2024-2025年安徽铜陵初一下册期末英语试卷

1、The students poured out of the teaching building, with the school ________.

A.to finish B.having finished C.finishes D.finished

2、He couldn’t ________ his idea in the speech, so we didn’t know what he had meant to say.

A.get back B.get into C.get across D.get through

3、On June 17th, an earthquake hit Chang Ning, ______ a lot of villages damaged.

A. left B. to leave C. leaving D. has left

4、He explained ______ for his father's birthday party.

A.why was he late B.why is he late

C.why he is late D.why he was late

5、Smiling and laughing has actually been shown to _________and stress.

A.put on pressure B.fed up with C.relieve tension D.try out for

6、One year after the earthquake, a new school building was _____, and students could study again.

A.gone up B.turned up C.picked up D.put up

7、Su Song was an eleventh century monk ________ very little is known.

A.which B.whom C.about whom D.for which

8、In his own restaurant，he would immediately fire any employee who was ________ to a customer.

A. rude B. considerate

C. accessible D. selfish

9、Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, _____ obtaining water is not the least.

A. of which B. for what

C. as     D. whose

10、Vertical farms have the potential to reduce or eliminate the need to create additional farmland, for it is estimated that by the year 2050, the world's population __________ by 30 billion and close to 80% will live in urban areas.

A. will be increasing B. will increase

C. will have increased D. has increased

11、Marathon is intended to put the athletes to a challenging test of   and willpower.

A.insistence B.endurance C.preservation D.bravery

12、Liberty, equality, and fraternity are the ideals _______ human beings have been fighting.

A.to which B.against which C.with which D.for which

13、— The water changes into thick ice covering rivers and lakes in winter in Harbin. 

— _________ in Urumqi and children go skating on it then.

A.So is it B.So it does C.So it is D.So does it

14、At the beginning of the year 2020, students never thought they____________ such a long winter vacation.

A.would have B.are having

C.have D.have had

15、The word "media" basically refers to ________ we commonly call newspapers, magazines, radios and televisions.

A．which

B．that

C．what

D．where

16、It snowed heavily; ______, lots of flights have been put off until further notice.

A.or else B.as a result

C.as well D.as a matter of fact

17、His promise___________ he would give away half of the year's income to the disabled turned out a lie, _________  made the public feel cheated．

A．which； what

B．that； which

C．what； which

D．which； that

18、—Did you have a good night’s sleep，sir?

—Oh，exactly.It was such a comfortable bed.I could never have________sleep.

A．a good　　　  B．the best

C．a better　　　  D．a best

19、Henry hopes to find a job upon graduation____his management skills can be put to good use.

A.that B.Which C.how D.where

20、We have greatly _____ in our knowledge of the world.

A. approached B. advanced C. expanded D. expressed

21、I _____ several magazines in the book shop.

A.looked at B.looked up C.looked through D.looked out

22、 She found her calculator _____ she lost it.

A. where B. when C. in which D. that

23、Although there is more female participation in IT workforce,______ a significant imbalance of male and female senior positions.

A.it remains B.there remains

C.there remaining D.that remains

24、My grandfather is as _______as a young man and hates sitting around doing nothing all day.

A. powerful B. energetic C. forceful D. strong

25、The Englishman could not ____________ his excitement. He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was, sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse.

A.establish B.remark

C.accomplish D.contain

26、   Engineers have launched a huge garbage collection device to gather plastics floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The plastic makes up what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is the world’s largest spread of garbage, twice the size of the state of Texas.

The Organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s founder is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands. When Slat was 16, he went diving in Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. Since then, he has made up his mind to clean up the oceans.

He told the Associated Press that researchers with his organization have found plastic from the 1960s and 1970s among the material in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in total. Most of them float on the surface of the water, or are within a few meters of the surface.

Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a screen (筛子) that hangs three meters down in the water. The screen is designed to collect the plastic as it moves through the water. Sea animals can safely swim under the barrier. The cleanup system also comes with lights powered by the sun, cameras, and other special devices. Slat said this enabled the system to communicate its position at all times.

Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers were expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be recycled. And they will also study how the system performs in severe ocean conditions, including huge waves.

【1】How did Boyan Slat react to that dive in the Mediterranean Sea?

A.He showed a great interest in diving.

B.He became worried about his safety.

C.He decided to remove the garbage in oceans.

D.He became curious about underwater creatures.

【2】What has the organization Ocean Cleanup found about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

A.Most of its plastic is half a century old.

B.It covers almost the size of the state of Texas.

C.Altogether there are about 1.8 billion pieces of plastic.

D.The majority of its plastic floats on or near the surface.

【3】Why was a screen attached to the ship?

A.To power lights in the ship. B.To protect sea animals near it.

C.To tell the position of the ship. D.To collect plastic along the way.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A.Approaches to removing garbage in oceans.

B.The problem of garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

C.A young man who does well in classifying garbage.

D.A huge device made to clean garbage in oceans.

27、   There has been a debate for some time that food can be addictive (上瘾的). Most  researchers may not agree with it. But this spring, experts on health discovered that for some, obesity (肥胖症) is “an addiction like smoking.” One month earlier, a lecture showed that food and drug addictions have much in common, especially in the way that both damage the parts of the brain involved in pleasure and self-control.

Earlier this year, some scientists carried out brain-scan studies on children who looked at pictures of chocolate milkshakes (奶昔) and later ate the milkshakes. Children who are regular ice-cream eaters may require more and more ice cream for the reward centers (奖励中枢) of their brains to tell that they are satisfied.

However, meditation and exercise can help the brain to overcome food addiction. Food addicts (嗜食者) should look for alternatives that still give pleasure — a fruit smoothie, for example, instead of ice cream.

Food addiction seems to be linked to the types of foods we’re eating. It’s easier for human body to deal with foods found in nature, not processed (加工的) foods. When a highly processed food is eaten, the body may go uncontrollable. Potatoes are not addictive, but when they are processed into chips, what happens? Products like chips are described as super-delicious foods. They were the right combination of something salty, sweet and fatty along with “mouth-feel.”

【1】Why may regular ice-cream eaters need more ice-cream over time?

A.To stop being addicted to it. B.To meet the needs of the brain.

C.To control the centre of the brain. D.To satisfy the needs of the stomach.

【2】What does the underlined word“alternatives”in paragraph 3 mean?

A.Replacements. B.Fruits. C.Methods. D.Drinks.

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

A.Processed foods are healthier. B.People are born with food addiction.

C.Processed foods usually have a better taste. D.Processed foods are usually more expensive.

28、Hey，you—look up! Our iPhone addictions(瘾)are destroying public space and damaging the normal social communication. The host collects phones at the door of the dinner party. At a law firm，partners keep a“no-mobile phone”policy at meetings. Each day，a good number of people gather outside NewYork’s high schools, offering, for a small price, to store students’ mobile phones during the day. In public, it’s hard to think of a place beyond the darkness of the movie theater where phone use isn’t allowed. In truly public space-on sidewalks，in parks，on buses and on trains—we move with the face down, our phones shine like flashlights，

Consider the case of a recent murder on a San Francisco train. On Sept.23，in a crowded car， a man pulled a gun from his jacket. He raised the gun，pointing it across the aisle. He drew it out several more times, once using the hand holding the gun to wipe his nose. Dozens of passengers stood and sat just feet away—but none reacted. Their eyes，focused on smartphones, didn’t lift until the gunman fired a bulletin into the back of a San Francisco State student getting off the train.

There are thousands of similar stories that together sound the alarm for a new understanding of public space. In Japan，more than a dozen people fall off railway platforms while looking at their phones each year. Some experts there have called for bans on texting. Besides，many train station notices remind people to look where they are going，and even mobile phone companies have begun to educate users about the dangers of looking at a phone while walking.

The development of information technology is separating us from our surroundings. The urban theorist Malcolm McCullough writes“Closed in cars, often in headphones，seldom in places where they can communicate in person seldom choosing face-to-face meetings，moden citzens escaped from public life.

【1】The author wrote Paragraph2 to_______.

A．explain how the mobile phone destroyed public places

B．list the examples of using mobile phones

C．tell us to use mobile phones in public places

D．make us believe the great changes of using mobil ephones

【2】What can we conclude from the murder case on a SanFrancisco train?

A．The murder didn’t shoot the passengers on the train.

B．Many people were aware of the murderer before he shot.

C．It is no good ignoring other people around when taking trains.

D．Smartphone addictions have changed the normal social communication.

【3】How did the author develop the passage?

A．Giving examples.

B．Listing numbers.

C．Comparing facts.

D．Making conclusions.

【4】The author in the last paragraph suggested_______.

A．smartphones have taken little people’s attention

B．the development of information technology has a good effect on people

C．too much use of smartphones may do harm to people’s communication

D．smartphones may change modern people’s life completely

29、If you're one of the millions of those who use escalators each year, you are probably deeply familiar with the vertical grooves（竖凹槽）that cover each stair. Few of us have stopped to consider why they exist, though. In fact, it's one of the everyday things we take for granted.

But it is a little complicating when you think about it. Sure, the deep, grey lines make an escalator's metal stairs more appealing to the eye. But regular stairs don't have grooves like these; why do escalators need them? Is it because of the movement?

It turns out those grooves serve a more functional purpose. And, yes, it does have to do with the movement, as well as with general cleanliness! Anyone who has ridden an escalator knows that the steps everlastingly circulate from the top to the bottom. You've surely noticed the ridged yellow lip at the top of the escalator. But here's what you may not have noticed: As an escalator's steps flatten, this ridge—also called the comb plate—sweeps away any trash or litter that might have fallen on the stairs. Those grooves lock the step and comb plate together, which makes it harder for any dangerous materials to slide underneath the lip. This prevents foreign objects from getting stuck in that gap, potentially causing the escalator to stop, or worse, break down completely.

That's not the only reason why the grooves were created, though. They are also a good place for water to pool together, protecting you from a bad fall on the slick surface.

So the next time you step on an escalator, take a moment to appreciate those metal grooves. They exist to make sure you get to your office meeting on time.

【1】What are the first two paragraphs trying to say?

A．Millions of people use escalators every year.

B．Few people think much about the grooves.

C．Escalators are complicated machines.

D．Grooves make the stairs look better.

【2】The ridge is mainly designed to____

A．clean off dangerous objects.

B． keep the stairs in movement.

C．flatten the steps.

D．lock the steps.

【3】What does the underlined word "slick” mean in Paragraph 4?

A．Smooth.

B．Sticky.

C．Steep.

D．Slippery.

【4】What's the passage mainly about?

A．The importance of escalators.

B．The reasons for grooves on stairs.

C．The look of grooves in escalators.

D．The safe ways of riding escalators.

30、   I developed a crush on a cute woman I met in a pet store. She led a very___________lifestyle and we did not have much to talk about. But somehow none of this seemed to_________. I enjoyed being with her and I felt a sparkle in her presence. And it seemed to me that she enjoyed my_________as well. When I learned her birthday was coming up, I decided to ask her out. On the threshold of calling her, I sat and looked at the phone for about half an hour. Then I dialed and hung up_________it rang. I felt like a high school boy, bouncing between_________anticipation (期待) and fear of rejection. A voice from hell kept telling me that she would not like me and that I had a lot of_________asking her out this Saturday. But I felt too enthusiastic about being with her to let the_________stop me._________I got up the nerve to ask her. She thanked me for calling and told me she was not_________on that day. I felt shot down. The__________voice that told me not to call advised me to give up before I was____________embarrassed. __________there was more inside of me that wanted to come to__________. I had feelings for this woman, and I had to express them. So I bought her a pretty birthday card on which I wrote a__________note. I walked around the corner to her pet shop. As I approached the door, that same disturbing voice   ________me, “What if she doesn’t like you? What if she__________you?” Feeling vulnerable, I stuffed the__________under my shirt. I decided that if she showed me__________of affection, I would give it to her; if she was cool to me, I would leave the card__________. This way I would not be__________and would avoid rejection or embarrassment.

【1】A.simple B.modern C.different D.casual

【2】A.affect B.matter C.work D.develop

【3】A.company B.absence C.joke D.affection

【4】A.before B.after C.until D.while

【5】A.patient B.active C.excited D.anxious

【6】A.reasons B.time C.nerve D.chances

【7】A.fear B.trick C.expectation D.difficulty

【8】A.Fortunately B.Gradually C.Consequently D.Eventually

【9】A.possible B.acceptable C.suitable D.available

【10】A.kind B.same C.fearful D.wise

【11】A.deeply B.repeatedly C.further D.nakedly

【12】A.But B.So C.And D.Otherwise

【13】A.solution B.reality C.understanding D.life

【14】A.honest B.poetic C.complex D.grateful

【15】A.cautioned B.convinced C.rang D.pushed

【16】A.accepts B.appreciates C.rejects D.questions

【17】A.hand B.card C.love D.secret

【18】A.gifts B.words C.symbols D.signs

【19】A.unread B.hidden C.mysterious D.behind

【20】A.at a loss B.without doubt C.in disguise D.at risk

31、根据课文内容填空

The most 【1】 and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring. 【2】 the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may 【3】children lucky money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year 【4】 .Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals,【5】 take place forty days before Easter, usually in February. These carnivals might include parades, 【6】 in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful 【7】 of all kinds. Easter is an important religious and social festival for 【8】around the world. It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival 【9】 a little later. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though 【10】is covered with pink snow.

32、假定你是李华，你的美国笔友 Richard 准备来你们市参加龙舟赛(the dragon boat race )。他写信给你，希望你帮他预订好旅馆，并带他游览市内著名景点。请你给他写封回信，内容包括:

1.回复他的要求；

2.询问具体信息(到达时间、呆多久等)。

注意:1.词数 100 左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头己给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Richard,

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