天水2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、—Can he get the first prize for running in this sports meeting?

—Impossible now. He _____ to do so, but he has just hurt his leg.

A.is expected B.had been expected C.was expected D.would expect

2、Jane wishes that she ______ foreign trade instead of literature when she was in college.

A.studied B.had studied

C.would study D.might have studied

3、________ more about amazing animal facts, he made a trip to the nearby nature reserve.

A．Finding out

B．Found out

C．To find out

D．Being found out

4、______ unemployment and crime are high, it can be assumed that the latter is due to the former.

A. Where   B. Before   C. Until   D. Unless

5、Whenever I feel lonely or upset, I always do some reading, which ______ me well.

A.serves B.equips C.prepares D.informs

6、If Tom ______ one more votes, he could be the monitor of our class now.

A.received B.had received

C.should receive D.would receive

7、After three months of hard work, I'd like to go to a nice small town for my holiday, especially ________with a sea view.

A.it B.one C.the one D.that

8、Not until the end of the performance ________ the chance to take photos with the respectable actor.

A. the audience got B. the audience had got

C. did the audience get D. had the audience got

9、QQ, _________ you can chat with your friends, makes communication easy.

A.as B.which C.that D.where

10、Word came __________ Napoleon would come to inspect them.

A.when B.why C.how D.that

11、Our village is making efforts to _________its development pattern to promote green growth.

A.squeeze B.compromise C.transform D.differentiate

12、－The online shopkeeper has made an apology for his rude behavior.

－OK. If you’re still not satisfied, you can _______ compensation.

A. claim B. afford

C. sacrifice D. dismiss

13、The researchers who study jokes want to know ________ people from different nations and cultures find very funny.

A．why

B．that

C．what

D．whether

14、Our mothers sat us down to read and paint, ____ all we really wanted to do was to make a mess.

A. since B. as C. unless   D. when

15、It was the year before last that Scotland failed the attempt to _______ of the Great Britain, though the queen Elizabeth had said it was entirely up to the Scottish people.

A. look out   B. run out   C. keep out   D. pull out

16、______ skills, David is believed to be one of the best and most talented basketball players in our team.

A.In need of B.In favor of C.In terms of D.In honor of

17、Thanks to the “sugar tax”， food factories have reduced sugar in their products, ________ about 45 million kilograms of sugar.

A. to save   B. saved

C. saving   D. having saved

18、 ______ smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

A. To keep B. Keeping  C. Keep  D. Having kept

19、In Britain today women ________ 44% of the workers and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.

A.go up B.bring up C.hold up D.make up

20、 A notice will be put up_____ information about the closing dates for entering exams.

A. given  B. giving C. having given D. being given

21、A ground-based system that uses much stronger signals than GPS can find your location in cities and indoors. It is a new positioning system that could compete with GPS to make sure you never lose your directions again.

Instead of satellites, Locata uses ground-based equipment to send a radio signal over a localized area that is a million times stronger on arrival than GPS. It can work indoors as well as outdoors, and the makers claim that the receivers can be shrunk(缩小) to fit inside a regular cell phone. Even the US armies, which invented GPS technology, signed a file last month agreeing to a test of Locata at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

“This is one of the most important technology developments for the future of the positioning industry,” says Nunzio Gambale, CEO and co-founder of the firm Locata, based in Griffith, Australia.

As for the Locata’s correctness, Christopher Morin of the US Air Force tested it recently at White Sands, and it worked to within 18cm along any axis(轴). Morin said it should be possible to get the exactitude down to 5cm.

The tests were performed in an open desert where GPS also worked beautifully, but its signal was weak—like a car headlight from 20,000 kilometers away—and easily cut off by solid objects(实心的物体). Locata’s signal was far stronger, though not guaranteed to work in a complex urban environment, said David, speaker of the UK’ s General Lighthouse Authorities.

Locata’s technology will face competition in the race to transform indoor navigation. But it could shine in specific areas, Gambale said. Robots with Locata could easily navigate inside buildings without the complex optical(视觉的) systems they need at the moment. And the process that handles correct location data could not only guide you around a mall, railway station or airport, but also take you to the exact shelf in a shop for the product you want. It would be small and cheap enough for smart phones and it should be available within five years—a similar path to the one GPS took on its way towards the world, he said.

【1】The passage is written mainly to ______.

A. encourage people to buy the Locata

B. tell us the disadvantages of the GPS

C. introduce a new positioning system Locata

D. tell us that Locata will replace GPS one day

【2】Which of the following is NOT true about Locata?

A. Without the help of the satellites, Locata can tell you where you are.

B. Locata will be popular with most people even including the US armies.

C. Locata has a better signal than GPS in some bad environments.

D. In five years, Locata will take the place of GPS.

【3】According to the passage, Gambale______.

A. did the experiment at White Sands last month

B. believed the Locata would help to develop smart robots’ creation

C. doubted whether Locata can work in a complex environment or not

D. was worried about the competition the Locata faced

【4】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “exactitude” in Paragraph 4?

A. Accuracy.    B. Speed.

C. Determination    D. Length

【5】What can we know from the passage?

A. Locata is as small as a cell phone.

B. GPS is the most practical position system at present.

C. Locata will tell you how to get what you want in the future.

D. Locata will enter our lives through the cell phone, just like GPS.

22、   Jellyfish are unusual creatures. They’re neither fish nor jelly. Some are among the most colourful creatures in the world, but it’s best to look but not touch these invertebrates（无脊椎动物）. Not only are they very fragile creatures, but many give a painful sting, and some are even deadly. Whether you admire them in an aquarium or try to avoid them in the wild, you won’t be able to get these fascinating jellyfish facts out of your head.

Here’s a jellyfish fact that might come in handy: There are several names for a group of jellyfish. They include smack, bloom, and swarm. Choose the word you prefer depending on whether you think the jellyfish pack looks like a garden of blooming flowers or more like a frightening pack of stingers, and whether you’re admiring them at an aquarium or if you and your fellow snorkelers are surrounded.

Jellyfish have two main forms in their life cycle that look quite different from each other. Scientific American explains that an adult jellyfish, called a medusa, has a bell-shaped body with tentacles（触须）flowing down below it. Young jellyfish, called polyps, look more like sea anemones, with shorter tentacles that flow up above the main body. Medusas reproduce by releasing eggs.

Melanie Roberts, Senior Aquarist at SeaWorld Orlando, says that the largest jellyfish in the world is a lion’s mane jellyfish. The body of this beautiful orange jelly can grow up to three feet in diameter. With its 12,000 tentacles that can grow 120 feet long, Oceana.org adds that the lion’s mane jelly compares in size to the planet’s largest animal: the blue whale.

Regardless of their size, jellyfish are mostly made of water. In fact, they’re about 95 per cent water.These creatures don’t have brains, blood, or bones. And most jellyfish don’t have eyes. Jellyfish also use their mouths both for eating and for waste removal.

【1】Why can’t we touch jellyfish?

A.Because they may be stung.

B.Because they may die easily.

C.Because they may feel painful.

D.Because they may hurt people.

【2】What are jellyfish named after?

A.Its size. B.Its color.

C.Its appearance. D.Its lifestyle.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Mouth is an important organ for jellyfish.

B.Polyps can clone themselves by laying eggs.

C.The largest jellyfish in the world is 120 feet long.

D.Medusas have tentacles flowing up above the body.

【4】What can be the best title of the passage?

A.Several facts about jellyfish.

B.The two main forms of jellyfish.

C.Jellyfish are neither fish nor jelly.

D.Jellyfish have many different names.

23、In the book The Best Little Girl in the World, Kessa has a serious eating disorder (进食障碍) called anorexia nervosa. But she is not alone. Many people have this eating disorder.

In the beginning of her story, Kessa is a normal 15-year-old. She is good at many things, especially dancing. She has danced for many years and loves it. One day her dance teacher tells her to continue eating right, but maybe lose a few pounds. Once Kessa hears this, she takes things too far. Instead of cutting down on snacks and junk food, she decides not to eat at all. She does not eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. She begins losing weight and becomes slimmer (更加苗条的) and slimmer. But she loses weight to a point where she is unhealthy.

As her poor eating habits continue, her parents start getting as much help as possible to cure (治疗) their beautiful daughter. But it is just as hard for Kessa’s parents to deal with her disorder as it is for her. Everyday she exercises to lose more pounds and plans what and when she will eat. Her parents try everything, but Kessa decides not to have any fat on her body.

Kessa’s doctor and parents finally take her to the hospital. She is now so thin that she can hardly walk. There, she is given good care.

In the rest of the book, Kessa goes through a lot of trouble in order to cure her eating disorder. This book, I think, can help to prevent people from doing this to themselves. It shows the trouble that people go through just to be slimmer, and all the terrible things they must experience to be cured. It is a book I think every teenager should read.

【1】What does Kessa do to lose weight?

A. She stops eating.

B. She eats less junk food.

C. She has three small meals a day.

D. She dances many more hours a day.

【2】What do we know about Kessa’s eating disorder?

A. It is caused by her dance teacher.

B. It makes her suffer a lot.

C.It’s too serious to be cured.

D. It’s an unusual illness.

【3】The book mentioned in the text is mainly about _____.

A. how to cure eating disorders

B. the importance of eating right

C. a girl’s fight against an eating problem

D. why so many people have eating disorders

24、   London-based artist Sarah Ezekiel has won international recognition for her vivid, life-filling images. But her work is more remarkable for the fact that she has a medical condition that has left her unable to move her arms.

Ezekiel’s pictures are painstakingly produced, using the movement of her eyes and specialized technology that relays those movements to a computer. The eye-tracking technology gives Ezekiel a platform for artistic expression, otherwise denied by her disease—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS).

Ezekiel showed no signs of the condition until 2000, when she was aged 34. Pregnant with her second child, she noticed some weakness in her left arm and that she was unable to produce each word clearly. Within months, she was diagnosed with incurable ALS.

Ezekiel describes her first five years living with ALS as “very lonely”. Today, she can neither speak nor move but says “technology has made my life worth living”. She uses a system made by Tobii Dynavox, a company specializing in “Eye Gaze” devices that help people with medical conditions communicate. Its technology adopts projectors, cameras and algorithms to track the tiny movements of the user’s pupils and control a cursor on a screen.

To interview Ezekiel, CNN sent her questions and she prepared her answers letter by letter, using predictive text. The technology also lets her surf the net, shop online and use social media.

Ezekiel, who studied art when she was younger, began painting using the Eye Gaze device in 2012. Her first artwork. Peaceful Warrior, took its title from a book by Dan Millman. “It was originally supposed to illustrate despair, but the finished result had a totally different feel,” she recalls.

“Being an artist because of technology has totally improved my general attitude towards life and opened up many other possibilities for me,” says Ezekiel. I couldn’t create pictures for years and it’s fantastic that technology has made it possible again.

【1】What can we know about Ezekiel’s disease?

A．It inspired her to be a devoted artist.

B．It was totally cured when she was 46.

C．It draws more attention to her works.

D．It stops her from thinking independently.

【2】What does Tobii Dynavox’s system allow Ezekiel to do?

A．Enjoy her basic online life.

B．Move her body at her own will.

C．Suffer less pain from her disease.

D．Write letters to her baby by hand.

【3】What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph probably refer to?

A．Drawing pictures.

B．Staying positive.

C．Using technology.

D．Being a special artist.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．A Platform Brings Fame

B．An Artist Paints With Eyes

C．Art Makes Life Meaningful

D．A System Wins Much Favor

25、Standing in the store, I looked at the painting supplies excitedly.

“Are you sure these are what you want for your birthday?” my husband asked _________.

“I’m very sure. I really want to give it a _________,” I replied. I was smiling with _________. He looked at me hesitantly and _________ his head.

_________, this was a secret I’d kept for a while. Every day, my husband went to work. I’d look after my son, clean the house and prepare dinner. It had been a decade since I took any time to pursue my own _________. I had become a drudge (苦工). I wanted excitement and creative expression, but mostly I wanted colors. So I _________ the most interesting supplies.

“I have a feeling that you’re going to put all these in a toolbox and never _________ them again,” my husband said.

For the first month, he was _________. I put the supplies into a toolbox. I admired them every day, but I couldn’t seem to find the time to start painting. I found one reason or another not to __________.

One day, when my son caught me __________ the toolbox again, he asked curiously, “Mommy, when are you going to __________?”

“No __________ day than today,” I announced and brought out all the materials.

From then on, my house seemed to never be perfectly clean, but my life was full of __________. Most importantly, I no longer felt like a drudge. I had a new __________.

【1】

A．pleasantly

B．anxiously

C．awkwardly

D．doubtfully

【2】

A．break

B．go

C．miss

D．look

【3】

A．expectation

B．shame

C．agreement

D．pride

【4】

A．covered

B．bowed

C．hit

D．shook

【5】

A．Luckily

B．Generally

C．Frankly

D．Strangely

【6】

A．rights

B．hobbies

C．education

D．position

【7】

A．selected

B．admired

C．created

D．collected

【8】

A．buy

B．like

C．touch

D．fix

【9】

A．tolerant

B．wise

C．supportive

D．correct

【10】

A．fear

B．start

C．refuse

D．dream

【11】

A．working at

B．looking for

C．staring at

D．paying for

【12】

A．quit

B．remember

C．succeed

D．paint

【13】

A．busier

B．better

C．tougher

D．bigger

【14】

A．sufferings

B．achievements

C．colors

D．chances

【15】

A．purpose

B．memory

C．occupation

D．challenge

26、书面表达

假定你是一名高三学生，名叫李华。在母亲节来临之际, 请你用英文给你的妈妈写一封信表示感恩,并借此机会和妈妈说说知心话，具体内容应包括：

1.表示感恩;

2.你的现状（生活、学习情况）。

1)你的高考奋斗目标；

2)你对自己的信心。

参考词汇：高考the College Entrance Examination

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可根据内容适当增加细节，使行文连贯;

3.开头已给出，不记入总词数。