2025-2026年新疆双河高二下册期末英语试卷(含答案)

1、Excuse me, Madam. Ellen, a journalist from the Daily Mail all day. Could you speak to him now?

A．was phoned

B．has been phoned

C．is phoning

D．has been phoning

2、________ being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine.

A. If   B. Since   C. Until   D. Although

3、Not knowing what to do, the old lady rang up her son and asked for his help with   she described as a bit of bother.

A.which B.what C.when D.where

4、Group activities can help children gain the concept_______team spirit is crucial to more achievements.

A.that B.where C.what D.which

5、QQ, _________ you can chat with your friends, makes communication easy.

A.as B.which C.that D.where

6、Mrs. Taylor went around the shops, ______ what she thought was necessary.

A.ordered B.ordering

C.to have ordered D.having been ordered

7、The collection, sorting and   of historical materials and cultural relics of the May Fourth Movement should be strengthened, President Xi said.

A. consideration B. conservation

C. constitution D. construction

8、Born into a family with three brothers，David was ________ to value the sense of sharing.

A. brought up   B. turned down

C. looked after   D. held back

9、—Why not get in my car to the swimming pool instead of walking?

—No, thanks. ______.

A．I’m used to

B．I’m able to

C．I’m about to

D．I’m sorry to

10、______ in the United States, St Louis has now become the 4th largest city.

A.It is the 24th biggest city B.It was the 24th biggest city

C.Once the 24th biggest city D.Before the 24th biggest city

11、The power of Charlie Chaplin’s works is not only in his acting, but also in the stories and characters he________.

A．had created

B．has created

C．created

D．creates

12、There is a rule in the library that one is required to put the book ______ it is after finishing reading it.

A．what

B．how

C．where

D．when

13、The masterpiece “Guernica”, ________ by Picasso, is permanently exhibited in Madrid.

A. paint B. painted C. painting D. to paint

14、----I have been watching “I am a singer” and Gloria Tang (邓紫棋) is my favorite star.

----- Me, too. Her new album is said to be ______ next month. By then, we , fans, will buy some.

A. relieved   B. delivered   C. produced   D. released

15、Nowadays mobile internet devices are pushing up demands for online education, which makes businessmen see it as one of the most _______ new market.

A. demanding   B. damaging   C. promising   D. leading

16、_____by the English teacher for the high grade, I felt my effort finally paid off.

A. Praise   B. Praised   C. To praise   D. Praising

17、Though he has made a big fortune, he is____a happy man.

A.nothing but B.anything but C.more than D.other than

18、I have no formal clothes for the occasion. Perhaps I can ______ in a dark suit?

A.go by B.pass by C.drop by D.get by

19、John is good at seizing every opportunity ________ he thinks he can show his best self to others

A．when

B．that

C．what

D．where

20、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

21、Of all the weird and wonderful creatures living under the sea, perhaps the strangest are jellyfish—those rubbery, cone-shaped creatures found floating in the water, their long tentacles trailing behind.

Some jellyfish species have a bad reputation for scaring away tourists, clogging up fishing nets, and even blocking power station pipes. But with more and more plastic rubbish ending up in the sea, these days you’re as likely to swim into a plastic bag as a jellyfish. Now scientific research is discovering that these rubbery sea creatures might provide an answer—a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution.

In recent years, tiny pieces of plastic called microplastic have been a significant problem for the world’s seas and oceans. These plastics are not visible to the eye and aren’t caught by seawater treatment plants due to their small size, so they enter our system and harm our health. They’ve been found in many places—in Arctic ice, at the bottom of the sea and even inside animals. Slovenian scientist, Dr Ana Rotter, heads GoJelly, a European research team of jellyfish ecologists looking into the problem.

Microplastics, plastics in general, are becoming an increasing problem. Dr Ana Rotter says when she was a child, people were more environmentally friendly—not harmful to the environment or having the least possible impact on it. At that time, there were very few single-use plastics—plastic items, like spoons and forks, designed to be used just once, then thrown away. The situation since then has changed dramatically. In fact, there’s been such an increase in microplastics that today the UN lists plastic pollution as one of the world’s top environmental threats.

But how do jellyfish fit into the story? Well, it’s the ‘jelly’ part of jellyfish, and specifically their sticky, jelly-like mucus that is key. Jellyfish produce a thick, sticky liquid called mucus. Dr Ana Rotter has discovered that this mucus has strong absorptive capabilities—it can absorb, take in liquids and other substances. One of the substances jellyfish mucus absorbs are the particles that make up microplastics.

Dr Rotter’s research is still in the early stages, but it’s hoped that jellyfish mucus could hold the key to a future free of microplastic polluted oceans. Scientists are hoping that the mucus’s absorptive properties—its abilities to absorb liquids and other substances and hold them, will allow it to trap particles of plastic floating in the sea. By trapping these, the mucus acts like a magnet—an object that attracts certain materials, like metal, but in this case, microplastic waste.

【1】Paragraph 3 mainly talks about ________.

A．where microplastics can be found

B．why microplastics can harm our health

C．what problems the seas and oceans are facing

D．how the research was carried out by the scientist

【2】What can we learn from this passage?

A．Jellyfish species cause a great threat to the sea.

B．Jellyfish species like to swim and live in plastic bags.

C．Jellyfish mucus can attract metals and break them down.

D．Jellyfish mucus can absorb liquids and some other substances.

【3】What does the underlined word “properties” in Paragraph 6 most probably mean?

A．Qualities.

B．Substances.

C．Choices.

D．Materials.

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

A．To show the harm that sea and ocean pollution brings to human beings.

B．To introduce the living habits of the weird and wonderful creatures in the sea.

C．To provide a new method for collecting data on environmental threats in the sea.

D．To inform a promising scientific finding for dealing with plastic pollution in the sea.

22、Earlier this week the online UK supermarket Ocado told its customers that it had “limited ability” to deliver ice ream. Why? Because the price of natural gas has increased greatly, which has hit the supply of CO2 in the UK. And that has led to a cut in the supply of dry ice that supermarkets use to keep food cool in their delivery vans (小型货车). So no ice cream.

This mini crisis has been fairly quickly resolve, for now at least. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t worry. This incident serves as a timely reminder of just how reliant we are on fossil fuels. Despite our optimistic enthusiasm for wind and solar power, one way or another oil and gas use is shot through every part of our economic and social lives. That will be the case for many decades to come.

In his recently updated book There is No Planet B, Mike Berners-Lee lays out the challenge. When we talk about shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy of one kind or another, we aren’t discussing taking the amount of energy we use now and producing that amount in a different way. Instead, our target is always on the move. The more energy we can get our hands on, the more we use—even if our use of it becomes more efficient.

Energy usage is going to keep rising, while energy transitions (转变) tend to both take a very long time and never actually end. We just pile new sources on top of old. The world still uses much the same amount of traditional biomass (wood etc) as it did 100 years ago. We are running to stand still. This will change. But not as fast as you might like to think. In 2019, 33 percent of our new power generation needs were met by renewable energy. That’s a start. But 40 percent were met by natural gas.

There’s urgency here of course—which might speed things up. But there is something else that might slow us down. It didn’t take much to move people to fossil fuels—they are relatively easy to extract, relatively easy to transport, hugely energy dense and efficient and, of course, cheap. Until their externalities were understood, who could possibly have objected? Our current transition is different: people and companies will switch not because the new sources are easier to access, cheaper or more energy dense but because regulation mandates that they must.

Either way, the truth is that whether we like it or not our energy transition involves long term reliance on fossil fuels. That means we should stop demolishing them. Instead, we should focus on making their extraction cleaner and more efficient while we wait for the engineering challenges around a renewables-led future to be solved.

If we don’t do this—if we allow ourselves to be beguiled by the idea that solar is so advanced that we no longer need filthy fuels to have ice cream, we, will find the future held back by needlessly expensive energy—and almost certainly ice-cream free.

【1】What do the first two paragraphs mainly show?

A．The necessity for traditional fuels.

B．Our enthusiasm for clean energy.

C．The seriousness of energy crisis.

D．UK’s dependence on dry ice.

【2】According to Mike Berners-Lee, ______.

A．we have more types of energy on hand

B．the use of energy becomes more efficient

C．energy transition is far from being realized

D．we are closer to the aim of replacing fossil fuels

【3】The underlined word “demolising” in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by ______.

A．wasting

B．devaluing

C．distributing

D．justifying

【4】What is the writer’s attitude toward the transition to the renewable energy?

A．Indifferent.

B．Defensive.

C．Disapproving.

D．Cautious.

23、Whether you’re managing medications, daily vitamins or other oral treatments, LiveFine takes the guesswork out of your routine with the ultimate efficiency and reliability system.

This WiFi-enabled Smart Organizer makes taking, tracking,and managing your medication simple—easy dosage templates (药剂模板)allow you to dispense(分配)pills anywhere from once up to nine times a day. 28 spacious sections hold multiple pills, tablets, and capsules in each part, removing the need for regular refills, which is perfect for prescriptions, supplements, vitamins, aspirin, antibiotics, etc.

The user guide provides comprehensive instructions for how to set up. In short, just fill the slots, install your preferred rings, and receive alerts. You can even customize audio and visual device alerts— plus notifications, alarms, and reminders and make missed doses a thing of the past! Just choose from multiple unique device alarm tones and adjust the volume to meet your precise needs.

Use the LiveFine mobile app reminders for added reliability, which takes patient monitoring to another level, with notifications when medications are taken or the dispenser cover is opened. Plus, the app provides simple review of past doses, with times recorded for each administered dose and an ultra-convenient remote monitoring option to help your family members and caregivers check on your progress straight from their phones.

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【1】LiveFine is a device that can____.

A．ensure efficient medical refills

B．reduce the need to see a doctor

C．remind users to track their daily routine

D．make it easier for users to take medicine

【2】How can a LiveFine mobile app help the users?

A．By recording users’dosage activities.

B．By personalizing users’ rings and alerts.

C．By opening the dispenser cover remotely.

D．By keeping record of the symptoms of users.

【3】What additional feature does the device have?

A．Its backup battery lasts for a week.

B．Its buttons prevent mix-ups of medicine.

C．Its lid reminds users to take medicine in time.

D．Its LCD screen makes it friendly to the elderly.

24、   Psychopaths, by definition, have problems understanding the emotions of other people, which partly explains why they are so selfish and why they commit violent crimes at up to three times the rate of other people.

But curiously, they seem to have no difficulty in understanding what other people think, want, or believe."Their behavior seems to suggest that they don't consider the thoughts of others," says ArielleBaskin-Sommers from Yale University, but their performance on experiments suggests otherwise. When they hear a story and are asked to say what a character is thinking, they can.

On the face of it, this makes sense: Here are people who can understand what their victims are thinking but just don't care. Hence their actions. But Baskin-Sommers found that there's more to their minds than it seems.

Bakin-Sommers managed to persuade a maximum-security prison in Connecticut to let her work with their prisoners. First, Baskin-Sommers administered a standard test to 106 male prisoners from the Connecticut prison to assess psychopathy. Of them, 22 proved to be psychopaths, 28 were not, and the rest fell in a gray zone.

After assessing the 106 volunteers, she then gave them a computer-based task. They saw a picture of a human avatar (化身) in prison uniforms, standing in a room and facing either right or left. There were either two red dots on the wall in front of the avatar, or one dot in front of it and one dot behind it, The prisoners’ job was to figure out how many dots either they or the avatar could see.

Normally, people can accurately say how many dots the avatar sees, but they're slower if there are dots behind the avatar. Thar's because what they see (two dots) affects their ability to see through the avatar's eyes(one dot), This is called egocentric interference. But they're also slower to say how many dots they can see if that number differs from the avatar's count. People are automatically affected by the avatar's perspective, even when it hurts their own performance. This is called altercentic interference.

Baskin-Sommers found that the psychopathic prisoners showed the usual level of egocentric interference-that is, their own perspective was muscling in on the avatar's, But they showed much less altercentric interference than the other prisoners- the avatar's perspective wasn't messing with their own, as it would for most other people.

Of course, not all psychopaths are the same, and they vary considerably in their behavior. But Baskin-Sommers also found fhat the higher their score on the psychopathy assessment test, the less they were affected by what the avatar saw. And the less affected they were, the more charges they had on their record.

To her, the results show that psychopaths do not automatically take the perspective of other people. That helps to explain why they behave so cruelly and even violently.

【1】What does "otherwise" (in paragraph 2) refer to ?

A.Pychopaths' behavior is not worth studying

B.Psychopaths can understand others' thoughts

C.Psychopaths have trouble knowing about others.

D.Psychopaths' perfomance on experiments is unbelievable

【2】Baskin-Sommers's research with the prisoners involved.

A.asking them to say the number of the dots they or the avatar could see

B.reading their medical records to see whether they were psychopaths.

C.requiring them to figure out which avatar messed in with them

D.decreasing the effect of the avatar on their performance

【3】What can be inferred from the results of Baskin Sommers's work the prisoners?

A.It's more difficult for psychopaths to work out what they themselves are thinking about.

B.Egocentric interference are more related to criminal acts than altercentric imerference.

C.People showing more altercentric interference are less likely to be psychopaths.

D.Psychopaths tend to be affected by the avatar to the same degree.

【4】Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

A.Varieties of Psychopaths

B.How Psychopaths See the World

C.Psychopaths and Their Perspectives

D.Why Psychopaths Need More Understanding

25、   Ida Nelson was in her sister’s sauna (桑拿浴室), relaxing. Then she heard the long low sound of a small airplane _______ the nearby airport.

It was 11:30 at night in the _______ of Igiugig, population 70, and, as she told the New York Times, “Any time a plane flies over that _______, you know something is _______.”

Nelson and her sister leaped out of the sauna, ran to the window, and _______ the problem: The airport’s runway lights were _______.

Nelson _______ on some clothes, jumped into her car and _______ it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the lights by hand.

“_______, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up,” Nelson said. Not this time. Meanwhile, she and the pilot learned of the plane’s ________ task: It was there to transport a seriously ill local girl to the nearest ________, 280 miles away in Anchorage.

Nelson had a ________. Driving her car to the end of the runway, she ________ her headlights (车头灯) on the road for the plane to follow. Great idea, but it wasn’t ________. More light was needed, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the village — 32 of them.

Within 20 minutes, 20 ________ arrived at the airport. Following directions from the plane pilot, the cars ________ up on one side of the runway.

The plane made its final ________ and, guided by the headlights, landed safely. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane ________ took off again.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little ________ positive activism was a big deal. Not so much for Nelson. As she told CNN, in Igiugig, coming together “is kind of a ________ deal.”

A．passing

B．circling

C．leaving

D．attacking

A．village

B．city

C．county

D．state

A．early

B．high

C．late

D．fast

A．missing

B．special

C．complete

D．wrong

A．saw

B．avoided

C．solved

D．caused

A．above

B．away

C．on

D．out

A．threw

B．commented

C．tried

D．decided

A．hired

B．floored

C．stole

D．backed

A．Obviously

B．Unexpectedly

C．Fortunately

D．Usually

A．dangerous

B．difficult

C．urgent

D．secret

A．hospital

B．school

C．company

D．building

A．rest

B．plan

C．cold

D．walk

A．hid

B．shone

C．studied

D．cleaned

A．funny

B．bad

C．enough

D．safe

A．planes

B．trains

C．policemen

D．vehicles

A．speeded

B．blew

C．lined

D．burned

A．exit

B．approach

C．trip

D．flight

A．gradually

B．surprisingly

C．immediately

D．clumsily

A．community’s

B．patient’s

C．pilot’s

D．plane’s

A．rare

B．big

C．uncertain

D．normal

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Sally had anxiety disorder trouble that made her fail to speak in social situations. I am a nurse and use Bella to help children in my community, to bring them comfort and confidence the way only a dog can. I thought back to the day when I'd first brought Bella to the school.

That morning in January, her teacher led us to a room. “Sally hasn't spoken outside her home in two years,” she told me. “Her parents have taken her to doctors, but nothing has worked.” A little girl stood shyly just inside the doorway. Her eyes brightened when she noticed my dog.

“This is Bella,”I said.“She does tricks. Would you like to see?”

Sally nodded. I motioned with my hand. Bella lay down and then rolled over. Sally's eyes lit up. I showed Sally the hand signals for various commands. She was a natural with Bella, maybe because she couldn't rely on the spoken word herself. Bella sensed that and responded. Soon Sally was able to put Bella through her paces all on her own. I could see her standing taller, more sure of herself each time we met.

One morning in March when she was working with Bella, I heard a tiny voice, barely a whisper, “Good dog.” Sally didn't take her eyes off Bella, but I wanted to jump for joy. Sally spoke a little more each week, only to Bella at first, but then to me. Later,she started giving voice commands with her hand signals and her confidence rose.

Now, five-year-old Sally stood nervously in front of her kindergarten class,with Bella, my trained dog, sitting calmly by her side. All the eyes of her classmates were focused on Sally. They were waiting for her to speak. It was June—only one week of school left—but they had never heard her voice. Not once.

Paragraph 1:

But not a word came out.

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Paragraph 2:

The next week, she told me she wanted to try again, looking up at me with determination.

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