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新疆维吾尔自治区喀什第二中学2025-2026学年第二学期
高一年级期末考试英语试卷
学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、阅读理解
Yunnan offers exciting experiences of unique customs. If you are already planning to visit Yunnan, see our festival tours.
The Torch (火把) Festival
Date: July/August (days 24 to 26 of the sixth lunar month)
Location: Lijiang
It is a traditional festival among the Yi, Naxi, and Bai ethnic minorities. According to the ancient rule of the Naxi ethnic minority, the Torch Festival should last three days, and every family should light a big torch in front of their doors for the three days.
Recommended tour: 3-Day Ancient Lijiang Tour
The Water-Splashing (泼洒) Festival
Date: April 13 to 15
Location: Xishuangbanna
It is the most important festival observed by the Dai ethnic minority of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan. It involves splashing water, lantern floating and other-joyful activities.
Recommended tour: 6-Day Xishuangbanna Tour
The Horse Racing Festival
Date: May/June (5th of the fifth lunar month)
Location: Shangri-La
Falling on the same date as the Dragon Boat Festival, it is the biggest gathering of Tibetans in Yunnan and usually lasts about 3 days. During the celebrations, traditional performances and competitions like horse racing and wrestling will be held.
Recommended tour: 8-Day Yunnan Tour of the Nu River and Tengchong
The March Street Festival
Date: April/May (days 15 to 21 of the third lunar month)
Location: Dali
It is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Bai ethnic minority in Dali in western Yunnan. During the March Street Festival, the streets of Dali Ancient Town are packed with people selling amazing minority items.
Recommended tour: 6-Day Yunnan Minorities Tour
1．What do the Torch Festival and the Water-Splashing Festival have in common
A．The date. B．The location.
C．The lasting time. D．The celebratory events.
2．Which festival will you attend if you like to buy local gifts while travelling
A．The Torch Festival. B．The March Street Festival.
C．The Horse Racing Festival. D．The Water-Splashing Festival.
3．Where is the text probably taken from
A．An academic report. B．A newspaper report.
C．An educational magazine. D．An travel brochure.
Confucius, a famous teacher, was a politician and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn Period in China. During his lifetime, he planted the seeds of the transformation by teaching thousands of people. Therefore, he is thought to be one of the world’s greatest teachers today.
Confucius grew up in a poor family. As he grew up, Confucius worked to help his mother earn money. When he wasn’t working, he would read. His favorite thing to do was learn. His mother saw this and did her best to help him learn. One day, rich families noticed how smart he was and offered him jobs of counting their money and keeping track of their crops.
Confucius did these until he was 30 years old, but he always wanted to do more. He didn’t like the way rulers treated their subjects. He wanted to find a way to help people who were less fortunate than he was. Later, he founded the philosophy “Confucianism”. Confucianism states that by educating yourself, loving your family, and respecting tradition, you could become a better person. Confucius believed a person could achieve these things by practicing self-discipline. In the majority of his life, Confucius traveled and taught the people of China about self-discipline and the importance of education. He even opened China’s first school to teach both the poor and the wealthy as equals. Today, Confucius is celebrated all over the world for his philosophy of education, equality, and peace over money, and injustice.
4．What can we know about Confucius from the passage
A．He once acted as a math teacher. B．He devoted himself to social change.
C．He was born into a politician family. D．He was once a farmer guiding people farming.
5．What does the underlined word “subjects” in paragraph 3 probably mean
A．Tests. B．Courses. C．People. D．Themes.
6．According to the author, why did Confucius open China’s first school
A．To teach both the poor and the rich. B．To be celebrated all over the world.
C．To be accepted by the rulers of China. D．To become famous among China’s lower classes.
7．What is the main idea of the passage
A．The hard childhood experiences of Confucius.
B．The core ideas and great influence of Confucius.
C．The difficulties Confucius met when travelling.
D．The jobs Confucius took in rich families.
Ants have the ability to smell cancerous cells in humans, a new study has discovered, suggesting they could be used for cancer diagnosis in future. Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) discovered that ant species Formica fusca has a well-developed sense of smell. It was able to differentiate (区分) cancerous cells from healthy cells in humans, thanks to their sense of smell, limited trials revealed.
To conduct their research, the scientists performed tests with 36 ants, smelling cells under a laboratory setting. First, the specialists exposed the ants to the smell of a sample of cancerous human cells. This smell was then associated with a reward of sugar solution. In a second step, the researchers exposed the ants to two different smells. One was a new smell and the second was the smell of the cancerous cells. Once this test was successful, the researchers exposed the ants to different cancerous cells.
As such, the scientists found that ants discriminate between cancerous and healthy cells and between two cancerous lines. After training, Formica fusca ants are able to detect volatile organic compounds given off by cancerous cells. This first study shows that ants have high potential, are capable of learning very quickly, at lower cost, and are efficient, CNRS points out in a news release.
This isn’t the first time that scientists have used the animal sense of smell to locate cancerous cells. “Dogs’ noses are well suited for medical diagnosis. However, training them to do so requires several months to a year. Ants therefore represent a fast, efficient, inexpensive, and highly discriminant detection tool for detection of cancer cell volatiles,” the team explained, “our approach could potentially be adapted to a range of other complex smell detection tasks including the detection of narcotics, explosives, spoiled food, or other diseases.”
But more clinical tests must be carried out before they could be used in clinical settings like hospitals, the team said. They suggest that in future, ants could turn out to be better than dogs when it comes to locating cancerous cells in humans. Who knows Let’s wait and see.
8．How does the author introduce the topic of ants’ potential use in cancer diagnosis
A．By comparing ants to dogs. B．By presenting the results of a new study.
C．By describing the training process of ants. D．By discussing the history of cancer diagnosis.
9．What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about
A．The process of the research. B．The reason of the research.
C．The limitation of the research. D．The conclusion of the research.
10．What can we infer about the use of ants in cancer diagnosis
A．Ants have already been used in clinical settings.
B．Training ants to detect cancer takes more than one year.
C．Ants may become a cost-effective diagnostic tool.
D．Ants will replace dogs in cancer detection entirely.
11．What is the author’s attitude towards the use of ants in cancer diagnosis
A．Doubtful. B．Negative. C．Objective. D．Indifferent.
The variety of bacteria (细菌) in our guts (肠道) has been used as a measure of overall health for years now. But recent studies suggest that what makes the guts of centenarians (people who live to be 100 or older) different is not the variety of bacteria species living there, but the balanced spread of those species.
A 2023 study looked at the guts of over 1,500 people, including 297 centenarians. Dr Shuai Wang at China’s Guangxi Academy of Sciences says that while this study’s findings support the idea that centenarians have special gut bacteria linked to their long life, it showed that rather than variety, their good health was better reflected by balance.
In fact, says Wang, “in many diseases, the variety of gut bacteria can be greater in sick patients than healthy people. This increase often happens due to a loss of gut barrier (屏障) resistance, allowing rare bacteria or bacteria that usually live elsewhere to settle there.” In older adults, he says, “A weaker gut barrier can cause a sudden increase of rare gut bacteria, which may lead to more types of bacteria, but not necessarily bring any extra health benefits.” The key to improving a weak gut barrier is fibre. Eating a high-fibre diet with plenty of vegetables keeps those barriers strong, and so does avoiding alcohol.
Dr Mary Ni Lochlainn is another expert who thinks that bacterial variety isn’t everything. She ran an experiment providing older twins with prebiotic (益生元) fibre and found that “they all had a decrease in variety, because the prebiotic was causing certain bacteria to grow,” she says. “But they also all had improved cognition (认知), so it shows me the limitation of variety.”
While variety may not be the most important thing for gut health, it can still play a positive role in later life. A 2016 study into weakness and the gut by Lochlainn’s colleagues at King’s found a link between weakness and lower bacterial variety.
12．What is the key to centenarians’ good health according to Dr Shuai Wang
A．A high-fibre diet with vegetables.
B．A wide variety of gut bacteria.
C．The strong function of gut barriers.
D．A balanced spread of gut bacteria.
13．Why do some sick patients have higher gut bacterial variety
A．They take some vitamin pills.
B．They eat more fibre-rich food.
C．Their gut barrier becomes weaker.
D．Their illness leads to more bacteria.
14．What can be inferred from the experiment led by Dr Mary Ni Lochlainn
A．Higher bacterial variety can improve cognition.
B．Lower bacterial variety may not harm cognition.
C．Prebiotic fibre can promote people’s physical health.
D．Prebiotic fibre increases the total number of bacteria.
15．What can be a suitable title for the text
A．The Secret of Long Life: Regular Exercise.
B．Prebiotic Fibre: The Way to a Healthy Gut.
C．Weakening Gut Barrier: Survival of Rare Bacteria.
D．Balance Over Variety: A New View on Gut Health.
The secret to happiness lies in being grateful. Before you learn how to practice gratitude, be sure you understand the concept. 16
Gratitude is the positive feeling of being thankful for someone or something. When you are grateful, you can experience the positive feelings associated with happiness, passion, excitement and love. 17 Being grateful can help prevent disease, and being thankful can even help you live longer. Being grateful is a learned skill and one you can get better at with practice. Ready to practice gratitude in your everyday life
18 Putting your thoughts on paper is a powerful way to connect your mind and your body, reinforcing the positive feelings. Keep a notebook in your purse or desk to take down things you’re grateful for as they happen. Or write three things you’re grateful for every day in a journal you keep by your bed.
Share your gratitude with others. Even people who said thank-you to a stranger reported a strong feeling of happiness. 19 Call a parent, write a thank-you note to an old teacher, give a friend a thank-you gift or simply thank the cashier at the grocery store.
Challenge yourself to be grateful in difficult circumstances (境况). There is no situation, no matter how difficult, in which you can’t find something to be grateful for — and practicing gratitude can go a long way toward improving the way you deal with hard things. Look back through old journals of hard times and make notes about what helped you get through them and what you were grateful for. 20
A．Find the most powerful way.
B．Write down what you’re grateful for.
C．Gratitude comes naturally to everyone.
D．So, what does gratitude mean, exactly
E．You shall start by telling someone how grateful you are.
F．Science has proven that gratitude provides powerful benefits.
G．Use that information to help you find the silver linings in current troubles.
二、完形填空
For 32 years, Mr. Williams cut hair for only six dollars, the same price he set in 1987, and never once 21 it.
Every Sunday morning, he 22 his old blue truck with scissors and combs. He drove to the nursing home on the edge of town. There, he spent hours cutting hair for residents who were 23 to leave their beds. He never took a 24 . Yes, just for free.
A young nurse finally asked him why. “You could be home resting.” He kept cutting, his hands 25 as ever. “See Mrs. Patterson She taught half this town to read. You think she ever 26 a kid who couldn’t pay ” He pointed to an old man waiting 27 . “Mr. Davis fixed the Smiths’ basement at midnight. But he never told a soul and kept it 28 . These people built this town and always 29 us when we messed up. The least I can do is make them feel 30 .” The nurse watched him work with quiet 31 . She noticed how he talked to each person, asking about their families, their lives. He didn’t just cut hair. He 32 carefully.
One Sunday, a reporter showed up. Someone had given him a 33 , describing the story. He came and asked for a photo. Mr. Williams shook his head. “I’m not looking for attention.” “But you’re an inspiration,” the reporter insisted. Mr. Williams stopped working and 34 his scissors. “Son, I’m just a barber who remembers who got him here.”
The story ran anyway. After he passed away, the Sundays didn’t stop. Other barbers took his 35 . No one organizes it. It just happens.
21．A．dropped B．mentioned C．raised D．noticed
22．A．parked B．loaded C．started D．pushed
23．A．hesitant B．ready C．willing D．unable
24．A．cent B．break C．seat D．chance
25．A．shaking B．fast C．slow D．steady
26．A．charged B．paid C．asked D．praised
27．A．loudly B．patiently C．cautiously D．quickly
28．A．tidy B．silent C．secret D．private
29．A．warned B．helped C．reminded D．caught
30．A．seen B．tired C．alone D．moved
31．A．happiness B．satisfaction C．excitement D．admiration
32．A．listened B．detected C．thought D．smiled
33．A．lift B．call C．gift D．visit
34．A．looked for B．picked up C．set down D．handed out
35．A．car B．turn C．place D．time
三、语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Beautiful Forbidden City
The Forbidden City, one of the most famous landmarks in China, 36 (stand) at the heart of Beijing, carrying over 600 years of history. Having witnessed the reigns of 24 emperors, it has become a symbol of China’s rich cultural heritage.
Visitors are often amazed by the grand halls and delicate gardens, which are designed with great accuracy 37 (reflect) traditional Chinese culture. As they pass through the big red gates, they are immediately transported back in time. The intricate carvings and golden rooftops, which shine brilliantly under the sun, add to the palace’s 38 (beautiful). Although China is home to many historical sites, few are 39 (impressive) than the Forbidden City. It is a place 40 ancient art and imperial power are perfectly combined, attracting millions of tourists each year. Strict rules have been applied to prevent damage 41 careless visitors, ensuring its charm remains well reserved for future generations.
The site appears especially magical in winter, when a thin layer of snow 42 (cover) the rooftops makes the golden bricks shine even brighter. In recent years, modern technologies 43 (use) to protect and restore this ancient masterpiece. Thanks to these efforts, people can continue to appreciate its magnificence for 44 (century) to come.
For those who love history and architecture, 45 visit to the Forbidden City is a must. It is not only a historical landmark but also a treasure of Chinese civilization.
四、书信写作
46．假定你是校英文报记者李华，你校刚刚举办了“走进非物质文化遗产”活动。请你写一篇英文活动报道，内容包括：
1．活动内容；
2．活动反响。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80个左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Meet Intangible Cultural Heritage
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五、书面表达
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。
Since childhood, my grandfather has been the person who cared about me most. He used to take me to climb mountains, fly kites and tell me interesting old stories in his spare time. He once made a serious promise with me that he would take me to visit the famous ancient town located in the remote mountain area when I entered senior high school.
I had been looking forward to this trip all the time and kept this promise firmly in my heart. However, after stepping into high school, endless homework and various training courses occupied almost all my daily time. I became busier and busier, and gradually put the original agreement behind unconsciously. I even had fewer chances to sit down and chat with my grandfather patiently.
Every time he mentioned the trip gently, I always found various excuses to put it off again and again. I thought there would be plenty of time in the future, so I did not cherish the precious time staying with him. As my academic pressure became heavier, I paid less and less attention to his physical condition and inner feelings.
Until one cold evening, I received a phone call from my mother, telling me that my grandfather fell ill suddenly and had to stay in hospital for treatment. Hearing the bad news, my heart sank instantly, and endless regret began to sweep over my whole mind. I realized that I had broken the most precious promise I had ever made.
I rushed to the hospital as fast as I could, not knowing how to face the weak old man lying on the bed.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Standing beside the hospital bed, I held his old rough hands tightly with eyes full of tears.
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After calming down, I packed my bag quietly and decided to head for the ancient town alone to keep our long-awaited promise.
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《新疆维吾尔自治区喀什第二中学2025-2026学年第二学期高一年级期末考试英语试卷》参考答案
题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
答案 C B D B C A B B A C
题号 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
答案 C D C B D D F B E G
题号 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
答案 C B D A D A B C B A
题号 31 32 33 34 35
答案 D A B C C
1．C 2．B 3．D
4．B 5．C 6．A 7．B
8．B 9．A 10．C 11．C
12．D 13．C 14．B 15．D
16．D 17．F 18．B 19．E 20．G
21．C 22．B 23．D 24．A 25．D 26．A 27．B 28．C 29．B 30．A 31．D 32．A 33．B 34．C 35．C
36．stands 37．to reflect 38．beauty 39．more impressive 40．where 41．from 42．covering 43．have been used 44．centuries 45．a
46．Meet Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently, our school held a “Meet Intangible Cultural Heritage” activity to help students learn more about traditional culture. Folk artists were invited to the campus, showing paper-cutting, traditional Chinese painting and seal carving on site and teaching us basic skills.
The activity was warmly welcomed by all students. Everyone actively participated in the interactive sessions, showing great interest in these time-honored crafts. It not only enriched our campus life but also aroused our enthusiasm for protecting intangible cultural heritage.
47．One Possible Version:
Standing beside the hospital bed, I held his old rough hands tightly with eyes full of tears. He looked much weaker than before, yet a gentle smile still appeared on his face when he saw me. “Don’t worry,” he said softly, “we still have time.” His words struck my heart deeply. I could not help apologizing again and again for breaking my promise. He shook his head slowly, telling me that what mattered was not the trip itself but my growth and happiness. At that moment, I realized how much love and patience he had given me all these years.
After calming down, I packed my bag quietly and decided to head for the ancient town alone to keep our long-awaited promise. Walking along the narrow streets, I imagined him walking beside me, telling old stories as he used to. I took photos of the mountains, the river and the old houses, hoping to share everything with him. When I returned to the hospital, I showed him the pictures and described the journey in detail. Tears filled his eyes, but this time, they were mixed with joy. I finally understood that keeping a promise is not only about action, but also about love and responsibility.

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