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宁夏银川市第九中学
2025—2026学年第二学期期末考试高一年级英语试卷
一、阅读理解
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Four Best Animal Rescue Organizations in London
Battersea Dogs & Cats
Founded in 1860, this organization treats over 7,000 animals with love and care each year. With a hospital, qualified vets (兽医), and a team of dedicated caters, this state-of-the-art facility offers stray(流浪的), abandoned, and unwanted pets comprehensive treatment. The facility also takes in pets whose parents may be unable to meet their needs and matches them with suitable homes and families.
Mayhew
Established in 1886, the facility which accommodates all kinds of pets, including those who need new homes and those rescued outside the shelter, rescues over 1,100 dogs annually. It works hard to ensure pets who come to the facility are equipped with the skills to make them a better member of a new family through enrichment programs that address their physical and physiological needs. The team also works with pet parents to help them improve their relationship with their pets.
Celia Hammond Animal Rescue
Founded in 1986 by a model named Celia Hammond, this charity grew from her early campaigns against animal cruelty. The organization also offers treatment and training to help dogs who have not been given proper care and love. The organization has comfortable facilities for dogs in need of new homes before they can be adopted or re-homed and on-site vets who help rescued pets through their recovery process.
All Dogs Matter
It is a registered charity working in and around London to rescue dogs and help them find loving forever homes. The rescue organization was founded in 2009 to transform the lives of unwanted, abandoned, and stray dogs in the UK and around the world. In 2019, All Dogs Matter helped more than 25 pets from Italy, Egypt, and China find new parents in the UK. At All Dogs Matter, pets in need of medical attention are treated to quality medical care by qualified staff.
1. Which organization has the longest history
A．Mayhew.
B．All Dogs Matter.
C．Battersea Dogs＆Cats.
D．Celia Hammond Animal Rescue.
2. What is one of Mayhew’s duties
A．Attending to a model’s giant pets.
B．Improving the pet-owner relationship.
C．Training vets for other organizations.
D．Launching campaigns against animal cruelty.
3. What do Celia Hammond Animal Rescue and All Dogs Matter have in common
A．They help dogs find new homes.
B．They accommodate all kinds of cats.
C．They were founded by the same person.
D．They focus on pets rescued from abroad.
B
Last Sunday morning, I was sitting on the sofa in my parent’s living room. Before me on the tea table was a worn journal of thin and discolored pages. It was my grandfather’s journal and now belongs to my father. My grandfather had passed away in the months leading up to my birth. I never got to visit the places he had frequented and the people who had been a part of his life’s journey.
I was now about to enter his world, through the words he had left behind. Within minutes, I was touched by the power of the written words. In the magical script before me, I was transported to another age when food was planned, prepared and enjoyed in the company of others, and a time when people had the heart to pause their own lives to embrace each other’s struggles. All this was conveyed to me in the beauty of the words that flowed together to connect with the writer’s mind and understand the world they lived in.
This kind of writing seems to be lost on us today. We have gotten used to writing in bite-sized pieces for a public looking for entertainment, and hungry for information. No wonder, there are nearly 200 million bloggers on the Internet and a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. Instead of adding to our wisdom, most of these writings reflect the superficiality (肤浅) and impatience of our day and age.
This not only steals our skills of writing impressive essays, it also prevents us from exploring what is indeed important. Writing teaches us in a way that is important for our character growth, by reminding us about the limits of the self and our right place in the flow of life.
Writing frees us by helping us explore the unknown so that we really open up to the magic of the world around us. I saw all of this in the writing of my grandfather. And I’ve seen it again and again in the writings of the greatest thinkers of humanity. Their writing reflects deep thought on issues of human importance.
4. According to the author, what is a feature of the age described in his grandfather’s journal
A．Mutual support.
B．Artistic food.
C．Popular diaries.
D．Public entertainment.
5. What is the main purpose of the third paragraph
A．To give internet statistics.
B．To contrast past and present writing.
C．To promote traditional media.
D．To blame the public’s tastes.
6. What message does the author convey in the last two paragraphs
A．Writing skills ensure success.
B．Writing shows reality.
C．Writing shapes character and personality.
D．Only great thinkers’ works are valuable.
7. What is the author’s attitude towards his grandfather’s writing
A．Critical B．Confused C．Indifferent D．Admiring
C
Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape hunters. In an act called autotomy, starfish drop one or more of their arms to survive attacks. The lost body part distracts the attacker, allowing the starfish to run away quickly. Over time, the starfish can grow back the lost arm, returning to their usual life after a brush with death.
A few years ago, Maurice Elphick, who studied starfish behavior at Queen Mary University of London, and Ana Tinoco, a postdoctoral researcher, often saw starfish missing one or more arms when they collected these creatures along beaches. Amazed by this observation, they decided to investigate how the autotomy works.
Recently, Elphick’s team discovered a molecule (分子) that helps starfish drop their arms. Researchers found that a neuropeptide (神经肽) called ArSK/CCK1 controls this process. When injected into starfish, the molecule caused some of them to drop their arms.
However, not all starfish injected with this neuropeptide lost their arms. This suggests that the molecule works with other factors, like stress. To test this, scientists pressed starfish arms with a special tool. When stressed and injected with the neuropeptide, most starfish dropped their arms.
This study showed that the neuropeptide may soften and break tissues (细胞组织) at the base of the starfish arm, which is an important step in autotomy. Researchers also found that the molecule exists in starfish even when they are not losing arms, ready to act when needed, since starfish are often attacked by hunters mid-meal.
“It’s a really beautiful study,” said Emily Claereboudt, a biologist at the University of Bergen. “The study can provide insights into similar molecules in humans, which may eventually help improve tissue regeneration. But that would be a long-term goal.” Elphick agreed. For now, Elphick is excited about the results. “I hope this will deepen our understanding of autotomy and regeneration across the animal kingdom,” he said.
8. What can we know about autotomy
A．It is starfish’s survival skill.
B．It allows starfish to grow fast.
C．It is starfish’s unique ability.
D．It helps starfish hunt for food.
9. Which best explains “distracts” underlined in the first paragraph
A．Searches for carefully.
B．Draws someone’s attention.
C．Count on unwillingly.
D．Warmly welcomes someone.
10. What did Elphick’s research find
A．How starfish cut ties with their arms.
B．How hunters manage to attack starfish.
C．How starfish recover from serious injuries.
D．How wild animals survive natural disasters.
11. What did Claereboudt expect of the study
A．It’ll avoid misunderstanding about molecules.
B．It’ll change our attitude towards cute animals.
C．It’ll inspire new ideas for human tissue repair.
D．It’ll ask us to put effort into wildlife protection.
D
A recent study on digital human (数字人) industry has uncovered a noticeable trend: more and more people are forming deep emotional bonds with AI-powered digital humans, which are widely used as virtual companions, online idols and customer service agents. Though whether these digital humans have real emotional feedback remains unproved, this trend has greatly widened the split in the existing cultural and ethical divide.
Ethicist Professor Zhang Wei has clearly outlined the two sides of this divide: “One side will accuse (指控) the other of dangerously being addicted in virtual relationships and escaping real social communications, while the other will argue the first group as refusing to accept the new form of emotional connection in the digital age.” His concern is not unreasonable. Today, some people already share their deepest secrets with digital humans and even treat them as life partners, while others laugh off the idea as nothing more than “confusing programmed responses with real feelings”.
So what might a digital human with widely recognized “emotional value” look like Imagine a lifelong companion that listens to your troubles, celebrates your achievements, accompanies you through hard times, and even grows and changes with you over the years. Crucially, this companion will have a continuous “memory” and form a unique interaction mode with you, much like a real friend. While today’s digital humans are not yet at this stage, they are developing at an amazing speed. When that future arrives, more intense conflicts over their status and rights will be unavoidable.
History offers similar examples. Consider the wide acceptance of telephones, which were once strongly opposed by people who argued that they would destroy face-to-face communication and weaken real human relationships, even decades after they became popular. There’s no reason that the debate over digital humans’ emotional value will be any different. What’s worse, unlike telephones whose function is clearly defined, we have no unified standard to judge whether the emotional connection with digital humans is “real” or valuable.
Undoubtedly, these deepening divisions will reshape our legal rules, social norms and even family concepts. That’s why now — before the divide becomes too deep to bridge — is the key moment to act. We need to build a reasonable ethical and legal framework for the digital age through in-depth and rational discussion, and guide society forward in an orderly way, rather than let the division divide us apart.
12. What is the core message of Paragraph 1
A．Digital humans can provide real emotional feedback.
B．Digital humans are widely used in the service industry.
C．The popularity of digital humans has widened social ethical divide.
D．People have reached an agreement on digital humans.
13. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE
A．People all agree that sharing secrets with digital humans is a normal emotional experience.
B．Current digital humans already possess complete continuous memory and can grow alongside users.
C．There has been a universal standard to assess the authenticity of emotional bonds with digital humans.
D．People once worried that telephones would damage offline communication and human bonds.
14. Why is “the wide acceptance of telephones” mentioned in Paragraph 4
A．To stress the importance of digital technology development.
B．To prove telephones have changed people’s way of communication.
C．To show the debate over digital humans will last long.
D．To deny the value of face-to-face communication.
15. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text
A．To introduce the development of digital humans.
B．To explain the function of digital humans.
C．To solve the conflict over digital humans.
D．To call for early action to deal with the coming ethical divide.
七选五
As someone who’s been saving money for her first trip in the new year, I certainly have my fears and reservations. My brain keeps trying to scare me with worst-case situations and excuses to stay home. But the entire point of traveling is to get yourself out of your comfort zone. 16
Start small.
Many people assume that traveling requires week-long or even month-long trips to resorts or expensive hotels, but true exploration doesn’t have to be costly. Begin with short, manageable trips to build confidence. A nearby overnight stay, a dinner reservation at a local restaurant, a small-town hotel, or a weekend escape to a city you’ve long wanted to visit — all count as meaningful first steps. 17 Once you’re comfortable being alone, gradually extend your travels or travel farther. Starting small prevents overwhelming (压垮) yourself, which could avoid killing the interest in travel entirely.
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When you plan your first travel trip, make sure you have a light itinerary (行程) to follow. That way, you don’t show up unprepared or overwhelmed by choices. For instance, I’m designing my New England trip as a mini writer’s retreat: visiting specific cafes, exploring charming downtowns, spending time in nature, and writing in my hotel. I have a list of must-try eateries, landmarks, and shops. 19 I just outlined key experiences I’m excited about. A loose plan helps guide you without limiting your choices.
Take the proper safety precaution.
Traveling can be intimidating (令人畏惧的). No matter how long you’ve been traveling, you might still feel scared on your journey. This is completely reasonable, but it doesn’t mean you should avoid travels altogether. Instead, focus on what you can do to stay safe. 20 . Also, stay aware of your surroundings, follow basic safety measures, and trust your intuition. These steps will help you feel secure as you embrace your adventure.
A．I’m not over-scheduling.
B．Plan every detail in advance.
C．Create a plan that inspires and excites you.
D．Here’s how to start a traveling in the new year.
E．For example, you should never travel alone to remote areas.
F．They gradually build your ability to enjoy your own company.
G．For instance, choose a well-researched destination and a trusted place to stay.
二、完形填空
In 2018, I arrived in a small Chinese village as a first-year volunteer teacher. The village, 21 deep in the mountains, was a beautiful but poverty-stricken place. Over 70% of the children there were left-behind children, their parents 22 in cities far away.
On my first day, I entered a classroom filled with curious eyes. Little Mei, a shy girl seated in the corner, hardly 23 any eye contact. She was quiet and seemed to live in her own world, often lost in thought during my lessons.
For weeks, I tried to 24 to her. I offered small gifts, praised her in class, and asked her simple questions. But she always 25 her head without a word. It wasn’t until one rainy afternoon that everything 26 . During a heavy storm, Mei fell and got her clothes all muddy. I rushed to 27 her up, gave her my coat, and walked her home. That evening, for the first time, I saw a 28 appear on her face — a small but genuine one.
The next day, she arrived at school early with a 29 of freshly picked wildflowers. “For you, teacher,” she whispered. From that day on, Mei began to 30 . She started raising her hand in class, helping classmates, and even reciting poems loudly. Her transformation was nothing short of 31 .
Three years later, when my volunteer term ended, Mei gave me a letter. “You taught me that someone 32 ,” she wrote. “Now I want to become a teacher too, so I can 33 the love you gave me.”
Looking back, I realize that teaching is not just about 34 knowledge. It’s about showing up, believing in someone, and trusting that a little 35 can go a long way.
21. A．hidden B．built C．raised D．trapped
22. A．targeting B．traveling C．working D．struggling
23. A．avoided B．broke C．made D．lost
24. A．break out B．turn out C．find out D．reach out
25. A．shook B．lowered C．nodded D．raised
26. A．changed B．happened C．ended D．engaged
27. A．dress B．set C．cheer D．pick
28. A．blush B．tear C．concern D．smile
29. A．piece B．bunch C．box D．bowl
30. A．wake up B．open up C．live up D．light up
31. A．ordinary B．particular C．magical D．definite
32. A．deserves B．cares C．combines D．adopts
33. A．devote to B．put on C．pass on D．appeal to
34. A．exchanging B．transforming C．gaining D．spreading
35. A．kindness B．patience C．intelligence D．courage
三、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。
Every year the world unites together on World Animal Day on October 4 to improve the treatment and well-being of animals.
It started in 1931 in Florence, Italy when ecologists joined together to raise public 36 (aware) of endangered species. Since then, the yearly event 37 (use) as a means of connecting animal welfare organizations, businesses, community groups and individuals to raise funds for causes like animal care and endangered species protection.
In the past 20 years, China has done much to improve animal welfare. The biggest symbol of China’s official protection of animals can be found in the Wildlife Protection Law, first 38 (sign) in 1988 and revised several times over the years. The law is aimed at protecting endangered species as well as 39 (ensure) a balance between the needs of wild animals and people.
This balance is 40 (evidence) in the case of Asian elephants, endangered due to hunting for their tusks (象牙). Asian elephants in China are 41 (most) found in Yunnan Province. A variety of difficulties have appeared as the government has tried to strike 42 balance between protecting the endangered elephants and making up for farmers 43 crops are damaged by these wild animals. Through changes to the law, the government has improved harmony 44 locals and wildlife positively. More measures will be taken to improve wildlife habitats.
In the spirit of World Animal Day, let’s think of more ways 45 (better) animals’ protection, shall we
四、书信写作
46. 假定你是李华，你校英文报“Tech & Study”专栏正在举办“AI与英语学习”主题征文。请结合你自己的学习经历，写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1. 你如何用AI辅助英语学习（如：改作文、练口语、查语法）；
2. 你的收获与感受；
3. 对同学们合理使用AI的建议。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
How I Use AI to Learn English
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五、读后续写
47. 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。
It was supposed to be the best day of our school trip. Our class had set off early to hike up Green Hill, laughing and chatting as we climbed through the bright morning sunshine. By noon we had almost reached the top, proud of how far we had come. The view from the slope was lovely, and nothing seemed to worry us.
Then, without warning, the weather changed. A thick grey fog rolled in from the valley, and within minutes we could barely see the classmate walking just ahead. The cheerful voices died away, and a worried silence fell over the group. Some of us had no idea which way led back down the hill. What had felt like an easy, happy walk now seemed strange and a little frightening. Some students quietly reached out to hold the hands of those beside them.
Our teacher, Mr. Wang, told everyone to stop and stay exactly where they were. “Nobody moves alone,” he said firmly. A few students looked frightened, and one girl began to cry softly. The path we had walked up so happily had completely disappeared into the white mist around us. For a few long moments, nobody knew quite what to do, and the cold air pressed in around us. We all turned to look at one another, each hoping someone would be brave enough to speak first. Mr. Wang’s calm voice was the only steady thing in the swirling fog.
Taking a deep breath, we calmed down and tried to think of a way out.
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At last, the fog began to thin, and we walked safely out of the hill.
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参考答案
阅读理解
1.C 2.B 3.A 4.A 5.B 6.C 7.D 8.A 9.B 10.A 11.C 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.D
七选五
16.D 17.F 18.C 19.A 20.G
完形填空
21.A 22.C 23.C 24.D 25.B 26.A 27.D 28.D 29.B 30.B 31.C 32.B 33.C 34.D 35.A
语法填空
36.awareness 37.has been used 38.signed 39.ensuring 40.evident
41.mostly 42.a 43.whose 44.between 45.to better
书信范文
How I Use AI to Learn English
AI greatly helps my English study. I use it to correct composition mistakes, practice oral English conversations and look up difficult grammar points anytime.
With AI’s help, my writing and pronunciation have improved a lot. Yet AI cannot replace independent thinking. I suggest classmates take AI’s advice but finish exercises and recite words by ourselves. We should make AI our helper instead of relying on it totally.
读后续写范文
Taking a deep breath, we calmed down and tried to think of a way out. Mr. Wang divided us into small teams of three or four, so we could keep each other visible in fog. He asked everyone to gather their water and snacks together for shared use. Some boys shouted softly to mark our position while girls comforted the crying classmate. We leaned on each other and waited patiently without panic.
At last, the fog began to thin, and we walked safely out of the hill. When we stepped out of the mist, all of us cheered wildly. Though we failed to enjoy the mountain top view, we gained something more precious: the power of unity and calmness in trouble. This unforgettable trip taught me that teamwork and self-control are far more important than any beautiful scenery.

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