三沙2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Barbara is easy to recognize as she’s the only one of the women who ______ evening dress.

A. wear B. wears

C. has worn D. have worn

2、Emperor Xuanzong was _______ with LiBai, one of the most famous poets in the Tang Dynasty.

A．temporary

B．contemporary

C．convenient

D．typical

3、— He is not suitable for the job?

—No. I have serious   about his ability to do it.

A. qualifications   B. discriminations

C. reservations   D. accommodations

4、 It is pretty well understood_______ controls the flow of carbon dioxide in and out the atmosphere today.

A. what   B. when C. that   D. how

5、Ever since the earliest days of AI, there have been ________ that some day software will take over the world, leaving the fate of humans unknown.

A．principles

B．concerns

C．restrictions

D．enquiries

6、Many students today suffer from ________ problems, since they are under too much pressure.

A. recreation-related  B. pollution-related

C. stress-related  D. pollution-free

7、______ payment online is safe, people will be more likely to link their bank cards to Wechat.

A．Even if

B．As if

C．As long as

D．Unless

8、In order to____ the police of his innocence, the suspect offered several_____ facts.

A．convinced; convincing

B．convince; convincing

C．convince; convinced

D．convincing; convinced

9、 --- Where did you get to know him?

--- I think it was in the factory______ I worked ten years ago.

A. where   B. that   C. / D. when

10、That river _____ 250 kilometers long and 60 meters wide.

A.measures B.is measured C.calculates D.is calculated

11、That is the only way we can imagine ____ the overuse of water in students’ bathrooms.

A．reducing

B．to reduce

C．reduced

D．reduce

12、Have you ever faced a case _____ someone charges you with what you haven’t done but you find it difficult _____ it?

A．where; to clarify

B．when; to classify

C．which; to identify

D．what; to simplify

13、You should read the _________ in the car repair manual (手册)  carefully before you start to work on it.

A. instructions  B. descriptions

C. introductions  D. explanations

14、Every year many people pay a visit to the temple, ________ in the Song Dynasty.

A．having built

B．to build

C．built

D．was built

15、Because of his poor health, he was unable to________the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her.

A．advise

B．accompany

C．admit

D．adapt

16、The new theme park, _________ last year, has received 27 million visitors so far.

A. open   B. opened

C. being opened   D. to open

17、According to a UN report, people ________ goodbye to 52% of the world’s animals in the past 40 years.

A.said B.have said C.were saying D.had said

18、We had better pay attention to some health problems that, when ________ in time, can become bigger ones later on.

A. not treated   B. not to be treated

C. not having been treated   D. not being treated

19、After working until midnight for two weeks, he finally ________ and had to stay in the hospital.

A. broke out   B. broke down

C. broke in   D. broke up

20、It is often the case________ miracles can happen for those who hang on to hope.

A．what

B．that

C．where

D．why

21、The managing director of this department took the ________ for the accident, although it was not really his fault.

A．guilt

B．response

C．blame

D．conservation

22、The instruments and musicians ________ different functions: sustaining, modifying (修饰), synthesizing (合成) and innovating, paired into two key types of roles — supporting and leading.

A．take out

B．take away

C．take on

D．take up

23、If you have a good sleep at night, you will feel energetic the next morning, which________will be good for your memory.

A．by contrast

B．in brief

C．by accident

D．in turn

24、The House and the Senate have nearly ________ powers, but their means of election are quite different .

A.definite B.equal C.natural D.magic

25、The hurricane died away, ___________ a lot of damage to the coastal city.

A. caused   B. causing

C. having caused   D. to have caused

26、   A team of engineers at Harvard University  in trying to create the first robotic  fly. Designed to do  what  a fly does naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and  perform controlled flight tasks.

"The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of its components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own’ said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to,” said Wood.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites，in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. "Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around，” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal，but using these robots instead”  he said. "So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”

【1】What is the typical characteristic of the robotic fly?

A．It's automatic.

B．It's very small.

C．It's controllable.

D．It's quite powerful.

【2】We can infer from the passage that the robotic flyer can____ .

A．act as a spy plane

B．help do farm work

C．fly at a very high speed

D．answer many scientific questions

【3】What is Wood's idea about the robotic fly according to the last paragraph?

A．It is highly questionable.

B．It has wide practical applications.

C．It gives scientists interest in flying machines.

D．It points to a new direction in studying biology.

【4】What  can be the best  title for the passage?

A．Harvand's Study in the Field of Insects.

B．A Breakthrough  in Engineering Science

C．An Interesting Invention 一 Robotic Fly

D．Robotic Fly 一 a Copy of Real Life Insect

27、John D. Rockefeller was America’s first billionaire who founded Standard Oil Company in 1870, which eventually became a giant in the oil industry. Rockefeller’s leadership in Standard Oil brought him great wealth as well as unfavorable opinions, as many opposed Rockefeller’s business practices. Though many were critical of Rockefeller, few could devalue his philanthropic (慈善的) efforts, which led him donate $540 million (more than $5 billion today) during his lifetime to charity causes.

Though a billionaire, Rockefeller lived a relatively simple life, rarely attending the theater or other events typically attended by his peers. Since childhood, he had been told to give to church and charity and Rockefeller had routinely done so. However, Rockefeller’s enormous wealth and success made him a target of journalists, reform politicians and others who viewed him as a symbol of greed and criticized the methods with which he’d built his kingdom. With a damaged public image to improve, Rockefeller began to give away millions of dollars.

In 1896, 57-year-old Rockefeller turned over the day-to-day leadership of Standard Oil though he held the title of president until 1911, and began to focus on philanthropy. He had already contributed to the establishment of the University of Chicago in 1890, giving $35 million over the course of 20 years.

While doing so, Rockefeller also founded the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) in New York in 1901. Within their laboratories, causes, cures, and various manners of prevention of diseases were discovered? including the cure for meningitis (脑膜炎) and the identification of DNA as the central genetic matter.

A year later, Rockefeller established the General Education Board. In its 63 years of operation, it distributed $325 million to American schools and colleges. In 1913, Rockefeller created the Rockefeller Foundation, with his son John Jr. as presidents to foster the well-being of men and women around the world. Through John D. Rockefeller’s philanthropic acts, the oil titan educated and saved an untold number of lives and aided medical and scientific advancement.

【1】What do we know about Rockefeller from the first paragraph?

A．He established one of the first oil companies in America.

B．He only received positive opinions for his charity causes.

C．He gained the leadership against all the opposition.

D．He contributed a considerable amount of money to charity.

【2】Why did Rockefeller make large donations?

A．To earn himself a good reputation.

B．To practice his charity routine.

C．To prove his innocence.

D．To learn from his peers.

【3】What does the author think of Rockefeller’s charity efforts?

A．Enjoyable.

B．Worthy.

C．Clever.

D．Creative.

【4】Which is the best title for the text?

A．Rockefeller: A Blessing to The World

B．Rockefeller : A Billionaire of Generosity

C．Rockefeller: A Complicated Businessman

D．Rockefeller : American First Billionaire

28、In 2019, Wang Jibing, a food delivery rider, had an unpleasant experience due to the wrong address left by a customer. Wang searched three buildings and climbed 18 floors before he finally managed to deliver the food to the customer, who rudely scolded Wang for arriving late. Wang was sad and frustrated. As a husband and father of three children, who shouldered the majority of the financial responsibility in his family, he had to bear all silently. On his way home that day, Wang wrote a poem, Man in a Hurry, expressing his feelings. Since then, Wang has been writing poems inspired by his daily life, including a poem New Temple, which occurred to him after he delivered food to construction workers repairing an old temple, and Forgive, based on his observation of a young couple fighting.

Wang’s poems, simple yet real, are seen as a tool to process his emotions, especially the personal experiences he has during his work. His heart is healed by writing the poems and he has shared them with his friends. In 2022, one of his friends posted Man in a Hurry online. It quickly went viral and was viewed for over 20 million times. The same year, Wang published a collection of more than 180 poems under the same title. So far, Wang has written about 4,000 poems. This April, Wang published his second poetry collection, titled I Love This World Clumsily, featuring about 130 poems he has written since July 2022.

“Poetry is like a distraction from stress and an opportunity to record my life. Whether it’s coping with pain, dealing with stressful situations or coming to terms with life’s struggles, poetry makes me confident and happy,” says Wang.

“The feedback from the readers is a big encouragement to me. Those poems came to me naturally and I enjoyed writing them very much. However, the priority is to look after my family, so I will keep my regular job delivering food,” says Wang.

【1】What can we know from paragraph 1?

A．Wang was in a hurry for the bad weather.

B．Wang released his feelings by writing a poem.

C．Wang lost his job for an unpleasant experience.

D．Wang misunderstood the customer’s need.

【2】What does “went viral” mean in paragraph 3?

A．Became a hit.

B．Got updated.

C．Disappeared online.

D．Received criticism.

【3】What kind of person is Wang according to the passage?

A．Talented and responsible.

B．Creative and generous.

C．Ambitious and considerate.

D．Intelligent and humorous.

29、   Everyone has a phone in their pocket nowadays, but how often do we really use them for their original purpose – to make a call? Telephone culture is disappearing. What brought us to this moment, and what are its effects?

“No one picks up the phone anymore,” wrote Alex C. Madrigal on The Atlantic. “The reflex (习惯性动作) of answering –built so deeply into people who grew up in 20th-century telephonic culture – is gone.”

The shift is of course due in large part to more communication options: Texting with photos, videos, emojis, reaction gifs, links and even voice messages can be a more attractive option.

Texting is light and fun, not nearly as demanding of your attention as a phone call. It can also be done with multiple people at the same time. Social media, email and video calls have also eaten away at traditional phone calls. 

In recent years, another reason has caused people to ignore phone calls completely: robocalls. Robocalls are automated (自动化的) messages from organizations verifying (核实) your phone number or telemarketers trying to sell something. Americans received 22.8 billion robocalls halfway through 2020, equaling an annual rate of 45.6 billion, slightly below 2018 numbers, according to YouMail, a robocall protection service and blocking app.

As telephone culture disappears, what is the loss of a singular family phone doing to the family unit? Early landline phones united family members, whereas mobile phones isolate (使隔绝) them.

“The shared family phone served as an anchor (给以安全感的物品) for home,” said Luke Fernandez, a Weber State University computer-science professor and co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter. With smartphones, “we have gained mobility and privacy. But the value of the home has been diminished, as has its ability to guide and monitor family behavior and perhaps bond families more closely together,” Fernandez said.

Of course, as technology progresses, lives always change for better or for worse. With the loss of telephone culture, families will need to find other ways to unite.

【1】What has caused the traditional telephone to lose its appeal according to the text?

A．People’s addiction to social media.

B．People’s preference for robocalls.

C．People’s growing need for privacy.

D．People’s wide range of communication choices.

【2】What does the underlined word “diminished” in the second-to-last paragraph probably mean?

A．Strengthened

B．Reduced.

C．Instructed.

D．Enriched.

【3】What does Luke Fernandez point out?

A．Smart phones tie families together.

B．Smart phones help people monitor family behavior.

C．The use of mobile phones has affected family bonds.

D．The value of home depends on how phones are used.

【4】What does the article mainly talk about?

A．The downfall of traditional telephone culture.

B．The past and future of telephones.

C．The development of communication tools.

D．The relation between phone use and family bonds.

30、What do you think of Bill Gates? You might think of him as a hard-working ___________of Microsoft or a technological genius___________one thing you might not know about him is that he's one of the world's___________men who has donated billions of dollars and___________the world by creating new inventions.

In 2014 Bill Gates wife, Melinda Gates,___________Bill to quit Microsoft and work with her to help what Bill Gates ___________the Bottom Two Billion. The Bottom Two Billion ___________ a third of the world's population that live with less than 2 US dollars a day. These people___________live in areas where electricity is rear and disease is far and wide.

One of the___________to diseases are vaccines, which help the body defeat the disease. A problem__________with vaccines because they need to be kept____________to remain functional. When electricity is rare, it's often very hard to keep refrigerators____________. One way Gates has proposed is something he calls the "Super Thermos". It's a strong heat-resistant thermos ____________ from the same material spaceships use to meet the____________. This thermos can keep vaccines cold for 50 days.

Another problem for the Bottom Two Billion is ____________.From the 1960s to 1980s, there was an agricultural revolution, which has____________a lot of new ways to produce crops faster. This meant that the world thought the food____________problem in Africa was gone but this was ____________the case. The way Gates plans to solve this problem is to talk to each farmer one by one, discuss their unique ____________, and give the farmers heartier seeds that grow better on the____________soil in that area. Doing this will help the farmers grow crops faster and better.

【1】

A．officer

B．official

C．millionaire

D．founder

【2】

A．so

B．and

C．but

D．or

【3】

A．richest

B．busiest

C．kindest

D．hardest

【4】

A．watched

B．helped

C．missed

D．visited

【5】

A．permitted

B．forced

C．persuaded

D．required

【6】

A．sells

B．plans

C．designs

D．calls

【7】

A．consists of

B．thinks of

C．accuses of

D．complains of

【8】

A．probably

B．originally

C．recently

D．mainly

【9】

A．medicines

B．efforts

C．solutions

D．secrets

【10】

A．disappears

B．appears

C．discovers

D．covers

【11】

A．cold

B．covered

C．safe

D．warm

【12】

A．racing

B．flying

C．running

D．resting

【13】

A．separated

B．made

C．recovered

D．resulted

【14】

A．requirements

B．satisfactions

C．opportunities

D．deadlines

【15】

A．science

B．education

C．industry

D．agriculture

【16】

A．delayed

B．introduced

C．imagined

D．recorded

【17】

A．supply

B．health

C．quality

D．cleanness

【18】

A．constantly

B．generally

C．hardly

D．actually

【19】

A．dream

B．drugs

C．crop

D．needs

【20】

A．rich

B．poor

C．narrow

D．high

31、

Attitudes toward new technologies often fall along generational lines. That is, generally, younger people tend to 【1】 older people on the front end of a technological shift.

It is not always the case, though. When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn't seem to be a clear 【2】 divide. The public overall is split on whether they'd like to use a driverless car. In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did not.

The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so 【3】 across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be. Not everyone wants a driverless car now-and no one can get one vet-but among those who are open to them, every age group is 【4】 engaged.

Actually, this isn't surprising. Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars 【5】 real value to these age groups, especially to those with 【6】 mobility or difficulty driving on their own.

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel-related 【7】 than older ones.

When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more 【8】 based on factors not related to age. College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education：59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or less.

Where a person lives 【9】 too. More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become 【10】. Once driverless cars are actually available for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

32、Directions: Write an English composition in l20—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

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