衡阳2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、The scientist does not study nature ________ it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it.

A. until   B. though   C. because D. Unless

2、Eye doctors recommend that a child’s first eye exam _____ at the age of six months old.

A.was B.be

C.were D.is

3、It was ________ nice weather that we were able to have lunch in the garden.

A.so B.too C.such D.very

4、With diligent work ______ her a high reputation across China, Yangqian’s influence has expanded beyond shooting.

A．to earn

B．has earned

C．earned

D．earning

5、There is a common belief among them ________ rubbish can should be put to good use.

A． which   B． what

C． whether   D． that

6、Finding some information in the Internet is very convenient. The ______ is how you can tell if the information you get is useful or not.

A．ability

B．competition

C．challenge

D．technique

7、Tom had to have his car repaired in a garage because it ______seriously.

A.damaged B.was being damaged

C.had damaged D.had been damaged

8、Isn't it time you got down to   the papers?

A.grade B.be graded C.being graded D.grading

9、The new stadium being built for the 2022Asian Games will be three times ______ the present one.

A．as higher as

B．the height of

C．as high than

D．highest than

10、Everyone present certainly thinks there ______ be a total ban on cigarette advertising.

A. would B. could C. should D. might

11、The traffic in Beijing will be better when Subway Line 16 ______ into service．

A． would be put   B． was put

C． will be put    D． is put

12、Half a century ago, parts of the Thames were “biologically dead” because of the pollution.

A. declared B. imagined C. sensed D. marked

13、Jane’s grandmother has wanted to write ______ children’s book for many years, but one thing or another always got in ________ way.

A.a, / B.a, the C.the, the D.the, a

14、 _____ computer games, his parents were very worried about his future.

A. Addicted to B. Addicting to

C. He addicted to D. His addicting to

15、The first time I ____ Todd, he ____ to some students at the English corner.

A. had seen; was talked  B. saw; talked

C. had seen; talked   D. saw; was talking

16、I found the film hard to follow because it _______ when I arrived.

A. had begun   B. was beginning

C. has begun   D. would begin

17、There is no doubt that _________ a goal, one needs not only knowledge but also good personalities.

A. achieve B. achieving

C. to achieve D. achieved

18、Frank ________ stamps in his spare time. It’s his hobby.

A. is collecting     B. collects

C. collected      D. was collecting

19、 I’m always ________ about what I say because careless remarks are likely to hurt others’ feelings.

A. enthusiastic   B. curious

C. doubtful D. cautious

20、 A person who has slept well will have a clear mind and work efficiently in the daytime

______ people with sleep disorders find it difficult to concentrate during the day.

A. unless   B. while

C. if   D. until

21、

Dear Valued Customer,

We regret that your baggage was not available to claim after your recent flight. Everything possible will be done to locate your property and return it to you promptly(迅速地).

For information regarding your delayed baggage, contact the United Airlines Baggage Resolution Center at its 24 hour, seven days a week

Number:

1-800-335-BAGS (2247) (US – Toll Free)

281-821-3536 (Local Houston Number)

Or visit site: http://www.united.com/for/bagtracing

As soon as you file your Delayed Baggage Report, United Airlines will begin to trace(搜寻) for your baggage system. Our Baggage Resolution staff will make every effort to call you once a day to keep you updated on our progress. Please refer to the File Reference Number on this receipt (凭证) when corresponding or calling so that we can quickly access your records,

Keep this receipt with your claim check and E-Ticket receipt until your baggage is returned to you.

In most circumstances, United Airlines will deliver your baggage when it is located. Delivery times vary depending on location.

If your baggage has not been returned to you within the initial five-day tracing period, please download a claim form at http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/

travel/baggage/delayed.aspx and return it to us with the required documentation included.

【1】Where does the report most probably come from?

A. Suitcase Tracing Center

B. Baggage Resolution Center

C. Delivery Center of United Airline

D. Information Center of the Airport

【2】 To inform the customer of the process, the staff at the center will __________.

A. file the customers Delayed Baggage report

B. access the customer’s record quickly

C. update the process information online daily

D. contact the customer on the phone once a day

【3】What can we learn about John Jackson from the report?

A. He should call 802-247-9999 for the information about his delayed baggage.

B. He will get back his delayed baggage in less than five days.

C. He must have filed his Delayed Baggage already.

D. He may not know anything about his delayed baggage during the first five days.

【4】The purpose of the passage is ______.

A. to instruct the customers how to get back their delayed baggage

B. to provide information about the location of the delayed baggage

C. to inform the customers of the time when the delayed baggage can be found

D. to tell the customers the news that their delayed baggage was delayed

22、

【1】According to Warranty Limitations， a product can be under warranty if ______．

A． shipped from a Canadian factor

B． rented for home use

C． repaired by the user himself

D． used in the U．S．A．

【2】According to Owner’s Responsibilities， an owner has to pay for ______．

A． the loss of the sales receipt

B． a servicer’s overtime work

C． the product installation

D． a mechanic's transportation

【3】Which of the following is true according to the warranty？

A． Consequential damages are excluded across America．

B． A product damaged in a natural disaster is covered by the warranty．

C． A faulty cabinet due to rust can be replaced free in the second year．

D． Free repair is available for a product used improperly in the first year．

【4】Why does the writer mention Warranty Limitations ？

A． To arouse the readers’ attention

B． Users must know something about the product in case that you are involved in some problems

C． Users must know something about the product．

D． Know something about the products used on a commercial or rental basis

【5】What can we know from the passage？

A． It informs all aspects of the Home Laundry Automatic Dryer Product about the warranty

B． Anything wrong about the Home Laundry Automatic Dryer Product can be in warranty．

C． Servicer can use the Home Laundry Automatic Dryer Product freely

D． Service must be performed by an Amana servicer．

23、When nature is left alone, a balance is reached among the animals and plants living in one area. But when man starts his work in nature, the balance is likely to be destroyed. He grows a crop and takes it away to eat; then there are no dead leaves to fall on the ground, holding water while it sinks into the surface, or decaying(腐烂) and adding humus(腐殖质) to the soil. Unless a farmer acts with knowledge and skill, he is therefore most likely to make the land poorer. To take the place of the useful matter in the crops that he removes, he uses some kind of fertilizer. Chemical fertilizers are of great help, but the waste products of animals and decaying remains of plants should also be put on the land. In some places, it is a habit to burn waste material lying about, but such burning destroys the useful matter in the dead plants. Although the ashes that are left are valuable when put on the land, a better practice is to bury the waste so that it decays and increases the humus in the soil.

In the past, when the world population was much lower than it is now, a man had little difficulty in ordinary times in growing the food that was needed. When a field had been used some years and had become tired, the farmer could move to another place. The tired land then slowly recovered. Gradually grasses and other plants would appear on it and its productive power would slowly return to normal through their decay. But nature, left alone, would take a long time to bring back the land to its former state; the length of time required would depend on local conditions, but it might well be ten years.

It is a bad practice to grow the same crop in a field year after year. If the crop is changed, the land will suffer less because it is treated and used in a different way. Different plants have different effects on the soil. Therefore, a change of crop will do less harm than the growing of the same crop year after year and a regular change to grass will do good to the soil. Much will therefore be gained if different crops are grown one after another, a method known as the rotation(轮作) of crops.

【1】According to the passage, the land will become poorer ________.

A.if all the dead leaves are cleared away

B.if the humus is increased after the harvest

C.if dead leaves decay in the soil by themselves

D.if waste plant material lying about is buried

【2】We can learn from the passage that the tired land has gradually recovered ________.

A.when grasses and other plants appear again

B.when the treatment is given by nature alone

C.after new grasses and other plants have decayed again

D.after nature has been left alone for several months

【3】A modern farmer can hardly move to another place as he did before because ________.

A.the productive power of a new field isn’t higher than that of an old one

B.there are few free fields left for him to do farming

C.it takes a farmer more than ten years to start farming in a new field

D.there will be too many grasses in a new field to grow crops

【4】It is most likely that the author will go on to ________ in the paragraph following the passage above.

A.introduce other methods of planting crops

B.deal with how to prevent land getting tired

C.start another topic of how to make use of land

D.explain what the rotation of crops is

24、An electric signal can trick a monkey’s brain into believing the animal’s finger has been touched.

Touch something, and your brain knows. The hand sends signals to the brain to announce contact was made. But that feeling of touch may not require making actual contact, tests on monkeys now show. Zapping brain cells can fool the animal into thinking its finger has touched something.

A person who has lost a limb or become paralyzed may need an artificial limb to complete everyday tasks. But such patients may not truly feel any objects they hold. The new findings point toward one day creating a sense of touch in those who use such artificial limbs. Psychologist Sliman Bensmaia of University of Chicago worked on the new tests. His team’s findings appeared on October 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The sense of touch is crucial to everyday tasks: People withoutitmay have difficulty cracking an egg, lifting a cup or even turning a doorknob. That’s why restoring it is a major goal for designers of artificial limbs.

In their new study, Bensmaia and his co-workers worked with rhesus monkeys (恒河猴). The scientists implanted electrodes (电极)--- small devices that can detect and relay an electrical signal—into the animals’ brains. The scientists used the electrode data to identify which neurons had become active. Then the scientists used the implanted electrodes to zap those same neurons. And the monkeys reacted as though their fingers had been touched. In fact, they hadn’t.

The monkeys couldn’t use words to tell the scientists what they had felt. Instead, they communicated by looking in a particular direction—just as when they had really been touched.

The new findings show how touch-sensitive devices could be built. The new study also offers “ a nice clear pathway” for figuring out how to restore a sense of touch to an amputee(被截肢者) or someone with a injury of spinal cord.

The study shows how artificial limbs might be connected to the brain so that a person can “feel” with such a prosthesis (假肢). But such a supersensory device doesn’t exist yet and scientists have a lot of work to do before people will benefit from it. Researchers must first figure out whether the electrodes would work in people in the same way they do in monkeys.

“ I think the foundation is laid for human trials,” Bensmaia said.

【1】What does the underlined word “it” refer to ?

A. The sense of touch.

B. An artificial limb.

C. The turning of a doorknob.

D. The lifting of a cup

【2】Bensmania tested monkeys to prove that the feeling of touch_________.

A. is important to everyday tasks

B. may not require making actual contact

C. is a problem of life and death

D. may be a challenge for designers of artificial limbs.

【3】Monkeys tell researchers their sense of touch by _______.

A. putting up one of their fingers

B. making their brain cells active

C. looking in a particular direction

D. mimicking natural signals in the brain

【4】The last sentence of the text suggests humans _________.

A. will use touch-sensitive devices

B. will test monkeys soon

C. lay foundations for monkey trials

D. will be tested on the electrodes

【5】The passage is mainly about ________.

A. restoring a sense of touch

B. fooling a clever monkey

C. making new artificial limbs

D. sending a signal with a touch

25、   Brooke Ochoa was going to enter a restaurant for lunch when she saw an elderly lady approaching. The 30-year-old woman ________ to keep the door open for her. She thought she was just doing something ________. She didn’t know, however, that a —________— that the lady would make a few seconds later would produce a chain of events that would cause her to get countless likes on her Facebook post and ________ on social media suddenly... As Brooke entered the restaurant, she ________ the elderly lady ask for a “table for one.” Then she decided to do one more act of ________. Brooke walked up to the woman’s ________ and asked, “I also ________ alone, would you like to have lunch together?”

The lady, named Dolores, not only accepted Brooke’s ________, but she was very pleased to have ________. The two ________ up an instant friendship during their meal.

Dolores told Brooke that she’d been having a ________ time. “She spent the last decade living with her mom, who recently passed away,” Brooke wrote in a later Facebook post about the encounter. “She just kept smiling and saying ‘thank you for listening to me’, which made me ________ too!” Brooke and Dolores enjoyed their conversation so much that they ________ to have lunch with each other every Thursday from that point on. In a later ________, not long after their first meeting, Brooke ________ that Dolores had passed away.

If nothing else, this chance ________ is evidence that the smallest ________ of goodwill can quite exactly change a life. Neither of the two women knew that Dolores days on this Earth were ________, but they found ________ in each other, and that’s what matters.

【1】A.hesitated B.waited C.competed D.pretended

【2】A.foolish B.honest C.wise D.polite

【3】A.remark B.report C.promise D.speech

【4】A.take off B.set off C.leave off D.cut off

【5】A.realized B.felt C.insisted D.overheard

【6】A.weakness B.kindness C.friendship D.encouragement

【7】A.car B.counter C.door D.table

【8】A.struggle B.defend C.post D.eat

【9】A.bow B.care C.offer D.effort

【10】A.company B.friction C.adjustment D.permission

【11】A.turned B.built C.threw D.Put

【12】A.pleasant B.short C.tough D.lucky

【13】A.sob B.panic C.listen D.smile

【14】A.agreed B.refused C.seemed D.remained

【15】A.absence B.purchase C.update D.praise

【16】A.approved B.exposed C.analyzed D.committed

【17】A.complaint B.argument C.conversation D.appointment

【18】A.strength B.gesture C.competence D.fault

【19】A.ordered B.debated C.numbered D.controlled

【20】A.comfort B.reality C.success D.equality

26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Maybe we all live in each other’ spaces. Perhaps this is what the photo I took during a summer holiday is for if you treat others with patience and tolerance, then you’ll likely be repaid in another space.

Fifteen years ago, I took a trip in Lecce in southern Italy that summer. Lecce is an important stage for art and culture lovers. Walking in the city center is a dive into the past, between churches and antique buildings that keep precious details and decorations. More importantly, it’s an ideal place for photographers.

One morning, I got up early enough for a panoramic view of the sunrise, the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees. After climbing up a hill, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

Unluckily, I was about to take out my camera when suddenly a woman approached from behind, and planted herself right in front of my view. Like me, I thought, this woman was here to stop for a short rest, and enjoy the scenery. Beyond my expectation, she stood still as if something caught her eye, not noticing anyone else’s presence around her.

Patient as I was, after about 10 minutes, with my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would eventually take, I got bored. Was it too much to ask her to move aside so that I could take just one picture of the landscape? Of course, I could have asked her, but something prevented me from doing so. She seemed so content in her observation that I didn’t have the heart to mess with that.

Another 10 minutes passed. However, the woman was still there. I grew frustrated. I decided to take the photo anyway. With an unwilling touch of the shutter, I left in low spirits.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好：

4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

On my arrival home, I had the film developed as usual.

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Paragraph 2:

Now this photo hangs on a wall in my bedroom.

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