衡水2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、By serving others, a person focuses on someone other than himself or herself, ________ can be very eye-opening and rewarding.

A. which   B. that

C. who   D. what

2、The dictionary is ______: many words have been added to the language since it was published.

A．out of control

B．out of date

C．out of sight

D．out of reach

3、 Two people in South Korea survived ________ by a sinkhole suddenly occurring in their courtyard.

A. swallowing B. being swallowed

C. to swallowed D. swallowed

4、______ left before the deadline, it doesn’t seem likely that John will finish the job.

A. Though such a short time

B. Because such a short time

C. With such a short time

D. As such a short time

5、 We are planning to _______ a party for our grandparents to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of marriage.

A. put B. throw   C. make   D. get

6、Language belongs to each member of the society, to the cleaner ______ to the professor.

A．as far as

B．as many as

C．as much as

D．as long as

7、—Have you informed your dad of the suggestions given by the expert?

— Of course. ____ I came home.

A. So long as B. If only

C. Any time  D. The moment

8、_____he wants to go somewhere; she has to wait her father to drive her.

A． If   B． Until

C． Although   D． Because

9、The chances are______you can make your dream come true if you work hard for it.

A．what

B．which

C．that

D．whether

10、Why! I have nothing to confess. ______ you want me to say?

A.What is it that B.What it is that

C. How is it that   D.How it is that

11、I wondered why John kept it a secret. It was not until he   three times that he told me the truth.

A. asked   B. was asking

C. had asked   D. had been asked

12、____out how to put our furniture or we'll have to wait for another week to move in ．

A. Figuring   B. To figure

C. Figure   D. Figured

13、The boy with ________ John is talking is my brother.

A．who

B．which

C．whom

D．whose

14、Not until he retired from teaching two years ago _______ having a holiday abroad.

A. he had considered   B. had he considered

C. did he consider   D. he considered

15、Last night Mr. Crook didn’t come back at the usual time. ________, he met some friends and stayed out until midnight.

A. Meanwhile   B. Therefore

C. Instead   D. Somehow

16、Anyone______be in a rough life time，whether he is “Bai Fumei”or“Gao Fushuai．”

A． must   B． will

C． can     D． should

17、–You’re wearing your new sunglasses again! But you said you had lost it on the train!

–Unbelievable, right? Someone _____ it．

A． will have stolen     B． might have stolen

C． should have stolen D． must have stolen

18、 —James should give up the idea of winning everyone’s respect and focus on his own work.

—_______. How did you know that?

A. You are not getting it

B. Exactly—one step at a time

C. You make it sound so easy

D. Thank you for bringing it to my attention

19、My friend Jessie is _____ beautiful girl, and _____ girl everyone likes to work with.

A.a, a B.a, the C.the, a D.the, a

20、According to this survey, some TV  programmes should take _________ for teenagers’ negative behavior.

A. influence B. responsibility C. credit D. explanation

21、What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen to, but what I feel inside．

Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling．I woke up every Saturday to watch my favorite "Superstars．" As I grew older, I got a lot of flak for watching this "fake" sport．My peers would laugh at me for following what was called a "man's soap opera．" So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf．Like everyone else, I wanted to be associated with the cool clique．I yearned to be invited to the parties of the in-crowd and hang out with the popular kids．I became pretty successful．Although my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I would still wake up early Saturdays to watch wrestling．It wasn't until freshman year that I realized I wasn't being myself．

That year, I tried many new things and activities and made new friends．In my town, football was the sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity．The team started with 48 athletes．At the end, there were 14 of us left．I stuck it out not because I liked it, but because I am not a quitter．That long season taught me a lesson: I wasn't a football player．More importantly, it taught me to be myself．

After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan．I watched it religiously, no matter what insults were thrown my way．I came across a quote: "Don't Dream It, Be It．" When I read this, my friend Dan had the same idea I had．

"What if we build a wrestling ring?" we asked．We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its construction．The following weekend, we met at his house．We saw our dream in a pile in his backyard．We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great establishment．By Sunday night, our mission was complete．Our hard work (combined with a little creativity) had paid off．We had a real ring．We decided to hold an "event．" We practiced for hours, trying to improve every aspect of our wrestling ability．The date was May 24th．Our show had a start time of 9: 00 p．m．To our surprise, about one hundred family, friends and fans showed up to support us．It was the most important night of my life and a complete success．Since that time, we have held five shows with as many as two hundred and fifty people turning out．We continue to live this dream．We accomplished what we set out to do．We are now well known throughout school．When I walk down the halls, I am respected by my peers．Some are the same peers who ridiculed me for watching wrestling when I was younger．When they approach me, they often say, "Good match, Chris．" I humbly say, "Thank you," knowing I did something I believed in．

As my senior year winds down, I'll remember all of my high school memories．But what will stick out most is the memory that I did something I loved, despite what everyone said or thought．I accomplished my goal ．．．I lived my dream．

【1】What makes the writer different from the others is __________．

A． the different sports he loves

B． the different clothes he wears and the different music he listens to

C． that he is younger than the others．

D． the different ideas he has

【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A． I practiced wrestling secretly in my spare time．

B． I put the clothes for wrestling on the shelf．

C． I decided to quit following wrestling．

D． I began not to watch wrestling on TV．

【3】When the writer was a freshman, he ___________．

A． knew he couldn’t be a good football player

B． realized he was being himself

C． was still sociable

D． built a wrestling ring

【4】The writer built the wrestling ring in order to ________．

A． play football there

B． make his dream realized

C． be a professional player

D． have parties there．

【5】What is the writer’s attitude towards his experience in high school?

A． Optimistic

B． Pessimistic

C． Doubtful

D． Surprised

22、   Smart cities are coming. And you can be sure that hackers(黑客) won’t be very far behind.

We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that future, as cities across the globe start to use technology to connect their services and residents in ways that was science fiction just a few years ago. They are using sensors to collect data — such as traffic, garbage collecting, and road conditions —and then using that data to deliver services to more people and more efficiently.

But this rush to become a smart city has a major drawback: The more connected a city is, the easier it is to cyber-attacks. Hackers have, in recent years, effectively held cities hostage through ransom ware(赎金器), sometimes damaging critical systems for months at a time. The damage can cost millions to repair, as Baltimore and Atlanta have discovered.

And this is just the beginning. As cities add connectivity to their streetlights, power grids, dams, transit lines and other services, they are adding more targets that have the potential to be hacked. What’s more, as additional information on residents is collected, officials worry the result —lots of data could attract nation-states or terrorists who could incorporate the data into physical and cyber war.

What cyber security lesson can’t be taught in this hack? For example: Don’t open email attachments from unfamiliar sources; don’t click on unrecognized links; don’t leave sensitive information visible on the walls or surfaces of your office. But let’s just stick to the most important lesson: The information you share on social media can be used to profile and target you, whether that’s by engineering click bait(点击诱饵) aimed at your particular interests, guessing your password based on your birthday or figuring out your schedule and travels so that an intruder can access your home or office.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

【1】What did people use to think of smart cities?

A.It was the product of science. B.It was bound to be popular.

C.It existed in imagination. D.It improved people’s life.

【2】What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?

A.Introduce the harm of hackers. B.Show the danger of a smart city.

C.Add some background information. D.Summarize the previous paragraphs.

【3】What is officials’ attitude to big data?

A.It is convenient to provide service.

B.It is certain to bring about revolution.

C.There are actually potential dangers.

D.There’s competition in high technology.

【4】What does the underlined word "profile" in Para. 5 mean?

A.Describe. B.Protect. C.Pursue. D.Fund.

23、   Quite simply, school trips are the journeys which take place outside a student's normal environment. 【1】 Educational trips are normally done in a museum or a historic place. They could provide a better understanding as the students would be able to make a connection between a place, time, or even people in history and something they've seen on a field trip.

A trip to the zoo could provide a better understanding of animals. Biology is even better when there are proper animals to be named. 【2】 Teachers and headmasters are advised to give the students prizes and rewards for different accomplishments done on a field trip.

Planetariums(天文馆) could help students remember constellations (星座) better. 【3】 Planetariums could help them see that the earth is just a small planet in the universe and that there is no reason not to explore. If you are a teacher and you 're lucky, you may have taken the next greatest astronaut to the planetarium on a school trip.

【4】 Also they could help them see that there are so many living things that depend on them and how they can take care of nature. Children are very easily inspired. 【5】

Therefore, it is necessary for teachers to often take their students to field trips, where they can have fun learning.

A.Make sure that these trips are interesting.

B.The importance of school trips can't be ignored.

C.A school trip is done mostly for educational purposes.

D.So it's best to instill in them good characters and education.

E.Games like naming animals could provide hours of fun and education.

F.School trips to farms could help students understand the value of nature.

G.They could also help students imagine how far the sun is from the earth.

24、People get distracted by irrelevant websites and unproductive tasks occasionally. According to McKinsey, high-skilled workers in the U.S. spend a surprising 28% of their working hours reading and replying to e-mail messages. But if we learned to manage our distraction by communication technology in a more efficient manner, we could give the economy a $900 million to $1.3 trillion boost per year.

How did we end up in this situation? The 21st century is characterized by connectivity. Over the past couple of decades, it has become increasingly difficult to disconnect from sources of information. And this addiction becomes especially apparent when we lose our phones or our Internet connection drops out. For example, have you ever mislaid your phone for a few hours and become crazy at the thought of missing out on social media updates?

Originally, smartphones and other portable devices were designed to maximize convenience. Unfortunately, now they have turned into a distraction that often interrupts our daily lives. Every time your attention is diverted away from your task, you lose time. It takes effort to get back on track, and repeated interruptions can demotivate you. The more complicated your project is, the longer it takes to regain your focus, because your brain has to put in considerable effort when switching between complex objectives.

So what can you do? First, when focusing on an important project, you can put your phone and other devices away. If you don’t receive any messages, you won’t be distracted. There’s also a useful technique that will quickly get you back on track: The 20-Second Rule. It’s believed by some psychologists that if something—such as checking your social media—takes you 20 seconds longer to do, you’re less likely to do it. So you need to make it slightly more difficult to give in to temptation. For example, uninstall(卸载) a messaging app so that it takes you 20 seconds longer to install it again and log in. This approach means you do not have to rely on willpower. Instead, you will have set up a reliable system that facilitates good habits.

【1】For what purpose does the writer use numbers in the first paragraph?

A．To point out few workers reply to e-mail messages in the U.S.

B．To picture the bad results caused by distraction in work.

C．To prove reading and replying to e-mails are good for economy.

D．To tell how much more money can be made by replying to e-mails.

【2】What is the result of distraction if we are doing more complicated work?

A．We’ll be interrupted repeatedly.

B．It’ll make us never get back on track.

C．We’ll completely lose time.

D．It’ll be harder to regain our attention.

【3】What can we learn about the 20-Second Rule?

A．It helps us to deal with distraction more effectively.

B．It makes us check social media longer than 20 seconds.

C．It suggests uninstalling all the messaging apps in your phone.

D．It has proved to be effective with the help of will power.

【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．No Phones, No Distraction

B．Why We Get Distracted Easily?

C．The Shocking Price of Distraction

D．Distraction Brings Us Harms or Benefits?

25、完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A beggar was sleeping in the doorway of a fruit shop. The shop owner felt angry. He walked up to him and _______ him to go away in a rude manner, but the beggar did not seem to _______ him and lay still there. The shop owner got much _______, shouting that he was a beggar in disguise (假装) and _______ cheated passers-by for money by making use of their kindness. At that time, it was the busiest moment of a day and the market was _______ with shoppers. They all blamed the beggar for _______. Showing fear, the beggar _______ his face in an old blanket. What he received was bitter _______ rather than help.

The next morning, it was drizzling. An old man, who went to the market early, found the beggar _______ on the ground. He woke the beggar up and ________ asked whether he was cold or not, but the beggar made no ________.Then the old man ________ his hands gently, saying that they felt________. With these words, he ran home in a hurry, returned with a pile of ________, picked out a sweater and urged the beggar to ________ it on again and again. Seeing what happened, many other passers-by surrounded the beggar and gave him change one after another, showing________ for him. It was not long before the beggar received a handful of ________.

In many cases our behavior may have a great ________ on the people around us because they are likely to ________ us. Therefore, we should pay special attention to what we do and say, trying to infect others with positive words instead of ________ ones.

【1】

A．persuaded

B．encouraged

C．expected

D．ordered

【2】

A．approach

B．speak

C．hear

D．agree

【3】

A．angrier

B．happier

C．sadder

D．braver

【4】

A．still

B．only

C．never

D．already

【5】

A．crowded

B．covered

C．provided

D．equipped

【6】

A．laziness

B．dishonesty

C．inability

D．mistake

【7】

A．buried

B．raised

C．closed

D．bent

【8】

A．admiration

B．curiosity

C．scold

D．praise

【9】

A．crying

B．eating

C．playing

D．sleeping

【10】

A．loudly

B．rudely

C．seriously

D．kindly

【11】

A．comment

B．reply

C．introduction

D．bet

【12】

A．lifted

B．kissed

C．held

D．threw

【13】

A．freezing

B．warm

C．sleepy

D．comfortable

【14】

A．books

B．clothes

C．pictures

D．money

【15】

A．show

B．take

C．get

D．put

【16】

A．respect

B．pity

C．worry

D．appreciation

【17】

A．coins

B．food

C．fruit

D．sand

【18】

A．change

B．view

C．effect

D．impression

【19】

A．avoid

B．invite

C．compare

D．follow

【20】

A．important

B．meaningless

C．negative

D．harmful

26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

近期，你就影响选择大学的考虑因素在高三学生中做了调研，结果如图所示，请结合图表信息，写一份调研报告，内容必须包括：

1) 说明图表反应的基本内容，

2) 列出你认为相对重要的两项因素（影响你自己选择大学的考虑因素）并说明原因。

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