福建省南平市顺昌县第二中学高二英语下学期期末试题含解析

福建省南平市顺昌县第二中学高二英语下学期期末试
题含解析
一、选择题
1. ___________ this TV set with that one, I found that one is better.
A. Compare
B. Compared
C. To compare
D. Comparing
参考答案：
D
2. Jacky Chan is________ to turn up at the party for charity, since he is always enthusiastic about such things.
A. possible
B. probable
C. perhaps
D. likely
参考答案：
D
D[be likely to do 可能发生，形容词likely 的主语可以是人，也可为物，其余选项不符合要求。

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3. It’s quite funny _____the new foreign teachers trying to adjust to _____that.
A. watch; doing
B. watching; do
C. to watch; have
done D. watching; doing
参考答案：
D
4. -- Thank you for the suggestions you kindly offered us in your speech.
-- We should thank you. _________
A. Cheers!
B. We weren’t supposed to do that.
C. I often wonder why.
D. We appreciate the opportunity to talk.
参考答案：
D
5. If he ____ my advice , he wouldn’t have lost his job.
A. follow
B. should follow
C. had followed
D. would follow.
参考答案：
C
6. When I entered the room I found my father _______ in the sofa and __________ in a magazine.
A. seated; absorbed
B. sit; absorb
C. sat; absorbed
D. sitting; absorbing
参考答案：
A
7. ______ the program, they have to stay there for another two weeks.
A. Not completing
B. Not completed
C. Not having completed
D. Having completed 参考答案：
C
略
8. Had China and other countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiate not worked together, we great achievements in the financial development since 2015.
A. hadn’t achieved
B. would not have been achieving
C. did not achieve
D. would not achieve
参考答案：
B
9. It’s John’s birthday today. I wish I ________ her out to a superb restaurant for dinner, but I’m too busy recently.
A. can take
B. take
C. could take
D. had taken
参考答案：
C
10. When I woke up, I found myself ______ in bed and ______ by doctors and nurses.
A. lying; surrounding
B. laying; surrounded
C. lain; surrounding
D. lying; surrounded
参考答案：
D
11. _______ providing entertainment, the website also turns out to be a helpful tool.
A. Far from
B. Instead of
C. Regardless of
D. Apart from
参考答案：
D
12. What a pity. He is a man of great ability. He ________ the work better.
A. need have done
B. must have done
C. will have done
D. should have done
参考答案：
D
13. The story of the little boy was so sad that I could hardly ______ my tears.
A. hold up
B. hold on
C. hold out
D. hold back
参考答案：
D
考查动词短语辨析。

句意：这个小男孩的故事是多么令人悲伤，以至于我没有忍住眼泪。

hold up举起，耽搁；hold on别挂断；hold out伸出，维持，坚持；hold back阻挡；忍住。

故选D。

14. While dancing happily at home，________．
A. the door bell rang
B. the door bell rings
C. we heard the door bell rings
D. we heard the door bell ring
参考答案：
D
15. --- What do you think we can do for our aged parents?
--- You _____ do anything except to be with them and be yourself.
A. don’t have to
B. oughtn’t to
C. mustn’t
D. can’t 参考答案：
a
略
16. ______ all the required papers, he didn’t answer the questions fluently in class.
A. Having not read
B. Not having read
C. Not read
D. Not to read
参考答案：
B
二、完型填空
26. A wave of recent research has pointed to the risks of over praising a child. And it seems that how to draw a line between too little praise and too much has become a high-pressure _1_ act for parents.
Self-esteem (自尊) serves as a kind of tool to measure how much children feel valued and accepted by 2 . This sensitivity to others' 3 develops because of humans' need for social acceptance, which is considered to be 4 to survival. As early as age 8, children's self-esteem tends to rise and fall in response to feedbacks about 5 peers see them as likable or attractive. 6 , it can also be beneficial for kids to feel bad about themselves occasionally, if they behave in selfish, mean or hurtful ways that might 7 their ability to maintain relationships or hold a job in the future.
In the past, many parents and educators believed that high self-esteem 8 happiness and success, and kids could gain self-esteem simply by getting 9 and awards from their parents, teachers and people around. But recently researchers have found self-esteem doesn't _10 these desired results. Instead, if parents praise their kids 11 , their self-esteem becomes focused on being very smart and being the best and being perfect. Building too much self-esteem of the children can not go as planned, making them feel 12 later on when they hit setbacks (挫折).
According to some experts, it can actually be good for kids to have 13 self-esteem, at least once in a while. And praise can be 14 if it disregards the world outside the home. Children who have a 15 understanding of how they are seen by others tend to get recovered more readily 16 disappointment, depression or the like. The best path is a 17 road, helping children develop a positive but 18 view of themselves in relation to others by praising them for the 19 they invest and behaviors they are able to sustain, like "It's 20 that you're working so hard on your homework. "
1. A. balancing B. crashing C. forcing D. embarrassing
2. A. themselves B. parents C. others
D. teachers
3. A. views B. envies C. favors
D. blames
4. A. irrelevant B. similar C. important
D. sensitive
5. A. when B. whether C. how
D. where
6. A. Indeed B. Otherwise C. Therefore
D. However
7. A. improve B. damage C. change
D. develop
8. A. promised B. delayed C. purchased D. ruined
9. A. support B. help C. challenge
D. praise
10. A. settle down B. work out C. give away
D. bring about
11. A. rarely B. carefully C. constantly
D. casually
12. A. worse B. stronger C. better
D. madder
13. A. high B. much C. low
D. little
14. A. powerful B. harmful C. grateful D. stressful
15. A. practical B. limited C. basic D. perfect
16. A. with B. to C. about
D. from
17. A. straight B. smooth C. middle
D. rough
18. A. general B. realistic C. different
D. negative
19. A. talent B. time C. money
D. effort
20. A. necessary B. awesome C. worthless
D. awful
参考答案：
26.【答案】ACACB DBADD CACBA DCBDB
三、阅读理解
18. Generations of children who sat through endless lessons of “chalk and talk” in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the “chalk and talk” method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but satisfaction is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers.
Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2000 teenagers, tried to measure the
influence of the “boredom factor” in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and producing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons.
The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today’s fashion for “child-centered” education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. “It was significant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupils’ interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference,” one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon (不赞同) actually improve the final grades.
The researchers said, “There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic(说教性的) teaching in the fight place, even if it isn’t the flavor at the moment.” However, they insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote(死记硬背).
54. University researchers have discovered that _________.
A. modern teaching methods provide students with entertainment
B. students taught by modern techniques are happy and successful
C. traditional teaching methods help students get higher score
D. students like old teaching better than modern teaching at school
55. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ____________.
A. child-centered education promotes friendship among children
B. the research findings are not significant enough for a conclusion
C. those who show greater interest in school did better in exams
D. those not showing much interest in school may turn out to score higher in tests
56. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?
A. The Examination-based Teaching
B. Rote Learning Was the Winner
C. The Problem of Child-centered Education
D. The Problem of the Traditional Method
参考答案：
54-56.CDB
54．C细节题。

由第一段第二句“But the ‘chalk and talk’ method helped them achieve better exam results.”可知传统的教学方法可以帮助学生得高分，正确答案是C。

55．D推断题。

第三段的句子“But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination.”指出兴趣和成绩不成正比，态度决定成绩，对学习没有兴趣的学生也可能学习成绩好，故选D。

56．B主旨题。

根据首段的句子“But the ‘chalk and talk’ method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but contentment(满足) is not the road to success in examinations,”可知这篇文章主要介绍的是死记硬背的学习方法可以让学生得高分。

故选B。

【备注】这篇文章介绍通过一些调查研究发现那些传统的学习方法可以让学生在考试中得高分。

19. Ever wonder how much a cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist（气象学家）has done some estimates and the results might surprise you.
Let’s start with a very simple white puffy cloud—a cumulus cloud(积云). How much does the water in a cumulus cloud weigh? Peggy LeMone, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, did the numbers. “The water in the little cloud weighs about 550 tons,” she calculates. “Or if you want to convert it to something that might be a little more meaningful...think of elephants.” Assume（假设）an elephant weighs about six tons, she says, that would mean the water inside a typical cumulus cloud would weigh about one hundred elephants.
The thought of a hundred elephants’ worth of water floating in the sky begs another question—what keeps it up there?
“First of all, the water isn’t in elephant-sized particles(微粒); it’s in tiny tiny tiny particles,” explains LeMone. And those particles float on the warmer air that’s rising below. But still, the concept of so much water floating in the sky was surprising even to a meteorologist like LeMone. “I had no idea how much a cloud would weigh, actually, when I started the calculations（计算）,” she says.
So how many elephant units of water are inside a big storm cloud—10 times bigger all the way around than the “puffy” cumulus cloud? Again, LeMone did the numbers: About 200,000
elephants.
Now, come to the calculations for a hurricane about the size of Missouri and the figures get really massive. “What we’re doing is weighing the water in one cubic meter theoretically p ulled from a cloud and then multiplying by the number of meters in a whole hurricane,” she explains.
The result? Forty million elephants. That means the water in one hurricane weighs more than all the elephants on the planet. Perhaps even more than all the elephants that have ever lived on the planet.
32. The weight of is NOT mentioned in the passage.
A. a cumulus cloud
B. a storm cloud
C. a hurricane
D. a tornado
33. How did Peggy LeMone feel about the result of her calculations?
A. She found it not convincing.
B. She thought it needed further calculations.
C. She considered the calculations inaccurate.
D. She was quite surprised at it.
34. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. A storm cloud weights about 200,000 elephants.
B. The water in the cloud is in very tiny particles.
C. There are less than forty million elephants living on the earth.
D. The water in a hurricane weights more than that in any other kind of cloud.
35. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Surprising Results
B. Elephants in the Sky
C. How Much a Cloud Weighs
D. How Much a Hurricane Weighs
参考答案：
32.D
33.D
34.C
35.B
34.C推理判断题。

由最后一段The result? Forty million elephants. Perhaps even more than all the elephants that have ever lived on the planet可以知道地球上的大象不到4千万，故选C.
35.B主旨大意题。

气象学专家对云重量进行测试，把云的数量和地上的大象进行比较，就是把天上的云看成大象的重量，B项能概括文意又能吸引读者，适合作为标题，故选B.【名师点睛】
主旨大意题的解题思路与应试技巧
做这类题时常用略读法。

快速阅读文章找出各个段落的主题句。

把各个段落的主题句联系起来着眼于全文结构安排，了解文章的重心，就能概括出文章的中心。

文章的标题是中心思想最精炼的表达形式，选择的标题意义范围要能涵盖全文，不能太大也不能太小。

命题者在出这类题时，常常利用生活常识编造干扰项，把文中的细节当主旨，利用局部信息编造干扰项，编制超出文章范围的标题或不能涵盖文章中心意义的标题来考查考生的理解程度，考生要特别留意。

概括主旨的方法是：先看首尾或各段开头再看全文找主题句，若无明显主题句，就通过关键词句来概括(如议论文中寻找表达作者观点态度的词句，记叙文寻找概括情节和中心的动词或反映人物特点的形容词。

) 。

文中出现两种或两种以上的不同观点时，务必牢记作者的观点才是体现全文中心的。

此时，要注意一些转折词，如but, yet, however, although, in spite of, by contrast, on the contrary等。

当文章中表示相反的观点时，往往用到这些词。

答题时要弄清哪个是作者的观点，排除迷惑性信息，准确归纳主旨大意。