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2025-2026学年度第二学期高一英语期中练习
第一部分 语法填空
阅读下列短文，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
Passage 1
In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl ___1___ was singing one of his works. Inspired, he asked his fans ___2___ (make) videos, which he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir had 185 singers ___3___ 12 different countries. It has received millions of views on the Internet. Since then, the virtual choir ___4___ (become) a worldwide phenomenon.
Passage 2
The Starry Night was painted in June 1889 ___5___ Vincent van Gogh was staying at a home for the mentally ill. Van Gogh painted ___6___ he saw from his window — the night sky with clouds, stars and a moon. ___7___ (fortunate), Van Gogh’s unique paintings weren’t very popular and he only sold one painting in his lifetime. He also thought The Starry Night was a failure. However, the fact remains that The Starry Night is now one of the world’s most famous paintings.
Passage 3
In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital, but just a few months later, the department ___8___ (close) because of the war. ___9___ (think) of all the people still in need of help, Dr Lin opened a private clinic. She charged very low fees to treat patients and often reduced costs for poor patients. At times she ___10___ (see) riding a donkey to faraway villages to provide medical care.
第二部分 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入___下划线空白处的最佳选项。
Men first walked on the moon during the summer of 1969, when I was eight years old. I knew pretty much that anything was possible. It was as if all of us had been given ___11___ to dream big dreams.
I was at camp that summer, and after the lunar module (登月舱) landed, all of us were brought to the main farm house, where a television was ___12___. The astronauts were taking a long time getting organized before they could climb down the ladder and walk on the lunar surface.
But the people running the camp kept looking at their ___13___. It was already after eleven at night. Eventually, while smart decisions were being made on the moon, a ___14___ one was made here on the earth. All of us kids were sent back to our tents to go to sleep. I was completely ___15___ at the camp directors because I missed seeing the exciting scene. ___16___, at home my dad had taken a photo of our TV set the second Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. He had ___17___ the moment for me, knowing it could help trigger big dreams.
I understand the ___18___ about using money to fight poverty and hunger on the earth instead of putting men on the moon. But when you’re putting people on the moon, you’re inspiring all of us to ___19___ the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.
Give yourself permission to dream. ___20___ your kids’ dreams, too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
11. A．discussion B．permission C．impression D．determination
12. A．sent up B．cleared up C．set up D．picked up
13. A．watches B．houses C．tents D．photos
14. A．wise B．curious C．lucky D．stupid
15. A．annoyed B．delighted C．amused D．excited
16. A．Eventually B．Immediately C．Fortunately D．Generally
17. A．released B．preserved C．predicted D．revealed
18. A．worries B．arguments C．interactions D．discoveries
19. A．achieve B．consume C．explain D．maintain
20. A．Claim B．Collect C．Force D．Fuel
第三部分 阅读理解
A
Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art, March 10-June 27, 2022
The MFAH (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) is the only place for the exhibition Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art. It brings together more than 50 masterworks by Van Gogh and follows him through four key stages of his career, from early sketches (草图) to final paintings.
Few artists leave behind as complete a diary of life and work as Van Gogh. The exhibition highlights the artist’s early years in the Netherlands; his impressive period in Paris; his search for light and color and his exploration of nature in the South of France.
The exhibition displays portraits and landscapes mainly from the collections of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I buy tickets
Visitors can buy tickets in advance online or on the day of your visit. Tickets are available for purchase at any admissions desk on a first-come, first-served basis and may sell out quickly.
How can I find out if tickets are still available
Follow @MFAH on Twitter for updates about ticket sales. Signs are also posted on-site at the Museum.
I am an MFAH member. Do I get tickets
Yes, members still receive free tickets, plus shop and parking discounts, based on level of membership, on a first-come, first-served basis. Not a member Join today! (click here)
What should I expect if I get tickets
While you’re here, the MFAH offers many things to see and do. Pick up a daily schedule of programs and events and explore all the other decorations and exhibitions for free.
Audio tour
The optional audio tour provides a deeper exploration of selected works of art with the service in both English and Spanish. Included in the ticket price, based on availability. Audio-tour players are located at the exhibition entrance.
MFAH Gallery Experience: Van Gogh Up Close
Tickets include Museum general admission and entry to Van Gogh Up Close. Be sure to stop by the companion display Van Gogh Up Close nearby! It is an immersive, family — friendly experience filled with art-making activities, photo-ops, and interactive fun.
21. According to the first three paragraphs, the exhibition ________.
A. displays more than 50 works of Vincent van Gogh
B. is the first to display Van Gogh’s diary of life and work
C. gives more attention to Van Gogh’s late years in Netherlands
D. shows the works mainly from the Van Gogh Museum in Paris
22. To make sure of getting a ticket, visitors had better ________.
A. reserve it on Twitter
B. buy it online in advance
C. purchase it at the entrance
D. book it at the admission desk
23. The main purpose of this passage is to ________.
A. attract more people for membership
B. introduce a newly-opened museum
C. display Van Gogh’s paintings
D. promote an art exhibition
B
Rhiannon Menn is the founder of Lasagna Love, a global nonprofit that connects neighbors through homemade meal delivery. In March 2020, her San Diego community shut down because of the pandemic. She and her husband own a design and build company, but their projects were put on hold. Rhiannon felt helpless and wondered what she could do to be useful. It didn’t take her long to decide.
“Cooking is my happy place,” she says. She ordered groceries online and got to work. She and her daughter, Cimorene, then three, made extra pans of lasagna, and Rhiannon posted in a local moms’ group on Facebook, offering to drop off a free home-cooked meal to anyone who wanted one. Some people requested a meal. Even more wanted to help Rhiannon feed those who were struggling.
Rhiannon created a spreadsheet for each volunteer, matching them with families who’d requested a meal. Word of what she was doing spread quickly on social media. “By summer, we had more than 100 volunteer chefs,” she says. Too many for one person to track. Someone offered to create an online portal (门户网站) to manage the volunteers and meal requests. This automated system freed Rhiannon to do what she really loves: cook and reach people in need.
For Rhiannon, lasagna is the best comfort food. But it’s about more than just food. “Our volunteers deliver a sense of hope with the meal,” she says. “We want people to know that a stranger cared enough about them to make them a meal. Kindness is contagious (传染性的), and it can transform communities.”
Lasagna Love currently has 25,000 volunteers — or Lasagna Chefs, as they’re called — across the United States, Canada and Australia, who have delivered more than 150,000 meals to families in their communities. “This movement has given me purpose in a way I didn’t have before,” Rhiannon says.
In her home, cooking is a family event. Cimorene, now five, has gotten good at layering the noodles. Rhiannon also has a three-year-old son and an 11-month-old baby boy. “I love that my kids are learning the importance of helping others,” she says.
Volunteer chefs log into the portal and input how many meals they’d like to deliver that week. The system matches them with nearby families requesting a meal, and the volunteer texts the family to set up a delivery time. The meals are dropped off on doorsteps for contact-free delivery.
The organization is called Lasagna Love, but volunteers can deliver any home-cooked meal they’d like. Rhiannon’s recipe is her own take on lasagna, made healthier with grated zucchini and yellow squash. “I’ve shared my recipe, but volunteers are welcome to use their own recipes for any dishes they’d like to make,” she says.
24. Why did Rhiannon start Lasagna Love
A. To help struggling neighbors.
B. To fight against the pandemic.
C. To help their design and build company.
D. To improve her neighbors’ cooking skills.
25. What can we know about the volunteers in Lasagna Love
A. They are trained by experienced chefs.
B. They deliver their own meals to people in need.
C. They search for families in need by themselves.
D. They all follow Rhiannon’s recipe to make lasagna.
26. We can infer from the passage that Rhiannon ________.
A. had no purpose in life before
B. is too busy to deliver meals now
C. likes posting her meals on social media
D. has set a good example for her children
C
One of the great things about pictures is that they make no demands on you. You can look as long as you like and walk away at any time. There's a freedom in the arrangement that's different from going to the movies, concerts or the theater. Occasionally, people always say they feel intimidated by art. On the one hand, I get it. Some in the art world, wanting to establish their authority, fall back on abstractions to create a zone of exclusion. It can be insufferable. But on the other hand, what field doesn't see a version of this phenomenon Have you tried understanding cellular biology Contract law In my experience, there is less of this complex talk around art than around most other fields.
Art is a wide field. It's deep. It's diverse. You can come at the subject from countless angles. People seem to have been making art since the beginning, so the subject is an inseparable part of the whole history of humanity. So yes, things can get complicated. But, in the end, we're talking about pictures and sculptures. How hard is it to look at a painting How difficult is it to walk around a sculpture Children get it immediately. They know there's no right or wrong when it comes to looking at art. There are just things to notice, to test against our imperfect sense of the truth, and to fold into our various conceptions of beauty. Things we notice may cause feelings. They may lead to ideas. They might equally provide a release from ideas-a release into wonder, and into new kinds of awareness connected to your body, your senses, and your general state of existential confusion. What I notice will be different from what you notice. That's how it goes with art.
More than the political or economic conditions of any given era, it is art that later generations most want to remember. We remember Picasso and Matisse with more love than General Francisco Franco or Marshall Petain. And we remember the Beatles and Francis Bacon over the chief ministers of Britain in the 1960s. That's because the arts-and I define the term as broadly as possible-reveal the best of us. It's because they combine the most intelligent and the most feeling of us. They testify, most fundamentally, to the fact that we're alive, that people lived before us, that as a species we're capable of making the most extraordinary things, and that human consciousness and the world beyond it are nothing short of astonishing.
Again and again, art expresses that astonishment — that mixture of wonder and disappointment, knowing and unknowing, pleasure and pain, joy and fear.
27. What does the underlined word “intimidated” in Paragraph 1 probably mean
A．Misled.
B．Inspired.
C．Frightened.
D．Attracted.
28. What is the main idea of the first two paragraphs
A．Art is complicated but easy.
B．Art is as complex as other fields.
C．Art is insufferable due to its abstraction.
D．Art is an inseparable part of human history.
29. Why does the author mention several famous people in Paragraph 3
A．To emphasize artists are more adorable.
B．To illustrate the superior position of art.
C．To show art can spread in a broader area.
D．To compare political and artistic figures.
30. According to the passage, the author may agree that ________.
A．abstract concepts can block humans' insights
B．art is a combination of unsettled contradictions
C．humans should try to perfect their thoughts of beauty
D．the appeal of art lies in its reflection of the best of man
D 七选五
Charisma
Are leaders born or made Many leaders throughout history—such as Gandhi, Churchill, Napoleon, and Martin Luther King—seem to have a special quality that made them powerful and persuasive. We can identify that quality as charisma, but can we explain it
Charisma means a natural ability to attract other people and make them admire you. It is a complex mixture of social and emotional (情感的) skills. ___31___ Richard Wiseman, a famous psychologist, points out that there are three key qualities of a charismatic person: They feel their own emotions strongly;they inspire strong emotions in other people; and they are unaffected by the influences of other charismatic people.
You needn’ t worry if you don’ t have these qualities. ___32___ Wiseman says that when you come upon someone who is charismatic, you can copy his or her body language and facial expressions without realizing it. This is called mirroring, and it works partly because people’ s behavior influences their emotions. ___33___ He proves his point by giving the example of smiling back at someone who smiled at you. Your smiling back suggests that you accept the goodwill from the other person and hope to give it back to him.
___34___ For example, if you stand up straight and raise your chest, you are more likely to feel confident and inspire others to feel confidence in you. Another expert says that the most charismatic people are usually good listeners. They give others the impression of being focused and modest.
Charisma plays a large part in success because it is linked to self-confidence. ___35___
One successful leadership coach points out that you need to come by your skills and techniques naturally,she warns—if the personality you project is not real, you may come across as insincere.
A．This type of physical presence can be used to great effect.
B．Today there is growing evidence that charisma can be learned.
C．Charismatic persons should be active and sensitive to their surroundings.
D．It needs to be recognized that charisma is more than just being optimistic.
E．It helps to make strong personal connections and communicate effectively with others.
F．But it is worth noting that charisma can’ t be a pretended ability although it can be learned.
G．He adds you’ re unaware of picking up others’ gestures, but you know it makes you feel good.
第四部分 翻译
根据首字母提示写出单词
36. v.活下来;幸存下来 s ______
37. n. 投入，奉献;承诺 c ______
38. n. 气氛;氛围 a ______
39. n. 组成部分 c ______
40. n. 歧视 d ______
41. n. 物力;资源 r ______
42. n. 人像;数字 f ______
43. adj. 惊人的;显著的 s ______
44. n. 改革;改进 r ______
45. n.表彰;赞扬 r ______
46. n. 认识;意识 a ______
47. n. & v. 抗议;反对 p ______
48. adj. 令人钦佩的 a ______
49. n. 发展;进步 a ______
第五部分 选词填空
词库：appreciate process staff pattern just regard affection complex extend refer to
请从方框所给单词中选择最合适的一个单词完成句子。每个单词只能使用一次，有2个多余单词。
50. She holds a sincere ___ for her childhood friends and keeps in touch with them.
51. We should deeply ___ the efforts our parents have made for us.
52. Getting used to a new culture is a long and gradual ___.
53. The company wants to ___ its market to more Asian countries.
54. Most people ___ him as an example of courage and determination.
55. The changing ___ of his sleeping habits made his parents worried.
56. Without enough practice, these grammar rules can seem very ___.
57. You may ___ your notes while preparing for the coming exam.
第六部分 书信写作
58. 假设你是红星中学学生会“环保部”部长李华。你的英国好友Jim的学校正在征集主题为“Beat Plastic Pollution”的环境保护活动方案，他一时没有想法，写信请你给提供建议。请你用英语给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 简要介绍你的设计方案及理由；
2. 询问意见并表达祝愿。
注意：1．词数 100 左右；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
语法填空
1. who 2. to make 3. from 4. has become
5. when 6. what 7. Unfortunately
8. was closed 9. Thinking 10. was seen
完形填空
11.B 12.C 13.A 14.D 15.A
16.C 17.B 18.B 19.A 20.D
阅读理解
21.A 22.B 23.D
24.A 25.B 26.D
27.C 28.A 29.B 30.D
七选五
31.E 32.B 33.G 34.A 35.F
词汇汉译英
36. survive mitment 38. atmosphere ponent 40. discrimination
41. resource 42. figure 43. striking 44. reform 45. recognition
46. awareness 47. protest 48. admirable 49. advance
选词填空
50. affection 51. appreciate 52. process 53. extend
54. regard 55. pattern plex 57. refer to
书信范文
Dear Jim,
I’m glad to offer you some practical activity plans for your theme Beat Plastic Pollution.
First, hold a plastic-free day at school. Students are forbidden to bring plastic bags and disposable plastic tableware, which can cut daily plastic waste directly. Besides, organize a handcraft competition using waste plastic bottles to turn trash into artwork, raising students’ environmental awareness in a fun way.
What do you think of my ideas If you have better plans, feel free to tell me. Wish your activity a great success!
Yours,
Li Hua

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