2025-2026学年台湾嘉义高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、My normal monthly emails to and _______ pen pals have disappeared with my tight schedule.

A．in B．for

C．from D．through

2、At the graduation ceremony, the headmaster required the graduates to raise their competitive _______ in modern society.

A． spirit B． intention

C． ambition   D． awareness

3、Life is a journey _____with hardships, joys and special moments.

A．filled

B．to fill

C．filling

D．having filled

4、__________ my old granny has no idea what she last watched on television alone, she does remember what she and I did together last week.

A. While B. When   C. As   D. If

5、--- Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?

--- Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practise strict   .

A. economy   B. medicine   C. self-control   D. patience

6、My parents lent me the money. ________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip.

A. Therefore  B. Otherwise

C. Meanwhile  D. Nevertheless

7、When it comes to health, females seem to be more anxious than males. A recent study reported that 66% of females overestimated their risk of ______ diseases.

A.causing B.developing

C.curing D.arousing

8、 Police have found ________ appears to be the lost ancient statue.

A.which B.where C.how D.what

9、Once a schedule is made, by strictly _______ it, you can avoid putting off till tomorrow what should be done.

A． arranging   B． measuring

C． observing   D． presenting

10、It is said that this plain lovely hairstyle first ________ in the 1990’s.

A. broke out   B. caught on   C. got off     D. held up

11、The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.

A. beneficial  B. optional

C. commercial   D. stressful

12、Humor, if ________ properly, will help us break the ice and gain affection of others in social communication.

A. using   B. used   C. to use   D. to be used

13、I missed a     opportunity to be promoted to a higher position.

A.golden B.handsome C.gold D.grateful

14、I have been convinced that the print media are usually more____ and more reliable than television.

A. accurate   B. ridiculous

C. urgent   D. shallow

15、On two occasions he was accused of stealing money from the company，but in neither case ______ any evidence to support the claims．

A． was there B． there was

C． had there been   D． there had been

16、To make it more convenient for people to visit Taiwan, several _____air services from the mainland have come into use.

A. reliable   B. Permanent

C. regular   D. constant

17、The sun began to rise in the sky，______ the mountain in golden light.

A．bathed     B．bathing

C．to have bathed  D．having bathed

18、I wish I ________ the Great Wall with you tomorrow, but I’m preparing for the coming exam.

A. will climb  B. had climbed  C. climb  D. would climb

19、Our society would be better off but for the fact that the economy ________ by the current global financial crisis.

A. had been affected B. were affected

C. should be affected D. is affected

20、Whether you are looking to gain new skills, or simply to improve old ones, you can ________ Lilys Language School!

A. look on

B. catch on

C. count on

D. take on

21、   On Wednesday, nearly 300 kids will take part in the National Spelling Bee. Fewer will make it to the following day’s semifinals, where one mistake means elimination(淘汰). I’d bet that many of them will be silently praying—not on the first word. I knew it because I was there 17 years ago.

I was 14 year old then. My mother and I had flown from Kentucky to Washington, but she was no strange to the capital. My older sister had already competed at nationals.

When my sister was 14 and I was 12, we trained together. We began with the Suggested List given out at school—hundreds of words printed on a poster that folded up like a map. When the words along the creases(折痕) began to disappear, we bought additional spelling bodes.

Sometimes my mother tested us, reading words most English teachers wouldn’t know how to pronounce, let alone my Indian-born mother. When she pointed out the misspelled words, I blamed her accent for my errors!

When it was my turn, I approached the microphone and waited for my first word.

The announcer was somewhere to my left, a man who pronounced clearly. “Barbican,” he said.

It seemed that my competitors were secretly complaining at the relative ease of my word. Would they laugh at me if I couldn’t spell it? Would my mother be disappointed in me? That last syllable could go two ways: C-A-N or C-O-N. Which one was right? Finally I decided on C-O-N.

Of course, I was eliminated and guided to the Comfort Room, where parents couldn’t enter. Inside, recent losers were sitting around a table abundant with junk food.

We casually mentioned the words that defeated us, like a special ceremony to welcome each new arrival. Then we changed the subjects if we’d already moved on from missed words and lost opportunities.

Eventually, I went out and saw my mother.

“Well,” she said, “I guess you won’t be doing this again.” Yes, next year I would be 25 and not allowed to take part in the competition.

【1】What does the underlined word in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A.the difficulty of the first word. B.The fierce competition.

C.The nervousness of the kids. D.The strict rules.

【2】The author failed probably because .

A.she was unable to relax B.the announcer had an accent

C.her competitors disturbed her D.she didn’t practise hard enough

【3】What did the author do in the Comfort Room?

A.She met her mother. B.She comforted new arrivals.

C.She talked with other losers. D.She watched the competition.

【4】Why did the author’s mother say the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A.She was disappointed in the author.

B.The author would be beyond the age limit.

C.She didn’t want the author to suffer again.

D.The author had no interest in the competition.

22、Texting pedestrians aren' t just an annoyance to their fellow walkers, but something dangerous to themselves.

"I was checking emails while walking to work this morning," said Wolbert van den Hoorn. "But it has a serious influence on the safety of people who type or read text while walking. "

Anecdotes back him up. A tourist from Taiwan walked off a port near Melbourne last month while checking Facebook-bringing an abrupt, and icy end to a penguin-watching visit. Another shopper in the U.S. was too addicted to his mobile phone to notice the fountain ahead, walking straight into it.

And as mobile-phone use has grown-to about 77% of the world's population, the study says-so has the number of phone-related accidents. The number of U. S. emergency-room visits linked to phone use on the move doubled to as many as l,500 between 2005 and 2010, an Ohio State University study recently showed.

Authorities world-wide have taken note. Signs on Hong Kong's subway system advise passengers in three languages to keep their eyes off their phones. Police and transport authorities have also warned the danger in Singapore, where the Straits Times newspaper ranked it as "No.2 Bad Habit", due to the rising number of road deaths.

Some U.S. states, including New York and Arkansas, are even considering bans on this act.

The Australian study used 26 volunteers, a third of whom admitted having hit objects while texting. They were fitted with different equipment in different parts of their body, and asked to walk 8.5 meters three times-once without a phone, once while reading a text and once while writing a text-while eight cameras captured the action.

Volunteers using the phone walked slower and with shorter steps (and slowest of all when typing), and, more seriously, they locked their arms and elbows in-like "robots", in the researchers' words. That forced their heads to move more, throwing them off balance.

"In a pedestrian environment, inability to maintain a straight path would be likely to increase potential for hits, falls and traffic accidents," said Mr. van den Hoorn. "The best thing to do is to step aside and stop, or keep off the phone."

【1】Which of the following about "Texting pedestrians" is WRONG?

A. People who type while walking.

B. People who phone while walking.

C. People who text while walking.

D. People who read text message while walking.

【2】The writer uses the two examples in Paragraph 3 to show

A. the advantages of mobile phones

B. the use of mobile phones in water

C. the use of mobile phones in a wrong way

D. the popularity of mobile phones

【3】What is New York and Arkansas' attitude to texting pedestrians?

A. Considering forbidding their acts.

B. Ranking it as "No.l Bad Habit".

C. Setting up signs to warn them.

D. Equipping them with advanced machines.

【4】Why are texting pedestrians likely to hit or fall according to the passage?

A. They walk too fast.

B. They lock their arms and elbows.

C. They are out of balance.

D. They walk with longer steps.

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

A. Text message or e-mail only?

B. Ways to avoid falls

C. Mobile phones for entertainment

D. Safety or text message?

23、A decade ago biologists identified a remote protected area in northern Laos, called Nam Et-Phou Louey, as the country’s probable last heaven for wild tigers. To formally test this assumption, researchers set up 300 camera stations in 2013 and quickly confirmed two tigers’ presence. But the success was short-lived: over their four-year study, they never saw those or any other tigers again.

This result, reported last October in Global Ecology and Conservation, confirms that tigers are now functionally extinct in Laos. The researchers also found that leopards, formerly believed to still live in the park, have vanished as well. “For the remaining protected areas in Southeast Asia for tigers, this was an important one — maybe even a potential jewel in the crown,” says senior author David Macdonald, a wildlife expert at the University of Oxford. “To find that jewel has been dull is destructive. ”

Laos’s tiger loss is part of an alarming sign across Southeast Asia; the animals have already disappeared from Vietnam and Cambodia. In almost every study site Macdonald and his colleagues have surveyed, wild tigers — which number fewer than 4,000 worldwide — are in steep decline or completely absent. So are once common leopards. Habitat loss is partly to blame, but Macdonald says that the main driver is “the astonishing trend of poaching. Leading international nonprofit groups support anti-poaching efforts in Laos’s main protected areas, but as in many other countries, poachers still find ways to kill wildlife. Without protections against people doing large-scale hunting, the wildlife will go. ”

Tigers can live in human-dominated landscapes: India has the world’s second highest population, but it has favourable tiger conservation and now hosts two thirds of the planet’s remaining wild tigers. Macdonald says the respective examples of India and Laos offer lessons for countries such as Thailand, which still has about 200 wild tigers; protecting habitat is critical but so is fighting against poaching and reducing demand for big cat parts. “One way or another,” he adds, “people have to change.”

【1】What’s David Macdonald’s attitude towards the research result?

A．Indifferent

B．Pessimistic

C．Positive

D．Objective

【2】What can we learn about the study from paragraph 3?

A．Leopards have been extinct in southeastAsia.

B．Poaching is the only cause of tiger loss in southeastAsia.

C．It’s urgent to take measures against poaching in many Asian countries.

D．Anti-poaching efforts in Laos’main protected areas has achieved a huge success.

【3】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “host” in paragraph 4?

A．absorbs

B．defends

C．holds

D．exposes

【4】It can be inferred from the passage that______________

A．The future of wild tigers in Thailand is uncertain.

B．India is faced with a tough task in protecting wild tigers.

C．Macdonald thinks that the main reason for tiger loss is habitat decrease.

D．After 2013, biologists never identified any presence of tigers again in northern Laos.

24、Do you live in a city where looking up the air quality forecast is just as important as checking the weather forecast for the day? Many places around the world have terrible pollution problems. But now new research suggests that we might be able to protect ourselves，naturally and easily— simply by taking vitamin B.

The study was conducted by a team of international researchers. Their focus was on a pollutant known as PM2.5. Its size, approximately l/40th the width of a human hair, makes it particularly dangerous because it is readily inhaled and small enough to spread through the body via the blood. This can cause damage to the lungs if PM2.5 is being breathed in regularly.

The current experiment involved subjects being exposed to clean air and a placebo(安慰剂) to record baseline responses. They were given the placebo for four weeks, then exposed through a face mask to air from a highly polluted area in downtown Toronto. The researchers measured methylation (甲基化) changes to DNA; the damage increased in each participant. However, in the repeated experiment, when the volunteers were given a vitamin supplement containing 1 milligram of vitamin B12, 50 mg of vitamin B6, and 2.5 mg of folic acid daily for four weeks, it reduced the damage to the DNA by a range of 28 to 76 percent.

The results indicate how prevention at an individual level could be used to fight the harmful effects of PM2.5. However, researchers stressed that research was in its early stages. Future studies, especially in heavily polluted areas, are urgently needed and they’ll finally develop preventive measures using B vitamins to prevent the health effects of air pollution.

【1】What does the underlined word “inhaled” in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. breathed.   B. smelt.

C. approached.   D. discovered.

【2】How does the author introduce the current experiment?

A. By analyzing causes.   B. By giving examples.

C. By making comparisons.   D. By describing effects.

【3】What can we learn about the researchers in the last paragraph?

A. They warned people of heavy pollution.

B. They regretted not using enough volunteers.

C. They’ll soon find more ways to test B vitamins.

D. They’ll confirm the findings in highly polluted areas.

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

A. PM2.5 Is Most Deadly

B. Vitamin B Benefits People Most

C. Vitamin B Offers Air Pollution Protection

D. Air Quality Forecast Is Extremely Important

25、In October, I told the eight-year-olds about my plan. “I’d like all of you to do extra jobs to _________ some money. Then we’ll buy food for a Thanksgiving dinner for someone who might not have a nice dinner _________.” I wanted the children to _________ that it’s more blessed to give than to _________. I wanted them to understand that kindness is _________ nice ideas and that people somehow have to make it come _________.

Early in the week, the boys and girls arrived in class seizing their hard-earned money and couldn’t wait to go shopping. I watched _________ they ran up and down the supermarket aisles. _________, we headed toward the checkout. Then someone _________ a “necessity” that sent them racing.

“Flowers!” Kristine cried. The group rushed toward the holiday __________. I pronounced, “You can’t eat flowers.” “But Mrs. Sherlock, we want flowers.” __________, I sighed as the children moved a pot of purple daisies (雏菊) into the cart.

Then we set off for the house of a needy grandmother and finally __________ in front of a small house in the woods. A woman with a tired face came to the door to __________ us. My little group hurried to get the turkey and the trimmings. As each box was carried in, the old woman thanked us — much to children’s __________. When Amy put the daisies on the counter, the woman seemed __________.

We returned to the car. Fastening seat belts, we could see the kitchen window. The woman inside waved goodbye, then turned and walked across the room, past the turkey, past the trimmings, __________ to the daisies. She put her face in the flowers. When she raised her head, there was a __________ on her lips. She was transformed before our eyes. The children were quiet. In that one brief __________ they had seen for themselves the __________ they possessed to make another’s life better. The children had __________ that sometimes a person needs a pot of funny flowers on a dark November day.

【1】

A．spend

B．earn

C．withdraw

D．save

【2】

A．either

B．though

C．otherwise

D．anyway

【3】

A．experience

B．expect

C．advocate

D．clarify

【4】

A．enjoy

B．receive

C．accumulate

D．share

【5】

A．better than

B．rather than

C．other than

D．more than

【6】

A．alive

B．wrong

C．fresh

D．fair

【7】

A．until

B．before

C．as

D．since

【8】

A．Gradually

B．Eventually

C．Frequently

D．Occasionally

【9】

A．observed

B．confirmed

C．recognized

D．spotted

【10】

A．plants

B．lights

C．cards

D．foods

【11】

A．Panicked

B．Moved

C．Defeated

D．Determined

【12】

A．pulled up

B．settled down

C．turned out

D．got through

【13】

A．accompany

B．welcome

C．inspect

D．instruct

【14】

A．puzzle

B．astonishment

C．pleasure

D．disappointment

【15】

A．surprised

B．depressed

C．embarrassed

D．amused

【16】

A．straight

B．abruptly

C．gradually

D．close

【17】

A．terror

B．shock

C．pain

D．smile

【18】

A．chance

B．decision

C．moment

D．condition

【19】

A．energy

B．power

C．talent

D．interest

【20】

A．sensed

B．noticed

C．marked

D．checked

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。

I always believe in the saying: Things will eventually sort themselves out. In the face of difficulty and trouble, I can always persuade myself to do my work first without enough conditions.

Yesterday, we just moved into a new house and spent all our money. So we had to go through the rest of the month until my husband got paid.

Today, my daughter, Laurie, went to school. After a while, out-of-breath and tired, our little girl ran back a block because she’d forgotten to tell me that it was her turn to bring cupcakes for the class-—today! I answered her with a promise to reach her classroom at noon with the cupcakes. She ran to school again, happy.

Two minutes later, imagining Laurie’s trusting smile when I delivered on the promise, I searched in the boxes for baking tins and the mixer. I confidently set them on the counter and then opened the refrigerator, only to discover there were no eggs! How would I make cupcakes withouteggs?

I tried to figure out how I could fix the problem. Could I borrow some from neighbors or friends? Could I buy some on credit(赊账)? It was almost 9: 30 and I was running out of time. A little voice inside me whispered, “Start to do your work first! Things will eventually sort themselves out.” “Okay,” I said to myself, “I have to try my best to keep my word to my little girl and the worst result that might happen is that I bake ‘cakes’ with no eggs.”

The next step was an act of faith. I turned on the oven and measured all the materials as my little son lined the tins with paper cups. We’d just finished making the frosting(糖霜) when I heard the mailman close the box at the front door. Of course! The mailman could send us a refund (退款) check or something in the mail! I rushed to the door to get the mail and was shocked by what I found.

注意：1.续写词数应150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

There, just under the mailbox, were two boxes of eggs !

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The phone call was from my friend Bonnie.

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