潜江2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、________ himself, the traveler made a fire in the cave.

A.To warm B.Warmed C.Warming D.Having warmed

2、 Experts and teachers all think that failure is not ________ a bad thing to some extent.

A. greatly   B. necessarily   C. definitely D. extremely

3、Foreign species may ______some native species and even destroy and replace others.

A．cure

B．threaten

C．prevent

D．forbid

4、The article is ready to publish, ________ to your approval.

A.entitled B.similar C.attached D.subject

5、This is a very interesting book. I’ll buy it, ________.

A．however much it may cost

B．no matter how it may cost

C．how much may it cost

D．however many it may cost

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、Looking back on his youth, he finally realized that his pain taking effort in Senior Three   his bright future.

A.shaped B.had shaped C.was going to shape D.was to shape

8、He abandoned teaching_______ a career as a musician.

A.in favor of B.in terms of  C.with regard to D. with reference to

9、If ________ in the elevator, please press the emergency button immediately.

A. trapped B. trapping

C. having trapped D. to be trapped

10、As teachers we shouldn’t accept the argument given by some people _______ standardized tests restrict educators too much and take the joy out of teaching.

A. where B. what

C. how D. that

11、I could speak their language and ________ with their problems because I had been there.

A.interfere B.interpret C.identify D.interact

12、Most of the money for the reconstruction of the quake-stricken town has been allocated by the

government, the rest ______ from the coming charity concerts.

A. to be collected   B. having been collected

C. being collected   D. to have been collected

13、People crowd into ________ cherry trees are blooming, appreciating the fresh spring sight.

A. what B. when

C. which D. where

14、You must notice_________ the emergency exit is when entering the building.

A. where B. what C. which D. in which

15、Our school often organizes various after-school activities, _____our stress to some degree.

A.to relieve B.relieved C.having relieved D.relieving

16、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.

A. has stayed   B. had stayed

C. stayed   D. am staying

17、There are other languages that sound extremely different, ________ they’re conveying exactly the same meaning.

A.as though B.even though C.so that D.in that

18、There is no doubt that climate all over the world ______ greatly in recent years.

A. had changed B. is changing

C. changed D. has been changing

19、Frank ______ firmly to the belief that human kindness would overcome evil.

A. submitted   B. subscribed   C. corresponded   D. committed

20、－ Mum, where's my packed lunch?

－ In the kitchen. I ________ you two sandwiches.

A. make   B. am making

C. have made   D. will make

21、   JeffBezos has a rule at Amazon, or perhaps more appropriate a philosophy. If a team cannot be fed by two pizzas then that team is too large. The reasoning is quite straightforward and basic. More people means more communication, more bureaucracy, more chaos, and more of pretty much everything that slows things down, hence why large organizations are oftentimes considered as being so inefficient.

In 2013 Gallup released a report called “The State of The American Workplace", in which they found that smaller companies had more engaged employees. In fact,42% of employees working at companies of 10 or fewer were engaged at work versus only 30% of employees at large companies.

Most people are not familiar with the Ringelmann Effect which is the tendency for individual members to become less productive as the size of a group increases. This concept was named after Maximilien Ringelmann, a French professor of agricultural engineering who passed away in 1931.In one of his experiments he asked volunteers to perform a very simple task, to pull on a rope. He found that when only one person is pulling on the rope they give 100% of their effort; however, as more people are added the individual effort goes down.

This experiment was recreated in the 1970's by Alan Ingham who came up with the concept of “social loafing” which helps us understand why the individual effort decreases as the team size increases. So why does this happen? Because it becomes harder to extract the individual contributions and performance of each person.

Organizations should really think about what their team structures look like and create and follow similar “two pizza rules”. It's no coincidence that smaller organizations are oftentimes more nimble while large organizations look like they are stuck in the mud.

【1】What is the author's purpose of mentioning “two pizza rules” in paragraph 1?

A．To make a comment.

B．To introduce the topic.

C．To provide an example.

D．To analyze a phenomenon.

【2】What is special about the Alan Ingham's experiment?

A．It repeated the Ringelmann Effect experiment.

B．It was based on a simple task of pulling a rope.

C．It aimed to explore the reason behind the phenomenon.

D．It revealed the link between team size and individual effort.

【3】Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “nimble” in the last paragraph?

A．Balanced.

B．Complicated.

C．Simple.

D．Flexible.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．What Makes a Team More Productive?

B．Why Are Smaller Teams Better Than Larger Ones?

C．How Can Two Pizzas Be Shared by One Team?

D．Which Is More Important: Individual Effort r Team Size?

22、   There are only a few truly pleasant smells to wake up to in the morning. For me,  it's the smell of freshly brewed coffee. Just a sniff of it makes me jump out of bed and rush to the kitchen for a gulp of the hot black liquid.

If you're a big fan of coffee, you'll understand that opening a new packet of coffee releases an amazing smell-fresh, roasted coffee beans. And you'll be able to identify the beans' origin-Colombia, Vietnam or Brazil. Tim Hayward is a food writer and coffee shop owner; he believes the smell "is absolutely vital. When you walk into the coffee shop in the morning and that smell hits you, you're getting physiological(生理上的) responses. "

I know from experience when I walk into a cafe, my mouth begins to water and it's the smell that makes me feel good. However, this feeling sometimes turns to disappointment. This is particularly the case when I order a coffee to go in a tall paper cup and sip the liquid through a hole in the lid. Yes, it's convenient, but is it really the right way to appreciate it?

You walk into the coffee shop, you get the smell, but when you actually take the drink out, you are drinking it from something that is designed to deliver the hot liquid directly past your tongue, but prevent any smell coming up to your nose. As well as eliminating the smell, takeaway coffee cups create a lot of waste and a vast majority of them still don't get recycled. So maybe now is the time to really wake up and smell the coffee by drinking from a cup in a cafe, chatting with friends and saving the planet!

【1】In which aspect does the author agree with Tim Hayward?

A. People drink coffee first thing in the morning.

B. Coffee beans' origin makes all the differences.

C. Some people are addicted to drinking coffee

D. It's the smell of coffee that really matters.

【2】What does the author complain about?

A. The process of making coffee.

B. The high temperature of coffee

C. The design of the paper coffee cup.

D. The inconvenience of buying coffee.

【3】What can replace the word "eliminating" underlined in Paragraph 4?

A. Creating. B. Removing. C. Increasing. D. Changing.

【4】What can be the best title of the text?

A. Wake up and smell the coffee

B. Try to be a real lover of coffee

C. Drink coffee to save the planet

D. Choose takeaway coffee for convenience

23、In the 1970’s, people who managed ponds had a problem with plants and snails in the water. To control the pests, the managers brought four species of carp, a type of fish, from Asia. But some of the fish escaped into rivers and other waterways. Soon, there were lots of fish. And they became troublesome invasive species. These non-native fish can bully ecosystems, quickly taking over. Growing fast and big, they ate lots of the food on which the native fish would normally depend. Bighead carp are an invasive species in the United States. Binbin Wang is using a combination of computer modeling and field experiments to study how the eggs of these and other invasive carp could be transported in the Missouri River.

Today, the descendants (后代) of those carp remain a big problem. And as the fish spawn (产卵), their eggs have been drifting (漂流) far and wide. Anticipating where something will drift can be a challenge. But finding answers may handle the crisis.

At the University of Missouri in Columbia, civil and environmental engineer Binbin Wang is working to figure out where eggs of the invasive fish are spreading in the Missouri River. If science can get ahead of the problem, there’s hope that people may figure out how to stop it. But if science is too slow to answer this question, legions of carp eggs will grow into adults that out-compete their neighbors. Stopping their spread would help reduce the overall damage they cause.

Drifting may seem somewhat random, but scientists are doing researches to make useful predictions possible. Some of these drift detectives want to know if large icebergs threaten offshore oil platforms. Others hope to track the polluted air or water-and determine where they’re coming from. The work is challenging. It also can be very rewarding. Most importantly, their findings may point toward solutions for some important environmental threats.

【1】The scientists track the drifting of carp eggs in order to ________ .

A．ensure the quality of their eggs

B．protect the native fish

C．stop them from polluting the water

D．make it easier to transport them

【2】What does the underlined word “crisis” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The carp’s spawning.

B．The direction of eggs’ drifting.

C．The extinction of the invasive fish.

D．The spread of the invasive fish.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Where carp eggs are drifting is still a barrier to the research.

B．Researches have already found ways to stop the drifting of eggs.

C．It’s easy to predict the direction of the drifting of invasive fish eggs.

D．Cleaning the polluted water is the best solutions to environmental treats.

【4】What’s the author’s attitude towards the drift detection?

A．Indifferent.

B．Unclear.

C．Positive.

D．Doubtful.

24、Moran works at the California Academy of Sciences, which is capped by 2.5 acres of living roof where nearly 1.7 million plants, insects and birds flourish. The building has been painstakingly designed to be among one of the most environmentally-friendly in the world. Solar panels that surround the living roof provide 5% of the building’s energy, while water flowing through pipes in the bathrooms also generates power. Automatic skylights open and close to help regulate the temperature inside the building while natural sunlight is used to light the building as much as possible. During his 15 years at the academy (研究院), Moran has helped design, build and now maintain the building’s green systems.

Constructing new environmentally-friendly buildings like the one Moran works in is expected to generate more than 6.5 million jobs by 2030, according to predictions by the International Labor Organization. Next to energy, it will be the second fastest growing sector for green jobs in the coming decades. This jobs growth comes from a growing need for buildings that can deal with multiple problems: meeting tough climate-change targets; rising energy costs, water shortages and an increased risk of extreme weather conditions. This is driving a movement known as green building.

In 2000, just 41 new construction projects were officially rated as green buildings in the US. Last year, that figure had grown to more than 65,000. Elsewhere in the world there have been similar increases and it is a trend that is expected to continue. In China the government has set an ambitious goal as part of its five-year plan that require 50% of all new urban buildings to be green certified.

Moran sees green building as requiring new skills that have not featured much in the building sector in the past. “It takes a different skill set to look after a living roof compared to normal landscaping,” he says. “You need to understand the environment, how the direction of the sun and wind will affect it. But we are also seeing technology being integrated into everything.”

【1】How was the building of the academy planned?

A．Rigidly.

B．Effortlessly.

C．Thoroughly.

D．Strategically.

【2】What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Constructing new buildings.

B．Generating more jobs.

C．The growing need for houses.

D．The International Labor Organization.

【3】Why do many countries begin to construct green buildings?

A．To develop a large market.

B．To satisfy humans’ ambitions.

C．To solve different challenges.

D．To control the new movement.

【4】What does Moran possibly think of his present job?

A．Challenging.

B．Risky.

C．Traditional.

D．Urgent.

25、   Facial expressions _______ meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example in American culture the smile is _______ an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not have the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also _______ true feelings. It often causes _______ across cultures. For example, many people in Russia _______ smiling at strangers in public to be _______ and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the _______ places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian cultures, a smile is frequently used to _______ painful feelings. _______ people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.

Our __________ show emotions (情感), but we should not __________ to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The __________ that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of another do does not mean that they do not __________ emotions.

__________, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressions permitted. For example, in public and in __________ situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions __________.

It is __________ to generalize about Americans and facial expressiveness __________ personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more __________ expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotions are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the __________ of “reading” the other person incorrectly.

【1】A.speak B.carry C.expose D.bring

【2】A.on the basis B.in return C.on the contrary D.in general

【3】A.hide B.deliver C.convey D.escape

【4】A.offence B.doubt C.confusion D.curiosity

【5】A.claim B.admit C.discover D.consider

【6】A.unusual B.normal C.common D.meaningless

【7】A.public B.wrong C.certain D.proper

【8】A.cover B.avoid C.ignore D.stop

【9】A.Americans B.Germans C.Vietnamese D.Russians

【10】A.bodies B.eyes C.faces D.gestures

【11】A.manage B.attempt C.encourage D.advise

【12】A.fact B.story C.truth D.habit

【13】A.deserve B.survive C.suffer D.experience

【14】A.Then B.Rather C.Therefore D.Instead

【15】A.casual B.private C.hard D.formal

【16】A.differently B.willingly C.similarly D.personally

【17】A.easy B.difficult C.impossible D.important

【18】A.at the risk of B.regardless of C.in spite of D.because of

【19】A.facially B.physically C.mentally D.psychologically

【20】A.point B.difference C.mistake D.effort

26、书面表达

假设你是光明中学的学生李华，得知国外某大学历史悠久，课程灵活，有意申请到该校英语系学习。请根据表格信息，用英语写一封自荐信。

注意：  1．词数100左右。   2．信的开头和结尾已经给出。

提示词：英语演讲比赛—English Speech Contest

Dear Sir，

My name is Li Hua from Guang Ming High School in Beijing, China.

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Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours，

Li Hua