常州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、—Jane, which color do you prefer, red or blue?

—______. I prefer to buy a green one.

A. Either will be OK

B. Both will be OK

C. To be honest, neither

D. Generally, I’m not sure

2、 —Would you like some more chicken?

—No，thanks. I am ________a diet and I’m trying to ________weight.

A．on；lose B．on；put on

C．in；have D．in；lose

3、I need to call my friend David coat I took away by mistake yesterday.

A.whose B.of which  C.that D.of whom

4、John as well as the other children who_______no parents_______ good care of in the village.

A．have; is being taken

B．have; has taken

C．has; is taken

D．has; have been taken

5、Although they have been admitted to different universities, the two girls still try to _________ communication with each other.

A．update

B．prohibit

C．exist

D．maintain

6、________ seems strange to us is________ she can sing so many English songs beautifully.

A．What; that

B．It; why

C．That; how

D．It; that

7、The style of painting ______ by the artist is hard ______.

A．being adopted; to imitate B．adopted; imitate

C．adopted; to be imitated  D．adopted; to imitate

8、I want to have such a dictionary ______ he has.

A.as B.which C.that D.what

9、After studying in medical college for five years, Jane _________ her job as a doctor in the countryside.

A．set off

B．took up

C．took over

D．set up

10、The only way to succeed at the highest level is to have total belief _______ you are better than anyone else on the sports field.

A. how   B. that   C. which   D. whether

11、The sun began to rise in the sky, _________ the mountain in golden light.

A．bathed

B．bathing

C．to have bathed

D．having bathed

12、It is the ability to do the job ________matters not where you come from or what you are.

A. which   B. that

C. what   D. where

13、The little chick _______ the earthworm, deciding whether to swallow it or let it go. 

A. stared at   B. glanced at   C. looked into   D. glared at

14、The Yeti is said to be a large, hairy animal walking _____two feet like a human being and moving _____ amazing speed and strength.

A. with; at   B. by; at

C. on; with D. on; at

15、It was in the stone house_______ was built as a school by the local village _________ the boy finished his primary.

A. which; that   B. that; where

C. which; which D. that; which

16、Tom is really good at science,   his brother is a natural artist.

A. while   B. because

C. for   D. as

17、The beautiful and charming song has been heard________many times today.

A．to broadcast

B．being broadcast

C．broadcasting

D．broadcast

18、With Christmas ________, people have been doing more shopping online.

A．approaching

B．observing

C．jogging

D．settling

19、It was at 3 in the morning ________ the earthquake happened. Hundreds were killed, with a lot ________ in the collapse.

A．that; buried

B．when; buried

C．that; burying

D．when; burying

20、You’d better spend some time warming up because you may hurt yourself easily during the ________.

A．training

B．reading

C．listening

D．speaking

E．walking

21、There ________ two pens and a book on the desk.

A．is

B．are

C．being

D．to be

22、Who do you think we should have ________ to Shanghai to attend the important meeting?

A．go

B．gone

C．going

D．to go

23、I wonder if the Chinese Football National Team will be able to take part in the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, and ___, I would drink beer with friends for a whole night.

A. or so   B. as if

C. even so   D. if so

24、Either you or he ___ interested in playing chess. ____ you or he fond of music at present?

A. are; Are   B. is; Are

C. are; Is     D. is; Is

25、Mike______his car, for he came to work by bus this morning.

A. can have found   B. could have found   C. can’t have found   D. mustn’t have found

26、The question about the history of cacao(可可) has long interested researchers who wonder how and why it became so important to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and Aztecs. Archaeological(考古学的) evidence once pointed to the first use of cacao in Mesoamerica about 3,900 years ago. Traditionally, archaeologists have assumed that Mesoamericans were the first not just to use cacao, but to grow it. Recently, researchers at the University of British Columbia have got a new finding that humans started to grow cacao trees and consume cacao in South America around 5,300 years ago.

In the hunt for the origins of human planted cacao , the researchers went to an ancient village in the highlands of southeastern Ecuador. Only a small area of the village was decayed after such a long period, which struck researchers as surprising. Consequently, they were able to find much evidence of the use of cacao at the Santa Ana-La Florida archaeological site.

The researchers found extremely small pieces from the cacao tree in the remains of containers and other objects, as well as genetic material from the tree. They also identified a substance found in the cacao tree but not in its wild relatives. This suggests that humans grew the tree for food purposes, especially drinks. Michael Blake, an archaeology professor who helped lead the study, said, “The remains with cacao on them say how people used the substance at the time. They clearly drank it.”

There is no established history of ancient populations in South or Central America using cacao to make chocolate the way people do now, the researchers reported. The populations in the upper Amazon area today still use cacao to make special drinks. Evidence suggests cacao planting moved into Central America and Mexico about 4,000 years ago. ”As for cacao’s going north to Central America and more areas, it was a long journey related to trade and many others,” said Blake.

【1】What did the new discovery find about cacao?

A．It came into use much earlier than thought before.

B．It was planted in Central America at the beginning.

C．Ancient populations used it as toady’s people do.

D．Mesoamerican civilizations were affected by it greatly.

【2】What does the underlined word ”decayed“ in paragraph 2 mean?

A．preserved

B．explored

C．valued

D．destroyed

【3】How did the researchers find out cacao’s original use?

A．By examining the storage method of cacao at the site.

B．By collecting genetic material from cacao trees.

C．By analyzing objects on which cacao was found.

D．By comparing cacao trees with their wild relatives.

【4】What might be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．The change of cacao’s use.

B．The spread of cacao.

C．The way of making chocolate.

D．The trade in cacao.

27、New research on ants has firstly shown that insects have the ability to shrink and then regrow their brains. It relates to how these particular ants, called the Indian jumping ant, reproduce.

“In most ant colonies (种群), the queen is the only member of the colony that lays eggs. When she dies, the colony dies. The workers just do the hunting and take care of the babies and the chores.” says Clint Penick, a professor of biology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. But this is not true for Indian jumping ants. Their worker ants have the ability to mate and reproduce. So when the queen dies, a dominance tournament starts. They’ll fight each other over a month to decide who’s going to be the next queen.

The queen doesn’t have an exact replacement. Tournament winners — called “gamergates” — all assume queen-like duties of laying eggs. The study found that when the ants take on the role of gamergates, their brains reduce its size by 19% on average, so that they can save energy to focus on producing eggs. The fact that the ants’ brains shrink to reproduce wasn’t new. But what scientists didn’t know was whether they had the ability to regrow.

Penick’s team separated gamergates from their colonies for a few weeks. The thinking was that the lack of social interaction and care would make them return to their previous status. It worked. After several weeks, the ex-gamergates were back to being low-class workers — with their bigger brains regrown. “We are now starting to find that there are animal species that are capable of shrinking their brains and then regrowing them, even humans to some degree.” Penick says.

There are still potential suggestions for humans. According to Penick, the brains are more flexible in size than we knew. The brains of ants have some shared features with humans. So now scientists are looking at digging into the genetic and other neural mechanisms (神经机制) supporting these brain changes.

【1】What is special about the Indian jumping ant colony?

A．The worker ants fight with the queen.

B．The queen is the only one to lay eggs.

C．The colony continues even if queen dies.

D．The queen is devoted to baby nursing.

【2】What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A．Some ants won the competition of laying eggs.

B．Gamergates are not willing to regrow their brains.

C．Whether ants can regrow brains wasn’t known before.

D．The downsizing of ants’ brains was first found in the study.

【3】The underlined “it” in the passage may refer to ___________.

A．shortage of socialization

B．separation from their living space

C．a return to previous status

D．low-class workloads for working ants

【4】Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．The Special Queens of the Ant Colony

B．A Genetic Wonder: from Ants to Humans

C．The Flexible Brain of Indian Jumping Ants

D．A Shrinking Ant Brain: from a Worker to a Queen

28、Maths anxiety may be causing a national crisis (危机), Cambridge University researchers have said, as they find that one in ten children suffer from anxiety at the subject.

Researchers surveyed 1,700 British pupils aged 8 to 13 about their feelings towards the subject. They found 10% of children suffred from maths anxiety. Other feelings caused by maths included fear and anger, while physical symptoms (症状) included a racing heart or struggling to catch breath.

“The project studied students' attitudes towards maths because of what could be called a maths crisis' in the UK,” researchers said. “Many children and adults experience feelings of anxiety. fear or discomfort when they face maths. This may be leading to a low level of maths in the country.” The number of adults with functional maths skills equal to a GCSE (英国普通中等教育证书) grade Chas dropped from 26% in 2003 to only 22% in 2011, according to the survey. At the same time, only 57% of the children achieved the same level in functional maths skills.

Dr. Denes Szucs, a professor at Cambridge's Centre for Neuroscience (神经科学) in Education said that there is a misunderstanding that only low performing children suffer from math anxiety. “This is a common misunderstanding that we have seen in decision makers,” he said. “They assume people are anxious about maths because they are poor achievers.” In fact, more than 77% of children with high levels of maths anxiety are normal to high achievers. Dr. Szucs went on, “Probably their maths anxiety will go unnoticed because their performance is good. But they are very worried and in the long term their performance is limited. This is a real danger here: these are children who are completely able to do maths at a normal level, but may keep away from it because they feel anxious.” The research also found that girls have higher levels of maths anxiety than boys.

John's Hillman, director of education at the Nuffield Foundation said, “Mathematical achievement is valuable, as a foundation (基础) for many other subjects and as an important predictor of future academic learning, job hunting and even health. Maths anxiety can seriously influence students' performance in both primary and secondary schools.”

【1】What can we learn from the survey conducted by the Cambridge University researchers?

A．Girls suffer lower levels of maths anxiety than boys.

B．Only low performing children suffer from maths anxiety.

C．Children with maths anxiety will suffer both physically and mentally.

D．Most children with high levels of maths anxiety usually perform badly at the subject.

【2】Why did the researchers study students' attitudes towards maths?

A．Many children are suffering from maths anxiety.

B．They want to help improve students' academic performance.

C．Maths anxiety may cause great damage to children's development.

D．Both children and adults experience maths anxiety, causing a national maths crisis.

【3】How does he author prove there may be a national maths crisis in the UK in paragraph 3?

A．Providing data.

B．Giving examples.

C．Making comparisons.

D．Analyzing and reasoning.

【4】What question could possibly be talked about after the last paragraph?

A．How can students learn maths well?

B．How can maths anxiety be reduced?

C．How does anxiety influence students' mental health?

D．How can children realize the importance of learning maths?

29、My first memory of academic anxiety was when I was in second grade. I had nightmares about not putting my homework folder in my backpack, nightmares about forgetting to do worksheets. In high school, test anxiety ruled my world. Exams gave me extreme panic attacks. I lived my life between exams, pausing everything in my life for tests.

When the pandemic(大流行病)forced school to move online, school became more flexible and felt a lot less serious. Homework and tests were structured differently, and classes seemed less formal. Things began to gently change for me—tests of different form helped me calm my nerves. Being able to take assessments from my own room, completely alone helped comfort my anxiety. The powerful damaging force of the pandemic pushed me see the things that mattered to me more than school, grades, or feelings of success: my health and the health of my loved ones, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

The pandemic suddenly changed so much of the world we know and the way we interact with it. It forced me to realize we should not—and cannot—wait to push for our own happiness. We should not wait to seek help, but work on ourselves, and better ourselves. Realizing this better version of ourselves is not a dream. With work, we can change. A few weeks ago, I walked into a midterm test thinking mostly about what I was going to order at Starbucks when I finished. No panic attacks, no extreme tiredness. The night before the test, I watched TV before bed.

This took a lot of work energy, and time to get to. It also certainly still isn’t my “normal”—anxiety is still a huge factor in my life, one that I think will never entirely leave me. And though pieces of it certainly are, ingrown in my heart, it flows gently out, and stops to weaken me so seriously as it did before.

【1】What was the main reason for the author’s anxiety?

A．Daily life.

B．School tasks.

C．Poor memory.

D．Extra exams.

【2】What made the author realize the truly significant things?

A．Tests of different forms.

B．The relief of his anxiety.

C．The change to online classes.

D．The bad impact of the pandemic.

【3】How can we achieve our better version according to the passage?

A．Relaxing ourselves.

B．Waiting for help patiently.

C．Interacting with the world.

D．Pursuing happiness actively.

【4】Which is the author’s present situation?

A．He is still scared of exams.

B．He leads a life without anxiety.

C．Being relaxed in study is his normal.

D．Being anxious can’t affect him as before.

30、I’ve trained my teenage traveler well. I’ve never been more certain.

Having just celebrated her 16th birthday, my daughter ______ the opportunity to go to Thailand with Adventures Cross-Country (ARCC) on a ______ volunteer service. What her group of a dozen teens did in Thailand during that first week of radio ______ was anxious, exhausting and impressive.

ARCC has a ______ no cell phone policy. When the group met for the first time at Los Angeles International Airport, leaders ______ all cell phones. Once a week, the kids were allowed to ______ their cell phones.

Less than 24 hours after landing in Bangkok, they ______ open-air bus-like trucks and bumped(颠簸行进) their way along dirt roads for a couple of ______ to the Village Hill Tribe. Their new home was a village _______ Tables and chairs were pushed aside to clear floor space for the kids to ______ at night. In the hot summer days, there were bugs of the flying and crawling(爬行) variety. ______ were finished by filling bucket with a soft pipe and pouring it over your head, When my home ______ rang about a week after she left, there were no complaints(抱怨). She said the shower was the ______ thing that ever happened to her.

______ like this can’t be gained by reading books or searching the internet. They’re learned by ______ and doing. All of the teenagers learned that people, themselves included, can do great things when they put their minds to them.

【1】

A．refused

B．expected

C．imagined

D．gained

【2】

A．spring

B．summer

C．autumn

D．winter

【3】

A．silence

B．connection

C．signal

D．wave

【4】

A．suitable

B．right

C．strict

D．formal

【5】

A．collected

B．bought

C．quitted

D．hid

【6】

A．make

B．have

C．display

D．bring

【7】

A．found

B．drove

C．checked

D．boarded

【8】

A．weeks

B．months

C．hours

D．years

【9】

A．classroom

B．church

C．farmhouse

D．family

【10】

A．teach

B．sleep

C．play

D．study

【11】

A．Meals

B．Stories

C．Tasks

D．Showers

【12】

A．clock

B．doorbell

C．phone

D．radio

【13】

A．best

B．saddest

C．hardest

D．easiest

【14】

A．Volunteers

B．Experiences

C．Opinions

D．Vacations

【15】

A．thinking

B．calling

C．teaching

D．traveling

31、根据课文内容填空。

【1】, they find Luo’s parents eagerly waiting for them. Their home has been 【2】 for the joyous occasion. From the【3】of the paper-cuttings on the windows, to the Spring Festival【4】on the door, and to the New Year paintings on the wall, everything【5】joy, luck and happiness.

The whole family are going to【6】on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. They【7】around the television to watch the Spring Festival Gala, while【8】, chatting with each other and making dumplings that they will eat at the【9】of the new year. In the【10】of the room, Luo Yan talks about his plan for the future.

32、假如你是李华，你的朋友 Tom 邀请你下周去他们学校参加活动，向外国朋友介绍中国文化及传统节日，但你忙于准备考试，不得不谢绝邀请。根据下面的要点写一封信:

1.谢绝邀请，解释原因；

2.推荐朋友 Mary 参加，并说明推荐由。注意:

1.词数 80 左右；开头结尾已写好，不计入总词数；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

Thank you very much for your invitation.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sorry again for any inconvenience caused by my absence.

Yours,

Li Hua