2025-2026学年台湾花莲高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、For the sake of your health, you should ________ some time to build up your body every day.

A．set aside

B．set out

C．set down

D．set off

2、Experts warn that global warming will cause extreme climate changes including more______   floods, heat waves and droughts.

A. usual B. ordinary   C. frequent D. common

3、The opening province which ________ thirteen counties and three coastal cities will quicken its paces of economic development.

A. consists of   B. makes up

C. is included   D. is contained

4、 Selfish refers to an individual _______ talks on his or her cell phone even when doing so is rude or inconsiderate of other people.

A. who B. whose C. which   D. when

5、—It is said that John’s paper got an A.

—He deserves it．He _________ a lot before he handed it in.

A．prepared     B．prepares

C．had prepared   D．has prepared

6、 More than one official _____ the people heart and soul, which makes the public satisfied.

A. serves   B. serve

C. serves for D. sever for

7、In the traditional Chinese calendar, each year _________a name of 12 kinds of animal.

A. gives    B. is given

C. has given   D. has been given

8、The company is putting more money into the building of a new factory _______ the fast growing demand for the products in the market.

A．in response to

B．in return for

C．in case of

D．in charge of

9、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。

A teacher should be armed with answers to questions that pupils ask.

A.buried B.equipped C.involved D.marked

10、Life is like __________ ocean; only __________ strong-willed can reach the other shore.

A. an; the   B. the; a   C. the; /   D. /; a

11、Although Beijing didn’t establish its first Antarctic research base until 1985, Chinese efforts  _________ its influence across the continent are now outpacing other nation’s plans.

A. expanding   B. to be expanded

C. expanded   D. to expand

12、---Have you heard that Tom Smith was fired?   

--- It’s not surprising at all, that’s________ he never finishes any work the boss arranged .

A．why

B．that

C．because

D．for

13、 Cheer up! Everyone may have periods in their lives everything seems tough.

A．which

B．where

C．when

D．that

14、The scenic spot’s worsening reputation doesn’t seem to be ______ tourists, who still flood in.

A. putting away   B. putting on   C. putting down   D. putting off

15、________ for a long time, but he tried his best to make up for what he missed．

A. Being ill staying in hospital

B. Having been ill staying in hospital

C. He was ill staying in hospital

D. To be ill staying in hospital

16、—Only those who have high marks can succeed in their future life.

—______. Success happens in different aspects and academic study is only part of it.

A．I hope not

B．I think so

C．I appreciate that

D．I beg to differ

17、It is not so much the language ________ the cultural background ______ makes the film difficult to understand.

A. that; as   B. what; as

C. as; what   D. as; that

18、 ________ I admit that there are problems, I don’t agree that they cannot be solved.

A. When   B. Because

C. If   D. While

19、Only applicants with the proper _____ will be considered by the company.

A. professions   B. qualifications

C. requirements   D. recommendations

20、Generally speaking, parents’ influence on their children is greater than ________of anyone else’s.

A．one

B．it

C．that

D．those

21、Many researchers use the term artificial intelligence (AI) to describe the thinking and intelligent behavior by machines. While AI can be helpful to human beings, scientists warn it can also be a threat.

Stuart Russell, who leaches computer science at the University of California, t Berkeley，says humans should make AI products that we like.“In the future,” Russell says, “many of today's jobs that require a lot of physical labor will be replaced by machines with artificial intelligence.” These include agricultural jobs, and ones with repetitive duties like: telephone call centers. AI machines can also replace jobs like ones in the financial industry-jobs that require studying a lot of data.

The health industry is one area that artificial intelligence is already changing. AI can process huge amounts of data, so doctors can use the most up-to-date information to diagnose and treat patients. IBM's Watson technology is already in use at hospitals in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Watson helps doctors keep up with information.

IBM's Banavar points out the value of artificial intelligence, including search engines and the autopilot function on planes.

There is also a dangerous side of artificial intelligence. One example is combining drone technology and AI to create autonomous weapons. Stuart Russell is working to create international treaties to ban such weapons. He says the risk is that people will use the technology to develop a kind of “poor men's nuclear weapon” .

The debate about whether artificial intelligence is good or bad for humans continues. Researchers agree there is no question that the technology is here, and that will continue to change the life on our planet.

【1】What can be inferred from Russell's words in Para, 2?

A．All the jobs will be replaced by machines with AI.

B．Machines with AI are cleverer than people.

C．People are tired of jobs requiring much physical labor

D．Machines with AI will be a threat to people in terms of employment.

【2】Which of the following statements is the value of AI according to Banavar?

A．AI can only act as search engines.

B．AI can create autonomous weapons.

C．AI can fly a plane on its own without the intervention of the pilot.

D．AI can help doctors diagnose and treat all diseases.

【3】Which opinion may the researchers be in favor of?

A．AI will make our life worse.

B．AI is a double-edged sword.

C．AI will disappear in the future.

D．AI won't continue to change the life on the planet.

【4】What is the best title' of the text?

A．AI: Helpful but Dangerous

B．The Development of AI

C．AI: A Threat to Humans

D．The Importance of AI

22、   When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee.

74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique “garlic coffee” is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic’s aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.

Committed to turning his weird drink into a commercial product, Yokitomo Shimotai spent years optimizing the formula, and about five years ago, he finally achieved a result he was satisfied with.

To make his dissolvable garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and, after they’ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.

“My drink is probably the world’s first of its kind,” the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News.

“It contains no caffeine so it’s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant women.”

“The bitterness of burned garlic apparently helps create the coffee-like flavor,” Shimotai adds.

He claims that, although his garlic coffee does give off an aroma of roasted garlic, it doesn’t cause bad breath, because the garlic is thoroughly cooked. And if you can get past the smell, the drink apparently does taste a lot like actual coffee.

If decaf isn’t good enough for you, and you’re in the mood for something new, you can try Yokitomo Shimotai’s garlic coffee at his shop, in the city of Ninohc, Iwate Prefecture, or buy your own dripbags for just 324 yen($2.8).

【1】Which word is the closest in meaning to the underlined word“blunder”in the second paragraph?

A.mistake B.show C.mixture D.brand

【2】Who is not suitable to drink garlic coffee?

A.A woman bearing a baby.

B.A student having trouble with sleep.

C.A cleaner working on a day shift.

D.A young lady sick of garlic.

【3】Which of the following is not characteristic of garlic coffee?

A.It is caffeine-free.

B.Garlic powder dissolves in water.

C.The burnt garlic creates bitterness.

D.It is an improvement on a garlic dish.

【4】Which of the following can be used to describe Yokitomo Shimotai?

A.venturous and greedy B.innovative and perseverant

C.hardworking and cautious D.observant and helpful

23、WeChat, one of the world’s most popular mobile apps and social networks, brought home iF Gold Award for its smart retail innovation, Scan & Go. It is the first ever Chinese product to win4 gold in the iF Service Design category.

Established in 1953, the German-based iF Design Award has always been known for its “Independent, Rigorous(细致的) and Reliable” standards.

Scan & Go enables shoppers at retail stores to turn their mobile phone into a virtual checkout counter. When shopping, customers use their mobile phones to scan product barcodes(条形码), view product information, get discounts, complete self-checkout, and pay directly within the app via WeChat Pay. There is no queuing up at the cash register.

According to statistics, sales during peak hours in traditional supermarkets account for 60% of total turnover, and on average customers spend three to five minutes on queueing and payment during peak hours. With Scan & Go, customers no longer have to queue, and the payment time is shortened to one minute.

In order to realize queue-less purchasing, the WeChat team greatly optimizes retailers’ in-store customer handling efficiency during peak hours, and enables overall management of the consumer traffic flow. By introducing dedicated lanes for Scan & Go, supermarkets have achieved over a five-fold increase in converting(转变) digital members within two months.

In addition to improving retailers’ checkout efficiency and providing customers with a better shopping experience, Scan & Go also combines promotion and marketing modes through Mini Programs, to help increase sales. It helps retailers(零售商) to link the online and offline aspects of their business, and has become the standard tool in China for merchants to realize digital transformation. Scan & Go is now widely used by retailers in China.

【1】What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A．The convenience of Scan & Go.

B．The use of a virtual checkout counter.

C．Ways to get discounts from retailers.

D．Methods of scanning product barcodes.

【2】One of the advantages of Scan & Go is that customers

A．can buy more items

B．can save a lot of money

C．don’t have to pay for what they buy

D．spend less time to pay for what they buy

【3】What can retailers do by combining promotion and marketing modes?

A．They can sell more goods.

B．They can reduce the discounts.

C．They can create more Mini Programs.

D．They can make their goods more standard.

【4】What is the author’s attitude toward Scan & Go?

A．Doubtful.

B．Positive.

C．Subjective.

D．Negative.

24、A 96-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest working nurse in the country, has retired from Tacoma. Washington, hospital.

Last week, Florence Rigney, better known to her friends as “SeeSee”, retired as a nurse MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital after over 70 years. Throughout her career — which began as student nurse, Rigney worked consistently, only taking a “break” from nursing to raise her two children.

Working as a nurse has kept Rigney very active. She's traveled across the country as an operatic nurse and even logged up to three miles on her treadmill from walking during her shifts. “I don't like to around — I've always got to have something to do. That's my nature,” Rigney said in a statement, adding that she always wanted to become a nurse. “I love to interact with patients and give them the help that I can.”

Rigney planned on retiring once at age 65, but after six months, she decided that she needed the job to stay active and keep her mind sharp. Now as she officially retired, the hospital noted that Rigney planned on spending most of her time enjoying family and friends. “Even working into her nineties she has never been one to slow down. Some of her colleagues joked that they had to sprint to keep up with her,” said Laureen Driscoll, president of the hospitals. “SeeSee's continued to be a dedicated nurse and an incredible resource to her colleagues and community. It's humbling to stop and think about the thousands and thousands of lives she's cured for. Everyone at MultiCare thanks Rigney for her unmatched dedication and service, and we're proud to honor her by supporting tomorrow's future nurses,” she continued.

As she said goodbye to her beloved job, Rigney offered some advice for other nurses. “Don't ever think that you know it all.” she noted in the release. “I kind of did that when I was in the operating room and you have to always be open. You never stop learning.”

In her honor, the hospital announced the creation of its SeeSee Rigney Nursing Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships for MultiCare employees for continued learning and development in nursing.

【1】Rigney continued working at age 65 because she ______.

A．needed to support her family

B．wanted to stay energetic and sharp

C．hoped to show her personal value

D．intended to promote nurse training

【2】What was Rigney's suggestion for younger nurses?

A．Remain confident.

B．Care for each other.

C．Keep active and patient.

D．Stay hungry for knowledge.

【3】According to the passage, Rigney is respected mainly due to her ______.

A．old age and good health

B．quick mind and great creativity

C．positive attitude and hard work

D．high position and good resource

25、Hugely ambitious in scope, The Lord of the Rings occupies an uncomfortable position in 20th century literature. This book of J.R.R.Tolkien’s poses a challenge to modern literature and its defenders. (Tolkien on his _______: “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, ridiculous, or annoying; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently _________.”) Yet The Lord of the Rings has enjoyed massive and enduring popularity. It would seem that Tolkien’s work supplied something that was _________ among the formal innovations of 20th century fiction, something for which readers were hungry. But what was it, and why was it important?

It seems that the key point lies in Tolkien’s wholehearted rejection of modernity and modernism. This is what so powerfully _________ some readers, and just as powerfully drives away others. In his book J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century, T.A. Shippey expands on this idea by arguing that Tolkien saw his story of Middle-earth not as fiction or invention, but as the _________ of something genuine that had become buried beneath the fairy tale and nursery rhythm.

“However fanciful Tolkien’s creation of Middle earth was,” Shippey writes, “he did not think that he was entirely _________. He was ‘reconstructing’, he was harmonizing conflicts in his source-texts, sometimes he was supplying entirely new concepts, but he was also reaching back to an imaginative world which he believed had once really _________, at least in a collective imagination.”

The book is also deeply grounded in Tolkien’s linguistic expertise （语言专长） —he _________ whole languages for his characters. Sometimes he became so absorbed in the creation of languages, in fact, that he _________ the story itself for months or years at a time, believing he could not continue until some inconsistency（不一致）in his invented world had been resolved. But Tolkien’s great intellect and knowledge is not the source of his ____________; without his storytelling gift, The Lord of the Rings would be little more than a curiosity. And this gift seems to originate straight from his ____________ to break from classical and traditional forms.

Tolkien himself often spoke of his work as something ‘found’ or ‘discovered’, something whose existence was ____________ of him. It’s wise to be careful with this sort of interpretation, but it seems ____________ that he believed his work to be something given, something revealed, which contained a kind of truth beyond measure. ____________, his details have the weight of reality, and because of this his great sweep of story feels real as well; you might say that his ____________ castles are built with a certain amount of genuine stone.

【1】

A．books

B．critics

C．readers

D．ambitions

【2】

A．dislike

B．challenge

C．review

D．prefer

【3】

A．common

B．possible

C．missing

D．funny

【4】

A．annoys

B．influences

C．attracts

D．concerns

【5】

A．recovery

B．designing

C．analysis

D．questioning

【6】

A．taking it down

B．making it up

C．turning it down

D．looking it up

【7】

A．remained

B．struck

C．moved

D．existed

【8】

A．spoke

B．invented

C．neglected

D．recalled

【9】

A．put aside

B．set up

C．look into

D．get along

【10】

A．style

B．tension

C．success

D．tradition

【11】

A．decision

B．request

C．struggle

D．refusal

【12】

A．representative

B．independent

C．conscious

D．thoughtful

【13】

A．clear

B．weird

C．unfair

D．pitiful

【14】

A．As a result

B．On the contrary

C．Even so

D．What’s worse

【15】

A．ancient

B．broken

C．imaginary

D．foreign

26、假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Tom来信询问你校开展的“光盘行动”（Clean Your Plate Campaign）进行的有关事宜。请根据提示给他写一封回信。

内容包括： 1“光盘行动”的目的；

2.“光盘行动”前后学生对待浪费的态度变化；

3. 你的体会

要求： 1。词数不少于110；

2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Tom,

Yours sincerely

Li Hua