上海市杨浦区控江中学2025-2026学年第一学期高一年级英语期末考试卷

上海市控江中学2025学年第一学期高一年级英语期末考试卷 （满分150分） I. Listening Comprehension（25分） Section A Short Conversations Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Five euros. B. Six euros. C. Eight euros. D. Ten euros. 2. A. Athlete. B. Doctor. C. Nurse. D. Activist. 3. A. He is careful. B. He is nervous. C. He is humorous. D. He is brave. 4. A. Effective ways to give up smoking. B. The harmful effects of second-hand smoke. C. How to improve physical health. D. How to avoid psychological harm. 5. A. Open the door carefully. B. Ask Tom to fix the lock. C. Fix the door by herself. D. Learn to be an expert. 6. A. Boss and secretary. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife. D. Chef and customer. 7. A. Unbelievable. B. Sad. C. Disappointed. D. Anxious. 8. A. Do her homework. B. Watch a movie. C. Have a piano class. D. Babysit for her neighbors. 9. A. scientist. B. A translator. C. An economist. D. A writer. 10. A. The woman bought a wrong type of car. B. The self-driving system is to blame for the accident. C. The woman must have been driving at a fast speed. D. The woman made a wrong judgment when driving. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and passage(s) will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Technology and design. B. Cultural difference. C. Academic topics. D. Silicon Valley. 12. A. Ted has a history of more than 30 years. B. Ted is good at spreading ideas in the form of storytelling. C. Ted has made a lot of money so far and helped a lot of people. D. Audience members are selected using an audience submission chart. 13. A. The reasons for TED’s popularity. B. The selection of TED’s audience. C. The timeline of TED’s evolution. D. The quality of TED’s speakers. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. She wanted to make more friends online. B. She was tired of surfing the internet regularly. C. She wanted to create an interesting website for teenagers. D. She was interested in doing business and wished to own a company. 15. A. Eight. B. Thirteen. C. Sixteen. D. Nineteen. 16. A. Crazy and depressing. B. Crazy but relaxing. C. Stressful and frustrating. D. Stressful but exciting. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Professor Raymond. B. An online advertisement. C. A theater notice. D. Some dance performers. 18. A. Observing art performances. B. Classroom discussions. C. Writing seminar papers. D. Scientific experiments. 19. A. The summer program can cater to 16 students at most. B. Program applicants must attend preparatory meetings first. C. Extra videos are required to prove applicants’ potential. D. The summer program will continue for two weeks. 20. A. The end of March. B. Early May. C. The end of May. D. Early July. II. Grammar（30分） Section A. Fill in the blanks 1. The party the students had been looking forward to _________ yesterday evening at last. A. was held B. was to hold C. being held D. be held 2. Michael Jackson gained popularity at a time when MTV was establishing _________ as a creative force. A. himself B. it C. his D. itself 3. A child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than _________ who lives in rich and varied surroundings. A. that B. one C. other D. either 4. The American approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many people because there is less emphasis on learning facts _________ is true in the systems of many other countries. A. than B. that C. which D. what 5. Mr. Green is reported ________ an experiment to prove the new method of solving the problem in the past. A. to do B. to have been done C. to be doing D. to have done 6. An army spokesman stressed that all the soldiers had been ordered ________ clear warnings before firing any shots. A. to issue B. being issued C. to have been issued D. to be issued 7. _______ to sunlight for too much time will do harm to your skin. A. Exposed B. Having exposed C. After being exposed D. Being exposed 8. The Olympic Games, ________ in 776 B.C., did not include women players until 1912. A. first playing B. to be first played C. first played D. to be first playing 9. in thought, he almost ran into the car in front of him. A. Losing B. Having lost C. Lost D. To lose 10. — I must apologize for _____ ahead of time. — That’s all right. A. letting you not know B. not letting you know C. letting you know not D. letting not you know Section B Directions: After reading the passage below fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The Antonine Plague (瘟疫) The year was 166 C.E., and the Roman Empire was in its prime (鼎盛时期). The successful Roman troops, under the command of Emperor Lucius Verrus, returned to Rome after defeating their Parthian enemies. As they marched west toward Rome, they carried with them more than the spoils of Parthian temples; they also carried an epidemic that ___11___ (ruin) the Roman Empire over the course of the next two decades. The Antonine Plague, ___12___ was known later, would reach every corner of the empire and is what claimed the life (夺取生命) of Lucius Verrus himself in 169- and possibly ___13___ of his co-emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180. The effect of the epidemic on Rome’s armies was obviously destructive. Closeness to sick fellow soldiers and bad living conditions made it possible for the outbreak to spread rapidly throughout the troops, such as those who were based along the northern frontier at Aquileia. Troops elsewhere in the empire ___14___ (strike) in the same way. To reverse their ___15___ (shrink) soldiers, they sent the sons of soldiers to troops. Army discharge certificates (退伍证书) from the Balkan region suggest that there was an obvious decrease in the number of soldiers who were allowed ___16___ (retire) from military service during the period of the plague. The effect on the civilian population was evidently by no means less severe. In his letter to Athens in 174, Marcus Aurelius loosened the requirements for membership to the ruling council of Athens, ___17___ there were now too few ___18___ (survive) upper-class Athenians who met the requirements he ___19___ (introduce) before the outbreak. It has been estimated that the death rate over the 23-year period of the Antonine Plague was 7—10 percent of the population. Besides the practical consequences of the outbreak, the psychological impact on the populations could not be ignored. It is easy to imagine the sense of fear and helplessness ____20____ ancient Romans must have felt in the face of such a ruthless, painful, disfiguring and frequently fatal disease. III. Vocabulary（20分） Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. push B. skip C. impress D. conflicts E. biologically F. survive G. blame H. socially I. functionally J. identity K. criticism Teenage rebellion (叛逆) often puzzles parents, who may ___21___on their kids’ bad attitudes. But this behavior isn’t meaningless-it’s a key part of growing up with clear underlying causes. ___22___, teens’ brains are still developing. Their prefrontal cortex, which controls decision-making, is immature, while the emotional part works overtime. This makes them likely to act impulsively and ignore risks. They ___23___against family rules not to be different, but to seek independence, a vital step toward adulthood ___24___, peer approval matters greatly to them. They may attempt risky things or break rules to ___25___friends and fit in. For example, some teens might ___26___study sessions to join group activities, just to gain a sense of belonging. To a large extent, this desire for social acceptance drives many rebellious acts. Another secret is their search for ___27___. Teens use unique clothing, hobbies or even defiance to figure out who they are. When parents try to fix every choice for them, it makes teens feel controlled. Ambitious teens especially hate being controlled, as they want to make their own decisions. The key point for parents is to avoid harsh ___28___. Instead, set reasonable boundaries. Rebellion helps teens learn to ___29___ challenges and build problem-solving skills. With empathy, parents can turn____30____into opportunities for closer bonds. Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. climate B. session C. headed D stir E. application F. credited G. abnormal H. struggle I. feverish J. assume K. ignored To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old In 1964, a 23-year-old Army veteran named John Goodenough____31____to the University of Chicago with a dream of studying physics. When he arrived, a professor warned him that he was already too old to succeed in the field. Recently, Dr. Goodenough recounted that story for me and then laughed. He ____32____the professor’s advice and today, at 94, has just set the tech industry abuzz (议论纷纷) with his amazing creativity. He and his team filed a patent (专利) ____33____on a new kind of battery that, if it works as promised, would be so cheap, lightweight and safe that it would revolutionize electric cars and kill off petroleum-fueled vehicles. His announcement has caused a ____34____in part, because Dr. Goodenough has done it before. In 1980, at age 57, he co-invented the lithium-ion (锂离子电池) that shrank power into a tiny package. We tend to ____35____that creativity becomes weak with age. But Dr. Goodenough’s story suggests that some people actually become more creative as they grow older. Unfortunately, those late-blooming geniuses have to ____36____with powerful biases against them. “Young people are just smart,” Mark Zuckerberg pronounced at an event at Stanford in 2007, when he was the 22-year-old chief executive of Facebook. Since that speech, Silicon Valley’s youth admiration seems to have grown even more ____37____. In such a ____38____ it’s easy for us middle-aged folk to believe that the great imaginative periods are behind us, and the innovation belongs to the kids. On the contrary, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that late blooming is not ____39____. Dr. Goodenough said, “Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven’t maybe figured it out by the time we’re 30. But turtles have to keep on walking.” He ____40____old age with bringing him a new kind of intellectual freedom. He said, “You no longer worry about keeping your job.” Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension （15+32+8，共55分） Section A cloze Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Best Success Stories Often Begin With Failure Long before the iPhone made him the god of gadgets, Steve Jobs launched his technology career by hacking home phones to make free long-distance calls. J.K. Rowling spent countless nights in a café ____41____ to make her idea for a novel about wizards come to life before she became a best-selling author. Behind every success story is a tough first effort or a great change of ____42____. It’s these first clumsy steps on the road to fame and fortune that ____43____ writer Seth Fiegerman. He edited the blog OpeningLines.org. a collection of case studies on the ____44____ of famous careers. Fiegerman found a dream job as a research editor at Playboy magazine after graduating from New York University. But he had worked there for just half a year when the manager announced that most of the staff would soon be ____45____. As unemployment ____46____, Fiegerman felt at sea. He began to explore the Playboy archives (档案) ____47____a series of interviews with celebrities ranging from Marlon Brando to Malcolm X. Many of these successful people shared tales of their less ____48____ early days, and Fiegerman quickly became crazy about these origin stories. “When you see someone who’s very successful, you almost imagine that it was a(n) ____49____ conclusion, that they’re geniuses, that they were destined for great things,” says Fiegennan. “But actually few successful people were child prodigies (神童) like Mozart.” Reading about the difficulties that famous figures had to ____50____, Fiegerman began to learn that success was less a matter of innate talent and more the ____51____ of persistence, a ____52____ to fall down and stand up again and again. A star’s early struggles might disillusion (使幻想破灭) some fans, but Fiegerman found comfort in ____53____ beginnings and knew that his own early stumbling stone wasn’t ____54____. Today, he covers start-up businesses at the tech news website Mashable. While he spends less time on the blog, he hopes other young people will constantly ____55____ from his work. 41. A. attempting B. longing C. rushing D. planning 42. A. attitude B. direction C. method D. style 43. A. captured B. encouraged C. inspired D. promoted 44. A. causes B. origins C. results D. stories 45. A. laid down B. laid off C. laid on D. laid out 46. A. approached B. continued C. increased D. remained 47. A. locating B. discovering C. searching D. tracing 48. A. attractive B. competitive C. disgusting D. hopeful 49. A. logical B. impossible C. inevitable D. surprising 50. A. encounter B. face C. handle D. overcome 51. A. ending B. experience C. product D. reason 52. A. reluctance B. tendency C. willingness D. wish 53. A. lucky B. rough C. smooth D. successful 54. A. encouraging B. everlasting C. growing D. fascinating 55. A. benefit B. profit C. escape D. start Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. Every questions are provided with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) Laban and Miriam greeted me at their front gate and started telling me their story. Two years before, they had been smallholder farmers. Like most of their neighbors, they had been desperately poor. Laban would work odd jobs (打零工) to make ends meet. By the time I met them, their life had improved dramatically. They now had four cows, which were producing 26 liters of milk every day. Their cows earned them nearly $4 per day, which in that part of Kenya was enough to allow them to rebuild their home, grow pineapples for export, and send their children to school. Worldwide, there are over 500 million smallholder farms, and about two-thirds of people in poverty work in agriculture. Yet despite their large numbers, smallholder farmers are responsible for remarkably few greenhouse gas emissions, because they can’t afford to use nearly as many products and services that involve fossil fuels. A typical Kenyan produces 55 times less carbon dioxide than an American, and rural farmers like Laban and Miriam produce even less. The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re the ones that are going to be suffering the most from it. As the climate gets warmer, droughts and floods will become more frequent, wiping out harvests more often. Livestock eat less and produce less meat and milk. The air and soil lose moisture, leaving less water available for plants. In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, tens of millions of acres of farmland will become substantially drier. An increasing number of crop-eating pests are already invading more lands as they find more favorable environments to live in. The growing season will also get shorter. At four degrees Celsius of warming, most of sub-Saharan Africa could see it shrink by 20 percent or more. All of these problems will make food far more expensive for those who can least afford it. As food becomes less available, an already enormous inequity between rich and poor will get even worse. Today, a child born in Chad is 50 times more likely to die before his fifth birthday than a child born in Finland. More kids won’t get all the nutrients they need, weakening their bodies’ natural defenses and making them much more likely to die of infectious diseases. In the end, the worst impact of climate change in poor countries is that the rates of malnutrition and death will increase. 56. According to the article, Laban and Miriam managed to improve the quality of their life by ________. A. raising a few dairy cows B. selling pineapples abroad C. spending more time doing odd jobs D. involving their children in farm work 57. The underlined pronoun “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to ________. A. the growing season B. the size of farmland C. the duration of winter D. the number of crop-eating pests 58. According to the article, the world is likely to see an increase in ________. (1) less productive animals (2) harmful insects (3) natural disasters (4) infectious diseases A. (2)(3) B. (1)(2)(3) C. (1)(3) D. (1)(3)(4) 59. The writer thinks that the poor are going to be the hardest-hit victims of climate change because ________. 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He is often seen in big groups leaping around with friends such as Sundance. Mischief is also a powerful hunter who can outrun even the biggest salmon. He is easily recognized by the big nick(缺口) in his dorsal fin. Sundance Sundance was first spotted in 1990 when he was a tiny calf and now he’s a big adult male bottlenose dolphin. Sundance is really sociable and he just loves to leap around with friends. Why adopt a dolphin? “I can thoroughly recommend adopting a dolphin with WDC. It’s a fantastic way to support their amazing work. Plus, you get to know an individual dolphin!" says Miranda Krestovinikoff, BBC TV Presenter. Oil and gas exploration and production, large marina (码头) development, pollution, fisheries and more are increasingly putting pressure on the dolphins and their home. By adopting a dolphin, you will build a special link with an individual and help us to protect the whole population. Extinction is forever—the Moray Firth dolphins cannot be replaced. When you adopt a dolphin you will be helping to fund our work protecting dolphins around the world including: ●Essential research—the more we understand about the dolphins, the better we can protect them. ●Political campaigns to ensure effective laws are in place to protect the dolphins and give them a safer future. ●Equipment such as binoculars, cameras and acoustic recorders to help with our research. Adapted from WDC (Whale and Dolphin Conservation) 60. What can be inferred about the dolphins referred to at the beginning of the advertisement? A. They are not killed on purpose. B. Many have been saved by adopters. C. Dolphins in UK are at the greatest risk. D. They are caught for commercial purposes. 61. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? A. Adoption of dolphins is welcomed for its low cost. B. Kesslet is an easy target of hunters due to its curved dorsal fin. C. Some field researchers can in fact disturb dolphins’ lives. D. Once adopted, the dolphin’s latest news will be sent to adopters. 62. The money donated will be used by WDC in following ways except ________. A. more essential research into dolphins. B. building a special link with individual dolphins. C. purchasing equipment needed in dolphin research. D. funding political campaigns to pass laws protecting dolphins. 63. What is not mentioned in the passage? A. The introduction of WDC. B. The reason why adoption of a dolphin is encouraged. C. How WDC uses the fund to save dolphins. D. Some successful examples of adopted dolphins. (C) A theme at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Switzerland was the perceived need to “speed up breakthroughs in research and technology.” Some of this framing was motivated by the climate emergency, some by the opportunities and challenges presented by generative artificial intelligence. Yet in various conversations, it seemed to be taken for granted that to address the world’s problems, scientific research needs to move faster. The WEF mindset is similar to the Silicon Valley dictate — to move fast and break things. But what if the thing being broken is science? Or public trust? The WEF meeting took place just two weeks after Harvard University President Claudine Gay stepped down after complaints were made about her political science scholarship. In response, Gay requested corrections to several of her papers. Although it may be impossible to determine just how widespread such problems really are, it’s hard to imagine that the scene of high-profile scholars correcting and retracting papers has not had a negative impact on public trust in science and perhaps in experts broadly. In recent years we’ve seen important papers, written by outstanding scientists and published in celebrated journals, retracted because of questionable data or methods, hence a question: Are scholars at supercompetitive places such as Harvard and Stanford rushing to publish rather than taking the time to do their work right? It’s impossible to answer this question scientifically because there’s no scientific definition of what constitutes “rushing.” But there’s little doubt that we live in a culture where academics at leading universities are under tremendous pressure to produce results — and a lot of them — quickly. The problem is not unique to the U. S. In Europe, formal research assessments — which are used to allocate (分配) future funding — have for years judged academic departments largely on the quantity of their output. A recent reform urging an emphasis on quality over quantity allowed that the existing system had created “counterincentives.” Good science takes time. More than 50 years elapsed between the 1543 publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. And it took just about half a century for geologists and geophysicists to accept geophysicist Alfred Wegener’s idea of continental drift. There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence that scientists and other scholars are pushing results out far faster than they used to. Consider the sheer volume of academic papers being published these days. One recent study put the number at more than seven million a year, compared with fewer than a million as recently as 1980. Some of this growth is driven by more scientists and more co-authorship of papers, but the numbers also suggest that the research world has prioritized quantity over quality. Researchers may need to slow down if we are to produce knowledge worthy of trust. 64. WEF meeting in Switzerland advocated that ________. A. researchers need to achieve breakthroughs more rapidly B. public trust in science is not supposed to be easily broken C. WEF and Silicon Valley reach an agreement to move fast D. climate emergency and AI push scientific research hard 65. Which of the following examples fails to prove that good science takes time? A. Gay’s correction and retraction of papers. B. Publication of Copernicus’s theory. C. High-profile scholars’ tremendous output. D. Acceptance of the idea of continental drift. 66. The underlined word “counterincentives” in para. 5 probably means ________. A. measures to increase quantities of output B. discouragements of high quality papers C. rewards for leading universities’ research D. contradictory motives for future funding 67. Which of the following is best title of the passage? A. WEF Coincides with Silicon Valley B. Collapse of Public Trust C. Dilemma between Quantity and Quality D. Trouble in the Fast Lane (D) I’m a consumer psychologist who has studied social decision-making for over a decade. A common yet puzzling aspect of social life is how people respond to invitations, particularly when they reply with a vague “maybe”. Recently, my co-authors and I published a series of studies that directly examine what goes on in people’s heads when they are unsure whether to accept an invitation. Social invitations can be a delicate dance, and people often misread what someone extending an invite wants to hear. We consistently found that people overestimate an inviter’s likelihood of preferring a “maybe” over a “no”. Moreover, they fail to realize how much more disrespected people feel when they receive a “maybe” in response to their invitation. Another pattern emerged: The more someone incorrectly assumed that a host preferred a tentative response, the more likely they were to respond with a “maybe” themselves. Naturally, we wanted to figure out why this awkward dynamic plays out. We found that it’s largely due to something called “motivated reasoning”. Motivated reasoning occurs when a person interprets information in a biased way to arrive at a conclusion that is in line with their own wishes. Saying “no” right immediately eliminates one’s options and opens the door for FOMO, or fear of missing out, to emerge. That said, there were certain situations that made people more comfortable saying “no” to an invite. In one study, we had recipients of an invitation put themselves in the shoes of the person extending the invite. This made them more likely to realize that they’d probably prefer a definitive answer. That is, it seemed to prevent motivated reasoning from emerging. In another study, we had participants get invited to do something they didn’t want to do. We found that motivated reasoning then became irrelevant: They had no desire to keep their options open, so they were more likely to assume that a “no” was preferable to a “maybe”. Furthermore, other research has explored the subtle art of the decline, testing which reasons soften the bitterness of a rejected invitation. The findings are clear: saying you’re too busy comes across as a half-hearted excuse; saying you have a prior commitment lands with slightly more weight; but saying you simply don’t have the financial means to make it work is received with the greatest understanding. Beyond the choice of words, however, lies a more fundamental principle of communication. It might reduce your options. But it’ll keep those who invited you from being left in uncertainty. 68. What does the author intend to illustrate with the “delicate dance” metaphor in paragraph 2? A. To argue that inviters often have self-serving motivations when extending offers. B. To stress how easily people can misread others’ intentions in social exchanges. C. To suggest a tentative “maybe” is the most polite response in these situations. D. To prove the false assumption made by invitees who fear the consequences of refusal. 69. Based on the reasons for the “maybe” response, what can we conclude? A. Even when people dislike the activity, FOMO makes them hesitate over it. B. Receiving an unattractive invitation is the most effective way to eliminate FOMO. C. Taking the inviter’s perspective helps to overcome the bias and give a direct answer. D. People say “maybe” to avoid the duty of making an immediate decision for the inviter. 70. Based on the findings, what fundamental principle of communication does the author advocate? A. Prioritize straightforward and clear communication. B. Ensure refusals are credible with well-justified reasons. C. Favor accepting invitations when facing uncertainty. D. Maintain flexibility in one’s schedule when declining. 71. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage? A. New Principles into Framing Invitations B. How to politely Refuse an Invitation C. Why “Maybe” Hurts and “No” Helps D. Psychology Behind Successful Invitations Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. Football and data A numbers game At most football clubs, the equation is simple: you put in vast amounts of money, and you get out star players and win victories. Take Manchester City, the Premier League’s reigning champions. Before its takeover in 2008 by a Middle East plutocrats (财阀) , the club often struggled in the bottom half of the table; it has won English football’s championship seven times since 2011. ____72____ The club was promoted into the Premier League in 2021 after striving for decades in the lower reaches of football. What makes its success surprising is not how much money its owner, Matthew Benham, has put into the team, but how little. In a new book “Smart Money”. Alex Duff, a lifelong Brentford fan, explains how a money-saving plan made profits. Mr Benham studied physics at Oxford University and then went to work in banking. In his early 30s, sensing correctly that bookmakers (赌注登记人) were inaccurate when setting odds for football matches, Mr Benham left banking to become a full-time gambler. He set up his own company, Smartodds, and competed with financial institutions to hire the best mathematicians. ____73____ Instead, their focus should be the “goal-scoring opportunities” it was creating. In time, he reckoned, the goals would come. The approach was so efficient that when Brentford, going through one of its periodic financial crises, put out a general appeal for help in 2005, Mr Benham offered his services. Within a decade he owned the club and was applying his ideas to how the team was constructed. ____74____ There were plenty of doubters within football about Brentford’s philosophy. But in time it worked. In their first season in the Premier League, Mr Benham’s investment of around £100m in the club — a tiny sum compared with competitors — realised its first profit of £25m. ____75____ Mr Benham identified set pieces (定位球) as an important part of creating scoring opportunities, and hired Gianni Vio, an Italian coach with 4,000 such plays in his career. Players are instructed to press the opposition and tackle players within ten seconds of them receiving the ball. Though Brentford is not competing for the title, in recent years the team has beaten several of football’s plutocrats — including Manchester City. What were the odds? A. Brentford FC has taken a different approach. B. Statistics have helped the team win on the court, too. C. He applied his talent to identifying the underlying strength of football teams. D. Analytics underlay and supported a remarkably profitable buy-low-sell-high transfer strategy. E. They were told to focus not on how many goals a team was scoring, which was subject to too much randomness. F. Like “Moneyball”, a hit book about the use of statistics in baseball, “Smart Money” is both informative and entertaining. V. Translation（5+5+5+5，共20分） Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 76. 那本杂志旨在给主修时尚设计的女孩看的。因此，唤起他们的时尚意识是重中之重。（mean）(汉译英) ________________________________________________________________ 77. 有抱负，有决心，他一直在突破现在可能性的极限，无论做运动还是探索新地方。(push) (汉译英) ________________________________________________________________ 78. 为了给他的朋友留下印象，他冒了个险，导致一场严重的交通事故，为此，他应该负责。（blame）(汉译英) ________________________________________________________________ 79. 究竟是什么激发他学习电子工程的积极性无从得知。我们不妨等着瞧。（There is ...; may as well）(汉译英) ________________________________________________________________ 上海市控江中学2025学年第一学期高一年级英语期末考试卷 （满分150分） I. Listening Comprehension（25分） Section A Short Conversations Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Five euros. B. Six euros. C. Eight euros. D. Ten euros. 2. A. Athlete. B. Doctor. C. Nurse. D. Activist. 3. A. He is careful. B. He is nervous. C. He is humorous. D. He is brave. 4. A. Effective ways to give up smoking. B. The harmful effects of second-hand smoke. C. How to improve physical health. D. How to avoid psychological harm. 5. A. Open the door carefully. B. Ask Tom to fix the lock. C. Fix the door by herself. D. Learn to be an expert. 6. A. Boss and secretary. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife. D. Chef and customer. 7. A. Unbelievable. B. Sad. C. Disappointed. D. Anxious. 8. A. Do her homework. B. Watch a movie. C. Have a piano class. D. Babysit for her neighbors. 9. A. scientist. B. A translator. C. An economist. D. A writer. 10. A. The woman bought a wrong type of car. B. The self-driving system is to blame for the accident. C. The woman must have been driving at a fast speed. D. The woman made a wrong judgment when driving. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and passage(s) will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Technology and design. B. Cultural difference. C. Academic topics. D. Silicon Valley. 12. A. Ted has a history of more than 30 years. B. Ted is good at spreading ideas in the form of storytelling. C. Ted has made a lot of money so far and helped a lot of people. D. Audience members are selected using an audience submission chart. 13. A. The reasons for TED’s popularity. B. The selection of TED’s audience. C. The timeline of TED’s evolution. D. The quality of TED’s speakers. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. She wanted to make more friends online. B. She was tired of surfing the internet regularly. C. She wanted to create an interesting website for teenagers. D. She was interested in doing business and wished to own a company. 15. A. Eight. B. Thirteen. C. Sixteen. D. Nineteen. 16. A. Crazy and depressing. B. Crazy but relaxing. C. Stressful and frustrating. D. Stressful but exciting. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Professor Raymond. B. An online advertisement. C. A theater notice. D. Some dance performers. 18. A. Observing art performances. B. Classroom discussions. C. Writing seminar papers. D. Scientific experiments. 19. A. The summer program can cater to 16 students at most. B. Program applicants must attend preparatory meetings first. C. Extra videos are required to prove applicants’ potential. D. The summer program will continue for two weeks. 20. A. The end of March. B. Early May. C. The end of May. D. Early July. II. Grammar（30分） Section A. Fill in the blanks 【1题答案】 【答案】A 【2题答案】 【答案】D 【3题答案】 【答案】B 【4题答案】 【答案】A 【5题答案】 【答案】D 【6题答案】 【答案】A 【7题答案】 【答案】D 【8题答案】 【答案】C 【9题答案】 【答案】C 【10题答案】 【答案】B Section B 【11~20题答案】 【答案】11. would ruin 12. as 13. that 14. were stricken##were struck 15. shrinking 16. to retire 17. because 18. surviving 19. had introduced 20. that##which III. Vocabulary（20分） 【21~30题答案】 【答案】21. G 22. E 23. A 24. H 25. C 26. B 27. J 28. K 29. F 30. D 【31~40题答案】 【答案】31. C 32. K 33. E 34. D 35. J 36. H 37. I 38. A 39. G 40. F Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension （15+32+8，共55分） Section A cloze Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. 【41~55题答案】 【答案】41. A 42. B 43. C 44. B 45. B 46. A 47. B 48. D 49. C 50. D 51. C 52. C 53. B 54. B 55. A Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. Every questions are provided with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) 【56~59题答案】 【答案】56. A 57. A 58. B 59. C (B) 【60~63题答案】 【答案】60. A 61. D 62. B 63. D (C) 【64~67题答案】 【答案】64. A 65. C 66. B 67. D (D) 【68~71题答案】 【答案】68. B 69. C 70. A 71. C Section C Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. 【72~75题答案】 【答案】72. A 73. E 74. D 75. B V. Translation（5+5+5+5，共20分） Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 【76题答案】 【答案】The magazine is meant for girls majoring in fashion design. Therefore, arousing their fashion awareness is the top priority. 【77题答案】 【答案】Ambitious and determined, he is always pushing the limits of what is possible now, whether doing sports or exploring new places. 【78题答案】 【答案】He took a risk to impress his friend, which led to a serious traffic accident, and for this, he is to blame. 【79题答案】 【答案】There is no knowing what exactly motivates him to take up electronic engineering. We may as well wait and see. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $