, then, is there not greater alarm about these dangers? Perhaps it is because the link between noise and many disabilities or diseases has not yet been conclusively demonstrated. Perhaps it is because we tend to dismiss annoyance as a price to pay for living in the modern world. It may also be because we still think of hearing loss as only an occupational hazard.

【1】The author’s attitude toward noise would best be described as ___.

A. unrealistic.

B. traditional.

C. concerned.

D. hysterical.

【2】Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

A. Noise is a major problem and most people recognize its importance.

B. Although noise can be annoying, it is not a major problem.

C. Noise is a major problem and has not yet been recognized as such.

D. Noise is a major problem about which nothing can be done.

【3】The author condemns noise essentially because it ___.

A. is against the law.

B. can make some people irritable.

C. is a nuisance.

D. does harm to people’s health.

【4】The author would probably consider research about the effects noise has on people to be ___.

A. unimportant.

B. impossible.

C. a waste of money.

D. essential.

24、   Children who lack self-control don't lack intelligence. People who are impulsive(冲动)and quick to take risks have wonderful strengths. They are often the ones who become our adventurers, discoverers, or inventors.【1】

Self-control feeds directly into decision-making. A shortage of self-control during childhood might lead to a bit too much fun food at the party, more time gaming than homeworking, or a few too many bursts of anger.【2】During adolescence though, the consequences of poor decisions and a lack of self-control, could be disastrous.

【3】They close down opportunities and set them on a path to a more harmful lifestyle. These include decisions around their health, money and behavior.

Adolescence is a time of massive brain change, designed to support their preparation for adulthood.【4】Risk-taking is a healthy, normal part of adolescence, but teens with higher self-control are more able to calculate the risks and tell the difference between a dangerous risk and one that they can learn from and grow through.

When adolescence hits, the experiences our children expose themselves to will largely be out of our hands. This is where they start to discover who they are and where they fit into the world.【5】It will play a huge part in driving their decisions, their experiences and the way their brain develops as they move into adulthood. Self-control in childhood, sets up self-control in adolescence, which sets up a brain for life.

A.Their level of self-control at this stage is vital.

B.They can also cause themselves to be in a lot of trouble.

C.Part of this readying involves experimentation and taking risks.

D.The brain changes according to the experiences it is exposed to.

E.It keeps them safe and guides their developing brains in the right direction.

F.Adolescents who lack self-control are more likely to make harmful decisions.

G.In the short term, the effect from these decisions might seem fairly unharmful.

25、A Leap（跳跃）to Honor.

Leaping on a narrow balance beam（平衡木） is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.

To perfect her skills, Lola_________for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.

That’s especially impressive, ___________she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift constantly. She often sees double and can’t _________how far away things are.

When she was little, her mom ___________that even though she couldn’t see___________, she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the___________right away and gymnastics became her favorite.

Though learning gymnastics has been more_________for her than for some of her teammates, she has never quit. She doesn’t let her _________stop her from doing anything that she wants to.

She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest _________is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to__________your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go,” says Lola.

To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most__________for anyone because it’s four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didn’t fall__________the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10---- her highest score yet.

Lola doesn’t want to be__________differently from the other girls on her team. At the competitions, the judges don’t know about her vision__________. She doesn’t tell them, because she doesn’t think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her__________attitude.

Lola never thinks about __________. She is presently at level 7 while the highest is level 10 in gymnastics. Her   ______________is to reach level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what she’s learned to other kids__________she grew up.

Lola is__________of all her hard work and success. She says it’s helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her __________for others is “just believe yourself”.

【1】

A．runs

B．teaches

C．trans

D．dances

【2】

A．since

B．unless

C．after

D．though

【3】

A．tell

B．guess

C．assume

D．predict

【4】

A．suspected

B．remembered

C．imagined

D．noticed

【5】

A．deeply

B．well

C．ahead

D．closely

【6】

A．task

B．sport

C．event

D．show

【7】

A．boring

B．enjoyable

C．difficult

D．unsatisfactory

【8】

A．talent

B．quality

C．nature

D．condition

【9】

A．doubt

B．advantage

C．challenge

D．program

【10】

A．examine

B．express

C．open

D．trust

【11】

A．fearful

B．harmful

C．unfair

D．inconvenient

【12】

A．to

B．on

C．off

D．against

【13】

A．greeted

B．treated

C．served

D．paid

【14】

A．pains

B．stresses

C．injuries

D．problems

【15】

A．positive

B．friendly

C．flexible

D．cautious

【16】

A．defending

B．quitting

C．winning

D．bargaining

【17】

A．standard

B．range

C．view

D．goal

【18】

A．until

B．as

C．when

D．before

【19】

A．proud

B．tired

C．ashamed

D．confident

【20】

A．plan

B．advice

C．reward

D．responsibility

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。

Lythcott felt around in his jacket pocket for American SIM card to contact the United States, and there it was. Carefully he pulled it out, powered it on, and turned on international data roaming (漫游), balancing the phone on his chest with his good hand. Battery charge: 42 percent.

He thought about googling the number for the local police to save him from this car accident, but even if he did, what would he say? "I've been in an accident, but I don't know…where?" He then noticed a few apps he'd left open on the phone, including Facebook. An idea struck. Taking great care not to let the phone slide down the dark ravine (沟), he opened Facebook and posted words of help. Less than two minutes later, Aimee Spevak saw the post.

At first, Spevak had no idea what to do. What could she do? Where in Indonesia was he? Then she remembered that Facebook has a function that allows you to call your friends. She gave it a try. To her surprise and relief, Lythcott picked up.

"Aimee," he said, "I'm in the woods. I don't know where I am. I don't know what's happening."

"OK," Spevak said. "Can you send me your location?"

"Yes, but not the exact one."

"I'm going to call somebody and we'll get you out of there."

After they hung up, Lythcott sent her his GPS coordinates (坐标) on a map using Facebook. Spevak, though, had no idea how to proceed, but she knew who would help: someone in Lythcott's vast circle of friends from around the globe. She posted screenshot (截图) of the location under Lythcott's' post and waited every few seconds for his friend to jump into the conversation to help.

Lythcott continued to struggle. He was trying to scream for help, but each time it turned out nothing. In and out of consciousness, he thought his back was broken and couldn't get up, and any movement made him feel as if he might fall down into whatever dangers lay below. He dug his fingernails into the soil and waited for tiny possibilities of help.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Meanwhile, Lythcott's friends were sending support online after seeing the post.

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These messages for rescue finally flooded into an Indonesian policeman on night duty.

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