鄂州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、—Hello, I ______ about the apartment you advertised. Could you tell me more about it?

—Well, there are three rooms and a bath.

A．have called

B．had been calling

C．am calling

D．called

2、The boy dived into the water and after ______ seemed to be a long time, he came up again.

A．what

B．that

C．it

D．which

3、The man who lost his way kept the fire ______ all the time, waiting to be rescued.

A．burnt

B．burning

C．to burn

D．being burnt

4、Lucy cut down her daily spending in order to   the financial storm．

A. prevent   B. survive

C. keep    D. stop

5、I think the boss, rather than the workers, ______ to blame for the fire that caused so many deaths last week.

A. are B. was  C. were D. to be

6、______ we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains.

A. Although   B. So long as C. Even though D. Unless

7、This is the first time that I’ve come to London, so I would like to try something ________British.

A.normally B.clearly C.generally D.typically

8、When the ship was about to sink, the captain had no ________ but to give orders to abandon the ship.

A．time

B．power

C．option

D．strength

9、In the beauty competition, women are asked_______ some of the exercises ________ the music.

A. performing to; to   B. performing; with

C. to perform; to   D. to perform; by

10、Speaking in an inspection in Yunnan Province, Xi Jinping said authorities must poverty removal efforts to support the building of a rich and successful country.

A. anticipate B. allocate

C. appreciate D. accelerate

11、Little did the teacher imagine that a student good at maths _____ have failed in the exam．

A．might   B．should   C．need   D．would

12、Douglas quite enjoyed himself while traveling in Huangshan, though the journey took a week

A. specially   B. approramately

C.originally   D.naturally

13、Almost 90% of the most popular video games contain violence, and much of ________ is extremely violent.

A. which    B. it    C. them        D. those

14、He is a newcomer in the team, but I have the __________ that I’ve seen that man before.

A．function  B．impression

C．comprehension   D．association

15、 --- What happened to the young trees we planted last week?

---The trees _________ well, but I didn’t water them.

A. might grow B. must have grown

C. would have grown   D. would grow

16、______the classic Shi Ji, the only great historical works I had been exposed to were Homer’s epic poems.

A．Superior to

B．Prior to

C．Due to

D．Similar to

17、The civil war broke out in Libya, ______ to the instability of the international oil price．

A. to contribute B. contributed

C. having contributed D. contributing

18、The school in library my mother works   in the east of the village.

A. whose；lies   B. which；lay   C. which；lies   D. which；lying

19、What a great weight she felt _____ off her mind the moment she heard she had been admitted to a key university.

A. take   B. to take

C. taking   D. taken

20、---How do you go to your office every day?

---Normally, I take the subway to work, most of my colleagues.

A.so do B.so does C.as does D.as do

21、Confidence Building Tips To Make Your Life Better

Confidence is what separates the good from the bad. However, it is easy to lose your confidence in life. Even one bad thing can make you less confident throughout the day. 【1】 Here are four confidence-building tips to make your life better.

Hold a good attitude.

Smile and you will feel better. Yes, smiling, of forcing a smile on your face can help keep a positive attitude for you during the day. By smiling you will become more positive and confident in your abilities.

【2】

For confident persons, there is no such thing as a negative thought. If they ever have a negative view, their next thought is a way to try and fix that problem. Do you think you are not smart enough? 【3】 Do you not have the supplies or skills to do that? Get the supplies and practice. Don’t let negative thoughts kill your confidence.

Change your body language.

Your posture reflects the way you feel. Therefore, if you want to feel confident, you should try to make yourself look confident. 【4】 . Look as confident as you can, and soon your true feelings will reflect that posture.

Volunteer.

Those who volunteer build up their confidence while helping the community. By volunteering, you will grow more confident as you can learn new skills and can help find solutions to others’ problems. By doing good for others, you are also giving yourself a sense of pride. 【5】

A．Kill negative thoughts.

B．Be smart and fix the problem.

C．Stand up straight, close your hands into fists, and smile.

D．Fortunately, there are ways that can help build up your confidence.

E．A confident person will study or take a class to help them fix that.

F．Your body language sends a strong message to others from time to time.

G．At the same time you will be known as someone who takes time to help others.

22、   Throughout history，people have been interested in knowing how languages first began，but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. However, we do know a lot about languages，the languages of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. English，Russian and Spanish are also spoken by many millions of people. On the other hand，some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

There are several important families of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European. The original language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago. Many of the present-day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.

Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from that of 500 years ago. With time going by, some even died out completely. About 1,000 years ago，English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.

If a language has a large number of speakers or if it is very old, there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas. That is, the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts   of China cannot understand speakers from other parts.

【1】According to the passage, _____ has the most speakers.

A.Chinese B.English C.Spanish D.German

【2】The underlined word “dialects” in the fourth paragraph probably means _____.

A.a special language spoken by Chinese

B.the sign used by the Chinese people in a special area

C.the difference between the old and today’s language

D.the form of a language used in one part of the country

【3】It is believed that the most difficult thing for one to learn to speak Chinese is that _____.

A.there are great differences between the dialects of Chinese

B.Chinese and many foreign languages are not of the same family

C.Chinese is a very old language

D.there are great differences between the old Chinese and the present-day Chinese

23、Many leading AI researchers think that in a matter of decades, artificial intelligence will be able to do not merely some of our jobs, but all of our jobs, forever transforming life on Earth.

The reason why many reject this as science fiction is that we’ve traditionally thought of intelligence as something mysterious that can only exist in biological organisms, especially humans. But such an idea is unscientific.

From my point of view as a physicist and AI researcher, intelligence is simply a certain kind of information-processing performed by elementary particles(基本粒子) moving around, and there is no law of physics that says one can’t build machines more intelligent than us in all ways. This suggests that we’ve only seen the tip of the intelligence iceberg and that there is an amazing potential to unlock the full intelligence that is potential in nature and use it to help humanity.

If we get it right, the upside is huge. Since everything we love about civilization is the  product of intelligence, amplifying(扩大) our own intelligence with AI has the potential to solve tomorrow’s toughest problems. For example, why risk our loved ones dying in traffic accidents that self-driving cars could prevent or dying of cancers that AI might help us find cures for? Why not increase productivity through automation (自动化) and use AI to accelerate our research and development of affordable sustainable(可持续的) energy?

I’m optimistic that we can develop rapidly with advanced AI as long as we win the race between the growing power of our technology and the knowledge with which we manage it. But this requires giving up our outdated concept of learning form mistakes. That helped us win the race with less powerful technology: We messed up with fire and then invented fire extinguishers (灭火器), and we messed up with cars and then invented seat belts. However, it’s an awful idea for more powerful technologies, such as nuclear weapons or superintelligent AI— where even a single mistake is unacceptable and we need to get things right the first time.

【1】How do many people feel about leading AI researchers’ predictions?

A. Worried   B. Curious

C. Doubtful   D. Disappointed

【2】What does the author think of intelligence?

A. We know little about it.   B. It belongs to human beings.

C. It is too difficult to understand.   D. We have a good command of it.

【3】What does the underlined word “upside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Cost.   B. Potential.

C. Quantity.   D. Advantage.

【4】What’s important for us in the race between people and technology?

A. Learning from failure.   B. Increasing our intelligence.

C. Avoiding making mistakes.   D. Making accurate predictions.

24、Many people prefer eating out instead of cooking at home. A change appears to be taking place, though, and millennials (千禧一代) are leading the way. According to one survey, more young people are starting to cook at home for three basic reasons: They can save money, eat healthy and waste less food.

Popular TV chefs are also getting millennials excited about learning some basic cooking skills. Many millennials view cooking as a form of entertainment and self-expression. They proudly post pictures of their cooking creations on Facebook or Instagram, and invite friends over to share the cooking experience.

Many millennials have also found ways to avoid wasting food. After roasting a chicken, they put the leftover bones in their freezer instead of the garbage can. Later, they use the bones to make chicken soup which is an important ingredient in many dishes.

They also hate throwing out fruit that’s too old. To avoid that situation, they bake ripe fruit like berries and bananas for 15 minutes at 175 degrees C. Then they freeze it overnight. After that, they place the fruit in plastic bags and store it their freezer for later use.

Now any millennials only eat at restaurants that have excellent food-waste policies. These servants use every part of the vegetables they buy, including their stems and roots, in dishes. They also use beef, chicken and pork bones to make their own stock.

Millennials also reduce food waste by only buying what they require. Before going to a market, they write down what they need and don’t buy anything else. They say they won’t purchase more food than they can consume.

【1】Young people prefer cooking at home for the following reasons except_________.

A．reducing waste

B．lowering life expenses

C．enjoying the cooking experience

D．staying slim

【2】According to this article, when do millennials make careful choices?

A．When they dine out together.

B．When they share their cooking experience.

C．When they post pictures online.

D．When they freeze their food.

【3】The underlined word “stock” in passage 5 here means _________.

A．a supply of goods

B．a share of a company

C．a kind of farm animal

D．a kind of soup

【4】What does this article mainly talk about ?

A．A novel cooking technique that millennials like.

B．A plan that millennials have for donating food.

C．A cooking trend that has attracted millennials.

D．A food production system favored by millennials.

25、   At a certain age, you may feel as if you’re still at life’s beginning yet also disturbingly close to the end. You feel _______ that there’s much left to do. You were going to win an Oscar, pick up a Nobel Prize in physics and get elected president, _______ you haven’t even gotten around to auditioning (试镜) for a film, taking a university physics course or brushing up on your _______.

It’s almost enough to make you want to live forever. But then isn’t the real goal a life hugely increased not so much in _______ as in width? A life during which it’s likely to pursue every one of a wide range of _______?

It’s true. If you were immortal (永生的), you might eventually get to be a philosopher and a cantor and an actor and a psychoanalyst and a novelist. But don’t forget: over the vastly _______ period, life would certainly not cease exposing you to _______ further of choices. When you finally entered psychoanalytic training in 2100, you’d have to _______ any number of other new possibilities that might at that instant _______ themselves, such as joining an “expedition to Alpha Centauri, or learning to create art with the previously ________ colors recently made visible on the spectrum. You might have crossed one possibility off our list, but you’d have ________ three more. For each new path you took, there would be several ________ that you’d have to leave for later. Hundreds of years in, you’d still as though you’d ________ moved beyond the opening stages of what life has to offer.

Many activities you once loved, meanwhile, would fall out of fashion or ________. As an aging mortal, your knees might make it tough to run a marathon, causing you to ________all the healthy racers. As ________ youthful immortal, by contrast, you might remain fit to run marathons over the centuries. But perhaps the beloved urban races of your youth would have long since disappeared, ________ because of impossibly hot global temperatures and the fact that future civilizations find interplanetary relays ________exciting. All of the things you once did have shelf lives. The ________you live, the more of them die, increasing the weight of the time that has flowed through your fingers.

Many of us 60- and 70-somethings will remember George Burn’s words: Old age isn’t great but it sure beats the alternative. It’s also true that ________ isn’t great, but it sure beats the alternative.

【1】A. accurately B. acutely C. adequately D. actively

【2】A. though B. otherwise C. but D. for

【3】A. acting B. science C. marathon D. politics

【4】A. depth B. height C. length D. weight

【5】A. coincidences B. possibilities C. realities D. experience

【6】A. excluded B. extended C. exchanged D. expected

【7】A. already B. ever C. still D. almost

【8】A. give up B. take on C. let out D. come up

【9】A. repeat B. represent C. preserve D. present

【10】A. unbearable B. unforgettable C. unimaginable D. unnecessary

【11】A. added B. adopted C. invented D. ignored

【12】A. another B. the other C. none D. others

【13】A. actually B. hardly C. mostly D. nearly

【14】A. out of shape B. out of control C. out of question D. out of reach

【15】A. encourage B. approve C. envy D. blame

【16】A. permanently B. personally C. potentially D. purposefully

【17】A. banned B. boomed C. restored D. reserved

【18】A. anything but B. far more C. other than D. still less

【19】A. shorter B. longer C. wider D. later

【20】A. future B. youth C. death D. birth

26、假设你是高三学生李华，你非常喜欢听英文歌和看英文电影，但是你的家长并不支持，于是你决定写信给你的英语外教Linda，咨询解决的办法。内容包括：

1. 说明你的想法；

2. 家长反对的理由；

3. 征求老师的意见。

注意：

1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Linda,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sincerely,

Li Hua