达州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、Scientists are trying to find out what advantage should be _______ the natural resources in this area.

A．taken off

B．taken on

C．taken of

D．taken up

2、－The online shopkeeper has made an apology for his rude behavior.

－OK. If you’re still not satisfied, you can _______ compensation.

A. claim B. afford

C. sacrifice D. dismiss

3、You are being such a busybody. How I choose to conduct my private life is my own _______!

A.experience B.agenda C.business D.problem

4、People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often ______ rather than based on fixed criteria.

A．appropriate

B．conscious

C．arbitrary

D．controversial

5、Asia’s recent rise has not been the result of innovation given its population scale.________, it has happened as part of a wave of globalization.

A.Nevertheless B.Additionally C.Rather D.Alternatively

6、________ himself, the traveler made a fire in the cave.

A.To warm B.Warmed C.Warming D.Having warmed

7、People have difficulty accepting that their pictures were webcast live to millions of viewers, ______ the fact that some of them were not so graceful.

A．no doubt

B．no denying

C．nothing like

D．not to mention

8、—I wonder if I could possibly use your car for tonight?

—____. I’m not using it anyhow.

A.Sure, go ahead. B.I don’t know C.Yes, indeed D.I don’t care

9、When reading a novel, be sure to consider the political and cultural context ________ the novel is created.

A.why B.that C.which D.where

10、Why didn't you tell me there was no meeting today? I all the way here through the heavy snow.

A.needn't have driven B.couldn't have driven

C.should have driven D.must have driven

11、---I’m not going to the party tonight. I’ll stay at home and read.

---Come on, ________

A．You get a frog in your throat.

B．You’re pulling your weight.

C．We’d better throw in the towel.

D．Don’t be such a wet blanket.

12、Nowadays, basic health care services are ________ to almost all the Chinese people. This accounts for the fact that the average life expectancy of all the Chinese has already risen to 75.

A．accessible

B．abundant

C．accurate

D．attractive

13、Reading at an early age makes a big ________ to children—it can help inspire their enthusiasm for reading.

A. decision   B. effect

C. promise   D. difference

14、Using this data, third party companies could then paint an accurate picture of users’ habits and ________ in order to serve them more targeted advertisements.

A.presentation B.preservation C.preference D.persistence

15、Reading is a good way _____ a child’s imagination at an early age.

A. to develop   B. developing

C. develop   D. developed

16、(2013·天津，9)No one________ be more generous；he has a heart of gold.

A．could

B．must

C．dare

D．need

17、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

18、The sign on the wall of the library says, “No magazine is allowed   out of the reading room”.

A. being taken B. to take

C. to be taken D. taking

19、The information tells me that the way of education in Canada is quite different from _____ in China.

A.one B.it C.that D.those

20、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

21、Researchers say a new study shows two way communication is possible with people who are asleep and dreaming.

In separate experiments, scientists in the US, France, Germany and the Netherlands asked people simple questions while they slept. Sleepers would respond by moving their eyes or twitching (抽动) their feet in a certain way to indicate their answers.

“Since the 1980s, we’ve known that dreamers can communicate out of dreams by using these signals.” says Karen Konkoly, a Ph. D. student at Northwestern University who is the first author on the study published in Current Biology. “But we were wondering, can we also communicate in by asking people questions that they could actually hear in their dreams so that we could kind of have a more meaningful conversation?”

For example. a typical question would be to ask what is 8 minus 6. A 19-year-old American man was able to respond by moving his eyes lift-right, left-right—two times—to signal “2”. Researchers asked the question again, and he moved his eyes the same way two times again.

Out of the 158 trials among 36 participants, about 18% of the time, they were able to give correct answers. In another 18%, it wasn’t clear whether participants were responding or not. They were wrong 3% of the time. Most often, 61% of the participants didn’t respond at all.

The researchers write that their findings present new opportunities for gaining real-time information about dreaming. Konkoly says there’s the possibility of one day doing a sort of “dream therapy (疗法)” for talking down people experiencing nightmares. And if more reliable communication methods can be worked out, it could help people with creative activities and ideas. With the help of an awake person, Konkoly says it could be possible to“combine those logical advantages of wake with the creative advantages of dreams and maybe have some more applications.

【1】How did the sleepers give answers in the study?

A．By making gestures.

B．By making eye movements.

C．By making faces.

D．By using sign languages.

【2】What can we learn from the new study?

A．Dreamers showed good creative thinking.

B．Most sleepers could give correct answers.

C．It was the first study of its sort in the world.

D．Researchers got real-time information about dreaming.

【3】What does the new study focus on?

A．Whether dreamers can communicate out of dreams.

B．What questions are suitable to be asked in the study.

C．How researchers can help people experiencing nightmares.

D．Whether two-way communication with dreamers is possible.

【4】What is the author’s attitude to “a meaningful conversation” with dreamers?

A．Skeptical.

B．Objective.

C．Doubtful.

D．Critical.

22、   I was born an albino (白化病人) in Pennsylvania in 1945. No one in my family had ever known what an albino was and what it meant to be an albino.

My family and friends treated me like everybody else. That was just about the best thing they could have done. It helped me trust myself, so when troubles came along, I could deal with them.

Like most albinos, I had terrible eyesight, but the fact that I could hardly see didn’t bother me that much.

Kids would tease me, calling me “Whitey”. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so that I could see it well enough. Even when I was eight, movie-theater clerks started asking me to pay full price because I “looked older”.

The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad, I couldn’t play sports very well. I didn’t give up trying, though. I shot hoops (投篮) every day. And I studied harder.

Eventually, I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college, I was double majoring, going to summer school and busying myself with every activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make “albino” a positive word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes — and in sports.

I couldn’t see very well to play sports, but with a solid education and a drive to do it, I could make a living involved in the area I loved. I’ve done it now for over thirty years in print and in video, and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how I’m the only “blind editor” they know, but the jokes are affectionate, some of them signs of respect.

I was just a proud albino kid from the coal country of Pennsylvania. I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties, gain confidence and be proud of my personal achievement.

【1】According to the author, ______ helped him a lot in dealing with troubles.

A．the special care from his family and friends.

B．the sympathy from the public.

C．the equal way his family and friends treated him.

D．his education in school.

【2】All the following are the signs of being an albino for the author EXCEPT _____.

A．abnormally white skin.

B．poor eyesight.

C．an older appearances.

D．being unable to play sports.

【3】The author’s good education and strong motivation made him successful as a(an) ________.

A．sports editor.

B．Disc Jockey (DJ).

C．printer.

D．IT engineer.

【4】We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．the author’s poor eyesight made him very upset.

B．the author finally did well in playing sports after years of practice.

C．many people laugh at the author because he attempts to do more than he can.

D．the author holds an optimistic attitude towards his illness.

23、An important life lesson that I’ve drawn from running is to run at my own pace. It has guided me in many ways. In particular, it made me challenge the fixed expectations of retirement and aging.

Running is a metaphor (隐喻) for life. I realized this while training for a marathon to celebrate my 60th birthday. All the other runners being faster than me made me embarrassed. But my coach shared some valuable advice; run at your own best pace. Setting a goal or target time could be a limitation. He was right. Over time, I ran more easily and faster. I also enjoyed the experience much more.

I have applied this principle to other areas of my life. Finding a rhythm is not about efficiency or how many things I can get done in a day. It has more to do with what I decide to do at this stage in my life.

Running carries its own set of expectations, including what it means to be a strong runner. But expectations also extend to other areas of life, including what people at certain life stages should be doing or not doing. Expectations at my age can center on how leisure time is spent, decisions about employment, and even the role of a grandmother.

I used to think it was young people who bore peer pressure, but it’s easy to view retirement as another occupation with benchmarks (基准) to be met. We often make what someone else does the reference point. It’s a comparison trap.

Forget what others are doing. Their pace is not necessarily the pace you should run at. Run in your own way. It’s not better or worse — only different.

【1】What does the author intend to tell in paragraph 2?

A．The origin of a life principle.

B．Her misunderstanding of running.

C．The importance of life expectations.

D．Her unpleasant training experience.

【2】What does the author think about life expectations?

A．They are vital for retired people.

B．They vary at different life stages.

C．They cover every decision in life.

D．They are usually too high to fulfill.

【3】What can we infer from paragraph 5?

A．Young people often compete with old people.

B．Retired people take up bad occupations.

C．Retired people are also under peer pressure.

D．A comparison trap makes young people stronger.

【4】What message does the author mainly want to convey?

A．Retirement can’t stop old people’s dreams.

B．People should live life to the fullest.

C．People should live at their own speed.

D．Running at a fixed pace is beneficial to retired people.

24、   There's no feeling quite like walking alongside the river.

It's the last light in the valley, and the sound of rushing water drowned out all others. I walk the river's edge with my dog, Mosi, whose inability to hear over the waterfall makes him nervous. Despite his impressive size, he runs sheepishly at my feet. At first glance, we walk to fish, but actually we move at the urging of naturalists long since passed—of John Burroughs and of Loren Eiseley—and of my parents, Norman and Paula, who are still alive today but live far from this Kenya valley. Walk in the woods, their voices advise, along the banks of a river where, in the blue end of a day, you may find the rhythms that fascinate you. There, among the fish and the flowers and the forces that bind them, you might make peace with your worried mind.

I began to venture into the highlands of central Kenya in 2013 with the hope that its rivers might throw their _________ power upon me, smoothing my edges as they have, over time, polished the stones in their path. I've never been free of emotional stress, but my years of working as a photojournalist in some of Africa's most conflict-ridden environment left additional barbs in me. With time it became hard to distinguish between the conflicts that existed inside me and the ones that I witnessed through the lens. Gradually they became intertwined, and I felt an expanding sense of tension and discomfort inside me.

Fly-fishing seemed a cure of the pain of photographing people's suffering, as I'd done so often in recent years. I hadn't cast a fishing line since the age of 10 or so, when I used bait to fish the Atlantic waters that surrounded the places I lived at a child, first along the coast of New Jersey and later in Massachusetts. My mother's friend at that time taught me the basics. He was a large, athletic man who'd been in the U. S. Army Special Forces, an experience that left him with his own scars. At dusk by the river, his hand resting comfortably on the rod, he seemed at ease.

Between assignments I began to drive around. The slow-flowing river drifts through protected forests, where a network of paths, used by humans, elephants and lions, cuts through thick vegetation. I came to realize that the river had given me more than I'd asked—I regained the peace inside me, and it seemed that I'd gone back to my childhood when sand sharks and puffer fish made my heart beat with curiosity.

【1】Which of the following statements is true according to the first two paragraphs?

A．The author came to the valley to fish as well as to make peace with his worried mind.

B．The deafening sound of the waterfall made the author and his dog quite scared.

C．The author's parents advised him to discover nature in the depths of the valley.

D．The valley environment is said to have a healing power upon one's heart.

【2】Which of the following is the best word to fill in the blank in the 2nd paragraph?

A．rushing.

B．shaking.

C．transforming.

D．encouraging.

【3】Which of the following statements is true about the author?

A．His occupation as a cameraman added to his inner frustration.

B．He got to make friends with his mother's friend because of fly-fishing.

C．In his spare time, he often walked through the vegetation along the paths.

D．Finally he was cured by his childhood experience with sand sharks and puffer fish.

【4】Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage?

A．My Job in Photography Led Me to a Valley.

B．A River Heals the Scar Left by a Camera.

C．The Call of Naturalists Pushed Me to Explore.

D．The Fishing Rod Links Nature With My Heart.

25、I was reading the morning newspaper. My daughter, Sydney, walked in and talked to me about one of our ______ kids, and sponsoring ______ child. We had sponsored four already, and I thought, “Wow, these kids are ______!”

Just the next morning, we got a packet containing a ______ of a girl named Anita in Kenya. Sydney went ______, writing her a long letter and ______ a picture of Anita following the photo to send with it.

Soon after that, I ______ a marathon in South Africa as a player. I went to Kenya to meet Anita and her family. When I ______ for Anita’s house, the whole village were there to welcome me.

When I asked Anita’s father if he took his crops in the ______, he said, “No, I don’t take any food to sell — that’s the food my family live on.” It ______ me: What a tough life they lead! I then went with them on their ______ for water, which was downhill nearly two miles over rocky path. Their water ______ was a dirty river.______, I wouldn’t have even washed my car with that water.

It was time to go. Abraham said to me, “It’s a great ______ for my family that you are our daughter’s sponsor.” I felt like the relationship between us was closer, feeling so ______ to them.

Our family needs to be making a ______ in other people’s lives. I see in my family a ______ to connect with other people. I ______ my kids. I want them to know the world and know ______ people in other areas of the world who are poor. We have the chance to influence their lives,______ they have a chance to influence our lives.

【1】A. loved   B. sponsored   C. adopted   D. educated

【2】A. one   B. each   C. any   D. another

【3】A. taking up   B. coming up   C. adding up   D. making up

【4】A. photo   B. letter   C. present   D. note

【5】A. serious   B. crazy   C. confused   D. anxious

【6】A. supplying   B. purchasing   C. searching   D. drawing

【7】A. washed   B. organized   C. ran   D. reported

【8】A. set out   B. pulled out   C. set up   D. pulled up

【9】A. village   B. market   C. restaurant   D. city

【10】A. thrilled   B. attracted   C. excited   D. hit

【11】A. waiting   B. requiring   C. walk   D. ride

【12】A. source   B. tube   C. field   D. system

【13】A. Strangely   B. Honestly   C. Obviously   D. Certainly

【14】A. help   B. chance   C. advantage   D. honor

【15】A. appreciated   B. sympathetic   C. connected   D. superior

【16】A. difference   B. plan   C. goal   D. research

【17】A. promise   B. desire   C. task   D. sight

【18】A. protect   B. permit   C. reject   D. inspire

【19】A. normal   B. outgoing   C. real   D. popular

【20】A. and   B. but   C. in case   D. as if

26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Taking It to Extremes

Regular exercise benefits people extensively, from weight control to lengthened life. Exercise sets up a chain reaction that is generally positive for the human body, preventing and controlling some health problems. However, endurance sports, requiring the sustained efforts for long periods of time, reveal a darker side of exercise.

A common endurance sport is marathon. Running 26.2 miles is an achievement, but it’s ultimately harmful. In one study, about 75% of marathon runners suffered from kidney injury after finishing the race. Similarly, cross-country skiing offers excellent cardiovascular benefits when performing at a leisurely pace. Yet cross-country skiing alters the structure of the heart, making it more easily damaged to an arrhythmia, a condition where the heart beats irregularly. When it came to the participants’ hearts, competitive success in cross-country skiing doesn’t always translate into better health. The most extreme endurance races, such as Ironman Triathlons, provide more discouraging data.

Endurance athletes face another serious problem: they may drink much water while competing. Proper hydration while exercising is key to health and performance. But, too much of a good thing can be dangerous. Reportedly, over 10% of the participants in the triathlon suffered from hyponatremia, occurring when the level of sodium (钠) in the blood becomes dangerously low, often when the sodium concentration is too low with water. Evidently, extreme endurance sports can transform the basic necessity of drinking water into a potential source of harm.

Does running help a person live longer? A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings concluded that running distances of 0.1 to 19.9 miles a week, at six to seven miles per hour, was linked to a lower risk of death. However, running distances and speeds beyond this was not tied to higher rates of survival. This finding demonstrates no exercise is better for one’s health than excessive exercise in endurance sports.

Certainly, none of this means that exercise in moderation is harmful, but it shows that the benefits of exercise level off, and even reverse, when a person exercises too much. Endurance sports may continue to be a popular pursuit for those seeking a challenge, but for those eager for better health, a little can work.