湖南株洲2025届高二英语下册三月考试题

1、He couldn’t ________ his idea in the speech, so we didn’t know what he had meant to say.

A.get back B.get into C.get across D.get through

2、He appears ______ about this matter.

A.to have heard B.to hear C.having heard D.heard

3、There are ________ things about city life in the future which are not certain.

A.plenty of B.a plenty of C.a great deal of D.many a

4、I’m afraid this painting is not by Picasso.It’s only a copy and so it’s ______．

A.priceless B.invaluable C.valuable D.worthless

5、The Palace Museum, also known as The Forbidden City ______, to A.D. 1406.

A.dating from B.dates from C.dating back D.dates back

6、_______ do you think will get the first prize in the English Competition?

A.who B.whom C.whose D.whoever

7、It is too cold outside, so we decided to watch television at home ______ go for a walk.

A.other than B.more than C.rather than D.or rather

8、In this lecture, I can only give you a purely   _view of how we can live life to the full and make some suggestions about the future.

A.progressive B.personal C.unique D.popular

9、It was not until spring 2008, when Sarah and Brown shared a flight between London and Washington, ________they got to know each other properly.

A．where

B．what

C．before

D．that

10、There is no light on--- they _______ be at home.

A.mustn’t B.can’t C.needn’t D.shouldn’t

11、——I'm going to Paris next week.

——____________! So am I

A. Wish you good luck B. What a coincidence

C. Don't mention it D. Good trip

12、She turned up, _________ in pink.

A.dressed B.dressing C.to be dressed D.to dress

13、It’s so cold this morning. I can’t remember ________ before.

A. a cold day B. the coldest day C. a colder day D. the colder day

14、My brother is so interested in languages that, he is now learning _____ third language besides Eng-lish and French.

A.不填 B.the C.a D.that

15、He made it clear that paying an official to bend the rules_____ should be regarded as illegal.

A. in one’s favor B. on offer C. to favor D. who favor

16、__________ the housing price, several measures have been adopted in the last two years.

A．Lowering

B．Having lowered

C．To lower

D．To have lowered

17、Sir, you ____ be sitting in this waiting room. It is for women and children only.

A.shouldn’t B.will  C.won’t D.needn’t

18、Although there is more female participation in IT workforce,______ a significant imbalance of male and female senior positions.

A.it remains B.there remains

C.there remaining D.that remains

19、______ young in our village are now living _______much more comfortable life than we did.

A.A ; /  B. The ; the

C.Ａ; a  D. The ; a

20、Luckily, some children were playing basketball when the powerful earthquake ________ yesterday afternoon.

A．gave out

B．watched out

C．broke out

D．turned out

21、The winds of the freedom were so powerful as to cause the citizens to _____ the king and bring him down.

A.watch out for B.look down on

C.put up with D.rise up against

22、All the factories ________great importance to the car exhibition and the price was very low, so a lot of cars were sold during exhibition.

A．attached

B．afforded

C．attracted

D．affected

23、As a result of the serious flood,two-thirds of the buildings in the area______.

A．need repairing

B．needs to repair

C．needs repairing

D．need to repair

24、How do you like the Japanese film Your Name! Don’t you just love ________ when the hero comes across the girl again after 8 years?

A. this B. that C. it D. them

25、Few people paid full attention to their health conditions _____ they were seriously ill.

A.when B.if C.until D.before

26、   This year I’m buying presents for 16 children, as well as my own daughter, Mia-Grace, who will be two on Christmas Day. My tree will be beautifully decorated, I’m bringing the turkey to the family Christmas lunch and having an open house activity on Boxing Day. And the whole thing’s only going to cost me £150.

I’ve been careful with money since I was a teenager, for I came from a poor family with many children. I had to drop out of high school to earn money to support myself. I remember well that I went a bit mad back then when I got my first credit card and my parents had to leave me from home and cared little for me from then, which taught me a real lesson.

We’re very careful now and we don’t overspend or owe anything on credit cards. I work for an electrician and my husband Neil, 33, works in the construction business. We’re concerned about our jobs because our companies are quiet at the moment.

We’ve also been hit by rising prices, particularly food, petrol, gas and electricity. Everyone I know is worried. One of my friends’ husbands has just gone self-employed and if he doesn’t work, they have no money coming in.

Christmas has been playing on my mind for the past three or four months. We decided on a budget of £150 because that’s just under my weekly wage and it meant we could afford Christmas while using Neil’s salary for our essential bills.

We quickly realized that we buy some things every year just for the sake of it. Even though we have lots of decorations already, we usually buy something new for the tree but this Christmas we’re not going to. We’ve already got our tree – a big man-made one which I bought half-price in the January sales. It will last us for years.

After all, no one can escape from this financial crisis which is spreading throughout the globe.

【1】We can infer that Boxing Day most probably falls on ______.

A. January 20 B. May 5

C. October 24 D. December 26

【2】Which of the following is TRUE about the author according to this passage?

A. She has bought Christmas presents for 16 children in total.

B. She has bought a man-made Christmas tree at a low price.

C. Both the author and her husband are already out of work now.

D. She would like to buy a new Christmas tree for this Christmas.

【3】The second and third paragraphs mainly tell us ______ .

A. why the author has been very careful with money

B. how she finished her education of high school

C. where she earned her first money in her teens

D. when she left home and got married to her husband

【4】We can conclude from this passage ______.

A. the author often quarrels with her husband about their little earnings

B. nobody but the author was worried about the rising prices

C. the author has never been worried about losing jobs

D. the author and those around her are suffering from the financial crisis

27、If asked if space exploration should continue, most Americans would give an immediate response either in favor of continuing or in favor of ending space exploration. A common response would be that space exploration is a waste of money. An average American, uneducated on the subject, might believe that the government is wasting billions of dollars on   the research that has no merit.

Someone strange to the subject might say that a space shuttle goes up once in a while and that is about all that happens. Research is ongoing and continues when there are no shuttles being launched. This also costs the government money. Does the extreme cost of space exploration make sense?

One argument is that the government is wasting money on the research not being used on Earth. Actually, the money goes to workers and scientists that support National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) missions ( 任务), and goes to major companies that play important roles in major sectors of the US economy. Boeing is a partner of NASA for aircraft, the same company that makes commercial aircraft for the airline industry.

Another benefit to continuing space exploration is the many spinoff ( 衍生的) technologies it provides. The artificial heart resulted from experiments on the space shuttle. The handheld Jaws of Life used to save victims from car accidents originated from the system used to separate the space shuttle from its booster rockets. Insulation in homes that keeps them warm and energy efficient is based on the technology used to insulate the space shuttle.

There are direct benefits to the economy provided by NASA missions as well as spinoff technologies. These advances are found in food, building materials, medical procedures and the vehicles we drive. While it can be proven that billions of dollars that could be used elsewhere is being spent on space exploration, the benefits it provides outweigh the terrible aspects. As a matter of fact, the money spent helps to improve the quality of our lives.

【1】How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?

A．By offering analyses.

B．By making comparisons.

C．By giving some examples.

D．By presenting research findings.

【2】The function of Jaws of Life is to .

A．save people from traffic accidents

B．do experiments on the space shuttle

C．keep houses warm and energy efficient

D．separate the space shuttle from its booster rockets

【3】In the author’s opinion, space exploration .

A．has changed our life completely

B．costs too much of our time

C．benefits us in many ways

D．has nothing to do with us

【4】What would be the best title for the text?

A．Benefits of Space Exploration

B．Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost?

C．How to Make Space Exploration Affordable

D．Missions of the NASA Space Shuttle Program

28、   We all use different ways to remember ideas, facts and things we need to store. Remembering is an extremely important part of our learning experience. Information process, storage and recall（回顾）encourage purposeful learning.

But the brain doesn’t store everything we want or need for future use. It makes choices and tends to remember information that forms a memorable pattern. Things you learned recently can be particularly difficult to remember because they haven’t taken root in your mind.

“Forgetting allows us to remember what is really important to our survival. We forget much of what we read, watch, and think directly every day.” writes John Medina in his book, Brain Rules.

How do you avoid losing 90%of what you’ve learned? An inspiring writer and speaker Zig Ziglar once said：“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”

Repetition has been a remembering skill for ages. When you hear or read something once，you don’t really learn it-at least not well enough to store the new information for long. The right kind of repetition can do wonders for your memory. People learn or remember better by repeating things or getting exposed to information many times. Others repeat particular steps or processes deliberately a number of times or even years to become better at certain skills.

Daniel Coyle explains in his book, The Little Book of Talent：“...closing the book and writing a summary, even short ones, forces you to figure out the key points, process and organize those ideas so they make sense, and write them on the page. When you pick it back up weeks later, reread all of your notes or highlights to strengthen the ideas even further.”

People learn by repeating things. Better learning is a repetition process. Every time we repetitively access something we already know, we increase the memory’s stored value.

【1】Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A.The brain tends to store 90% of the things we learn.

B.The fresher the information is, the easier to remember.

C.Thinking is more important than remembering in study.

D.The brain tends to choose and keep what it thinks important.

【2】How does the writer prove his opinion?

A.By giving examples. B.By listing numbers.

C.By borrowing words of experts. D.By providing scientific finding.

【3】What does Daniel Coyle want to say in his book？

A.You can’t pay too much attention to repetition.

B.Summarizing is a very effective learning tool.

C.Forgetting forces human brain to make choices.

D.Regular repetition helps to form good habits.

【4】What may be the purpose of the last paragraph？

A.To summarize and stress his opinion. B.To ask the readers to use the skills to learn.

C.To introduce his opinion and attract readers. D.To tell readers to increase the value of memory.

【5】Which do you think is the best title of the passage？

A.How the Brain Works B.Reading for More

C.Fighting Against Forgetting D.Repeat to Remember

29、   If you're a junk food lover, you will know this：No matter where you shop or what brand you buy, when you tear（open a bag of potato chips, it's almost always half filled. This can be quite disappointing. I always hope those bags are quite full. But there's actually a god reason for this--and no, the food companies are not pulling a fast one on you.

In the manufacturing industry. “slack fill” is the empty space that's placed around a product on purpose. The idea is that the extra room can "protect" your Lays or Tostitos（brands of chips）. The trip from the production machine to the market can be grille long and hard！If it weren't for "slack fill', your chips would probably look more like breadcrumbs（面包屑）.

But wait, there's more, Think that the bag of potato chips was filled up with air？It actually is nitrogen gas(氮气). Chips manufacturers fill bags with this gas to help kelp chips fresh If it were filled with regular air, the chips would likely turn wet and soft in 1994, scientists found that exposing chips to nitrogen not only heaped to prolong the shelf life（保质期）, but also made them stay crisp（脆的）What's more, nitrogen is a natural gas and completely harmless.

Still feel you are tricked by the empty bag？There's a way to tell the amount of potato chips in your snick bug before you break it open. In 1966, the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act was passed. which requires manufacturers to show the net weight of their products' contents. When shopping for your next bag of potato chips, pay attention to the net weight that's printed on the bag. This way you'll be able to know if it is worth your money.

【1】What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 mean?

A.Doing a test. B.Playing a trick.

C.Changing its focus. D.Reaching an agreement.

【2】What do we know about “slack fill”?

A.It makes the chips’ bag look empty. B.It can shorten the products' trip.

C.It is only used or Lays or Tostitos. D.It can prevent damage to the chips

【3】Why do chips' manufacturers choose nitrogen to fill up the bag?

A.To keep chips tasting good. B.To make chips look good.

C.To reduce the products cost. D.To avoid causing harm to humans.

【4】What are we advised to do in the last paragraph?

A.Value a product by its net weight. B.Work out the products net weight.

C.Notice the products' shelf life. D.Pay more attention to the empty bag.

30、   Erik, an athletic child, lost his vision in his early teen. At first he_______to use a walking stick or learn Braille(盲文),_______he could do as well as any teenage. He finally came to accept his disability, though. He couldn’t play the same_______as he used to. But then he discovered wrestling, a sport_______sight wasn’t as important as touch and_______.Then,at 16,he discovered rock climbing was like wrestling in some ways. A wrestler and a rock climber_______information through touch. Rock climbing_______ mountain climbing, the greatest challenge of his life. Erik’s teammates say he isn’t different from a_______mountaineer. The major difference is that his strong upper body, flexibility and mental toughness make him a(n)_______climber.

Climbing Mount Everest was__________for every climber on every team. The reaction to the mountain air for Erik was the same as it was for his teammates:__________of oxygen causes the heart to beat slower, and the brain doesn’t__________as clearly as normal. In some ways, Erik had an advantage__________his teammates：as they got near the top, the vision of all climbers was__________.So at a certain altitude, all his teammates were like Erik--nearly__________.To climb Mount Everest is an achievement for any athlete. Erik showed his disability wasn’t as important as his ability.

【1】A.demanded B.decided C.refused D.promised

【2】A.insisting B.praying C.admitting D.appealing

【3】A.exercises B.games C.parts D.sports

【4】A.that B.where C.which D.whose

【5】A.thought B.hearing C.feel D.smell

【6】A.store B.receive C.exchange D.get

【7】A.led to B.resulted from C.depended on D.made out

【8】A.formal B.sighted C.determined D.successful

【9】A.optimistic B.special C.responsible D.perfect

【10】A.uneasy B.compulsory C.optional D.challenging

【11】A.short B.lack C.limit D.supply

【12】A.survive B.recover C.function D.refresh

【13】A.against B.over C.beyond D.with

【14】A.wasted B.broadened C.restricted D.improved

【15】A.blind B.dizzy C.hopeless D.dead

31、课文填空

The three men built a small boat and set sail. All of a sudden, two dinosaurs rose to the surface and began to fight each other. The small boat was almost 【1】by the dinosaurs before they were able to get away

They sailed to shore and explored the forest. They came across huge insects and many strange creatures. As they were 【2】 around, they noticed a man sitting【3】a tree in the distance-he was at least four meters tall. The men became afraid, and ran back to the boat.

They set sail again, and saw what looked like an exit, but it was【4】by rocks which had fallen down from the ceiling. They made a bomb to blow up the rocks. After the bomb exploded, their boat rushed 【5】forward into a large hole. The boat floated down with the water. It was too fast for them to escape, They could only hold on to the boat in terror.

32、假设你是星光中学的李华，将参加主题为“Let’s Ride Bicycles”的英语演讲比赛。请撰写一份演讲稿，主要内容包括：

1.目前汽车带来的空气污染和交通堵塞等问题；

2.骑自行车的益处，如环保、对健康有益等。

注意:1.词数：100左右

2.演讲稿开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

参考词汇：低碳生活：low-carbon life 节能：energy saving

Good morning, everyone,

I am Li Hua from Xingguang Middle School. I feel it an honor to communicate my idea to you. The topic of my speech is “Let’s Ride Bicycles”.

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