秦皇岛2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高一英语

1、She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.

A.phoned B.had phoned

C.was phoning D.has phoned

2、Please ________ your ashes before it fails on the carpet.

A. cut off B. knock off

C. get off D. drop off

3、It is known that water is not an endless resource, ________ can it be made once more, so we should save and protect it.

A．so

B．as

C．thus

D．nor

4、-I had butterflies in my stomach before I gave that talk.

-I__________nervous too if I had been in you shoes.

A.was B.would be C.had been D.would have been

5、These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have ________ a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.

A. built up   B. packed up   C. brought up     D. took up

6、The boy played the piano so ________ that all the audience stood up and clapped their hands.

A.good B.well C.better D.best

7、________ 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

8、When faced with a big challenge ________ potential failure seems to hide at every corner, maybe you've heard this advice before: “Be more confident.”

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

9、As is known, only   hard leads to happiness.

A. work   B. works

C. worked   D. working

10、We ______ him that he ought to make the bar more attractive with various methods. He finally sees the light.

A.told B.would tell C.have been telling D.had told

11、—What will things be like in the year 2080?

—I don’t know, but it was the question________last Tuesday by Brian Solis, a noted futurist from Sweden.

A.acknowledged B.approved C.alarmed D.addressed

12、The public were expecting the _______ of further details about the accident until thorough investigation.

A.receipt B.release

C.request D.reference

13、We are so tired. ______ we could take the day off tomorrow!

A. Only if

B. What if

C. If only

D. If so

14、 Experts and teachers all think that failure is not ________ a bad thing to some extent.

A. greatly   B. necessarily   C. definitely D. extremely

15、—Mr. Smith said we had only three days to finish the project.

―Don't worry. We have already________ two thirds of it.

A．given away

B．given in

C．got through

D．got down

16、See things in a negative light and you will find faults everywhere and problems where there are really _______.

A.none B.no one C.something D.nothing

17、People who value their privacy are concerned about _________Google might do with the information it is gathering.

A．that

B．what

C．why

D．how

18、What I love most about reading novels is ______ the authors vividly describe the characters.

A. what   B. why

C. how   D. whom

19、The change of a job can be a very challenging and ______ experience for most people.

A．inspiring

B．disturbing

C．motivating

D．fascinating

20、We won’t forget the heroes ________ lost their lives while fighting against a forest fire.

A.who B.whose C.when D.why

21、When people think of a typical mineral mine, it’s probably underground. It is unlikely that the imagery of plants and soft greenery would cross their minds. Now, new explorations into phytomining may change that thought. Instead of traditionally mining metals like nickel (镍) and iron from rocks, phytomining uses plants as an alternative source for minerals. Using plants to extract (提取) metals can have significant environmental benefits over rock mining.

Phytomining was first studied in 1983 but it wasn’t adapted by the mining industry. In 2004, Indonesian soil scientist Aiyen Tjoa from Tadulako University in Central Sulawesithe, took her research to Sorowako, a small town in Indonesia with one of the largest nickel mining areas, to look into plants that survived years of mining. She brought samples back to her lab and found that these super plants were more than just surviving, they were growing in their glory.

The plants were absorbing and storing nickel from the soil. Large amounts of metals killed most plants, but these, known as hyperaccumulators, were learning to adapt. If these plants were containing metals, that meant that science could find a way to extract the minerals for use and quite frankly, scientists easily did. When the shoots were harvested and burned, the metals were separated from the plant material in the ashes.

Tjoa returned to Sorowako and spent years searching for new hyperaccumulator species. After a plant was considered a possibility, there was a test paper that turns pink when placed against the leaf of a hyperaccumulator plant. Two local Indonesian plants, sarcotheca celebica and knema matanensis, were found and there’re many others still to be discovered.

Tjoa’s research caught the attention of Satria Bijasksana, a professor of rock magnetism. Together, they designed an experiment to understand magnetic susceptibility (磁化率) when plants gather more nickel, which led to the discovery of more new species of hyperaccumulators. Their research serves as the basis for the potential that plants can give to the mining industry, offering great advantages to our ecosystem and towards building a more sustainable future.

【1】Why did Aiyen Tjoa go to Sorowako in 2004?

A．To continue her college education.

B．To carry out mining underground.

C．To improve the soil of a small town.

D．To study the plants surviving mining.

【2】What do we know about hyperaccumulators?

A．They are rich in minerals.

B．They are free of metals.

C．They are very easy to discover.

D．They are too fragile to survive.

【3】What is the purpose of Aiyen Tjoa and Satria Bijasksana’s experiment?

A．To enable more plants to survive.

B．To test out the mining industry.

C．To help find more hyperaccumulators.

D．To improve the extraction speed.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?.

A．A New Creative Mining Way Meets Challenges

B．Phytomining Will Take the Place of Old Mining

C．Extracting Minerals From Plants Becomes Possible

D．Many Plants Can Act as Sources of Many Metals

22、Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer (零售商) who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's. Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department scores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, “The customer is always right,” which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase “Only [so many] Shopping Days until Christmas”.

When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no match of their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges. a department store named after him. at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team shaped an ambitious classical palacc building with a wall of plate glass windows.

Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first aid room and. most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale.

Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker.

【1】What can be learned about Mr. Selfridge from Paragraph I ?

A. lie was well-educated.

B. He was a gifted businessman.

C. He was a modest man.

D. He was dishonest.

【2】What made Selfridge build a department store in London?

A. The large population in London.

B. His desire to own a department store.

C. His confidence in business success.

D. Affection for London architecture.

【3】What was Selfridges' most impressive characteristic?

A. The number of departments.

B. The broad choice of goods.

C. The small group of guards.

D. The well-trained sales guides.

【4】What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To introduce the history of Selfridge .

B. To compare different department stores.

C. To encourage readers to spend more.

D. To explain how to start a department store.

23、   Sea otters (海獭) are pretty small compared to other marine mammals (哺乳动物).which means that, despite their fur coats, they tend to lose het quickly, and need lots of energy to keep up their body temperature.

"So they need to eat 25 percent of their body weight each day," says Sarah McKay Strobel, a sensory ecologist at UC Santa Cruz. "But in order to eat that much food, that means sea otters need to find all that food. " She studied the otter's senses, to solve the mystery of how they're such efficient food catchers. Vision isn't reliable, she says- it's pretty dark and muddy underwater, and crabs and other smaller animals tend to hide. Hearing is also tough for otters, in the noisy underwater environment. And sniffing's no good either. "When they're underwater they're holding their breath."

What's left is touch. So Strobel measured the sensitivity of the otters' paws and whiskers (须). She blindfolded an otter named Selka, then presented it with plastic plates carved with tiny grooves (沟槽). Selka's job was to select the plate with two-millimerter grooves, which she'd been trained to associate with tasty food, instead of plates with differently sized grooves.

Tums out, Selka could tell just a quarter millimeter difference in the grooves' with with her paws - above and below water - and hall a millimeter difference with her whiskers. "The fact that she was able to perform so well while moving extremely quickly I think is really interesting and suggests that sea otters have very quick decision-making abilities and very quick sensory processing abilities, which makes sense when you think about the type of lifestyle they lead and how quickly they need to find food."

For the record, humans can feel the difference too, but it takes us 30 times longer, which might make sense. After all, we live in environments where touch is less important in a hunt than sight and sound.

【1】Why do sea otters eat much food?

A.To swim faster. B.To stay warm.

C.To keep their fur thick. D.To satisfy their good appetite.

【2】What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A.An introduction to Selka. B.The use of plastic plates.

C.An experiment on Selka. D.The function of otters' touch.

【3】What did Strobel find about sea otters' senses?

A.Hearing is useless. B.Touch is the most elective.

C.They have no vision. D.Their smell works very well.

【4】What can we learn from the text?

A.Sea otters have enough food to eat.

B.Humans are more sensitive than sea otters.

C.Sea otters respond very quickly in hunting.

D.Sea otters' whiskers work better than paws.

24、Both misinformation, which includes honest mistakes, and disinformation, which involves an intention to mislead, have had a growing impact on teenage students over the past 20 years. One tool that schools can use to deal with this problem is called media literacy education. The idea is to teach teenage students how to evaluate and think critically about the messages they receive. Yet there is profound disagreement about what to teach.

Some approaches teach students to distinguish the quality of the information in part by learning how responsible journalism works. Yet some scholars argue that these methods overstate journalism and do little to cultivate critical thinking skills. Other approaches teach students methods for evaluating the credibility of news and information sources, in part by determining the incentive of those sources. They teach students to ask: What encouraged them to create it and why? But even if these approaches teach students specific skills well, some experts argue that determining credibility of the news is just the first step. Once students figure out if it’s true or false, what is the other assessment and the other analysis they need to do?

Worse still, some approaches to media literacy education not only don’t work but might actually backfire by increasing students’ skepticism about the way the media work. Students may begin to read all kinds of immoral motives into everything. It is good to educate students to challenge their assumptions, but it’s very easy for students to go from healthy critical thinking to unhealthy skepticism and the idea that everyone is lying all the time.

To avoid these potential problems, broad approaches that help students develop mindsets in which they become comfortable with uncertainty are in need. According to educational psychologist William Perry of Harvard University, students go through various stages of learning. First, children are black-and-white thinkers—they think there are right answers and wrong answers. Then they develop into relativists, realizing that knowledge can be contextual. This stage is the one where people can come to believe there is no truth. With media literacy education, the aim is to get students to the next level—that place where they can start to see and appreciate the fact that the world is messy, and that’s okay. They have these fundamental approaches to gathering knowledge that they can accept, but they still value uncertainty.

Schools still have a long way to go before they get there, though. Many more studies will be needed for researchers to reach a comprehensive understanding of what works and what doesn’t over the long term. “Education scholars need to take an ambitious step forward,” says Howard Schneider, director of the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University.

【1】As for media literacy education, what is the author’s major concern?

A．How to achieve its goal.

B．How to measure its progress.

C．How to avoid its side effects.

D．How to promote its importance.

【2】What does the underlined word “incentive” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Importance.

B．Variety.

C．Motivation.

D．Benefit.

【3】The author mentions stages of learning in Paragraph 4 mainly to________.

A．compare different types of thinking

B．evaluate students’ mind development

C．explain a theory of educational psychology

D．stress the need to raise students’ thinking levels

【4】Which would be the best title for this passage?

A．Media Literacy Education: Much Still Remains

B．Media Literacy Education: Schools Are to Blame

C．Media Literacy Education: A Way to Identify False Information

D．Media Literacy Education: A Tool for Testing Critical Thinking

25、A little girl has become famous in her neighborhood after drawing messages of hope on her family’s garage door during lockdown (疫情封闭).

Mom-of-two Christine has been letting her six-year-old daughter Eilidh turn their black shiny garage door into a ________ art project with chalk. Twice a week since April 2020, Eilidh has let her imagination run________, covering the space with mermaids, dolphins, Spiderman, and dinosaurs. She has this week________ it with a rainbow, flowers, and some________ words. Eilidh has a little wooden chair she can stand on to help her________ higher up, and her artist mom gives her________ with things she needs.

Her drawings came to people’s________, and an admiring fan club has begun leaving boxes of chocolates on their doorstep. ________ mom Christine said: “Whatever comes into her head she draws it________. It could be quite________. It depends on what is happening around her. She is just drawing outside to make people________.”

Christine has already________ one broom ( 扫 帚 ) by cleaning the garage. When it rains, the chalk is washed away, and Eilidh starts again________ on the next dry day.

Eilidh is now loving being back at________ as lockdown in Britain eases. And one thing is for sure – this little girl is no doubt superior in her________ classes.

【1】

A．formal

B．useful

C．colorful

D．neat

【2】

A．strange

B．wild

C．mad

D．funny

【3】

A．illustrated

B．cleaned

C．repaired

D．performed

【4】

A．lucky

B．encouraging

C．awful

D．careful

【5】

A．extend

B．hold

C．climb

D．reach

【6】

A．a hand

B．a lift

C．a smile

D．a word

【7】

A．assistance

B．attention

C．discovery

D．impression

【8】

A．Ambitious

B．Fortunate

C．Proud

D．Puzzled

【9】

A．reasonably

B．cautiously

C．amusingly

D．vividly

【10】

A．reliable

B．random

C．interesting

D．surprising

【11】

A．devoted

B．occupied

C．curious

D．happy

【12】

A．worn out

B．tried out

C．brought in

D．given away

【13】

A．with patience

B．in surprise

C．out of curiosity

D．for leisure

【14】

A．home

B．neighborhood

C．school

D．work

【15】

A．language

B．art

C．science

D．physics

26、假定你是李华，你负责的英语俱乐部计划组织一次急救培训课程，主题为 “Stay out of danger and enjoy a safe holiday”。请你用英语写一则通知，内容包括：

1. 时间和地点；

2. 培训内容。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。