鄂州2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、It might have_______ your notice but I am very busy at the moment.

A. quit    B. neglected

C. escaped D. denied

2、Teenagers ________ their health because they play computer games too much．

A．have damaged

B．are damaging

C．damaged

D．will damage

3、   the number of people queuing up outside Apple stores has dropped over the past several years with many buyers, choosing to shop online, the weak turnout for the latest iPhone has partly been due- to, poor review.

A. While   B. If

C. Once   D. Since

4、It is clearly stated that these regulations ___ everyone in the community, without exception.

A. appeal to   B. adapt to

C. apply to  D. attach to

5、—Ken has gone to the Africa country to work as a volunteer.

— I would rather he _____there. The situation there is very tense.

A. didn’t go   B. hadn’t gone

C. doesn’t go   D. hasn’t go

6、Joining the firm as a clerk，he got rapid promotion，and ________ as a manager.

A．ended up

B．dropped out

C．came back

D．started off

7、Learning another language is like stepping out of a door, ______I can look back and see more clearly my own language.

A.By which B.through which C.which D.on which

8、The Internet has made ________ possible for us to keep in touch with the world.

A.it B.this C.that D.one

9、The Chinese men's relay team worked miracle in Bird's Nest Stadium when they ___________ a historic 4x100m relay silver medal.

A.struggled B.advanced C.defended D.captured

10、It is reported that the rest of the poor living in the area to new houses in the past few months.

A．moved

B．has moved

C．have moved

D．had moved

11、_____ caused the great damage remains unknown.

A. What   B. That   C. How   D. Where

12、She is the girl ______ invention got the first prize in the school competition.

A.who B.that C.which D.whose

13、The police car signalled to us to ___________.

A.pull on B.pull in C.pull through D.pull down

14、You ________ put the task off any longer. We are all waiting for it.

A．mightn’t

B．won’t

C．mustn’t

D．needn’t

15、Advanced as technology has become now, we still have no for the common cold.

A. alternative   B. substitute   C. solution   D. cure

16、— It is so crowded and the pollution is so serious here!

— You see, ______. I’m going to quit my job and move to the country.

A. I’ve had enough B. I like it here

C. That will be OK  D. It’s not so bad

17、Julia，____ for months after job as an air waitress，finally took a position in a local tour agency.

A．hunting

B．hunted

C．having hunted

D．to hunt

18、As we all know,   , the pollution will get worse and worse.

A. not if carefully dealt with

B. until not carefully dealt with

C. if not carefully dealt with

D. when not carefully dealt with

19、You have to move out of the way the truck cannot get past you.

A．so

B．or

C．and

D．but

20、According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is ____ millions of deaths every year.

A. original from B. suitable for

C. accessible to D. responsible for

21、It’s possible that interstellar space explorers could come across problems communicating with previous and subsequent arrivals, as their spoken language has changed in isolation along the way.

Regarding the issue, two American scholars, Andrew McKenzie and Jeffrey Punske, co-authored the article “Language Development During Interstellar Travel”. What has been discussed in the article is the concept of language change over time. They wrote that given more time, new grammatical forms can completely replace current ones.

In a recent interview, McKenzie gamed it out.

“If you’re on a spaceship for 10 generations, new concepts will emerge, new social issues will come up, and people will create ways of talking about them,” McKenzie said, “and these will become the vocabulary particular to the spaceship. People on Earth might never know about these words, unless there’s a reason to tell them. And the further away you get, the less you’re going to talk to people back home.”

So if we have Earth English and spaceship English, and they become different over the years, you will have to learn a little Earth English to send messages back, or to read the instruction manuals and information that come with the spaceship.

Also, keep in mind that the language back on Earth is going to change, too, during that time. So they may well be communicating like we’d be using Latin—communicating with this version of the language nobody uses.

The authors concluded that if a study of the linguistic changes aboard a spaceship could be performed, it would “add to its scientific value”.

【1】What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．Two American scholars.

B．Interstellar space exploration.

C．Language evolution on Earth.

D．The article by McKenzie and Punske.

【2】What does the underlined phrase “gamed it out” mean?

A．Offered a new concept.

B．Made a further study.

C．Gave a detailed explanation.

D．Lost the game completely.

【3】What might happen to people aboard a spaceship as a result of language change?

A．They tend to communicate in Latin.

B．They keep themselves updated on Earth English.

C．They don’t-feel much like talking to people on Earth.

D．They switch from spaceship English to Earth English.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Why space travelers change their language.

B．How language is changed in the future time.

C．The language issue during interstellar travel.

D．New concepts of language created in a spaceship.

22、Thank you for agreeing to be a Test Administrator for PISA. The purpose of this manual is to help you to understand how you will assist with the successful implementation of this large-scale student survey.

1.1. What is PISA?

PISA stands for the Programme for International Student Assessment, sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). PISA 2015 is the sixth PISA study that has been conducted since 2000 and involves more than 70 participating countries.

PISA has the following characteristics:

• It is the world’s largest international survey in education.

• It surveys students aged about 15 years.

• It assesses students’ preparedness for adult life.

Undertaking PISA is important because the results of the test can be used:

• to indicate how well prepared students in a country/economy are for learning once they leave school;

• to identify areas for improvement over time by schools, education systems, and governments; and

• to allow a comparison of student performance and the learning environment between different countries.

1.2. Components of PISA 2015

• 1.2.1. Cognitive test

42 students from each school will be randomly sampled to complete a 2-hour computer-based test consisting of questions in science, mathematics, reading, and Collaborative Problem Solving.

• 1.2.2. Questionnaires

These students will also be asked to complete a 30 minutes Student Questionnaire on the computer either directly after the test sections or at a later time.

• 1.2.3. Financial Literacy assessment

After the cognitive test and questionnaires, a sub-sample of 10-11 students will take a computer-based Financial Literacy(FL) assessment. The 65-minute Financial Literacy assessment tests students’ knowledge of personal finances and their ability to apply it to their financial problems.

【1】According to the manual, each participating student of PISA should___________.

A. be aged more than 15 years old

B. be of or above the average level in their classes

C. spend 215 minutes for the programme

D. carry out all the tasks on the computer

【2】What can we know about PISA from the passage?

A. There will be over seventy countries participating in the seventh PISA in 2018.

B. Top PISA scorers are more likely to succeed in their adult life than lower score owners.

C. PISA will compare students’ personal performance based on their learning environment.

D. The FL assessment is specially intended for students who are suffering financial problems.

23、   An audience of patients with Alzheimer’s(老年痴呆症) disease listens with concentrated attention as a young woman sings the French song “Beau Soir”. Despite his failing mind, one of the men in the crowd, Les Dean, translates the words into English for a friend.

Dean, 76, once taught music at Chicago’s Senn High School, invented and sold his own music education system and sang with the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Now, like many patients with Alzheimer’s, he is, to some extent, lost in the past, a stranger to the present. But when the music plays, he smiles and is transported to a place of beauty, where everything still makes sense.

In recent years, music therapy(疗法) has grown in popularity for its seeming ability to help calm people with dementia(痴呆) and reconnect them with their memories. Now a Northwestern University researcher is testing whether music played for residents of a suburban nursing home can be therapeutic, whether it can improve cognition（认知）, conversation and relationships.

A person with dementia can recede(倒退) so far that he or she is no longer responsive, suggesting personality and consciousness（意识）have been lost. But in his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, the well-known neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote that he’d seen such patients shake or weep while listening to music. “Once one has seen such responses,” he wrote, “one knows that there is still a self to be called upon, even if music, and only music, can do the calling.”

For some people with dementia, music therapy has been shown to enhance attention and cognition to improve behavior while reducing the use of drugs and to reduce anxiety and depression. Singing songs can help refresh specific memories that otherwise might have been forgotten completely, experts say. Also, some patients are so nonresponsive, they may need music wake them up and get them moving.

Attracted by the potential benefits, Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour, a neurologist with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, put together a music therapy study at Silverado Orchard Park Memory Care Community.

Each week for 12 weeks, the nonprofit Institute for Therapy Through the Arts held concerts for 10 Silverado residents. The musicians are specially trained to apply their skills to therapy, often by interacting with patients during performances and getting them to beat on drums, sing and dance.

A similar group of residents in another nursing home went without the therapy to compare results. Since finishing the initial study period, researchers are analyzing the results and hope to try the same treatment for the opposite group in the future.

“Music therapy is gaining more confidence now as an intervention(介入), so this is a very exciting time,” Bonakdarpour said. “We thought when people get Alzheimer’s, they’re done because there’s no medicine to cure it. But there's so much we can do to have an impact and improve their quality of life.”

【1】Why is Les Dean mentioned at the beginning?

A.To present his amazing life before he got the Alzheimer’s disease.

B.To inspire the people who also suffered from the disease.

C.To tell the readers that he was a music lover.

D.To show the surprising function of music.

【2】Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?

A.Dr. Oliver Sacks believed music could call upon a self in Alzheimer’s patients.

B.When patients are nonresponsive, music could hardly have any effect on them.

C.Northwestern University has tested music can improve the patients’ conversation.

D.It is obvious that singing can make the patients’ memories back to normal.

【3】From Bonakdarpour’s research, we can learn that __________.

A.the music therapy study has been successfully completed.

B.the patients show no interest in music therapy.

C.music therapy can help to improve the patients’ life quality.

D.music therapy have a negative effect on the patients as an intervention.

【4】What does the author mainly want to tell us in the passage?

A.The terrible disease can be cured by music therapy.

B.Music is beneficial to the people lost in Alzheimer’s darkness.

C.People gradually realize the benefits of music.

D.Everyone should fall in love with music.

24、   EVEN the best of communicators can sometimes hit a wrong note, whether with a joke, turn of phrase, or even an ill-timed chuckle（轻笑）.

For instance, a former finance minister Ken Gabriel usually tries to keep things casual when answering reporters’ questions. But in a television interview on the news program 60 Minutes, some people felt his register was a little too casual—even careless.

At one point, Gabriel spoke about the bankers who have been widely blamed for causing the collapse of the financial sector: “I mean there were a whole bunch of folks who, on paper, if you looked at quarterly reports, were wildly successful, selling derivatives that turned out to be …completely worthless,” Gabriel said, with a chuckle.

Shocked by Gabriel’s laughter during the interview, journalist David finally asked: “You’re sitting here. And you’ re—you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems.”

Gabriel quickly explained himself by replying, “No, no. There’s gotta be a little humor to get you through the day.” But that exchange ended up making news, as TV pundits, journalists and public relations experts debated Gabriel’s tone.

One unnamed strategist for Gabriel’ s party said that the finance minister’ s attempts at humor were distracting: “Gabriel is gifted in so many ways, but humor is not something that he seems to be comfortable with. He does not come across as a funny guy.”

The TV critic Daniel, meanwhile, came to Gabriel’s defense.

“Gabriel isn’t a rookie …All this laughter seems clearly to be calculated rather than accidental. His laughs last night were designed as laughs of reassurance. They were designed to tell the TV audience he understands the severity of the situation.”

There would have been little debate if Gabriel had not laughed during a speech. Answering questions in a public setting, however, should allow for a more conversational register. But as Gabriel discovered, not everyone agrees on just how casual the tone should be.

【1】What’s the meaning of the phrase hit a wrong note?

A.Say something wrong. B.Do something wrong.

C.Write down something wrongly. D.Play the music wrongly.

【2】What did Gabriel do when journalist David asked him about the laughter?

A.Tried to account for it. B.Found an excuse for it.

C.Refused to say anything about it. D.Learned a lesson from it.

【3】Which of the following stands by Gabriel?

A.The banker. B.David.

C.The unnamed strategist. D.Daniel.

【4】Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?

A.Debatable speeches of Gabriel. B.Be cautious while you are speaking.

C.Gabriel’s rude behavior in speeches. D.Honest or not, it’s hard to say.

25、   I was born with a genetic condition, retinitis pigmentosa（色素性视网膜炎）, and, over the years, my eyesight gradually got worse. The best way to describe it is like_________a straw which is coated by cling film（薄膜）over the_________. And a few years later, I  was almost 100% blind. When I was young, I used to get very angry if I_________something I found difficult or couldn't do because of my eyes. But over time I learned that wasn't a helpful_________. There's no point getting_________by the fact I can't see, because it won't_________it.

Of course, my great_________is climbing. People are usually_________when they discover that not only do I climb, but I also lead climbs.

At university I_________the Mountaineering Club and was able to climb much more__________. We had regular trips to indoor walls and weekends away outdoors. I met my__________Molly at a climbing club during freshers' week. We didn't climb together very much__________we were both very experienced and were normally__________up with those who hadn't done as much as we had. We were just friends at first, but eventually romance blossomed. I actually__________to her in 2017 on a climbing trip to Greenland. She said yes.

People often ask me, "Why rock climbing, it doesn't seem like a good activity for a__________person?"

But when I think about the danger,__________the road is far more dangerous, and also it's something where I'm not in control.

Doing that climb was evidence of the__________I've always had—which is that I'm not__________, I'm just blind and able.

It's quite possible that I wouldn't be as good a climber if I weren't blind—if I didn't have these challenges, it wouldn't make me__________. The__________is built through my disability.

【1】A.looking through B.looking over C.looking up D.looking for

【2】A.edge B.end C.outside D.inside

【3】A.avoided B.abandoned C.encountered D.obtained

【4】A.excuse B.lesson C.process D.response

【5】A.wounded B.bored C.shocked D.pleased

【6】A.stimulate B.change C.accelerate D.refuse

【7】A.advantage B.passion C.routine D.target

【8】A.excited B.demanding C.caring D.amazed

【9】A.quitted B.discovered C.joined D.dismissed

【10】A.frequently B.difficultly C.comfortably D.cautiously

【11】A.friend B.wife C.husband D.sister

【12】A.once B.while C.so D.because

【13】A.fed B.messed C.partnered D.lined

【14】A.surrendered B.proposed C.attached D.turned

【15】A.deaf B.dumb C.blind D.lame

【16】A.crossing B.paving C.mending D.cleaning

【17】A.love B.career C.misfortune D.belief

【18】A.disabled B.healthy C.wealthy D.depressed

【19】A.responsible B.comfortable C.available D.focused

【20】A.kindness B.curiosity C.determination D.imagination

26、假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jack想学习汉语，你推荐他去孔子学院，请给他写封邮件，内容包括： 

1.推荐理由；

2.相关课程，如中国历史，传统文化等。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：孔子学院Confucius Institute

Dear Jack,

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Yours,

Li Hua