神农架2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、________ being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine.

A. If   B. Since   C. Until   D. Although

2、(2014·天津卷)Anxiously, she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only _________ it didn’t fit

A．to find

B．found

C．finding

D．having found

3、Now it’s possible for us to be taken into “space”, ________ we can experience weightlessness for a short time.

A．which

B．where

C．when

D．that

4、Nine in ten parents said there were significant differences in their approach to educating their children compared with ________ of their parents.

A. those   B. one   C. that   D. it

5、—Gosh, I feel I have messed up my whole life.

—Cheer up. Things will _______.

A．hold out

B．work out

C．stand out

D．set out

6、Mr. Brown thought it would be a good idea to have ________ from his workers to improve his plan.

A．summaries

B．admissions

C．comments

D．connections

7、I needn’t have been in that hurry. The flight to Chongqing ______ due to the foggy weather.

A. has cancelled B. was cancelled

C. will be cancelling  D. had cancelled

8、 The “Chinese Dream” is ________ dream to improve people's well－being and ________ dream of harmony, peace and development.

A．the; a

B．a; a

C．a; the

D．the; the

9、—Do you feel much better now?

—Yes. The medicine does work ______ emotional and mental health.

A．in case of

B．because of

C．as a result of

D．in terms of

10、—The lecture about 3D technology was very interesting.

—It’s a pity. How I wish I ________ time to attend it.

A. had   B. have   C. had had   D. have had

11、I like your products very much ________ quality but I think the price is too high.

A．in charge of

B．in place of

C．in terms of

D．in spite of

12、The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter______ its structure rather than its chemical composition.

A. lives up to B. gets down to

C. comes down to D. stands up to

13、I hope when you come tomorrow, you _____ the reading and have something to share.

A. did   B. are doing

C. will be doing   D. will have done

14、Bing Dwen Dwen, has a massive fan base, and people are going crazy for products                     the smiling panda.

A．featuring

B．featured

C．to feature

D．feature

15、Nantong has become one of the most_____cities in the Yangtze River Delta through innovation.

A.dynamic B.conservative C.primitive D.ethnic

16、Happiness and success often come to those   are good at recognizing their own strengths.

A. whom   B. who   C. what   D. which

17、To win the trust of the employees, your factory should see to________that accounts and operations are as transparent as possible.

A.it B.them C.you D.one

18、From 1902 to 1904, Picasso painted a series of pictures________ the main color was blue.

A.which B.that C.where D.when

19、______ Long had been riding horses for many years, the hardship and uncertainty of the task pushed him to his limit.

A．Although

B．Unless

C．Once

D．If

20、We climbed up to the top of a hill,   we got a good view of the whole forest park.

A. which   B. where

C. when   D. that

21、In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it. Polish kids have now outscored(超过……分数) American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does. One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Warsaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind.

That American high schools waste more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint. This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities. This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment(PISA) results are announced, it’s safe to predict that American high-school students will once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers.

Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it. And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too. She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D.C., which costs thirty thousand dollars a year. The tour leader—a mother with three children in the school—was asked about the school’s flaws(暇疵). When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted. When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned. “Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?”

One of the ironies(讽刺) of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible. American kids’ performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expectations are high. It’s too bad that their test scores show the same thing.

【1】According to Paragraph 2, we know that _______.

A. too much importance is placed on sports in America

B. little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools

C. American high schools complain about sports time

D. PISA plays a very important role in America

【2】The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _______.

A. American students’ academic performance worries their parents a lot

B. high expectations push up American students’ academic performance

C. low expectations result in American students’ poor PISA performance

D. lacking practice contributes to American students’ average performance

【3】The purpose of this article is to _______.

A. draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition

B. call on American schools to learn from the Polish model

C. compare Polish schools with those in America

D. explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions

22、Su Hua is studying at Cambridge, UK. She has bought a bicycle and is worried about security (安全). Her friend, Kate, found this article and sent it to her.

【1】Which part of the text gives you information on how to lock up your bicycle when you leave it?

A. Locks.   B. Marking.

C. Registration. D. Basic Security.

【2】The underlined phrase “act as a deterrent to a thief” means ______.

A. help you recognize your bike

B. help the police find your bicycle

C. stop someone stealing your bicycle

D. stop you worrying about your bike

【3】The main purpose of this article is _________.

A. to tell you what to do if your bicycle is stolen

B. to suggest ways of keeping your bicycle safe

C. to give you advice on where to buy a good lock

D. to say why you shouldn’t keep your bicycle in a quiet place

23、   Smoking can reduce stress and it's better for a smoker's health to continue smoking. 【1】 The answer is that smoking does not reduce stress. The “stress reduction” that people think they feel after smoking is just an illusion（幻觉）.

How was a cigarette the first time you tried it? Usually, first-time smokers only feel bad and don’t get any pleasurable feelings from it. 【2】 .

When a person continues smoking, their brain becomes lazy and does not readily release the feelings of happiness. When the nicotine in their body runs out, withdrawal symptoms（脱瘾症状）cause them to feel less satisfaction. 【3】 The situation can be compared to wearing overly tight shoes and then obtaining a feeling of relief after taking them off. 【4】.

It is said that more than four million people die each year from smoking. That number is frightening. Yet people around the world continue to smoke. In the United States, about forty-seven million adults smoke. This year, more than 430,000 Americans died of diseases which have something to do with smoking. The American Cancer Society（美国癌症协会）says smoking harms the body greatly. It warns that smoking even a number of cigarettes is dangerous. We know that around half of smokers die early due to smoking-related illnesses. 【5】 Even if smoking did reduce stress, since it is bad for the health it would be a mistaken choice. Nicotine withdrawal symptoms last only a week at most. You can definitely quit.

A.Is this true?

B.It's unbelievable for us to smoke every day.

C.But we do not say “tight shoes relieve foot stress.”

D.They can continue smoking if they want to gain excitement and happiness.

E.Then forcing oneself to quit is better for the health than continuing to smoke.

F.This is because just introducing nicotine into the body does not improve one's mood.

G.When the persons smoke again, they resupply the nicotine in their body and gain a sense of satisfaction for a time.

24、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项.

Do you know electricity can change the way we taste food? Proving this fact is a revolutionary electric fork designed by Japanese researchers that can make any dish taste salty.

According to Hiromi Nakamura, a Post Doc Research Fellow at

Tokyo’s Meiji University, the technology can be very useful for people on

special diets. Patients with high blood pressure, for instance, can easily go

on a low-salt diet and still enjoy delicious food. And with the fork, there’s absolutely no risk of over-salting their food. Luckily, the voltage(电压) is so small that there is no risk of electrocution(触电) either.

The idea of adding electricity to food was first exposed as an experiment at the Computer

Human Interaction Conference in Austin, Texas, in 2012. Nakamura and her team connected a wire

to a 9-volt battery and passed it through a straw placed in a cup of sweet lemonade. Volunteers

reported that the charged lemonade tasted ‘blander’, because the electricity created the taste of salt.

Nakamura has improved the technology to be able to transfer an electric charge to food through

forks and chopsticks. “The metallic part of the fork is one electrode（电极）, and the handle is the

other,” Nakamura explained. “When you take a piece of food with the fork and put it in your mouth,

you connect the circuit. When you remove the fork from your mouth, you disconnect the circuit. So

it actually works as a switch.”

Simon Klose, host of food program Munchies, who recently visited Nakamura to try out the

fork himself, called this form of ‘food hacking’ one of the greatest eating experiences he’d ever had.

“When I first heard of electric food, it sounded scary,” he said. He later continued to use a charged

fork to eat pieces of fried chicken, and found that the saltiness considerably increased as the electricity was connected.

Nakamura has been eating ‘electric’ food for the past three to four years in an attempt to

understand it better. “For me, ‘food hacking’ is about strengthening or weakening real food,” she

said. “It may seem like we’re cooking but we’re actually working on the human senses.”

【1】The electric fork may benefit people who__________.

A. need to go on a diet    B. have high blood pressure

C. prefer food free of salt  D. show interest in tasty food

【2】 Paragraph 4 mainly tells us _________.

A. how the electric fork works

B. what makes the circuit connected

C. how the technology was improved

D. why the electric fork was invented

【3】 From the passage, we learn that the electric fork______.

A. creates virtual taste B. changes people’s diets

C. helps cure diseases  D. replaces salt in cooking

25、Growing up, moments with Mum were painfully short. That’s because we spent most of the year at our boarding school in Singapore, __ only during the holidays. Every year, she would __ expect our reunion.

However, those sweet, cherished moments gradually __ as I grew older and moved further away from home for university. And soon, our __ became tense. Weekly phone calls filled with small talk were too __ to ever develop into real talk, real feelings. The __ led to arguments instead. To me she seemed unable to __ that I was no longer a kid, thus, forcing me to hold back information or even lie frequently. But the more I pulled away, the more I felt __ . Perhaps the journey to the local museum would give us a __ to breathe it back to life.

When we got there, we __ for a joint drawing activity. Secretly I hoped producing something together would help us connect. Later, when a digital screen __ our works, Mum went up to the screen and reached out, __ the fish as if doing so would __ it to life. That momentary glance of my mother’s childlike __ and delight at a new experience revealed the little girl in her, who like me, had lost a vital __ to the trials and responsibilities of adulthood and motherhood.

【1】

A．appearing

B．returning

C．leaving

D．escaping

【2】

A．cautiously

B．calmly

C．carefully

D．eagerly

【3】

A．disappeared

B．refused

C．decreased

D．increased

【4】

A．relationship

B．gap

C．agreement

D．situation

【5】

A．popular

B．normal

C．rushed

D．regular

【6】

A．pain

B．damage

C．balance

D．tension

【7】

A．understand

B．predict

C．tolerate

D．guarantee

【8】

A．narrow

B．empty

C．useless

D．lonely

【9】

A．gift

B．reward

C．chance

D．courage

【10】

A．calmed down

B．checked out

C．looked out

D．signed up

【11】

A．displayed

B．exposed

C．reported

D．marked

【12】

A．researching

B．touching

C．witnessing

D．designing

【13】

A．fetch

B．carry

C．bring

D．take

【14】

A．judgment

B．patience

C．confidence

D．curiosity

【15】

A．connection

B．impression

C．reaction

D．donation

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段话，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The e-mail request came in to Ekiben restaurant in Baltimore late on a Thursday afternoon in March: tempura broccoli(天妇罗花椰菜). The man who sent the e-mail didn't actually want the food itself. He was writing on behalf of his mother-in-law, who adored the dish. He went on to explain that she was now in the final stages of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the recipe to make it for her there.

Steve Chu, one of the Asian restaurant's co-owners, read the e-mail and quickly replied with an alternative suggestion. "Thanks for reaching out." he wrote. "We'd like to meet you in Vermont and make it fresh for you."

Brandon Jones, the son-in-law, was shocked. He e-mailed back, saying, "You do know that this is Vermont we're talking about, right?" said Brandon. But Steve responded, "No problem. You tell us the date, time, and location and we'll be there."

For the past six years, every time Brandon's mother-in-law visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was Ekiben so she could have that broccoli. "I really wanted her to have it one more time," Brandon said.

"She had always told us, 'When I'm on my deathbed, I want to have that broccoli,'" recalled Brandon's wife. Rina Jones.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150词左右；

2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1:

That Friday after work, a day after receiving Brandon's e-mail, Chu and his team were ready to set off. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2:

As soon as the door was opened, the mother recognized the amazing smell as well as Chu and his coworkers.   ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________