2025-2026年新疆乌鲁木齐高二上册期末英语试卷(含答案)

1、As students, we should ________ to the government’s call to save every pencil, every piece of paper, and even every single drop of ink.

A．attach

B．decline

C．tie

D．respond

2、Mike checked the list again and again to see if he had left anything ________.

A. aside   B. alone

C. out   D. over

3、They have provided several ways to solve the problem. We can choose ________ to start with.

A．it

B．that

C．one

D．each

4、The Foundation is holding a dinner at the Museum of American Art   the opening of their new show.

A. in honor of   B. in memory of   C. in response to   D. in reply to

5、I don’t know how you think you can keep it a secret; people ________ find out sooner or later.

A．bound

B．bound to

C．are bound to

D．are bounded to

6、（题文）The Mp3 ________ young people ________ a bit of decline recently with the appearance of the Mp4.

A. intending to; has entered into   B. intended for; has gone into

C. meant to; takes on   D. meant for; opens up

7、---- Did he come back early last night?

---- Yes. It was not yet eight o’clock _______ he arrived home.

A. when B. that   C. before D. until

8、The manager’s ability to use music to create a relaxing atmosphere in the supermarket is always doubted for she shows little of good music.

A. acquisition   B. approval

C. assumption   D. appreciation

9、Giving up my job to go back to full-time education was a big ________, but now I know it was the best decision I ever made.

A．project

B．commitment

C．complaint

D．ambition

10、In Britain personal fireworks aren’t permitted, so people will just ________.

A．go unpunished

B．do without

C．come unsatisfied

D．live imperfect

11、It’s true ______ inner beauty is very important, but external beauty shouldn’t be completely overlooked.

A．how

B．why

C．that

D．what

12、Only by bringing in new management, I guess, _______ our hotel from bad to worse.

A. we can prevent  B. we have prevented

C. can we prevent  D. have we prevented

13、With everything he needed , he left the supermarket.

A．to buy

B．having bought

C．buy

D．bought

14、In some places women are expected to earn money _______ men work at home and raise their children.

A.while B.though

C.because D.but

15、The ability ________ an idea is as important as the idea itself.

A．expresses

B．expressing

C．to express

D．express

16、The squirrel was lucky that it just missed ________.

A．catching

B．to be caught

C．being caught

D．to catch

17、In the past, ____didn’t make much of a difference to your success____ you had a good family background.

A. that; if   B. it; whether   C. that; whether   D. it; if

18、This doesn’t mean Guillermo gave up his hard-working personality or his drive to be successful.

A. desire   B. ability

C. need   D. quality

19、_______the fierce competition in finding a good job in big cities, many fresh graduates are still trying their fortune in Beijing.

A.Apart from B.Regardless of

C.Instead of D.With regard to

20、The new tax policy only affects people on yearly incomes over $120,000, __________, the very rich.

A. by the way  B. as a result

C. in other words D. as a manner of

21、His attention ________ on reading the book, he didn’t notice me coming in.

A.was concentrated B.was concentrating C.concentrated D.to be concentrated

22、Scientists ______ thousands of chemicals before they decided on the right one in the end.

A. tried out   B. found out

C. worked out D. turned out

23、—It will clear up tomorrow. Shall we go out for a picnic?

—________ I'll meet you at the school gate tomorrow morning.

A．It's up to you.

B．That's settled.

C．Have you got that?

D．Forget it

24、When these slave owners descendants finally realized that slavery time has departed America, they began to awaken and see how they were to keep America in the olden days.

A．desperate

B．delicate

C．despair

D．diligent

25、--- I’m feeling terrible. I feel pain here and there.

--- Oh. . Nothing seriously.

A. Go slowly   B. Take it easy

C. Stay longer   D. See you

26、   Peter Wohlleben, a forester from Germany who spent a lot of time observing and studying trees, became a star right off with a book that challenges ideas many of us hold about trees. The Hidden Life of Trees by him gives us lessons that can be useful for humans and inspires us to have a deep understanding of our lives.

In the book Peter mentions he learned young trees grow more quickly than old ones while in forestry school. The idea has been rejected by a group of researchers that published a study of 700,000 trees across every continent, and discovered older trees grow more quickly and healthily. As Peter says in his book, “being old doesn’t mean being weak and bowed.” How would humans understand this? Should we reframe old age from being weak and bowed to just being stronger in a different way?

When Peter realized “parent” trees force small trees to grow slowly, he was surprised. Two-hundred-year-old “mother beech trees,” for example, shade the young ones to allow very little light to get through, thus slowing their growth. In fact, scientists have learned that as they grow more slowly, they remain flexible to stand up to storms. This makes me wonder if humans grow “too fast,” especially as life expectancy increases. Do we need a better way to “pace” ourselves to be stronger in the long run?

Most trees grow strongly when they grow close together, contrary again to what Peter learned early in his career. Peter says that rather than separating trees, the better way is to make them live together. Even more interesting is that one study found that a group of beech trees shared nutrition so that all trees could do well and help weaker trees stay strong as well.

Trees communicate with and care for each other, share food, provide places for insects and animals to live, and can help humans stay healthy, so why shouldn’t we care for each other, share resources and live in peaceful communities?

【1】What does the underlined word “rejected” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.Mentioned. B.Reconsidered. C.Come up with. D.Disagreed with.

【2】What does the author suggest we consider in Paragraph 3?

A.Slowing down to be strong. B.Looking at ageing differently.

C.Giving young people more care. D.Having more respect for the elderly.

【3】What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A.Trees compete for light and food. B.It does good to trees to live together.

C.Trees grow long roots for better nutrition. D.Peter insists that trees keep their distance.

【4】What does the author mainly tell us about in the text?

A.The good qualities of trees. B.Peter Wohlleben and his book.

C.Some trees’ secrets of growing very strong. D.Some new knowledge and inspiration from trees.

27、Relaxation Techniques

Reach out.

Your social network is one of your best tools to handle stress.【1】Share what’s going on. You can get a fresh perspective while keeping your connection strong.

Be present.

Slow down. Take 5 minutes and focus on only one behaviour with awareness. Notice how you feel the air blow on your face when you’re walking and how you feel when your feet are hitting the ground. Enjoy the taste of each bite of food.【2】

Breathe deeply.

Take a 5-minute break and focus on your breathing. Sit up straight, eyes closed.【3】Deep breathing counters the effects of stress by slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure.

【4】

A laugh doesn’t just lighten the load mentally. It lowers your body’s stress hormone (荷尔蒙), and boosts brain chemicals which help lighten your mood. Lighten up through tuning to your favourite sitcoms or videos, reading the comics or chatting with someone who makes you smile.

Get moving.

【5】All forms of exercise can ease depression and anxiety. You can go for a quick walk around the block, take the stairs up and down a few flights or do some stretching exercises like head rolls and shoulder shrugs.

A．Laugh out loud.

B．You don’t have to run in order to get a runner’s high.

C．Laugh as much as possible to relieve your sense of stress.

D．Talk to others, preferably face to face, or at least on the phone.

E．Singing aloud will help you relieve negative thoughts and worries.

F．Slowly breathe in the air through your nose and breathe it out through your mouth.

G．When you spend time on the moment and focus on your senses, you would feel less tense.

28、After seemingly endless waiting, news finally reached President Abraham Lincoln. The North had won at Gettysburg. The citizens of Pennsylvania created a national cemetery（公墓）for the soldiers who lay dead at Gettysburg. A ceremony was planned. Lincoln received an invitation to attend. He was not asked to give the major speech of the day. That honor was given to a New England statesman and professional speaker named Edward Everett. The president was asked instead to say “a few words”.

As the day approached, Lincoln’s wife asked him to reconsider. Their son, Tad, had fallen ill. Mary Lincoln was near crazy. On the morning of the day, Tad was so sick that he could not eat. Lincoln felt unwell himself, but he decided to go anyway.

On Thursday, November 19, for two hours, Everett held the audience spellbound with his rich voice and inspiring words. Then Lincoln rose to speak. “Four score and seven years ago,” he began in his high pitched（声调高的）voice. He spoke for barely three minutes.

As Lincoln sat down, some eyewitnesses recalled little applause（掌声）. Others heard “not a word, not a cheer, not a shout”. A person taking notes asked Lincoln, “Is that all?” Embarrassed, Lincoln replied, “Yes--for the present.” A photographer in the crowd had not even had time to take a picture.

Lincoln thought his speech was a failure. Some newspapers considered it as “silly” and “boring”. But Everett correctly predicted that the Gettysburg Address would “live among the history of man”. A few days after both of them had spoken at Gettysburg, he wrote to Lincoln, saying that he wished he had come “as close to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes”. Lincoln replied, telling Everett how pleased he was that “the little I did say was not entirely a failure.”

Indeed it was not. It gave the North new hope and purpose as to why it was fighting the war. Today, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is remembered as one of the greatest speeches of all time.

【1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．Lincoln was asked to give a mini speech.

B．Lincoln was elected President on the victory of Gettysburg.

C．Lincoln’s speech was given to celebrate the end of the War.

D．Lincoln ordered the construction of a cemetery in Gettysburg.

【2】Why does the writer mention the person taking notes?

A．To show the disappointment of the audience.

B．To show the greatness of Lincoln’s speech.

C．To laugh at Lincoln for his unsuccessful speech.

D．To tell us that Lincoln was very sad about his speech.

【3】What did Everett intend to express about Lincoln’s speech in the 5th paragraph?

A．Sympathy.

B．Criticism.

C．Appreciation.

D．Embarrassment.

【4】Why did Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address become famous?

A．Because it was distinctively well constructed.

B．Because it was concise and delivered in a rich voice.

C．Because Everett, a great speaker, sang high praise for it.

D．Because people got hope and a sense of purpose from it.

29、In the Ancient Greek world, one was meant to focus on a close knowledge of just two books. Homer’s Odyssey and his Iliad, because these were the best guides to action in military and civilian affairs. However, the modern world firmly equals the intelligent person with the well-read person.

Nowadays, if we do not rush to read four of this year’s major prize winning books, we will feel guilty at how far behind we are. We think that there should be no limit to how much we read because in answer to the question of why we read, there is only one response that will ever be ambitious enough: we read in order to know everything.

But this tiring approach to reading does not make us particularly happy. So in order to ease and simplify our lives, we might have a much more limited, focused and useful goal. We might, for example, read in order to learn to be content. Nothing less and nothing more.

With this new, far more targeted ambition in mind, much of the pressure to read constantly and randomly starts to fade. Once we know that we are reading to be content, we don’t need to chase every book published this season. We can zero in on titles that best explain what we need. So for example, we may need a few key books that will teach us about how families work and how they might work better, that can take us through how to find a job, or how to develop the courage to develop our opportunities.

The more we understand what reading is for us, the more we can enjoy close relationships with a few works only. The truly well-read person isn’t the one who has read a huge number of books, but someone who has let themselves be deeply shaped by just a few, very well-chosen titles.

【1】Why are Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad mentioned in the first paragraph?

A．To present a fact.

B．To explain a point.

C．To raise a question.

D．To make a comparison.

【2】What can we infer from paragraph 2 and 3?

A．Major prize winning books should be read.

B．We should be ambitious to read to know everything.

C．Reading as much as we can leads to happiness.

D．We should read with focused purpose.

【3】What kind of books does the author advise us to read?

A．The newly published ones.

B．Those with innovative names.

C．The books meeting your needs.

D．The books improving your ambitions.

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

A．To promote our interest in reading.

B．To advocate a targeted reading way.

C．To criticize reading blindly.

D．To compare different reading styles.

30、I grew up wanting to become a writer. But I was discouraged from ________ that career path because, according to those around me, I couldn’t make a living by writing. I guess nobody ________ me. I listened to them, and went on to ________ a business owner. But still, I was always ________ about going back to my first passion.

It took me twenty years before I thought of going back to writing. I got used to working in other ________ and even though I enjoyed the ________ they afforded me, my first love was writing. I enjoyed telling ________ and believed I had a lot to tell.

I was afraid that because I felt like doing what I love, I had to ________ all that I had grown used to. My mind was filled with ________. I was afraid to fail. I was afraid others would never want to hear what I had to say. But still I ________ decided to take a chance. I ________ writing daily, a paragraph at a time. Even though I felt it was terrible? I ________ going. I believed that if I continued to work at it, I’d become better. I ________ to continue to ignore my dream while working to make the other people’s dream a ________.

Like me, there are so many people living dreams that aren’t their own. They’ve ________ their lives building the other people’s dreams while their own dream is being ________. If you’re one of them, take time to renew your passion and ________ for your dream.

________, not all of us find our passion in life. Some of us just go through life, working at dead-end jobs unhappily. I’m here to ________ you that to truly live your life to the fullest, why not find what you are ________ about and then do it?

【1】

A．crossing

B．conquering

C．choosing

D．moving

【2】

A．knew about

B．believed in

C．depended on

D．laughed at

【3】

A．visit

B．obey

C．consult

D．become

【4】

A．thinking

B．caring

C．worrying

D．learning

【5】

A．cities

B．departments

C．areas

D．paths

【6】

A．trouble

B．life

C．right

D．regret

【7】

A．secrets

B．truths

C．names

D．stories

【8】

A．give up

B．give away

C．give out

D．give back

【9】

A．excitement

B．anger

C．fear

D．shame

【10】

A．immediately

B．finally

C．suddenly

D．frequently

【11】

A．imagined

B．avoided

C．continued

D．started

【12】

A．kept

B．stopped

C．forgot

D．enjoyed

【13】

A．managed

B．decided

C．refused

D．pretended

【14】

A．wish

B．reality

C．future

D．pleasure

【15】

A．left

B．witnessed

C．admitted

D．spent

【16】

A．ignored

B．changed

C．improved

D．congratulated

【17】

A．account

B．pay

C．fight

D．wait

【18】

A．Unexpectedly

B．Unluckily

C．Importantly

D．Personally

【19】

A．warn

B．promise

C．ask

D．tell

【20】

A．crazy

B．certain

C．curious

D．particular

31、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Most men and women feel that a dinner bill should be split down the middle, how fair is this it really? A new app aims to answer this question, and for others who fall 【1】 to income inequality, by dividing the check-up according to each person's race and gender.

Equipay uses Bureau of Labor Statistics and math to calculate how much is【2】 from each person , but it will only give you statistics about the wage【3】.

'Equipay helps you avoid the firm discrimination that exists in our society. It doesn't work out an equal split of the bill but a 【4】one.' the company's site says. 'You pay what you should to balance out the wage diversity.' The app is the brain child of Luna Malbroux, a diversity educator and comedian from California, who wanted to 'make the touchy subject' of racial and gender inequalities more 【5】, The problem is expected to catch people’s eye easily.

“I hope that this, more than anything, starts a discussion and helps people to start thinking a little bit differently about how we can use technology and innovation to【6】 inequality and wage inequality, ” Malbroux said.

The app has a built in 'diversity tool' that allows you to【7】 how diverse your friends really are, the list also displays the level of diversity for each person.

Type in the amount of the entire bill at the top, tip included, and the software will begin calculating the split based on who your【8】 is. Finally it will show you the list again, but now with how much each person owes.

Before paying your share, there is the【9】 to protest, in which the app will ask 'what's your excuse' and lists reasons for you to choose from. You can say 'I was a middle child' or 'I'm unaware of my privilege'.Equipay will find the best reply possible, whether it is facts regarding income inequalities or something seemingly【10】 but also makes you think twice before disagreeing with what you have to pay.

32、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

If you're worried that too much “screen time ”could badly influence your child's intelligence， new research suggests you might be right. By analyzing the data gathered from over 4，500U. S. kids aged 8 to 11 between 2016 and 2017，Jeremy Walsh，a postdoctoral fellow with the CHEO Research Institute in Ottawa， found that too much “screen time” could be harming your child's intelligence.

Kids with the sharpest intellects spent less than two hours a day on their cellophanes， tablets and computers coupled with 9 to 11 hours of sleep and at least an hour of physical activity. Too much screen time could be affecting kids ability to focus， especially if they are switching between apps on a device or between different screens at the same time， Walsh suggested. “ One leading theory is that much time on screens is spent multitasking using multiple apps or devices at once，” he said. “This can interfere with a child's ability to focus and keep interest on a task. It can be damaging the building blocks for good cognition(认知).”

Sleep is important for brain development， since that's when the brain reorganizes itself and grows， Walsh added. Besides， exercise has been shown to increase blood flow to the brain and oxygenation of brain tissues， and increases the connectivity of networks in the brain. Too much screen time could lead to a“ cascade”(瀑布) effect where kids don't get enough sleep and then are less active during the day.“ You can see how this would have an impact on brain health，” Walsh said.

What should parents do? Walsh advised setting firm rules about the use of screens including how long children are using the screens， the kinds of apps they are using and how many screens they are using at once. Concerned parents also should preview games or apps before letting their child play， seek out more interactive(交互的)options that engage the child's mind， and use parental controls to block or filter content and limit screen time.

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