石嘴山2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、—Jerry, where did you guys go for the summer vacation?

—We ___ busy with our work, or we would have gone to Brazil to watch the games.

A.were B.have been C.had been D.would be

2、Japan is facing an ageing population, with the population ______ from the current 127 million to 90 million.

A. expecting to shrink   B. expected to shrink

C. expecting to have shrunk   D. expected to have shrunk

3、None of the underwater workers has been harmed by the great fish．______，most fish were so friendly that they played with the instruments．

A．Instead B．Even though

C．However D．Though

4、Taobo is Asia’s largest retail (零售的) network platform, ________ people can buy and sell many kinds of things．

A．where

B．when

C．that

D．whose

5、--- I’m sorry. I think I am not fit for the job. I don’t handle pressure too well.

--- Oh, I can’t believe it. You know , that’s not the impression I have of you at all. That’s

    I’d describe myself.

A. what   B. how   C. which   D. why

6、The Williams moved to a safer area and since then they_______back to their past life.

A.wouldn't watch B.haven't looked C.didn't look D.hadn't watched

7、I was ill that day, otherwise I _______the sports meet.

A. took part in   B. would have taken part in

C. had taken part in   D. would take part in

8、________ back in his chair, the man began to tell us his adventures in the forests.

A. Sit B. Sitting C. To sit D. Sat

9、—Did you catch what I said?

—Sorry. I ________ a text message just now.

A. had answered   B. have answered   C. would answer   D. was answering

10、Researches indicate that people who constantly work extra hours are more than three times as likely as those who work simply in the daytime _______ signs of depression.

A. shown   B. showing   C. show   D. to show

11、Betty is so lucky to be ______ such a beautiful singing voice.

A．bored with

B．blessed with

C．devoted to

D．related to

12、 --I hear that there was a terrible crash in the subway in Shanghai the other day.

--Yes, _____ news came as _____ shock to all of us.

A. the; the B. a; /   C. the; a   D. /; a

13、 First-class players of football must have excellent ball control, but it is not just _____ they do with their feet _____ counts.

A. how; that   B. that; what

C. what; that  D. whether; what

14、The debate has only a few moments that might be inspiring to those who ______ this issue.

A. followed B. had followed C. have been following D. were following

15、—What does Nicky’s job involve as a public relations director?

—______ quite a lot of time with other people.

A. Spending   B. Having spent

C. To spend   D. To have spent

16、The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market ________ its superior quality.

A．in terms of

B．on account of

C．on behalf of

D．on top of

17、— I'm sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.

— I think so. He ________ for it for months.

A．is preparing

B．was preparing

C．had been preparing

D．has been preparing

18、—I have no idea what made the students so excited and crazy.

—______ it have been their team’s victory in the finals?

A. Must   B. Could

C. Would   D. Should

19、—Sorry, I have to________ now. It 's time for class.

—OK. it'll call back later.

A．give up

B．hang up

C．hold up

D．break up

20、—Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?

—No, I wish I_____the clock back.

A．had turned

B．could turn

C．will turn

D．would have turned

21、   Toronto Wildlife Centre’s rescue team wants to match their expert skill with the latest technology to help more animals.

The rescue team wants to help animals fast and with an even higher success rate. They are looking at technology ranging from as simple as a quick-firing netgun to as complex as a remotely controlled trail camera that is connected to the cellular network. This would immediately inform them with a photo if an animal has been successfully trapped, or has returned to a site that they are monitoring.

A small thermal imager (热像仪) is another piece of equipment that the rescue team is looking at to add to their tool box. The technology would allow the rescuers to see an animal’s heat signature. This would be useful for finding animals hidden in brush, rescuing wildlife stuck inside buildings, or finding animals at night when it’s too dark to see. Say we know there’s an injured animal in a back yard with many hiding spots. We don’t want to storm there and scare him away. We want to be able to predict his movement and rescue him as effectively as possible and the only way we can do that is by knowing where he is, the rescue team leader, Andrew Wight said.

The team also has their eye on a camera-equipped drone (无人驾驶飞机). “We want to use drones for aerial (空中的) watching in situations like when we have a baby bird that came from a nest that is difficult to access. If there’s no other baby in the nest, we can build a new nest, and the parents will simply find their baby and relocate to the new nest. If there’s another baby in the nest, we can’t separate the family and will need to return the baby to the original one. If we have a camera-equipped drone, we will easily see if there are any other babies in the original nest and plan accordingly,” Andrew explained.

【1】What can we learn from paragraph 2?

A．The rescue team aims to simplify the technologies.

B．The remotely controlled trail camera is used to trap animals.

C．The remotely controlled trail camera must have internet access.

D．The rescuers will receive a photo only when an animal is trapped.

【2】How does a small thermal imager help rescue an animal?

A．By providing enough light at night.

B．By showing the location of the animal.

C．By giving off heat to warm the animal.

D．By offering a way to hide the rescuers.

【3】What would happen without a camera-equipped drone?

A．The bird nest would be destroyed.

B．The baby bird would be deserted.

C．The rescue work would be difficult.

D．Another nest would have to be built.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Rescuing Animals with Technology

B．Toronto Wildlife Centre

C．Fast Developing Technology

D．Ways to Protect Wildlife

22、If you’ve ever had a dog, you know just how deep a connection you can develop with “man’s best friend”. But a dog has a much shorter life span — about 12 to 15 years long — than humans, which means every dog owner has to go through the heartbreaking moment when their loving pet passes away.

Why not make a clone of that dog then? This is the solution offered by a South Korean company, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. The company has successfully cloned at least 400 dogs, mostly for US customers, ever since it pioneered the technique in 2005. Now, Sooam Biotech is planning to introduce their business to UK dog owners, offering them dogs that look just like their lost ones.

Meanwhile, another dog is selected to supply an egg. Researchers then replace the DNA in the egg with that from the skin cell and implant the egg into the womb (子宫) of a female dog. The egg grows into a puppy over the following two months. To clone a dog, researchers first need to take a skin cell from a living dog or one that has just died.

The whole process takes less than a day, but it comes at a shockingly high price — around £63,000 (614,000 yuan). But if you can’t afford it now, you can also save the cells in a laboratory and access them at a later date. Just like identical twins of humans, they share the exact same DNA but there will still be small differences between them. “The spots on a Dalmatian clone will be different, for example,” Insung Hwang, head of Sooam Biotech, told The Guardian. However, as magical as cloning might sound, there is no guarantee that the cloned dog will be a perfect replica of the original one.

Dog owners will also have to accept the fact that personality is not “clone-able”. Apart from genes, personality is also determined by upbringing and environment, which are both “random elements [that] cloning technologies simply cannot overcome”, Professor Tom Kirkwood at Newcastle University, UK, told The Telegraph.

Perhaps bringing our dogs back with cloning is not the best way to remember them after all.

Kirkwood, a dog owner himself, pointed out: “An important aspect of our relationship with them is coming to terms with the pain of letting go.”

【1】According to the article, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation is ______.

A．working on plans to help dog owners enjoy their pets longer

B．offering a way to help dogs give birth to more puppies

C．providing a service that will make copies of pet dogs

D．introducing a completely new technique to clone dogs

【2】Which of the following statements about dog cloning is TRUE according to the article?

A．Dog cloning technology hadn’t been put into practice until recently.

B．Dog cloning is very expensive and usually takes several months to complete.

C．Dog cloning is very popular among US and UK pet owners.

D．Cloned dogs might develop different habits and characteristics even though they look very similar.

【3】Which of the following shows the correct order of the dog cloning process?

a. an egg is taken from another dog

b. a skin cell is taken from the pet dog and saved in a laboratory

c. the egg is placed in the womb of a female dog

d. the DNA of the egg is replaced by the DNA from the skin cell

e. the egg grows into a puppy in two months

A．acbde.

B．adbce.

C．bacde.

D．badce.

【4】We can learn from the article that Kirkwood ______ dog cloning.

A．disapproves of

B．supports

C．is afraid of

D．is curious about

23、A sleepover (在外过夜的聚会) at Legoland Discovery Centre, at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, may sound like the perfect place to host your child's next birthday party — but it will set parents back more than ￡1,000.

All rides — Kingdom Quest Laser Ride, Merlin's Apprentice and Lego City Forest Pursuit — are open during the evening and supervision (监管) on these rides is provided at all times. The Lego Studios 4D Cinema is also open and guests have exclusive use of the Lego construction play area until 10:00 pm, which means you will have a good time and don't need to share any facilities with other groups.

But at ￡35 a head, with a minimum guest list of 30, it's unlikely to be something the average parent could afford, reports Manchester Evening News.

A Legoland spokesman said: "The sleepover package is aimed at groups such as boys between eight and ten, girls between six and eight and youth groups, however it is open to everyone within the terms of the offer. " There is a birthday room to use, and in regard to food, snack boxes can be purchased for the additional cost of ￡4.50. Guests are also welcome to bring along their own food and drinks, and there are storage facilities where they can be kept.

"Also we do have daytime party packages available, which are ￡15 per child midweek and ￡18 per child at the weekend. But these packages have a policy of a minimum of nine and a maximum of 21 people, due to room capacity. "

The spokesman continued, "Included in the price for these parties is the birthday cake, and children's meal of sandwiches, crisps, fruit juice, fruit and Haribo sweets. All attending adults also get a free hot drink and the birthday child gets a free group photograph."

Legoland says that the pricing for the sleepover package is based on overall operating costs of opening the centre exclusively for the group.

【1】When you have a sleepover at Legoland Discovery Centre at the Trafford Centre, you can't have access to ________.

A. Lego City Forest Pursuit

B. the Lego construction play area

C. the Lego Studios 4D Cinema

D. Lego City Deep Sea Exploration

【2】Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined word, "exclusive", in the second paragraph?

A. beneficial B. unshared C. accessible D. combined

【3】The sleepover at the Legoland Discovery Centre ________.

A. charges ￡35 per child at the weekend in daytime

B. charges￡4.50 for a birthday cake

C. is only open to groups

D. provides all people with group photographs for free

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A. Have a birthday party in Legoland

B. Some newly-introduced Lego toys

C. Activities you can do in Legoland

D. Have a sleepover away from home

24、   He was an old man who fished alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unluck, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his boat empty and he always went down to help carry either the fishing lines or the spear. The sail was old and, rolled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.

The old man was very thin with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown spots of the skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The spots ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep scar from handling heavy fish on the thick ropes. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions (侵蚀) in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

“Santiago,” the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the boat was pulled up. “I could go with you again. We’ve made some money.”

The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him. :

“No,” the old man said. “You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them,”

“But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.

“I remember,” the old man said. “I know you did not leave me because you doubted.”

【1】Why did the boy leave the old man?

A．He felt extremely disappointed.

B．He missed his parents.

C．He had to obey his parents.

D．He wanted to catch fish.

【2】What can we learn about the old man in paragraph 2?

A．He was easy-going and talkative.

B．He was heart-broken and helpless.

C．He was ugly-looking but warm-hearted.

D．He was weather-beaten but strong-willed.

【3】Which of the following can be inferred according to the dialogue?

A．The old man disliked the boy.

B．The old man distrusted the boy.

C．The boy doubted about the old man.

D．The boy had faith in the old man.

【4】What type of writing is true of the passage?

A．Narration

B．Argumentation

C．Description

D．Exposition

25、South Carolina is my home state and I am the aunt, granddaughter, daughter, and sister of Baptist ministers(牧师). The church was a center of Black children's social _______ and caring Black adults were buffers(缓冲) against the segregated(种族隔离的) and hostile outside world that told us we weren't _______. But our parents said it wasn't so, our teachers said it wasn't so, and our ministers said it wasn't so. The _______ of my childhood was clear: let no man or woman _______ on you, and look down on no man or woman.

We couldn't play in public playgrounds or sit at drugstore lunch counters and _______ a Coke，so Daddy built a playground and canteen behind the church. In fact, whenever he saw a need, he tried to _______. There were no Black homes for the aged in Bennestsville, so he began one across the street for which he and Mama and we children cooked and _______ and cleaned.

We learned early what our parents and extended community “parents” valued. Children were _______—not by sermonizing(说教), but by personal example—that _______ was too lowly to do. I remember a debate my parents had when I was eight or nine as for ________ I was too young to go with my older brother, Harry，to help clean the bed and bedsores of a very sick，poor woman. I went and learned just how much the ________ helping hands and kindness can mean to a person in need.

The adults in our churches and community made children feel ________ and important. They took time and paid attention to us. They tried to find ways to keep us busy. And ________ life was often hard and resources ________，we always knew who we were and that the ________ of our worth was inside our heads and hearts and not outside in our possessions or on our backs. We were told that the ________ had a lot of problems; that Black people had an extra lot of problems; but that we were able and ________ to struggle and change them; that being poor was no ________ for not achieving; and that extra intellectual and material gifts brought ________ them the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less ________．

【1】

A．attitude

B．existence

C．background

D．media

【2】

A．friendly

B．powerful

C．important

D．intelligent

【3】

A．advantage

B．vision

C．direction

D．message

【4】

A．come down

B．look down

C．catch up

D．give up

【5】

A．order

B．share

C．make

D．find

【6】

A．research

B．reply

C．respond

D．reflect

【7】

A．played

B．ate

C．helped

D．served

【8】

A．rewarded

B．disciplined

C．taught

D．assessed

【9】

A．nothing

B．something

C．everything

D．anything

【10】

A．why

B．whether

C．where

D．how

【11】

A．greatest

B．smallest

C．strongest

D．weakest

【12】

A．impressed

B．accomplished

C．valued

D．protected

【13】

A．since

B．unless

C．before

D．while

【14】

A．scarce

B．precious

C．necessary

D．available

【15】

A．security

B．defense

C．description

D．measure

【16】

A．world

B．community

C．people

D．church

【17】

A．contented

B．obliged

C．relieved

D．delighted

【18】

A．condition

B．exception

C．reason

D．excuse

【19】

A．for

B．to

C．with

D．in

【20】

A．fortunate

B．smart

C．wealthy

D．kind

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。

Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn’t help weeping sorrowfully when she thought of the scolding from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat, but it was not possible for her, since she had nothing with her. She stood beside a stand for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she sighed and had to leave.

The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, “Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?”

“Oh, yes...but I don’t have money on me…” she replied.

“That’s nothing. I’ll treat you today,” said the man. “Come in.”

The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.

“What is it?” asked the man kindly.

“Nothing, actually I was just touched by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears. “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so merciless compared to a stranger!!”

Hearing the words, the seller smiled, “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times she cooked for you? Have you expressed your gratitude to her?”

Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock; she remembered mother’s familiar face and weathered hands. “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel indebted, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”

On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to make an apology to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.

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,每段的开头语已为你写好.

Paragraph 1:

Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back.

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