安顺2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

1、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

2、The Internet has made ______ easier than ever to start a business.

A. it B. that C. this  D. One

3、James was enjoying the art show, _________ his wife wanted to go home.

A.or B.for

C.so D.but

4、You can’t imagine how excited we were ________ that our schoolmates had won the first place in National Robot Competition.

A.learning B.having learned

C.to be learning D.to learn

5、--I hear that there was a terrible crash in the subway in Shanghai the other day．

--Yes，_____ news came as _____ shock to all of us．

A．the; the B．a; /

C．the; a D．/; a

6、We express the hope that a climate beneficial to a negotiated settlement would be created soon, ________ there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.

A. in case   B. even though

C. so that   D. as long as

7、We should learn to accept the good with gratitude to God.______，we should also learn to accept the bad without complaint.

A.Meanwhile B.However C.Therefore D.Moreover

8、The water was now two feet deep, making it difficult, if not impossible, _________ the car out.

A. getting   B. got   C. to get   D. get

9、--Has James finished his report on his Enquiry Learning yet?

--I’m not sure. She _________ on it last week.

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

10、The Internet allows us quick ______ to all the data and research findings in the fields available worldwide.

A. entrance B. charge   C. access D. advance

11、It’s unwise to leave________ can be life’s most important decision—future career—entirely to luck.

A．which

B．that

C．what

D．how

12、Under no ________ should passengers leave the underground platform and get on the tracks.

A.circumstances B.situations C.occasions D.cases

13、The new technology, if _________ to rice growing, will help increase the grain output．

A. applied   B. applying

C. to apply     D. having applied

14、I ______ for over 40 minutes, but my food still isn’t ready.

A．am waiting

B．have been waiting

C．was waiting

D．had waited

15、—Mum, is the pair of gloves ________ mine?

—Yes. You have to wear another pair.

A. washing B. have washed

C. being washed D. having washed

16、In my driving lesson, a traffic rule that impressed me most is that in no time ________ when the traffic lights turn red.

A. all vehicles should stop B. should all vehicles stop

C. should stop all vehicles D. should stop all vehicles

17、Mr. Zhang gave the textbooks to all the pupils except_____ who had already taken them.

A．the ones

B．ones

C．some

D．the others

18、Her display of bad temper completely _____ the party.

A.harmed B.damaged C.spoilt D.hurt

19、As Queen Elizabeth in her New Year Speech of 2018 puts it, for many, the idea of “home” reaches _______ a physical building to a hometown, a city or a nation.

A. against   B. with   C. beyond   D. through

20、Tom had to have his car repaired in a garage because it ______seriously.

A. damaged     B. was being damaged

C. had damaged  D. had been damaged

21、Peter and Minke van Wingerden have created something wild: a herd of cows floating on the sea. The Dutch husband-and-wife team’s experiment on sustainable agriculture, called Floating Farm, can be found in the port of Rotterdam. The modernist structure houses 40 cows, who collectively produce some 200 gallons of milk a day. In addition to helping nourish (滋养) the local community, the waterborne farm is playing a part in the global conversation about how the climate crisis is pushing farmers to reconsider how—and where—they produce food.

Floods, extreme heating, droughts and even rising night temperatures have sent the food system off balance. The race to outsmart the constant attack of extreme weather has made the world of farming unrecognizable from what it was only decades ago. A team of scientists in Mexico is developing wheat types that can adapt themselves to different climates, while Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, Colorado, is a testbed for the emerging method of solar farming.

Rotterdam has already established itself as one of the most climate-adaptive places in the world. Everything from office buildings to entire neighborhoods are built on water in the city, which is 90% below sea level. The Wingerdens’ Floating Farm was a new but necessary attempt. Should a weather crisis arise, a waterborne farm isn’t necessarily stuck in place. A former property developer with a background in engineering, Peter found his inspiration for the Floating Farm in a climate disaster in New York City, where Hurricane Sandy prevented the delivery of fresh food to millions.

The Wingerdens’ model is ripe for reproduction—which is exactly what the Floating Farm’s team of 14 are working on now. Plans are under way for a floating vegetable farm to move into the space next to the current Floating Farm. Permit applications are also out for similar structures in Dubai, Singapore and the Dutch cities of Haarlem and Arnhem.

The new projects will apply lessons learned from Floating Farm. “You need to build a house in order to know how to build a house,” Peter says. The biggest obstacles he sees ahead, however, are not financial or physical, but rather political and administrative. “One of the biggest challenges we come across worldwide is regulations. Cities need to have disruptive thinking, cities need to have disruptive departments, and cities need to have areas where you can say: OK, this is the experimental zone.” Because what Peter and his team are pulling off is of a different order than the typical sustainability measures. “We are not innovative,” he says. “We are disruptive.”

【1】Which of the following is TRUE about the Floating Farm?

A．It is the first modern farming attempt to fight climate change.

B．It is a model of new agriculture in the age of climate crisis.

C．It has outsmarted other forms of farming like solar farming.

D．It copies a similar structure in Dubai ready for reproduction.

【2】It can be inferred from the passage that ___________.

A．90% of the population in Rotterdam live below the sea level

B．The New York City is working hard to fight climate change

C．The local community will not be fed without new farming

D．Waterborne facilities are necessary to the future of Rotterdam

【3】The phrase “disruptive thinking” in the last paragraph means “thinking __________”.

A．in a daring and unusual way

B．in a focused and logical way

C．in a careful and detailed way

D．in a rude and unpleasant way

【4】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A．Is Rotterdam Built on Water?

B．Can Floating Farming Survive?

C．Are Cows at Sea the Future of Farming?

D．Is Extreme Weather Affecting Agriculture?

22、   Almost everyone agrees on the hot dog basics: a long bread roll with a hot sausage inside it. And that’s what has led to a big question — is a hot dog a sandwich, or is it in a special category of its  own?

“People have really strong opinions on both sides,” says Eric Mittenthal, president of the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC). In November, the council published an official announcement ruling that the hot dog is not a sandwich. It argues that the hot dog is too significant to be considered “just a sandwich.” The council admits that the hot dog was once the “Frankfurter sandwich,” but says that people no longer use that name. Today, no one would call a hot dog eating contest a sandwich eating contest.

But others disagree. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) includes a sausage inside a bread roll in its sandwich category. But it also calls the food a “sandwich type product”. In May, dictionary publisher Merriam Webster said that the hot dog is a sandwich. The Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, defines a sandwich as “two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between” or “one slice of bread covered with food”. The announcement fueled a heated debate among hot dog fans. If hot dogs are sandwiches, where do you draw the line? Are burritos (玉米馅饼) sandwiches too?

This debate won’t stop Americans from eating piles of hot dogs this summer. During peak hot dog season — from Memorial Day to Labor Day — Americans will eat about 7 billion of them. That’s  818 hot dogs consumed every second. People love hot dogs so much that in 2015, a hot dog emoji was released so people can easily tweet or text an image of the famous food. This may come in handy soon, since July is National Hot Dog Month.

【1】Who thinks that the hot dog is special enough to be in a category of its own?

A.USDA. B.NHDSC.

C.The author. D.Merriam-Webster.

【2】What do some hot dog fans think of the definition of a sandwich in the mentioned dictionary?

A.It seems too wide. B.It is quite satisfactory.

C.It is obviously too narrow. D.It is difficult to understand.

【3】What does the underlined word “emoji” probably mean?

A.A small image used in electronic communications that symbolizes something.

B.A poster used to advertise hot dogs.

C.A toy given by a hot dog seller.

D.A facial expression posted on a letter as a stamp.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A.The history of hot dogs. B.Different kinds of sandwiches.

C.Do Americans really love hot dogs? D.Is a hot dog a sandwich?

23、Children are more creative when they learn in natural surroundings, according to new research from Curtin University. Primary school students in Australia and England were put to the test to see whether writing poetry in a natural outdoor setting produced more creative outcomes than writing in a classroom, and the answer was yes.

Dr Paul Gardner and Sonja Kuzich from Curtin’s School of Education ran comparative trials with 10-year-old students in both countries and the results, recently published in the Cambridge Journal of Education, gave a big thumbs-up to the positive influence of natural settings. “We found that students who had direct contact with nature by immersing (沉浸) themselves in a bush or forest setting were much more descriptive and vivid in the language they used than the classroom-based writers who ‘imagined’ being in nature through photos,” Dr Gardner said.

In total, 97 students took part in the study, split across four classrooms, including two based at an English primary school and two from a primary school in Western Australia. In each country one class visited a natural bush or forest before writing a poem based on what they saw, smelt and felt. The other class viewed a pile of images of the same bush or forest setting.

Ms Kuzich said the difference in creative language used between the classes was obvious with twice as many UK forest students using figurative (比喻的) language compared with their class-based counterparts. In Australia that figure rose to more than four times when comparing the poetry of the bush-based students with those who remained at school.

The researchers say further studies of larger groups are now recommended to gain greater understanding of the influence of natural spaces and “green learning” in schools. Future research may also be needed to examine if the green learning can be translated into other learning themes or context to see if there is a flow on effect in different environments.

【1】Why were the students placed outdoors in nature?

A．To get more outdoor exercise.

B．To experience nature in depth.

C．To understand poems about nature better.

D．To prove nature’s effect on creativity.

【2】What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．The specific steps of the experiment.

B．New findings about students’ writing.

C．The steps of training the children.

D．The purpose of performing the test.

【3】What can we infer about the result of the study?

A．Students indoors are not good at poetry.

B．Students in Australia prefer to study poetry.

C．Students are more creative in a natural environment.

D．Students in the UK and Australia have different writing skill preferences.

【4】What does the last paragraph imply?

A．Green learning is becoming a trend.

B．Further studies are to be carried out.

C．Green learning has been applied in school.

D．Future research is of little significance.

24、A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device which he hopes will get rid of pollutants from Beijing's smog skies, creating clean air for the city's mask-wearing people.

An electromagnetic field（电磁场） will pull particles（微粒） in the smog to the ground where they can be easily cleaned.

“It’s like when you have a balloon which has static（静电） and your hair goes toward it. Same with the smog,” says artist Daan Roosegaarde.

His studio has reached an agreement with the Beijing government to test the technology in one of tile capital’s parks.

With its skies regularly covered by dirty gray smog, Beijing this week announced a series of emergency measures to handle the problem.

Roosegaarde says an indoor model device has already proven it works and is confident that the results — with the help of a team of scientists and engineers — can be replicated(复制的) outside.

“Beijing is quite a good place because the smog in Beijing is quite low. It lies in a valley so there's not so much wind. It's a good environment to explore this kind of thing.”

“We'll be able to purify the air and the challenge is to get the top of the smog so you can see the sun again.”

Roosegaarde acknowledges that projects like this are a way of drawing attention to the problem,rather than a practical solution to Beijing's awful air pollution.

“This is not the real answer for smog. The real answer has to do with clean cars, different industry and different lifestyles.”

However, he hopes the project will make a “fundamental statement” by allowing the city's people to realize the difference between breathing clean and smog-filled air.

【1】The device works by _______.

A. helping keep the particles out with more masks

B. pulling pollutants to the ground with an electromagnetic field

C. absorbing hair with a balloon with static

D. creating clean air and let it out into the sky

【2】 According to the passage，_______ .

A. the Beijing government has agreed to use the technology in Beijing

B. they have proven the results of the device both indoors and outdoors

C. the results of the air-cleaning device can be expectable

D. the Beijing government has never done anything to handle the air pollution

【3】What does Roosegaarde really mean by saying “Beijing is quite a good place... ”?

A. The air pollution in Beijing is not quite serious.

B. The weather in Beijing is good for foreigners to live in.

C. Beijing is quite fit for using the air-cleaning device.

D. It is easy to get the top of the smog in Beijing.

【4】Roosegaarde appeals to people in Beijing to ________.

A. pay attention to air pollution and solve the problem finally

B. invent more devices to clean the smog in Beijing

C. drive modern cars and try different lifestyles

D. realize how serious the pollution they're facing is

25、   Su Min, a 56-ycar-old retiree, has never been happier. _______ fulfilling her family expectations of dutiful Chinese womanhood, Su is welcoming a new identity: fearless road-tripper and internet _______ . For six months, she has been on a drive across China alone, _______ her journey for more than 1.35 million followers online.

Su had rarely traveled before. But she had been _______ driving. Growing up in Tibet, she sometimes _______ the school bus home and had to walk. Each time a truck passed by, she imagined sitting behind the _______ safe and comfortable. But cars were rare, and having one seemed _______ .

Then, in late 2019, she _______ a video online of someone introducing their solo road trip. She remembered her childhood dream of driving — the _______ and comfort it had represented.

Over the following months, she searched and watched every video she could find about road trips and took __________notes. Eventually, She bought a small car with her __________ and monthly pension (养老金).

In her videos, she expressed her __________ in her newfound freedom. She could drive as fast as she wanted, __________ as abruptly as she liked.

When asked about her new__________ as a feminist (女性主义者), she says, "It's overpraising! It took me many years to realize that I had to live for __________ first.”

A．While

B．After

C．Before

D．Until

A．host

B．manager

C．fan

D．celebrity

A．dominating

B．enjoying

C．documenting

D．planning

A．longing for

B．struggling for

C．caring for

D．going for

A．saw

B．rented

C．sold

D．missed

A．wheel

B．sign

C．driver

D．desk

A．strange

B．impossible

C．awkward

D．fantastic

A．came across

B．turned to

C．put away

D．brought out

A．thrill

B．relaxation

C．freedom

D．distinction

A．detailed

B．neat

C．original

D．correct

A．fund

B．donation

C．savings

D．bonus

A．concern

B．success

C．expert

D．favor

A．escape

B．charge

C．stop

D．march

A．decision

B．fame

C．lifestyle

D．goal

A．myself

B．honor

C．all

D．pleasure

26、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。

Last April, Taylor got an unusual package in the mail. The postman carried the box to the door and handed it to Taylor directly. The box was peeping!

“What have you got there?” asked the postman.

“These are my chicks,” said Taylor.

The box was full of six small, fluffy chicks. They were each just one day old. When Taylor opened the box, the peeping got louder. Carefully, Taylor held one yellow chick in his hand. The chick was quiet and then closed its eyes to sleep. Taylor placed it gently under the heat light so it would stay warm. Taylor did this for each chick, and soon they were all sleeping together in their special box.

Taylor kept the chicks in his bedroom with the heat lamp running all day and all night. He would watch the chicks for hours when his homework was finished. Soon the chicks learned to peck at each other and to jump up and down. They also began to grow feathers, first on their wings and then on their tails. When all of their fluff was gone and their feathers in place, it was time to move the chicks to the hen house outside.

The hen house had three doors. There was a small door at the top of a slide that was just for the chickens. There was a big door in the back that was for people. Taylor used this door when he cleaned the hen house or filled the chickens’ food and water dishes. There was also a small door on the side of the hen house that led to the nesting boxes. These were small boxes that the chickens could sit in to lay their eggs. The special door would make it easy for Taylor to pick up the eggs without disturbing the hens.

Taylor checked the nesting boxes every day. Many times he saw the chickens sitting in the boxes, but there were no eggs. It would be many months before the chickens were old enough to lay eggs. Taylor was getting impatient. But his mother always taught him the importance of being patient, so he decided to wait.

注意：

1. 续写词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

One day when he opened the door to the nesting boxes, Taylor saw one of the hens inside.

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But holding it for a while, Taylor found that it wasn’t a green ball!

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