北海2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、— Don’t you think the new job is a real challenge for Jack?

—Well, ______ difficulties he meets, I believe he will never lose heart.

A. whenever   B. however

C. whichever D. whatever

2、It's not my________ she didn't come!

A. fake   B. faith

C. fault   D. favor

3、I ________ more careful in that quiz. I made too many stupid mistakes.

A．must be

B．could have been

C．must have been

D．could be

4、The company has got ________ from many users both at home and abroad for top-quality products and services.

A.benefit B.apology C.credit D.envy

5、—Will you attend the meeting this afternoon？

—But I ________ told anything about it．

A．haven't been B．am not

C．wasn't D．won’t be

6、Nearly three months had gone by _________ the seriously injured girl showed a slight sign of recovery.

A.until B.before

C.since D.after

7、Watching videos ______ English.

A．makes it more convenient to learn

B．make it more convenient to learn

C．makes me more convenient to learn

D．make me more convenient to learn

8、 There is no denying the fact that as one grows older, one’s memory __________.

A. refuses B. declines C. decreases D. Falls

9、I was held up for fifteen minutes on the way in the traffic jam. _____, I was late for work.

A. As a result   B. As usual

C. Any way   D. After all

10、—Shall I get you something to drink?

—Thanks, but don’t _____. I have to leave now.

A.make B.annoy C.disturb D.bother

11、There was a time ________ we used foreign oil.

A．that

B．when

C．which

D．while

12、Your presentation is very attractive and I do think your idea is well ________.

A．worth considering

B．worthy considering

C．worthwhile of being considered

D．worth being considered

13、 __________ to sun, rain and wind for a long time, the stone split.

A. Being exposed B. Having exposed

C. Exposed   D. To expose

14、My grandma ______ her good health ______ her regular exercise.

A．releases...into

B．owes...to

C．transforms...into

D．removes...from

15、They put off the match. That’s ________ it rained heavily.

A．why

B．because

C．so

D．but

16、Inside the library ______ two large reading rooms, which ______ open to students from Monday to Friday.

A．is; are

B．are; is

C．is; is

D．are; are

17、   the reality，concrete instructions of this machine should be made to   larger speeds and feeds.

A.Concerning；cater for

B.Concerning；allow for

C.Considering；apply for

D.Considering；allow for

18、Let’s take steps to stop ________ natural resources at such an alarming speed.

A．depleting

B．enriching

C．conserving

D．supplying

19、Had the governments and scientists not worked together , AIDS-related deaths _______ since their highest in 2005.

A. had not fallen B. would not fall

C. did not fall D. would not have fallen

20、The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already ______ to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.

A．contracted B．admitted

C．contrasted D．Adjusted

21、   A few weeks ago, a 71-year-old man pulled his car to the roadside in Northwest Portland and  stopped. He rolled down the window, turned off the engine and stared at a house.

The place, distinguished by three gables, is partially hidden by hedges and trees. Most people who pass by would never notice it. And if they  did give  it a glance, they’d probably think it’s a nice house  in  a nice neighborhood. Nothing more.

The house, in the 2500 block of Northwest Westover Road, is known as  the  Bessie  &  Louis Tarpley House. Built in 1907, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The current owner is Barbee Lyon, 79.

He and his first wife took possession in 1975. When they divorced, he bought out her share.

A retired lawyer, Lyon learned Louis Tarpley, the home’s first owner, had also been a Portland lawyer. Setbacks in Tarpley’s life led to the house auction(拍卖) in the late 1920s.

“I’m only the fifth owner of the home,” Lyon said. A previous owner was Frank Masco.

He and his wife, Esther, and their nine children had lived across town in a tiny house needing  constant repairs. In the mid-1950s, the elder Masco wanted to move to a bigger house and one closer to work. A docker ( 码 头 工 人 ), he was on-call 24 hours a day and had to quickly get to the Willamette River docks.

He found a home on Westover Road. At the time, many people  wanted to live  in new  construction in the suburbs. The Westover house was offered at a deep discount.

And later the family moved on several times, finally living in Vancouver.

One Sunday in July 2019, Charley Masco drove to Portland for an appointment at a computer store.

When it ended, he traveled the familiar route to Westover Road, pulled over and looked at that home.

He decided to do something bold. He got out of his car and walked up the steps and  rang  the doorbell. He waited. No response. Nervous, he thought it was a mistake to  do  this  and  considered turning around and walking back to his car.

Barbee Lyon opened the door and saw a stranger.

“I’m not selling anything,” Masco said quickly. “I just want you to know I once lived here.” Lyon opened the door wide.

“Come in.”

And for the first time since 1966, Masco stepped into his childhood home.

Every room looked as Masco had remembered it: The built-in china hutch in the dining room, the hanging lights above the table and, in the kitchen,  a massive  wood-burning  stove  where  his  mother used to cook family meals. It was as if he had walked into his own museum.

Lyon told Masco he’d never done major structural remodeling, which meant Masco knew his way around the home.

It was as if he had never left.

There, on the top floor, was the window he and  his  siblings  quietly opened  to sneak out  at night and return before their parents knew they were gone. The loft where  friends  daydreamed  about  the future. The living room – no TV ever allowed – where the family gathered to share music, play cards or just talk with each other.

Then they all walked to the basement.

In the far corner, Masco saw his father’s old wooden workbench. And above it, baby food jars.

Masco had forgotten about them.

He explained that his father had nailed lids from the jars to a rafter, filling the glass  with different size screws, nuts and bolts, and then screwing the jars back into the lids to give him easy access while working.

Masco thought about his father, his mother and three of his siblings who have died.  He thought  about his father, tinkering in the basement, while his mother was in the kitchen preparing dinner.

He thought about the 71-year-old man he was and the boy he had once been.

Kruse, Lyon’s wife, reached up and unscrewed a jar. She handed  it  to  Masco,  believing  it  belonged to this stranger.

Masco thanked her.

He clutched the  small bottle to his chest. “My dad,” he said quietly. “This is my dad.”

【1】Why did Charley Masco come to visit the Westover house?

A.He wanted to review his past and hold memories.

B.He attempted to buy back his childhood house.

C.His friend invited him to be a guest at his newly-bought house.

D.He came to the house where his father lived to seek roots.

【2】What made  Frank Masco decide to buy the  house?

A.The house’s owner  had been  a Portland lawyer.

B.The house was auctioned at a very low price.

C.He desired to improve his family’s living conditions.

D.The house was equipped with a basement.

【3】What do we know about Barbee Lyon?

A.He bought the house from Louis Tarpley.

B.He took possession of the house at about 35.

C.He lived in the house with his first wife Kruse.

D.He disliked being disturbed by strangers.

【4】Why did Charley Masco feel nervous when he rang the doorbell?

A.He knew the house owner was a bad-tempered man.

B.He thought it was improper to pay an unexpected visit.

C.He might not hold back his feelings when he went in.

D.He feared the house owner would take him for a salesman.

【5】After Masco entered  the  house, he found that  _.

A.every room was not as he had remembered it

B.the house had experienced great structural changes

C.the childhood home was where his heart was

D.he couldn’t recall anything about baby food jars

【6】What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A.Collision of Two Hearts B.Experiences of Two Families

C.An Unexpected Meeting D.The Harbour of the Heart

22、Secrets About Getting a Good Night's Sleep

Getting a good night's sleep is so essential for functioning well in your daily activities. 【1】Here are several secrets for making sure you’re getting plenty of shut-eye.

Check your medicines if you can't sleep.

【2】So when you complain of insomnia, they may not think to connect your sleeplessness with some drugs you're taking. Yet many medicines can disturb sleep. If you're seeing your doctor about insomnia, make a list of all drugs you’re taking.

Calm those restless legs with a bar of soap.

You go to bed, ready to get a solid eight hours. However, your legs jerk.【3】

We have a good solution: Slip a bar of soap under your legs and the restlessness should disappear in about 3 to 5 minutes.

【4】

In one study, researchers found that women with restless legs syndrome were deficient in folic acid, which is required for proper brain and nerve function. Supplementing with this vitamin improved symptoms. Take 400 to 800 micro-grams of folic acid a day, along with 50 micro-grams vitamin.

Exercise at the right time.

It has been shown that exercise can help you sleep better. But when you exercise, time is important. It's not something to do just before bedtime. Instead, plan your exercise for early evening-about four to six hours before bedtime. 【5】

A．Skip the sleeping pill.

B．Take a vitamin for better sleep.

C．But some of us are just struggling with it.

D．Doctors should ask you what medicines you're taking, but they rarely do.

E．This is the time it takes for your body's temperature to drop after exercise.

F．That helps you feel less anxious about not falling asleep so you can fall asleep.

G．And they continue to do this, either keeping you from falling asleep or waking you up.

23、   California is dry. The sunny state is reeling from a four-year drought-a severe and unusual lack of rainfall. The effects of the drought can be seen most clearly in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Much of the state's water supply comes from the deep snow that falls in these mountains. That snow melts in the spring and fills the state's rivers, lakes, and underground bodies of water. 【1】

As a result, experts are now warning that California currently has only a one-year supply of usable water. Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow. 【2】

That means people will have to limit their water use at home. They can do this by not watering lawns and reducing water they use for cleaning and cooking. 【3】

Places like golf courses and cemeteries currently use a lot of water to keep lawns green. They'll need to find solutions for this problem that require less water.

California's water crisis has been mainly caused by a lack of rain and snowfall over the past few years. 【4】Today, California is home to nearly 40 million people. This is double the number who lived there in 1960.

California simply has too many people for its natural resources. 【5】 Many have moved to the state because of its natural beauty and pleasant weather. And several major businesses are based in California, including Hollywood movie companies such as Warner Bros. and technology giants like Apple.

The drought is not likely to ruin California's businesses, but the state will have to rethink how it grows and does things.

A. But the snow hasn't been falling

B. Nature has prepared so much for people.

C. This serious drought needs immediate action.

D. Mother Nature didn't intend for so many people.

E. But another big problem is its growing population.

F. Some public places will need to make big changes.

G. There are many problems for this terrible drought.

24、After his baby son lost his eye to retinoblastoma (视网膜母细胞瘤), this father found a way to save others from the same fate.

Like almost every set of new parents. Bryan and Elizabeth Shaw started taking pictures of their son, Noah, practically from the moment he was born. When he was about three months old, Elizabeth noticed something odd when she took his picture. The flash on their digital camera created the typical red dot in the center of Noah’s left eye, but the right eye had a white spot at the center, almost as if the flash was being reflected back at the camera by something.

When Elizabeth mentioned the strange phenomenon to their doctor, she shined a light into Noah’s eye, and saw the same white reflection, a tell-tale sign of retinal (视网膜的) cancer. After that, Noah received months of chemotherapy and radiation, but doctors finally could not save his eye.

Noah’s tumour (肿瘤) is treatable if caught early. Bryan Shaw couldn’t help but wonder whether there were signs he’d missed. He went back over every baby picture of Noah he could find and discovered the first white spot in a photo taken when Noah was 12 days old. “By the time he was four months old, it was showing up in 25 per cent of the pictures taken of him per month,” Bryan told People.

It was too late for Noah’s eye, but Bryan was determined to put his hard-won insights to good use, so he created a database that charted the cancer’s appearance in every photo. He also collected photos and data from eight other children with retinoblastoma. Armed with that data, he began to work with colleagues to develop a smartphone app that can scan the photos in the user’s camera roll to search for white eye and can be used as a kind of ophthalmoscope (检眼镜). Called White Eye Detector, it is now available for free on Google Play and in Apple’s App Store.

【1】Which can be inferred from the passage?

A．Noah’s discase was treatable when discovered.

B．Noah got the discase when he was three months old.

C．Noah’s parents failed to notice his symptoms at the beginning.

D．Neither of Noah’s eyes could be saved for a delay in treatment.

【2】Why did Bryan create the database?

A．To create a photo scanner on the phone.

B．To collect the data of children with the disease.

C．To assess his hard-won insights into the disease.

D．To use his knowledge to save others from the disease.

【3】What’s the writing purpose of this passage?

A．To speak highly of father’s love.

B．To introduce a type of eye cancer.

C．To raise people’s awareness of eye protection.

D．To report a father’s creation of an eye-saving app.

25、   Hello. A single word that can change everything. At least it did for me. When I first moved to the Golden State (also known as California), I was _________. I had my family, but those were the only people I knew. It was like I was a polar bear that had just been thrown into the Amazon rainforest, _________ in circles, afraid, knowing nothing about its surroundings. I stayed in my house for a week, never going out, _________ the encounters(相遇) in this new, foreign land. After a while, I went grocery shopping with my dad, stepping out of my _________ sanctuary(避难所). I learned that the people here spoke a language called _________, and I was to learn it. But all I _________ was a barrage of(连珠炮似的) sounds, mixing together, forming indistinguishable words. After that, I only came out of the house for important business.

When school first _________, I begged my mom to homeschool me, _________ of interacting with children that had lived their whole lives in this state. My mother _________, and she drove me straight to school. The moment I stepped out of the __________, I heard 10, no, 100 times the sound of the grocery store. I shrank away, trying to fold up within myself, to __________. My mother __________ me no attention, just __________ me along to a room. It was small, with a woman sitting __________ the reception desk. She jibber-jabbered(叽里咕噜), and Mom jibber-jabbered back. The woman __________, and directed us to a __________. I’ll admit that I was terrified. Everything that I was trying to __________ was right there in front of me. I __________ sat down next to a __________ that looked similar to me. And as I listened to all the foreign __________, the girl turned to me. And she said, “Hello.”

【1】A.excited B.touched C.alone D.calm

【2】A.rolling B.wandering C.covering D.jumping

【3】A.longing for B.curious about C.bored with D.anxious about

【4】A.safe B.secret C.close D.quiet

【5】A.Russian B.French C.English D.Italian

【6】A.heard B.spoke C.watched D.overheard

【7】A.finished B.delayed C.started D.arrived

【8】A.scared B.thrilled C.ashamed D.tired

【9】A.permitted B.refused C.hesitated D.accepted

【10】A.school B.car C.room D.bus

【11】A.wait B.live C.disappear D.rest

【12】A.saw B.ignored C.took D.paid

【13】A.followed B.pulled C.tracked D.allowed

【14】A.against B.into C.behind D.over

【15】A.doubted B.appeared C.repeated D.nodded

【16】A.dormitory B.hall C.dining-room D.classroom

【17】A.imagine B.avoid C.control D.expect

【18】A.nervously B.hardly C.immediately D.eagerly

【19】A.woman B.teacher C.mother D.girl

【20】A.sounds B.names C.letters D.songs

26、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Tom给你发来邮件，说他最近几次考试成绩不太理想，他现在很难过。请给他回封邮件，内容包括:

1.理解他的处境；

2.给他提一些建议。

注意:

1.写作词数应为80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Torm,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua