屏东2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高二英语

1、_____ you receive my e-mail informing you of my absence, expect me on Friday at about 6 p.m.

A.Unless B.Until C.While D.Although

2、Entering the room, I found the girl seated in the sofa, completely ________ in a book.

A．stuck

B．caught

C．taken

D．absorbed

3、________ twists and turns you might encounter, take a leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.

A．However

B．No matter

C．Whatever

D．Whether

4、On the graduation day, he received from his father a nice present ______ a note was attached, saying “I’m proud of you.”

A．on which

B．to which

C．with which

D．in which

5、A concert will be held ________ the world-famous musician, who will personally play his favourtie music at it.

A. in memory of  B. in favour of  C. in reply to    D. in salute to

6、—Ouch! I_______ this really bad toothache for about three days.

—You really need to take a day off and see a dentist.

A.have B.am having C.have had D.had

7、—I wonder if I could use your cellphone．

—_______．It is on the desk next to you．

A．No way B．That's right

C．It’s a pleasure D．Be my guest

8、Nowhere but to the dance party on Saturday evenings.

A. she goes B. does she go

C. is she going  D. she is going

9、________ you don’t know is that I spend ________ little time I had with my kids．

A．That; that B．What; how

C．What; what   D．That; how

10、What do you enjoy ____ your spare time?

A. kill   B. to kill   C. killing   D. killed

11、These tall buildings ________ in our hometown last year.

A．built   B．are built   C．were built

12、Unfortunately, fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from _______________ rare brain disease, which affects as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day _______________ warning.

A. a; without   B. the; without

C. a; with   D. the; with

13、The oldest Disney-themed park receives over 14 million visitors each year,   nearly $3 billion in revenue.

A. putting in   B. taking in

C. joining in   D. cutting in

14、 Since the day it was founded , the Venus Orchestra , known as the “the most beautiful orchestra in the world ”, has _________ the attention of professional critics , music lovers , and a wide range of audience.

A. approved B. assumed C. accumulated D. Arrested

15、Don't put your bicycle______ the window. The glass can be easily broken.

A. against   B. with   C. beyond   D. for

16、I think it's unwise of you to build up your business ________ your health.

A．in search of

B．in control of

C．at the end of

D．at the expense of

17、—Can you explain   China’s football team failed again in the attempt for the World Cup?

—I am sorry, but this is the last time. We will behave ourselves.

A. why is it that   B. why it is that

C. how it is that   D. how is it that

18、 Susan stayed awake in bed, watching the heavy rain beating ________ the windows.

A. on   B. above   C. against D. across

19、The differences in the children’s achievements can not be completely explained _________ their social backgrounds.

A.in terms of

B.in case of

C.in need of

D.in charge of

20、--- Why was Professor Zhang unhappy recently?

--- Because the theory he insisted on _____ wrong.

A. proved     B. proving

C. being proved D. was proved

21、You can tell a lot about people’s general state of mind based on their social media feeds. Are they always tweeting (发微博)about their biggest annoyances or posting pictures of particularly cute kitties? In a similar fashion, researchers are turning to Twitter for clues about the overall happiness of entire geographic communities.   

What they’re finding is that regional variation in the use of common phrases produces predictions that don’t always reflect the local state of well being. But removing from their analyses just three specific terms -- good, love and LOL - greatly improves the accuracy of the methods.

“We’re living in a crazy COVID-19 era. And now more than ever, we’re using social media to adapt to a new normal and reach out to the friends and family that we can’t meet face-to-face.” Kokil Jaidka studies computational linguistics at the National University of Singapore. “But our words aren’t useful just to understand what we, as individuals, think and feel. They’re also useful clues about the community we live in.”

One of the simpler methods that many scientists use to analyze the data involves correlating words with positive or negative emotions. But when those records are compared with phone surveys that assess regional well-being, Jaidka says, they don’t paint an accurate picture of the local zeitgeist(时代精神).

Being able to get an accurate read on the mood of the population is no laughing matter. “That’s particularly important now, in the time of COVID, where we’re expecting a mental health crisis and we’re already seeing in survey data the largest decrease in subjective well-being in 10 years at least, if not ever.”

To find out why, Jaidka and her team analyzed billions of tweets from around the United States. And they found that among the most frequently used terms on Twitter are LOL, love and good. And they actually throw the analysis off. Why the disconnect?

“Internet language is really a different beast than regular spoken language. We’ve adapted words from the English vocabulary to mean different things in different situations. ” says Jaidka. “Take, for example, LOL. I’ve tweeted the word LOL to express irony, annoyance and sometimes just pure surprise. When the methods for measuring LOL as a marker of happiness were created in the 1990s, it still meant laughing out loud.”

“There are plenty of terms that are less misleading,” says Jaidka. “Our models tell us that words like excited, fun, great, opportunity, interesting, fantastic and those are better words for measuring subjective well-being. ”

【1】The researchers turn to social media feeds to _________.

A．help with the analysis of people’s subjective well-being

B．locate the most-frequently used words

C．prove the disconnect between language and emotions

D．make the prediction method more effective

【2】How did Jaidka know the analysis wasn’t accurate?

A．It didn’t reflect the mood of the entire geographic community

B．It didn’t match the assessment result of the phone surveys.

C．It didn’t consider the features of Internet language.

D．It didn’t take the regional variations into account.

【3】Which of the following statements will Jaidka most probably agree with?

A．Face-to-face communication is needed to ensure happiness.

B．Internet use is to blame for the decrease in subjective well-being.

C．Internet language should be abandoned as a source of scientific analysis.

D．Less misleading words should be used in assessing subjective well-being.

22、Special Museums In Christchurch, New Zealand

1. Yaldhurst Museum

Yaldhurst Museum is a place for car lovers in Christchurch city, which displays classic cars over a span of a century. The small museum has a collection of the widest range of car models from horse model to buggy cars. Established by a car enthusiast and collector, Alfred Thornhill Cooper, Yaldhurst Museum is now open for 50 years.

Open Time: Wednesday—Sunday 10 a. m. -5 p. m. with the last entry of 4 p. m.

Entrance fee: $10 for students, $20 for adults.

2. Rutherford's Den

Rutherford's Den is a historic space for the country's most famous scientist—Ernest Rutherford, also known as the father of Nuclear Science. Opened in Christchurch Arts Center in 2016, it is a small interactive museum with collections of Rutherford's works. The TV, the radio and even telephones are just some of the inventions of Rutherford, and his peers—all are displayed here.

Open time: 10 a. m. -5 p. m., every day except for Christmas Day.

Entrance Fee: $10 for adults，$5 for students and children.

3. The Toy Collector

The Toy Collector is a new player in the museums in Christchurch. Born recently in 2016, the Toy Collector is for all toy lovers displaying a huge collection of toys from all ages. You can witness all the toys you had ever wanted as a child from lego superhero miniatures to a movie-themed toy. You can trip down your memory in just an hour.

Open Time: Every day from 10 a. m. -4 p. m.

Entrance Fee: $10 for an adult, $5 for children.

4. The Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

Come and explore the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities, where you can see more than three thousand years of human history through an amazing collection of artifacts from Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern cultures. Born in 2017, this small one-roomed museum is a new home for old objects. The collection is well laid out with the necessary descriptions of the objects.

Open Time: Wed - Sun from 11 a. m. -3 p. m.

Entrance Fee: Free lo enter.

【1】When can visitors enter Yaldhurst Museum?

A．After4 p. m., Saturday.

B．At 10 a. m., Thursday.

C．Before 5 p. m., Sunday.

D．At 9 a. m., Tuesday.

【2】Which museum would you like to visit if you are interested in human history?

A．Yaldhurst Museum.

B．Rutherford's Den.

C．The Toy Collector.

D．The Teece Museum.

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

A．They are all small in size.

B．They are all heritage space.

C．They are all new museums.

D．They are all free for students.

23、Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transplant patient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were complex. “I felt hopeless,” Nancy says.

Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to secure appointments for vulnerable (易受攻击的) individuals. As a result, Nancy messaged Marla on Facebook: “Can you help?” Twenty-five minutes later, Marla responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other information. Nine minutes after that, Marla reported back—Marty had an appointment.

Marla's vaccine hunting started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has leukemia (白血病) and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition, were unable to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Marla discovered just how difficult it was to book an appointment. “It was like trying to get a World Series ticket,” she says.

She applied strategies that web insiders are familiar with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I’m determined. I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Marla had secured appointments for her parents. “I felt like a rock star,” she says.

Marla decided that helping others would be her way of giving back. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic (大流行病),” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was assisting with bookings. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 seniors, a feat that made Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?

【1】Why did Nancy and Marty fail to make an appointment themselves?

A．They had no access to the websites.

B．Too many people applied at the same time.

C．They were not among the first seniors to be vaccinated.

D．The registration sites were too difficult for them.

【2】Why Marla started her vaccine hunting in the first place?

A．To help old people.

B．To provide guidance to Nancy.

C．To assist her sick parents.

D．To give back to society.

【3】Which of the following words best describe Marla?

A．Helpful and skillful.

B．Reliable and humorous.

C．Confident and generous.

D．Ambitious and cooperative.

【4】What's the passage mainly about?

A．An effective way to book a vaccination appointment online.

B．An old couple's trouble during the pandemic.

C．An angel helping others online.

D．A woman's special way of giving back during the pandemic.

24、In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preparing for the worst, Australian adventurer Peter Seiter wrote a farewell note to his family, put it in a bottle and threw it overboard. With a sense of bad feeling he wrote: “The ocean has a personality of its own. The place can be such a peaceful environment to be in, yet it can be frightfully violent. I’ve experienced both.” Fearing he wouldn’t make it home, he placed the note -- dated June 11, 1998 -- in a wine bottle and covered the bottle.

“I included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, they’d know my last place when I threw the bottle into the ocean,” says Peter, who was then sailing from the Azores in Portugal to New York and knew the Atlantic could be dangerous. He also included some money with his message, asking whoever found it to use the money to post the letter to his family.

Seventeen days later he reached his destination, having survived the dangerous seas, but he assumed his message in the bottle had not -- until it was found on shore, 11 years later!

Recently, American woman Katherine Ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the Bahamas. “Alongside it they’d found a life jacket and, assuming the worst, opened the bottle and spent 24 hours drying it out so they could read my story and write to my family as I requested,” says Peter, 44. “I couldn’t believe it -- that after all these years my bottle had turned up with its contents, still undamaged.”

Overjoyed, he wrote to the pair, saying he was alive and living in Australia with his family.

Katherine posted him his letter, money and some broken glass of his bottle placed in a tiny box as a special souvenir. These special items now share pride of place among photos of Peter’s Atlantic voyage. “I can’t express what this old letter means to me,” Peter says. “It gives me a sense of hope and belief. It’s something special to share with my children as they grow up.”

【1】Why did Peter have the idea of a message bottle?

A. He missed his family very much then.

B. He hoped to share his experience with his family.

C. He regretted taking a risk on the ocean.

D. He thought he might lose his life on the voyage.

【2】As for the survival of the message bottle, Peter ________.

A. felt very certain about it

B. thought it had little chance of reaching land

C. took a long time to search for it

D. wrote a letter to Katherine

【3】What can be inferred about the message bottle according to Paragraph 3 and 4?

A. Katherine found it by chance on a crowded beach.

B. It was 11 years before they came across it at sea.

C. Perhaps there was water in it when Katherine found it.

D. Peter couldn’t believe more that it was not damaged.

【4】From the passage, we can learn that ________.

A. this was Peter’s first voyage in the Atlantic

B. Peter spent eleven days in the Atlantic

C. without the life jacket, the bottle wouldn’t have survived

D. Katherine was a caring and careful person

25、   Ivan Fernandez Anaya is a long- distance runner from Spain who competes in cross-country and marathon races. Ivan showed his_______on a race track in Navarra, Spain, and he lost the race _______showing the world what true sportsmanship looks like!

Ivan was just about to finish a cross-country race when he_______Abel Mutai, a Kenyan athlete who' d been in the lead, began to slow down as he_______the finish line. Abel did not understand Spanish so he got _______by the signs and thought he had already_______. Ivan saw what was happening in an instant and could have_______dashed past his opponent (对手) to win the race himself._______, he slowed his own pace and pointed Abel towards the_______finish line so he could win.

“He was the rightful ________,”Ivan said later. “He created a gap (鸿沟) that I couldn't have closed if he hadn't made a ________ As soon as I saw he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to________him.

Everyone who witnessed the whole________was rightfully impressed with Ivan' s actions! He didn't ________to do that, only__________that being an athlete with right________is one of the most important aspects of sports. Later, a journalist asked Ivan why he didn't________the opportunity to win the race and he________his reason for doing that, “…But if I did that, what would be the________of my victory? What would be the honor of that ________? What would my mom think of that?”

【1】A.character B.confidence C.dream D.interest

【2】A.by chance B.on purpose C.in time D.at first

【3】A.predicted B.explained C.admitted D.noticed

【4】A.touched B.moved C.approached D.changed

【5】A.confused B.warned C.lost . D.reminded

【6】A.settled B.stopped C.succeeded D.escaped

【7】A.bravely B.easily C.eventually D.carefully

【8】A.Therefore B.Instead C.In short D.For example

【9】A.possible B.same C.clear D.real

【10】A.winner B.runner C.partner D.leader

【11】A.decision . B.difference C.mistake D.contribution

【12】A.pass B.follow C.miss D.drop

【13】A.campaign B.process C.accident D.struggle

【14】A.manage B.attempt C.hesitate D.expect

【15】A.repeating B.advertising C.doubting D.proving

【16】A.sportsmanship B.direction C.guidance D.friendship

【17】A.hide B.take C.share D.reserve .

【18】A.made up B.found out C.laid out . D.put up

【19】A.concept B.content C.assistance . D.value .

【20】A.attitude B.desire C.sacrifice D.medal

26、假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，请你给英国朋友写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

（1）你们原相约7月份一同爬长城；

（2）由于你自身某种原因（请说明具体原因），你无法按原计划前往；

（3）表达你的歉意并建议将旅行推迟到8月份。

注意：

1. 词数不少于50；

2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Chris,

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Yours,

Li Hua