河南许昌市2025-2026学年第二学期期末质量检测高二英语试题

0-- 2025一2026学年第二学期期末质量检测 高二英语 (本试题卷共10页，四部分，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。) 注意事项： 年 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 h 如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡 上，写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 n 第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分) 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出 最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关 小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。 鞍 L 1.Why does the man come to the woman? A.For his heartburn. B.For his stomach issues. C.For his yearly health check. 鼠 2.How does the woman sound? A.Confident. B.Nervous. C.Proud. 3.What are the speakers doing? A.Fishing. B.Hiking. C.Watching ducks. 4.Where did the woman have breakfast today? A.At home. B.In a cafě， C.In the dining hall. 5.What was the man's problem? A.Waiting in the rain. B.Choosing the right way. C.Finding a parking place ☒ 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 兼 听下面5段录音。每段录音后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出 e 最佳选项。听每段录音前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题都 有5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。 听第6段录音，回答第6、7题。 6.What are the speakers mainly discussing? A.A bad dream. B.A school project C.A train ride. 高二英语第1页（共10页) 7.How does the woman help the man? A.By organizing his things. B.By sharing an experience. C.By checking his schedule. 听第7段录音，回答第8至10题。 8.Where are the speakers? A.In a classroom. B.In a park. C.In a gym. 9.What is the woman worried about? A.Speaking publicly. B.Forgetting her lines. C.Preparing the speech content. 10.What will the man help the woman with? A.Listing main ideas. B.Writing a short story. C.Finding good examples. 听第8段录音，回答第11至13题。 11.Who are the speakers probably? A.Business partners. B.Coach and player. C.Reporter and team owner. 12.What does the woman find most impressive? A.The throwing. B.The catching. C.The hitting. 13.What will the speakers probably do next? A.Play baseball. B.Meet the teams. C.Walk to the field. 听第9段录音，回答第14至17题。 14.Why does the woman mainly call Ben? A.To check the wedding details with him. B.To thank him for the present. C.To confirm his attendance. 15.How does Ben learn about Indian weddings? A.From movies. B.From the woman's husband. C.From his travel experiences. 16.What surprised Ben about the wedding? A.Where it will be held.B.How long it will last. C.Who will attend. 17.How many people are invited to the wedding? A.58. B.88. C.100. 听第10段录音，回答第18至20题。 18.What fact did the speaker recently learn about Rowan Atkinson? A.His acting career. B.His global popularity. C.His engineering background. 19.What is the attitude of the speaker's parents toward Mr.Bean? A.Favorable. B.Uncertain C.Negative. 20.What will the speaker probably share next? A.Scenes from a film. B.Facts about the actor. C.Lines from the character. 第二部分阅读（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 Four Books Worth Recommending The Last Ride of the Pony Express In 2019,American journalist Will Grant went on a five-month,2,000-mile journey on horseback from Missouri to Califoria.His goal was to follow the historic route of the Pony Express.Grant records his 142-day adventure in The Last Ride of the Pony Express,describing his trip in the company of his two horses,Badger and Chicken Fry. Elixir After a decade of living in the Scottish Highlands,native Bulgarian Kapka Kassabova returned to her roots in southwestern Bulgaria's remote Mesta Valley,a rural region known for its wild crops and their vast medicinal properties.Over several seasons,the poet and writer travelled to study the deep relationship between the area's people and plants,as well as with the land itself. The Life Cycle British writer and cyclist Kate Rawles has a liking for raising awareness about environmental challenges through her own adventures.Her 8,288-mile,13-month journey across the length of the Andes Mountains on a self-built bamboo bicycle is the basis for her new book,The Life Cycle. Driving the Green Book From 1936 to 1967,the Green Book served as an annual travel guide for African Americans.Award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall first learned about the Green Book in 2015, and he was immediately attracted.Several years later,he set out on a 2,000-plus-mile cross- country road trip from New York to New Orleans.The result,Driving the Green Book,is a 288- page journey along America's open roads,exploring the country's racial past and detailing the Green Book's life-saving history. 21.Which book focuses on the exploration of Bulgaria's Mesta Valley? A.Elixir. B.Driving the Green Book. C.The Life Cycle. D.The Last Ride of the Pony Express. 高二英语第3页（共10页） 22.Who intends to show America's racial past? A.Kate Rawles. B.Will Grant. C.Alvin Hall. D.Kapka Kassabova. 23.What do the four books have in common? A.Their authors are journalists. B.Their target readers are tour guides. C.They are related to travel. D.They show the significance of history. B Like many women,I always loved to shop.In my teen years,I was what my friends and I fondly called "a mall rat,"a girl who hung out at the mall every weekend,checking out the current fashions. Fast-forward twenty-five years.After the death of my mother,I once again found pleasure in walking the mall.No longer bound by.caregiving responsibilities,I could spend as much time there as I pleased,have a pleasant lunch in the food court and get a bit of exercise in a temperature-controlled environment.Fueled by a maximum-sized coffee drink,I could shop for hours,returning home with incredible bargains.It didn't matter to me that my sweater drawer overflowed and caused me to place the extras in a storage container under the bed.Nor did I mind when an excess of accessories (was required to be housed in a plastic box atop my dresser. Yet now I was forced to take a closer look at my situation.I searched around my overstuffed closet and pulled out a few of my recent purchases.Suddenly,a thought struck me, "Nothing is forever,as I looked back on my mother's long illness and her ultimate passing.It was time to let go. I pulled each piece of clothing out of my closet and sorted them into several piles.Worn- out clothing would go directly into the trash ()Anything still in good condition but in the wrong size,style or color for me would be donated to an organization that helped women in need.The remainder would be returned to my closet.This act,which took all of about an hour, was liberating in a way I could have never imagined. Now,with my newfound spare time,I make frequent trips to the library and catch up on my reading.And if I want to take a walk I walk outside in the fresh air regardless of temperature.My life is varied and full again,all because I let go. 24.How did the author describe herself in her teens? A.A caregiver. B.A shopping enthusiast. C.A trendsetter. D.A budget-minded spender. 25.What caused the author to reassess her shopping habits? A.Having difficulty storing her purchases.B.Reflecting on her mother's death. C.The changing mall environment. D.A sudden financial setback 高二英语第4页（共10页) 26.What did the author think of sorting out her clothes? A.Demanding. B.Heartbreaking. C.Promising. D.Relieving. 27.What message does the author mainly want to deliver in the text? A.Family takes priority over shopping. B.A diverse lifestyle contributes to personal growth. C.Donating unwanted clothes brings about positive effects. D.Letting go of unnecessary belongings leads to transformation. C Orangutan (calls have a complex structure that was thought to be unique to human language.There is no evidence that any complex meanings are found in the orangutans' complicated calls.But the fact that they can do it at all means the calls may be a distant precursor（前身)to language. Adriano Lameira at the University of Warwick in Coventry,UK,and his teammates studied wild Bornean orangutans in Indonesian Borneo.They recorded long calls,which are made by mature males."They are advertisement calls,"says Lameira,functioning to attract females and threaten competitor males."They take the form ofooo ooo ooo'." Closer analysis revealed that the middle of each long call had regular long "ooo"sounds, but the beginning and end had a series of shorter "ooo"sounds.Crucially,the shorter sequences (were nested inside longer sequences.This sounds like a feature of human language called recursion ()We can create complex sentences,for example,by nesting an extra phrase in the middle of a sentence,as with:"The dog,running after the cat,was barking”. Previously,researchers have failed to find evidence of recursion in the calls of monkeys or other animals.Lameira says previous searches for recursive calls were unsuccessful because they asked too much of their animal subjects.Humans use recursion to create new and complex meanings,and researchers had looked for animals that do the same.But they seem not to.His team's analysis didn't look at the meaning of the calls at all."It was a pure structural analysis," he says. "It's quite creative,says Elodie Briefer at the University of Copenhagen."The orangutan calls do seem to have a form of recursion,without necessarily any meaning.We should look for similar forms of recursion in other animals'calls.It would be very logical in terms of evolution (that we find these precursors.The opposite would be stranger,that we don't find anything like that in animals,and it only appeared in humans." 28.What can we learn about orangutans'long calls? A.They are let out by females. B.They have changed over time. C.They follow a typical pattern. D.They are made to claim territory. 高二英语第5页（共10页） 29.Why does the author mention recursion in paragraph 3? A.To contrast orangutan calls and those of other animals. B.To compare orangutan calls with human language. C.To define a distinctive feature of orangutan calls. D.To highlight the complexity of orangutan calls. 30.What makes Lameira's analysis different from previous searches? A.Its focus on orangutan calls'organization. B.Its summary of orangutan calls'purposes. C.Its explanation for orangutan calls'origins. D.Its evidence for orangutan calls'meanings. 31.What does Briefer expect of future studies? A.To include more animal subjects. B.To take a historical approach. C.To offer clearer explanations for recursion. D.To assess the meanings in animal calls. D Much coverage compares women's football with men's.A paper published last month in Sport Management Review had participants watch videos of men and women playing football. Viewers rated the men's videos more favourably than women's,but the difference disappeared when the players were blurred(使模糊)to hide their sex. Yet another study,published by Arve Pedersen,a neuroscientist and sports scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,and his co-workers,concludes that women are indeed playing a game that is slightly different-considerably harder than the one being played by men.The researchers start from the observation that women are physically different from men in many ways.Women are shorter than men.Female footballers are lighter.Women are slower,and cannot jump as high.Those differences exist even among the most athletic members of each sex. The researchers then reduce the size of a football pitch (to account for those differences.A pitch that was the same relative size for women as it is for men would,they say, be 93 metres long and 61 metres wide,down from the current recommended dimensions of 105 metres x 68 metres.Nor is it just the pitch.Shorter female keepers can cover a smaller part of the goal than a man can.To achieve equality between the sexes,the women's goal,say the researchers,should be reduced from 7.32 metres wide and 2.44 metres high to 6.76 metres across and 2.25 metres high.Even the ball would change:taking account of women's lower leg strength would require a ball weighing 287 grams,rather than the 430 grams of a standard male ball. But changing the rules of a sport is as much about culture as it is about science.World Rugby,the international governing body for rugby union,is planning tests of a ball sized for 高二英语第6页（共10页） women's smaller hands.The response from the players themselves is said to have been mixed. Some players are enthusiastic about the idea.Others worry that,after fighting for so long to be taken seriously,making the women's game even slightly easier might damage its reputation. 6 32.What did the paper mentioned in paragraph I reveal? A.There was much coverage of football games. B.There was no difference among football games. C.Women's games were no less skillful than men's. 新 D.Men's games were more favourable than women's 33.How much should be reduced in width as for the women's goal according to the researchers? A.0.19 metres. B.0.56 metres. C.6.76 metres. D.7.32 metres. 34.Why are some rugby players against changing the rules? A.They doubt their abilities. B.They consider it unscientific. C.They fear unkind judgment. D.They think it unnecessary. 35.What can be a suitable title for the text? A.Should women's football have different rules from men's? B.What should be done to improve women's football skills? C.How does women's physical strength differ from men's? D.Could the coverage of football games be reliable? 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为 A 多余选项。 One of the greatest joys in life is gifting a child a book and watching them discover the magical world of reading.This is something that has been celebrated through International Children's Book Day (ICBD)since April 2,1967.36 He is a Danish author famous for his fairy tales that include“The Ugly Duckling,”“The Little Mermaid,"and“Thumbelina.." Fairy tales are inspired by folklore(民间传说)and include characters like fairies,giants, and talking animals.37 Teachers play the most crucial role in providing children with the ability to read, comprehend,and use what they learn through books and reading.38 However,schools are where kids will do the most learning.That is why schools spend a lot of money and time finding suitable texts for their learners to ensure that they will be actively reading and learning something. 兼 ICBD is sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People,which currently has 84 national sections.39 It selects a theme and invites a well-known author from its country to write a message to the children of the world and a famous illustrator to design a poster.40 Many national sections also promote ICBD through the media and by organizing events in schools and public libraries.Writing competitions,book award announcements,and events with children's literature authors are among the activities. 高二英语第7页（共10页) A.The national sections differ a lot. B.They teach children valuable life lessons. C.This day is celebrated to inspire a love of reading. D.Each year,'one national section is chosen to host ICBD E.This day is also the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. F.Parents,too,play a role,especially in a child's early development. G.These materials are used to promote books and reading in various ways. 第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分28分) 第一节（共13小题；每小题1分，满分13分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填人空白处的最佳 选项。 There was a time in my life when everything went terribly wrong.I had been 41 starting college that fall,but someone had closed my registration without my 42.This meant I would have to wait another semester (before the paperwork could be 43.On that same 44 day,I returned to my small apartment to find it had been completely 45. One neighbor claimed ignorance about my 46,stating that a moving truck stopped outside and two men took everything.I completely 47,though later it turned out to be a mistake. I wandered to a nearby bookstore,48 a moment of peace and quiet.I knelt down on the floor in one of the book sections and began to 49 uncontrollably.Out of the comner of my eye,I saw a 3-year-old girl 50 me with her mother watching at a distance.She stopped,touched my hair and then 51 me for what seemed like a minute."Don't be sad," she said.“It will be all right.” My heart and 52 returned in that instant.I thanked her and said to her mother, “You've raised a beautiful girl.” That little girl with a big heart truly saved me in my 53 hour.To this day,20 years later,I still think of her whenever times get tough and remember her saying,"It will be all right.” 41.A.avoiding B.anticipating C.remembering D.recommending 42.A.introduction B.invitation C.guidance D.knowledge 43.A.rewritten B.resubmitted C.reprinted D.reviewed 44.A.disastrous B.meaningful C.dangerous D.powerful 45.A.burnt down B.given away C.cleared out D.tidied up 46.A.absence B.loneliness C.tolerance D.awareness 47.A.refused B.withdrew C.collapsed D.forgot 48.A.creating B.seeking C.imagining D.recording 49.A.shake B.scream C.breathe D.weep 高二英语 第8页（共10页） 50.A.approaching B.accompanying C.following D.recognizing 51.A.cleaned B.trained C.troubled D.hugged 52.A.honesty B.memory C.spirit D.wealth 53.A.shyest B.simplest C.darkest D.busiest 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 There was a time when people fixed things themselves or called local repair shops.But as more items were manufactured(大量生产)and prices dropped,replacing a big purchase like an appliance (became more convenient 54 repairing it.That's changing,in part due to the information now available online.The popular how-to site iFixit.com has facilitated over 100 million repairs. The site 55 (establish)in the early 2000s after its co-founder and CEO,Kyle Wiens, broke his Apple laptop.With help from his classmate and iFixit co-founder,Luke Soules, Wiens,56 had spent his childhood taking apart radios and appliances,managed 57 (fix)his computer through trial and error.They later wrote a manual (based on that experience 58 posted it on iFixit.com they created.Now,iFixit has grown into a database with nearly 100,000 repair manuals 59 (cover)everything from electronics to clothing to appliances.And its mission has gone mainstream. "We're now seeing manufacturers show interest in making it possible for users to repair things,says Elizabeth Chamberlain,60 (direct)of sustainability for iFixit.61 (company)like Microsoft,Samsung and Motorola are selling 62 (office)parts and sharing 63 (they)repair guides through iFixit."We have this vision of a world where repair is the expectation for all things that are made,"says Chamberlain. 第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分)】 第一节（满分15分） 假定你是李华，最近发现某英文杂志中有一篇文章对白居易的一首诗歌的解读有误。 请你给该杂志的编辑写一封邮件，内容包括： 1.写信目的； 2.说明情况； 3.提出建议。 注意：1.写作词数应为80个左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡上的相应位置作答。 Dear Editor, Thank you for your attention to this matter. Yours sincerely, Li Hua 高二英语第9页 (共10页) 第二节（满分25分） 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。 Bang!Somewhere,hidden from view in leafy Southfields Park,Loughborough,United Kingdom,someone set off fireworks.After hearing the noise,Rosie,a 10-year-old dog,who was running around off the leash ()ran back towards her owner,Steve Harper. It was late in the afternoon on Friday,Nov.4,2022,and there would be even more fireworks on Saturday for Guy Fawkes Night."Kids let off fireworks for about a week before and a week after,"says Steve's wife,Julie,who was at home while Steve,Rosie and another dog,Laser,were at the park near their home. For safety reasons,the family had trained Rosie to return to them when she was frightened in public.When the Harpers adopted Rosie from a rescue shelter in 2014,they were told that they were Rosie's third owners but learned little else about her past.Julie had seen a picture of the black-and-white dog posted on social media by a shelter,looking skinny and staring into the camera. After seeing the picture,Julie told herself that Laser,just one.year old at the time,was lonely."I persuaded my husband that Laser needed a sister,she says.Then the couple and Laser piled into their car and made a seven-hour round trip to pick up Rosie from the shelter in seaside Woolacombe. Rosie was easily frightened by loud sounds and was nervous around men when she first arrived,but soon fell in love with the Harpers and bonded with Steve.But her fear of loud noises never went away.After the second bang on that Friday afternoon,she took off and quickly disappeared from sight. Steve knew looking for her and dealing with Laser at the same time would be impossible, so he called Julie to tell her what had happened.He planned to make the 15-minute walk home to drop off the younger dog and come right back to search for Rosie. 注意：1.续写词数应为150个左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡上的相应位置作答。 About five minutes later,Julie's phone rang again. Julie suddenly realized why Rose settled herself beside the chairs at the police station. 第五部分卷面分（满分2分）】 要求：书写规范；卷面整洁；布局合理。 高二英语第10页（共10页）》