2025-2026学年台湾花莲高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、 —She’s really pretty, isn’t she? Her skin looks so baby smooth!

—Well, it’s just that she puts lots of make-up on her face.____

A. Sometimes I wish I could be as beautiful as her.

B. Actually, natural beauty comes from within.

C. I can’t believe she is still so pretty after giving birth to a baby!

D. Fortunately, she has a good income.

2、It is typical of Jim to feel shy; he will feel ______ in the presence of strangers.

A. out of order B. out of place

C. out of control  D. out of breath

3、To our delight, the boy who shows great _______ in playing football has been admitted to the university for his talent.

A．choice

B．respect

C．addition

D．promise

4、Foreign ministers of the two countries hold regular meetings, ______ they can exchange views on international issues of both concern.

A. what   B. where   C. which D. why

5、If it’s a friend or a relative, always use hand-written letters ______ typing because they represent your sincerity.

A．in contradiction to

B．in preference to

C．in response to

D．in regard to

6、The historical play put on by my classmates left a deep impression on us．Every one of us thought their show was _________ a failure but a great success.

A. next to   B. except for   C. far from   D. apart from

7、He stood at the window, thinking where he his camera last.

A. saw   B. has seen   C. had seen   D. would see

8、Ten minutes earlier________, we could have avoided missing the early bus.

A. or   B. but   C. and   D. so

9、—Anything special about this device?

—Well, it can ________ between the cancerous and the normal cells under certain conditions.

A. conclude   B. exclude   C. discriminate      D. undergo

10、In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message ________ within the work.

A．to hide

B．hidden

C．hiding

D．being hidden

11、At this time tomorrow    over the Atlantic．

A．we’re going to fly

B．we’ll be flying．

C．we’ll fly

D．we’re to fly

12、The mixture of his improved self-confidence and never-ending efforts is ________ lies behind his rapid progress in his study.

A. what B. that C. where  D. which

13、Scientists estimate that smoking reduces life expectancy by around 12 years .

A.in common B.in all C.on the whole D.on average

14、The job is not very rewarding _______ money, but he is getting valuable experience from it.

A. in memory of   B. in terms of

C. in charge of   D. in search of

15、1 think we'd better keep to the subject,   we'11 waste our time．

A． and B．or   C． but  D． so

16、Temporary failure is not to be feared. We must bear it in mind that the pains-taking effort we have will ______ in the long run.

A. pay off   B. take off

C. break off   D. kick off

17、I want to buy that kind of cloth because I_____the cloth_____well.

A.have told;washed B.have been told;washes

C.have been told;washed D.was told;washes

18、We’ll have our sports meeting on the playground next week, but I have no idea ________.

A．when to have

B．how long it will last

C．what will the weather be like

D．where we shall have it

19、Climate change is a big threat to our earth. It’s time to take ______ action from now on.

A.urgent B.abrupt C.temporary D.flexible

20、I will give you a reply as soon as possible. Just have a little ______.

A.courage B.patience C.energy D.talent

21、Want to know what is coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not a 1.5-hour-long movie, as in the old days. On October 20th comes Killers of the Flower Moon. At nearly three and a half hours, its length is nearly double that of the average film last year. Even movie fans struggle to concentrate for that long and some viewers even nod off. Afterwards there is a mad dash for the toilets. When does watching a film become such a slog?

The Economist analyzed over 100,000 feature films released internationally since the 1930s, the start of Hollywood’s golden age, using data from IMDb, a movie database. The average length of productions rose by around 24%, from one hour and 21 minutes in the 1930s to one hour and 47 minutes in 2022. For the ten most-popular titles, the average length grew to around two and a half hours in 2022, nearly 50% higher than in the 1930s.

One driver of this trend is that studios want to squeeze the most out of their costly intellectual property (知识产权), but they are competing with streaming platforms for eyeballs. The hope is that a spectacular, drawn-out “event” movie will draw audiences away from the small screen and into cinemas. This approach has often paid off: Avengers: Endgame Marvel’s three-hour superhero masterpieces, was the highest-grossing (票房最高的) film in 2019. Last year long movies series made up most of the highest-grossing films in America.

Another explanation for longer films has to do with directors’ growing influence. Who would dare tell the likes of Mr. Nolan to cut out his masterpieces? Moreover, streaming platforms, which do not have to worry as much about the length because viewers can pause whenever they like, may attract big names by promising them sufficient fund and creative freedom. Netflix funded and released three-hour The Irishman in 2019, a film that would have benefited from a decisive editor, Irish or otherwise.

【1】The underlined part “a slog” in paragraph 1 refers to a(n)___.

A．pleasure

B．effort

C．conflict

D．feast

【2】What can be inferred from paragraph 2?

A．The average length affects the popularity of films.

B．Great advances have been made in film industry.

C．Hollywood starts a golden age of feature films.

D．The average duration of movies has stretched.

【3】What sets the trend of longer movies?

A．Competition for the target audience.

B．Thirst for more classic productions.

C．Influence of streaming platforms.

D．Preference for decisive editors.

【4】What is probably the best title for the passage?

A．Movie Enthusiasts

B．Movie Marathons

C．Movie Production

D．Movie Influence

22、Why are some people successful and others aren’t? What’s the secret of success? 【1】.   

Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestseller Outliers.【2】. Gladwell thinks that this is just an excuse for not trying and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwell writes. “It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Central to the book is the “10,000-hour rule”. It means that if you want to be among the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours.【3】. For example, the Beatles played live in Hamburg more than 1,200 times between 1960 and 1964, which is more than 10,000 hours of playing time. And when Bill Gates was 13, he was given access to a high school computer, allowing him to practise computer programming for more than 10,000 hours.

【4】. Take the example of Christopher Langan, who’s mentioned in the book. He’s got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein’s IQ was estimated to have been between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan was able to take an exam in a foreign language he’d never studied and pass it after just skim-reading a text book for three minutes. However, Langan never graduated from university and worked in labour-intensive jobs his whole life. This proves that intelligence alone will not lead to success—you need hard work, support, finance and opportunities. Gladwell adds, “No one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it alone.”

【5】. Even after you’ve put in your 10,000 hours of practice, you still need one other key ingredient—luck. So, you could be the most amazing guitarist in the world, but unless you’re lucky enough to play in front of a record company executive who sees a way of exploiting that talent, you aren’t going to be seeing your name in lights.

A．It isn’t just a question of time and support.

B．Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.

C．That’s equal to three hours a day for 10 years.

D．Of course, many people argue that you can create your own “luck”.

E．The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren’t.

F．The interesting thing is that success is not closely related to intelligence.

G．Someone who’s willing to practise something for 10.000 hours is probably active.

23、   Ghaliya works for a national newspaper in Indonesia. One day a garbage collector came to her house in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The man asked if she had an old mobile phone his children could use to get on the Internet. It does not matter if it is an ugly one, as long as my children can use it for learning at home," he said. Then Ghaliya thought there must be many people who need second-hand mobile phones.

Shortly after the pandemic hit Jakarta, she and 11 other journalists organized a group to provide food and money for needy people. They started hearing from parents who wanted their children to study online but lacked a way to connect to the Internet. Thinking of her meeting with the garbage collector, Ghaliya and her group decided to offer mobile phones to poor students.

Many of these children were not able to do face-to-face learning when the new school year started in July. When the journalists announced their campaign through social media, the reaction was overwhelming. Many people donated second-hand phones, while others gave cash donations.

By the end of November, the journalists had collected more than 200 mobile phones and donations of more than $35,000. They used the money to buy more phones. They also paid for Internet use for those needing it. Currently, nearly 300 phones have been given to students in and around Jakarta as well as to distant areas like Papua, the country's most eastern province.

Helping students take part in online schooling brings happiness to Ghaliya and her group friends. “We really hope the mobile phones can be used as much as they can during the pandemic," she said.

An 11-year-old boy sometimes sent his homework late because he had to wait for his father to return from work in order to get back online. For the first time in his life, Maghribi was falling behind in his studies. He also had to take care of his sick mother, which made him pressured. But a big smile appeared on his face when he received a mobile phone sent by Ghaliy’s group.“I will use the phone to do online study every day,“ Maghribi said excitedly.

【1】How did Ghaliya come up with the idea of offering mobile phones?

A.By attracting a child to study online.

B.By buying a mobile phone for a child.

C.By coming across a garbage collector.

D.By providing supplies for poor students.

【2】Which words can best describe Ghaliya?

A.Kind and grateful. B.Humorous and patient.

C.Selfish but enthusiastic. D.Warm-hearted and considerate.

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

A.Maghribi was grateful to Ghaliya's group.

B.Maghribi was one of Ghaliya's relatives.

C.Maghribi's father was sick and out of work.

D.Maghribi did well in his studies all the time.

【4】What is mainly conveyed in the passage?

A.Where there is a will, there is a way.

B.Education is the key to success.

C.Time is more precious than money.

D.Love brings hope to the needy.

24、No one can be free from the sickening stress and anxiety from time to time. Not even that happy-go-lucky guy you see walking down the street whistling “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, since they are a part of the life. 【1】. Listed here are proven ways to control stress and anxiety.

Breathe

Taking a long and deep breath to calm yourself in stressful situations isn’t just one of those old wives’ tales. 【2】. Doctors say that slow, deep breathing can effectively cool down the angry blood that’s running around your body, allowing your brain and body to return to their normal functions.

Walk

Many hearsay techniques for dealing with stress often raise a few eyebrows. But a whole host of scientific evidence exists to suggest that walking is one of the best methods available. If you’re ever feeling the tension building up in your brain and body, drop everything and simply go for a walk. 【3】. Such a nice walk provides your body with an ideal outlet for the build-up of energy that stress can create.

Laugh

【4】. But if you are able to squeeze out even the smallest laugh during your day, you’ll soon begin to find that the effects of stress slowly slip away. When you laugh, the body releases happy hormones that ease tension brought on by stress.

Friends

Surrounding yourself with the people you love can be half the battle to defeating stress. When you are stressed, even sitting at home with a cup of tea with a friend can really help to relieve high levels of stress as it focuses your mind onto something you love. Don’t hesitate to reach for the phone and ring your friends whenever you feel stressed. 【5】.

A．After all, that’s what friends are for

B．So your friends will feel relieved soon

C．It’s a medically proven stress-relief technique

D．What can be done is to find ways to deal with them

E．Remind yourself to walk slowly and breathe normally

F．Hearty laughs allow you to feel happy and healthy again

G．If you’re stressed, the last thing you probably feel like doing is laughing

25、My car and my best friend

For most, getting your first car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Getting a car did ____ this for me, and it also brought my best friend and me ____ But then it tore us apart (分开).

My best friend lives three minutes from my ____ Since her ____ is in late summer, seven months behind mine, I basically became her ____ when I turned 16 in December.

And so I ____ her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream ____, went shopping and to the movies―all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so ____ that she gave me a key ____ her house.

A week after I got my license (驾照), she was with me ____ I had my first accident. She was there and ____ me and we kept it a ____, since I didn’t want people to ____ From then on, through thick and thin (共患难), it was just me , my car and my best friend.

High school is a time of ____, but I couldn’t ____for a long time ____ we became so distant (疏远) after being so close. My friend waited three months after her birthday to get her dream car：a green 2004 Beetle. With its ____, the passenger seat of my car became ____ Our car trips became less frequent (频繁的) ____ I didn’t even drive down her street.

It’s funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I ____it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn’t be the same.

【1】

A．some

B．any

C．none

D．all

【2】

A．closer

B．farther

C．luckier

D．happier

【3】

A．neighbor

B．school

C．home

D．family

【4】

A．holiday

B．birthday

C．course

D．job

【5】

A．guide

B．follower

C．partner

D．driver

【6】

A．picked

B．woke

C．called

D．hurried

【7】

A．parties

B．trips

C．plans

D．classes

【8】

A．happily

B．frequently

C．hardly

D．seldom

【9】

A．to

B．on

C．of

D．for

【10】

A．while

B．but

C．when

D．after

【11】

A．saved

B．suggested

C．advised

D．comforted

【12】

A．favorite

B．secret

C．pride

D．joke

【13】

A．help

B．see

C．know

D．laugh

【14】

A．change

B．disappointment

C．friendship

D．excitement

【15】

A．believe

B．answer

C．imagine

D．understand

【16】

A．when

B．where

C．how

D．what

【17】

A．arrival

B．dream

C．return

D．beauty

【18】

A．broken

B．crowded

C．empty

D．different

【19】

A．however

B．until

C．as

D．before

【20】

A．lost

B．received

C．enjoyed

D．regretted

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。

I always cherished my working experience as a teacher, as I learned a lot from my dear students, those little kids yet full of wisdom, which helped me a lot in my later life.

When I worked in a primary school, Friday afternoon was our school-wide sports program finale (尾声) in the gym. The finale was a series of races and games. There were jump rope relays, basketball relays, soccer relays, minute-to-win-it games and a host of other challenges for my first graders. There were balls escaping, jump ropes tangling (缠绕), and the first graders clapping and cheering each other on with abandon.

One of the hardest games was a basketball shooting game. Each kid stood at a line and shot five baskets. This was a very hard task for first graders. That basket might as well have been in the clouds. One of my darling little girls was chosen for this game.

She was an adorable kid. When she got excited about something, her blue eyes opened wide and she waved her arms. I’d seen her act like this when reading her favorite books, when mastering particularly difficult math problems, when playing after class and especially when she painted.

She stood at the line, basketball in hand, with a serious expression on her face. She shot. Air ball. She scrunched up (皱起) her face in concentration and shot again. Air ball. Her third and fourth shots went through the air and again fell short. Not one of her five shots even came close to the net. Not a single one.

Poor little kid! I felt sorry for her, but didn’t find a chance to comfort her during the finale.

Back in the classroom, those kids were still in excitement. After the conclusion of the sports program, we decided to gather together to talk about all the fun we’d had.

Unexpectedly, my tiny air baller raised her hand, “Mrs. McCauley, I want to share!”

What? What did she want to share? She got five air balls! She must have got me wrong.

Then, she said, “I was nervous about that basketball game at first because I’d never played it before.” She paused. Immediately, I searched in my mind for words of encouragement or some advice, anything, to ease the pain of all those air balls.

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However, she continued with her arms waving in wild excitement, “But then I played the game and I was awesome at it!”

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The next time I was faced with a new challenge, I would remember her face, scrunched up in concentration.

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