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2025-2026学年第二学期高二年级英语学科期中调研检测
一、单项选择
1. To tell you the truth, the car accident and the damage ______ resulted in frightened me so much that I almost gave up driving ever since.
A．that
B．it
C．which
D．what
2. The manager in the end decided to give the job to ________ he believed had a strong ability to communicate
A．who
B．anyone
C．whoever
D．whomever
3. The number of firms selling computers in this region ________ since January 2012.
A．are dropping
B．is dropping
C．have dropped
D．has dropped
4. Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ________ a cure for AIDS will be found in the near future.
A．that
B．whether
C．if
D．what
5. Many amateur singers are eager to take part in the ongoing TV reality show, for that’s ________ scouts find stars of the future.
A．why
B．which
C．when
D．where
6. The artist’s new work, which is ________ of traditional Chinese painting, has drawn wide attention from art lovers.
A．representative
B．alternative
C．optimistic
D．skeptical
7. It is widely acknowledged that Van Gogh was a(n) ________ figure in the history of modern art, whose paintings had a profound influence on later artists.
A．ordinary
B．influential
C．allergic
D．automatic
8. The photographer tried to ________ the beauty of the sunset to the audience through his creative lens.
A．convey
B．consult
C．conduct
D．confirm
9. To maintain physical and mental health, we should develop good habits and avoid ________ of drugs and alcohol.
A．abuse
B．advantage
C．admission
D．adjustment
10. The company decided to ________ the new plan after a series of discussions, aiming to improve employees’ working conditions.
A．implement
B．simplify
C．circulate
D．accelerate
11. The government has taken strict measures to reduce the ________ of harmful gases into the atmosphere.
A．release
B．relief
C．reveal
D．rejection
12. ________ the fact that the task is challenging, we are determined to finish it on time with joint efforts.
A．Despite
B．Besides
C．Without
D．Beyond
13. We should develop a ________ lifestyle to ensure that future generations can also enjoy a healthy living environment.
A．sustainable
B．considerable
C．inevitable
D．accessible
14. Having an outdoor meal is always fun, but it can also be damaging to the planet if__________.
A．planned not carefully
B．not planning carefully
C．not planned carefully
D．not to be planned carefully
15. —Jim, can you work this Sunday
—________ I’ve been working for two weeks on end.
A．Why me
B．Why not
C．What if
D．So what
二、完形填空
I longed to visit my mom, 2, 000 miles from where I lived. Since Mom was 80 and suffered from Alzheimer’s, I realized how 16 it was to see her again soon.
In nursing home, Mom spent most of her day doing 17 things — walking around and staring out of the window. She seemed to be “all right, considering that dementia (失忆症) had 18 . When hugged and greeted her, she didn’t know who was! Not 19 that her son was with her almost broke down. 20 , I spent several hours trying everything to 21 with Mom, but nothing worked. 22 aware that Alzheimer’s is incurable, I still hoped for a “miracle”. Back to my hotel, I spent hours 23 and wondering what else could 24 Mom around.
The next morning, something occurred to me that might recall her 25 . So took Mom to a cafe. After we were seated, Sandy the 26 asked for our order. Mom looking at the menu, I took Sandy aside, 27 told her of my plan and Mom’s 28 , and ordered two strawberry milkshakes. When Sandy 29 them, Mom took one sip (一小口) looking me in the eye. “This is good Bobby.” She 30 me at last, calling me Bobby!
There’s a simple 31 for Mom’s recollection. When I was little, Mom and Dad and us Kids often 32 into the car, drove around town, and 33 stopped for milkshakes — Mom’s favourite. I’d hit upon Mom’s memory. The accidental 34 allowed me to bond with Mom again and I 35 to do it — thanks to the milkshake.
16. A．upsetting B．important C．strange D．embarrassing
17. A．demanding B．amazing C．simple D．ridiculous
18. A．set in B．faded away C．broke off D．let up
19. A．signal B．challenge C．reason D．clue
20. A．Relaxed B．Stressed C．Annoyed D．Delighted
21. A．connect B．exchange C．check D．argue
22. A．Unless B．While C．Because D．Once
23. A．waiting B．sleeping C．worrying D．complaining
24. A．take B．bring C．show D．push
25. A．memory B．schedule C．dream D．interest
26. A．nurse B．cleaner C．waitress D．journalist
27. A．casually B．guiltily C．quietly D．coldly
28. A．character B．choice C．comment D．condition
29. A．shared B．packed C．spilt D．delivered
30. A．recognized B．praised C．believed D．thanked
31. A．request B．suggestion C．explanation D．settlement
32. A．broke B．looked C．ducked D．piled
33. A．seldom B．always C．occasionally D．hardly
34. A．event B．meeting C．gift D．conflict
35. A．desired B．planned C．decided D．managed
三、阅读理解
A
Do you know the four respectable women below？Let's have a look.
Maria Sibylla Merian
Until the 1670s, scientists thought that caterpillars（毛虫） and butterflies were two totally different creatures．Thanks to Maria Sibylla Merian, we know the truth about these winged insects．She began collecting，studying and drawing them when she was young. She was one of the few naturalists of her time who actually studied live insects. It was through her study of caterpillars that she discovered the truth about their life cycles.
Lucy Stone
If you know a woman who keeps her own family name after marriage，you should know that it's a tradition started by Lucy Stone. She initially changed her name, but decided to change it back a year later. She held the belief that "a wife should no more take her husband's name than he should take hers". She became the first American married woman to keep her own family name for her entire life. Both she and her husband also fought the popular idea that husbands had legal control over their wives.
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly, a famous journalist, was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. When a Pittsburgh Dispatch journalist wrote an article saying that working women were unacceptable, Bly wrote an argument that got her a job offer from the newspaper. What made her well-known was that she spent some time living in a mental institution to expose the conditions the patients faced. In 1889, she set out to travel around the world. And she made it.
Alice Coachman Davis
Alice Coachman Davis was the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She grew up in Georgia, where females were not allowed to join sports teams. So she trained on her own. Finally, Coachman competed in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where she not only won a gold medal but set a record in the high jump．
36. What's Maria Sibylla Merian's contribution？ ______
A．Telling the differences of winged insects．
B．Pioneering the study of live creatures．
C．Finding out some secrets of caterpillars
D．Discovering the evolution of winged insects．
37. Why did Lucy Stone change her name back after marriage？ ______
A．To escape from marriage．
B．To win the true equality with men．
C．To follow the fashion of society．
D．To fight against her husband's control．
38. Nellie Bly was famous for ______ ．
A．showing the truth about a mental institution
B．her argument for working women
C．being the youngest female journalist
D．setting a record for travelling around the world
39. What can be implied about Alice Coachman Davis's experience？ ______
A．Two heads are better than one
B．It is never too old to learn．
C．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush．
D．Where there is a will there is a way．
40. What do Nellie Bly and Alice Coachman Davis have in common？ ______
A．They were both athletic．
B．They were both selfless．
C．They both experienced prejudice．
D．They were both fond of adventures．
B
I was born in Merthyr Tydfil, a small town in Wales and an excellent place in which to grow up. It was probably the first town of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, where people had poured in to work in the new steel mills (工厂) and coal mines. But when I was small, all the great factories were closed and the town was one of the poorest in Europe, although that didn’t seem to be very important to me then. The ruins of the great mills were as romantic and imposing (壮观的) as those of any castle, the open mountains were within reach of any boy who could walk for fifteen minutes.
The first school I went to was a red-brick building on the edge of town, in the district of Georgetown. We had a splendid teacher and he taught us, about sixty small boys between the ages of seven and eleven, for the four years I was in the school. He was not only fond of words himself, but he could use them to tell jokes, to sing aloud, to explain things so vividly to us that we could see, almost, what he described. And he educated our senses, too, he made us look at everything so firmly, to know the textures (质地) of things with our skins, to hear the particular noises that exist in the world all around us. So real were our experiences that we began to look for the words necessary to recreate those experiences. That is how I began to write poetry.
I can't say that poetry was my greatest enthusiasm at that time. I loved boxing most of all. I knew all the great boxers of our town. When I was about ten years old I saw the fight I wrote about in The Ballad of Billy Rose. And years later, in Bristol, I saw the same man, old now, and very frail (体弱的). His name, however, was really Tommy Rose, and in the first version of my poem I called him that.
When I finished it, I read it aloud, and I knew that something was wrong. I was forced to change it to Billy, so that the balance was right, so that there was a satisfying agreement between the word "Ballad" and the word "Billy". Much the same thing happened when I wrote about his last great fight. I wanted my readers to hear for themselves the sounds of the fight with my words.
41. As a child, how did the writer feel about his hometown
A．He was saddened by its ruins.
B．He was delighted with its surroundings.
C．He wished it had more to offer.
D．He cared little about its history.
42. One of the strengths of the writer's teacher was that he taught his pupils to ________.
A．view the world with exactness and clarity
B．express their feelings in poetry
C．describe objects in detail
D．create imaginary worlds
43. In discussing the technique behind The Ballad of Billy Rose, the writer emphasizes ________.
A．the structure he chose for the poem
B．the description of the situation he created
C．the care with which he chose his words
D．the deep thought he wanted
44. A reader can find out from this text________.
A．how many poems the writer had written
B．how the writer began to write poetry
C．when the writer left the small town in which he was born
D．where the writer received higher education
45. From the text as a whole we understand that the writer's approach to poetry________.
A．has changed to reflect the times in which he has lived
B．has benefited from the reactions of others to his work
C．is heavily influenced by the environment where he grew up
D．is still influenced by what he was taught at school
C
This is an approach to quality improvement based on the statistical work of Joseph Juran, one of two American pioneers of quality management. Sigma is a Greek letter used in mathematics to denote standard deviation (标准差), a statistical measure of the extent to which a series of numbers or readings deviates from its average. One Sigma indicates a wide scattering (分散) of the readings. If the average is the required quality standard of a particular process or product, then One Sigma quality is not very good. The higher the number, the closer the readings come to total perfection. At the Six Sigma level, there are only 3.4 defects (缺陷) per million.
This may sound complicated, but in practice it has proved a popular way for managers to put quality management into effect. One of its great advantages is that it avoids the idea of aiming for “zero defects”, or total perfection--a frighteningly inaccessible goal for most. It presents a system for improving quality gradually. Companies or operational groups move step-by-step up the Sigma ladder, the ultimate goal being to reach the Six Sigma state--still just short of perfection. Reasonably unsophisticated computer programs do the necessary calculations when fed with data on the goals (the specifications of the perfect product or process) and the organization’s actual achievements.
Six Sigma sounds like some sort of secret coven (集会). Its advocates insist that it is no such thing. But it has certain symbols of the exclusive society. Anyone in an organization who goes on a basic training course for a Six Sigma program is called a Green Belt. Anyone who is given the full-time job of leading a team that is starting on a Six Sigma exercise is given further training and is called a Black Belt. Beyond this, there are a special few who are trained even more, and they are called Master Black Belts. Their role is to champion the exercise throughout the organization and to watch over the Black Belts and ensure that they are consistently improving the quality of their team’s output.
Pioneered in the United States by Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma became hugely popular in the 1990s after Jack Welch adopted it at General Electric. To achieve Six Sigma quality at GE, a process must produce no more than 3.4 defects per million “opportunities”. An opportunity is defined as “a chance for non-conformance, or not meeting the required specifications”. The company says: “Six Sigma has changed the DNA of GE. It is now the way we work--in everything we do and in every product we design”.
46. It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that ________.
A．Joseph Juran came up with Six Sigma based on his statistical work.
B．Six Sigma is an approach to improving quality to total perfection.
C．mathematicians and statistical experts master Six Sigma best.
D．Six Sigma quality is relatively better than Four Sigma quality
47. We can learn from the first two paragraphs that Six Sigma ________.
A．pursues not total perfection but a gradual process of quality enhancement
B．indicates the quality of the product or process is closest to total perfection
C．is more a mathematical and statistical measure than a managerial method
D．is not only a mean approach but also a complex and inaccessible goal
48. People regard Six Sigma as a kind of secret coven in that it ________.
A．is a secret and mysterious organization
B．does not grant membership to outsiders
C．has some features of a secret society
D．has a rigid but orderly training system
49. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.
A．the Green Bolts
B．the Black Belts
C．the Master Black Belts
D．the team leaders
50. By saying “Six Sigma has changed the DNA of GE”, the company most probably means Six Sigma ________.
A．has transformed the operation mode of GE
B．has enabled GE to improve its quality
C．has earned huge popularity for GE
D．has reformed the structure and organization of GE
D
Most kids grow up learning they cannot draw on the walls. But it might be time to unlearn that training — this summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor’s Island.
The project is called Writing On It All, and it’s a participatory writing project and artistic experiment that has happened on Governor’s Island every summer since 2013.
“Most of the participants are people who are just walking by or are on the island for other reasons, or they just kind of happen to be there,” Alexandra Chasin, artistic director of Writing On It All, tells Smithsonian.com.
The 2016 season runs through June 26 and features sessions facilitated by everyone from dancers to domestic workers. Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover surfaces with their thoughts and art. This year, the programs range from one that turns the house into a collaborative essay to one that explores the meaning of exile.
Governor’s Island is a national historic landmark district long used for military purposes. Now known as “New York’s shared space for art and play,” the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flock for festivals, picnics, adventures, as well as these “legal graffiti (涂鸦)” Sessions.
The notes and art scribbled (涂画) on the walls are an experiment in self-expression. So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85. Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.
“One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls,” says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it. “People do beautiful work and leave beautiful messages.”
51. What does the project Writing On It All invite people to do
A．Unlearn their training in drawing.
B．Participate in a state graffiti show.
C．Cover the walls of an old house with graffiti.
D．Exhibit their artistic creations in an old house.
52. What do we learn about the participants in the project
A．They are just culture addicts.
B．They are graffiti enthusiasts.
C．They are writers and artists.
D．They are mostly passers-by.
53. What did the project participants do during the 2016 season
A．They were free to scribble on the walls whatever came to their mind.
B．They expressed their thoughts in graffiti on the theme of each session.
C．They learned the techniques of collaborative writing.
D．They were required to cooperate with other creators.
54. What kind of place is Governor’s Island
A．It is a historic site that attracts tourists and artists.
B．It is an area now accessible only to tourist vehicles.
C．It is a place in Upper New York Bay formerly used for exiles.
D．It is an open area for tourists to enjoy themselves years round.
55. What does Chasin say about the project
A．It just focused on the sufferings of black females.
B．It helped expand the influence of graffiti art.
C．It has started the career of many creative artists.
D．It has created some meaningful artistic works.
四、阅读表达
I had been working for a company in Australia for more than ten years. I had just found a better job and I knew that the manager would be disappointed when I was leaving. I recently became friends with a young man who had just migrated to Australia to escape war in his homeland. He was unskilled and was finding life difficult as he was unemployed.
The manager asked me to introduce someone who I thought could do the job just as well as me, so I took this opportunity to arrange an interview for my new friend. However, in the end, he was not offered the job after the interview.
Later, I asked the manager why my friend was turned down. The manager thought that his English was not good enough for the position, but I suggested that my friend will be a good choice for the company since I could train him. I believed that once given the time to learn, he could do the job. After a week’s training, he was employed and was happy with his position.
I knew how the terrible war had forced him to leave his homeland and what price he had paid for doing so. I appreciate being able to live in Australia and believe that this appreciation is best proved by offering acts of kindness to people in need of help. The smile of appreciation from this man continues to impel me to give, which is a very happy and enjoyable process, during which I also receive some unexpected things, such as help, prize, flowers, love and so on.
56. What’s the reason of the young man’s coming to Australia (no more than 5 words)
____________________________________________________
57. Why was the young man initially turned down for the job (no more than 10 words)
____________________________________________________
58. How did the man get the job in the end (no more than 10 words)
____________________________________________________
59. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 4 probably mean (1 word)
____________________________________________________
60. What’s your opinion about “giving and receiving” Give your reasons. (no more than 25 words)
____________________________________________________
五、书面表达
演讲稿
61. 一年一度的科技节活动即将到来。下周你校英语角将举办一场以探寻科学家精神为主题的英语演讲比赛。请写一篇演讲稿参加本次比赛。内容包括：
1.表明铸就了伟大科学家的精神品质；
2.结合科学家们的故事阐述自己的观点；
3.对你的启发。
注意：
1.演讲稿题目和开头已给出；
2.词数应在100左右。
Sparkling Scientific Spirits
Good morning, dear friends! Today, I am here to talk about what it takes to become a great scientist.
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参考答案
一、单项选择
1.B 2.C 3.D 4.A 5.D
6.A 7.B 8.A 9.A 10.A
11.A 12.A 13.A 14.C 15.A
二、完形填空
16.B 17.C 18.A 19.D 20.B
21.A 22.B 23.C 24.B 25.A
26.C 27.C 28.D 29.D 30.A
31.C 32.D 33.B 34.A 35.D
三、阅读理解
36.C 37.B 38.A 39.D 40.C
41.B 42.A 43.C 44.B 45.D
46.D 47.A 48.C 49.B 50.A
51.C 52.D 53.B 54.A 55.D
四、阅读表达
56. To escape war.
57. His English was not good enough.
58. He received training and passed the test.
59. Push / Drive
60. Giving brings unexpected rewards, forming a warm cycle between people.
五、书面表达范文
Sparkling Scientific Spirits
Good morning, dear friends! Today, I am here to talk about what it takes to become a great scientist.
Great scientists share persistent spirits and devotion to truth. Take Yuan Longping as an example. He stuck to rice research for decades regardless of hardships to feed more people. Marie Curie also devoted all her life to radioactive research without caring about fame or wealth.
Their stories inspire me greatly. I will hold on to my scientific dreams, keep curious and never give up when facing difficulties in study. Only perseverance can help us make valuable achievements in science.

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