海西州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、Nowadays, cycling, along with jogging and swimming, ________ as one of the best all-round forms of exercise.

A.is regarded B.regard C.are regard D.regards

2、The little girl, with tears ___ down her cheeks, stopped crying suddenly when given an apple.

A. having rolled  B. to roll

C. rolled D. rolling

3、Lily’s parents worked in another city when she was young, _____to her independence from others.

A．to contribute

B．contributed

C．contributing

D．having contributed

4、Focus on what you are supposed to do every day and you __________ gradual progress.

A．make B．will make C．made D．would make

5、Maurice could hear voices in the kitchen below, but he couldn’t _______ what was being said.

A.bring out B.take out C.make sure D.make out

6、Miss Li ______ as a secretary for five years in the company，and now she is general manager of it.

A． serves   B． served

C． had served   D． has served

7、When facing a hard question, most people can’t give an answer ______.

A．obviously

B．incredibly

C．immediately

D．accidentally

8、Last night, around midnight, I ______the sky for nearly an hour. The stars shone like diamonds.

A．had observed

B．have observed

C．observe

D．observed

9、By pretending to be ill, the candidate tried to run away from _______ issues, which always aroused too much debate.

A． confidential   B． controversial

C． contemporary   D． contradictory

10、 Peter is such a person _____ you mentioned just now.

A. as   B. that   C. which   D. who

11、On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that the number of people killed by Ebola has now risen to over five thousand, with more than fourteen thousand ______.

A. having infected  B. to infect

C. infected   D. infecting

12、On discovering that Morrie ____ by a severe illness, Mitch starts visiting him at his house on Tuesdays.

A．is weakened

B．is weakening

C．is being weakened

D．has weakened

13、The frozen waterfall has attracted floods of tourists to_______ the natural beauty.

A. cherish   B. admire

C. observe   D. discover

14、Our goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable________ his financial situation.

A．in view of

B．in case of

C．in terms of

D．regardless of

15、The government has taken some measures to reduce the smog, but it may be some time _____ the situation improves.

A. since   B. when

C. unless   D. before

16、I had dreamed of this moment many times in my childhood. But when you finally make it it’s totally different from ________ you had imagined

A．when

B．what

C．that

D．which

17、I ________ my close friend three times today but her line was always busy.

A. have phoned   B. had phoned

C. have been phoning D. was phoning

18、I headed for the barber’s ________ I was allowed to photograph the master at work.

A．when

B．where

C．who

D．which

19、One well of the oil field was still burning with huge fire twisting crazily____ the night sky.

A. in  B. on C. against  D. across

20、 Had it not been for my teacher’s help, I   the first place in the contest.

A. won’t win   B. wouldn’t win

C. wouldn’t have won   D. mustn’t have won

21、My age has always been an issue. Not for me, but for everyone else. I was nine at the time. On my first day of high school, my grandparents, and the press insisted on going along. I made them walk four paces behind me, since I didn’t want to stand out.

The next morning I was ashamed to learn that the Associated Press picked up a photo of me on tippy toes trying to reach the top of my locker. The words on the photo read: “High school may not be a big stretch for nine-year-old Millicent, but her locker sure is.”

In time things calmed down. I had a difficult start, though. It’s embarrassing enough being a foot shorter and five years younger than your classmates, but then to have your grandmother cemented to you makes it even worse.

My grandmother, Maddie, and I made an odd couple, but at least it meant I had somebody to talk to while the other kids make it a point to ignore me. There, she was expected to hand me over directly to Gaspar, my late French instructor. We were well into the first week and waiting outside Gaspar’s class when someone, I never did figure out who, made a remark of offence using the words “boring”, “brainiac” and “Millicent” in the same run-on sentence (连写句).

Believing I was being laughed at, my grandmother warned my classmates that she knew kungfu and was not afraid to use it. To show how serious she was, Maddie did a series of complicated martial arts (武术) moves.

When she was done and the applause gradually stopped. Maddie was still in her leg-split position.

“Get up,” I whispered, “Everyone’s staring.”

“No,” she replied, “I appear to be stuck.”

By then Gaspar had arrived. He asked several bigger boys to carry my grandmother to the school clinic as she waved goodbye to first-period French.

【1】Millicent felt ashamed of the picture on the newspaper because________.

A．she felt herself criticized by the reporters

B．she was too young to reach the locker

C．she was closely followed by family members

D．she didn’t want others to notice her difference

【2】When Millicent says her grandmother is “cemented to” her, she means that her grandmother ________.

A．stays very close

B．has a hard attitude

C．moves very slowly

D．has a solid character

【3】Middie became upset with some students because they ________.

A．were staring at Millicent

B．did not know who Millicent was

C．were making comments about Millicent

D．did not help Millicent open her locker

【4】Which words best describe Millicent’s grandmother?

A．Energetic and protective.

B．Patient and thoughtful.

C．Gentle and understanding.

D．Hardworking and ambitious.

22、Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He stopped by the fence in front of the house where he lived with his aunt Polly. He looked at it, and all joy left him. The fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.

He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire.

He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find something to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea.

At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash.

While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.

Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?”

No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.

Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you’ve got to work, hey?”

Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it’s you, Ben! I wasn’t noticing.”

“I’m going swimming. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work. You seem to like it very much.”

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I shouldn’t like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”

Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said,

“Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

Tom thought for a moment, was about to agree; but he changed his mind.

“No, no, it won’t do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’t think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”

“No — is that so? Oh come, let me just try. Only just a little.”

“Ben, I’d like to, but if it isn’t done right, I’m afraid Aunt Polly ...”

“Oh, I’ll be careful. Now let me try. I’ll give you half of my apple.”

“Well, here — No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afraid ...”

“I’ll give you all of it.”

Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures. The fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.

He had discovered a great law of human action that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.

【1】Why did Tom take all his bits of toys out of his pockets?

A. Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toys.

B. Because he wanted to exchange his toys with his friends.

C. Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends.

D. Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toys.

【2】 Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because ______.

A. Tom wanted to do the whitewashing himself

B. Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple first

C. Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashing

D. Tom was afraid Ben couldn’t do the whitewashing well.

【3】We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. Tom was fond of whitewashing the fence

B. Tom had a lot of friends who were ready to help him

C. Tom managed to let other boys do the whitewashing for him

D. Tom was better at whitewashing the fence than others

【4】Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage?

A. The Happy Whitewasher

B. Tom And His Fellows

C. Whitewashing A Fence

D. How To Make Things Difficult To Get

23、"Have you ever been out on a boat and felt it lifted up by a wave? Or have you jumped in the water and felt the rush of energy as waves came over you.?" asked Jamie Taylor of the Wave Energy Group at the University of Edinburgh. "There is certainly a lot of energy in waves," he said. Scientists are working to use that energy to make electricity. Most waves are created when winds blow across the ocean. "The wind starts out by making little ripples (涟漪), but if they keep on blowing, those ripples get bigger and bigger and turn into waves," Taylor said. "Waves are one of nature's ways of picking up energy and then sending it off on a journey." When waves come toward the shore, people can set up dams to block the water and send it through a large wheel called a turbine (涡轮机). The turbine can then power an electrical generator to produce electricity.

"The resource is huge," said Janet Swain of the World Watch Institute. "We will never run out of wave power." Besides, wave energy does not create the same pollution as other energy sources, such as oil or coal. Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth's surface---that would make wave power seem ideal for creating energy throughout the world, though there are some weak points yet to overcome.

Swain said that wave power still costs too much money. She also said that its effects on sea animals are still unknown. What is more, wave power could affect fishing and boat traffic. Traditional sources of energy like oil and gas may someday run out. "Demand for energy to power our TVs and computers, drive our cars, and heat and cool our homes is rising rapidly throughout the world," Swain said. In the future when you turn on a light, an ocean wave could be providing the electricity!

【1】The underlined phrase "picking up" is closest in meaning to ______.

A. starting again   B. speeding up

C. improving   D. gathering

【2】We can make better use of wave energy if we ______.

A. shorten its journey to thousands of homes

B. build more small power stations on the oceans

C. reduce the cost of turning it into electric power

D. quicken the steps of producing electricity

【3】It can be inferred that some day we might not worry about ______.

A. our power supply   B. our boat traffic

C. air pollution D. our supply of sea fish

24、Businesses are witnessing a difficult time, which has in turn produced influence on consumers’ desire to go green. However, shoppers are still laying stress on environmental concerns.

Two thirds of customers say that environmental considerations inform their purchases to the same degree as they did a year ago, while more than a quarter say that they are now even better aware of the environmental effect on what they buy.

This may help to influence how shops store goods on their shelves. And the companies should still make efforts to become more environmentally friendly. Two out of three people think it is important to buy from environmentally responsible companies, with about one in seven saying that they had even decided to take their custom elsewhere if they felt a company’s environmental reputation was not good enough.

Harry Morrison, chief executive(主管)of the Carbon Trust, sympathizes:“I understand this situation where survival is very important now. But from environmental considerations, the clock is ticking—we don’t have much time. In addition, cutting carbon has an immediate effect as costs drop and a medium-term benefit for the brand.”

Larger companies have an extra motivation to look at reducing their carbon footprint, as new rules next year will require businesses to buy carbon allowances to make up for their emissions(排放). Those that have taken early action will have a head start. More than two thirds of consumers are not clear about which companies are environmentally responsible. This suggests that firms that are able to relay clearly their message to the public will be in a pole position to attract shoppers.

The Carbon Trust believes that it can help by informing customers about the good work companies are doing.“When companies are granted(授予)the standard, they can use a logo(标识)in all their marketing which makes it clear that they are working towards cutting emissions,”Mr. Morrison said.

【1】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Businesses are finding ways to send their message to the shoppers.

B. Companies will soon get information about cutting carbon emissions.

C. Firms are making efforts to encourage customers to keep goods at home.

D. Firms are urged to cut carbon emissions by shoppers’ environmental awareness.

【2】The underlined word“inform”in Paragraph 2 probably means“   ”.

A. affect   B. change   C. disturb   D. reject

【3】According to Harry Morrison, businesses .

A. will benefit from cutting carbon emissions

B. should buy carbon allowances for shoppers

C. are required to make up for their carbon emissions

D. have encouraged shoppers to take their custom elsewhere

【4】We can learn from the passage that businesses will .

A. have a strong desire to reduce costs

B. use the same logo in their marketing

C. gain advantages by taking early action

D. attract more shoppers by storing goods

25、   The young woman entered the pool where an injured dolphin was swimming. Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg.

In her second grade, Maja ______ her cousin, Jasmina. After Jasmina’s death, Maja swore she would honor the little girl by ______ with a dolphin, an animal that both girls ____. “Jasmina never got the chance to do it.” says Maja, now 32, “so I ______ that someday I’d do it for her.”

In high school, Maja was ______ about sports. She even planned to become an athlete.   ____, in 1993, during the civil war in her home country, a bomb ______ her left leg.

After two years’ treatment in the U.S., Maja ______ her first artificial leg. But because it didn’t ______ well, walking for Maja was very painful. ______, she managed to graduate from a local high school. Then after receiving a ______ from Saint Francis University, she got a job at an insurance firm and ______ started her own company.

To relax, Maja ______ often watch the dolphins play at an aquarium（水族馆）near her home. A young dolphin, Winter, who had lost its tail, caught her ______. One day, Maja happened to see trainers fitting Winter with a high-tech ______. When they were done, Winter swam freely in the water. Maja was ______. She managed to find the inventors of Winter’s tail. Within ten days, she had a new leg which freed her of the ______ that had troubled her for almost 16 years.

Now, Maja was ready to keep her ______. She went to the aquarium, lowered herself into the pool and held out a hand to Winter, who approached ______, then swam away. After a few minutes, the dolphin let Maja ______ its back. Finally, the two began to swim around the pool together.

【1】A.resembled B.cured C.rescued D.lost

【2】A.talking B.living C.swimming D.sliding

【3】A.loved B.adopted C.possessed D.purchased

【4】A.assessed B.decided C.advocated D.remarked

【5】A.positive B.enthusiastic C.particular D.curious

【6】A.Undoubtedly B.Surprisingly C.Strangely D.Unfortunately

【7】A.blew off B.cut off C.wiped out D.cut out

【8】A.seized B.adjusted C.received D.sought

【9】A.fold B.fit C.split D.bounce

【10】A.Otherwise B.Therefore C.Besides D.However

【11】A.scholarship B.degree C.substitute D.souvenir

【12】A.roughly B.actually C.eventually D.officially

【13】A.would B.should C.could D.might

【14】A.attention B.breath C.expression D.glance

【15】A.eye B.nose C.leg D.tail

【16】A.inspired B.concerned C.upset D.embarrassed

【17】A.barrier B.dilemma C.pain D.responsibility

【18】A.appointment B.promise C.reservation D.circumstance

【19】A.blindly B.angrily C.gratefully D.cautiously

【20】A.fasten B.outline C.touch D.surround

26、你校近期举行了一次登山活动。假定你是学校英语报记者，请你写一篇短文，报道此次活动。

内容包括：

1. 时间与地点：9月5日，大青山

2. 活动的过程

3. 你对这次活动的评论

注意：

1. 词数80左右（文章标题已给出，但不计入总词数）

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

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