绥化2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Follow your doctor’s advice, ________ your cough will get worse.

A.or B.and C.then D.so

2、I got to the office earlier that day,________ the 7:30 train from Paddington.

A. caught   B. to have caught

C. to catch   D. having caught

3、--- Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?

--- Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practise strict   .

A. economy   B. medicine   C. self-control   D. patience

4、The survey shows some major publishers, institutions and businesses have begun to make________ to the new age in order to meet the needs of the social and economic change．

A．breakthroughs B．preparations

C．adjustments D．Commitments

5、No matter how much knowledge you have, if your subject is at all ______, be careful when discussing it during your speech, or you may well offend your audience.

A. diverse   B. sensitive

C. abstract D. original

6、 A terrible thought   Mr. Smith when he was leaving for work: what if an accident happened while his son was alone at home?

A. insured   B. freed

C. attacked D. struck

7、 This book contains a ________ of several articles in nuclear physics so you can read it before you read the book in detail.

A. digest   B. digestion

C. preview D. manual

8、This company _____ roundly by unionists and social justice groups when it fired a number of workers for no reason a decade ago.

A.condemned B.has condemned C.has been condemned D.was condemned

9、 But for the fact that Mr Smith ________ill yesterday, he would have attended the important meeting.

A. was   B. be C. were D. had been

10、—Which do you prefer, a bottle of orange or a bottle of milk?

—________, thanks. I’d like a cup of tea.

A．Either

B．Neither

C．Both

D．None

11、—How was the party last Saturday?

—It was fun; you ________.

A. came   B. had come

C. would come   D. should have come

12、He is a newcomer in the team, but I have the __________ that I’ve seen that man before.

A．function  B．impression

C．comprehension   D．association

13、TikTok, known as Douyin in China, is a social media platform ________ short videos can be edited and uploaded easily.

A.that B.which C.where D.when

14、A number of foreigners______  to watch the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC on Oct.1".

A.Attracted B.have attracted

C.was attracted D.were attracted

15、Almost every gym club in Shanghai ________ yoga classes. And there are more than 100 special clubs such as this one.

A. has set up B. is setting up

C. set up D. will set up

16、China's exchanges and cooperation with other developing countries reached a new level. China's relations with other major countries   grew through interaction.

A. stiffly   B. steadily

C. virtually   D. entirely

17、——I went to Hu’guang Guild Hall this National holiday．

——Ah，amazing! That is   I’ve been dreaming to go．

A．why   B．when

C．where   D．which

18、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

19、Experts warn that global warming will cause extreme climate changes including more______   floods, heat waves and droughts.

A. usual B. ordinary   C. frequent D. common

20、Will you see to _____ that my children are taken good care of while I am away?

A．it B．me   C．yourself   D．Them

21、Around the world COVID-19 has messed up children’s education. They began to be shut out of classrooms. Even in countries where schools have stayed open, lessons and tests have been interrupted. Some countries pressed ahead with national exams this year. A few others, including Britain, France and Ireland, cancelled them all. They came up with new ways of awarding grades instead. The fact that big exams have proved so vulnerable to interruption has led to new questions about their usefulness. Are there better ways of measuring what children have learned?

Exams have plenty of problems. They are often unreliable; a study in Israel found that test-takers’ performance can be affected by smog. Many children find them stressful. Plenty of places run them badly. Poorly written test papers in developing countries lead to wild swings in pass rates. Countries, including Algeria and Ethiopia, have shut down the Internet at exam time to prevent cheating.

Yet most of the world’s best-performing school systems keep some kind of important tests, and for good reason. Other kinds of assessments are rarely better and many are worse. For example, if teachers are responsible for assessing their pupils, they may strengthen their own biases. Studies have caught them giving lower grades to students from ethnic minority or those who are fat. Giving up exams does not always ease pupils’ anxiety. Some would rather be tested at the end of their course than have their work constantly assessed. Coursework can waste students’ efforts by encouraging them to make slight changes to a few projects endlessly. That leaves less time for other kinds of learning.

Governments may need to adjust next year’s tests. That could mean cutting the amount of material to be tested. Exam boards may also have to increase the grades of pupils who have spent the most time out of the classroom. Many pupils have studied harder throughout this difficult year. They should have the chance to sit exams to earn the grades they deserve.

【1】What effect has COVID-19 had on exams?

A．People are questioning the existence of the exams.

B．Different approaches have been taken to the exams.

C．All kinds of exams have to be cancelled in European countries.

D．Children themselves have to decide whether to take exams or not.

【2】Which of the following is the problem with exams?

A．They encourage cheating with the Internet.

B．They are always affected by weather conditions.

C．They may not show children’s real academic performance.

D．They can’t be passed because the written test papers are poorly made.

【3】Which of the following is mentioned as an alternative to exams?

A．Self-assessment.

B．Group assessment.

C．Parents’ assessment.

D．Coursework assessment.

【4】What is the author’s attitude towards exams?

A．Positive.

B．Negative.

C．Doubtful.

D．Cautious.

22、Are you planning to start your next international business presentation with a little joke to break the ice? Well, you might want to reconsider. The story is told of a businessman who gave a speech in a foreign country through an interpreter.

Without warning the interpreter, he told a joke during the presentation. The interpreter knew the joke would not translate, so she said, “This man just told a joke that he thinks is funny, but it does not translate well, and you will not find it funny at all.  So, when I stop talking, everyone please just laugh.” 

The audience did indeed laugh aloud, but not for the reason the speaker supposed. The businessman was so pleased with the first result that he went on to tell another joke. 

Each culture has different understandings of humour. What may be funny in one culture can be far from funny in another.

For example, while living in Chile, I often tried to share great jokes from the United States, only to be met with questions like, “Oh, is that a joke? Is that funny in your country?” Similarly, Chileans shared their own popular jokes that were not always funny to me.

In September 2001, Professor Richard Wiseman and the British Association for the Advancement of Science created a project called LaughLab in order to find the world’s funniest joke. And in one year, LaughLab received more than 40,000 jokes. The following joke is considered the world’s funniest joke by LaughLab:

“Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls down. He doesn’t seem to be breathing. The other man calls the emergency services. He says, ‘My friend is dead! What can I do?’ The operator says, ‘Calm down. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.’ There is a silence, and then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says, ‘OK, now what?’”  

If you decide you must share a joke or two in another country, ask the opinion of your interpreter first. Otherwise, the joke may be on you.

【1】The underlined phrase “break the ice” in Paragraph 1 can probably be replaced by ________.

A．make a difference

B．avoid misunderstanding

C．introduce the topic

D．liven things up

【2】Why did the audience laugh?

A．The joke was funny.

B．The interpreter made a mistake.

C．They were told to do so.

D．The businessman was humorous.

【3】Why does the author mention his own experience?

A．To show Chileans are impolite.

B．To show humour is related to culture.

C．To show Chileans have no sense of humour.

D．To show it’s hard to understand American humour.

【4】Why does the hunter shoot his friend?

A．His friend is in great pain.

B．The operator asks him to do so.

C．He is too worried to know what to do.

D．He misunderstands the meaning of “make sure”.

23、Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals, while the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think so much of them that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general.【1】.

It is possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight, so do savages（野蛮人）; so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized.【2】. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some ways of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but also because it has won, it has been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means power is right. This is what the story of mankind has been like. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. 【3】. Scientists assume that there has been life of some sort on the earth for about twelve hundred million years; but there have been men for only one million years, and there have been civilized men for about eight thousand years.

【4】. Taking man's civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future at about one hundred thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and killing. We must not expect even civilized peoples not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will sometimes have done something else.

A．Even being good at getting others to fight most efficiently is not being civilized.

B．Most people believe those who have conquered the most nations are the greatest.

C．However, every year conflict between countries and nations still claim thousands of lives.

D．From the point of view of evolution, human beings are very indeed, babies of a few months old.

E．So there has been little time to learn in, but there will be oceans of time in which to learn better.

F．People don't fight and kill each other in the streets, but nations still behave like savages.

24、Summer Schools

As the UK’s Top-Ranked Summer Schools, we will deliver an outstanding summer experience in a multi-national, fun, and secure setting.

Oxford College Summer School

Oxford College Summer School enables students to live and study in an Oxford University College during the summer. The summer program is designed to give students a chance to study at university, meet other students from around the world and explore the famous city of Oxford.

Ages: 15-17

Dates: 15 July — 30 August

Cambridge College Summer School

Join us to live and study in the noted university city of Cambridge. Explore the city that shaped some of the world’s famous minds, including Sir Isaac Newton and Sylvia Plath. Follow in their footsteps as you experience your chosen subject through a series of lectures and workshops.

Ages: 15-17

Dates: 20 July — 28 August

Earlscliffe Summer School

Earlscliffe Summer School Earlscliffe is ideally located for both access to London and to a variety of local attractions. The campus is formed of seven Victorian and Edwardian buildings, all recently renovated to provide high-quality teaching and residential facilities.

Ages: 13-17

Dates: 20 June — 31 July

Rochester Independent Summer School

Rochester Independent College, one of the UK’s most well-established independent colleges, is proud to offer a range of distinctive summer courses. We are offering 4 different courses in very small classes where international visitors will study and socialize alongside local students.

Ages: 13-17

Dates: 25 June — 28 July

【1】Which of the following starts earliest?

A．Oxford College Summer School.

B．Cambridge College Summer School.

C．Earlscliffe Summer School.

D．Rochester Independent Summer School.

【2】What can students do in the first two Summer Schools?

A．Socialize with local students.

B．Explore a noted university city.

C．Attend lectures and workshops.

D．Interview the world’s great minds.

【3】Where can the text be found?

A．In a history book.

B．In an art magazine.

C．In a research article.

D．In an education brochure.

25、Bridging the gap

How does a principal investigator make communication among deaf and hearing colleagues easier? Moreover, how are the large number of field-specific technical terms _______— and communicated in sign language? These _______ differences are not remarkably challenging to work around.

Blumberg taught himself American Sign Language and has interpreters  _______ in the lab during the day. For lab meetings, journal clubs and research seminars, he has two interpreters present t0 tag-team signing. Costs for the interpreters are _______ by the NIH's Office of Research Services. The only learning curve that he experienced, Blumberg says, was realizing he needed _______ interpreters, Before, when he had one deaf student, he could _______ the interpreting. As more deaf fellows joined, Blumberg _______ full-time interpreters for help.

Having interpreters around all day is not necessary though. " _______ . interpreters are only needed during the day if we're having lab meeting, classes, important functions or events, or _______ -poster presentations, student presentations, guest presentations from ________________ scientists, Lundberg says. "The rest of the day, I do not need an interpreter, ________________ I'm in lab and it's independent work.”

During his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Lundberg used online chat platforms to ________________ with his adviser and colleagues. Or he wrote ________________ a whiteboard, scratch paper, or paper towels. His adviser later ________________ that he keep the scraps of paper, which “was really good advice," Lundberg says, "because they were really good notes."

The best way to arrange the most suitable accommodations for deaf individuals is to ask them ________________ they need, says Derek Braun, a former postdoctoral fellow with Blumberg and currently a professor of biology at Gallaudet University. One of his ongoing projects is a collaboration with Blumberg and Lundberg to investigate the role of Ras guanyl nucleotide (鸟苷核苷酸) — releasing proteins in cancer. ________________ deaf people sign, Braun says. "Some are oral. Really, we come in every flavor imaginable. The best judge of what that person needs is usually the person?

Signing scientific terms is not unusually challenging either. While no standardized set of signs for technical words exists, colleagues working in the same lab develop their own signs for the terms they frequently use. If each lab develops signs ________________, what happens when members of different labs meet?

Larry Pearce, a technician in Blumberg’s lab ________________ is deaf, explains to me, “ It's really not that difficult, because when an individual does not understand a sign we use, they'll ask for clarifications (说明) and I'll finger-spell. I’ll spell ________________ out. They will tell me what their sign is, and I'll tell them what our sign is. If I like their sign better, I might adopt it and use it every day, or vice-versa (反之亦然), and eventually it becomes more ________________

【1】A.adapted B.adopted C.adjusted D.announced

【2】A.culture B.pronunciation C.communication D.habit

【3】A.stationed B.canned C.cupped D.capped

【4】A.counted B.contained C.included D.covered

【5】A.better B.fewer C.more D.less

【6】A.carry out B.carry on C.make out D.make up

【7】A.turned B.sought C.referred D.led

【8】A.In particular B.In general C.In conclusion D.In word

【9】A.colleagues B.interpreters C.presentations D.accommodations

【10】A.another B.any C.others D.other

【11】A.because B.though C.whether D.unless

【12】A.write B.read C.listen D.speak

【13】A.below B.on C.in D.beyond

【14】A.knew B.suggested C.discovered D.noticed

【15】A.which B.that C.what D.if

【16】A.Not all B.All C.Few D.Not enough

【17】A.independently B.dependently C.secretly D.occasionally

【18】A.where B.which C.who D.when

【19】A.them B.me C.myself D.it

【20】A.essential B.particular C.related D.universal

26、假如你是李华，是你校英文报纸"Teens'Life"的编辑．请你用英文为报纸写一篇介绍中国传统节日"端午节"的文章．

要点如下：

1．节日的日期；

2．节日的由来；

3．庆祝的方式．

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．短文开头已给出，不计入总词数；

3．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．

参考词汇：战国时期the Warring States Period； 自杀 commit suicide； 粽子Zongzi．

The Dragon Boat Festival

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