焦作2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、— What do you think of Tom’s suggestion?

— It sounds like a good idea but I don’t think it’ll work ______.

A. practically B. frequently

C. extremely D. passively

2、______ nice, the food was sold out soon.

A.Tasted B.Tasting C.To taste D.Being tasted

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

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

4、My wife always ________ the most expensive dresses in the shop!

A.falls into B.falls for C.falls over D.falls down

5、The football match has been _____ until tomorrow because of bad weather.

A.put forward B.put off C.put down D.put on

6、The stranger _________ the sword from the boy's forehead, and the boy felt immensely relieved. But he still couldn't flee.

A.nourished B.stretched

C.withdrew D.entertained

7、After the show, everyone stood up and began to ________ loudly for their wonderful performance.

A．escape

B．establish

C．contribute

D．clap

8、I didn't mean ________anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn’t help trying it.

A．eat

B．ate

C．eating

D．to eat

9、Such tourists ________ have visited Shanghai all think that a visit to Shanghai cannot be complete without a stroll along the Bund.

A.who B.that

C.as D.whoever

10、We are not permitted ________ in the room.

A.to smoke B.smoking C.to smoking D.in smoking

11、He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he _________ it differently.

A.could express B.would express

C.could have expressed D.must have expressed

12、What he said _________ me and I was at a loss.

A.confused B.amazed C.amused D.brightened

13、Don't you hate _____when somebody shows up at a party wearing the same dress as you?

A.him B.that

C.it D.them

14、Having enough fat and salt in your meals will _____ the urge to snack between meals and help you lose weight.

A. extend B. rid C. reduce D. focus

15、You are saying that everyone should take equal responsibility, and that is _______ I disagree.

A.why B.where

C.what D.how

16、Time_________, I’ll drop in on you while visiting your hometown.

A．permit

B．permitted

C．being permitted

D．permitting

17、My brother bought a telescope, ______ he could study the star in the night sky.

A.of which B.through which C.in which D.on which

18、I thought she was the very girl that I should marry_______I met her.

A.at the first time B.for the first time

C.the first time D.first time

19、Lady Gaga has put off her concerts because of the difficulties ______ by the strikes.

A.causing B.being caused C.caused D.having caused

20、I regret ______ that you have failed the exam.

A.telling B.to have told C.tell D.to tell

21、The man was sentenced to prison for five years because he had _____ some national secrets to the enemy.

A.given in B.given away C.given out D.given off

22、—How long _________ employed at this position?

—Since 2006.

A.are you B.were you

C.have you been D.are to be

23、It was only when Tom ate Zongzi for a second time   to appreciate its deliciousness.

A.did he begin B.that he began C.then he began D.had he begun

24、My Australian friends invited me to a barbecue last weekend，________ was really very kind of them．

A.that B.who C.when D.which

25、It is usually very hot here in Wuxi in June, but it _______ be cool sometimes.

A．can

B．must

C．should

D．would

26、   Qomolangma is the world’s highest mountain. You may have learned from your textbooks that its height is 8,844 meters. But not all sides are in agreement on this. Different researchers have given different results. In addition, the height of the mountain can change over time.

That’s why a 30-member Chinese survey team set out to reach the peak of Qomolangma to re-measure its height on May 6. They are equipped with the latest technology. It is not an easy task. The average air temperature on the mountain is-29℃-four degrees lower than in Antarctica-and powerful winds blow all the time. In such bad conditions, surveying drones (无人机) cannot work at the peak of the mountain. That’s why it’s still necessary to send human experts to the peak to get reliable results.

But does a difference of a few meters really matter when it comes to a high mountain?

In fact, measuring the height of Qomolangma is about more than just getting one exact number. Mount Qomolangma is at the point where the Eurasian plate (欧亚板块) meets the Indian plate. It formed 38 million years ago as the two plates hit each other. Changes in the peak’s height can show whether the two plates are heading toward or away from each other. This can help us understand the movement of Earth’s crust (地壳).

The survey team will also get firsthand information about environmental conditions at the top of the mountain. This will help us understand how climate change has affected the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau (青藏高原).

【1】Which statement is true according to the first paragraph?

A.Researchers measures the height of Qomolangma every year.

B.There is no agreed-upon height of Qomolangma at present.

C.It’s easy to measure the height of Qomolangma.

D.The height of Qomolangma increases every year.

【2】Which of the following words could replace “peak” in Paragraph 2?

A.point B.top C.base D.edge

【3】What challenge will the Chinese survey team face?

A.A lack of water. B.Dangerous animals.

C.Bad weather conditions. D.The movement of Earth’s crust.

【4】What is the main idea of the last two paragraphs?

A.Why measuring the height of Qomolangma is important.

B.What is the height of Qomolangma.

C.How Qomolangma became the highest mountain.

D.How plate movements have affected the height of Qomolangma.

27、The time a person spends on different smartphone apps is enough to identify them from a larger group in more than one in three cases, say researchers.

Researchers analyzed smartphone data from 780 people. They fed 4,680 days of app usage data into statistical models. Each of these days was paired with one of the 780 users so that the models learned people’s daily app use patterns.

The researchers then tested whether models could identify an individual when provided with only a single day of smartphone activity that was anonymous (匿名的). The models, which were trained on only six days of app usage data per person, could identify the correct person from a day of anonymous data one third of the time.

That might not sound like much, but when the models predict who the data belonged to, it could also provide a list of the most to the least likely candidates. It was possible to view the top 10 most likely individuals that a specific day of data belonged to. Around 75% of the time, the correct user would be among the top 10 most likely candidates.

In practical terms, a law enforcement (执法机构) investigation seeking to identify a criminal’s new phone with these models could reduce a candidate pool of approximately 1,000 phones to 10 phones, with a 25% risk of missing them.

Consequently, the researchers warn that software given access to a smartphone’s standard activity logging could make a reasonable prediction about a user’s identity even when they were logged-out of their account. An identification is possible without monitoring conversations or behaviors within apps themselves.

Therefore, it is important to acknowledge that app usage data alone, which is often collected by a smartphone automatically, can potentially reveal a person’s identity. While providing new opportunities for law enforcement, it also poses risks to privacy if this type of data is misused.

【1】What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To explain a phenomenon.

B．To confirm an assumption.

C．To show a research process.

D．To present a research finding.

【2】How did the researchers reach their conclusion?

A．By recording app use time.

B．By studying app usage data.

C．By comparing different apps.

D．By changing app use patterns.

【3】What is the function of the statistical models?

A．Locating criminals.

B．Tracking usage of apps.

C．Identifying phone users.

D．Predicting trends of apps.

【4】What is the author’s attitude towards app usage data?

A．Cautious.

B．Favorable.

C．Doubtful.

D．Uninterested.

28、My wife and I have always been friendly with the clerks at the local store. I don’t think many people appreciate what a difficult job these clerks have. They work for a little money and I often wonder how they make ends meet.

One of the clerks, Charlie, was always wearing his glasses but he didn’t one day. I asked him about it and he said they’d been out of order and that he couldn’t afford a new pair. His family needed money. It was clear that he was having a difficult time.

We wanted to help him, so we turned to our own eye doctor for help with a plan. We had his secretary contact him, asking him to come in for an eye exam for free. We told the doctor to let him order whatever glasses he wanted and that we would pay for them. Although Charlie questioned what was going on, the doctor just told him that someone had offered the money for his new glasses. When we went in to pay the bill, the doctor told us he was touched by our idea so that he waived the exam fee and only charged us for half the price of the glasses!

It was so wonderful to see Charlie in his new glasses and he enjoyed telling all the regular customers how the gift came about. I’m sure that upon hearing his story, ideas of kindness may have come in the minds of many people.

【1】Why didn’t the clerk Charlie wear glasses one day?

A．It was very warm and fine.

B．His glasses were missing.

C．His old glasses were broken.

D．He forgot to wear his glasses.

【2】From the passage, we can infer that ______.

A．Charlie was a young man with skills

B．Charlie knew who paid the money for the new glasses

C．Charlie completely accepted the money for the new glasses

D．Charlie couldn’t support his family with enough money

【3】The underlined word “waived” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A．took up

B．gave up

C．cut down

D．put off

【4】Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?

A．Customers’ Gift to an Employee

B．A Friendly Clerk — Charlie

C．The Wonderful Feeling of Helping others

D．An Expensive Pair of Glasses

29、   We've known for years that plants can see,hear,smell and communicate with chemicals.Now, reported New Scientist,they have been recorded making sounds when stressed.

In a yet-to-be-published study, Itzhak Khait and his team at Tel Aviv University, in Israel, found that tomato and tobacco plants can make ultrasonic(超声的)noises. The plants "cry out" due to lack of water,or when they are cut. It's just too high-pitched(音调高的）for humans to hear.

Microphones placed 10 centimeters away from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz(干赫兹)。Human hearing usually ranges from 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz."These findings can change the way we think about the plant kingdom,”they wrote.

On average,"thirsty"tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour,while tobacco plants made 11. When they were cut,tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour,and tobacco plants 15.Unstressed plants produced less than one sound per hour,on average.

Perhaps most interestingly,different types of stress led to different sounds.The researchers trained a machine-learning model to separate the plants' sounds from those of the wind,rain and other noises of the greenhouse.In most cases,it correctly recognized whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut.Water-hungry tobacco appears to make louder sounds than cut tobacco,for example.Although Khait and his colleagues only looked at tomato and tobacco plants,they think other plants also make sounds when stressed.

If farmers could hear these sounds,said the team,they could give water to the plants that need  it most.As climate change causes more droughts,they said this would be important information for farmers. "The sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision(精准) agriculture, "said Anne Visscher at the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew,in the UK.

Khait's report also suggests that insects can hear the sounds up to 5 meters away and respond. For example,a moth(蛾子）may decide not to lay eggs on a water-stressed plant.Edward Farmer. at the University of Lausanne,Switzerland,is doubtful.He said that the idea of moths listening to plants is"a little too speculative”。

If plants are screaming(尖叫）for fear of their survival,maybe we should be glad we can't hear them.

【1】Paragraph 3 mainly explains_______.

A.where humans differ from plants

B.how the research was carried out

C.what the findings of the study are

D.why humans can't hear the cries of plants

【2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the study?

A.All plants make sounds when they feel hungry.

B.Stressed plants make more sounds than unstressed ones.

C.Tobacco plants are more afraid of thirsty than being cut.

D.The more stressed a plant is,the louder sounds it makes.

【3】What does the underlined word"speculative"in Paragraph 7 probably mean?

A.Surprising.

B.Uncertain.

C.Incorrect.

D.Unique.

【4】What is the best title for the text?

A.Deaf humans

B.Stressed plants

C.Silent screams

D.Precision agriculture

30、   “This Friday we’ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge, ” said our science teacher, Mr. baker. “You can work alone or with a partner. ”

My friend, Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects _____.

The______of the challenge was simple---to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking when _____the stadium wall.

I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie.____the butter-cream gave me an idea.

“I have a brilliant design for our______container!” I said when Cassie arrived. “We can _____the egg with some butter-cream. ”

“Why not put the egg in a basket with a parachute (降落伞)_____?” Cassie rolled her eyes. “The parachute is better than that stupid idea. ”

I couldn’t believe it. Of course, we’d had our little _____in the past, but she’d never called any of my ideas “______” before.

“Then I’ll build mine and you build yours!”

____words had been out, our friendship was challenged.

When Friday finally arrived, I had to____Cassie’s Egg Force One looked pretty good. ______, my Egg--cellent Egg Cream didn’t look quite scientific. We kids carried our containers up three stadium steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose eggs broke were out; those whose eggs survived ____three more steps and dropped them again. This would go on till the last egg broke.

After four rounds, only Cassie and I were ____. I let go of my box. I heard someone say “ew” after seconds. Had my egg broken? I raced down the ____. The side walk was dotted with egg shells from those_____drops. Finally I found my little Egg--cellent Egg Cream.

“That looks like egg drop soup, Laura,” Cassie said. She was holding her Egg Force One. My_______raced. Had she won? I looked at her basket. _____.

“My egg bounced(弹起) _____, ”she explained, pointing to a broken shell.

“A tie, ”Mr. Baker said.

Cassie looked at me, and her glare _____. I laughed. She smiled…

【1】A. patiently B. silently C. together D. alone

【2】A. function B. goal C. reason D. result

【3】A. rolled down B. pushed against C. thrown at D. dropped over

【4】A. Spreading B. Boiling C. Baking D. Holding

【5】A. butter B. sandwich C. cream D. egg

【6】A. protect B. replace C. carry D. mix

【7】A. followed B. covered C. attached D. supported

【8】A. ideas B. fights C. worries D. challenges

【9】A. wrong B. stupid C. brilliant D. scientific

【10】A. Since B. While C. But D. And

【11】A. explain B. deny C. admit D. prove

【12】A. Therefore B. Anyway C. Otherwise D. Besides

【13】A. paced down B. turned around C. walked up D. went back

【14】A. left B. wanted C. chosen D. discovered

【15】A. steps B. way C. wall D. sidewalk

【16】A. intended B. unexpected C. failed D. desired

【17】A. eyes B. hands C. feet D. heart

【18】A. Lost B. Dirty C. Broken D. Empty

【19】A. around B. out C. in D. down

【20】A. returned B. remained C. increased D. softened

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

A. drive B. return C. mobilizes D. significant AB. helpless

AC. familiarize  AD. address  BC. shameless BD. appeals

CD. transformation ABC. attempts

In Times of Crists, We Need Classical Music

  It’s still lying in front of me on my desk. The booklet, entitled Time for Outrange(愤怒) , was written by the 93-year-old French diplomat(外交官) Stephane Hessel. “The power of money,” Hessel says, filled with anger, “has never been as great and selfish and 【1】 as it is now.”

  But what does the outrage of this Frenchman have to do with classical music and , ultimately, with me, music director of the Orchestre Symphenique de Montreal(蒙特利尔交响乐团) ?

  A lot, I, too, am outraged by the direction of industrial society, with materialism and consumerism leading the way. I want to show that, because of its powerful impact, classical music can play a(n) 【2】 role right now.

  We all sense that our society is experiencing an almost revolutionary 【3】. Life is getting faster, competition is fiercer and social cohesion(凝聚力) is reducing. Like most people, I have no idea how liberty and civil rights would develop in the era of globalization and ever-evolving technological advancement.

  But I see this as an opportunity for a(n) 【4】 to classical music. The great symphonies of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are not museum pieces we should listen to only if we want to 【5】 ourselves with some music history. Now are they a decoration or a relaxation exercise for the quickened pace of life.

  They are more than what a radio station for classical music once promised - “your oasis(绿洲) of well-being.” They are timeless compositions that 【6】 all the uncertainties and insecurities of this new period. They can support us in our search for meaning. Beethoven, for example, was convinced that man had the capacity to change for the better and to go throughout life. This is why there is so much hope in his music. His symphonies was mean to 【7】 people forward.

  Classic music 【8】 our senses and emotions in such a way that we were thrown back onto ourselves. It 【9】 to listeners to make use of their own reason and reflect on their actions. Music’s sole purpose is to be experienced. That experience, in turn, is why music can change our perceptions(认知) of ourselves and thereby our interactions with others.

  【10】 to explain this powerful impact of music will always remain unsatisfying, but this much is certain: aesthetic(审美的) experiences can transform people.

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注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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