2025-2026学年内蒙古包头高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、—Do you know when your mother ______ to pick you up?

—At 11:40am.

A. had come   B. is coming   C. has come   D. would come

2、Some believe that China faces similar problems as devices meant to fight crime _______ to invade privacy.

A. beginning   B. begun   C. begin   D. had begun

3、 ––Have you asked Peter for advice?

––No, he ______ someone, so I didn’t disturb him.

A. is talking with  B. has talked with

C. was talking with D. had talked with

4、----Anything special about this device?

----Well, it can ______ between the cancerous and the normal cells under certain conditions.

A. conclude   B. exclude C. discriminate D. undergo

5、The terrible situation required that the manager ________ present.

A.be B.was C.would be D.shall be

6、The government intends to ________ a new law about wearing safety belts in cars.

A．bring up

B．bring on

C．bring in

D．bring off

7、--- How do you find this kind of rice?

--- Pretty good, It ______more quickly than that kind.

A. is cooking   B. is cooked

C. cooks   D. is being cooked

8、---I will leave you two alone. I am sure you two must have a lot to________.

---Yes. It is two years since we last got together.

A．catch up

B．take in

C．bring out

D．give away

9、I'm very grateful to my high school teachers，without _____________help I wouldn't be so excellent.

A.their B.whom

C.whose D.which

10、Recently, scientists have started a debate on _______the computers will “think” like human in half a century.

A．where

B．whether

C．whose

D．which

11、—Have you heard about Huawei P30?   

—Sure. It is very hot these days. I’m thinking about getting ________.

A．one

B．them

C．that

D．it

12、Nowadays the_________for travelling is shifted from shopping to food and scenery.

A．priority

B．potential

C．preference

D．prejudice

13、The writer has won the hearts of millions of children with the rich stories _______ from her childhood memories.

A. drawing   B. to draw

C. draw   D. drawn

14、A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help ________ you year ahead.

A. sharpen B. switch

C. stretch D. shape

15、Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only

planet _______ life has developed gradually.

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

16、－Mike, did you see Mr. Chapman in the office just now?

－Yes, he ________, and he looked a little bit nervous.

A. had interviewed   B. was interviewed

C. was being interviewed   D. is being interviewing

17、The sales of houses in our city fell by 40 percent last month, and it will be 48 percent ______ we don’t count low-price houses provided for poor residents.

A.as B.unless C.if D.before

18、-- No one ________ be compared with Li Na in playing tennis.

--- Oh, you are really her big fan.

A. can   B. need C. must   D. might

19、- Have you known each other for long?

- Not really. ________ we started to work in this school.

A.Just after B.Just when C.Ever since D.Just before

20、________ little chicks remain in the nest, they are completely dependent on their parents for food.

A.Even though B.As long as C.Until D.Unless

21、Gutiérrez’s life would never be the same again after finding a copy of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in the garbage 20 years ago. It happened while he was driving his garbage truck through wealthier neighbourhoods at night and seeing abandoned books. It aroused his desire to start rescuing books from the garbage. He used to take home between 50 and 60 books every morning. Eventually, he turned his book collection into a community library for children from low-income families.

Colombia’s capital city of Bogota has 19 public libraries. However, these libraries tend to be far away from where rural and poorer communities live. The option of buying new books is non-existent for families struggling to make ends meet. Gutiérrez’s community library is a true representation of how one man’s garbage can be another’s treasure.

Gutiérrez grew up poor, and his family could not afford to educate him beyond primary school. Nevertheless, his mother was a passionate reader and read stories to him every night. Her love for books left a deep impression on Gutiérrez.

Today, his makeshift community library, called “The Strength of Words”, occupies most of his home in southern Bogota, and is piled from floor to ceiling with fiction and non-fiction titles. Everything from school textbooks to storybooks can be found in his collection of more than 20.000 books! As word began to spread about his amazing project, people began sending him thousands more books to grow his library.

Despite having done so much for his community, Gutiérrez is not yet content to call it a day. He continues to search through garbage cans for reading materials. Today, the Gutiérrez family does not merely want to start libraries in neighbourhoods. They want to create spaces for school children to spend their time reading.

Gutiérrez’s journey to give back to his local community is an amazing example of how every one of us can improve the lives of those around us. How might we take a leaf out of Gutiérrez’s books and impact the less fortunate around us?

【1】What inspired Gutiérrez to rescue unwanted books?

A．The abandoned Anna Karenina.

B．Leo Tolstoy’s life.

C．Children’s living conditions.

D．A community-library.

【2】Why did Gutiérrez start “The Strength of Words”?

A．To create a harmonious neighborhood.

B．To give his mother sufficient books.

C．To facilitate children’s reading.

D．To improve the community life.

【3】What can best describe Gutiérrez?

A．Devoted and talented.

B．Intelligent and generous.

C．Passionate and well-educated.

D．Creative and caring.

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

A．Desire for reading

B．From garbage to treasure

C．Gutiérrez’s kindness

D．An amazing model of education

22、   To learn to think is to learn to question. Those who don’t question never truly think for themselves. These are simple rules that have governed the advancement of science and human thought since the beginning of time. Advancements are made when thinkers question theories and introduce new ones. Unfortunately, it is often the great and respected thinkers who end up slowing the progress of human thought. Aristotle was a brilliant philosopher whose theories explained much of the natural world, often incorrectly. He was so esteemed by the scientific community that even 1,200 years after his death, scientists were still trying to build upon his mistakes rather than correct them!

Brilliant minds can intimidate up﹣and﹣coming thinkers who are not confident of their abilities. They often believe they are inferior to the minds of giants such as Aristotle, leading many to accept current paradigms instead of questioning them.

I, like many thinkers of the past, once believed in my mental inferiority. I was certain that my parents, my teachers﹣adults in general﹣were always right. They were like a textbook to me; I didn't question what was written on those pages. I respected them, and accepted whatever they told me. But that attitude soon changed. My mind’s independence was first stimulated in the classroom.

Astern,65﹣year﹣old elementary﹣school science teacher once told me that light is a type of wave. I confidently went through years of school believing that light is a wave. One day, however, I heard the German exchange student mention that light could be made up of particles. As the others laughed at his statement, I started to question my beliefs.

Maybe the teachers and textbooks hadn’t given me the whole story. I went to the library， did some research and learned of the light﹣as﹣a﹣wave versus light﹣as﹣a﹣particle debate. I read about Einstein’s discovery of the dual nature of light and learned the facts of a paradox （悖论） that puzzles the world's greatest thinkers to this day. Light behaves as both a particle and a wave, it is both at once. I realized I had gone through life accepting only half of the story as the whole truth.

Each new year brought more new facts, and I formulated even more questions. I found myself in the library after school, trying to find my own answers to gain a more complete understanding of what I thought I already knew. I discovered that my parents and teachers are incredible tools in my quest for knowledge, but they are never the final word. Even textbooks can be challenged. I learned to question my sources, I learned to be a thinker. I once believed that everything I learned at home and at school was certain, but I have now discovered to re﹣examine when necessary.

Questions are said to be the path to knowledge and truth, and I plan to continue questioning. How many things do we know for sure today that we will question in the future？ At this moment, I know that our sun will burn for another five billion years, and I know nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole. This knowledge, however, may change in the next 20 years﹣maybe even in the next two. The one thing we can control now is our openness to discovery. Questions are the tools of open minds, and open minds are the key to intellectual advancement.

【1】In the first paragraph, Aristotle is taken as an example to show that .

A.he is the greatest and respected philosopher of all time

B.huge influence of great thinkers may block human thought

C.advancements are made when thinkers question theories

D.great thinkers often make mistakes and then correct them

【2】What does the underlined word “intimidate” in Paragraph 2 mean？

A.Frighten.

B.Encourage.

C.Strength.

D.Persuade.

【3】We can conclude from the last paragraph that .

A.the author is not quite sure about his future

B.we human beings don’t dare to predict future

C.theory of black holes will change in two years

D.questioning is necessary to promote advancement

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about？

A.Following rules.

B.Challenging yourself.

C.Questioning giants.

D.Predicting future.

23、   Darshan Karwat is making headlines for having maintained an incredibly plain and continued lifestyle during his student years. The man gave up fast food, new clothes, and even toilet paper, until he got to a point where his trash（垃圾）for an entire year fit in just two plastic bags!

Karwat, who is originally from India, started the trash-free experiment when he lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and managed to keep it going for two and a half years. In the first year, he produced only 7.5 pounds of trash, and in the second year, he brought that number down to 6 pounds, which is a mind-blowing 0.4 percent of the 1,500 pounds of yearly trash produced by the average American.

Looking back, Karwat says that his inspiration to start the project came from a radio show The Story, on which he heard of a British couple who lived trash-free.

His trash mostly consisted of a few chip bags, glass milk-bottle caps, fruit stickers, and broken glass. He obviously had to make lots of sacrifices to achieve this – he stopped buying any kind of packaged food including cheeses, only drank milk from recycled glass bottles, and gave up on buying new clothes or stuff for his home – no gadgets, furniture, or even cups. He began carrying his own fork, spoon, plate, and a bowl everywhere he went, just to avoid plastic cutlery（餐具）.

“I needed to change the way I lived, and I had to get creative,” he added. “When a restaurant furnished a napkin-wrapped（包纸的）fork and knife, I asked the server to change them for cutlery without the napkin. I’d remember to say “No straw!” after asking for water and to make sure the veggie（素食者）burger I ordered didn’t come with a wooden pick holding it together. I did what I had to do, and it was awkward.”

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A.How a person inspires others

B.How Darshan Karwat gets famous.

C.Darshan Karwat and his no trash experiment.

D.A plain and sustainable lifestyle attracts the public.

【2】Why did Darshan Karwat have the idea of living trash-free?

A.Because he is from India.

B.Because he has been in university.

C.Because he heard a story on the radio.

D.Because a British couple reminded to do so.

【3】What did Karwat buy when he was making no-trash experiment?

A.Cheeses. B.Furniture.

C.Milk. D.Gadgets.

【4】What Karwat said in the last paragraph shows that   .

A.he seldom went to a restaurant

B.it wasn’t convenient to live the life

C.the server seemed cold to him

D.he was proud of what he had been doing

24、Whether it’s a jungle hut or a high-rise apartment, your home is covered in bacteria. Now, new research from the Amazon suggests city residents might want to open a window.

Scientists traveled from remote villages in Peru to a large Brazilian city to begin tracking the effects of urbanization on the diversity of bacteria in people’s homes. It’s a small first step —understanding how different environmental bugs help shape what is called our microbiome, the trillions of bacteria that share our bodies and play a critical role in our health.

“Very little is known about the microbes of the built environment,” said microbiologist Dominguez-Bello, who led the pilot study. Her team found that as people living in the Amazon rainforest become more urbanized, the kinds of bacteria in their homes change from the bugs mostly found in nature to those that typically live on people.

In fact, in city residence, the researchers could tell just by the microbial（ 微生物的） fingerprints of the walls that “this is a kitchen or this is a bathroom or this is a living room. That’s amazing,” Dominguez-Bello said. As she puts it, “the walls talk.”

Despite fewer occupants, the more urbanized a residence, the more human bacteria lived on its walls and floors, the researchers reported. In Manaus, the contemporary Brazilian city, a collection of microbes normally found in the mouth and in the gut (肠) were the most important in telling rooms apart. The more crowded jungle and rural homes nonetheless were filled with more bacteria commonly found in soil and water than with human microbes.

Walls were acting as traps as people drop bacteria, compared with the less urban homes open to air circulation, the team reported. Dominguez-Bello was so struck by the findings that she insisted the windows in her New York office be unsealed so she could open them.

She next will compare the microbiomes of the residents with their homes. There’s a balancing act, she acknowledged: Microbiome theories aside, these rural populations are exposed to their own set of infectious threats, including no screens to keep out disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Still, the findings reflect research in U.S. homes and hospitals about the role of air circulation, said microbiologist Jack Gilbert of Chicago, who wasn’t involved in the study. His own housing study was able to match which family lived in different locations by the bacteria they get rid of inside. “Our modern homes are set up perfectly for studying microbes,” he said.

【1】What did Dominguez-Bello mean by “That’s amazing. The walls talk.”?

A．Bacteria live in the residence and play a critical role in our health.

B．Rooms could be identified based on the human bacteria on the walls.

C．Families could be matched with their houses with the bacteria living on them.

D．Various species of bacteria are most common on the walls of bathrooms.

【2】We can infer from the passage that __________.

A．Dominguez-Bello’s study may influence the way homes are designed and built

B．urbanization may be delayed due to the newly-discovered microbial communities

C．microbes from urban house may be introduced into the Amazon rainforest

D．a fund will be created for the rural homes in Peru and Brazil to be rebuilt

【3】Which of the following is a statement of opinion?

A．Regular inspection of the air circulation system is the most important task within a hospital.

B．Urban homes have more human bacteria on the walls and floors than those in rural settings.

C．The balance of good and harmful bacteria depends on things like environmental exposure.

D．Jungle huts were found to contain bacteria typically found in water and soil.

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

A．Village Homes Becoming More Popular

B．New York Windows Opened at Last

C．Walls of a Home May Affect Your Health

D．The Microscopic Residents in Your Home

25、   Superstar Pink joined a lot of celebrities(名人) and world leaders who were infected with COVID-19(新冠肺炎).Two weeks ago, she and three-year-old son Jameson _______symptoms of the disease After_______with healthcare professionals, the two were able to_______a test Pink tested positive for coronavirus(冠状病毒).

She_______their experiences online, stating “Just a few days ago, we were re-tested and are now_______negative.” Pink added that she was_______a huge amount to two different COVID-19 emergency funds(基金会). Various stars have also tried to encourage people to take extra _______against COVID-19.

“It is not wise of our government not to make testing more widely accessible,” Pink said. “This illness is _______and real. People need to know that the illness _______the young and old, healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and we must make testing free to ________our children, our families, our friends and our communities.”

Testing for coronavirus is a major ________ across the world. The WHO________urges World governments to conduct mass testing to________COVID-19,along with contact tracing, Widespread disinfection, lockdown and quarantine measures, social distancing, and hand hygiene.

Previous to Pink, a number of other celebrities have tested________for the virus. Various world leaders have been infected________including the British Prime Minister.

Pink expressed her ________for the people working on the front lines. Thank you to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones. “You are our________!” she wrote, she also urged the________of the population to do their part to ________ the spread of the disease.

So ________ man is facing a dark time right now, there's one thing for sure that he is going to win this wan against COVID-19 in the end!

【1】A.improved B.showed C.described D.reported.

【2】A.consulting B.quarreling C.dealing D.agreeing

【3】A.refuse B.give C.mark D.get

【4】A.posed B.mailed C.typed. D.gained

【5】A.equally B.unfortunately C.thankfully D.merely

【6】A.donating B.lending C.loaning D.paying

【7】A.pictures B.notes C.trips D.measures

【8】A.common B.serious C.genetic D.mild

【9】A.kills B.punishes C.affects D.ruins

【10】A.cure B.protect C.treat D.love

【11】A.concern B.phenomenon C.symptom D.illness

【12】A.hesitantly B.gradually C.strongly D.quickly

【13】A.discourage B.encourage C.catch D.battle

【14】A.active B.positive C.negative D.passive

【15】A.as much B.as far C.as well D.as good

【16】A.love B.hatred C.pity D.gratitude

【17】A.heroes B.enemies C.doctors D.workers

【18】A.half` B.minority C.majority D.growth

【19】A.reduce B.prevent C.keep D.slow

【20】A.as B.once C.because D.although

26、书面表达

假定你是高三学生李夏， 最近你听说你市英语俱乐部即将开张， 且将有2名在本市工作的外交参加。请你用英语给俱乐部负责人写一封信，了解一下该俱乐部的相关信息， 以便加入。要点如下：

1. 介绍自己学习英语的情况；

2. 咨询相关事宜（如入会条件、会费以及活动等）；

3. 表达自己想加入的愿望。

注意：

1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 结语已为你写好。