玉林2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高一英语

1、Having finished the work，__________．

A． it was almost six o’clock

B． supper was ready

C． a postman came and delivered some letters．

D． we had a rest and then had supper

2、________ to learning a second language, whether you are old or young, will add to a lot of fun and broaden your horizons.

A.Devoted B.To be devoted C.Devoting D.Being devoted

3、Science___________ many changes in our lives.

A.has brought out B.has brought up C.has brought about D.has brought back

4、Thanks to the Internet, different kinds of information   in a short time.

A．can be learned   B．has been learned

C．can learn D．has learned

5、Generally speaking, parents’ influence on their children is greater than ________of anyone else’s.

A．one

B．it

C．that

D．those

6、Many people ask the government to make laws to ________ smoking in public places.

A. limit   B. permit

C. ban   D. benefit

7、Bill asked ________ he would give it to father.

A．whether

B．that

C．whether or not

D．why

8、The ordinary people all look at the intelligent man with admiration because under no circumstances ________ to cope with emergencies.

A. he will fail   B. is he failing

C. he is failing   D. will he fail

9、It seems strange that the old man _____ have returned to college to finish the degree he left undone four decades ago.

A. would   B. should

C. could   D. might

10、 --- Sorry, do you mind if I smoke here?

--- Yes, ______.

A. you could   B. go ahead

C. I do   D. my pleasure

11、What a nice day! Let’s go outing, ________?

A．shall we

B．will you

C．do we

D．do you

12、--Mr. Smith, you are fined for over-speeding. Please sign here.

--Fined? Over-speeding?  ________

A. Are you all right?   B. You can't be serious!

C. Mind your own business! D. You asked for it!

13、--- How about putting some pictures into the report?

--- _____ A picture is worth a thousand words.

A．No way.

B．Why not?

C．That’s all right.

D．No matter.

14、It is clearly stated that these regulations ___ everyone in the community, without exception.

A. appeal to   B. adapt to

C. apply to  D. attach to

15、Children must learn just a few basic roles—being safe, being ________ to others and being responsible for themselves.

A. considered   B. considerable

C. considerate   D. considering

16、What Chinese lawmakers begin to consider is a proposed revision to the country's Food Safety Law, ________ includes mandatory(强制性) labeling of GM food.

A. one   B. one which C. one that   D. the one that

17、Peace is necessary to all. After all, it is the United States and China, as the two largest economies in the world, that ________ most from a peaceful and stable Asia-Pacific.

A. are benefited B. will benefit

C. will be benefited D. had benefited

18、I have ______ all the papers but I still can’t find my notes．

A. looked for   B. looked through

C. looked after   D. looked out

19、More and more people prefer jogging in the morning, _______ benefits for health arise from the air rich in oxygen.

A. which B. that C. whose   D. who

20、She was asked back for ________ third interview because she was considered to have ________good understanding of the company culture.

A．the; the

B．a; the

C．/; a

D．a; a

21、I’m writing to complain about the service offered by your company.

I told your service department on November 21 that my washing machine needed repairing, Your service engineers have since been here four times—on December 1l, December 19, December 25 and January 5．The problem was found out on the first visit and the wrong parts were brought by different engineers on the two next visits. The correct part was fitted by the first engineer on the fourth visit.

In short, my complaints are:

a．I had to wait three weeks for an engineer to call and nearly two months for the machine to be repaired.

b．The engineers who called on December 19 and December 25 had been given wrong information by the company, which made me take two half days off unnecessarily.

c．The first and fourth visits lasted a total of thirty minutes. But in the invoice （发票）, I have to pay for four visits of four hours’ work. I will not be paying the invoice for their mistakes and I do hope to receive your answers to these complaints.

Yours,

Robert White

【1】Robert’s main purpose in writing to the company is to tell the company ________.

A．how its service department is operating

B．how its different engineers came for the repair

C．that all of the engineers didn’t give him any help

D．that he refuses to pay the company for their mistakes

【2】The first of Robert’s complaints is that________.

A．it took him three weeks to have the machine repaired

B．it took him nearly sixty days to get his machine repaired

C．it had been almost two months before the first engineer came

D．it took the engineer 3 weeks to find out something wrong with the machine.

【3】The second and third engineers brought the wrong parts because________.

A．the company didn’t tell them exactly what they should do

B．the company didn't tell them where the correct parts were

C．they were not sure about whether the machine worked or not

D．they hadn’t been told where the right parts should be fitted.

【4】It can be inferred from the letter that Robert promises to pay for________.

A．three hours’ work B．half an hour’s work

C．an hour’s work D．four hours’ work

22、   When a company takes on the task of providing financial services to people overlooked by large banks, that would seem to be a good thing: Such customers need bank accounts, debit cards, and credit just like everyone else. In 2016, nearly 10 million American households didn't have any interaction with a bank, and nearly 25 million households had bank accounts but used alternative financing options (such as prepaid debit cards, alternative credit cards, or payday loans) to make ends meet.

One would hope that financial offers geared toward the under-banked—who often have low credit scores, histories of financial instability, and limited education—would include modest interest rates, easily decipherable (简单易懂的) language, and enough oversight (监管) to ensure that already-struggling families don't get taken advantage of. But that is often not the case. For examples, payday lenders frequently charge astronomically high interest rates for those who are unable to quickly pay off their debts, and prepaid-card companies often include additional fees that owners of standard debit cards don't have to deal with, such as charges for simply loading money onto their cards.

These practices can leave people, who are already struggling to get their finances in order, in even worse shape than they were when they signed up for a new product. The problem isn't that companies targeting the under-banked exist at all, but that many exploit a lack of financial knowledge and alternative options to extract excess money from their customers.

Credit-card issuers that target those with poor credit scores are another group with questionable practices, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In its research, the CFPB found that the costs of cards issued by these companies are significantly higher than the costs of cards issued by more traditional competitors. These specialized lenders are much more likely to approve not just subprime individuals (次级贷款人), but the deepest subprime individuals-those with credit scores that fall below 600.

Why isn't a higher approval rate for those with very bad credit a good thing? Isn't that more inclusive? Not always. Some credit-card companies' business models depend on charging their customers high fees — people who are unlikely to be able to afford them. These increased fees are for things that are inescapable, such as monthly account maintenance. (Major credit-card companies, on the other hand, are making most of their money from collecting late payments and interest, not recurring fees.) Customers of these subprime companies don't need to do anything unusual to rack up fees-that's just a part of signing up.

But perhaps worse than the high costs of the cards is the way that these companies recruit customers. They target them by mailing pre-approved offers that contain intentionally opaque, high-level financial language and agreements that are, on average 70 percent longer than card agreements from other lenders, according to the CFPB.

“Despite offering longer and more complex credit-card terms than mass market issuers, they send those mailings disproportionately to consumers with lower levels of formal education,” the CFPB report found. “Specifically, agreements for credit-card products marketed primarily by subprime specialist issuers are particularly difficult to read.” According to the report, making sense of these statements would typically require at least two years of college or post-high-school education. Less than half of the people targeted by these lenders have any college education, and the number of such households sent direct mail by these lenders doubled between 2016 and 2018.

【1】The examples cited in paragraph 2 are intended to show that ______________.

A.payday loans are no better product than prepaid debit cards

B.American large banks often ignore the already-struggling families

C.financial company should provide high-quality service to poor families

D.poor American households are exploited by the financial companies

【2】According to the third paragraph, the under-banked may be subjected to __________.

A.a lack of update for economic information

B.a greater personal financial loss

C.the sign-up of a new financial product

D.the exploitation of alternative choices

【3】According to paragraph 6, the author believes the companies' promoting behavior is _______________.

A.useful for its professional content

B.convincing for its pre-approved format

C.misleading for its vague instruction

D.objective for its high-level financial language

【4】Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.Poorly educated consumers are welcomed by the financial company.

B.Complex credit-card terms are needed for the lender’s safety.

C.Credit card could be issued only to people with college education.

D.There might be a boom for financial company between 2012 and 2014.

23、BEIJING -  A research team led by Chinese scientists have discovered dietary modulation of gut microbiota（膳食干预肠道菌群）can alleviate both genetic and simple obesity in children.

The findings of the team, led by Zhao Liping with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yin Aihua with the Guangdong province children's hospital, and Tang Huiru with Chinese Academy of Sciences, have been published on EBioMedicine, a renowned medical journal co-sponsored by Cell and The Lancet in July.

The team identified bacterial genomes specifically for producing obesity-related metabolites（代谢物）, and said an improved gut microbiota can significantly help to treat genetic obesity such as Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS).

Beginning in childhood, PWS affected kids develop an insatiable appetite, leading to chronic overeating and obesity.

The scientists used a diet therapy with beneficial gut bacteria on trial patients and found considerable diminished appetite, weight loss and improved health conditions on the patients.

The paper concluded dysbiosis （失调）of gut microbiota is highly related with both genetic and simple obesity in children, implicating dietary modulation of gut microbiota a potentially effective treatment method.

【1】 Which of the following factors contributes to child obesity?

A. dietary modulation of gut microbiota

B. beneficial gut bacteria

C. an improved gut microbiota

D. dysbiosis of gut microbiota

【2】 Which can replace the underlined word “diminished”？

A. unsatisfied  B. increased

C. decreased D. good

【3】 Where is the passage extracted?

A. Medicine book   B. Science book

C. Doctor’s instructions   D. News report

【4】 Which might be the best title for the passage?

A. Chinese scientists discover treatment to child obesity.

B .The reasons for genetic obesity in children has been found.

C. Obesity-related research has been done by Chinese scientists.

D. An effective treatment to obesity has been found.

24、Consumers everywhere are faced with the same dilemma: given limited resources, what sorts of purchases are most likely to produce lasting happiness and satisfaction? Recent research has confirmed that experiential purchases tend to produce greater hedonic (享乐的） gains than material purchases.

The reason why experiences improve with time may be because it is possible to think about experiences in a more abstract manner than possessions. For example, if you think back to a fantastic summer from your youth, you might easily remember an abstract sense of warm sunshine and youthful exuberant (生气勃勃), but you're less likely to remember exactly what you did day-by-day.

Material possessions are harder to think about in an abstract sense. The car you bought is still a car, that great new jacket you picked up cheap is still just a jacket. It’s more likely the experience of that summer has taken on a symbolic meaning that can live longer in your memory than a possession.

Purchasing may have a negative impact on happiness because consumers often buy “joyless” material possessions, resulting in comfort but not pleasure. In general, people adapt to experiences more slowly than to material purchase. This can be seen in both negative and positive purchases: hedonic adaptation would result in a positive experience causing more happiness but a negative experience causing less happiness than the comparable material purchase with the same initial happiness level.

Experience, however, seems to be more resistant to these sorts of unfavourable comparisons. It is because of the unique nature of experience. It’s more difficult to make an unfavourable comparison when there is nothing directly comparable. After all, each of our youthful summers is different.

It’s well established that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events. One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000, instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000.

A similar effect is seen for possessions. When there are so many flat-screen HD TVs to choose from, it's easy to make unfavourable comparisons between our choice and the others available.

【1】An abstract sense in the passage refers to awareness of something ________.

A. you cannot think about

B. you can’t remember well

C. you cannot understand

D. you cannot see or touch

【2】If you make an experiential purchase before a material purchase, you may go to __________.

A. a theatre before going to a store

B. an exhibition before going to a park

C. a mall before going to a grocer's

D. a market before going to a restaurant

【3】The example of earnings is given to actually indicate __________.

A. how ridiculous people are

B. how people feel content

C. how nearsighted people are

D. how people hold prejudice

【4】It is implied in the passage that, after their material purchases, people might __________.

A. enjoy their ownership of what they have bought

B. pick every fault in the products they have got

C. regret making a wrong decision to buy the items

D. leave what they’ve purchased untouched at home

25、When I was little and something difficult happened,I would look to my mother for comfort and guidance. She was always there for me, helping me _________the issue.No matter what,my mom had a _________outlook (人生观)．

At the time, I had no knowledge of the difficulties and _________she had experienced. Growing up during the Great Depression, my mom lost two sisters and had to _________her paraplegic (下身瘫痪的)youngest sister.

To me, my mother defines resilience (快速恢复的能力).She had such strong faith and was a very _________and positive person. Our house was like a central hub (核心)for family and friends; no one ever left hungry or without feeling a bit _________than they did when they arrived.

As a child, one thing my mother would often say to me was, “this too shall pass." At first, I found this _________ .What I was dealing with seemed like the most_________thing ever! How would it get better? As I matured, I_________she was right. Life moves on and we all have a_________to move forward or back. She always chose to move forward.

“This too shall pass" doesn't mean that the problem will magically________. Rather, it can lead to a very reflective thought process that _________you to find inner strength to_________the challenge at hand.

So as you face difficulties and challenges. I _________my mother's advice will help you choose to move forward, find_________and make the best of what life has to offer.

【1】

A．work through

B．believe in

C．focus on

D．worry about

【2】

A．simple

B．similar

C．positive

D．new

【3】

A．shame

B．losses

C．arguments

D．competition

【4】

A．remind

B．trust

C．respect

D．support

【5】

A．different

B．interesting

C．giving

D．normal

【6】

A．safer

B．busier

C．smarter

D．better

【7】

A．annoying

B．frightening

C．surprising

D．appealing

【8】

A．enjoyable

B．difficult

C．boring

D．valuable

【9】

A．realized

B．imagined

C．doubted

D．expected

【10】

A．right

B．choice

C．responsibility

D．way

【11】

A．change

B．develop

C．disappear

D．continue

【12】

A．forces

B．helps

C．warms

D．persuades

【13】

A．answer

B．accept

C．understand

D．address

【14】

A．agree

B．wonder

C．hope

D．remember

【15】

A．solutions

B．challenges

C．results

D．purposes

26、假如你是某中学英语报的小记者，请你以“Follow Traffic Rules”为题，写一篇英语短文投稿给你校英语报。内容主要包括：1. 行人不遵守交通规则的现象及危害；2. 举例说明你是如何遵守交通规则；3. 呼吁大家遵守交通规则。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 题目和首句已为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：pedestrian crossing人行横道

Follow Traffic Rules

Nowadays, breaking traffic rules is not uncommon in our city.

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