云南临沧2025届高三英语下册二月考试题

1、The headmaster in our school hopes that we will be more ambitious when we graduate than when we ______ admitted.

A. will get   B. get

C. got   D. have got

2、If we view the problem from a different angle, the solution may become more ________.

A．occasional

B．original

C．outgoing

D．obvious

3、No European country is ______ the economic consequences of the coronations，but the pain won't be divided equally.

A.escaping B.avoiding C.surviving D.declining

4、A painting by Vincent Van Gogh was stolen on _______ would have been the Dutch master’s 167th birthday.

A．that

B．when

C．what

D．which

5、What I finally believe is that it's of no importance ______ others think about you，and what matters most is the attitude of your own .

A.what B.how

C.that D.way

6、They have invited me to visit their country, ________ is very kind of them.

A.that B.it C.which D.what

7、________, fiction is often more interesting than the truth.

A．Impossibly

B．Generously

C．Necessarily

D．Admittedly

8、__________ his skyrocketing popularity , Korean film star Kim Soo-kyun (金秀贤) will meet Asian fans, covering China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and South Korea.

A. With regard to   B. In response to   C. In spite of   D. In terms of

9、Don’t be afraid! If the person standing in front of us were a witch, she _______ us into frogs already.

A.would turn B.would have turned C.may turn D.may have turned

10、It is said that people in that area have little ________ to recreational activities such as watching TV or seeing films.

A. avenue B. edge

C. exposure     D. access

11、Here are four experiments we have to finish before June 6th, ________ two should be done in the wild.

A．of which

B．whose

C．in which

D．that

12、However, most of the fires this year are believed ________ by farmers, who use fire as a traditional way to clean land.

A.causing B.to be caused C.having caused D.to have caused

13、 a strange plant! I've never seen it before.

A.Which B.What C.How D.Whether

14、This year's English movie dubbing competition will be held, but no date has yet been set for the ________of the entries to be selected.

A.commission B.submission C.association D.occupation

15、I didn’t ________ having to do the cooking myself, or I would have learnt one or two dishes from my mom.

A. expect B. anticipate

C. forecast D. preview

16、Lily is so ______ . She is always making you feel you can talk quite naturally to her.

A．critical

B．available

C．magnificent

D．dramatic

17、This is the only way that I can think of _______ the problem of water waste in urban areas.

A．settling

B．to settle

C．settle

D．settled

18、We packed all the hooks in wooden boxes so that they   damaged.

A. don’t get   B. won’t get

C. didn’t get   D. wouldn’t get

19、New York is the fashion capital of the world, says a new study on Feb 4. 2014 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM), Pairs ____ second, with Shanghai ______10th while Hongkong 20th.

A. coming, ranks   B. come, ranked   C. comes, ranking   D. coming, ranking

20、Some new degree courses will be carried out   the current ones，so that students can gain success more easily.

A.in respect to B.in terms of

C.in contrary to D.in parallel to

21、Millions of A$50 banknotes in Australia have an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked by the country’s central bank before they were printed and circulated.

The goof first became known on Thursday when a listener on radio outlet Triple M sent the station a magnified photo of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) new A$50 note highlighting the word “responsibility“ misspelt as ”responsibilty” three times.

The A$50 currency is the most widely circulated in Australia and accounts for nearly half the total value of other banknotes in use, according to the RBA. But for now, around 46 million of the new notes are in use across the country.

The note came into circulation on Oct. 18, 2018 with new security features designed to deter counterfeiting and with tactile (触觉的) elements for the visually impaired .

But it has no intention of withdrawing or recalling the notes from circulation. The error will be corrected in the next print run, the RBA said.

An RBA spokeswoman said in an emailed statement to Reuters the Bank “is aware of it and the spelling will be corrected at the next print run.”

“This does not affect the legal tender status of the banknotes. We have reviewed our processes to remove the likelihood of such an error occurring in the future,” an RBA spokeswoman said.

It sports a head-shot of Edith Cowan, who served as the first woman elected to an Australian legislature from 1921 to 1924.

“ It is a great responsibility to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasize the necessity which exists for other women being here,” it says.

The Bank said in its latest annual report its note printing subsidiary delivered 227 million Australian banknotes in 2017/18, including around 184 million new series A$50 banknotes.

【1】What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To introduce Australian Central Bank’s annual report on A$50.

B．To recall the newly-printed A$50 banknotes due to printing error.

C．To report a printing mistake of A$50 banknotes in Australia.

D．To warn Australian people of the typographical error in A$50 banknotes.

【2】What is the underlined word “goof” in the second paragraph?

A．fault

B．circulation

C．damage

D．reproduction

【3】Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．A listener on radio Triple M called the station to tell the error of new A$50

B．The new A$50 notes account for most of the total value of other banknotes in use in Australia.

C．The RBA will withdraw new A$50 notes and they will not be in circulation.

D．The RBA is aware of the typographical error and it will correct the printing error in the next print run.

【4】What can we infer from the passage?

A．The correct spelling in the new A$50 note is “responsibility”.

B．The typographical error affects the legal status of the banknotes.

C．The new A$50 note with typographical error came into circulation on August,2018.

D．The new A$50 note has a head-shot of Mr. Cowan who was once an Australian legislature.

22、   “Smombies”— people walking while staring at their smartphones are very real and a growing cause for concern. To let people pay more attention to their surroundings to avoid serious accidents, government in a small German town has come up with a more positive solution — embedding (嵌入) traffic lights in the pavement to make them noticed by people always looking down at their phones.

The safety measure was taken. Authorities in Augsburg decided to act, installing ground level traffic lights at two tram (电车) stops last Tuesday. The lights flash red when a tram is coming, or when the regular traffic light turns red. “We realized that the normal traffic light isn't in the line of sight of many pedestrians these days,” said Tobias Hermes, a city official. “So we decided to have an extra set of lights — the more lights we have, the more people are likely to notice them.”

Some Augsburg people appear to be quite happy with the idea. “I think it makes sense,” Jack Smith said, speaking to The Augsburg Alleghenies. “One always sees young people these days running over red lights. This makes it more obvious that you need to stop.”

Others, however, found the need for ground traffic lights unnecessary and even frightening. “I find it scary that smartphone users are so engrossed that they need to install lights in the ground so that they notice the tram coming,” one person told the local paper.

But do this kind of pavement-embedded lights actually work? One interviewed teenager believes not really. “To be honest, I didn't even notice it,” he told The Augsburg Alleghenies. "Maybe it’d be useful at night, but I didn’t realize it was there until just now.”

【1】From the text we can know that smombies refer to people  

A.who are fond of walking.

B.who look at phones while walking.

C.whose smartphones are embedded traffic lights.

D.who pay more attention to their surroundings.

【2】What can we learn from Tobias Hermes?

A.The tram is the main cause of traffic accidents.

B.The tram's lights should flash while running.

C.Many people can't see normal traffic lights clearly.

D.The pavement-embedded lights are easier to be seen.

【3】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “engrossed” in Paragraph 4?

A.Disturbed. B.Scared.

C.Engaged. D.Inspired.

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

A.The Serious Smartphones Problems.

B.Advocate People to Celebrate Traffic Rules.

C.The Importance of Ground Traffic Lights.

D.Ground Traffic Lights for People Staring at Their Smartphones.

23、Every morning at five o’clock, composer (作曲家) Walter Werzowa would sit down at his computer waiting for a particular daily e-mail. It came from a team that had been working all night to draft Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony. The e-mail contained hundreds of versions, and Werzowa listened to them all, looking for the perfect tune—a sound that was unmistakably Beethoven. But the phrases he was listening to weren’t composed by Beethoven. They were created by artificial intelligence.

When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he left behind some musical drafts and notes. There was barely enough to make out a phrase, let alone a whole symphony. But that didn’t stop people from trying.

Werzowa and a group of music experts and computer scientists teamed up to use machine learning to create the symphony. Ahmed Elgammal led the AI side of the team. The team’s first task was to teach the AI to think like Beethoven. To do that, they gave it Beethoven’s complete works, his drafts and notes. They taught it Beethoven’s process—like how he went from four notes to his entire Fifth Symphony. Then they taught it to compose a bridge between two sections. With all that knowledge, the AI came as close to thinking like Beethoven as possible. But it still wasn’t enough. The AI doesn’t really produce something that can continue for a long time and be consistent. So the team had to put the selected pieces together to build a symphony.

Matthew Guzdial researches creativity (创造力) and machine learning at the University of Alberta. He didn’t work on the Beethoven project, but he says, “Modern AI, modern machine learning, is all about just copying small local patterns. And it’s up to a human to then take what the AI outputs and find the genius (天资). The genius wasn’t in the AI. The genius was in the human who was doing the selection.”

【1】How did Walter Werzowa contribute to the Beethoven project?

A．He trained the AI to think like a human.

B．He replied to daily e-mails every morning.

C．He selected the best tune created by the AI.

D．He drafted Beethoven’s unfinished symphony.

【2】What was the major challenge the team met?

A．The AI was far from thinking like Beethoven.

B．It was hard to put pieces together to build a symphony.

C．The AI couldn’t create a long and consistent piece of music.

D．There were not enough complete works for machine learning.

【3】Which of the following would Matthew Guzdial most probably agree with?

A．Al is likely to be a barrier to creativity.

B．The potential of AI is being brought out.

C．The value of AI shouldn’t be overlooked.

D．AI can’t totally replace the role of humans.

24、   Oxford English Dictionary（OED） announced on November 23 for the first time that it has chosen not to name one single word of the year, but many words for the “special” year 2020. Describing 2020 as “a year which cannot be neatly summarized in one single word”. OED said on Monday that there were too many words to sum up the events of 2020. From more than 11 billion words found in web-based news, blogs and other text sources, its lexicographers(词典编纂者)revealed what the dictionary described as “great shifts in language data and frequency rises in new words” over the past 12 months.

Most words of the year are coronavirus-related, including coronavirus, lockdown, circuit-breaker, keyworkers and face masks. The report said the word "coronavirus" dates back to the 1960s and was previously "mainly used by scientific and medical specialists". But by April this year it had become one of the most frequently used nouns in the English language, beyond even the usage of the word "time". It said use of the word “pandemic” has increased by more than 57,000 percent this year.

The revolution in working habits during the pandemic has also affected language, with both “remote” and “remotely” seeing more than 300 percent growth in use since March. “On mute(静音)”and “unmute” have seen 500 percent rises since March, while the words “workation” and “staycation” also increased drastically.

Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, said. “I've never witnessed a year in language like the one we've just had. The Oxford team was identifying hundreds of significant new words and usages as the year unfolded.” “2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other,” Grathwohl added.

The OED's announcement mirrored the huge influence of the COVID-19 on the people from all walks of life. To bring life back to normal, countries such as Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States are racing against time to develop coronavirus vaccines.

【1】How did the lexicographers find words to summarize the events of 2020?

A．By consulting some experts, scholars and authors.

B．By consulting some reporters and hosts of news programs.

C．By referring to web-based news, blogs and other text sources.

D．By referring to magazines, newspapers and other printed materials.

【2】What did Casper Grathwohl think of the words for 2020 compared to other years?

A．They are precise.

B．They are subjective.

C．They are reasonable.

D．They are unique.

【3】Which of the following best explains “drastically” underlined in paragraph 3?

A．Sharply.

B．Steadily.

C．Similarly.

D．Slightly.

【4】What can we know about the word "corona virus" according to the text?

A．It is a word created in 2020.

B．It might first appear in the 1960s.

C．It is the only named word of 2020.

D．It has been frequently used since the 1960s.

25、Freshman year of college. World History class. Our professor had announced that 30 percent of our final grade would be based on an _________ — completing at least twenty hours unpaid community service. “It is only for twenty hours, but I _________ you will be surprised at what can happen in those twenty hours,” he added.

After doing some research, I found an after-school _________ program and was paired with a fourth-grade boy named Steven. He was a little quiet but obviously _________. He didn’t need a tutor as much as he needed a friend. It seemed that most of his classmates _________ him.

We met twice a week for two hours, so it _________ took me five weeks to complete the necessary hours for my class. But when the hours were done, we _________ our twice-a-week appointment as usual. I enjoyed the time with Steven, and I could tell he’d grown _________ to me as well.

_________, as the school year came to an end, the moment of final parting came. That day, when I was heartbroken by Steven’s tearful eyes, I suddenly __________ I had a young boy in my life about the same age: my own brother. I had been so busy being an adult that I didn’t make time to __________ him.

It was time to change that. I started going on weekly dates with my brother. Even if it sometimes meant playing Pokemon, which seemed __________ to me, the sight of the __________ on my brother’s face made me feel it was worthwhile.

I still think about Steven and I am grateful that even though we didn’t get to continue our__________it was the interaction with him that reminded me I was __________ the relationship with my brother. My professor was right: A lot can happen in just twenty hours.

【1】

A．examination

B．experiment

C．assessment

D．assignment

【2】

A．guess

B．bet

C．predict

D．hope

【3】

A．nursing

B．cooking

C．tutoring

D．painting

【4】

A．intelligent

B．humorous

C．emotional

D．ambitious

【5】

A．adored

B．accompanied

C．inspired

D．ignored

【6】

A．nearly

B．only

C．eventually

D．hardly

【7】

A．ceased

B．cancelled

C．rescheduled

D．continued

【8】

A．attached

B．accustomed

C．related

D．addicted

【9】

A．Furthermore

B．Meanwhile

C．However

D．Therefore

【10】

A．expected

B．realized

C．recognized

D．imagined

【11】

A．attend to

B．answer for

C．respond to

D．think of

【12】

A．complex

B．immature

C．childish

D．foolish

【13】

A．astonishment

B．confusion

C．admiration

D．excitement

【14】

A．friendship

B．partnership

C．cooperation

D．communication

【15】

A．getting away with

B．missing out on

C．breaking away from

D．looking down upon

26、假定你是学生会主席李华，你校即将举行创意大赛表彰大会。请你就此事写一则通知，内容包括：

1. 大会时间及地点；

2. 大会内容。

注意: 1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考词汇：表彰大会 commendation ceremony

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