2025-2026年河南平顶山高二下册期末英语试卷及答案

1、If you're to succeed，__________to the job after finding the proper way to do it.

A.being devoted B.devoted

C.devoting D.be devoted

2、—Can you tell us your ________ for happiness and a long life?

—Living every day to the full, definitely.

A.recipe B.record C.range D.reflection

3、It was hunger that his great-grandfather and grandfather ______.

A.died of B.died out C.died down D.died away

4、To our ______, grandpa’s illness didn’t prove to be as serious as we had thought.

A．desire

B．sorrow

C．relief

D．regret

5、－Did you tell him that we’ve put off the meeting?

－No. He rushed out ________ I could say anything.

A. since B. after

C. before D. unless

6、You can depend on him. He always ________.

A．has words with others

B．breaks his word

C．keeps his words

D．keeps his word

7、The lecture Jack Ma made in the 2018 Shanghai Forum of Zhejiang Merchants left us with a wonderful _______ — he gave us a fantastic description of what the future business will be like.

A．association

B．function

C．satisfaction

D．impression

8、

— Sunny day, isn't it?

— Let's hope the sunny weather for Saturday's tennis match. 

A. carries on   B. moves on C. goes up   D. keeps up

9、 ____ is known to all is ____ Diaoyu Island is part of China.

A. What; that. B. It; that. C. As; that. D. What; what.

10、After several failures, the US leaders are_____ being brought face-to-face with the fact that China today is undefeatable.

A.luckily B.firmly C.gradually D.appropriately

11、What a pity! Considering his ability and experience, he ___________ it better.

A. need have done B. must have done

C. can have done D. might have done

12、_____ he came to study in the university, he has made much progress in the study of English.

A.While B.When C.Since D.After

13、—Has Mary finished writing her article?  — No, and it _____ before class was over.

A. should be finished B. should finish

C. should have finished D. ought to have been finished

14、Maria frowned. “It’s not important,” she said.

“Well, of course It’s important,” said Bruno irritably, ________ she was just being deliberately difficult.

A. even if B. if only C. now that D. as if

15、With a lot of questions _________, the official is having a hard time.

A.answered B.to answer C.answering D.being answered

16、The day everyone had been looking forward to __________ at last.

A．coming

B．came

C．has come

D．will come

17、I have got ________ things to do this morning, so I wasn’t able to go to the flower exhibit.

A．a great deal of

B．a plenty of

C．masses of

D．a great many of

18、He gave himself a new name to hide his identity when he wen to    the secret task.

A.carry on B.carry out

C.carry through D.carry away

19、We don't have the same interest. That's ________the problem lies.

A.where B.what C.how D.which

20、He couldn't ________ the reason why the money was found in his room.

A. answer for B. account for

C. speak of D. result from

21、I graduated from college twenty years ago and I ____________ as an English teacher in this middle school ever since.

A. worked   B. have been working

C. had worked D. was working

22、It is by no means clear the president can do to end the strike.

A.how B.which

C.that D.what

23、.I should thank you that you should thank me.

A．because

B．rather than

C．for

D．as

24、It is suggested that one should develop some hobbies, which may help ________ pressure and depression.

A．rid

B．lead to

C．keep free from

D．reduce

25、Lady Gaga has put off her concerts because of the difficulties ______ by the strikes.

A.causing B.being caused C.caused D.having caused

26、   I was standing in a class of wild 14-year-old girls as they threw paper and howl with laughter. They wouldn’t listen to me. І was 22 and І never wanted to teach. І wanted to be a writer. When the bell finally rang, I rushed out of the classroom, red with anger. The other teachers weren't surprised. “That's 4B, the worst class in school,” one said.

But I couldn't give up. I needed the job. So, I abandoned formal lessons. Instead, I brought topics for class discussion. One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their parents. They paid attention and shared about their lives. Then I encouraged them to write down their stories. Most wrote about families with little money and big problems. As time went on, their stories became a bridge between us. I admired their humor, toughness and insight, and I think they appreciated my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End, but they had never seen a live stage performance. I suggested taking them to see it. They thought I was joking. No teacher had ever done that. A few weeks later, 4B and I were sitting in the theater. They loved the music, the costumes and the characters. It was the highlight of their year, and they talked about it for days.

Near the end of the semester, someone knocked on the door of the staff room. The two most rebellious(叛逆的) girls in 4B were there—with flowers.

Several years later, for the first time in my life, I stopped dreaming and started writing. My first story was titled "My Fair Ladies". Teaching wasn't the end of my writing career; it was the beginning.

【1】How was the author's class in 4B at the beginning?

A.It was impressive. B.It was rather boring.

C.It was a total mess. D.It was lively and interesting.

【2】What happened to the girls after they were encouraged to tell and write their stories?

A.They came to like the author. B.They made great progress in writing.

C.They became more humorous. D.They stopped arguing with their parents.

【3】How did the students feel about the experience to the theatre?

A.Confused. B.Excited. C.Proud. D.Encouraged.

【4】What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A.Only two girls liked the author.

B.The author became a famous writer several years later.

C.The author didn't dream any more.

D.The author's teaching experiences inspired her writing.

27、Dear Dad,

Today, I spent a lot of time selecting and reading the Father’s Day cards at the shopping mall. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really wanted to say to you.

You'll soon be 84 years old. Dad, and you and I will have had 55 Father's Days together. I haven’t always been with you on Father’s Day, but I’ve always been with you in my heart. You know, Dad, there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap(代沟). You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other.

The Father-Daughter Conflict shifted into high gear(档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge while I decided I would drive the Chevy whether you liked it or not. To my surprise, when the police officer sent me home after you reported the Chevy stolen, you were so tolerant(宽容的) about it because I had thought that would probably be the worst night of my life.

Our relationship greatly improved when 1 married a man you liked,and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine.

But the strangest thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didn’t immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and weak behind the wheel of that huge car. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.

I guess what I’m trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Father’s Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. It’s about loving someone more than words can say, and it's my wish that it never had to end.

I love you, Dad.

Love,

Jenny

【1】How did Jenny probably feel on the night she was sent home by the police?

A．Guilty.

B．Nervous.

C．Frightened.

D．Disappointed.

【2】We can learn from the text that Jenny and her father ________.

A．have been getting along very well

B．kept in touch by writing to each other

C．are separated due to the generation gap

D．had a hard time understanding each other

【3】Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week?

A．She didn’t expect to meet with him there.

B．She seldom saw him driving that huge car.

C．She had never realized his being old and weak.

D．She had never seen him driving so slowly before.

【4】Jenny wrote his father this letter to ________.

A．express her gratitude to him

B．tell him about their conflicts

C．say sorry for her being stubborn

D．remind him of the early incident

28、My 10-year-old Donna said,“Mom,I made a new friend at school today.Can she come over tomorrow?” Donna was a shy girl and I wanted her to make some friends to bring her out of her shell.

“Sure, honey, that sounds great,” I said, thinking back to my own best friend,

Lillian.We lived across the street from each other in Washington Heights,New York.We met at the age of 10, too.Like my daughter,I was shy, but Lillian drew me out.She was one of the friendliest people in school, with shiny black hair and a mile-wide smile.

In senior high school,Lillian went on a trip to Florida.This was the first time we had to be away from each other for a few days.“I’ll be back soon,” she told me.But three days later,Lillian’s sister told me that she had fallen into a river and hadn’t come out any more. Soon, my family moved to New Jersey.Whenever I thought of her, tears came into my eyes.

The next day Donna brought her new friend home.“Hi,Mrs.Loggia,” the little girl said.Her hair was so shiny and black and she shot me a big smile.“My name is Laura.”

My daughter’s new friend was so much like Lillian.I was still puzzled(迷惑的) when Laura’s mom came to pick her up later that afternoon.I opened the door to let her in.“Judy!” she cried.“It’s me,Lillian’s sister, from Washington Heights.” Yes, my daughter’s friend looked familiar.She was Lillian’s niece.

【1】The underlined words in the first paragraph “to bring her out of her shell” mean 　　　.

A．to help her become less shy

B．to help her become smart

C．to help her live happily

D．to help her walk out of her house

【2】Laura looked familiar to the writer because she　　　.

A．was Lillian’s niece

B．was as old as her daughter

C．was from Washington Heights

D．had shiny black hair and a big smile, too

【3】Why did the writer lose her best friend?

A．Because she moved to New Jersey.

B．Because they were different from each other.

C．Because her best friend travelled to Florida.

D．Because her best friend lost her life on a trip.

【4】“I knew we would be best friends forever.” is a sentence from the passage and should be put at the end of 　　　.

A．Paragraph 2

B．Paragraph 3

C．Paragraph 4

D．Paragraph 5

29、The Tokyo Summer Olympics is going green. The 5,000 medals Japan has made are more special than most.

One novel focus of the Tokyo Olympics is to be“sustainable”— to avoid using too many natural resources, so that the games are easy on the environment. As part of this goal, the organizers decided to make all of the Olympic medals out of metal recycled from old electronics.

Almost all electronics are made with small amounts of "precious metals", like gold and silver. But collecting enough of these metals to make 5,000 medals was a huge challenge. That's because the amount of metal in each device is tiny. It would take about 20,000 cell phones to get just 1 kilogram of gold.

Beginning in April 2017, the organizers placed collection boxes around the country, and asked people to turn in their old electronic devices. Soon people began to respond to the initiative, turning in smartphones, digital cameras, hand-held games, and laptops. At first, collection went slowly, but soon more and more areas began to take part. By the end, 1,621 local governments had helped out with the collection process.

Then came the job of breaking those devices down into smaller pieces. After being taken apart and sorted, the small electronics were smelted (熔炼) to get all the gold, silver, and bronze elements. This is a tricky job, which calls for careful attention and good skill. It's also dangerous, because some of the metals and other things aren't safe for people to touch or breathe.

By the end of March, 2019, the organizers had hit their targets of getting enough metal for the medals. They had collected around3xkilograms of gold, 4,100 kilograms of silver and 2,200 kilograms of bronze. And now all the 5,000 medals are available for the would-be winners.

【1】What can we know about the Tokyo Olympics medals?

A．They are hugely valuable.

B．They are of high quality.

C．They are designed uniquely.

D．They are made from e-waste.

【2】What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?

A．The difficulty of making the medals.

B．The process of collecting old electronics.

C．The initiative to recycle used smartphones.

D．The classification of the collected devices.

【3】The underlined word “tricky”in Paragraph 5 means“__________”.

A．creative

B．well-paid

C．demanding

D．unique

【4】What's the purpose of Tokyo's way of making the medals?

A．To advocate sustainable use of resources.

B．To promote the spirit of Olympic Games.

C．To introduce a new technique to make medals.

D．To call people's attention to environmental damage.

30、   One day, I was taking a nap (打盹) in the chair in my office as usual when I_________ up to the sound of a car crash. I sat up and looked out of my window. Across the street, in a parking lot, a car had just___________into a fence (栅栏) . The car must have been moving fast, because the fence was_________and the car was totally in bad _________

I couldn't believe I was seeing this on a(n)_________ weekday morning. The driver got out of the car. I was_________ about what the vulgar-looking (长相粗俗的) man would do next. After a few seconds of_______ , he tried to draw the ruined fence back into_________ , but it wouldn't move.

I sat in my chair, looking out of my window, silently ___________.

The man tried to fix the fence. He pulled against it with his full weight, but the entire fence turned out to ________top of him.

I think I laughed out loud. The______________of this terrible man was making my whole day enjoyable. I________the man leave the parking lot. That, I thought, would be the ____________of it. The man was going to leave all the mess behind for someone else to __________up.

__________ , the man appeared a few minutes later with some____________ . He got to work immediately. For the next hour, he carefully fixed the fence. He even ____________it. Now the fence would be safer and stronger than before.

This unpleasant man was____________a hero while I was the lazy one. What I had thought, I realized, were all about____________ . I would have run away____________ fixing that fence. My window had woken me up from a nap to teach me a lesson in humility (谦逊).

【1】A.got B.woke C.sat D.stood

【2】A.dropped B.turned C.pulled D.knocked

【3】A.gone B.affected C.damaged D.burned

【4】A.luck B.shape C.color D.size

【5】A.ordinary B.special C.terrible D.busy

【6】A.angry B.worried C.excited D.curious

【7】A.wandering B.imagining C.regretting D.observing

【8】A.order B.control C.place D.work

【9】A.praying B.sleeping C.cheering D.weeping

【10】A.fall B.lie C.break D.hang

【11】A.loss B.failure C.sadness D.pain

【12】A.helped B.watched C.had D.heard

【13】A.end B.best C.truth D.worst

【14】A.pick B.set C.clean D.make

【15】A.Therefore B.However C.Finally D.Moreover

【16】A.repairmen B.supplies C.friends D.tools

【17】A.improved B.decorated C.mended D.removed

【18】A.possibly B.especially C.hopefully D.actually

【19】A.myself B.others C.safety D.responsibility

【20】A.in addition to B.because of C.instead of D.in case of

31、Directions: Complete the following paragraphs by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.

Note that there is one word more than you need.

A Bad Idea

Think you can walk, dive, take phone calls, e-mail and listen to music at the same time? Well, New York's new law says you can't. And you'll be 【1】 $S100 if you do it on a New York City street.

The law went into force last month, following research and a(n) 【2】number of accidents that involved people using electronic gadgets when crossing the street.

Who's to【3】 ? Scientists say that our multitasking abilities are limited.

"We are under the impression that our brain can do more than it often can," says Rene Marois, a neuroscientist in Tennessee. “But a major limitation is the inability to【4】on two things at once".

The young people are often considered the great multitaskers. However, an Oxford University research suggests this idea is open to question. A group of 18-to 21-year-olds and a group of 35-to 39-year-olds were given 90 seconds to translate【5】into numbers, using a simple code. The younger group did 10 percent better when not interrupted. But when both groups were interrupted by a phone call or a(n) 【6】message, the older group matched the younger group in speed and 【7】.

It is difficult to measure the productivity【8】by multitaskers. But it is probably a lot. Jonathan Spire, chief analyst at Basex. a business-research firm, estimates the cost of interruptions to the American economy at nearly $650 billion a year.

The【9】is based on surveys with office workers. The surveys conclude that 28 percent of the workers' time was spent on interruptions and【10】time before they returned to their main tasks.

32、假如你是李华，想邀请外教Peter一起参加学校组织的春游活动，请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1. 活动详情：需徒步约20km，当中设有5个休息点；

2. 时间：4月26日早晨6:40校门口出发，返回时间约为下午2:00；

地点：九龙湖 (Jiu Long Lake)；

注意：1．词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．不能使用真实姓名和学校名称。

Dear Peter,

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Yours sincerely，

Li Hua