阿坝州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、We ________ take clean drinking water for granted. One day we may run out of it.

A.needn't B.can't

C.won't D.shouldn't

2、 I’m always ________ about what I say because careless remarks are likely to hurt others’ feelings.

A. enthusiastic   B. curious

C. doubtful D. cautious

3、Since Jack was laid off from his job three months ago, he _____ a new one, but without luck.

A. looked for   B. had looked for

C. has been looking for   D. is looking for

4、Wang Zhizhi's return has _________basketball fans of a far better result in the coming title contest.

A.convinced B.expected C.accused D.believed

5、 President Xi has advised young people to avoid staying up late, ______ heated response from Internet users on microblog.

A. having drawn B. drawing

C. to draw   D. Drawn

6、Some diseases ________ quickly from one person to another.

A.move B.catch C.spread D.expand

7、The environmentalists said wild goats’ _______ on the vast grassland was a good indication of the better environment.

A.escape B.absence C.attendance D.appearance

8、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。

Acknowledging that he stole the car, he was arrested by the police.

A.Knowing B.Realizing C.Recognizing D.Admitting

9、__________ ups and downs in the past four years，Bob finally succeeded in extending his business overseas.

A．Experienced     B．To experience

C．Having experienced  D．Experiencing

10、 __________ on Wechat is a common phenomenon, and more people hardly write letters．

A． Communicate  B． Communicated

C． To communicate D． Communicating

11、Advertising often functions as an indicator for 　　　　 society considers to be socially acceptable and desirable at the time.

A.what B.whether

C.how D.which

12、The researchers say they will ______ more studies to confirm the results.

A.give away B.make out C.carry out D.put up

13、I'm never going to guess the answer if you don't give me a .

A．order

B．signal

C．clue

D．outline

14、He hasn’t slept at all for three days. __________ he is tired out.

A.No doubt B.No wonder C.No way D.No problem

15、The performance _____ nearly three hours, but few people left the theatre early.

A. covered   B. reached   C. played D. lasted

16、______ you must be informed of before setting out to finish the paper is ______ it is a student-made one.

A．What; /

B．That; that

C．What; that

D．That; /

17、If you come to visit China, you will _____ a culture of amazing depth and variety.

A.taste B.create C.substitute D.develop

18、— Can you give me some suggestions on my resume, Jack?

— Sure. Your resume should ________ your skills and achievements.

A．favour

B．highlight

C．translate

D．handle

19、--- The music is too loud. Could you please turn down the radio a bit?

--- ______

A. Sorry, I didn’t know you were reading.

B. Don’t trouble. I like music.

C. Don’t you think the music is beautiful?

D. Oh, it’s an honor for me to do so.

20、  Forty people were expected to the party. But only half of them ______.

A. turned around B. turned up

C. turned off       D. turned out

21、It was a cold morning at a metro station in Washington DC, a man started to play the violin. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the tin without stopping, and continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3-year-old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most beautiful pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment.

The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we enjoy beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected situation?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?”

【1】Few people stopped to listen to Joshua Bell playing because____________.

A. it was too cold in the subway

B. they were not interested in music

C. people were in a hurry

D. the performance was not good enough

【2】Which of the following is true about Joshua Bell’s performance?

A. Nobody gave him money

B. Nobody recognized him.

C. Nobody appreciated it

D. Nobody organized it

【3】Joshua Bell played in the metro station in order to ____________.

A. make more money on the street

B. practice his skills in playing music

C. made an advertisement for his concert

D. find out people’s reaction under such a circumstance

【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?.

A. The Importance of Music   B. A Talented Violinist

C. A Subway Violin Performance D. The Things We Miss

22、New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there's danger, according to new research from biologists at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University f Cambridge.

Study authors, Dr Jessica McLachlan and Professor Rob Magrath, found honeyeaters can spread the word in the blink of an eye, using a two-stage alarm. It's particularly effective when they are threatened by fast-moving birds of prey. “When a hawk(鹰）is swooping down, its target has only a fraction of a second to flee to cover-a split second can make the difference between life and death," Dr McLachlan said. “But animals often signal urgent danger using repeated notes, which makes sure others hear the warning but it takes a long time to deliver.

“So there's a problem. How to send a lightning-fast message in a long call?” New Holland honeyeaters solve this problem elegantly. They “front-load” information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly. The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to intensify the message and signal how long to remain hidden. “They use a long call, with lots of notes, to make sure the message is heard,” Professor Magrath said. “And the more notes, the more urgent the danger. But they also modify the first note to indicate if it's necessary to take immediate cover. So it's a two-part message that is quick, reliable and informative.”

The technique is so effective that the authors expect to see other species adopt it. “Many other species modify alarm calls as the threat increases, but there is surprisingly little known about how fast they convey the message,” Professor Magrath said.

The researchers conducted their study in Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens over a period of several years. “These birds live in the Gardens and are used to having people around. This helped us to record natural interactions with their predators, such as sparrowhawks and currawongs (澳洲喜鹊),and to video the honeyeaters' responses to different alarm calls,” Professor Magrath said.

【1】According to Dr Jessica McLachlan,________.

A．speed counts when it comes to honeyeaters' life or death

B．the second-part message in a honeyeater's call is more reliable

C．the message about where to take cover is conveyed very fast

D．the urgency degree relies on the first note in a honeyeater's call

【2】What's particular regarding the way honeyeaters convey the message of danger?

A．The frequently repeated notes.

B．The relatively fixed amount of the notes.

C．The flexible adjustment of the notes.

D．A long-time delivery of the notes.

【3】What attitude do the researchers hold towards the honeyeaters?

A．Objective.

B．Critical.

C．Appreciative.

D．Ambiguous.

【4】The researchers' findings are mainly based on

A．the comparison between honeyeaters and other birds in botanic gardens

B．the analysis of length of alarm calls made by honeyeaters

C．the permanent account of the honeyeaters' response and signal transmission

D．the constant and systematic observation of birds in botanic gardens and beyond

23、How much time do you spend doing research before you make a decision? The answer for many of us, it turns out, is “hardly any”, even when spending a lot of money. Most people make two trips or fewer to a dealership before buying a car. We are not necessarily conserving our resources to spend them on bigger decisions either. One in five Americans spends more time planning their upcoming vacation than they do on their financial future.

To be sure, some people go over every detail exhaustively before making a choice, and it’s certainly possible to overthink things. But there are also people who are quick to jump to conclusions. This way of thinking is considered a “cognitive bias (认知偏差)”, a term psychologists use to describe a tendency toward a specific mental mistake.

In our own research, we have found that hasty judgments are often just one part of larger error-prone patterns in behavior and thinking. We’ve also found that people who tend to make such “jumps” in their reasoning may experience a wide range of costs.

To study jumping to conclusions, we worked with more than 600 people from the general population. Because much of the work on this bias comes from studies of schizophrenia (精神分裂症), we borrowed a thinking game used in that area of research.

In this game, players encountered someone who was fishing from one of two lakes: in one lake, most of the fish were red, and in the other, most were gray. The fisher would catch one fish at a time and stop only when players thought they could say which lake they were fishing in. Some players had to see many fish before making a decision. Others, the jumpers, stopped after only one or two.

We also asked participants questions to learn more about their other thinking patterns. We found that the fewer fish a player needed to see, the more errors he or she made in other beliefs, reasoning and decisions.

What our research and other recent studies show is that sometimes the most important decision can be when you choose to spend time considering before deciding. Even gathering just a little bit more evidence may help you avoid a major mistake.

【1】Why does the author ask the question in the first paragraph?

A．To raise a controversial issue.

B．To introduce the author.

C．To develop a new concept.

D．To lead to the topic.

【2】Which of the following people may have a cognitive bias?

A．A person who always regrets making a decision.

B．A person who buys a coat when seeing it at first sight.

C．A person who checks every detail before buying a car.

D．A person who suffers from the disease of schizophrenia.

【3】What conclusion can we draw from the thinking game?

A．Participants in the game are from a specific hospital.

B．The jumpers tend to make more mistakes in reasoning.

C．The fish in the two lakes were equal in number.

D．The fisher helped participants make correct decisions.

【4】What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

A．To advise people to think twice before making decisions.

B．To analyse the reasons for jumpers making quick decisions.

C．To explain the concept of a cognitive bias.

D．To provide some tips for people to make correct decisions.

24、

Wall Disease

Jessica Wapner The Experiment（2020）

Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, border walls have multiplied, notes science journalist Jessica Wapner in her global survey. In the decade after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, 47 appeared worldwide; Wapner investigates their geography and psychological effects. “Wall disease” consists of fear, isolation, a sense of immobility, financial insecurity and suspicion of “the other” on the far side.

The Brutish Museums

Dan Hicks Pluto（2020）

This timely book echoes the British Museum’s decision this year to redisplay a bust（半身像）of its founder with labels about his links to the slave trade. Dan Hicks is a curator（馆长）at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, which, like the British Museum, holds many prized objects robbed by colonial forces in 1897 from Benin, in what is now Nigeria. Rejecting the view of Oxford colleague John Boardman that “the rape proved to be a rescue”, Hicks fiercely advocates that “brutish” museums urgently begin restoration of stolen objects.

A Manual of the Mammalia

Douglas A. Kelt & James L. Patton Univ. Chicago Press（2020）

The subtitle of this comprehensive reference book terms it “an homage” to Timothy Lawlor’s acclaimed Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals. As wildlife ecologist Douglas Kelt and mammal curator James Patton note, Lawlor’s final edition featured about 4,170 species of mammal; today’s figure is 6,495. “Do not be overwhelmed,” they advise students, “Simply be happy about the diversity of the Mammalia.”

Yellowstone Wolves

Eds Douglas W. Smith et al. Univ. Chicago Press（2020）

Twenty-five years ago, the authors reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Here, they relate what they’ve learnt of the animals’predation, mating, play, genetics, disease and more, and their impact on other species and the landscape. Also detailed are the history, politics and implications ofrewilding. Glorious pictures bear witness to fragile gains. US President Donald Trump’s silver-anniversary gift? Rolling back protections on the wolves.

【1】Who is science journalist?

A．Jessica Wapner.

B．Dan Hicks.

C．Douglas A. Kelt.

D．Eds Douglas W. Smith.

【2】What does the curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum support?

A．The rape proved to be a rescue.

B．Uncivil museums return the stolen objects.

C．The museum redisplays a bust of its founder.

D．The museum murderously robbed prized objects.

【3】Which books are about animals?

A．The Brutish Museums & Wall Disease

B．Wall Disease & A Manual of the Mammalia

C．A Manual of the Mammalia & Yellowstone Wolves

D．Wall Disease & Yellowstone Wolves

25、   Every Friday evening when the sun looks like a giant orange and is starting to_________the blue ocean, Old Eddie comes to his favorite pier with shrimp. Before long, dozens of seagulls fly diet and_________him. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, you can hear him say with a smile, “Thank you. Thank you.”

_________in World War II he was a famous hero. On one of his flying_________across the Pacific, he and his seven-member_________went down. Miraculously, all of the men_________, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft. Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. By the eighth day their foods_________. They were hundreds of miles from_________and no one knew where they were.

Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a_________! Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly__________, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand, he managed to__________it and he, and his starving crew made a meal- a very__________meal for eight men-of it. Then they used the intestines for bait(诱饵). With it, they__________fish, which gave them food and more bait and the__________continued until they were found and rescued.

Eddie Rickenbacker never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a feeling of__________.

【1】A.dive into B.dip into C.rise from D.bump into

【2】A.envelop B.assist C.attack D.drag

【3】A.Up B.Ahead C.Off D.Back

【4】A.missions B.skills C.travels D.lectures

【5】A.passengers B.crew C.coaches D.classmates

【6】A.died B.survived C.fled D.floated

【7】A.burned out B.cut out C.tested out D.ran out

【8】A.sea B.land C.boat D.home

【9】A.bird B.eagle C.angel D.seagull

【10】A.normal B.still C.awesome D.comfortable

【11】A.save B.grasp C.alarm D.push

【12】A.noisy B.ordinary C.abundant D.slight

【13】A.purchased B.exchanged C.caught D.fed

【14】A.imagination B.rule C.cycle D.business

【15】A.affection B.bitterness C.thankfulness D.regret

26、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你的英国好友Jim听说你近期参加了“Clear Your Plate”主题系列活动。他想了解活动情况，请你给他发个邮件。内容包括：

1.活动背景

2.系列内容

3.活动感受

注意：

1.词数不少于100；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua