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2025-2026学年度第二学期期中练习高二英语
一、完形填空
“Hi, this is Sasha,” a young woman sang out as the customer service line was finally connected. “How can I help you today ” Her tone annoyed me. I was in no ____1____ for pleasantries (客套).
My friends and I made a dinner reservation at a fancy restaurant. The skirt I’d ordered from this company would be ____2____ for it. This was the third time I’d ordered. And the third time I’d received the wrong item! Someone had to ____3____ this!
“Is this how you treat a 20-year customer ” I demanded. “I’ve never seen such terrible ____4____. It’s a real shame, Sasha!”
Finally, I drew a breath and waited. After a moment, she ____5____, not in kind but in kindness. “I am so sorry, Ms. Messner. I will go to find the correct skirt myself. Can I put you on hold briefly ”
Soon enough, I heard her same calm voice again, “I just consulted my manager. We’ll send the skirt to you at no ____6____ and refund your money in full. Also, you’ll find a $50 gift card with it. I want you to know that we ____7____ you as a customer.”
“Thank you, Sasha.” I hung up, ____8____ and disappointed in myself. I felt uneasy about how I’d treated the young woman with the pleasant voice. In my years as a nurse, I’d taken calls from angry people. Their words had often ____9____ me. And yet here was Sasha, going out of her way to solve my problem.
The next morning, I telephoned the call center and got through to the manager, asking her to let Sasha know I was sorry. Now when I feel myself getting impatient at work, I take a deep breath and say, as ____10____ as Sasha might, “What did you say your name was again ”
1. A．mood B．shape C．hurry D．position
2. A．basic B．perfect C．ordinary D．expensive
3. A．rely on B．agree with C．stick to D．answer for
4. A．advice B．service C．reply D．damage
5. A．claimed B．responded C．criticized D．whispered
6. A．loss B．risk C．point D．charge
7. A．value B．award C．tolerate D．remember
8. A．relaxed B．confused C．astonished D．embarrassed
9. A．fooled B．struck C．wounded D．frightened
10. A．smartly B．directly C．sweetly D．seriously
二、语法填空
11. Sue took some paper and a pen into Johnsy’s room and began a pen drawing, in an attempt ____11____ (raise) Johnsy’s spirits.
12. The janitor found him ____12____ (lie) in the bed helplessly with pain yesterday morning.
13. The crash was so violent ____13____ I had no clear recollection of falling from the boat.
14. “Help, help!” I shouted, swimming towards the boat in ____14____ (desperate).
15. Some moments after, eight strong men, their faces covered, appeared noiselessly, and ____15____ (draw) us down into their incredible machine.
16. Cloning is the process of making an exact copy of a plant or animal and developing it either naturally or ____16____ (artificial).
17. After Dolly, scientists have cloned more than 20 mammal species, ____17____ (include) camels, cattle, deer, dogs, goats and mice.
18. For example, they wonder ____18____ clones should be treated as objects or as individuals with their own identity.
19. An epidemic is the name ____19____ (give) to an infectious disease that rapidly spreads to a large number of people within a short period of time — usually two weeks or less.
20. Research shows the average person only ____20____ (have) regular communication with between seven and fifteen people.
21. Initially, many people believed that such epidemics no longer ____21____ (pose) a threat until very recently when SARS became a cause for concern.
22. Countries will need to work together to do this because teamwork among nations across the globe can save ____22____ (life).
23. However, perhaps we are ____23____ (close) to the rest of the world than we think.
24. In the last few decades, the theory and the phrase ____24____ (appear) again.
25. Suddenly she seemed to grasp the full meaning of ____25____ had been said.
三、选词填空
根据提示，从方框中选择合适的单词，并使用这个单词的恰当形式补全句子。
grab sink adopt oppose ease
26. The school decided ____26____ new methods of teaching foreign languages.
27. Her heart ____27____ as the list ended without her name.
28. 200 people attended the meeting, as ____28____ to 300 the previous year.
29. The Beatles immediately ____29____ the attention of young people.
30. He was so nervous at first but her warm welcome soon put him at ____30____.
四、阅读理解
A
The Community Volunteers Program (CVP) connects Northeastern students with consistent volunteer opportunities at local nonprofit organizations in Boston.
All current Northeastern students are qualified to apply for CVP. Through this program, Community Volunteers will have the opportunity to:
Work directly with community-based organizations matching their passions and skills.
Gain a deeper understanding of how organizations in Boston address social issues in the communities.
Enhance their professional development through hands-on experience.
Expand their personal and professional networks with nonprofit staff, students, and community residents.
Attend monthly training events with an emphasis on reflection and education with fellow Community Volunteers.
Receive participant recognition for dedication and impact.
2024-2025 CVP Community Partners
Camp Harbor View
Camp Harbor View offers a summer camp for students in grades 6-8, leadership development for students in grades 9-12, and comprehensive family services; including scholarships, clinical support, and resource coordination — all at no cost. It also builds targeted pilot programs, such as Guaranteed Income Program, to address the acute needs of families.
Fenway Community Center
It fosters connections among local residents through a welcoming space where all can participate in activities that enhance their lives. They embrace diversity, encourage creativity, and promote wellness, striving to build a community that values collaboration, equity, and sustainability.
Link Health
Link Health empowers residents by linking them to essential public benefit programs, ensuring access to healthcare, energy assistance, and nutrition support.
Commitment Cycle:
Spring: January – April (Applications open December 2024)
CVP Withdrawal Deadline: February 9th
First week of service: Jan 20 – 24th
Last week of service: Apr 7 – 11th
Summer: May – June (Applications open April 2025)
Fall: September – December
31. Through CVP, Community Volunteers will ________.
A．reflect on training events
B．promote their social position
C．receive rewards for dedication
D．learn how social issues are addressed
32. What can we know about the CVP Community Partners
A．Camp Harbor View gives targeted help to some families.
B．Link Health provides healthcare services to the volunteers.
C．CVP Community Partners emphasize developing creativity.
D．Fenway Community Center has built a sustainable community.
33. The service of spring commitment cycle starts in ________
A．December 2024
B．January 2025
C．February 2025
D．April 2025
B
Inspired by an event held by the Dallas-based Daddy Stroller Social Club (DSSC), a group for fathers, Brandon Shaw wrote an 83-page typed letter to his father. At the Blacklit bookstore, Kalvin Bridgewater led 15 dads, including his own father, who was seated next to Shaw, in an emotional event where the men dug into what they hated, loved, misunderstood and appreciated about their fathers as they grew up.
Founded by Bridgewater in 2021, DSSC initially met with about 30 dads per event but skyrocketed in popularity after two online videos became hits in April 2024. It now attracts over 150 dads at events, where fathers bond over shared experiences and provide emotional backing for one another.
DSSC’s appeal is broad, attracting dads from various professions, including doctors, engineers, and electricians. The group emphasizes emotional support, with members regularly checking in on one another. As Shaw shared, the group provides a space where men can be open, asking, “How are you feeling ” Shaw, who joined the group when he first became a father, said it has made him more patient and understanding.
Bridgewater, who became a certified doula (产妇陪护师) to better support his wife through pregnancy, also ensures DSSC allows partners some time for themselves. At a May event, scheduled just before Mother’s Day, mothers had the day off while fathers spent time bonding with their children.
Brandon Shaw described the experience as transformative, saying it helped him connect with his own weaknesses, something he had previously kept hidden. He sent the letter he wrote to his father for Father’s Day. It arrives soon. He said he doesn’t expect a response and just hopes his father reads it. As Bridgewater puts it, fatherhood is just about “being honest and sharing”.
34. What can be inferred about DSSC from the first two paragraphs
A．It creates a group of father influencers.
B．It repairs broken father-son relationships.
C．It promotes fathers’ emotional well-being.
D．It highlights fathers’ vital role in childcare.
35. What is the main idea of the last paragraph
A．The severity of parental issues.
B．The necessity to identify weaknesses.
C．Bridgewater’s devotion to fatherhood.
D．Influence of the organization on its member.
36. Which of the following can be used to best describe DSSC
A．celebrity-led and trend-setting
B．Profit-oriented and service-providing
C．Group-exclusive and profession-focused
D．Community-driven and emotionally supportive
C
Senses That Work Together
When we think about how our senses work, we usually imagine them operating separately: you sniff a flower, and the smell is delivered uninterrupted from nose to brain. However, it’ s more complex than that. Most evidence for cross-modal perception (知觉) comes from studies into sound and vision (视觉).
But research that shows other senses crossing over is coming out all the time, and it seems that even sound and smell sometimes form an unlikely pairing.
When New York researchers, Daniel Wesson and Donald Wilson, tried to find out the truth about a “ mysterious” area of the brain called the olfactory tubercle, they had to deal with this fact. Originally, they only intended to measure how olfactory tubercle cells in mice responded to smell. But during testing, Wesson noticed that every time he put his coffee cup down, the mouse cells jumped in activity. In fact, the olfactory tubercle is well-placed to receive both smell and sound information from the outside world. Later they found that among separate cells, most responded to a smell but a significant number were also active when a sound was made. Some cells even behaved differently when smell and sound were presented together, by increasing or decreasing their activity.
Of course, mice aren’t people, so research team has been carrying out further experiments. They pulled together a group of people and gave them various drinks to smell. Participants were asked to sniff the drinks, and then match them to appropriate musical instruments and produce the notes at different levels. The results were interesting: piano was regularly paired with fruity fragrances; strong smells sounded like the instruments that are made of metal.
Further research found that listening to different sounds can change your perceptions. Studying taste this time, the team ordered some special toffee (太妃糖) and put together “ soundscapes” corresponding to bitterness and sweetness. Participants tasted similar pieces of toffee while listening to each soundscape, and found the toffee more bitter or sweeter, depending on which soundtrack they were listening to.
Studies like this are helping scientists correctly describe our understanding of the senses, and how the brain combines them with its advantage. The consequences are worth considering. Could we see musicians work together with chefs to produce sound-improved food and drink Will you be ordering a coffee with a soundtrack to bring out your favorite smell Come to think of it, that could be one thing you hope coffee shop chains don’t get round to.
37. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 refer to
A．A lot of research focuses on the senses.
B．Sound and vision are relatively easy to study.
C．There can be a link between sound and smell.
D．Evidence about the way senses work is hard to obtain.
38. In Wesson and Wilson’ s research, ______.
A．the mice were affected more significantly by sound
B．the result confirmed what the researchers had suspected
C．the mice seemed to be afraid of certain sounds or smells
D．the connection between sound and smell was found by chance
39. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3
A．Participants took an active part in the experiments.
B．The purpose of the further experiments was totally different.
C．The result failed to support what was found in previous experiments.
D．Experiments showed that links between sound and smell were consistent.
40. How does the author feel about the effect of the research
A．She is excited about the creative chances.
B．She is surprised at the recent developments.
C．She is convinced that the findings will be used soon.
D．She is worried about how the knowledge can be applied.
D
Technology is never a neutral tool for achieving human ends. Technological innovations reshape people as they use these innovations to control their environment. Artificial intelligence, for example, is altering humanity.
While the term AI conjures up anxieties about killer robots or catastrophic levels of unemployment, there are other, deeper implications. As AI increasingly shapes the human experience, how does this change what it means to be human Central to the problem is a person’s capacity to make choices, particularly judgments that have moral implications.
Aristotle argued that the capacity for making practical judgments depends on regularly making them — on habit and practice. We see the emergence of machines as substitute judges in a variety of everyday contexts as a potential threat to people learning how to effectively exercise judgment themselves.
In the workplace, managers routinely make decisions about who to hire or fire and which loan to approve, to name a few. These are areas where algorithmic prescription is replacing human judgment, and so people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will.
Recommendation engines, which are increasingly prevalent intermediaries (中间人) in people’s consumption of culture, may serve to constrain choice and minimize luck. By presenting consumers with algorithmically selected choices of what to watch, read, stream and visit next, companies are replacing human taste with machine taste. In one sense, this is helpful. After all, machines can survey a wider range of choices than any individual is likely to have the time or energy to do on their own. At the same time, though, this selection is optimizing for what people are likely to prefer based on what they’ve preferred in the past. We think there is some risk that people’s options will be constrained by their past in a new and unanticipated way.
As machine learning algorithms improve and as they train on more extensive data sets, larger parts of everyday life are likely to become utterly predictable. The predictions are going to get better and better, and they will ultimately make common experiences more efficient and pleasant. Algorithms could soon — if they don’t already — have a better idea about which show you’d like to watch next and which job candidate you should hire than you do. One day, humans may even find a way for machines to make these decisions without some of the biases that humans typically display.
But to the extent that unpredictability is part of how people understand themselves and part of what people like about themselves, humanity is in the process of losing something significant. As they become more and more predictable, the creatures inhabiting the increasingly AI-mediated world will become less and less like us.
41. What do we learn about the deeper implications of AI
A．It mainly causes catastrophic levels of unemployment.
B．It increases people’s access to information and entertainment.
C．It enables people to use innovations to control the environment.
D．It changes how humans make choices and understand themselves.
42. What may result from increasing application of recommendation engines
A．Consumers will have much limited choice.
B．Consumers will actually enjoy better luck.
C．It will be easier to decide on what to enjoy.
D．Humans will develop tastes similar to machines.
43. What is the author’s attitude toward the growing predictability brought by AI
A．Neutral.
B．Cautious.
C．Supportive.
D．Skeptical.
44. Which could be the best title for the passage
A．Technology Shapes Humanity.
B．The Age of Algorithmic Living.
C．Smarter Machines, Better Decisions.
D．When Prediction Replaces Judgment.
七选五
Digital Medicine
Could the next suggestion from your doctor be downloading an app Collectively known as digital medicine, a large number of apps in use or under development can now detect or monitor mental and physical disorders or directly administer therapies. ____45____
Many detection aids rely on mobile devices to record such features as users’ voices, locations, facial expressions, exercise and sleep; then they apply artificial intelligence to mark the possible change of a condition. Some smart watches, for instance, contain a sensor that automatically detects and warns people of a dangerous heart rate. ____46____ These wearable detection aids will not replace a doctor any time soon but can be helpful partners in stressing concerns that need follow-up. ____47____ Some are being developed to detect things such as cancerous DNA, stomach bleeds, body temperature and oxygen levels. The sensors inside your body can then send the data to apps for recording.
____48____ For the most part, those intended to diagnose or treat disorders must be proved safe and effective in clinical trials and earn regulatory approval; some may need a doctor’s permission.
Clearly, society must move into the future of digital medicine with care — ensuring that the apps go through strict testing, protect privacy and go smoothly into doctors’ work. With such protections in place, healthcare costs could be saved by marking unhealthy behaviours and helping people to make changes before diseases set in. ____49____ For researchers, the patterns that emerge will provide them with novel ideas for how best to build healthier habits and prevent diseases.
A．For doctors, applying AI to the data from these apps could help them personalize patient care.
B．These data also help doctors detect diseases and help patients change their behaviors.
C．Other similar tools can detect breathing disorders, depression and other conditions.
D．They can both help diagnose symptoms and enhance traditional medical care.
E．Detection aids can also take the form of eatable and sensor-bearing pills.
F．Digital medicine has been widely used in all aspects of life nowadays.
G．Not all healthcare apps can be used as digital medicine.
阅读表达
It is no secret that literary works, like many other pieces of art, are capable of making an emotional impact on their audience. One can say it is the ability to influence the reader’s mood that makes a story good and memorable.
A writer can show the optimistic nature of a fictional character in a variety of ways. Creating a contrast between the main character’s personality and external reality is among the most emotionally efficient means. Therefore, there is usually a juxtaposition between the imagined world of a book and the readers’ world around them.
At times when the world is “all over the place” and causes severe stress for people, having the chance to immerse (使沉浸) oneself into the fictional world and spend some time with the characters of the story can be a relief. For example, during the peaks of the pandemic when the news media was reporting high numbers of infected patients as well as spiking ICU rates, more and more people wanted to shelter themselves from the reality and take a break from it. While escaping the world around us is not realistic for a long time, having an opportunity to escape just for some time is a luxury that literature can offer.
There are a large number of books that offer the safe escape into a fictional world and teach their readers that there are no unsolvable problems. The adventures through which the reader goes together with book characters often provide teachable lessons and underline the importance of remaining optimistic. As mentioned by Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables, “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” It illustrates that the characters of the book have made some mistakes and have harvested the consequences of them, but the next day is a new page with new opportunities.
50. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
The adventures in literature help readers find solutions to problems and realize the importance of optimism.
________________________________________________________________
51. Apart from optimism, what other benefit(s) have you got from literature Why (In about 40 words)
________________________________________________________________
五、书信写作
52. 假设你是红星中学高二学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim对克隆技术很感兴趣，他来信说看到“克隆猴中中与华华”的新闻后，既兴奋又有些担忧。请你给他写一封回信，内容包括：
1．简要介绍克隆技术；
2．对克隆技术利弊的看法；
注意：词数100左右。
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参考答案
一、完形填空
1.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.B 6.D 7.A 8.D 9.C 10.C
二、语法填空
11.to raise
12.lying
13.that
14.desperation
15.drew
16.artificially
17.including
18.whether/if
19.given
20.has
21.posed
22.lives
23.closer
24.have appeared
25.what
三、选词填空
26.to adopt
27.sank
28.opposed
29.grabbed
30.ease
四、阅读理解
A
31.D 32.A 33.B
B
34.C 35.D 36.D
C
37.C 38.D 39.D 40.A
D
41.D 42.A 43.B 44.D
七选五
45.D 46.C 47.E 48.G 49.A
阅读表达
50. False part: find solutions to problems.
Explanation: Literary adventures only teach readers no problems are unsolvable rather than offering practical solutions to real-life troubles.
51. Literature enriches my vocabulary and broadens my horizons. It shows diverse lives and cultures I can never experience in daily life, making me more tolerant of differences.
五、书信写作范文
Dear Jim,
I’m glad you’re interested in cloning after seeing the news of cloned monkeys Zhongzhong and Huahua.
Cloning means creating genetically identical copies of animals or plants using cell technology. It brings obvious advantages. It helps protect endangered species and advance medical research for organ transplants.
However, it also causes worries. Human cloning will break natural order and raise ethical arguments.
In my opinion, we should develop cloning technology strictly for medical and wildlife protection use and ban human cloning.
Yours,
Li Hua

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