随州市广水市2024-2025学年高二上学期期末英语试卷

这是一份随州市广水市2024-2025学年高二上学期期末英语试卷，共10页。
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1．本卷满分150分，考试时间90分钟；
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听力选择题
1. What are the speakers mainly talking abut?
2. When des the train leave?
3. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers getting ready fr?
2. What will the wman d later?
4. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the tw speakers talking abut?
2. What des the wman think f A Brief Histry f Time?
3. Why didn’t the wman meet Hawking?
5. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Hw lng has Dave been in China?
2. Which f the fllwing cities has Dave visited?
3. What did Dave like mst abut Chngqing?
6. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Hw will the wman spend her summer hliday?
2. With whm des the man plan t g t the seaside?
3. What lessns des the wman want t take?
7. 听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1. Why des the wman make the call?
2. What did the wman receive?
3. What des the wman want the man t d?
8. Hw many students tk the English cmpetitin?
9. Why desn’t the wman learn t dance?
10. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What can we learn frm the news?
2. Hw many peple were badly injured in the strm?
3. What d we knw abut the farmer?
阅读理解
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In the UK, there is a ppular rute fr cyclists: the rad frm Land’s End in England t Jhn O’Grats in Sctland, abut 874 miles lng. It cvers almst the full length f Great Britain. The 12-year-ld by named Laurence Chandler became the yungest cyclist t finish the rute.
Chandler tk 20 days t finish the challenge. Each day, he cycled between 40 t 60 miles. He spent six hurs n his muntain bike daily. Chandler had t push thrugh rainy and windy days. Cycling uphill was als hard. “It was much harder than I thught. I wasn’t expecting s many hills and hw busy the rads were,” Chandler said. “But if yu put yur mind t anything, then n matter hw big, yu can d it.”
Chandler first thught f trying the rute when he read an article abut it tw years ag. Later, as his father’s 50th birthday came arund, he decided t g fr it. He was already used t cycling arund his village and t schl befre starting his jurney.
During his ride, Chandler raised 600 punds fr Smile Train, a children’s rganizatin that pays fr treatment fr children in develping cuntries wh have deft lips (兔唇).
1. What d we knw abut Laurence Chandler?
2. What is suggested frm Paragraph 2?
3. What helped Chandler decide t try the rute?
4. What’s the best title fr the text?
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Dear Marilyn,
Sctland! Ww !!! What a fantastic place! I'm having a great time. I’m afraid that I started ff badly by making a fl f myself. I was standing in the great ld Bell Twer lking acrss the lake at the hills n the ther side.
This rather handsme guy happened t be standing next t me, s I casually(随意地) said, "It's really beautiful here in England." D yu knw what he replied? "Well, why dn't yu g there then?" Then he laughed and explained that he was used t freigners making mistakes abut that. After that bad start we gt n really great, thugh.
Fergus tld me lts abut Sctland. I'd already nticed the unusual names: Fergus, Angus, Hamish fr the guys and Ina, Gillian and Aileen fr girls. They als usually have family names that begin with Mac r Me - Mckay, McDnald and the like. The Mc r Mac stands fr "sn f".
Anyway, Fergus is a Campbell. That's anther typical(典型的) Scttish name and he is frm an ld Scttish family. Yu knw that the Scts have their wn traditins with kilts ( 短褶裙) and all that. Fergus shwed me his family's tartan (花格图案).
I tried sme really strange fd tday. When we had lunch tgether, Fergus practically frced me t taste smething called haggis. That was the first and the last time fr me. I have n idea what it is made f and I dn’t think I want t try any mre.
Everybdy here is very friendly, nt just Fergus. By the way, all that talk abut the Scts being mean is nt right. Fergus is certainly the ppsite. He says the jkes abut the Scts have all been invented by the English, their traditinal enemy.
Tmrrw Fergus is taking me t Glasgw. Can yu believe it? I thught he wuld just say gdbye and walk ff. But he really seems interested. Anyway, I'm lking frward t seeing bright lights and discs after all this peace and quiet. I lve it here but there are mre sheep than peple. I hpe I'll have sme ther sides f life in Sctland t reprt after tmrrw. Keep yur fingers crssed! I'll keep yu psted.
Lve,
Nancy
1. What can we learn frm the text?
2. What des the underlined wrd "invented" in paragraph 6 mean?
3. What is the purpse f this text?
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Priscilla Ouchida’s “energy efficient” huse turned ut t be a hrrible dream. When she and her engineer husband married a few years ag, they built a $100,000 three-bedrm hme in Califrnia. Tightly sealed t prevent air leaks, the huse was equipped with small duble-paned windws and several ther energy-saving features. Prblems began as sn as the cuple mved in, hwever. Priscilla’s eyes burned. Her thrat was cnstantly dry. She suffered frm headaches and culd hardly sleep. It was as thugh she had suddenly develped a strange illness.
Experts finally traced the cause f her illness. The level f frmaldehyde gas in her kitchen was twice the maximum allwed by federal standards fr chemical wrkers. The surce f the gas? Her new kitchen cabinets and wall-t-wall carpeting.
The Ouchidas are victims f indr air pllutin, which is nt given sufficient attentin partly because f the natin’s drive t save energy. The prblem itself isn’t new. “The indr envirnment was dirty lng befre energy cnservatin came alng,” says Mschandreas, a pllutin scientist at Gemet Technlgies in Maryland. “Energy cnservatin has tended t accentuate the situatin in sme cases.”
The prblem appears t be mre trublesme in newly cnstructed hmes rather than ld nes. Back in the days when energy was cheap, hme builders didn’t wrry much abut unsealed cracks. Because f such leaks, the air in an average hme was replaced by fresh utdr air abut nce an hur. As a result, the pllutants generated in mst husehlds seldm built up t dangerus levels.
1. It can be learned frm the passage that the Ouchidas’ huse ________.
2. What made the Ouchidas’ new huse a hrrible dream?
3. The wrd “accentuate” (Para. 3) mst prbably means “________”.
4. Why were cracks in ld huses nt a big cncern?
D
It was a sunny afternn in June f 2022 when 20-year-ld Anthny Perry stepped ff the train at Chicag’s 69th Street statin. On the platfrm, tw men were fighting bitterly. Then the unthinkable happened: the pair fell ver the edge and nt the tracks. One man ended up n his back. Suddenly, he started cnvulsing (抽搐) unnaturally. He had fallen n the third rail, the cnduit (导线管) fr the 600 vlts f electricity that pwers Chicag’s L trains. The aggressr leaped backward, bunded back up nt the platfrm and disappeared.
Perry culdn’t just stand there and watch. He sat at the edge f the platfrm and eased himself dwn. He tk a few quick bunds and apprached the victim. The guy lked dead, his bdy still mving vilently as the electricity pulsed (搏动). Gathering up his curage, Perry reached dwn and grasped the victim’s wrist. Instantly, he felt a blast f electric shck sht thrugh his bdy. Perry shrank and jumped back. He reached dwn a secnd time, and was shcked again. But the third time he seized the man’s wrist and frearm and, braving the shck, pulled with all his strength. The guy’s bdy slid briefly alng the third rail, cming t rest n the gravel n the uter edge f the tracks.
The man was breathing, but irregularly. Smething wasn’t right. “Give him chest cmpressins (按压)!” yelled a wman. Perry was n expert, but fr a few mments he wrked n the man’s heart until the victim began cnvulsing. Then he heard a sudden nise behind him — medical wrkers and firefighters had arrived. Perry let the prfessinals take ver. His heart still racing frm the electric shcks, he climbed back up nt the platfrm, grabbed his things and headed hme.
The evening news reprted the incident. After a friend uted him t the media, Perry became the tast f Chicag. Perry was then recruited by the Chicag Fire Department and is nw training t be an emergency medical technician.
1. What made the rescue f the victim particularly difficult?
2. What can be inferred abut Perry accrding t paragraphs 3—4?
3. What des the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?
4. What is the authr’s main purpse f writing the text?
E
T an utsider，any culture can seem cnfusing.And the UK's gt a thing r tw that raises a few eyebrws.Hwever，understand the why and things might be less puzzling. 1 .
In a wrld where 61％f natins drive n the right，Brits drive n the left.Why? Mst peple think it ges back t Medieval，maybe even Rman times. 2 when yu remember that right-handed peple wear a swrd n their left hip.Travelling n the left allwed yu t keep yur weapn arm tward yur ppnent，wh wuld be n yur right.This practice cntinued until the 18th century when a law was passed requiring all traffic crssing Lndn Bridge t keep t the left.
Visitrs t the UK that have just washed their hands in an ld-fashined sink might be wndering why ne tap is nly fr ht water，the ther cld. 3 .S，why this ddity? It relates t a time when ht and cld water were kept separate t prevent pllutin.Drinkable cld water came frm a mains supply，but ht water came frm attic tanks and was nt cnsidered suitable fr cnsumptin.S they were kept apart.
Millins f peple drink tea wrldwide，but the dd Brits put milk in theirs.Why? This mysterius practice relates t the quality f china cup used in the 18th century when tea was first impsed.Fr the majrity f Brits，the cups available culdn’t stand the heat f the biling water and wuld break，s milk was added first. 4 .And this practical tweak sn became a natinal habit.
5 .As yu can see，these dd Brits have perfectly clear reasns fr left-hand driving，tw-tap sinks and tea with milk.Even if they still seem strange，at least nw yu’re in the knw.
完形填空
Reagan Lawrence is a 13-year-ld girl and band member at Bnaire Middle Schl, in central Gergia, USA. Over the past several mnths, she has used the grief and stress _______ by the COVID-19 pandemic t _______ her best and help thers in the prcess.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been very _______ t Reagan and her family. She lst tw f her aunts as well as her great grandfather. And she hasn’t been able t visit sme f her _______ such as her grandfather.
Feeling _______ sad, she struggled t find ut what she culd d t make things better. While thinking abut ways she culd _______, her band began t sell “the wrld’s finest candy” t raise funds.
This gave her a(n) _______ — why nt buy the wrld’s finest chclate bars t _______ the wrld’s finest peple? In her mind, the finest peple in the wrld are the healthcare wrkers, firemen, and first respnders wh have _______ themselves during this pandemic t helping thers while putting themselves in danger.
And s she did! While Reagan is typically a ________ persn, this did nt stp her frm prmting ________ and then using the mney btained t buy chclate bars fr first respnders.
In all, Reagan ________ ver 400 bars. The first respnders that received them were ________ nt just fr the wrld’s finest chclate, but the caring actins f ne f the wrld’s finest 13-year-ld girls !
Reagan Lawrence’s stry has ________ many thers t help thse in ________ during this challenging mment.
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语法填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is knwn as Black Friday. This used t be unfficially r fficially the start f hliday shpping seasn. Almst all stres cme ut with special early bird ffers 1 (attract) cnsumers t their shp. Peple stand in line hurs befre the stres are pened, t grab the bargains f the year. In the last few years, we 2 (witness) a trend twards bringing thse Black Friday Sales nline befre Friday.
In the last few years (starting frm 2013 t be precise), Black Friday Sales have started befre Friday—with sme stres 3 (start) their Black Friday sales n Thanksgiving day r even n Wednesday and Mnday. It wuld nt be surprising t see Black Friday sale starting n Mnday n the Black Friday week.
The clsest reasn fr 4 it is knwn as Black Friday 5 (give) in Wikipedia. Many retailers reprt sme f 6 (they) highest prfits n Black Friday. The black prtin f the name, “Black Friday” relates t businesses recrding their 7 (lse) in red ink and gains in black. This traditin lives n in mdern accunting sftware.
Deals websites like Dealsfamerica.cm started t highlight “Black Friday sales” frm 2003 8 then the retailers picked it up. 9 (essential), Black Friday is an Internet term. But befre it, peple used t regard the sales 10 “Day after Thanksgiving Sale”.
五、书信写作
66. 根据漫画所反映的现象和问题，写一篇题为“The faster, the better？”的短文。
你的短文应该包含：
1. 漫画描述和反映的问题是什么；
2. 面对这样的问题，你有什么样的想法；
3. 在我们的学习生活中应该怎样正确地解决这样的问题；
4. 词数120左右。
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六、书面表达
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。
I must admit, I haven’t always liked animals. In fact, I distrusted them greatly while grwing up, and I still fear the nes I dn’t knw persnally. What set my beliefs in stne was being attacked—nt nce but many times, including the summer after secnd grade when I was bitten by a rabbit. Then, when I was nine and riding my dirt bike dwn the rad, a large dg charged me and tried t bite my ankle. After all thse negative experiences, there was ne thing I knew fr sure: All creatures, great and small, were n friends f mine.
After cllege in Califrnia, I returned t live the single life in Las Vega. Then I met Lisa. In n time at all, we fell in lve, married and mved int a new huse. Despite my avidance f animals, Lisa had a dg called Bailey. Bailey didn’t like me, but he tlerated my existence nce he realized I wasn’t ging anywhere.
Things changed as spring came. We welcmed a new member f ur family: ur sn Evan. One evening Evan grabbed hld f the dg’s tail. The irritated dg paused and turned t lk at his stuck tail but waited patiently until being released. Still the stries I’d heard f animals attacking babies wrries me.
Then my wrst fear ccurred. I sat n the cuch (沙发) reading after a lng day while my wife wrked at the dining-rm table paying the bills. I saw Evan crawl acrss the family-rm carpet as he made his way behind the cuch. One minute, all was quiet and then Bailey entered the rm and headed t where Evan had crawled. I nearly jumped ut f my skin when I heard the dg start a fearful barking behind me.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Thrwing the bk away, I rushed arund the cuch with great fear.
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Having witnessed ur dg killing a scrpin (蝎子) and saving my sn, I was speechless.
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A．Which cuntries have landed n Mars.
B．China’s new achievement in space.
C．China’s plan t g t Mars.
A．At 6:30.
B．At 8:30.
C．At 10:30.
A．Timmy’s birthday.
B．Christmas.
C．New Year’s Day.
A．Wrap the presents.
B．Send hliday cards.
C．G t the market.
A．A scientist.
B．A magazine.
C．A bk.
A．It’s difficult t understand.
B．It’s easy t understand.
C．It’s bring t read.
A．She had n mney.
B．She lst her ticket.
C．The tickets were sld ut.
A．Fr 2 years.
B．Fr 2 weeks.
C．Fr 2 mnths.
A．Chengdu.
B．Suzhu.
C．Guangzhu.
A．The fd.
B．The scenery.
C．The peple.
A．Study at hme.
B．Wrk in the shp.
C．Travel with her mther.
A．His parents.
B．His friends.
C．His brthers.
A．Pian.
B．Swimming.
C．English.
A．T rder fd.
B．T reprt the wrng delivery.
C．T knw sme fd infrmatin.
A．The children’s party special.
B．The lunch special fr ten.
C．The adult’s party special.
A．Change the rder.
B．Check the rder.
C．Return her mney.
A．45.
B．50.
C．60.
A．She’s pr at dancing.
B．She’s t lazy.
C．She has n time.
A．N villager was killed.
B．15 huses were badly damaged.
C．Over 200 peple were made hmeless.
A．Seven.
B．Nine.
C．Ten.
A．His huse was destryed.
B．His wife was missing.
One f his children was killed.
A．He is a cycling lver.
B．He is fnd f reading.
C．He cycled thrugh England.
D．He is a green hand in cycling.
A．Chandler was challenged by the trip.
B．Few peple chse t cycle the rute.
C．The jurney was really disappinting.
D．Chandler rde the same distance every day.
A．A related article.
B．The vluntary wrk.
C．His father’s birthday.
D．The disabled children.
A．A teenager finishing a great trip
B．A ppular cycling rute in the UK
C．A rad leading England t Sctland
D．A children’s rganizatin fr cyclists
A．Nancy knew much abut Sctland.
B．Nancy met Fergus by chance.
C．Hamish is the name f a girl in Sctland.
D．Nancy enjys the Scttish fd.
A．Made up.
B．Shared
C．Laughed at.
D．Understd.
A．T advertise Scttish kilts.
B．T intrduce Scttish custms.
C．T cmpare tw different cultures.
D．T share a travelling experience in Sctland.
A．is well wrth the mney spent n its cnstructin
B．is almst faultless frm the pint f energy cnservatin
C．failed t meet energy cnservatin standards
D．was designed and cnstructed in a scientific way
A．Pr quality f the air inside.
B．Pr quality f the cnstructin.
C．Gas leakage in the kitchen.
D．The newly painted walls.
A．relieve
B．accelerate
C．wrsen
D．imprve
A．Because indr cleanliness was nt emphasized.
B．Because energy used t be inexpensive.
C．Because envirnmental prtectin was given tp pririty.
D．Because they were technically unavidable.
A．The man had lst his cnsciusness.
B．The victim lay injured n tp f a track.
C．The rescuer was at risk f an electric shck.
D．The electricity pwering trains was hard t cut ff.
A．He had received prfessinal first aid training.
B．The lcal newspaper interviewed him n the spt.
C．His chest cmpressins played a key rle in saving life.
D．His heart beat fast because f nervusness and tiredness.
A．Perry landed a jb in the Fire Department.
B．The city f Chicag awarded Perry a prize.
C．Peple in Chicag tasted Perry fr his brave deeds.
D．Perry gt ppular and greatly admired in Chicag.
A．T credit a her with saving a victim’s life.
B．T highlight Perry’s curage in stpping a fight.
C．T stress the imprtance f calmness in rescue wrk.
D．T display peple’s cperatin in assisting the victim.
A．This makes it difficult t imprve
B．There is a methd t the madness
C．This unusual behavir makes sense
D．Yu can knw the rigins f the practices
E．Either can make washing very uncmfrtable
F．This cled the cup enugh t resist the biling water
G．Here are the reasns fr three f Britain’s mre puzzling practices
A．released
B．created
C．frmed
D．caused
A．put ut
B．bring ut
C．let ut
D．make ut
A．typical
B．special
C．cruel
D．nrmal
A．relatives
B．classmates
C．friends
D．dctrs
A．ccasinally
B．cnstantly
C．suddenly
D．temprarily
A．recver
B．cure
C．help
D．save
A．inspiratin
B．excuse
C．prmise
D．ambitin
A．evaluate
B．praise
C．admire
D．reward
A．invlved
B．adapted
C．devted
D．attached
A．shy
B．brave
C．generus
D．patient
A．sales
B．awareness
C．quality
D．service
A．brught
B．dnated
C．sld
D．stred
A．cnsiderate
B．brave
C．respnsible
D．grateful
A．invited
B．mtivated
C．persuaded
D．required
A．danger
B．rder
C．charge
D．need