晋城2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、 the problem you have encountered in life, if you are scared off by the trouble or just fate, you will amount to less than nothing.

A．Whatever big...give in to

B．However big...give in to

C．Whatever big...give up to

D．However big...give up to

2、One can always manage to do more things, ______ full one’s schedule is in life.

A．however

B．whatever

C．whichever

D．whenever

3、As far as I know, it was the car accident due to drunk driving that led to ________.

A.him to be killed B.him killing

C.him having killed D.his being killed

4、The girl found the T-shirt sold online was _______that in the supermarket．

A. as half cheap as B. cheap as half as

C. the half price of D. half the price of

5、 Our teachers often encourage us that every minute we spend on studying will finally _______ in the near future.

A. run out B. go off   C. come out   D. pay off

6、Still, one thing is clear: speaking a language well needs both fluency and _______ .

A．accuracy

B．magnificence

C．significance

D．stimulation

7、The passengers were angry for the train being ______ without a notice in advance.

A. called in   B. called up

C. called for   D. called off

8、It’s such a good place ________ everybody wants to visit ________ it is well known all over the world .

A．which , that

B．as , as

C．as, that

D．that , which

9、The link between pollution and serious diseases like cancer has long been ______ scientists, but the researches on the link between pollution and baldness are very few.

A．accustomed to

B．attached to

C．similar to

D．familiar to

10、Because of the financial crisis, days are gone ______ local 5-star hotels charged 6,000 yuan for one night.

A. if   B. which   C. since   D. when

11、Lost in the mountains for three days, what the three men were able to do was   the help of helicopters.

A. expected B. expect

C. being expected D. to be expected

12、People have   views on the policy published recently. Not everybody is in favor of it.

A. surprised   B. excited     C. frightened   D. mixed

13、We went through a period ________ communications were difficult in the rural areas.

A．which

B．whose

C．in which

D．with which

14、With time ________ by, they got to know each other better.

A. passes   B. passing   C. passed     D. to be passed

15、It takes years to _________ a good name but only seconds to destroy it. For example, some celebrities（名人）were caught taking drugs by the police.

A. build up  B. take up  C. make up  D. put up

16、 Not all the patents________ have been recognized.

A. to be examined  B. being examined

C. examined   D. having been examined

17、He was__________ with anger when he found his son had paid attention to none of his warning and smoked again.

A. packed   B. occupied

C. overcome   D. balanced

18、—What did your son say in the letter?

—He told me that he ________ the Disney World the next day.

A．will visit

B．has visited

C．had visited

D．would visit

19、The professor_____ out the project made a comment on the report.

A.was opposed to carry B.opposed to carry C.opposed to carrying D.opposed carrying

20、Victor apologized for　　　　　　 to inform me of the change in the plan.

A．his being not able

B．his not being able

C．him not to be able

D．him to be not able

21、School kids take part in parades on campus on Halloween, ___________ in colorful costumes, after which there is a small party inside the classroom.

A. dressing B. dressed

C. being dressed   D. dress

22、They have ________ good knowledge of English but little ________ they know about German.

A．a; do

B．a; have

C．/; did

D．/; had

23、Wang Ping was very lucky to take up the job as a guide of “Future Tour” company, she completed her studies in the university.

A.the instant B.the hours C.the period D.the clock

24、Don’t be too general. Please give a ________ suggestion on how to deal with this difficulty.

A．concrete

B．abstract

C．complete

D．fragrant

25、Suddenly, a man driving a motor car _______ the girl’s bag and took it away, ______ into the darkness.

A. seizing , disappeared B. seized, disappeared

C. seizing, disappearing D. seized, disappearing

26、   Tomato Festival

Started in 2005, the Tomato Festival has grown into a local tradition in Malta. In recent years, the festival has added amusement park­style rides and a yearly Creature Feature, which screens old horrible movies. There are also dance competitions, parades and pancake breakfast. Third weekend in August.

Address: 833 Tinkham Rd, Fountain Park, Wilbraham, Massachusetts 01095

Phone: (413)599-0010

Brat Days

Don’t mistake this festival for a day filled with poorly behaved children. Begun in 1953, the gathering is the biggest festival in the city each year and features more than 50 stands (摊位) selling the sausage, as well as a contest to see who can quickly eat the most bratwurst (德国式小香肠) in ten minutes.Early August.

Address: 17th and New Jersey sts, Kiwanis Park, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081

Phone: (920)457－9491

Hope Watermelon Festival

The festival dates back to the 1920s, when many trains went through this small town and local watermelon growers would sell their watermelon to parched travellers. These days, the festival sees a Watermelon Queen crowned (加冠的) and sometimes a world­record watermelon grown. There are also more than 300 stands selling arts and crafts from a six­state area, as well as a car show and the Watermelon Olympics. Early August.

Address: 108 W 3rd St, Hope, Arkansas 71801

Phone: (870) 777-3640

Oyster Festival (牡蛎节)

Featuring appearances from tall ships and oyster boats, this festival has regularly drawn 60,000 visitors a year since it began in 1978. More than 3,000 volunteers make the festival possible each year. Norwalk is less than a two­hour drive from many of New England’s larger cities, making it easy to attend the festival during a trip to New York or Hartford. Weekend after Labor Day.

Address: Sea view Ave, Veteran’s Park, East Norwalk, Connecticut 06855

Phone: (800) 866-7925

【1】Which of the following festivals has the longest history?

A.Oyster Festival.

B.Tomato Festival.

C.Brat Days.

D.Hope Watermelon Festival.

【2】In which of the following activities can you enjoy the frightening films?

A.The Creature Feature.

B.The Watermelon Olympics.

C.The Eating­bratwurst Contest.

D.Dance Competitions.

【3】If it is August 15 today this year, you might still attend   .

A.Brat Days

B.Tomato Festival

C.Hope Watermelon Festival

D.Oyster Festival

27、In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his 27 workers left England in a wooden sailing ship called the Endurance in the hope of becoming the first to cross Antarctica. But in 1915, the Endurance got trapped in the thick ice and later sank. Shackleton and all of his men lived, but the tale of their long and difficult return is one of the most famous survival stories of all time.

Although Shackleton kept accurate records of the ship’s position and the ship’s photographer even took pictures of it as it went down, the ship had never been found ever since.

On March 6, 2022, a search team announced that it had located the ship. The Endurance was found 3 kilometers below the ocean’s surface, about 6 kilometers south from its last known position. The name can be clearly read on the back of the ship. Even though the ship is made of wood and is over 100 years old, it has survived with little damage. Scientists say the small organisms that normally break down wooden objects underwater don’t live in the cold waters around Antarctica.

To locate the Endurance, the team used two underwater robots. They were especially useful, since they could travel under the ice, go where the ship could not and find anything sticking up above the sea floor. Last Saturday, the ship was found. Once the ship was located, the robots used high-quality cameras and scanners to record the Endurance in detail.

Antarctica’s waters are protected by an international agreement, which means the ship can’t be disturbed. The team plans to create a digital 3D model of the ship site, using the careful scans they made. This will allow scientists to study the ship in detail without disturbing it.

【1】What was Ernest Shackleton’s purpose in sailing in the Endurance?

A．To discover a new icy land.

B．To measure unknown areas.

C．To try to make history.

D．To settle down on Antarctica.

【2】What kept the ship in good condition?

A．The depth of the water.

B．The special material of the ship.

C．The seafloor under the water.

D．The temperature of the water.

【3】What can be learned about the future of the Endurance?

A．It will remain untouched.

B．It will be pulled out of water.

C．It will be rebuilt by scientists.

D．It will be in the charge of the search team.

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

A．The Useful Underwater Robots

B．The Most Famous Survival Story

C．The Discovery of the Endurance

D．A Great Captain-Emest Shackleton

28、Some people are using old books to create works of art, including sculptures. They can change the shape of a hardcover book so it becomes 3-D. The resulting sculpture has not only a length and width, but depth. The process can be very simple, and the result is often beautiful.

There are many kinds of book folding. Artists fold, bend, and sometimes, cut a book's pages while keeping them together. The art works can be hung on a wall or placed on a table. "They look impressive on the wall," says writer Candice Caldwell. "A group of six of these on the wall together can look really beautiful, and they're just really simple folds."

In 2003, Caldwell started making clocks from old books when she saw plans for a simple book-folding project in a do-it-yourself magazine. She has since taught several friends and her mother how to create wall art from books.

Caldwell operates a blog. She writes about reshaping everyday objects like books for uses other than what they were designed for.

Clare Youngs, who is an illustrator (插图画家), has written a book called Folded Book Art. She says book folding is easy. From her home in England, she told the Associated Press by email that "It looks as if it is complex and unachievable, but it is really easy to do. You just don't tell anyone how easy it is and they will be amazed at your creations."

Youngs began making art from book pages several years ago when she saw pictures of folded books at the website Pinterest com. She also watched some videos on You Tube that tell how to create art from books.

Youngs suggests folding cooking recipe and photography books. She says that "If it's really visual and really colorful when you start to fold them, you get a whole new look on the wall."

【1】What does Caldwell write about online？

A．Creating everyday objects.

B．The works of art on the wall.

C．A project in a do-it-yourself magazine.

D．Changing the shape of daily items for other purposes.

【2】What does Youngs think of book folding？

A．It is boring.

B．It is dangerous.

C．It is unnecessary.

D．It is not complex.

【3】Where did Youngs learn to make art from book pages

A．In the library.

B．From friends.

C．On the internet.

D．From cooking recipes.

【4】What does the text mainly tell us？

A．Recycling old things.

B．Ways to fold various books.

C．a new use for old books.

D．The goal of book folding.

29、For a while, I wrote a “Tuesday tip” on my blog Lyonsdenmom.com. It was about easy week-night dinners, organizing parties or perhaps finding time out for friends.

About a year ago, I ran out of tips.

The truth? As a busy working mom with five busy kids, I probably do have a few tips to share. But honestly, the bar is set pretty low---on a recent day when I was walking our dog, a stranger who knew I had five kids said, “Wow! You have a dog, too?! And it even looks like you showered today!” Yes, it's true, I shower. Not every day, but most days. See, I'm telling the truth. Honestly, in this cold winter, I'm probably taking a shower more to warm up than to clean up.

Other funny truths? I'm tired. In fact, for the past year, I’ve been too tired to type up any update on our life here in Lyons Den. It's hard to arrange a career with all these kids. Although folks just believe that it must be so much easier now since all the kids are in school, I'm here to tell you, it's not. It's really not. When I get home from work, I'm often tearfully greeted by five kids and five homework folders filled with math facts, invitations, notices and artwork.

All those happy smiling faces I share on Facebook are real. We are a happy family---thank God for that! But we're not always smiling, and even in those rare best times when I can get all five kids looking at the camera, the odds would be that one of them isn’t wearing underwear, one is pinching (捏) someone behind the scenes and one is just perfectly pronouncing “Damn!” So, less perfectly-posed pictures, but more telling the truth. Even if only on Tuesday.

【1】 It seems that the author's life used to be _____.

A. tiring   B. busy   C. relaxing   D. funny

【2】 Which of the following is true about the author?

A. She can't get along well with her neighbors.

B. She's living a happy life with her family

C. She likes to have a shower every day.

D. She has already closed her blog now.

【3】Which of the following words can best take the place of the word odds?

A. answers.   B. chances.   C. solutions   D. ways.

【4】The passage mainly talks about _____.

A. the happiness of a working mother

B. the worry of a working mother

C. the hardship of a working mother

D. the bittersweet of a working mother

30、Why liars lie: What science tells us about deception

We all do it sometimes, even though we know it’s wrong. But here’s the problem with lying: research shows that the more you lie, the easier it gets, and the more likely you are to do it again. “The dangerous thing about lying is that people don’t understand how the act changes us,” said Dan Ariely, a behavioral psychologist at Duke.

Psychologists have documented children lying as early as age 2. Some experts even consider lying a __________ milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires complex planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else’s __________ to effectively control them. But for most people, lying gets __________ as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

A 2010 study on the frequency of lying in America found that in a given 24-hour period, most adults reported not telling any lies. Almost half the lies recorded in the study could be __________ just 5 percent of participants. And most people __________ lying when they could, turning to deception only when the truth was troublesome.

Harvard cognitive neuroscientist Joshua Greene said, __________ , for most of us, lying takes work. In studies, he presented study subjects with a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional MRI(核磁共振) machine, which __________ blood flow to active parts of the brain.

Some people told the truth instinctively. But others __________ opted to lie, and they showed __________ activity in their frontal parietal (额顶叶) control network, which is involved in difficult or complex thinking. This suggests that they were deciding between truth and __________ – and ultimately opting for the latter.

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centers were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars – suggesting that lying may have to do with the __________ to resist temptation.

Scientists don’t really know what prevents all of us from lying all the time. Some believe truth-telling is a social norm we internalize, or a result of conflict in our brains between the things we want and the _________ image of ourselves we strive to maintain. But the curious thing about this __________ mechanism is that it comes from within.

However, external conditions also matter __________ when and how often we lie. We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we are able to justify it, when we are __________ and exhausted, or when we see others being dishonest. And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

【1】

A．historical

B．developmental

C．mental

D．psychological

【2】

A．perspective

B．imagination

C．experience

D．evaluation

【3】

A．dominated

B．preferred

C．accepted

D．limited

【4】

A．attributed to

B．applied to

C．reduced to

D．distributed to

【5】

A．regretted

B．avoided

C．recognized

D．denied

【6】

A．anyhow

B．instead

C．indeed

D．likewise

【7】

A．stimulates

B．maps

C．guides

D．assesses

【8】

A．reasonably

B．randomly

C．passively

D．deliberately

【9】

A．restored

B．failed

C．regulated

D．increased

【10】

A．morality

B．fantasy

C．dishonesty

D．reality

【11】

A．inability

B．impulse

C．determination

D．possibility

【12】

A．unique

B．objective

C．positive

D．typical

【13】

A．preventive

B．persuasive

C．interactive

D．decisive

【14】

A．regardless of

B．by means of

C．in response to

D．in terms of

【15】

A．delighted

B．motivated

C．encouraged

D．stressed

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Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their c【1】 in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. Rather than travel b【2】 commercial airline all the way, they decided to f【3】 to Vancouver and then take the train. For both of them, the thought of crossing the whole c【4】 by rail was exciting.

B【5】 starting out, they spent a couple of days in Vancouver, seeing the sights. During their first day, as is typical of Vancouver, it r【6】. Despite the weather they were able to take a boat ride out into the bay, and later v【7】 an Island that had wonderful shops selling crafts and antiques. The next day was clear and mild, and they were p【8】 to see the beautiful mountains looking out over the city. Later they took a pleasant h【9】 in a forest just a short d【10】 away.

32、We moved on into the jungle-- a forest where large numbers of tall trees and plants grow very close together. Old Mali went in front and I followed close behind him. We stopped for the night about an hour before it began to get dark.

Old Mali lit a fire. When it was bight he showed me how to make a bed with moss（青苔，苔藓）.

It was soft and comfortable.

―Mali, how did you learn to make such a bed?  I asked.

―I learned to make beds like that,  Mali replied, ―by watching and listening to others. That is the real way to learn anything.

―Will you let me watch you always?  I asked Old Mali. ―I want to learn all the things you know about the jungle.

When we had finished our supper, Old Mali got onto his bed and lay down. It was now completely dark. In the fire light, Old Mali seemed to be fast asleep on his bed. I suddenly felt alone and afraid.

All day in the jungle, while we had been walking, I had heard noises of animals. Now they seemed to be much nearer. The jungle was now a wall of blackness in the light of the fire.

I felt frightened and suddenly my mouth went dry. I wanted to scream. I felt my mouth opening wide, ready to scream as loud as possible.

But I did not scream. I saw Old Mali’s face in the firelight. This made me feel ashamed. I held my teeth tightly together to stop myself from screaming. I lay down and closed my eyes.

As soon as I closed my eyes. I heard a thousand noises. The whole jungle became alive with animals moving quietly and carefully all around me. Suddenly Old Mali took a deep breath and made a noise. I was hearing so many imaginary noise and the real noise made by Old Mali gave me a terrible fright.

I opened my eyes and jumped out of bed. I pulled my knife out and held it above my head.

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I was going to see if there was a wild animal beside the fire.

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Old Mali’s quiet calm voice made me feel better.

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