新疆昌吉回族自治州昌吉回族自治州第一中学2024-2025学年高二12月质量检测英语试题

2024-2025学年高二英语12月质量检测

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

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Maple Tree Campground

Maple Tree Campground is about a 90-minute drive from the District. Come to this campground for nature's evening show: It always has really pretty sunsets. While there's no electricity, guests can use a wood stove for heat and cooking. Field tent sites start at $8 per night and tree cottages $65 per night.

Bull Run Regional Park

This family-friendly park is around 30 miles from the District. Bull Run is a history fan's delight: It provides access to the nearly 20-mile Occoquan Trail, which was used during the war. The trail is one of many hiking options on the 1,500-acre grounds. Each cabin($85 to $95 per night) accommodates six people and offers such luxuries as electricity, heat and swing.

Cherry Hill Park

Given its proximity (邻近) to the District, this family-owned campground is particularly appealing to visitors who are traveling to the area via recreational vehicle. It also offers buses to the subway and organizes sightseeing tours as well as daily educational sessions. Guests can play mini golf, go fishing, or hit the basketball court. Cabins start at $99 per night.

Savage River Lodge

Savage River Lodge—about three-hour drive from the District—specializes in a solid roof and a side of luxury. Savage River is surrounded by more than 700 acres of thick forest, and popular activities include fly-fishing. biking, hiking and cross-country skiing. Cabins start at $250 per night.

1. What might the cabins of Bull Run Regional Park not offer?

A. Electricity      B. Sneakers      C. Swing        D. Heat

2. Which tour spot is suitable for people traveling by public transport?

A. Maple Tree Campground. B. Bull Run Regional Park.

C. Cherry Hill Park. D. Savage River Lodge.

3. Who might be interested in this passage?

A. A businessman planning a business trip B. Women fond of online shopping

C. People seeking a weekend getaway     D. Researchers interested in geography study

B

I’m retiring from teaching and will enjoy family life with my wife and grandchildren. When it comes to my teaching career, I have a lot to share, but one thing is for sure: Teachers learn just as much from students as students learn from teachers. Here are a few of the things I have learned in my job.

Roger was physically and mentally delayed. About once a month, we would have a dance in our classroom. Roger was awkward and ashamed when it came to asking a girl to dance with him. But once, I noticed that Roger was slow dancing with Leah, one of the most popular girls in the class. He had the biggest smile on his face. The next day, when Roger left my classroom to work with his support teacher, I praised Leah for inviting Roger to dance. That simple act of including him in a slow dance was such a great move. At our next dance, Roger asked Leah and every girl in the class to dance. No one turned him down. Leah taught me about the kindness of a simple act and its great effect.

It was Serena who showed us what bravery was about. Serena was our play’s narrator . She was scared she would forget her lines. “If you do,” I advised, “pause, stare at the audience and take time to remember. The audience will think it’s part of the play.” Halfway through the opening night, Serena forgot her lines. She stared out at the 300 people gathered in the gym. After what seemed like forever, Serena remembered. After the performance, she burst into tears backstage, thinking she had let everybody down. When our principal came back to congratulate our cast, she turned to Serena and said her pause worked so well. Little did she know about Serena’s little act of bravery.

Teachers spend hours making lessons to teach skills and knowledge. We adjust lessons, keep the good and throw out the bad. A good teacher listens to and learns from students and often it has nothing to do with the curriculum.

4．How did Roger feel in the class dance at first?

A．Surprised.   B．Embarrassed.  C．Confident. D．Delighted.

5．Which of the following words can best describe Leah?

A．Creative and funny.     B．Clever and brave.

C．Kind and likeable.        D．Humorous and patient.  

6．Why did Serena cry after the performance?

A．She felt she had disappointed others.

B．She was praised for her good performance.

C．She was blamed for saying the wrong lines.

D．She was extremely happy she had finished the task.

7．What does the author want to express in this passage?

A．He is proud of being a teacher.

B．Students should be kind and brave.

C．He is unwilling to retire from teaching.

D．Teachers should also learn from students.

C

If you thought teenage bullying was about someone's bag being thrown on the science block roof or malicious (恶意的) exchanges on Snapchat, then you need to meet Natasha Devon, a leading mental health educator in British schools. She says that an increasing number of girls are asking for help with hidden forms of bullying，often within friendship groups.

In the latest government study of 10, 000 pupils, boys aged 15 and 16 were less likely to be bullied than a decade ago but girls have reported a rise in issues such as name-calling， social exclusion and cyberbullying(网络欺凌).

Girl-on-girl bullying doesn't only happen in girls' schools, stresses Devon: “I see girls' toxic friendships in all the schools I visit 一mixed, girls', state and private."

Typically，being in a toxic friendship can wear on a girl's self-esteem. She will follow the other's advice on diet and dressing and appears to be forgoing her own ambitions to please her friend. Her friend undermines ( 暗中打击) her with seemingly supportive but subtly abusive comments，leaving her to think she's the one with the problem. This, explains Devon, is typical “gaslighting”.

Another behaviour, says Devon, is “ topping” ; when a girl shares something difficult that's happening to her，and the friend responds with, “ Oh, everyone goes through that"，essentially trying to belittle them.

So what can parents do to support their daughters?“Telling your child what to do very rarely works after the age of 11,”Devon says，“But it will sink in and, given time, they may act on it. Advise them to talk to their friends in a neutral space，preferably a day after an incident.

“When confronting their friends, they should confine (限制) it to their experience -‘I feel like this’一rather than making accusations一‘You did this' . They also need to be prepared to step away from the friend or group，perhaps for a few months or perhaps forever, ”Devon adds.

8. What can we infer about teenage bullying?

A. It is on the decline.             B. It tends to be physical.

C. It takes on different forms.       D. It is unique to girls' schools.

9. What does the underlined word “ forgoing” mean in Paragraph 4?

A. Abandoning.        B. Fulfilling.       C. Pursuing.    D. Sharing.

10. Which of the following responses is an example of “topping”?

A.“Thank you for telling me. What can I do to help?”

B.“You are so smart. Why bother to ask me about it?"

C.“I'm sorry that you're going through this right now.'

D.“Oh yeah? Well, something even worse happened to me.'

11. What is a girl advised to do about a difficult friendship?

A. Think about her friend's positive parts.  B. Have a conversation with her friend.

C. Point out her friend's wrongdoings.    D. Threaten her friend with violence.

                                D

Bad news sells. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules. By tracking people’s e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

“The ‘if it bleeds’ rule works for mass media,” says Jonah Berger, a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling. But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react. You don’t want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer.”

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication — e-mails, Web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations — found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn’t necessarily mean people preferred positive news. Was positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things? To test for that possibility, Dr. Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website. He and a Penn colleague analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months. One of his first findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than non-science articles. He found that science amazed Times’ readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad. They needed to be aroused one way or the other, and they preferred good news to bad. The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared, as Dr. Berger explains in his new book, “Contagious: Why Things Catch On.”

12 .What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to?

A. Research papers.     B. News reports.     

C. Private e-mails.      D. Daily conversations．

13. What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer?

A. They’re socially inactive.          B. They’re good at telling stories.

C . They’re inconsiderate of others.    D. They’re careful with their words.

14. Which tended to be the most e-mailed according to Dr. Berger’s research?

A. Science articles.   B. Sports news.   C. Personal accounts.  D. Financial reviews.

15. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Sad Stories Travel Far and Wide        B. Online News Attracts More People

C. Reading Habits Change with the Times  D. Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

A lot of people wake up at night, unusually awake and excited. Turning over and over in bed, they simply cannot fall asleep. That's really upsetting. 16.________. Some effective ways can help you fall asleep again.

Stay in bed. If you want to fall asleep, your heart rate needs to slow down. When you get up, your heart rate goes up. Therefore, avoid going to the bathroom during the night if you can. Do not eat too little or too much for dinner. Do not drink too much before you go to bed. 17.________. It may make you fall asleep faster, but it may also interrupt your sleep later in the night.

Sleep in the dark. When you cannot sleep, flashing Wi-Fi signals or LED lights may be the reason. The same is true for light streaming in through cracks in curtains. They may keep you awake. 18.________. A popular choice has deep eye cups so your eyes can open and shut while you wear them.

Quiet your mind. Try ways to relax, such as deep breathing, meditation(冥想), and mindfulness exercises.19 ________. The point is to keep your brain busy with something that is not demanding and is relaxing.

20.________. If your wake-up time is 6:30 a.m. and your clock reads 3:00 a.m., do not think “Oh no! I have only three hours left!” Instead, say to yourself, “Oh great! I have three more hours to sleep!”

You have a problem if you wake three times a week for more than three months. It may affect your quality of life. You need to find a sleep expert who can help identify the cause and fix it.

A. Getting up to do some mild exercise is also helpful.

B. However, if you are one of them, don’t worry.

C. Maintain a calm attitude.

D. Think in a positive way.

E. Most importantly, avoid alcohol in the evening.

F. You can do simple math problems in your head.

G. You should cover lights with tape and wear a sleep mask.

第二部分  语言知识运用（共三节，满分60分）

第一节  完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

A few years ago, my father arranged to mail a fruitcake to me before Christmas. Although I  21  a good job and owned an apartment in Manhattan, he  22  my refrigerator might be bare.  A fruitcake, in his mind, was a  23  Christmas gift. It can fill your stomach and last long. _24_ my middle-aged status, I was still his son.

As I would go to California for Christmas with my parents, I was looking forward to _25__the gift before that. However, the first week passed with no  26 _of his fruitcake.

Fruitcake is not to everyone’s  27 . People who don’t like it tend to  28  whether it’s a cake at all. And in some ways, my father’s character resembled a fruitcake: a little crazy mixed with a sweet foundation. While__29_ as a meat cutter in grocery stores, he was called Crazy Charlie by his coworkers for his workplace tricks, such as pretending to lock someone in the walk-in meat freezer. But he also gave out detailed _30_ to customers who didn’t know how to cook meat.

The day before my flight to California, my father called to wish me a (n)  31  trip and asked: “Did you receive the fruitcake?”

“Not yet, ”I said. “It’s probably _32_ in the holiday mail. ”

When I arrived at my parents’ house, he asked again. “No, perhaps it’ll be there when I go back home,” I said. As soon as these words escaped my lips, I suddenly  33  something: Wasn’t this my home? Wasn’t I home now?