2025-2026学年宁夏固原高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、— Jessie, it’s a pity you didn’t go shopping online on Nov.11th．It was really fantastic!

— Really? If I ________ so busy, I would have shopped for fun too.

A． shouldn’t be   B． weren’t

C． hadn’t been D． wouldn’t be

2、All the mistakes I ever made in my life were _______ I wanted to say “No” and said “Yes”.

A. how   B. that

C. whether   D. when

3、Happiness will be within our reach if positive thinking ________ into daily routine and becomes an important part of our world.

A. adopts   B. is adopted

C. will adopt   D. will be adopted

4、Despite the fact that all three teams different approaches to the problem, they were all immediate successes.

A. adapted   B. adopted   C. acquired   D. approved

5、Spend the least time on those things that are completely_______, and figure out what you can do practically to make a difference．

A．out of shape B．out of control

C．out of practice D．out of touch

6、    herself with routine office work, she had no time to attend to her children.

A. Occupying   B. Occupied

C. Being occupied   D. To be occupied

7、My grandfather arrived in Shanghai in 1939, ________, some years later, he became a worker in a firm.

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

8、The recent financial crisis       into account, the Japanese boss       back on the number of employees working for him.

A. taking; cuts   B. was taken; cut

C. taken; cut   D. to take; cutting

9、—Do you have any plans for the summer break?

—Not really. I think I am just staying at home, ________ some books.

A. reading   B. to read   C. read     D. having read

10、Nowadays, some people tend to drink and gamble for the sake of ________ they call the circles, which is definitely stupid.

A. why   B. how   C. where   D. what

11、Could I speak to ________ is in charge of the company, please?

A．who

B．whoever

C．whomever

D．whom

12、She is one of the girls in our class who ______ for the coming sports meeting now.

A．is being trained

B．are trained

C．is training

D．are being trained

13、Literature is a kind of intellectual light, just like the light of the sun, sometimes enabling us to see ________we do not like.

A.what B.how C.when D.that

14、— ________ It’s only an interview!

— Only an interview? Only an interview? What if I panic? What if I say a silly word by  accident?

A. Well done!   B. Come on!

C. How come? D. No doubt!

15、The CEO decided to give the job to   he believed had a strong sense of responsibility.

A. whom     B. who  C. whomever   D. Whoever

16、You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided on Google and in a second it __________ thousands of references．

A. catches up with   B. comes up with

C. ends up with   D. puts up with

17、Mom, don’t you think it's OK to play once in a while it doesn’t affect my studies?

A. even if B. unless

C. so that   D. as long as

18、Not only Li Lei but also Han Meimei and I ________ tired of so much homework every day.

A．am

B．is

C．are

D．was

19、_______the virtual world of Real Cine， the headsets even have small openings _______ smells to match the environment.

A. Adding to；give out   B. Added to；give off

C. To be added to；giving off   D. To add to；giving out

20、 I believe the world is ______ you think it is. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

A. which B. how C. that D. what

21、   Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now, there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.

Open Table app

Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations (预定), which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.

Max McCalman's Cheese &Wine Pairing app

Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman's Cheese & Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman's Cheese&. Wine Pairing app is free.

Happy Cow app

Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The Happy Cow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.

Local Eats app

Restaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The Local Eats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.

Where Chefs Eat app

“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975 page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $ 15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3, 000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.

【1】What do the first two apps have in common?

A.They are both free of charge. B.Discounts are provided on both.

C.Best wines can be reserved on both. D.They tell you where to find the best restaurant.

【2】Who is Happy Cow app probably designed for?

A.People who love drinking wine. B.People who don't t eat meat or animal products.

C.People who enjoy meat very much. D.People who often eat in restaurant.

【3】Where can we most likely see the text?

A.On a tourism guide. B.In a students' textbook.

C.In a cellphone application introduction. D.On a scientific discovery TV program.

22、I was in my first year of college, making friends and enjoying life, but then my whole world turned upside down. I had a heart attack. It felt like someone was stabbing (刺) me in the chest with a knife over and over again.

After three months of rest I went back to college, but then things took a turn for the worse. I was staying at my Nana’s house and woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in my chest. I knew I was having a heart attack again.

I couldn’t even shout for help. Luckily my grandpa was going to the toilet and heard me falling out of bed. If it wasn’t for him, I probably wouldn’t be here.

The two holes in my heart were causing the problems and I needed an operation immediately to repair them. Unfortunately, the surgery didn’t go well and they only managed to repair one of the holes.

When I woke up from the operation, I had a really dry mouth and couldn’t wait to have something to eat and drink. The biggest shock of all came when I was told that I needed a heart transplant and was put on the register. The doctors were stunned at how quickly heart failure came on – it usually takes years, but it took my heart less than six months to get to that stage. My whole world came crashing down, but I stayed strong. It was a choice between crying every day and getting on with my life.

As time went on, life became even harder. I hated feeling weak all the time and needing help with everything. It got to the point where I thought I would never get a new heart. I was diagnosed with depression.

Even though I thought that Christmas 2008 would be my last, I really enjoyed it and even had a good New Year. Everyone was crying for me when the clock struck midnight and they told me to keep fighting.

A week later, I got a call from the doctors saying they’d found a suitable donor (捐赠人). My wish came true and thankfully the operation went well. I spent four hours in surgery where they took out my old heart and put a new one in. When I woke up I burst out crying. I had a second chance at life.

【1】 What happened when the author was having his second heart attack?

A. He felt less pain than he had during the previous one.

B. He realized what it was and shouted for help in time.

C. He narrowly escaped death thanks to his grandfather.

D. He decided to have an operation to repair the two holes in his heart.

【2】When the author learned that he needed a heart transplant, he ______.

A. couldn’t help crying every day

B. chose to continue to fight for his life

C. felt so depressed that he tried to kill himself

D. was so anxious that his heart failure developed very quickly

【3】 At the beginning of 2009, the author ______.

A. was convinced that the past Christmas had been his last

B. felt blessed and grateful for his second chance at life

C. received a heart transplant but the operation didn’t go well

D. felt hopeless all the time and was diagnosed with depression

【4】Which one would be the best title for the text?

A. Choices matter

B. Rebuilding my world

C. Waiting for a new heart

D. The most special Christmas

23、Nashville-based helicopter pilot Joel Boyers had just finished his job on Saturday morning and was heading home when he received a call for help from a woman in Pennsylvania. Her brother Johnson’s home in Waverly, Tennessee, was underwater and he was trapped on a roof with his daughters. Could Boyers help?“I thought how I would feel if I told her I was not even going to try?” he said in a Thursday interview. “She just so happened to call the right person,   because I’m the only person crazy enough to even try to do that.”

The weather was terrible and Boyers had to deal with hills and power lines on the way to Waverly, a small city about 60 miles west of Nashville. Just before reaching the town, he found the Internet was down, making it impossible to locate the house he was looking for. He flew on anyway.

“When I arrived, it was nothing but raging water below me,” he said. A few people were out in boats, rescuing the trapped. Boyers was alone in the sky. He started flying up and down the flooded area, grabbing anyone he could.

Boyers said he ended up rescuing 17 people that day. He was proud of that, but said he was the one who should be thanking them. “I literally prayed just days before this that I would be given some meaning in my life, and then I end up getting this call,” he said. He had flown over disasters before including floods, but “The police are usually there, and my hands are tied. This time there isn’t any,” he said.

To perform the rescues, Boyers had to carefully avoid power lines, balance his skids (打滑) on sloped rooftops, and fly over flood waters. It took all the skills learned over 16 years of flying, including for a television news station, for documentaries and for country music stars. “I don’t want to lie,” he said. “It was almost a little fun for me.”

【1】Why did Boyers fly to Waverly？

A．Because he had to do his routine tasks.

B．Because his brother was caught in the flood.

C．Because he was going to have an interview.

D．Because he received an emergency call.

【2】What was the biggest obstacle to finding Johnson’s house？

A．A long distance.

B．The Internet failure.

C．High mountains.

D．Fallen power lines.

【3】Which of the following best describes Boyers？

A．Caring and courageous.

B．Ambitious and demanding.

C．Modest and creative.

D．Humorous and cooperative.

【4】Which of the following is a suitable title for the text？

A．Surviving a Crisis

B．Performing a Task

C．Braving a Flood

D．Testing Flight Skills

24、   A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world’s biggest iceberg in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions. The scientists, led by he British Antarctic Survey( BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf.

Last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved (崩解) away, forming a huge iceberg-A68--which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time. Now scientists say it is a race against time to explore these new ecosystems before they are transformed to the light. Marine biologist Dr Katrin Linse from the BAS is leading the mission.

“The calving of A68 provides us with a unique opportunity to study marine life as it responds to a huge environment change,” she said. “It is important that we get there quickly before the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water.”

Professor David Vaughan, science director at the BAs, said, “We need to be bold (大胆的) on this one. Larsen C is a long way south and there’s lots of sea ice in the area, but this is important science, so we will try our best to get the team where they need to be. He said climate change had already affected the sea around Antarctica and is warming some coastal waters. “Future warming may make some habitats warm. Where these habitats support unique species that are adapted to love the cold and not the warm, those species are going to either move or die.”

There is growing concern about the possible impact of climate change in the Antarctic. Earlier this month, a report revealed that melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of the sea level rise. The research, published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, said, “At the current rate, the world’s ocean will be, on average, at least 60cm higher by the end of the century.” However, it found that the process is accelerating, and more than three quarters of the acceleration since 1993 is due to melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the study shows.

【1】Why are the scientists eager to go to the iceberg?

A.To study how the iceberg was formed.

B.To study a newly discovered ecosystem.

C.To explore a new way to prevent climate change.

D.To explore the geography of the Larsen C ice shelf.

【2】What do the underlined words “this one” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

A.The Larsen C ice shelf.

B.Climate change in Antarctica.

C.The A68 iceberg with the ecosystem beneath it.

D.The condition of animal species in Antarctica.

【3】What can we learn about the A68 iceberg from the text?

A.It is as big as London.

B.It is part of an ice shelf in the Arctic.

C.It will disappear in a very short time.

D.It has uncovered an unknown ecosystem in Antarctica.

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

A.There is no need to worry about climate change in Antarctica.

B.The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a steady rate.

C.Many creatures living in deep water will die out due to climate change.

D.By 2100, the sea level will have risen to a much higher level than now.

25、My husband and I intended to have a quiet, low-key New Year’s Eve this year. We wanted to spend it with our kids and other immediate family and make it a special ________ for them, instead of ________ a babysitter and going out on our own.

The logical way to do this was through ________. As we all know, food had a magical way of making a night ________, and our New Year’s Eve certainly ________ that way, thanks to doughnuts (甜甜圈).

I decided to make doughnuts because my cousins had ________ a batch (一批) on Halloween and I found it very ________. I used a recipe from the 1976 Mennonite cookbook More With Less and it ________ a curious ingredient — two cups of mashed potatoes that ________ made the texture lighter. The doughnuts were rolled out and cut from a sheet of dough (生面团), then left to ________ until ready to fry in hot oil. Then they took several seconds to ________, which meant that my enormous batch of 100 doughnuts was ________ cooking in a fairly short time. We glazed (浇上浆液) the tops and then ________ them for the rest of the evening. The leftovers disappeared at breakfast.

This will become an annual ________, I have no doubt. Whether we host a bigger party or keep it small, there will always be ________ doughnuts, because when you have hot homemade doughnuts, you can’t help but have the best time.

【1】

A．challenge

B．occasion

C．opportunity

D．idea

【2】

A．training

B．interviewing

C．knowing

D．hiring

【3】

A．food

B．money

C．time

D．fun

【4】

A．short

B．silent

C．messy

D．memorable

【5】

A．turned out

B．moved out

C．ran out

D．stood out

【6】

A．put

B．made

C．brought

D．bought

【7】

A．healthy

B．expensive

C．impressive

D．nutritious

【8】

A．called for

B．carried on

C．took up

D．cut off

【9】

A．fortunately

B．absolutely

C．totally

D．possibly

【10】

A．flash

B．fall

C．rise

D．extend

【11】

A．steam

B．float

C．sink

D．cook

【12】

A．considered

B．practiced

C．finished

D．demanded

【13】

A．enjoyed

B．waited

C．prepared

D．longed

【14】

A．celebration

B．tradition

C．ceremony

D．idea

【15】

A．common

B．raw

C．fresh

D．local

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 was a cool evening in spring. I was just finishing the dinner dishes when the phone rang. It was unusual because our landline seldom rang. Nearly everyone we knew contacted us on our cell phones.

“This is Janet Rhodes.” said a familiar voice that I struggled to place. That name seemed familiar, too. I knew a lot of people, having lived on two coasts and in most major cities in California for the past thirty years.

“I am calling because I need to apologize to you,” Janet stated. That’s when I suddenly realized who she was.

“That day when I came into your classroom and chewed you out for disciplining my daughter, I was way out of line. I know now that you were doing what was best for her. You were right.”

Twenty years earlier, it was only my second year of teaching. Janet’s daughter, Stephanie, had acted out toward some of the other girls in the classroom, and I had made her stay in from breaks between classes. I was kind and fair when I punished her. The truth is that I really liked Stephanie, but she clearly didn’t like being disciplined. She told her mother, and Janet felt the need to defend her child.

After school, she flew into my classroom and accused me of everything from being unfair to playing favorites to not caring about my students. She was yelling so loudly that every teacher in the building heard her accusations, including my principal.

Her words shocked me because none of her criticisms was true. I managed to keep from crying while she stood in front of me, but as soon as she left the room, I broke down. I cried all evening on and off through that sleepless night. I had once felt such joy teaching my kids, but now I felt like I was under a microscope in my classroom. For the next few weeks, her words caused me to second-guess everything I did with my students. I doubted my ability and even my own heart. Despite how her mother had treated me, I knew I would discipline Stephanie again if she acted out. It was the right thing to do.

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And now, two decades later, the angry mother was apologizing to me.

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“Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?” Janet asked finally.

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