恩施州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、In fighting with enemies, the economy dropped greatly, ______, many lives were claimed.

A. on top of that   B. in contrast

C. for another thing     D. above all

2、Looking back on his youth, he finally realized that his pain taking effort in Senior Three   his bright future.

A.shaped B.had shaped C.was going to shape D.was to shape

3、He abandoned teaching_______ a career as a musician.

A.in favor of B.in terms of  C.with regard to D. with reference to

4、My smart watch battery   slow.It needs charging.

A.runs B.is run C.ran D.is running

5、Bears ________ fat stores throughout the summer and fall to have energy enough to last them through winter sleep.

A.build up B.pack up C.bring up D.take up

6、Whenever you ______ a present, you’d better think about it from the receiver’s preference.

A. bought   B. buy C. will buy   D. have bought

7、The ancient historic site is extremely expensive to________, but the local government spends some money repairing it every three years.

A．preserve

B．deserve

C．appreciate

D．celebrate

8、It's an either-or situation-you can take on-line classes at home or have classes in the school, but you can't do_________.

A.others B.both C.another D.either

9、The thought took root in Europe long before people realized ______ diverse language could be.

A.how B.that C.what D.where

10、To more accurately demonstrate students’ language competence, we’ll take advantage of written and oral exams and other forms of ____.

A.assessment B.education C.interview D.restriction

11、A heavy sandstorm is going to envelop our city. It is unwise to have your car   .

A. wash   B. washed

C. washing   D. to wash

12、Evidence has been found through years of study_____children's early sleeping problem is likely to continue when they grow up.

A. why B. how C. whether D. that

13、––Are the repairs finished yet?

––Yes, they ______ when I came back home.

A. would be completed   B. would complete

C. had completed   D. had been completed

14、_______ me when you get it through and I’ll pick you up at your work place.

A. Calling B. Call   C. Called D. To call

15、The child was found __________ the streets alone.

A.wandered B.to wander C.wander D.wandering

16、--- _____you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?

--- Sorry Sir, but it's urgent.

A. Must   B. Should

C. Can D. Would

17、China’s top education authority has implemented a revision of textbooks on the length of the country’s war against Japanese aggression, ______ the start of the war began on Sept 18,1931.

A. one that   B. one where

C. the one that   D. the one where

18、They are determined to go into the dark cave, ________ my warning of danger.

A. regardless of   B. because of

C. apart from   D. instead of

19、 Before you quit your job, ______how your family would feel about your decision.

A. consider B. considering

C. to consider   D. considered

20、Mike is one of those people who just can’t save money. Every time he gets paid, _____.

A. he has ants in his pants   B. he tightens his belt

C. he wears his heart on his sleeve   D. the money burns a hole in his pocket

21、   We were five minutes into a severe winter storm — approaching Boston’s Logan International Airport — when I turned to the woman next to me and said, “Hey, would you mind chatting with me for a few minutes?” My seatmate seemed friendly and I suddenly felt desperate for a human connection.

“Sure. My name is Sue,” the woman replied, smiling warmly. “What brings you to Boston?” I started to explain that I was on a business trip. Then the plane trembled violently, and I blurted out, “I might need to hold your hand too.” Sue took my hand in both of hers, patted it, and held on tight.

Sometimes a stranger can significantly improve our day. ① A pleasant meeting with someone we don’t know, even an unspoken exchange, can calm us when no one else is around. It may get us out of our own heads — a proven mood lifter — and help broaden our vision. Sandstrom, a psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Essex, has found that people’s moods improve after they have a conversation with a stranger. And yet most of us resist talking to people we don’t know or barely know. We worry about how to start, maintain, or stop it. We think we will keep talking and disclose too much, or not talk enough. We are afraid we will bore the other person. We’re typically wrong.

② In a study in which Sandstrom asked participants to talk to at least one stranger a day for five days, 99 percent said they had found at least one of the exchanges pleasantly surprising, 82 percent said they’d learned something from one of the strangers, 43 percent had exchanged contact information, and 40 percent had communicated with one of the strangers again.

③ Multiple studies show that people who interact regularly with passing acquaintances or who engage with others through community groups, religious gatherings, or volunteer opportunities have better emotional and physical health and live longer than those who do not. One person took up the cello after chatting with a woman on the subway who was carrying one. Another recalled how the smile of a fruit salesman from whom he regularly bought bananas made him feel less lonely after he’d first arrived in a new city.

④ When Sue took my hand on that scary flight to Boston, I almost wept with relief. “Hey, this is a little bumpy, but we will be on the ground safely soon,” she told me. She looked so encouraging, and confident. I asked her what she did for a living. “I’m a retired physical education teacher, and I coached women’s volleyball,” she said. Immediately, I could see what an awesome coach she must have been.

When we said goodbye, I gave Sue a big hug and my card. A few days later, I received an e-mail with the subject line “Broken hand on Jet Blue.” “I have to admit that I was just as scared as you were but did not say it,” Sue wrote. “I just squeezed your hand as hard as I could. Thank you for helping me through this very scary situation.” She added that when she’d told her friends about our conversation, they teased her because they know she loves to talk. I told my friends about Sue too. I explained how kind she was to me, and what I learned: It’s OK to ask for help from a stranger if you need it. Now if I mention to my friends that I am stressed or worried, they respond, “Just think of Sue!”

【1】The writer struck up a conversation with her seatmate because ________.

A.they were heading for the same city on business

B.she was in urgent need of emotional comfort

C.the plane’s abrupt movement was unbearable

D.the woman was friendlier than other passengers

【2】What benefit does a pleasant exchange with strangers bring us?

A.It lights up our otherwise unsuccessful life.

B.It saves us the trouble of talking too much.

C.It improves our ability to think and understand

D.It guarantees us a lasting feeling of happiness.

【3】Why does the writer mention the study conducted by Sandstrom?

A.To present the benefits of interacting with acquaintances.

B.To show it lifts mood to make and meet with new friends.

C.To stress it is necessary to associate with unknown people.

D.To relieve anxiety about communicating with strangers.

【4】The sentence “You don’t even have to talk to complete strangers to obtain the benefit” can be put in ________.

A.① B.② C.③ D.④

【5】What does the underlined sentence imply?

A.The writer was impressed with Sue’s ability to inspire others.

B.The writer herself could have been a volleyball player.

C.Sue possessed obvious characters of a qualified PE teacher.

D.Sue became the coach of the writer as a consequence.

【6】How did the writer probably feel while reading Sue’s email?

A.Regretful. B.Surprised. C.Disappointed. D.Satisfied.

22、Sometimes you just want to get away. Your older brother and his friends are constantly amped in front of the TV, your baby sister won’t stay out of your room, and you want some time for yourself.

But when you get it-maybe at a friend’s house for an all-weekend DVD marathon or on spring break at Disney World-you’re surprised to find yourself missing the chaos at home a bit.

What’s that all about?【1】

When you’re homesick, you might feel nostalgic (怀念的) for familiar things like your family, friends, pets, house, or neighborhood. Homesickness isn’t only for kids.【2】 Teens might get homesick when they leave home for the first extended period of time, like during a vacation with a friend’s family.

Familiar surroundings, people, and routines provide people with a sense of security and comfort.【3】 Those homesick feelings are completely normal.

【4】 Others may feel physical symptoms, like stomachache or headache, or even become truly depressed. Most of the time, once the new surroundings and people become more familiar, feelings of homesickness go away. If you have additional stress in your life - like a divorce or a death in the family - homesickness can be more intense.

Almost everyone has felt homesick at some time.【5】 It means you have family and friends worth missing and a place you want to return to when your adventure away from home is over.

A．Practically everyone feels homesick from time to time, even adults.

B．In a new place, you may find yourself missing the comforts of home and loved ones.

C．Believe it or not, you’re feeling homesick.

D．Remember that there’s a good side to homesickness, too.

E．Luckily, homesickness is usually mild and doesn’t last long.

F．Some people may only feel a little loneliness, sadness, or anxiety.

G．And you can do some things to make sure it doesn’t spoil your fun.

23、Who cares if people think wrongly that the internet has had more important influences than the washing machine? Why does it matter that people are more impressed by the most recent changes?

It would not matter if these misjudgments were just a matter of people’s opinions. However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.

The fascination with the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution, represented by the internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so “yesterday” that they should try to live on ideas. This belief in “post-industrial society” has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector (制造业), with negative consequences for their economies.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the “digital divide” between the rich countries and the poor countries. This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and internet facilities. The question, however, is whether this is what the developing countries need the most. Perhaps giving money for those less fashionable things such as digging wells, extending electricity networks and making more affordable washing machines would have improved people’s lives more than giving every child a laptop computer or setting up internet centres in rural villages. I am not saying that those things are necessarily more important, but many donators have rushed into fancy programmes without carefully assessing the relative long-term costs and benefits of alternative uses of their money.

In yet another example, a fascination with the new has led people to believe that the recent changes in the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a “borderless world”. As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back. Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

Understanding technological trends is very important for correctly designing economic policies, both at the national and the international levels, and for making the right career choices at the individual level. However, our fascination with the latest, and our under valuation of what has already become common, can, and has, led us in all sorts of wrong directions.

【1】Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to ________.

A．a waste of limited resources

B．a conflict of public opinions

C．a slow progress in technology

D．a lack of confidence in technology

【2】The example in Paragraph 4 suggests that donators should ________.

A．provide more affordable internet facilities

B．take people’s essential needs into account

C．make their programmes attractive to people

D．ensure that each child gets financial support

【3】What has led many governments to remove necessary regulations?

A．Ignoring the power of economic development.

B．Believing that the world has become borderless.

C．Neglecting the impacts of technological advances.

D．Over-emphasizing the role of international communication.

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Making right career choices is crucial to personal success.

B．People should be encouraged to make more donations.

C．Economic policies should follow technological trends.

D．Traditional technology still has a place nowadays.

24、Many plastic products we use every day are not able to be recycled. Americans alone throw away 42 million tons of single-use plastics each year, and only 9 percent of that waste can be turned into something else. The rest ends up in landfills (垃圾填埋场), or worse, the ocean.

ByFusion, founded in 2017 in Los Angeles, California, has worked out a way to put all that plastic waste to good use. It uses machines called Blockers to shape all kinds of plastics, even non-recyclables, into standard building blocks called ByBlocks that can be used to build anything. Now, BvFusion has built a pavilion (亭子) for a school with blocks made from locally collected plastics.

“Plastic was not invented to be thrown away,” the company states on their website. “Plastic is strong, flexible, and built to last. This is why plastic isn’t the problem. The problem is that we don’t have a good plan for its future, so now it is packed into landfills, burned at the edges of towns sending poisonous smoke into the air, and there are continents of it floating at sea killing precious wildlife.”

ByBlocks require no glues and are 10 pounds lighter than traditional blocks, making construction work quicker and easier, which means no special labor is needed. They won’t break into pieces like concrete blocks would. They also create zero waste to make — 1 ton of plastic equals 1 ton of ByBlocks.

After years of experiments that cost much, the company has installed (安装) a full production unit in L. A., where it can process 450 tons of plastic per year, and there are 12 more Blockers arriving in U. S. cities soon. The company has set a goal to recycle 100 million tons of plastic waste by 2030, and it thinks the number is within reach. “If we get up to 9, 000 Blocker systems installed around the world by 2025, we’ll make it, ” said founder Heidi Kujawa.

【1】Why was ByFusion set up?

A．To build nature-friendly landfills.

B．To produce recyclable plastics.

C．To make green building materials.

D．To recycle various building waste.

【2】What is ByFusion’s view about plastic?

A．Used plastic isn’t taken seriously.

B．It isn’t good for human beings.

C．Too much plastic has been made.

D．The demand for it is increasing.

【3】What do we know about the actual use of ByBlocks?

A．It needs promoting.

B．It’s cost-effective.

C．It’s time-consuming.

D．It asks for strict steps.

【4】What can make ByFusion hit its 100-million-ton goal?

A．Its ByBlocks are recognized.

B．Its expenses are guaranteed

C．Its techniques develop fast.

D．Its equipment is used widely.

25、   Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jeb. She studied in 6th standard at Olo Rina School. She was scared of _______. Everyone in her school called her “scaredy cat”, _______ her friend Amy.

Amy never used nicknames like everybody else. _______, she used the term “you’ll overcome your _______ one day”. Jeb felt encouraged that she’ll _______ it when her best friend is by her side.

One day,_______ Jeb was going to school, her enemy Nella Boworge made a _______ in front of her. Nella said “Oh! The scaredy cat of the whole planet!”

Surprisingly instead of feeling scared Jeb felt a wave of _______ in her. Jeb walked past Nella and _______“Oh! The biggest fool of the whole planet!” ________ “loser” into her ears.

Amy was on the other side of the pathway. She ________ how Jeb stood up for herself, with an astonished look on her face. She noticed ________ was pouring out of Nella’s ears as she did not ________ an answer from Jeb. Amy caught up with Jeb and said “You said the________answer. And no person is always fearful forever.” Jeb realized such a cool ________ it was to become a hero from a “scaredy cat”.

A．nobody

B．something

C．everything

D．somebody

A．with

B．except

C．besides

D．including

A．Still

B．Also

C．Instead

D．Therefore

A．fear

B．sufferings

C．headaches

D．error

A．break away

B．take in

C．add to

D．get over

A．when

B．if

C．where

D．unless

A．joke

B．stop

C．turn

D．choice

A．panic

B．excitement

C．braveness

D．hope

A．repeated

B．quoted

C．exposed

D．replied

A．casting

B．sharing

C．returning

D．whispering

A．realized

B．witnessed

C．imagined

D．thought

A．coldness

B．relief

C．smoke

D．pressure

A．design

B．meet

C．expect

D．receive

A．interesting

B．perfect

C．terrible

D．wrong

A．journey

B．method

C．bridge

D．lesson

26、假定你是李华，上周六你校举办了“我最喜欢的一本书”演讲比赛活动。请你为校广播站写一篇英文报道，内容包括：

1. 活动目的；

2. 比赛过程；

3. 获奖情况。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡相应位置作答。

My Favorite Book” Speech Contest

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