2025-2026年甘肃临夏州高二上册期末英语试卷带答案

1、Trucks _____ be parked here, or you will be fined.

A．needn’t

B．mustn’t

C．wouldn’t

D．daren’t

2、- Why not tell her the truth?

- I meant ________, but I was too busy.

A．to do

B．doing

C．to doing

D．to

3、All the scientific evidence ________ that increasing use of mobile phones ________ damaging our health.

A. show; are   B. shows; are

C. show; is   D. shows; is

4、Hybrid rice has been grown in many countries to help ________ the global food shortage.

A．analyse

B．assess

C．simplify

D．solve

5、The detective, ______ to be reading a newspaper, glanced at the man_____ next to a woman.

A．pretending; seated

B．pretended; seated

C．pretending; seat

D．pretended; seating

6、Owing to his bad health, he _______ from the government.

A. abolished   B. resigned

C. caused   D. supposed

7、－How was the journey?

－Tiring! I caught the train at the last second but all the seats _____. I stood all the way.

A. would occupy   B. would be occupied

C. had occupied   D. had been occupied

8、Eating too much fat can ______ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.

A. contribute to    B. attend to

C. link to     D. devote to

9、She’s ________ our best player, but she needs to practice much harder.

A.extremely B.potentially C.particularly D.fluently

10、You fool! How can you let such a chance     through your fingers.

A. ski   B. spread   C. slip     D. glide

11、The worsening living conditions on the Carteret Islands finally resulted in________we called the relocation of all the islanders, from________arose the problem of losing their traditions and celebrations.

A．which; what

B．which; which

C．what; that

D．what; which

12、Many Chinese ladies, especially elderly women, have ___________ square dancing as a regular form of exercise in the evening.

A．carried out

B．taken up

C．held out

D．made up

13、________the thief seemed difficult at first, but thanks to some information from a taxi driver, the policeman finally made it.

A．Seizing

B．To be seized

C．To have seized

D．Having seized

14、If you take time to explore the different layers of a person, you will find so many unique and interesting things about them that you would never know if there were ________.

A. though   B. yet

C. however   D. otherwise

15、The professor has the habit of _____ his lecture by wishing everybody a nice day at the end of it.

A．explaining

B．concluding

C．preparing

D．disturbing

16、Only then _______________ that I had made a terrible mistake.

A. I realized   B. did I realize

C. I had realized   D. had I realized

17、—The Spring Festival is drawing near. I am considering traveling in a small town, especially ___________with an ocean view.

—I agree with you; I would appreciate it if you could take me there.

A. it   B. one

C. that   D. this

18、—Why didn’t you get the tickets?

—When we got to the cinema, all the tickets _________ out.

A．sold

B．had been sold

C．have sold

D．was sold

19、Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor ________ broke national boundaries with his ________ to helping Chinese people in their wartime struggle.

A．in his forty; occupation

B．in the forties; intention

C．in his forties; dedication

D．in the forty; commitment

20、This film is as ________ as that one.

A．interesting

B．more interesting

C．interested

D．more interested

21、The good thing about children is that they ______ very easily to new environments and they can learn to ______ themselves quickly.

A.adapt; rely on B.appeal; depend on C.attach; rely D.apply; depend

22、When people need information, from the news and weather forecasts to travel packages and academic research, the Internet is now the first______ they turn to.

A. privilege   B. source   C. assistance   D. outcome

23、----John and  I will celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary next month.

-----Oh ,____!

A.cheer up   B. well done

C. go ahead   D. congratulations

24、There are actual things that can ________ in every one of us, as to lead us to some sort of suddenly-found identity.

A．make ends meet

B．strike a chord

C．fall into ruin

D．make a getaway

25、I’ll share a story with you this class, one ________ music can touch one’s soul and change one’s life.

A．that

B．which

C．when

D．where

26、   Chances are that you probably haven’t given much thought to that bottle of Pringles other than wondering “how can I get the last few potato chips out of the tube without making my arms dirty.”

As it turns out, this salty snack has quite a story. It once was in the middle of a heated argument that questioned the materials and whether the chips were actually potato chips at all.

From 2007 to 2009, the makers of the “once-you-pop-you-can’t-slop” chips stood in front of three: different levels of the British law department trying to defend the decision that Pringles chips were not — by definition — potato chips.

Here’s how this comically complicated problem started. In the mid-20th century, a tax was born called the value-added or VAT tax. This “consumption tax” started off as a 10 percent tax on all goods bought from a business. More than 20 percent of the world’s tax income comes from the value-added tax making it a pretty big deal.

In Britain, most foods are free from the value-added tax, except for potato chips or “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour”. This led to a long and hard journey to figure out whether or not Pringles were actually potato chips. If they were ruled as chips, Pringles’ parent company at the time, Procter & Gamble, would must pay a 17.5 percent VAT tax.

Procter & Gamble’s initial argument was that Pringles were not potato chips because they didn’t “contain enough potato to have the quality of ‘potatoness’”.They also argued Pringles didn’t resemble the shape of a potato chip.

In 2008, a lower British court agreed and ruled that Pringles were in fact not potato chips, mainly because they contained only 42 percent potato and had “a shape not found in nature”. But just a year later, the Court of Appeal re-examined and changed that decision, calling Procter & Gamble’s argument that the ingredients of a product didn’t define the product “hogwash”.

With that decision, the giant company had to pay $160 million in taxes, while, unwillingly, calling their novel potato chips, well, potato chips. And that is the story of Pringles and its brief dance with the world of taxes, junk food and British judges.

【1】Why is a question raised in the first paragraph?

A．To arouse readers’ interest.

B．To get the answer from readers.

C．To warn readers of the food safety.

D．To remind readers to make full use of food.

【2】Why are there arguments over whether Pringles were potato chips?

A．Pringles contain a low percent of potato.

B．The shape of Pringles is quite different from a potato chip.

C．Different taxes will be paid based on different judgments.

D．Different levels of the British judiciary have different opinions.

【3】What can we finally conclude from the last two paragraphs?

A．Pringles are potato chips.

B．Pringles are regarded as junk food by British judges.

C．Pringles should be fined $160 million to the Court of Appeal.

D．Pringles chips contain enough potato and flour.

【4】What's the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To show how to make Pringles.

B．To promote Pringles.

C．To explain the strict rules about the tax in Britain.

D．To introduce the story of Pringles with the tax in Britain.

27、Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.

After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”

One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!

Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?

Since then, whenever I wanted to judge someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.

【1】“It dawned on me” in paragraph 4 probably means “________”.

A. I knew it grew light   B. it cheered me up

C. I began to understand it   D. it began to get dark

【2】It’s clear that ___________.

A. the writer had never met the woman before   B. the writer often washed the window

C. they both worked as cleaners   D. they lived in a small town

【3】From the passage, we can learn___________.

A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often

B. one should often make his windows clean

C. one must judge himself before he judges others

D. one must look at others through his dirty windows

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FROM dogs and cats to pandas and penguins, lists of adorable animals can be very varied. However, when it comes to scary animals, the answers are often more or less the same – snakes and spiders are among the most dreadful ones for the majority of us.

However, most of us have never been bitten by a snake or a spider. So does this mean we are born with a fear of certain things?

Scientists have been actively looking into it for a long time. For example, studies have suggested that babies find live animals much more interesting than stuffed (毛绒填充的) ones. This interest continues even if those animals are snakes and spiders.

A study published in Psychological Science in 2008 seemed to show that snakes did have a different impact on babies. When scientists presented babies with animal videos along with random sounds of happy or frightened human voices, they found that babies looked at snakes for longer than any other animal however the voices sounded.

Now, a team from Rutgers University in New Jersey, US has tried to challenge the idea that babies are born with a fear of snakes and spiders. According to the BBC, the researchers measured babies’ physiological (生理的) responses as they watched videos of snakes and elephants paired with both fearful and happy voices.

Scientists then set out to surprise the babies to see how they would react. They presented them with an unexpected bright flash of light as they watched a video. As the BBC explained, a surprise like this would be more intense (强烈的) if the babies were already scared, just like when we watch scary films and jump more if we are already scared.

However, according to their findings, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, babies’ surprised responses were not bigger when watching a video of a snake, even when it was shown with a fearful voice. Their heart response was also lower, which also made it seem that babies were not scared.

“Children do not have an innate fear of snakes,” concluded the study. Even if previous studies had suggested that babies have different responses to snakes, it isn’t necessarily related to fear. “It’s possible that paying more attention to something might make fear learning easier later on. It leads to fear learning,” said research co-author Vanessa LoBue. She further explained that it was a good thing that humans didn’t have an inborn fear of snakes because it would make a young infant’s  desire to explore new things less strong.

Instead, we have evolved to quickly learn to be afraid of something if it turns out to be dangerous.

【1】What is the article mainly about?

A. How people’s fear of snakes and spiders has evolved.

B. Whether humans are born with a fear of snakes and spiders.

C. Why snakes and spiders are considered the most dreadful animals.

D. How babies react differently from adults to snakes and spiders.

【2】What was the finding of the study published in Psychological Science in 2008?

A. The longer babies looked at snakes in the video, the less scared they were.

B. The fearful voices babies heard when watching snake videos doubled their fear of snakes.

C. Babies’ responses to the snake in the videos were greatly affected by the types of voices they heard.

D. Babies took more interest in snakes than the other animals in the videos regardless of which human voices they heard.

【3】 The underlined word “innate” in the second-to-last paragraph is the closest in meaning to ______.

A. from birth B. from learning

C. lasting     D. immediate

【4】How did babies react when the researchers from Rutgers University surprised them while they were watching a video of a snake?

A. They paid more attention to the snakes when they heard a fearful voice.

B. Babies’ heart responses changed slightly when they heard a fearful voice.

C. A fearful voice didn’t make their surprised response become more intense.

D. They became more scared when they experienced an unexpected bright flash of light.

【5】 According to Vanessa LoBue, since babies don’t have an inborn fear of snakes, ______

A. it would make it easier for them to learn fear

B. it would make them more willing to explore new things

C. it would lead them to stay away from dangerous things

D. it would encourage them not to be afraid of anything

29、“I have cancer.” Mom said and held me in a tight hug. I could feel her chest shaking as she tried not to cry but failed.

For all of my twenty-four years, my mom had been supportive. Strength and protection had always flowed from her to me. Now I knew it would have to flow the other way around.

Mom didn’t stay down for long. After the shock of breast-cancer, she armed herself with a notebook and a pen and a thousand questions for the doctors. She took notes on white blood cell counts and medications(药物) with long names as though she were studying for entrance exams into medical school. “The not-knowing is the worst.” she said.

The operation was successful. The chemo(化疗) was the harder part. I went with Mom to every chemo treatment. She rarely complained, though her hair was gone and her toenails and fingernails fell out one by one. She joked that she could save money on nail polish and put it toward the doctor bills, even though she never wore nail polish. “Cancer can take my hair, my nails, my health, my very life. But it can’t take my smile.” Mom said.

Mom learned to share her fears with me, and it formed an even deeper bond between us. Yet I am certain there were fears she didn’t share because she was still protecting me—worries she only shared with Dad. Even in the darkest hours, she would just joke about the cancer. Mom always said, “When you look your greatest fear in the eye and laugh at it, you take away some of its power.”

Mom was one of the lucky ones. She did beat her cancer, though not without scars. From her, I’ve learned I may not get to choose what I face, but I do get to choose how I face it.

【1】What does the author mean when saying “Now I knew it would have to flow the other way around”?

A．Cancer could be treated in the other way.

B．Mom would not be supportive anymore.

C．Mom had to stay stronger to beat cancer.

D．I should be the one being there for Mom.

【2】What do we know about Mom from the passage?

A．Mom didn’t care about having cancer.

B．Mom was studying for entrance exams into medical school.

C．Mom had the determination to overcome cancer.

D．Mom felt down for long after knowing that she had cancer.

【3】What words can be used to describe Mom according to paragraph 4?

A．Optimistic and humorous.

B．Considerate and ambitious.

C．Determined and generous.

D．Caring and knowledgeable.

【4】What lesson did the author learn from Mom?

A．Luck counts in beating diseases.

B．Positive attitudes get one through hardship.

C．Complaint does no good to one’s health.

D．Sharing feelings helps reduce sufferings a lot.

30、Ask Americans which they think is more important to success, effort or talent, and they pick effort two to one. Ask them which quality they’d _________ most in a new employee, and they pick diligence over intelligence five to one. But deep down, they hold the _________ view.

We know this thanks to a researcher, Chia-Jung Tsay of University Collee London. Tsay asked professional musicians to listen to audio clips (片段) of two pianists, one described as a “natural” . The other as a “striver” . Despite the fact that the two pianists were really one pianist playing different sections of the same composition — and just contrary to the listeners’ _________ belief that effort won over talent — the musicians thought the “natural” sounded more likely to succeed than the “striver”, and _________. Tsay found a similar _________ among people considering an investment proposal. Their preference for backing a “natural” entrepreneur (企业家) over a “striver” entrepreneur was _________ only when the latter was given four more years of experience and $40,000 more in capital.

From where does the _________ for naturals come? Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, offered her best guess: We don’t _________ strivers because they invite self-comparisons. If what separates, say, Roger Federer from you and me is nothing but the number of hours spent at “deliberate practice” — as the most-extreme behavioralists argue — our _________ of the U.S. Open could be interrupted by the thought There but for the grace of perseverance go I.

Whatever its origins, the preference has __________ implications. Certainly, it suggests that my deep terror of letting anyone see my half-written article drafts makes sense. It perpetuates (使持续) a myth that I’m a natural—the words just flow out,folks as fast as I can type! — and __________ the truth that the words come out fitfully and woodenly, gradually leading to a state of readability only after many seemingly fruitless stages. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not appear so __________ at all,” Michelangelo observed.

This can __________ confusing career advice. “Try hard enough and you can do just about anything, as long as you don’t __________ to be trying very hard” is not the stuff we can see on the school walls. However, private __________ and public ease may be a recommended combination.

【1】

A．desire

B．doubt

C．discover

D．document

【2】

A．clear

B．traditional

C．partial

D．opposite

【3】

A．stated

B．concealed

C．mistaken

D．proved

【4】

A．less satisfied

B．more curious

C．less reasonable

D．more hirable

【5】

A．ignorance

B．prejudice

C．performance

D．intention

【6】

A．erased

B．estimated

C．restored

D．reported

【7】

A．preference

B．experience

C．investment

D．success

【8】

A．analyze

B．like

C．become

D．find

【9】

A．understanding

B．sponsorship

C．enjoyment

D．promotion

【10】

A．theoretical

B．financial

C．political

D．practical

【11】

A．reveals

B．awaits

C．hides

D．prefers

【12】

A．struggling

B．wonderful

C．disappointing

D．careful

【13】

A．look to

B．make for

C．set aside

D．take in

【14】

A．need

B．hope

C．seem

D．agree

【15】

A．ownership

B．interest

C．industriousness

D．aggressiveness

31、根据首字母提示和课文内容填空

One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually a【1】 a higher yield than c【2】 crops. However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great d【3】. The common a【4】 then was that it could not be done. Through i【5】 effort, Yuan o【6】 enormous technical d【7】 to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for f【8】 in 1974. This hybrid e【9】 farmers to e【10】 their output greatly.

32、近年来，越来越多的城市开始规定春节期间禁止燃放鞭炮。假设你是李华，今年是你过的第一个没有鞭炮的春节请你就这一事件写一篇英文日记要点如下：

1.春节燃放鞭炮的传统及意义;

2.在城区禁止燃放鞭炮的原因(污染、火灾及人身伤亡等);

3.你对无鞭炮春节的感受

注意

1.词数100左右

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯