2024-2025年湖南湘潭初一下册期末英语试卷

1、—Have you ever been to Mount Wuyi?  —Yes. It is one of the most famous ________in Fujian.

A．attractions

B．expressions

C．instructions

D．attentions

2、Hawking believes the earth is unlikely to be the only planet _____ life has developed gradually.

A. that   B. why

C. where   D. whose

3、– You’re left the light on.

-- Oh, so I have. _____ and turn it off.

A．I’ll go

B．I’ve gone

C．I go

D．I’m going

4、Most probably it will be another 7 hours _____ you can have next meal, so you must have your stomach full.

A．since

B．when

C．after

D．before

5、People have difficulty accepting that their pictures were webcast live to millions of viewers, ______ the fact that some of them were not so graceful.

A．no doubt

B．no denying

C．nothing like

D．not to mention

6、Wang Fang regularly________the college magazine at college, which________ her later career a lot.

A．contributed in; contributed to

B．contributed to; contributed to

C．contributed to; contributed in

D．contributed; contributed

7、________ back in his chair, the man began to tell us his adventures in the forests.

A. Sit B. Sitting C. To sit D. Sat

8、He was about to leave the office for home________someone knocked the door and asked for some help.

A.until B.when C.as D.while

9、With rising work pressure in big cities, Zhang Yixuan decided to return to his hometown. Before that, he _________ at a media company since his university graduation.

A. had been working   B. had worked   C. worked   D. has worked

10、We ____________ solving international dispute by negotiation, instead of appealing to arms.

A.advocate B.admit C.assess D.approach

11、She lived in two rooms over a teashop, ________ was convenient, since she could send for cakes if she had visitors.

A．where

B．in which

C．which

D．that

12、Billy Crystal will host the Academy Awards again this year, and his performances always _____ the expectations of most audience.

A.sign up for B.drop out of C.give in to D.live up to

13、--- Has your wife come back from Africa?

---Yes, but she _____here for only one month before she went on another expedition to Cuba

A. has been B. was   C. will be   D. would be

14、She is overweight, but she can’t _______ the temptation to eat more delicious food.

A．forbid

B．resist

C．reject

D．reduce

15、More checkpoints were set up in the country to ensure residents could be ________ for the virus.

A.cancelled B.contained C.strengthened D.screened

16、Some insects_______ the colour of their surrounding to protect themselves.

A．taken in

B．take off

C．take on

D．take out

17、The possibility of employing more staff is still _____ discussion.

A.up B.with C.at D.under

18、 Don’t become addicted to online games, ______about what is more important.

A. forgot B. to forget C. forgetting  D. having forgotten

19、_______ me when you get it through and I’ll pick you up at your work place．

A．Calling B．Call

C．Called D．To call

20、How about a trip to the beach？  I will ask Tom  to go with us.

A.You have my word! B.Sorry，I'm occupied.

C.Rather! D.Are you kidding？

21、   My college experience included this life-skill lesson: Drink alcohol on a full stomach. Or you will get inebriated too quickly. Of course, most college students shouldn’t be drinking at all, but we know from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that close to 60 percent of college students aged 18 to 22 do consume alcohol, which makes harm-reducing approaches important.

Unfortunately, campus authorities and researchers are reporting a practice that turns the full-stomach drinking strategy on its head: rather than filling up before a night of partying, significant numbers of students refuse to eat all day before consuming alcohol.

This is a high-risk behavior called “drunkorexia,” which is one part eating disorder, one part alcoholism—a very dangerous combination for college-age students. The term drunkorexia, which can also include excessive exercise or purging before consuming alcohol, was coined about 10 years ago, and it started showing up in medical research around 2012. Drunkorexia addresses the need to be the life of the party while staying extremely thin, pointing to a flawed mind-set about body image and alcoholism among college students, mostly women.

Imagine this scenario: A female college freshman doesn’t eat anything all day, exercises on an empty stomach, then downs five shots of tequila in less than two hours. Because there’s no food in her system to help slow the absorption of alcohol, those shots affect her rapidly, leading to inebriation and possibly passing out, vomiting or suffering alcohol poisoning. That’s drunkorexia.

Tavis Glassman, professor of health education and public health at the University of Toledo in Ohio, researches drunkorexia and worries about scenarios such as the one described above: “With nothing in her system, alcohol hits quickly, and that brings up the same issues as with any high-risk drinking: sexual assault, unintentional injury, fights, hangovers that affect class attendance and grades, and possibly ending up in emergency because the alcohol hits so hard,” he says.

“Alcohol can negatively affect the liver or gastrointestinal system, it can interfere with sleep, lower the immune system and is linked to several types of cancers,” Hultin says.

【1】What does the underlined word “inebriated” in paragraph 1 mean?

A.excited B.overwhelmed C.addicted D.drunk

【2】We can infer from the passage that ________.

A.a large number of college students spend most of their nights partying

B.some college students refuse to eat before drinking alcohol to keep slim

C.There is a direct link between body image and consuming alcohol

D.female college student is more likely to be hurt if she drinks alcohol

【3】Which of the following may Tavis Glassman agree with?

A.With more food in one’s system, he may suffer from the effects of alcohol slowly.

B.Drinking five shots of tequila in less than two hours is the performance of drunkorexia.

C.Those who don’t attend classes and have lower grades tend to be addicted to alcohol.

D.Alcohol has negative effects on the immune system and may lead to several cancers.

22、   Using a computer used to mean clicking at a mouse. Then it meant tapping on a touchscreen. Increasingly, it means simply speaking. A smartphone’s voice assistant processes 25 billion requests a month.

One group, though, has been left behind. The World Health Organisation counts 430 million people as deaf or hard of hearing. Many use sign languages to communicate. Normally, they cannot use those languages to talk to computers. 【1】

People have tried to teach computers to understand sign languages. There have been plenty of claims of breakthroughs in recent years. So-called solutions range from special gloves that capture the wearer’s finger movements to software that detects distinct hand shapes. 【2】 In practical contexts, no case of feasibility is evident. Deaf people are more than ever disassociated from digital community.

It is easy to see why. Gloves are similar to body-worn cameras. Both require users to adapt to the needs of hearing people. Hand-shape recognition, while useful, cannot by itself handle the full complexity of sign languages. Some projects have been complimented as offering cheap alternatives to human interpreters in places like hospitals, police stations or classrooms. 【3】

But things are improving. Research groups, which increasingly include deaf scientists, are asking how technology can best serve deaf people’s interests. Students of sign languages are compiling databases, known as corpora, full of examples of how the sign languages are used. Programmers are trying to turn them into useful products.

As with spoken languages, sign languages possess their own grammar, idioms and dialects. Again like spoken languages, the hard-and-fast rules of grammar books do not really capture the subtleties of everyday usage. Single signs can be shorthand for complex ideas. Like speakers, signers often take shortcuts, such as representing two-handed signs with a single hand. 【4】 Therefore, ways to get them easily across are vital to true understanding and communication.

A．They are criticized for somewhat sacrificing formality for conveniences.

B．These solutions, despite certain disadvantages, serve, in a way, as answers to the deaf people’s urgent needs.

C．They face the risk of being excluded from the digitalization that is taking over everyday life.

D．However, the cost of even small errors can be very high.

E．Correctly interpreting all these is much harder than recognizing spoken syllables or written letters.

F．They have won applause while isolating the very people for whom they are designed.

23、   The European wood bison population has grown so much as to no longer be considered "Vulnerable" according to the global authority on conservation,the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN),in their latest Red List update.

A century ago,only 50 European bison remained on Earth,and they were mostly restricted to nature reserves.

“The conservation successes provide living proof that the world can set,and meet, ambitious biodiversity targets,” said Dr. Jane Smart,Global Director of IUCN' s Biodiversity Conservation Group in a statement.

Eight of the 47 bison herds have special genes for long-term survival, so scientists need to move animals in and out of herds in order to make healthy genes continue. Establishing greater numbers of separate herds will also help prevent possible losses due to things like diseases or natural disasters.

This led to the creation of a project called “Wilder Blean" where Blean Woods in Kent, England,will receive Dutch and Polish bison to create the first wild herd on the island for 6,000 years.

English conservationists and wildlife managers are interested in the effects bison have on the landscape. As large grass-eating animals, the constant foraging, digging and breaking they do on the forest floor have been assumed to have positive effects on the ecosystem.

Bison kill weak or dead trees by eating their bark or rubbing against them to remove their thick winter fur. This turns the tree into food and habitat for insects, which in turn provide food for birds.

In this way they act like forestry experts, and the Kent Wildlife Trust hopes that this significant species will maintain declining populations of plants, birds, insects, and mammals by way of their unique habits.

【1】What has made the European wood bison grow in large numbers?

A.Being restricted to nature reserves. B.Being updated on the latest Red List.

C.Being kept under effective conservation. D.Being born with long-term survival genes.

【2】What does the underlined word “This” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A.Providing living proof. B.Preventing natural disasters.

C.Establishing nature reserves. D.Setting up more separate herds.

【3】What is the attitude of Kent Wildlife Trust towards the project “Wilder Blean”？

A.Supportive. B.Conservative. C.Skeptical. D.Objective.

【4】What is the purpose of this text?

A.To introduce the various actions of European wood bison.

B.To highlight the importance of setting and meeting targets.

C.To report the conservation successes for European wood bison.

D.To praise Dr. Jane Smart for his contributions to conservation.

24、No longer in the pink

Corals are comeback creatures. As the world froze and melted and sea levels rose and fell over 30,000 years, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which is roughly the size of Italy, died and revived five times. But now, thanks to human activity, corals face the most complex condition they have yet had to deal with.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, a rise in global temperatures of 1.5oC could cause coral reefs to decline 70-90%. The planet is about 1oC hotter than in the 19th century and its seas are becoming warmer, stormier and more acidic. This is already affecting relations between corals and the single-celled algae (海藻), which give them their color. When waters become unusually warm, algae float away, leaving reefs a ghostly white. This “bleaching” is happening five times as often as it did in the 1970s. Meanwhile the changing chemistry of the oceans makes it harder for corals to form their structures.

If corals go, divers and marine biologists are not the only people who will miss them. Reefs take up only a percent of the sea floor, but support a quarter of the planet’s fish diversity. The fish that reefs shelter are especially valuable to their poorest human neighbors, many of whom depend on them as a source of protein. Roughly an eighth of the world’s population lives within 100km of a reef. Corals also protect 150,000km of shoreline in more than 100 countries and territories from the oceans buffeting, as well as generating billions of dollars in tourism revenue.

Coral systems must adapt if they are to survive. They need protection from local sources of harm. Their eco-systems suffer from waste from farms, building sites and blast fishing. Governments need to impose tighter rules on these industrials, such as tougher local building codes, and to put more effort into enforcing rules against overfishing.

Setting up marine protected areas could also help reefs. Locals who fear for their livelihoods could be given work as rangers with the job of looking after the reserves. Visitors to marine parks can be required to pay a special tax, like what has been done in the Caribbean.

Many reefs that have been damaged could benefit from restoration. Coral’s biodiversity offers hope, because the same coral will grow differently under different conditions. Corals of the western Pacific, for example, can withstand higher temperatures than the same species in the eastern Pacific, which proves a way forward to encourage corals to grow in new spots.

【1】According to the passage, what may happen to corals when waters become warm?

A.Turning white B.Getting pink

C.Being active D.Becoming colorful

【2】According to the passage,corals can _______ the changing in the nature.

A.live with B.escape from

C.die in D.recovery from

【3】According to Paragraph 4, the governments should__________.

A.carry out stricter rules on industries around the coast

B.call on volunteers to look after the marine reserves

C.reduce the number of visitors to the marine parks

D.ban people from fishing in the coral reef areas

【4】What’s the main purpose of the passage?

A.To present the importance of coral reef to the world.

B.To introduce the severe effect on coral reef brought by climate change.

C.To propose governments to take action immediately to save coral reef.

D.To attract more attention to coral reef protection.

25、One well-below-freezing morning, I walked through the grounds of Ontario Place. Trees were frosted sculptures, and large chunks of ice ________ in the lake. I stopped to take a photo, and that’s when I saw them: a group of people ________ up and down in the water.

I didn’t quite believe my eyes. The ice warriors emerged from the lake, their skin   ________.They were laughing and hugging each other. Watching them, I felt a surge of   ________. I called out: “You guys are awesome!” One woman smiled back and said, “Come and join us! You can ________ online.” When I got home, I did that and received a(n) ________email telling me what to bring.

The night before my first dip, I was excited and nervous. I checked the ________: it was -14 C, or -20 C with Toronto’s well-known wind chill. But there wasn’t a cancellation message.   ________, the dip was on. The next morning, a young man first led us through ________ and breathing exercises. Then, along with the others, I ran in my bathing ________ and water shoes. Together we bounced up and down, and then dashed into the ________. We dipped down until just our heads and hands were ________ water, and yelled into the sky.

Knowing it was my first time, people ________ me a lot. When we swam back out of the water, my skin was bright red. It felt ________. After we’d all _______, we met back on the beach, and danced and sang by a small fire to warm up. I could ________ remember the last time I’d felt so delighted.

There are times when you can try to get out of comfort zone. It won’t ________ everything in our lives, or the world at large — but for ________ reason, it helps. Not only was I stronger and more ________ than I had thought, but also discovered a strong interest and a world I hadn’t known existed. As another winter sets in, I’m more than ________ to embrace the cold again.

【1】

A．landed

B．floated

C．dropped

D．faded

【2】

A．jumping

B．walking

C．hiding

D．jogging

【3】

A．burning

B．steaming

C．rolling

D．aching

【4】

A．excitement

B．calmness

C．confusion

D．sorrow

【5】

A．drop out

B．pick up

C．sign up

D．stand out

【6】

A．application

B．realization

C．occupation

D．confirmation

【7】

A．risk

B．expense

C．situation

D．forecast

【8】

A．Apparently

B．Temporarily

C．Suitably

D．Occasionally

【9】

A．races

B．comments

C．introductions

D．options

【10】

A．suit

B．type

C．brand

D．number

【11】

A．river

B．lake

C．ocean

D．stream

【12】

A．around

B．away

C．above

D．along

【13】

A．protected

B．observed

C．impressed

D．encouraged

【14】

A．demanding

B．disappointing

C．amazing

D．amusing

【15】

A．bounced

B．adjusted

C．predicted

D．changed

【16】

A．hardly

B．usually

C．particularly

D．merely

【17】

A．manage

B．fix

C．reply

D．satisfy

【18】

A．any

B．some

C．other

D．another

【19】

A．cleverer

B．busier

C．healthier

D．hungrier

【20】

A．able

B．lucky

C．free

D．ready

26、假定你是李华，你校摄影俱乐部（photography club）将举办国际中学摄影展。请给你的英国朋友Peter写封信。请他提供作品。信的内容包括：

1．主题：环境保护；

2．展览时间；

3．投稿邮箱：intlphotoshow@gmschool.com.

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.提示：国际中学摄影展：an International High School Students Photography Show

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