桂林2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、Swimming is good for teenagers, ________ some experts say will help them to stimulate their potential and promote their brain development.

A．which

B．why

C．Whom

D．what

2、The laptops made by our company sell best, but nobody could have guessed the place in the market that they ________ 20 years ago.

A. had had B. had C. were having D. were to have

3、Making your new business successful requires luck, patience and ______, so you should work with great attention and effort.

A.regulation B.application C.adaptation D.identification

4、As the water comes from steam released during the cooking process it is already clean, but Mr Seal said it will be ______ an additional purification process before being reused.

A. put through   B. pulled up

C. got over   D. given out

5、—Why not take my car to the museum instead of walking?

—No, thanks_________.

A．I’m used to

B．I’m able to

C．I’m about to

D．I’ve got to

6、The information tells me that the way of education in Canada is quite different from _____ in China.

A.one B.it C.that D.those

7、After retirement, Mr. Smith _____ painting, which he had always loved but had no time for.

A. turned up   B. held up  C. made up D. took up

8、Shortly after the earthquake, many people hurried to the hospital to_______ their blood.

A. donate   B. share C. exchange D. promote

9、Sun Yang said he would appeal against the CAS decision, ________, to the public’s surprise, banned him from competition for eight years.

A.where B.when C.as D.which

10、--How do you usually go to work? –– I usually drive, but if it is fine, I ______ by bike.

A. will go B. would go C. have gone D. had gone

11、Thanks to her determination and perseverance on the piano lesson, she has a ______ grasp of the subject.

A. comprehensive B. confidential

C. conservative D. compulsory

12、 Before you quit your job, ______how your family would feel about your decision.

A. consider B. considering

C. to consider   D. considered

13、Do you still remember how many years ago_________ we first met on campus?

A. was it that   B. it was that

C. was it when       D. it was when

14、Without coconuts, most of the tropical islands in the South Pacific ________ uninhabitable for both animals and people.

A.must have remained B.may have remained

C.need have remained D.would have remained

15、It is the bus driver who should ______ the safety of the passengers.

A. answer for   B. search for   C. stand for   D. go for

16、When I lived in Italy, I ________ often eat in the restaurant next to my flat.

A．could

B．would

C．may

D．must

17、China will launch several cooperation projects with other developing countries for climate change.

A.intending B.having intended C.intended D.intend

18、—Someone wants you on the phone.

—________ nobody knows I am here.

A.Although B.And

C.But D.So

19、As a doctor, I spend most of the time with my patients, and that’s ______ it is in my day.

A. how  B. when  C. why  D. where

20、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack _____ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.

A.less than B.better than C.other than D.rather than

21、   As a volunteer teacher, I moved into an apartment with eagerness. Sorting all the necessary paperwork out, I got ready to start my work. Great, or so I thought. At 4 a.m. And at several intervals after that, I was rudely awoken by the cock that lives opposite me. Fantastic! I now have 5 extra alarms every morning.

In the following weeks, I also started to notice a trend. Things in my flat started to break at the rate of one object per day, like the hot water line, bowls, cups, shower, doors or glass shelves. Yes, I am clumsy but things just fell apart.

If it wasn't broken, it would either be dirty or missing. Using my washing basket for the first time was pretty disgusting. When I took out my clothes, they were swiftly followed by a hundred or so bugs that were living in the bottom.

As for the general lack of equipment in the house, there was no oven, tin opener, or sharp knives. It turns out making a vegetarian burger from scratch wasn't the best idea. I had a small microwave and a grill. I thought the general understanding was never to put metal in a microwave but I went on. Smoke soon started to appear. I'm not quite sure if it was the burger or the grill but as soon as I opened the door, the electricity cut out. I spent the following 10 minutes in a dark, smoky room hunting for the power switch using the light from my mobile phone, which broke the week after and left me without a connection to the outer world.

Luckily, I'm now borrowing a phone and my luck has returned. No more things have broken (probably because there is nothing left to break). I am learning how to adapt to life with limited, broken utensils(用具)。

【1】How did the author feel about her new life upon her arrival?

A.She was nervous to kick off the new job.

B.She was annoyed with the rude students.

C.She was full of enthusiasm about her new life.

D.She was satisfied with five alarm clocks in her room.

【2】What was the trend in the following weeks?

A.Her flat became dirtier. B.She developed disability.

C.Things began to go wrong. D.More clothes needed mending.

【3】What happened when the author was making a burger?

A.She suffered a big fire. B.She made a terrible mistake.

C.She was seriously injured. D.She broke her phone accidentally.

【4】What can be inferred about the author from the end of the passage?

A.She will go on living here. B.She will resign from her job.

C.She will move into a new flat. D.She will buy new daily necessities.

22、A letter written to a 12-year-old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent.

Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klonovska said after being handed the letter, “I thought that someone was pranking me.” The letter included a handmade, colored rose and two paper dolls. It was sent to Klonovska by a young girl in Poland. They exchanged letters in what is known as a pen pal program — when people write letters to each other without actually meeting.

The letter, together with 17 others, was discovered this past summer when a wall was taken down in a former post office in Vilnius.

The letters, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, were likely hidden by a postal worker after he searched them for money or valuables, Vilutis said. The senders were family members or pen pals from places such as Australia, Poland, or Russia. Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Post office workers spent months looking for the people who were supposed to receive the letters — the recipients. Only five recipients were found. In several cases, children of dead recipients were handed a lost letter.

Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of Lithuania Post, said we felt a moral duty to do this. Zebrauskaite added, “One lady compared the experience to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea. People were emotional (动情的). Some people felt they saw a part of daily life of their dead parents.”

In the letter to Klonovska, sent from Koczary in Poland, a girl named Ewa complains buses no longer reach her village. Now in her 60s, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa. She probably wrote Ewa after finding her address in an advertisement for pen-pals in a newspaper. Their relationship stopped after the letter was not delivered. “The loss was not life-changing,” said Klonovska. She then asked, “What if they delivered a lost letter from a suitor (求婚者) to his love, and their wedding never happened?”

【1】The word “pranking” in paragraph 2 means ______.

A．playing a trick on

B．paying attention to

C．finding fault with

D．getting in touch with

【2】Why were some people emotional when they received the letters?

A．The arrival of the lost letters had been long expected.

B．They knew more about their parents through the letters.

C．A postal worker hid the letters for a selfish purpose.

D．Postal workers overcame difficulties to find the recipients.

【3】What did Klonovska try to express in the last paragraph?

A．All these letters were important reminders of memories.

B．She didn’t mind if the post office gave her the letter.

C．The course of her life would never change for the lost letter.

D．The lost letters could have caused serious consequences.

23、   Over a cup of iced tea at the midtown Radiance Tea House&Books,whose noise is not much louder than a coffee machine's,Gregory Scott Farber,a non-practicing lawyer who works as a research analyst, described SoundPrint he created as"Yelp for noise". SoundPrint allows users to search for and grade restaurants and bars according to their sound level. "laces are getting louder,"Farber said. "People tell me thirty or forty years ago you could go somewhere to eat and expect to have a conversation. "

Farber suffers from permanent hearing loss,caused by meningitis(脑脊膜炎)which he contracted when he was a baby. Like so many great inventions,Farber's invention arose from a desire to find love-or,at least,a place to have a date. "When I was dating,I put a lot of efforts into trying to pick quiet spots,"he said. "I'd google' quiet restaurants'. Then I would show up,but it would be noisy. " His hearing aid helped,but not enough. "Out of curiosity,I started taking decibel(分贝)measurements. "He sent a list of his favorite quiet places to friends in the hearing-loss community,and soon found many requests from his normal-hearing friends.

SoundPrint includes a sound-level meter,so diners and drinkers can take measurements using their smartphones,and upload data to the database. Farber said that the app brings no profit. SoundPrint covers about two thousand cities,though only fifteen have a significant number of users. Farber recently analyzed the data from 2,376 Manhattan restaurants and bars,and the findings are not good for ears. More than 70%of the former and 90%of the latter were rated as"loud"-defined as between 76 and 80 decibels,or as noisy as an air-conditioner.

【1】What does Gregory Scott Farber do for a living?

A.He sells hearing aids.

B.He develops computer programs.

C.He defends people in a court of law.

D.He makes a detailed analysis of data.

【2】Why did Farber create SoundPrint?

A.Because he wanted to earn more money.

B.Because he could hear nothing without a hearing aid.

C.Because he wanted to help his friends who suffer hearing loss.

D.Because he suffered hearing loss and wanted to find a quiet place for dating.

【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.SoundPrint can be downloaded to user's phones.

B.SoundPrint can detect noise from air-conditioner.

C.SoundPrint is widely used in 2,000 American cities.

D.SoundPrints can analyze data from restaurants and bars

【4】The data collected by SoundPrint showed that ______in Manhattan.

A.restaurants are noisier than bars

B.a large majority of bars are noisy

C.there are more restaurants than bars

D.all the bars are as noisy as air-conditioners

24、How Super Are Supermarkets?

Buying e week’s groceries is tiring. You want to get it over and done with quickly, so you head for the nearest supermarket, you find everything you need under one roof, and you feel glad that those days of going in and out of different shops in the high street are over. Supermarkets seem to be a big plus. There is a downside, though.

In the UK 90% of all the food people consume is bought at 5 different supermarket chains. This makes these companies extremely powerful, which lets them use their huge buying power to squeeze small suppliers to get the best deal. Milk is a good example. Supermarkets like to use things like milk, which is the top of almost everyone’s shopping list to attract customers. To offer the lowest price possible to the consumer, the supermarkets force dairy farmers to sell milk at less than the cost of production. Supermarkets guarantee their good profits while farmers are left struggling to make ends meet, and the taxpayer pays to support the system without even knowing it.

It would be nice if local grocers supported local agriculture. But for the big supermarkets this just doesn’t make sense. Supermarkets don’t want little farmers thinking they can decide prices. So supermarkets have started a global search for the cheapest possible agricultural produce. In many supermarkets it is difficult to find anything which is produced locally.

UK farmers used to grow a lot of apples. Not anymore. In 1999 36% of apples were imported. By 2015 the figure had risen to 80% and the domestic production of apples had fallen by two thirds. The consumer might just be happy to get a reasonably priced meal made up of foods from Thailand, Spain, Italy and Zambia, but we should also bear in mind the Influence on local producers.

Then there’s packaging. Supermarkets like everything to be packed and wrapped so it can be piled neatly on shelves. Supermarkets produce nearly 10 million tons of waste packaging in the UK every year, of which less 5%is recycled. Some supermarkets make sure that large recycling bins are obvious in their car parks, showing that they are environment-friendly. But that is just an image.

When a new supermarket is planned there are claims about the number of new jobs that will be created. Unfortunately, the number of jobs lost in the area is larger than the number of new positions in the supermarket. On average each new supermarket leads to the loss of 276 jobs.

However, the modern world is all about shopping, and the freedom to buy whatever you what, so it would be impossible to stop people shopping at some particular kind of shop. But some measures do need to be taken when small suppliers lose profits, local producers suffer, sea levels rise and jobs are lost, anyway, we can’t just care about a free car park and special offers.

【1】The author mentions “milk” in paragraph 2 to explain how supermarkets ____________.

A. harm small suppliers ‘benefits

B. support local dairy farmer

C.cheat the taxpayers

D.provide customers with the cheapest product

【2】According to the passage, supermarkets keep price advantage by_______________.

A. competing against each other

B. reducing product tax

C. purchasing local products

D. importing foreign products

【3】What is the author’s attitude towards supermarkets?

A.  Doubtful   B. Sympathetic

C. Critical  D. Cautious

25、My hero Paul grew up in Utah. As a boy, he lived near an old copper smelter(炼铜厂). The gas and smoke from it had turned what used to be a _________ into a wasteland. He felt upset and made a decision that someday he would_________ it.

He realized he needed to be more_________ to make it, so he planned to further receive _________. Then he went to college to study botany, where he met an expert in ecology._________, he told Paul that the land he wanted to bring back was beyond hope. Despite the_________,he stuck to his purpose and continued his life.

Then he got a job operating heavy equipment, got married, and had some kids. But his _________ would not die. He kept_________ the land. One night, he found proper trees to change it. So he got up and_________ immediately. That was an important__________ point. Under the cover of__________, he slipped into the wasteland with a backpack full of seedlings(树苗)，and started __________ them.

Later on, Paul made his __________ journey every week into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. Though most of them__________, he didn’t give up. When a whole valley of his first seedlings burned to the ground, he broke down and__________, but he wiped his tears and __________ working.

Year after year, he tried to grow plants, and kept at it against common sense. Slowly, creatures began to__________. Now, the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and __________ in birds and other animals. It has become a forest full of ______________again, and Paul has received Utah’s__________ award.

【1】

A．factory

B．forest

C．college

D．garden

【2】

A．describe

B．sell

C．empty

D．restore

【3】

A．knowledgeable

B．influential

C．famous

D．wealthy

【4】

A．rewards

B．samples

C．education

D．treatment

【5】

A．Excitedly

B．Calmly

C．Illegally

D．Unfortunately

【6】

A．goal

B．hope

C．blow

D．service

【7】

A．dream

B．curiosity

C．sorrow

D．embarrassment

【8】

A．renting

B．studying

C．owning

D．drawing

【9】

A．acted

B．succeeded

C．waved

D．cried

【10】

A．sleeping

B．turning

C．departure

D．debate

【11】

A．darkness

B．sunlight

C．villagers

D．soldiers

【12】

A．developing

B．burying

C．planting

D．digging

【13】

A．desperate

B．wasted

C．comfortable

D．secret

【14】

A．changed

B．died

C．grew

D．flowered

【15】

A．wept

B．argued

C．nodded

D．reflected

【16】

A．quit

B．kept

C．finished

D．recommended

【17】

A．gave way

B．found fault

C．took root

D．lost heart

【18】

A．lacking

B．interested

C．present

D．rich

【19】

A．loss

B．noise

C．life

D．fire

【20】

A．academic

B．administrative

C．experimental

D．environmental

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。

Light a lamp and we can warm a heart. Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often complaining that he had been cheated by others and cursed his own misfortune. Having stayed in the city for years, he thought he accomplished nothing.

One day, he told his wife he was so disappointed with the city that he had to leave it immediately. So, his family moved to another city, which he thought would bring good fortune to him. However, it was not easy for people to move to another place, for they had to handle quantities of stuffs and encounter many strangers. The whole family reached there in the evening of a weekend, with their clothes almost wet. It was a tough rainy night. The wind was howling dreadfully and the rain was pouring from the heaven, beating against the branches of lined trees on the road. The world was swallowed with a sea of darkness. Tired and wet, they didn’t have time to have supper. Terry and his wife were busily tidying up their new home when the light suddenly went out. Worse still, the sudden darkness scared his children to cry immediately. Terry’s wife hurried to hug them to ease their tension. Terry was regretful to have forgotten to bring along candles and had to wait helplessly in a low mood.

Just then, he heard heavy but hesitant knocks on his door that could be clearly heard in the thundering night. Instantly, all the family were totally silent, for they were all curious about the knocks. “Who’s it?” Terry asked, since they were newcomers to this city there must be nobody who knew them. Tired and busy, he especially hated to be disturbed at the moment, so he dragged his legs slowly to the door and opened it impatiently. Actually, Terry didn’t realize his negative behavior would have a bad effect on his children at all! Outside the window, the wind and the thundering ruled the world entirely in their power.

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1：At the door was a little girl with wet raincoat and sparkling eyes.

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Paragraph 2：After a while, the door was knocked again.

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