定安2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、______ the scenery from the top of the mountain, I was fascinated by the autumn colors.

A．See

B．Seeing

C．Seen

D．To see

2、Chinese _____ nearly one-third of the 7,300 international high school students studying in the US in 2013,according to a recent report.

A. let out   B. adapted to

C. accounted for   D. took up

3、We still have a long way to go to solve all the problems ________ the Yangtze River.

Which of the following is not right?

A. in reply to B. with reference to

C.in regard to D. with respect to

4、Whom would you rather ________ with you, Jim or Jack?

A. have gone  B. have to go C. have go D. has to go

5、If God __________everything in the world, the strange creatures in fossils __________so many years before.

A.had created; shouldn’t exist B.had created; couldn’t have existed

C.should create; wouldn’t exist D.created; wouldn’t have existed

6、Not long ago in mysterious circumstances, following the death of another opposition leader earlier this year.

A．died a leader of the democratic opposition

B．did a leader of the democratic opposition die

C．a leader of the democratic opposition had died

D．a leader of the democratic opposition died

7、In the dark forests _______, some large enough to hole several English towns.

A.many lakes lie B.many lakes stand

C.stand many lakes D.lie many lakes

8、On a ___ cold night, the little match girl was ________ to death in a street corner.

A．frozen; frozen

B．frozen; freezing

C．freezing; frozen

D．freezing; freezing

9、______ darkness had again descended upon me ______ how much I had left unseen.

A．When; I had realized

B．Only when; did I realize

C．Only when; I realized

D．When; I realize

10、–Linda hasn’t shown up yet.

–It’s strange. She ________.

A. could   B. might

C. should have   D. must have

11、The new prime minister is ________ relationships with East Asian countries.

A．cultivating

B．cracking

C．crashing

D．crushing

12、______ you may be right,  I can’t agree with you.

A.While B.As C.If D.Since

13、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

14、In recent years, the weekend before the Spring Festival________ the biggest shopping crowds.

A．sees

B．will see

C．has seen

D．had seen

15、— Why was it so noisy over there?

— The Twins were surrounded by their fans ____ they stepped out of the hall.

A．until

B．the moment

C．in case

D．so that

16、They seemed not to be __________ of what was happening around.

A. known   B. clear   C. anxious   D. aware

17、The school has only been open for six months, so it’s too early to________its success.

A．estimate

B．criticize

C．reckon

D．evaluate

18、Was ________Bill, ________played basketball very well, ________helped the blind man across the street?

A．that; that; who

B．it; that; that

C．it; who; that

D．this; who; who

19、While the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was under construction, how to protect the delicate ecosystem was among the top ________.

A．concerns

B．trends

C．characteristics

D．preferences

20、China has made a great contribution to ________ the peace.

A．producing

B．preserving

C．preventing

D．pretending

21、I won't feel________ until you come back safely.

A．in harmony

B．on the horizon

C．on standby

D．at ease

22、The deteriorating living conditions on the Carteret Islands finally resulted in ________ we called the relocation of all the islanders, from ________ arose the problem of losing their traditions and celebrations.

A．which; what

B．which; which

C．what; that

D．what; which

23、I’ll be mad if I can’t find my treasured book in ________ are stored the most important data of the research led by my tutor.

A．what

B．that

C．which

D．where

24、We would rather our daughter ________ at home with us, but it is her choice, and she is not a child any longer.

A. would stay   B. has stayed

C. stayed   D. stay

25、    to the Internet, as some adolescents do, will to some extent affect their private lives.

A. To be addicted   B. Having been addicted

C. Addicted   D. Being addicted

26、A new study has found some secrets of people’s understanding of large numbers.

Researchers studied a group of people who were born deaf and never learned any spoken language or a formal sign language, but they have developed a gesture system to communicate with people around them. The gestures let them express approximate amounts, but not exact numbers.

“Up to three, they’re fine,” says Elizabet Spaepen, a researcher at the University of Chicago and an author of the study. “But past three, they start to fall apart.” In one test, Spaepen would knock her fist against a study participant’s fist a certain number of times and then ask them to respond with the same number of knocks. “If I were to knock four times on their fist, they might knock on my fist five times,” she says.

The finding offers a clue to just how much language affects our understanding of numbers. That has been a big question since 2004, when other researchers published data on two tribes in the Amazon whose members also lack words for big numbers. “What they have are words that mean one and two,” Spaepen says, “and then they have a word to mean many.”

Members of the Amazonian tribes also had trouble matching numbers larger than three or four. But some scholars felt that these earlier studies failed to prove that language was the reason. They pointed out that the tribes lived in groups that didn’t use money and had no need for exact numbers.

The new research appears to answer that criticism. “It proves that the kinds of problems in understanding numbers that we found in the Amazonian tribes are not due to just the cultural or environmental circumstances,” says Peter Gordon of Columbia University, one of the researchers involved in the earlier studies.

【1】The participants of the new study ______.

A. cannot communicate with one another

B. use a formal sign language to express numbers

C. have some physical disability

D. come from a distant tribe

【2】 According to the passage, the new study _______.

A. ignored the cultural influence on the participants

B. is doubted by many people

C. has found it is harder to learn numbers than learning a sign language

D. has shown that our understanding of numbers is influenced by our mastering of language.

【3】 The tribes involved in earlier studies _________.

A. often dealt with big numbers.

B. didn’t use money in their daily life

C. didn’t have their own language

D. often made trouble for the researchers

【4】 What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Peter Gordon is a researcher of the University of Chicago.

B. Peter Gordon thinks less of the new study than his earlier studies.

C. Peter Gordon believes people’s understanding of numbers has nothing to do with cultural circumstances.

D. Peter Gordon is in favor of the finding of the new study.

【5】In which part of a newspaper would you most probably find this passage?

A. Science B. Health

C. Politics D. Lifestyle

27、   To someone stuck in a traffic jam, the ability to fly right over other cars seems like a dream. 【1】 That may be changing. Nearly a dozen companies around the globe are competing to be the first to develop a flying car. One of the ideas being developed is a car with wings that unfold for flight. But, most aren’t cars at all. They are more like helicopters and are operated by a battery-powered motor.

【2】 Companies have to convince the government that the flying cars are safe. They will also need longer-lasting batteries. And, cities will have to figure out how to handle thousands of flying cars in the sky.

Still, some companies are moving forward. 【3】 Especially as cities grow more crowded and people spend more time stuck in traffic. These taxis would deliver passengers to the rooftops of office buildings during rush hours.

“In as little as 10 years, products could be on the market that revolutionize urban travel for millions of people,” said Zach Lovering. He is the leader of a project to develop a self-flying taxi for Airbus, a European company that makes airplanes. 【4】  Although Uber doesn’t have any plans to develop a flying car itself, the company is advising several companies that are developing them.

【5】 Designers think that if enough people want to buy them, prices can be kept affordable.

A. Some flying cars are designed for human pilots.

B. It’s still unclear how much flying cars will cost.

C. They see a need for “air taxis” and personally owned flying cars.

D. Companies will also have to get permission from the government.

E. The Uber ride-share company sees air taxis as the future of on-call transportation.

F. Inventors and business people tried to make flying cars, but have never been able to.

G. There are many challenges that could keep flying cars from becoming part of everyday life.

28、It was Saturday morning. I heard loud noises of moving furniture in the next room. I could almost feel the excitement of John who was soon going to get a room of his own. I remember my own feelings when I was 13. I knew how much he longed for his right to privacy (私人空间) when he was sharing a room with his younger brother, Robot. He said, “Mum, Can I please have a room of my own? I could use Jeff’s. He won’t mind.”

It was true that Jeff had graduated from college and flown from the nest. But would he mind? The room was the place where I told him a thousand stories and we had a thousand talks. As close as we were, though, the time came when Jeff needed a door between us. His life was spreading into areas that had less to do with family. I no longer could-or should-know everything about him.

It turned out that getting Jeff’s permission was easy. He said, “Of course, Mum, it would be selfish of me to hold on to it.” Then his voice softened, “Mum, I won’t be living at home again---you know that.” Behind his glasses, his eyes were lit with all the love. There were no doors closed here---they had all opened up again.

As John and I were cleaning the room, I fixed my eyes on Jeff’s things around me and could almost touch the little boy who I knew was gone forever. I looked at the room and, in my heart, I let it go. To hold on would be, as Jeff said, selfish. Now it was time for John, shouldering through the door, his eyes bright with promise of independence, to disappear behind the door. It was time for letting go to happen again.

【1】How did John feel when he finally got a room of his own?

A. Scared.   B. Confused.

C. Excited.   D. Anxious.

【2】The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably means “______”.

A. Jeff finally flew out of the house

B. Jeff needed his right to privacy

C. Jeff would have less to do with his family

D. Jeff got tired of those familiar stories

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

A. John was sharing a room with Jeff.

B. John was moving to live with his brother.

C. Jeff agreed to let his brother have his room.

D. Jeff disliked living with his parents.

【4】It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. the children did not like to live with adults

B. all her three kids made the author feel depressed

C. none of the members in the family thought the same way

D. the author loved and missed the time together with her kids

29、If you live in the U.S., you’re probably used to throwing banana peel into the trash. But people in other countries, including India, have been taking advantages of their nutritional benefits for many years.

While the flesh of a banana is soft and sweet, the skin is thick, hard and slightly bitter. To eat the peel, you can fry, bake, or boil it for at least 10 minutes. Also, the riper bananas get, the thinner and sweeter banana peel will become. That’s because of a natural plant hormone(激素) called ethylene(乙烯) that fruits release as they ripen. Ethylene interacts with the sugars and fiber in the banana skin, changing complex sugars into simple sugars and breaking down pectin, a form of fiber in bananas that keeps them stiff. That’s why the older your banana is, the flimsier(不结实的) it feels.

The sweet flesh of a medium-sized banana contains great percentages of your daily recommended intake of various nutrients, such as:

·12% of your daily fiber, which helps with digestion and may help lower your risk of diabetes(糖尿病)

·17% of your vitamin C, which is important for your immune system as well as your growth

·20% of your vitamin B6, which aids the body’s ability to turn food into energy

·12% of your potassium, which helps with the development of cells, tissues, and organs throughout the body

If you eat the skin along with the flesh, you will get an even bigger increase in these same nutrients.

Eating the peel is not only good for your body but also better for the earth. The average American ate 11.4 pounds of bananas in 2014. Since a medium-sized banana weighs about 0.3 pounds, that equates to about 38 bananas per person, or about 12 billion for the whole of the U.S. And since most of us throw away the peel, that also means a lot of organic waste.

【1】We can learn from the text that in the U.S. people ________.

A. like eating bananas

B. waste a lot of food every year

C. don’t make good use of banana peel

D. know little about the value of the flesh of bananas

【2】What’s the role of ethylene in bananas?

A. Helping bananas grow faster.

B. Making banana peel stay strong.

C. Keeping banana flesh from going bad.

D. Helping to soften and sweeten banana peel.

【3】Which of the following helps humans digest?

A. Vitamin C.  B. Potassium.  C. Vitamin B6.  D. Fiber.

【4】The last paragraph mainly shows that eating banana peel benefits our ________.

A. diet    B. economy   C. environment     D. physical health

30、Once a young man was asked to paint a boat of a wealthy man. The young man got some red paint and brushes and began to paint the boat, as________by the owner. While painting, he discovered a tiny hole in the ship’s body and quietly ________it.

After________of the painting, the young man received the money for the paintjob and left.________,the boat’s owner showed up at the painter’s house the next day with a________check, far greater than the painting payment.

So this is what happened. The owner forgot to________the hole when he asked the young man to paint the boat. When the young man was done with the paint, the owner’s kids took the boat and went on a fishing trip once the paint had ________.The owner was not there at that time. When he returned and discovered that his children had taken the boat, he was ________because he remembered it had a hole. He tried to contact them several times but couldn’t ________them.

Imagine the owner’s ________when he saw them return from their fishing trip. After that, he carefully________the boat and discovered that the young man had repaired the hole. The young man________his children’s lives!

You may have repaired many “boat holes” on your way even without________how many lives you may have ________.But the smallest act of kindness and ________may be worth more to others. So, be grateful and keep being kind and thoughtful.

【1】

A．applied

B．requested

C．begged

D．repeated

【2】

A．covered

B．brushed

C．fixed

D．restored

【3】

A．completion

B．preparation

C．evaluation

D．management

【4】

A．Still

B．Moreover

C．However

D．Even

【5】

A．substantial

B．remarkable

C．significant

D．meaningful

【6】

A．notice.

B．introduce

C．recognize

D．mention

【7】

A．run out

B．dried out

C．carried out

D．checked out

【8】

A．sad

B．curious

C．anxious

D．content

【9】

A．find

B．locate

C．touch

D．reach

【10】

A．regret

B．shame

C．satisfaction

D．delight

【11】

A．searched

B．analyzed

C．examined

D．explored

【12】

A．helped

B．protected

C．prevented

D．spared

【13】

A．realizing

B．understanding

C．accepting

D．counting

【14】

A．impressed

B．moved

C．impacted

D．encountered

【15】

A．thoughtfulness

B．attention

C．concentration

D．mindfulness

31、

As a child, Wang Junyan never dreamed of becoming a famous person on TV. However, she is the presenter for Universe TV news programmes. She told me that 【1】, working hard and believing in what was true made her success. Her mother was a strong character. She worked extremely hard 【2】 through school. Her attitude towards life will never stop influencing her thoughts and actions. After graduating from university, Junyan chose to be a journalist to help the people and the government 【3】 and catch the guilty people. It wasn’t easy but she never gave up. This 【4】 because she won an award for her report. When asked about her secret to success, 【5】, she told us, “Nothing that I learned from my mother has ever left me. Today when I’m looking for stories, I still feel like I am turning over stones to see what might be hiding beneath!”

32、书面表达

假定你叫李华，就读于北京大学。请根据以下提示，用英文给曾教过你的英语老师王老师写一封感谢信，表达你对他的思念与感激之情。内容应包括：

1． 感谢老师曾经的关心和帮助；

2． 中肯评价老师的教学方法；

3． 再次表达感激之情并祝福老师。

注意：1. 词数100词左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. Wang,

How are you recently? I’m glad to write to you…

Best wishes!

Yours sincerely

Li Hua