朔州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、About _________of the land _________covered with trees and grass.

A．three fifths; is

B．three fifths; are

C．three fifth; are

D．three fifth; is

2、House market is easily __________by factors which have nothing to do with property.

A.upset B.prohibited C.evolved D.risked

3、Shutting doors, finishing chapters or whatever; what matters is not ________ we call it but to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

A. what   B. how

C. where   D. which

4、Unless _______ , he kept silent all the time.

A. spoken     B. being spoken to   C. spoken to   D. speaking to

5、Having heard the story of this ________ hero, we are ________ to finish the task in advance.

A．inspiring; inspired

B．inspiring; inspiring

C．inspired; inspiring

D．inspired; inspired

6、I never dreamed of there _____ such a quiet place in the noisy city.

A.is B.are C.being D.be

7、Waking up in the morning, Tom was surprised to find himself________ with a large carpet.

A．covering

B．covered

C．cover

D．to cover

8、Fishing is Tom's favourite hobby and it ________ most of his spare time.

A．observes

B．occupies

C．offers

D．spends

9、________ his school uniform in the stadium, David rushed back to get it and an acquaintance had taken it away.

A. To lose   B. Lost

C. Having lost   D. Losing

10、Having suffered several financial difficulties, the company decided to _______ a new management team.

A.bring up B.bring in C.bring out D.bring back

11、The new benefit system is to take effect next month, yet some people worry it may _____ laziness.

A.condemn B.encourage

C.analyze D.violate

12、Do visit us________.

A．if you are convenience

B．when you are convenient

C．if it is convenient for you

D．when it is convenience to you

13、__________, there will be a day to let the cat out of the bag.

A.However well-kept the secret is B.As the secret is well-kept

C.However the secret is well kept D.Since the secret is well-kept

14、He insisted that he ________ nothing to do with the incident and it ________ thoroughly by the police.

A．had; be investigated

B．should have; was investigated

C．would have; would be investigated

D．have; was to investigated

15、The road being ________, the citizens have no choice but to bicycle to go to work or go to school.

A．under construction

B．out of date

C．under control

D．out of reach

16、Having manners shows good character, consideration and respect for others, taking you where degrees and money cannot and __________ a better world.

A. meeting with B. adapting to

C. making for   D. fitting into

17、—I wonder whether you are ________ tomorrow morning.

—Oh, I’m sorry. I will see my uncle off then.

A. available   B. convenient

C. acceptable   D. accessible

18、Jack ______ in the lab when the power cut ______.

A．was working; occurred

B．worked; occurred

C．works; occurs

D．worked; was occurring

19、There is not the remotest possibility of anyone calling on me, and it is unbelievable that I ______________ call on anyone else．

A.can B.might C.should D.must

20、I am sorry but I had no alternative but ________ my promise due to the unexpected heavy rain.

A．to break

B．break

C．breaking

D．broke

21、Let’s take steps to stop ________ natural resources at such an alarming speed.

A．depleting

B．enriching

C．conserving

D．supplying

22、There is still a long way to go. , some progress has been made with no doubt.

A．Nonetheless

B．Instead

C．Therefore

D．Moreover

23、What an exhibition! There are many well-known artists exhibiting their ______ works.

A．highly-skilled

B．distinct

C．awe-inspiring

D．intense

24、The national park has a large collection of wildlife, ______ from butterflies to elephants.

A.to range B.ranged C.ranging D.being ranged

25、—Did you have a good time at the party?

—Thanks. I appreciated______to your home.

A.to be invited B.to have invited C.being invited D.having invited

26、Famous People Who Begin With Difficulties

Oprah Winfrey

Probably having one of the most famous success stories, Oprah was born into a poor family in Mississippi, raised by a single mother living on welfare. She was physically, and mentally abused during her childhood. Despite her initial struggles as a young girl, she turned herself into one of the most successful talk show hosts of our time.

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey has been the star of some of the most successful movies of all time. But Carrey grew up extremely poor in Canada. When he was a teenager, his family took security jobs in a factory to help pay the bills. And during his first stand-up comedy performance, he was booed off （喝倒彩） the stage. Not shortly after, he made it big on In Living Color and then went on to star in Dumb & Dumber, The Mask, and Ace Ventura in the same year!

James Dyson

If you thought Thomas Edison’s failures were bad, let me introduce you to James Dyson, the famous inventor of the Dyson vacuums （真空吸尘器） you see all over the television. Dyson developed over 5,000 failed prototypes （原型） before finding the bagless vacuum brand. Not only that, he put his entire savings account into his prototypes over fifteen years! Luckily, the bagless vacuum worked.

Stephen King

Before Stephen King became known as a great living writer—having written over 60 novels, many of which have been adapted for film and television—King was rejected over and over again. In his memoir, On Writing, King describes how he used to post his rejection letters on the wall for inspiration. His first novel, Carrie, was rejected 30 times.

【1】What do Oprah and Jim have in common?

A．They were abused by parents.

B．They grew up in poor families.

C．They were hired as comedians.

D．They found jobs in a factory.

【2】What did James Dyson do?

A．He repaired the failed prototypes.

B．He developed over 5,000 brands.

C．He put all efforts into marketing.

D．He invented the bagless vacuum.

【3】Who is a novelist?

A．Oprah Winfrey.

B．Stephen King.

C．James Dyson.

D．Jim Carrey.

27、Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.

Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.

【1】The results of the test show that ________.

A．breakfast has great effect on work and studies

B．breakfast has little to do with a person s work

C．a person will work better if he has a simple breakfast

D．those working with brains should have much for breakfast

【2】Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A．Poor breakfasts affect those who work with brains.

B．Morning diet may cause one to get fatter.

C．Reducing lunch and supper is of less value in weight losing.

D．Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight.

【3】According to the passage, if a student does not eat breakfast, ___________.

A．he will fall ill

B．he will fail to listen to his teacher

C．he will not make progress in his study

D．his mind will work more slowly

28、   Chances are that you probably haven’t given much thought to that bottle of Pringles other than wondering “how can I get the last few potato chips out of the tube without making my arms dirty.”

As it turns out, this salty snack has quite a story. It once was in the middle of a heated argument that questioned the materials and whether the chips were actually potato chips at all.

From 2007 to 2009, the makers of the “once-you-pop-you-can’t-slop” chips stood in front of three: different levels of the British law department trying to defend the decision that Pringles chips were not — by definition — potato chips.

Here’s how this comically complicated problem started. In the mid-20th century, a tax was born called the value-added or VAT tax. This “consumption tax” started off as a 10 percent tax on all goods bought from a business. More than 20 percent of the world’s tax income comes from the value-added tax making it a pretty big deal.

In Britain, most foods are free from the value-added tax, except for potato chips or “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour”. This led to a long and hard journey to figure out whether or not Pringles were actually potato chips. If they were ruled as chips, Pringles’ parent company at the time, Procter & Gamble, would must pay a 17.5 percent VAT tax.

Procter & Gamble’s initial argument was that Pringles were not potato chips because they didn’t “contain enough potato to have the quality of ‘potatoness’”.They also argued Pringles didn’t resemble the shape of a potato chip.

In 2008, a lower British court agreed and ruled that Pringles were in fact not potato chips, mainly because they contained only 42 percent potato and had “a shape not found in nature”. But just a year later, the Court of Appeal re-examined and changed that decision, calling Procter & Gamble’s argument that the ingredients of a product didn’t define the product “hogwash”.

With that decision, the giant company had to pay $160 million in taxes, while, unwillingly, calling their novel potato chips, well, potato chips. And that is the story of Pringles and its brief dance with the world of taxes, junk food and British judges.

【1】Why is a question raised in the first paragraph?

A．To arouse readers’ interest.

B．To get the answer from readers.

C．To warn readers of the food safety.

D．To remind readers to make full use of food.

【2】Why are there arguments over whether Pringles were potato chips?

A．Pringles contain a low percent of potato.

B．The shape of Pringles is quite different from a potato chip.

C．Different taxes will be paid based on different judgments.

D．Different levels of the British judiciary have different opinions.

【3】What can we finally conclude from the last two paragraphs?

A．Pringles are potato chips.

B．Pringles are regarded as junk food by British judges.

C．Pringles should be fined $160 million to the Court of Appeal.

D．Pringles chips contain enough potato and flour.

【4】What's the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To show how to make Pringles.

B．To promote Pringles.

C．To explain the strict rules about the tax in Britain.

D．To introduce the story of Pringles with the tax in Britain.

29、Last year I ruined my summer vacation－a two-week vacation at my wife’s family cabin on a lake in northern Ontario, located at the boundary of the US and Canada－by bringing along a modern convenience that was too convenient for my own good: the iPad.

Instead of admiring the beauty of nature, I checked e-mail. Instead of paddling an old canoe, I followed my Twitter feed. Instead of devouring great (or merely amusing) novels, I stuck to my workday diet of four newspapers each morning.

And that was the problem: I was behaving as if I were still in the office, sticking to the unending news cycle. My body was on vacation but my head wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something different, a social media experiment in reverse: withdrawal from the Internet. Could I manage to unplug?

I knew it wouldn’t be easy, since I’m not good at self-denial. But I was determined. I started with a physical restraint: handing the iPad to my wife, who helpfully announced that she was going to use it to read a 630-page novel for her book club and would not be inclined to relinquish the tablet for even a moment.

Then, a stroke of luck: The cell phone signal at the Canadian cabin was spottier than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration.

I was trapped, forced to comply with my own good intentions. Largely cut off from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had little way to connect to the world except for radio－and how much radio can one listen to, really?

I had no choice but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books. I experienced criminal plots on the streets of Los Angeles, cutthroat battles between cancer labs and the psyche of a London social butterfly in 1922. And there were old magazines to read.

I’m not claiming that I cut myself off from the Internet completely. Every few days, we biked into the nearest town and, as a reward, sat on a park bench in front of the public library to use its Wi-Fi. And back at the cabin, we suffered through a slow dial-up connection once a day to check e-mail.

This tale of self-denial has a happy ending－for now, at least. With determination and deep breathing, plus the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the problem.

I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said, trying not to sound too pleased.

However, as we return to post-vacation situation, a test begins: Can I stay on the wagon now that I’m back at work? There are times when the compulsion to know what’s being said right now is overwhelming (and for me, sometimes it’s crucial to my livelihood). And I have no intention of giving up my membership in the cult of immediacy. But I hope to resist the temptation to reflexively check my e-mail every five minutes, which often leads, as long as I’m looking, to checking my Twitter feed and a website or two.

A vacation is supposed to help you reset your brain to become more productive. Here’s hoping this one worked.

【1】What ruined the writer’s trip last year?

A. That he was worn out because of the schedule.

B. That he forgot to bring amusing novels with him.

C. That he read too much newspaper last year.

D. That he was distracted by too many things unrelated to the trip.

【2】What does the underlined word ‘restraint’ mean?

A. A calm and controlled behavior.

B. A relaxing move.

C. A strong determination.

D. An unshakable faith.

【3】What did the writer do to get in touch with the outside world during the trip?

A. Reading online newspapers.

B. Following his friends’ Twitter.

C. Checking email every now and then.

D. Listening to the radio.

【4】Why did the writer claim that his self-denial process have a happy ending?

A. He has completely turned down the Internet.

B. He gave up his habit of checking the latest news online.

C. He realized that his body was on vacation but his head wasn’t.

D. It dawned on him that it was people that are in control of their behavior.

【5】What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Say no to electronic devices.

B. Relationships harmed by distractions.

C. Abandoned distractions ease break.

D. Things that can take your mind off.

30、Our church has a way of helping those who have financial difficulties without making the receiver feel shame or guilt. Money is ______ an offering box with only the name of the______on the envelope.

There came a time when my husband and I were among those ______. Just as we reached the point of despair, our church gave us a(n) ______ envelope that had been left in the offering box. We were______ to receive a very big amount of money, enough to bring us through that hard time.

A year later, our seventeen-year-old son was ______ a student loan for college. It was then that we discovered his savings account was almost ______. His father and I were surprised. We had______ him to put part of his wages from his part-time job into the bank towards his______from nine years old, and he had worked very hard for his ______ earnings. I asked him repeatedly to tell me ______ the money had gone.

______, in tears, and with great reluctance (勉强), my son admitted that the year before he had put his ______ in the offering box for his father and me. I stood there speechless, tears filling my eyes. It had taken my son ______ to save that money. He had given it to us ______ — without telling us what he had done.

【1】

A．looked into

B．dropped into

C．turned into

D．handed into

【2】

A．receiver

B．giver

C．organization

D．church

【3】

A．in pain

B．in danger

C．in despair

D．in need

【4】

A．large

B．lucky

C．return

D．ugly

【5】

A．satisfied

B．interested

C．overjoyed

D．curious

【6】

A．turning down

B．paying off

C．applying for

D．bringing about

【7】

A．enough

B．full

C．available

D．empty

【8】

A．refused

B．trusted

C．forced

D．pushed

【9】

A．marriage

B．entertainment

C．computer

D．education

【10】

A．small

B．average

C．enormous

D．high

【11】

A．when

B．why

C．where

D．how

【12】

A．However

B．Finally

C．Therefore

D．Meanwhile

【13】

A．wages

B．account

C．loan

D．savings

【14】

A．years

B．months

C．weeks

D．decades

【15】

A．reluctantly

B．willingly

C．excitedly

D．sadly

31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Here is a lesson that we’re going to be taught again and again in the coming years: Most animals are not just animals. They’re also 【1】 of microbes (微生物). If you really want to understand the animal, you also have to understand the world of microbes inside them. In other words, zoology is ecology.

Consider the western corn rootworm---- a beetle that’s a serious pest of corn in the US. The adults have strong preferences for laying eggs in corn fields, so that their underground larvae (幼虫) hatch into a 【2】 of corn roots. This life cycle depends on a continuous year-on-year supply of corn. Farmers can use this dependency against the rootworm, by planting soybean and corn in alternate years. These rotations (轮流) mean that rootworms lay eggs into corn fields but their larvae hatch among soybean, and die.

But the rootworms have 【3】 to this strategy by reducing their strong 【4】 for laying eggs in corn. These “rotation-resistant” females might lay among soybean fields, so their larvae hatch into a crop of corn.

There are almost certainly genetic differences that separate the rotation-resistant rootworms from their normal 【5】. Researchers at the University of Illinois began to study the genes of the bacteria in its gut (肠) and found some answers, after focusing on the rootworm’s own genes and found that the results were mostly inconclusive.

“The bad guy in the story----the western corn rootworm---was actually part of a multi-species plot,” says Joe Spencer, who was part of the study. “No wonder it was hard to figure out what was happening. We were only looking at the most obvious 【6】 of the story.”

If you really want to understand the animal, you also have to understand the microbes. The rootworm’s gut bacteria are effectively another one of its organs, but an 【7】 flexible on that can change dramatically when 【8】 to a new food source. This allows the insects to adapt very quickly to environmental challenges, far more quickly than if they could only rely on mutations (突变) in their own genes.

Spencer says, “Modern agriculture has always underestimated the ability of pests to avoid pest control, and I think the 【9】 that pest insects are not alone in their efforts should give us some 【10】. There is a brand new tiny world out there inside every creature, and we need to start thinking seriously about it.”

32、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写一段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

When I was nine years old, we lived on a dead-end street in the countryside.

Of all the rules my mom made for me, the one that I must obey was never ever go near the empty house at the end of the street. This was a house the kids had renamed “old lady Coffet’s house”. I don’t know if that was even the lady’s real name.

Usually I spent most of my time with my best friends Jayne and Mindy. “Hey, let’s go to ‘old lady Coffet’s house’! We can walk around to see if any windows are broken and maybe slide in!” said Mindy one day. I answered first without hesitation, “No, I’m not allowed to go there. If I disobey the rule, my mom won’t take me to see the new Beatles movie on Saturday.” “Come on, she won’t even know! What about you, Jayne?” said Mindy. Jayne, always up for an adventure, responded with, “Sure! Count me in!” So that was it. I was disobeying my mom’s most serious rule.

We got on our bikes and within ten minutes we arrived. We stared at the broken steps without a railing leading up to a weather worn front door and a broken storm door hanging off on one side, with dead plants surrounding the steps. I knew that we all had the same feeling. Nervousness. I said, “I don’t think this is a good idea.” Mindy yelled, “Agreed!” as she was already turning her bike around.

“Wait,” I whispered. “I heard something.” Laying my bike down, I walked slowly following the sound over to the front of the garage. Surprisingly, there in the deep overgrown grass were two baby dogs. Seeing me reach my hands out, they both came over, licked my fingers and rolled on their backs. I called my friends to come over and said, “We have to bring these two guys home and show our parents. Otherwise, they will starve or get hurt by other animals.” “Maybe bears!” said Mindy.

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So that was the plan—we would first bring the baby dogs home and show my parents.

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