黄石2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、Every year, __________ makes the most beautiful kite will win a prize in the Kite Festival.

A.whoever B.whomever C.no matter who D.no matter whom

2、Taobo is Asia’s largest retail (零售的) network platform, ________ people can buy and sell many kinds of things．

A．where

B．when

C．that

D．whose

3、People around us ______ affect our thoughts and behaviors.

A. must   B. can

C. should   D. would

4、The tourism industry, as the core of our local economy, is supposed____in the months to come.

A.to recover B.to have recovered

C.to be recovering D.to have been recovering

5、Word came __________ Napoleon would come to inspect them.

A.when B.why C.how D.that

6、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

7、— What should I do first?

— The instructions   that you should mix flour with water carefully first.

A.go B.tell C.write D.say

8、The change of a job can be a very challenging and ______ experience for most people.

A．inspiring

B．disturbing

C．motivating

D．fascinating

9、Nowadays, more and more young ladies,   figures most are fine enough, are going on a diet.

A. who   B. whose

C. of whose   D. of whom

10、Cost ________as follows: food and drink 100 yuan, studying material 150 yuan, accommodation fee 300 yuan.

A．breaks down

B．breaks off

C．breaks in

D．breaks out

11、The questionnaire takes ______ ten to fifteen minutes to complete and can be used along with the assessment interview.

A.mainly B.punctually C.approximately D.precisely

12、The wooden tower that _________ will be open to tourists soon, and the work is almost finished.

A．is being restored

B．is restored

C．is restoring

D．restores

13、China’s top education authority has implemented a revision of textbooks on the length of the country’s war against Japanese aggression, ______ the start of the war began on Sept 18,1931.

A. one that   B. one where

C. the one that   D. the one where

14、 The joy of living comes from ______ we put into living.

A. what   B. that C. where D. How

15、The fellow we spoke ________ no comment at first.

A．to make

B．to made

C．made

D．to making

16、Tom had to have his car repaired in a garage because it ______seriously.

A. damaged     B. was being damaged

C. had damaged  D. had been damaged

17、It was the middle of night ________ my husband woke me up and told me to watch the football game.

A. while   B. that   C. as   D. when

18、—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

19、She’s added a few characters and changed some names but ________ this is a true story.

A. completely   B. necessarily   C. gradually   D. essentially

20、---Mary, I got lost.

---Sorry, I________ a map for you.

A．must have drawn

B．should draw

C．could draw

D．ought to have drawn

21、The 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked off, with more than 30 teams participating. In the tournament’s 92-year history, only eight countries have won: Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Uruguay and England.

It was the first time that the Cup had been held in the Middle East. Summer temperatures in Qatar regularly top 100 degrees, so for the safety of both athletes and audience, organizers pushed the month-long contest out to late November, when the weather is milder.

Uruguay was the first host and winner of the World Cup back in 1930. The final match played out in front of 60,000 audiences. No World Cup was held between 1938 and 1950 due to World War Ⅱ. The 1950 tournament in Brazil featured separate East and West German teams. It wasn’t until the 1994 World Cup that Germany took part as a unified team. West Germany won in 1954.

That 1950 Cup was also the first to feature England, despite soccer being an English invention. That year, Team USA beat England 1-0, though some British newspapers reported the result as USA 1, England 10, as editors believed the real score had a typo. Both sides believed it would be an easy win for England, and double-digit (两位数) goals were expected. This match is considered by many as one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history.

The first women’s World Cup started many decades after the men’s, in 1991. That first one was held in China. Our team is so dominant that we have won half of all the World Cups to date. The women play every four years, just like the men, but not on the same schedule. The next women’s World Cup will be held in 2023 in Australia and New Zealand.

【1】Why was the 2022 World Cup put off to winter?

A．To satisfy audience.

B．To be a special match.

C．To avoid high temperatures.

D．To meet the requirements of the players.

【2】How is the text mainly organized?

A．In time order.

B．In space order.

C．By explanation.

D．By comparison.

【3】What does the underlined word “typo” mean in paragraph 4?

A．A typing error.

B．A spelling error.

C．A program error.

D．A mathematical error.

【4】What can we learn about the women’s World Cup from the last paragraph?

A．China won the first women’s World Cup.

B．China has hosted 50% of the women’s World Cups.

C．It is arranged on a different timetable from the men’s.

D．It is held in the same country as the men’s every four years.

22、   Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, says," Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are."

The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their social behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity for learning.

Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of the colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send messages to each other by means of a "dance". Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new home for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance, the better the new location is.

Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of "sameness" and "difference" to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent American research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants.

They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.

As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate complex actions and accomplish crucial survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities.

【1】What do ants and bees have in common?

A. They live in similar-sized colonies.

B. They make use of collective intelligence.

C. They have small leadership groups that make all decisions.

D. They use the same methods to communicate with each other.

【2】What does the speed of a bee's dance indicate?

A. The quality of a new colony location.

B. The distance to a neighboring colony.

C. The discovery of a new food source.

D. The direction to a potential food source.

【3】In paragraph 3, how does the author demonstrate the idea that Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning ?

A. By using statistics.

B. By explaining reasons.

C. By referencing opinions.

D. By presenting study findings.

【4】What is the benefit of collective intelligence?

A. It allows the colony to reproduce more rapidly.

B. It improves work cooperation within the colony.

C. It reduces the division of labour among members.

D. It enables individuals to teach each other new skills.

23、

【1】We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．Grade one students in a high school can apply for the program.

B．it’s possible for graduates to obtain both a bachelor’s degree and a doctor’s degree.

C．graduates are promised to have a chance to work with top biomedical scientists.

D．a thesis is not necessary if an undergraduate wants to go to graduate school.

【2】Which of the following is an unnecessary requirement for application?

A．A combined sat I score of 1400.

B．A combined sat ll score of 600 in Math and one science.

C．Three letters of recommendation from his teachers.

D．A letter of recommendation from the principal.

【3】What’s the purpose of this passage?

A．To tell the students how to learn well in Biochemistry Molecular Biology.

B．To introduce a very famous university “University of Miami”.

C．To attract excellent high school graduates to apply for the Honors Program.

D．To give information on how to contact Director of the Honors Program.

24、We’ve all heard the phrase less is more, and in the case of our personal space, it couldn’t be more accurate. In fact, studies have shown that a messy home can have a significant effect on our well-being because clutter(杂乱) can increase our stress and anxiety levels and reduce our ability to concentrate.

One place where this is particularly apparent is the bedroom, where the average person spends about a third of their time.【1】, your mind is unable to slow down and drift into peaceful sleep. You’ll find it easier to catch those much-needed if you’ve cleared away all the odds and ends that have collected on surfaces around the room.

【2】. The human brain prefers order, and a disorganized desk will divide your attention between your task and the state of your surroundings. As a result, you will drain your cognitive(认知的) resources much faster than you would in a tidy environment. If you regularly find yourself in situations like these, then it’s high time to clean up your act.

Now that you’re aware of the difference tidying up can make, let’s dig into some tried-and-tested ways of getting your home into shape. One of the best-known approaches in recent years is the KonMari Method by Marie Kondo, a world-famous organizing consultant from Japan.【3】.

That sounds simple enough, but where should you begin?【4】. If you’re starting with clothes, for example, collect all your articles from wherever they’re stored and sort through them all at once. This helps you see exactly how many extra items you’ve been hanging on to, making it easier to reduce your collection.

【5】. This way, other people won’t be around to make you feel bad about throwing out things like unwanted gifts. Another key tip is to shed any guilt you have about getting rid of objects by remembering that your home should honor who you are now, rather than who you once were. Should you hesitate, simply remind yourself how amazing it’ll feel to have your space filled with nothing but treasured belongings!

A．Kondo also recommends removing alone

B．The first step is to decide whether it is what you need

C．When your resting area is packed with too much stuff

D．Always keep in mind that it’s you who are the owner of your house

E．Another spot that should be kept neat is your work station

F．Kondo suggests working through your home by category rather than by room

G．Her strategy centers on keeping the items that spark joy and getting rid of the rest

25、My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally—but would never run very well. The first three years of his life ______ in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had ______when you saw him walk.

The children in our ______ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to run as well as the other children. So he ______.

In seventh grade he decided to go out for the ______team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others—perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come ______to so many others did not come naturally to him. ______the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the ______to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably ______never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day—______the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, ______I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him ______he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were ______from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn’t know.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners ______. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in ______grade—the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it. We never told him he couldn’t do it ... so he didn’t know. He just did it.

【1】

A．were spent

B．spent

C．has been spent

D．had spent

【2】

A．a disease

B．a dream

C．a problem

D．an ill

【3】

A．school

B．house

C．campus

D．neighborhood

【4】

A．didn’t know

B．doesn’t know

C．shouldn’t do

D．wouldn’t do

【5】

A．sports

B．cross-country

C．basketball

D．football

【6】

A．immediately

B．frequently

C．suddenly

D．naturally

【7】

A．When

B．Despite

C．Although

D．If

【8】

A．potential

B．possibility

C．success

D．luck

【9】

A．could

B．needed

C．might

D．would

【10】

A．though

B．even

C．ever

D．even though

【11】

A．for

B．because

C．when

D．so

【12】

A．how

B．why

C．what

D．that

【13】

A．cloudy

B．rainy

C．glassy

D．sunny

【14】

A．called

B．were named

C．named after

D．were called

【15】

A．eighth

B．seventh

C．ninth

D．tenth

26、你是学生会主席李华。学校决定举办春季运动会，并邀请专业运动员和教练来校进行赛前培训，请根据以下信息提示，写一则英文通知。（标题和落款已给出）

1. 运动会于下周六在操场举行；

2. 所有同学自备座椅观看比赛；

3. 每班选派5名以上运动员及5名拉拉队成员；

4. 本周六在校礼堂举行赛前培训。

注意：1. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；2. 词数100左右。

3. 提示词:  拉拉队：cheering squad