上海市洋泾中学2025-2026学年高一下学期英语期末考试试卷

上海市洋泾中学2025-2026学年高一下学期期末考试

英语试卷

（本卷卷面总分 100 分，考试时间为 90 分钟）

I. Listening Comprehension 16%

Section A 10%

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. Excited.   B. Dissatisfied.   C. Bored.    D. Exhausted.

2.A.7:00.    B.7:10.     C.9:00.     D.9:10.

3.A At a gas station.  B. In a work shop.  C At an art gallery.  D. In a department store.

4.A. A cook.   B. A shop assistant.  C.A saleswoman.  D. A waitress.

5.A. He hasn't had a chance to meet Kathy yet. B. Kathy had already told him the news.

C. He didn't know that Kathy was being moved. D. His new office will be located in New York.

6.A The man wants to go to Vancouver. B The woman wants to go to Toronto.

C. There are no flights to Toronto.    D. There are two direct flights to Toronto.

7.A. She should do more careful work.  B. She is not concerned about George's remarks.

C George does not care about her.    D. George shouldn't have said much about her.

8.A.She can't afford that much for a trip. B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.

C.She doesn't think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip.

D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money.

9.A.Playing tennis.       B. Writing a term paper.

C. Gathering materials.      D. Holding a meeting.

8.A The man was seriously injured in the car accident.

B. The man had poor imagination because of the car accident.

C. The man wasn't wearing the seat belt when the accident happened.

D. The man's daughter advised him to wear the seat belt before he left home.

Section B 6%

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 1l through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Future researchers.       B.College graduates.

C Company employees.       D. Successful artists.

12. A. To teach the listeners how to work hard. B To enable the listeners to get better salaries.

C. To prepare the listeners for a better future. D To encourage the listeners to seize opportunities.

13.A. Kindness.    B. Diligence.   C Willingness.    D. Interest.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. The benefits of walking.     B The importance of keeping fit.

C.The way of forming a habit.     D. The possibility of exercising regularly.

15. A. Because it needs much thinking.   B. Because people can improve their memory.

C. Because it is suitable for everyone    D. Because people needn't concentrate on it.

16. A It is the easiest way to lose weight.   B. It can become a part of people's daily habits.

C. It can make people's hearts stronger.   D. It prevents people suffering from cancers.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary 20%

Section A 10%

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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

A comedy about animal cops investigating a reptlian (爬虫类) mystery has become the highest-grossing foreign animated film ever in China, going against the trend of ____17____(decline) interest in overseas productions that has resulted in Hollywood films struggling in the Chinese box office.

Zootopia 2 (called Zootropolis 2 in some European countries), a hotly anticipated and widely marketed sequel (续集) to 2016's Zootopia, made about 2 billion yuan (£213 million) in ticket sales in the first seven days after ____18____(release) in China, making it one of the best-performing films of the year. On its fourth day of release, it ____19____(break) the single-day earnings record for an imported film, surpassing (超越) the previous record-holder, Avengers: Endgame.

The Walt Disney production has a track record in China: the original Zootopia reportedly made 1.5 billion yuan in the Chinese box office, ____20____(make) it the country's highest-grossing animated Hollywood film at the time — a title now taken by its sequel, which has performed better in Chinese theaters than in North American ____21____in its first week. Given the craze among audiences, it is estimated that the sequel's box office performance will definitely surpass that of the first film in China, ____22____ more and more people are rushing to cinemas to watch it.

Hollywood once saw China as a huge potential market for boosting box office sales. But in recent years Chinese cinema-goers have chosen domestic productions rather than overseas films. So the success of a foreign movie, the import of ____23____is strictly controlled in China, has surprised some observers. Chinese cinema-goers and critics say the film's feel-good energy can't be ____24____(appealing), especially in a challenging economic and geopolitical environment.

"I am grateful that Disney is still willing to present stories like this in such a divided era," wrote one user on Douban, a Chinese review website. "____25____ this film had been released 10 years ago, I would have said Disney was merely serving another plate of exquisite (精致的), old-fashioned dessert. But precisely because it was born into today's world, I sincerely hope to see more films like this."

Walt Disney's chief creative officer, Jared Bush, who wrote and co-directed Zootopia 2, has said that the success of the 2016 original took the company by surprise.

"We didn't know that it was going to turn into this phenomenon in China," he told the LA Times. Bush said that Chinese regulators had allowed Zootopia 2 to be screened in cinemas for six weeks,_____26____（填2词） the standard four.

Section B 10%

Direction: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. contents  B.taking  C. careful  D plastic  E packaging  F declined  G.freely  H.typical  I. contracts  J registered  K.executive

If the package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising ____27____ in New York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine.

Justin Gignac, 26, has sold almost 900 ____28____ presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of the Big Apple at between 50and100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs (纪念品).The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world.

It all began when Mr. Gignac was at a summer workshop. "We had a discussion about the importance of ____29____," he recalls. "Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want."

He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical ____30____ include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used ____31____forks."Special editions" are offered at a high price. He charged $100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees' stadium.

Mr. Gignac denies ____32____ his customers for fools: "They know what they're getting. They appreciate the fact that they're taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it"

Some ____33____customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors.

Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr. Gignac has ____34____ a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He ____35____ to discuss his profit margins:"It's actually quite a lot of effort putting them together--but yet, garbage is free."

Mr. Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed ____36____ with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London.

III. Reading Comprehension 39%

Section A 15%

Directions: For each blank in the following passages 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.

Most people believe they don't have much imagination. They are ____37____. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to ____38____ it. Creativity isn't always ____39____ with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time ____40____ think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.

Making connections! This technique involves taking ____41____ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas and words ____42____ with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ____43____ to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original ____44____; you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night.

No limits! Imagine that normal limitations don't ____45____. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new ____46____. If your goal is to learn to ski, ____47____, you can now practice skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now ____48____ this to reality. Maybe you can practice skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.

Be someone else! Look at the situation from a ____49____point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the ____50____ in their books. They ask questions: What does this character want? Why can't she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their ____51____. The best fishermen think like fish!

37.A.wrong B.unbelievable C. reasonable D.realistic

38.A.put up with B.catch up with C make use of D.keep track of

39.A.equipped B.compared C.covered D.connected

40.A.skillfully B.routinely C vividly D deeply

41.A.familiar B.unrelated C.creative D. imaginary

42.A.presented B.marked C.lit D.associated

43.A.ideas B.ambitious C. achievement D. technique

44.A experience B.service C. present D object

45.A.work B.last C.exist D.change

46.A.possibilities B.limitations C.tendency D practice

47.A.in fact B.in particular C.as a whole D for example