抚顺2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、It’s our presence rather than our presents ____ really counts.

A. which   B. what C. why   D. that

2、The suspect was declared innocent for____of convincing evidence.

A.lack B.absence C.confusion D.unawareness

3、All the settlers nearby demanded that the nightclub________away as soon as possible because of the loud noise at night.

A. must be moved B. might be moved

C. should move   D. be moved

4、_______ at my classmates faces, I read the same disappointment in their eyes.

A．Look

B．To look

C．Looked

D．Looking

5、These logs will be shipped from South America to Persian, Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, ______ enforce laws protecting their own trees.

A.where B.that C.whose D.which

6、Doctors have said that as many as 50% of patients don’t take medicine ______.

A. like directed   B. to be directed

C. as directed    D. so that directed

7、They sold their house for only 12,000 dollars, so the buyer got a wonderful ________.

A．cost

B．bargain

C．amount

D．value

8、Last week they went to the school library to do some reading, only to be told that it ________.

A．was decorated

B．had been decorating

C．was being decorated

D．had decorated

9、It is   that the industrial cities of the nineteenth century in England do not attract visitors.

A.a pity B.the pity

C.pity D.pities

10、-- Has Nancy gone back to her home in the UK?

--Yes. She ______ here only for three days with her friends.

A. stayed B. had stayed

C. has stayed D. was staying

11、All the seats on the bus had been ________ so we had to stand.

A．dominated

B．occupied

C．retained

D．ignored

12、You made the same mistake for second time, dropping  “n” in the word “government”.

A. a, the   B. a , a

C. the, an D. a, an

13、To enjoy the scenery, I would rather ________ more hours on the train than travel by air.

A．spend

B．to spend

C．spending

D．spent

14、He still hesitated on________ he would rent the apartment, ________ only drawback was ________it was too small.

A．whether; whose; that

B．what; which; that

C．what; which; /

D．whether; whose; /

15、The young lady prefers dressing up for a party to_______by others.

A. be noticed   B. being noticed

C. having been noticed   D. have been noticed

16、Though the novel had a happy ending, the readers were left________.

A．to be unsatisfied

B．unsatisfying

C．unsatisfied

D．being unsatisfied

17、After ten years, he ________ as manager and we had to find another man for his position.

A．worked

B．returned

C．resigned

D．began

18、Do remember you breathe a word of this to anyone.

A．won’t

B．shan’t

C．don’t

D．wouldn’t

19、_______ in the jungle, the explorer had little hope to find his way out.

A．Leaving B．To be left

C．Having left D．Having been left

20、I do wish you wouldn’t ________ all the resources.

A．use up

B．eat up

C．wake up

D．stay up

21、I hope not to be called on in class to answer the question as I am not yet___________ prepared.

A. aggressively    B. adequately

C. attentively   D. actively

22、 Under the agreement, China will _________ hundreds of millions of pounds in debts owed to it by some of the world’s poorest countries. What a relief for them!

A. sack B. conduct   C. assess D. cancel

23、If any questions or concerns________ during the presentation, please don’t hesitate to raise your hand.

A．rise

B．arise

C．raise

D．arouse

24、When  _______ what is the most efficient way to protect oneself from COVID-19, the expert says no doubt it is wearing a mask.

A．asking

B．asked

C．to ask

D．having asked

25、—Have you ________?

—No．I dialed the wrong number.

A．got in   B．got away   C．got off     D．got through

26、It’s certainly human nature to worry. Especially today, when many of us seem to have problems about money, family, career or health concerns, worry may seem unavoidable. 【1】 What can we do to stop worrying too much?

Some people find meditation a very helpful and relaxing way to stop worrying too much. But you don’t necessarily need formal. meditation techniques. By combining any reflective and calming techniques that work for you. You may find that you stop worrying soon. 【2】

Even if you set aside a certain amount of time to really think about what’s worrying you, you may find that new ideas will come to you later when you least expect them. 【3】 It can help you stop worrying if you know you’ll probably be able to come up with ideas and options if you just give yourself time to think.

Sometimes, letting ourselves think of the worst thing that could happen can actually reduce our worries. 【4】 Even if it does seem bad, facing the possibility of it head-on (积极地) may even allow us to form a plan to prevent this worst-case scenario (设想) from happening.

【5】 For example, talking to friends or a helping professional may be a good option if the worrying just won’t seem lo go away and you’ve tried everything you can think of to stop worrying. Keeping a daily journal and writing down worries regularly may also help.

A．Many creative people experience this process.

B．Actually, the result would really not be that bad.

C．When things are out of your control, make peace with them.

D．There are also many other easy ways to help you stop worrying.

E．We all worry about different things at different points in our lives.

F．However, too much worry can make our stress level and health even worse.

G．Meanwhile, you will feel relaxed and think your problems over more creatively.

27、The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

Rabindranath Tagore( 1913)

Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"

William Faulkner (1949)

Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"

Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)

Prize motivation: "for his great skill of the art of narrative, most recently showed in The Old Man and the Sea"

John Steinbeck (1962)

Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining sympathetic humor and sensitive social perception(社会观察)"

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for excellent speech skills in defending noble human values"

Claude Simon (1985)

Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition"

Mo Yan (2012)

Prize motivation: “he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary".

Bob Dylan (2016)

Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

【1】Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?

A. William Faulkner.   B. Bob Dylan.   C. Rabindranath Tagore.   D. Claude Simon.

【2】Which writer won Noble Prize for his writing art?

A. Ernest Hemingway.   B. John Steinbeck.   C. William Faulkner.   D. Winston Churchill.

【3】Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner?

A. Mo Yan’s.   B. Bob Dylun’s.   C. Claude Simon’s.   D. Rabindranath Tagore’s.

【4】Who described real life experience in his historic works?

A. John Steinbeck.   B. Mo Yan.   C. Ernest Hemingway.   D. Winston Churchill.

28、Have you ever read back something you’ve written and felt like it’s not quite as strong as you’d like? One possible reason is that you overuse crutch words (拐杖词). So, what are crutch words?

Crutch words are words a speaker or a writer uses without knowing it. They are usually not needed and don’t add to the story. If someone is speaking, you’ll recognize a crutch word as a pause, or if the speaker uses “um” or “ah” a lot. Crutch words in the conversation also include favorite words and phrases, such as “you know”, “anyway”, “just”, “all right” and “like”. They only give the speaker time to think before they move on to the next idea.

For writers, crutch words operate in much the same way, but instead of a pause, they’re filler words we use because we haven’t thought the sentence through enough. They’re words that are easy. They flow naturally into the space that could easily be occupied by a slight rewriting of a sentence or a different word choice.

Now that you know what crutch words are, the question is how you can get rid of them. It’s not always easy to notice your own writing quirks (怪癖), so it might take a bit of hard work to find what yours are.

The next time you sit down to read over your writing, look carefully for repeated words or phrases. Mark them so they’re easy to find later. Look at both an old and a new piece of writing and compare the two. Are there phrases or words you use a lot that are common to both? If yes, then you’ve found your crutch words.

Once you’ve known your crutch words, they’re easy to cut out later. But don’t be afraid if you find them in your first draft. Eliminating those words is exactly what revision is for.

【1】What might an article with too many crutch words be like?

A．Formal.

B．Weak.

C．Quality.

D．Easy.

【2】Which statement will the author probably agree with?

A．Crutch words are normally unnecessary.

B．Crutch words are unavoidable.

C．Crutch words give writers time to think.

D．Crutch words give writers different word choices.

【3】What does the author think about finding crutch words?

A．It’s strange.

B．It’s interesting.

C．It’s questionable.

D．It’s a bit difficult.

【4】What does the underlined word “Eliminating” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Returning.

B．Removing.

C．Recording.

D．Remembering.

29、My favorite thing about autumn is that I have an excuse to make my mom apple cake again. So, I always thought, once my first child was in primary school, I would enjoy taking part in bake sale fundraisers.

Instead, I fear them. I do not imagine that funds for football uniforms appear out of thin air. So I dutifully show up to each bake sale with home-made cakes.

Still, bake sales trouble me. They feel like a holdover from a time when many moms didn’t work and it was supposed they had a lot of time to bake cookies for children. Women who don't have the time to bake at home and who bring packaged cookies are seen as breaking a great American tradition.

What are we selling at bake sales, anyway? Are we advertising our baking skills? Or is the goal to raise money? Children happily buy cupcakes from a store, so why do we care that nobody in a home kitchen worked late into the night to make them?

Actually, if you look closely at the economics, they just don’t add up. We might spend $10 on ingredients to make 18 cupcakes that sell for $2 each. Think of this $26 as profit supposing that the hours spent shopping and baking and packing things up and taking them to school, and possibly selling and cleaning up afterward, don’t have value. Volunteering your time and energy to something important is worth praising. But neither the ingredients nor the work is “free”, and many parents can't afford to give them away.

This is not an attack against people who love to make banana bread and have the time to do so. But most people do not. Most parents struggle to get even the most basic parenting tasks finished in the limited time between the end of the workday and children’s bedtimes. It feels crazy to take time away from helping with homework, or actually making dinner, to spend hours on a fundraiser.

【1】What can we learn about the author?

A．She loves baking.

B．She is active at school.

C．She likes home-made food.

D．She is against fundraising.

【2】Why do bake sales trouble the author?

A．She has to buy cakes in stores.

B．Home-made baking is a burden.

C．Some moms don’t attend bake sales.

D．Moms are showing off their baking skills.

【3】What does the example in Paragraph 5 show?

A．Ingredients are too expensive.

B．It is uneconomical to bake at home.

C．It is hard to raise money at bake sales.

D．Ready-made cakes are popular at school.

【4】What does the author think of the time involved in baking?

A．It is increasing.

B．It is rewarding.

C．It is highly valued.

D．It is unavailable for many.

30、Looking at the checkout lines at the grocery, I quickly turned my handcart to line number three. There were only two women there, and neither had kids or coupons(赠券) ! The store was my first ______that morning, and I had a half dozen others on my______before meeting my husband for lunch.

Two minutes turned into ten, and I watched as the other lines moved ______. I moved my ______in the shopping handcart and dug for my wallet, trying to______the cashier that it was time to get a move on. Finally, after fifteen minutes, I took a breath and______. Then I heard the cashier tell the women in front of me: “And just like that, he told me what she looked like and ______one hundred dollars here to________her groceries. He said not to worry about the______, just give it to charity.”

The story she was ______had taken place in the sales department. An older man had witnessed a(n) ________mama in need.______for foods with kids around, she was sticking to her list and ______the items on her calculator as she went. The gentleman said he had a little ______on him that day, so he left one hundred dollars to ______ her groceries and, just maybe, add a little wiggle room(回旋的余地) to her ______.

After hearing about the man who had______served a fellow traveler in life, I realized that my hurry, ______and general worries were______. What's five extra minutes in a line to hear a story of a man sharing his  ______？ Suddenly, I know I could wait.

【1】A. delivery   B. checkout   C. journey   D. stop

【2】A. notebook   B. list   C. criterion   D. admission

【3】A. patiently   B. clearly   C. quickly   D. similarly

【4】A. items   B. dealers   C. prospects   D. kids

【5】A. order   B. debate   C. remind   D. complain

【6】A. laughed   B. noticed   C. appreciated   D. sighed

【7】A. left   B. threw   C. cost   D. promoted

【8】A. apply for   B. pay for   C. look for   D. make for

【9】A. reputation   B. change   C. contribution   D. decision

【10】A. adjusting   B. booking   C. reading   D. sharing

【11】A. well-dressed   B. good-looking   C. worn-out   D. easy-going

【12】A. Wandering   B. Preparing   C. Shopping   D. Begging

【13】A. supposing   B. adding   C. developing   D. presenting

【14】A. principle   B. time   C. extra   D. quantity

【15】A. cover   B. suit   C. carry   D. purchase

【16】A. basket   B. budget   C. property   D. response

【17】A. rarely   B. quietly   C. obviously   D. occasionally

【18】A. anxiety   B. happiness   C. attention   D. eagerness

【19】A. treated   B. respected   C. rejected   D. misplaced

【20】A. notice   B. mistake   C. content   D. love

31、In the US, April is National Volunteer Month, 【1】 recognizes and thanks volunteers who lend their time, talent, and support to causes they care about in their 【2】 (community).

The very nature of volunteering means choosing to work without being paid for it. As a result, people tend to do things they feel strongly 【3】 (concern) about.

For students, valuable lessons may be learned outside class. 【4】 (consequent), in many parts of the US, volunteering is often taken into consideration when vacations 【5】 (plan). Unlike his classmates, Andrew Makhoul, 【6】 university student, spent his 2012 spring break volunteering at an orphanage (孤儿院), 【7】 (locate) in one of the poorest and most violent parts of Guatemala and depending 【8】 volunteers to stay open. Makhoul’s first time as a volunteer only lasted a week, but by the end of that week, he knew he 【9】 (will) be back soon—because he saw love and hope. “If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, and you will fill 【10】 (you) with hope,” former US president wrote on social media in 2016.

32、我校高二年级正在举办主题为“A personal habit I’d like to change”的英语演讲比赛。请你根据该主题要求写一篇演讲稿来参与此活动，具体要求如下:

1.简述你想改变的这一行为习惯；

2.说明你想改变这一习惯的理由及措施；

3.词数100左右。

Good morning, everyone. Standing here, I feel extremely honored to deliver a speech to all of you. The topic of my speech is

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Thank you for your listening!