娄底2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

1、Some of the texts have too many new words and expressions _______ are hard for me.

A. which B. who

C. where D. what

2、It was not until I suffered hair loss ________I realized the harm of staying up late.

A. when B. that

C. which D. what

3、——Dad, I feel like quitting Chinese; it's so hard.

——Never give up halfway. ____________, you know.

A. All that ends well is well

B. A man cannot spin and reel at the same time

C. A man becomes learned by asking questions

D. All things are difficult before they are easy

4、The reason ______he didn't come was ______he was ill.

A. why; that B. that; why

C. for that; that D. for which; what

5、At last, we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and ________ down to eat our picnic lunch.

A.sitting B.having sat C.sat D.to sit

6、— Do you know where David is? I couldn’t find him anywhere.

— Well. He ________ have gone far — his coat is still here.

A.shouldn’t B.mustn’t C.can’t D.wouldn’t

7、— Let’s go for a nice walk into the country this afternoon.

— I’d like to, but I ________ to go with Alice to buy some clothes.

A.agreed B.will agree C.have agreed D.had agreed

8、On June 17th, an earthquake hit Chang Ning, ______ a lot of villages damaged.

A. left B. to leave C. leaving D. has left

9、Dad is busy with his essay on the SG networks Exactly. He______ a lecture this time next week.

A. is giving B. was giving C. will be giving D. has been giving

10、He is considered to be ________, for he often gives his money to the poor.

A．frank

B．effective

C．generous

D．flexible

11、It was with deep sadness that the House of Chanel announced the passing of Karl Lagerfeld, ________ talent for all the branding campaigns related to fashion it benefited since 1987.

A．of which

B．whose

C．of whom

D．from whose

12、Before our study we did not have data that could tell us __ those changes were small or large .

A. that     B. how C. when   D. whether

13、"They are so used to me that they know my schedule," he muttered. Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around: that it was he who had __________their schedule.

A. become attached to B. been captured by

C. become accustomed to D. become separated from

14、Everyone _________ the fact that the price of living houses is always rising.

A．can get away with

B．can get away from

C．can’t get away with

D．can’t get away from

15、It might have ________ your notice but it was under your nose all the time.

A.quit B.ignored C.escaped D.refused

16、He said he did everything ________ he could to help the people there.

A.which B.whose

C.what D.that

17、Not until my later thirties ______ the important discovery: giving away things makes life so much more exciting.

A.I made B.I had made C.did I make D.had I made

18、With so many noises from the busy traffic in the street, I couldn’t ________ and do my research work.

A．put down

B．lay down

C．settle down

D．get down

19、Sir, you ____ be sitting in this waiting room. It is for women and children only.

A.shouldn’t B.will  C.won’t D.needn’t

20、Since global climate change is obvious, the home use of ________ energy like clean wind and solar power systems is increasing.

A.primary B.alternative C.instant D.urban

21、—Tom has a lot of parties recently.

—Yes, that may ________ why he didn’t do well in the test.

A．get the hang

B．account for

C．add up to

D．know about

22、Was it in Tianjin ________ you spent your childhood?

A．when

B．which

C．that

D．why

23、The moving scene remind me _____my childhood when we set _____the fireworks on the spring festival.

A. to, off B. of, on

C. of,off D. to,down

24、Everyone is different and that is ________ makes our world so much better.

A. that B. which

C. what     D. who

25、—Good morning. May I help you?

—No, thank you. I’m just looking around.

—________

A．It’s up to you.

B．How are you feeling today?

C．Thanks for coming to see me.

D．Take your time then.

26、2050 seems a long way away, but it is not impossible to predict the future though. With the speed we are moving now so many amazing things are going to happen in the future.【1】? Let’s start our predictions.

◆The Internet will be free for everyone.

The Internet is really a key driver these days. But it is not free for everyone yet. There have already been attempts like Facebook’s Free Basics.【2】, there is a very strong possibility that the Internet will be free for everyone in the future.

◆【3】

With the increasing population, it is not very hard to predict that common methods of transportation will not be enough. There will be much heavier traffic on the road. So in this case personal airplanes will be a handy method of transportation for common people.

Of course, there will be proper air traffic control for these personal airplanes.

◆Most cancers will be treated successfully.

【4】. It will be a huge achievement in the history of medical science. Many studies are already showing a trend towards this.

◆Humans will live on other planets.

There will be great achievements in space research. In the year 2050, humans will be able to live on Mars. We will receive more intelligent signals from space.【5】.

A．Though it hasn’t happened yet

B．So where is technology going in the future

C．The world’s population will cross 9.6 billion

D．What do you think of my predictions of 2050

E．Chances are we will be able to find the next Earth-like planet

F．Personal airplanes will be used widely for short journeys

G．The number of deaths caused by cancers will be greatly reduced

27、   I prefer Lynne Truss’s phraseology: I am a grammar “sticker”. And, like Truss – author of Eats, shoots & Leaves – I have a “zero tolerance” approach to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.

Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have “zero tolerance”. She thinks that people who mix up basic grammar “deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked (砍) up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave”, while I just think they deserve to be passed over for a job – even if they are otherwise qualified for the position.

Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a compulsory grammar test. If job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too”, their applications go into the bin.

Of course, we write for a living. iFixit.com is the world’s largest online repair manual (指南), and Dozuki helps companies write their own technical documentation, like paperless work instructions and step-by-step user manuals. So, it makes sense that we’ve made a strong strike against grammar errors.

But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the Internet. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between “their” “there” and “they’re”.

Good grammar makes good business sense – and not just when it comes to hiring writers. Writing isn’t in the official job description of most people in our office. Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers.

Grammar signifies more than just a person’s ability to remember high school English. I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing – like stocking shelves or labeling parts. It is the same with programmers. Applicants who don’t think writing is important are likely to think lots of other things also aren’t important.

【1】What’s the author’s “zero tolerance” approach to these job seekers who mix up basic grammar?

A.They should be left out for a job. B.They have to correct their mistakes.

C.They aren’t qualified for their jobs. D.They must be severely punished.

【2】Which of the following is TRUE of iFixit and Dozuki?

A.Only one of them has a compulsory grammar test.

B.They are companies where one learns grammar.

C.Grammar is quite important for their existence.

D.They depend on grammar correction for a living.

【3】What can we learn from the text?

A.Companies giving grammar tests may have no good business sense.

B.Grammar becomes unimportant as language is constantly changing.

C.A “zero tolerance” approach to grammar errors might seem a little unfair.

D.People who pay attention to writing may pay attention to other things.

28、   About 18 months ago, my father was in the hospital recovering from a major lung operation. My mother had recently passed away, and my father had taken the loss of his partner of 55 years very hard and had lost interest in life.

Trying to get him to eat each day was quite a chore as he didn’t want anything. The one thing, however, that he would ask us to bring him was ice-cream.

One evening to our surprise, he refused to eat the ice-cream, so I placed it in a staff room freezer. A little while later, my son decided he wanted it, so I fetched it for him.

As I passed another ward, a woman asked, “Are there more? Where that came from?” When I explained the situation, she apologized. She then said that she had cancer and could eat very little other than the occasional ice-cream.

The next evening, I decided to buy two ice-cream. On the way to Dad’s room, I stopped in at the sick woman’s room, and offered her the ice-cream I’d bought for her. She was totally stunned that I had thought of her, and accepted the gift with tears in her eyes. I spoke with her for a few minutes, explaining what was happening in my family and listened to her similar story of pain and suffering. It was apparent that she did not have many visitors, and the ice-cream and our short chat meant a great deal to her.

I repeated the gesture a few days later, and this time was rewarded with a huge hug.

I never even thought to ask her name, and never saw her again, but it made me realize that an act of kindness can be more rewarding when you give it, rather than receive it.

【1】The writer’s father stayed in the hospital because________.

A.he had trouble eating B.he had had a lung operation

C.he had lost interest in life D.he was ill for losing his wife

【2】The writer bought ice-creams for the sick lady when he realized________.

A.ice-cream was among the little food she could eat

B.they had similar family experiences

C.she was lonely without family around

D.to give is as important as to receive

【3】The underlined word in paragraph 6 probably means________.

A.body language B.word

C.action D.decision

【4】What did the writer try to convey to us through the story?

A.Giving is rewarding.

B.Don’t hesitate to help elderly people.

C.It’s our responsibility to look after our parents.

D.Never put of anything you can do till tomorrow.

29、   In recent years, experiments examining exercise and weight loss have found that people lose far much less weight than expected, considering how many additional calories(卡路里) they are burning with their workouts.

Scientists have guessed that exercisers are likely to become hungrier and eat more after working out. They also may sit longer when not doing exercise. Together or separately, these changes could make up for the extra energy used during exercise.

To prove that possibility, scientists came up with the idea of using infrared light(红外线) to track mice’s movements in their cages. Then software can use that information to analyse their daily physical activity.

So the researchers prepared special cages, putting inside some locked running wheels, and let mice roam(闲逛) and explore for four days in the cages. This provided the researchers with information about how many calories each mouse burned every day.

Then the wheels were unlocked and for nine days, the mice could run at will, and they could decide how much to eat and when to get off the wheels, walking around. The mice,which enjoyed running, jumped readily on the wheels and started to run. On and off the wheels, they could run for hours. They showed a following height in their daily energy expenditure(支出) since they had added exercise to their lives.

But they did not change their eating habits. Although they were burning more calories, they did not eat more. They did, however, change how they moved. They now usually jogged on their wheels for a few minutes, jumped off, rested or roamed in a while, and then climbed back on the wheels, ran, rested, briefly roamed, and it repeated. These changes in how they spent their time almost counteracted(抵消) the extra calorie costs from running, says Daniel Lark, who led the new study.

What caused the running mice to run less is still uncertain. 'But it does not seem to have been tiredness or lack of time; wheel running is not arduous for mice, and does not fill their waking hours.' Dr. Lark says.

Instead, he says, it is likely that the animals’ bodies and brains sensed the increasing energy expenditure when the mice began to run and sent out biological signals that somehow advised the animals to slow down, save energy and lose weight.

Mice will never be people, of course, so we cannot say whether the results of this would directly apply to us, Dr. Lark says. But the results do indicate that if we hope to lose more weight through, we should watch what we eat and try not to move less while we work out more.

【1】What did NOT change for the mice in the experiment?

A.How they moved. B.How long they ran.

C.How much they chose to eat. D.How they spent their time.

【2】What happened to the mice in the experiment according to the 6th paragraph?

A.They didn't like to run the wheels. B.They ate more after running the wheels.

C.They spent less time roaming in the cage. D.They didn't need rest after running the wheels.

【3】The underlined word 'arduous' in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _______.

A.tiring B.energetic C.difficult D.different

【4】Which of the following statements may Dr. Lark agree with?

A.Wheel running costs the same amount of energy as roaming does.

B.The mice ran more because they really wanted to lose weight.

C.The experiment is a failure because the results don't apply to humans.

D.It might not be tiredness that caused the mice to run less.

【5】The purpose of writing this passage is _______.

A.to prove that scientists' guess about exercising is wrong

B.to introduce a recent research on exercise and weight loss

C.to analyze how wheel running changes mice's movements

D.to explain why eating and running are bad for exercisers

30、   It was an early blow to my self-confidence. I was attending my first group meeting in the lab _______ a postdoc (博士后), and I was _______ that I could follow most of the discussion. Then, in front of everyone, the professor turned to me and asked about my previous accomplishments. I _______. As a PhD student, I had achieved lots to be _______ of. But _______ of those were in my home country of Brazil. Now I was in Washington D. C. and I didn’t know what the word “accomplishment” meant. So all I could say was “I don’t know”.

I had decided to do a postdoc abroad because I thought the training would _______ me a teaching position. I applied for it and received a Brazil in government fellowship to spend 18 months working abroad and got a position in a lab. It all seemed so easy—until I _______ started.

In a new country, I _______, After the _______ lab meeting incident, my confidence took another ________. The paper I had finished painstakingly did not ________. I used to be invited to give talks. Now, I was asked to speak more ________ because of my accent. My confidence was ________.

After months of ________, I reminded myself that I had ________ of success. I needed to do something to ________ my confidence. I thought a change of environment might be what I needed. So I made the ________.

In another new lab, I still felt insecure. ________, I was determined to make the most of the time I had. There were more opportunities to interact with other, which forced me to ________ more. It was awful at first, but with practice I began to feel more confident in my English. I proposed new projects. I began to receive ________ feedback on my presentations.

My confidence is back.

【1】A.for B.as C.like D.with

【2】A.aware B.afraid C.glad D.sorry

【3】A.suffered B.fell C.froze D.refused

【4】A.appreciative B.protective C.ashamed D.proud

【5】A.any B.all C.none D.little

【6】A.secure B.lead C.land D.provide

【7】A.clearly B.frequently C.hardly D.actually

【8】A.failed B.struggled C.crashed D.cried

【9】A.exciting B.interesting C.fascinating D.embarrassing

【10】A.hit B.loss C.failure D.pain

【11】A.come about B.come on C.come out D.come in

【12】A.naturally B.slowly C.awkwardly D.accurately

【13】A.drowned B.changed C.destroyed D.delayed

【14】A.self-harm B.self-help C.self-rule D.self-doubt

【15】A.promise B.mark C.spot D.access

【16】A.regain B.return C.review D.replace

【17】A.response B.sacrifice C.move D.plan

【18】A.Otherwise B.Besides C.Then D.However

【19】A.write B.read C.talk D.listen

【20】A.positive B.objective C.active D.strong

31、短文填空, 每空一词。

The Safe (保险箱)

----- A Rich Man Finds the Best Way to be Truly Rich

Once upon a time, a rich man hired a great mathematician (数学家) to find him a way to make him more money. The rich man was so g【1】 that he even built a giant safe and his dream was to fill it with gold and jewels.

The mathematician worked on the problem for months. One night he said to the rich man “I’ve done it! My idea is perfect! You’ll be wealthy b【2】 your wildest dreams.” The rich man was d【3】 to hear this. Before he left on a long journey, he promised the mathematician double pay to run his business for him.

When the rich man returned, he found that all of his wealth was gone. Very angry, he asked the mathematician to explain. The mathematician told him he’d g【4】 everything away to people in the neighborhood.

The mathematician said “There is a limit to how much wealth one can get by himself. Then I realized that many people could help us a【5】 our goal. By helping o【6】, you could gain the most!”

Disappointed, the rich man went away. As he was walking, every neighbor he met was so thankful to him that they o【7】 him anything he needed.

Over the next few weeks, the man saw the mathematician’s idea really w【8】. He was received with great honor w【9】 he went. Everyone did all they could to help him.

He no longer dreamed of keeping his wealth in a safe. I 【10】 he shared it with hundreds of friends. He was now truly rich.

32、现在城市空气污染越来越严重，为解决这个问题，作为校学生会主席，请你用英语写一份倡议书，号召全校师生保护城市空气。内容要点如下:

1. 城市空气污染的危害；

2. 解决该问题的建议；

3. 发出号召

注意:1. 词数:100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头与结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数。

Dear teachers and students,

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Thank you!