广东省茂名市田家炳中学2025-2026学年高一下学期5月期中英语试题

茂名市田家炳中学2025—2026学年第二学期高一级期中考试 英语科 试卷 考试时长：120分钟 全卷总分：120分 第一部分 阅读理解（共15小题：每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A No matter where you are on your running journey or what your goals are, having a little help tracking the miles, keeping an eye on your heart rate, or setting your pace can make a great difference. In this month’s issue of Runner’s Gear Review, we test the latest running watches and here come the 4 Best Running watches of 2025. Garmin Forerunner 265 It offers a lot more than just basic direction-finding and heart rate monitoring. It can track your sleep, recovery, heart rate, exercise quality and more, which you can check in real time or a daily health report. Price: $249.99 Battery Life: Up to 13 days Amazfit Band 7 Who said you need to spend hundreds of dollars to get a great running watch? With the Amazfit Band 7, you get everything you need for tracking your run. Despite its low price, it’s still comfortable to wear and has lots of different colors to pick from for the wristband. Price: $49.99 Battery Life: Up to 8 days Garmin Forerunner 55 If you’re new to running watches, starting with one as both a GPS tracker and a general watch is a great way to get a multi-use tool you can use every day even if you aren’t running. The Garmin Forerunner 55 has many excellent features with impressive designs. Price: $99.99 Battery Life: Up to 8 days Polar Vantage V2 Running a marathon is serious business, so you want a running watch that takes your training seriously, too. The Polar Vantage V2 tracks just about everything you can think of: when you’re training, when you’re not training and when you’re asleep. It gives you lots of information to work with when it comes to planning your next marathon. Price: $299.95 Battery Life: Up to 17 days 1. What makes Amazfit Band 7 different from the others? A. It has a great GPS tracker. B. It is much more affordable. C. The battery can last for days. D. It offers daily health information. 2. If you are a green hand in running watches, which one is your best choice? A. Amazfit Band 7. B. Polar Vantage V2. C. Garmin Forerunner 55. D. Garmin Forerunner 265. 3. Where is this passage most likely to be taken from? A. A tech-lover blog. B. A science-fiction novel. C. A sports and fitness magazine. D. A daily sports newspaper. B To the Apple community: For the past 15 years, I have started almost every morning the same way. I open my email and read the notes I received the day before from Apple users around the world. You share small pieces of your lives with me and tell me how Apple has touched you. You talk about the moment your mom was saved by her Apple Watch, or the perfect selfie you took on the top of a mountain that seemed impossible to climb. You thank me for how Mac has changed your work, and sometimes you get a little upset when something you care about doesn’t work as it should. In every one of those emails, I feel the beating heart of our shared humanity. I feel a growing sense of duty to work harder and push further. But most of all, I feel a deep gratitude that I cannot put into words. I feel lucky to be the person on the other end of those emails — the leader of a company that fires up imagination and makes lives better in ways that are hard to describe. What an honor and privilege it has been. Today we announced that I will be taking the next step in my journey at Apple. Over the coming months, I will move into a new role, leaving the CEO job behind in September and becoming Apple’s executive chairman. A new person will step into what I truly believe is the best job in the world. That leader is John Ternus, a talented engineer and thinker. Over the past 25 years, he has been building the Apple products our users love so much, paying close attention to every detail and always thinking about how we can make things better, bolder, more beautiful, and more meaningful. He is the perfect person for the job. John cares deeply about who we are at Apple, what we do, and who we reach. He has the heart and character to lead with great integrity. I am so proud to call him Apple’s next CEO. This company will reach amazing heights under his leadership, and you will feel his impact in every bit of joy and discovery that comes from our future products. This is not goodbye. But at this moment of change, I want to say thank you. Not on behalf of the company this time, but simply on my own behalf — Tim. A person who grew up in a small, rural place in a different time and, for these magical years, got to be part of something much bigger. Thank you! Tim Cook 4. How does the writer feel when reading users’ emails? A. Proud but tired. B. Grateful and responsible. C. Surprised and worried. D. Angry but helpful. 5. What do we know about John Ternus from the passage? A. He has worked at Apple for less than 20 years. B. He will become the new CEO of Apple. C. He is a famous writer and speaker. D. He does not care about product details. 6. What will the writer do in September according to the passage? A. Leave Apple completely. B. Stop reading users’ emails. C. Become the executive chairman. D. Start a new company. 7. What is the main purpose of this letter? A. To introduce a new product. B. To announce a leadership change and express thanks. C. To complain about user feedback. D. To explain how Apple Watch saves lives. C In recent years, AI has developed at a speedy pace and changed many areas of our life. The music industry is one of them. Today, AI can do a lot of work for music. It can write songs, create melodies and make simple music in a short time. Some musicians are in favor of this new technology. AI enables them to boost their working efficiency and create new pieces of music. For example, a singer can adopt AI to make a basic beat first. Then they add their own lyrics and feelings or epiphany to the music. In this way, AI becomes a helpful tool for them. However, other musicians are worried. They claim AI music may take away their jobs. They believe real music comes from human stories, personal experiences and emotions or feelings, which also reflects their outlook on life and the world. Real music can cure people’s broken hearts and remedy their soul. Or at least real human music can fulfill their inner heart. In this way, machines can never truly understand the essence behind the music, creating robotic music. What’s more, people don’t know who owns the copyright of AI-made songs, due to which some conflicts about the issue of copyright will happen in the near future. Although there are worries, AI is already around us. It is changing how people make, sell and listen to music. Many music industry leaders believe that humans and AI should work together. If we use AI in a right way, it will help us make better music for the world. 8. What can AI do in the music industry according to the passage? A. Help cure people’s broken hearts. B. Write songs and create melodies. C. Understand the essence of music. D. Solve the copyright problems. 9. Some musicians support AI because . A. it can improve their work efficiency B. it can bring in more money for them C. it takes the place of human musicians D. it can create music completely on its own 10. Which of the following is one reason why some musicians worry about AI? A. AI can hardly make simple music. B. AI music is too expensive to make. C. AI makes music production slower. D. AI music lacks real human emotions. 11. What is the main idea of the passage? A. AI has replaced human musicians completely. B. People hold different opinions on AI in music. C. Real music can no longer satisfy listeners. D. Copyright issue is the only problem of AI music. D It is no surprise that the English language contains such a wide variety of expressions and phrases including dogs, which have been constant partners with people for thousands of years. The observations of dog behaviors have inspired us to take their individual characteristics into our language. Did your roommates make a terrible mess of the dorm room while you were gone? You could describe this terrible state as “a dog’s breakfast”. This British phrase means a disorganized state of things or a bad mix of different things. It appeared during a time when people would feed their dogs leftovers from last night’s dinner or other food items they happened to have on hand for breakfast. The phrase creates such a powerful scene showing a complete mess if you truly picture it. Interestingly, the phrase “dressed like a dog’s dinner” is quite different — “someone who is overdressed or improperly dressed”. You would be “barking up the wrong tree” if you are following a mistaken or misguided thought or action. This term dates back to the hunt of raccoon (浣熊) with the help of dogs. From time to time, a raccoon fools the dogs, which crowd around a tree, barking loudly, not realizing the quarry has taken a different way. Many people even describe the weather by using the image of dogs. The “dog days”, dating back to ancient Rome, refers to the hottest days of the year in which we feel lazy or unable to make great efforts. It was the Romans who first noticed that the burning heat of the summer seemed to come with the appearance of Sirius, the so-called “dog star”, which was a part of the Canis Major (“big dog”) constellation (星座). But even the coldest nights have interesting idioms (习惯用语) and history with them. One Australian idiom describes the practice of sleeping alongside a dog for warmth during cold evenings — a very cold night might need more than one dog, so it is a “three-dog night”. While dog-related idioms are common in use in many people’s everyday language today, the stories and history behind the idioms may lead us onto a new exciting journey of exploration. 12. Why are there a large number of dog-related idioms in English? A. People summarized the ways dogs cooperate with humans. B. People’s constant observation of dogs inspired the idioms. C. Dogs are animals with special features favored by humans. D. Dogs’ characteristics are the main source of English idioms. 13. Which of the following may be described as “a dog’s breakfast”? A. A delicious meal. B. A messy kitchen. C. An unsatisfactory ending. D. An improperly-dressed person. 14. What does the underlined word “quarry” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. The raccoon. B. The tree. C. The hunter. D. The master. 15. What was the origin of the idiom “dog days”? A. Dogs liked to hang out in summer. B. The heat in summer got dogs barking. C. Dogs were Romans’ favourite animal partners. D. A star with “dog” in its name appeared at this time. 第二部分 七选五（共5小题：每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Music can be a great mental rest, allowing you to relax and get lost in your favorite songs. 16 Here are some ways music can make you a better person and positively impact your everyday life. Boost (增强) your creativity. Music is a creativity booster. When you turn up the songs that make you joyful, your brain gets more creative. 17 Find the music that makes you feel positive and cheered up, so your creative juices can flow. Build cooperation and connection with people. Playing a musical instrument helps you connect with people with similar interests. 18 19 Music has a magic of power to promote emotions. Listening to joyful music lifts your happiness levels, which can make you more generous. It’s like a happy circle where feeling good makes you want to give back, and giving back makes you feel even better. Improve physical health and performance. 20 Music improves our energy and endurance, and makes exercise more fun. And if you have your headphones on during works, you’re more likely to stick with your fitness routines. A. Relieve stress and pains. B. Make you happier and more generous. C. Music can turn someone into a seriously big-hearted person. D. It enables you to make new friends who share your music passion. E. There’s a reason you play music in the background when you hit the gym. F. It helps ease the pressure off your mind and puts it in a creation-ready mode. G. While most people are addicted to music, few have considered the real impact of music. 第三部分 完形填空（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 12 years ago, I first realized plastic was a serious matter for the Earth during a road trip in Western Australia. We 21 at a supermarket along the coral Bay coast to buy some food and the cashier told us they didn’t sell any shopping bags in order to prevent plastic being thrown in the 22 and to help preserve the endangered turtles (海龟) living in that area. After a first reaction of surprise, we 23 all our shopping in our arms and left. This was just one of the many experiences that made me more 24 about my impact and pushed me to 25 in a more environmentally friendly way. The trip to Borneo was another life changing 26 that has strengthened my decision to live a zero-waste lifestyle. While traveling in some African countries, we came to know that 27 drinkable water was always a challenge. So we had to travel with our water bottle, and we 28 to avoid using plastic during our trip. Besides, we were also 29 impressed by our stay on Libaran Island. There was a turtle preservation 30 and the group had made big efforts to 31 the beaches and creatively reuse plastic for ten years. Despite that, the coast is 32 daily with tons of plastic coming from the tides (潮汐). Facing this global issue 33 gave me a feeling of sadness and anger and it soon turned into 34 : to do as much as possible to reduce plastic in my life. Small changes can 35 a difference! 21. A. pointed B. looked C. worked D. stopped 22. A. forest B. ocean C. country D. supermarket 23. A. threw B. picked C. dropped D. carried 24. A. certain B. crazy C. aware D. curious 25. A. travel B. deliver C. move D. play 26. A. story B. growth C. experience D. disaster 27. A. free B. cheap C. valuable D. safe 28. A. failed B. managed C. forgot D. happened 29. A. suddenly B. hardly C. deeply D. nearly 30. A. community B. law C. schedule D. process 31. A. dry up B. look over C. clean up D. take over 32. A. washed B. proved C. rushed D. injured 33. A. on purpose B. at last C. by accident D. in person 34. A. confusion B. determination C. emotion D. satisfaction 35. A. make B. add C. achieve D. find 第四部分 语法填空（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分） 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。 For centuries, West Lake has been well-known both for its landscape and for cultural heritage surviving yet illustrating the past dynasties. In ancient times, it 36 (call) Wulin Waters, Golden Buffalo Lake, Qiantang Lake and Xizi Lake. The landscape area of West Lake includes the 37 (surround) hills, nearby historical sites as well as the lake 38 (it). West Lake covers approximately 60 square kilometers, 39 consists of 5.68 square kilometers of water area. West Lake is the centerpiece of the natural fascination with hills on three sides, quiet 40 charming. Besides its impressive scenery, West Lake has abundant cultural heritage and legends 41 (pass) down from generation to generation, combining natural 42 (feature), past personages (名人), history and art in the local area. More than ninety theme parks and scenic spots dot around the lake area such as the Ten Views and some 43 (new) named tourist spots. West Lake holds great 44 (attract) for tourists in all seasons whether it rains or shines. In the whole landscape area, there are more than one hundred scenic spots open 45 the tourists at present. Each year there are 0.5 million of foreign guests and 12 million domestic visitors coming to West Lake. 第五部分 单元词汇语法。（共两小节，共25分） 第一节：单词填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 根据中文提示、首字母或括号内同根词的正确形式填空。 注意：需要将完整的单词转填到答题卡横线内。 46. We are (感激的) to our teachers for their patience and guidance. 47. She was so (全神贯注的) in her book that she didn’t hear the doorbell ring. 48. The audience gave the singer a warm round of applause for her wonderful (表演). 49. The company is looking for a manager to be in (负责) of the new project. 50. The shopping mall attracts a large (人群) of shoppers, especially on weekends. 51. The restaurant offers a (各式各样的) menu to cater to different tastes. 52. The new software will (使能够) users to edit videos more easily. 53. More wind power stations will be built to meet the demand for clean (能源). 54. This is the most (significance) moment in my high school life. 55. Looking at our finished work, we felt a sense of . (satisfy) 第二节：完成句子（共10小题， 每小题1分， 满分10分） 根据中文提示结合B2第三单元——B3第一单元学习过的短语填空。 注意每条横线内填写两至三个单词。 56. 第一次参观这个安静美丽的城镇，我就爱上了它。 I this quiet and beautiful town the first time I visited it. 57. 尽管困难重重, 我们仍需要继续下去。 We must keep on somehow all the difficulties. 58. 请不要取笑别人的错误, 我们应该互相帮助. Please don’t others for their mistakes; we should help each other. 59. 既然你已经长大了, 就应该学会自己做决定。 you are old enough, you should learn to make your own decisions. 60. 这对双胞胎姐妹有很多共同之处，比如她们都喜欢画画。 The twin sisters a lot , such as their love for painting. 61. 除了英语，她还精通法语和西班牙语。 English, she is also good at French and Spanish. 62. 你能为我们的班级晚会想出一个有创意的主意吗？ Can you a creative idea for our class party? 63. 不要对他太苛刻。毕竟他只是一个十岁的男孩。 Don’t be too mean to him. , he is a boy of 10 years old. 64. 如果你想提高英语，你必须尽可能多地牢记英语单词。 If you want to improve your English, you must as many words as possible. 65. 坦白说，我最喜欢春节了。 , I like Spring Festival the best. 第三节：单句语法填空（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分） 根据括号提示词，结合B2第三单元至B3第一单元学习过的语法知识完成下面填空，注意每条横线内只填写一个单词。 66. The result of the competition is . (disappoint) 67. There was a (surprise) look on his face. 68. (see) from the sky, the cars look like ants. 69. The boy (stand) there is a friend of mine. 70. I had my mobile phone (repair) yesterday. 第六部分 基础写作（满分15分） 假设你是李华，在学校举办的“中国传统节日文化分享会”上，你将发表一篇简短演讲，介绍音乐在传统节日中的重要作用。请根据以下提示信息写一篇发言稿。 【写作内容】 1. 音乐在传统节日中的重要作用； 2. 结合具体实例（至少举两个节日的例子），说明音乐与该节日密不可分； 3. 呼吁：我们应该多关注传统音乐，让传统文化在现代生活中继续发光。 注意：1. 写作词数应为80至100词左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear fellow students, 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 茂名市田家炳中学2025—2026学年第二学期高一级期中考试 英语科答案 第一部分 阅读理解（1-15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 1-3 BCC 4-7 BBCB 8-11 BADB 12-15 BBAD 第二部分 七选五（16-20小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 16-20 GFDBE 第三部分 完形填空（21-35小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 21-25 DBDCA 26-30 CDB CA 31-35 CADBA 第四部分 语法填空（36-45小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 36. was called 37. surrounding 38. itself 39. which 40. and 41. passed 42. features 43. newly 44. attraction 45. to 第五部分 单元词汇语法（共25分） 第一节 单词填空（46-55小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 46. grateful 47. absorbed 48. performance 49. charge 50. crowd 51. various 52. enable 53. energy 54. significant 55. satisfaction 第二节 完成句子（56-65小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 56. fell in love with 57. in spite of 58. make fun of / laugh at 59. Now that 60. have … in common 61. In addition to 62. come up with 63. After all 64. keep in mind 65. To be frank 第三节 词形变换（66-70小题） 66. disappointing 67. surprised 68. Seen 69. standing 70. repaired 第六部分 基础写作（满分15分） Dear teachers and classmates, Good morning! I’m Li Hua. I’m greatly honored to give a speech here. Music has a deep connection with Chinese traditional festivals, and it has become a necessary part of festival culture. Take the Spring Festival as an example. Cheerful folk music is performed everywhere, creating a joyful festive atmosphere and adding fun to family gatherings. Besides, gentle classical music often goes with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which conveys our love for family reunion. It’s significant for us to value traditional music. Let’s pass on our traditional culture and make it shine in modern times. Thank you for listening! 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $