2025-2026学年云南丽江高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、Towards ___ evening after school, ___ icy rain began to fall and the road became slippery.

A. the; an B. /; an  C. an; an D. an; the

2、--How do you usually go to work? –– I usually drive, but if it is fine, I ______ by bike.

A. will go B. would go C. have gone D. had gone

3、Many accounts suggest that________ Newton was certainly inspired by a falling apple, there is no

proof that it hit him on the head.

A．when

B．while

C．then

D．than

4、Raymond’s parents wanted him to have_______ possible education.

A.good B.better C.best D.the best

5、—Are you still willing to lend money to your roommate?

—Yes. I have always held the ______ that he is an honest fellow.

A.belief B.truth C.custom D.fact

6、Regular exercise along with proper diets____our health in the long term.

A.benefits B.has benefited C.benefit D.have benefited

7、—Michelle, have you got your admission to the Pennsylvania State University as a state-financed student?

—I hope so, but I’m not so lucky. I have to ______ my pocket to pay for my further study.

A.turn to B.dip into C.refer to D.see to

8、The company is making a long-term__________to breaking into the American market.

A.complaint B.comment C.commitment D.contribution

9、－ There is still a copy of the book in the library. Will you go and borrow_______?

－ No, I'd rather buy ________ in the bookstore.

A. one; one   B. it; one

C. one; it   D. it; it

10、We’d better take umbrellas—I’m sure it ________ when we arrive in London; it’s always wet there at this time of year.

A．will rain

B．is raining

C．will be raining

D．would rain

11、What made them miss the deadline was not their lack of funding, but ______ their lack of planning.

A. even   B. still

C. rather   D. ever

12、—How do you all like your new head teacher?

—He is ______; he’d do anything to help anyone in trouble.

A. the fatted calf   B. the salt of the earth

C. an apple of discord   D. Jekyll and Hyde

13、Our village is making efforts to _________its development pattern to promote green growth.

A.squeeze B.compromise C.transform D.differentiate

14、As is known, only   hard leads to happiness.

A. work   B. works

C. worked   D. working

15、It’s generally believed that the popular South Korean drama Man From the Stars is ________ in creative storylines as in pretty faces and fashion.

A. such a successful example

B. so successful an example

C. as a successful example

D. as successful an example

16、As soon as the children were _____， their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

A.woke B.waken C.wake D.awake

17、—It’s really great to have a computer to store my photos.

—Don’t count on it too much. It ______ break down and you’d better make a copy of them.

A.must B.can C.should D.need

18、It is very important for English teachers to have a knowledge of the theories of language_______.

A.fluency B.accuracy C.acquisition D.punctuation

19、 ______ smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

A. To keep B. Keeping  C. Keep  D. Having kept

20、—What’s wrong with you?

—Oh, I am sick. I ________ so much ice cream just now.

A. shouldn’t eat B. mustn’t eat

C. couldn’t have eaten D. shouldn’t have eaten

21、B

We all know what a brain is．A doctor will tell you that the brain is the organ of the body in the head．It controls our body's functions, movements, emotions and thoughts．But a brain can mean so much more．

A brain can also simply be a smart person,  If a person is called brainy, she is smart and intelligent．If a family has many children but one of them is super smart, you could say, "She's the brains in the family．" And if you are the brains behind something you are responsible for developing or organizing something．For example, Bill Gates is the

brains behind Microsoft

Brain trust is a group of experts who give advice．Word experts say the phrase

"brain trust" became popular when Franklin D．Roosevelt first ran for president in

1932,  Several professors gave him advice on social and political issues facing the U．S．

These professors were called his "brain trust．"

These ways we use the word "brain" all make sense．But other ways we use the

word are not so easy to understand．For example, to understand the next brain

expression, you first need to know the word “drain．" As a verb to drain means to,

remove something by letting it flow away．So a brain drain may sound like a disease

where the brain flows out the ears．But, brain drain is when a country's most educated  people leave their countries to live in another．The brains are, sort of, draining out of the country．

However, if people are responsible for a great idea, you could say they brainstormed it．Here, brainstorm is not an act of weather．It is a process of thinking creatively about a complex topic．For example, business leaders may use brainstorming to create new

products, and government leaders may brainstorm to solve problems．

If people are brainwashed, it does not mean their brains are nice and clean．To brainwash means to make someone accept new beliefs by using repeated pressure in a forceful or tricky way．Keep in mind that brainwash is never used in a positive way．

【1】According to the text, if you're the CEO of Bai Du you can be called

A．the brains behind Bai Du

B．Bai Du's brain trust

C．the brain drain of Bai Du

D．the organ of Bai Du

【2】Why did Roosevelt successfully win the election?

A．Because he was smart at giving advice．

B．Because word experts were popular．

C．Because he got his brain trust．

D．Because he was the brains behind America．

【3】Which of the following expression is always used in a negative way?

A．Brain trust

B．Brain  drain

C．Brainstorm

D．Brainwash

22、GPS has completely transformed how we get around. But other animals have long had their navigation (领航) systems built right in.

“We know their eyes are quite sensitive to polarized (偏振的) light and the sky has a particular pattern of polarized light relative to the position of the sun,” Barbara Webb, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, says.

You can see polarized light firsthand if you take a pair of polarized sunglasses and spin them against the sky-the light passing through the glasses changes. Webb says the insects have polarization like that built into their many eyes. “You can think of it as having lots of sunglasses pointing in different directions.”

But Webb was curious whether there’s really enough information in the sky to give insects an accurate sense of direction. So her team built a sensor (传感器) modeled after a desert ant eye and put it under artificial light meant to simulate the sky. They then put that sensor into a model meant to model the brains of desert ants and other insects. And they found that with the insects’ sensing and processing equipment, they can likely sense direction down to just a couple degrees of error.

A system based on that of insects could someday be a cheap, low-energy choice to GPS. Insects have very tiny brains. A brain the size of a pinhead that’s using hardly any energy. And yet they’re still able to navigate better than we can with GPS, which is surprising. Webb is now working on building a robot that can use light to get its directions.

【1】What can we learn from the text?

A．GPS is not accurate enough.

B．Insects have better eyes than humans.

C．Light changes passing through polarized sunglasses.

D．Insects have tiny brains that use no energy.

【2】What does the underlined word “simulate” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Pretend.

B．Cover.

C．Block.

D．See.

【3】What did Webb’s research find?

A．Insects can’t find their ways during nights.

B．Insects can find directions with little mistakes.

C．Insects always make mistakes finding directions.

D．Insects have sensing and processing equipment in their eyes.

【4】Which of the following can best describe insects’ navigation ability?

A．Disappointing.

B．Interesting.

C．Amazing.

D．Confusing.

23、   John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.

Fortunately he had a strong-willed, caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” said she. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son — then 15 — to Chicago.

Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for, John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But there John could go to school, and there he learned the power of words — as editor of the newspaper and yearbook of Du Stable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary.”

Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America — worth $150 million.

【1】Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because ________.

A．John’s father died in his hometown when he was very young

B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown, while life in Chicago would be better for blacks

C．there were no schools for blacks in their hometown

D．John needed more education and he could go to school there

【2】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Chicago was the promised land for black southerners in 1933.

B．John’s mother worked hard as a cook to make their life better.

C．With the help of his mother, John got the money to start the Negro magazine.

D．Now John is the richest man in America.

【3】What kind of woman was John’s mother? She was a ________.

A．strong woman with much knowledge

B．woman who would do anything for her son

C．woman with little school education but knew a lot about life

D．loving mother with different kinds of experience in life

【4】The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________.

A．if you try, you will succeed in the end

B．a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

C．a try is always followed by a failure

D．nothing but a try can help you out of failure

24、Tu Youyou, the 85-year-old Chinese pharmacologist（药理学家），received the Nobel Prize for medicine in Stockholm on December 10,2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in physiology（生理学）or medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receive the US-based Lasker Award for clinical medicine.

Based on a fourth-century Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) text, together with her team, she managed to get artemisinin(青蒿素）from sweet wormwood through trial and error and developed an important drug that has significantly reduced death rates among patients suffering frommalaria. Tu delivered a speech titled Artemisinin is a Gift from TCM to the World. She has urged more research into the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and called for joint efforts worldwide to fight against malaria and develop more potential uses for TCM, which she called a "great treasure" with thousands of years' history and empirical knowledge. She said that by combining TCM with modem scientific technologies, "more potential can be discovered in searching for new drugs " .

According to the WHO, more than 240 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have benefited from artemisinin, and more than l. 5 million lives are estimated to have been saved since 2000 thanks to the drug. Apart from its contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM played a vital role in the deadly outbreak of SARS across China in 2003.

Besides treating viruses, TCM has been most effective in diagnosing diseases, cultivating fitness, treating difficult multisource illnesses, and using nonmedical methods such as acupuncture (钟刺疗法) and breathing exercises.

However, TCM, which is based on a set of beliefs about human biology, is seldom understood or accepted by the West. Tu's success will bring more recognition and respect for TCM, experts say. The Western world should learn to appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM, which will lead to more basic scientific research into ancient TCM texts and ways to explore research findings worldwide.

【1】In this passage the author mentions _  prize( s) that Tu Youyou received.

A. one   B. two   C. three   D. four

【2】The underlined word "malaria" in Paragraph 2 refers to "a kind of   ".

A. medicine   B. animal.   C. plant   D. disease

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. This success may encourage Easterners to learn more about Chinese medicine.

B. Nothing remains to be done in researching into TCM theories and texts.

C. More research into the value of TCM should be carried out worldwide.

D. TCM only contributes to the fight against malaria and SARS in China.

【4】What's the passage mainly about?

A. TCM is based on thousands of years of practice in China.

B. Nobel winner, Tu Youyou, strongly supports TCM research.

C. Artemisinin is now widely used to fight against Malaria.

D. Westerners will appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM.

25、   It was 11:30 at night in the Alaskan village of Igiugig, population 70. Ida Nelson was enjoying the bath when she heard the long deep sound of a small airplane________the nearby airport. She knew something was ________ any time a plane flew over that late.

Nelson leaped out of the bath, ran to the window,and________the problem:The airport's runway lights were out.

Nelson ________some clothes, jumped into her ATV, and floored it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the lights________.

“Normally, if you press the button 10 or 15 times,the lights will just light up," Nelson said. Not this time._________, she and the pilot learned of the plane's________mission: It was there to ________a seriously ill local girl to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in Anchorage.

Nelson had a________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights on the road for the plane to follow. More light was________, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the villege—32 of them.

Within 20 minutes, 20 vehicles arrived at the airport, many of the drivers________ in pajamas(睡衣)._________directions from the pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway.

The plane made its final ________ and guided by the headlights, landed safely. The young patient was ________ onto the aircraft, and the plane immediately took off again. Her illness was never publicly revealed, but she has since been released from the hospital.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community's positive activism—coming together—was a big________

A．striking

B．leaving

C．circling

D．surrounding

A．new

B．wrong

C．difficult

D．important

A．saw

B．faced

C．solved

D．predicted

A．tried on

B．threw on

C．took off

D．put away

A．by hand

B．at will

C．in private

D．at random

A．Otherwise

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Meanwhile

A．proud

B．appealing

C．urgent

D．tough

A．introduce

B．transport

C．guide

D．accompany

A．task

B．choice

C．plan

D．dream

A．needed

B．joined

C．lost

D．invited

A．ever

B．still

C．just

D．already

A．Following

B．Requiring

C．Learning

D．Providing

A．progress

B．test

C．approach

D．change

A．removed

B．loaded

C．delivered

D．instructed

A．decision

B．challenge

C．deal

D．moment

26、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jerry最近发邮件询问你的职业规划（career planning），请你给他回一封信。内容包括：

1.理想的职业和原因；

2.你的职业规划。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。

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