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2025-2026学年度第二学期期中考试高一年英语试题
二、阅读理解
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KNOXVILLE HOTEL DEALS & OFFERS
By now, pretty much everyone is in need of a vacation, and when it comes to hotel deals, Knoxville has plenty to offer. Whether it’s been on your wish list or you’re opting for a staycation this summer, everyone from visitors to locals can kick back and relax with these special offers from hotels across the city.
Full service Hotels
Knoxville’s full-service hotels offer a variety of on-site facilities including restaurants and bars, swimming pools, health clubs, ballrooms, conference facilities and more. You’ll enjoy your stay at any of these fine hotels located downtown.
Select service Hotels
If you are looking for an experience within your hotel downtown rather than just an overnight stay, Knoxville has what you need. Each Select Service hotel has its own culture and allows visitors to access services many other hotels e stay in one of these wonderful hotels and experience Knoxville unlike any other.
Limited service Hotels
Choosing a more affordable choice doesn’t always mean you’re trading elegance for simplicity. These limited Service Hotels provide great facilities without the fancy price tag. If you want to experience true lively atmosphere of city living, these hotels are great options, situated right in the heart of the city. Limited service does not mean limited happiness.
Extended stay Hotels
A number of Knoxville businesses take care of the four-legged members of your family. Feel free to bring your best friend along to the hotels in the central area whether you want to enjoy a delicious meal or a cold brew-ski. Many of these fine establishments also have water and treats available for your furry friend!
21. Which of the following hotels are pet-friendly
A．Full service Hotels.
B．Select service Hotels.
C．Limited service Hotels.
D．Extended stay Hotels.
22. What do the four hotels have in common
A．They all provide tasty meals.
B．They are all situated in the city center.
C．They all cost you a big fortune.
D．They are all great options for swim lovers.
23. Where does this text probably come from
A．A travel magazine.
B．A travel journal.
C．A business website.
D．A hotel announcement.
B
“The only constant is change.” British architect Norman Foster says this is his family’s motto (座右铭). Now in his early 90s, Foster still remains true to many of the principles that guided him at the start of a career that began more than half a century ago. When he started as an architect, he believed that simply giving people a nice view to look at would make them happier. Now, he says that’s a scientific fact — and he’s still providing those views today.
Many of his most famous buildings are huge and glassy. It’s a style we’ re now used to, but Foster was designing these light-filled creations at a time when Western cities were still dominated by thick blocks of concrete (混凝土). It is not because Foster has any problem with concrete — he used lots of it in Apple Park, the technology giant’s California headquarters. But that huge ring is also typical of Foster in that it brings the outside in, with vast windows and shared spaces looking out onto greenery.
Perhaps his most famous building — the London building known as the “Gherkin” because of its similarity in shape to the fruit — has views that are slightly less green. But it itself can be seen from far and pleted in 2004, it has become one of London’s most recognizable buildings. Although some feel the Gherkin is out of place, it is in keeping with Foster’s previous creations: the City Hall beside the Thames in London, his glassy reconstruction of the German Reichstag, and his 1980s design for the HSBC building in Hong Kong.
Despite some health problems later in life, Foster continues to work.“ There is never enough time to do everything I would like,” he said in 2011. Since then, he has designed Apple Park, museums, an airport, and developed the concept for the Lusail Stadium in Qatar. If the only constant is change, Foster has been a force of it in the world of architecture — and he’s not done yet.
24. What is Foster’s initial principle for architectural design
A．Buildings should be highly cost-effective.
B．Design styles should keep pace with the times.
C．Architecture should be based on scientific theory.
D．Nice views should come first in creating buildings.
25. What is a feature of Foster’s most creations
A．fancy lighting decoration.
B．Vast glass-equipped looks.
C．Long architectural patterns.
D．massive concrete structural forms.
26. What is the author’s purpose in referring to the Gherkin in paragraph 3
A．To display Foster’s design principles.
B．To contrast it with Foster’s usual style.
C．To show Foster’s global fame.
D．To explain Foster’s family motto.
27. What can be learned about Foster’s career
A．He prefers historical styles to modern trends.
B．His career life contradicts the principles he sticks to.
C．His early beliefs are challenged by new architectural concepts.
D．His consistency contributes to his lifelong creative work.
C
Companies are used to celebrating addition. Profits, customers and share prices should go up rather than fall. Larger numbers are a measure of career success: managers get promoted by taking on more reports, running higher budgets and earning bigger salaries.
Companies are not always against subtraction (减法). Though not a welcome one, reducing costs is a necessary part of management, which is often undervalued. The best bosses are those who take things away as well as add them on. That means clearing time for employees to get work done. Meetings are almost always called by bosses, but only some of them are useful. Shopify, an e-commerce company, began the year by subtracting 12,000 meetings from their schedules, and reported a rise in productivity as a result.
Subtraction is not just about removing day-to-day distractions (干扰). It’s also about taking decisions to kill off projects and products that are going nowhere, and to focus efforts on the most important parts. Peter Drucker, a management theorist, was a supporter of “planned subtraction”, so that resources that are tied up in minor activities are freed for more profitable use. Bosses should, he advised, always ask the same question of every detail of the company: “If we did not do this, would it be any different ”
In The Case for Good Jobs, a new book, Zeynep Ton of MIT Sloan School of Management argues that doing less can often make sense. Costco, a famous American supermarket that believes in the “smart loss of sales”, has purposely limited product choices. That means it can focus its buying power more effectively, forecast demand more accurately and use its employees’ time more productively. “Less” may not sound like a great result for customers, but at some point choice is deeply tiring. When you have spent more time trying to decide what to watch on a streaming service than it takes to go to the cinema and watch the same film twice, few choices seem pretty attractive.
28. Why does the author mention the company Shopify in paragraph 2
A．To present a fact.
B．To draw a conclusion.
C．To support an opinion.
D．To make a comparison.
29. Which statement does Peter Drucker most likely agree with
A．Companies should quit unpromising tasks.
B．Bosses should give up profits for resources.
C．Bosses shouldn’t remove everyday distractions.
D．Companies should focus on some unfinished work.
30. Which of the following measures is regarded as effective “doing less” commercially
A．Stores give customers more time to shop.
B．Cinemas run only one particular film a day.
C．Streaming websites upload more new movies.
D．Supermarkets offer a limited variety of goods.
31. What is the best title of the text
A．The best companies celebrate addition.
B．The best bosses know how to subtract work.
C．People Should Stay Away from Computer Games
D．Smart bosses go against the idea of subtraction.
D
Rotten seaweed is starting to pile up on beaches across the Caribbean. The uncontrolled blooms of sticky brown algae (藻类) called sargassum have become an annual disaster for the coastal areas. Removing seaweed and sending it to the landfill is costly and takes up declining space in landfills. Luckily, a company in Grenada, a small island nation in the Caribbean, has a better idea.
The company that would like to use Grenadian sargassum is SarGas, a start-up founded in 2023 to harvest the sargassum before it hits the beaches and turn it into a renewable source of fuel. The company has set up a small machine called Digester that uses bacteria to swallow sargassum and release methane (甲烷), the main component of natural gas.
Instead of letting the methane escape and warm the planet, as it would if the sargassum rotted on the shore or in a landfill, SarGas collects the gas and uses it to fuel the oven at a local bakery. Now the start-up is applying for a permit to build a bigger Digester that would power a biogas-fueled generator (发电机) to make electricity for Grenadians.
Generating electricity this way would be cheaper and cleaner, said SarGas CEO Benjamin Nestorovic. Almost all Grenadian electricity is made from generators running on imported diesel (柴油), which causes pollution and forces Grenadians to pay some of the highest electricity rates on Earth. That’s starting to change as Grenada installs solar panels, but biogas complements solar, because the sargassum-based fuel can generate electricity at night.
The first planned SarGas generator would use 5,000 to 8,000 tons of sargassum per year. It could generate 160 kilo-watts of power, which is about half a percent of Grenada’s peak demand. By saving diesel and preventing methane emissions at the landfill, it would avoid the equivalent (等量) of about 2,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse emissions.
32. How does the machine Digester work
A．By trapping algae on beaches.
B．By recycling rubbish in landfills.
C．By gathering natural gas from the sea.
D．By breaking seaweed down for energy.
33. What does the underlined word “complements” in Paragraph 4 mean
A．Interacts with.
B．keeps up with.
C．Competes with.
D．Pairs well with.
34. What effect will the SarGas generator have on Grenada
A．It will remove the pressure of local landfills.
B．It will address a national environmental issue.
C．The nation will depend on imported fossil fuels.
D．The nation will offer new economic opportunities.
35. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text
A．From Seaweed to Power
B．From Rubbish to Digester
C．Calling for Cleanup in Beaches
D．Turning Sargassum into Charity
七选五
My husband and I just spent a week in Paris. ___36___ So the first thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.
The place wasn’t entirely authentic, though. Unlike a normal Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked. ___37___ Our building even had a tiny lift with a female voice that said, “Ouverture des portes,” in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it’s a shame I don’t have much use for it.
Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone noted in this paper a couple of weeks ago, they eat great food and never gain weight. ___38___ French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they explode in your mouth like little flavor bombs.
___39___ On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to pick up some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost $18!
In France, quality of life is much more important than efficiency.
You can tell this by cafés life. French cafés are always crowded. ___40___ When do these people work The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously — so seriously that some labor unions recently struck a deal with a group of companies limiting the number of hours that independent contractors can be on call.
A．Not all the customers are tourists.
B．The quality of life in France is equally excellent.
C．There was a nice kitchen and a comfortable bed.
D．The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers.
E．That’s not the only reason the French eat less than we do.
F．Attending or organizing cultural events is another way to approach your heritage
G．The food is so delicious that you don’t need much of it to make you happy.
36.__________ 37.__________ 38.__________ 39.__________ 40.__________
三、完形填空
I retired in 2014. I had two ___41___ during my life before retirement: one was 26 years with the local fire department and the other was 19 years at a large power plant.
As an active person, I needed a new ___42___ upon retirement. In fact, I had started my flying lessons 44 years earlier but as a 21-year-old became unfocused easily, I ___43___ to complete the training. My dad was a captain for Delta Air Lines until retirement and his ___44___ to fly for so long surprised me.
One day I ___45___ an ex-colleague during a flight, who said he had been flying for 11 years after resigning. That flight ___46___ my enthusiasm for flying. When trying to use my learning skills once again, I was ___47___ enough to find a responsible instructor. He suggested that I ___48___ AOPA(a nonprofit for pilots), and then I received the Flight Training Magazine monthly. At first, I just kept each issue and looked through the articles ___49___. When I realized the magazine had new tips that helped me learn skills beyond my textbooks, I ___50___ it often and continued to ___51___ to it.
After applying my newly learned skills to practice, finally, I became a pilot at 65 and I was ___52___ to have flying in my life so I could achieve my personal ___53___ even after retirement. I knew my dad was ___54___ of me and was with me as long as I flew. This truly ___55___ the saying that you are never too old to learn.
41. A．goals B．hobbies C．careers D．choices
42. A．passion B．excuse C．recovery D．profession
43. A．intended B．failed C．attempted D．preferred
44. A．requirements B．strategies C．opportunity D．determination
45. A．visited B．encountered C．mentioned D．approached
46. A．refired B．removed C．contained D．maintained
47. A．independent B．confident C．fortunate D．mature
48. A．team up with B．take charge of C．give credit to D．sign up for
49. A．thoroughly B．occasionally C．silently D．individually
50. A．reviewed B．published C．received D．edited
51. A．attend B．contribute C．subscribe D．respond
52. A．free B．relaxed C．hesitant D．blessed
53. A．value B．wealth C．belief D．impact
54. A．critical B．proud C．fond D．tired
55. A．breaks B．invents C．confirms D．challenges
四、语法填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Chinese paper cutting, a traditional folk art with a history of over 1,500 years, has been practiced by ordinary people across China for centuries. However, the rapid development of modern technology ___56___ (destroy) some complex traditional ways of making paper cuttings in recent decades. Still, the art form remains ___57___ (impress) with its delicate patterns and rich cultural meanings rooted in daily life and folk tales.
Paper cutting, ___58___ is often used to decorate doors, windows and walls during festivals like the Spring Festival, can express people’s sincere wishes for happiness and good luck. It requires ___59___ elegant pair of scissors (剪刀) and extremely skillful hands to create a vivid paper cutting work. If you study this art ___60___ detail, you will find that every tiny cut carries a special and deep meaning passed down from ancestors.
Artists often push ___61___ (they) to create fresh and creative designs while keeping classic traditional styles alive. They combine different colored papers ___62___ (beautiful) to make the paper cuttings more eye-catching and charming. This art form is not only a precious symbol of Chinese folk culture ___63___ a valuable treasure of human civilization.
It deeply reflects people’s ___64___ (belief) about life, nature and family, ___65___ (inspire) more young people to learn, love and pass on this time-honored traditional art to future generations.
56.__________ 57.__________ 58.__________ 59.__________ 60.__________
61.__________ 62.__________ 63.__________ 64.__________ 65.__________
五、书面表达（征文投稿）
66. 你校英文报正举办主题为“高中生应具备的美德”征文比赛。请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1．介绍一种美德；
2．你的经历和感受。
注意：1．写作词数应为100词左右；2．行文连贯，可适当补充细节。
The Virtue That Lights My Way
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六、读后续写
67. 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。
I had booked the flights in somewhat of a hurry with just a carry-on bag, thinking 7 kgs was enough for a 3-day trip to Taupo. I thought I’d given myself enough time to get to the airport, however, as often was the case, I was running late and had to pack my bag with little time left. Confused about what to carry, I stuffed all the clothes in my little bag, taking no notice of the weight.
Thirty minutes before the flight, I was waiting at my terminal (航站楼) in the airport and couldn’t stop smiling. I was too excited to go on a much-needed trip. A little while later, I heard an announcement “Passengers flying to Taupo on Flight NZ5091 are requested to weigh your cabin luggage and collect your tag”. I stood in the line waiting for my turn, clueless about how much my bag would weigh, deep inside hoping not over the weight limit.
When it was my turn, I placed my bag on the weighing scale and whoaaaa!! It was 9.4 kgs. I asked the flight attendant if I could buy $20 extra luggage allowance (行李费) as shown on the app but I was too late for it. Instead, I was asked to pay an additional fee of $65. I either had to pay or leave something away to bring it down to 7 kgs. I asked the attendant whether they would give my stuff back to me if I returned 3 days later and surprisingly I was told I wouldn’t get it back.
To me, a bad luggage experience had the power to completely sour a trip. With no other alternatives, I decided to give up some of my stuff. Unsettled, annoyed, disappointed! As I started removing the items, I saw a lady approaching me. It looked like she had heard the whole thing. She sat down next to me. “Are you OK I should be able to help you.” She said.
I looked up, surprised, and saw her pointing at her bag.
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While I was worried whether I could get my stuff back, the plane landed.
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参考答案
阅读理解
21.D 22.B 23.A
24.D 25.B 26.A 27.D
28.C 29.A 30.D 31.B
32.D 33.D 34.B 35.A
七选五：36.F 37.C 38.G 39.E 40.A
完形填空
41.C 42.A 43.B 44.D 45.B 46.A 47.C 48.D 49.B 50.A 51.C 52.D 53.A 54.B 55.C
语法填空
56.has destroyed
57.impressive
58.which
59.an
60.in
61.themselves
62.beautifully
63.but
64.beliefs
65.inspiring
征文范文
The Virtue That Lights My Way
Among all virtues, honesty influences me most deeply. It guides me to behave properly whenever I face choices.
Last month I accidentally broke my classmate’s new notebook. Though no one saw it, I told him the truth and apologized sincerely. To my surprise, he praised my honesty and we became closer friends.
Honesty helps us build trust with others. It brings real peace inside us instead of hiding mistakes. It is a precious virtue worth keeping all our life.
读后续写范文
I looked up, surprised, and saw her pointing at her bag. She said her luggage had plenty of spare space, so I could put my extra clothes into her bag to avoid the heavy fine. Without hesitation, we sorted out my belongings and moved the over-weight items to her suitcase. I kept thanking her repeatedly and offered to pay her back, but she refused warmly, saying she knew how upsetting such trouble was.
While I was worried whether I could get my stuff back, the plane landed. We walked off the plane together and she handed all my things back to me neatly. I wrote down her contact information, promising to send her a gift to show my gratitude. This kind stranger’s kindness taught me that small help can warm people’s whole journey, and I will pass this kindness on to others.

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