2025-2026学年河南信阳高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、What a pity! A few minutes earlier, the students ___ the first bus.

A. had caught   B. were to caught

C. have caught   D. could have caught

2、—Will you take my previous experience into________ when you fix my salary?

—You bet. We always do for senior-level positions.

A．mind

B．thought

C．reference

D．account

3、Paris has some great museums _____ visitors can see fine works of impressionist painters.

A. that B. which   C. when   D. where

4、While the kids were making their decisions, they were periodically shown TV _________, some for fast food outlets and some for non-food businesses.

A.programs B.news C.movies D.commercials

5、The inner thoughts of the two young persons are revealed in the book, ______ both of them fail to express.

A. where   B. when

C. who   D. which

6、 Success is not final, and failure is not deadly. It is the courage to continue ______ counts in life.

A. that   B. which

C. where   D. when

7、—It’s nearly a quarter to eight. Beth hasn’t turned up yet.

—She________ the time. Why don’t I call and see what happened?

A．shouldn’t have forgotten

B．might have forgotten

C．needn’t have forgotten

D．must have forgotten

8、Not until the end of the performance ________ the chance to take photos with the respectable actor.

A. the audience got B. the audience had got

C. did the audience get D. had the audience got

9、—Continuous hot days are getting to be more than I can take.

—Hold on. According to the weather forecast people ______ have some relief by the weekend.

A.would B.should C.need D.must

10、Sally has asked for a sick leave, and I have to ________her work for a couple of days.

A．take off

B．take over

C．take out

D．take after

11、Happiness and success often come to those   are good at recognizing their own strengths.

A. whom   B. who   C. what   D. which

12、—Jim, what’s the result of the final?

—Believe it or not, China ________ beat its strong opponent France.

A．narrowly

B．casually

C．initially

D．typically

13、The fireman told us the troubles they had ________the fire________ .

A．getting; controlled

B．got; controlled

C．got; to control

D．getting; to control

14、Faye’s fondest memory is of last year, ______ the club gave a tea party for her birthday.

A.that B.which C.where D.when

15、Despite Johnson’s being green at his job, the work he did was ________ and thus won the manager’s approval.

A.familiar B.demanding C.adequate D.primitive

16、—The washing machine isn’t working.

—I used it this morning. It ______ fine then.

A. is working  B. was working C. works   D. has worked

17、Protesters calling for a higher minimum wage gather on Tuesday in Miami, Florida, as part of ________ organizers called a “day of action” nationwide to improve the salaries of fast food workers in the United states ________ are badly paid.

A. which; who  B. what; that  C. what; how  D. how; which

18、—Can he get the first prize for running in this sports meeting?

—Impossible now. He _____ to do so, but he has just hurt his leg.

A.is expected B.had been expected C.was expected D.would expect

19、while digital technology represents a ______ for bridging geographic distance , highly skilled workers are increasingly crowding into cities.

A.canal B.channel C.course D.communication

20、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

21、

A．all the rental has been paid 7 days before arrival

B．a travel plan has been sent to the booking office

C．1/3 rental and a signed booking form have been received

D．advice on how to book the cottage has been responded to

【2】If you want to stay in Wessex Cottages for a holiday, you are required to ________.

A．reconfirm your booking

B．leave before 10:00 a.m.

C．use your own bed sheets

D．arrive later than 7:00 p.m.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the brochure?

A．Electricity isn’t included in the rental in most Wessex Cottages.

B．Overseas visitors are required to deposit more than domestic ones.

C．If you hire bed sheets, you’ll be charged 6 pounds per day per person.

D．Deposit should be made by credit card at the time of booking.

22、   Brazilians love to throw a party, as can be seen with their world-famous annual carnival （狂欢节）, However, there are also several other fun festivals throughout the year in Brazil.

Oktoberfest

The Germanic roots of the south of Brazil brought this traditional German festival to Brazil, where it has become one of the most popular beer festivals in the country. Held in the middle of October every year in Blumenau, the two-week festival celebrates typical German cuisine and plenty of beer. There are also traditional folk costumes that most people wear with great enthusiasm and lots of singing, dancing and street parties.

Festa Junina

Festa Junina is celebrated all over Brazil for the entire month of June as an annual celebration of Saint John. It celebrates country life with typical clothes, food and dances inside a large tent made of raw materials, with decorations such as colored flags, changeable table cloths and balloons. The most common clothes are changeable shirts and straw hats with painted spots on the face. The dance is like square dancing and the food is one of the best parts of the party.

Festival de Cachaca

Held in the town of Paraty is the annual Festival de Cachaca which is dedicated to cachaca, the national alcohol made from sugar cane. This festival gives you the chance to try cachaca. Held over a long weekend in August, there are shows of samba and food trucks. It's also a great opportunity to get to know the beautiful town of Paraty.

Parintins Folklore Festival

The festival held annually in Parintins is the second largest in Brazil after carnival. It goes over a period of three days at the end of June and celebrates the Amazonian legend of a resurrected （复活的）ox. The main attraction of the festival is the competition between the two teams Garantido and Caprichoso that compete to retell the story of the ox through a mix of dances and singing.

【1】Which festival lasts the longest time?

A．Oktoberfest.

B．Festa Junina.

C．Festival de Cachaca.

D．Parintins Folklore Festival.

【2】What can you do if you attend the festival held in Blumenau?

A．Watch shows of samba.

B．Listen to the story of an ox.

C．Taste the Brazilian national alcohol.

D．Witness people dressed in traditional costumes.

【3】What do the four festivals have in common?

A．They are all yearly activities.

B．They all enjoy global popularity.

C．They all concentrate on food and dance.

D．They are all in celebration of famous people.

23、It began as a game: High school and college students studying computer technology figured out they could use personal computers to break into telephone company computers and make free, long-distance telephone calls. These young computer talents soon gained the name "hackers".

Police arrested a few hackers, but many went on to even more complex hacking. One of them was arrested for making illegal telephone calls and later he used a phone to change a police officer's credit records to get back at the officer for arresting him. He also used a computer to change his college records to give himself better grades.

As hackers gained experience, they began invading computers at banks, airlines and other businesses. In one case a hacker instructed an airline' s computer to give him free airplane tickets.

The U.S. government is worried that hackers may break into its networks of defense computers. The government's secrets are easily attacked because thousands of government computers are connected by telephone lines that hackers can get into.

In November 1988, a college student entered a U.S. Defense Department computer network called Arpanet. The hacker injected a computer program that made copies of itself throughout Arpanet. Some hackers use viruses to destroy all the data in a computer. But in this case, government officials shut down the network before the program reached every computer in the system. Shutting down the system angered many researchers who were using the computers. The hacker turned himself in to the police and he was charged with a crime.

The incident put the spotlight on computer hacking in the United States. Many companies have hired experts to protect their computers from hackers, and many computer experts now advise companies on how to protect their computers.

The U.S. government believes foreign governments have hired hackers to try to break into top-secret defense computers.

Experts disagree over whether a computer network can ever be safe from hacking. But in the future, some of the most outstanding minds in the U.S. will be working to frustrate the attempts of computer hackers.

【1】What did the first hackers do?

A．They broke into government computers.

B．They destroyed airplane ticket systems.

C．They played computer games.

D．They made free phone calls.

【2】Why can U.S. government computers be easily hacked into?

A．They have no defense systems.

B．They are connected by telephone lines.

C．They are partly accessible to the public.

D．They lack complex processing programs.

【3】What happened to the government computers in November 1988?

A．They lost all of the important data.

B．They were shut down by researchers.

C．They were invaded by a college student.

D．They got totally ruined by a computer program.

【4】What did companies decide to do to protect their computer systems?

A．Employ computer talents.

B．Build secret defense systems.

C．Ask the government for help.

D．Collect and analyze the data of hackers.

24、  

Worried about the loss of rainforests and the ozone layer? Well, neither of those is doing any worse than a large majority of the 6,000 to 7,000 languages that remain in use on Earth. One half of the survivors will almost certainly be gone by 2050, while 40% more will probably be well on their way out. In their place, almost all humans will speak a small number of languages——Mandarin, English, Spanish.

Linguists(语言学家)know what causes languages to disappear, but what's less often remarked is what happens on the way to disappearance: languages' vocabularies, grammars and expressive potential all disappear. "Say a community goes over from speaking a traditional Aboriginal(土著的)language to speaking a Creole," says Australian Nick Evans, a language experts, "you leave behind a language where there's very fine vocabulary for the landscape. All of that is gone in a Creole. As speakers become less able to express the wealth of knowledge that has filled ancestors' lives with meaning over thousands of years, it's no wonder that communities tend to become weakened."

Due to the huge losses, some linguists struggle against the situation, for example, training many documentary linguists in language-loss hotspots such as West Africa and South America.

However, not all approaches to the preservation of languages will be particularly helpful. Some linguists are boasting(自夸)of more and more complicated means of recording languages: digital recording and storage, the Internet and mobile phone technologies. But these are encouraging the quick style of recording trip: fly in, switch on digital recorder, fly home, download to hard drive, and store gathered material for future research. That's not quite what some endangered-language experts have been seeking. Michael Krauss from the University of Alaska complained openly that linguists are playing with technology research while most of their raw data is disappearing.

Who is to blame? Linguists who go out into communities to study, document and describe languages, argue that theoretical linguists, like Noam Chomsky, who draw conclusions about how languages work, have had so much influence that linguistics has largely ignored the continuing disappearance of languages.

【1】Why does the author mention rainforests and the ozone layer in Paragraph 1?

A.To highlight they are of great importance.

B.To show their connection with language loss

C.To indicate anxiety about environmental issues.

D.To introduce the topic concerning language loss.

【2】What does Nick Evans say about the effects of language disappearance?

A.People find it hard to describe their culture.

B.Vocabularies have to be changed.

C.People tend to turn to ancestors more

D.Focus is switched on new grammars.

【3】What has Michael Krauss pointed out?

A.Digital age further promotes some endangered languages.

B.An instant approach to language recording may not work.

C.Linguists have made poor use of improvement in technology.

D.Linguists' quick style of recording trip should be encouraged.

【4】What can be concluded from the text?

A.By 2050 only 600 to 700 languages will remain.

B.Local languages are preserved perfectly in West Africa.

C.Theoretical linguists may be responsible for the loss of languages.

D.Linguists have come a long way to save endangered languages.

25、   There came a time in my life when my learning curve ( 曲线) became very steep. I learned so much in such a _______ time that I was reading two grades ahead of my _______class. At school I was continuously ________with lectures, because I had already done _________.

And ________my knowledge increased, so did my arrogance(傲慢). I started getting into ______debates with my teachers. I knew more than them, and I was eager to show it at every _______I got. That was until Mrs T _______. She was new to our school, and a perfect ________for me. I tried one of my tricks on her in front of the whole class. She didn’t scold me. She just _______

At the end of the class, she ________me aside and said the following words:

“I know that there is an unspoken _______that a teacher is supposed to be more ________than the student. We both know that is _______ . I know for a fact that you know much more than me. And I won’t insult you by pretending otherwise. But remember this. Knowledge is supposed to give you ______, not pride. Today you are the smartest person in the room; tomorrow you won’t be. There will always be someone much _______, much more diligent than you. And when that happens, all the pride in the world wouldn’t be enough to _______you from downfall. Everything that you have learnt will be for nothing if you don’t learn the _______of humility.

Today, I _______remember her words. I ________myself of them daily.

【1】A. free B. short C. good D. long

【2】A. regular B. traditional C. favourite D. modern

【3】A. excited B. content C. angry D. bored

【4】A. nothing B. everything C. either D. none

【5】A. before B. unless C. as D. although

【6】A. political B. amusing C. heated D. friendly

【7】A. opportunity B. permission C. right D. problem

【8】A. came back B. came across C. came about D. came along

【9】A. audience B. target C. guide D. market

【10】A. cried B. shouted C. smiled D. worried

【11】A. set B. pushed C. put D. called

【12】A. assumption B. attention C. attraction D. appreciation

【13】A. considerate B. important C. sensitive D. knowledgeable

【14】A. correct B. wrong C. basic D. reasonable

【15】A. power B. energy C. potential D. control

【16】A. warmer B. stronger C. smarter D. nicer

【17】A. guard B. save C. discourage D. ban

【18】A. failure B. experience C. lesson D. behavior

【19】A. still B. even C. also D. yet

【20】A. warn B. convince C. approve D. remind

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。

Luke was a 12-year-old boy. He was flying alone to meet his parents in Maroochydore for his summer vacation. He wanted to go to the toilet, so he stood up and walked along the aisle.

A little girl was waiting outside the toilet already. Luke could see that she had been crying.

“What’s your name?” he asked her.

“Cathy,” said the little girl, starting to cry again. She told Luke that her father was taking her to America without telling her mum and that she didn’t want to leave her mum.

Luke’s eyes opened wide. “You mean your dad is kidnapping (绑架) you?” he gasped. Cathy nodded, still sobbing.

At that moment the toilet door opened and the flight attendant came out. She saw the tears on Cathy’s face. With a stern look, she warned Luke to stop bullying the little girl and stay away from her. Cathy didn’t know what to do. She put her thumb into her mouth and then ran into the toilet.

Luke was sad, dragging his feet back to his seat. How could he tell someone what was happening? Cathy’s father was sitting just across the aisle. He could hear every word. Suddenly Luke had a brainwave! He secretly wrote a note and pressed the call button. The attendant came and read the note quickly. “That’s not a very good joke.” She dropped the note into her pocket and walked away.

A sharp look from Cathy’s father warned Luke that he had known his “trick”. Luke slumped back in his seat. He felt that everyone in the plane was angry with him. How could he tell someone what was happening?

Soon, the plane landed. Luke could see Cathy’s father striding down the walkway towards an escalator (自动扶梯). Cathy was trying to pull away, and crying, but her father picked her up and started running up the stairs. Luke spotted a policeman at the exit, but it was quite a distance.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 应使用5个以上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。

Suddenly Luke knew what he could do.

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People began to crowd around them.

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