玉溪2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、The 2020 Summer Olympic Games   in Tokyo. Do you know how many countries will be   ?

A.will host; taking part B.will be hosted; taking part in

C.will host; taking part in D.will be hosted; taking part

2、He is the only one of the best students who _______ chosen to take part in the competition so far.

A．is

B．are

C．have been

D．has been

3、It’s impolite to laugh________ people when they are________ trouble.

A．over; in

B．at; on

C．at; in

4、 It was through Tom I got to know Lucy.

A. which B. whom C. how D. That

5、As is reported, women with demanding jobs are almost _________ to suffer a heart attack.

A. twice likely as   B. as likely twice

C. likely twice as   D. twice as likely

6、__________ by his boss, he had to give in to pressure and agreed to do some extra work.

A．Not to be fired

B．To be fired

C．Not being fired

D．Not fired

7、Certain information can come as a shock when information we ________ is actually exposed to be untrue.

A．trusted

B．were trusting

C．would trust

D．had trusted

8、The workers  believe the assembly hall _____ the curtain  need  to be changed _____ rebuilding.

A.which; deserve B.of which; is deserved

C.whose; deserves D.of which; deserves

9、I found these wonderful words from professors useful, back on my college life.

A．having looked

B．looked

C．to look

D．looking

10、What an _______day ! After a whole day’s hiking, I am completely ________.

A.exhausted; exhausted

B.exhausting; exhausting

C.exhausting; exhausted

D.exhausted; exhausting

11、__________ you let out the news to the public?

A．Be able to

B．Have to

C．Had better

D．Dare

12、My boss always ______ me, which was why I decided to leave the company.

A.showed respect for B.found fault with

C.approved of D.related to

13、Although the working mother is very busy,she still________a lot of time to her children.

A. devotes   B. spends

C. supplies   D. provides

14、—The supermarket ________ people ________ fresh vegetables and fruit.

A．provides; for

B．offers; to

C．provides; with

15、It is about ten years _____ I met you last.

A. since   B. for

C. when   D. as

16、It was at the school ________ was named after a hero ________ he spent his childhood.

A．which; where

B．that; which

C．that; where

D．which; that

17、As a matter of fact, I prefer certainty ______ adventure.

A．in

B．on

C．with

D．to

18、What do you think to make himself ？

A.Tom will say; believe B.will Tom say; believe

C.Tom will say; believed D.will Tom say; believed

19、In 1998, when he was only 19, Bill ________ to 5 years in prison for his acts of violence.

A．sentenced

B．had sentenced

C．was sentenced

D．had been sentenced

20、Let me introduce my cousin to you, who _____ to a famous university last year.

A．had been admitted

B．admitted

C．was admitted

D．has been admitted

21、---Honey, I have to say I can’t go to the party tonight. I’m tired out.

----_______. Have some fun!

A. Don’t pull my leg.   B. Don’t be a wet blanket.

C. Don’t be a black sheep.   D. Don’t give me the cold shoulder.

22、A total of 50 children took part in the camp; in other words, half of those children took part in the camp.

A. in short   B. in surprise

C. in brief   D. in total

23、Drinking cola often ______ our cinema experience more enjoyable.

A．made

B．makes

C．has made

D．make

24、The government _________ special importance to the educational and inspirational resources.

A. attached   B. contributed

C. led   D. indicated

25、The healthy lifestyle he had long got used to ______ due to a lack of certain nutrients in his diet.

A．was ruined

B．being ruined

C．ruined

D．be ruined

26、For some people, music is no fun at all. About 4% of the population is what scientists call “amusic”. People who are amusic are born without the ability to enjoy musical notes. Amusic people often cannot tell the differences between two songs.

As a result, songs sound like noise to an amusic. Many amuics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. In fact, most people cannot understand what it feel like being amusic. Just going to a restaurant or a shopping center can be uncomfortable or even painful. That is why many amusics have to stay away from places where there is music. However, this can result in social loneliness. “I used to hate parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only recently discovered that she was amusic. By studying people like Margaret, scientists are finally learning how to identify(辨别) this unusual condition.

Scientists say that the brains of amusics are different for those of people who can enjoy music. The difference is complex(复杂的), and it is not connected with poor hearing. Amusics can understand other non-musical sounds well. They also have no problems understanding common speech. Scientists compare amusics to people who just can’t see certain colors.

Many amusics are happy when their condition is finally diagnosed(诊断). For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about her music problem. Now she knows that she is not alone. That makes it easier for her to explain. “When people invite me to a concert, I just say ”No, thanks. I’m amusic.’” says Margret. “ I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.”

【1】Amusics are the people who _________.

A. like music   B. are born unable to enjoy music

C. don’t like music   D. have poor listening

【2】Life is hard for amusics mainly because _________.

A. music seems noise for them.

B. amusics hate parties, restaurants or shopping center.

C. amusics try to stay at places full of music

D. people don’t understand amusics

【3】In the last paragraph, Margaret expressed her wish that ________.

A. her problem with music had been diagnosed earlier

B. she were seventeen years old rather than seventy

C. her problem could be easily explained

D. she were able to meet other amusics

【4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Some people’s inability to enjoy music.

B. Musical ability.

C. Amusics’ strange behaviors.

D. Identification and treatment of amusic.

27、A woman who lost one leg to cancer is seeking to break a world record by completing 102 marathon-length runs in 102 days.

Jacky Hunt Broersma, who lost the bottom half of her left leg to a rare form of cancer in 2001, set her goal in mid-January. And every day since then, she has been running the distance of a marathon. “Part of my body was gone. For me the most difficult problem was accepting my disability, ”she told the reporter.

Until five years ago, she was not very active. But then she looked into running and decided to give it a try. The sport ended up being quite costly. Currently, the carbon fiber blade she uses, which is designed specifically for running, costs about $10,000. “Running really changed my life, ”she said. “It helped me accept myself as a person with disability. It gave me a sense of freedom. I fell in love with the process of pushing my body further just to see what I could do.”

However, she has faced both physical and mental difficulties during her record-breaking attempt. On one recent day, Hunt Broersma felt breakdown at 24 kilometers and began to cry. In that moment, she felt like her planned goal might not happen at all. By dividing it into little goals, she finally picked herself up and carried on.

Hunt Broersma’s main support team is her husband and their two young children. She is posting her progress online and has also got a large social media following.

As she nears the end of her goal, Hunt Broersma is hoping to inspire a single thought in others: You’re stronger than you think and you’re capable of so much more.

【1】What was Hunt Broersma’s biggest challenge?

A．Surviving cancer.

B．Keeping a world record.

C．Living with disability.

D．Participating in a marathon.

【2】What can be learned about Hunt Broersma from Paragraph 3?

A．She spent much money on running.

B．Running helped her overcome the disease.

C．Running gave her freedom from her housework.

D．She was enthusiastic about running.

【3】Why did Hunt Broersma break down one day?

A．She didn’t break the record.

B．Her family didn’t understand her.

C．She lost the chance to take part in the marathon.

D．She felt hopeless about her goal.

【4】What does the author want to show by telling Hunt Broersma’s story?

A．Lost time is never found again.

B．Where there is a will, there is a way.

C．More haste, less speed.

D．It’s never too late to mend.

28、Perhaps no one knows the power of imagination better than Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Until four years ago, Liu worked full-time as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province. He only wrote science fiction in his spare time. But it was during this time that Liu’s imagination took flight. He did what he might never have the chance to do in real life – wander in space, fight with aliens, and visit planets light-years away.

But even with such a powerful imagination, Liu, 55, probably hadn’t expected that he would become the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, science fiction’s highest prize, in 2015. Perhaps neither did he think that former US president Barack Obama would read his novel The Three-Body Problem, nor that on Nov 9 in Washington DC, he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. It’s the first time a Chinese writer has ever won the award.

In his acceptance speech, Liu said that he owed his imagination to Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), a famous UK sci-fi author. He said that reading Clarke’s 1968 classic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in the early 1980s had a great effect on him.

“My mind opened up like never before. I felt like a narrow river finally seeing the sea,” Liu said. “That night, in my eyes, the starry sky was completely different from the past. For the first time in my life, I was awed (使……敬畏) by the mystery of the universe.”

But no matter how far away Liu’s imagination takes him, somehow his novels always stay rational.

In The Three-Body Problem, for example, Liu tells a tale of aliens invading Earth. But unlike other alien stories, Liu talks more about relationships between civilizations, rules of survival, and the meanings of life. And in The Wandering Earth, Liu looks ahead to the day when our solar system comes to an end and humans have to look for a new place to live. However, all his visions and solutions are based on “hard science”. Liu’s works aren’t simply daydreams.

【1】What do we know about Liu Cixin?

A．He became a full-time writer when he was young.

B．He dreamed about wandering in space from childhood.

C．He is the first Asian to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

D．He is the first Chinese winner of the Hugo Award.

【2】Liu Cixin’s words are used mainly to show ________.

A．his interest in mysteries of the universe

B．his love of reading science fiction

C．his confusion when he started writing

D．his feeling after reading Clarke’s work

【3】What’s the text mainly about?

A．Liu Cixin’s achievements and writing style.

B．Liu Cixin’s contributions to science fiction.

C．How Liu Cixin became a sci-fi writer.

D．How Liu Cixin started a new sci-fi style.

29、Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani student and education activist who began speaking out for girls’ education at the age of 11. After surviving an assassination (暗杀) at the age of 15, she co-founded the Malala Fund with her father to create a world where girls everywhere could be educated without fear. Her fund supports every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education and works mainly in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria.

Malala believes girls are the best investment (投资) in the future peace and further development of our world. It will never be a wrong choice to spend money on girls.

In 2014 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai the Nobel Peace Prize for their fight against the suppression (镇压) of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Malala became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Accepting the award, Malala said, “This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change. ”

In her new picture book, Malala’s Magic Pencil, Malala returns to her childhood to teach young readers about the importance of hope, believing in magic, and making the world a better place.

Malala’s first book, her personal life story co-written with Christina Lamb, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, was published in 2013. She is also the subject of the 2015 film He Named Me Malala.

【1】What’s the purpose of the Malala Fund?

A．To improve girls’ safety.

B．To get young girls to school.

C．To improve people’s living conditions.

D．To win women lifetime education rights.

【2】Which of the following is Malala’s opinion of girls according to Paragraph 2?

A．They are quite good at making investments.

B．They are in greater need of peace than boys.

C．They will play an important role in the future.

D．They do more for the development of the world than boys.

【3】What can be inferred from what Malala said while accepting the award?

A．She has a caring attitude.

B．She is satisfied with her education.

C．She feels powerless to change the world.

D．She will have more supporters in the coming years.

【4】What can be learned about Malala’s Magic Pencil?

A．It teaches readers how to draw.

B．It was Malala’s first book.

C．It was a co-written book.

D．It spreads hope.

【5】Based on the passage, what virtues can be concluded from Malala?

A．Friendliness and generosity.

B．Thankfulness and honesty.

C．Courage and helpfulness.

D．Trust and kindness.

30、   How would you feel if moving to a new town meant ________ of your friends: What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be ________? This was ________ things worked not very long ago. Thanks to ________ in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed ________.

Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in ________ with the people that we want to remain friends with. Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and ________ friendships. All you need is a wi-fi connection.

The digital age also ________ us to find people who share our interests, such as collecting model cars or playing an unusual instrument. ________ our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, ________ they live on the other side of the world.

But when you “friend” people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? It depends.

If people always ________ true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and ________. But we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media is often not the whole ________ about a person.

On social media sites, people tend to post only ________ updates that make them appear happy and friendly. But smiling photos can ________ real problems. Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. A young person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our information with ________.

But this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we ________ friends, the meaning of friendship and our ________ for friends remain the same. ________ Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other ________.

【1】A.losing track B.losing control C.being aware D.making use

【2】A.postponed B.delivered C.found D.designed

【3】A.why B.what C.how D.which

【4】A.pressure B.features C.expectations D.advances

【5】A.frequently B.regularly C.significantly D.honestly

【6】A.touch B.step C.conversation D.harmony

【7】A.destroy B.reflect C.seek D.maintain

【8】A.discourages B.asks C.enables D.advises

【9】A.Whatever B.However C.Whenever D.Whichever

【10】A.as if B.even if C.what if D.since

【11】A.discuss B.explore C.select D.exchange

【12】A.disappointing B.meaningful C.challenging D.creative

【13】A.truth B.spirit C.matter D.appearance

【14】A.negative B.powerful C.different D.positive

【15】A.stress B.hide C.escape D.explain

【16】A.experts B.friends C.criminals D.volunteers

【17】A.improve B.figure C.acquire D.remind

【18】A.talent B.preparation C.performance D.longing

【19】A.As B.Because C.With D.Since

【20】A.services B.goods C.effects D.alarms

31、根据课文完成短文。

Ben, 17, is a member of their school basketball team. He is crazy 【1】 basketball and pretty good at it but they【2】 (lose) their last match. In Ben’s opinion, their point guard was 【3】 (blame). 【4】 (disappoint) by his behaviour, Ben told this to his best friend. However, his best friend told everyone else 【5】 he’d said. Ben didn’t know what to do, so he asked Agony Aunt for help.

As far as Agony Aunt is concerned, it is 【6】 (main) his friend’s loose lips that make the situation 【7】 (bad). But it’s partly Ben’s fault. She suggests that Ben should apologise to his teammate. Secondly, Ben should tell his friend that he is 【8】 (anger) with him for repeating what he said and making the situation worse, 【9】 that he wants to move on. Thirdly, Ben should think about his own behaviour and always remember: think first, speak later. If he feels one of his 【10】 (teammate) isn’t pulling their weight, he will raise his concerns in a professional way with his team coach.

32、假如你是李康，最近你的美国朋友Rob给你发了一封电子邮件，请你介绍一下中国的学校系统。你的介绍应涵盖以下要点：

1. 小学、初中9年，义务、免费教育阶段；

2. 高中3年，有文理之分，学科多，压力大；

3. 社团、活动丰富，培养能力；

4. 对学生学习、言行要求高，奖惩分明。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 信的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

3. 可适当增加内容，以使行文流畅

Dear Rob,

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Yours,

Li Kang