东营2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、David is so excited because it is the first time that he ________ the Great Wall.

A.visited B.had visited C.has visited D.visits

2、— I was wondering if I could use your cell phone to check a message.

—You ________ have my phone if you promise you won’t see my personal information.

A．shall

B．will

C．must

D．ought to

3、You’ll find this map of great ________ in helping you to get around in London.

A.value B.effect C.concern D.vision

4、He is a bad-tempered fellow, but he ________ be quite charming when he wishes.

A. shall B. should

C. can D. must

5、A research project is quite different from homework__________you know there is a solution.

A.which B.where C.what D.that

6、China is playing a key role in controlling the virus. However, it will take long and much effort ________ it is under control.

A.until B.after C.before D.unless

7、________ competence in acquiring English today comes from the ability to express oneself rather than in simply passing exams.

A. Due B. Raw

C. Core D. Keen

8、 --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

9、There are so many spelling mistakes in the composition, and I have to write the letter out again. It means I will  ______.

A.give the cold shoulder B.kill the fatted calf

C.cost an arm and a leg D.start from scratch

10、--He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________.

--No. He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all.

A. interviewing; to prepare

B. interviewed; to prepare

C. interviewing; preparing

D. being interviewed; preparing

11、Of all the books on the desk, __________ is of any use for our study.

A．no one

B．nothing

C．none

D．neither

12、— Let’s go swimming this afternoon, shall we?

— Good idea. Nothing is more ________ than swimming in such a hot day.

A.friendly B.enjoyable C.hopeful D.difficult

13、I was surprised by her words， which made me recognize___silly mistakes I had made.

A．what

B．that

C．how

D．which

14、Contrary to popular belief, the ants, hardworking ________ they are, have their time for play.

A. because B. while C. as D. where

15、—Do you feel much better now?

—Yes. The medicine does work ______ emotional and mental health.

A．in case of

B．because of

C．as a result of

D．in terms of

16、All the information available has been checked, but ________ is directly relevant to this murder case.

A.nothing B.it C.no one D.none

17、Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century __________ his musical gift was fully recognized.

A.when B.which C.that D.how

18、You can’t imagine the suffering the explorers________ during their trip in the horrible desert without ample water and food.

A. stimulated   B. ultimated

C. underwent   D. reinforce

19、Mary was pleased to see that the seeds she ______ in the garden were growing.

A. was planting   B. has planted   C. would plant   D. had planted

20、I can’t thank you ____ much for the kindness, because without your help I couldn’t have succeeded in the exam.

A.so B.too C.such D.that

21、   In 2019, more than 1.4 million young people around the globe took part in the School Strikes for Climate Action protests that were largely advocated by 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The inspirational young Swede, while a media favourite, is far from the first or last young person to fight for a better environmental future.

With the rise of social media in recent years, websites such as YouTube provide accessible coverage on ecological matters that quickly gather millions of views, and links to new scientific information are easily shared between peers. But, it's not just online research that exposes the truth, and it's not a distant threat either. Climate change is happening around us as we speak; an increase of droughts and heatwaves means a loss of crop production and one and a half acres of forest is cut down every second.

Of course, just because young people are now readily armed with statistics such as these doesn't mean all adults will eagerly listen to them. Many write off young activists simply due to their age, and others still aren't willing to see the environmental challenges we face, but that doesn't mean a difference can't be made.

A study on participants aged 16-24 in the UN climate negotiations revealed that adults perceived younger activists as being more trustworthy due to the lack of financial incentives (刺激)to be there. Young activists often have an independent view of what's going on and, being free from politics, they often say what adults aren't willing to.

So, it seems achieving a carbon neutral world in the fixture might depend on young determined voices inspiring experienced adults who can make a difference.

【1】Why is Greta Thunberg mentioned in the first paragraph?

A．To show that the young activists are playing a part.

B．To give an introduction to Greta Thunberg.

C．To illustrate the seriousness of climate change.

D．To arouse readers' interest in environmental protection.

【2】What does the underlined phrase "write off" in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Consider unimportant.

B．Take seriously.

C．Give up.

D．Write down.

【3】what does paragraph 4 focus on?

A．The way young activists work.

B．The advantages young activists have.

C．The contributions young activists make.

D．The views young activists hold.

【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Greta Thunberg: an outstanding activist.

B．Climate change: a matter needing everyone's attention.

C．The rise of social media makes ecological matters accessible.

D．The young arc making a difference to the environmental future.

22、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Edison and Popular Culture

Whenever we play music or go to the movies, we enjoy the benefits of Thomas Edison’s genius and hard work. Although Edison is perhaps most famous for his light bulb, his inventions in sound recording and motion pictures has contributed to entertainment industry.

After his successful development of the first phonograph in 1877, Edison and his researchers made countless improvements to the phonograph (留声机) striving for the finest sound reproduction possible. 【1】 What the public really wanted, however, was a machine to play music. Recognizing the biggest market for the phonograph, Edison began producing musical records in the early 1890s. However scratchy and rough those early records seemed, they were amazing to buyers who were hearing recorded sound for the very first time. The development of records, cassette tapes and finally digital music traces back to Edison’s early experiments with sound recording.

【2】 In October 1888, Edison intended to do “for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion.” Thus began Edison’s development of the kinetograph (motion picture camera) and kinetoscope (motion picture viewer).

Over the next years, Edison experimented with the making of motion pictures, constructing the Black Maria, the world’s first structure especially built to be a motion picture studio. The first motion pictures were not projected on a theater screen. 【3】 For a 5-cent coin, viewers could look through the peephole (窥孔) to see Blacksmith Scene, or the Barbershop. Although the first films lasted less than a minute, they excited audiences as much as any film seen today.

The first films were silent, but in 1895 Edison attempted to combine sound recording and motion pictures in a device he called the kinetophone. Unfortunately, this early effort at talking motion pictures proved unsuccessful. More than thirty years would pass before sound films would become widespread.

Edison wanted to invent things to improve the lives of all people, whether it was electric light bulbs to light their homes or phonographs and motion pictures to inspire their imagination. Every time we turn on a light switch or watch movie, we enjoy the gift of Edison’s genius. But true genius, said Edison, relies on “hard work, stick-to-initiativeness, and common sense”. 【4】

A．Thomas Edison’s own example of dedication and determination may be his true gift.

B．Instead, viewers looked through a peephole fixed on top of a box with the projector inside.

C．Edison managed to make the phonograph praised by most people with effort and devotion,

D．Not satisfied with merely recording sound, Edison turned his attention to another of the senses: sight.

E．Thanks to Edison, people can live a convenient and comfortable life that we couldn’t imagine before.

F．At first, Edison thought the phonograph primarily suitable only for business purposes, like the dictation of letters.

23、   A year ago I lost my wonderful friend and colleague Rachael Bland. She died at the age of just 40, two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Her death knocked me for six. I knew it was coming and we had talked about it—but nothing prepared me for actually not having her in my life every day. The thing was, while we only knew each other for a short period of time, she had a huge impact on me. When I got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, I made a whole new group of friends. Rachael was up there with the best of them. She understood exactly what I was going through, she shared my fears and was always there at 3 am to reassure me. She was my rock.

After Rachael died, I had a nervous breakdown. I hit numerous brick walls in the weeks and months that followed. My cancer was progressing and I fell into a dark place. I pushed it away but ignored the terror of it all and inevitably it all came crashing down around me. Great Sorrow hit me when I least expected. Her death felt like a bad dream. The emotional bit aside, one of the things I found really hard was to actually accept she died.

Rachael hoped that by starting the conversation around cancer, she could help other women avoid getting cancer too. It was her absolute determination and bravery at helping to break down taboos (禁忌) that will live on for generations to come.

Rachael showed me how to live with cancer. Even in her darkest days she was determined to show that cancer didn’t get to take over. She helped remind me to get busy living with cancer rather than worry about dying of it. She was in the bottom of my heart forever.

【1】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.I was beaten six times.

B.Her death gave me the strength.

C.She was knocked down and died.

D.Her death made me very shocked.

【2】Why did the author hit the brick walls?

A.She wanted to end up her life.

B.She couldn’t stand the pain of cancer.

C.She had been suffering from nightmares.

D.She was too sorrowful to accept Rachael’s death.

【3】What is Rachael’s wish?

A.To help women fight against fear.

B.To assess women’s conversational skills.

C.To prevent other women from getting cancer.

D.To inspire sick people to hope for their future.

【4】Which of the following best describes Rachael?

A.Optimistic. B.Weak.

C.Humorous. D.Demanding.

24、If one more person talks about the benefits of mindfulness, I will throw cabbage at them. Just kidding. But I do have lots of cabbage happily rotting away in my, kitchen thanks to the wellness obsession(着迷) that failed to keep my attention. This is a symptom of a phenomenon known as “wellness tiredness”.

Wellness is seriously big business with a worth of $3.72 trillion and a healthy annual growth of 14 percent. To satisfy this consuming desire, brands of super foods and various exercise classes crowd in. “The problem with all this constantly changing information on what to eat or which exercise class to take is that people begin to form distorted(扭曲的) mindsets towards the idea of a healthy lifestyle,” explains Dr Bijal, a psychologist at Nightingale Hospital. “The least harmful result of a distorted mindset will be confusion. The most harmful would be serious physical and mental disorders like extreme dieting or over-exercising.”

It’s little wonder that many people are beginning to reject the idea of wellness and the lifestyle it advocates. “I can’t tell you the number of wellness accounts I’ve unfollowed on Instagram,” one fitness-enthusiast friend tells me. When I ask her why, she tells me that the public pursuit(追求) of wellness has reached “the eye-roll stage”. Meanwhile, sales of fitness trackers and wearable wellness things have dropped sharply.

Speaking of gym culture, which offers classes like Hula Hoop and Yoga, it’s also beginning to show signs that people are returning to more conventional forms of exercise-some that wouldn’t look out of place on a school timetable.

The whole point of wellness is that it should become such an everyday thing that you forget about seeking it. Living a healthy lifestyle becomes a given rather than something singled out as impressive and worth applauding. Now, more people are starting to cycle to and from work, swim on lunch breaks and even try to buy old school exercise bikes.

【1】What is the main idea of paragraph 2?

A．The wellness business costs people a great deal of money.

B．People are faced with too many food and exercise choices.

C．Distorted mindsets to wellness cause harmful consequences.

D．The wellness industry has been developing at a steady speed.

【2】Why is the author’s friend mentioned in paragraph 3?

A．To inform us wearable wellness things are not popular.

B．To advocate the idea of wellness and a healthy lifestyle.

C．To tell us that online wellness accounts are hard to follow.

D．To show the public’s unfavorable attitude to wellness obsession.

【3】Why are people starting to return to traditional forms of exercise?

A．Sports such as cycling are more impressive.

B．People are treating wellness as an everyday thing.

C．Classes like Hula Hoop and Yoga are too expensive.

D．People have come to know wellness is not so necessary.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the text r?

A．The Importance of Living a Healthy Lifestyle

B．Are You Suffering from Wellness Tiredness?

C．The Benefits of Mindfulness in Wellness Industry

D．What is the Real Meaning of Wellness Obsession?

25、   My daughter and I were walking down the hill back to my car.

“What did you just say, Mom?” asked my youngest daughter. Her question caused me to stop walking as I was ________ that I’d said anything. I am now at an age when I ________ talk aloud to myself. I knew it happened when I listened to talkback radio, but I hadn’t ________ it also happened when I adventured with daughter.

“Sweet pea, I didn’t realize you heard me, ________ I was just saying ‘woooah’ because of that view at the bottom of the hill.”

There, in front of us in all of her beauty, was Sydney Harbor. It’s a sight I never ________ of; sometimes I ________ it out because it makes my heart sing.

What is the ________ to happiness? There is no simple answer. However, for me, it means ________ the small joys in life.

Too often we ________ time waiting for the “extraordinary” and forget to celebrate the ________ moments of bliss (幸福). Things like ________ my girl’s sandy fingers as we watch a pink sunset on the beach. In these moments my heart ________, and I’m happy.

Laughter matters too. When I laugh, life is good. So it made me happy to dress up in a green pea suit and surprise my husband.

“________!” I shouted as he walked into our bedroom. There was a ________ silence, then a question.

“Are you all right?” asked Peter.

“Yes! Don’t you think this is funny?” I replied, a little annoyed.

________ his nonplussed (令人发懵的) response, I couldn’t help laughing about it later with my friends.

________ I want to be happy, since becoming a parent I have come to recognize that I can only ever be as happy as my ________ child. My heart is heavy when my girl has troubles, and no number of harbor sightings will ________ that.

I do my best to ________ that weight on my soul by celebrating moments of joy with my family. When my daughter chats with me about her day at school, it makes me happy. A little thing like this, coming in the middle of the mess and ________ of life, is enough for me to recognize that the day is a happy day.

【1】A. uncertain B. unhappy C. unaware D. unusual

【2】A. tend to B. happen to C. attempt to D. see to

【3】A. felt B. imagined C. realized D. understood

【4】A. and B. but C. or D. while

【5】A. dream B. hear C. tire D. think

【6】A. find B. hold C. let D. seek

【7】A. solution B. approach C. answer D. key

【8】A. appreciating B. acknowledging C. addressing D. applying

【9】A. take B. waste C. kill D. spare

【10】A. permanent B. long C. short D. exciting

【11】A. grasping B. touching C. shaking D. holding

【12】A. extends B. spreads C. expands D. stretches

【13】A. Surprise B. Great C. Look D. Yes

【14】A. absolute B. long C. brief D. shocked

【15】A. Besides B. Despite C. Considering D. Concerning

【16】A. Although B. Since C. Because D. When

【17】A. happiest B. unhappiest C. youngest D. oldest

【18】A. strengthen B. shorten C. broaden D. lessen

【19】A. balance B. increase C. hide D. escape

【20】A. happiness B. tension C. worry D. thrill

26、假定你是李华，你在报纸上看到你市电视台今年七月将举办外国人“学做中餐，乐享中国菜”才艺大赛。你的外教Peter非常喜欢中国厨艺，你建议他去试一试。请按以下要点给他写信告知此事，并表示可以提供帮助。

1．比赛时间：7月15日；

2．报名时间：截止到6月30日；

3．报名地点：市电视台。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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