2025-2026学年广东汕尾高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、________ hard all day, I went to bed at 8 o’clock.

A. Having worked     B. Working

C. To work       D. To have worked

2、 The new financial policy of the United States has ______ a chain reaction in the international money markets.

A. set off    B. given off

C. put off   D. got off

3、 Last year alone, the temporary unemployment insurance lifted 2.5 million people out of poverty, and ________ the blow for many more.

A. corrected   B. cushioned

C. compensated  D. corresponded

4、The airplane flew ________ the mountains and disappeared in the distance.

A．over

B．in

C．on

D．at

5、—can I have some information about the course?

—It _____ for beginners and lasts two weeks.

A． designs     B． is designed

C． designed   D． was designed

6、Jack ___________ in the lab when the power cut occurred.

A．works

B．has worked

C．was working

D．would work

7、—Was it still there _______ you were away to answer the phone?

—There is no doubt about it.

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

8、---Your grandfather still seems very energetic, although he is already in his seventies now.

---Yes, he _______in the army for three years when he was young.

A． would serve   B． served

C． had served   D． has served

9、—When are you going to return my notebook?

—Don't worry. You ________ have it soon, I promise.

A．may

B．should

C．shall

D．must

10、 John brought over my letter _______ to him by mistake.

A. delivered   B. to be delivered

C. delivering D. having delivered

11、The thief made a little hole in the wall，________ he could see what was going on inside the house.

A．on which

B．in which

C．through which

D．at which

12、I was wondering    the discussion would end up if we kept on arguing like this aimlessly.

A. what   B. that

C. where   D. which

13、There seemed to be a     of five years in her job history which she was unwilling to explain.

A.gap B.goal C.guide D.garment

14、   of our classmates are good at basketball.

A．Three quarters   B．Three fourth

C．Third four     D．Three four

15、  －I’ve read another book this week.

－Well, maybe _____ is not how much you read but what you read that counts.

A. this   B. that   C. there   D. it

16、By accepting lower prices, organisers can sell tickets that would________ go unsold.

A．however

B．instead

C．therefore

D．otherwise

17、_____ he promised that he wouldn’t be late，he didn’t arrive until the end of the party．

A．Since B．Although

C．Because D．Until

18、—Darling, the airplane is going to take off. I have to go.

—______. I will miss you so much.

A．Take care

B．Hurry up

C．Forget it

D．Never mind

19、 Will it be ages ______ he goes back to school? I'm so worried about him.

A. before   B. after    C. when     D. as

20、I will give you a reply as soon as possible. Just have a little ______.

A.courage B.patience C.energy D.talent

21、   Success is so much more than just money or fame. 【1】 This allows you to be true to who you really are. If you want to create a life that makes you feel passionate to be alive, what do you need to focus on?

 【2】 If you don’t believe in yourself, how do you expect other people to? If you don’t believe that you can have the life you desire, it is going to be very difficult to create a successful life. When you believe in yourself, it fuels your creativity, your ambitions and your motivation to do things.

Another way is to know your intention. If your intention is simply rooted in money and fame, chances are that you are never going to truly feel successful. 【3】 And it is not enough to maintain a long-term feeling of fulfillment and happiness. For a truly successful life, your intention has to be rooted in your purpose, in your passions and in what feels good to you. When your intention is to serve your purpose and express your talents, you will feel true success and satisfaction.

Realize you are already successful. 【4】 The more you can welcome that into your life, the more you will start to feel it. Being grateful for the tiniest successes in life will also help you to create more and more success. This is a powerful mindset shift. It will help you to be with your ambitions and dreams. 【5】

A.Have faith in yourself.

B.Success is always after the rain and wind.

C.Success is all around you and flows through you.

D.Once you realize this, there is no stopping what you can do.

E.Success is about being able to live a happy and satisfactory life.

F.Thanking for the biggest failure will help you achieve greater success.

G.The feeling of success that is given through money and fame is only temporary.

22、

The President Goes to School

Last week，President Barack Obama gave a back-to-school speech to students at the Julia R．Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia，Pennsylvania. Students in schools across the country also tuned in to watch the President's speech on TV. He stressed the importance of trying new things，working hard and believing in yourself.

We Need to Work Hard

While acknowledging that times are difficult for families across the country，Obama reminded students that hard work now can mean big success later.“Nobody gets to write your destiny(命运) but you，”he said.“Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it. And nothing，absolutely nothing，is beyond your reach.”

Obama spoke about his own life，and lessons he learned from his mother，who had to remind him to stay focused on his studies. He told students the secret of success：Showing up to school on time. Paying attention in class. Doing your homework. Studying for exams. Staying out of trouble.

Expand Your Mind

Obama encouraged students to hug what makes them different.“We shouldn't be embarrassed by the things that make us different，”he said.“We should be proud of them.”

He also suggested taking advantage of all of the chances at school，and always being open to trying new things.“That you're not the best at something today doesn't mean you can't be tomorrow，”he said.“Even if you don't think of yourself as a math person or as a science person—you can still excel in these subjects if you're willing to make the effort. And you may find out you have talents you'd never dreamed of.”

【1】Who plays the most important role in writing your life according to Obama?

A．Yourself.  B．Your parents.  C．Nobody.  D．Your teachers.

【2】What didn't Obama talk about when he gave speech to students?

A．His own life.

B．Lessons he learned from his mother.

C．The secret of success.

D．Why he gave this speech.

【3】Which of the following isn't Obama's opinion?

A．Students should pay attention in class.

B．Students should study hard for exams.

C．Students should go to school on time.

D．Get into trouble and solve it by yourself.

【4】What's the right attitude when facing things that make people different according to Obama?

A．Happy.   B．Embarrassed.   C．Proud.      D．Sad.

23、There is something to be said for being a generalist, even if you are a specialist. Knowing a little about a lot of things that interest you can add to the richness of a whole, well-lived life.

Society pushes us to specialize, to become experts. This requires commitment to a particular occupation, branch of study or research. The drawback to being specialists is that we often come to know more and more about less and less. There is a great deal of pressure to master one's field. You may pursue training, degrees, or increasing levels of responsibility at work. Then you discover the pressure of having to keep up.

Some people seem willing to work around the clock in their narrow specialty. But such commitment can also weaken their sense of freedom. These specialists could work at the office until ten each night, then look back and realize they would have loved to have gone home and enjoyed the sweetness of their family and friends, or traveled to exciting places, meeting interesting people Mastering one thing to the exclusion of others can hold back your true spirit.

Generalists, on the other hand, know a lot about a wide range of subjects and view the whole with all its connections. They are people of ability, talent, and enthusiasm who can bring their broad perspective (视角) into specific fields of expertise (专长). The doctor who is also a poet and Philosopher, is a superior doctor, one who can give so much more to his patients than just good medical skills.

Things are connected. Let your expertise in one field fuel your passions in all related areas. Some of your interests may not appear to be connected but, once you explore their depths, you discover that they are. My editor Toni, who is also writer, has edited several history books. She has decided to study Chinese history. Fascinate by the structural beauty of the Forbidden City as a painter, she is equally interested to learn more about Chinese philosophy. “I don't know where it will lead, but I'm excited I'm on this pursuit.”

These expansions into new worlds help us by giving us new perspectives. We begin to see the interconnectedness of one thing to another in all aspects of our life, of ourselves and the universe. Develop broad, general knowledge and experience. The universe is all yours to explore and enjoy.

【1】To become a specialist, you may have to ______.

A．narrow your range of knowledge

B．get pushed by the surroundings

C．know a lot more about society

D．be devoted to a special job

【2】According to the author, a superior doctor is one who ______.

A．is a pure specialist in medicine

B．is gifted in poetry and philosophy

C．is fully aware of his talent and ability

D．brings knowledge of other fields to work

【3】What does the author intend to show with the example of Toni?

A．Chinese culture is appealing to people worldwide.

B．One passion alone is not enough to ensure success.

C．In-depth exploration can make discoveries possible.

D．Seemingly unrelated interests are in a way connected.

【4】What could be the best title for the passage?

A．Turn a Generalist Into a Specialist

B．Be More of a Generalist Than a Specialist

C．Ways to Become a Generalist

D．Specialist or Generalist: Hard to Decide

24、In a new study, the researchers examined trends in subjective well-being (幸福) over the course of a lifespan based on 443 samples from a total of 460,902 participants. “We focused on changes in three central components of subjective well-being: life satisfaction, positive emotional states and negative emotional states,” explains Professor Susanne Bücker.

The findings show that life satisfaction decreased between the ages of 9 and 16, then increased slightly until the age of 70, and then decreased once again until the age of 96. Positive emotional states showed a general decline from age 9 to age 94, while negative emotional states fluctuated (波动) slightly between ages 9 and 22, then declined until age 60 and then increased once again. The authors identified greater median changes in positive and negative emotional states than in life satisfaction.

“Overall, the study indicated a positive trend over a wide period of life, if we look at life satisfaction and negative emotional states,” Susanne Bücker concludes. The researchers attribute (把……归因于) the slight decline in life satisfaction between the ages of 9 and 16 to, for example, changes to the body and to the social life that take place during puberty. Satisfaction rose again from young adulthood onwards. Positive feelings tended to decrease from childhood to late adulthood. In very late adulthood, all components of subjective well-being tended to worsen rather than improve. “This could be related to the fact that in very old people, physical performance decreases, health often worsens, and social contacts reduce; not least because their peers pass away,” calculates the researcher.

The study highlights the need to consider and promote subjective well-being with its various components across the life, as the authors of the study conclude. Their findings could provide significant guidance for the development of intervention programmes, especially those aimed at maintaining or improving subjective well-being late in life.

【1】What is exactly the subject of the study?

A．Life satisfaction of the elderly.

B．Trends in lifelong subjective well-being.

C．Ways to control negative emotional states.

D．Factors affecting positive emotional states.

【2】When do all components of subjective well-being go worse?

A．During childhood.

B．In late adulthood.

C．At middle age.

D．In young adulthood.

【3】What is the positive significance of this study?

A．Teaching to improve physical performance.

B．Giving suggestions on the lifetime increase.

C．Providing a theoretical basis for healthy growth.

D．Guiding to improve the well-being of the elderly.

【4】What’s the best title for the text?

A．When does happiness matter most to us?

B．What does subjective well-being consist of?

C．Why will we be more positive as we get older?

D．How does subjective well-being develop over the lifetime?

25、What a man offered to take curt of a stranger’s baby so that the baby’s mother could rest on a recent flight, many people on the plane watched it.

“It was so ________,” one passenger, Andrea Byrd said. She shot a photo of the man ________ the baby up and down the aisle and ________ it on Facebook, where it spread ________.

“I was ________,” Byrd wrote in the post, which has been shared almost 100,000 ________. “Not because he was white and she was black ________ because it showed me today that there are still good people out there in a world ________ evil.”

The Southwest Airlines flight was ________ from Minneapolis to Atlanta on September. 5.

The mom, Monica Nelson, who is pregnant, said she had been ________ about traveling alone with her 20-month-old son Luke. When he grew annoyed and wouldn’t ________, the man seated next to them ________ her by offering to help, she said. He walked ________ the aisle holding the boy, relaxing him to sleep.

“It was such a ________ because I was a little worried traveling ________ my husband there to help out,” said Nelson, a teacher who lives in Atlanta. “I’m still very ________ —he was so kind.” She said the man’s name is Reid, and she learned that he also’ has a son ________ Luke.

Byrd said die was particularly ________ by the scene because she has two children of her own and could put herself in the mom’s ________. Now their story has touched thousands of people across the world, reminding people how powerful a simple act of ________ can be.

【1】A. touching   B. annoying   C. exciting   D. embarrassing

【2】A. crying   B. walking   C. carrying   D. getting

【3】A. healed   B. pasted   C. sent   D. took

【4】A. slowly   B. gradually   C. normally   D. quickly

【5】A. with smile   B. in tears   C. in need   D. in horror

【6】A. measures   B. days   C. times   D. directions

【7】A. but   B. and   C. so   D. or

【8】A. regardless of   B. in case of   C. because of   D. full of

【9】A. heading   B. facing   C. handing   D. shouldering

【10】A. energetic   B. different   C. nervous   D. confused

【11】A. drink   B. rest   C. read   D. scream

【12】A. saw   B. disturbed   C. surprised   D. governed

【13】A. here and there   B. inside out   C. now or never   D. up and down

【14】A. thief   B. belief   C. chief   D. relief

【15】A. without   B. with   C. beyond   D. under

【16】A. careful   B. hopeful   C. grateful   D. forgetful

【17】A. named   B. recorded   C. regarded   D. founded

【18】A. remembered   B. moved   C. translated   D. dressed

【19】A. hats   B. shoes   C. coats   D. socks

【20】A. happiness   B. sadness   C. illness   D. kindness

26、假定你是李华，你校美国交换生 John 喜欢中国传统文化，你决定邀请他一起参加学校将举办的唐 诗吟诵晚会．请给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1． 时间、地点；

2． 晚会目的；

3． 你的希望． 参考词汇：recitation n． 吟诵

注意：1．词数 100 词左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数．

Hi John，

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Best wishes，

Li Hua