阿盟2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、It is polite _____ you to give your seat to the old man on the bus.

A.for B.to C.of D.about

2、I wonder ________ that brought the Olympics back to life.

A.who it was B.who was it C.it was who D.was it who

3、After the show, everyone stood up and began to ________ loudly for their wonderful performance.

A．escape

B．establish

C．contribute

D．clap

4、Knowledge and learning are important if we want to be successful, but they may also ________our thinking.

A．direct

B．limit

C．change

D．improve

5、After decades of effort, the city is still trying to _____ how to stop smoking in public places.

A.try out B.let out C.figure out D.run out

6、You _______ her more help, even though you were really busy.

A.might give B.must have given

C.ought to have given D.ought to give

7、The financial crisis(危机) and the suffering ________ has caused have a great influence on the whole world.

A.they B.it C.which D.what

8、The lecture Jack Ma made in the 2018 Shanghai Forum of Zhejiang Merchants left us with a wonderful _______ — he gave us a fantastic description of what the future business will be like.

A．association

B．function

C．satisfaction

D．impression

9、The discovery of gold in Australia led thousands to believe that a fortune____.

A.is made B.would make C.would be made D.had made

10、The music played by Lang Lang _____ very pleasing to the ear.

A.sounds B.hears C.listens D.listens to

11、To make the products they are____________ more attractive，ad-writers are very careful with words.

A. processing B. producing C. promoting D. providing

12、The truth is that each and every student is________，and therefore,when teaching,we cannot follow the same pattern.

A.unique B.energetic C.superior D.enthusiastic

13、I was still sleeping when the fire _____, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out B. put out

C. came out D. got out

14、The writer and poet________ to give us a speech on English study next week.

A.are B.is C.was D.will be

15、We saw a new play at the theatre, ______________ we had supper at a restaurant.

A. after which B. which after C. then which D. and that after

16、Was it in Tianjin ________ you spent your childhood?

A．when

B．which

C．that

D．why

17、The manager insisted on _________ on time.

A.his finishing the task B.he finishing the task

C.him to finish the task D.him finish the task

18、India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped _______ India’s independence from Britain.

A. get B. win

C. gain D. make

19、—How’s Jack doing in Britain?

—I wrote an email to him last week, but _____ I have had no reply from him.

A.from now on B.so far C.just now D.later on

20、In his own restaurant，he would immediately fire any employee who was ________ to a customer.

A. rude B. considerate

C. accessible D. selfish

21、The man caught hold of the side of the lifeboat and narrowly escaped______.

A.to be drowned B.from drowning C.being drowned D.from being drowned

22、_________ early and you can see the beautiful sunrise on the horizon.

A.Getting up B.To get up C.Get up D.Got up

23、I plan to visit my family during the Spring Festival, but if I can’t get the train ticket, I still have an ________ plan.

A. enthusiastic B. alternative

C. awful D. anxious

24、Jack is late again. It is typical __________ him to keep others waiting.

A．of

B．for

C．to

D．with

25、During the flood, there was water everywhere, but we couldn’t drink any of it, ______ we would get really sick.

A.therefore B.however C.otherwise D.further

26、Kenya has been at the forefront (前沿) of the global war on plastic since the government banned single-use plastics in protected areas in June 2020. Unfortunately, the preventive measures have barely received attention. Hundreds of tons of industrial and consumer polymer waste continue to get dumped into landfills daily. However, if 29-year-old Nzambi Matee has her way, the unsightly plastic heaps will soon be transformed into colorful bricks.

The materials engineer’s seeking to find a practical solution to control plastic pollution began in 2017. She quit her job and set up a small lab in her mother’s backyard. It took her nine months to produce the first brick and even longer to convince a partner to help build the machinery to make them. But the determined eco-entrepreneur was confident in her idea and did not give up.

She says, “I wanted to use my education to handle plastic waste pollution. But I was very clear that the solution had to be practical, sustainable, and affordable. The best way to do this was by channeling the waste into the construction space and finding the most efficient and affordable material to build homes.” Her company produces over 1,500 bricks a day. The pavers are made using a mix of plastic products that cannot be reprocessed or recycled.

The collected plastic is mixed with sand, heated at very high temperatures, and compressed (压缩) into bricks that vary in color and thickness. The resulting product is stronger, lighter, and about 30 percent cheaper than concrete bricks. More importantly, it helps repurpose the lowest quality of plastic. “There is that waste they cannot process anymore; they cannot recycle. That is what we get.” Matee says.

Matee is not nearly done. Her dream is to reduce the mountain of trash to just a hill by increasing production and expanding her offerings. She says, “The more we recycle the plastic, the more we produce affordable housing, the more we created more employment for the youth.”

【1】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 imply?

A．Matee’s method can be effective if adopted.

B．Matee’s idea has been widely accepted.

C．Colorful bricks are in huge demand.

D．Plastic waste hasn’t attracted enough attention.

【2】Which of the following can best describe Nzambi Matee?

A．Generous and ambitious.

B．Confident and grateful.

C．Creative and resolved.

D．Optimistic and modest.

【3】What is Nzambi Matee’s ultimate purpose in using a mix of plastic products?

A．to build cheaper houses.

B．to support the government.

C．to create job opportunities.

D．to tackle plastic pollution.

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

A．Kenya: Pioneer in Banning Plastic Single-use Plastics

B．Nzambi Matee: Innovator in Solving Plastic Waste

C．Mix of Plastic Products: A New Construction Material

D．Plastic Recycling: A Creative Solution to Pollution

27、Remember Vitainwater’s “free of rolling screen for a year” challenge that dared people to be free from smart phones for a whole year will win $ 100,000? Well, Elana Mugdan, a New York woman, has been into it for eight months, and just four months away from claiming grand prize.

Vitaminwater made news headlines last December when it announced its unique challenge. Thousands of people applied to be chosen as the perfect candidate to spend a year without touching their smart phones, but in the end, the only person who got to try and survive for an entire year without a handheld smart phone was Elana Mugdan, a 29-year-old fiction writer from Queens, New York. Eight months into the challenge, she claims it has been a free and eye-opening experience that shows her just how dependent she becomes on her smart phone. Even though there are times when she misses her handheld smart phone, she plans to go on living without it even after the challenge ends, because she really doesn’t want to go back to days when she abused it, wasted time, stayed up all hours of the night on it, and was obsessed with social media.

But not having access to her smart phone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before. “Many people did me a favor. However, once, I almost got stranded (滞留) in the SeaTac airport because the phone number I’d written down was wrong, and I had no way of referring to the right one, no way of calling a cab, and no one in the state who could help me,” the young writer said.

Another time, her car’s “check engine” light turned on while she was driving in an unfamiliar area at night. She couldn’t use her phone’s GPS location feature, r even check what the light meant on Google or find a nearby car repair shop. Still, she learned to overcome these situations. And now she claims the last eight months of phone-free life have been one of the best adventures of her life and that she’ll keep it for another four months.

【1】What’s the challenge “free of rolling screen for a year”?

A．People free from smart phones can live a richer life.

B．People living a telephone-free life can be awarded every year.

C．People living without computers for a year will win grand prize.

D．People spending a year free from smart phones will get a reward.

【2】Which phrase can replace the underlined part “obsessed with” in paragraph 2?

A．satisfied with

B．accustomed to

C．addicted to

D．popular with

【3】What does Elana Mugdan mainly want to express in paragraph 3?

A．It’s fantastic to have someone to help her all the way.

B．It’s unimaginable to lose her phone number on the way.

C．It’s unnecessary to refer to information with a smart phone.

D．It’s difficult to get out of the trouble without a smart phone.

【4】What can we learn about Elana Mudgan?

A．She couldn’t live without a smart phone.

B．She finds no one can help her in the adventure.

C．She has not won the grand $ 100,000 prize yet.

D．She used to use her smart phone to write fiction.

28、   Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.

In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.

Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.

【1】Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?

A.She couldn’t get admitted to medical school.

B.She decided to further her education in Paris.

C.A serious eye problem stopped her.

D.It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.

【2】What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming a doctor?

A.She was a woman.

B.She wrote too many letters.

C.She couldn’t graduate from medical school.

D.She couldn’t set up her hospital.

【3】According to the passage, all of the following are “firsts” in the life of Elizabeth Blacekwell, except that she ______.

A.became the first woman physician

B.was the first woman doctor

C.and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children

D.set up the first medical school for women

29、   For two centuries, the famous University of Cambridge debating society has hosted many prominent figures, from world leaders to scientists to comedians.

On Nov 21, the Cambridge Union hosted another extraordinary guest—a non-human debater called Project Debater. Designed by IBM, Project Debater is a machine that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to form a spoken argument. It can even listen and answer to opposite statements, much like a real person.

In the Cambridge test debate, it argued the topic: Al will ultimately (最终) do more harm than good. Before the debate, more than 1,100 arguments for the positives and negatives of AI were submitted (递交) to the IBM website. The machine then analyzed these sources and formed the basis of its arguments in minutes. Project Debater then showed off its AI by arguing for both sides of the debate.

Over a four-minute speech, it argued first that, “AI can only make decisions that it has been programmed to solve, while humans can be programmed for all situations.”

In support of AI, it then argued that AI would create new jobs and “bring a lot more efficiency” to the workplace.

This isn’t the first test for Project Debater. In June 2018, the machine went back-and-forth for 20 minutes against champion debater Harish Natarajan.

According to New Scientist, on both occasions, Project Debater repeated points and didn’t always sufficiently (充分地) support them.

Speaking to Cambridge Independent, Noam Slonim, the project’s lead engineer, said, “The AI is not perfect, but it’s going in the right direction.” The team hopes to improve the AI by researching why humans find certain arguments more persuasive than others. They also hope the test might provide well-informed viewpoints for society, governments and private companies.

【1】What does the underlined word “prominent” mean in paragraph one?

A.Intelligent. B.Outstanding.

C.Well-educated. D.Creative.

【2】According to the passage, Project Debater ________.

A.can make decisions for all situations

B.argued with itself in the Cambridge test debate

C.can always find enough evidence to support its idea

D.defeated champion debater Harish Natarajan in June 2018

【3】What does Noam Slonim think of the AI?

A.It’s not so beneficial to humans. B.It will defeat humans in time.

C.It remains to be improved. D.It will ultimately do more harm than good.

【4】This passage above can be most probably read in ________.

A.a newspaper B.a guidebook

C.a textbook D.a research paper

30、   Five years ago, I lived in a countryside, whose road was extremely terrible. Every evening when I was away from home on business, my little boy would ask _________of his mother to take his black  _________and his daddy’s walking stick, to make the half-mile_________from the house to the fence which_________the beginning of the dirty driveway.

One day, I was busy with my business and was_________for about an hour, completely forgetting about the _________little boy down the road who might be_________for his daddy.

On my way home, the rain was so thick that I could not_________ten feet in front of me. All I could_________was finishing my journey and getting out of the rain. _________, the downpour began to abate(减弱). It was only a drizzle(细雨) by the time my car turned the last_________and approached the final street between me and a warm home and nice meal.

_________, I caught sight of my little boy, who was_________an umbrella in one hand, a walking stick in the other, and was wearing the biggest and most beautiful smile ever to lighten the _________  of a little boy.

As I stopped the car and_________the door, he ran into my arms and held me long and hard. He was wet and_________with cold, but he never_________the rain, nor the hour-long wait. He simply said, “Daddy, I missed you. I am so glad you are home.”

Last year, we_________to a wonderful new home provided for a special season in our lives. We no longer have a long country road. _________, I have never forgotten the rainy day and the little boy and his black dog. Often, perhaps a thousand times, that_________has appeared in my mind. Like all events in our lives, it happens once, and must be treasured.

【1】A. order B. praise C. permission D. likes

【2】A. bag B. toy C. umbrella D. dog

【3】A. flight B. journey C. effort D. ride

【4】A. marked B. explained C. discovered D. described

【5】A. controlled B. trained C. bothered D. delayed

【6】A. useful B. grateful C. faithful D. careful

【7】A. searching B. sending C. waiting D. calling

【8】A. see B. drive C. feel D. hear

【9】A. think of B. stick to C. pick up D. hold out

【10】A. In fact B. At last C. At once D. In surprise

【11】A. moment B. way C. street D. corner

【12】A. Believe it or not B. All of a sudden C. In other words D. For seconds

【13】A. opening B. holding C. finding D. lifting

【14】A. body B. head C. hand D. face

【15】A. closed B. locked C. opened D. knocked

【16】A. worrying B. crying C. complaining D. trembling

【17】A. noticed B. doubted C. mentioned D. judged

【18】A. traveled B. turned C. returned D. moved

【19】A. However B. Besides C. Otherwise D. Therefore

【20】A. scene B. time C. act D. sight

31、Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a【1】 voice in the year before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 【2】Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a【3】 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year 【4】. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black 【5】 to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （总领事）to Haiti.

As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 【6】 taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system 【7】 up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the 【8】, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass 【9】 the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美国宪法修正案）, which 【10】 African-Americans the right to vote.

32、认真阅读下面的图表与文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Significant numbers of high school students are receiving additional assistance from tutors. That requires a measure of time, commitment and sometimes a lot of money.

Tutors may be good for improving test scores, but they may harm a lot if students become overly dependent on tutors. Tutors’ role should be one of assessment, monitoring and assistance, not to take over and perfect. Tutors may be used to “bridge the gap”, but the responsibility stays on the student to take an active role in mastering the content and skills required for success.

I know kids who refuse to open their textbooks before the tutor gets in the house. Now I want to ask you a question: are you improving your study skills and developing learning intelligence with the “help” of your tutors?

（写作内容）

1)用约30个单词概括上述图表与文字的主要内容；

2)分析该现象存在的危害(至少两点)；

3)简要表达你自己的想法。

（写作要求）

1)写作过程中不能简单叙述各数据；

2)作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3)不必写标题。

（评分标准）

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。