2025-2026学年广东中山高一(上)期末试卷英语

1、--Mr. Smith, you are fined for over-speeding. Please sign here.

--Fined? Over-speeding?  ________

A. Are you all right?   B. You can't be serious!

C. Mind your own business! D. You asked for it!

2、The book I have chosen is Fu Lei’s Family Letters ______ he shared his views about art and life.

A．that

B．whose

C．where

D．who

3、How I wish I could   my ideas in simple and wonderful English when chatting on the net.

A. get in   B. get out

C. get through   D. get across

4、A growing trend in China now gives customers the options ______ the bill by scanning a QR code or cash.

A. paying   B. paid

C. having paid   D. to pay

5、When   from a distance, to tell the truth, the scenery appears more beautiful．

A.seeing B.being seen C.seen D.having seen

6、A wonderful idea ________ me that day when I met with a tough problem，.

A. happened to   B. occurred to

C. seemed to   D. compared to

7、Looking back upon my teaching career, I don’t remember ever having been doubted, or challenged in class, ________ rejected.

A. other than   B. let alone

C. rather than   D. more than

8、Anderson made the announcement at the conference______the company would be closing.

A. that B. when C. where D. whether

9、I up my mind about what I was going to say in the seminar, but it was cancelled.

A．have made

B．had made

C．was making

D．would make

10、The International Monetary Fund has received both criticism and   for its efforts to promote financial stability, prevent crises, facilitate trade, and reduce poverty.

A. worship   B. credit

C. argument   D. privilege

11、Memory is rightly considered   to our sense of who we are.

A. commercial   B. fundamental

C. individual   D. professional

12、The new school will be ________ the old one.

A．as big as twice

B．twice as big as

C．as bigger as twice

D．twice as bigger as

13、This is a simple idea, but   that is hard to put into practice.

A. one B. it C. that D. those

14、To his delight, Tom quickly earned the trust of his girl friend and then _____ of her parents.

A. one   B. ones   C. that   D. those

15、People with simple names enjoy quicker career advancement because names which are hard to pronounce inspire negative _______ from superiors.

A. consideration B. consequences

C. expectations    D. reactions

16、If he had known it earlier, he _______ you not to take that foolish action.

A.would persuade B.would be persuaded

C.would have persuaded D.would be persuading

17、—I wonder if I could use your cellphone．

—_______．It is on the desk next to you．

A．No way B．That's right

C．It’s a pleasure D．Be my guest

18、The CCTV show Chinese Characters Dictation Competition has taken the country by storm, which is partly designed to arouse people’s ________ in the Chinese language．

A. response   B. enthusiasm   C. significance    D. consequence

19、A young man from a wealthy family graduated from Beijing University and got a job as a pork seller, which________   a public heated debate.

A．set off

B．set about

C．set out

D．set aside

20、Some of our history were glorious, others best left in our historical records, never ______.

A.to repeat B.to be repeated

C.being repeated D.having been repeated

21、For much of human history and in many places, girls were considered property, or required to obey their fathers until the day they had to start obeying their husbands. In most of the world that vision of girlhood now seems not merely old-fashioned but unimaginably remote. In field after field girls have caught up with boys. Globally, young women now outnumber (数量超过) young men at university. Girl babies are more wanted than ever before. Even in places, such as China, where the sex-selective abortion of girls has been common, it is becoming less so. Girls are also less likely to be married off in childhood. In 1995 almost six in ten girls in South Asia were married before reaching 18; that has fallen by half.

When societies handle girlhood well, the knock-on effects are astonishing. A girl who finishes secondary school is less likely to become a child bride or a teenage mother. Education boosts earning power and widens choices, so she is less likely to be poor or to suffer domestic abuse. She will have fewer children, and invest more in them. They will be less likely to die in babyhood, or to grow up stunted physically or mentally. She will read to them more and help them with their homework. All this means they will learn more, and earn more as adults. A recent study estimated that, if 100% of their girls completing secondary school is ensured, it could lead to a lasting boost to GDP.

Despite the benefits of nurturing girls, some countries have still failed to grasp them. Only one girl in three south of the Sahara finishes her secondary education. The COVID-19 pandemic could disturb progress for girls in poor countries, or even reverse it. When Ebola forced west African schools to close in 2014, many girls dropped out, never went back and ended up pregnant or as child laborers. UNICEF warns that something similar could happen with COVID-19—but on a larger scale.

【1】What's the main idea of the first paragraph?

A．Girls suffer a lot in human history.

B．Girls' situation has improved a lot globally.

C．Girl babies are more welcomed than ever before.

D．Girls do much better than boys in many fields.

【2】What can we infer from the passage?

A．There are more young women than young men at university in China.

B．A girl who completes secondary school will have more children.

C．Children of the girls with schooling may end up earning more as adults.

D．Economy of countries is largely determined by the education level of girls.

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

A．Healthy.

B．Confident.

C．Underdeveloped.

D．Unstable.

【4】Why is Ebola mentioned in the last paragraph?

A．To prove COVID-19 is more serious than Ebola.

B．To warn that girls may suffer a lot in COVID-19.

C．To appeal to all to pay attention to the poor countries.

D．To stress the importance of controlling the disasters.

22、Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys (调查) on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.

In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible?

Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.

Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

【1】The surveys inform us of______.

A. the development of technology

B. the changes of adult children’s behavior

C. the parents’ over-protection of their college children

D. the means and expenses of students’ communication

【2】 The writer believes that__________.

A. parents today are more protective than those in the past

B. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages

C. technology explains greater involvement with their children

D. parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed independence

【3】What is the best title for the passage?

A. Technology or Attitude

B. Dependence or Independence

C. Family Influences or Social Changes

D. College Management or Communication Advancement

【4】Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?

23、5 of the Best O. Henry Short Stories Everyone Should Read

The stories of the US short-story writer O. Henry, real name William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), are characterized by their irony and by their surprise endings, which became something of a signature of a good O. Henry short story. However, another word that is often used to describe O. Henry’s short stories is ‘sentimental’, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that he is no longer appreciated as he perhaps should be, despite the wit of O. Henry’s narrative style and the cleverness of his twist endings.

Below, we select and introduce five of O. Henry’s very best short stories. Many of them are only five pages long in the average paperback reprint of his stories (we recommend in particular 100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics), which is excellent value for money), so can be ready in no more than ten minutes. What are you waiting for?

Most (though not all) of these stories are included in the anthology mentioned above. O. Henry was a prolific writer so even those 100 collected in that fat volume aren’t his full, collected works...

1. The Gift of the Magi’.

This is surely O. Henry’s best-known story of all. Published in 1906, it’s about a husband and wife, Jim and Della, buying Christmas presents for each other, without much money to spend on them. The two of them have a special possession they prize above all others: Jim has a gold watch that’s been MAGI handed down through the generations, and Della has her long, thick hair.

How will Della be able to raise the money to buy Jim a gold chain for his watch? We won’t say any more...

2. ‘Mammon and the Archer’.

This story is also from 1906. A retired soap manufacturer named Anthony Rockwall worships ‘Mammon’, i.e., money above everything else. The ‘Archer’ of the story’s title is Cupid, the god of love.

Rockwall tells his son Richard that money can buy him anything in life, but Richard points out that the girl he loves is leaving in a few days' time and he hasn’t managed to win her hand. He takes a ring with him, which his mother left to him in her will, with the intention of asking his sweetheart to marry him but he drops the ring and... well, we won’t say more, but let’s just say that once again, O. Henry’s gif for twist endings turns things around...

The story is a curious counterpoint to ‘The Gift of the Magi’, in which a married couple uses their last few dollars to buy each other a Christmas present. Here, there is a suggestion that money can buy you time, after all.

3. ‘The Duplicity of Hargraves’.

First published in 1902, this story is about the elderly Major Pendleton Talbot and his spinster daughter Lydia. After the pair move to Washington D. C. from the American South, they meet Henry Hopkins Hargraves, a vaudeville actor.

However, the impecunious Major and his daughter are shocked, when they go to see a show, to find Hargraves impersonating the Major in front of the audience. Then a man claiming to be one of the Major’s former slaves from the antebellum era turns up and offers to help the pair out of hardship...

As ever, we won’t spoil the ending. But let's just say the word ‘duplicity’ in this story’s title itself has a double meaning.

4. ‘The Sleuths’.

This 1911 story is a more light-hearted tale from O. Henry, and a pastiche of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories.

A man searching for his missing sister in New York realizes the official police detective can’t help him. Only one man can: the famous private consulting detective Shamrock Jolnes. As the narrator informs us: ‘The famous sleuth’s thin, intellectual face, piercing eyes, and rate per word are too well known to need description.’ Sound familiar?

5. ‘After Twenty Years’.

This 1906 story is a tale of a reunion. Two men who grew up together in New York City agree to meet up, twenty years later, in the restaurant where they last bid each other farewell two decades ago in order to seek their fortunes. However, one of the men, Bob, has become a hardened criminal and the other man, Jimmy, has become — well, let’s not give too much away, other than to say the reunion does not exactly go according to plan.

【1】Which of the following serves as a counterpart of the story in The Gift of the Magi?

A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.

B．The Sleuths.

C．Mammon and the Archer.

D．After Twenty years.

【2】If someone is fond of detective stories, which book would you recommend to him?

A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.

B．The Gift of the Magi.

C．Mammon and the Archer.

D．The Sleuths.

【3】Where can you most probably come across an article of this kind?

A．In a list of reference book for high school.

B．At an online book fair.

C．In a lecture by a professor from Literature Department.

D．On a mobile shopping app.

24、   This month, Germany’s transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt , proposed the first set of rules for autonomous vehicles(自主驾驶车辆）.They would define the driver’s role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the “death valley” of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

Dobrindt wants three things: that a car always chooses property(财产）damage over personal injury; that it never distinguishes between humans based on age or race; and that if a human removes his or her hands from the driving wheel — to check email, say — the car’s maker is responsible if there is a crash.

“The change to the road traffic law will permit fully automatic driving,” says Dobrindt. It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.

Who is responsible for the operation of such vehicles is not clear among car makers, consumers and lawyers. “The liability(法律责任）issue is the biggest one of them all,” says Natasha Merat at the University of Leeds, UK.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human “ be watchful and monitoring the road” at every moment.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars. “When you say ‘driverless cars”, people expect driverless cars.” Merat says “You know — no driver.”

Because of the confusion, Merat thinks some car makers will wait until vehicles can be fully automated without operation.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says Ryan Calo at Stanford University, California. That is happening in the UK and Singapore, where government-provided driverless vehicles are being launched.

That would go down poorly in the US, however. “The idea that the government would take over driverless cars and treat them as a public good would get absolutely nowhere here,” says Calo.

【1】What does the phrase “death valley” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A.A place where cars often break down. B.A case where passing a law is impossible.

C.An area where no driving is permitted. D.A situation where drivers’ role is not clear.

【2】The proposal put forward by Dobrindt aims to __________.

A.stop people from breaking traffic rules. B.help promote fully automatic driving.

C.protect drivers of all ages and races. D.prevent serious property damage.

【3】What do consumers think of the operation of driverless cars?

A.It should get the attention of insurance companies.

B.It should be the main concern of law makers.

C.It should not cause deadly traffic accidents.

D.It should involve no human responsibility.

【4】Driverless vehicles in public transport see no bright future in __________.

A.Singapore B.the UK C.the US D.Germany

25、完形填空（共20小题）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One summer day my father sent me to buy wire for our farm. At 16, I liked _______ better than driving our truck, _______ this time I was not happy. My father had told me I’d have to ask for credit at the store.

Sixteen is a _______ age, when a young man wants respect, not charity. It was 1976, and the ugly_______of racial discrimination was _______ a fact of life. I’d seen my friends ask for credit and then stand, head down, while the store owner _______ whether they were “good for it.” I knew black youths just like me who were _______ like thieves by the store clerk each time they went into a grocery.

My family was _______. We paid our debts. But before harvest, cash was short. Would the store owner _______ us?

At Davis’s store, Buck Davis stood behind the cash desk, talking to a farmer. I nodded ________ I passed him on my way to the hardware shelves. When I brought my ________ to the cash desk, I said ________, “I need to put this on credit.”

The farmer gave me an amused, distrustful ________. But Buck’s face didn’t change. “Sure, ” he said ________. “Your daddy is ________ good for it.” He ________ to the other man. “This here is one of James Williams’s sons.”

The farmer nodded in a neighborly ________. I was filled with pride. James Williams’s son. Those three words had opened a door to an adult’s respect and trust.

That day I discovered that the good name my parents had________brought our whole family the respect of our neighbors. Everyone knew what to ________ from a Williams: a decent person who kept his word and respected himself ________   much to do wrong.

【1】

A．something

B．nothing

C．anything

D．everything

【2】

A．and

B．so

C．but

D．for

【3】

A．prideful

B．wonderful

C．respectful

D．colorful

【4】

A．intention

B．shadow

C．habit

D．faith

【5】

A．thus

B．just

C．still

D．ever

【6】

A．guessed

B．suspected

C．questioned

D．figured

【7】

A．watched

B．caught

C．dismissed

D．accused

【8】

A．generous

B．honest

C．friendly

D．modest

【9】

A．blame

B．excuse

C．charge

D．trust

【10】

A．until

B．as

C．once

D．since

【11】

A．purchases

B．sales

C．orders

D．favorites

【12】

A．casually

B．confidently

C．cheerfully

D．carefully

【13】

A．look

B．stare

C．response

D．comment

【14】

A．patiently

B．eagerly

C．easily

D．proudly

【15】

A．generally

B．never

C．sometimes

D．always

【16】

A．pointed

B．replied

C．turned

D．introduced

【17】

A．sense

B．way

C．degree

D．mood

【18】

A．earned

B．deserved

C．given

D．used

【19】

A．receive

B．expect

C．collect

D．require

【20】

A．very

B．so

C．how

D．too

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。续写的词数应为150左右。

When I was seven years old, I went into my parents’ bedroom and saw my mother sitting at her sewing machine making doll clothes. When I asked her who the doll clothes were for, she told me that they were for the poor people, so I never gave it another thought. On the Christmas morning when I opened my present, there were hose beautiful doll clothes. I said to her, “I thought the doll clothes were for the poor people.” My mother just smiled and said, “They are for the poor people. We’re poor.”

When I was nine years old my greatest desire in life was to own pogo stick (弹簧单高跷). I had recently learned to walk on a pair of sticks my dad had made for me, and I thought that if I had a pogo stick surely I would be proud of my unbelievable skills.

When Christmas season rolled around again, I told my mother that the only thing I wanted was a pogo stick. My mother told me they were too expensive and that we simply couldn’t afford one. On a Saturday afternoon a couple of weeks before Christmas, my mom and dad told me we needed to go the Sears to pay our credit bill. While my mother and I were at the counter paying the bill, my dad said, “I’ll be right back. I need to see something in the tool department.” After the bill was taken care of, my mother and I went ahead and got in the truck. Soon my dad came walking out with a long box. I remember wondering at that very moment if it was a pogo stick in that box.

When we arrived back at home, my dad put the box in the barn (谷仓). While my parents were busy with their things, I walked out to the bar and found the box. I was so excited and I knew that as soon as I opened that magical box my bright shiny pogo stick would appear. No such luck! Inside the box was a silly old broom. And so Christmas morning was both great and disappointing. I got some nice gifts but I didn’t get the present that I really wanted.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数为150左右；

2. 续写部分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

After all the wrapping paper was cleaned up, my dad said he needed to tend to something in the barn.

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I couldn’t believe how they were able to get the money for it and how they tricked me with the broom.

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