通化2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Never in my life ________ such a beautiful sunrise!

A. have I seen B. I have seen

C. did I see D. I saw

2、In universities in China, classes are often arranged in more flexible___ and a lot of jobs are offered to the students after graduation.

A. patterns B. ranks C. grades   D. scales

3、Whether to favor urban development or the preservation of historical sites is especially controversial in China, where there exists rich history, diversified tradition and cultural ________.

A. surplus B. deposits C. accounts D. receipts

4、I decided to do a random act of kindness last year. And ______ that the person I would end up helping most would be myself.

A. I little knew B. little did I knew C. little did I know D. little I knew

5、Without our team’s great effort, the art exhibition last week ______ such a great success.

A. wouldn’t be   B. won’t be   C. wouldn’t have been   D. won’t have been

6、She asked the young man to be brief and _______ as she had little time to spare.

A．at best

B．in place

C．to the point

D．on the spot

7、All his attention________ on what the teacher was saying, so he even didn't notice what was happening outside the classroom.

A．fixed

B．was fixed

C．was fixing

D．has been fixed

8、Publishers don't see e-books as a threat to written books. ______________, they see them as an opportunity to draw in a new generation of readers.

A.Therefore. B.Anyway

C.Instead D.Besides

9、--- What did she want to know, Tom?

--- She wondered ______ we could complete the experiment.

A. when was it B. it was when that

C. it was when D. when it was that

10、I had been betrayed by those who I trusted several times, ______ in a suspicious attitude towards everything and everyone.

A. resulted B. having resulted C. resulting D. to result

11、She said her ________ is enough to support her in later years and that her only hope is that her son can visit regularly. After all she had not much time left.

A. pension B. benefit C. allowance D. bonus

12、If he had been working hard, he ______ in the office now. However, he didn’t.

A. would be working B. were to be working C. was working D. should work

13、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

14、Interested in painting, he________ paint with pen and paper after work, gradually cultivating himself into a self-taught painter.

A.would B.must C.might D.should

15、--I feel so upset. I’m afraid I’ll be fired for the terrible economic crisis.

--________!Things are not so bad as they seem.

A．Go ahead

B．Good luck

C．No problem

D．Cheer up

16、 You may not control all the events______happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

A. which B. when C. that   D. as

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A. to feel   B. feeling

C. feel   D. felt

18、---What kind of apartment do you need?

--- ________ with two bedrooms, one bathroom and one kitchen.

A．The one

B．That

C．One

D．It

19、________ well in the coming Art Festival, the children have been practicing dancing every afternoon in the past two weeks.

A．Performing

B．Having performed

C．To perform

D．Performed

20、The most exciting moment during the Spring Festival is_____ the family enjoy the big dinner together.

A．what

B．why

C．which

D．When

21、Take a bottle of soda, and shake it really hard. Gas will form inside, causing a buildup of pressure. Twist the cap off. Pressure will be released from the bottle, and soda will shoot everywhere.

【1】 Pressure builds up inside a volcano as gas forms in magma (岩浆), which is hot liquid rock beneath the surface of the earth. Gas bubbles in the volcano need to escape. When a volcano erupts, magma is pushed up through the opening with great force. When magma reaches the earth’s surface, it’s called lava (熔岩).

Some volcanic eruptions are explosive. Lava shoots into the sky. Gas and hot pieces of rock and ash are also released. The intensity of an eruption depends on a few factors. One is the magma’s temperature. Another is the magma’s thickness. 【2】

Volcanic eruptions can cause other natural disasters. These include landslides, mudslides, earthquakes and tsunamis. Volcanoes can be destructive. 【3】 The Hawaiian Islands were created by the eruptions of large low-lying volcanoes which are made up of layers of hardened lava.

【4】 Ash from volcanoes adds helpful minerals to soil. This helps plants grow strong. Healthy plants produce oxygen for humans and animals to breathe. Volcanoes also remove heat from the earth’s interior (内部), which helps keep our planet cool.

In recent years, a new benefit of volcanoes has surfaced. 【5】 Their measures involve using the heat beneath the earth’s surface to produce electricity.

Volcanoes may be unpredictable. However, as we learn more about how they work, they will become even more important to life on the earth.

A．However, they can also create new land.

B．Volcanoes can become more dangerous.

C．A volcanic eruption works much the same way.

D．Scientists are using volcanoes to help power cities.

E．The amount of gas trapped inside is also an important one.

F．Volcanoes are threatening the life of people across the world.

G．Volcanoes have played an important role in shaping the earth.

22、Almost every day we come across situations in which we have to make decisions one way or another. Choice, we are given to believe, is a right. But for a good many people in the world. In rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, something wonderful but hard to get, not a right. And for those who think they are exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, a false idea created by companies and advertiser, hoping to sell their products.

The endless choice gives birth to anxiety in people’s lives. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not exactly simple. Easy access to a wide range of everyday goods leads to a sense of powerlessness in many people, ending in the shopper giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item that is not really wanted. Recent studies in England have shown that many electrical goods bought in almost every family are not really needed. More difficult decision-making is then either avoided or trusted into the hands of the professionals, lifestyle instructors, or advisors.

It is not just the availability of the goods that is the problem, but the speed with which new types of products come on the market. Advances in design and production help quicken the process Products also need to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The typical example is computers, which are almost out-of-date once they are bought. This indeed makes selection a problem. Gone are the days when one could just walk with case into a shop and buy one thing; no choice, no anxiety.

【1】What does the author try to argue in Paragraph 1?

A. The exercise of rights is a luxury.

B. The practice of choice is difficult.

C. The right of choice is given but at a price.

D. Choice and right exist at the same time.

【2】Why do more choices of goods give rise to anxiety?

A. Professionals find it hard to decide on a suitable product.

B. People are likely to find themselves overcome by business persuasion.

C. Shoppers may find themselves lost in the broad range of items.

D. Companies and advertisers are often misleading about the range of choice.

【3】By using computers as an example, the author wants to prove that .

A. advanced products meet the needs of people

B. products of the latest design fold the market

C. competitions are fierce in high-tech industry

D. everyday goods need to be replaced often

【4】What is this passage mainly about?

A. The variety of choices in modern society.

B. The opinions on people’s right in different countries.

C. The problems about the availability of everyday goods.

D. The helplessness in purchasing decisions.

23、The Best Films of 2022

Tar

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tar. She is widely considered as one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a German orchestra. It is an unfolding thriller about a brilliant artist who’s destroyed by her own appetites. So many of the people who see “Tar” come away believing that Lydia Tar actually exists.

The Fabelmans

Spiclberg was right to wait this long to tell the story of his youth on film. He has made a vivid and well-structured biography that looks back in love and anger. The movie not only aches at memories of watching the separation of his parents, but also tells teen tales of romance and prejudice. And we can feel Spielberg’s enthusiasm in the medium he would revolutionize.

Turn Every Page

If Lizzic Gottlicb’s documentary about Robert Caro and Robert Gottlicb were just a piece of good-old-days literary work, it wouldn’t be a deep and satisfying movie. Robert Caro, who is an outstanding author of “The Power Broker”, and Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor who has guided all of Caro’s books, emerge as stimulating giants. What unites them is their devotion to the civilizing glory of the word.

The Musical

The plot of the movie is about Evan, a New York kid suffering from his parents’ divorce, as he tries to absorb himself into small-town Indiana and stage a successful Coming-of-Age Day. The more we see the movie directed by Tamra Davis, the more we will be addicted to the magic of the songs and the energy released by the musical sequences.

【1】What is the setting of the first movie Tar?

A．Germany history.

B．Literary world.

C．Classical music.

D．Indiana culture.

【2】Which movie would you choose if you like documentary?

A．Tar.

B．The Musical.

C．Turn Every Page.

D．The Fabelmans.

【3】What do the movies The Fabelmans and The Musical have in common?

A．They are both shot in New York.

B．They focus on teenagers’ school life.

C．They are both biographies of the directors.

D．They show the influence of parents’ relationship.

24、Introduced species have a bad reputation. It has been believed that the species mix in a particular place should remain as unchanged as possible. But this is just an opinion. Other opinions are possible. A study published recently by Dov Sax of Brown University, thus asks how the benefits of introduced species might be better assessed, so that opinions can be more informed. Specifically, he identifies several aspects for that.

Initially, whether introduced species provide direct human advantage is taken into account. Dr. Sax and his colleagues ignored crops, since their benefits are obvious. But they included transplanted grass species that have gone wild，yet provide grazing(牧草)for domestic animals, and introduced forest trees that produce wood for construction.

Another factor is their possible benefit to the ecosystem into which the introduction has happened. Such introduction is sometimes made to reduce the risk of a localised species becoming extinct. Pyne’s ground plum(李子)，native to a handful of sites in the central basins of Tennessee but now transplanted to others, falls into this category.

The last value is experienced on an emotional rather than a practical level. Lots of people feel good about native wildlife, which is generally the main motive for its conservation. But that feel-good factor can extend to introduced species as well. Such value can cut both ways, however. For example, ring-necked parakeets, an Asian and African species, have been spreading through Britain for several decades. Some find them a colourful addition to the local wildlife, others a noisy competitor for native birds.

In light of their analysis, Dr. Sax and his team therefore suggest that researchers studying introduced species should in future create a clear distinction in their studies between changes that have happened and judgments about the value of those changes. In addition, when making those judgments, they should acknowledge all types of values, rather than focusing narrowly on one or two of them.

That done, many species will surely still be accused of possible damage. But others, badly thought of in the past, may not.

【1】What is Dr. Sax’s study aimed to do?

A．Kecp track of introduced species.

B．Get introduced species fully understood.

C．Compare opinions on introduced species.

D．Identify consequences of introducing species.

【2】Why was Pyne’s ground plum transplanted to other places?

A．To provide graze for local animals.

B．To produce wood for construction.

C．To build a new local ecosystem.

D．To save local species from dying out.

【3】How do local people react to the introduction of ring-necked parakeets?

A．They don’t care about it.

B．They consider it acceptable.

C．They can’t put up with it.

D．They hold divided opinions on it.

【4】What does Dr. Sax suggest to the future researchers?

A．Focusing on main values.

B．Evaluating evident changes.

C．Analyzing previous researches.

D．Presenting all-round assessments.

25、   I quit my job to start my own business before my son was born. Luckily, four months later, a big investment company ______ me about the cooperation between us, promising that it could take my company to the next level. Then something ______ happened. I received an email from the investor that read: “We’re going to end our cooperation.”

I was ______. The next few days, when I thought of this discouragement, I ______ how helpless I truly was. And I also became aware that I had a fear of ______. If I was going to keep moving forward with my company, I’d have to ______ this fear. So, I turned to Google for an ______ and I found a game called Rejection Therapy. It ______ to help you overcome your fear of rejection by ______ seeking out rejection. I loved it and ______ to have a try.

As my rejection journey continued, I began to feel more and more ______ when asking for things. I realized I could ______ what I can do to overcome my fear, and by the end of my 100-day journey it actually became ______ for me to receive “no”. I even made shocking ______  on purpose, such as asking a ______ if I could play soccer in his backyard. The crazy thing? They all said yes. In the end, my 10-day journey ______ with 51 yeses and 49 noes.

In the ______ of my rejection journey, I learned that when we shy away from rejection we reject ourselves and our ideas before the world ever has a ______ to pay attention to and reject us. That comes to be the greatest ______ I’ve learned — no matter what, don’t be ______ by the world.

【1】A. employed B. impressed C. refused D. approached

【2】A. unfamiliar B. unexpected C. unusual D. unforgettable

【3】A. discouraged B. frightened C. astonished D. excited

【4】A. confused B. realized C. guessed D. revealed

【5】A. connection B. invitation C. rejection D. communication

【6】A. get over B. turn over C. get off D. turn down

【7】A. explanation B. access C. inspiration D. answer

【8】A. arranges B. offers C. aims D. prepares

【9】A. deliberately B. sincerely C. violently D. secretly

【10】A. managed B. decided C. demanded D. hesitated

【11】A. ashamed B. guilty C. fearless D. embarrassed

【12】A. focus on B. get down C. set aside D. take over

【13】A. easy B. difficult C. boring D. interesting

【14】A. suggestions B. comments C. requests D. improvements

【15】A. acquaintance B. friend C. relative D. stranger

【16】A. used B. concluded C. missed D. abandoned

【17】A. process B. way C. measure D. challenge

【18】A. struggle B. choice C. plan D. chance

【19】A. subject B. truth C. lesson D. note

【20】A. respected B. loved C. judged D. ignored

26、假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Kate即将完成学业，不久前来信就是否到中国工作询问你的意见，请根据以下提示回一封电子邮件：

1. 建议她可以来中国；

2. 阐述你的理由；

3. 承诺可提供帮助

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