2025-2026学年湖北黄冈高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、The State Sports General Administration is ______ charge of all sports matters.

A.on B.in C.at D.with

2、Before seeing The Revenge of Prince Zidan, I wasn’t sure whether I ______ it. But after experiencing it, I found I was deeply attracted by it.

A．had enjoyed

B．enjoyed

C．was enjoying

D．would enjoy

3、If he had a real talent for painting, a painter he should be; if not, he must take to some other craft, ________he would have the chance of making himself a decent livelihood.

A.where B.which

C.what D.when

4、Maybe he was carried miles into space, ________ the world’s first astronaut.

A．becomes

B．became

C．becoming

D．to become

5、The aim was not to________ valuable time with the usual boring pictures．

A.take up B.make up C.pick up D.put up

6、There’s no way of knowing why one man makes an important discovery ________ another man, also intelligent, fails.

A.since B.if C.as D.while

7、He put the letter into an envelope, ________ a stamp on the envelope and posted it.

A.stick B.stuck C.sticking D.to stick

8、The construction work is progressing properly. ________, the bridge across the river will be open to traffic in ten months.

A. Thankfully B. Fortunately C. Gradually D. Hopefully

9、I will never forget the day ______ I was sent abroad to study.

A. that B. when C. which D. in which

10、On June 17th, an earthquake hit Chang Ning, ______ a lot of villages damaged.

A. left B. to leave C. leaving D. has left

11、— What do you think made Mary so excited?

—   the annular solar eclipse(日环食).

A.As she watched B.Watched

C.Watching D.Because of watching

12、— I ________ for you right here this time tomorrow.

— All right. See you tomorrow.

A．was waiting

B．will be waiting

C．will have waited

D．am waiting

13、The US is China's biggest export market, ________ more than 70 percent of China's exports.

A.looking for B.searching for

C.longing for D.accounting for

14、— That must have been a long trip.

— Yeah, it ________ us a whole week to get there.

A．takes

B．has taken

C．was taking

D．took

15、— It was careless of you to have left the house without turning off the gas.

— My god! _______.

A.So were you B.So was I C.So did I D.So I did

16、I regret ______ that you have failed the exam.

A.telling B.to have told C.tell D.to tell

17、What is your daughter doing now?

She is on the phone, ________with one of her schoolmates.

A. to chat   B. chatting

C. chatted   D. being chatted

18、Mother said that Mike could eat two of ten oranges and that the rest _______ left for Tom and Betty.

A. were   B. was  C. be  D. being

19、Was it in Tianjin ________ you spent your childhood?

A．when

B．which

C．that

D．why

20、When the police came, the thief was ____.

A.nowhere to hide B.nowhere to be hiding C.nowhere to be hidden D.nowhere hide

21、The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn't amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. He had __________ he would soon return to his sheep.

A. resumed B. assumed

C. accomplished D. acknowledged

22、If the building project _____by the end of this month is delayed, the construction company will be fined .

A. being completed B. is completed C. to be completed D. completed

23、The news reporter hurried to the airport, only_________ the film stars had left .

A．to tell

B．to be told

C．telling

D．told

24、It is none of your business ________ other people think about you.Believe

yourself.

A.how B.what

C.which D.when

25、It's against the law for a public official to ask people for gifts or money____________ favors to them.

A. in exchange for B. in place of C. in agreement with D. in preference to

26、Your house may have an effect on your figure. Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in whether you pack on the pounds or keep them off. You can make your environment work for you instead of against you. Here are some ways to turn your home into part of your diet plan.

Open the curtains and turn up the lights. Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self­conscious (难为情) when they’re in poorly lit places—and so more likely to eat lots of food. If your home doesn’t have enough window light, get more lamps and flood the place with brightness.

Mind the colors. Research suggests warm colors fuel our appetites. In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room. Warm colors like yellow make food appear more appetizing, while cold colors make us feel less hungry. So when it’s time to repaint, go blue.

Don’t forget the clock—or the radio. People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories (卡路里) per meal than those who rush through their meals. Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at least 30 minutes. And while you’re at it, actually sit down to eat. If you need some help slowing down, turn on relaxing music. It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

Downsize the dishes. Big serving bowls and plates can easily make us fat. We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12­inch plate instead of a 10­inch plate. When we choose a large spoon over a smaller one, total intake (摄入) jumps by 14 percent. And we’ll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

【1】The text is especially helpful for those who care about ____________.

A．their home comforts

B．their body shape

C．house buying

D．healthy diets

【2】A home environment in blue can help people ______________.

A．digest food better

B．reduce food intake

C．burn more calories

D．regain their appetites

【3】What are people advised to do at mealtimes?

A．Eat quickly.

B．Play fast music.

C．Use smaller spoons.

D．Turn down the lights.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Is Your House Making You Fat?

B．Ways of Serving Dinner

C．Effects of Self­Consciousness

D．Is Your Home Environment Relaxing?

27、Vienna is a beautiful old city on the River Danube in the center of Europe. It’s the capital city of Australian and the center of European classical music. In the 18th century a lot of musicians came to study and work in Vienna.

In the Strauss family, there were two composers called Johann Strauss: the father and the son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for traditional dances, called the waltz. His dance music made him famous all over Europe. The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was also very successful and popular. He wrote over 150 waltzes. In 1867 he wrote The Blue Danube waltz.

Mozart was another very important composer. He was born in Australia in 1756. Before he was six, he played not only the piano but also the violin. His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities. He wrote hundreds of wonderful pieces of music. But he became very poor and died in 1791 when he was only 35. Like Johann Strauss, father and son, he was a great European musician ,and many people still think his music is perfect.

【1】From Paragraph 1 we know that Vienna is ________

A．a beautiful new city

B．on the River Danube

C．in the center of Australian

D．the center of European pop music

【2】How many important composers are mentioned in the passage?

A．One

B．Two

C．Three

D．Four

【3】Johann Strauss the elder was famous for ________

A．his dance music

B．his son

C．The Blue Danube waltz.

D．the concerts

【4】It can be inferred from the passage that Mozart was ________

A．stupid and lazy

B．clever and lazy

C．stupid but hard-working

D．clever and hard-working

【5】The passage can be found most probably in the part of ________ in a newspaper

A．news

B．recreation

C．advertisement

D．sport

28、We've seen a worldwide health crisis (危机) bring out the worst in some people, but fortunately, we've also been able to see it bring out the best in others.

A taxi driver in Spain has been providing COVID-19 (新冠肺炎) patients with free rides to and from the hospitals. Doctors and nurses wanted to surprise him with their thanks for helping out.

They tricked him down to the hospital under the pretense of needing to pick up a sick patient, but in reality, doctors and nurses lined the hall waiting to applaud (鼓掌) him.

“This is a surprise that has been given to a taxi driver who takes patients to the hospitals without charge,” wrote the taxi company that first shared the video.

The man seemed completely taken aback by the gesture, stopping in the middle of the doors as the whole room cheered for him.

He was also given an envelope full of money and the satisfying results of his own COVID-19 test.

The video has since been shared tens of thousands of times across the world, because kind gestures break the language barrier (障碍).

“When the crisis is finished, there will have been two types of people... the good and the bad,” one user wrote. “With workmates like him, I am proud to be a taxi driver, son of a taxi driver, and father of a taxi driver.”

With the word in hard times, just knowing good people are there doing good deeds is something we can all appreciate.

【1】We can learn from the story that____________.

A．the driver took doctors to and from the hospitals

B．the taxi company ticked the driver to pick up a patient

C．the patients lined the hall to thank the driver

D．the driver stayed safe from COVID-19

【2】What does the underlined phrase “taken aback" in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Worried.

B．Amazed.

C．Frightened.

D．Excited.

【3】Why has the video been shared so many times across the world?

A．It moves people of different nations.

B．It encourages more people to be a taxi driver.

C．It shows there will have been two types of people.

D．It calls for doctors and nurses to fight COVID-19.

【4】What is the author intended to tell us?

A．There is always kindness around us.

B．We should be proud of our own jobs.

C．Helping others is the biggest happiness.

D．Taxi drivers play an important part in this crisis.

29、   Genetic engineering, in its broadest definition, means to control a species so that a particular trait is increased in the population. A trait is how an organism (有机体) looks or acts or what it does. Having brown eyes is a trait. Flying in circles is a trait. Climbing trees is a trait.

The earliest forms of genetic engineering occurred on farms. People selected seeds from plants that had more fruit production or tastier leaves than other plants of their types. Then they chose to save the seeds from the best of that group to sow the next year. So, year by year, the farmers produced better and better crops. This type of activity probably has been going on since mankind first settled in villages and began making a life for themselves in one location, about 12,000 years ago!

The same sort of thing would have also happened with animals. For example, people chose to eat the animals that didn’t have favorable traits and let the animals with the favorable traits reproduce. It was thousands of years before mankind figured out how plants and animals reproduce themselves. With this knowledge, people could pollinate (授粉) plants by hand or keep a pair of animals together in order to deliberately cause an increase in a favorable trait.

It was only in the last 250 years that scientists began figuring out chromosomes (染色体) and genes and the role they play in the way one generation passes its traits on to the next. And it’s only been in the last 30 years that scientists have been able to cut out specific genes from one organism and put them in another. It is this 30- year-old technology that is described by the narrow definition of genetic engineering. Mankind has long been able to have a deliberate impact on the world around him. He now possesses the tools to deliberately impact himself. Some people are afraid of what might be done with that power.

【1】The text is mainly developed by ______.

A. asking questions

B. examining differences

C. making comparisons

D. giving examples

【2】Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ______.

A. the spread of genetic engineering

B. the advantage of genetic engineering

C. the original application of genetic engineering

D. the popularity of genetic engineering

【3】The underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refers to ______.

A. specific genes B. special traits

C. chromosomes D. scientists

【4】What can we learn about genetic engineering from the last paragraph?

A. It has a history of 250 years by the narrow definition of genetic engineering.

B. Scientists don’t know how to make good use of it.

C. People have a misunderstanding of it in the past 30 years.

D. It is becoming a powerful tool of mankind.

30、阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从 各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项。

Last summer, I had just enough money saved to buy a golden ticket—a 3-month train pass that would take me to the furthest reaches of Europe. Excited for my journey, I _______ all the necessities—_______ the guidebook.

While the _______ of the  Internet  was  surely  a contributing  factor to my _______ not to take with me kilograms of out-of-date information, this was not the only reason why I decided to fly _______

To be honest, I find the guidebook _______ of a journey—like a bossy aunt who is always telling you what to do, _______ she  doesn’t  always  know  what  is  the  best. _______ has taught me that there is a clear _______ between a tourist and a traveler.

While waiting in a queue to see Michelangelo’s Statue of David in Florence, I met a man who showed me his ________ of “Top 20 Things To Do in Italy” and told us ________ that he’d seen everything Italy has to ________ in  just four days.

The problem  I had  with this  man’s way of ________ was that  he was too  focused on ________ the  boxes provided by his guidebook. He was ________ in the so-called “must-sees” and blind to all that was happening in the real trip.

So, guidebook-less as we were,my companion and I traveled to Estonia. Arriving without advance plans, we had no choice but to ________ to some friendly faces for advice. We ________ ourselves and asked them what was happening around the town. When this resulted in an ________ we enjoyed a 110-degree wood-stove sauna （桑拿浴） , to a beautiful Estonian home by  a river  where ________ picked forest-mushrooms and the good ________ of our five new-found Estonian friends, we sure were glad we had left our bossy aunt at home.

【1】A.loaded B.collected C.packed D.selected

【2】A.except B.with C.including D.besides

【3】A.ability B.convenience C.example D.performance

【4】A.goal B.decision C.excuse D.mistake

【5】A.around B.away C.abroad D.alone

【6】A.limits B.influences C.confuses D.encourage

【7】A.in case B.as though C.even though D.as long as

【8】A.Regulation B.Communication C.Intelligence D.Experience

【9】A.relationship B.connection C.similarity D.difference

【10】A.list B.book C.file D.summary

【11】A.loudly B.positively C.proudly D.happily

【12】A.remind B.offer C.discover D.order

【13】A.traveling B.planning C.preparing D.thinking

【14】A.counting B.following C.drawing D.ticking

【15】A.concerned B.interested C.lost D.devoted

【16】A.turn to B.turn up C.turn down D.tum in

【17】A.presented B.helped C.introduced D.forced

【18】A.application B.exit C.entrance D.invitation

【19】A.skillfully B.curiously C.fully D.locally

【20】A.quality B.company C.possession D.advice

31、课本原文填空。

Festivals and celebrations of all kinds have been held everywhere since ancient times. Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and 【1】 in autumn. Sometimes celebrations would be held after 【2】 had caught animals. At that time people would 【3】 if food was difficult to find, 【4】 during the cold winter months. Today's festivals have many 【5】, some religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or events．

The most 【6】 and important festivals are the ones 【7】 look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. 【8】 the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children lucky money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, 【9】 take place forty days before Easter, usually in February. These carnivals might include parades, dancing in the streets day and 【10】, loud music and colourful 【11】 of all kinds. Easter is an important religious and social festival for Christians around the world. It celebrates the 【12】 of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks 【13】 though it is covered with pink snow.

People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun 【14】 each other. Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our 【15】 and forget our work for a little while.

32、假定你是李华，你所在的抚顺某中学要征集一封英文感谢信，以致意奋战在抗击新型冠状病毒第一线的医护人员，请你根据下列要点写一封信用于投稿。内容包括：1.表达谢意；2.个人感受；3.表达信心。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇： 流行病 epidemic；新型冠状病毒 novel coronavirus

Dear medical workers,

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Good luck and stay well！

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua