2025-2026学年甘肃张掖高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、—It’s said that he is a wise leader.

—Oh, no, he is ________ but a wise leader.

A. anybody   B. anything

C. anyone   D. nothing

2、The relevant authorities have recently ________ some companies and individuals for their illegal emission that is harmful to the environment.

A. cut back on   B. cracked down on   C. followed up on   D. held out on

3、 That day I saw Mary grab the cat by ______ tail — which was _____ rather stupid thing to do.

A. the; a   B. a; a

C. a; 不填   D. the; 不填

4、He wants to give up _______ English.

A．learn

B．learning

C．learns

D．to learn

5、Fear is one of the many enemies hidden inside us, and if________ uncontrolled, it can destroy our lives.

A．left

B．to be left

C．leaving

D．having left

6、Lily’s dress looked just the same as Rose’s, but it cost_________hers.

A．as twice much as

B．as much as twice as

C．twice as much as

D．as much twice as

7、China needs to strike a balance between maintaining a(n) _______ fast and stable development and making economic structural adjustment.

A. relatively   B. seemingly

C. approximately   D. apparently

8、—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

9、_____ interest in studying abroad is rising, more Chinese students who study abroad are also returning home upon completing their degrees.

A.Once B.Since C.While D.Until

10、--- How are things going, Mr. White?

--- Well, they have set out to deal with the present situation ________ they think deserves their immediate attention.

A．what

B．where   

C．When

D．which

11、 -Where did you find your wallet?

-It was in the shop ____ I bought the shirt.

A. that   B. where   C. which   D. there

12、Tom was sorry to learn that his grandfather _____ for half an hour when he got to the hospital．

A. had died   B. had been dead

C. Died   D. has been dead

13、1 think we'd better keep to the subject, ______we'll waste our time．

A.and B.or C.but D.so

14、The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.

A. beneficial  B. optional

C. commercial   D. stressful

15、Completed in 1891, in ______ was known as the Gilded Age, the building is now owned by a famous writer.

A．which

B．what

C．as

D．who

16、A child should be receiving either meat or eggs daily, preferably ______.

A. neither   B. none

C. either   D. both

17、Speaking of non - cash payments, I think that we may try to use money less often instead of replacing it ________ .

A．for good

B．at ease

C．on the whole

D．in vain

18、—What do you think of the Huawei P7?

—Terrific, I would buy one if I ______ an iPhone 6 Plus last year.

A．didn’t buy

B．don’t buy

C．hadn’t bought

D．haven’t bought

19、— Will you be able to see Lucy’s parents when the first class is over?

—I’m afraid not. I   a lecture on Chinese literature in the hall.

A. will attend   B. am going to attend

C. will be attending   D. am attending

20、The house is ________ than that one.

A．two-thirds large

B．two third larger

C．two-thirds larger

D．larger two-thirds

21、In many of artist Liu Chang's digital art projects, she explores the deeper connections human beings have with nature and technology as a whole, and tries to use technology to remind people of the beauty, love and moment in life that we have and ignore in the digital world.

“When you leave, there will be no photo and no proof, but you were there, no doubt, and you can only embrace this flickering moment,” Liu said while expressing the reason behind not wanting photos taken in front of her interactive video installation, a project she named “Random Walker.”

On the other hand, Liu has truly incorporated the gift that technology has brought her. In “Nature and Algorithm,” she used algorithm in programming images of nature and landscape.

“Whether it’s nature, technology or us as human beings in between, the evolution that nature undergoes revolves around human beings, the two influencing each other symbiotically,” she said.

As her work is juxtaposing, it is also calming and aesthetically challenging, asking us to reexamine our relationships with nature and technology. Liu’s work not only makes us take interest in works that are visually attractive, but also encourages us to enjoy art from more dimensions.

This is perhaps how the era of big data and smartphones has shifted our attention and narrowed our views. For instance, when we go out for dinner but don’t take a picture, post it on Instagram, does it mean that this dinner didn’t happen? This is also why I didn’t like photos to be taken at the exhibition of “Random Walker:” you cannot capture the moment by just taking a photo of it anyway. The best way to interact with the device in this project was to simply look at it. You could just stare and go into a long meditation.

【1】What is the purpose of Liu Chang’s project “Random Walker”?

A．To help people enjoy the beauty in life.

B．To remind people of the environmental problems.

C．To reexamine the relationship between humans and nature.

D．To show the importance of technology in environmental protection.

【2】What would Liu Chang hate to see at the exhibition?

A．That people watched her videos.

B．That visitors took photos of her works.

C．That her friends brought her birthday gifts.

D．That algorithm was used in digital art projects.

【3】What does the underlined word "gift" in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Algorithm in photo making.

B．The evolution of nature.

C．Digital exhibition.

D．Natural landscape.

【4】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Big data and smartphones change people’s view of nature.

B．We’d better not take photos while having dinner.

C．One can enjoy Liu’s works by taking photos.

D．Liu’s works are difficult to understand.

22、One of India’s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its boarding houses, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students’ performance, making them lonely and even suicidal.

Authorities at the best Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them. “Now, a student doesn’t even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet,” said Prakash Gopalan, dean of Student Affairs. “The old dormitory culture of companionship and socializing among students is gone. This is not healthy in our opinion.”

IIT-Mumbai, with about 5,000 students, is one of the seven IITs across India which are considered to be among the finest engineering schools in the world. They are also a talent pool for global technology giants. But their hard courses, tough competition and lonely campus lifestyle have taken an effect on students. Depressive and dysfunctional lifestyles are known to be common among IIT students, and at least nine have committed suicide in the past five years. Students have unlimited free Internet access in their boarding houses to help them in their studies, but many also use it to surf, chat, download movies and music, blog and for gaming.

“Starting Monday, Internet access will be banned between 11 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. at IIT-Mumbai’s 13 boarding buildings to encourage students to sleep early and to try and force them out of their shells.” Gopalan said. But the move has not gone down well with students who say they hate their lives being regulated. “Now they will say we need to listen to a lullaby (摇篮曲) to go to sleep.” said Rajiv, an electronics student.

【1】According to the text, the students addicted to the Internet in IIT-Mumbai are likely to ______.

A. perform well in studies   B. participate in social activities

C. know their classmates better   D. feel lonely and even suicidal

【2】The underlined word “dysfunctional” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “______”.

A. unpopular   B. meaningful

C. abnormal   D. exciting

【3】What measures have been taken in IIT-Mumbai?

A. Students must go to bed before 11 p.m.

B. Students are forbidden to surf the Internet on campus.

C. Students have unlimited free Internet access in their dormitories.

D. Internet access is unavailable in deep night in boarding buildings.

【4】We may infer from the last paragraph that ______.

A. all electronics students hate the banning order

B. some students complain about the banning order

C. there is no Internet access on the IIT campus ever since

D. more students prefer listening to music to surfing the Internet

23、Rise of the Robots

The word “robot” was coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek. 【1】 For most of their history, however, robots have been dumb, inelegant mechanical devices sitting out of sight in factories.

Things are starting to change, however. 【2】 They brought cheap cameras and sensors, fast wireless communications and powerful, smaller computer chips to robots. More recent advances in machine learning have added software to make robots better informed about their surroundings and equipped them to make wiser decisions. Robots are leaving carefully managed industrial settings for everyday life and, in the coming years, will increasingly work in supermarkets, clinics, social care and much more.

【3】 Many industries are facing a shortage of labour—the demand for workers has recovered much faster than expected from the pandemic and some people have left the workforce, particularly in America. Warehousing has grown rapidly thanks to the e- commerce boom. Robots are now crucial, picking items off shelves and helping people pack an exponentially rising numbers of boxes. In a pandemic-ravaged world, short of workers but with lots of elderly folk to look after, having more robots to boost productivity would be a good thing.

Inevitably, some people will be on the losing end of change even as the robots make society as a whole better off. One lesson from the freewheeling (随心所欲的) globalisation of the 1990s and 2000s is that the growth in trade that was overwhelmingly beneficial triggered a political opposition, because the losers felt left behind.   【4】 As jobs   change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills, including how to work with and manage the robots. that will increasingly be their colleagues.

The potential gains from the robot revolution are huge. In Capek’s play, the robots rise up against their human masters and cause mass unemployment and worse. The beginnings of the world’s real robots have not matched Capek’s satire. There is no reason to think that their future needs to either.

A．And many people fear that robots will destroy jobs.

B．That is why firms and governments had better recognise the value of retraining and lifelong learning.

C．They could not be coming at a better time.

D．In his play, Capek imagined artificial, fully functional servants.

E．They are beginning to wheel slowly along some pavements, delivering goods or food right to people’s doors.

F．Robots have benefited from rapid innovations in smartphones.

24、Bees in a colony work with each other to gather food, and they try to find the most nectar (花蜜)in the least amount of time possible. A small number of bees work as searchers, but when a good flower patch (花丛) is found, how do they tell other bees where to find it?

Bees communicate flower location using special dances inside the hive, where bees live. One bee dances while the other bees watch. The dancing bee smells like the flower patch, and also gives the watching bees a taste of the nectar she has gathered. Smell and taste helps other bees find the correct flower patch. Bees use two different kinds of dances to communicate information: the waggle (摇摆) dance and the circle dance.

Waggle dance

The waggle dance tells the watching bees two things about a flower patch's location: the distance and the direction away from the hive.

A. Distance

The dancing bee waggles back and forth as she moves forward in a straight line, then circlesaround to repeat the dance. The length of the middle line, called the waggle run, shows roughly how far it is to the flower patch.

B. Direction

Bees know which way is up and which way is down inside their hive, and they use this to show direction. How? Bees dance with the waggle run at a specific angle away from straight up. Outside the hive, bees look at the position of the sun, and fly at the same angle away from the sun.

Circle dance

The circle dance tells the watching bees only one thing about the flower patch’s location: that it is somewhere close to the hive.

In this dance, the bee walks in a circle, turns around, then walks the same circle in the opposite direction. Sometimes, the bee includes a little waggle as she’s turning around. The duration of this waggle is thought to indicate the quality of the flower patch.

【1】Why does the searcher give the watching bees a taste of the nectar?

A．To inform them of the distance of the flower.

B．To celebrate her success of finding the nectar.

C．To motivate them to collect the nectar.

D．To ensure the bees find the right patch.

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE about the dances?

A．The searcher’s waggle means little during the circle dance.

B．The waggle dance indicates the direction of the flower patch.

C．The waggle dance shows precisely how far the flower patch is.

D．The quality of the flower patch is not shown in the circle dance.

【3】If the searcher dances inside the hive in this way(see the right picture), which of the following is the WRONG flying direction for the other bees?

A．

B．

C．

D．

25、The Broken Lantern

On a wild July night, the storm was getting worse and worse. Kate Shelley, who lived between Honey Creek (小溪) and Des Moines River, was ________ looking out of the window, wondering whether it would ________ the bridges over them, when suddenly came the loud ________ of breaking wood, then followed by a great splash. She realized the bridge over the creek was broken. At that time, the midnight train was almost ________. If no one told the engineer to ________ the train, it would fall into the creek with a hundred or more ________. The situation was so urgent that Kate ________ to go to Moingon Railway Station to get help. Immediately she rushed out into the storm with her father’s railway lantern.

Moingon ________ on the far side of Des Moines River. The only way to get there was to cross a long wooden railroad bridge. Even in the daytime, it was ________ to walk on it because there was no foot walk or railing (栏杆) except only rails and ties. The ties were ________ enough apart for the girl to fall through.

Kate stopped when she came to the ________. She had never seen the river rising so high that she was ________. Her father had been killed in a train accident by that river and her brother had drowned there. But she soon managed to ________ thinking more of the past happenings for she knew that train had to be stopped ________ it was too late. She started to step on that dangerous bridge, knowing she might fall into the rush water at any moment. What’s worse, she broke her lantern while making her way, exposing herself to the ________. She had to climb on her hands and knees…

It seemed like a long time. At last she ________ the other side.   

She stopped just long enough to catch her breath. Then she ran ________ to the railway station. When she finally got there, she was ________, wet all over, her hat blown away, her hands and knees still bleeding and her eyes looking ________. She told the station man what had happened to the Honey Creek Bridge before her fainting. Finally, the passengers were saved.

The girl’s heroic deed was rewarded. For her ________ act, Kate enjoyed a right of getting on or off the train at her door when she wanted.

【1】

A．angrily

B．eagerly

C．anxiously

D．hopefully

【2】

A．break out

B．wash away

C．cut off

D．pull out

【3】

A．crash

B．cry

C．blow

D．voice

【4】

A．removed

B．blocked

C．ready

D．due

【5】

A．change

B．stop

C．catch

D．leave

【6】

A．conductors

B．customers

C．passengers

D．engineers

【7】

A．decided

B．tried

C．expected

D．agreed

【8】

A．situated

B．lay

C．located

D．lied

【9】

A．harmful

B．foolish

C．dangerous

D．strange

【10】

A．long

B．wide

C．thick

D．far

【11】

A．bridge

B．station

C．train

D．rail

【12】

A．frightening

B．shaking

C．escaping

D．running

【13】

A．forget

B．admit

C．avoid

D．risk

【14】

A．though

B．because

C．unless

D．before

【15】

A．darkness

B．calmness

C．emptiness

D．coldness

【16】

A．selected

B．reached

C．found

D．passed

【17】

A．cautiously

B．slowly

C．disappointedly

D．desperately

【18】

A．out of breath

B．out of mind

C．out of sight

D．out of favor

【19】

A．watchful

B．sharp

C．wild

D．bitter

【20】

A．honest

B．modest

C．generous

D．courageous

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。

Before I was ten, my parents worked very hard at ensuring that everything seemed pleasant for me. I had to admit that I had a very peaceful childhood and I mostly ignored the fact that my elder sister was different. She was diagnosed(诊断)with “Asperger Syndrome”. This diagnosis turned my parents’ world upside down, but they never let it affect me.

It was only at the age of ten that I started to notice the differences and become conscious of my social life and self-image that I had carefully developed. My sister, on the other hand, was socially awkward. She could not look at people in the eye. She would say to herself and repeat what she had just said. She, however, was good at studying, and thus we attended the same primary school. Despite this, I never accepted in public that she was my sister. There was one incident, however, just two years ago, that remained in my memory. It was the incident that changed how I viewed my sister. It was the incident that changed me.

When she was about to graduate in primary six, the school made it a must for everyone to put up an performance, in a group or individually. Due to her inability to integrate(融入群体), my sister was the only one left without a group, so my sister had to perform individually. “I’ll sing, ”my sister told my parents, somewhat confidently. Hearing that, I was completely shocked. How could my sister, who was socially awkward, sing in front of the school? I knew so very well that if I allowed this to happen, she would embarrass me, one way or another. “No!” I remembered protesting. My parents shot me a look. I knew my sister was to perform, and I was to be part of the audience watching her. Silently, I prayed that something would happen and I would not have to watch my sister shame herself. The day finally came.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I sat in the hall, restless and uneasy, waiting for my sister to start her performance.

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How did I not know that my sister could sing so beautifully?

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