2025-2026学年湖北恩施州高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、—The film isn’t interesting, is it?

—________, it is fascinating. I love it.

A．After all

B．On the contrary

C．On the other hand

D．In the way

2、What is it   ________ causes the change in seasons?

A．that

B．when

C．which

D．where

3、How I wish we could study _________ there are fewer exams！

A.which   B. that C.when   D. where

4、________ breaks the law should be punished.

A．Who

B．Those

C．Anyone

D．Whoever

5、Without gravity（重力), we ________ walk on the ground as freely as we do now.

A．couldn't

B．mustn't

C．shan't

D．needn't

6、She was faced with a new job, in totally new surroundings with ________ people.

A.super B.warm C.modern D.strange

7、In order to ________ history, the government established a committee to take responsibility for the protection of the ancient city.

A．release

B．pioneer

C．witness

D．preserve

8、The book ___ to me is very interesting.

A. you lent it   B. you lent

C. that you lent it  D. which you lent it

9、It’s too late. I __________ go home now.

A．be able to

B．have to

C．had better

D．dare

10、To tell you the truth, the accident and the damages ______ caused frightened me so much that I almost gave up driving ever since.

A. it   B. they   C. which   D. what

11、Your parents won't be satisfied with you ________you pass the final examination.

A．until

B．if

C．unless

D．otherwise

12、For years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription(题词) at the upper left corner of the frame of Edvard Munch's "The Scream", ________:"Could only have been painted by a madman".

A．read

B．reading

C．reads

D．to read

13、 They are studying the   of Jazz in America.

A. origins B. arrival   C. causes   D. custom

14、The park was full of people, ___________ themselves in the sunshine.

A. enjoyed   B. having enjoyed   C. enjoying   D. to enjoy

15、Many people rushed over to help the lady, car got stuck in the mud.

A．who

B．whose

C．which

D．that

16、All of us know that China has thousands of islands, _____ is Taiwan.

A. the largest of which   B. the largest of them

C. the largest one D. one of the largest

17、The research group ____________ 15 members has made great achievements in recent years.

A. is made up of   B. makes up

C. made up of   D. making up of

18、She is very   about this topic, so we’d better not discuss it in front of her.

A. confident   B. crazy

C. sensitive   D. humorous

19、The plane ________ off at 10:00. That is, it ________ in ten minutes.

A．takes; is leaving

B．taking; is leaving

C．is taking; leaves

D．is taking; is leaving

20、Out of ______ for the wishes of her family, the affair was not reported in the media.

A.composition B.satisfaction C.kindness D.respect

21、It’s a pity that you missed _____ the chance to go abroad for further education.

A. to give   B. to be given

C. giving   D. being given

22、We seldom leave home without an umbrella or some sort of _____ clothing “just in case” and take a great interest in weather forecasts.

A．damp

B．intense

C．raging

D．waterproof

23、It’s ________ to make others ________ for you so long.

A. polite; to wait   B. impolite; wait

C. impolite; waiting   D. politely; waiting

24、______ halfway through our exercise, the teacher changed her mind and collected all our papers.

A．When being

B．When we were

C．Since we were

D．Having been

25、It is fortunate that Jim ______ escaped death when a fire broke out in his home on Sunday morning.

A．rarely

B．extremely

C．normally

D．narrowly

26、Austria took a striking step to combat the coronavirus pandemic when its government announced that people would not be allowed to enter places such as supermarkets without wearing a face mask.

Some might roll their eyes at this, including many scientists. There is disagreement over whether wearing low-quality masks prevents people from inhaling (吸入) the virus, even if it does reduce the chances of them spreading it by sneezing or coughing.

Austria will only be distributing regular masks free to shoppers at shop entrances, not the N95 respirators (which do reduce inhalation risks). Some US and European doctors believe mask-wearing is so pointless for those who do not usually face the direct risks medical staff are exposed to that they have urged consumers to donate any masks they have bought to hospitals instead.

Yet I think it would be a mistake to sneer at Austria’s move-for two reasons. First, wearing masks has one practical personal benefit: it reminds you to avoid touching your face. This matters.

The second reason is that mask-wearing is not just about individual psychology or behavior; it has social implications as well. As Christos Lynteris, a medical anthropologist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, put it in an opinion column for The New York Times: “Members of a community wear masks not only to fight off disease in a pandemic. They wear masks also to show that they want to stick, and cope, together under the threat of pandemic.”

Some Europeans and Americans will scoff. Anglo-Saxon culture tends to prize individualism, not the type of collectivism that has often been valued in Asia. And in a city such as New York, mask-wearing has been such a minority practice that it has almost been associated with a sense of shame －in recent times especially, since some view it as a sign of sickness.

The point about mass mask-wearing is that this shame tends to disappear if everyone puts one on. In fact, not wearing a mask is now almost a source of shame in places such as Japan. And while it might be hard to imagine this becoming the case in the US, nothing should be ruled out, given how quickly the shock of COVID-19 is reshaping our ideas of risk, and leading to a rising appreciation in the west for collectivist values.

As Lynteris notes, epidemics should be understood not just as “biological events but also as social processes”, since this “is key to their successful containment (抑制)”. If rituals or symbols-like masks-help us to realize this, then so much the better.

To put it another way, beating COVID- 19 will not just require medical science, but a dose of social science too.

【1】Some Western scientists and doctors roll their eyes at Austria’s move because they think_______.

A．medical staff are short of face masks in hospitals

B．low-quality face masks can’t stop people sneezing

C．wearing a face mask won’t reduce the risk of infection

D．donation should be more stressed and encouraged

【2】The author thinks it a mistake to sneer at wearing masks in public because_______.

A．it has both personal and social benefits

B．it helps people practice to not touch their face

C．it proves people’s psychological and behavioral well-being

D．it implies people can finally solve the problem

【3】The underlined word “scoff” in para. 6 implies that some Europeans and Americans_______.

A．doubt the social effectiveness of wearing face masks

B．view minority practices in public as a sign of sickness

C．value individualism so much that they hate collectivism

D．don’t take the social implications of face masks seriously

【4】The author will probably agree that_______.

A．the social sciences are unnecessary for beating COVID- 19

B．holding collectivist values can help contain COVID- 19

C．COVID- 19 can be eliminated through social processes

D．mass mask-wearing is impossible in the United States

27、   The annual celebration of St. Patrick's Day is coming soon to the Canton Tower. St. Patrick's Day is an Irish cultural and religious celebration occurring annually on March 17. The festival celebrates the life of St. Patrick, who helped the poor and taught the Irish people good things, The Lanton lower has become one of, the premier (最初的)party sites for this international and lively event. As part of the celebration, the tower will brighten the night with brilliant light shows. Participants (参加者)are sure to enjoy the festive Irish atmosphere.

As in the past years, camping lovers will gather to spend a night beneath the Canton Tower, The time for the camping adventure will be from 3 p. m. on March 17 to 9 a. m. on March 18. The event offers people a great chance to enjoy this special and free camping site.

Artists will perform a range of music with instruments played typically in Irish folk music, featuring tin whistles and wind pipes. Foodies also will be in for a treat, as the taste of traditional Irish food will surely attract everyone.

To celebrate this festival, dancers dressed in Irish green, the colour of Ireland, will pop up around the Canton Tower. The parade will go along the main streets and thousands of people will watch, waving flags. Good luck if you meet with these "green spirits."

【1】What does the underlined word "parade" most probably mean in Paragraph 4?

A.A ceremonial group including people marching.

B.A traditional ceremony that is held every year.

C.A historical place where people often gather.

D.A programme specially designed by local people.

【2】What can we infer about the Canton Tower?

A.It. lies in the birthplace of St. Patrick in Ireland.

B.It's decorated with brilliant lights at night.

C.It's been a place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day for long.

D.It was first built on March 17 as a cultural site.

【3】Who may you see if go to the event?

A.Artists waving flags. B.Cooks making Irish food.

C.Pop stars singing. D.People in green.

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

A.The Canton Tower. B.St. Patrick's Day.

C.The Life of St. Patrick. D.The Irish Tradition.

28、A new project aims to create a computer replica of an entire city. It will allow experts to perform real-time resilience testing to see how infrastructure will perform in the face of challenges such as climate change and population growth.

Known as the “digital twin”, the technology has already been adopted by Formula One teams and engine makers like Rolls Royce, but its use to this degree didn’t exist.

A partnership between Newcastle University and Northumbrian Water will recreate Newcastle based on data from across the city and test its resilience in possible emergencies. Professor Chris Kilsby said, “You can try lots of things with the twin in the case of a city. I think of it as a replica that you can play with and do unimaginable things to see what would happen. The changes can be seen immediately — from observing what would happen if the river Tyne rises by a few meters to what the city would look like if the population has aged over a certain period of time. It could also be used to model human behavior, for example, determining the most likely roads people would use in the event of a food.”

Newcastle University is working on a data platform with lots of dynamic parts like traffic, water, population, etc. Much of the data is coming from the university’s Urban Observatory project, which has monitors all over the city checking pollution, water quality and biodiversity.

In 2012 an event known locally as the “Toon monsoon” took place, with a month’s worth of rain falling in two hours during the evening rush hour, causing £8 m worth of damage. The Toon monsoon caused a breakdown to the city because we just didn’t design anything for that sort of event. There was no one to blame. The city just couldn’t resist the heavy rain.

The digital twin will allow the city not only to react in real time to such strange weather events, but also to test its resilience in endless potential future emergencies.

Chris Jones, research and development manager at Northumbrian Water, imagined the project’s “amazing possibilities”, saying that in time it could be applied to any city with accessible data.

【1】What do we know about the “digital twin” from the first two paragraphs?

A．It is a computer system.

B．It is not new to us.

C．It predicts extreme weather.

D．It has met with many challenges.

【2】What will Newcastle University do in the project according to the passage?

A．Offering big data about the city

B．Advocating the new technology.

C．Making up the loss caused by flood.

D．Working out plans for future emergencies.

【3】Why is the “Toon monsoon” mentioned here?

A．To draw people’s attention to the terrible loss of the city.

B．To warn people of the potential harm of heavy rain.

C．To indicate the new project’s significance.

D．To show the digital twin’s weakness.

29、British chemist David Evans has become an overnight celebrity (名人) on Chinese social media. His chemistry experiments have attracted over 2 million followers in just a few mouths. Evans is a chemistry professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The 60-year-old always wears a white lab coat, a pair of safety goggles (护目镜) and smiles often Some Web users say he looks just like the “grandpa of KFC”.

Evans has posted videos of various experiments. His most popular experiments have attracted millions of hits on video-sharing apps. Excited children’s cheers and shouts can be heard in his videos. “I hope my experiments can arouse people s interest in science,” he says.

Evans has been interested In China since childhood. In the early 1970s, before the reform and opening-up, he viewed it as a “country full of mysteries”. He first visited the Chinese mainland in 1987 to attend a chemistry conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He quit his job in the United Kingdom and moved to Beijing in 1996. Many of his friends thought he was crazy. But Evans says they just saw China’s challenges but not its potential.

Since 2011, Evans has turned to the Internet to popularize science. He learned short-video apps are also popular in small cities and rural areas. And he realizes this enables him to reach more students, who lack opportunities to perform fun experiments. But even a one-minute video requires a considerable amount of work. Still, he thinks it’s worth it to fulfill his responsibility to popularize science.

His experiments always fill schools’ lecture halls with laughter. Some viewers call him “a Harry Potter-like magician”, but he disagrees, “A magician never tells the secrets behind his ticks, but a scientist always gives an explanation.” He sees himself as a teacher, He performs experiments to spread knowledge, inspire thinking, remove misunderstandings and show that science can create change. Evans says he looks forward to more “chemical reactions” with China.

【1】Why did Evans begin to post videos of experiments on the Internet?

A．To popularize science.

B．To rise to fame.

C．To apply short-video apps.

D．To make a fortune.

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A．Evans considered the UK to be a country full of mysteries.

B．Evans first visited the Chinese mainland in his childhood.

C．Evans went to China for a chemistry conference in 1987.

D．Evans moved to Beijing with the support of his friends.

【3】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Evans knows exactly how a mag to works

B．Evans was a serious scientist and seldom singed.

C．Evans will continue to post videos of experiments in China.

D．Evans’ students like to stop his experiments with laughter.

30、   The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She _______ the driver and, using her hands to feel the _______ of the seats, walked down and found the _______ which the driver had told her was empty. Then she settled in.

It had been a year since Susan, 34, _______ a medical misdiagnosis (误诊), was suddenly thrown into a world of _______. Mark, her husband, was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. He _______ her how to rely on her other _______, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt herself to the new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could _______ for her, and save her a seat.

_______, Susan decided that she was ready to try the ________ on her own. Monday morning arriving, she said good-bye and for the first time, they went their ________ ways.

On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was ________ the bus, the driver said, “Lady, I sure ________ envy you.” Susan had no ________ what the driver was talking about, and asked, “What do you ________?”

The driver answered, “You know, every morning for the ________ week, a fine-looking gentleman ________ military (军事的) uniform has been standing across the corner ________ you as you get off the bus. He ________ you cross the street safely and he watches until you enter your office building. You are one lucky lady.”

Tears of gratitude (感激) poured down Susan’s cheeks. He had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn’t need to see to ________— the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.

【1】A.thanked B.asked C.discovered D.paid

【2】A.location B.shape C.size D.cost

【3】A.ticket B.bus C.seat D.bag

【4】A.according to B.instead of C.thanks to D.due to

【5】A.anger B.darkness C.happiness D.light

【6】A.asked B.encouraged C.taught D.praised

【7】A.feelings B.sights C.senses D.abilities

【8】A.make out B.watch out C.find out D.work out

【9】A.Finally B.Luckily C.However D.Besides

【10】A.visit B.trip C.bus D.work

【11】A.opposite B.separate C.difficult D.usual

【12】A.getting on B.getting in C.getting off D.getting up

【13】A.must B.may C.will D.do

【14】A.idea B.opinion C.way D.thought

【15】A.want B.mean C.say D.suggest

【16】A.next B.old C.past D.following

【17】A.by B.on C.with D.in

【18】A.searching B.watching C.calling D.noticing

【19】A.looks out B.takes up C.believes in D.makes sure

【20】A.believe B.hope C.contact D.impress

31、课本原文填空。

“Life is precious.... To a person nothing is more precious than their life, and if they entrust me with that life, how could I r【1】 that trust, saying I’m cold, hungry, or tired?” These words of Dr Lin Qiaozhi give us a look into the h【2】 of this amazing woman, and what carried her through a life of hard c【3】.

As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply a【4】 by her mother’s death. At age 18, instead of following the t【5】 path of marriage like the m【6】 of girls, she chose to s【7】 medicine. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their f【8】 goal!” her brother complained, thinking of the high tuition f【9】. She responded, “I’d rather stay s【10】 to study all my life!”

32、Directions: Write an English composition in 80-100 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

近期，我校学生会对高中生在家做家务的情况做了一个调查，调查结果如下。

请简要描述调查结果，并谈谈你对高中生是否应该做家务的看法。

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