三亚2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测四年级英语

1、They’ve finally decided to put an end to the long and bitter ________ between them and make peace.

A. survey   B. conflict   C. concern D. request

2、________ back to the 18th century, Peking Opera has over two hundred years of history.

A．Dating

B．Being dated

C．To date

D．To be dated

3、Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize, ________ is considered one of the highest international honours a person can receive.

A．that

B．what

C．which

D．where

4、Do not make complaints about being left out___you shy away from sharing your joys and sorrow with others.

A.when B.unless C.once D.until

5、________ the doors were closed, and ________ all the lights were off, the boy opened the door to his bedroom.

A.Having checked; that B.Having checked; /

C.Checking; where D.To check; that

6、She works in a _______ school and teaches children between 5 and 11 years old.

A．primary

B．precious

C．secondary

D．senior

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

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

8、It is time for the West to learn from China's responsible efforts to   fake news.

A.weed out B.work out C.turn out D.bring out

9、Jack wasn’t saying anything, but the teacher smiled at him ________he had done something very clever.

A.as if B.in case

C.while D.though

10、With the help of the organization, she was able to secure the benefits, however small, ______ she was entitled under the law.

A.which B.where C.to which D.of which

11、As they’re handmade, each one __________ slightly in shape.

A.various B.varied C.varies D.variety

12、We are determined that our teacher training programs should ________ current developments in the field of education.

A．catch sight of

B．make room for

C．take pride in

D．keep pace with

13、—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

14、There was a long wait at the reception desk, ______ everyone was checking in.

A．why

B．which

C．whom

D．where

15、— He speaks Chinese very well.

— It’s not surprising. He ___ in Beijing for nine years next week.

A. has been living

B. has lived

C. will have been lived

D. will have been living

16、Nowadays people are more likely to go to ______ mall than visit the tailor when shopping for clothes, so tailors have adapted to _________ new reality.

A. the; a   B. /; the C. the; the   D. a; a

17、Many netizens are impressed with the excuse given by a teacher for quitting her job ______ she owes the world a visit.

A. because   B. that   C. where D. why

18、More subway lines______ to make travelling easy in Beijing in the coming years.

A．will build

B．will be built

C．build

D．are built

19、Before we come to a decision,  we must make  sure  we have ______ all  the  relevant facts.

A.set foot on B.set fire to

C.made way for D.taken account of

20、—What do you think of the information from books?

— It is easier to forget than ________ from life itself.

A．the one

B．it

C．that

D．those

21、On Sept 25, a team of doctors made medical history. In a two-hour procedure, led by Dr Robert Montgomery at New York University (NYU) Langone Health in the US, surgeons successfully attached a kidney from a genetically-engineered (转基因的) pig to a human. The kidney functioned normally and wasn’t rejected by the person’s immune system.

Montgomery said that the success of the procedure was a “transformative (变革的) moment”. “It was a kidney that was immediately functioning,” Montgomery told CBS News. The recipient was a brain-dead patient with signs of kidney dysfunction (功能障碍) whose family agreed to the experiment before she was due to be taken off life support, researchers told Reuters.

For three days, the kidney was attached to the patient’s blood vessels (血管) by the upper leg and maintained outside her body to give researchers access. This kidney was never meant to serve as a permanently functioning organ for the patient. Instead, the point of the surgery was to test whether the body would reject the organ. Researchers have been working toward the possibility of using animal organs, namely pigs’, for transplants for years. The problem lies in how to prevent the body from rejecting the organ.

This is where the idea of using an organ from a genetically-engineered pig came into play.

According to Popular Science, pig cells contain a sugar molecule (分子) that is foreign to the human body and causes organ rejection. Montgomery’s team thought that using a modified (基因改良的) pig that wouldn’t produce this sugar molecule would overcome the issue of organ rejection. This could give hope to many down the road.

Montgomery said that the NYU kidney transplant experiment should pave the way for trials in patients with end-stage kidney failure, possibly in the next year or two, CNN reported. While there is still much to be done before entire pig organs are regularly used in people, the prospect itself is encouraging. Amy Friedman, a former transplant surgeon, told The New York Times that she hopes that in the future, it will be possible to use other organs grown in pigs as well. “It’s truly mind-boggling (难以置信的) to think of how many transplants we might be able to offer.”

【1】What can we know about the NYU kidney transplant surgery?

A．The patient was cured completely.

B．The kidney would serve as a life-long organ for the patient.

C．The kidney worked without rejection.

D．The pig’s genes were successfully engineered.

【2】Why did Montgomery’s team use a modified pig in the surgery?

A．A modified pig has a special sugar molecule.

B．A modified pig contains an organ that will not cause rejection.

C．A sugar molecule is absent in a modified pig.

D．Using a modified pig is much easier for the transplant.

【3】What is Montgomery’s attitude towards the experiment?

A．Favourable.

B．Disapproving.

C．Ambiguous.

D．Neutral.

【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The future of organ transplants is unpromising.

B．Organs from other animals will be used in the future.

C．This kind of transplants will not be offered any more.

D．There is a long way to go before regularly using pig organs in people.

22、   Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, a mere 700 people lived on. Here is one story of the Titanic survivors whose stories are still haunting more than a century after the ship's sinking, revealing the true facts of the disaster.

A junior wireless officer aboard the Titanic, Harold Bride was one of the two people responsible for sending SOS messages to nearby ships, thus allowing the Carpathian to rescue the Titanic survivors.

He and another man on duty, Jack Phillips, raced to send SOS signals to nearby ships－but as the communications specialists, they knew that the closest,the Carpathian,would likely not arrive until alter the Titanic sank. They worked wildly until Captain Edward Smith came and told them they were relieved of duty；the ship had nearly lost power, and only two lifeboats remained.

They made a run for Collapsible B and were just getting it into the water when a wave swept across the deck(甲板),throwing both Harold Bride and the upturned boat into the ocean.

Bride and 15 others struggled onto the waterlogged, sinking Collapsible B and survived until other lifeboats collected them and conveyed them to the Carpathian.

Once aboard the Carpathian, Bride got back to work and began helping the ship's wireless officer send messages from the other Titanic survivors.

When the Carpathian made land, Bride had to be carried ashore: he had injured one foot in the plunge into the ocean, and the other was frostbitten after a night in the Atlantic's icy waters.

【1】Which can replace the underlined word "haunting" in paragraph 1 ?

A．confusing .

B．unforgettable.

C．romantic.

D．contradictory.

【2】What was Bride's job on the Titanic during the accident?

A．Rescuing the Titanic survivors.

B．Investigating the problems of the Titanic.

C．Sending signals to ships around for help.

D．Receiving SOS signals from nearby ships.

【3】What happened to Bride after he was dismissed from his duty?

A．He stayed there to continue his work.

B．He escaped in a lifeboat immediately.

C．He turned off the power of the Titanic.

D．He was washed into the sea by a wave.

【4】Which of the following best describes Bride?

A．Responsible and helpful.

B．Intelligent and brave.

C．Tough and ambitious.

D．Considerate and humble.

23、Year-round Schooling

Traditional schools in America operate on a 9-month system, but today many people prefer year-round schooling.

Students in year-round schools attend school the same number of days as students in traditional nine-month schools. 【1】 Instead of the traditional nine months of school and a long, three-month summer vacation, the students have several short breaks between sessions all through the year. Another difference is the track. Instead of single-track schooling that involves an entire school using the same schedule and getting the same vacations off, multiple-track year-round schooling has groups of students attending school at different times with different vacations. 【2】

The major advantage of year-round schooling is that it provides the continuous learning that can be lost over a long vacation as the students are not ever out of school for a long period of time. 【3】

【4】For example, with one group of students always on vacation, a school that was built for 750 students can serve as many as 1,000. This lets school districts with little or no money for building new schools handle a growing student population and save millions of dollars in construction costs.

Overall, people generally have positive attitudes toward year-round schooling. Disadvantages include the inconvenience to families with children in both traditional and year-round schools. 【5】 And some people say it interferes with activities that take place outside school-including summer employment.

A．Thus there is always one group of students on vacation.

B．For example, it makes it difficult to make vacation plans.

C．Another advantage of year-round schooling is that it saves money for students.

D．What’s different about year-round schools is that the days are arranged differently.

E．In addition, year-round schooling is often chosen as a cost-cutting measure.

F．That is why many families accept both kinds of schooling.

G．As a result, the students forget less of what they learned over the shorter breaks.

24、   Feeling tired? Under too much stress? Well, you may want to try Yoga. It’s what more and more people have been turning to to release the trouble of modern life. Practically unheard of in the West until 50 years ago, Yoga has become one of the most popular health trends around the world, including China. If you search for Yoga on line in Chinese, lots of pages are there to see, most of which are main pages of Yoga clubs. In order to keep fit and lose weight, many girls spend more than 1000 yuan taking part in Yoga classes every month.

However, are you really ready for it? There are several things you need to know before you really take it.

First, do not force your body too much. Yoga has many difficult poses. They are beautiful and worth boasting if you could finish them. But if you force yourself to do as exactly as an experienced Yoga teacher does, you may hurt your body, instead of strengthening it. Do you remember you original purpose for playing Yoga? It is self -building, not competing.

Second, do some research about the Yoga class that you are to register. Yoga is new in China and there are not so many certificated well-trained Yoga teachers. Some not well-organized clubs just find someone who learns a little Yoga and certificate them. But be aware, a non-eligible teacher might wrongly guide you and you could not benefit from the classes much except that they force you to exercise your body a bit. Considering about the large amount of money you invest in it, it’s worth and reasonable to make sure the teachers in the club are qualified before you join.

Third, it would be better to learn something about nutrition when you practice Yoga. In the very beginning, Yoga was part of the Vedas, bible of the traditional Indian philosophy. So it could be regarded as a kind of lifestyle. When you have decided to care for your body, why not feed it properly? In fact, good clubs have their own nutritionists.

Anyhow, make sure you are ready before you act. The fashion may change quickly. But what benefits is still good for us.

【1】The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ________.

A.tell people how to relax themselves

B.let people know more about Yoga

C.give people some advice on taking part in Yoga classes

D.tell peoples Yoga has gained its popularity in China

【2】The underlined word “non-eligible” in the fourth paragraph most probably means ________.

A.inexperienced B.unqualified

C.impatient D.unkind

【3】From the advice offered by the author, we can conclude that ________.

A.Yoga has nothing to do with culture B.Yoga is somehow easy to exercise

C.many people learn Yoga in order to compete D.not all the Yoga clubs have standard teachers

25、Dr. Smith of New York works at a center for children who can’t learn well. One day a father brought his son to him for________ at his office.

The father told Dr. Smith about his son. “My son has ________ in learning and can’t even play baseball. He isn’t doing well because he doesn’t try. I have done everything for him. I have even shouted at him. But nothing ________. ”

After Dr. Smith tested the boy, he ________ his father. He asked the father to sit in front of a ________ and then gave him a pencil and a piece of paper. There was a ________ on the paper. He asked the father to look only in the mirror and ________ the lines of the star with the pencil. The father made the same ________ anyone makes. Every time he ________ the pencil, it went the wrong way. The father’s face became red.

At this ________ the doctor shouted at him, “Hurry up! Why are you ________ so long? You can’t do such an ________ thing! You don’t know left from right!” These ________ made the father very angry.

“Now you can ________, can’t you?” The doctor said to him. “Your son has felt just like that all the time. You scolded (训斥) him too often, so he didn't try any more. He was afraid of making mistakes. ”

________ the father understood everything. He put his face down. Now he felt so sorry.

【1】

A．testing

B．acting

C．teaching

D．playing

【2】

A．confidence

B．interest

C．experience

D．difficulty

【3】

A．returns

B．helps

C．appears

D．remains

【4】

A．waited for

B．searched for

C．believed in

D．called in

【5】

A．mirror

B．television

C．painting

D．desk

【6】

A．face

B．line

C．number

D．star

【7】

A．remove

B．follow

C．cross

D．cut

【8】

A．decisions

B．choices

C．mistakes

D．patterns

【9】

A．touched

B．dropped

C．moved

D．sharpened

【10】

A．speed

B．corner

C．end

D．point

【11】

A．staying

B．taking

C．preparing

D．writing

【12】

A．easy

B．important

C．obvious

D．exciting

【13】

A．ideas

B．words

C．questions

D．instructions

【14】

A．relax

B．leave

C．understand

D．promise

【15】

A．Interestingly

B．Absolutely

C．Suddenly

D．Unfortunately

26、美国某中学举办英语暑假训练营，开设以下课程：cooking,swimming,giving first-aid,playing football/ basketball。假定你是李华，请你写封申请信，报名参加其中一门课程的学习。

内容包括：1.你感兴趣的一门课程；2.为什么想学这门课程；3.你期望从中学到什么。

注意：1.词数：100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir/Madam,

Yours,

Li Hua