新疆乌鲁木齐市2024-2025学年高二上学期期末英语B试卷（无答案）

乌市第一学期期末试卷
高二年级 英语 B问卷
（卷面分值：150分 考试时间：120分钟）
阅读理解（每小题2.5分，共37.5分）
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Leafy greens are a great way to improve your health as they possess many vital nutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. They are also low in calories, making them a good choice for those who want to manage their weight. The following salad leaves in your diet are highly recommended by nutritionists.
Spinach
Spinach is easy to get all year round. It is a good source of antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of many diseases, including heart disease and certain cancers. It’s best eaten uncooked, as part of a salad, as cooking tends to destroy the naturally occurring nutrients in the leaves.
Collard greens
Collard greens are a good source of lutein, which is important for eye health. They are full of vitamins A and C and minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, copper and selenium, and are a good source of fibre. As with spinach, you can get them all year round.
Rocket
If you’re in the mood for a leafy green with a fresh, slightly bitter and peppery taste, consider adding rocket to your plate. Rocket is packed with nitrates — which studies have shown can boost performance in sports. Rocket is also rich in vitamins K and C, and calcium and polyphenols.
Romaine lettuce
Romaine lettuce is a good source of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, K, C and folate (叶酸). These nutrients are essential for maintaining overall health and supporting a healthy immune system. Romaine is a source of fibre too, which is known to reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and bowel cancer.
1．Why are the leafy greens a good option for people trying to control their weight
A．They are full of nutrients.
B．They are affordable and tasty.
C．They contain very few calories.
D．They are recommended by nutritionists.
2．Which food may be beneficial to eyes
A．Spinach. B．Collard greens. C．Rocket. D．Romaine lettuce.
3．What do spinach and romaine lettuce have in common
A．They must be cooked.
B．They are available all year round.
C．They can boost performance in sports.
D．They may lessen the possibility of heart disease.
B
In 1957 a group of physicists gathered in a lecture hall to be addressed by a Chinese American woman. As she told her recent experiment and its results, the response was dead silence for two minutes, then a thunderous applause continued for ten minutes. The woman was Chien-Shiung Wu, known as the First Lady of Physics, who transformed nuclear science through her work on the Manhattan Project and other groundbreaking experiments.
Born in 1912, Wu was unlike many Chinese women of her time, and received a formal education. Fascinated by new discoveries and the story of women scientists, she entered the university to study physics and began scientific studies.
It was a time of rapid change in both the field of physics and China. Domestic unrest and a bad relationship with Japan made life at home uneasy. With the help of an uncle, she immigrated to the United States for graduate school.
Wu planned to go to the University of Michigan, but a tour of the University of California, Berkeley — and word that a student center at Michigan did not allow female students to enter through the front door — changed her mind. At Berkeley Wu was visible for her gender and race, her male colleagues commenting as much on her appearance as her keen mind. She quickly gained a reputation and became an expert in the newly discovered phenomenon of nuclear fission (核裂变).
After graduation, she headed to Smith College to teach women physics. During World War Two Wu went to Princeton University, where she became the physics departments first female instructor. But shortly after her arrival, her career took an unexpected turn in 1944. She ended up joining the staff at Columbia University on a top-secret research program now known as the Manhattan Project.
4．Which word best describes the lecture in Paragraph 1
A．Boring. B．Humorous. C．Excellent. D．Common.
5．What inspired Wu to study physics
A．The formal education she received. B．The success of women scientists.
C．The background of her family. D．The rapid change in the field of physics.
6．What happened to Wu in America
A．She was looked down on at Berkeley.
B．She went to the University of Michigan at first.
C．She taught women physics at Princeton University.
D．She joined a top-secret research program at Columbia University.
7．Which of the following best describes Wu as a scientist
A．Modest and independent. B．Creative and warm-hearted.
C．Responsible and cautious. D．Committed and ambitious.
C
Every year, billions of people travel across borders. While most trips are from one non-English speaking country to another, English is the main language used for communication. In fact, communication in English between two non-native speakers is generally not a problem. The real problem is when a non-native is faced with a fast-speaking native English speaker.
English words tend to merge (合并)together much more frequently than words in most languages. This has even given rise to informal new spellings of word pairs: ain’t = am not, gonna = going to. Another issue is with speech itself. When native English speakers talk, they don’t necessarily follow a logical structure, nor do they know exactly what their arrival point will be. This means they might move forward a bit and then go backwards, and fill their speech with redundancy (多余). Actually anyone can notice this redundancy in their own language, but it’s hard to understand it in a foreign language.
When you talk with a native English speaker, the trick is to find ways to tune out all the noise and identify the key words. To tell the essential from the non-essential, you should focus only on the loud and long words. These words tend to be the key words. If you can understand at least these words, then you should be able to make sense of the overall speech. A good way to see this in action is by watching a presentation on TED．com and reading the transcript (文字记录) at the same time. This will help you identify which words the speaker stresses.
However, under the best conditions, people only take in 40% of what they hear in their native language. Even many native speakers don’t always understand each other, possibly due to different accents. We might ignore, forget, or misunderstand about 75% of what we hear. Therefore, if you don’t understand something, it is OK to ask for clarification (说明).
8．What is paragraph 2 mainly about
A．The characteristics of English words.
B．The difficulties of learning English well.
C．The problems of talking with non-native English speakers.
D．The reasons why it is hard to understand native English speakers.
9．How can listeners effectively recognize key words in spoken English
A．By repeatedly listening to TED talks.
B．By ignoring background noise during the speech.
C．By focusing on the long words that a speaker stresses.
D．By reading the transcript of the speech before listening.
10．What can we infer from the last paragraph
A．People can just remember 75% of what they hear.
B．Understanding native English speakers fully is hard.
C．Keeping calm will help you receive more information.
D．Misunderstandings are not common among native speakers.
11．What is a suitable title for the text
A．Tips for understanding native English speakers.
B．Language challenges in international travel.
C．The importance of English as a global language.
D．Differences between native and non-native speakers.
D
If you think of the jobs that robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top of the list. It’s easy to imagine robot cleaners and factory workers, but some jobs need human connection and creativity. In some cases, they already perform better than doctors at diagnosing (诊断) illness. With these machines, doctors can know what’s wrong with the patients more easily and quickly. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine than a person. Could there be a place for robots in education after all
British education expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. And he even has a date for the robot takeover of the classroom: 2027. He thinks robots will do the main job of transferring (转换) information and teachers will be more like helpers. Smart robots will read students’ faces, movements and maybe even brain signals (信号). Then they will adapt (改编) the information to each student.
One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren’t enough teachers and 9-16 percent of children under the age of 14 don’t go to school. That problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won’t get stressed (压力大的), or tired.
Teachers all over the world are leaving because it is a difficult job and they feel overworked. How can robots help teachers Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job that humans do best.
12．Anthony Seldon thinks teachers in the future will ________.
A．no longer teach knowledge in class B．do more jobs than robots in class
C．teach one student in class D．help robots to teach in class
13．From Paragraph 3, we can know robots can help schools by ________.
A．working anywhere without a rest B．helping students with cleaning
C．teaching all the students under 14 D．saving students in danger
14．Teachers find their main problem is that ________.
A．they can’t teach anywhere any time
B．they can’t read the students’ brain signals
C．they have too much non-teaching work to do
D．they feel stressed and tired while teaching
15．The best title of the passage might be ________.
A．Robot Doctors B．Robot Teachers
C．Schools With Robots D．Schools Without Robots
二、七选五（每小题2.5分，共12.5分）
Everybody lies to some degree. 16 However, nobody wants to be caught. Of course there’s a huge gap that separates little white lies from the whoppers(弥天大谎), but learning how to tell if someone is lying is a skill that’ll always come in handy. Here’s what to watch for.
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There are many signs someone could be lying. For example, one may make too little or too much eye contact, sweat or flush in their face, and have difficulty controlling the volume and tone of their voice. 18 Hand gestures that normally accompany talking may occur with less frequency. Arm and leg movements may also be fewer. It seems that liars would become more concentrated on telling the lie, so they get quieter in their body.
Ask questions——quickly.
If you suspect you’re being lied, try this technique, which experts say can trip up a liar. Try asking questions quickly—one after the other. “The first lie is easy,” explains Kang Lee, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development. “ 19 When you continue to ask questions and put people on the spot, it gets harder to maintain the lie.”
Check for emotional “leaks”.
Micro-expressions often show a person’s real thoughts. If you were to watch people very closely on videotape, you would see them showing their true emotion just before they show the fake expression designed to cover up the lie. But these extremely brief facial movements, some only lasting a quarter of a second, aren’t easy to spot. 20 And intentional liars tend to add other expressions, like smiling, to hide a lie.
So here’s hoping that the next time someone throws a lie your way, you’ll know just how to catch it.
A．Listen to the voices.
B．Get better at body language.
C．The follow-up lie is more difficult.
D．Interestingly, people who are lying often become more still.
E．Even professionals trained in lie detection can’t always tell them apart.
F．In some cultures, it’s considered inappropriate to maintain eye contact.
G．Lies occur between friends, teachers and students, husbands and wives.
三、完形填空（每小题1分，共15分）
In 17th-century Europe, it was unheard of for a woman to travel by herself, but that didn’t stop Maria Sibylla Merian. In 1699, she and her daughter Dorothea 21 from Amsterdam to Surinam in South America. The three-month voyage was 22 but she was determined to go. She wanted to be the first person to go to a foreign country to study and paint insects 23 from nature.
When they arrived in Surinam, Maria and Dorothea 24 working. Day after day, they took their painting 25 into the hot rainforest to collect and draw insects and plants. Artists had never done such a thing before. Still life painters drew from dead specimens (标本). But Maria had always been interested in painting 26 animals and plants.
In the rainforest, she 27 ladders (梯子) to study and collect insects. She had trees cut down so she could see what 28 at the top level of the forest more than a hundred feet overhead. Maria combined both 29 and science in her work. As a skilled 30 , she kept detailed notes.
After two years, she had to 31 Surinam. The 32 was unbearable and she was ill with malaria. But she had more than enough material for a/an 33 . In June 1701, Maria and Dorothea went back to Amsterdam.
Four years later, in 1705, Maria 34 the book for which she is best known, Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam. The paintings of insects and plants in their natural habitats 35 the scientific study of insects.
21．A．sailed B．flew C．drove D．walked
22．A．pleasant B．dangerous C．remarkable D．short
23．A．directly B．quickly C．gradually D．slightly
24．A．stopped B．started C．loved D．tried
25．A．prizes B．works C．materials D．paints
26．A．sick B．ancient C．living D．rare
27．A．invented B．extracted C．jumped D．climbed
28．A．wandered B．stretched C．floated D．lived
29．A．art B．music C．literature D．technology
30．A．observer B．student C．novelist D．journalist
31．A．leave B．bless C．defeat D．keep
32．A．insect B．smell C．heat D．food
33．A．essay B．journal C．painting D．book
34．A．published B．assessed C．banned D．adjusted
35．A．ceased B．advanced C．revealed D．opposed
四、语法填空（每小题1.5分，共15分）
UNESCO inscribes Spring Festival on intangible cultural heritage list
36._______ Wednesday, UNESCO inscribed Spring Festival of China on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The decision 37._________(make) during the 19th session of the relevant committee in Paraguay. The Spring Festival, 38.________(start) the traditional Lunar New Year, has diverse rituals and 39. __________(culture) elements. It 40. ________(involve) prayers, family reunions, and community events. The associated knowledge and 41._______(custom) are passed down both informally and 42.______(formal). The festival shows harmony between humans 43.______nature, which aids sustainable development. China’s vice minister Rao Quan thanked for 44.________recognition. He said it symbolizes hopes and values. 45._____(it) inscription will promote universal values and intangible cultural heritage’s role.
五、书面表达（共15分）
46．假如你是龙津中学高一学生李华，你们学校上周组织了一场“校园运动周”活动。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，写一篇英文日记，记述整个过程。
注意：
1.可以适当增加细节，以使情节连贯；
2.词数80左右；
3.首句已经给出，不计入词数。
提示词：1. body building exercises健身操；
2. rope skipping跳绳；
3. Douyin抖音。
Last week, an activity called “Campus Sports Week” was held in our school.
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六、读后续写（共25分）
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。
“Happy birthday, dear Rhea, happy birthday to you!” Delightful voices filled the room.
“Make a wish,” my mum said in a sweet whisper. Now, I’m a straight A student, confident and popular, but that’s not what I was a year ago. It was my mum’s love that made me what I am today. Looking around the room filled with my friends, I couldn’t help but smile.
I wish…
Memories flooded back. The December morning breeze brushed my long, black hair as I stepped towards the doors of Hagenberg High. It was my first day of school. Only two weeks ago, my mum and I migrated to America, hoping for a bright new life.
My English was poor, and I was alone, like a lost little kid. I unknowingly avoided interacting with anyone because I was afraid they’d laugh in my face. When my English was better, I decided I would come up to people and maybe manage to say, “Whassup ”
Finally in gym class, a friendly brown face. She almost looked like me, only happier. Her name was Caroline. At lunchtime we found ourselves enjoying the cafeteria food. She wanted me to meet her friends. “Don’t worry, Rhea,” she assured me, calling me “sister”. “You’ll fit right in.”
And I did. It was as if some foreign soul entered my body and made me do things against my will. I found myself drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and skipping school. I didn’t even like the taste of beer. The moment it touched my tongue I felt like I had to spit it back.
But I didn't. I couldn’t afford to look bad and lose my new “friends”. I began to miss at least one day of school a week to hang out with them. Then I missed two, three, even four days in a row.
But while I was out having fun with my “friends”, inside I was full of conflict, unhappiness and regret. I stopped practising my English sentences in front of the mirror and instead practised, “I don’t know why the school called, mum. There must be something wrong in the system because I did not miss school today.”
注意：续写词数应为150左右。
Paragraph 1 :
One day the school teacher called my mum and the truth came out.
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My mum’s voice awakened me.____________________________________________________
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