2025-2026学年广东梅州高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、Hardly had Mike picked up the ball ________ another player took it from him.

A.that B.ever C.when D.after

2、The teacher demand that the words she ________ put in use in one logical sentence.

A.referring to B.referred to be C.referred to D.referring to be

3、She fell asleep while she ________ newspapers.

A. was about to read   B. was reading   C. had read   D. was to read

4、The first time I ____ Todd, he ____ to some students at the English corner.

A. had seen; was talked  B. saw; talked

C. had seen; talked   D. saw; was talking

5、It is the custom for people to bow to one another in Japan. When Fred visited that country he bowed too, even though he felt ________ doing it.

A. innocent B. awkward C. elegant D. stressful

6、When he heard the ____ news that an earthquake occurred in Sichuan, a ____ look came into his face.

A.frightened; frightened B.frightened; frightening

C.frightening; frightening D.frightening; frightened

7、He was made a judge to decide to whom the golden apple _______.

A. was to be given  B. to be given

C. to give to   D. be given to

8、I wonder what it feels like to be one of ______ really rich. The Browns already have Rolls Royce and now they are buying ______ third.

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

9、His mother made Greg orange juice every day, _______would help his recovery.

A. which   B. who   C. when   D. that

10、Taking a gap year is a good chance for students to learn skills and gain life experience, ______ them an edge in the job market.

A. given   B. to give   C. giving   D. having given

11、________ people’s dress differs from country to country is a reflection of cultural differences.

A．That

B．What

C．This

D．Which

12、—You cough so badly recently. Give up smoking, please!

—__________. I think I am addicted to it.

A. Far from it   B. Good idea

C. So far, so good D. It can’t be helped

13、Don’t respond to any e-mails _______ personal information, no matter how official they look.

A.indicating B.requesting C.committing D.representing

14、Pupils who pass the test will be _____ to the next grade.

A. promoted   B. progressed

C. proceeded   D. proposed

15、—Were you caught in the rain during yesterday's travel?

—Good luck．No sooner   the hotel than it poured down．

A.I had reached B.had I reached C.did I reach D.I have reached

16、One needs much experience and knowledge ________ one’s correct decisions.

A. which to be based on

B. on which to base

C. which to base up on

D. on which to be based

17、______ protecting the endangered wildlife, the organisation also collects money for the children whose families are poor.

A．In need of

B．In place of

C．In addition to

D．In return for

18、—All the citizens should work together to make our city more beautiful.

—That’s it. ________.

A．Practice makes perfect

B．A friend in need is a friend indeed

C．When in Rome, do as the Romans do

D．Many hands make light work

19、We really go _______ when we saw what those dogs have done to those flowers we worked so hard to grow. Now our flower beds are a mess.

A. fly off the handle   B. hot under the collar   C. over the moon   D. all thumbs

20、Financial markets will be disturbed as ______ business adjusts its working approaches and policies from an assumption of 3-3.5% potential output growth.

A. compulsory     B. conventional

C. contradictory   D. contemporary

21、It has been found in South Australia that a worm-like creature about the size of a grain of rice is the oldest ancestor on the family tree that includes humans and most animals. The creature lived about 535 million years ago. It is considered to be an evolutionary step forward for early life on Earth.

Researchers have been working hard to find evidence of the common ancestor of most animals. Developing its body structure and organization successfully allowed life to move in specific, purposeful directions. This includes everything from worms and dinosaurs to amphibians(两栖动物) and humans. But for our common ancestor, they knew that fossils(化石) of the tiny, simple creatures they imagined would be nearly impossible to find because of its size and soft body. Then, they turned to fossilized burrows(动物洞穴), dated to the Ediacaran Period, found in South Australia.

For 15 years, scientists knew the burrows were created by the creature. There was no evidence of what made the burrows and lived in them until researchers decided to take a closer look at the burrows. Geology professor Mary Droser spotted impressions shaped like ovals(椭圆形) near the burrows.

A 3-D laser scan revealed the impressions containing evidence of a body shaped and sized like a rice grain, with a noticeable head and tail which suggested it had muscles. The muscles would have enabled the creature to move and create the burrows, like the way a worm moves. And the size of the creature matched with the size of the burrows they found.

【1】What does the underlined word “It” mean in the first paragraph?

A．A family tree.

B．A grain of rice.

C．A worm-like creature.

D．An evolutionary step.

【2】What did the researchers do during the study?

A．They developed the creature in the expected way.

B．They studied a large number of worms and dinosaurs.

C．They observed the burrows close up.

D．They went back to the Ediacaran Period some years ago.

【3】What inspired the scientists to explore the origin of the burrows?

A．3-D laser scan.

B．The impressions.

C．Some good ovals.

D．More burrows.

【4】What does the text mainly tell us?

A．The researchers worked very hard in the burrow.

B．The worm-like creature may be animals’ ancestor.

C．It is very difficult to name a new kind of creature.

D．Australian people like fossils of many creatures.

22、   ”Did you hear what happened to Adam last Friday?” Lindsey whispers to Tori.

With her eyes shining, Tori brags, “You bet I did. Sean told me two days ago.”

Who are Lindsey and Tori talking about? It just happens to be yours truly, Adam Freedman. I can tell you that what they are saying is (a) not nice and (b) not even true. Still, Lindsey and Tori aren’t very different from most students here at Linton High School, including me. Many of our conversations are gossip. I have noticed three effects of gossip: it can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about. Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic — breakups, trouble at home, even dropping out — that a person would rather keep secret. The more embarrassing or shameful the secret is, the juicier the gossip it makes. Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie. People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.

If we know that gossip can be harmful, then why do so many of us do it? The answer lies in another effect of gossip: the satisfaction it gives us. Sharing the latest rumor can make a person feel important because he or she knows something that others don’t. Similarly, hearing the latest rumor can make a person feel like part of the “in group.” In other words, gossip is satisfying because it gives people a sense of belonging or even superiority(优越感).

Gossip also can have a third effect: it strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act. Professor David Wilson explains that gossip is important in policing behaviors in a group. Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what Jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention. The do’s and don’ts conveyed through gossip will never show up in any student handbook.

The effects of gossip vary depending on the situation. The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, think about why you want to gossip and what effects your “juicy story” might have.

【1】The author uses a conversation at the beginning of the passage to ________.

A．introduce a topic

B．present an argument

C．describe the characters

D．clarify his writing purpose

【2】An important negative effect of gossip is that it ________.

A．breaks up relationships

B．embarrasses the listener

C．spreads information around

D．causes unpleasant experiences

【3】In the author’s opinion, many people like to gossip because it ________.

A．gives them a feeling of pleasure

B．helps them to make more friends

C．makes them better at telling stories

D．enables them to meet important people

【4】What advice does the author give in the passage?

A．Never become a gossiper.

B．Stay away from gossipers.

C．Don’t let gossip turn into lies.

D．Think twice before you gossip.

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Our multi-activity holiday camps offer an abundance of fun, age-oriented(导向的)activities(4-5-year-olds, 6-9-year-olds and 10-12-year-olds), from swimming and go-karting to arts and crafts and LEGO workshops. These day camps are a great choice for parents looking for regular childcare service, available as individual days or a week at a time.

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【1】What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To advertise holiday camps.

B．To encourage donations.

C．To introduce camping skills.

D．To tell the history of SuperCamps.

【2】What do we know about SuperCamps?

A．It operates camps all over the world.

B．It provides camps for people of all ages.

C．It asks parents to send children to the nearest camp.

D．It organizes different activities for different age groups.

【3】Which camp should a child attend if he/she wants to learn survival skills?

A．Cookery: International Cuisine.

B．Bushcraft: Rainforest Adventure.

C．LEGO Play.

D．Chelsea Foundation FC Camps.

24、Many people think daydreaming is bad for their emotions and has negative effects on their life and those around them. It makes adapting to life very hard and brains work less effectively.

Contrary to common ideas, the brains of people who are daydreaming might not stop working, but may be working harder, new research has shown. Scientists scanned the brains of people lying inside magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, as they pushed buttons or rested in turn. The scans showed that the “default (默认的) network” deep inside a human brain becomes more active during daydreaming.

In a surprise finding, the scans also showed strong activity in the executive network, the outlying region of the brain associated with complex problem-solving, says Professor Kalina Christoff, who is a co-author of the study. “People assume that when the mind wanders away, it just gets turned off—but we show the opposite. When it wanders, it is turned on.” says Christoff.

The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest, “People who let themselves daydream might not think in the same focused way as when performing a goal-oriented task, but they bring in more mental and brain resources,” says Christoff.

F. Diane Barth said at Psychology Today that the more we daydream, the more our brain is able to hold onto the task when we are being bombarded (轰炸) from all sides by all kinds of noises, information input, and conflicting demands. You're not trying to escape the task at hand; rather, you're trying to get rid of all of the information and stimuli (刺激物) that could pose as bothers.

According to Christoff, people typically spend one third of their waking time daydreaming. “It is a big part of our lives, but it has been largely ignored by science,” she says. “The study is the first to use MRIs to study brain activity during spontaneous thoughts and subjective experiences. Until now the only way is to use self-reports that are not always reliable.”

【1】What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Scientists.

B．Scans.

C．MRI machines.

D．Study subjects.

【2】The findings by Christoff show daydreaming ________.

A．may help us get relaxed

B．may be beneficial to our health

C．may use less energy than focusing

D．may help us arrive at solutions faster

【3】Which of the following may Barth agree with?

A．Daydreaming provides us with many stimuli.

B．Daydreaming is actually an act of concentration.

C．Daydreaming can make us forget unhappy things.

D．Daydreaming reminds us of more useful information.

【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．MRIs are reliable to study brain activity.

B．People should spend more time daydreaming.

C．More studies about daydreaming need to be done.

D．People should make full use of daydreaming time.

25、I listen with interest how people discuss with each other. Mostly they _______ . They get caught in negative(消极的）stuff, talk about it ___________,and try to make others agree with them in their misery. And they pay no attention to the most ___________ thing.

Happiness is a feeling. We should ___________ how to create such a feeling. Can you learn how to be ___________ on purpose?

We are so used to our negative mindset that we don’t even ___________ it anymore. And so our mind, used to negativity, looks at the world through the eyes of _________ Even if an event occurs as happy and positive, we cannot find the emotion of pure _________, because we always think of negative things.

This_________ happened to me. It was in my twenties that I first __________ my own negative self-talk. Once, in a bus, looking at the sunny sky, I noticed the ________ and found myself thinking that rain was coming, and the ____________ day should turn grey and miserable soon.

Many people around me was ____________ the same, and we saw nothing ____________in it. We simply did not know how to be happy.

This was the moment when my __________ to positive thinking started. I cannot ________ bad stuff from happening, but I have built tools in my mind to __________ these events.

Happiness is a string of short moments, and in each of those moments we have the ________ to choose our own response to them. We can learn to think on purpose. And with purposeful ________we learn to create wanted emotions, which will help us find __________ in our life, and even happiness.

【1】

A．explain

B．complain

C．laugh

D．question

【2】

A．constantly

B．gently

C．friendly

D．politely

【3】

A．impossible

B．difficult

C．important

D．surprising

【4】

A．take down

B．wonder at

C．make up

D．concentrate on

【5】

A．unusual

B．lucky

C．happy

D．interested

【6】

A．understand

B．recognize

C．mention

D．remember

【7】

A．selflessness

B．freedom

C．confidence

D．misery

【8】

A．pleasure

B．sadness

C．pain

D．regret

【9】

A．certainly

B．fortunately

C．hardly

D．finally

【10】

A．doubted

B．proved

C．noticed

D．changed

【11】

A．birds

B．stars

C．rainbows

D．clouds

【12】

A．snowy

B．beautiful

C．terrible

D．foggy

【13】

A．expecting

B．behaving

C．looking

D．explaining

【14】

A．similar

B．exciting

C．comfortable

D．strange

【15】

A．career

B．education

C．visit

D．journey

【16】

A．prevent

B．protect

C．spare

D．free

【17】

A．look at

B．search for

C．go through

D．see through

【18】

A．secret

B．power

C．need

D．reason

【19】

A．management

B．practice

C．discussion

D．thinking

【20】

A．balance

B．hurt

C．excuse

D．cheating

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。

There's a Crocodile in Our Pickle Jar(咸菜缸)

“Alex, your brother ate everything on his plate. Why don't you be a good boy too and eat your dinner?” said Alex's Mom, “I guess you won't be hungry for sweets then”.

"But I'm not hungry," said Alex.

Alex's Mom walked over to the countertop and brought over the most mouth-watering, tasty looking dessert you ever did see. "Okay, who wants a piece of chocolate cake?” Before anyone else at the table could speak a single word, Alex called out, “Me, me, me, me, me!”

“Alex, you just said you’re not hungry,“ said Alex's Mom. "How could you possibly want a piece of cake?”

“I just got hungry all of a sudden,“ said Alex.

“Good, I bet you're ready to eat your peas and carrots then.”

"I'm not hungry for them. I'll just have a piece of cake please,“ said Alex.

“Alex, it doesn't work that way. To get a piece of cake you'll have to eat your dinner first. ”

"But I don't want too!”

“Well, I guess you'll just have to call it a night,” said Alex's Dad. "You're excused from the table Alex. Brush your teeth and get to bed, young man.”

“Yes, sir," replied Alex.

As Alex stood up from the table, his brother pretended to be flying an airplane. After a bite of chocolate cake made a safe landing in his brother's mouth, Alex ran out of the room as fast as he could. Being sent to bed without having dessert was tough enough, but being teased by his brother is what really took the cake.

After he brushed his teeth and climbed into bed, Alex found it hard to fall asleep that night. His stomach sounded like an angry lion and he felt dizzy. Alex was so hungry that he felt weak and the room was spinning! As he made his way to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door, Alex could hardly wait to sneak a nice big piece of chocolate cake. He knew that would make him feel better.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

But Alex was shocked to see a crocodile swimming in a jar of pickles.

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Then Alex’s parents reminded him of how important food was for energy.

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