昆明2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、The book is of great value._______ can be enjoyed unless you digest it.

A．Nothing

B．Something

C．Everything

D．Anything

2、---Why do you turn back?.

---Oh, the bridge ahead_____.

A. repaired   B. repairs

C. is being repaired   D. has been repaired

3、He paid for a seat, when he ______ have entered free.

A.could B.would

C.must D.need

4、The new online library makes___________ possible for students to choose books by smart Phone off campus.

A．this

B．one

C．that

D．it

5、--- What do you think of your E-dictionary ?

-- Helpful. It has _____ many problems about English idioms.

A. turned up   B. broken up

C. taken up   D. cleared up

6、Many video websites announce that viewers can watch shows and movies for free ________ watching advertising.

A.in spite of B.on behalf of C.with the purpose of D.in exchange for

7、I have a dream. When I________, I want to be a scientist.

A．make up

B．come up

C．grow up

D．turn up

8、The manager believes that stupid ________ Mr. Smith is, ________ he said makes perfect sense.

A．that; which

B．as; what

C．as; that

D．though; which

9、Schools are expected to 　　　　students well and tell them what is right or wrong.

A. manage   B. control

C. conduct   D. drive

10、He is very ________ about public welfare (公益) and has helped a large number of poor families.

A．careful

B．nervous

C．enthusiastic

D．worried

11、 The purpose of the campaign is to raise the public’s _______ of the danger of passive smoking.

A. awareness  B. connection

C. existence   D. consciousness

12、He felt that he_______________ the coldness that had grown between them.

A. was blamed to   B. was to blame for

C. was to be blamed for   D. blamed

13、一It’s too bad! My salary has been cut by 20% this month.

一________. I’ve warned you many times not to be late for work frequently!

A．You made it

B．Got it

C．Never mind

D．You deserve it

14、When Mary arrived she found all her children ______ for nearly two hours.

A．have gone to sleep

B．fell asleep

C．was falling asleep

D．had been asleep

15、Luis is ________ a lot of stress right now because he has been addicted ________ drugs.

A．on; to

B．under; to

C．with; into

D．in; in

16、I expected him to go abroad, and ________, he did.

A. sure thing   B. sure enough

C. for sure   D.to be sure

17、This medicine called artemisinin soon became a standard treatment for malaria to save people’s life. 此句中谓语动词为_______.

A．called

B．became

C．treatment

D．save

18、As you go through this book, you________that each of the millions of people________lived through World War II had a different experience.

A．will be finding ; who

B．will find; which

C．will find; who

D．will be finding; which

19、Most members of the drama club, though shy in real life, are quite ________ once they get on stage.

A．diligent

B．drunk

C．competitive

D．dynamic

20、_______ at my classmates faces, I read the same disappointment in their eyes.

A．Look

B．To look

C．Looked

D．Looking

21、Go and get your coat. It's________you left it yesterday.

A．where

B．there

C．there where

D．where there

22、Quantities of food ________ the charity every year.

A.are subscribed to B.is subscribed to C.are subscribed D.subscribe to

23、He ____ such a large house, though he was very glad.

A.need buy B.hadn’t bought C.shouldn’t have bought D.needn’t have bought

24、I am so ______ that I can hardly fall asleep at night.

A．narrow

B．anxious

C．awesome

D．pure

25、Donald Trump made a _____ to the nation that he would struggle for lower taxes and improve health care after taking office.

A. contribution   B. commitment

C. devotion   D. donation

26、First, all participants found it quite easy to link colors and emotions. This was particularly true for colors like red, black, or yellow. Other colors, like brown and purple, received fewer associations. We found that colour-emotion associations were not one-to-one, but many-to-many.

Participants did not select one emotion for a colour, but often chose several emotions. In turn, different colors were linked to the same emotion, like pleasure, which was associated with red but also yellow, orange, pink and purple.

What you can also see is that most colors were associated with positive emotions. Only brown, grey and black—that is, darker colors—were associated with negative emotions. Red was the most controversial colour. For some, it was a very positive colour—the colour of passion, love and desire. For others, it was a negative colour—the colour of danger, anger and hate. For even others, it was both positive and negative. What connects all these emotions and ideas is the fact that red is activating and strong.

Second, we found few cultural differences. In other words, many colour-emotion associations seemed universal. Most participants agreed that pink was associated with love and pleasure, yellow with joy and amusement, or that black was the saddest colour.

Third, if you are interested in cultural differences, we found some specificities too. For example, in addition to the universal associations of love and anger with red, Chinese participants also associated joy and amusement, while Nigerian participants additionally associated fear with red. Another example is the association between purple and sadness that only Greek participants chose. For others, purple was generally a positive colour with very little agreement on the exact emotions associated with purple.

Fourth, participants whose languages were more similar to each other also had more similar associations. To arrive at this finding, we estimated the degree of linguistic (语言的) similarity between two languages, which shows how related or unrelated they are. And then, languages from different language families, like English and Chinese, would have the lowest similarity scores.

【1】Which colour is most likely to cause controversy?

A．Black.

B．Red.

C．Yellow.

D．Brown.

【2】What is pink associated with according to most participants?

A．Love and pleasure.

B．Joy and amusement.

C．Anger and sadness.

D．Fear and disappointment.

【3】Which group of people associate purple with sadness?

A．Chinese participants.

B．Nigerian participants.

C．Greek participants.

D．English participants.

【4】What’s the best title of the text?

A．The Deep Meaning of Colours

B．The Link Between Colours and Emotions

C．Cultural Differences in Different Countries

D．Linguistic Similarity Between Two Languages

27、Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.

“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a director of the Institute of Child Study. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back.

For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.

Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully  — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.

【1】 What’s the purpose of children telling lies?

A. To help their friends out.

B. To get rid of trouble.

C. To get attention from others.

D. To create a popular image.

【2】 From the second paragraph we can know that ____________.

A. which factors can reduce lying

B. why some lie more than others

C. it is normal for kids to tell lies

D. how lying changes as kids grow

【3】It can be inferred from the passage that ________________.

A. children’s lies are the same as adults’

B. the better kids are, the more they lie

C. the older kids are, the more they lie

D. kids always keep the truth in their mind

【4】What is NOT included in the passage?

A. The reasons why kids tell lies.

B. Which kind of kids tells more lies.

C. Experiments about lying of young kids.

D. What to do with lying children.

28、阅读理解

 “Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” –– Jeff Bezos. I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.

【1】What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?  

A. His dream of being an inventor.

B. The support of his wife.

C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

D. Millions of exciting titles.

【2】Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?.

A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.

C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.

D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

【3】We can know from the passage that _______.

A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

B. the author wanted someone else to try the idea

C. the author might not regret if he failed the idea

D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed

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

A. Cleverness and Kindness   B. The Starting of Amazon

C. Following My Passion D. We Are What We Choose

29、Did you know that all human beings have a “comfort zone” regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk? This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures.

Greeks, some of the Eastern Mediterranean, and many of those from South America normally stand quite close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. North Americans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that they tend to feel most comfortable at about 12 inches apart. In much of Asia and Africa, there’s even more space between two speakers in conversation. This greater space subtly lends an air of dignity and respect. This matter of space is nearly always unconscious, but it is interesting to observe.

This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent to which they lean over one another in conversation, how they move as they argue or make an emphatic (强调的) point. In the United States, for example, people try to keep their bodies apart even in a crowded elevator; in Paris they take it as it comes!

Although North Americans have a relatively wide “comfort zone” for talking, they communicate a great deal with their hands—not only with gesture but also with touch. They put a sympathetic hand on a person’s shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around him in sympathy; they pat an arm in reassurance or stroke a child’s head in fondness; they readily take someone’s arm to help him across a street or direct him along an unfamiliar route. To many people –especially those from Asia or the Muslim countries—such bodily contact is unwelcome, especially if done with the left hand. The left hand carries no special significance in the United States. Many Americans are simple left-handed and use that hand more.

【1】What would most probably happen when a Greek meets a North American?

A．The Greek keeps 12 inches apart from the North American.

B．The Greek can keep a comfortable distance with the North American.

C．The North American accepts the Greek distance when they become friends.

D．The North American keeps backing away while the Greeks keeps moving closer.

【2】It can be inferred from the passage that the Frenchmen _________.

A．move closer when they want to emphasize a point

B．use more body language to interact with others

C．sit farther apart when they talk in a large room

D．Don’t mind bodily contact in a crowded elevator

【3】Touching with the left hand is regarded as __________ in the Muslim countries.

A．a meaningless gesture

B．an offending action

C．an unintentional mistake

D．an ill-intentioned joke

30、   At just 18 years old, Canberra student Lochie Ferrier has already conducted research in a frontier field —aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering is the primary _____ of engineering concerned with the science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.

In 2014, he was one of 80 high school students worldwide who _____ a six-week science and engineering program at MIT. During the program, he was _____ by the institute’s scientists, and developed a method to identify inactive satellites. This method, called OASIS, is designed _____ a way to help manage space debris （碎片）, which _____ operating satellites. “One solution to this problem is a _____ robot that can gather pieces of space debris and store them in orbit，” he says. “These pieces could be _____ to new satellites later thus _____ the costs and launch weights of new satellites.” However, _____ satellite identification technology would be needed for this solution, and that’s what Lochie is working on. “I hope this method would be put into practice in the near future, _____ in the next 10 years,” he says.

Lochie has made the _____ of the Young Innovators category of the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards with his OASIS. This category is open to students aged 21 years or _____ and carries a $ 5,000 prize. If he won, he would use the money to help fund _____ research into OASIS. “My plan for using the money would be to try to use materials which could stand up to the _____ environment of space,” he says.

He is also considering how to _____ manufacturers. the technology to organizations such as NASA and satellite

Lochie’s _____ in aerospace engineering was aroused by the big dish antenna（碟形天线）at NASA’s tracking station near Canberra，which he visited in his early teens. He said his software design and development teacher at Canberra Grammar School _____ him, too. “He taught me valuable project management and skills which I applied to OASIS.”

Lochie has been attending Canberra Grammar School and will soon _____ exams for admission to universities. He _____ his time between schoolwork, his personal _____ projects such as OASIS and the develop ment of apps, rock climbing, and playing classical violin. The teenager is well on his way to realizing his sky-high ambition.

【1】A.education B.presentation C.branch D.standard

【2】A.brought in B.participated in C.set up D.backed up

【3】A.guided B.urged C.surprised D.tested

【4】A.in B.for C.with D.as

【5】A.follows B.threatens C.catches D.created

【6】A.recycling B.repairing C.producing D.launching

【7】A.switched B.transformed C.attached D.returned

【8】A.increasing B.reducing C.balancing D.covering

【9】A.optional B.temporary C.reliable D.theoretical

【10】A.imagine B.say C.suppose D.consider

【11】A.plans B.finals C.competitions D.goals

【12】A.under B.beyond C.more D.above

【13】A.basic B.further C.academic D.independent

【14】A.extreme B.pure C.dark D.friendly

【15】A.adapt B.forward C.market D.apply

【16】A.pride B.confidence C.trust D.interest

【17】A.inspired B.served C.impressed D.promised

【18】A.mark B.sit C.pass D.prepare

【19】A.devotes B.spends C.saves D.divides

【20】A.instructive B.competitive C.technical D.typical

31、下列文段直接来自所学的课文。请根据英文首字母提示，填入符合课文含义的词，使到文段意思完整，通顺，符合课文原意。

CULTURE AND CUISINE

The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ” Put more simply, this means “You are what you eat. ” Most people today relate this s 【1】 to healthy eating. However, Brillat- Savarin was a 【2】 referring to our personality, character, and c【3】.

Certainly, in many ways this seems to be t【4】. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. P 【5】 to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American t 【6】. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured with hot red p【7】. This is probably not an authentic Chinese r 【8】, however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese. On the other hand, it does tell us a lot about Americans. It tells us, for example, that Americans love bold, simple flavours. And, since the dish was also i 【9】 recently, it tells us that Americans are not a 【10】 to try new foods.

32、假设你叫李华，现在在英国交换学习，你的朋友陈明写信告诉你他打算赴英留学，想知 道初到英国可能会遇到的困难。请你用英语给他写一封回信，信的内容应包括：

1.可能会遇到的困难：语言方面的障碍、饮食的不习惯、想家孤独等；

2.鼓励他并表示愿意帮助他。

注意：1.词数 100 个左右。

2.信的开头已为你写好，不计人总词数。

Dear Chen Ming，

I'm glad to hear from you. You asked me about the difficulties you may meet with when you get here in UK.

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Yours,

Li Hua