信阳2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、I expected to see her and was surprised by her ________.

A.existence B.absence C.entrance D.acceptance

2、The question came up at the meeting   we had enough money for our research.

A.that B.what C.which D.whether

3、The harmful effects that smog can have on people's health are one of the top ______ of those who live in some cities.

A．concerns

B．conflicts

C．characters

D．charges

4、School children must be taught how to deal with dangerous ______.

A.contributions B.conditions C.situations D.positions

5、____________ the advances in technology, students can learn online at home during the epidemic period.

A.In addition to B.Thanks to C.In spite of D.According to

6、Boeing China says it is working with its airline customers and is ready to support them after a nearly 7-year-old Boeing B737-800 passenger jet of China Eastern Airlines, with 132 people on board, ________ in the mountains of southern China on Monday.

A．being crashing

B．to crash

C．crashed

D．to have crashed

7、Mary is so quiet a girl that she seldom speaks in public places unless _____ to.

A. is spoken B. is speaking

C. speaking    D. spoken

8、Luckily, some children were playing basketball when the powerful earthquake ________ yesterday afternoon.

A．gave out

B．watched out

C．broke out

D．turned out

9、I can never understand the reason _______ he explained to me.

A.why B.that C.when D.where

10、20．We met _____ and have become good friends since then.

A.by mistake B.by accident C.by ourselves D.by the way

11、The ______ of constructing a village on the moon lies in the fact that it will help humans to explore the solar system further.

A. intelligence B. convenience

C. significance D. independence

12、_________I saw him, I knew he was the man the police were looking for.

A.The place B.The week C.The day D.The instant

13、To understand the nature of this challenge, we must first come to terms________ a physical field.

A.with the concept of B.without regard of

C.independence of D.out of the question of

14、--- Smoking is bad for your health. ---Yes, I know. But I simply can’t ___.

A．give it up

B．give it in

C．give it out

D．give it away

15、Nowadays,villagers are proud of their culture and are actively protecting it,_______in turn improves the local tourism.

A.that B.which C.where D.what

16、Eating too much fat can ________ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.

A.result from B.attend to C.contribute to D.lead in

17、We require the thief _________ into prison.

A.refers to being put  B.referred to be put

C.refer to being put D.referred should be put

18、From time to time Bruno saw Pavel ________ a glance ________ the direction of his knee.

A. give; in B. give; to C. throw; in D. throw; to

19、Mr. White _______ to hospital for an examination yesterday but he was too busy to come.

A.should come B.should have come C.should be coming D.should had come

20、Dina, __________for months to find a job as a waitress, finally took a position at a local advertising agency.

A.struggling B.struggled C.having struggled D.to struggle

21、The doctor _______my sister is talking has just come from England.

A．with whom

B．with who

C．with which

D．that

22、After the war, a new school building was put up ____________ there had once been a theatre.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．when

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

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

24、Because of the Russian gas limit to Europe, attempts ________ to use botanical (植物的) fuel as a source of power.

A．have made

B．having made

C．are being made

D．will be making

25、—Is there any possibility ______ you could pick me up at the airport?

—No problem.

A．when

B．that

C．whether

D．what

26、   Many people have heard the story of Nessie, Scotland’s Loch Ness monster. Yet, have you ever heard of an ice monster in the American state of Alaska?

An ice monster is what many people thought they were seeing when a federal government agency published a strange-looking video. The Bureau of Land Management put the video on its Facebook page.

The pictures were taken in Alaska, the northernmost part of the United States. While winter has yet to officially begin, weather conditions there already are very cold.

In the video, a fish with ice on its back appears to be swimming. The video was only 20 seconds long. But it was enough to get people wondering what they saw.

One person said it showed a shark that lost its way. Someone else thought the video was a prank designed to cheat people. He said the Bureau of Land Management wanted to bring attention to its Facebook page. Other people asked if the video was edited in some way, removing some images or adding others. Perhaps, they reasoned, the bureau was trying to frighten people around the celebration of Halloween. Some people said the ice monster was a large fish: a sturgeon(鲟). Someone even suggested the creature was a crocodile. But such an animal could not survive in Alaska, where it does not get very hot, even in summer. Some readers said it was ice moving in the river current, or ice that was frozen to a rope or some other object.

On October 31, the Bureau of Land Management published an update. It agreed with some of the people who commented on the original piece. An expert from the Department of Fish and Game told the bureau the picture looked “really cool”, but it was probably just ice stuck to a rope. The ice caused the rope to float and move in the river’s current.

Even though the mystery seems to be solved, some people do not seem persuaded. Others are still wishing it was a “real” monster.

【1】What is the author’s main purpose in asking the question in Paragraph 1 ?

A.To encourage readers to answer it.

B.To open a discussion among readers.

C.To arouse people’s interest in Nessie.

D.To introduce the topic of the passage.

【2】What does the underlined word " prank” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.Puzzle. B.Dream.

C.Trick. D.Advertisement.

【3】The monster couldn’t be a crocodile because .

A.a crocodile can’t swim so quickly B.the temperature is too low in Alaska

C.a crocodile only moves in summer D.it doesn’t look like a crocodile at all

【4】According to the expert, what is the ice monster most likely to be?

A.A shark losing its way. B.A large fish: a sturgeon.

C.A sea creature like Nessie. D.A piece of ice frozen to a rope.

27、   How difficult change is depends a lot on your attitude towards it and your resistance to it. Your attitude to change can make the whole transformation process much easier.

Imagine change as a pair of shoes and this will help you understand change and how it works. I am sure that you have ever had a comfortable pair of shoes in your life. A pair of shoes is so comfortable that you really don’t want to get rid of them.

You know you need a new pair, and may even have them, but you don’t want to wear them because you are comfortable with your current pair. Besides, the new pair may hurt your feet, give you blisters（水疱）or be awkward to wear to start with. So, you resist the new shoes. However, you know that this new pair would be much better for your feet, and after the initial discomfort they would probably be even more comfortable, yet you still resist.

Do you know I’m doing this now? I’m wearing my comfortable shoes and they feel good. They have a hole in each heel, and the sole is starting to fall off, but I’m persisting in wearing them.

This describes change exactly; change of our habits, change of our thought patterns. We stick with the old patterns because they are comfortable. Yet once we get over the initial pain of the transformation, the new pattern will be comfortable and feel good until the time comes when we need another new pair of shoes.

【1】Why do people prefer old shoes to new ones?

A.They have much emotion in the old ones.

B.They are more comfortable.

C.New shoes always harm the feet.

D.They look better than the new ones.

【2】According to the passage, we know that people _______.

A.don’t realize the benefit of the new shoes very well

B.are positive and open - minded to accept new things

C.actually know the change will finally be good for them

D.don’t accept new patterns because they are not good

【3】What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Once we form a habit, it’s difficult to change it.

B.Most people pay more attention to the future life.

C.One’s attitude to towards something is usually traditional.

D.The more often we change, the better our life will be.

28、In the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen's apple and falls victim to a curse(诅咒);in Shakespeare's novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pellets(药丸)that contained mercury(水银), believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.

Poison(毒药) has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?

An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison.

The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars(毛毛虫), frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren't much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered with a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.

"Poisons can be bad for some things," Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. "Yet they can also be good for others."

A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol.

The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many substances(物质)that we regularly ingest(摄入)-chili, coffee and chocolate-owe their special flavors or stimulating(提神的)effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.

【1】What does the underlined word "immortal" in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．happy

B．not moral

C．living forever

D．sick

【2】What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?

A．To give people more in-depth knowledge about poison.

B．To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.

C．To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.

D．To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.

【3】Which of the following statements about the Golden poison frog is TRUE according to the article?

A．Its skin can cut off the signaling power of your nerves.

B．It's about the size of a coin.

C．It's the most poisonous animal on display.

D．You can only see it in a rainforest setting of the museum.

【4】The stimulating effects of coffee come from ________.

A．natural poison made by the plant

B．the substances that we regularly ingest

C．chemicals produced by poisonous insects                      

D．its special flavor

29、We live in a modern world with virtual capabilities so that we can virtually visit some museums from the comfort of our sofa.

Sao Paolo Museum of Art

Brazil's first modern museum was founded in 1947 by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand and today it remains private and not-for-profit. It has more than 10000 works housed in Sao Paolo. Explore it on Google Arts & Culture and search for its collection.

The Rijksmuseum

The major works of great Dutch master painters, from Johannes Vermeer to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, are on display in the largest museum in the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum. The museum's website hosts Rijks Studio, a collection of 675, 970 of its paintings that are put in different collections, or studios.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met, New York's largest museum, has a collection that represents more than 5000 years of art from around the world. The museum has six videos online that explore parts of the museum through its Met 360° Project, slides of special collections. The app and website 82nd and Fifth has its own collection of short videos, each focusing on specific pieces, while MetKids features online art-related activities for little ones like a virtual time machine.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Established in Gyeongbokgung Palace in 1969, the MMCA immediately started collecting 20th-century art. It moved to its own building in Gwacheon just outside Seoul in 1986, and today it has three locations. In October 2019, the museum started MMCA TV, with curators (馆长)hosting a tour of the museum on YouTube.

【1】Which museum best suits you if you like works by Rembrandt?

A．Sao Paolo Museum of Art.

B．The Rijksmuseum.

C．The Met

D．The MMCA.

【2】What do you know about the Metropolitan museum of Art?

A．It appeals to children as well.

B．It is famous for its long history.

C．It allows visits of all collections online.

D．It has the largest collection in the world.

【3】What do all the museums have in common?

A．All can be visited on apps.

B．All are private museums.

C．All are located in capitals.

D．All provide virtual visits.

30、   As a teenager ,I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I worked hard at school, and sometimes looked after my younger sister .Still ,I found myself regularly resisting the urge to__________out at home with even the simplest things.

Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother__________ me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of __________.Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, _________for my lesson, and bought me a candy bar, you’d think I’d be very__________ to help her bring the groceries into the house. __________ I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the__________for Mom as I ran to my room ,shut the door, and started studying.

Don’t get me wrong: even back in my room, I felt__________ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my_________.But I also realized that once I did change, there’d be no going back. _________ I took on more responsibility; my parents would start__________more of me. At age fifteen, I sensed that this one small change would __________ something much bigger: my personal change from a cared-for, spoiled(被宠坏的)child to a more__________,caring and giving young man.

I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) __________to jump in and see what happened. Returning home from the__________,I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning__________.Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and__________back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day!

Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The neat thing was, the more I helped out, the__________I felt about myself and my place in my family. As Mom and Dad realized they could__________on me more, our trips became far less stressful, too. In short, it was a win-win situation for everyone.

Sometimes the little things we put off doing the longest__________out to be the simplest things to complete. And feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.

【1】A.work B.cry C.start D.help

【2】A.sent B.guided C.walked D.drove

【3】A.groceries B.flowers C.fruits D.vegetables

【4】A.paid B.fought C.applied D.planned

【5】A.nervous B.unwilling C.confident D.grateful

【6】A.So B.But C.Thus D.And

【7】A.one B.other C.rest D.next

【8】A.guilty B.curious C.excited D.doubtful

【9】A.shape B.world C.career D.way

【10】A.Unless B.Though C.Once D.Since

【11】A.warning B.reminding C.informing D.expecting

【12】A.tell B.mark C.express D.describe

【13】A.responsible B.ambitious C.outgoing D.energetic

【14】A.excuse B.statement C.decision D.appointment

【15】A.duty B.store C.lesson D.holiday

【16】A.anger B.shame C.delight D.pleasure

【17】A.called B.looked C.handed D.headed

【18】A.better B.smarter C.warmer D.stronger

【19】A.live B.press C.count D.focus

【20】A.make B.turn C.point D.bring

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、Directions: Write an English composition in 120--150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

同学们经过了史上最长的假期，也同样首次经历了长时间的网课，现在重返校园，坐在课堂，同学们是否反思过，网上学习，给自己带来了哪些的收获，自己有哪些的遗憾？

请以Online study为题，谈谈你的收获与遗憾以及在今天的课堂中，你怎么去弥补你的遗憾。

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