自贡2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Only when he returned home ______ what had happened.

A. did he realize

B. he realized

C. he did realize

D. has he realized

2、-Mum，I always feel everything is unfair to me．

--Complaints in life ________ no sense，for things will be what they should be．

A． make B． have made

C． will make   D． are making

3、I’d appreciate _______if you could come and help me once more and I always appreciate _______me with my English in the past.

A. this; you to help   B. that; your helping

C. it; you to help   D. it; your helping

4、The performance was ________ being a failure; it was a great success.

A．along with

B．far from

C．next to

D．regardless of

5、The teacher together with his assistants _____ ten cell samples during the past two months in the school lab.

A.analyze B.analyzes C.has analyzed D.have analyzed

6、I have to remind myself that some birds are not meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you ________ knows it was an offence to lock them up does feel happy.

A. that   B. who   C. where

7、 After the death of her mother, the girl was sold to a rich man just in the neighboring area, from _______ house she tried to escape twice.

A. whom   B. his

C. whose   D. which

8、—Did you go to the party last night?

—Yes, but I’d rather ________. It was so ________.

A. not go; tiresome   B. not have gone; exciting

C. not have gone; tiring   D. go; interesting

9、An expert says, “ I think it is unpredictable for nature. You don’t know what will happen but _________we are preparing.”

A. somehow B. somewhat   C. anyhow D. someway

10、According to the national population survey concluded recently, Florida is home to the largest population of people aged 65 and older, and this group ______ over 17 percent of the state’s population.

A. takes up B. holds up

C. makes up D. keeps up

11、Recently a terrible fire broke out in the America, _______ the people are still suffering.

A.whose effects B.which affects

C.of its effects D.from whose effects

12、Hawking believes the earth is unlikely to be the only planet     life has developed gradually.

A.that B.why C.where D.which

13、______, it will make a difference to the life of the people in the earthquake – stricken area.

A.However the contribution is small B.No matter small the contribution is

C.However small the contribution is D.No matter how the contribution is small

14、—Can we have two rooms with garden view?

—I’m afraid there is only one room________.

A.affordable B.available C.accessible D.adaptable

15、The old man turned his business over to his younger son, ________made his elder son discouraged.

A. who B. what

C. that   D. which

16、It hasn’t been announced ______ the plane is to take off.

A. where   B. when   C. how   D. why

17、 ______her dark sunglasses, the star wasn’t recognized by crazy fans.

A. Hiding behind   B. To hide behind

C. Hide behind   D. Hidden behind

18、He seemed ________the sad news as he looked really upset.

A．to know

B．to be knowing

C．to have known

D．to knew

19、A new iphone costs about _________of a second-hand one．

A. the price of three times

B. three times the price

C. as much as the three times price

D. three times more than the price

20、According to the latest BBC news, a five-year-old boy from England _______ the youngest computer specialist in the world．

A．became B．becomes

C．had become D．has become

21、If boy wizard Harry Potter uses his magic to capture (迷住) the hearts of millions of teenagers, high school students Gabriella and Troy have charmed American boys and girls with their stories of campus life.

They are the leading characters in High School Musical, a series of hugely successful films in the US. The sequel (续集), High School Musical 3, came out on October 24 and has topped the American box office for two straight weeks.

The show has everything attractive to teenagers — dancing, catchy music, puppy love and good looks. The story starts when high school basketball star Troy and brainy Gabriella —_________________— meet during the winter break. At a karaoke contest they discover their love for singing and an interest in each other. When school starts, Troy finds out that Gabriella is the new girl at his school.

Eager to find the magic they had during karaoke, Troy and Gabriella decide to audition (试镜) for the school’s upcoming musical. This angers the school’s drama queen Sharpay. However, they overcome difficulties and become the leading actors.

But the story doesn’t end there. High School Musical 2 follows their adventures over summer vacation when Sharpay tires to break up Troy and Gabriella. In the latest sequel, high-school seniors are facing the possibilities of being separated from each other as they go off in different directions when graduating from high school.

Joined by the rest of their friends, Troy and Gabriella stage a musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about the future.

“The success of the High School Musical films shows Disney’s long-term efforts to attract youngsters for whom Mickey Mouse seems to babyish,” wrote New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff. “For the time being, the movie has made fictional high school students as recognizable as that 79-year-old mouse.”

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A. Boy wizard — Harry Potter.

B. High school students Gabriella and Troy.

C. A successful show — High School Musical.

D. Disney’s long-term efforts.

【2】How many films are there in this series of films?

A. 2.   B. 3.   C. 4.   D. 5.

【3】What can you learn from the words “two teenagers who are worlds apart”?

A. They live far away from each other.

B. They used to know each other well.

C. They have a big difference between each other.

D. They study at different schools.

【4】What happens in High School Musical 2, according to the passage?

A. Troy and Gabriella audition for a school musical.

B. Troy and Gabriella meet at a karaoke contest.

C. Troy and Gabriella graduate from high school.

D. Sharpay tries to break up Troy and Gabriella.

【5】What does New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff mean?

A. High School Musical is possibly more attractive to youngsters.

B. The high school students don’t like Mickey Mouse.

C. Mickey Mouse is more attractive to youngsters.

D. Mickey Mouse is too old to be recognized by youngsters.

22、Teenagers can be hard to keep entertained during the summer, but parents will be pleased to know there are holiday parks across the UK with lots of teen activities.Here are the best holiday parks for teenagers：

Haven Hopton Holiday Park, Norfolk

Haven has tons of activities for teens from crazy golf to tennis lessons.There're indoor and outdoor pools, with slides to get the adrenaline（肾上腺素）pumping.The family amusements centre has video games and at The Marina Stage there's live entertainment

Park Dean Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Teens won't be stuck looking for things to do at this fun﹣filled park from Park Dean Resorts.It has a multi﹣sports court and an amusement center.There are two pools with slides and even an ice cream station at one of the on﹣site restaurants.3﹣night stay at Vauxhall in July costs ￡199.

Away Resorts Mersea Island, Essex

Take teens for a break in Essex at Mersea Island where they can hang out at the Muddy Duck Clubhouse where there's live entertainment.The park has its own private beach, where you can try skiing, as well as a nature reserve to explore on foot or by bike.There's an indoor swimming pool.

Park Holidays Golden Sands, Dawlish, Devon

Teens will never be short of things to do at this park.There're no less than three swimming pools and two clubhouses to hang out at with free WiFi.The sandy beach is on your doorstep, and the park is known for its top class shows on most nights.3﹣night stay at Park Holidays Golden Sands in July costs ￡619.

【1】Which park costs you the most?

A．Away Resorts Mersea Island, Essex.

B．Haven Hopton Holiday Park, Norfolk.

C．Park Holidays Golden Sands, Dawlish, Devon.

D．Park Dean Vauxhall Holiday Park, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

【2】What can visitors do at Park Dean Vauxhall Holiday Park?

A．Enjoy free WiFi.

B．Visit a nature reserve.

C．Taste delicious ice cream.

D．Appreciate the live entertainment.

【3】What is the common part of the four parks?

A．They all offer delicious food.

B．They all have swimming pools.

C．They all give teenagers chances to explore.

D．They are all open to the public in the summer.

23、Call it the learning paradox: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to learn new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.

The learning paradox is at the heart of “productive failure,” a phenomenon identified by researcher Manu Kapur points out that while the model adopted by many teachers when introducing students to new knowledge providing lots of structure and guidance early on, until the students show that they can do it on their own — makes intuitive sense, it may not be the best way to promote learning. Rather, it’s better to let the learners wrestle with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start. In a paper published recently. Kapur applied the principle of productive failure to mathematical problem solving in three schools.

With one group of students, the teacher provided strong “scaffolding” — instructional support — and feedback. With the teacher’s help, these pupils were able to find the answers to their set of problems. Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by cooperating with one another, without any hints from their instructor. These students weren’t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they’d learned, the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.

The apparent struggles of the second group have what Kapur calls a “hidden efficacy”: they lead people to understand the deep structure of problems, not simply their correct solutions. When these students meet with a new problem of the same type on a test, they’re able to transfer the knowledge they’ve gathered more effectively than those who were the passive recipients of someone else’s expertise.

In the real world, problems rarely come neatly packaged, so being able to discern their deep structure is key. But, Kapur notes, none of us like to fail, no matter how often Silicon Valley entrepreneurs praise the beneficial effects of an idea that fails or a start-up company that crashes and bums. So we need to “design for productive failure” by building it into the learning process. Kapur has identified three conditions that promote this kind of beneficial struggle. First, choose problems to weak on that “challenge but do not frustrate.” Second, provide learners with opportunities to explain and elaborate on what they’ve doing. Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems. And to those students who protest this tough-love teaching style: you’ll thank me later.

【1】Why does the author call the learning process a paradox?

A．Pains do not necessarily lead to gains.

B．What is learned is rarely applicable in life.

C．Failure more often than not breeds success.

D．The more is taught, the less is learned.

【2】What do people tend to think of providing strong “scaffolding” in teaching?

A．It will make teaching easier

B．It is a sensible way of teaching

C．It can motivate a wage students.

D．It will enhance students’ students’ confidence.

【3】What can be expected of “this tough-love teaching style” (Line 9, Para. 5)?

A．Students will be grateful in the long run.

B．Teachers will meet with a lot of resistance.

C．Parents will think it too harsh on their kids.

D．It may not be able to yield the desired results.

24、Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish - a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action as well. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of the intellect. They also govern our everyday functioning, down to the most ordinary details. Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor.

But our conceptual system is not something we are normally aware of. In most of the little things we do every day, we simply think and act more or less automatically along certain lines. Just what these lines are is by no means obvious. One way to find out is by looking at language. Since communication is based on the same conceptual system that we use in thinking and acting, language is an important source of evidence for what that system is like.

To give some idea of what it could mean for a concept to be metaphorical and for such a concept to structure an everyday activity, let us start with the concept ARGUMENT and the conceptual metaphor ARGUMENT IS WAR. This metaphor is reflected in our everyday language by a wide variety of expressions: ARGUMENT IS WAR.

Your claims are indefensible.

He attacked every weak point in my argument.

His criticisms were right on target.

I demolished his argument.

I've never won an argument with him.

You disagree? Okay, shoot〜!

If you use the strategy, he’ll wipe you out.

He shot down all of my arguments.

It is important to see that we don't just talk about arguments in terms of war. We can actually win or lose arguments. We see the person we are arguing with as an opponent. We attack his positions and defend our own. We gain and lose ground. We plan and use strategies. If we find a position indefensible, we can abandon it and take a new line of attack. Many of the things we do in arguing are partially structured by the concept of war. Though there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure of an argument - attack, defense, counterattack, etc. -reflects this. It is in this sense that the ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor is one that we live by in this culture; it structures the actions we perform in arguing.

【1】Which of the following statements will the author most probably agree with?

A．Metaphor is primarily a literary tool that polishes our thoughts and expressions.

B．The actions involved in argument is understood in terms of war conceptually.

C．People's action is generally more dependent on metaphor than on concept.

D．The concept of argument exists on the precondition that there is war.

【2】According to paragraph 3, what is the relationship between language and our conceptual system?

A．Language and the conceptual system are structured separately and automatically.

B．The conceptual system remains inaccessible despite the revelation of language.

C．The conceptual system provides various definitions for our language.

D．Language provides clues to what constitutes the conceptual system.

【3】The underlined word “demolished” is closet in meaning to “________”.

A．defeated

B．dismissed

C．justified

D．favored

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．War is non-verbal argument.

B．Our communication is metaphorical.

C．Concepts are internally constructed.

D．Few people speak in metaphorical language.

25、   My family was very concerned for my sister and understandably so. Helen was on a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix. Although the flight was short, it provided __________ time for her to get to know the Morrisons, an Arizona couple seated in her row. The plane was only in the air for a couple of minutes __________ the wife, Marcie, fell asleep, leaving her husband Daniel and my sister sitting next to each other in silence. Maybe it was a feeling of __________ that sparked（引发，触发）it, or maybe it was the need to __________. Whatever the case, within minutes Daniel began to tell their own story.

He told my sister how he and Marcie had __________ to Los Angeles that morning to meet with a doctor of __________ medicine about treating Marcie, only 35, for her stage 4 breast cancer. __________ the diagnosis of the doctors in Phoenix had given Marcie only a few months to live, the couple had decided to __________ other forms of treatment. Although they both felt __________ about what had been described to them that day, they were upset to learn that the alternative treatment __________ a $34,000 price tag and would not be covered by medical __________. Additionally, they’d have to pay for a place to __________ while Marcie underwent treatment.

When it came to deplane（下飞机）, Daniel __________ Marcie. Since she was unable to walk, he requested a wheelchair. It was while my sister was waiting with them for the chair that she made the __________ that they could stay with her during their trips to Los Angeles.

Helen received a call from Daniel the following week saying that he and Marcie had __________ it over and they would like to take her __________ offer. They arrived the following Wednesday and left on Sunday. And this __________ continued for several months. What __________ had brought the three of them together and then made her invite them into her home? Whatever the case, she knew that she had done exactly as she was supposed to.

I guess it would be an understatement (轻描淡写) to say that my family’s feelings of _____ changed to feelings of admiration ! We are all so _________ of our Helen!

【1】A.regular B.spare C.adequate D.available

【2】A.when B.after C.once D.until

【3】A.boredom B.freedom C.awkwardness D.tiredness

【4】A.unpack B.unload C.survive D.cooperate

【5】A.moved B.removed C.driven D.flown

【6】A.herbal B.internal C.preventive D.alternative

【7】A.Since B.Unless C.Before D.Provided

【8】A.combine B.compare C.pursue D.tolerate

【9】A.sure B.good C.empty D.sorry

【10】A.published B.lost C.released D.carried

【11】A.insurance B.allowance C.donation D.pension

【12】A.visit B.go C.stay D.enjoy

【13】A.hugged B.woke C.kissed D.followed

【14】A.decision B.prediction C.excuse D.compromise

【15】A.passed B.got C.took D.talked

【16】A.final B.acceptable C.generous D.conditional

【17】A.arrangement B.belief C.bargain D.deal

【18】A.relationship B.force C.cost D.subject

【19】A.shame B.disappointment C.embarrassment D.concern

【20】A.ashamed B.fond C.proud D.confident

26、假定你是李华，计划本周末和同学一起去观看《经典咏流传》(Everlasting Classics)节目，得知外教Nancy也很感兴趣，请给她写一封邮件，邀请她一同参加。内容包括：

1.集合时间及地点；

2.现场活动：交流与互动。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Nancy，

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Yours，

Li Hua