肇庆2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、As Queen Elizabeth in her New Year Speech of 2018 puts it, for many, the idea of “home” reaches _______ a physical building to a hometown, a city or a nation.

A. against   B. with   C. beyond   D. through

2、Going out is __________good means of relaxation. Would you like to go to______ park with me in the afternoon?

A. the ;the B. the; a   C. a; the   D. /；a

3、It will be a great help if you go to the store and get what we need for dinner.________I'll set the table.

A．As a result

B．In the meanwhile

C．On the whole

D．As a matter of fact

4、She was likely to tell the whole truth, in cases ________ other people would have kept silence.

A. where   B. that   C. who   D. which

5、How long do you suppose it is ______ he arrived there?

A.when B.before

C.after D.since

6、Faye’s fondest memory is of last year, ______ the club gave a tea party for her birthday.

A.that B.which C.where D.when

7、How would you feel being locked in the house all day with no one for _______?

A.company B.camp C.journey D.tour

8、The government calls on us to avoid visiting crowded areas and medical institutions _______ it is necessary.

A.while B.because C.unless D.when

9、________ competence in acquiring English today comes from the ability to express oneself rather than in simply passing exams.

A. Due B. Raw

C. Core D. Keen

10、The hero’s touching story ________ online has drawn thousands of “likes” and hundreds of comments from the public.

A．posting

B．to post

C．posted

D．to be posted

11、On the third floor there are two rooms, ________ used as a meeting-room.

A. the larger of which   B. one of them

C. and a larger of them   D. the largest one of which

12、The reason____ Spielberg could not go to the Film Academy was   his grades were too low.

A. that; that     B. why; that

C. why; because D. that; because

13、 ______ smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

A. To keep B. Keeping  C. Keep  D. Having kept

14、—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

15、It's an either-or situation-you can take on-line classes at home or have classes in the school, but you can't do_________.

A.others B.both C.another D.either

16、Cost ________as follows: food and drink 100 yuan, studying material 150 yuan, accommodation fee 300 yuan.

A．breaks down

B．breaks off

C．breaks in

D．breaks out

17、The color of red, _____meaning is good luck and happiness, is important in Chinese culture.

A. why   B. which   C. where   D. whose

18、New York is the fashion capital of the world, says a new study on Feb 4. 2014 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM), Pairs ____ second, with Shanghai ______10th while Hongkong 20th.

A. coming, ranks   B. come, ranked   C. comes, ranking   D. coming, ranking

19、From time to time, our biology teacher tells us the only way he thinks of __________ experiments well is to practice.

A.do B.to do C.doing D.did

20、If _____ for too long, the microscopic life (微生物) within the wrinkles and folds of our bed sheets can turn our bed into a “botanical park”, making us sick.

A. left   B. is left   C. being left   D. to be left

21、If you struggle with anxiety, you are probably hoping for a tip that you can use right now. 【1】 Many people feel this way at the beginning of therapy. That is why I always teach people this first skill as early as possible. 【2】 At the very least, it prevents anxiety from developing into panic.

When anxiety is triggered (触发), you start breathing more quickly. This is your body’s way of getting in extra oxygen to fuel the survival response.

【3】 So you breathe faster with rapid, shallow breaths, then you have an excess of oxygen in your system. But if you can extend the out-breath so that it is longer or more vigorous than the inbreath, this helps to slow your heart rate down. 【4】

Some people like to count the breaths when doing an extended outbreath, such breathing in for a count of 7 and out for a count of 11, or a variation that works for you.

Taking some time to practise slow breathing techniques is a great investment of time. 【5】 You can do it anywhere, any time and nobody even needs to know you are doing it.

A．One of my favorites is square breathing.

B．You feel as though you cannot catch your breath.

C．Something easy to learn that will have instant effect.

D．Another tool that has almost instant effects is exercise.

E．It’s an anxiety management tool that works in the moment.

F．When the pounding heart comes down, so does the anxiety response.

G．It is easy to learn and takes a few minutes to bring down the intensity of anxiety.

22、Siri is an artificial intelligence (AI) that you can carry around in the pocket, where it waits patiently to be told what to do. In the week we spent together, my AI assistant has performed admirably in finding me restaurants, or the location of the nearest coffee shop.

A typical command might be: “Reserve a table for two at a good French restaurant in San Francisco.” Siri responds by presenting a list of top-rated restaurants that can be booked on OpenTable.com. If you say which time you want, it can book you a table without your lifting a finger. In some ways Siri is just a fancy front-end (前端程序) to the 35 sites it can connect to, from taxi booking sites to movie review databases. But what’s new is the way it can analyze the intentions of its master or mistress and use those sites to put them into action.

Siri attaches probabilities to the explanation of each word and cross-references (对照检索) with your location and other data, some of which you must provide yourself. To send email reminders, Siri obviously needs to know your email address. To “find me the flower shop closest to work”, it needs to know where you work. To pay bills or buy airline tickets, it would need access to your credit card.

That raises the question of how far we are willing to trust a piece of software that can go and do things for us based on what it “thinks” we mean, a topic that occupies some engineers working on artificial intelligence. The more data, and power, you give your virtual assistant, the more damage it could do. Siri may be simple, and always shows its explanation of a command before carrying it out. But it gives users a preview of a new balance between privacy, trust and convenience that the expansion of AI into everyday life is likely to develop.

【1】What is Siri?

A. A digital e-book reader.

B. A music-sharing software.

C. A voice-controlled website.

D. An artificial intelligence software.

【2】When asked “do I need my umbrella today?”, what will Siri probably respond with?

A. The list of umbrella makers.

B. The list of umbrella shops.

C. The local weather forecast.

D. The local climate conditions.

【3】Siri is new in that it has the ability ______.

A. to understand what you speak

B. to connect a lot of websites

C. to give a variety of commands

D. to create computerized database

【4】What question does Paragraph 4 answer?

A. Does Siri think itself?   B. Can I trust you, Siri?

C. Is Siri simple for use?   D. Will Siri be popular?

23、Jordan Mittler has been spending weekends teaching seniors in New York how to use technology for years, but he never expected he would be streaming a class online.

He has taught texting, emailing and video chatting to dozens of seniors for years, beginning when his grandparents first got smartphones. Teaching them how to use apps and send messages inspired the teen to offer his services to more older people. In February 2019, he created a formal curriculum and started hosting free, hour-long sessions for seniors every Sunday.

Immediately, he was flooded with interested participants. His course, spread out over 10 weeks, was an instant success. One of his favorite lessons was helping his students surprise a family member with a video call.

But when the coronavirus hit New York City, Jordan had to end his classes. He wasn’t sure if he could move the lessons online—it was much easier to help students understand their devices in person —but he knew the importance of keeping older folks connected online. Most of the attendees were retired or lived alone and needed to find ways to connect with family members remotely. “It gives them somewhere to be and something to do,” he said.

So he spent a week ensuring each student could use Zoom, an online video chat platform. For most of the seniors, that meant calling them individually with step-by-step instructions. Since then, online classes have been going smoothly. He has reworked his curriculum to include tasks relevant to life in isolation, like staying in touch with family, checking the news, and playing online games.

His project, Mittler Senior Technology, has taught Jordan the value of making intergenerational relationships. He frequently invites his teenage friends to participate in his classes, hoping more young people will take time to help older relatives or neighbors.

【1】What made Jordan decide to help the old?

A．Buying smartphones for his grandparents.

B．Streaming a class about smartphones.

C．Guiding his grandparents to use smartphones.

D．Learning more skills about surfing the Internet.

【2】What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A．How Jordan began his online classes.

B．Why it was necessary to help the old.

C．What Jordan thought of the coronavirus.

D．Why it was hard to teach the old online.

【3】What can we know about Jordan’s online teaching?

A．It got support from apps.

B．Jordan had confidence in it at first.

C．Its curriculum never changed.

D．Jordan well prepared for it.

【4】What can we infer about Jordan Mittler?

A．He is considerate and patient.

B．He is humorous and positive.

C．He is curious and brave.

D．He is honest and determined.

24、How to Speak English Fluently

Immerse(沉浸)yourself in English every day

【1】The best way to quickly improve your English is to spend at least a few minutes practicing every day.

There’s a special language learning method called “immersion”. With immersion, you try to surround yourself with the language as much as you can in your day-to-day activities.

Accept that English grammar has a lot of exceptions

Sometimes, you can find patterns in English grammar, but other times English doesn’t make sense at all. It’s easy to get stuck on learning how to speak English properly if you try to find a reason for everything. 【2】So the best thing to do is just memorize the strange exceptions and move on.

Learn intonation, body language and gestures

Intonation is the “rise and fall” or tone changes in how a person speaks. Body language is how a person uses their own body to support (or go against) what they mean. Gestures are hand and body movements that work together with what someone is saying. 【3】 One way to learn is to just watch how native English speakers communicate with each other.

Share your opinions online

To really learn English speaking, you need to learn how to express yourself in English. Even if you have ideas for conversations, it can be hard to know how to put them into your own words. You can practice this by participating in conversations online. 【4】

Get direct feedback

To improve your speaking, you can ask directly for feedback. Since you usually can’t do this with casual conversations, it might be worth setting up a language exchange, where you can ask the person to tell you directly if any of your sentences sounds awkward or unnatural. 【5】Hello Talk also allows you to chat in English, and then your conversation partner will literally mark out your mistakes.

A．Sometimes, English is just strange!

B．There are many options for practicing your writing skills.

C．Listen carefully when someone asks you a question in English.

D．It’s not easy to learn these three things because they seem very natural.

E．Posting on social media and leaving comments on articles are good approaches.

F．Studying English for an hour once a week isn’t usually enough to make any real progress.

G．There are even apps for this, like Go Correct, where you can connect with English teachers.

25、In my primary school, we used to write a lot in Mrs. White’s class. There were many mistakes in my writings. But no red _________. Instead, always a star. Sometimes _________ a Good! I would jump with joy at it. But this _________ my mother. She wanted to figure out why Mrs. White never _________ spelling or grammatical errors. Then one day she went to see her.

Mrs. White replied, “Children are just beginning to get _________ about using words, about forming sentences. I don’t want to _________ that enthusiasm or put any pressure on them with red ink. Spelling and grammar can wait, but the _________ of words won ‘t…” And maybe she didn’t say it _________ like that. But what’s for sure is that I grew up learning to use words with _________ confidence from her.

It occurs to me that if Mrs. White had used her red pen more __________, I probably wouldn’t be telling you about this now. Looking back, I think she was such a(n) __________ teacher—to exercise “red-pen-restriction”. She allowed the joy, wonder and excitement of expression to come out.

In middle school, I used to __________ the word beautiful as “baeutiful”. Although “pretty” is __________ to spell, it doesn’t hold as much as you mean sometimes. So I told myself that if I was going to __________ the word, the least I could do was spell it right. Eventually, I made it.

And thanks to Mrs. White, I had no __________ when writing what I meant even if I couldn’t quite spell it out. Because Life isn’t Pretty. It’s “Baeutiful”.

【1】

A．signals

B．corrections

C．remarks

D．symbols

【2】

A．even

B．yet

C．ever

D．still

【3】

A．threatened

B．shocked

C．worried

D．pleased

【4】

A．gave up

B．waited for

C．wrote down

D．pointed out

【5】

A．nervous

B．sensitive

C．excited

D．confused

【6】

A．kill

B．fuel

C．welcome

D．ignore

【7】

A．meaning

B．choice

C．repetition

D．wonder

【8】

A．formally

B．exactly

C．firmly

D．loudly

【9】

A．new

B．little

C．poor

D．full

【10】

A．precisely

B．carefully

C．personally

D．cautiously

【11】

A．reliable

B．romantic

C．extraordinary

D．famous

【12】

A．recognise

B．identify

C．misuse

D．misspell

【13】

A．better

B．harder

C．easier

D．faster

【14】

A．cancel

B．employ

C．imitate

D．read

【15】

A．tension

B．relief

C．complaint

D．anger

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

During this past year, I’ve had three instances of car trouble. Each time these things happened, I was sick of the way most people hadn’t bothered to help. One of those times, I was on the side of the road for close to three hours with my big Jeep. I put signs in the windows, big signs that said NEED A JACK (千斤顶), and offered money. Nothing. Right as I was about to give up, a Mexican family in a small truck pulled over, and the father bounded out.

He sized up the situation and called for his daughter, who spoke English. He conveyed through her that he had a jack but that it was too small for the Jeep, so we would need something to support it. Then he got a saw (锯子) from the truck and cut a section out of a big log(圆木)on the side of the road. We rolled it over and put his jack on top, and we were in business.

I started taking the wheel off, and then, if you can believe it, I broke his tire iron(拆轮胎的扳手). No worries: He handed it to his wife, and she was gone in a flash down the road to buy a new tire iron. She was back in 15 minutes. We finished the job, and I was a very happy man.

The two of us were dirty and sweaty. His wife prepared a pot of water for us to wash our hands. I tried to put a $20 bill in the man’s hand, but he wouldn’t take it, so instead I went up to the truck and gave it to his wife as quietly as I could. I asked the little girl where they lived. Mexico, she said. They were in Oregon so Mommy and Daddy could work on a fruit farm for the next few weeks. Then they would go home.

注意：

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

When I was about to say goodbye, the girl asked if I’d had lunch.

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Paragraph 2:

After they left, I got into my Jeep and opened the paper bag.

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