定西2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、Japan is facing an ageing population, with the population ______ from the current 127 million to 90 million.

A. expecting to shrink   B. expected to shrink

C. expecting to have shrunk   D. expected to have shrunk

2、It was the year before last that Scotland failed the attempt to _______ of the Great Britain, though the queen Elizabeth had said it was entirely up to the Scottish people.

A. look out   B. run out   C. keep out   D. pull out

3、She runs ________ about 15 miles a day, whatever the circumstances, whatever the weather.

A．in addition

B．on hand

C．on average

D．in case

4、The wooden tower that _________ will be open to tourists soon, and the work is almost finished.

A．is being restored

B．is restored

C．is restoring

D．restores

5、—How do you find the health club?

—I would rather I ______ it. I feel its management is going from bad to worse.

A.haven’t joined B.hadn’t joined

C.didn’t join D.had joined

6、The number of foreign students attending Chinese universities________ steadily since 1997.

A．is rising

B．are rising

C．has been rising

D．have been rising

7、We should organize useful activities, which will ___________ the relationship of the students.

A. appoint B. employ

C. promote D. commit

8、As often happens after long sleeplessness, he was ________ by an unreasoning panic.

A．seized

B．fascinated

C．impressed

D．embarrassed

9、Mrs. Green treats her students as if they ________ her children.

A. are B. were C. had been D. would be

10、A great person is always putting others’ interests _________ his own.

A.below B.above C.in D.on

11、______ more about our university courses, write to this address.

A. To find out B. Finding out

C. Found out   D. To be found out

12、If the weather had been better, we ______ a picnic yesterday.

A. must have had B. would have

C. could have had D. will have

13、The bungalow near the south school gate will be ______ into classrooms for music and art.

A. transmitted   B. transferred   C. transformed   D. transported

14、The law of market shows _______ a product becomes rare to reach, its price will certainly rocket.

A.unless B.once C.though D.since

15、--Look at the picture. Tom looks so excited. He must have been on a wonderful trip.

--Yeah, he ______ himself in Australia.

A.is enjoying B.was enjoying

C.has been enjoying D.would enjoy

16、—What do you think of her suggestion?

— ______, it would be much better to talk it later.

A.Usually B.Actually C.Regularly D.Eventually

17、____to the students at home, the textbooks enabled them to study more efficiently.

A．Distributing

B．Having distributed

C．Being distributed

D．Distributed

18、The mother told the little child not to speak to a stranger even if ______________

A.speaking B.spoken

C.spoken to D.he spoken to

19、— How did you find Professor Smith’s speech last night ?

— To be frank, his speech didn’t ________ to me .

A.appeal B.belong

C.refer D.occur

20、________ for two days, Jessica managed to finish her project ahead of time.

A. To work       B. Worked

C. To be working   D. Having worked

21、   “Don’t be a helicopter parent.” This message has been repeated frequently and others try to encourage parents to back off their kids and give them greater space and freedom to explore. But it doesn't actually tell parents how they should act. What kind of parenting style should be adopted in place of the overprotectiveness of helicoptering?

One possible answer is, “Be a lifeguard parent.” That means sitting apart from the action and keeping an eye on everything that’s going on, ready to jump in if needed. This was brought up by Dr. Mariana Brussoni, a developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia and Richard Monette, editor-in-chief of Active for Life. They think life guarding should include three parts.

Open attention is the stage parents should be in most of the time, showing a caring interest in what kids are doing, but keeping their physical distance and remaining non — intrusive (不介入的). Focused attention is when a parent perceives (察觉) warning signs and becomes more alert. Maybe it’s time to check in with the child to see how they’re doing. It might be a good opportunity to help the child think through their actions, rather than directing them. Most of the time, play goes back to being safe and the parent can return to open attention. Active intervention is when a parent needs to step in to reduce immediate risk. A child might not realize they’re close to the edge of a busy road or deep water, so the parent has to ensure their safety.

Brussoni says most of a parent's time should be spent in open attention. Days could pass，without ever entering focused attention. Active intervention should be extremely rare. It’s crucial to avoid telling kids to be careful all the time. This sends a message that the child can’t do things without parental assistance.

No one said parenting was easy, but it can be less unbearable if you let go of some control, teach your kids to do things independently, and trust them to self — regulate. Everyone comes out happier in the end.

【1】Why is helicopter parent mentioned in paragraph 1?

A.Warn parents not to overprotect kids.

B.Introduce another parenting approach.

C.Remind parents to give kids more freedom.

D.Make a comparison between two parenting styles.

【2】What will a lifeguard parent probably do?

A.Accompany kids as little as possible.

B.Tell kids to be aware whatever they are doing.

C.Direct kids when they are climbing a thin branch.

D.Urge kids to leave a heavy traffic road immediately.

【3】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.Parenting has been the toughest job since ancient times.

B.Allowing parents to self-regulate may be of great benefit

C.Less control may lead to a harmonious parent-child relationship.

D.Child should be taught to things all by themselves to grow up.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A.Don’t Be a Helicopter Parent. B.Teach Kids to Identify Risks.

C.How to Guarantee Kids’ Safety. D.Strive to Be a Lifeguard Parent.

22、The parenting styles of parents in the United States are often criticized. One type of parenting that is criticized is a helicopter parent. This kind of parents hover over their children like helicopters, which means these parents are always on top of their children.

While being an aware and involved parent is not a bad thing, helicopter parents take it to the extreme. The actions of helicopter parents actually hurt children, by not teaching them to be responsible for their actions. For example, a helicopter parent would call their adult college-age child to wake them up to go to class, when part of college is learning to be responsible and learning to manage your own time. Helicopter parents are also overly worried about their kids getting hurt. This means helicopter parents hold back their child's natural curiosity. Part of growing up means your kid has to get hurt, physically and emotionally. This is how lessons are learned. Instead, the kids of helicopter parents can grow up to be overly needy, dependent adults. Some people blame the rise of helicopter parenting on the rise of cell phones. Mobile phones make it easier for parents to track their kids all the time.

The opposite of the helicopter mom is the free-range mom. The free-range mom follows a slow parenting style, meaning she lets her kids explore the world at their own pace with little direction. The name free-range comes from the idea that kids should have the freedom to explore their world or range in a way that makes sense to them. This often means that free-range moms will not schedule activities like extra classes or play dates for their kids. Instead a free-range mom will just let her child play in a park. There is less of an emphasis on things like the latest toys.

【1】Which word can best describe a helicopter parent?

A．Dependent.

B．Overprotective.

C．Demanding.

D．Involved.

【2】Why may the actions of helicopter parents hurt their children?

A．Their children may not be responsible for their actions.

B．Their children will explore the world with little direction.

C．Growing up means getting hurt physically and emotionally.

D．Their children cannot get up on time for their college class.

【3】What partially caused helicopter parents to emerge?

A．The ability to track people.

B．The need to look after ones' kids.

C．The rise of mobile phones.

D．The lack of curiosity in youngsters.

【4】What will a free-range mom do according to the passage?

A．Purchase the latest toys for their kids.

B．Put their children through extra classes.

C．Allow their children to explore the nature.

D．Avoid exposing their kids to painful lessons.

23、When restaurants first shut down early in the pandemic, Americans raided grocery stores. They started cooking more at home — and, probably, producing more leftovers. Those leftovers can be a convenient future meal — but they’ve got a dark side, too.

“There’s a tendency that if you put an item on a plate that’s a leftover, there’s a higher probability that you’re not going to fully consume that item. And so it’s probably going to waste.”

With his colleagues, Brian Roe, an applied economist at the Ohio State University, recently studied leftovers and food waste by tracking the eating habits of 18 men and women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The participants tracked what they ate using an iPhone app. And during the week-long study, the study subjects totally piled 1,200 different foods on their plates.

After analyzing what got eaten, saved or thrown away, the researchers found that leftovers were more likely to be picked at and not fully eaten — a finding we can all probably identify with.

But they also observed that leftovers — perhaps due to being older and less fresh — directed diners’ attention to the other, more novel items on their plate, which brings up an interesting possible strategy to get people to eat their veggies.

“I guess if you have an item that you don’t eat normally and you’re trying to get people to eat it, perhaps surrounding it with leftovers is a way to make them focus on the newest item on the plate.”

Overall, Roe says one bigger lesson appeared on how to avoid throwing food into the dustbin.

“For us, the real take-home here was: all else equal, choose a smaller meal, and you’re less likely to generate leftovers. And that’s a good thing because leftovers, all else equal, tend to be wasted more often.

“I’m guilty of this myself: we have things left over from last Thanksgiving still sitting in our freezer. And I know people who’ve moved with frozen items before — without ever getting around to eating them.”

【1】What’s the disadvantage of the leftovers?

A．Leading to bad habits.

B．Tendency towards waste.

C．Lack of deliciousness.

D．Causing a feeling of guilt.

【2】What is Roe’s suggestion for people to avoid leftovers?

A．Trying to cook less generally.

B．Putting the food in the fridge.

C．Cooking more vegetables.

D．Dining with a phone in hand.

【3】Why did Roe feel guilty of himself?

A．He moved with frozen food.

B．He threw leftovers in the dustbin.

C．He had some leftovers uneaten.

D．He always cooked more dishes.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Americans cooked more in the pandemic.

B．More researches should be done on waste.

C．Good eating habits can make you healthy.

D．Leftovers are actually a food-waste problem.

24、Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, in the US, have developed a piece of software that can read minds. The project, supported by Facebook, hopes to help people who, because of medical conditions, are unable to communicate with others.

Until now, technologies that have helped speech-impaired (语言障碍) people communicate have been too slow to allow a natural conversation. People find these things upsetting to use. This new way uses brain signals to change a person’s thoughts into text. When we want to speak, the brain sends signals to make the lips, jaw and tongue move in the right way to make an understandable sound. By discovering these brain signals, the new software is able to predict what a person want to say quickly enough to hold a conversation.

The brain-reading software was tested on three volunteers who could all speak like healthy people. They were being treated for epilepsy (癫痫). As part of their treatment for epilepsy, each patient had electrodes(电极) placed on to their brain. Edward Chang, whole d the study, used these electrodes to record the signals in the patients’ brains while they listened to a list of questions and answered them.

Chang and his team then built a computer program that learned to match the patients’ brain signals to the words the patients heard and the words the patients spoke. For the questions, the software matched the correct words 76%of the time. For the answers, it matched the correct words 61%of the time.

Now, the mind-reading software works only for the limited set of sentences on which it was trained. Scientists hope that this early system will help them develop a more powerful one that could understand thoughts in real time to give people their voices back. Chang said, “We as scientists should try our best to help people to bring that most important and basic human ability back.”

【1】What is the disadvantage of previous technologies?

A．They couldn’t read people’s minds correctly.

B．They couldn’t make communication understandable.

C．They couldn’t serve the purpose of natural conversation.

D．They couldn’t let medical conditions change for the better.

【2】How does the software help people?

A．By changing people’s mind into text.

B．By sending signals to their lips.

C．By organizing conversations for them.

D．By training them how to speak.

【3】What can we know about the mind-reading software according to the last paragraph?

A．It has been used on a wide scale.

B．It has restored the basic human ability.

C．It still has plenty of room for improvement.

D．It has enhanced human real-time conversation.

【4】What is the attitude of the author towards the mind-reading software?

A．Favorable.

B．Objective.

C．Intolerant.

D．Doubtful.

25、Deirdre Taylor, a nurse, is working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic and finally _________ with the firefighter, who pulled her out of a burning building nearly 40 years ago.

When Taylor traveled to New York to help _________ COVID-19 patients, she went with the hopes of tracking down the fireman who saved her life. Taylor thought she would _________ get the chance to thank the man for his bravery.

Back in 1983, Taylor _________ the front page of the newspaper alongside Eugene Pugliese, the FDNY member who rescued her from a burning. “I always knew I came _________ to losing my life that day,” Taylor told CNN. “Without him, I wouldn’t be here. I had a second _________ at life, thanks to him.”

While her previous online searches turned out _________, the 40-year-old mother of two brought the newspaper article to New York _________ she finally got a chance to connect with Pugliese.

“I didn’t know if he was still alive, _________ after Sept. 11,” Taylor told the NY Daily News. “Part of me thought I waited too __________ to track him down.” But during one of her long shifts at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, she __________ her story to a FDNY captain, who, as __________ would have it, __________ worked with Pugliese. “He had Pugliese’s phone number and Pugliese has __________ because of age. I didn’t think I was going to be able to track him down.”

After 38 years, Taylor finally spoke to Pugliese on the phone and __________ him for saving her life.

【1】

A．met

B．reunited

C．quarreled

D．cooperated

【2】

A．inspire

B．comfort

C．treat

D．challenge

【3】

A．instantly

B．ever

C．easily

D．never

【4】

A．made

B．wrote

C．edited

D．printed

【5】

A．up

B．down

C．close

D．back

【6】

A．chance

B．ability

C．courage

D．clue

【7】

A．valid

B．critical

C．empty

D．practical

【8】

A．even if

B．so that

C．in case

D．now that

【9】

A．gradually

B．suddenly

C．instantly

D．particularly

【10】

A．eagerly

B．long

C．hard

D．patiently

【11】

A．referred

B．relayed

C．simplified

D．clarified

【12】

A．wealth

B．luck

C．fame

D．honor

【13】

A．recently

B．personally

C．permanently

D．previously

【14】

A．moved

B．deceased

C．married

D．retired

【15】

A．thanked

B．pleased

C．recognized

D．awarded

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。

It seemed like it had only been a few years ago that Indigo had first rushed through our door. Her underbelly showed the signs of the litter she’d recently delivered. She had a nose for trouble. On one occasion, I had come home to find that she’d eaten a five-pound bag of flour. She was covered in white powder, and flour paw prints were everywhere, including, incredibly, on the countertops(台板). I asked the dog what the hell had happened, and Indigo just looked at me with a glance that said, I cannot imagine what you are referring to.

Time raced by. Our children grew up and went off to university. The mirror, which had reflected a young mum when Indigo first arrived, now showed a woman in late middle age. I had surgery for cataracts(白内障). I began to lose my hearing. We all turned grey: me, my spouse(配偶), the dog.

In August 2017, I took Indigo for one last walk. She was slow and unsteady on her paws. She looked up at me sadly. You did say you’d take care of me when the time came, she said. You promised, Jenny. She died that month, a tennis ball by her side. I’d owned a succession of dogs since 1964, each one of them a witness to a particular stage of my life. But with the loss of Indigo, all that was over. The days of my dogs, I now understood, were done at last.

But one morning, as I was passing the Bed ’n’ Biscuit in my car, somehow I pulled over. I could at least lay eyes upon one cute dog, a tiny sweet thing. What harm could it do? She had a soft face.

Not long after, I got a call from the Bed ’n’ Biscuit, our dog daycare(日托所). One of their customers was leaving, and her dog which was the one I saw that morning, Chloe, needed a home. Given our recent loss, they asked, might our family be interested in adopting her?

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

Paragraph 1：

I told them that we were sorry but we wouldn’t be adopting any more dogs.

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Paragraph 2：

When Chloe entered our house, she was cautious, uncertain.

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