广东省揭阳市普宁市2024-2025学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

2024-2025学年度第一学期期终高中二年级教学质量测试

英语科试题

本试题共8页，满分130分，考试时间120分钟

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第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

If you are planning to start a career in the field of education, science, or culture, then an internship (实习) at UNESCO will be ideal for you.

Who can apply?

● You have completed your full-time university studies: or

● You are studying in a graduate program for a master’s degree.

● Applicants in technical assignments must have reached the last year of their studies in a technical institution.

What are the requirements?

● You must be at least 20 years old.

● You should have a good command of either English or Chinese.

● You must have an excellent knowledge of office-related software.

● You should be able to work well in a team and adapt to an international working environment.

● You should possess strong interpersonal and communication skills.

What do you need to prepare?

● Visa: You should obtain the necessary visas.

● Travel: You must arrange and finance your travel to and from the location where you will do your internship.

● Medical insurance: You must show proof of a comprehensive health insurance valid in the target country for the entire period of the internship. UNESCO will provide limited insurance coverage up to USD30,000 for the internship period.

● Medical certificate: You must provide a medical certificate indicating you are fit to work.

● Motivation letter: You should have your motivation letter ready before filling in the application form.

Your application will be accessed by UNESCO managers and will stay in our database for six months. We do not respond to every candidate. If selected, you will be contacted by a manager to attain more details. If you do not receive any update within six months, it means that your application has not been successful. For more information, please contact us on www.time.com.

1. What requirements should the applicants meet?

A. Having international study experience.

B. Holding a master’s degree in education.

C. Being fluent in either English or French.

D. Doing well in interacting and communicating with people.

2. What will the applicants not need to prepare?

A. A necessary visa for the internship.

B. A medical certificate for the internship.

C. A personal resume for the internship.

D. A motivation letter for the internship.

3. Where is this text probably taken from?

A. A textbook. B. An official website.

C A travel guide. D. An academic article.

B

Like almost every set of new parents, Bryan and Elizabeth Shaw started snapping pictures of their son, Noah, practically from the moment he was born. When he was about three months old, Elizabeth noticed something odd.

The flash on their digital camera created the typical red dot in the center of Noah’s left eye, but the right eye had a white spot at the center, almost as if the flash was being reflected back at the camera by something. When Elizabeth took Noah to an eye doctor, Noah was diagnosed with retinal (视网膜) cancer with the white reflection as

a sign. He endured months of treatment, but it was too late.

Noah’s cancer is treatable if caught early. Bryan Shaw wondered whether there were signs he’d missed. He went back over every baby picture of Noah he could find and discovered the first white spot in a photo taken when Noah was 12 days old. As time went on, it appeared more frequently. “By the time he was four months old, it was showing up in 25percent of the pictures taken of him per month,” Bryan recalled.

Later, Bryan was determined to put his hard-won insights to good use. He created a database that recorded the cancer’s appearance in every photo of Noah. He also collected photos and compiled the data from eight other children with the same cancer. Armed with that data, he began to work with colleagues to develop a smartphone app that can scan the photos in the user’s camera roll to search for white eye and can be used as a kind of ophthalmoscope (眼底镜). Called White Eye Detector, it is now available for free on Google Play and in Apple’s Apple Store.

“I just kept telling myself, I really need to do this,” Bryan said. “This disease is tough to detect. Not only could this software save vision, but it can save lives.”

4. Why did Bryan and Elizabeth take pictures of Noah?

A. To record his growth.

B. To celebrate his birth.

C. To test their digital camera.

D. To collect evidence of eye diseases.

5. Which word can best describe Bryan’s feelings in paragraph 3?

A. Terrified. B. Regretful. C. Lonely. D. Exhausted.

6. What can the app do to help?

A. It serves as a detector.

B. It presents expert advice.

C. It saves photos on users’ phones.

D. It provides a worldwide database.

7. What is the text mainly about?

A. How a boy lost his eye.

B. How a new app works.

C. How a father saved his son.

D. How an app came into being.