衡水2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、In time of war，different parties tend to________their political differences to fight against foreign invaders shoulder to shoulder.

A. pick up   B. relate to

C. set aside   D. give away

2、______ more and more people may turn to the Internet for the latest news, it is unlikely that the newspaper will disappear．

A．When

B．Because

C．Since

D．While

3、—John, look at the time. _____ you play the piano at such a late hour?

—Oh, sorry.

A. Must B. Can   C. May   D. Shall

4、—Why, this is nothing but common vegetable soup!

—________，madam.  It's our soup of the day.

A. Let me see   B. So it is

C. Don't  mention it    D. Neither do I

5、______ great achievements the world may have in the future, the part China will play can't be left out.

A．If

B．Whatever

C．Whichever

D．However

6、These tall buildings ________ in our hometown last year.

A．built   B．are built   C．were built

7、—Candy’s new skirt looks funny on her．

— ________ It looks fine to me．

A．Who cares?

B．You are telling me.

C．What’s wrong?

D．I wouldn’t say that.

8、He got up late and hurried to his office, _________the breakfast untouched.

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

9、Damage ________ by the big fire, which ________ in Shanghai last Sunday, is ________ at about 500 million yuan.

A．caused; broke away; cost

B．caused; broke out; assessed

C．being caused; broke away; accessed

D．being caused, broke out; acquired

10、---What do you think of my article, professor?

---The former part is well written but _____ is just so so.

A.the later B.the last part C.latest D.the latter

11、The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running，________meant spending tens of thousands of pounds.

A.who B.that

C.as D.which

12、—Math is really killing me! I’m thinking of giving it up.

—______. You’ll never get your dream job as a market analyst if you don’t stick to it.

A．No pains, no gains.

B．Better late than never.

C．All’s well that ends well.

D．Two heads are better than one.

13、It was at the street bend ______he was making a sudden turn ______Tom crashed into a tree.

A. that; which B. when; that

C. where; that D. which; that

14、The historical play put on by my classmates left a deep impression on us．Every one of us thought their show was _________ a failure but a great success.

A. next to   B. except for   C. far from   D. apart from

15、I wish you wouldn't be so________； you make faces at everything I say.

A. weird   B. polite   C. reluctant   D. serious

16、The natural scenery and the newly-built tall buildings along the streets ____ the beauty of my hometown.

A. add up   B. add to

C. are added up   D. are added to

17、An ancient temple ________ back to the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed in flames, ________ concerns about the effective protection of cultural remains.

A.dating; causing B.dating; caused C.dates; causing D.dates; caused

18、A number of people________ their jobs and the number________ increasing.

A．is losing, is

B．are losing, is

C．is losing, are

D．are losing, are

19、With all the roads leading to the mountain village ________, the rescue workers were not able to reach it to help.

A．blocked

B．were blocked

C．had been blocked

D．have been blocked

20、His voice ______ as he reaches puberty, the teen pop sensation is struggling to hit high notes.

A.breaks B.breaking C.has broken D.broken

21、Readers can explore the wonders of nature with Big Tree. The book was written by famous author and illustrator (插画家) Brian Selznick. It is filled with detailed black-and-white illustrations, which took years to complete.

The story introduces Merwin and Louise, two tiny Sycamore seeds (梧桐树种子) who began life during the time when dinosaurs (恐龙) travelled around the Earth. After they fell from their mother tree, they started a dangerous 147-million-year adventure to the modern day.

After reading it, I met with the famous author and illustrator at his home in La Jolla, California. Selznick explained the lessons that nature offers about helping our planet and each other. “All of us can do something to help the real seed,” Selznick said. “No matter how small you feel, there’s always something you can do.”

As for his main goal when writing Big Tree, Selznick said, “Readers feel like they are learning about interesting stories when they read Big Tree, but actually and secretly, they are learning about real science. That’s why I wrote Big Tree.”

In order to write Big Tree, Selznick went to the New York Botanical Garden, where he talked to a wonderful park manager. She walked him through the forest and talked about the way leaves work, the way trees grow and the way trees experience time.

Selznick said he learned a lot while creating Big Tree. “The manager thinks that forests are really communities. It really surprised me,” he said. “We live in communities, and when we run into trouble or danger, we communicate with each other to find solutions. Trees are doing the same thing. We’re all part of a community. And that, to me, was a really important part of Big Tree.”

【1】What does paragraph 2 mainly focus on?

A．The main idea of Big Tree.

B．The discussion about Big Tree.

C．The review of Big Tree.

D．The story behind Big Tree.

【2】What is Selznick’s goal in writing Big Tree?

A．To show the illustration art.

B．To share an interesting story.

C．To encourage readers to learn.

D．To make real science interesting.

【3】What did Selznick do in order to write Big Tree?

A．He did some research.

B．He planted some trees.

C．He asked others’ advice.

D．He stayed in the forest alone.

【4】What did the author learn when writing the book?

A．Trees are important for communities.

B．Trees can communicate with each other.

C．Trees can protect people against danger.

D．Trees run into trouble more often.

22、   The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation and documentation of folk and traditional arts in the United States. NCTA presents the nation’s very finest artists in festivals, tours, international cultural exchange, workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions, media productions, school programs, and other activities. It works in partnership with communities across America to establish new, sustainable traditional arts events that deliver lasting social and cultural benefits.

NCTA seeks Festival Support Staff for 2020 festival season to provide office and on-site support for three large-scale festivals. Positions available include:

Programming Administration Assistant

This is the perfect position for someone with an interest in history, arts management, cultural anthropology, and related fields.

Responsibilities include programming research, marketing and promotion, and event organization. The position may also be responsible for press and photo document management,  social media updates, and customer service.

Qualified applicants will be detail-oriented(细心的) and organized, with excellent people skills and a general interest in the traditional arts. Computer literacy is essential. Contract runs May 1 - December 15.

Festival Assistant

This is the perfect position for someone with an interest in arts, culture, and event logistics(后勤) who enjoys operating in a fast-paced, collegial small-office environment.

The position provides festival staff support. Responsibilities include document creation, travel purchase, logistics support, data entry, and database maintenance.

Qualified applicants will be outgoing and open-minded, with effective oral and written communication skills and computer literacy. Prior experience with festival planning is preferred. Contract runs May 18 - October 30.

Production Associate

The Production Associate is a key member of the production team who will work closely with the Production Manager on all festival audio, backline, and lighting needs, from planning through implementation(实施).

The role will contribute to the following key tasks: advancing technical needs with artists, making tech books, accurate record-keeping, and working with NCTA and Festival staff to insure smooth on-site operations.

Qualified applicants will be responsible and adaptable, with excellent people skills. Prior experience in concert production is preferred. Contract runs June 15 - October 30.

All Positions: Experience with database entry, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat is required. Must have a clean driving record, or reliable transportation. Some evenings, weekends, and travel required.

All positions are full time with contract. Deadline is April 20, 2020.

More details and how to apply at: http//ncta-America.com.

【1】According to the passage, NCTA ____.

A.focuses on cultural and art education

B.keeps a record of American traditional arts

C.enjoys economic benefits from communities

D.aims to help the artists in art-related activities

【2】The programming administration assistant will probably_____.

A.plan and design program

B.create social networking websites

C.deal with complaints from customers

D.photograph newspapers and documents

【3】What is the requirement for all the three positions?

A.Driving skills.

B.Communication skills.

C.Working experience.

D.Knowledge on traditional arts.

【4】Once employed, one will _________.

A.work full time

B.travel every week

C.start the job in May

D.learn database design

23、   On Scotland’s Isle of Skye, scientists have identified two areas with evidence of ancient life forms. They believe the markings are, in fact, footprints from dinosaurs that lived 170 million years ago. Those prints date to the middle of the Jurassic Period, a time from which few dinosaur fossils have been recovered. Researchers reported this month on their study of about 50 fossilized footprints at the two sites. The markings are just a few hundred meters apart from each other. They are said to show dinosaurs walking in different directions.

At least three kinds of dinosaurs left the footprints. Steve Brusatte, the leader of the research team, is a paleontologist with the University of Edinburgh. “The tracks are located on flat rocky surfaces near the beach, so they are only exposed at low tide," he said. “The tide laps across them, back and forth, every day. ”

One set of markings came from a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur that researchers say was about the size of a car. They say its footprints have three toes. The creature, with sharp claws, appears to be from a group of dinosaurs called theropods. Bigger, three-toed footprints came from large-bodied, two-legged plant-eaters called ornithopods. The researchers are especially interested in markings left by another creature: an early member of a group of heavily built, four-legged plant-eaters called stegosaurs.

“I suspect this stegosaur was about the size of a cow, which is fairly small for a stegosaur. Whether that's because it's a primitive, smaller species or a juvenile of a bigger species, we're not sure," Brusatte said. The researchers noted that the findings were an important window into the many kinds of dinosaurs on the Isle of Skye. “Skye has emerged as one of the most important windows into Jurassic dinosaur evolution. We know that dinosaurs were diversifying with a frenzy in the Middle Jurassic, but there are few fossil sites of this age anywhere in the world," Brusatte added.

【1】What do the "ancient life forms" refer to in the first paragraph?

A.Dinosaurs dating to the middle of the Jurassic Period.

B.Dinosaurs living far away from each other.

C.The fossilized footprints discovered this month.

D.The fossilized footprints discovered in the middle of the Jurassic Period.

【2】Which can replace the underlined word “tracks" in paragraph 2?

A.leaves B.swallows C.touches D.surpasses

【3】What does the third paragraph mainly tells us?

A.The influence of the markings discovered in Skye.

B.The dinosaurs related to the footprints discovered in Skye.

C.The dinosaurs with different appearances.

D.The dinosaurs with different habitats.

【4】What can we infer from Brusatte’s words in the last paragraph?

A.The findings contribute to learning more about dinosaurs in Skye.

B.There are a few fossil sites in other places in the world.

C.There were a wide range of dinosaurs living in the area.

D.Skye plays an important part in Scotland.

24、Industry and educators all agree that the world needs creativity. There is interest in the field, lots of urging but very little action. Everyone is a bit scared of what to do next. On the question of creativity and imagination, they are mostly uncreative and unimaginative.

Educators seek artificial ways to change imaginative activity into problem-solving models that end up compromising the very creativity they celebrate. Creativity is often reduced to problem-solving. To be exact, you need imagination to solve many problems and creativity is part of what it takes. But problem-solving is far from the whole of creativity; and if you only focus creative thinking on problems and solutions, you will fall into a trap.

For teaching purposes, problems are an anxious place to cultivate creativity. If you think of anyone coming up with an idea — a new song, a dance step or a joke, it isn’t necessarily about a problem but rather an opportunity for the mind to exercise its independence. This is the purpose behind the theory of scholars now called “Big C Creativity”, which is the breakthrough kind of thinking that benefits culture or science, such as Mozart’s Alla Turca and Einstein’s theory of relativity. But the same is true of everyday “Small C Creativity” that isn’t specifically problem-based.

Enjoying the independence of the mind is the basis for naturally imaginative activity, like humor or amusing answers.

Our contemporary education systematically damages creativity and unintentionally punishes students for exercising their imagination. Schools use grades to evaluate students, which is a passive attack to the imagination.

It might be indeed impossible to teach creativity but the least we can do for our students is to make school a safe place for imagination. My viewpoint is that learning outcomes are only good for uncreative study. For education to cultivate creativity and imagination, we need to stop asking students anxiously to follow demonstrable (可论证的) proofs learning which cause a burden to students’ imagination.

【1】What can be learned from the first paragraph?

A．Educators are uncreative in teaching.

B．The world has lost interest in creativity.

C．People fail to do much to become creative.

D．Educators have got down to cultivating creative students.

【2】What’s the author’s attitude to educators changing creativity into problem-solving models?

A．Positive.

B．Indifferent.

C．Neutral.

D．Disapproving.

【3】Which of the following is a “Big C Creativity”?

A．Mike finds a way to solve a math problem.

B．Tom makes a discovery in the Biology field.

C．Darwin answers a question humorously

D．Mary learns to sing a new song.

【4】According to the author, what can be done to help cultivate students’ creativity?

A．Encouraging students to get rid of fixed rules of learning.

B．Helping students to obtain better learning outcomes.

C．Starting more classes to teach students creativity.

D．Providing students with a safe place to study.

【5】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Why does the world need creativity?

B．Why is it impossible to teach creativity?

C．How can we solve problems more creatively?

D．How can educators build better schools for students?

25、This was my grandmother’s first Christmas without grandfather. When we reached her house, it did seem a little _____ without grandfather.

Grandfather had always said the Christmas _____ was the most important. So we set to work assembling (组装) the beautiful _____ tree that was stored in grandfather’s closet (储藏柜). After we finished, we stepped back to _____ our work. It looked wonderful. But something was _____.

＂Where’s the star?＂I asked. It was my grandmother’s _____. As we emptied box after box and found no star, my grandmother’s eyes _____ with tears. Grandfather had given it to grandmother fifty years ago. Now, on her first Christmas without _____, the star was gone, too.

＂Let’s _____ in the closet where the tree was, ＂my sister Donna said. We ______ under beds and over shelves, inside and outside ______ we had excluded every possibility. We could see grandmother was ______, although she tried not to show it. By now, it was ______ outside, and time for bed, as Santa would soon be here.

The next morning, my sister and I ______ early to see what Santa had left under the tree. After breakfast, the family sat together to ______ presents.＂The last gift is to grandmother from grandfather. ＂Father said, in a puzzled voice.

＂From who?＂There was ______ in my grandmother’s voice.

＂I found that ______ in the closet when we got the tree down, ＂Mother explained.

My grandmother opened it. Her face lit up when she pulled out a(n) ______ golden star. There was a note attached. Her voice trembled (颠抖) as she read it:

Don’t be ______ with me, dear. I broke your star while putting away the tree. Thought it was time for a new one, I hope it brings you as much ______ as the first one. Merry Christmas.

【1】A. empty   B. cold   C. slow   D. absent

【2】A. wish   B. tree   C. spirit   D. work

【3】A. unique   B. artificial   C. widespread   D. alive

【4】A. follow   B. show   C. judge   D. admire

【5】A. losing   B. happening   C. missing   D. falling

【6】A. doubt   B. reward   C. honour   D. treasure

【7】A. filled   B. covered   C. put   D. removed

【8】A. them   B. it   C. her   D. him

【9】A. stop   B. move   C. start   D. stay

【10】A. hid   B. searched   C. lay   D. found

【11】A. as   B. until   C. because   D. though

【12】A. disappointed   B. amazed   C. excited   D. shocked

【13】A. snowing   B. raining   C. blowing   D. darkening

【14】A. cheered up   B. picked up   C. woke up   D. took up

【15】A. pack   B. open   C. pick   D. exchange

【16】A. happiness   B. fright   C. surprise   D. hope

【17】A. gift   B. book   C. note   D. letter

【18】A. big   B. old   C. shining   D. broken

【19】A. generous   B. angry   C. strict   D. important

【20】A. sadness   B. concern   C. peace   D. joy

26、假定你是李华，2022北京冬奥组委会正在招募志愿者，其职责为接待各国运动员及宣传中国文化，组委会要求志愿者能够熟练运用英语，请你用英文写一封申请信。

内容包括：1. 申请原因。2. 你的优势。3. 相关经历。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。