河南省信阳市2024-2025学年高一下学期4月期中考试 英语 Word版含答案.docx

2024-2025学年普通高中高一下学期期中教学质量检测
英 语
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第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、Ｂ、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where does this conversation take place?
A. In a bookshop. B. In a concert. C. In a restaurant.
2. When will the speakers go shopping?
A. This Sunday. B. Next Sunday. C. Next Saturday.
3. Who made the sweater as a gift?
A. The woman’s daughter. B. The woman’s husband. C. The woman herself.
4. What does the woman think of making new friends now?
A. It’s difficult. B. It’s easy. C. It’s normal.
5. How much was a pound of green beans five years ago?
A. $0.50. B. $1.50. C. $2.50.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的Ａ、B、Ｃ三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where might the speakers be?
A. At a movie theater. B. In a classroom. C. In a supermarket.
7. What will the speakers do next time?
A. Talk to the boy’s father. B. Leave the boy alone. C. Sit in the back seats.
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。
8. What is the woman most probably?
A. A teacher. B. A manager. C. A policewoman.
9. What are those students like?
A. Shy. B. Active. C. Hard-working.
10. Why does the woman have to go?
A. Because of the students. B. Because of her parents. C. Because of the headmaster.
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。
11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Teacher and parent.
12. What does the recent exam focus on?
A. Listening, reading and writing.
B. Speaking, translation and reading.
C. Listening, reading and speaking.
13. What does the man advise the woman to do?
A. Buy listening books. B. Take more exams. C. Practice every day.
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。
14. How does the woman find Dr. Bill’s service?
A. Good and cheap. B. Good but expensive. C. Bad and expensive.
15. What will the woman do on Tuesday afternoon?
A. Have dinner with her friends.
B. Have a final examination of her teeth.
C. Watch a movie with the man.
16. Where will the speakers meet?
A. At the cinema. B. At the doctor’s. C. At the restaurant.
17. Who will take some cake?
A. The woman. B. David. C. The man.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。
18. What’s the aim of the Pet’s Competition?
A. Home more animals.
B. Know more animals.
C. Know the importance of loving animals.
19. What are the students advised to do?
A. Pay attention to the event.
B. Write a note about the event.
C. Join this event and keep their diary.
20. What is the talk mainly about?
A. A competition. B. Homing dogs. C. A funny story.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The National Reading Competition
Each year, the Jamaica Library Service encourages hundreds of enthusiastic competitors to compete for the top positions in this exciting competition, which provides attractive prizes and a platform to share their love for reading.
Objectives

·To encourage and develop the reading skills
·To cultivate (培养) an appreciation of books
·To help people contact with highly rated literature and promote continuing education for adults
Organization
·Duration: Held annually from April to August (5 months).
·Stages & Age groups：
First rounds take place at local libraries for children.
Winners advance to county-level competitions
Final champions are selected by age groups:
Children: 6 to 8 years, 9 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years Adults: 15 to 20 years, 21+ years
Testing
The competition tests include both speaking and writing tasks like writing letters, book reviews, and solving puzzles. Winners are chosen based on how well they can read, understand, and explain the books or selected parts of books.
·Adult Section: Focuses on West Indian literature.
·Final Stage: Starts in mid-July and ends with the Quiz Finals at TVJ Studios in August.
·Champions: Only one winner is selected in each age group based on the highest score.
1. What is the main goal of the National Reading Competition?
A. To select winners and give them prizes.
B. To organize local competitions for children.
C. To improve reading, love for books, and lifelong learning.
D. To provide the locals with a platform to show their abilities.
2. What is the KEY requirement for selecting winners in the competition?
A. Solving puzzles efficiently.
B. Writing creative stories quickly.
C. Memorizing all book titles accurately.
D. Showing comprehension and analysis skills.
3. How many winners will be there in the competition this year?
A. One. B. Two. C. Five. D. Six.
B
Life had always been about action for former teacher Billy Keenan, who had served in the Army before. He mastered musical instruments including the flute, guitar, bass guitar and piano. As a competitive triathlete and surfer, he completed numerous 5K, 10K and half-marathon runs. “I was at the peak of my powers,” he said.
But on Sept. 14, 2013, his life changed in an instant while surfing at the Jersey Shore. “I rode that wave, fell off my board, hit my head on the ocean floor,” Keenan said. “Everything faded to black.” Keenan woke up in a hospital room two and a half weeks later. He had been paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the shoulders down and the medical team didn’t expect him to regain independent breathing.
Keenan called it one of the worst days of his life, saying it was “a lot of darkness”. When a parent of a former student visited him at the hospital, they handed him the phone. It was New York Police Department Detective Steven McDonald, who survived a shooting in 1986. He eventually forgave his attacker. But he too was paralyzed. He became a public speaker, conveying the importance of forgiveness.
That day, he had advice for Keenan. At a recent talk at Berkeley College, Keenan recalled what McDonald had told him. “The only reason you survive is when you’re better, when you’re stronger, when your recovery is over, you’re going to come back and contribute in a significant way,” he said. “Don’t ever forget that in the end, there will be life.”
Looking back on his life, Keenan realized he had been accustomed to what he called “deliberate discomfort”. Drawing on his own faith and that reminder from McDonald, Keenan ascended beyond the darkest days. Four months after his accident, he was able to breathe on his own again.
In 2015, Keenan went back to teaching, but later retired. When McDonald died in January 2017, Keenan decided to start helping others by becoming a motivational speaker. He published an autobiography in 2023 — “The Road to Resilience: The Billy Keenan Story” — and is already working on his next book, a new coming-of-age story called “I Am Iron Man”
4. What caused Billy Keenan’s paralysis?
A. A car accident during a race. B. A fall while surfing, hitting his head.
C. A severe illness diagnosed in 2013. D. A shooting incident in New York.
5. How did Keenan mostly feel immediately after waking up in the hospital?
A. Angry at the medical team. B. Hopeless and overwhelmed by darkness.
C. Grateful for surviving the accident. D. Excited to start recovery.
6. Which phrase can replace the underlined part in paragraph 5?
A. pulled through difficulties B. survived the challenges
C. returned to normal life D. forgot about the past
7. According to the passage, both Keenan and McDonald may believe ________.
A. helping others helps yourself B. challenges make you stronger
C. life is never easy for those who dream D. a life living for others is a life worthwhile
C
Flexibility is important for wearable electronics to enable the creation of displays that bend, fold or twist easily, says Yu Haidong, at Nanjing Tech University in China. Plastic has been the only material for achieving this kind of flexibility, but because of its harmful impact on the environment, sustainable, low-cost alternatives(替代物) are highly sought after.
Fish scales account for 3 percent of the 70.5 million metric tonnes of fish produced globally each year. They usually don’t get eaten and go to waste, but Yu and his team saw potential in flexible electronics.
The team extracted gelatin from fish scales and used this to create an extremely thin film. Tiny silver nanowires(纳米丝) were then incorporated into it, to act as electrodes(电极), along with a light-emitting material made of zinc sulphide (硫化锌) and copper, to provide light for the electronic display.
“The result was a flexible electronic display, which fully biodegraded(生物降解) after 24 days in soil. A plastic display can take centuries to break down. This means fish scale films could also be useful for creating disposable wearable electronic devices,” says Yu. “In addition to biodegradability, the fish scale films have the advantages of high transparency, low surface roughness and low cost. They can also be recycled by dissolving them in warm water.”
8. Why is flexibility important for wearable electronics?
A. Because it’s easy for the display to change shapes.
B. Because materials with this character are environmentally friendly.
C. Because materials with this character are sustainable.
D. Because materials with this character are low-cost.
9. Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage?
A. Fish scales are highly valuable and widely used in industrial production.
B. Plastic’s flexibility is achieved through the using of silver nanowires.
C. The new material can decompose faster than traditional plastics.
D. Silver nanowires are added to the film mainly for flexibility.
10. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT an advantage of the fish scale film?
A. High transparency. B. Fast biodegradability.
C. Smooth surface. D. High production cost.
11. What is the researcher’s attitude towards the future of the new material?
A Negative. B. Doubtful. C. Positive. D. Indifferent.
D
Begun 30 years ago, the Kubuqi desert greening project has succeeded in not only controlling the fast growth of the seventh-largest desert in China, about the size of Kuwait, but also turning about 6,000 square kilometers of the desert — one-third of it — green.
The desert lies about 800 kilometers to the west of Beijing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and the greening efforts have also controlled desertification (沙漠化) in the rest of the area.
The project, which began about 30 years ago, can be looked to as an example of efforts to advance green development, in order to create harmony between humans and nature, and leave a better environment for future generations.
The success of the project, which has been n praised by the UN Environment Programme as an “eco-pioneer”, sets an example for successful desertification control and ecosystem improvement based on effective government policies, supported by investment (投资) in the eco-industry and combined with the efforts of local farmers. These three aspects are key to the success of the “Kubuqi model”.
Elion, a private ecology (生态) and investment company, has invested about 38 billion yuan ($5.82 billion) in the Kubuqi desert-greening project since 1988 helping to lift about 102,000 local farmers out of poverty. For example, the locals grow a drought-tolerant (耐旱) plant, Chinese licorice, which is the most used herb in traditional Chinese medicine. The plant helps enrich the desert soil, with the bacteria around the roots of the plants producing nitrogen (氮气). Besides, Cistanche, another type of drought-tolerant herb, was introduced after the successful planting of licorice. Under the company’s guidance and with the local government’s support, the local people benefit from the “environmental wealth”.
More companies should be encouraged to apply the “Kubuqi model” in other desert control projects in Inner Mongolia and neighboring Gansu province, where the climate conditions are similar but not quite the same, so as to further gain experience and enrich the model in practice. Showing it can be successfully applied in other areas will help promote the model worldwide.
12. What is the result of the Kubuqi greening project?
A. It has increased the areas of desert. B. It has turned all of the desert green.
C. It has achieved amazing improvements. D. It has been applied all over the world.
13. What is the main reason for the success of the “Kubuqi model”?
A. Praise from international organizations. B. Government, companies and local efforts.
C. Use of new farming technologies. D. Foreign financial support.
14. How does the author develop paragraph 5?
A. By giving examples. B. By following the time order.
C. By giving a definition (定义). D. By making comparisons.
15. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Drought-Tolerant Plants: Key to Desert Control.
B. Government Policies Alone Save the Desert.
C. UN Praises China’s Desert Greening Efforts.
D. A Successful Model for Turning Deserts Green.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Music is a huge part of our lives. Music helps us find our identity.____16____
●It serves as a cultural time capsule.
____17____The slang and language usage are so indicative of the times and you can probably recall when a song was made based on what is mentioned.
●It teaches us about language.
Most parents sing to their child from an early age, as singing is such an important part of learning a language. If you take another language, chances are you learn key words and phrases through songs.____18____For example, if you were asked to memorize sentences in Spanish you’d probably have a hard time, but you can sing out a few lines of the Macarena.
●____19____
Pretty much every moment we celebrate in our lives is tied to music—blowing out our birthday candles, scoring a goal, etc. Holidays around the world have distinct music that accompanies them. A party without music just isn’t a party at all.
●It’s part of our routine.
Music just becomes so intertwined with our lives. While we’re cooking, cleaning, or just walking around the grocery store, it’s always there. It’s what we do when we’re happy or sad, and it’s become our self-care.____20____
Music has become our favourite pastime, distraction, hobby and art form. It’s so necessary for shaping us and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
A. It’s how we celebrate.
B. It determines our parties.
C. It mirrors our inner thoughts and emoti