温州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、— Mike will announce his retirement from professional soccer next week.

—________! He’s only 25 and still very fit.

A．I don’t mind at all

B．I couldn’t agree more

C．You will make it

D．You can’t be serious

2、So far this year we ______ a fall in house prices by between 5 and 10 percent.

A.saw B.see C.had seen D.have seen

3、— You speak very good French!

—Thanks. I________ French in Nankai University for four years.

A．studied

B．study

C．was studying

D．had studied

4、—What’s up? You look worried.

—Well, I ______ on the problem for 5 hours but I haven’t got a single clue.

A. have worked B. worked

C. will work D. have been working

5、______ into English, the sentence was found to have an entirely different word order.

A．Translating

B．Translated

C．To translate

D．Having translated

6、We live in a beautiful cottage with a yard, which ______ 20 feet from side to side.

A. measures   B. is measured

C. measured D. has been measured

7、Today, the increasing number of genderqueer and trans people, along with the increasingly________ nature of gender presentation and more general discussion about it further complicates the idea.

A.flexible B.rigid C.various D.general

8、If we had phoned the rescue service in time, we ________ on the motorway right now.

A. weren’t trapped

B. wouldn’t be trapped

C. hadn’t been trapped

D. wouldn’t have been trapped

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

A. track B. trend

C. channel D. lane

10、She is overweight, but she can’t _______ the temptation to eat more delicious food.

A．forbid

B．resist

C．reject

D．reduce

11、--- How do you find this kind of rice?

--- Pretty good, It ______more quickly than that kind.

A. is cooking   B. is cooked

C. cooks   D. is being cooked

12、—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

13、I find it astonishing that he ____be so rude to us. I_____ make a complaint to his company.

A.could; must B.should; shall C.shall; should D.dare; have to

14、It is only when you can break free from the past ______ a whole new world can open up to you.

A.that B.which C.where D.when

15、--Mary，how did your Math test go？

--I had thought I _________，but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class．

A．should have failed B．couldn’t have failed

C．might have failed  D．shouldn’t have failed

16、It’s difficult to ___ all tastes .One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

A.adapt to B.cater to C.appeal to D.adjust to

17、Volunteering is pleasant and there is so much more I could do if I ________ the time.

A.had had B.had C.would have D.could have had

18、—I heard you wanted to have a further study in a foreign college.  

—Yes, that's _____I try my best to learn English well.

A. when   B. how   C. what   D. why

19、She doesn’t speak our language,   she seems to understand what we say.

A. yet   B. and

C. or   D. so

20、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

21、   Thomas Edison, inventor of such items as the phonograph (留声机) and the world's first practical light bulb, is known around the world. But another lesser-known figure is owed his share of credit — Edison's competitor, Nikola Tesla. It took the work of both men to make possible a world that runs on electric power; however, their names were not always shared.

Edison, a self-made American inventor, built his name as a successful businessman.Tesla, a well-educated Serbian immigrant, was a tireless thinker. In 1882, Tesla got a job in the Paris branch of Continental Edison Company. Soon, his obvious skill won him a position at the Edison Machine Works in the United States, where the goal was to bring electricity to all of New York City. But Edison and Tesla had different ideas about how to make that goal a reality.

Edison worked mainly with direct current (DC) power. Although DC would prove useful in the decades to come, it was only effective at the time for powering things that were about a mile or less from the power source. However, alternating current (AC) power-supported by Tesla allowed electricity to be carried over long distances through power lines.

Soon the battle between the two was on. Edison proposed that several small DC-based power plants could be constructed to power different parts of a city, but this was impractical. Desperate to succeed, Edison attempted to show that DC power “was safe”— he even electrocuted (电死) an elephant to show the “dangers” of AC. In the end, however, it was practical, inexpensive AC that won the battle. By 1896, even Edison's own company had adopted AC.

Tesla succeeded, but Edison, whose self-branded companies won him over a thousand patents, is the more well-known of the two. Regardless, each inventor had a big hand in shaping the way we live.

【1】What does the underlined word “credit” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．Cast.

B．Trust.

C．Recognition.

D．Debt.

【2】What do we know about Nikola Tesla?

A．He finished college in Paris.

B．He worked as Edison's employee at first.

C．He invented many things with Edison.

D．He was admired by Edison for his invention.

【3】What's a big difference between AC and DC power?

A．DC power moves more quickly.

B．AC power ranges over larger areas.

C．AC power is much safer and cheaper.

D．DC power can be widely used in more fields.

【4】What's the best title for the text?

A．Edison vs Tesla: the war of the currents

B．Edison: the inventor of the first light bulb

C．DC vs AC: the theory behind the two concepts

D．Nikola Tesla: a name that should be remembered

22、The majority of Britons are educated in state schools, making up around 60% of those admitted to Oxford and Cambridge in 2013. Admissions at other leading universities were also weighted towards teenagers educated privately.

Then began a quiet revolution. The number of state-schooled pupils getting Oxbridge places has risen yearly; the number from private schools has fallen. The Russell Group of 24 leading universities says its members aim to admit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A few things lie behind this change. The government has given cash to universities to reach underrepresented students and, since 2018, required them to publish plans showing how they are doing this. One report in 2018 showed that eight schools, six of which were private, accounted for more Oxbridge places than 2,900 other secondary schools combined.

Teach First, a scheme that sends clever graduates into tough schools for a couple of years, has also helped raise pupils, eagerness. It began in London, where the highest- performing state schools are concentrated.

All this has fueled a joint effort by schools and universities to make pupils consider the distinguished universities. For those state-school kids getting into top universities, extra help is needed. “You need to provide extra tutoring in the first year,” says Professor Smith from Oxford, who made efforts to admit state-school students before it became fashionable. She says they often do worse in exams at the end of the first year, but clean up in final exams.

That would seem to rebut one of the criticisms made of universities’ efforts to correct the state-private imbalance: that letting in more state-school students means standards will slip. “If you bring in people with diverse experiences and ways of thinking, who challenge one another’s assumptions, it promotes intellectual creativity and academic success,” says Helen, the principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

“All this adds up to an important change,” says Lawrence. “Increasing numbers of state-school children are applying to universities in America and getting full scholarships.”

【1】What was the quiet revolution?

A．Admitting more poor students into top universities.

B．Getting state schools to cooperate with top universities.

C．Letting less private-school students into universities.

D．Having private schools take poor-background students.

【2】What is implied in the 2018 report?

A．State schools should promote their students’ academic reports.

B．Oxford and Cambridge preferred graduates from private schools.

C．Students in Oxbridge place high standard for their aims in life.

D．Oxbridge had a stricter admission standard than other universities.

【3】What can we infer about state-school students from Professor Smith’s words?

A．They get academic help from Teach First.

B．They become top students in a few years.

C．They need extra tutoring in the first term.

D．They are inspirations for other students.

【4】What does the underlined word ”rebut" mean in paragraph 6?

A．Support.

B．Expose.

C．Improve.

D．Oppose.

23、  

Pesticides might just be a bee's worst enemy. They harm their brains, slow down their reproduction, and even kill their buzz. Now it seems they damage their social lives and reduce their ability to care for their young.

While previous studies have shown that commonly used neonicotinoid（新烟碱类）pesticides make bees sick and affect how they search for food and navigate, a new study gives more of an idea of how these chemicals affect the internal workings of a colony（种群）. Studying these effects has proved difficult, so the team employed a new technique. They stuck tiny QR codes to the backs of humblebees and tracked their movements using a robotic camera.

The researchers looked at 12 colonies housed in a lab, giving some the same level of imidacloprid—the world's most commonly used pesticide—that they'd be exposed to in the wild while keeping others pesticide-free as controls. They checked on them for a few minutes 12 times a day. The findings are published in the journal Science.

Unfortunately, the researchers found a number of obvious differences between the bees exposed to the pesticide and the controls. The bees given neonicotinoids spent less time interacting with other bees and more time resting. This pause in activity tended to happen more at night, but the researchers aren't sure why.

"Bees actually have a very strong circadian rhythm（生理节奏）," lead author James Crall explained in a statement. "So what we found was that, during the day, there was no statistically observable effect, but at night, we could see that they were crashing. We don't know yet whether the pesticides are destroying circadian gene regulation or if this is just some, maybe physiological feedback…But it suggests that, just from a practical perspective, if we want to understand or study these compounds, looking at effects overnight matters a lot."

【1】What does the new study suggest about pesticides' effect on bees?

A.Pesticides lead to their disease.

B.Pesticides slow down their brain function

C.Pesticides upset their community.

D.Pesticides damage bees' internal parts.

【2】What does the underlined word "controls" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A.The tools used to observe the bees.

B.The data recorded by the robotic camera

C.The researchers conducting the experiments.

D.The bees kept free from the pesticides.

【3】What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A.The circadian rhythm of bees is stronger during the day.

B.It is vital to study the performance of bees at night

C.It is certain that pesticides affect bees only at night.

D.The pesticides do great harm to circadian gene regulation of bees.

【4】What's the purpose of the passage?

A.To inform people of the worrying effects of pesticides.

B.To check the best time to observe experimental results.

C.To call for the toughest ban on the chemicals.

D.To recommend measures to improve the quality of pesticides.

24、One of the major reasons we take photos in the first place is to remember a moment long after it has passed: the birth of a baby, a reunion, etc. However, every time we snap a quick picture of something, we could in fact be harming our memory of it.

Linda Henkel, a professor of psychology at Fairfield University in Connecticut, studied how taking photos impacts experience and memory. She conducted an experiment using a group of undergraduates on a guided tour of the university’s Bellarmine Museum of Art. The students were asked to take photos of objects that they looked at on the tour and to simply observe others. Later, she tested their memory of all the objects they had seen on the tour. The results were clear. Overall, people remembered fewer of the objects they had photographed. They also couldn’t recall as many specific visual details of the photographed art, compared to the art they had merely observed.

“When you take a photo of something, you’re counting on the camera to remember for you,” Henkel said. “You don’t engage in any of the complex or emotional kinds of processing that really would help you remember those experiences, because you’ve outsourced it to your camera.”

Then, Henkel ran another study. This time when people took a tour of the museum, they were asked to take two kinds of photos: those of the objects in the exhibit alone and those with them standing next to the objects. It turns out that it actually changes their viewpoint on the experience, whether they’re in a photo or not. In other words, if you are in the image, you become more removed from the original moment as if you are an observer watching yourself doing something outside yourself. Interestingly, if you are not in the image, you remember more.

Henkel doesn’t disagree that the purpose of outsourcing our memory to devices can free up our brains to do other cognitive (认知的) processing. But from the experiments Henkel is sure that cameras can’t compare to what the brain is capable of with input from the eyes and the ears.

【1】What can we conclude from Henkel’s first experiment?

A．People take photos to remember a moment.

B．Taking photos is a complex or emotional process.

C．Taking photos influences experience and memory.

D．People observe more of the objects when taking photos.

【2】When you are in a photo, you ______.

A．return to the original moment

B．remember more about the object

C．change your viewpoint on the photo

D．become an observer outside yourself

【3】What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

A．To explain the reasons why people take photos.

B．To introduce the disadvantages of taking photos.

C．To persuade people not to rely on photos for memory.

D．To express disapproval of the use of devices to free brains.

25、I have a degree in business. But it was my father's_______for me to seek to attain a business _______He thought that having a business major would_______me more available choices and make me more_______in entering a global labor market. I_______his advice. However, even though my college experiences were_______,I had no interest in any_______0f commerce, let alone having a long-term career as a businesswoman.

After I_______，I worked as a marketing planner at a computer company. My_______and working environment were great; yet I________didn't feel happy doing something that held little ________for me. After two months of working there, I made up my mind to________and decided to do what I love, namely________history.I have now been doing this job for over twenty years.I am ________of being with my students.

If you are in a________Where you don't love what you are learning or doing, please ask yourself what you are really________about, and what you truly want for your life. Don't________to get yourself a quick answer. Take some time to think about what career could bring________to you.

I like this motto "Success is not the key to happiness.________happiness is the key to success."

Happiness________the inside of you, not from the outside. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

【1】

A．ambition

B．commitment

C．decision

D．response

【2】

A．experience

B．position

C．activity

D．major

【3】

A．guarantee

B．save

C．leave

D．pass

【4】

A．independent

B．competitive

C．energetic

D．flexible

【5】

A．ignored

B．valued

C．took

D．opposed

【6】

A．fantastic

B．awkward

C．painful

D．plain

【7】

A．paper

B．field

C．college

D．job

【8】

A．matured

B．graduated

C．succeeded

D．trained

【9】

A．future

B．dream

C．scholarship

D．pay

【10】

A．only

B．also

C．still

D．even

【11】

A．advantage

B．appeal

C．chance

D．trouble

【12】

A．quit

B．continue

C．consider

D．wait

【13】

A．promoting

B．writing

C．teaching

D．studying

【14】

A．fond

B．tired

C．proud

D．careful

【15】

A．firm

B．game

C．story

D．place

【16】

A．anxious

B．optimistic

C．enthusiastic

D．nervous

【17】

A．rush

B．hesitate

C．intend

D．stop

【18】

A．love

B．joy

C．confidence

D．knowledge

【19】

A．As a result

B．On the whole

C．In the meanwhile

D．On the contrary

【20】

A．applies to

B．spreads to

C．differs from

D．arises from

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1. 你的推荐；

2. 推荐理由；

3. 食宿建议。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear William,

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