保山2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、— What’s wrong? You look really stressed out.

—I ________ the whole week preparing for my graduation paper.

A.work B.have worked

C.have been working D.worked

2、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

3、 My flight was delayed, so I read a book ________ time.

A. kill   B. killing

C. to kill   D. having killed

4、The Internet has made ______ easier than ever to start a business.

A. it B. that C. this  D. One

5、— What should I do first?

— The instructions   that you should mix flour with water carefully first.

A.go B.tell C.write D.say

6、The newspaper gave an accurate ________ of what happened the night before last.

A．example

B．display

C．signal

D．account

7、His strong sense of humor was make everyone in the room burst out laughing.

A．so as to

B．such as to

C．so that

D．such that

8、The inner thoughts of the two young persons are revealed in the book, ______ both of them fail to express.

A. where   B. when

C. who   D. which

9、—How can I find your brother at the airport?

—Don’t worry. He________ a board with your name on it at that time.

A．has held

B．has been holding

C．will be holding

D．will have held

10、The Nintendo Switch released a game in 1995, and over the past two years, a new system______ its player a chance to play the game better.

A.gives B.has given

C.would have given D.given

11、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

12、One of the best ways for people to keep fit is to______ healthy eating habits.

A.grow B.develop C.increase D.raise

13、There can be no doubt____________teachers love hardworking students.

A.where B.that C.which D.whether

14、Tony is really quick at taking notes in class, as almost every word his professor says ______ in his notebook.

A. goes down     B. puts down

C. writes down   D. keeps down

15、She doesn’t speak our language,   she seems to understand what we say.

A. yet   B. and

C. or   D. so

16、Mary __________ up the toy car and let it run across the room.

A.worked B.walked C.washed D.wound

17、As is expected, AI is an area _______ China may appear as a leading force.

A. that B. where

C. which D. when

18、Nowadays the_________for travelling is shifted from shopping to food and scenery.

A．priority

B．potential

C．preference

D．prejudice

19、________ the numbers in employment, the hotel industry was the second largest industry in this country last year.

A．In spite of

B．In case of

C．In terms of

D．In praise of

20、More subway lines______ to make travelling easy in Beijing in the coming years.

A．will build

B．will be built

C．build

D．are built

21、Kori Doty does not identify “herself” as either male or female and uses the pronoun “they”. Doty gave birth to Searyl Atli at a friend’s home. “I’m raising Searyl in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are. I’m recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box.”

The baby has still not been granted a birth certificate.The province only issues a birth certificate that states a gender. Doty has taken one step further — apply for a judicial review. Doty claims a medical examination at birth cannot decide a child’s true gender. “Those assumptions were incorrect, and I ended up having to do a lot of adjustments since then.” The court case is expected to be heard later.

Human rights lawyer barbara findlay, who styles her name without capital letters, said that the genderless health card arrived in the mail and that it is “a big deal and a major step forward”. However, without a birth certificate, Searyl is listed as a non-citizen in the province’s system.

The lawyer argues that it violates the baby’s human right. “There used to be a reason to put sex on birth certificates. You used to need to know that because only men could vote, only men could own property, only men could sit in the Senate, and so on. Those days are long gone,” said Findlay. “...just as we used to have race on birth certificates, but we don’t any more. It’s time to take sex off birth certificates and treat it, like race, as a private matter.”

【1】What will Doty do for her child Searyl Atli?

A．She will fight for the child’s health card.

B．She will help the child grow up healthily.

C．She will treat the child as a twin boy or girl.

D．She will raise the child until they can speak.

【2】What is the problem the child is now facing?

A．Facing a charge from court.

B．Enjoying no human rights.

C．Being given wrong a gender test.

D．Being offered no birth certificate.

【3】Why should the child be granted a birth certificate according to the lawyer?

A．The child would otherwise be listed as a foreigner.

B．The genderless health card has arrived in the mail.

C．Now there is no need for information of sex on birth certificate.

D．The child’s human rights will be damaged without a birth certificate.

【4】Which of the following is probably the best title for the passage?

A．No Sex Identity, No Birth Certificate?

B．Boy and girl, Lucky and Happy?

C．Male or Female, Counts or Doubts?

D．No Birth Certificate, No Citizenship?

22、Best Bike Tours in Barcelona 2021-compared

Steel Donkey Bike Tour

Founded back in 2010, Steel Donkeys pioneered the rise of hip (时尚的) and alternative tourism in Barcelona with their small-group tours and off-the-beaten path philosophy. Their aim from the beginning was to treat their customers like friends and show them the hidden sights of the city, along with local secrets and hip hangouts. Their tours often sell out, especially in summer, so best to book your space as far in advance if possible!

• Price: € 35 per person

• Duration: 4 hours

• Max. group size: 8 people

City Highlights Bike Tour

If you’re new in town and you want to start your exploration of Barcelona with the main attractions, like Sagrada Familia and Gaudi’s epic (宏大的) houses, then it’s hard to beat this classic bicycle tour. For actually entering La Sagrada Familia, you can buy tickets online and skip the long queue.

• Price: € 27 per person

• Duration: 3 hours

• Max. group size: 15 people

Street Art Tour by Bamboo Bicycle

Your ride for the day is a beautiful handmade bamboo bicycle that will make you the envy of other cyclists! After that it’s time to explore the colourful heritage of street art in the Catalan capital, most of which can be found in the former industrial district of Poblenou.

• Price: € 53 per person

• Duration: 3 hours

• Max. group. size: 10 people

Montefusco Cycling

This company offers road bike rental (with delivery to the airport or your hotel), as well as a range of lung-bursting tours in the beautiful Catalan countryside—such as the Montseny and Montserrat mountain ranges.

If you have a little less time on your hands, you can choose the Hills Around The City tour and enjoy truly epic views over Barcelona from the local Collserolla mountain range.

•Price: € 90 per person

•Duration: 4 hours

•Max. group size: 4 people

【1】Which tour has the lowest price?

A．Montefusco Cycling.

B．Steel Donkey Bike Tour.

C．City Highlights Bike Tour.

D．Street Art Tour by Bamboo Bicycle.

【2】What is special about Montefusco Cycling?

A．It offers the coolest bicycles.

B．It delivers bikes to your hotel.

C．It favors the hidden sights.

D．It focuses on the main attractions.

【3】What can we know about the tours in the text?

A．They vary widely in duration.

B．They need booking in advance.

C．They aren’t individual bicycle tours.

D．They aren’t in the city, but in the countryside.

23、   A sheet of transparent new material at a University of Maryland lab looks like it might be plastic. But it's actually wood — and it could eventually be used to make energy-efficient windows or even see-through buildings.

“Compared to glass, wood has lower thermal conductivity (热导率), and it's lighter, stronger, more environmentally friendly,” says Liangbing Hu, a materials science professor at the University of Maryland and one of the authors of a new study of the material.

The idea is to employ the material in buildings. With a window made from transparent wood instead of glass, for example, a building would take less energy to heat and cool. Because of the structure of the wood, the windows could also reduce glare from the sun while allowing in natural light.

Researchers have experimented with transparent wood in the past, but the new method is more sustainable. Other methods usually soak the wood in a chemical compound called sodium chlorite (亚路酸钠) to remove lignin, part of the wood that gives it structure. But this can weaken the wood, and it produces waste that is hard to recycle. Hu and his team slightly changed the process so it doesn't fully remove the lignin. By brushing hydrogen peroxide over the wood and leaving it under a UV light, they removed only the parts of the lignin that give it color. The result is transparent wood that can be coated in epoxy (环氧树脂).

It's just one of a number of ways scientists and engineers are rethinking how we can use this renewable resource in construction. Skyscrapers made entirely out of wood are gaining popularity in cities around the world. And scientists recently discovered a technique to grow wood in a lab, opening up the possibility of using wood without having to chop down a forest.

The transparent wood is 50% stronger than previous transparent wood and could even be used to build load-bearing walls in a building. It could also potentially be used in other ways, such as layers used in solar cells (太阳能电池). A new spinoff company called Invent Wood is working to commercialize the technology.

【1】Which of the following shows the function of the new material?

A．It looks like plastics.

B．The windows made of it are energy-efficient.

C．It is invented by a materials science professor.

D．Transparent wood will replace glass in the future.

【2】What can we learn from the 4th paragraph?

A．Lignin is the waste that is likely to weaken the wood.

B．Different methods of how to brush hydrogen peroxide over the wood.

C．Hu and his team soak the wood in sodium chlorite to remove lignin.

D．The previous method causes pollution while the new one is more environmentally friendly.

【3】What effect does growing wood in a lab have on the environment?

A．Skyscrapers made out of wood are popular with cities around the world.

B．It makes it possible to stop the destruction of forests for construction.

C．Scientists and engineers are driven to search for renewable resource.

D．Researchers have experimented with transparent wood.

【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Transparent wood is used as layers in solar cells.

B．Walls in a building are made from transparent wood.

C．Invent Wood is promoting the new transparent wood for business.

D．The previous transparent wood has been damaged all over the world.

24、   A large supply of acorns (橡实) on the ground last winter provided food for chipmunks (花栗鼠) across New England in the northeastern US as spring returned. Acorns and other nuts are a main part of the animals’ diet. They also eat insects, berries, and other kinds of fruit. The substantial food supply kept chipmunks well fed as they got busy reproducing and having families this spring. Now, the growth in the chipmunk population is so noticeable, with people saying the animals are driving them nuts.

Shevenell Webb, a biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), said： “While chipmunks are often entertaining, they can be a bother.” The animals dig through the ground, making holes and passageways. This can lead to the destruction of grass, flowers and other plant life. Chipmunks can be “cute” and “fun to watch in the forest” as they move in and out of holes like playful children, “When their mouths aren’t full of nuts, chipmunks make an interesting chip sound,” Webb said.

Steven Parren is a wildlife program official with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. He said he couldn’t grow flowers with chipmunks digging them up. “They don’t even cease,” he said. There were so many acorns in one area that there was no way the animals could have put them all away for winter. In addition to chipmunks, he is also seeing more squirrels, rabbits and mice this year.

Experts note while small animal populations can sometimes explode, they usually return to normal. Chipmunks can be food for other creatures. They are easy targets for owls, snakes and foxes. But even if they survive such attacks, Webb said individual chipmunks usually only live about three years. Many New Englanders remember a similar rise in the area’s squirrel population in 2018. Webb said that increase led to a lot of roadkill. “We’ve never seen anything like that. That was a once — in — a — lifetime event.”

【1】What does the underlined sentence in the first paragraph suggest?

A．Americans start to pick up nuts as food.

B．Chipmunks are making people annoyed.

C．Chipmunks’ favorite food is some kinds of nuts.

D．Many resources are destroyed by chipmunks.

【2】Which of the following best describes chipmunks?

A．Hateful and noisy.

B．Numerous and aggressive.

C．Adorable but troublesome.

D．Amusing but endangered.

【3】What can we infer about the chipmunk population from the last paragraph?

A．It will return to normal soon.

B．There will be a slight increase.

C．It’ll affect other animals’ population.

D．There’s no need to worry too much.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Plentiful food causes considerable chipmunks in the US.

B．Chipmunks have been part of American life.

C．Numbers of various animals have been rising.

D．Time to live in harmony with wild animals comes.

25、I lifted my wet woollen gloves to my face and wiped the snowflakes from my eyes. I could not feel my nose and my ________ formed a thick fog in the air. The biting wind was making me ________. I was fed up! I didn’t want to be here. I wanted to go home. But Mum and Dad had ________ me to go for a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. I could see my ________ in the snowy path, like a trail of breadcrumbs (一串面包屑) in the forest showing me the way ________.

I stopped and listened to my ________. I could ________ the wind crying like a homeless dog hungry for a delicious ________. The once-green tree ________, which used to wave gently in the breeze, had become bare, and the grass was covered with a ________ blanket of fresh snow. Then I saw a broken spider’s web shining golden beneath a pale sun. My breath was like silky soft ________ floating up into the freezing cold air.

Suddenly there was Mum, ________ handing me a big cup of hot chocolate. Her big smile immediately ________ my heart.

“Here you are, Jo. This will keep you ________,”she said as she placed a comforting arm around my shoulders and ________ her cheek against mine.

I slowly took a mouthful of the hot ________ and felt it slowly dripping down my throat like lava (熔岩) ________ down a mountainside. My wet woollen gloves were now warm, not ________. My breath warmed, and I was ________ fed up or cold. I was happy and ________.

【1】

A．sweat

B．breath

C．tears

D．words

【2】

A．hungry

B．thirsty

C．cold

D．tired

【3】

A．forced

B．forbidden

C．allowed

D．needed

【4】

A．shadow

B．image

C．shoes

D．footprints

【5】

A．up

B．inside

C．home

D．there

【6】

A．surroundings

B．whispers

C．heartbeat

D．mind

【7】

A．see

B．hear

C．feel

D．smell

【8】

A．chocolate

B．drink

C．bone

D．snowball

【9】

A．roots

B．branches

C．trunks

D．leaves

【10】

A．colourful

B．shabby

C．plain

D．white

【11】

A．ice

B．rain

C．smoke

D．light

【12】

A．finally

B．cheerfully

C．gradually

D．unwillingly

【13】

A．melted

B．impressed

C．broke

D．stopped

【14】

A．calm

B．alive

C．warm

D．awake

【15】

A．raised

B．felt

C．dropped

D．pressed

【16】

A．soup

B．liquid

C．meal

D．cup

【17】

A．flowing

B．walking

C．jumping

D．squeezing

【18】

A．damaged

B．abandoned

C．frozen

D．worn

【19】

A．either

B．sometimes

C．no less

D．no longer

【20】

A．surprised

B．contented

C．determined

D．warm-hearted

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.

Filter（过滤） Bubbles

In our digital age, whether we realize it or not, we’re all becoming trapped in “filter bubbles”— invisible, mental cages built from our prejudices and desire for comfort.

We create this trap by doing things like exposing ourselves to politically-biased（有偏见的）news and entertainment or surrounding ourselves with like-minded friends. Digital algorithms（算法）enhance our problem by learning what we like and filling our social media with opinion— supporting content. The result is a personalized daily environment that filters out contrary points of view. Media algorithms are intensifying our tendency to self-isolate by strengthening the false view that our opinions are obviously true and moral.

We become fooled into believing that our opinions about complex issues are unquestionable. Meanwhile, the filter bubbles of those who disagree with us mislead them in the same way. This partial view of reality weakens our thinking, strains（伤害）our relationships and divides our societies. How can two people have a respectful, open-minded discussion when they both believe that only a stupid or dishonest person would disagree with them?

To get along with family, friends and fellow citizens, we must burst our filter bubbles. We can do this by cultivating meaningful relationships with people who think differently from us. This lets us experience the reality that people who believe “bad” things can be just as good and as intelligent as we are.

We can also receive balanced information by consuming news and entertainment from across the political and ideological scale. Determining right from wrong is complicated. Living outside of our filter bubbles is less comfortable and takes effort, but the personal, relational and societal benefits are rich.