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2024-2025学年第二学期高二级英语科期中检测
总分：120分
一、阅读理解（本题共计4题，共计37.5分）
A
The Canadian Children’s Museum has been developed around a central topic—The Great Adventure—and gives younger visitors a chance to travel the world.
Activities at the Canadian Children’s Museum
Chalk Full of Creativity
September I to 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Thursdays until 7 p.m.
September 6 to October 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, Thursdays until 7 p.m.
Studio
Express yourself in words and art on our chalk wall—a thing that is similar to simpler school days—and personalize your own mini-chalkboard to take home.
Excellent Button Art
October 3 to 31, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, Thursdays until 7 p.m.
Celebrate October by creating a special work of button art inspired by fall colours, Thanksgiving or Halloween.
Star Light, Star Bright
November I to December 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p. m daily, Thursdays until 7 p.m.
Studio
Find out why the night sky has guided and inspired people throughout history, and use glow-in-the-dark stars to create your own constellation (星座).
Blue build-a-Thon
November 26 and 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hall
Wear blue for our Build-a-Thon as we show our new creative space, where you can build anything you like with Imagination Playground’s Big Blue Blocks made of foam (泡沫材料).
Admission (入场) Information
Children under 3 are admitted free to the Museum. Children must be 12 years and older to buy a ticket on their own and visit the Museum by themselves. All visitors are admitted free after 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays.
Don’t miss any activities at the Children’s Museum! Become a Museum member and enjoy unlimited family access (进入) all year long, starting at $89.
1. Which activity should you choose if you want to make something about Halloween
A. Blue Build-a-Thon. B. Excellent Button Art.
C. Star Light, Star Bright. D. Chalk Full of Creativity.
2. When can you go to play with Big Blue Blocks at the Museum
A. October 3 to 31. B. September 1 to 5
C. December 1 and 2. D. November 26 and 27.
3. What can we learn about the Canadian Children’s Museum
A. Children are not allowed into the museum without adults.
B. A membership card can only be used by children.
C. It is free for all visitors after 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
D. It is not suitable for children under 12.
B
There are many stories of people gaining inspiration from nature but one of the most famous is that of Robert the Bruce and the spider.
Robert the Bruce was a King of Scotland during its wars of independence from England in the 14th century. Descended from a Norman knight who had been with the invaders who had conquered Britain back in 1066, Robert believed he was the rightful King of Scotland, but King Edward I of England chose instead an English nobleman John de Balliol as King. After some years of fighting between the English forces and the Scots who wanted freedom from England, Robert was defeated at the Battle of Methver in 1306 but he survived and became a fugitive.
Robert was a hunted man, fleeing from his pursuers over lonely mountains. Finally, he found himself alone in a tiny hut on a small island off the coast of Ireland, an exile from his own land. The cold wind banged at the wooden door of the hut and Robert shivered in despair. Was his fight for freedom worth all the lives lost His own brother had been executed and his wife was held prisoner. He wondered whether he should give up the battle.
As the cold wind blew outside the windows of the hut, Robert lay on his straw mattress, almost resigned to his fate. Then he noticed a spider above his head. The spider was hanging from a roof beam by one long silvery thread and trying to attach itself to another roof beam. The spider swung itself up and failed to reach the other beam. It tried again and failed again. Robert began to count. He saw that the spider failed six times in a row. “I have fought the English six times and failed each time,” thought Robert to himself.
Robert looked more closely at the spider. “If the spider fails again on its seventh try, I shall give up fighting against the English. But if it succeeds, I shall try again.” The spider tried once again and finally, on this seventh attempt, it managed to swing itself over the beam and began to spin its web. Robert smiled, sat up, and with renewed energy and determination he decided he would follow the spider’s example of never giving up. Robert returned to Scotland and fought the English for eight more years before finally defeating them at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and liberating Scotland from English rule.
4. What is the main idea of the passage
A. Illustrating how spiders are skillful weavers of webs.
B. Demonstrating how cruel the English were to the Scots.
C. Proving that Robert the Bruce was the rightful King of Scotland.
D. Showing how animals can inspire people to do things.
5. What does the underlined word “fugitive” in paragraph 2 probably mean
A. A prisoner of war. B. An escapee.
C A soldier. D. A king in exile.
6. What qualities did the spider have
A. It was persistent and never gave up. B. It was optimistic.
C. It was ambitious. D. It was active and hard-working.
7. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage
A. The ancestor of Robert the Bruce was a Norman knight.
B. Robert was defeated six times by the English.
C. John de Balliol proved to be a wise and good King of Scotland.
D. Robert finally led Scotland to freedom in 1314.
C
It was 8:30 pm on a Friday at a health club in central London. The Yoga (瑜伽) for Beginners class was packed with first-timers eager to learn.
It may have taken thousands of years but yoga has shaken off its image as a practice associated with incense and chanting (诵经) to become a lifestyle essential for thousands of Britons everywhere. Yoga is changing lives in clubs and gyms around Britain. It has overtaken diving to become the fastest-growing new activity across the country. Every gym now has yoga classes, and yoga teachers are becoming popular and respected. Children as young as three take “Yoga Bug” classes.
Hotels in Turkey, Spain and Mexico even offer yoga holidays for people whose idea of a relaxing time is strong exercise and soft things to drink.
The new yoga generation believes engaging body and mind is the way to inner calm, not to mention a flat stomach, slimmer hips and a graceful body. Tom, 26, who works for a design company in Manchester, north-west England and started yoga in January, says this exercise is a perfect antidote to modern life. “Like most people, I work longer hours and travel a lot. Work is hard and competitive. I want somewhere where I can be alone and forget about absolutely everything, where the only person I am up against is myself.”
Fenella Lindsell, director and founder of the Art of Health and Yoga in south-west London, says yoga’s popularity naturally results from consumers’ new-found interest in alternative lifestyles. “We are more in touch with how we feel and present ourselves. The same goes for fitness. We are questioning whether the traditional ‘no pain, no gain’ approach is for the best. We want a more complete form of exercise.”
Sports scientists at Loughborough University, England, have just finished a study of exercise patterns that concludes that “low-impact exercises” are healthier for most people than hours spent lifting weights. Dr Ian Cockerill, who studies exercise trends, says less is now more. “People know they should ‘just do it’, but they're looking for a whole range of new feelings for the mind and the body.”
Professional trend observers go further. They argue that the yoga craze is part of a general shift away from materialism to “the experience economy”. As most people earn more, making oneself look and feel good is now more about getting the latest “experience” than buying the latest thing.
8. In the past, yoga was considered ________.
A. connected with people’s health B. relevant to incense and chanting
C. connected with the fastest-growing economy D. associated with an essential lifestyle
9. What does the underlined word “overtaken” in paragraph 2 probably mean
A. Outnumbered. B. Balanced. C. Compared. D. Benefited.
10. Why is yoga a perfect antidote for Tom
A. Yoga is beneficial to his health.
B. He has the chance to be alone and get away from work there.
C. He can keep up with the trend by practising yoga.
D. Yoga can help him to be competitive.
11. What is the best title for the passage
A. The Meaning of Yoga B. The Popularity of Yoga
C. A Form of Exercise D. People’s Attitudes Towards Yoga
D
If, when you think of “art”, you think of a framed painting on the wall of a gallery, then think again. Or, even better, go and see Antony Gormley’s exhibit. Gormley is one of the UK’s best-known contemporary artists but he’s nothing if not unconventional.
Gormley was trained as a sculptor but has spent the last 25 years breaking the boundaries of what constitutes “sculpture”. “I’m constantly trying to say — where does this thing called sculpture belong ” Gormley said.
In 2003, Asian Field toured China after it was made in Xiangshan Village, Guangdong. This work consisted of approximately 190,000 small terracotta figures, which stand in a room looking at the audience. That’s hardly the bronze figure on a heavy base that we associate with “sculpture”. Another Singularity is another work by Gormley. It was a bit abstract. As you walked into the room, a matrix made out of bungee cord surrounded you. In the middle was a body, suspended in the matrix. It looked a bit like a giant spider web.
Gormley is excited about bringing his work to the East, because it feels like “coming home”. After graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1971, Gormley travelled to India and stayed there for three years.
“It’s very strange for me to be trying to talk to you about sculpture because the wonderful thing about sculpture is it’s silent,” he says, trying to explain the reason for his pushing at conventions. He sees a fundamental change in the way we see art today. It’s no longer about what the individual does, or does not “like”, but it’s about the individual’s experience with the artwork itself.
“We used to go to art in order to see ourselves and the world that we knew was reflected in it,” says Gormley. “We liked the things that reinforced our world view. Now people go to art to be tested by it — I think that’s a huge difference. Art is about exploring the unknown.”
12. What can we infer from the first four paragraphs
A. Gormley is a best-known artist only in the UK.
B. Gormley is well-known because of his unconventionality.
C. Gormley has brought his work to China only once.
D Gormley has been a sculptor for no more than 25 years.
13. The following statements are true about the small terracotta figures which make up Gormley’s Asian Field EXCEPT ________.
A. they are made in Xiangshan Village B. their numbers are about 190,000
C. they are made in the UK D. they are put in a room, looking at the audience
14. What does the underlined word “matrix” in paragraph 4 probably mean
A. Sculpture. B. Figure. C. Screen. D. Network.
15. What is the main idea of the last paragraph
A. Art is about trying to know the unknown. B. People were reflected in art.
C. The art today is hardly different from before. D. The art reinforced our world view.
二、阅读七选五（本题共计1题，共计12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There are many poems about autumn and, to be honest, a lot of them sound the same. ____16____ But William Butler Yeats’s poetry makes a difference: his poem about swans, one of the greatest poems that this great Irish poet ever wrote, brings new life to the autumn poems.
He does this with clear imagery (意象). ____17____ Swans had been there throughout the time that Yeats had spent at Coole Park, the home of his supporter Lady Gregory. Yeats’s point about the swans is that they, unlike a man, never grow old.
Whenever he sees the swans, no matter how old he is, he tries and fails to count them. Before he has done the counting, they rise up from the still lake, “And scatter wheeling in great broken rings. Upon their clamorous wings.” It’s a great and clear image. ____18____
____19____ But we guess that he does not have their great passion and energy. His heart, perhaps, has grown cold, unlike the pairs bf lover swans who swim together on the water surface or climb the air when they take off and fly.
Another important feature of the poem is that Yeats knows the swans are mysterious and beautiful. They are mysterious because they are not humans. Their life is different from ours. Their reality is not our reality. ____20____
A. Yeats does not really talk about how different he is from the swans.
B. Yeats is considered to be the greatest poet of all time.
C. The main image of the poem is the view of the swans in the title — The Wild Swans at Coole.
D. You can almost hear Yeats’s exclaiming (感叹) as he sees the swans' sudden movements.
E. Swans have been a common topic for brilliant poets.
F. Read a lot of them for a while and you will soon be bored!
G. But the poet, inspired by what he sees, is moved to think about them and life in a new way.
三、完形填空（本题共计1题，共计15分）
Paintings and sculptures can be a(n) ___21___ for the eyes of visitors to art museums, but today they are also considered to be an unconventional (非常规的) ___22___ for people with mental illness.
Last month, a group of Canadian doctors started to write a brand-new kind of prescription (处方) which gives patients free ___23___ to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. There, they will have a relaxing experience, enjoying the museum’s collections.
Nathalie Bondil, a museum’s general director, ___24___ that being in contact with culture and art can help with ___25___. “In the 21st century, culture will be what physical activity was for health in the 20th century,” she told the Montreal Gazette. Each prescription will allow not only the ___26___ to go into the art museums but also their families or friends to ___27___ them. In the museums, visitors can appreciate the artworks and ___28___ a wide range of activities, including drawing, sewing and making a sculpture with ___29___ materials which are environmentally friendly.
The new cure is said to be the ___30___ of its kind in the world. And there's increasing evidence that the works of art, ___31___ the works of art describing nature, can have positive effects on people with fear, depression and ___32___.
In 2017, the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Health and Wellbeing also released a report stating that “it’s time to ___33___ the powerful contributions the art can make to our health”. Is it possible for art to help overall health We may not know the answer yet. Only time can ___34___. But one thing is certain, that is, more and more people today are ___35___ of the idea that “art is good medicine”.
21. A. support B. feast C. game D. honour
22. A. custom B. case C. cure D. situation
23. A. access B. introduction C. solution D. key
24. A. complains B. believes C. imagines D. recalls
25. A. income B. education C. wealth D. health
26. A. customers B. doctors C. patients D. players
27. A. accompany B. find C. control D. observe
28. A. take part in B. play jokes on C. have effects on D. take pride in
29. A. rare B. expensive C. recycled D. damaged
30. A. last B. first C. worst D. dearest
31 A. except B. besides C. especially D. additionally
32. A. delight B. anxiety C. expectation D. desire
33. A. recognise B. forget C. repeat D. miss
34. A. report B. change C. tell D. record
35. A. convinced B. warned C. reminded D. rid
四、语法填空（本题共计1题，共计15分）
阅读短文，在空白处填入一个合适的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, ____36____ could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems. Global warming is having a great effect on ____37____ (hundred) of plant and animal species around the world, ____38____ (change) some living patterns, scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on ____39____ plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of ____40____ (grow).
“Predicting species’s reaction to climate change is ____41____ major challenge in ecology,” said the ____42____ (research) from several US universities. They said plants had be-en the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystems.
The study, published on the Nature website, ____43____ (use) the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It ____44____ (find) that some experiments have underestimated the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times.
“Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance — for both leafing and flowering — that results from temperature increases,” the study said.
The design of future experiments may need to be improved to _____45_____ (well) predict how plants will react to climate change, it said.
五、建议信（本题共计1题，共计15分）
46. 假设你是李华，你的朋友Anthony对中国古诗很感兴趣，报名参加了“我最喜爱的中国古代诗人”（My Favorite Ancient Chinese Poet）英语演讲比赛，但不知如何准备，来信寻求你的建议。请你用英语写一封回信，内容如下：
1. 推荐的诗人及推荐原因；
2. 演讲的注意事项；
3. 鼓励和祝福。
注意：1. 词数80词左右；2. 短文的开头己写好，不计入总数。
Dear Anthony,
Hearing that you have signed up for the English Speaking Contest "My Favorite Ancient Chinese Poet",
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
六、读后续写（本题共计1题，共计25分）
47. 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。续写的词数应为150左右。
I lay on my bed, legs leaning against the wall, desperately wishing my mother would call. But I remembered the last time I'd seen her, right before the train for Providence pulled out of the station, “You know how expensive it is to call,” she said, then hugged me tight and said good- bye.
This was my first birthday away from home. I missed my mom, missed my sister, and most certainly missed the special pound cake my mother always made for my birthday. Since getting to college that year, I would watch jealously as the other freshmen received care packages from their parents on their birthdays--and even on ordinary days. Big boxes containing summer slacks and blouses, packages of M&M's and Snickers , things they needed and things they didn't. Instead of feeling thrilled about my upcoming eighteenth birthday, I felt empty. I wished my mom would send me something, too, but I knew that she couldn’t afford presents or the postage. She had done her best with my sister and me--raising us by herself. The simple truth was there just was never enough money.
But that didn’t stop her from filling us with dreams. “You can be anything you want to be,” she would tell us. “Politicians, dancers, writers -- you just have to work for it; you have to get an education.”
Thanks to my mom's sacrifices and big dreams, I’d made it to the Ivy League: Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
As I was recalling these things, my roommate joined me on the bed. “Hey. After we study, let's buy ice cream and cake.” I nodded, closed my eyes, and imagined the cake Mom would have made. Mmm. I could see the golden yellow of each of the twelve eggs, and I could almost smell the vanilla(香草) filling the house while the cake baked.
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
As I daydreamed, there was a knock on the door.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2
How had she managed to afford it ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2024-2025学年第二学期高二级英语科期中检测
总分：120分
一、阅读理解（本题共计4题，共计37.5分）
A
【1~3题答案】
【答案】1. B 2. D 3. C
B
【4~7题答案】
【答案】4. D 5. B 6. A 7. C
C
【8~11题答案】
【答案】8. B 9. A 10. B 11. B
D
【12~15题答案】
【答案】12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
二、阅读七选五（本题共计1题，共计12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
【16~20题答案】
【答案】16. F 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. G
三、完形填空（本题共计1题，共计15分）
【21~35题答案】
【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. A 29. C 30. B 31. C 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. A
四、语法填空（本题共计1题，共计15分）
【36~45题答案】
【答案】36. which
37. hundreds
38. changing
39. how 40. growth
41. a 42. researchers
43. uses 44. found
45. better
五、建议信（本题共计1题，共计15分）
【46题答案】
【答案】
Dear Anthony,
Hearing that you have signed up for the English Speaking Contest “My Favorite Ancient Chinese Poet”, I’m glad to share suggestions.
I recommend Su Shi, a versatile poet with optimism. His “I ask the sky for wine, wondering about the palace in the moon” shows his wit and resilience through life’s ups and downs. Highlighting his ability to find joy in adversity will make your speech inspiring.
For the speech, pick 2 poems. Start with a brief story about his exile, then analyze key lines’ imagery and emotions. Use simple English to explain cultural references and add a slide of his calligraphy. Practice pausing to emphasize feelings and smile naturally.
You’ve got this! Your love for Chinese poetry will shine. Good luck, and let me know if you need more help!
Best wishes
Li Hua
六、读后续写（本题共计1题，共计25分）
【47题答案】
【答案】读后续写
Paragraph 1:
As I daydreamed, there was a knock on the door. My roommate opened it to find a deliveryman asking for me. He handed her a large box, which she carefully placed on the desk near my bed. “Open it”. I did, and inside was a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting. In icing were the words: “Happy Birthday, Sande! Love, Mom.” I was filled with excitement, as if Mom were right there hugging me close.
Paragraph 2:
How had she managed to afford it I felt as if I were back at home with her, safe and secure while she sang and told me how much she loved having me in her life. I ran out to the hall and knocked on my dormmates’ doors. “Birthday cake,” I called. I cut cake for the students gathering in my room and watched their faces as they ate, because I didn't need to eat to feel both full and rich inside.

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