2024-2025年四川绵阳初一下册期末英语试卷

1、The professor could tell by the ______ look in Maria’s eyes that she didn’t understand a single word of his lecture.

A.cold B.blank C.innocent D.empty

2、Cost ________as follows: food and drink 100 yuan, studying material 150 yuan, accommodation fee 300 yuan.

A．breaks down

B．breaks off

C．breaks in

D．breaks out

3、China is a shining example for the global community to follow _________developing green industry to fight climate change.

A．in addition to

B．in return for

C．in terms of

D．in agreement with

4、_______ astonishes us is that AlphaGo defeated the human champion.

A. Which   B. When

C. That   D. What

5、Many coral reefs in warm water areas would not be dying out ______ for the pollution accumulated over the previous years.

A.if it is not B.were it not C.had it not been D.if they were not

6、Though it is 5 years________ he retired from his work place, the old professor remains active in the academic circles.

A．when

B．that

C．before

D．since

7、______ into English, the sentence was found to have an entirely different word order.

A．Translating

B．Translated

C．To translate

D．Having translated

8、John accompanied me to the airport so that he could____the driving when I felt tired.

A.take over B.run over C.turn over D.rule over

9、_______by flowers and applause does not necessarily mean one is living a happy life.

A.Being accompanied B.Having accompanied

C.To be accompanied D.Accompanied

10、We want to rent a bus which can________40 people for our trip to Beijing.

A.load B.hold C.fill D.support

11、—Where are you going to hang the picture?

—I haven’t decided yet. I ________ hang it in the dining room.

A. might   B. must

C. need   D. would

12、Ted couldn’t remember the exact date of the storm, but he knew it was   Sunday because everybody was at   church.

A. /, the   B. a, /

C. /, a   D. the, /

13、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack _____ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.

A.less than B.better than C.other than D.rather than

14、Experts believe   people can waste less food by shopping only when it is necessary.

A. why   B. where   C. that   D. what

15、Bob was trying to ________ that he knew the famous singer who would perform in our city.

A. let out B. lay out

C. figure out D. make out

16、_______the strong winds continue, part of the highway would still be temporarily closed.

A. Could B. Would   C. Should   D. Might

17、My friend came around for a cup of tea and we________ having a big meal together.

A．put up

B．ended up

C．took up

D．brought up

18、Though he has made a big fortune, he is____a happy man.

A.nothing but B.anything but C.more than D.other than

19、One of the biggest culture differences I noticed in London was ______ the people of London conducted themselves..

A．that

B．how

C．what

D．why

20、When faced with a big challenge ________ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe you've heard this advice before: “Be more confident.”

A. where B. whose C. which D. of which

21、A 17-year-old Bangladeshi boy has won this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize for his work to fight cyberbullying(网络欺凌)in his country.

The prize winner，Sadat Rahman，promised to keep fighting online abuse until it no longer exists. “The fight against cyberbullying is like a war，and in this war I am a fearless fighter，”Sadat Rahman said during a ceremony on November 13 in The Hague，the Netherlands. He added，“If everybody keeps supporting me，then together we will win this battle against cyberbullying. ”

Rahman developed a mobile phone application that provides education about online bullying and a way to report cases of it. He said he began his work on the project after hearing the story of a 15-year-old girl who took her own life as a result of cyberbullying. “I will not stop until were receive no more cases through the app，”Rahman said at the ceremony.

The award comes with a fund of over $118，000，which is invested by the KidsRights Foundation. The group chooses projects to support causes that ale closely linked to the winner’s work.

Past well-known winners of the prize include Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yousafzai and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. And the students who organized the March for Our Lives event in 2018 after a deadly mass shooting at their school in the American state of Florida also won the prize.

Yousafzai praised Rahman’s work during the ceremony. She spoke through video conferencing. “All children have the fight to be protected from violence no matter if it is physical or mental，offline or online，”she said. “Cyberbullying damages that fight. ”

【1】What does Sadat Rahman devote himself to?

A．Battling online violence.

B．Helping poor children.

C．Being a brave fighter.

D．Removing school bullying.

【2】What caused Sadat Rahman to start his project?

A．People’s lack of education.

B．His own experience of being bullied.

C．A girl’s death from cyberbullying.

D．The wide use of mobile phone apps.

【3】What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．The March for Our Lives event.

B．Human rights activists in the world.

C．A horrible mass school shooting.

D．Some previous winners of the prize.

【4】What can we infer from Yousafzai’s words?

A．Rahman’s efforts have paid off.

B．Cyberbullying should be got rid of.

C．All children have the right to fight against violence.

D．Children are faced with physical and mental bullying.

22、   Sam Mehr, a psychologist at Harvard started working on the project after he kept reading an overfamiliar line at the top of research papers that said, “music is universal.” But every time he came across the statement, there wasn't a citation to back it up.

To see if there was any proof to this claim, he and his fellow researchers created two databases： one with descriptions from the researchers of what happened when music from the 1960s was playing, and another of 118 audio recordings from 86 different societies.

He found that there were three characteristics of behavior that consistently characterized music: formality, arousal (or how calming or exciting a song was), and religiosity—religious respect.

People did a decent job guessing the themes, especially for dance songs and nursery rhymes, says Manvir Singh, a Harvard Ph. D. student in the department of human evolutionary biology.

“Music appears in this huge diversity of behavioral, social, emotional context in human societies,” Singh says, “but it does so similarly across societies. ”

“The musical brain may have led to things that we take for granted in human nature, like compassion and empathy (同情与共情), because music uniquely can help us achieve those states,” Daniel Levitin, a cognitive scientist who's done similar research on music and evolution, explains, “Not to mention awe, appreciation, and gratitude.”

For Mehr and his team, the hunt for data is just the beginning. The lab is running more detailed quizzes to dig into how people respond to what they hear. They also hope to do studies on different populations like babies to see how they react to tunes like nursery rhymes from faraway societies.

Singh says he also hopes to analyze lyrics and the way they shape people's feelings and actions, even if it's in a language they don’t understand. ‘‘Exploring the lyrics allows us to better understand how music can bring these emotional or behavioral responses,” says Singh, “but also, in a broader way, the world view of the people who are singing.”

【1】What's the main idea of the text?

A．Music shapes people's world views.

B．Music is universal across societies.

C．Music behaviors are different in cultures.

D．The scientists have different opinions on music.

【2】Which music behavioral characteristic will appear when rock music is playing?

A．Gratitude.

B．Formality.

C．Religiosity.

D．Arousal.

【3】What does Daniel Levitin think of music?

A．It plays a role in emotion.

B．It can't lead to appreciation.

C．It can help us achieve goals.

D．It is a talent we are born with.

【4】What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A．More quizzes will be conducted.

B．Different populations will be studied.

C．The hunt for data has already been finished.

D．Further data wait to be sought.

23、When people hear the news that David Bennett, recipient of the world’s first pig heart transplant, died on March 9, they might believe that the transplant was at fault. But in fact his transplant surgery represents a great step forward in medical history toward xenotransplantation (异种器官移植) success.

His death came just two months after the operation Jan 7. He was ineligible (不合格的) for the heart transplant list and xenotransplantation was, his only option. The fact that he was able to get two more months of life with the surgery proves its success.

Xenotransplantation has been a hot topic in medical research for decades, as doctors and scientists look for ways to solve the transplant waiting list crisis. In the US alone over-100,000 patients are on the transplant list waiting for new organs. Many of them will die before getting their chance to receive a heart or lung or kidney. Therefore, medical science has looked to animal organs as a viable (可行的) alternative.

Doctors have experimented with xenotransplantation since the early 20th century but it has not been widely successful for two main reasons. First, it is incredibly difficult for even human-to-human transplants to be successful due to organ rejection. It is much harder with animal organs. Second, xenotransplantation has been highly restricted due to feat of virus transmissions from primates or pigs. In the late 1990s, some countries placed strict guidelines or outright bans on the use of animal tissue and organs for people.

Aside from Bennett’s gene-edited pig heart, late last year doctors New York University achieved some success in attaching pig kidneys to human blood vessels outside the body in patients on life support. Meanwhile, at the University of Alabama, doctors managed to actually implant (移植) gene-edited pig kidneys into a patient on life support.

Though these recent successes have been short-lived, they show that there may be a way to help more people with gene-edited organs from pigs.

【1】What do we know about the surgery?

A．It was one of the best choices for the patient.

B．It stands for the advances made in xenotransplantation.

C．It was the first successful xenotransplantation in history.

D．Without it, the patient would have lived two months longer.

【2】Why do scientists experiment with xenotransplantation?

A．To help patients recover from organ failure.

B．To find a practical alternative to human organs.

C．To make animal organs more useful to humans.

D．To ease the shortage of human organs for transplant.

【3】What may be the main concern about xenotransplantation?

A．The risk of spreading diseases.

B．The problem of public rejection.

C．The effects on other organs and tissues.

D．The damage to patients’ immune systems.

【4】What’s the author’s attitude toward the prospect of using pig organs for transplants?

A．Positive.

B．Worried.

C．Doubtful.

D．Uncertain.

24、Heading out of the Scottish Borders and west into Dumfries &Galloway, there are plenty of sights still to see on the journey.

GREY MARE’S TAIL

As one of the UK’s highest waterfalls, Rey Mare’s Tail is well worth a stop. Park up at the car park, and just along a short path, you can stand and admire this tall, natural feature as the water pours down the hanging valley. On the other side from the first path is a second path, following the path, and you’ll reach Loch Skeen, a beautiful glassy swimming pool of mountain water available for travellers.

MOFFAT

After you walk head to nearby Moffat for a short stroll around the town, you can have something to eat in one of the cafes or restaurants. If you’ve got time to spare, Moffat is Europe’s first Dark Sky Town, so as soon as the sun sets, you get a better view of the night sky thanks to the special street lighting.

WANLOCKHEAD

Take a drive further west into Dumfries & Galloway and you’ll soon reach the dizzy heights of not just the south of Scotland, but all of Scotland! Wanlockhead is Scotland’s highest village, which won’t come as a surprise once you’re there.

CRAWICK MULTIVERSE

Just a short drive from the highest village, is a good place to stretch your legs and see a different place on the area’s local industry. Crawick Multiverse has used landscape art to transform a former open cast coal mine into a 55-acre artland, visitor attraction and public space.

【1】What’s special about Grey Mare’s Tail?

A．Its water is the purest.

B．You can swim in Loch Skeen.

C．There is a famous valley there.

D．It’s the largest waterfall in the US.

【2】Which of the following is the highest altitude in Scotland?

A．Dumfries & Galloway.

B．Dark Sky Town.

C．Wanlockhead.

D．Crawick Multiverse.

【3】Which column of the website can you read this text?

A．Culture.

B．Advertisement.

C．Education.

D．Travel.

25、   I was fifteen and a high school freshman when I started rapidly losing weight. I was about 130 pounds, and I was ________ ten pounds every couple of weeks. I couldn’t understand why I was always hungry, thirsty, and never ________.Every night I ________ five or six times, feeling like I had to go to the bathroom, but I never really had to. Finally, I decided to go to the hospital to ________ nothing bad was going on.

I remembered being ________ in the hospital, confused, hungry, and with an extremely ________ blood sugar level. The doctors and nurses thought I might pass out, so they injected me and told me the worst news I could have imagined— tests showed that I had Type 1 juvenile diabetes. I was so ________ that the only question I could think to ask was, “Am I going to die?” A nurse told me to go out, enjoy a meal with my family, and ________, because tomorrow my new, difficult life would begin.

I don’t remember what time I had to be at the hospital, ________ I know it was early. Three nurses, one dietician, and a doctor all trained me, over the course of two days, to ________ me. Every needle hurt, but in some way I began to feel ________ every time I was able to think about the needles without crying.

Now, nearly three years later, I still remember the ________ when the doctors told me I was a Type 1 diabetic. I’m ________ when I look back that I was able to be strong, and that my family and friends supported me. I’m now two months shy of eighteen. To this day, I have had 3,38 needle injections, but each of them helps me to remember I must be strong. ________, I am grateful for my disease—it has made me the person I am today, and I would never ________who I am.

A．keeping

B．carrying

C．dropping

D．measuring

A．satisfied

B．frustrated

C．determined

D．stimulated

A．stood up

B．woke up

C．dressed up

D．cheered up

A．make out

B．make for

C．make sure

D．make up

A．looked after

B．operated on

C．paid for

D．checked over

A．swift

B．flat

C．high

D．average

A．ashamed

B．annoyed

C．depressed

D．delighted

A．recover

B．relax

C．escape

D．exercise

A．so

B．and

C．because

D．but

A．make fun of

B．make use of

C．take control of

D．take care of

A．stronger

B．healthier

C．stranger

D．simpler

A．message

B．dream

C．feeling

D．courage

A．appreciated

B．appropriate

C．approximate

D．apparent

A．Fortunately

B．Doubtfully

C．Naturally

D．Incredibly

A．mind

B．recognize

C．shape

D．change

26、假定你是学生会主席李华，为响应学校建设文明校园(civilized campus) 的号召，倡导同学们争做文明学生。请给校报英语专栏的编辑写封邮件，内容包括:

I. 列举不文明行为;

2. 提出改进措施。

注意:l. 词数100 左右;

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

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