2025-2026学年新疆铁门关高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、________ much media attention is paid to the topic of raising children or caring for elderly parents in their final years, it seems ________ not much is explained on being a parent.

A．While; that B．As; like

C．Because; that   D．Since; /

2、She wouldn’t have flown off the handle _____the fact that you didn’t intend to hurt her.

A.were she to know B.had she known

C.did she know D.should she have known

3、Playing with their peers, children learn to   and not do exactly what they want to do.

A. compromise   B. compete

C. contribute   D. construct

4、No sooner________ herself in her seat ________ I asked her about the matter.

A.she has settled; before B.had she settled; than

C.has she settled; when D.she had settled; than

5、She _________the sign language before she served as a volunteer to help the deaf.

A. learns   B. has learned

C. was learning D. had learned

6、Train tickets are allowed to be booked online or by phone, a good way to make purchasing train tickets more________.

A. systematic   B. effective

C. accessible D. practical

7、--- Do you often feel anxious and uncomfortable?

--- No, but I __________.

A. didn’t   B. used to be

C. used to   D. wasn’t

8、When____to danger and conflict, men tend to increase blood pressure, ____nervous or anxious.

A．exposed; felt

B．exposed; feeling

C．exposing; feeling

D．exposing; felt

9、— How are they getting on with their work?   

—All goes well as ________.

A．to be planned

B．being planned

C．planning

D．planned

10、I wonder what it feels like to be one of ______ really rich. The Browns already have Rolls Royce and now they are buying ______ third.

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

11、The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but every meal can serve at least two people and is under ¥10, so not only is it ______ but practical as well.

A. adaptable   B. adjustable

C. adoptable   D. affordable

12、A company cannot be sold without the _______of the shareholders.

A. appointment

B. appreciation

C. appearance

D. approval

13、—Did Jackson mend the computer himself?

—He________, because he knows nothing about computers.

A.mended it B.had mended it C.had it mended D.has it mended

14、The media today can draw public attention to _______ medical help is actually needed.

A. who   B. how   C. where   D. whose

15、As many as 20 dishes are provided in the dining hall today, choose

_ suits you best．

A．whatever   B．whenever

C．whichever D．wherever

16、It happens that I am quite familiar with the professor _______ to give us a speech on environmental protection next Monday.

A. inviting     B. to be invited

C. being invited   D. having invited

17、Some endangered languages ________ because people abandon them in favor of ones that serve their needs better.

A．make out

B．account for

C．die out

D．search for

18、When the admission letter from Harvard University arrived, Ben's parents were   and threw a big party.

A. in the red   B. tickled   pink

C. as white as a sheet   D. in a blue mood

19、Something unspoken hung ________ between them.

A.on the air B.off the air C.in the air D.to the air

20、After he was officially pronounced the world’s oldest man, he offered this simple ________ for a long and happy life.

A.affection B.formula C.preference D.desire

21、A colleague recently sent me an article, Cutting back on waste is possible—if you can afford it, to read. It argued that reducing waste—food-related, in particular—is an expensive effort and a near impossibility for anyone working low-wage jobs with little extra time. The conclusion? Zero waste is something only suitable for people who can afford, not for those who are struggling to make a living.

However. I disagree with the idea that zero waste must be all or nothing. I think this is an unfortunate attitude that prevents valuable progress toward reducing one's food-related waste. When we get too hung up on the idea of so-called zero waste and of being like the zero waste superstar Bea Johnson who can fit years of trash in a single jar, we start missing the broader point. The goal, after all, is to make smarter shopping decisions and establish practices that are sustainable（可持续的）for us, with our own unique resources and living situations.

I live in a small rural town with no fancy zero-waste stores. My husband and I both work full-time. I am uninterested in spending my free time doing DIY projects and driving from store to store in search of perfect packaging. Instead, I just do the best I can.

When I first read about Bea Johnson's multi-stop grocery shopping routine, I tried to copy it. That lasted a few weeks before I gave up. Unlike her, I still had babies to look after, and I did not live in San Francisco where stores are closer together than in rural Ontario. Instead, I've resigned myself to the supermarket being the main supply of food and trying to work with it.

Now, when I enter the supermarket on a once-weekly basis, I view all packaging through a critical eye. I make constant comparisons between how one brand packages its food to another. That is the main reason in deciding what to buy, though I also consider the unit price, the place of origin and the ingredients.

【1】What is the idea of the article recommended by the author's colleague?

A．Cutting down on waste costs much.

B．Food-related waste is unavoidable.

C．Most people can afford zero waste.

D．The poor care little about food waste.

【2】How does the author understand the concept of zero waste?

A．It is related to recycling our resources,

B．It prevents people from reducing waste.

C．It encourages reasonable green practices.

D．It means fitting your trash in a single jar.

【3】Why did the author fail to follow Bea Johnson?

A．Her love for shopping was deeply rooted.

B．She hardly knew about food packaging

C．She didn't receive her husband's support.

D．Her living situations differed from hers

【4】What's the best title for the text?

A．Live in a Small Town for a Zero-waste Life

B．Stop Wasting and Build a Greener Society

C．Take Advantage of Local Zero-waste Shops

D．Forget Zero Waste and Be Better Shoppers

22、

【1】What does the word "Sanitation" probably mean in Chinese?

A．洗浴设施

B．卫生设施

C．娱乐设施

D．健身设施

【2】What sport can't you play on the site?

A．Football.

B．Basketball.

C．Volleyball.

D．Tennis.

【3】If Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their son Jim want to rent bicycles for a week, how much will they pay?

A．€62.00.

B．€72.00.

C．€82.00.

D．€113.00.

23、According to a recent study, laughter and joy may not be unique to humans. Ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals long before they did in humans. Jaak Panksepp, a professor of psychobiology at Washington State University and the author of the study, says, “Human laughter has deep roots in our animal past.”

While humans are the only creatures that tell jokes, it has long been suspected that some animals like to laugh. In 1872, Charles Darwin pointed out that “very many kinds of monkeys, when pleased, make a sound, clearly analogous to our laughter.” In an experiment Panksepp had performed earlier, he found that when chimpanzees (黑猩猩) play, they make noises strikingly like human laughter, and that dogs have a similar response.

Panksepp notes that children who are too young to laugh at jokes are likely to laugh during noisy plays. Panksepp found that when young rats (老鼠) are playing, they also make sounds - they chirp (发唧唧声), although people can’t hear them. These chirps are far too high for humans to hear. Researchers must use special electronic receivers that change the chirps to sounds that humans can hear.

In studying laughter, scientists have focused mostly on related issues - humor, personality, health benefits, social theory - rather than laughter itself. New research, however, shows that circuits (电路) for laughter exist in very ancient parts of the human brain. The ability to laugh appears early in childhood, as anyone who has seen a baby laugh knows.

Some scientists say that other mammals, just like humans, have many feelings. “The recognition by neuroscientists that the brain mechanisms (机制) causing pain, pleasure and fear are the same in humans and other mammals shows our similarity to other species and extremely important.” said Tecumseh Fitch, a psychology lecturer at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Science has traditionally held that humour is only a human quality, and many scientists believe that more research is required before rats’ chirping sounds can be considered real laughter. Panksepp believes that, through a study of laughter in rats, the human sense of humour can be more fully understood.

【1】What is the finding of the recent study?

A．Animals can also play jokes on others.

B．Animals can hardly express happiness.

C．Human laughter has its origin in animal sounds.

D．Humans actually developed from ancient animals.

【2】What does the underlined word “analogous” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Similar.

B．Special.

C．Familiar.

D．Important.

【3】What can be learned about rats’ chirps?

A．They are beyond human hearing range.

B．They sound like young kids’ sounds.

C．They are made during rats’ fighting.

D．They may affect human feelings.

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

A．Mammals have a particularly sensitive brain area.

B．Humans have fully understood animals’ behaviours.

C．People and animals share some emotional responses

D．Rats’ chirps and human laughter are basically the same.

24、Reaching the top

Many social scientists have studied the phenomenon of success. One American study claims that your social network is the key to success. 【1】 Perhaps this boosts your self-confidence or perhaps you have more people to support you. Another study links height and success: every extra centimeter is worth another $300 per year. The trouble is that for every person to whom these theories apply, there is an exception.

However, in his book Outliers — The Story of Success, author, Malcolm Gladwell, has come up with a theory that he claims is true in every case. 【2】He has calculated exactly how many hours work you need to do in order to become ‘the best’ in your field: 10,000 hours apparently or about four hours a day for ten years. Without this kind of determination and hard work you probably won’t reach the top, regardless of your talent.

Researchers looked at violin players in a music school to test this theory. Teachers put the players into three groups: average players in group C, good players in group B and outstanding players in group A. It turned out that all the players in group A had done around 10,000 hours of practice in their lifetime. The good players had done around 6,000 hours and the average players only 4,000 hours. However, all the players had entered the school with similar levels of ability.

【3】 Mozart, for example, is always considered a ‘born genius’. He performed in public at the age of four and by six, he had composed several pieces. Surely his success was down to natural talent, not hard work? In fact, Gladwell argues, Mozart had a very strict father who made him practice for hours each day from an early age. And the music that Mozart composed when he was six wasn’t outstanding. 【4】 By that time, he’d done at least 10,000 hours of practice and had ‘become’ a genius.

Talent, argues Gladwell, is nothing without hard work. So next time you dream of scoring the winning goal in the World Cup or winning an Oscar, ask yourself this question: are you really prepared to put in the hours necessary to achieve your goal?

A．He says that the secret of success is simply many hours of hard work.

B．But surely there are exceptions to this rule?

C．Nevertheless, researchers do find some exceptions.

D．Mozart wrote his first real masterpiece when he was twenty-one.

E．Apparently, every extra friend that you have at school adds two percent to your salary later in life!

F．Talent didn’t seem to work as well as generally thought.

25、Last week, when I cleaned a closet, I found an old envelope. It is the_______that takes me back three months ago. It was written in pencil by a young_______named Mark. When he wrote it, he was leaving Oregon for his army. He put his feeling on paper in simple _______. He planned to_______my dad and come to an “understanding” because Mark and my father were both soldiers. They would solve their_______ . Several weeks had passed since I’d_______ the letter from Mark. As I read the letter, I closed my eyes and began a journey back.

I was at work at a small firm. At midday, I_______ into my car to drive home for lunch. _______, my breath was caught in my throat. There Mark sat on his motorcycle. But it couldn’t be Mark because he’d left on a plane. So didn’t stop, but still I couldn’t keep myself _______ looking back. I saw Mark looking________and strangely sad. I looked out of the window all through________, expecting the motorcycle to________me quickly. But my mind________me that I must have done something wrong. After work, I hurried home, thinking there might be a(n)________from him.

My father met me with three words. “Mark is ________ .” He was killed in a traffic accident. I felt my legs go ________and my head began to spin (旋转). My heart broke and my ________ felt like rain on the hard road because I had________ him. However, I had seen him.

________ Mark and my father never did reach their understanding, I know that even wild soldiers ________ flowers and love, so I often bring them.

【1】

A．cash

B．medal

C．letter

D．card

【2】

A．worker

B．soldier

C．doctor

D．driver

【3】

A．words

B．clothes

C．firms

D．hands

【4】

A．talk about

B．talk with

C．care for

D．stand for

【5】

A．difference

B．agreement

C．income

D．loss

【6】

A．written

B．ignored

C．accepted

D．received

【7】

A．climbed

B．looked

C．broke

D．formed

【8】

A．Suddenly

B．Successfully

C．Peacefully

D．Frequently

【9】

A．on

B．from

C．to

D．in

【10】

A．generous

B．happy

C．painful

D．foolish

【11】

A．classroom

B．breakfast

C．house

D．lunch

【12】

A．pass down

B．pass by

C．leave for

D．come back

【13】

A．recognized

B．allowed

C．reminded

D．removed

【14】

A．message

B．flower

C．gift

D．invitation

【15】

A．powerful

B．dead

C．active

D．alive

【16】

A．long

B．short

C．strong

D．weak

【17】

A．dreams

B．laughter

C．tears

D．views

【18】

A．supported

B．beaten

C．owned

D．lost

【19】

A．Although

B．Because

C．If

D．When

【20】

A．refuse

B．plant

C．need

D．pick

26、Guided Writing

使用了20多年的学校图书馆因满足不了广大师生的需求而停止运营，进行改建。校长室希望就新馆的环境规划、设备更新和运行效率等方面征求学生的具体建议。假设你是本校学生何月平，给校长室写信，就至少两个方面提出自己的建议内容，并阐述建议的理由。

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