内江2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、—Jimmy has had a lot of parties recently.

—Yes, that might ________ why he didn’t do well in the test.

A．turn up

B．add up to

C．account for

D．make sense of

2、There are many wonderful theme parks in America, _____ Disneyland in California is my favorite.

A．for which   B．with which

C．of which D．in which

3、We can advise the manager, but in the end, it is he who has the     say.

A.fair B.final C.fond D.full

4、The girl made a cake for her dad by ________.

A.himself B.herself C.themselves D.itself

5、I had just got up and was about to cook my breakfast______ the telephone rang loudly, but it hung up ______ I could answer it.

A. while; when   B. when; as

C. as; after   D. when; before

6、–He ____ the Most Popular Teacher in his hometown，right？

-Yes．ten years before he came to this school．

A． is awarded

B． has awarded

C． was awarded

D． Awarded

7、None of the servants were _______ when Mr. Smith wanted to send a message.

A.available B.attainable C.approachable D.acceptable

8、My boss is very generous, and he is ______ generous when we get a big order.

A．very   B．most C．only   D．rather

9、Making eye contact gives the interviewer the impression that you’re confident _______ you actually feel quite uncomfortable.

A. in case    B. even though

C. only if D. now that

10、During the nineteen years of his career, France Batiste has won the ________ of a wide audience outside Italy.

A. comprehension B. recognition

C. evaluation D. reputation

11、The tourism of my hometown _______ a rapid growth over the last decade. Now it’s the 2nd most visited place in our city.

A. saw     B. had seen

C. is seeing D. has seen

12、Broke Girls，_______popular TV series，has aroused craze and sympathy among   young．

A．/，the B．a，the

C．/，the D．the，the

13、I predict that this brand of clothes should _______ well.

A.be sold B.sell C.have sold D.have been sold

14、He is busy writing the article all the morning, only ________ occasionally to have a cup of coffee.

A. breaking off B. breaking down

C. breaking through D. breaking up

15、In order to keep fit, the old man makes it a rule _____ for a walk after supper every day．

A．going   B．to go   C．go   D．gone

16、 __ carefully if any change occurs when doing experiments in the lab.

A．Observe

B．To observe

C．Observed

D．Observing

17、It might be early to talk about potential ________ colors for next summer when we have just entered autumn, but the fashion world can't wait that long.

A. trendy   B. worthy   C. hearty   D. touchy

18、When asked to move away，the other three______ but Rosa was unwilling to do so.

A. adopted   B. confirmed

C. advocated   D. submitted

19、The climate here is quite pleasant, the temperature rarely, ____, reaching 30℃ in summer.

A.if not B.if any C.if so D.if ever

20、On the bus I saw a student________ I believed was your brother.

A．whom

B．who

C．whoever

D．which

21、Sometime in the next century, the familiar early-newspaper on the front porch (门廊) will  disappear. And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you. You'll get up and turn on the computer newspaper just like switching on the TV. An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latest events, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want. You'll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Do you want more information on this brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. Save it in your own personal computer if you like. These are among the predictions from communication experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of broader home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers will unite print and broadcast reporting, and offer news and analysis with video images of news events.

Most of the technology is available now, but convincing more people that they don't need to read a newspaper is the next step. But resistance to computer newspapers may be stronger from within journalism. Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of  journalists and publishers will have to die off before the next generation realizes that the newspaper industry is no longer a newspaper industry. Technology is making the end of ' traditional newspapers unavoidable.

Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computer screens. It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy computers and because newspapers have established financial interests in the paper industry.

【1】Which of the following is NOT an advantage of computer newspapers?

A. They are cheaper than traditional newspapers.

B. They are more convenient to read.

C. You can choose the kind of voice you want to hear.

D. You can easily save information for future use.

【2】Which of the following is a reason why it will take a long time to complete the changeover?

A. The technology is impossible now.

B. Computer newspaper s are too expensive.

C . The popularization of computers needs a long time.

D. Traditional newspapers are easier to read.

【3】It can be inferred that journalists are against computer newspapers because ____ .

A.they don't know how to use computers

B. they think computer newspapers take too much time to read

C. they think the new technology is bad

D. they have been trained to write for traditional newspapers

【4】We can infer from the passage that .

A. all technological changes are good

B. new technologies don't always replace old ones

C. new technologies will eventually replace old ones

D. traditional newspapers are here to stay for another century

【5】What is the best title of the passage?

A. Computer newspapers are well liked.

B. Newspapers of the future will be on the computer.

C. Newspapers are out of fashion.

D. New communications technology.

22、Smith, Williams, Brown are common surnames that you will meet in Britain. However, you may come across some strange English surnames. The following surnames are rare, but they are real.

GotobedYou are not going to meet many people with the surname “Go-to-bed”. The first recorded person to have this surname was John Gotobedde of Cambridge in 1269. Professor Reaney, an authority on English surnames, explains the surname originated from people who had a bed, which was rare back in the 12th century. People were proud that they could afford to have a bed, thus adding it to their name. Strange but true!

Onions

This surname, which was first popular in France and Ireland before coming over to the UK, dates back to l279 and identified（显示）a person’s job. He was either a seller or a grower of the vegetable.

Nutter

Nutter means a crazy or silly person in spoken English. You wouldn’t usually call yourself a nutter, but it’s genuinely a surname that originates from Yorkshire and Lancashire. It’s a variation of the old English surnames “Notere”, which means a clerk, and “Nothard”, which means a person that keeps oxen.

Hardmeat

You might have guessed that “Hardmeat” must have something to do with a family of butchers. In fact, it might just have been a misspelling of the village that the name came from, which was “Hardmead” in England. Wish they had a spellchecker back then!

【1】Which of the following surnames can tell a family’s wealth?

A．Nutter.

B．Onions.

C．Gotobed.

D．Hardmeat.

【2】What do Onions and Nutter have in common?

A．They originated in the UK.

B．They mean silly people.

C．They date from the l3th century.

D．They show the occupations.

【3】Where does the surname of Hardmeat come from?

A．An incorrectly-spelt village name.

B．A place famous for hard meat.

C．A village without a spellchecker.

D．A family of butchers.

23、Summer Rain

The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.

As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of school and experienced bad weather for those short ten weeks of freedom and pleasant weather.

On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a bird in a cage. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was at work. It was those days that I would watch whatever was on television or read any books that I could find lying around. I’d drag through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.

As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as exciting. Everything seems dull. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I hate how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which makes me comfortable. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful—and considerably cooler—weather tomorrow.

【1】When the author was a child, he ______.

A. hated rainy days

B. liked staying indoors

C. preferred cooler weather

D. dreamed on summer days

【2】We can learn from the passage that the author ______.

A. had no brothers or sisters

B. was often left alone at home

C. could enjoy the brilliant sun in winter

D. preferred reading to playing outside

【3】As an adult, the author views summer rain differently because ______.

A. he knows it won’t last long

B. rain makes the weather cooler

C. his summer holiday is very short

D. he can better deal with his downtime

24、Typical commercial white paints reflect only 80% to 90% of sunlight and fail to help buildings stay cool during the day. For the past six years, mechanical engineer Xiulin Ruan at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and his colleagues sought to create whiter paints to cool buildings without the need of electricity. They explored more than 100 materials, narrowing them down to 10 and testing roughly 50 different combinations of each material.

The one that performed best is based on barium sulfate(硫酸钡), something used to whiten photo paper and makeup. It is highly reflective to solar wavelengths of light. The scientists made sure the paint had a high concentration of barium sulfate particles(颗粒) of many different sizes. The wavelength of light each particle scatters depends on its size, so a wide range of particle sizes helps the paint reflect more light from the sun.

Outdoor tests of the new paint revealed it was the coolest on record, keeping surfaces 19 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surrounding surfaces at night, and 8 degrees cooler than surroundings under strong noon sunlight. It even worked in the middle of winter — when the temperature was 43 degrees F, it still managed to lower temperatures by 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

The scientists estimate that if 1,000 square feet of roof were covered with this paint, it would provide a cooling power of 10 kilowatts, more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses. The scientists noted they could likely make the paint even whiter by increasing the particle concentration, although too high a concentration would make the paint easier to peel off. Ruan said, “ painting 0.5% to 1% of the Earth’s surface with their paint, for example by coating roofs, roads, unused land and so on, might even help stop global warming.” He added, “Barium sulfate is common and environmentally safe, and powders of it are roughly half the cost of those often used in commercial white paints.”

In the future, the researchers want to optimize and commercialize their paint for a wide range of applications, including buildings, automobiles and outdoor equipment. They would also like to develop colored versions.

【1】Which is one of the features of barium sulfate?

A．It can only reflect 80% to 90% of sunlight.

B．It’s used to make photo paper and makeup whiter.

C．It helps the paint reflect less light from the sun.

D．It is reflective to all the wavelengths of the light.

【2】What does the underlined word “scatters” mean in Paragraph 2?

A．absorbs

B．reflects

C．breaks

D．concentrates

【3】What will happen if the particle concentration is too high?

A．The paint will be easier to fall off.

B．The paint will take in more sunlight.

C．It can make the paint less whiter.

D．It will change the wavelength of the light.

【4】What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Barium sulfate is used in white paints.

B．Some engineers created white paints.

C．White paints can stop global warming.

D．Whiter paint can cool buildings.

25、I was not very close to my father. He was a quiet man who _________ showed his love. As I grew older, however, his silence became an invisible wall between us. I was _________ that he didn’t love me.

I grew up, went to college far from home, worked hard and finally had a family of my own. My father and I talked often, _________ the talk was usually a prelude(前奏) to my longer conversations with my mother. There was a _________ of silence between us.

Then one day, a call from my mother told me my father had fallen down and was in _________ . I was unprepared for this diagnosis: He had Dementia with Lewy bodies(路易体痴呆).

I had read many _________ of Dementia with Lewy bodies, but my experience with the disease was _________: Because the disease transformed my father, it_________ the wall of silence between us.

It happened on the day when I _________ him with my five-year-old son, Jesse. The three of us sat on the bench, and my father watched __________ as I made small talk and my son played with me. His eyes widened as studied the obvious love I   __________ with my son.

Later in the day, my wife came and watched my son, __________ me to spend time alone with my father in his room. At first, there was the usual __________ between us. Then, to my __________ ,he began to speak.

“You know, I was __________ you and Jesse out there. Watching Jesse __________ me of the old days. It’s such a long time ago, but I have such a clear picture of that---of you---in my mind. You were a sweet little boy. My little boy”. He __________ and his eyes glistened(闪光)。

He__________ to me for causing pain. “I know I have a disease,” he murmured, “and that makes it__________ for me to think and remember.” “But you know,” he smiled again, “I am ________ that I have this disease. Because without it, I don’t think I would have been able to say this to you.”

He trapped his heart. “I love you.”

【1】

A．roughly

B．really

C．recently

D．rarely

【2】

A．convinced

B．told

C．taught

D．refused

【3】

A．but

B．and

C．while

D．thus

【4】

A．chance

B．barrier

C．solution

D．suggestion

【5】

A．class

B．hospital

C．silence

D．panic

【6】

A．accounts

B．advantages

C．treatments

D．causes

【7】

A．simple

B．natural

C．different

D．famous

【8】

A．broke into

B．brought down

C．brought up

D．broke out

【9】

A．betrayed

B．challenged

C．visited

D．phoned

【10】

A．effectively

B．necessarily

C．regularly

D．attentively

【11】

A．impressed

B．compared

C．shared

D．displayed

【12】

A．encouraging

B．requiring

C．ordering

D．commanding

【13】

A．absence

B．presence

C．silence

D．emergence

【14】

A．disappointment

B．surprise

C．credit

D．frustration

【15】

A．cheating

B．calling

C．watching

D．finding

【16】

A．accused

B．warned

C．informed

D．reminded

【17】

A．wondered

B．smiled

C．shouted

D．realized

【18】

A．appealed

B．submitted

C．apologized

D．turned

【19】

A．suitable

B．difficult

C．available

D．emotional

【20】

A．powerful

B．successful

C．painful

D．grateful

26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

One year, a newspaper of the United States published an announcement that the horticultural institute offered a reward at a high price for the pure white marigold (金盏花). The high reward attracted so many people, but in nature besides golden, the marigold is brown, and it is not easy to grow the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.

Years flew away. One normal day after 20 years, the horticultural institute that had published the announcement accidentally received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. On that day the news spread like wildfire.

It turned out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. The institute had always been hesitating over the fact that the letter said with certainty that the seeds could bloom pure white marigold, and the need for verification (验证) became the focus of the debate. Whether they would make an experimental verification or not became the controversial focus at one time.

Some said you would never live up to the old man’s wish. Those seeds finally took root in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year: large patches of pure white marigold waved in the breeze.

Accordingly, the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new focus.

Originally, the old woman was a flower lover. When she occasionally read the announcement in the newspaper 20 years ago, she was eager to try. But her eight children strongly opposed her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics (遗传学) couldn’t complete what the experts could never achieve, so her thought seemed very foolish.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已经为你写好。

Paragraph 1:

Still, the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working without hesitation.

Paragraph 2:

Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a pure white marigold.