2025-2026年新疆克拉玛依初一下册期末英语试卷

1、In the lecture, the professor told his students about how to write an _________ of a graduate paper, expressing the main argument.

A. account   B. application   C. address   D. abstract

2、The Palace Museum has the most remarkable collection of fine clocks in the world, mainly _________ from Europe and China.

A．originating

B．originated

C．being originated

D．having originated

3、The change of a job can be a very challenging and ______ experience for most people.

A．inspiring

B．disturbing

C．motivating

D．fascinating

4、Having pictures to color will keep children ______for hours.

A．amused

B．amusing

C．amuse

D．to amuse

5、It’s supposed to be the end of the paperback and the ________ of digital media, but some bookstores are surviving the Internet age with surprising success.

A. deadline B. dawn

C. dusk D. departure

6、_____in the queue for half an hour, the old man suddenly realized he had left the money in the car.

A. Waiting B. Having waited

C. To wait D. To have waited

7、Professional skills are tools like a knife or a hammer. You need ______ to complete the things you want to do.

A.it B.that C.them D.ones

8、Nearly all educators believe that a challenging situation can often ______ the best qualities of a person.

A. cheer up B. take over

C. bring out D. put away

9、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

10、All his attention________ on what the teacher was saying, so he even didn't notice what was happening outside the classroom.

A．fixed

B．was fixed

C．was fixing

D．has been fixed

11、—What does Nicky’s job involve as a public relations director?

—______ quite a lot of time with other people.

A. Spending   B. Having spent

C. To spend   D. To have spent

12、______ such a problem before, we handled the situation very well this time.

A. Deal with   B. Dealing with

C. To deal with   D. Having dealt with

13、The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter______ its structure rather than its chemical composition.

A. lives up to B. gets down to

C. comes down to D. stands up to

14、---My son is addicted to computer games. He is hopeless，isn't he？

---Yes，_____________he is determined to give up and start all over.

A．if

B．unless

C．though

D．so

15、This car is important to our family. We would repair it at our expense _______ it break down within the first year.

A. could B. would

C. might D. should

16、 --- Excuse me, where is the Hilton Hotel?

--- Go straight ahead and turn right, You _____miss it. It's a huge building.

A. needn't   B. can't   C. mustn't D. wouldn't

17、There is more to good health than the mere ________ of disease. Mental health is equally important.

A.presence B.absence C.experience D.evidence

18、In order to make full use of the energy, many water power stations are built ______ there are big waterfalls.

A．unless

B．so that

C．where

D．whether

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

A．forbid

B．resist

C．reject

D．reduce

20、Like all teenagers there’s one thing she’d rather __________ — spots.

A. do without   B. do up   C. do with   D. do off

21、Born on the 24th of June, 1987, Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini is a world-famous professional football player who played for Barcelona FC and is also the captain of the Argentine National Team. Messi is often believed to be one of the best footballers playing today and he won the 2022 World Cup title with Argentina last year.

Messi was not born in a well-off family. His father was a worker in a steel factory and his mother worked part time as a cleaner. Messi had been fascinated by the sport at a very early age and joined his first club at the age of five. Unfortunately, at the age of eleven, Messi was diagnosed with having a deficiency of growth hormones（生长激素缺乏症）and his treatment to overcome the situation would require about $900 a month. While many local clubs and teams had shown a lot of interest in Messi, nobody was willing to shell out the expenses for his treatment.

However, this young boy had already managed to raise a number of eyebrows with his perfect skills and his immense talent with the ball. His strength and determination shone through on the field and he was noticed by the sporting director of Barcelona FC,   who offered him a contract on a paper napkin to join the club. He also assured him that if he moved to Spain in order to pursue a football career, the club would pay for all his medical expenses. Messi accepted the contract and moved on to Spain. Ever since that incident, Messi has gained a lot of love from football fans all over the world.

Even after becoming one of the biggest stars in the sport, Messi has not forgotten the difficult times. Consequently, in 2007,he established the Leo Messi Foundation which is to provide healthcare and also education to poor and vulnerable（脆弱的）children. Messi is surely a very inspirational figure who has made it big on the basis of his determination and skill and has combatted a difficult past to come out on top.

【1】What was the medical condition that Messi had 6 years after joining his first club?

A．A deficiency of calcium.

B．A deficiency of vitamin.

C．A deficiency of blood cells.

D．A deficiency of growth hormones.

【2】What does the phrase “shell out” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．protect against.

B．pay for.

C．look into.

D．argue for.

【3】Which of the following words best describe Messi?

A．Determined and grateful.

B．Ignorant and proud.

C．Shy and nervous.

D．Adventurous and curious.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．The comparison between Messi and other footballers.

B．The admiration for Messi's skills and talent.

C．Messi's life stories and achievements.

D．The difficulty Messi met when playing football.

22、Researchers have developed a new method for training people to be creative, one that shows promise of succeeding far better than current ways. This new method, based on narrative (叙事的) theory, helps people be creative in the way children and artists are; by making up stories they imagine alternative worlds, shift perspectives (角度) and generate unexpected actions.

The current foundation of creativity training is the technique known as divergent thinking (发散思维), which doesn’t deliver the results that many hope for. A major issue is that this approach relies on data and information about the problems and successes of the past. It can’t come up with truly original actions. That’s where narrative method comes in, and both techniques could be used together.

The narrative method works by recognizing that we’re all creative. “We undervalue the creativity of kids and many others because we tend to think that some people are more creative than others, but the reality is that we’re just not training creativity in the right way,” said Angus Fletcher from the Ohio State University. Fletcher and his colleagues successfully used the narrative approach to train members from the US Army, the University of Chicago, and several Fortune 50 companies.

The narrative method asks participants to generate stories based on assumptive situations or think from someone else’s perspective. Their suggestions are then assessed by experts according to how certain they are that an action will work. For example, marketers might be asked to imagine a world where their competitor’s product was free and how they would respond to that, or to learn a little about how a co-worker thinks and then imagine how they would solve a specific problem.

The narrative method generates actual solutions without pressuring participants to come up with ideas that match an “appropriateness” criterion. What’s more, the narrative method doesn’t depend on data to fuel outputs, so it’s useful even in never seen-before situations.

【1】What does the author say about divergent thinking?

A．It is perfect for multiple tasks.

B．It is suitable for creative actions.

C．It is unfit for complex problems.

D．It is inadequate for desired results.

【2】What is Paragraph 4 intended to tell us about the narrative method?

A．Its effect on business climate.

B．Its application in creativity training.

C．Its role in improving product quality.

D．Its value in assessing workers’ ability.

【3】Which is one advantage of the narrative method?

A．It relies on data and past performance.

B．It prepares people for standard answers.

C．It trains people to find practical solutions.

D．It focuses on guessing the future correctly.

【4】What’s the best title for the text?

A．Creative Ideas and Creative Actions

B．Narrative Approach and Divergent Thinking

C．Narrative Method Can Make Anyone Creative

D．There Should Be No Prejudice Against Creativity

23、   Come to think of it, the balance between life and work is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stillness: if our lives were ever in balance — parents happy, kids taken care of, work working - then our primary thought would be to shout "Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.

Yet work is not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life — just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love.

We have interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic that affects many patients. Another was drawn mostly to the anesthetic mechanism and has devoted himself to defining precisely how each drug does what it does.

Think of your life's many different activities as threads. Some are black and some are white. But some of these activities appear to be made of a different substance. These activities contain all the signs of love: before you do them, you find yourself looking forward to them; while you're doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself in flow; and after you've done them, you feel energetic. These are your red threads, and research by the Mayo Clinic suggests that doctors who weave the fabric of their life with at least 20% red threads are significantly less likely to experience burnout.

The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column "Love”. And any time you find yourself feeling the opposite write down what you were doing in the column “Dislike”. By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your "Love" column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up.

Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best.

【1】What is the author's attitude towards work-life balance?

A．Unclear.

B．Neutral.

C．Supportive.

D．Disapproving.

【2】The author uses three anesthesiologists as examples to________.

A．show people gain joy from different situations

B．indicate doctors take pride in their work

C．prove people benefit from work

D．imply doctors reduce the pressure of work successfully

【3】"Red threads" in the fourth paragraph refer to the activities which_________.

A．require your efforts

B．arouse your passion

C．hurt your motivation

D．suit your needs

【4】Which of the following does the author probably agree with?

A．Red threads are necessary for a balanced life.

B．Recording activities leads to negative feelings.

C．Find love in work instead of keeping work-life balance.

D．Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work.

24、Vinisha Umashankar was returning to her home in southern India from school a few years ago when she saw a man throwing away burnt charcoal (木炭) on the side of the street. He worked by ironing people’s clothes for a living-and his main appliance was an old-fashioned iron box, which he filled with hot charcoal that produced a cloud of smoke. Umashankar started thinking about how this was happening across the country, where the ironing vendor (小商贩) is a fixture.

So Umashankar came up with an idea. Instead of using charcoal to heat up the irons, the vendors could use something abundantly available in India: the power of the sun. Over the six months in 2019, when she was just 12 years old, she designed a cart (推车) that had solar panels to power a steam iron. She turned to college-level physics textbooks to get an understanding of how solar panels work. Then, she consulted some engineers about her concept and asked them to assist her in building a model.

And so the Iron-Max was born. It’s a blue-painted cart shaped like an iron box with solar panels fitted on its roof. It’s attached to a bicycle to allow vendors to move through the neighborhood to collect clothes to iron. Five hours of bright sunshine is enough to fully charge and operate the iron for six hours. The energy can be store Dina battery to provide power on cloudy days. The cart also has a coin-operated cellphone and a cellphone charging point where people can pay to recharge their phones to help vendors make extra money.

With her creative invention, Umashankar was invited to give a powerful 5-minute speech at COP26, the UN’s climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in which she urged world leaders to stop talking and start acting.

Last September, Umashankar was named one of 15 finalists for the Earth shot Prize launched by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. She did not win the prize in her category, “Clean Our Air”, but was praised by judges for being the youngest finalist for the award.

【1】What is the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To show an Indian girl’s daily routines.

B．To tell the inspiration for the Iron-Max.

C．To point out an environmental problem.

D．To explain how ironing vendors survive.

【2】What did Vinisha Umashankar do to invent the Iron-Max?

A．She turned to some experts for help.

B．She attended lectures in universities.

C．She used charcoal to heat up the irons.

D．She consulted vendors about her concept.

【3】What does the text say about the solar-powered ironing cart?

A．It is not attached to a bicycle.

B．It fails to work on cloudy days.

C．It can offer additional services.

D．It does ironing fully automatically.

【4】What can we infer about Vinisha Umashankar’s invention?

A．It led to the opening of COP26.

B．It was doubted by most judges.

C．It finally won the Earth shot Prize.

D．It received wide recognition.

25、When my aunt's children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbor's dog had given _______ to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier and so my aunt arranged to _______ one of the puppies once they had been weaned （断奶）.

The day came to bring home the little puppy and the children were _______; they named it Shorty happily and _______ welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable _______ in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and _______ for school. When they returned, they were _______ to discover that Shorty was missing. They _______ the whole house inch by inch, _______ it was nowhere to be found. A few hours later, the ____________ who sold them the puppy came over carrying Shorty, ____________ . He explained that the mother dog had slid into my aunt's house and carried the puppy back to his home.

For a number of days my aunt and her neighbour tried ____________ to keep the puppy in his new home, because each day the mother dog would ____________ it from the tiny bed. Finally, my aunt's neighbour gave up and offered her a refund （退款）

I came to realize that mother's love is flowing all over the places you can imagine , ____________ in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a ____________ you might as well keep the mother dog at a distance.

【1】

A．rise

B．birth

C．way

D．attention

【2】

A．buy

B．borrow

C．steal

D．rent

【3】

A．cautious

B．cheerful

C．awkward

D．allergic

【4】

A．merely

B．frequently

C．immediately

D．temporarily

【5】

A．bed

B．seat

C．net

D．bag

【6】

A．looking out

B．heading off

C．taking away

D．coming up

【7】

A．alarmed

B．relieved

C．interested.

D．ashamed

【8】

A．discovered

B．cleaned

C．searched

D．explored

【9】

A．so

B．though

C．or

D．but

【10】

A．parent

B．friend

C．relative

D．neighbor

【11】

A．praising

B．apologizing

C．promising

D．blaming

【12】

A．in vain

B．in turn

C．on purpose

D．on time

【13】

A．feed

B．kiss

C．bite

D．fetch

【14】

A．just

B．yet

C．even

D．still

【15】

A．toy

B．guard

C．companion

D．colleague

26、请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

照片反映的是中学生暑期游览大学校园的情景。作为一名高三学生，请根据下表提示，就目前普遍存在的中学生暑期游览名牌大学的现象用英语给校报“英语角”写一篇短文。

 注意：

1.短文须包括所有要点，可适度发挥，使行文连贯。

2.词数150左右，开头已经给出，但不计入总词数。

3.不得提及本人姓名和所在学校。

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