广州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、I'm certain David's told you his business troubles.____，it's no secret that he owes a lot of money to the bank.

A.However B.Anyway

C.Therefore D.Though

2、Thanks to her determination and perseverance on the piano lesson, she has a ______ grasp of the subject.

A. comprehensive B. confidential

C. conservative D. compulsory

3、Running a business, no matter where it is started, _______ plentiful market research, consistent integrity and a great deal of discipline.

A. clarifies   B. involves   C. undertakes   D. digests

4、The bottle is quite difficult to open; the _________ is to pour hot water on it first.

A．focus

B．target

C．function

D．trick

5、Common sense tells that there is still power loss even when you leave the TV set________.

A．in its own right

B．on the edge of your seat

C．in the stand-by mode

D．around the corner

6、—If we work on the project together, I do believe we should be able to complete it ahead of schedule.

— ______! Many hands make light work.

A．You bet

B．Have fun

C．Good job

D．Forget it

7、The little boy stared at the strange man questioningly, not   whether to believe what he had said.

A. to know B. knowing

C. known D. having known

8、The trip aims to provide the children with a________ of the countryside first-hand.

A．taste

B．reach

C．touch

D．load

9、The researchers who study jokes want to know ________ people from different nations and cultures find very funny.

A．why

B．that

C．what

D．whether

10、The art historians tried to figure out how the temple ______ when built around 15 B.C.

A. might look   B. might have looked

C. must look   D. must have looked

11、The judge said that the fine would ________ a warning to other drivers.

A.look into B.serve as C.watch over D.set up

12、I keep the picture where I can see it every day,   reminds me of the days in my hometown.

A. that   B. which

C. who   D. when

13、—Mr. Smith said we had only three days to finish the project.

―Don't worry. We have already________ two thirds of it.

A．given away

B．given in

C．got through

D．got down

14、   if I had arrived yesterday without letting you know beforehand?

A. Would you be surprised   B. Were you surprised

C. Had you been surprised   D. Would you have been surprised

15、No European country is ______ the economic consequences of the coronations，but the pain won't be divided equally.

A.escaping B.avoiding C.surviving D.declining

16、The characterization of this rule's impact is   ，to say the least,the critical point for present purposes is put forward.

A.controversial B.consistent

C.contemporary D.conservative

17、I’m afraid there might have been an audience of about 100,000 watching his live concert in Bird Nest last night, ________?

A. weren’t there   B. didn’t there

C. haven’t there   D. hadn’t there

18、Robert went to Shanghai in his 20s, ______ several years later, he became a manager.

A.when B.where

C.which D.who

19、The bridge, which ________ 1688, need repairing.

A. was dated from   B. dated from

C. dating from   D. dates from

20、 ––Have you asked Peter for advice?

––No, he ______ someone, so I didn’t disturb him.

A. is talking with  B. has talked with

C. was talking with D. had talked with

21、No matter where you are, you can be connected via your mobile phone number, email address or social media accounts. 【1】 What can you do to minimize these digital distractions and increase your focus? Below are some tips that can help you.

Turn on “Don’t disturb” when you study. If you want to get the most out of your study time, you must reduce distractions. I like spending about 30 minutes reading by using the Kindle app. 【2】 Because of this, I can focus completely on my reading.

Change your mind. One social issue in today’s world is the fear of missing out, which causes us to feel the need to be “connected”. That is one of the main causes of digital distractions. 【3】 You can do this by checking your messages and email before study.

【4】 Seriously, you can do this. You don’t have to be always available. When you tell people that you aren’t available, they will respect your time. No one will force you to be available because no one can control your life.

Turn your “should do” into a “must do”. We all have things we should do. All these “shoulds” pile up and never get done because they aren’t priorities. “Should-dos” have no urgency attached to them, so they fall to the bottom of the pile of things we want to do. When you change a “should” to a “must”, it becomes a priority. 【5】

A．I have no social apps on the phone.

B．Tell others that you won’t be available.

C．These cause what we call “digital distractions”.

D．I have also equipped other apps to help me study.

E．You must prevent this from entering your study time.

F．No one can avoid them during the daily working periods.

G．You will free yourself from distractions and spend more time learning.

22、   Close to the North Pole, remote and rocky Plateau Mountain in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems an unlikely spot for any global effort to safeguard agriculture. In this cold and deserted environment, no grains, no gardens, no trees can grow. Yet at the end of a 130-meter-long tunnel cut out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity’s most precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection—more than a half-billion seeds.

A quiet rescue mission is under way. With growing evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously affect food production and threaten the diversity of crops around the world, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault represents a major step towards ensuring the preservation of hundreds of thousands of crop varieties. This is a seed collection, but more importantly, it is a collection of the traits found within the seeds: the genes that give one variety resistance to a particular pest and another variety tolerance for hot, dry weather.

Few people will ever see or come into contact with the contents of this vault. In sealed boxes, behind multiple locked doors, monitored by electronic security systems, enveloped in below-zero temperatures, and surrounded by tons of rock, hundreds of millions of seeds are protected in their mountain fortress. Frozen in such conditions inside the mountain, seeds of most major crops will remain viable for hundreds of years, or longer. Seeds of some are capable of retaining their ability to grow for thousands of years.

Everyone can look back now and say that the Seed Vault was a good and obvious idea, and that of course the Norwegian government should have approved and funded it. But back in 2004, when the Seed Vault was proposed, it was viewed as a crazy, impractical, and expensive idea.

We knew that nothing would provide a definite guarantee. But we were tired, fed up, and frankly scared of the steady, greater losses of crop diversity. The Seed Vault was built by optimists who wanted to do something to preserve options so that humanity and its crops might be better prepared for change. If it simply resupplied seed gene banks with samples those gene banks had lost, this would repay our efforts.

The Seed Vault is about hope and commitment——about what can be done if countries come together and work cooperatively to accomplish something significant, long-lasting, and worthy of who we are and wish to be.

【1】What is the Seed Vault according to the passage?

A．It’s a tunnel where the collected seeds are displayed.

B．It’s a stone room that contains the seeds of endangered crops.

C．It’s a seed gene bank that stores diverse seeds for future agriculture.

D．It’s a lab where researchers study how to maintain the diversity of crops.

【2】What does the underlined word “viable” in Paragraph 3 probably means?

A．Mature.

B．Alive.

C．Clean.

D．Valuable.

【3】What does Paragraph 3 mainly tells us?

A．How the seeds are preserved.

B．Where people keep the seeds.

C．Why the seeds are protected.

D．What people do to study the seeds.

【4】We can know from the passage that ________.

A．the Seed Vault offers a solution to climate change.

B．most countries took part in rescuing the seed varieties.

C．the Seed Vault guarantees to prevent the loss of crop diversity.

D．many people originally considered building the Seed Vault unwise.

23、On Monday, a scientist and doctor Robert Winston is to formally ask a question in congress about what assessments the government has made “for requiring adults riding bicycles in city centres to heave a licence and third-party insurance”. The letter below is the entirely imagined response I would like the government to make to him.

Dear Robert,

You ask what assessments we’ve made for your proposal about obliging cyclists to have licences and insurance. The brief answer is: none. Nor do we have any plans to do so.

Why? Again, the short answer is this: it’s a silly and pointless thing to suggest, as evidenced by the fact that practically no countries or territories anywhere in the world require cyclists to be licensed, or to have compulsory insurance.

I suppose it’s only fair if I explain why I think it is such a non-issue. It’s pretty simple: such a plan would achieve pretty much nothing, while causing significant problems. More widely, any sensible governments will do everything in their power to get more people cycling, not to put pointless obstacles in their way.

Let’s just take one example. As I’m sure you know as a doctor, one of the problems facing our nation is that the National Health System is likely to collapse under the caring for an increasingly overweight population. Inactive living is central to this. Even a fairly brief daily bike trip can have miraculous benefits for people’s health.

Next, how would such rules even work? Would the licensing and insurance be just for adults, or also children? How would the system even be enforced-would it also require all bikes to be registered with number plates?

Finally, what would you hope to achieve by this? If you believe licensing transport users stops wrongdoing, can I point to you the data showing how a third of drivers admit to using handheld phones while driving, despite the law forbidding it.

So, to summarize：your plan would be to introduce a hugely new administrative scheme that would most likely have limited effect on the behaviour of averagely law-abiding (守法的) transport users who rarely harm others, while putting people off from this beneficial type of transport.

I’m afraid I just don’t get it.

【1】What does Robert most probably want to know by asking the question?

A．whether the government has made efforts regarding his proposal.

B．whether each bike rider has applied for a third-party insurance.

C．whether the congress has sympathy towards the cyclists.

D．whether doctors can receive the government’s support.

【2】What does the author think of the plan proposed by Robert?

A．It may raise people’s insurance awareness.

B．It can motivate people to obey the law.

C．It imitates what other countries are doing.

D．It is difficult to implement and enforce.

【3】The example in paragraph 6 is used .

A．to draw people’s attention to overweight problems

B．to prove that cycling can cause problems

C．to explain why governments advocate cycling

D．to illustrate how broken the NHS is

【4】We can conclude from the passage that the author .

A．holds prejudices against Robert Winston

B．is a pleasant and good-tempered person

C．has the right to speak for the government

D．is skilled in argumentative techniques

24、If you were suffering from depression, you would turn to sugary holiday desserts, which were usually considered to help people feel relieved. However, if now you are in the same situation, you will only say “bah humbug” to them for indeed it’s absolutely absurd.

Recently, a new study from a team of clinical psychologists at the University of Kansas suggests that added sugar can cause inflammation (发炎) and processes of metabolism and nerve system, all of which are tied to depressive illness. Coupled with decreasing light in wintertime and related changes in sleep patterns, high sugar consumption could result in negative effects on mental health, according to the researchers.

The researchers found that inflammation is the key physiological effect of dietary sugar related to mental health. “A large number of people with depression have high levels of systemic inflammation,” said Stephen Ilardi, a coauthor of the study. “When we think about inflammatory disease, we think about diabetes, a disease with a high level of systemic inflammation. We don’t normally think about depression included in that, but it is — not for everyone who’s depressed, but for about half. We also know that inflammatory hormones can direly push the brain into a severe depression. An inflamed brain is typically a depressed brain. And added sugars cause inflammation to the body and brain.”

The problem is worse this time of year. “For many people, reduced sunlight exposure during the winter will disturb biological rhythms, disrupting healthy sleep and pushing 5 to 10 percent of the population into a fully clinical depression,” Ilardi says.

【1】What kind of emotion do the underlined words “bah humbug” express in Paragraph 1?

A．Envy.

B．Satisfaction.

C．Preference.

D．Dislike.

【2】Which factor may cause harm to mental heath according to the text?

A．Great varieties of clinical diseases.

B．No intake of dietary sugar.

C．Some anxieties in sleep patterns.

D．High sugar with less sunlight.

【3】Why does the author mention the words of Stephen Ilardi?

A．To introduce more about the coauthor of the study.

B．To support his idea that dietary sugar results in depression.

C．To draw a conclusion that inflammatory disease can cause diabetes.

D．To give more details about the possible results of mental depression.

【4】What does the text mainly talk about?

A．The importance of mental health.

B．The damage to mental health from sugar.

C．The sugar treatment for depression.

D．The number of people with depression.

25、   Last July, Angela Peters rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon (美容院) at the Walmart shopping center with the idea of ______ her nails. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy(脑瘫), was ______ because the salon was afraid it would be too difficult to properly paint her nails, given that her ______ shook. What was meant to be a day of beauty ______ for Peters was now a disappointment.

____ nearby was Ebony Harris, a Walmart cashier about to go on her ______ . Harris recognized Peters as a Walmart ______ . “She’s just like you, me and anybody else.” Harris told ABC News, “She wants to look ______ . So why can’t she?”

Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?” she asked. A smile ______ across Peters’s face. “Yeah!”

Harris ______ Peters into the beauty section, where they shopped for nail polish. They ______ on a bright blue—a color that would ______ every eye. They then made their way into a(n)______ McDonald’s, found a table for two, and set up shop. Harris ______ took Peters’s hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails.

Watching it all with ______ was McDonald’s employee Tasia Smith. What ______ her most was the ease and gentleness displayed by Harris, all the while ______ as if they were old friends. Smith was so taken by the ______ that she wrote about it on Facebook: She was so ______ with her. Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl’s ______ ! And Peters wrote, “When people do us wrong, we should learn to forgive!”

【1】A.polishing B.cutting C.mending D.examining

【2】A.knocked over B.turned away C.given up D.called in

【3】A.legs B.head C.face D.hands

【4】A.success B.performance C.happiness D.struggle

【5】A.Waiting B.Shopping C.Playing D.Watching

【6】A.tour B.break C.visit D.holiday

【7】A.regular B.applicant C.assistant D.passer-by

【8】A.slim B.normal C.pretty D.mature

【9】A.ran B.climbed C.spread D.jumped

【10】A.accompanied B.invited C.supported D.directed

【11】A.worked B.settled C.insisted D.relied

【12】A.fix B.catch C.mind D.open

【13】A.neighboring B.empty C.surrounding D.pleasant

【14】A.cheerfully B.thankfully C.strongly D.gently

【15】A.satisfaction B.pride C.admiration D.relief

【16】A.excited B.struck C.comforted D.delighted

【17】A.chatting B.hugging C.singing D.crying

【18】A.color B.story C.skill D.scene

【19】A.honest B.Popular C.content D.patient

【20】A.stay B.dream C.day D.way

26、最近有人建议缩短中小学期，增设1-2周春秋短假。假定你是李华，请用英语给美国笔友Jack写一封邮件，了解美国有关情况，内容包括：1. 建议内容：2. 你的意见；3. 询问美国是否有类似假期。

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