宿州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、—Can he get the first prize for running in this sports meeting?

—Impossible now. He _____ to do so, but he has just hurt his leg.

A.is expected B.had been expected C.was expected D.would expect

2、None of the underwater workers has been harmed by the great fish．______，most fish were so friendly that they played with the instruments．

A．Instead B．Even though

C．However D．Though

3、It’s already 10:00, I wonder how it _______ that she was two hours late on such a short trip.

A.came over B.came out C.came about D.came up

4、Reading a large number of books ________ make us wiser.

A.should B.can C.need D.must

5、----You should have told her about the meaning of the gesture.

----I meant ______, but I had some unexpected guests.

A. to     B. to have     C. to do so D. doing so

6、Though it is 5 years________ he retired from his work place, the old professor remains active in the academic circles.

A．when

B．that

C．before

D．since

7、I can still remember my childhood life,_________it was so long ago.

A.if only B.as though C.even though D.in case

8、You ______ worry about me. I’ve decided to join a local health club.

A. mustn’t  B. can’t  C. needn’t  D. daren’t

9、Jackson is cheerful about his life ________ he is suffering from cancer.

A. even if   B. as long as

C. as if   D. ever since

10、—What happened to the young trees we planted last week?

—The trees ________ well, but I didn’t water them.

A. might grow B. needn’t have grown

C. would have grown D. would grow

11、The online word “selfie” is gaining ______ and more and more people tend to use it

nowadays.

A. access   B. admission

C. control   D. currency

12、—I’m sorry. I think I am not fit for the job. I don’t handle pressure too well.

—Oh, I can’t believe it. You know, that’s not the impression I have of you at all. That’s_________ I’d describe myself.

A. what   B. why   C. which   D. how

13、Nowadays, the Internet is a popular ________ for the public to access information and voice their opinions.

A. track B. trend

C. channel D. lane

14、 Life is always full of hardships. _______ a better life, we need positive energy.

A. Live   B. To live

C. Living   D. Lived

15、 — I am so glad that I caught you at home. I need your help!

— ____, John?

A. What else B. So what

C. How come   D. What’s up

16、This is a demanding job and a small mistake can ________.

A．make a difference

B．make an appointment

C．make sense

D．make up

17、The pattern of sharing in tasks and decisions ______ equality, and this ______ leads to further sharing.

A. accounts for, in return   B. differs from, in turn

C. makes for, in turn   D. arise from, in return

18、After class, the teacher couldn’t leave,   by the students.

A. surrounded   B. to surround

C. was surrounded   D. surrounding

19、— I get at least an hour of physical exercise almost every day.

—Oh great! ________.

A．Good luck

B．Cheer up

C．Same to you

D．Keep it up

20、When he ______ the bill in the restaurant, he suddenly realized that he had left his wallet in the car.

A.paid B.would be paying

C.was to pay D.had paid

21、HOTEL INFORMATION

Baymont Inn Ft.Lauderdale

3800 W．Commercial, Ft. Lauderdale．FL 33309

Lowest Prices 110% Guaranteed (保证)

Room Information

Rooms are equipped with Double, Queen , or King bed (s) , smoking or non-smoking based on location and availability. Provided in each spacious guest room is a hair dryer, coffee maker, iron, ironing board, 25’TV and guest voice mail．

Check-in Time：7:00 P. M.

Hotel Amenities：Air Conditioned, Free Parking, 24 Hour Front Desk, Pool, Television with Cable, Coffee Maker in Room, Hairdryers Available．

Beach Plaza Hotel

625 N．Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Ft．Lauderdale, FL 33304

Room Information

The oceanfront accommodations at Beach Plaza Hotel are some of the most affordable on Fort Lauderdale Beach．Each room features direct-dial telephone, cable television and daily maid service．The very affordable efficiency studios even include full kitchens! All rooms surround the private poolside garden courtyard．

Check-in Time：7:05 P. M.

Hotel Amenities：Air Conditioned, Coffee Maker in Room, 24 Hour Front Desk, Parking, Hairdryers Available, Pool, Television with Cable．

Fort Lauderdale Plaza Hotel

3711 N．Ocean Blvd, Ft．Lauderdale, FL 33308

Room Information

Guest rooms feature TVs, in-room movies, Internet access, in-room safes, alarm clock radios, hairdryers, refrigerators, microwaves, and balconies．

Check-in Time：7:00 A.M.

Hotel Amenities：Parking，Heated Pool, Television with Cable, and Coffee Maker in Room．

【1】Which hotel gives a promise

A. Beach Plaza Hotel．

B. Baymont Inn Ft . Lauderdale．

C. Baymont Inn Hotel．

D. Fort Lauderdale Plaza Hotel．

【2】In which hotel parking is the cheapest

A. Beach Plaza Hotel．

B. Baymont Inn Ft . Lauderdale．

C. Baymont Inn Hotel．

D. Fort Lauderdale Plaza Hotel．

【3】If you ______ , you will probably go to Beach Plaza Hotel．

A. enjoy seeing films without leaving your hotel room

B. want to eat food cooked by yourself in the hotel

C. are fond of swimming in heated water

D. are a cigarette smoker

【4】Which of the following is NOT true to the ads

A. In Beach Plaza Hotel a 24-hour maid is available．

B. All of the three hotels provide television with cable．

C. You can keep your money in the room safe in Fort Lauderdale Plaza Hotel．

D. While staying in Fort Lauderdale Plaza Hotel, you can surf the Internet．

22、   When my 8-month-old cries, I ask him if he’s hungry, or wet or just needs a hug.

“Babububuu,” he says.

What I need is a baby cry translator. That’s just what a team of researchers say they’ve developed.

“Experienced nurses or pediatricians (儿科医师) can identify why baby is crying because they have experience, says Lichuan Liu, a professor of electrical engineering at Northern Illinois University, who conducted the research.” We talked to them, and they mentioned that based on the cry’s’ sound there’re’ some clues (线索).”

So Liu set out to identify the features of cries that can help mark them as expressions of pain or discomfort. These features include differences in pitch (音高) and frequency. The team then developed an algorithm (算法) based on automatic speech recognition to detect and identify these features. This “cry language recognition algorithm” was trained on recordings of baby cries taken from a hospital. It uses compressed sensing, a process that reconstructs a signal based on incomplete data. It can identify a baby cry against a background of, say, adult speech or loud television sounds. By classifying different cry features, like pitch, the algorithm can suggest whether the cry is due to sickness or pain, and identify the degree of urgency.

The team had experienced pediatric care providers assess forty-eight baby cry recordings for probable cause of crying hunger, tiredness, etc. They then compared these to the algorithm’s assessments. The algorithm agreed with the humans 70% of the time. Generally, so-called “uncommon cry signals”—signs of pain or sickness—are high-pitched and very loud compared to ordinary crying.

Liu and her team continue to train the technology for greater accuracy. They also plan to add more features, like the ability to identify and classify movement and facial expressions. This could help give more detailed reading of baby’s emotional (情感的) and physical state. They also hope to begin human trials in the near future.

【1】The author mentions the 8-month-old child to ________.

A.draw attention to baby cries B.prove baby cries are common

C.lead in a translator for baby cries D.show the use of cry translators

【2】What inspired Lichuan Liu’s idea of doing the study?

A.Pediatric care workers’ words. B.The pediatricians’ strong requests.

C.Her own nursing experiences. D.Her doubts about the previous research.

【3】What did the researchers do in the study?

A.They collected baby cries from big hospitals.

B.They got 48 baby cry recordings evaluated.

C.They created an automatic speech recognition.

D.They analyzed cry features with compressed sensing.

【4】What can we know about Liu’s cry language recognition algorithm?

A.It has been widely used in daily life.

B.It’s mainly meant for hungry cry signals.

C.It has been proved effective on babies.

D.It’s only been tested on recorded cries now.

23、   It’s funny how readily we “take the advice of complete strangers” when shopping online. More than 80 percent of Americans say they read online reviews at least some of the time. But on sites such as Amazon and Yelp, businesses have learnt to “making the most of the rating system to the seller’s or the platform’s advantage”, eventually “making the star-rating scale useless”. Even in the case of confirmed reviews, it can be hard to know what the stars mean.

Amazon has stepped up the effort to provide transparency said Louise Matsakis in Wired.com. Its “Vine voices” program sends free products for testing to an invite-only community of “trusted reviewers”. Amazon has also started ranking its Top 10,000 Contributors on a daily leaderboard not “just by the number of reviews a person has but also by how many customers found their feedback to be helpful”. The current No.1 reviewer, a 45-year-old from North Dakota who has posted nearly 2,500 comments since 2002, has owned a bakery in Oregon, worked for a small newspaper, and had a 10-year stretch in the Navy as a nuclear welding inspector. Now he spends his time testing everything from fryers to popcorn makers, though he exceeded its weight limit by 70 pounds.

But sellers are still finding ways to deceive prospective buyers, said a reviewer. He said, “I identified more than 150 private Facebook groups where sellers openly exchange free products for five-star reviews. I joined four of them and was annoyed with a flurry of private messages from sellers. One offered to pay me $10 for a splendid review of what was already ‘one of the highest-ranked iPhone chargers’, with 3,971 five-star reviews and a trusted ‘Amazon choice’ label. When it arrived, the charger broke within minutes. I reached out to Amazon and those thousands of five-star reviews for the charger disappeared.”

The product now has 11 reviews and holds a rating of 2.5 stars. But before all those five-star reviews disappeared, how many shoppers spotted this $ 13.99 charger pack on Amazon’s first-page results and fell for the trick?

【1】What action has Amazon taken to make the star-rating scale useful?

A.Provide effectively checked comments for consumers.

B.Give priority to the advantage of customers.

C.Decide on contributors’ rank by the quantity of reviews.

D.Get reliable reviewers to test products before their release.

【2】What does the underlined word “deceive” in the third paragraph most probably mean?

A.Persuade. B.Instruct.

C.Interest. D.Cheat.

【3】What do we know about the charger seller in the last two paragraphs?

A.He convinced buyers to obtain free products.

B.He attempted to obtain excellent reviews by purchase.

C.He was in hot water and deleted all untrusted reviews.

D.He tricked buyers and disappeared from Amazon.

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

A.The Efforts of Amazon

B.The Application of Rating System

C.Not Every Star Shines So Bright

D.Don’t Fall for the Trick of Sellers

24、If you’ve ever been on a fishing boat, you’ve probably seen crowds of birds following it, hoping to catch a snack. Now scientists use those birds’ behavior to track illegal fishing boats.

Researchers attached data loggers to the backs of 169 albatrosses (信天翁) in Indian oceans. Weighing only 42 grams, the devices included a GPS, which enabled them to detect the presence and intensity of radar signals emitting from boats. That information was then sent by satellite, so the researchers could track the location of the birds—and thus the radar-emitting boats—in real time.

The scientists then cross-checked that data against the known locations of boats, collected from a system boats use to declare themselves, called the Automatic Identification System (AIS). And noticeable differences appeared frequently.

More than a third of the times the birds “loggers” detected radar signals, and therefore a boat, but no such boat appeared in the official log—meaning that the vehicles had likely switched off their AIS—something that probably happens in illegal fishing operations.

The work suggests birds could be an effective boat-monitoring tool as long as illegal fishing operations don’t target the birds.

Fortunately, such a task would be difficult. Around fishing boats, you can find hundreds of birds at any one time that are flying around. And the birds with loggers are not marked in any way. So it’s not really possible for fishermen to pick out a specific bird.

But what concerns researchers is that albatrosses often get caught by some fishing boats. Though regulations have been established to protect against that happening—with success—illegal boats don’t necessarily obey. So scientists might be underestimating the risk posed to albatross populations.

【1】What characteristic of albatrosses do scientists take advantage of in their research?

A．Their feeding patterns.

B．Their sense of direction.

C．Their greedy behaviors.

D．Their habit of following fishing boats.

【2】For what purpose does a boat shut off its AIS?

A．To seek more fishes.

B．To have it mistaken for another.

C．To avoid being detected.

D．To save the trouble of declaring itself.

【3】What does “such a task” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．Identifying birds with loggers.

B．Monitoring illegal boats.

C．Tracking radar signals automatically.

D．Fishing illegally.

【4】What could be the best title for the text?

A．AIS: an Effective System to Locate Boats

B．Humans Are Good at Discovering Birds’ Nature

C．Data Loggers Help Fishermen Get a Good Harvest

D．Scientists Use Birds to Track Illegal Fishing Operations

25、My family moved from Hong Kong to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a job and a visa for my family. I had just learned English, and from what I could ________ from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one’s chimney and put toys in one’s ________ on Christmas Eve! After I ________ “stocking” in my Chinese-English dictionary, I knew what I had to do.

On that fateful night, I took my longest, cleanest knee sock and ________ it to a nail (钉子) already on the mantel (壁炉). Obviously, the former owners of this house were no ________ to this Santa character. However, my parents were.

I woke up before everyone else on Christmas Day and ________ to the fireplace. To make a sob story short, I was ________ with the reality of an empty sock and the biggest lie ever told. Santa ________ existed.

Every December since then, the ________ of Christmas would unavoidably come up, and I would amuse my friends with my poor-little-me story. I had to make it as ________ as possible, or else I would cry.

How could I know that Santa was just ________? Nine years ago, on Christmas Eve, an older man with a white ________ and a red cap knocked on my front door. He said, “I’ve been looking for you for twenty-five ________.” He handed me a red stocking, winked, and left. On top of the stocking was a card. It ________ : “For Becky — I may have ________ you in the second grade, but you’ve always lived in my heart. Santa.” Through tear-blurred eyes, I recognized the ________ of Jill, a friend I had met just two months before. I later ________ that the older man was her father. Jill had seen the ________ little girl underneath the thirty-something woman and decided to do something about it.

So now I believe that Santa is ________ . This Santa does not return to the North Pole after a crazy delivery but lives each day ________, really listens to friends, and then plans deliberate acts of kindness.

【1】

A．use

B．gather

C．separate

D．deliver

【2】

A．stocking

B．hat

C．pocket

D．drawer

【3】

A．left out

B．took down

C．looked up

D．put away

【4】

A．threw

B．covered

C．buried

D．tied

【5】

A．customers

B．strangers

C．friends

D．relatives

【6】

A．drove

B．backed

C．rushed

D．wandered

【7】

A．related

B．surrounded

C．impressed

D．hit

【8】

A．never

B．just

C．always

D．sometimes

【9】

A．memories

B．lesson

C．surprise

D．topic

【10】

A．slow

B．funny

C．sad

D．confusing

【11】

A．sick

B．free

C．lazy

D．late

【12】

A．eye

B．tooth

C．mouth

D．beard

【13】

A．minutes

B．months

C．years

D．days

【14】

A．reflected

B．described

C．read

D．printed

【15】

A．missed

B．recognized

C．met

D．helped

【16】

A．name

B．handwriting

C．face

D．voice

【17】

A．pretended

B．announced

C．sensed

D．found

【18】

A．hurt

B．shocked

C．annoyed

D．satisfied

【19】

A．famous

B．real

C．old

D．imaginary

【20】

A．anxiously

B．temporarily

C．purposefully

D．generally

26、假定你是李华，曾交换去英国学习，现已回国三个月。你想念在英国的老师Mrs. Smith，请根据以下要点给她写一份封信：

1. 感谢他曾经对你的帮助；

2. 介绍自己现在的学习情况；

3. 邀请他端午节来中国感受中国文化。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I'm writing to

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Yours,

Li Hua