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2024-2025学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷
一、阅读理解
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个正确答案。
A
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Pawpaws (木瓜) to the People
The Ohio Pawpaw Festival is a fun-filled, educational community event celebrating one of America’s largest native tree fruits, the pawpaw. It’s a creamy, tropical-tasting (热带风味的) fruit. It is both nutritious and historically important. This all-weekend event highlights the rich history and future possibilities of the pawpaw through delicious food and drinks and a full line-up of presentations and activities that cover pawpaw growing, cooking, medical use and other topics related to sustainability. Don’t miss the big events: contests for the best/biggest pawpaw, a cook-off, an art competition, and the ever-popular pawpaw-eating contest.
Pawpaws for the Planet!
You all know the pawpaw is a green fruit, and the festival has a reputation for being the same way. In addition to the solar-powered stage and reusable beer glasses, this year’s sellers have agreed to serve food on eco-friendly table service items only. They are 100% bought in to a new zero waste policy. So we hope you’ll buy in, too!
To make all of these efforts possible, we need some devoted volunteers. Volunteers get a free weekend pass, a T-shirt, and access to top recycling systems. Please sign up through the festival’s volunteer application.
To learn more about zero waste efforts in the region, visit ruralaction.org/our-work /zero-waste.
Join us for an unforgettable weekend of flavor, fun, and sustainability—secure your tickets today before they sell out!
1. What do we know about the Ohio Pawpaw Festival
A．It’s both informative and entertaining.
B．It lasts for a whole week this year.
C．It involves a pawpaw-planting competition.
D．It celebrates the largest pawpaw in Africa.
2. How many eco-friendly measures of the festival are mentioned
A．One. B．Two. C．Three. D．Four.
3. What is the main purpose of this text
A．To report a news story.
B．To offer travel tips.
C．To introduce a fruit.
D．To promote an event.
B
When seeing someone being kind or generous, we feel warm inside. Researchers call this “moral elevation (提升),” and it not only feels good but inspires us to do good ourselves.
But how much does witnessing good affect us—and why A new analysis of decades of research aimed to find out the answers. The results suggest that our acts of kindness and generosity, online or offline, can have meaningful ripple effects (连锁反应) in our communities.
Researchers combined results from 88 studies involving over 25,000 participants to measure how much our own kindness increases after witnessing someone acting generously—for example, comforting someone crying, donating to charity, or acting cooperatively in a competitive game. In the studies, people would read about or see someone act in a kind way and then have the opportunity to be kind and generous themselves.
The analysis showed a reasonably strong effect, where people witnessing kindness tended to act kindness themselves. “The message that the prosocial (亲社会的) behaviors are quite infectious is a really important message that people should know.” says the lead researcher, Haesung Jung.
Interestingly, her analyses showed that it didn’t matter how people witnessed a kind act. They could have read about it, watched a TV show, or actually been present when someone helped others. It also doesn’t matter whether or not they saw someone giving material or non-material help.
But there were factors that did affect how inspired people were to pay it forward. The more time that had passed since people saw a selfless act, the lower their motivation to help others. It also mattered what kind of response to the kindness people observed. If witnesses saw such people praised or even rewarded with money, they would have a greater likelihood to pay it forward themselves.
The research is of great value for society—particularly now, when we need people to act in more prosocial ways. “In organizations, educational settings, and just everyday life, it’s important to highlight kindness, caring, and good social behavior,” says Jung. “Doing good has a much larger impact than people realize.”
4. What is the core nature of moral elevation
A．The desire to help others directly.
B．Online and off line community effects.
C．Cooperation in taking generous actions.
D．Positive impacts from observing kindness.
5. How did the researchers conduct the study
A．By tracking witnesses’ behavior for decades.
B．By interviewing subjects about their moral beliefs.
C．By analyzing former studies about kindness increase.
D．By comparing participants’ responses to being helped.
6. Who is more likely to pass on the kindness according to the text
A．A person reading stories of giving online.
B．A person seeing kindness being recognized.
C．A person noticing others offer non-material help.
D．A person experiencing a kind act a few years ago.
7. What is the last paragraph mainly about
A．Challenges in maintaining consistent generosity.
B．Approaches to studying prosocial behavior trends.
C．Significance of encouraging prosocial acts in society.
D．Necessity for educating the public to present kindness.
C
Deep underneath the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean lies beautiful reefs colored by its algae (藻类). However, in the early 1980s, an El Ni o heatwave led to mass-bleaching, which turned more than 90 percent of these corals a pale, lifeless white.
When stronger El Ni o events struck the area again in 2015–2016, biologist Tina Palacio observed a surprising phenomenon: some corals resisted bleaching or showed recovery. Her team later discovered that Pocillopora — the region’s primary reef-building coral — had gotten rid of their original algae and adopted heat-tolerant species.
Corals typically provide nitrogen (氮气) to their resident algae and receive carbon in return for energy. “To maintain the algae’s survival and provide the nutrients required by the host, there’s a really delicate and very complex nutritional relationship between the two,” Palacio says. Under heat stress, corals produce more nitrogen, which causes the algae to grow rapidly and divide more, storing the carbon and keeping it from their hosts. Palacio discovered that baby corals have learned not to overshare nitrogen with the algae. This way, they can live together harmoniously. And baby corals aren’t stuck in one place — they float freely in the ocean before settling down. This helps the species move to better waters or spread genes that let them handle heat.
Researchers also found corals can act on their own. They have tiny hair-like structures called cilia that work like a cooling system, beating fast to make tiny whirlpools (漩涡) in the water and moving extra oxygen to areas that need it. These whirlpools stop oxygen from building up harmfully in one place.
Although corals are adapting, they can’t outpace climate threats alone. It’s hard to go back after a bleaching event and see them dead. That gives us the motivation to use whatever skill is, whatever our passion is, to try to help.
8. Why does the author mention El Ni o heatwaves twice
A．To stress the urgency of ocean conservation.
B．To show the corals’ adaptation to heatwaves.
C．To indicate the impact of climate change on corals.
D．To highlight the relationship between corals and algae.
9. What do baby corals do to live with their algae
A．Sharing more carbon.
B．Removing more algae.
C．Moving to cooler areas.
D．Reserving extra nitrogen.
10. How do coral cilia function
A．By storing extra oxygen.
B．By redistributing oxygen.
C．By releasing oxygen quickly.
D．By changing oxygen into nitrogen.
11. What message does the author want to convey
A．Coral bleaching calls for human protection.
B．Humans need more passion to protect ocean species.
C．Coral protection is our duty despite its self-adjustment.
D．Coral adaptation is unavoidable in spite of humans’ help.
D
Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria (细菌) in the soil that could act like fertilizer (肥料), boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism. When she started her career, everybody was like, “She is crazy! She will never succeed. ” But today, her work was rewarded with the World Food Prize, which recognizes advances in agriculture.
Hungria's love of science was lit in childhood thanks to her grandmother, who taught her about backyard plants and the soil that fed them. “One day, she gave me a book. It was about the life of microbiologists. After reading it, I announced to my family that I would become a microbiologist, ” Hungria recalls. Later, she got her Ph. D. from the Federal Rural University and went to work for the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in 1982. She followed in the footsteps of another pioneer of Brazilian science, Johanna D bereiner, who had begun hunting for bacteria that could boost the productivity of crops.
Hungria's biological seed and soil treatments enable wheat, corn and other major crops, including soybeans — Brazil's top agricultural export — to source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly boosting crop yields (产量), reducing the need for chemical fertilizers as well as lowering greenhouse gas emissions (排放). Over Hungria's 40-year career with Embrapa, Brazil's soybean production has increased from 15 million tons in 1979 to an anticipated 173million tons in the coming harvest, the World Food Prize Foundation said.
Hungria said, “I always believe that it is possible to achieve high yields necessary to relieve world hunger, but in a sustainable way, preserving the planet. ” She wants to see women taking a bigger role. “Women are more likely to shift the focus of farming toward environmental sustainability. Caring for land that's already been claimed rather than trying to clear more. Focusing not only on the size of the harvest but also on which crops deliver better nutrition”, says she. And Hungria adds she'll use the cash she has won to fund a new award that will recognize women who are working in agriculture, microbiology, communications or for the benefit of people with special needs.
12. What does the underlined word “skepticism” in paragraph 1 mean
A．Doubt. B．Envy. C．Blame. D．Abuse.
13. What inspired Hungria to be a microbiologist
A．Her academic experience.
B．Work in Embrapa.
C．Her grandmother's impact.
D．Guidance from Johanna.
14. What function do Hungria's biological treatments have
A．Decreasing the productivity of soybeans.
B．Generating more greenhouse gas emissions.
C．Increasing farmers' dependence on chemicals.
D．Boosting nutrients uptake through soil bacteria.
15. What can be inferred from Hungria's words
A．Ecological health outweighs maximum yields.
B．Funding new awards for women is meaningless.
C．Sustainable practices will lead to lower harvests.
D．Involving women in farming makes a difference.
二、七选五
How to Keep Personal Art Journals
You might have heard that keeping a journal is a great way to record your thoughts and understand your emotions. Typical journaling involves only writing. ____16____. And because there are so many ways to express yourself in an art journal, it’s a wonderful creative outlet for both beginners and more experienced creatives.
____17____. It combines elements of writing, drawing, painting, collage (拼贴画), and even graffiti to express yourself. This includes your everyday life, as well as your hopes, dreams, and fears. A single page will often have both words and illustrations to offer a look at what’s going on inside your head.
Art journaling is a way to practice self-care. It encourages you to take a little time for yourself — even if it’s just for 15 minutes a day. When you look back at what you’ve written or drawn, you can gain valuable insight into the challenges in your life. The point of creating a visual journal is not to make every page a masterpiece. ____18____.
Art journaling is completely customizable (可定制的) depending on your skills and interests. Many people choose to use mixed media and decorate their pages with drawing and painting materials. ____19____. The most important thing when beginning your art journal, however, is selecting the right book.
There are many considerations when it comes to picking your journal book. Size is one. If you enjoy making large drawings, for instance, then a bigger book might be best. ____20____. Since it’s a good chance you’ll be using mixed media, select a journal whose paper can handle both drawing and painting.
A．An art journal is a visual diary.
B．Besides, you become aware of your style.
C．Another characteristic to think about is the type of pages in the book.
D．This way, you can not only express yourself, but also influence others.
E．Others prefer sticking with a single medium that they’re comfortable with.
F．But for those who are more visually-minded, an art journal is a great alternative.
G．You simply need to enjoy the act of creating something without worrying how it looks.
三、完形填空
Adam Wolfers believes that his son’s autism (自闭症) has a positive impact on his hobby of photography.10-year-old Morgan has always possessed a ____21____ eye for capturing the world around him through his camera. Diagnosed with autism at the age of3, Morgan has had a hard time ____22____ with others.
____23____ these difficulties, he has shown an exceptional talent for noticing details that ____24____ others. Morgan has found clarity and focus in nature, particularly in the vivid colors and shapes of plants, leading him to ____25____ the art of nature photography.
Not ____26____ with merely capturing pictures, Morgan has even established his own photography business, becoming one of the top sellers in a local shop. ____27____, he donates ten percent of his ____28____ to support autistic artists through the Blue Ribbon Arts Initiative.
However, his motivation for photography ____29____ financial gain, as he simply wants to share the beauty he ____30____ with others. His work has gained ____31____, with one of his photos picked by National geographic for ____32____ in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
His parents teared up as they told what his photography means. Morgan’s photography has become his having grace (体面) because it gets people to look ____33____ his issues. “He’s going to make his ____34____,” his mother said.
Morgan advises all of us to try new things and explore our ____35____ and what we want to do. In other words, don’t be afraid to see things differently.
21. A．elegant B．typical C．unique D．optimistic
22. A．fighting B．interacting C．agreeing D．competing
23. A．Without B．For C．From D．Despite
24. A．escape B．hit C．touch D．depress
25. A．admire B．explore C．transform D．promote
26. A．amused B．familiar C．content D．bored
27. A．Remarkably B．Undoubtedly C．Accidentally D．Dramatically
28. A．salaries B．profits C．budgets D．expenses
29. A．results in B．arises from C．goes beyond D．consists of
30. A．recalls B．imagines C．engages D．encounters
31. A．recognition B．expectation C．strength D．assessment
32. A．examination B．display C．investigation D．exposure
33. A．for B．up C．into D．past
34. A．decision B．living C．way D．fortune
35. A．principle B．intelligence C．ambition D．limits
四、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：
According to data from , during this year’s National Day holiday, people have flocked to cities and attractions rich in cultural heritage, with a strong tendency ____36____ (explore) themes closely related to culture. The four most ____37____ (search) themes highlight people’s strong interest in “Traveling with Textbooks,” popular museums, music festivals and study tours.
“Traveling with Textbooks” means parents taking their children to visit cities or sites ____38____ historical events in the textbooks took place or that are featured in their school materials. For instance, some have traveled to Fenghuang Ancient Town in central ____39____ (China) Hunan Province after reading Shen Congwen’s “Border Town,” or visited Tsinghua University, inspired by renowned Chinese poet Zhu Ziqing’s “Moonlight over the Lotus Pond.”
Additionally, ____40____ (tour) has been heavily influenced by films and video games. For example, fans of the TV series “To the Wonder” ____41____ (draw) to Altay, a county-level city in northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, while some explore Shanxi Province, inspired by the popular game “Black Myth: Wukong.”
Visits to museums have also increased a lot. For instance, the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan Province recently launched the country’s first immersive VR experience of ____42____ archaeological site, leading to tickets ____43____ (sell) out during the holiday.
In recent years, as the economy and society have rapidly developed, people have placed ____44____ (great) emphasis on cultural and spiritual life than ever. This shift in travel preferences reflects a ____45____ (grow) appreciation for traditional Chinese culture and an increasing confidence in national identity.
五、应用文写作
46. 某中学生英文报近期开设了一个关于青少年成长的专栏。请你以“Adversity and Courage”为题写一篇短文进行投稿，内容包括：
1.自身经历；
2.感悟。
注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Adversity and Courage
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六、读后续写
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。
It was a rainy Tuesday. I stood at the bus stop, annoyed at myself for forgetting my umbrella. Just then, Maya - a quiet newcomer from our class - stepped under the small shelter. I’d always wanted to talk to her, but she seemed shy, often drawing in her notebook during class.
“Hi,” I said, trying to sound casual. “Rain’s bad, right ”
She looked a bit surprised, “Yeah, really bad.”
The bus stop was tiny, and the rain was pouring sideways, making our skirts wet. I checked and found the bus was late. When I told Maya the bad news, she glanced at her watch, “If I miss this one, I might not make it home.” Hesitating for a while, she suggested, “We should wait in the store over there. Want to share my umbrella ” I nodded. She smiled and opened her purple umbrella. There were patches (补丁) on it as if someone had fixed it many times. “Sorry, it’s old,” she said. “My grandma gave it to me and purple was her favorite.” “It looks cool,” I replied. We leaned under the umbrella together. Suddenly it flipped (迅速翻转) inside out in the wind and we burst out laughing.
When we reached the store, Maya shook off the umbrella and set it onto the stand by the door. Then she walked over, bought two hot chocolates, and handed me one. “My treat,” she said, wiping rain from her face. “For surviving the umbrella drama.”
We sat by the window, enjoying drinks and watching the rain. After a pause, I decided to break the silence and asked why she was always drawing in her notebook during class. Her eyes lit up and she pulled it from her bag. “Want to see ” She flipped through a few pages, showing me her pictures inspired by small special things. “You make boring stuff magical,” I said admiringly. She laughed, and for a moment, it felt like we’d known each other longer than just one rainy afternoon.
The rain stopped. A distant honk (喇叭声) made us look up. “The bus!” I shouted. We grabbed our things and ran like crazy.
注意：
(1)续写词数应为150个左右；
(2)请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
The moment we took seats, Maya whispered, “Wait ... where’s my umbrella ”
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The next day, I walked into the classroom and handed the umbrella to Maya.
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参考答案
一、阅读理解
1.A 2.C 3.D 4.D 5.C 6.B 7.C 8.B 9.D 10.B 11.C 12.A 13.C 14.D 15.D
二、七选五
16.F 17.A 18.G 19.E 20.C
三、完形填空
21.C 22.B 23.D 24.A 25.B 26.C 27.A 28.B 29.C 30.D 31.A 32.B 33.D 34.B 35.D
四、语法填空
36.to explore 37.searched 38.where 39.China’s 40.tourism
41.are drawn 42.an 43.being sold 44.greater 45.growing
46.应用文范文
Adversity and Courage
Last term, I failed an important English exam and lost confidence. I wanted to give up learning English. Luckily, my teacher encouraged me not to be defeated by failure. I adjusted my learning methods and kept practising every day. Gradually, I made steady progress.
This experience teaches me that adversity is unavoidable in life. Instead of escaping difficulties, we should face them bravely. Courage helps us overcome challenges and grow stronger.
47.读后续写范文
The moment we took seats, Maya whispered, “Wait ... where’s my umbrella ” Hearing this, my heart sank. We were so eager to catch the bus that we totally forgot the purple umbrella in the shop. I felt guilty for being so careless. I promised Maya that I would go back to the store after school to get it. She smiled gently and told me not to worry much, though the umbrella meant a lot to her.
The next day, I walked into the classroom and handed the umbrella to Maya. Her face lit up the instant she saw it. She carefully touched the patched surface and shared warm stories about her grandma. We chatted happily about drawing and many other things. That rainy afternoon and the old umbrella brought us close. From then on, we became good friends.

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