2025-2026学年安徽淮南高二(上)期末试卷英语

1、Every Monday, my English teacher would cheerfully ask me ______ my weekend had been．（ ）

A．that B．if C．what D．how

2、— You are really crazy about music!

— Sort of．I always find in music _______ peace which is missing in _______ world full of challenges．

A．/; the B．/; a   C．a; the   D．the; a

3、You don’t have to know the name of the author to find a book. You _____ find the book by the title.

A.must B.need C.can D.would

4、Is it with its charming scenery and a unique culture ________ Lugu Lake impresses people from all over the world?

A. where   B. which

C. that   D. why

5、Finding some information in the Internet is very convenient. The ______ is how you can tell if the information you get is useful or not.

A．ability

B．competition

C．challenge

D．technique

6、I still remember my happy childhood when my mother ______ take me to Disneyland at weekends.

A. might   B. must C. would D. should

7、Amazon China unveiled(公布) the bestselling books in China for the first half of 2017 on Tuesday, ________ Chinese people’s reading habits.

A. disclosed   B. disclosing

C. to disclose   D. having disclosed

8、 Readers are required to _________ the rules of the library and mind their manners.

A. observe   B. confirm

C. review   D. appreciate

9、Though some bodies and the wreck of the missing plane QZ8501 have been confirmed, the Indonesian authorities are _____ to make public the detailed information of the passengers aboard.

A．relative  B．remarkable C．relevant  D．reluctant

10、We can advise the manager, but in the end, it is he who has the     say.

A.fair B.final C.fond D.full

11、Shelly ______California for Texas in 2018 and there ever since.

A．left; worked

B．has left; had worked

C．left; has worked

D．has left; worked

12、When I was pushed onto the stage, I felt all the eyes in the hall _________ me.

A．through   B．across

C．into   D．on

13、She told us to ________.

A．seat

B．sit at

C．sit

D．sit down

14、No supportive words could ever_____ for the pain of being separated from her children for 10 years.

A．compensate

B．compromise

C．commence

D．compliment

15、I _____ through the hard time but for my teacher’s generous and timely help．

A． couldn’t have gone   B． could go

C． mustn’t have gone  D． hadn’t gone

16、Public service ads, also PSAs, often _________ for free, _________ to educate people about health, safety or any other problem that affects public welfare.

A．run; meant B．are run; are meant

C．are run; mean   D．run; are meant

17、The shooting death of Michael Brown， an 18-year-old black man， who was fatally shot by a police officer， has _____ a media firestorm across the US since Aug 9．

A．set up   B．set out   C．set aside   D．set off

18、She tries to   some money every month in order to buy a personal computer.

A. build up   B. put out

C. set off   D. set aside

19、As there is less and less coal and oil, scientists are exploring new ways of making use of _____ energy, such as sunlight, wind and water for power and fuel.

A.primary B.instant C.unique D.alternative

20、With the final exams coming, Mark, the top student in our class, is not worried about Chinese, and _________ English．

A. still more   B. at least

C. least of all   D. better than

21、Severely disabled people may soon be able to use their noses to write, drive a wheelchair or surf the Internet, thanks to a device (装置) developed by doctors in Israel.

The device will be used by breathing in and out through the nose, according to a study. Healthy people who tested the device quickly learned to play computer games and write sentences by sniffing. Encouraged by the results, the researchers decided to test their device on people who are paralyzed (瘫痪) but whose intelligence remains normal. Ten paralyzed who tested the device quickly learned to use their noses to write words, open a webpage, copy words and put them into a search engine.

With their success in helping severely disabled people to communicate * the researchers decided to make use of the new technology to design an electric wheelchair to be driven by sniffs.

Ten healthy people easily mastered sniff—driving a wheelchair through a maze (迷宫), and a 30-year-old man who had been paralyzed from the neck down for six years was as good a sniff-driver as the healthy participants at his second attempt. In other words, a paralyzed person could use the sniff controller to drive an electric wheelchair.

At the moment, sniff-controlled technology is still in the stage of development, and the Weizmann Institute has already applied for a patent on the device. "Ill be very happy if it can help us to make money, but the real problem is that I hope someone will develop it, because this would help a lot of people," said Sobel, one of the lead researchers of the study.

【1】What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To introduce a new invention.

B. To equip the disabled with life skills.

C. To show the nose's special functions.

D. To instruct doctors to apply for a patent.

【2】In the test, the paralyzed people with normal intelligence can use their nose to ______.

A. type long sentences quickly

B. play computer games easily

C. enter a website without much difficulty

D. communicate with others successfully

【3】With the help of the sniffing device, a 30-year-old disabled man ______.

A. spent six years learning how to drive a wheelchair

B. failed to drive through the maze at his first attempt

C. took the wheelchair controlled by healthy participants

D. managed to drive an electric wheelchair by sniffing

【4】From the last paragraph, we can infer that the sniff-controlled technology ______.

A. will be applied to other fields of research

B. needs further developing to serve more people

C. has become an important patented invention

D. shows the wisdom and talents of Israel doctors

22、In spring 2016,Liza Goldberg asked scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center if she could do research there. There was a problem, though. She was just 14 years old, and NASA's internship(实习) program only accepts students starting at age 16.

David Lagomasino and Temilola Fatoyinbo are NASA satellite experts. They saw Liza’s request. In it,she talked about how she had studied trees in her own backyard to learn about climate change. The two NASA scientists were impressed. “This girl sounds great,’’ Lagomasino remembers saying. “Let’s bring her in.” They made a special role for her outside the internship program.

Lagomasino and Fatoyinbo thought Liza could help them use satellite data to map mangroves(红树林), a small tree that grows in muddy forests on the coastlines of many tropical(热带的) countries. Mangroves are very important as they store huge amounts of carbon, which makes them helpful for fighting global warming. They are also home to fish that millions of people depend on for food.

Less than two years later, Liza has developed what might be the world’s first satellite-based system to determine where mangroves are in trouble. The work uses data from four satellites. It covers mangrove growth and loss, rainfall, agriculture and city growth.

Lagomasino and Fatoyinbo brought Liza in during the summer before she started high school. The teen had seen mangroves only once before, during a trip to Fort Myers, Florida. Soon, she would see many more,at least on her computer screen.

Liza learned that half of the world's mangroves had disappeared. She was shocked and motivated to do something. I wanted to create some kind of solution,she said. She would even work during school breaks or at home on her projects. Liza's hard work is starting to pay off. Already, environmental groups are eager to use her system to make their work more effective.

Now that she has turned 16,Liza has finally joined NASA's official internship program.

【1】Why was Liza outside the internship program at first?

A．She knew little about global warming.

B．She didn't show her talent properly.

C．She didn't meet the required age.

D．She lacked the experience of data-collecting.

【2】Why are mangroves so important?

A．They are food for fish.

B．They keep a balanced ecosystem.

C．They forecast climate change.

D．They are commercial crops.

【3】What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A．The data.

B．The satellite.

C．The system.

D．The work.

【4】Which of the following can describe Liza's work in NASA?

A．It will lead to a future job with NASA.

B．It took up her school time.

C．It earned her fame.

D．It is fruitful.

23、Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed（展现）herself as she did nowhere else.

After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate（巨头）Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some idea about how to live her own life. She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing（追求）a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyer’s and Jose Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography（自传）, Moonwalk.

Jacqueline may have been hired for name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote._____________the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.

【1】We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline _________

A. became fond of reading after working as an editor

B. was in charge of publishing 100 books

C. promoted her books through social relations

D. gained a lot from her career as an editor

【2】The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that_________

A. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady

B. Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor

C. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather as First Lady

D. Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor

【3】What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years

B. Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited

C. Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually

D. Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known.

【4】The passage is mainly______________

A. a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years

B. a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences

C. an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor

D. an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing

24、Before Douglas Engelbart, computers were as big as rooms and used mostly for handling numbers. But in the late 1960s, Engelbart invented almost everything your personal computer has today: a mouse, hypertext, screen sharing and more. Engelbart was adding real-time edits, graphics, hyper-linking and sharing screens — all before the birth of the World Wide Web. “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing,” said Engelbart, and as it turns out, he held all the right cards.

If he’d been British, Engelbart would have been knighted (授爵), but the Portland, Oregon, native instead lived out the rest of his years as an unsung hero, trying to fry even bigger fish in Silicon Valley. His blueprint of the Internet was totally different from today’s profit-driven, streamlined version. Engelbart imagined an information system built on the backbones of cooperation and education, all meant to enhance the collective human mind. He wanted a computerized network of real-time, human-wide cooperation, with the open-source spirit of Wikipedia and the purposefulness of Change.org.

By the late 70s and early 80s, Engelbart and his ideas were cast aside in favour of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, along with their profit-generating vision for personal computing, and a user-friendly approach to the Internet. Engelbart’s team of researchers abandoned him, and he had a lesser position at a company called Tymshare while still battling with his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world. Even worse, when Engelbart’s mouse invention gained widespread use years later, he never gained the profits — it had been licensed to Apple for around $40,000, Engelbart revealed.

And if Engelbart had won? “Hard to say,” says Jefferson of the Internet Archive in San Francisco. “The Web was bound to grow in ways its founders never intended,” he says. He notes his belief that the same spirit of knowledge-sharing and cooperation Engelbart tirelessly pushed for will one day become part of our fast-evolving Internet, even if a commercial layer clouds the original vision. But even so, fame is difficult to achieve; it often ridicules great thinkers like Galileo or Tesla, only to meet them decades after death. Granted, Engelbart was eventually allowed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1998, and into the Pioneers Circle in the Internet Hall of Fame after his death, but the heart of his dream has yet to be realized.

【1】The expression “his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world” in Para 3 refers to ________.

A．the function of computer data processing

B．a real-time video chat on the Internet

C．a user-friendly approach to the Internet

D．an Internet of knowledge-sharing and cooperation

【2】Most probably Engelbart’s greatest regret was that ________.

A．he was too crazy about his vision of the Internet when totally ignored

B．he was not profitably rewarded for his landmark inventions of computer

C．he was admitted to the U. S. National Inventors Hall of Fame too late

D．the Internet was commercially oriented against his original intention

【3】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Engelbart rose and fell in his all-out battle over the future of the Internet.

B．Engelbart could have succeeded in the Internet with his landmark inventions.

C．Engelbart’s achievements have never been recognized.

D．Engelbart didn’t get any profit for his mouse invention.

【4】Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Who Benefits from the Internet?

B．Who Lost the Internet Wars?

C．Who pioneered the World Wide Web?

D．Who Commercialized the Internet?

25、Marmoset monkeys exist on a branch of the evolutionary tree that is distinct from the one that led to mans. But they constantly astonish researchers with ________ behavior that seems pretty highly evolved. Their social organization and ________ practices could have been the model for the phrase “It takes a village.” A dominant male and female breed, and their babies are carefully looked after by extended family members who then aren't free to breed themselves.

A new study further ________ the marmoset’s reputation for admirable community values. Researchers report that these caregivers share their food more generously with little ones ________ than when they’re surrounded by the watchful eyes of other community members. In complex societies where individuals band together for ______ protection, researchers have come up with a few widely accepted explanations for selfless behavior. But specific acts, like sharing a delicious cricket(蟋蟀) with a begging baby marmoset, seem to need more ______ explanation

One possibility is that an individual practices ______ as a means of enhancing his status among peers. By ______ that he is so well gifted with material goods that he can give some away, this do-gooder enhances his power within the group. That, in turn, may ______ prospective mates. The other explanation for charitable behavior ______ that kindnesses extended to others are simply the fees of group membership, which offers some future promise of a chance to mate. Failure to share would result in exclusion from the group and a loss of ______ partners. Scientists call this the “pay to stay” model. Importantly, for both of these models to work, acts of kindness must have a(n) ______. That suggests you would see more sharing in group settings; away from judging eyes, a caregiver might be more likely to keep food for himself or herself. And yet, in 2,581 tests conducted with 31 adult and 14 baby marmosets, the ______ appeared to be true

Anthropologists (人类学家) from the University of Zurich carefully documented how often, in groups and in conditions that found caregiver and baby separated from the crowd, an adult would share his or her cricket. When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85% of the time. When in a group, caregivers offered up their cricket 67% of the time.” Our results show that helping in common marmosets is not driven by reputation management or ______ avoidance, “ the study authors reported Rather, it is driven by a deep-down motivation to help that is more ______ expressed when individuals are alone with young.”

【1】A. animal   B. careful   C. social   D. individual

【2】A. evolving   B. communicating   C. organizing   D. parenting

【3】A. shines   B. damages   C. affects   D. protests

【4】A. at play   B. in private   C. on schedule   D. by accident

【5】A. adequate   B. effective   C. continual   D. mutual

【6】A. creative   B. complex   C. specific   D. official

【7】A. generosity   B. wisdom   C. independence   D. governance

【8】A. promising   B. demonstrating   C. pretending   D. explaining

【9】A. count on   B. go after   C. appeal to   D. benefit from

【10】A. assumes   B. confirms   C. enhances   D. concludes

【11】A. regular   B. dominant   C. potential   D. previous

【12】A. atmosphere   B. audience   C. feedback   D. judge

【13】A. statistics   B. expectation   C. argument   D. opposite

【14】A. responsibility   B. punishment   C. arrangement   D. difficulty

【15】A. strongly   B. causally   C. delicately   D. fearlessly

26、假如你是李明，(a junior from the Civil Engineering School), 请你就本校食堂的状况给校长写一封投诉信，内容可涉及食堂的饭菜质量、价格、环境和服务等。

注意： 1、可适当添加细节使文章连贯；字数100左右;

2、信的开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。

Dear President,

My name is Li Ming，

______________________________________________________________________________________

Sincerely yours,

  Li Ming