2025-2026学年湖北省襄阳市第一中学高一上学期11月期中英语试题 考试时间：120分钟 试卷分值：150分
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．What does the man ask the woman to do
A．Sign a form. B．Plant some trees. C．Help the environment.
2．What does the man want to be
A．A doctor B．A dancer. C．A guitarist.
3．How long does the woman walk at lunch time
A．20 minutes. B．30 minutes. C．60 minutes.
4．How does the man like his tea
A．With milk. B．With sugar. C．With nothing.
5．What is the book about
A．The introduction to a library.
B．The inventors of the airplane.
C．The history of the Wright family.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答6，7小题。
6．Where does the conversation probably take place
A．In a gym. B．In a hotel. C．In the woman’s house.
7．Where are the weight machines
A．On the right. B．On the left. C．In the back.
听下面一段对话，回答8-10小题。
8．What is the main topic of the conversation
A．Weekend plans. B．Volunteer activities. C．Environmental problems.
9．What will the man probably do next week
A．Talk to elderly people. B．Read books to children. C．Collect rubbish on the beach.
10．How does the woman describe herself
A．Quiet. B．Outgoing. C．Talkative.
听下面一段对话，回答11-13小题。
11．How does the man feel at first
A．Excited. B．Worried. C．Calm.
12．Why is the man going to fly to Argentina
A．For a birthday. B．For a holiday. C．For work.
13．What does the woman suggest the man do
A．Take another flight. B．Call the Passport Office. C．Pick up his grandmother.
听下面一段对话，回答14-17小题。
14．What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A．Co-workers. B．Family members. C．Neighbors.
15．What does the man ask the woman to do
A．Come to his party. B．Make him some coffee. C．Tell him about the area.
16．What do we learn about the woman’s husband
A．He is shy. B．He is kind. C．He is busy.
17．What will the woman do tomorrow
A．Call the man. B．Message the man. C．Email the man.
听下面一段独白，回答18-20小题。
18．What is the main focus of Babel
A．Long one-on-one lessons.
B．Reading tasks based on English books.
C．Short lessons based on daily conversations.
19．How many languages are offered on Babel
A．10. B．14. C．20.
20．How much does it cost to access Babel for one year
A． 49. B． 72. C． 200.
第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
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Language Learning Apps
Babbel
If you’re looking for a complete language-learning package, Babbel is the way to go. It teaches the basics of grammar and pronunciation, before moving on to simple conversations. It slowly increases in difficulty, with spaced repetition (间隔重复) to help you learn. Unfortunately, the free trial is limited to just a single lesson for each language. Some lessons can feel dry and repetitive. There’s no real gamification (游戏化) here, so it doesn’t have the addictive attraction of some other apps.
Babbel is $15 per month, $38 for 3 months, $67 for 6 months, $89 annually.
Duolingo
Designing gamification into your language practice is a clever way to keep you interested, and no other app does this better than Duolingo. It’s easy and fun to use, and you will soon find yourself eagerly keeping your daily streak (每日打卡). However, Duolingo is light on speaking and listening. The free Duolingo offers a lot of great content, but you do have to put up with ads.
Duolingo is free. Super Duolingo is $13 per month or $84 annually, with a Family Plan at $120 annually.
Memrise
Memrise is a useful tool to learn basic vocabulary and simple conversations. It uses a familiar flashcard method to help you remember words and phrases. There are also grammar lessons and exercises. You can set goals, and lessons are quick. On the downside, the exercises can get repetitive. Additionally, there isn’t much explanation, and advanced learners should look elsewhere.
Memrise is free. Memrise Pro is $15 per month, $90 annually.
1. What is a weakness of Babbel
A. It offers no free trial. B. It is highly addictive.
C. It shows too many ads. D. It is boring sometimes.
2. Compared with the other two apps, what is special about Duolingo
A. It’s for free. B. It’s like a game. C. It’s easy to use. D. It teaches grammar.
3. How much do you need to pay for a membership of three months for Memrise Pro
A. $15. B. $38. C. $45. D. $90.
B
My family have collected bottles from sunrise to sunset all year long. My mother leaves at dawn to collect cans, and when she returns 12 hours later, I help her pull the shopping cart to the recycling center through the streets of Bushwick. I have kept it a secret all the time. I couldn’t bear the idea of my friends knowing our family live off other people’s garbage. I felt guilty for being embarrassed, but I couldn’t help it. I was not ready to trust someone else.
Then I took a college essay course, which required me to write an essay about what had the greatest impact on my personal growth. I chose to write about the impact my neighborhood had on me. At the end, there was just one sentence about can collecting.
One day after class, my teacher asked me to discuss my essay draft. “Your story has potential; however, it is not about personal growth. Would you tell me about the can collecting ” So I was faced with sharing my secret. But he was my teacher and I trusted him so I rewrote the essay.
Two days later I found out we were expected to read our essays out loud after lunch, but I felt ashamed that my peers would know. As I headed down to the cafeteria, I met up with a friend, Mason, who I always have lunch with. I was less talkative, and Mason found that I had something on my mind. I told him I was embarrassed about my family’s story. “You should be proud that your family are struggling to take care of their loved ones.” This was what I needed to hear and I felt like I could finally breathe after all those years of hiding a part of myself.
When we got back to class, I felt ready to read my draft out loud. After my classmates listened to my story, they said things like: “Each of our stories is unique to our experience and shapes us.” “Your being ashamed only hurts you.” “Accept your home and community, because they are your true family.”
Now, when people ask me what my parents do for a living, I tell them, not with embarrassment or shame but with pride, that my parents are can collectors.
4. Why did the author mention can collecting very briefly in his essay
A. To highlight his family story. B. To hide his lasting secret.
C. To make his essay persuasive. D. To summarize his experience.
5. What advice did Mason give to the author
A. Try hard to survive the poverty (贫穷) B. Show greater love for his family.
C. Form the habit of talking more. D. Treasure his family’s struggles.
6. What caused the author to change his attitude towards his family secret
A. Mason’s encouraging words. B. Taking a college essay course.
C. Reading the essay aloud in class. D. His teacher’s guidance on the essay.
7. How did the classmates respond after listening to the author’s story
A. They gave some criticism. B. They showed great pity.
C They expressed thanks. D. They offered persuasion.
C
Eating a plant-based diet has been shown to be very good for your heart and your overall health. In fact, a recent study found a young person could live an additional 13 years by eating more vegetables and legumes (豆类), as well as whole grains, fruit and nuts.
The findings of a new analysis of the diets of nearly 400,000 UK adults published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition are rather shocking: Eating veggies, especially cooked ones, doesn’t reduce your risk of heart disease over time.
“Our large study did not find evidence for a protective effect of vegetable intake on the occurrence of CVD (心血管疾病),” said Qi Feng, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, in a statement.
While the study found eating raw veggies could protect against heart disease, cooked vegetables did not. Any benefit went away when researchers factored in lifestyle factors such as physical activity, educational level, smoking, drinking, fruit intake, red and processed meat consumption, and use of mineral and vitamin supplements.
“Instead, our analyses show that the seemingly protective effect of vegetable intake against CVD risk is very likely to be accounted for by bias (偏差)... related to differences in socioeconomic situation and lifestyle,” Feng said.
Don’t start celebrating yet, veggie haters. Experts in the UK and United States quickly took exception to the study’s conclusion.
“Although this study found that eating more vegetables wasn’t associated with a lower risk of heart and circulatory diseases once other lifestyle and other factors were taken into account, that doesn’t mean we should stop eating vegetables,” said Victoria Taylor, a senior dietitian at the British Heart Foundation, in a statement.
“The results are not surprising. Picking out one single component and assuming just adding it to the diet, e. g., vegetables, is not likely to result in the desired effect,” Alice Lichtenstein, director and senior scientist at Tufts University’s Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory, told CNN in an email.
“One thing that has become clear over the past decade is that we should not be looking at single foods or nutrients, rather the whole dietary pattern,” said Lichtenstein.
8. What can we learn from the new study led by Feng
A It followed a young UK person for 13 years.
B. Its findings came as no surprise to other people.
C. It overturned the conclusion of previous studies.
D. Its purpose was to find the right vegetables for people.
9. What did Feng imply about vegetables’ protective effect
A. It was totally made up by some researchers.
B. It still held true despite some different findings.
C. It could only be achieved by living a healthy lifestyle.
D. It was a misconception caused by differences in people.
10. What does the underlined phrase “take exception to” in Paragraph 6 mean
A. Voice objections to. B. Add details to.
C. Show respect for. D. Take notice of.
11. What did Lichtenstein think of the study
A. It was groundbreaking. B. It was one-sided.
C. It would cause confusion. D. It needed more evidence.
D
Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, which runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) translation tool that lets its workers talk with customers who speak 200 different languages and 75 dialects. So an Alorica worker who speaks, say, only Spanish can deal with a complaint about an incorrect bank statement from a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. And it wouldn’t need to hire an employee who speaks Cantonese.
However, Alorica isn’t cutting jobs. It will increasingly hire those who are comfortable with new technology.
Potentially, the threat: Perhaps companies won’t need as many employees — and will cut some jobs — if chatbots can handle the workload instead. Consider Suumit Shah, an Indian businessman who caused an uproar last year by saying that he had replaced 90% of his customer support staff with a chatbot named Lina. The move at Shah’s company, Dukaan, which helps customers set up e-commerce sites, reduced the response time to an inquiry from 1 minute, 44 seconds to “instant”. It also cut the typical time needed to solve problems from more than two hours to just over three minutes.
Similarly, researchers at Harvard Business School found in a study last year that job postings for writers, coders and artists decreased greatly within eight months of the arrival of ChatGPT.
But being exposed to AI doesn’t necessarily mean losing your job to it. The Swedish furniture retailer IKEA, for example, introduced a customer-service chatbot in 2021 to handle simple inquiries. Instead of cutting jobs, IKEA retrained 8,500 customer-service workers to handle such tasks as advising customers on interior design and fielding complex customer calls.
The experience at Alorica and IKEA suggests that AI may not prove to be the job killer that many people fear. Instead, the technology might turn out to be more like breakthroughs of the past—the steam engine, electricity and the Internet, which get rid of some jobs while creating others and probably make workers more productive in general to the eventual benefit of workers themselves, their employers and the economy.
12. What does the author want to tell us by the example in paragraph 1
A. The power of AI. B. The threat from humans.
C. The customer requirements. D. The tips on language learning.
13. What advantage does Lina have over other staff
A. Winning the trust of customers. B. Responding to customers faster.
C. Selling more products to customers. D. Having a great relationship with Shah.
14. What were IKEA’s customer-service workers asked to do in 2021
A. Take on other duties. B. Leave their company.
C. Move to HongKong. D. Develop latest chatbots.
15. What is the best title for the text
A. How Will AI Change Our Lives B. How Should We Use AI Effectively
C. Will AI Take Away Many Human Jobs D. What Is the Future of Traditional Companies
第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
How to Be More Present
Many people have a tendency to live in the past or the future. They constantly think about the past and worry about the future, and thus find it difficult to enjoy the good things in life in the here and now. You might unfortunately be one of these people. ____16____ Here are some tips that might help you.
Notice Your Surroundings
One way to be in the present moment is by noticing your surroundings. How often do you take time out of your day to actually look around and see what’s going on Now close your eyes and take a deep breath. ____17____ When you do, it’s easier to be more present in the moment.
Be Grateful for What You Have Now
____18____ If you are constantly focused on things you don’t have, you aren’t taking the time to appreciate what you have at this moment. One way to practice gratitude is to write a list of things you are grateful for and review that list on a daily basis. Try to write at least three things you are grateful for in your life right now.
Show Acceptance
If you want to learn how to be more present, you need to let go of how you think things should be and accept them for what they are. ____19____ Sometimes life is going to be different than how you want it to be. Practicing acceptance will help you let go of the things in your life that are out of your control.
Find Positive Social Support
The kind of social support you have in your life can also play an important role. Surrounding yourself with positive, supportive people will increase your own positivity and happiness levels. ____20____
A. Then open them and really take in where you are.
B. You should focus your attention on one thing at a time.
C. You cannot control everything that happens around you.
D. This is one way to distance yourself from what you are enjoying.
E. In turn, this will allow you to focus on what is going on right now.
F. Part of living in the present moment is to appreciate what you have now.
G. So learning how to live in the moment can greatly improve your well-being.
第三部分(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)
I was on a small boat alone, out on the vast ocean. I was enjoying the ____21____ waters and the gentle breeze (微风) when suddenly, a storm ____22____, and the waves grew taller than I had ever seen. The boat turned over, and I found myself in the water, seizing a piece of the wreckage (残骸).
The cold water ____23____ me, but I knew I had to stay calm. I remembered the ____24____ lessons I had learned in school: keep your head above water, maintain energy, and stay positive. I set foot on water, trying to keep my body warm and my ____25____ up.
Hours passed and I began to feel ____26____. The sun was setting, and the sea around me turned dark and ____27____. I sang songs to myself to ____28____ the fear, and I thought of my family, hoping they were safe and praying for my own survival.
As the night ____29____, I noticed a light in the distance. It was weak, but it was there. I swam towards it, my arms and legs aching from the _____30_____. The light grew brighter, and I realized it was a ship. I waved my arms, _____31_____ with all my strength, and to my relief, they saw me.
The crew (船员) _____32_____ me aboard, and I lay on the deck, tired but alive. I learned later that it was a merchant ship, and they were heading back to port. I was _____33_____ for their rescue and for the chance to tell my tale.
That experience taught me the importance of hope and _____34_____. No matter how _____35_____ the situation is, there is always a chance for survival if you keep your mind clear and never give up.
21. A. silent B. stressed C. calm D. huge
22. A. rolled in B. turned in C. kept in D. brought in
23. A. excited B. interested C. moved D. shocked
24. A. arrival B. survival C. improvement D. agreement
25. A. characters B. concerns C. goals D. spirits
26. A. tired B. relaxed C. comfortable D. surprised
27. A. imaginary B. fantastic C. abnormal D. wonderful
28. A. pass away B. scare away C. put away D. give away
29. A. tried on B. held on C. put on D. wore on
30. A. effect B. effort C. subject D. project
31. A. laughing B. shouting C. stepping D. running
32. A. pulled B. pushed C. attacked D. changed
33. A. responsible B. hopeful C. thankful D. available
34. A. exploration B. conversation C. tradition D. determination
35. A. tough B. comfortable C. simple D. similar
第二节(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。
Schools in the UK are making ____36____ effort to help deal with the growing teacher shortage with the use of classroom robots. So far, two primary schools in Plymouth ____37____(start) to use the machines as possible replacements (替代) for teaching assistants. Britain’s lack of teaching staff has been a serious problem over the last twenty years. ____38____(graduate) are unwilling to enter the primary education department. Many teachers are giving up the teaching jobs for careers in other fields, ____39____ makes matters worse.
Facing this ____40____(alarm) shortage, some schools believe that robots might soon be able to fill the gap. Tests have found that, by ____41____(show) various classroom techniques, teachers can train the robots to be teachers in a real teaching setting within just three hours. In one example, the robot teacher ____42____(success) guided the students through difficult tasks, giving them praise and ____43____(encourage) when necessary. The project has been met with mixed feelings from teachers. Some are ____44____(concern) that the robots are here to take their jobs while others optimistically regard the machines _____45_____ a way to reduce their heavy workloads.
第四部分 写作(共两节;满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
46. 假如你是李华，你的英国好友Peter跟你一样刚步入高一，遇到了以下困境，给你写了一封邮件倾诉。请你回一封邮件，给出相应建议。
1．新班级没有认识的同学，感到很孤独；
2．小测成绩不好，感到压力大。
注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25分)
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 exam time at Marc’s school. Every day, their teachers gave them loads of homework and told them the test was very important and that they ought to spare no effort to perform well in it. Everyone followed the teachers’ instructions and made preparations for it, except Marc. He just turned a deaf ear to it. He thought he would rather play football than study.
His mum and dad repeated the importance of revision for exams over and over again. They told him that he should be working hard preparing for the test. But the weather was sunny and he thought he had better things to do.
“Shall we go to the park ” he said to his friend Huck one afternoon. “It’s a nice day. We could play football and kick around.” Huck shook his head. “I’m supposed to review my lessons,” he said. “I’m going home to do some math.”
Marc was amazed. “You’d rather do math than play football ”
“Math is important. Besides, my mum says she will buy me a mountain bike if I do well in the math exam.”
“That’s crazy,” said Marc. Huck shrugged (耸肩) and replied, “Wait until I beat you in the test and you will watch me riding past on my mountain bike!”
“You won’t beat me,” said Marc.
“Oh yes, I will.”
“Oh no, you won’t! That will never happen. Just wait and see!”
For the first time ever Marc wanted to perform well. He couldn’t bear it if his friend came top and he did badly. So when he got home, he opened his math book. But there was so much to do. All of a sudden, he felt like he’d forgotten everything he had learned that year! He didn’t know where to start. When his sister Lily came in, he was sitting expressionlessly by the desk, just staring out of the window.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式作答。
“You don’t look happy, Marc. What’s wrong ” she said.
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On the day of the exam, Marc went to school with great confidence.
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