福州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、“Spit-take” refers to an act ________ someone spits liquid out of his or her mouth when he or she hears something funny or surprising.

A.that B.which C.where D.why

2、Mr. Brown thought it would be a good idea to have ________ from his workers to improve his plan.

A．summaries

B．admissions

C．comments

D．connections

3、American fathers ______ more than twice the amount of time with their children than they used to in years past, due to a sweeping new trend called "unemployment".

A.were spending B.spent C.are spending D.have spent

4、The power of Charlie Chaplin’s works is not only in his acting, but also in the stories and characters he________.

A．had created

B．has created

C．created

D．creates

5、Take two of the _______ three times daily before meals, and it make you less painful.

A.tablets B.tables C.tastes D.toasts

6、 Over 1.8 million of Hong Kong’s residents have sent out a clear message against the movement ______ they want an end to disorders and a return to normal life.

A. what B. that   C. which D. where

7、I ______ to visit him in the hospital, but I was fully occupied the whole of last week.

A.had gone B.might go C.must have gone D.would have gone

8、________ the numbers in employment, the hotel industry was the second largest industry in this country last year.

A．In spite of

B．In case of

C．In terms of

D．In praise of

9、You can’t use the computer now, ________ the upgrade of the system is under way.

A. until B. unless

C. as D. after

10、Busy as the working mother is, she still_____ a lot of time to her children.

A.devotes B.spends C.offers D.provides

11、The number of foreign students attending Chinese universities________ steadily since 1997.

A．is rising

B．are rising

C．has been rising

D．have been rising

12、It’s one thing to say we have a goal; it’s quite________ to actually act on it.

A．another

B．others

C．the other

D．other

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

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

14、Sun Yang said he would appeal against the CAS decision, ________, to the public’s surprise, banned him from competition for eight years.

A.where B.when C.as D.which

15、—Didn’t you go fishing with your friends last Sunday?

—No. I ______ to the nursing home as usual.

A. went B. go C. have gone   D. had gone

16、We won’t start the work until all the preparations _____.

A. are being made   B. will be made

C. have been made   D. had been made

17、Would you please _______ this form for me to see if I’ve filled it in right?

A.take off B.look after

C.give up D.go over

18、Try to buy less______unnecessary shopping could become another source of pressure to the environment.

A.though B.unless C.because D.before

19、---I was wondering whether perhaps you could remember the name of the place.

---I’m afraid that________ me for the moment.

A．reminds

B．puzzles

C．disturbs

D．escapes

20、Was it in 2008 ______ he was still at middle school _____ the boy became expert at computer?

A.that; where B.when; where C.that; when D.when; that

21、The majority of Britons are educated in state schools, making up around 60% of those admitted to Oxford and Cambridge in 2013. Admissions at other leading universities were also weighted towards teenagers educated privately.

Then began a quiet revolution. The number of state-schooled pupils getting Oxbridge places has risen yearly; the number from private schools has fallen. The Russell Group of 24 leading universities says its members aim to admit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A few things lie behind this change. The government has given cash to universities to reach underrepresented students and, since 2018, required them to publish plans showing how they are doing this. One report in 2018 showed that eight schools, six of which were private, accounted for more Oxbridge places than 2,900 other secondary schools combined.

Teach First, a scheme that sends clever graduates into tough schools for a couple of years, has also helped raise pupils, eagerness. It began in London, where the highest- performing state schools are concentrated.

All this has fueled a joint effort by schools and universities to make pupils consider the distinguished universities. For those state-school kids getting into top universities, extra help is needed. “You need to provide extra tutoring in the first year,” says Professor Smith from Oxford, who made efforts to admit state-school students before it became fashionable. She says they often do worse in exams at the end of the first year, but clean up in final exams.

That would seem to rebut one of the criticisms made of universities’ efforts to correct the state-private imbalance: that letting in more state-school students means standards will slip. “If you bring in people with diverse experiences and ways of thinking, who challenge one another’s assumptions, it promotes intellectual creativity and academic success,” says Helen, the principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

“All this adds up to an important change,” says Lawrence. “Increasing numbers of state-school children are applying to universities in America and getting full scholarships.”

【1】What was the quiet revolution?

A．Admitting more poor students into top universities.

B．Getting state schools to cooperate with top universities.

C．Letting less private-school students into universities.

D．Having private schools take poor-background students.

【2】What is implied in the 2018 report?

A．State schools should promote their students’ academic reports.

B．Oxford and Cambridge preferred graduates from private schools.

C．Students in Oxbridge place high standard for their aims in life.

D．Oxbridge had a stricter admission standard than other universities.

【3】What can we infer about state-school students from Professor Smith’s words?

A．They get academic help from Teach First.

B．They become top students in a few years.

C．They need extra tutoring in the first term.

D．They are inspirations for other students.

【4】What does the underlined word ”rebut" mean in paragraph 6?

A．Support.

B．Expose.

C．Improve.

D．Oppose.

22、   Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.

The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You can be a success if only you make the right choice.

You cannot be successful without first developing your self-esteem (自尊). Your level of self-esteem is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-esteem do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their life. They are leaves tossed (摆) by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather.

You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for whatever happens in your life. Losers think that everything happens by accident while successful people realize that they are responsible.

Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we consciously choose to accept and believe. Thoughts and beliefs cause everything. Our attitudes and actions are a result of habits ingrained in us over a period of time. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success depends upon our level of confidence. We are responsible for either reinforcing (强化) good habits or kicking bad habits and consciously replacing them with consistently practiced good habits.

If you associate with positive-thinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success. On the contrary, the opposite happens. We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing (培育) the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks.

In short, in all areas of your life, whether they are financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success.

【1】People with low self-esteem are compared to leaves because they ________.

A. are ready to change their minds

B. are easily affected by windy weather

C. don’t have the power to face their fate

D. can’t exercise control over themselves

【2】Losers would think that ________.

A. success is the result of hard work

B. working hard will lead to success

C. their failure is only because of bad luck

D. they don’t make efforts to succeed

【3】It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that ________.

A. whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes

B. developing confidence is the key to future success

C. thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind

D. setting our expectations is essential before taking action

【4】The last paragraph serves as ________.

A. the proof of the author’s points

B. the conclusion of the argument

C. an introduction to another topic

D. a comparison between two views

【5】Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Success Is a Choice B. The Secrets of Success

C. Develop Our Confidence D. How to Achieve Success

23、When my grandmother Deed was young she contracted polio (小儿麻痹症). She was kept in bed for the better part of a year and lost the use of her right leg. She was raising my young father on her own, so it felt like an impossible situation. Her family gave her much support and encouragement. Slowly but surely, Deed learned not only to deal, but to thrive with her disability. People thought she was crazy when she wanted to start her own business, but she was determined. She borrowed money from the bank for her business. She went on to run a successful company and became one of the first women entrepreneurs in the city of Revere, Massachusetts.

I truly believe polio was a gift to my grandmother. It strengthened her beliefs and made her strong and resilient (有适应力的), but it also forced her to slow down and think about everything quietly and seriously. She never complained about her condition, not once.

However, I often got angry and complained when things weren't going my way. Deed would turn to me and gave me advice on my next move. Though far from Hollywood (she lived on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire), Deed seemed to know answers to the problems that seemed to puzzle me. She was my trusted mentor (导师). With each visit, she would help me better myself; expand my mind and go after bigger dreams.

I became confident, more driven and focused on what I wanted to achieve. Each step of the way, Deed was there to cheer me on. The more I leaned back out of fear, the more she challenged me to walk further to the possibilities.

Within a month of selling my first screenplay, Deed passed away. She is on my mind daily. Now, whenever I deal with career issues that scare me, I would remind myself of her greatest piece of advice: Sit down and take a breath. It will all work out.

【1】What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．Introducing Deed to us.

B．Telling us what Deed suffered.

C．Showing us the author's family.

D．Informing us about Deed's disease.

【2】What can we conclude from Deed's disability?

A．Every dog has its day.

B．Every coin has two sides.

C．Hard work pays off.

D．Time and tide wait for no man.

【3】What would Deed do when the author got puzzled in life?

A．Complain to him.

B．Give him some advice.

C．Explain the trouble to him.

D．Move a step forward to him.

【4】Why does the author write this text?

A．To tell us how he got success.

B．To give us some advice on life.

C．To show us his life in the childhood.

D．To remember his grandmother.

24、   War is expensive and it is bloody. That is why America's Department of Defence wants to replace a third of its armed vehicles and weaponry with robots by2015. Such a change would save money, as robots can be much cheaper to replace than people. Just as importantly for the generals, it would make waging war less prey to the politics of body bags. Nobody mourns a robot.

The US military already routinely uses robotic aero planes known as unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ). In November 2001 two missiles fared from a remote-controlled Predator UAV killed Mohammad Atef, al-Qaeda's chief of military operations and one of Osama bin Laden's most important associates, as he drove his car near Kabul. But whereas UAVs and their ground-based equivalents, such as the machinegun-toting Sword robots, are usually controlled by distant human operators, the Pentagon would like to give these robots increasing amounts of autonomy, including the ability to decide when to use lethal force.

To achieve this, Ronald Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, is developing a set of rules of engagement for battlefield robots to ensure that their use of lethal force follows the rules of ethics. In other words, he is trying to create an artificial conscience. Dr Arkin believes that there is another reason for putting robots into battle, which is that they have the potential to act more humanely than people. Stress does not affect a robot's judgment in the way it affects a soldier's.

His approach is to create what he calls a "multidimensional mathematical decision-space of possible behavior actions". Based on inputs ranging from radar data and current position to mission status and intelligence feeds, the system would divide the set of all possible actions into those that are ethical and those that are not. If, for example, the drone from which the fatal attack on Atef was launched had sensed that his car was overtaking a school bus, it might then have held fire.

There are comparisons to be drawn between Dr Arkin's work and the famous Three Laws of Robotics drawn up in the 1950s by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer ,to govern robot behaviour. But whereas Asimov's laws were intended to prevent robots from harming people in any circumstances, Dr Arkin's are supposed to ensure only that they are not unethically killed.

This is an admirable goal in theory, but even if ethics can be neatly encoded into software, pitfalls remain. Although a completely rational robot might be unfazed by the chaos and confusion of the battlefield, it could still make mistakes. Surveillance and intelligence data can be wrong, and conditions and situations on the battlefield can change.

【1】America’s military force wants to replace people with robots NOT because ________.

A.war cost a lot and it is bloody

B.people show sympathy for a person not a robot

C.. the armed vehicles and weapons are too expensive

D.the general would receive less criticism from the masses

【2】Which of the following statements is True?

A.Atef was killed by two missiles fired from a remote-controlled manned aerial vehicle.

B.The department of force already uses UAVs with relatively high autonomy.

C.The study done by Dr. Arkin is similar to Three Laws of Robotics.

D.In Arkin’s opinion, a soldier’s judgment can be affected but robot’s won’t.

【3】What’s the main idea of this article?

A.Ronald Arkin is developing a set of rules to increase autonomy.

B.Ronald Arkin is making efforts to create an artificial conscience.

C.Atef was precisely bombed by a remote-controlled Predator UVA.

D.There are comparisons between Dr. Arkin’s work and Three Laws of Robotics.

【4】What’s the author’s attitude about Arkin’s approach?

A.His approach is an admirable goal and it can be realized.

B.Robot would fight without any mistakes in the battlefield.

C.Dr. Arkin’s approach is ethical and faultless.

D.Robots are not substitute for people in the battlefield.

25、   I live on the top floor of an apartment block overlooking the ocean. Just across the road is a bakery overflowing with fresh bread. It's_________how fond I am of this little bakery though there is nothing I can eat there. There are two things it_________me with other than the attractive smell, and that's borrowed Wi-Fi when our Internet_________and endless occasions for people-watching.

There's a_________man who spends the days talking to the pigeons just outside our_________. It's 35℃ here but I've never_________him without his thick leather jacket, all torn and_________. We always nod at each other and his_________has become a reminder to slow down on the_________street.

I'm sitting here at my desk__________a cup of Yorkshire tea. It seems like time has just returned to the past and__________me here on this island on the other side of the world.

Sometimes I love that I__________here alone and get to make all my choices on my own terms with endless adventures to be had. Other times, I'll be__________in the sea watching the__________with my mask and I'll notice the empty space beside me, which marks the transition (转变)from childhood to adulthood. My dad is not by my side to__________the rocks together and make funny faces under the water. So I__________funny faces at the fish but it's not the__________.

I always wanted to live by the__________in a hot country to swim, and travel the world. But something very important that I've__________is that even when living the dream,__________has unavoidable ups and downs.

A．severe

B．nervous

C．funny

D．serious

A．supports

B．gives

C．helps

D．provides

A．appears

B．cuts

C．accesses

D．crowds

A．homeless

B．guilty

C．hungry

D．dirty

A．city

B．flats

C．bakery

D．desks

A．comforted

B．avoided

C．seen

D．helped

A．delighted

B．amused

C．bored

D．worn

A．movement

B．presence

C．opinion

D．doubt

A．busy

B．public

C．quiet

D．high

A．for

B．on

C．with

D．behind

A．parked

B．lifted

C．driven

D．landed

A．showed up

B．occupied with

C．turned off

D．adapted to

A．surfing

B．swimming

C．stopping

D．living

A．scenery

B．water

C．fish

D．grass

A．found

B．submit

C．find

D．explore

A．save

B．lose

C．make

D．watch

A．same

B．true

C．real

D．false

A．road

B．beach

C．square

D．side

A．supported

B．intended

C．arranged

D．learnt

A．life

B．block

C．conference

D．order

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。

“It’s not looking too good, darling. I think you’d better go to your mother’s place. And you’d better take Rosie with you.”

Putting down the phone, Sara sighed. Tomorrow was her husband Tony’s birthday. She had planned to cook him a nice meal and then surprise him with the new mountain bike she’d bought for him. If she went to her mother’s house, Tony wouldn’t get his present for days.

However, her mother’s house was the best place to be right now. Being on higher land, it would be safe from the floods. It had been raining heavily for almost two weeks and the river near Sara and Tony’s house was rising higher and higher all the time. Tony and others from the village had spent the last two days putting sandbags along the side of the river to stop it overflowing. Now they feared that their hard work had been useless and soon the whole valley would be flooded.

Sara put the lead on the dog, Rosie. Just as she was reaching for the car keys, Sara heard a sound from the back door—Water was flowing in underneath! Turning around she saw dirty brown water fountaining out of the drain and filling the sink. Quickly calling to Rosie, she ran to the front of the house and out into the front garden.

The water was already up to her knees. Rosie was swimming beside her. Knowing the water would soon be much deeper, Sara ran to the car and opened the door. She pushed Rosie up, and using the car seat as a step she climbed first onto the front of the car and then onto the roof. Sara stared down at the water which was rushing past the car. It was already half way up the doors, and still rising.

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。

Paragraph 1:

With the water still pouring, Sara began to feel cold.

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Paragraph 2:

Suddenly, Rosie began to bark, and some noise came from far away.

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