荆门2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、Our plane delayed taking off as we ran into a storm. We were ________ for several hours at the airport, waiting for the storm to clear up.

A. figured out   B. built up   C. held up D. taken off

2、   basic first-aid skills, according to the expert, will help people respond effectively to emergencies.

A. Known   B. Having known

C. Knowing   D. Being known

3、______the morning train，he would not have been late for the meeting．

A．Did he catch B．Should he catch

C．Had he caught D．Has he caught

4、With the guide ______ the way, we finally got to the village which we were looking for.

A. led B. leading   C. to lead     D. had led

5、When fully to work, was often the case, he would forget about eating or sleeping.

A．devoted； that

B．devoting； which

C．devoting； that

D．devoted； as

6、-It’s my treat today. Is there any particular meal you would like to have?

- ________ you choose is all right with me.

A. Whatever   B. What

C. Anything what   D. No matter what

7、---Six o’clock in the morning? –

---No, don't call me that early in the morning. I _________.

A. sleep   B. will be sleeping

C. am sleeping   D. will sleep

8、— Jessie, it’s a pity you didn’t go shopping online on Nov.11th．It was really fantastic!

— Really? If I ________ so busy, I would have shopped for fun too.

A． shouldn’t be   B． weren’t

C． hadn’t been D． wouldn’t be

9、The BBC documentaries series “Are Our Kids Tough Enough” has ________ global debate as to what education system and methodology can best prepare our children for an increasingly competitive global market. Which of the following is Improper?

A.triggered B.sparked C.impacted D.inspired

10、New ideas sometimes have to wait for years before ______.

A．being fully accepted

B．fully accepting

C．having fully accepted

D．fully accepted

11、Your senses become alert and you suddenly find the answer to a problem ________ solution has long escaped you as a brilliant thought crosses your mind.

A. which   B. that   C. whose   D. when

12、With your help, there is no doubt ______ our plan is meant for will work out successfully．

A．that what B．whether that

C．what that D．that whether

13、I don't think it wise   the hard work that they have refused to do.

A.for you to take on B.of you to take on C.for you taking on D.of you taking on

14、After driving for five hours, they arrived at they thought was the place they had been dreaming of.

A．what

B．that

C．which

D．where

15、The experience of being teased and bullied may stay with the victims for___ life and cause all kinds of social problems at _____later age.

A. a; a   B./; a C. the; / D./; the

16、Everyone at table was content with the dishes, feeling that they had never tasted   .

A.better B.worse C.tender D.mild

17、Honesty ________ an important role in a child’s ability to succeed in school and later life.

A. played   B. plays   C. had played     D. has played

18、The children went home from the grammar school, their lessons______ for the day.

A．finishing

B．finished

C．had finished

D．were finished

19、A grand celebration along with the military parade was broadcast live at 11 am,______ millions of families were sitting in front of the television, watching it.

A.which B.when C.what D.that

20、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

21、   Alan Naiman was known for being very careful about how he spent his money. But even those closest to him had no knowledge of the fortune he quietly gathered and the last act he had planned.

Naiman died of cancer at age 63 last January. The man from the American state of Washington gave most of his money to groups that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned children.

He gave them $11 million. The large amount of his fortune shocked the groups that received his gifts and even his best friends. That is because Naiman had been known to repair his own shoes with duct tape. He had sought deals to buy food from grocery stores at closing time and taken friends out to lunch at low cost restaurants.

Naiman died unmarried and childless. He loved children but also was intensely private. He saved, invested and worked extra jobs to gather money. He rarely spent the money on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for children who suffer most.

Naiman was a former banker who worked for the past 20 years at the state Department of Social and Health Services. He earned $67,234 a year and also took on side jobs. Sometimes, he worked as many as three at a time. He saved and invested enough to make several millions of dollars. He also received millions more from his parents after they died.

He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Washington. The center is a private organization that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and children with drug dependency. The center used the money to pay off its mortgage (按揭) and buy a new vehicle to transport the children.

Naiman gave $900, 000 to the Treehouse, where children without parents can choose toys and necessities for free. Treehouse is using Naiman’s money to expand its college and career support services Statewide.

【1】Why were Naiman’s best friends shocked at his donation?

A. He left nothing to his relatives.

B. He was dishonest in his economic conditions.

C. He received wealth from his parents secretly.

D. He used to be very careful to spend money.

【2】Naiman was greatly concerned about _________.

A. his money B. his career

C. children in trouble D. life after retirement

【3】What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?

A. Why Naiman’s parents turned rich.

B. Where Naiman’s fortune came from.

C. How hard Naiman worked all his life.

D. How clever Naiman was to gather money.

【4】How did Naiman’s money benefit the Pediatric Interim Care Center?

A. It improved its transport system.

B. It offered more toys to children.

C. It sent more children to college.

D. It helped more women give up drugs.

22、   Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy(同感) and concern for others and behaving in ways to help or benefit other people.

Prosocial behavior has long posed a challenge to social scientists seeking to understand why people engage in helping behaviors that are beneficial to others, but costly to the individual performing the action. Why would people do something that benefits someone else but offers no immediate benefit to the doer?

Psychologists suggest that there are a number of reasons why people engage in prosocial behavior. In many cases, such behaviors are fostered during childhood and adolescence as adults encourage children to share, act kindly, and help others. Prosocial behaviors are often seen as being compelled by a number of factors including egoistic reasons (doing things to improve one's self-image), reciprocal benefits (doing something nice for someone so that they may one day return the favor), and more altruistic reasons (performing actions purely out of empathy for another individual).

Characteristics of the situation can also have a powerful impact on whether or not people engage in prosocial actions. For example, if you drop your purse and several items fall out on  the ground, the likelihood that someone will stop and help you decreases if there are many other people present. This same sort of thing can happen in cases where someone is in serious danger, such as when someone is involved in a car accident. In some cases, witnesses might assume that since there are so many other present, someone else will have surely already called for help. All the examples are what we call the bystander effect, the tendency for people to become less likely to assist a person in distress when there are a number of other people also present.

Why do people help in some situations but not in others? Experts have discovered a number of different situational variables that contribute to (and sometimes interfere with) prosocial behaviors. First, the more people that are present decreases the amount of personal responsibility people feel in a situation. People also tend to look to others for how to respond in such situations, particularly if the event contains some level of ambiguity. Fear of being judged by other members of the group also plays a  role. People  sometimes fear leaping to  assistance,  only  to discover that their help was unwanted or unwarranted. In order to avoid being judged by other bystanders, people simply take no action.

Experts have suggested that some key things must happen in order for a person to take action.

【1】What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A.Social scientists feel it hard to understand why helping behaviors exist.

B.Helping behaviors are costly to people who receive the action.

C.Social scientists have been researching on prosocial behavior for quite long.

D.It is quite challenging for people to perform helping behaviors.

【2】Prosocial behaviors are motivated for all the following reasons EXCEPT ______.

A.empathy for another individual B.instant benefits of helping others

C.parental influences in the early life D.the desire to better one's self-image

【3】Why does the author use the examples in paragraph 4?

A.To show that some people are in need of immediate help.

B.To indicate that some people think their help is not needed.

C.To suggest that some people perform helping behaviors quickly.

D.To demonstrate how the situation can impact helping behaviors.

【4】Which situation can be described as the bystander effect?

A.When hearing an injured lady crying for help, the neighbors didn't take action.

B.Seeing an old man slipping on the icy road, many people volunteered to help.

C.A woman had a heart attack on the train and you were the only doctor there.

D.On the scene of your colleague's traffic accident, you called the police for help.

【5】After the last paragraph, the most possible topic could be ______.

A.possible benefits of prosocial behavior

B.various reasons for prosocial behavior

C.situational influences on prosocial behavior

D.skills and knowledge to provide assistance

23、This year’s judging group of the Royal Society have just revealed the shortlist of four titles for the year’s Science Book Prize, each providing little-known subjects and fresh insight on global issues. Read on to find out why they’re four of the most interesting non-fiction books of the year!

The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque

In this fascinating release, it describes people willing to cross mountaintops and the most remote areas of the world, all in the name of science. It ranges from the world’s most powerful telescopes to wild bears running loose in an observatory (天文台)—recommended for anyone who enjoys gazing upward at the night sky.

Breath by James Nestor

This book offers facts on our breathing, and how even the smallest of changes can have profound health benefits. Nestor looks at athletic performance, snoring and even thousands of years of ancient wisdom on the topic of simply breathing in and out.

The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell

In this timely release, journalist and author Jessica Nordell looks at unconscious bias, weaving fascinating stories and offering real-life solutions to some of the problems in our own society. From issues within the police force to how we teach children under five, this book will leave you with a whole new outlook on how to tackle the issue of bias head on.

The Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O’Sullivan

Diagnostic mysteries are always going to make a thrilling read, and this is certainly no exception. Three cases look at children who fall asleep for years at a time and multiple employees experiencing memory loss at the US Embassy in Cuba.

【1】The Last Stargazers is intended for people interested in ______.

A．astronomy

B．adventure

C．scenery

D．animals

【2】Which book will attract parents struggling to cope with kids?

A．The Last Stargazers.

B．Breath.

C．The End of Bias.

D．The Sleeping Beauties.

【3】What is the common topic of Breath and The Sleeping Beauties?

A．Sports.

B．Education.

C．Culture.

D．Health.

24、Our supposedly shrinking attention spans are a hot topic these days—as you may have seen on TV or heard on a podcast or read on Twitter or glimpsed on your watch. A 2018 Microsoft report claimed the average human attention span had shrunk from 12 seconds in 2008 to eight seconds in 2018 (even shorter than the nine seconds of focus maintained by the easily distracted goldfish), most likely on its way to zero.

Yes, this sort of warning is as old as the hills. An 1897 article in The American Electrician worried that a growing dependence on the telephone would turn us all into “transparent heaps of jelly”. But while the idea of addiction to smartphones is controversial, numerous studies have found that compulsive phone use can lead to separation anxiety, chronic fear of missing out and a painful thumb condition.

Yet blaming smart phones for our distraction feels too easy—human attention has always been fleeting. A study conducted several years before the first iPhone was released found that workers spent an average of just two minutes using a particular tool or document before switching to another. Moreover, interruptions may have an advantage. Many workers who prevented themselves from distraction by website-blocking software became more aware of time’s passage and were able to work for longer stretches—but also reported higher stress levels as a result of their sustained focus.

For those seeking to exercise greater control over their attention span, science has some suggestions. A 2016 study found that mindfulness meditation (正念冥想) led to short-term improvements in attention, and that the long-term benefits of frequent mindfulness were significantly large among heavy multimedia multitaskers.

Ultimately, it’s worth asking: How long do we really want our attention span to be? A little mindfulness can be beneficial, while too much sustained focus can elevate our stress levels. What’s lacking these days, then, may not be attention so much as self-control in the face of countless distractions that are inviting and diverting (有趣的). In the end, it seems like our only hope as a people, as a civilization, really, is to... to, um—sorry. Lost my train of thought.

【1】What does the author want to tell us by referring to The American Electrician?

A．Humans will be reduced to be heaps of jelly.

B．Smartphone is the contributor to mental diseases.

C．Anxiety over electronic devices has existed long before.

D．New media create a serious disturbance to people’s attention.

【2】What does the underlined word “fleeting” refer to?

A．Easily-blocked.

B．Hard-bitten.

C．Short-lived.

D．Long-lasting.

【3】Which of the following may extend our attention span?

A．Heavy multitasks on websites.

B．Regular mindfulness practice.

C．Greater control over meditation.

D．Short-term improvements in focus.

【4】What can be learned from the last paragraph?

A．Short-term mindfulness is more practical.

B．Great self-control is essential in modern life.

C．Sustained focus results from higher stress levels.

D．He was very sorry for losing his train of thought.

25、   As my father walked into the room, my brother John moved backwards slightly; he ______ that he had done something wrong. From a distance I could see that he had ______ my father’s new hymnal (赞美诗集) and scribbled (乱画) in it with a pen. Now, staring at my father ______, he waited for his ______.

My father ______ his prized hymnal and looked at it carefully, without saying a word. Books were ______ to him; he was a holder of several degrees. For him, books were ______, and yet he loved his ______. What he did next was remarkable. ______ scolding, he sat down, took the pen from my brother’s hand, and then wrote in the book himself, alongside the aimless ______ John had made: John’s ______, 1980, age 2. I should ______ you for what you have done in my new hymnal. You have made the book more ______.

The years came and went. Our family ______ what all families go through: prosperity (繁荣) and loss, laughter and ______. But we ______ knew our parents loved us and that one of the proofs of their love was the hymnal. From time to time we would open it, look at the scribbles, ______ my father’s expression of love, and feel uplifted.

Now I, too, am a father. But ______ my father, I do not wait for my children to ______ take books from my bookshelf and scribble in them. I often take one down and ______ it to one of my children so that they can scribble or write their names in it. And as I look at their artwork, I think about my father, and the love he has for us—love that is at the very heart of a family.

【1】A.doubted B.sensed C.remembered D.denied

【2】A.opened B.hidden C.returned D.grabbed

【3】A.carefully B.surprisingly C.fearfully D.angrily

【4】A.sentence B.comment C.punishment D.commitment

【5】A.held up B.picked up C.threw up D.looked up

【6】A.acceptable B.convenient C.accessible D.precious

【7】A.knowledge B.memory C.growth D.warmth

【8】A.books B.collections C.children D.students

【9】A.Instead of B.Regardless of C.Apart from D.Along with

【10】A.words B.drawings C.diagrams D.articles

【11】A.mistake B.chance C.work D.word

【12】A.remember B.forgive C.blame D.thank

【13】A.complex B.vivid C.meaningful D.interesting

【14】A.stood B.experienced C.suffered D.showed

【15】A.death B.sadness C.cries D.tears

【16】A.always B.eventually C.just D.already

【17】A.recall B.study C.share D.read

【18】A.without B.as C.through D.unlike

【19】A.secretly B.quietly C.bravely D.personally

【20】A.throw B.offer C.communicate D.introduce

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

最近一本在线杂志发表了一篇文章，文中询问，在公众眼中，什么样的人是适合做年轻人的榜样（role model）。请你写封信给该杂志，推荐一位你认为适合做榜样的名人（celebrity）。你的文章须包括：

简单介绍这位名人；

为何这位名人适合做年轻人的榜样。

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