2025年福建厦门高考三模试卷英语

1、 It is the ability to do the job ______ matters not where you come or what you are.

A. one B. that C. what D. if

2、______ a little earlier, you could have got a copy of his latest book.

A. If you would arrive B. If you arrived

C. Should you arrive   D. Had you arrived

3、She tapped me on _______ shoulder and teased me _______ my hair.

A.the; about B.my; for C.the; on D.my; with

4、He asked about his brother John, who __________ to the medical area, and was told that John had been seriously injured.

A．had rushed

B．had been rushed

C．rushed

D．was being rushing

5、Students are getting creative and working hard to take of the digital age.

A.advantage B.use C.benefit D.value

6、Mike, can you go and ________ how many flights there are from our city to London every day?

A.work out B.look out C.give out D.find out

7、The little boy was allowed to go to have a swim _____ he finished his homework.

A. in case   B. provided that

C. now that   D. by the time

8、 challenges in Chinas car-sharing economy, shared mobility still has a promising future.

A. Despite B. Besides

C. Concerning D. Regarding

9、When  word  came  _______  Zhang Bichen became  the winner of the  “Voice of  China 2014”, her  fans,  greatly  excited,  stood  up  cheering  for  her.

A.  what   B.  that   C.  which D.  where

10、Although some foreign students live in campus accommodation, Xie Lei chose to live with a host family, ________ can help with her adaptation to the new culture.

A．that

B．which

C．what

D．who

11、—________?

—It's March 12th.

A．What time is it

B．What's the date today

C．What day is it

D．What's the weather like

12、—Could you help me solve this puzzle, Tom?

— ________ I'm really not good at this game.

A．Never mind.

B．You got me there.

C．It's up to you.

D．Sounds good.

13、Bring an umbrella with you__________ it rains.

A．in case

B．in no case

C．in any case

D．in this case

14、If you ever aren’t sure whether you have bought the very best smartphone, just _________ “good enough.”

A. make for   B. settle for

C. answer for   D. account for

15、Think about it twice, ________ I think, you may change your mind．

A.so B.but C.or D.and

16、The truck is carrying a ________ of bananas, which will be sent to the north of China.

A．loaf

B．lid

C．load

D．burden

17、I visited Mr. Johnson during his stay in Shanghai       he attended a most important conference there.

A.when B.which  C.where D.in which

18、—This is quite a new phrase.

— Right. It has already ___ the language.

A. spoken   B. used C. entered

19、Theory is based on practice and ________ serves practice.

A．in return

B．in exchange

C．in turn

D．in fact

20、When everyone came into the house, he was found ________ on the floor.

A．lain

B．lying

C．being lain

D．lie

21、A mysterious killer has been destroying sea stars. Scientists had thought an infection was to blame. A new study does point to bacteria as the killer. But the bacteria appear to make those sea stars unable to breathe, not infect them.

In 2013, a disease known as sea-star wasting broke out off the U.S. Pacific Coast and the sea stars there died in massive numbers. “It is hard to figure out the complex disease,” says Ian Hewson, a marine biologist at Cornell University. First, Hewson and his group found a virus in unhealthy sea stars in 2014, but later studies found no connection between it and sea-star deaths. They then explored other factors, such as differences in water temperature. They also tried exposing the animals to bacteria. But nothing reliably caused the wasting disease.

However, when comparing bacteria living with healthy sea stars with those living with unhealthy animals, the scientists found higher levels of certain types of bacteria around sick sea stars. Some bacteria were copiotrophs, which grow rapidly in areas with lots of nutrients (营养). And some were the bacteria that survive only in environments with little to no oxygen.

To re-create these conditions in the lab, the researchers added nutrients to stimulate bacterial growth in the tubs with sea stars. Sure enough, the animals got sick. When they reduced the oxygen in the water, similarly, it caused wounds in three out of every four sea stars. However, no sea star getting normal oxygen levels got sick. The study shows that copiotrophs are stealing oxygen from the water, causing sea-star wasting. Dying sea stars produce more nutrients, which may help bacteria to grow on nearby animals. “It’s a bit of a snowball effect.” Hewson says.

“The problem may worsen with climate change, because warmer waters can hold less oxygen than colder waters. Bacteria such as copiotrophs also grow rapidly in warm water. But knowing the likely cause could help experts better treat sick sea stars,” Hewson says.

【1】What can we learn about sea-star wasting disease?

A．Bacteria are connected with the disease.

B．An infection is the cause of the disease.

C．Higher temperature can help treat the disease.

D．Exposing starfish to bacteria can cure the disease.

【2】Which of the following statements is wrong according to the text?

A．They put nutrients into the tubs to help bacteria to grow rapidly.

B．They reduced the oxygen in the water to see what would happen.

C．They compared copiotrophs with the bacteria living without oxygen.

D．They observed the bacteria living with healthy and unhealthy sea stars.

【3】What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?

A．The disease can greatly affect the ocean environment.

B．Dying sea stars can help bacteria to cause more death.

C．The death of sea stars makes climate change get worse.

D．The effect of sea star wasting is as small as a snowball.

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

A．A mysterious virus is causing sea stars unable to breathe

B．Bacteria are stealing oxygen from water and killing sea stars

C．Dying sea stars become a big concern for marine biologists

D．Climate change makes it more difficult for sea stars to survive

22、When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.

When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: "No pains, no gains". He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.

Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.

I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity(逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.

【1】With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often __________.

A. paid little attention to them

B. kept watering them every morning

C. talked to them to get their attention

D. beat them to make them grow deep roots

【2】What does the author think of the way Doctor Gibbs planted trees?

A. Strange and harmful.

B. Interesting and funny.

C. Cruel and unacceptable.

D. Original and reasonable.[

【3】Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?

A. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.

B. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.

C. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about.

D. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Prayers for my sons

B. Doctor Gibbs and his trees

C. Growing roots

D. Watering trees

23、In the eighteenth century, Japan's feudal overlords (封建领主), from the shogun (幕府将军) to the humblest samurai (武士), found themselves under financial stress. In fact, this stress can be attributed to the overlords' failure to adjust to a rapidly expanding economy, but the stress was also due to factors beyond the overlord's control. Concentration of the samurai in castle-towns had acted as a stimulus to trade. Commercial efficiency, in turn, had put temptations in the way of buyers. Since most samurai had been reduced to idleness by years of peace, encouraged to engage in scholarship and martial exercises or to perform administrative tasks that took little time, it is not surprising that their tastes and habits grew expensive. Overlords' income, despite the increase in rice production among their tenant farmers (佃户), failed to keep pace with their expenses. Although shortfalls in overlord's income resulted almost as much from inefficiencies among their tax collectors as from their higher standards of living, a misfortune like a fire or flood, bringing an increases in expenses or a drop in revenue, could put an overlord in debt to the city rice-Otraders who handled its finances. Once in debt, neither the individual samurai nor the shogun himself found it easy to recover.

It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited, and since the income of Japan's central government consisted in part of taxes collected by the shogun from his land, the government too was suffering. Therefore, the Tokugawa (德川幕府) shoguns began to look for other sources of revenue. Cash profits from government-owned mines were already on the decline because the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold had been exhausted. Opening up new farmland was a possibility, but most of what was suitable had already been exploited and further expansion was technically unfeasible. Direct taxation of the samurai themselves would be politically dangerous. This left the shoguns only commerce as a potential source of government income.

Most of the country's wealth, or so it seemed, was finding its way into the hands of city merchants. It appeared reasonable that they should contribute part of that revenue to ease the shogun's burden of financing the state. A means of obtaining such revenue was soon found by collecting forced loans, known as goyo-kin; although these were not taxes in the strict sense, since they were not fixed in amount and irregular in timing, they were high in yield (投资收益) . Unfortunately, they pushed up prices. Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa shogun's efforts to pay off debts for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed earnings to make ends meet.

【1】Which of the following could best replace the underlined word “This” in Paragraph 2?

A．The importance of commerce in feudal Japan

B．The unfairness of the tax structure in eighteenth - century Japan

C．The difficulties involved in increasing government income by other means

D．The difficulty experienced by both individual samurai and the shogun himself in pulling themselves out of debt.

【2】According to the passage, the actions taken by the Tokugawa shoguns to pay off their debts for the government were regrettable because those actions ______.

A．raised the cost of living by pushing up prices

B．did not succeed in reducing government spending

C．resulted in the exhaustion of deposits of silver and gold

D．were far lower in yield than had originally been expected

【3】Which of the following best describes the attitude of the author toward the samurai discussed in the passage?

A．Warmly approving

B．Mildly sympathetic.

C．Bitterly disappointed

D．Profoundly shocked.

【4】The passage is most probably taken from ______.

A．a book on the economic history of Japan

B．a modem novel about eighteenth-century Japan

C．an introduction to a collection of Japanese folktales

D．an essay comparing Japanese and Western feudalism

24、Store owners have been inventing new tricks to get consumers into their stores and purchasing their goods. Even as we find new strategies to resist, neuroscientists (神经科学家) are employed at marketing agencies across the country to best figure out what is going through a consumer’s brain at each point in the decision process.

We consumers overspend due to the fact that we have a fear of missing the really good deal or having to pay more for the same thing and lose money. Normally, the prefrontal cortex ( 前 额皮 层 ) controls our emotional reactions to things, and keeps us from acting unreasonably by calming down our fears. But an advertiser can disturb our prefrontal cortex just by displaying flashy deal signs, encouraging it to do math on how much money we might save now by buying more of something we don’t actually need yet.

Nostalgia, that regretful affection for past events, is another strong influencer during the holiday season, and it’s shaped by emotion. Emotion—whether good or bad—enhances the formation of memories, engaging more parts of the brain. So hearing a nephew singing a carol, for instance, might reawaken memories associated with that particular song in a much more powerful way than hearing that same nephew sing another song. These kinds of memories are brought back even more easily by sensory input. This might be why we are often greeted by a sensory reminder everywhere we go in a month.

Wherever you purchase gifts, there are social influences on what you buy as well. The holidays are a time when we are especially conditioned to pay more for the label because we’re buying gifts. Receiving a brand-name gift sends the message that “this person has spent more on me, so he or she must value me more.” And it makes sense. If two things seem pretty much the same, how do I know which to choose? Humans have survived as a social species, and we have to rely on each other. So when our brains are trying to make decisions, one of the shortcuts is to assume that if a lot of other people prefer something (and higher cost is often a predictor of that), then there must be a reason.

Much of our holiday spending is driven by unplanned purchases. Plan ahead, resist the urge to purchase in the moment, make notes for comparison shopping, and if the deal is actually good, then it will hold up to inspection and you’ll feel good about your purchases later. Before you blow your budget this season, remember that your brain might be fooling you into that next purchase.

【1】From Paragraph 2, we learn that ______.

A．the prefrontal cortex is the calculation center

B．the common consumers always act unreasonably

C．the sight of flashy deal signs may fill consumers with fear

D．the advertisers make consumers pay more for the same thing

【2】According to Paragraph 3, which of the following can work on consumers?

A．Creating a festival atmosphere.

B．Following the current fashion.

C．Preparing more free samples.

D．Offering a bigger discount.

【3】Why do we buy brand-name gifts during the holiday?

A．They are more reliable.

B．They are a sign of social status.

C．They make people feel valued.

D．They are favored by most people.

【4】To avoid overspending, the author suggests we ______.

A．buy in the moment

B．reduce our budget

C．return unnecessary products

D．make a plan in advance

25、   The phrase “One Person Can Make a Difference” is one of those sayings that we teach youngsters. It is used to_______them to do something kind, to help another person, or to dream big about _______they will change the world.

As adults, do we really believe this? Or is it a_______just for young people? I am writing to tell you that indeed “one person can”. I know this because one day one person did an act of_________that changed my life and the lives of millions more.

Almost 15 years ago while driving across town, I was listening to a radio interview and_______ a story of selflessness and commitment that was_______.  A woman had carried in ten bulky winter  _______through the Thanksgiving weekend crowds on mass transit to donate them at the One Warm Coat drive. She knew the city had many homeless and families_______ and she knew that her _______coats could make a________ between cold and comfort for ten people that winter.

She was only one person, ________ it was her action that inspired me to________that there would always be a need for more coats – and that more people would be able to ________if there were more drop-off ________. Now, nearly 15 years later, One Warm Coat has inspired the donation of over 4 million coats across the country. ________the National Founder, my heart is full and ________, knowing that we, each one of us, make a real difference in the lives of thousands each fall and__________.

So when you set forward to ________ an item，or donate your time, or________your neighbor, perhaps wondering “Will it really________ ?” I can tell you that it will!

【1】A.force B.order C.adopt D.encourage

【2】A.how B.what C.why D.when

【3】A.warning B.statement C.lesson D.task

【4】A.education B.kindness C.wisdom D.profession

【5】A.heard B.told C.read D.wrote

【6】A.disappointing B.inspiring C.interesting D.surprising

【7】A.trousers B.shirts C.shoes D.coats

【8】A.in return B.in need C.in general D.in public

【9】A.special B.beautiful C.extra D.essential

【10】A.difference B.wish C.decision D.living

【11】A.and B.or C.yet D.therefore

【12】A.realize B.state C.guarantee D.predict

【13】A.wonder B.change C.possess D.donate

【14】A.schools B.locations C.points D.hotels

【15】A.like B.unlike C.without D.As

【16】A.cool B.mild C.warm D.weak

【17】A.winter B.summer C.spring D.autumn

【18】A.give up B.give in C.give away D.give off

【19】A.inspire B.help C.believe D.teach

【20】A.happen B.advocate C.evaluate D.matter

26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

When we are in the face of hardships, different attitudes toward life lead to different lives.

Austin lost his arms in an accident that claimed the life of his father — who was the main source of support for the family. Since then, he has had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. For the sake of taking care of him, his younger brother became his shadow, never leaving him alone for years. Except for writing with his toes, he was completely unable to do anything in his life.

One late night, he suffered from diarrhea (腹泻)and had to wake up his younger brother. His younger brother accompanied him into the toilet and then went back to the dorm to wait. But being so tired, his younger brother fell asleep, leaving him in the toilet for two hours till the teacher on duty discovered him. Although the two brothers grew up together, they had their own share of problems, which made them often quarrel with each other. Then one day, his younger brother became so angry that he wanted to separate from Austin, living his own life, as many normal people did. So Austin was heartbroken, and he was at a loss what to do in the future of his life.  

It was really a coincidence that a similar misfortune befell a girl, Ella, too. One night her mother, who suffered from chronic mental illness, left home. So her father went out to look for her mother, leaving her alone at home. She tried to prepare meals for her parents, accidentally starting a fire in the kitchen, which took her arms away.

Though her elder sister, who was studying in another city, showed her strong willingness to take care of her, she was determined to be completely self-reliant. At school, she always studied hard. Most important of all, she learned to be independent. Once she wrote the following in her composition: "I am lucky. Though I lost my arms, I still have legs. I am lucky. Though my wings are broken, my heart can still fly."

注意:

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右;

2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;

3.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好;

4.续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

One day, the boy and the girl were both invited to appear on a television interview program.

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Paragraph 2:

They had both been through the same painful experience, but their different attitudes determined the nature of their lives.

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