朝阳2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测四年级英语

1、— What are you doing now, Li Ming?

— I ________ an article about China’s Change - 4 spacecraft.

A.was reading B.read C.am reading D.will read

2、We ____________ solving international dispute by negotiation, instead of appealing to arms.

A.advocate B.admit C.assess D.approach

3、We are determined that our raining should ______the current development in education.

A. keep pace with B. take possession of

C. make room for D. give birth to

4、—There is good news for you. You’ve been admitted to the Tianjin University.

— ______ That’s great!

A．Have I?

B．Pardon?

C．Congratulations!

D．Good idea!

5、Professional skills are tools like a knife or a hammer. You need ______ to complete the things you want to do.

A.it B.that C.them D.ones

6、A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.

A. nothing   B. none

C. neither   D. no one

7、It came as a great ________ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.

A. relief B. sense

C. relaxion D. favor

8、A cough is usually nothing to worry about unless it lasts for ten days ___.

A.or more B.instead C.at most D.only

9、It’s nearly four years since I worked in that firm. I ________ a band with other fellows.

A. operated         B. had been operating

C. was operating       D. am operating

10、The fact that he didn’t speak a foreign language put him at a(an) ________ disadvantage.

A．remote

B．distinct

C．identical

D．greedy

11、I have heard that it is a common _______ in that country to hold a big party to celebrate when a child turns 15.

A．practice

B．method

C．evidence

D．effects

12、The public were expecting the _______ of further details about the accident until thorough investigation.

A.receipt B.release

C.request D.reference

13、Betty is so lucky to be ______ such a beautiful singing voice.

A．bored with

B．blessed with

C．devoted to

D．related to

14、The old couple, ________ country life, were unwilling to move to the city to live with his son.

A. accustomed to B. buried in

C. addicted to D. exposed to

15、There are lots of examples of English idioms ________ animals are used.

A. which B. when

C. whose D. where

16、----Why are you standing the street in such hot weather?

----I just can’t help it. I am appointed to interview people ______to learn about the customers’ feedback on our products.

A. at random   B. at hand

C. at best   D. at intervals

17、—What’s up? You look worried.

—Well, I ______ on the problem for 5 hours but I haven’t got a single clue.

A. have worked B. worked

C. will work D. have been working

18、This restaurant has become popular for its wide ______ of foods that suit all tastes and pockets.

A.production B.offer

C.range D.division

19、To ______ the turkey, people often prepare other things, such as cornbread, mashed potatoes (土豆泥), and pumpkin or apple pie.

A.come across B.go with C.search for D.figure out

20、You will never be successful _____ you are fully devoted to you work.

A. because B. unless   C. if D. when

21、   Professional athletes pay a high price for their pursuit of excellence and glory. Training to the limit tears muscles and wears out joints. Gymnasts often need hip replacements when barely into middle age. Few footballers make it to the end of their careers with their knees intact.

But many also run a darker risk: doping — the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors. The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, in South Korea, starts this week in its shadow. Years after whistle-blowers first revealed wholesale (大规模的) doping in Russia, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at last decided to bar it from taking part. But it has allowed many Russians to compete as individuals. And on the eve of the competition the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said that 28 others should receive a more tolerant penalty from the IOC, further muffling the anti-doping message.

Russia’s doping is unusual only in its scale and institutional nature. No country or sport is immune. Studies, and an anonymous survey at the World Athletics Championships in 2011, suggest that a third of athletes preparing for big international competitions take banned substances. Yet just 1-2% fail a test each year. Lance Armstrong, a cyclist who won the Tour de France seven times and later admitted to doping all the while, was tested on 250 occasions. The few times he failed, he avoided punishments by claiming he had taken anti-inflammatories (消炎药) for saddle-sores (骑行引起的肌肉酸痛).

Doping is more sophisticated than when some states used steroids (类固醇) to bulk up athletes. New drugs are designed to be undetectable in a blood or urine sample. Many athletes “blood dope,” receiving transfusions or taking a drug that stimulates the production of red blood cells to improve their physical strength. Soviet athletes who were fed steroids suffered a host of serious problems in later life. They were more likely to commit suicide, or to miscarry (流产) or have a disabled child. No one knows what risks those taking new “designer” versions are running. Blood-doping can cause heart attacks; more than a dozen cyclists’ deaths have already been linked to it.

The agencies that set out to stop doping are hugely outclassed. As the argument over punishments on Russia illustrate, they are divided and weak. Most testing is done by national bodies, which may not try very hard to find evidence that would get their own stars banned. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which oversees them, is packed with officials from national sports federations and the IOC. Their interests are likewise conflicted. Its budget is tiny. The system seems to be designed to look tough but punish only the occasional scapegoat (替罪羊). Honest athletes deserve better.

【1】The word “muffling” (in paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to “   .”

A. deafening B. conveying C. spreading D. weakening

【2】Why did the author cite an instance of Lance Armstrong?

A. To illustrate he is a model of Russian athlete.

B. To show cycling is very popular in France.

C. To indicate doping exists everywhere.

D. To suggest doping is an exception for American athletes.

【3】Which of the following is NOT a side-effect of steroids?

A. Giving birth to an unhealthy child.

B. Suicidal tendencies.

C. Stimulates the production of red blood cells.

D. Unintentionally having a pregnancy end early.

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The CAS should put more severe penalties on Russian athletes.

B. The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang have not been successful due to doping scandals.

C. Doping is quite common among athletes in France and Russia.

D. WADA does a good job monitoring doping in the Olympics.

22、   My colleagues and I investigated the presence of the “musical reminiscence bump(音乐记忆突点)” in a group of 470 adults who were between 18 and 82 years old. Our aim was to investigate how a person’s age when a song was popular affected three related but distinct concepts: the degree to which the song was associated with autobiographical memories, how familiar the song was and how much they liked the song.

Participants in our study were shown the titles and artists of 111 pop songs across a 65-year period (1950-2015) and provided ratings of the three concepts of interest.

We discovered that music during one’s adolescence was not only rated as more familiar, but was also associated with more autobiographical memories. This music-related reminiscence bump reached the highest around age 14. In addition, older adults (around age 40+) also liked songs from their adolescence more than other songs. However, younger adults (aged 18 — 40) did not show this same trend, and in some cases gave even lower liking ratings to music from their adolescence than music released before they were born.

This suggests that songs from our adolescence can become closely related with memories from our past even if we don’t personally value the music. This may be because it has accompanied various memorable settings from this period.

Some songs were preferred regardless of a participant’s age, however. For instance, we saw a general increase in how much people liked songs from the late 1970s to early 1980s, even in participants who weren’t yet born during that time period. This suggests pop music from certain time periods is intergenerationally valued. Examples of songs we used from this time period include Hotel California by the Eagles and Billie Jean by Michael Jackson.

【1】Participants in the investigation are ________.

A．expected to comment on the songs

B．to test the three concepts of songs

C．ranging in ages from a kid to a senior

D．provided the titles and singers of the songs

【2】What do we know about the age 14 in paragraph 3?

A．People listen to songs less after this age.

B．People’s preferences of songs divide at this age.

C．People get most memories from songs of this age.

D．People at this age begin to have autobiographical memories.

【3】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Some songs keep alive beyond time.

B．Years around 1980 are a golden age for music.

C．The memorable situation of a song decides its popularity.

D．Hotel California and Billie Jean are adored across nations.

【4】What is the best title of the passage?

A．Music changes our life

B．Everyone is a follower of songs

C．We’re crazy about music from our youth

D．Songs possess the unique features of a time

23、Bringing in and engaging diverse people in your organization requires awareness and preparation. When employees don't feel included, they're less engaged and productive. 【1】 That's why some leaders are concluding that what they've been doing isn't working. This is a result of bringing people in but not supporting them as full participants in the organization. This is where inclusion comes in.

【2】 When a workplace is truly inclusive, everyone feels like they are valued and their needs are being considered. There's a place, for example, to be a working mother without feeling like you have to apologize or explain that you need to balance work and parenting.

Companies that are good for working moms are also good for humans. 【3】 They want to be part of companies that readily acknowledge people have priorities outside of work and recognize this does not mean they're any less productive or less committed.

Although companies have talked for decades about trying to develop a sense of inclusion for working moms, very little has changed. 【4】 They have to handle questions about limitations such as a lack of time, commitment, and focus.

Working moms are valuable employees who we should actively guide and promote. They bring a lot to the table. In fact, a productivity study of highly skilled workers in 2014 found that parents were more productive than those who were not parents. 【5】

Professional cultures that make employees feel included are places where employees can do their best work, individually and on teams. These cultures experience higher engagement because people are well-positioned to stay for the long term.

A．Inclusion means being aware that each person is unique.

B．Building a culture of inclusion is about thinking long term.

C．Mothers often still have to defend themselves in the workplace.

D．Being a working parent makes it harder to advance in their future.

E．They're not happy and will eventually leave for a better environment.

F．Working moms seek out companies with better support and understanding.

G．Mothers of two or more children were considered the most productive in the study.

24、   Mammals (哺乳动物) tend to get huge when they invade the ocean. Why? Most of the explanations for this trend treat the ocean as a kind of release. The water partly frees mammals from gravity, allowing them to evolve heavy bodies. But to William Gearty from Stanford University, the ocean makes mammals so big not because it relieves them of limits, but because it sets new ones.

"To deal with the constant loss of heat as you get into the water, the easiest way is to get bigger." he explains, "As bodies balloon, volume increases faster than surface area does, so you produce more heat in your body but lose comparatively less of it from your skin."

But there is a limit because larger bodies also demand more fuel, and there's only so much food that an animal can reasonably get. Therefore, the need to stay warm sets a floor for the body size, while the need to eat sets a ceiling. And the gap between them, Gearty found, is surprisingly narrow. "The minimum size of oceanic mammals is thousands of times larger than the minimum for mammals on land, but the maximum size is only 25 times larger," says Gearty.

These trends suggest that the water places strict size limits. Oceanic mammals must be just the right size-big, yes, but not too big and not too small.

And as always in biology, there are exceptions. Whales go way beyond the size limit. Nick Pyenson from the Smithsonian Institution thinks he knows why. Around 3 million years ago, a combination of changes to glaciers (冰川), winds, and currents created a large increase of nutrients in coastal waters, which then fed lots of shrimps and small fish-potential prey (猎物) for whales.

But these bonanzas weren't evenly distributed. Instead, they were concentrated in particular places far apart from each other-all-you-can-eat buffets separated by food deserts. And that Pyenson says, is why the giant whales evolved. They are adapted to hunt down concentrated prey. Their huge size allows them to survive for a long distance without encountering any food. And they evolved a special technique of feeding. The existence of concentrated prey, and the evolution of a technique for capturing them, allowed whales to break the size ceiling. That's why they transformed from big animals into the biggest animals that ever existed.

【1】William Gearty's explanation differ from traditional ones because he believes _________.

A．bigness helps mammals to survive in the water

B．the ocean puts size limits on oceanic mammals

C．oceanic mammals are larger than mammals on land

D．gravity prevents mammals from evolving heavy bodies

【2】We can learn from the passage that _________.

A．the sea mammals have to get as big as they can to hunt for food

B．the need to stay warm decides the size ceiling of oceanic mammals

C．the maximum size of an oceanic mammal depends on its food supply

D．the smallest mammals in the ocean are 25 times as big as those on land

【3】The underlined word "bonanzas" in the last paragraph probably refers to _________.

A．buffets and deserts

B．shrimps and small fish

C．glaciers and currents

D．nutrients and waters

【4】What is the purpose of the passage?

A．To emphasize the importance of big size for the whale.

B．To introduce how whales evolve to survive in the ocean.

C．To explain what influences the sizes of oceanic mammals.

D．To appeal for more scientific studies on oceanic mammals.

25、It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year. Mr. Leonard ________ a little dog going around his camp trying to ________ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all ________, he had packed just enough for the whole ________. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a ________ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog ________ him again. He waved her away, and________ she might be stepped on by the runners. ________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race ________. That night the dog snuggled (依偎) up to Leonard and even ________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to ________ her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi ________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a ________ —he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race ________ my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, ________ just focusing on winning,” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more ________, giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was ________. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ________, he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his ________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is running, and she ________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

【1】

A．recognized

B．spotted

C．adopted

D．treated

【2】

A．accommodate

B．water

C．feed

D．entertain

【3】

A．competitors

B．climbers

C．explorers

D．hikers

【4】

A．month

B．camp

C．day

D．course

【5】

A．habit

B．desire

C．right

D．tendency

【6】

A．bothered

B．stopped

C．welcomed

D．approached

【7】

A．confused

B．worried

C．ashamed

D．astonished

【8】

A．Therefore

B．Meanwhile

C．However

D．Otherwise

【9】

A．ended up

B．got down

C．kicked off

D．came along

【10】

A．refused

B．managed

C．afforded

D．prevented

【11】

A．give

B．award

C．name

D．show

【12】

A．extending

B．setting

C．keeping

D．covering

【13】

A．decision

B．choice

C．comment

D．difference

【14】

A．advocated

B．changed

C．challenged

D．acknowledged

【15】

A．rather than

B．but for

C．regardless of

D．ahead of

【16】

A．impressive

B．painful

C．enjoyable

D．extraordinary

【17】

A．dead

B．sick

C．injured

D．missing

【18】

A．rescue

B．assistance

C．mind

D．defense

【19】

A．sight

B．way

C．hand

D．reach

【20】

A．hardly

B．luckily

C．routinely

D．occasionally

26、假定你是李华，从互联网上得知Banks夫妇的西餐馆在登广告招聘兼职服务员。请写一封电子邮件应聘。

内容包括:

1.发邮件的目的。

2.自我介绍。

3.应聘理由(可开阔视野、交到新朋友等)。

4.表达自己的希望。

注意:1.词数100左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Banks,

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Regards

Li Hua