2025-2026学年甘肃庆阳高三(上)期末试卷英语

1、This kind of desk is very popular because it can be ______ the height you need.

A．adapted to

B．added to

C．adjusted to

D．attached to

2、The supermarket has installed security cameras to ________ thieves.

A．foster

B．complain

C．edit

D．deter

3、He was allowed to go out,but his parents made it a_____that he should get home before midnight.

A.solution B.condition C.state D.situation

4、She’s battling with her ________ over whether to tell the police what she saw.

A．complaint

B．consequence

C．conscience

D．composition

5、Body language is very useful because it can help you to make yourself better__________.

A.understand B.understanding C.understood D.to understand

6、He always insisted ________ in full.

A．that it would have to be written out

B．in writing it out

C．to have it written out

D．on its being written out

7、________ from the outer space, the earth looks like a blue globe with signs of life.

A．Seeing

B．Seen

C．To see

D．Being seen

8、You’d better   some money for special use.

A.pick up B.set aside C.put off   D.give away

9、Though ________ money, his parents managed to send him to university.

A．lacked

B．lacking

C．having lacked

D．having been lacked

10、With the couple_______in a nearby town, the house seems pretty empty most of the time.

A.work B.to work C.working D.worked

11、Walking out of the theatre，the famous singer found himself ________by his fans．

A. surrounding   B. surround

C. surrounded   D. being surrounded

12、It is so cold that you can’t go outside_____ fully covered in thick clothes.

A. if   B. unless C. once D. when

13、You’re great! You always make ________ mistakes than others in each test.

A．more

B．less

C．fewer

D．many

14、—Look! Everything here is under construction.

—What’s the pretty small house that ________for?

A.is being built B.having been built C.is built D.is building

15、This kind of ancient book requires a great deal of .

A. concentration B. attraction

C.appreciation   D.notice

16、 Don’t be discouraged. ______ things as they are and you will enjoy every day of your life.

A. Take   B. To take   C. Taking D. Taken

17、He was about to cross the street ______ he heard his name ______.

A. when; called  B. if; calling

C. and; calling  D. till; called

18、There ______ the bell.

A. go B. goes C. is going D. is ringing

19、—Do you think it wise for Chinese mothers to try to do everything for their children?

—No, that’s ________ they are mistaken.

A.where B.what C.when D.how

20、When I put a finger to my lips, it’s a _____ for you to be quiet.

A.signal B.mission C.contract D.demand

21、—Did you ________ him to give up playing computer games?

—He was very stubborn. Only God can.

A．suggest

B．attract

C．hope

D．persuade

22、—What do you think ________the cultural diversity?

—Many reasons.

A．brought about

B．figure out

C．brought in

D．break out

23、Pick yourself up from ________ you fell and correct your mistake ________ you made it.

A．how, where

B．where, where

C．how, how

D．where, how

24、I’m tired out. I__________all afternoon and I don’t seem to have finished anything.

A．shopped

B．have shopped

C．had shopped

D．have been shopping

25、I think watching TV every evening is a waste of time—there are ____ meaningful things to do.

A．less

B．more

C．the least

D．the most

26、   A designer is recently creating floral installations (花篮) on the streets of Manhattan, New York, that are meant to brighten the days of healthcare and other important workers.

Lewis Miller’s most recent creation is an arrangement popping out of a rubbish can at the corner of W 58th Street and 10th Avenue. “They were very simple. It was just cherry branches.” Miller said. “We didn’t disclose the location, so nobody could necessarily go and find them.” But plenty of people did find them and then they found his Instagram information. A post with pictures of the “flower flash” as Miller calls them has gotten more than 16,000 likes in less than a day. “U listen. Pm kind of bored. I’m a creative person. I did something new and it took off, ’’ Miller said. “It still surprises me reading the comments from yesterday like really how much it feeds peopled souls.”

Miller has been dotting Manhattan with floral sunrises for a few years with his arrangements popping out of those New York City hot dog carts (推车）and even construction equipment.

“And the combination of which is so hard aggressive, compared with flowers which are the exact opposite of that,” Miller said.

Vogue magazine once wrote about him but it’s the reaction from the public many of whom have been restricted inside for weeks that he values most.

“If you can just stop, pause and just have one second of joy — that’s amazing because that’s one of the things that’s so lacking and it’s hard,” Miller said.

As one person on Instagram put it, New York City rubbish has never looked so pretty.

【1】Who are the floral installations mainly intended for?

A．Medical workers.

B．Busy walkers-by.

C．Cleaning staff.

D．Important politicians.

【2】What do the citizens think of Miller’s idea of the floral installations?

A．Admirable.

B．Hopeful.

C．Valuable.

D．Boring.

【3】The design is creative because ________.

A．it is simple

B．it is made of rubbish

C．it pops out of a rubbish can

D．it is the symbol of New York City

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

A．Street Art

B．A Big Surprise

C．Lewis Miller’s Creation Is Amazing

D．Flower Flash Brightens Streets

27、Meaningful relationships make life more enjoyable. 【1】 In order to attract an ideal mate, you’ll need to spend some time preparing yourself to make sure you’re ready to be in a relationship with a new person.

Define what an ideal relationship means to you. As you set out to create your ideal relationship, make sure you consider what you want from it. If you are looking for stability and security, search for a partner with those qualities. 【2】

Let go of the past. 【3】 In order to move forward in your life, you need to say goodbye to anything you may be struggling with from your past. Creating an ideal relationship requires commitment to the possibilities of the future, not bitterness about the past.

【4】 No one wants to be around someone who is bad-tempered or pessimistic (悲观的) all the time. Optimism attracts more optimism. If you want to find an ideal relationship, try to picture the future as full of opportunities. Nobody is perfect, but being positive about yourself, you will be attractive to potential partners.

Work towards positive change in your life. Everyone has faults. Often, these character quirks (怪癖) are what make people lovable and memorable. 【5】 However, there are things you need to work on to attract your ideal partner. Of course, you shouldn’t change yourself for someone else, unless it is a positive change that you want to make for yourself.

A．Be positive.

B．Know your present challenges.

C．Often, what stops you is your past.

D．They can help you get through boredom.

E．If you want attention, look for someone who gives you that.

F．Work on talking things out, even when you’re upset at others.

G．Your family and friends should love you in spite of your weaknesses.

28、Anyone who has ever played the game of Tetris (俄罗斯方块) knows the game’s surreal ability to spill into real life. After you shut off the game, you still see those Tetris blocks falling in your mind. You're grocery shopping and find yourself thinking about rearranging items on grocery shelves. Your mind continues to play the game, even when you're physically not.

Robert Stickgold, a Harvard professor, noticed something similar after a day hiking a mountain. That night, he dreamt he was still going through the motions of mountain hiking. Curious about this, he tried something: he got a group of college students of various skill levels to play Tetris and let them sleep in the Harvard sleep lab.

Over 60% of the students, including those who suffered from amnesia (健忘症), reported dreams of images of Tetris pieces falling, rotating (旋转), and fitting together. Interestingly, half the Tetris expert students reported such Tetris dreams, while 75% of the beginners did.

A study found that playing Tetris can grow your brain and make it more efficient. Adolescent girls played the game for an average of 1.5 hours a week over three months. The cerebral cortex (大脑皮层) of the girls grew thicker, while brain activity in other areas decreased. Richard Haier, who had found that there was a "Tetris learning effect", in which the brain consumed less energy as mastery of the game rose, concluded, "The brain is learning which areas not to use."

Haier's study showed that as the girls practiced playing the game, nerve cells made connections, communicating through synapses (a synapse is a connection between two nerve cells). When you learn something, you change those connections. Every time you reactivate(激活) a circuit, synaptic efficiency increases, and connections become more durable and easier to reactivate. Stickgold says sleep plays a role in this memory process.

So to sum up, whenever you do specific tasks over and over again, they take up less of your brain power over time. And that’s pretty amazing.

【1】What does the underlined part ‘surreal ability’ in the first paragraph mean?

A. The game can help people arrange things in life.

B. The game can be applied to many aspects of life.

C. There are great similarities between the game and things in life.

D. The mind continues to play the game when we are doing other things.

【2】What can we learn from Stickgold’s study?

A. More than half of the students dreamed of images of Tetris.

B. Students having bad memories didn’t dream of the game.

C. The Tetris expert students were more likely to dream of the game than the beginners.

D. More than half of the Tetris expert students didn’t dream of the game.

【3】Playing Tetris for a long time can help ________.

①grow one’s brain

②one’s brain function efficiently

③arrange things tidily in life

④improve the adaptability of one’s brain

A. ①②③   B. ①②④

C. ②③④   D. ①③④

【4】The purpose of the passage is to ________.

A. encourage people to play Tetris

B. warn people to focus while doing things

C. warn people not to play games before sleep

D. tell people they will improve at something if they keep doing it

29、Achieving a healthy work-life balance — an idea that has spread to countries around the world — has become one of the primary social goals today. This has resulted in an immediate need for companies to allow for a variety of work styles such as working from home, while also providing a friendly work environment that can bring out the best in each employee.

It all sounds very promising, but in reality, most offices today feature the same boring designs. To make matters worse, air conditioning is often kept to a minimum to cut electricity costs, while windows are covered with blinds to prevent dizziness from longer exposure to natural light. Employees who work indoors are forced to spend most of their days in these unpleasantly warm environments. Since the choice is to build costly new offices that are brighter and more open, there is a real need for solutions that can create a sense of brightness and openness.

This is where Mitsubishi Electric’s revolutionary new technology comes into play. It is a lighting solution to produce the exact deep blue color of a clear sky. Using this technology, offices can work in a way that was not possible with previous LED lights.

The blue skies that are seen on a clear day are produced by what is known as Rayleigh scattering (散射). Because blue light waves are shorter than red light waves, they are scattered towards us more strongly — this is why the sky looks blue during the day.

Mitsubishi Electric’s LED skylight uses the same phenomenon to artificially create the sky’s deep blue quality. It is made up of a slim sky blue panel (嵌板) and a four-sided frame. Of the four frames, only three are lit up at any given time, while the fourth remains dark as if the light were entering at an angle — an important detail that creates the false idea of actual sunlight pouring in through a skylight. Thanks to this technology, one can remain in a closed room and still enjoy the great excitement of looking up at a deep blue sky.

【1】What is a healthy work-life balance like according to the writer?

A．It brings out the best of every employer.

B．It includes different kinds of work styles.

C．It encourages employees to work indoors.

D．It improves employees’ health conditions.

【2】What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The costly choices of most old offices.

B．The promising future of office workers.

C．The virtual solutions to improve productivity.

D．The work conditions in the offices today.

【3】How does Mitsubishi Electric’s LED skylight work?

A．By letting actual sunlight pour in.

B．By lighting three sides of the frames.

C．By changing the previous LED light.

D．By showing pictures the deep blue sky.

【4】Which of the following can best describe the effect of Mitsubishi Electric’s LED skylight?

A．Pleasant.

B．Close.

C．Dizzy.

D．Colorful.

30、Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. During the past twenty-five years, I’ve often found that the message used to be on my fridge has helped me see _________ from a different view.

Once I was on my way to a party with several _________. As we were leaving the office, we met another colleague, Wendy, who had _________ planned to attend the event. We asked her to go together, but she _________ our invitation roughly (粗暴地). My other colleagues were quite annoyed and clearly _________ with Wendy’s behaviour.

_________ how tired Wendy appeared, I commented that perhaps we should forgive her. She was _________ having a bad day, and it wasn’t worth holding a grudge (怨恨) against her if we weren’t _________ of what led to her unusual behaviour. A week later, I _________ that Wendy had a serious illness. Wendy wasn’t being __________ to us but she had just received very bad news.

Whether it’s a family member who let me __________, a friend who betrayed (背叛) my __________ , or a difficult colleague, the words __________ me. Although it’s not always easy to __________, I’ve been able to get rid of a lot of __________ over the years by focusing on my magical sentence.

【1】

A．consequences

B．situations

C．rules

D．reasons

【2】

A．customers

B．colleagues

C．neighbors

D．relatives

【3】

A．frequently

B．eventually

C．previously

D．occasionally

【4】

A．refused

B．accepted

C．suspected

D．ignored

【5】

A．angry

B．content

C．strict

D．pleased

【6】

A．Depending upon

B．Reflecting on

C．Comparing with

D．Accounting for

【7】

A．naturally

B．accidentally

C．seriously

D．obviously

【8】

A．afraid

B．aware

C．ashamed

D．fond

【9】

A．learned

B．guessed

C．determined

D．concluded

【10】

A．selfish

B．aggressive

C．rude

D．impatient

【11】

A．out

B．in

C．down

D．off

【12】

A．judgment

B．respect

C．ability

D．trust

【13】

A．honor

B．defeat

C．guide

D．follow

【14】

A．persuade

B．achieve

C．forgive

D．appreciate

【15】

A．trouble

B．danger

C．pressure

D．annoyance

31、Last week I went to visit my former neighbor, Mr.Yang. He and I used to 【1】 next to each other for many years. About half a year ago, an o【2】 came that the old building, with many other 【3】(相似的) ones, should be pulled down to make r【4】 for a main street. So we had to move apart. Mr.Yang has 【5】(定居) in the suburbs near a beautiful park. His apartment is much l【6】 than before. The only problem is that it 【7】 quite a long time to get to the downtown area. 【8】, Mr.Yang doesn’t seem to worry about the long 【9】(距离)．He says that a new subway line will be built in a few years, 【10】 means life will certainly be more convenient in the future.

32、假定你是李华，正在给你的美国笔友Henry写邮件，向他介绍在母亲节(五月的第二个周日)那一天你亲自给妈妈做了她爱吃的美食并送小礼物。同时，询问他是如何给他的妈妈庆祝母亲节的。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Henry,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua