钦州2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、The newly elected president required at the meeting that the problem ________ be solved before the National Day.

A. must   B. need

C. can   D. should

2、--Can I use the telephone on the table，sir？

--Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs．

A．anyone is allowed  B．nobody is allowed

C．is anyone allowed  D．is nobody allowed

3、They are determined to go into the dark cave, ________ my warning of danger.

A. regardless of   B. because of

C. apart from   D. instead of

4、The Dutch government has announced it will stop using the name Holland _______ its official name the Netherlands.

A.in favor of B.regardless of C.in spite of D.instead of

5、—Come on，Kitty.

—Oh, good heavens! Both my legs are nearly to give out. I_______ for hours like a dog.

A.have been walking B.had walked C.was walking D.walked

6、It is obvious to the students _____________they should get well prepared for their future.

A.as B.that

C.which D.whether

7、How long do you think it is ______ the National Football Team of china can play in the World Cup Finals.

A.when B.before

C.since D.until

8、When changing lanes， a driver should use his turning ______ to let other drivers know ______ lane he is entering.

A.sign； what B.mark； what

C.symbol； which D.signal； which

9、Under no ________ should passengers leave the underground platform and get on the tracks.

A.circumstances B.situations C.occasions D.cases

10、He will get a job more easily ________ he makes his computer skills better.

A.if B.before C.while D.though

11、I’ve been away for 3 whole days. Can you ______ me on what’s happened here?

A.update B.evaluate C.indicate D.investigate

12、Researchers are now conducting hibernation experiment and can use chemicals to put living cells into sleep-like state_____ they don’t age.

A. for which   B. that

C. where   D. which

13、The stronger the________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.

A．motivation

B．ambition

C．effect

D．imagination

14、—Tu Youyou proves with hardships _______ great honor.

—Sure. Opportunities favour the prepared mind.

A. comes   B. will come   C. is coming   D. are coming

15、—Jim, what’s the result of the final?

—Believe it or not, China ________ beat its strong opponent France.

A．narrowly

B．casually

C．initially

D．typically

16、To ______ the turkey, people often prepare other things, such as cornbread, mashed potatoes (土豆泥), and pumpkin or apple pie.

A.come across B.go with C.search for D.figure out

17、––What did the doctor say about your injury?

––She said I should avoid doing too much exercise ______ it feels better.

A. until   B. since

C. if   D. while

18、______ , I think, in another two weeks, and you will realize your dream.

A. If you doubt your efforts   B. Making greater efforts

C. When you make greater efforts   D. A bit more efforts

19、— Jennifer, you seem to be overjoyed

— ______? I have just received the offer from the National University of Singapore.

A. So what B. Guess what

C. What if D. What for

20、— I’m sure Tom will win the first prize in the final.

— I can’t agree more. He ______ for it for months.

A．is preparing

B．had been preparing

C．was preparing

D．has been preparing

21、An interesting question in humankind’s development is, when did we begin to think critically? In other words, when did we turn from animals focused only on the daily struggle to avoid starvation to humans who could think symbolically about the word around us? However, answering this question is not easy as thinking leaves no fossils to discover.

A commonsense assumption is that higher levels of thought go hand-in-hand with verbal language, because higher thinking, such as creative thought, would naturally seek a means of expression. So tracing the development of language could give an approximate idea of when humans began to think critically.

Interestingly, we do have some fossil evidence related to speech. Animals whose larynx (voice box) is placed high in their throats are unable to produce the variety of sounds necessary for speech. Fossil bones tell us that in early humans, the larynx was originally high in the throat. However, by about 200,000 years ago, it had moved lower in the throat. This lowering provided a larger sound chamber (the space in the throat and the mouth) in which passing air could be controlled by the tongue, making a wide range of sounds and rhythms possible.

So humans were physically able to speak around 200,000 years ago, but when did they actually start doing so? Estimates range from 35,000 to 100,000 years ago. But with no physical evidence of ancient language use, we need another approach to determine more precisely when humans began to speak - and to think critically.

Professor Richard Klein of Stanford University suggests that art may be the key. After all, ability to create or appreciate art is a uniquely human train. If ancient humans had the imagination to create a work of art (which in itself is a means of communication), then it seems highly likely that they would possess the primary means of communication: language. This suggests that the first works of art can be considered indicators of when language and critical though began.

Until recently the earliest art was believed to be cave paintings, carved figures, and jewelry found in southwestern Europe and thought to data from about 40,000 years ago. This suggested that humans first became capable of critical thought about 40,000 years ago. However, this time frame was recently overturned by an exciting discovery in South Africa. Anthropologist Christ Henshilwood spent more than ten years exploring a cave there. He found many well-made tools, but more intriguing were the 8,000 pieces of ochre, a soft stone that can be turned into paint. Hensilwood’s breakthrough came in 1999 when he found an ochre piece with lines cut in a careful pattern. In other words, it was deliberate artistic design. Henshilwood had found the oldest piece of art yet, its date of origin set at 70,000 years — nearly 30,000 years before the art in Europe.

Based on Henshilwood’s discovery, it seems that humans began to speak and think critically at least 70,000 years ago.

【1】______ made humans physically able to speak.

A．The evolution of the tongue

B．The lowering of the larynx

C．The appearance of various sounds

D．The higher thinking

【2】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．No other animals than humans can enjoy art.

B．Before 1999, Africa was thought to be the origin of art.

C．Without creative though, humans would be unable to speak.

D．Evidence of ancient language use was once found in Europe.

【3】According to the passage, the oldest deliberate artistic design dates back to ______ years ago.

A．30,000

B．40,000

C．70,000

D．200,000

【4】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．How did humans stop struggling for starvation?

B．When did humans become able to create art?

C．How did humans communicate more freely?

D．When did humans begin to think?

22、   Marketing research can give a business a picture of what kinds of new products and services may bring a profit. 【1】 By researching the answers to specific questions, small-business owners can learn whether they need to change their package design or adjust their delivery methods. 【2】

Failure to do market research before you begin a business venture or during its operation is like driving a car from Texas to New York without a map or street signs. You have to know which direction to travel and how fast to go. 【3】 It will also tell you when they are most likely and willing to purchase your goods or use your services.

When you conduct marketing research, you can use the results either to create a business and marketing plan or to measure the success of your current plan. That’s why it’s important to ask the right questions, in the right way, of the right people. 【4】

The goal of primary research is to gather data from analyzing current sales and the effectiveness of current practices. Primary research also takes competitors’ plans into account, giving you information about your competition.

【5】 With secondary data, you can identify competitors, establish benchmarks (标准) and identify targets. Your targets are the people who fall into your targeted population: people who live a certain lifestyle, exhibit particular behavioral patterns or fall into a predetermined age group.

A．Research, done poorly, can lead a business in the wrong direction.

B．No small business can succeed without understanding its customers.

C．Sometimes they even consider offering additional services accordingly.

D．A market research plan is like a map indicating where your customers are.

E．Relying on the published work of others doesn’t give you the full picture.

F．It can also tell companies whether they are meeting their customers’ needs.

G．The goal of secondary research is to analyze data that has already been published.

23、   If there had to be a father of handwashing in history, it would be Ignaz Semmelweis. While working at Vienna General hospital, the Hungarian doctor, faced with a situation in which maternal death (孕产妇死亡) in hospitals were significantly higher than local clinics, tried hard clues as to why.

Germs (细菌) were yet to be discovered, and it was still believed in the 1840s that disease was spread by bad smells in the air. So it didn’t seem a problem that trainee doctors hanging out of labs to dissect (解剖) human bodies would pop up to the maternity ward (产房) to deliver a baby without washing their hands.

Then an accidental finger cut by a knife during a dissection caused a doctor to die, seemingly of the same sign the mothers had been getting. Semmelweis assumed that something from the dead bodies was to blame, which might, through the hands of doctors, make their way into women’ s bodies during childbirth.

To test his theory, he ordered doctors to wash their hands and instruments in some chlorine solution. As a result, the death rate for new mothers dropped to about 1 percent, compared with that of as high as 18 percent before the experiment.

However, he faced great resistance, and met a sad end. People at that time didn’t think of themselves as sort of walking Petri dishes. And the majority of doctors then were from middle- or upper-class families, and thought of themselves as very clean people.

Over the next 40 years, a better understanding of germs developed, and attitudes to hygiene (卫生) gradually shifted. In 1876, the German scientist Robert Koch discovered the anthrax bacillus (炭疽), kicking off the new research field of medical bacteriology. Many more germs were later identified. Surgeons started to take handwashing seriously.

By the 1890s and into the early 1900s, handwashing moved from being something doctors did to something everybody had been told to do.

【1】What was the situation like in the 1840s?

A．Germs might have been discovered then.

B．Women suffered from delivering babies then.

C．The air at that time was dirty and full of viruses.

D．People were unaware of how disease was spread.

【2】What does the underlined word “Solution” probably mean?

A．Liquid.

B．Option.

C．Tissue.

D．Shell.

【3】How did the public feel about handwashing at first?

A．It was effective.

B．It was necessary.

C．It was ridiculous.

D．It was dangerous.

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

A．Steps to Protect Yourself

B．Disease Spreading by Your Hand

C．Hand Washing Critical in Fighting Viruses

D．The First Recorded Discovery of Handwashing

24、Imagine climbing a mountain and getting half way up and saying to yourself, “You know what, I’m going to climb back down and finish this later.”

【1】 We have projects that sit waiting to be completed. Some people start college but never graduate. We have books that we never finish reading. 【2】 Many people are great at beginning things but can’t seem to finish strong.

Not finishing what we started has been a repeated problem for us. We have to face it. 【3】 Whenever we delay, or put to the side, the things that will help us accomplish our goals, we stop developing our potential.

Not finishing not only causes us to stop making progress but also we find it harder whenever we do decide to start again. Consider this: every time I begin a new exercise program my muscles are sore (疼) for a few days. After a few weeks of routine, the muscles get accustomed to the program and grow stronger. Thus, no more sore muscles. Well, when I take some time off I fear starting again. 【4】

Strong finishers are able to focus on getting the best result from anything that they start. So how do we know that we are a strong finisher? Along with the huge feeling of accomplishment, other people will begin to notice the change. 【5】 They will have no choice but to recognize our strong finishing ability. We will be rewarded with more trust from them.

A．The list goes on and on.

B．We should have the confidence.

C．Why don’t we have the interest any more?

D．Sounds silly, but that is what we do all of the time.

E．I know that my muscles are going to be sore again.

F．They will see we are able to climb and conquer the mountain.

G．Not being a strong finisher can limit our ability to conquer our goals.

25、I’ve had some pretty serious issues with some people in my community recently. As a result. I stopped away from them and did my best to _______ them. But the emotions that I felt from those events continued to _______ me and it began destroying the relationships in other parts of my life. I ended up making the _______ with people I really cared about.

Yesterday, I was _______ to attend a conference of community because of a major work event. 1 was _______ about this event for days and it was pretty _______ when I first saw the people I _______ with at the conference.

_______ all of this, the strangest yet most _______ thing happened to me: there were no ________ or drama with anyone. Some of the people didn’t even know who I was and it was ________ that a lot of people have moved on from the events. There wasn’t anything to worry about anymore. No one was holding ________ against me. I looked at them during the ________ and apologized in my head and ________ them. After doing this, I felt ________ in myself.

Through my recent practice in compassion, I ________ that when you forgive others, you ________yourself as well. This important ________ on forgiveness helps me to ________ things from a bigger view. I know people still ________ me during that time. I wish them the best life that they can have. And then, I move on.

【1】

A．understand

B．comfort

C．forget

D．entertain

【2】

A．disturb

B．frighten

C．inspire

D．amaze

【3】

A．competition

B．break

C．decision

D．difference

【4】

A．promised

B．allowed

C．persuaded

D．forced

【5】

A．anxious

B．crazy

C．happy

D．sorry

【6】

A．exciting

B．depressing

C．confusing

D．embarrassing

【7】

A．quarreled

B．competed

C．chatted

D．combined

【8】

A．Because of

B．In favor of

C．In spite of

D．In case of

【9】

A．incredible

B．wonderful

C．important

D．popular

【10】

A．instructions

B．double

C．bargains

D．argument

【11】

A．necessary

B．impossible

C．clear

D．strange

【12】

A．sorrow

B．surprise

C．anger

D．silence

【13】

A．convenience

B．conference

C．performance

D．experiments

【14】

A．forgave

B．complained

C．recalled

D．reminded

【15】

A．pride

B．peace

C．gratitude

D．sympathy

【16】

A．realize

B．suggest

C．insist

D．explain

【17】

A．risk

B．free

C．ignore

D．believe

【18】

A．shift

B．experience

C．lesson

D．lecture

【19】

A．serve

B．gain

C．pay

D．see

【20】

A．cheered for

B．cared about

C．depended on

D．looked after

26、假定你是李华，你们学校计划本周星期六组织学生到红山农场参加劳动。请你根据以下信息，给你校的交换生Peter写封邮件邀请他参加。

注意：1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2.文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3.词数：100词左右（不包括开头、结尾部分）；

4.参考词汇：锄草get rid of weeds；体验快乐experience pleasure

Dear Peter,

I’m writing to invite you to take part in an activity organized by our school.

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Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua