博州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、－You know, people have different opinions about the construction of the project.

－We welcome any comments from them, favorable or _______.

A. so B. otherwise

C. else D. rather

2、Go for a walk in the countryside, you can enjoy the beautiful views and a peaceful atmosphere.

A．when

B．which

C．where

D．what

3、Why didn't you tell me there was no meeting today? I all the way here through the heavy snow.

A.needn't have driven B.couldn't have driven

C.should have driven D.must have driven

4、QQ, _________ you can chat with your friends, makes communication easy.

A.as B.which C.that D.where

5、---Sorry, sir, but I'm still very concerned about my daughter.

---Relax. You'll be glad to see she _____to her new life the next time you come.

A.accommodated B.has accommodated

C.will be accommodating D.will have accommodated

6、______ is important in study is diligence rather than intelligence.

A. Which B. What

C. Who D. When

7、（题文）A good government is not to pick technologies, but to establish conditions ________ innovation is supported and encouraged into the marketplace.

A. when   B. that

C. as   D. where

8、---Can I pay the bill by credit card?

---Sorry, sir. But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment ______________ be made in cash.

A.shall B.need

C.will D.must

9、This unjust ___________ of people on the basis of skin color was challenged.

A.summary B.structure C.separation D.submission

10、Some very common things such as ________to the strong sunlight for a long time will do harm to the skin and even cause skin cancer.

A．exposing

B．having exposing

C．being exposed

D．exposed

11、   laborers can be released from ting and repetitive task on the production line by industrial robots.

A.Artificial B.Authentic C.Innovative D.Manual

12、As is expected, AI is an area _______ China may appear as a leading force.

A. that B. where

C. which D. when

13、As they’re handmade, each one __________ slightly in shape.

A.various B.varied C.varies D.variety

14、One of the biggest culture differences I noticed in London was ______ the people of London conducted themselves..

A．that

B．how

C．what

D．why

15、After the Shenzhou XII capsule was launched into orbit, three astronauts successfully went into its space core module Tianhe and accomplished a three-month mission, thus again ________ China is a global space power.

A．proved

B．to prove

C．to have proved

D．proving

16、Look at this year's sales figures________ last year's；they're much better.

A．between

B．from

C．with

D．against

17、Our school has recently obtained the latest multimedia equipment, __________ students to learn efficiently under special circumstances.

A.allowing B.being allowed C.having allowed D.allowed

18、_______for the wrong turning on the highway, I would be having dinner with my friends now.

A.Had it not been B.Were it not C.It had not been D.It were not

19、---Can you come on Monday of Tuesday？

---I'm afraid__________ day is possible.

A. either B. neither

C. some D. any

20、Though it is 5 years________ he retired from his work place, the old professor remains active in the academic circles.

A．when

B．that

C．before

D．since

21、What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.

“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.

In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.

The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.

“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”

Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.

Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”

Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.

Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”

During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.

He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.

【1】The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.

A. public colleges

B. land-grant schools

C. research universities

D. initial higher education

【2】Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?

A. People enjoy a quality life.

B. People live longer and longer.

C. The freedom to move around.

D. An environment that is sustainable.

【3】Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?

A. Restructuring the teachers College.

B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.

C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.

D. Enrolling more students from poor families.

【4】Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?

A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.

B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.

C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.

D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.

【5】With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.

A. enroll 40% of its students online

B. keep costs down without a loss of quality

C. provide an even greater number of courses

D. attract the most gifted students all over the world

22、   A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because poliomyelitis (小儿麻痹症) made his leg lame and his teeth uneven. He seldom played with his classmates; and when the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always lowered his head without a word.

One spring, the boy’s father asked for some saplings (树苗) from the neighbor. He told his children to plant a sapling each person. The father said, “Whose seedling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite gift.” The boy also wanted to get his father’s gift. But seeing his brothers and sisters carrying water to water the trees happily, anyhow, he hit upon an idea: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never attended to it.

A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was surprised to find it not only didn’t wilt, but also grew some fresh leaves, and compared with the trees of his brother and sister, his appeared greener and more vital. His father kept his promise, bought the little boy his favorite gift and said to him: from the tree he planted, he would become an outstanding botanist when he grew up.

Since then, the little boy slowly became optimistic. One day, the little boy lay on the bed but couldn't sleep. Looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, he suddenly recalled what the biology teacher once said, plants generally grow at night. Why not go to see the tree? When he came to the courtyard on tiptoe, he found his father was splashing something under his tree with a ladle (勺子). He returned to his room, tears running down his face.

Decades passed. The little boy didn’t become a botanist, but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

【1】Why didn’t the boy answer the teacher’s question?

A.He couldn’t concentrate on the class.

B.All the students looked down on him.

C.He lacked confidence because of his illness.

D.He was an unfortunate boy with learning disability.

【2】Why did the father ask the children to plant trees?

A.The neighbor required him to do it.

B.He expected them to be botanists.

C.He wanted to encourage the disabled boy.

D.The children asked for their favorite gifts.

【3】What does the underlined word “wilt” mean?

A.Become weak. B.Become strong.

C.Become beautiful. D.Become green.

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

A.An Unfortunate Boy

B.Nutrition of Growth

C.A Loving Father

D.The Unselfish Love

23、Despite the fact that parrots are well known for their long lives and complex cognition(认知), it remains unknown whether the two features have influenced each other.

“The problem has been sourcing good quality data,” said Simeon Smeele, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior(MPI-AB), and lead author of the study that tried to solve this question.

Scientists from the MPI-AB and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology(MPI-EvA)teamed up with Species 360 to collect data from over 130,000 individual parrots sourced from over 1,000 zoos to find the average lifespan(寿命)of 217 parrot species.

The analysis revealed an astonishing diversity in life expectancy, ranging from an average of two years for the fig parrot up to an average of 30 years for the scarlet macaw.

Next, the team tried to determine whether or not parrots’ famous cognitive abilities had any influence on their lifespans. Their results support the theory that increased brain size has enabled longer lifespans. Because brain size relative to body size can be an indicator of intelligence, the findings suggested that the parrots with larger brains were able to survive for longer in the wild.

The scientists were surprised that factors such as diet, or the greater developmental time required to develop larger brains, did not lead to longer average lifespans.

In the future, the team plan to explore if sociality and cultural learning in parrots might have also contributed to long lifespans. Smeele said: “Large-brained birds might spend more time socially learning foraging(觅食)techniques that have been around for multiple generations. This increased learning period could potentially also explain the longer life spans, as it takes more time but also makes the foraging techniques more adaptive.”

【1】What did the study aim to find out about parrots?

A．The diversity in their life expectancies.

B．The factors that influence their intelligence.

C．The features that help them survive in the wild.

D．The link between their cognition and lifespan.

【2】How did the researchers carry out their study?

A．By surveying over 1,000 zoos.

B．By examining parrots’ brains.

C．By analyzing the collected data.

D．By observing parrots’ behavior.

【3】Which is a possible cause of parrots’ long lifespans?

A．Their diet.

B．Their larger brains.

C．Their body size.

D．Their brains’ development time.

【4】What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．Supporting evidence for the research results.

B．Further research based on current findings.

C．Potential application of the research findings.

D．A further explanation of the research methods.

24、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

After serving as a ski guide in Utah’s back country for more than two decades, a Park City woman is being recognized by Outside Magazine as 2015’s Best Ski Guide.

Deb Lovci grew up in Colorado and began skiing when she was five years old. Later she moved to Utah and fell in love with the back country of Wasatch Mountains. Lovci has now served as a Ski Utah Interconnect guide for 27 years. “Anything that you slide on snow, I’m in love with, ” she said.

Lovci leads ski tours through the back country of six different resorts located in the Wasatch Mountains. Lovci typically takes a group of eight to ten people on a ski tour each day, and on average, she takes 300 customers on tours through the back country each season. She loves showing off Utah’s wilderness. “I love the back country,” she said. “I love the snow science behind it. I love the safety … I just love it.”

Along with leading ski tours, Lovci is passionate about anything related to activities. She also runs a bed-and-breakfast in Park City, the Old Town Guest House. As “a jack-of- all-trades”, she also runs Alpine skis, Nordic skis competitively, and snowboards, and leads mountain bike tours during the summer.

Outside Magazine selected five travel guides in various outdoor fields to name as the best in their Best of Travel April issue. Lovci said she was unexpectedly cheerful when she was selected as 2015’s Best Ski Guide by Outside Magazine. “We all work really hard in what we do and we love it and it’s really nice to get acknowledged,” she said. “I work with a lot of excellent guides and the award could have gone to anybody — any one of us. I often recall my ski experiences which were fearful at the beginning, but they helped me achieve a success.”

In a news release, Ski Utah director of communications, Paul Marshall said, “Deb Lovci is one of the most enthusiastic, focused, knowledgeable guides in the industry. Without her as the forefront of our Interconnect Tour, we would not have the success we have. She has been an enthusiastic part of the Interconnect Tour for 27 years and is thought highly of by our customers.”

【1】 What helped Deb Lovci to be selected as 2015’s Best Ski Guide?

A. Her being ready for any ski risks.

B. Her love for Utah’s wilderness and her ski experiences.

C. Her dreaming of the best ski job on the planet.

D. Her gender and age.

【2】The underlined words “a jack-of- all-trades” in Para. 4 probably mean “someone ______”.

A. who is very skilled at communicating

B. who can be recognized as a workaholic

C. who is enthusiastic about doing business

D. who can do many different types of work

【3】 From Paul Marshall’s words, we can infer that _______.

A. Lovci should have helped them in the tour

B. everyone should think highly of Lovci

C. Lovci deserved the award.

D. Lovci achieved her success with Interconnect Tour’s help.

【4】 What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Deb Lovci —2015’s Best Ski Guide

B. Deb Lovci and Outside Magazine

C. The Ski Utah Interconnect Tour

D. Deb Lovci — a ski guide for 27 years

25、   A Labrador has been doing an important job to help people stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight-year-old Roby runs through the streets of the hilly city of Medellin several times a day with a ______ in his jaws, taking vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to customers of the Fresh4U mini-market.

“He helps us to maintain social distancing,” said Roby’ owner, Sherry Botero. “And people ______ it when we send the dog.” Roby enjoys eating carrots ______ to him by customers, a tip for bringing a basket of food.

Roby wasn’t always a star. He was accepted into the family ______ by Ms Botero after repeated requests by her son to ______ a dog.

But Ms Botero quickly ______ with the dog. And when she opened a mini-market four years ago, he started to accompany her to make deliveries.

Roby can’t read ______. But he remembers the names of customers who have previously rewarded him with treats. And with some practice, he has learned to go to their houses on his own.

“He knows the names of five or six of our customers,” Ms Botero said, “So I send the goods with a receipt in the basket, and my customers ______ me through a bank transfer(转账；转移).”

Roby might not know that he’s become an ______ worker. But he is happy to help his owner and ______ his daily pay.

A．bag

B．chain

C．basket

D．stick

A．respect

B．love

C．follow

D．notice

A．gifted

B．returned

C．lent

D．donated

A．intentionally

B．regretfully

C．immediately

D．unwillingly

A．adopt

B．train

C．adore

D．walk

A．got away

B．kept in touch

C．caught up

D．fell in love

A．minds

B．addresses

C．numbers

D．receipts

A．treat

B．help

C．pay

D．impress

A．essential

B．honest

C．optimistic

D．adventurous

A．spend

B．calculate

C．collect

D．increase

26、假定你是李华，准备参加学校英语演讲比赛，请以“Say No to Students’ Smartphone Use”为题写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：

1.学生使用智能机现状；

2.使用智能机造成的弊端；

3.提出倡议。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答；

3. 开头已给出，不计入词数。

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,

I’m Li Hua, from Senior 3. My topic today is “Say No to Students’ Smartphone Use”.

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