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高二下学期期中英语试题
一、完形填空
Jan Tchamani, an English teacher in Birmingham, UK, suddenly developed a serious illness and had to quit her job. At age 50, she found herself out of work and ___1___ at home with only her computer to keep her company. After a while, she discovered that surfing the Internet could help her feel less lonely and bored. She could listen to music, watch films, play games, and ___2___ the world. She also joined an online group where she could talk about her problems and get support and ___3___ from others. She realised that one of the greatest benefits of the Internet was its ability to remove the ___4___ that usually exists between people.
She was so ___5___ by the people she met online that she decided to start an IT club to teach older people how to use computers and the Internet. She and her friends now organise events and collect money to pay for private teachers. Many people have been helped by the club. A 61-year-old woman who was living alone has started a small online company together with two friends. She no longer feels lonely, and her company has become quite ___6___.
Jan has started taking online classes to learn more about how to use the Internet to make society better. She believes that it is highly important to ___7___ the digital divide and make sure that everyone has access to the Internet and knows how to use new technology. Her next goal is to start a(n) ___8___ website to raise money for children in poor countries.
Jan’s life has been greatly improved by the Internet. “When you ___9___ tough times, you meet others who are facing similar challenges,” Jan says. “Thinking about other people’s situations inspired me to offer ___10___.”
1. A．stuck B．employed C．busy D．active
2. A．protect B．explore C．ignore D．destroy
3. A．praise B．criticism C．advice D．orders
4. A．cost B．time C．speed D．distance
5. A．surprised B．confused C．annoyed D．inspired
6. A．famous B．difficult C．successful D．strange
7. A．cross B．bridge C．enlarge D．educate
8. A．charity B．advertisement C．learning D．volunteer
9. A．go over B．go on C．go off D．go through
10. A．support B．complaints C．entertainment D．information
二、语法填空
Passage 1
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Tang Wensheng, born in New York, is an outstanding Chinese interpreter. She ___11___ (work) for China’s top leaders during the 1970s. “I think it was a privilege and a ___12___ (learn) experience,” Tang said. Her mastery of language and extensive insights ___13___ foreign affairs enabled her to handle high-level dialogues smoothly. Thanks to her lifetime dedication to the field, Tang was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation in 2024.
Passage 2
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
“Information Cocoons (茧)” ___14___ (coin) by Cass R. Sunstein in 2006. It refers to a phenomenon on the Internet: when facing vast information online, people only focus on what they want to see and algorithms (算法) will select their ___15___ (prefer) information, which ends up narrowing their horizons. Yet critics argue it comes from personal choice, rather than technology. They argue that ___16___ algorithm does is simply save the time of skipping. ___17___ (gain) a broader understanding of the world, we must overcome mental laziness and step out of our online comfort zones.
Passage 3
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
At the moment, AI tools provide results that are not always correct or appropriate. That’s why ___18___ (company) are looking for people to help train AI programs. These people are called prompt (提示词) engineers, ___19___ are paid six-figure salaries. Anna Bernstein, a prompt engineer, writes prompts and feeds them into AI tools. This helps the AI generate text with accurate information. She thinks prompt engineering is now one of ___20___ (hot) tech jobs and she loves her job.
三、阅读理解
A
No single job suits all of us, but many of the best ones have a few characteristics in common. The information given below is some of the best jobs for reference.
Nurse Practitioner
Average salary: $121,610/year
Unemployment rate: 0.4%
Expected job growth in ten years: 44.5%
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional education. Also known as advanced practice registered nurses, they specialize in treating specific patient populations, training to work in areas like women’s health or children’s health. They may also work in research or academia (学术界).
Financial Manager
Average salary: $139,790/year
Unemployment rate: 1.4%
Expected job growth in ten years: 16%
Financial managers oversee the finances of major companies, agencies and other organizations. Aside from working with numbers, they must also help other members of their organization understand their complex reports, which requires significant communication skills.
Software Developer
Average salary: $127,260/year
Unemployment rate: 1.4%
Expected job growth in ten years: 25.7%
Software developers invent the technologies we sometimes take for granted. For instance, the app that rings or sings to wake you up from a deep sleep every morning. The best developers are creative and have the technical skills to carry out innovative ideas. They are employed in a range of industries, including computer systems design, manufacturing and finance.
Information Security Analyst
Average salary: $112,000/year
Unemployment rate: 1.2%
Expected job growth in ten years: 31.5%
As concern about cybersecurity grows, so does the demand for information security analysts. It is the duty of these professionals to prepare and carry out security measures that protect a company’s computer networks and systems. Since lots of sensitive data is stored electronically these days, including bank account numbers and passwords, these professionals are crucial.
21. Which job may best suit people who fear unemployment
A．Nurse Practitioner.
B．Financial Manager.
C．Software Developer.
D．Information Security Analyst.
22. What do software developers and information security analysts have in common
A．They specialize in data management.
B．They are in high demand.
C．They are equipped with inventive minds.
D．They focus on user experience improvement.
23. Where is the text probably from
A．A course plan.
B．A career guidebook.
C．An academic article.
D．A job advertisement.
B
You are a Stanford student. Your professor walks into the room, breaks the class into teams, and gives each team five dollars in funding. Your goal is to make as much money as possible within two hours and then give a three-minute presentation about your achievement. What would you do
Typical answers range from buying start-up materials for a lemonade stand to buying a lottery ticket (彩票). But the teams that follow these typical paths tend to bring up the rear in the class.
The teams that make the most money don’t use the five dollars at all. They realize the five dollars is a worthless resource. So they ignore it and start from scratch. They redefine the problem more broadly as “What can we do to make money if we start with absolutely nothing ”
One particularly successful team ended up making reservations at popular local restaurants and then selling the reservation times to those who wanted to skip the wait. These students generated an impressive few hundred dollars in just two hours. But the team that made the most money approached the problem differently. They realized the most valuable resource was the three-minute presentation time they had in front of attentive Stanford students. They sold their three-minute slot (时段) to a company interested in employing Stanford students and walked away with $650.
The five-dollar challenge illustrates the difference between tactics (战术) and strategy. A strategy is a plan for achieving an objective. Tactics, in contrast, are the actions you undertake to carry out the strategy. The Stanford students who bombed the $5 challenge fixated on a tactic — how to use the five dollars — and lost sight of the strategy. Once you define the problem broadly in terms of what you’re trying to do instead of your favored solution — you’ll discover other possibilities waiting in plain sight.
24. What is the purpose of paragraph 1
A．To present a typical class at Stanford.
B．To collect answers to a question.
C．To introduce the five-dollar challenge.
D．To stress the importance of making money.
25. What does the underlined phrase “bring up the rear” in paragraph 2 mean
A．Be unlikely to last.
B．Become hard to notice.
C．Be at the bottom.
D．Encourage wrongdoing.
26. What can we infer about the two successful teams
A．They can think outside the box.
B．They insist on their favored solution.
C．They illustrate the benefits of collecting data.
D．They have a clear team process for planning.
27. What is suggested in the last paragraph
A．Think twice before you act.
B．A penny saved is a penny earned.
C．Actions speak louder than words.
D．Solutions lie in seeing the big picture.
C
Reading fiction is an emotional experience. Feeling emotions — even negative emotions such as sadness — drives reading and helps us enjoy books. The emotions we feel when reading may even help us show empathy, understand that others have opinions, and encourage us to help others. The emotional experience of reading is both individually and socially beneficial.
Currently, however, the link between reading and emotion is largely missing from the reading experienced by young people in English literature lessons in England.
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) English literature curriculum has been criticized. Examination questions in English literature are usually constructed impersonally. For instance, a recent GCSE paper asks students, “How does Priestley explore the importance of social class in An Inspector Calls ” Questions like this encourage students to consider the intention and style of the author without taking their personal response to the text into account.
The current approach to the English literature curriculum and its assessment is also in conflict with how teachers view the value of emotions in English teaching. In our recent study, we found that the teachers used the words “feel” and “feelings” frequently. These words often occurred within broader comments about engagement and a sense of closeness to both the themes and characters in the texts being studied. Some of the teachers we surveyed felt that this connection with a text had to be in place before any attempt to analyze language, structure and meaning. As one teacher said, “I find the easiest way into getting kids to analyze language is getting them to think about how it makes them feel and then to explore how the language is making that happen.”
Teachers were also keen to promote the value of discussion in their classrooms. They viewed this as an important way in which learners developed as readers, through dialog and by building on others’ emotional responses. They felt such collective talk was important as a tool for enriching the classroom environment. It also, crucially, encouraged students to understand that any literary text can give rise to multiple and often very different interpretations.
School reading should be more closely aligned (使一致) to personal reading practices and those are very much driven by emotions.
28. Which of the following questions might be considered impersonal
A．Which character do you like best in the play
B．What style does the author use in the fiction
C．Which poem impresses you the most and why
D．What do you admire about the hero in the novel
29. What should be done before analyzing literary works according to some teachers
A．Predicting the plot.
B．Analyzing the language.
C．Outlining the structure.
D．Relating to the works.
30. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 5
A．Illustrate a teaching process.
B．Explore a reading method.
C．Introduce a teaching practice.
D．Review a reading activity.
D
Noise-cancelling headphones are popular for making commutes easier and blocking daily noise. But they have recently been questioned, as hearing experts worry overuse might harm people’s hearing abilities. While the technology has clear advantages — like letting people listen to music at lower volume — some specialists suspect that constantly filtering out background noise may bring unexpected problems.
Renee Almeida, a hearing expert from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has seen more adults with hearing complaints. Tests show their ears work well, but their brains have issues: they struggle to find where sounds come from or follow conversations in busy places like trains or restaurants. This problem, called the auditory processing problem, is usually found in children. Almeida thinks wide use of noise-cancelling headphones could be the reason.
“The brain is used to dealing with many sounds at once and choosing what to focus on,” she says. “With noise cancellation, your brain gets only one sound — like a podcast or music — with nothing else to process.” She adds that overuse may make children’s brain development slower in learning to notice sounds, and make adults’ brains “lazy”, just like unused muscles get weak. Both groups may then find it hard to pick out speech from noisy surroundings.
However, other experts have different views. Harvey Dillon, a hearing science professor, says there’s no proof that noise-cancelling headphones cause such problems. He notes that loud music, not the noise-cancelling feature, might damage the auditory system. “Noise cancellation can even be good — it lets people listen to music at lower volume without background noise,” he explains.
Dani Tomlin, another hearing specialist, agrees that long-term use may make listening harder when headphones are taken off. But she says their benefits shouldn’t be ignored — they help people with special sensory needs and let people enjoy podcasts or movies during trips. “We don’t need to stop using them; we need more research,” she says.
For now, Almeida suggests using bone conduction headphones and doing hearing training. She advises people to listen to radio debates and write down rap song lyrics while listening. “The brain can still change and improve,” she says. “Just make an effort to pay attention to the sounds around you.”
31. What problem do adults with hearing complaints have according to Renee Almeida
A．Their ears cannot work normally.
B．They fail to locate the source of sounds.
C．They cannot listen to music at low volume.
D．They have difficulty using noise-cancelling headphones.
32. What can we infer from Harvey Dillon’s words
A．Noise-cancelling headphones may protect hearing in some way.
B．The noise-cancelling feature is the main cause of hearing damage.
C．Loud music is safer for hearing with noise-cancelling headphones.
D．There is enough research to prove the harm of noise-cancelling headphones.
33. What does Dani Tomlin agree about noise-cancelling headphones
A．Their side effects have been completely solved.
B．They help improve people’s ability to focus on sounds.
C．Their benefits are valuable and further study is required.
D．They are more useful than bone conduction headphones.
34. What is the main purpose of the passage
A．To explain how noise-cancelling headphones work.
B．To prove that noise-cancelling headphones harm hearing.
C．To advise people to use bone conduction headphones.
D．To introduce different views on noise-cancelling headphones’ effects.
七选五
A child and a man were walking on a beach. The child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, musical sounds, seemingly from another world. Then the man explained that these were merely faint sounds captured by the shell, revealing the unnoticed sounds of the world.
___35___ To enter and enjoy this new world, we need to love literature, and make an effort to explain it. Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race are the natural and social environments. ___36___ In a word, we have now reached a point where we wish to enjoy and understand literature. The first step is to determine some of its significant qualities.
The first quality of literature is its description of truth and beauty. Often, some truth and beauty go unnoticed until revealed by a sensitive soul, just like the shell reflecting the unnoticed sounds. ___37___
The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and imagination. ___38___ Consider the line asked by Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in the presence of Helen: “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships ” — it invites us into a world of love, beauty, and heroism.
The third quality of literature, coming out of the other two, is its permanence. ___39___ It also takes on a personal style — no writer can describe human life without reflecting his own life and experiences.
In summary, literature is the expression of life in forms of truth and beauty, the written record of man’s thoughts and feelings, and the history of the human soul.
A．Many great works of literature share these qualities.
B．This is why literature can be so powerful and moving.
C．Its attraction lies more in what it awakens in us than what it says.
D．We must know all these, if the book is to speak its whole message.
E．Some such experience as this lies in store for us when we begin the study of literature.
F．Good literature reflects the most basic of human nature — love and hate, joy and sadness, fear and hope.
G．For instance, while many might overlook a field of dead grass, a poet sees beauty and truth, transforming it into verse: “Yesterday’s flowers am I.”
四、选词填空
qualify contradictory dramatic genuine anticipate employ
40. She apologized and sounded ___40___ regretful.
41. To get this teaching position, you must have the right academic background and ___41___.
42. Tom was excited and full of ___42___ at the prospect of the trip.
43. Oil prices have risen ___43___ since last month due to changes in the international market.
44. The manager dismissed three ___44___ for being absent from work without permission.
45. It is a ___45___ to love animals and yet wear furs.
五、翻译
46. 我的日常饮食主要由蔬菜和水果构成。(consist of)
___________________________________________________________________
47. 他是医生，期盼儿子继承他的事业。（follow in one's footsteps）
____________________________________________________________________________________________
48. 我认为你一定读过这本书。(take... for granted)
___________________________________________________________________
六、阅读表达
Growing up, I was different. When I was four, I was officially diagnosed with autism (自闭症). Before that, I had ADHD and a peanut allergy. I was a late talker. I hated loud noises. Any changes in routine completely threw me off.
As a schoolboy, I felt like the least interesting person on Earth. No one seemed to understand me, and people were uncomfortable with me being different. I felt excluded by other students. Since I could not fit in, I chose silence — even though I had so much to say.
Toward the end of my freshman year, something changed. After holding everything in for too long, the pressure built until I couldn’t take it. Like a bear that had been poked one too many times, my inner bear finally roared. I was done trying to please others or shrinking myself to fit in. I decided I wasn’t going to stay quiet anymore.
I joined my high school’s media club, where for the first time I had friends and a sense of belonging. That was when I discovered the world of podcasting. During this early podcasting experience, I learnt about recording, editing and creating. Something else also changed — I felt a sense of self-worth, and my confidence grew.
Later, I started my own podcast — Autism rocks and Rolls. At first, it was just a way to use my voice. But I quickly realized I was speaking up for others too. I’ve had listeners tell me they found themselves nodding along while listening. It means understanding. It means someone out there gets it, and that’s powerful.
The podcast has now reached places I never expected. I’ve interviewed celebrities and leading experts, delivered a TEDx Talk and connected with thousands of listeners around the world. The most fulfilling part, though, is knowing that I’m opening people’s ears and minds to those who have been unheard.
Back then, I never imagined my voice would reach this far. Thinking no one was listening, for years, I held everything in. But once the bear found its voice, I didn’t go back into hiding. I kept speaking, and now I have a platform where others can roar too.
There are more than 8 billion people on the planet. Someone will get you. It may not be who you expect, and it may take time, but someone will. Keep going. Keep speaking. You will be heard.
49. What made the author feel excluded as a schoolboy
________________________________________________________________________
50. How did the author’s early podcasting experience benefit him
________________________________________________________________________
51. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
For the author, the most rewarding part of the podcasting experience is that it is a way to use his voice.
________________________________________________________________________
52. From this story, what can you learn about growth (In about 40 words)
________________________________________________________________________
七、书信写作
53. 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你暑假在伦敦学习，得知当地展览馆要举办中国文学作品展。请你写一封电子邮件申请当志愿者，内容包括：
1. 写信目的;
2.个人优势。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir/ Madam,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
参考答案
一、完形填空
1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D 5.D 6.C 7.B 8.A 9.D 10.A
二、语法填空
11.worked
12.learning
13.in
14.was coined
15.preferred
16.what
17.To gain
panies
19.who
20.the hottest
三、阅读理解单选
21.A 22.B 23.B
24.C 25.C 26.A 27.D
28.B 29.D 30.C
31.B 32.A 33.C 34.D
七选五
35.E 36.D 37.G 38.C 39.F
四、选词填空
40.genuinely
41.qualifications
42.anticipation
43.dramatically
44.employees
45.contradiction
五、翻译参考
46. My daily diet mainly consists of vegetables and fruit.
47. He is a doctor and expects his son to follow in his footsteps.
48. I take it for granted that you have read this book.
六、阅读表达参考
49. He suffered from autism and other illnesses and was different from other students, so no one understood him.
50. He learned podcast skills, gained self-worth and built up his confidence.
51. False part: it is a way to use his voice
Reason: The most fulfilling part is that he helps people understand unheard groups instead of just using his own voice.
52. Don’t hide yourself because of differences. Speak out bravely, and you will find your voice and connect with people who understand you.
七、书信写作范文
Dear Sir/ Madam,
I’m Li Hua, a senior two student studying in London this summer. I’m writing to apply to be a volunteer for your Chinese Literature Exhibition.
I have a good command of both Chinese and English. I’ve read lots of classic Chinese literary works, so I can introduce them clearly to visitors. Besides, I’m outgoing and patient, ready to offer service.
I would appreciate it if you could consider my application.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua

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