梅州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、--- _____you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?

--- Sorry Sir, but it's urgent.

A. Must   B. Should

C. Can D. Would

2、What I finally believe is that it's of no importance ______ others think about you，and what matters most is the attitude of your own .

A.what B.how

C.that D.way

3、Any information of the oral test paper are regarded as strictly ______ before it is open.

A. conventional B. analytical

C. controversial D. confidential

4、______ his love, Chris sent his mom a thank-you note on Mother’s Day.

A. Expressing   B. Expressed   C. To express   D. Having expressed

5、--- Do you have a driver’s license?

--- No, but I ________ driving. I plan to drive to Tibet this summer.

A. have learned   B. was learning

C. am learning  D. had learned

6、In many countries in the world, breakfast is a snack _____ a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is a full meal.

A.less than B.better than C.other than D.rather than

7、Since we haven’t gone very far, we might just __________ well turn around to get the map.

A.for B.with C.in D.as

8、Many netizens are impressed with the excuse given by a teacher for quitting her job ______ she owes the world a visit.

A. because   B. that   C. where D. why

9、__________of the land in that district __________ covered with trees and grass．

A．Two fifth; is

B．Two fifths; is

C．Two fifth; are

D．Two fifths; are

10、—Will you take my previous experience into________ when you fix my salary?

—You bet. We always do for senior-level positions.

A．mind

B．thought

C．reference

D．account

11、The student said there were a few points in the essay he_________impossible to comprehend.

A.has found B.was finding C.had found D.would find

12、A proposal has been put forward at a recent video conference _____ measures be taken to raise the citizens’ awareness of traffic safety.

A. that B. as   C. when   D. which

13、As late as the middle of the 19th century women voting was _____ common. But women in Europe and North America believed that they should have a____ in their government’s leaders.

A．less than, word

B．far from, say

C．rather than, words

D．other than, saying

14、Mike is one of those people who just can’t save money. Every time he gets paid, _____.

A. he has ants in his pants   B. he tightens his belt

C. he wears his heart on his sleeve   D. the money burns a hole in his pocket

15、—What happened to the young trees we planted last week?

—The trees ________ well, but I didn’t water them.

A. might grow B. needn’t have grown

C. would have grown D. would grow

16、--Can I use the telephone on the table，sir？

--Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs．

A．anyone is allowed  B．nobody is allowed

C．is anyone allowed  D．is nobody allowed

17、But for the rescue team’s efforts, more lives ________ in the wreck accident.

A.would be claimed B.should have claimed

C.would have claimed D.could have been claimed

18、—Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?

—No, I wish I_____the clock back.

A．had turned

B．could turn

C．will turn

D．would have turned

19、With rural ecosystem improving, the number of tourists to villages ________ year by year.

A.have increased B.increases C.is increasing D.are increasing

20、In 2016, I wrote a book, After 9/11，about my experiences and _______of over a dozen of my former classmates.

A.that B.those C.the one D.ones

21、We all know there’s good cholesterol (胆固醇) and bad cholesterol. 【1】 A better understanding of them will give us health benefits.

Good fat is medically known as “brown fat”, typically found in the neck and shoulders of newborns. It makes up about 5 percent of an infant’s total body mass. 【2】 By age six, we have less than 5 percent of the brown fat we were born with. Researchers now believe that some people maintain brown fat deposits into adulthood. As a “good” kind, it is metabolically (新陈代谢地) efficient and actually burns excess energy to generate heat.

【3】 It is a way for your body to store excess energy that accumulates when you consume more calories than you use. It is widely distributed throughout the body. And it doesn’t use much energy, is hard to burn off, accumulates, and causes other health problems.

The fat we gain over time is almost all white fat. The increasing level of white fat is one of the major causes of shortened life spans and chronic diseases. Thus, increasing the level of brown fat makes sense.

Some studies suggest that taking a cold shower or an ice bath could activate brown fat to help your body burn more calories. Researchers have also found methods that may help people gain brown fat without the need for cold. 【4】 As brown fat is rich in iron, choosing iron supplements or food items rich in iron can keep your fat cells healthy. Nutrition is vital for your health, especially if you want to increase brown fat production.

Though it is helpful to increase brown fat, some scientists think they will learn how to keep stores of brown fat as large and active throughout adulthood as its stores are in infancy. 【5】.

A．You can build fat from the food you eat.

B．We lose most of our brown fat as we age.

C．It turns out there’s good and bad fat, too.

D．It’s wise to distinguish good fat from bad fat.

E．But white fat is considered to do the opposite.

F．These methods oppose taking in extra calories.

G．The goal is to maintain brown fat rather than recreate it.

22、You may be concerned about how to clear clutter (杂乱的东西) from your bedroom and basement. 【1】 As May planting season is drawing near, turn your attention towards what can help your garden grow.

Define “weeds” for yourself.

I have always defined weeds as “unwanted plants”. Some, like clover (三叶草),have positive characteristics like enriching the soil. Others, like dandelion greens, can be eaten. So one gardener's weeds might be another gardener's dinner! Decide what you truly value. 【2】

Enjoy the weeding process.

Weed removal is a never-ending process. Try to treat the activity in a positive way. You can casually pull weeds as you spot them when walking by your gardens. 【3】 Whatever attention you are able to give to your weeds is OK — even though you'll never feel quite “finished”, remind yourself that every weed pulled means progress.

【4】

After months of being absorbed in colorful garden catalogue, I often hit the nursery (苗圃) in May, filled with inspiration and adventure. “This year,” I say, “I'll try everything!” But time has taught me that this wild ambition can work against me. If I choose too many plants to experiment with, my plantings will crowd each other out. Try making a map of your garden before you head to the garden center, using the recommended spacing to guide your design.

Reassess your garden tool collection.

Just like indoor clutter, garden clutter can result from having too many tools. Some tools are necessary for every gardener. 【5】 They can build up and collect dust or dirt. So go through your tools and decide which tools don't work for you and which are your forever garden companions.

A．Make a clear garden plan.

B．Sort out your garden tools.

C．But what about clutter in your garden?

D．And then pull the rest, without hesitation.

E．Weeds can crowd out your intentional plantings.

F．But too many of them can also cause trouble to you.

G．Or you can set aside time to go all out for weed removal.

23、Every Sunday at 2 p.m., Marisela Godinez, the owner of El Mesón Tequilería, a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, used to fill a 12-gallon bucket, plus another half-bucket, with leftover food from the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat brunch buffet. “We threw out a lot of food,” she said.

But a few months ago Ms. Godinez signed up to use an app called Too Good To Go. Now, 10 customers pick up “surprise bags” of her leftovers for $ 5. 99 each, and she sends far fewer leftovers to the landfill.

Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change.

Food production itself is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for between a quarter and a third of global emissions. Each step of the process-growing, harvesting, moving, processing, packaging, storing and preparing food-releases carbon dioxide,methane and other planet-warming gases. When the food is wasted, so are all those emissions. In addition, once unused food reaches landfills, it breaks down and releases more methane.

Too Good To Go has tried to gamify (游戏化) buying leftover food. In the United States, customers in 12 cities can browse restaurants and stores, then reserve “surprise bags” that typically cost about $4 to $ 6 and contain food that would have been originally priced at roughly three times that amount. The bags can be picked up at a certain time window.

According to interviews with several companies selling on Too Good To Go, at least a few items for sale there aren’t necessarily what buyers might think of as “food waste”. A beverage company owner said he used the app to sell discontinued products and he also wanted to try selling new flavors there in hopes of attracting new customers.

【1】How does Marisela Godinez deal with leftovers now?

A．By throwing them into buckets.

B．By sending them to the landfill.

C．By selling them on the special app.

D．By offering them to customers for free.

【2】What does Paragraph 4 really want to say?

A．The complex process of food production.

B．The best way to reduce gas emission.

C．The popularity of Too Good To Go.

D．The negative effect of food waste.

【3】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Different kinds of games can be played on the app.

B．The goal of the app is to help people find food easily.

C．Discontinued products are sold on Too Good To Go.

D．New food products might be bought on Too Good To Go.

【4】What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Too Good To Go helps cut a significant amount of food waste.

B．Too Good To Go inspires everyone to fight against gas emission.

C．Too Good To Go saves a number of people from being hungry.

D．Too Good To Go contributes to the increase of the business well.

24、Real policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see on TV.

【1】He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more. he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down a street after someone he wants to talk to.

【2】 He will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty of stupid crimes.

Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he’s arrested, the story is over. 【3】Except in very serious cases like murders and terrorist attacks, little effort is spent on searching.

A third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant pressures: First, as members of a police force, they always have to behave absolutely in accordance with the law. 【4】They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways.

If the detective has to deceive （欺骗）the world, the world often deceives him. 【5】 And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simple-mindedness-as he sees it-of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of eliminating crime, punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform.

A．He can't get any evidence from the witnesses.

B．In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem.

C．Little of his time is spent in chatting.

D．Sometimes he can chat with others to relax himself.

E．Second, as expensive public servants, they have to get results.

F．The first difference is that a policeman's real life revolves round criminal law.

G．Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth.

25、When I was a four-year-old boy,my legs were amputated(截肢).This was my first lesson about the harsh realities of life.But the adversity gave me the _________to persevere when everyone else quit.

The following years zipped by,and seemingly in a single heartbeat,I _________ myself standing at the start line of the 2018 Chicago Marathon.Waiting for the starting gun,I stood there and _________ all that happened to put me on that _________.I started training seriously as a(an)_________ in August 2016.From the start,there was always training to be done and new goals to achieve.The lessons of overcoming and triumphing in the face of obstacles were_________ to me.

The gun cracked,and I _________ to run.The race dragged on ,and with about ten miles to go,my body started to feel the _________ of running for long.I felt slightly _________ as I thought I’d have to run another hour.But I knew this low moment would pass with each _________,so I reminded myself to smile and hang on.________,shortly after mile 22,I was making a right turn when a disaster _________—I stepped in a hole.As my head hit the pavement,my whole world went _________.

I didn’t know if it was seconds or minutes before I _________ myself with volunteers helping _________me off the ground.I felt dizzy.But I managed to_________ by myself and went on racing.When I _________ it to the 23-marker,I considered dropping out.But I knew I was strong enough to finish the race if I just stayed upright.

The _______ 2.2 miles was like a long trip across America.The dizziness was worse,my _________ was blacking out periodically, and my legs felt like lead _________,but I didn’t quit.Eventually, I crossed the finish line in three hours,and three minutes, 22 seconds--a new double amputee world record!

【1】

A．plan

B．curiosity

C．drive

D．attempt

【2】

A．committed

B．found

C．threw

D．kept

【3】

A．allowed for

B．rested against

C．reflected on

D．brought up

【4】

A．border

B．move

C．matter

D．line

【5】

A．runner

B．finalist

C．striker

D．instructor

【6】

A．unique

B．familiar

C．flexible

D．appropriate

【7】

A．continued

B．decided

C．started

D．managed

【8】

A．regrets

B．heats

C．shakes

D．impacts

【9】

A．despairing

B．annoyed

C．suspicious

D．frozen

【10】

A．point

B．mile

C．message

D．cheer

【11】

A．Strangely

B．Actually

C．Typically

D．Casually

【12】

A．followed

B．exploded

C．existed

D．struck

【13】

A．colorless

B．complicated

C．different

D．dark

【14】

A．focused on

B．came to

C．built up

D．care about

【15】

A．drag

B．turn

C．back

D．hang

【16】

A．balance

B．pretend

C．stretch

D．pace

【17】

A．got

B．carried

C．reached

D．made

【18】

A．extra

B．smooth

C．final

D．extended

【19】

A．intention

B．picture

C．vision

D．perseverance

【20】

A．weights

B．materials

C．attachments

D．balloons

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