柳州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、In this article , you need to back up general statements with __________ examples.

A.permanent B.abstract C.specific D.universal

2、There are many sales of mobile phones on www.taobao.com, and you can choose _____ based on your own interests.

A．that

B．each

C．it

D．one

3、I would _________ it very much if you could do me a favor.

A．grateful

B．thank

C．appreciate

D．thankful

4、________online courses can produce good results remains to be seen．

A. That   B. Whether

C. Who   D. Where

5、______ she began reading and saw what fun it was, there was no stopping her.

A. Unless   B. Once C. Until   D. Though

6、It’s bad for your eyes if you keep them ______ on the screen for a long time．

A． fixed     B． fix

C． fixing   D． having fixed

7、In other words, a few countries are benefiting ________ from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing little to the global burden of climate change.

A．enormously

B．actually

C．currently

D．typically

8、These rules ________ new members only.

A. are applied to B. apply for

C. apply to D. are applied for

9、—Have you seen _____ pen？I left it here this morning.

—Is it _____ black one? I think I saw it somewhere.

A．a; the

B．the; the

C．the; a

D．a; a

10、—It seems that the manager is unhappy.

—Surely he is. Steve left the company with his work ______.

A．leaving unfinished

B．left unfinished

C．leaving to finish

D．left finishing

11、 The little boy came riding full speed down the motorway on his bicycle. ______ it was!

A. How dangerous the scene B. What dangerous a scene

C. How a dangerous scene D. What a dangerous scene

12、 A lot of exercise outdoors could _____ positive energy which helps you to reduce stress.

A. give in B. give off

C. give away   D. give up

13、The Romany prefer to move and stay in small groups________ they can protect and preserve their culture and freedom.

A. even though B. as if

C. as soon as   D. so that

14、“In no case shall the government give in to any terrorist in our country.” said the spokesman ______ to the media.

A．deliberately

B．urgently

C．firmly

D．cautiously

15、选出与划线词汇意思相近的词。

The book is so costly that I can’t afford it.

A.valuable B.special C.expensive D.popular

16、They all queued up to be among the first to buy iPhone 6, but they all ended up --it was only a trick.

A. rewarded B. shocked

C. disappointing D embarrassing

17、China will ________ cooperation with countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative.

A. approve   B. justify   C. enhance   D. tighten

18、Kathryn's just phoned to say she's working _____ this evening and we needn't wait for her for dinner.

A.late B.lately C.soon D.freely

19、---Who are you waiting for?  

--- ______ us a lecture in half an hour.

A. The professor wants to give   B. The professor will give

C. The professor is about to give   D. The professor to give

20、Believe it or not，your ship isn’t quite sunk，as there are some ways to ________ a new career even if it’s something you’ve never done before．

A．burst into   B．get through

C．break into   D．comb through

21、People typically wash their hands seven times a day in the United States, but they do it at a far higher temperature than is necessary to kill germs (病菌) , a new study says. The energy waste is equivalent to the fuel use of a small country.

Amanda R. Carrico, a research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment in Tennessee, told National Geographic that hand washing is often “a case where people act in ways that they think are in their best interest, but they in fact have inaccurate beliefs or outdated perceptions.”

Carrico said, “It’s certainly true that heat kills bacteria, but if you were going to use hot water to kill them it would have to be way too hot for you to tolerate.”

Carrico said that after a review of the scientific literature, her team found “no evidence that using hot water that a person could stand would have any benefit in killing bacteria.” Even water as cold as 40°F (4.4°C) appeared to reduce bacteria as well as hotter water, if hands were scrubbed, rinsed（冲洗）and dried properly.

Using hot water to wash hands is therefore unnecessary, as well as wasteful, Carrico said, particularly when it comes to the environment. According to her research, people use warm or hot water 64 percent of the time when they wash their hands. Using that number, Carrico’s team calculated a significant impact on the planet.

“Although the choice of water temperature during a single hand wash may appear unimportant, when multiplied by the nearly 800 billion hand washes performed by Americans each year, this practice results in more than 6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually,” she said.

The researchers published their results in the July 2013 issue of International Journal of Consumer Studies. They recommended washing with water that is at a “comfortable” temperature, which they noted may be warmer in cold months and cooler in hot ones.

【1】What’s the meaning of what Carrico told National Geographic in the second paragraph?

A. People are more concerned about their health and begin to wash their hands.

B. It’s important for people to wash their hands to keep healthy.

C. Generally, people’s hand washing behaviors and perceptions are not correct.

D. People like washing their hands very much.

【2】The figures in the sixth paragraph are used to show that __________.

A. using hot water to wash hands has a bad influence on our planet.

B. air pollution has become more and more serious.

C. using hot water to wash hands is a waste of energy.

D. people should pay more attention to the environment around us.

【3】This passage is organized in the pattern of __________.

A. fact and opinion   B. cause and effect

C. definition and classification   D. time and events

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A. It’s necessary and useful for people to wash their hands frequently every day.

B. We can wash our hands with water that is at a “comfortable” temperature.

C. Using cold water to wash hands is necessary and much healthier.

D. Hot water can’t kill germs.

22、You may not pay much attention to your daily elevator ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it .But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the “Elevator Guy”.

“The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette is sort of odd,” Gray told the BBC, “They [elevators] are socially very interesting but often very awkward places”.

We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed.

He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want – it’s your own little box.

If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally(对角地) across from each other to create distance.

When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle.

New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple – look down, or look at your phone.

Why are we so awkward in lifts?

“You don’t have enough space,” Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. “Usually when we meet other people we have about an arm’s length of distance between us. And that’s not possible in most elevators.”

In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be construed as threatening or odd. “The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,” she said.

【1】According to Gray, when people enter an elevator, they usually _____.

A. turn around and greet one another

B. look around or examine their phone

C. make eye contact with those in the elevator

D. try to keep a distance from other people

【2】Which of the following describes how people usually stand when there are at least two people in an elevator?

【3】The underlined phrase “size up” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. judge   B. ignore

C. put up with   D. make the best of

【4】According to the article, people feel awkward in lifts because of _____.

A. someone’s odd behaviors

B. the lack of space

C. their unfamiliarity with one another

D. their eye contact with one another

23、According to the statistics shared by UNESCO, at least 43% of the total languages that are estimated as being spoken across the world are in danger of extinction. Moreover, many languages around the world have less than 1,000 speakers now. Linguists (语言学家) and researchers believe that by the end of the century, at least half of the world' s languages will have died. This is troublesome, given that cultural identity and languages go hand in hand.

Language activists and people who speak these endangered languages are fighting back tooth and nail. Scientists believe that digitalization might be our only hope to preserve some of these quickly disappearing languages in the online world.

For instance, Oxford University Press launched Oxford Global Languages a few years ago. It is an initiative that boosts “digitally underrepresented” languages. They are focused on promoting languages that might have close to a million speakers worldwide, yet have little or no online presence. Therefore, they have been creating digital dictionaries as a fundamental building block to help preserve them.

There have been countless other projects like this with the same aim. Another is the Rosetta Project, which aims to create a handheld digital library that will carry more than 1,500 languages. It will be appropriately sized to fit nicely into our hands, and will come with around 13,000 pages of information. It will also have a high life expectancy of anywhere between 2,000 and 10,000 years. Initiatives like these have   their primary objective to ensure the preservation of local languages long after their speakers have died.

Countless languages are dying every day, and they will continue to perish as the remaining speakers die. Of course, we cannot merely rely on digitization to deal with worldwide languages loss. However, it is a step in the right direction. These digital tools offer endangered languages an opportunity to bounce back and survive .

【1】What does the data in paragraph 1 mainly show?

A．Many languages are endangered.

B．Culture determines language evolution.

C．Human development results in fewer languages.

D．Many linguists attempt to protect threatened languages.

【2】What does Oxford Global Languages try to do?

A．Promote online courses of local languages.

B．Publish paper dictionaries of global languages.

C．Increase dying language speakers to a million.

D．Make certain languages available in digital form.

【3】What can we learn about the digital library to be created by the Rosetta Project?

A．It is portable but has a short life.

B．It is sponsored by Oxford University Press.

C．It provides protection for linguistic diversity.

D．It contains automatically updated information.

【4】Which of the following can replace the underlined word “perish” in the last paragraph?

A．Be enriched.

B．Be lost.

C．Be acquired.

D．Be invented.

24、What kind of people can become scientists? When a group of researchers posed that question to ninth-and 10th-graders, almost every student gave such responses as “People who work hard” or “Anyone who seems interested in the field of science.”

Many of these same students struggled to imagine themselves as scientists, citing concerns such as “I’m not good at science” and “Even if I work hard, I will not do well.” It’s easy for them to see a scientist’s work as arising from an inborn talent.

But for high school students, learning more about some struggles of scientists can help students feel more motivated to learn science. Researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University and the University of Washington designed an intervention to change students’ beliefs that scientific achievement depends on ability rather than effort by exposing students to stories of how accomplished scientists struggled and overcame challenges in their scientific efforts.

During the study, the students read one of three types of stories about Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Michael Faraday. Intellectual(智力的)struggle stories: stories about how scientists “struggled intellectually,” such as making mistakes while addressing a scientific problem and learning from them. Life struggle stories: stories about how scientists struggled in their personal lives, such as not giving up in the face of poverty or lack of family support. Achievement stories: stories about how scientists made great discoveries, without any discussion of coexisting challenges.

Researchers found that students who heard either type of “struggle stories” improved their science performance after-intervention, compared to students in the control group. The effect was especially pronounced for lower performing students, for whom exposure to struggling stories led to significantly better science-class performance than low-performing students who read achievement stories. In addition, students who read struggle stories reported feeling more personally connected to the scientists. By recognizing a scientist’s struggles and introducing the growth mindset he or she applied to accomplish great works, the students were able to empathize(共情)with the scientists during their own struggles.

【1】Why do students fail to imagine themselves as scientists?

A．They lack interest in science.

B．They are short of confidence

C．They don’t have inborn talent.

D．They have no ability to study science

【2】What’s the purpose of the intervention?

A．To introduce some inspirational stories to students.

B．To expose students to scientists’ great achievements.

C．To ensure students will become scientists in the future.

D．To clear students’ misunderstandings of scientific work.

【3】The underlined word “pronounced” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to________.

A．minimal

B．noticeable

C．doubtful

D．long-lasting

【4】What can we learn from the research?

A．Science ability has nothing to do with efforts.

B．Students are more motivated by achievement stories.

C．Scientists’ struggle stories can influence readers’ beliefs.

D．Low-performing students tend to feel connected to scientists.

25、Shi lives with her family in Fuxin, a city in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province. Shi and her ________, Li, have devoted themselves to providing ________ education to their students. They encourage their students to attend after-school activities related to science, technology and innovation.

During the past dozen years, Shi has ________ her students as they have taken part in various contests. Several of Shi’s students have received ________. Given her achievements, Shi has been named the most excellent teacher.

Li has a(n) ________ impressive resume (履历). He is a professor ________ coal mining (开采) in a university. He often goes into the most ________ places in the mines while conducting scientific research. He measures data and collects samples, and then he ________ above ground to complete his analysis and calculations, and to design plans to solve the problem at hand. He ________ to his students in how to concentrate on one’s work and overcome difficulties.

Encouraging their students to ________ various contests is one of the ways Shi and her husband have tried to ________ their students. In this way, the students have obtained a sense of achievement, and their ________ has driven them to study harder.

Shi says education is like a ________ one takes in search of “treasures”. She believes it is important for teachers to discover each student’s interests and advantages, learn to ________ their interests and advantages, and encourage the student to live a ________ life he or she longs for.

【1】

A．friend

B．student

C．daughter

D．husband

【2】

A．online

B．personal

C．quality

D．special

【3】

A．invited

B．stopped

C．led

D．beaten

【4】

A．failures

B．awards

C．payment

D．attention

【5】

A．fortunately

B．plainly

C．slightly

D．equally

【6】

A．teaching

B．saving

C．limiting

D．sponsoring

【7】

A．comfortable

B．dangerous

C．familiar

D．meaningful

【8】

A．falls

B．returns

C．starts

D．points

【9】

A．goes back

B．shows honor

C．sets an example

D．puts his mind

【10】

A．escape

B．enter

C．hold

D．question

【11】

A．please

B．assess

C．follow

D．inspire

【12】

A．success

B．promise

C．faith

D．laziness

【13】

A．gift

B．test

C．picture

D．journey

【14】

A．grade

B．hide

C．appreciate

D．rebuild

【15】

A．fantastic

B．simple

C．quiet

D．physical

26、上周末，你和同学们参加了学校的校园种菜活动。请你为班级英语角写一篇短文介绍这次活动。内容包括：

1. 活动的参与过程；

2. 感受和收获。

注意：1. 词数应为100左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

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