2025-2026学年外研版高中英语选择性必修第二册期末综合检测练习卷

外研版英语选择性必修第二册期末综合检测练习卷

(考查范围： Unit 1—Unit 6　时间：100分钟　分值：120分)

Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

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RISE is an exciting project designed and led by young people, for young people. Created by St John Ambulance, the nation's leading first aid charity, the project is now available in communities across the country. If you're aged between 16 and 25, and are not in employment, education or training, RISE could help you learn new skills, and improve your prospects.

What you'll learn

St John Ambulance believes that everyone should have access to first aid, and we are devoted to equipping as many people as possible with the skills to be the difference between life and death. As a participant, you'll learn first aid through our Stick-it sessions, and also get the opportunity to develop new skills, giving you the confidence to train others in your community, or the qualifications in youth leadership you need to get your career up and running.

Choosing the right path for you

At the heart of the RISE project is a commitment to peer-to-peer learning. As well as being taught first aid, you'll be given the skills and guidance to pass your knowledge on to other people in your community. RISE offers you the chance to gain a lot of qualifications and to choose a path that helps you make the most of your talents.

Stick-it: Our one-day introduction to first aid focuses on gun- and knife-related injuries. You'll find out how to manage an incident and learn some of the most commonly needed first aid skills.

First aid: You'll focus on CPR (心肺复苏术), bleeding and dealing with an emergency situation in this six-hour course.

Keeping children safe: It is a course designed for those who come into contact with children through their work or leisure activities. This short programme works by helping individuals to understand the unusual role they play in keeping children safe from harm.

Basic skills in youth work: This course provides an introduction to St John Ambulance and is the minimum qualification for a youth leadership role within the organisation.

1. Which of the following courses deals with a serious finger cut?

A．CPR performance. B．Stick-it.

C．Keeping children safe. D．Basic skills in youth work.

2. What is the text mainly about?

A．Advantages of taking the courses. B．Tips on how to give first aid.

C．Steps on how to give first aid. D．An introduction to RISE project.

3. Where does the text most probably come from?

A．A science magazine. B．A book review.

C．A community website. D．A business report.

B

When we long live together, we quickly learn to foresee the near-term behaviours of our co-workers or family members. Our ability to predict the actions of others makes it easier to successfully live and work together. In contrast, even the most intelligent and advanced robots have remained inept at this sort of communication. This may be about to change.

The study, conducted by Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson, is part of a broader effort to provide robots with the ability to understand and predict what others want. The researchers first built a subject robot and placed it in a playpen. They programmed the robot to seek and move towards any green circle it could see. But there was a hidden difficulty: Sometimes the robot could see a green circle in its camera and move directly towards it. But at other times, the green circle would be blocked by a tall red cardboard box, in which case the robot would move towards a different green circle, or not at all.

After “researching” its partner on screen long, the new robot was eventually able to get its partner's goal and path 98 out of 100 times, across varying situations. When starting the experiment, the researchers expected the robot might learn to make predictions about the subject robot's near-term actions. What the researchers didn't expect, however, was how accurately it could foresee the moves with only a few seconds of video.

“Our initial results are very exciting, showing how robots can see the world from another robot's view，” says Lipson. “The understanding ability of the new robot is perhaps a primitive form of sensing others' feelings, which we all can do.”

Meanwhile, he acknowledges there're many moral questions. The technology will make robots more adaptable and useful and no longer passive instruction-following

machines, but when robots can predict how humans think, they may also learn to control or influence those thoughts.

4. What does the underlined word “inept” in the first paragraph mean?

A．Careful. B．Smart.

C．Active. D．Poor.

5. What is the experiment designed to find?

A．How a robot moves towards the targeted object.

B．Whether a robot can predict other robots' goals.

C．Whether robots can work together like humans.

D．How accurately a robot foresees its partner's moves.

6. How does the robot gain the understanding ability?

A．By communication. B．By following its camera.

C．By visual observation. D．By experiencing various tests.

7. What does Lipson think of the new robot?

A．It bears human characteristics. B．It has some kind of moral values.

C．It might replace human beings. D．It is an instruction-following machine.

C

People who possess high self-esteem are able to commit better and produce a greater bond in relationships with others. Dr Douglas feels that most people do not value themselves, but with love and self-respect anyone can be above normality and grasp success with the family, the office or others.

We have become too reliant on intelligence, beauty and money for our own self-esteem. The loss of esteem reduces the will and ability to set and reach goals. In a series of readings, Douglas teaches how to avoid negative statements, how to change them into self-facing behaviour and how to take charge of your mental attitude. Where other motivational and self-help works stop with the theoretical plan for success, Douglas takes everyday examples and puts them into his books. From raising children who believe in themselves to using self-esteem to help bridge the gap in the workplace, he gives readers concrete solutions to the problems that might ruin their interpersonal relations.

Self-esteem building comes from filling your thoughts with positive affirmations (肯定) and learning to react to failures with motivation instead of self-destruction. These lessons are valuable for anyone who feels that life is even slightly out of control. People