湘潭2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、---How do you find the movie Nobodies released recently?

---It’s fantastic. What a huge box office hit on the first day！And it has been _____ ever since.

A. catching on   B. pushing on

C. carrying on   D. counting on

2、The manager’s confident words have our doubts about how the plan will be carried out.

A. gotten up B. taken up C. cleared up D. given up

3、 Students who graduate with experience will be given ________ over those who never work in any company.

A. prediction   B. preference

C. presence   D. Preparation

4、He knew that it is cholera _________ would never be controlled until its cause was found.

A．who

B．whom

C．which

D．that

5、“If no one   the rubbish,” an environmentalist pointed out, “the street would soon become dirty, the number of rats would increase, and the disease would spread.”

A. collects   B. will collect   C. is to collect   D. were to collect

6、---Thanks for giving me a ride to school.

---_________.

A．You are welcome

B．That’s a good idea

C．Don’t worry

D．You are so nice

7、The research results seem to _________a connection between poor housing conditions and bad health, but more work must be done to test it.

A.indicate B.analyze C.identify D.prove

8、_____ he promised that he wouldn’t be late， he didn’t arrive until the end of the party

A. Since   B. Although

C. Because   D. Until

9、During World War II, when London was bombed, many underground stations_______ as bomb shelters.

A.formed B.fixed C.failed D.functioned

10、She dropped her handbag and the_________ fell out on the floor.

A.copy B.comments C.carriers D.contents

11、It was only after he had read the papers ________ Mr. Gross realized the task before him was extremely difficult to complete.

A.when B.that C.which D.what

12、    herself with routine office work, she had no time to attend to her children.

A. Occupying   B. Occupied

C. Being occupied   D. To be occupied

13、Whenever I read the old letters, _____ was fairly often, sweet memories warmed my heart.

A. who B. which C. when D. that

14、________ability and experience, she is the right person for the project.

A．On account of

B．In favor of

C．In spite of

D．In terms of

15、It doesn’t matter how many times you fail；_________ matters is how many times you stand up and try again．

A．which B．that C．who   D．what

16、Don't sigh over the small achievement. _____, and I'm sure if you keep at it, you'll see the light at the end of the tunnel!

A. Lookers-on see most of the game

B. Constant dripping wears away the stone

C. The world is your oyster

D. Lost time is never found again

17、______ she has earned her PhD, she wants to find a job with higher pay.

A. As if   B. Now that

C. Even though   D. In case

18、---Tom, why don’t we help our son work on his papers?

---We’ve already done more than we ________．He is on his own this time.

A．would B．should   C．could   D．might

19、As for the plan some agree while others don’t. I’m one of _____ opposed to it.

A. whom   B. those

C. those who     D. who is

20、— Haven’t met Mary lately. What has happened to her?

— Well, it’s about three months ________she worked here.

A. before   B. after C. since D. when

21、How to Get More Sleep

It’s common in today’s stress-filled world to get by on six hours of sleep or less a night. For most of us, lacking sleep harms more than just the brain. 【1】 . If you’re lacking sleep out of choice, it may be time to rethink that decision. In the meantime, you can try some healthy sleep habits.

【2】 . Your brain needs to be trained to go to sleep and wake up at certain time every day of the week, including weekends.

Create a good sleeping environment. Keep it cool—the temperature between 16℃ and 20℃is best for good sleep. 【3】 or work in your bedroom and let your brain think of the room as only for sleep. Ban all light, including the blue light of mobile phones or laptops, which may signal your body to wake up.

Rethink coffee in the afternoon, evening wine or medicine before sleep. Coffee can make it hard to sleep. Using alcohol to sleep will cause you to wake up within a few hours. When you fall asleep anyway, it’s typically of poor quality. 【4】 . They only mask the problem, experts say, and may be dangerously addictive.

【5】 . If you’re not asleep within 15 to 20 minutes of your head hitting the pillow, get up and go into another low-lit room. Instead of turning on the television or looking at your phone or laptop, do something mindless, like folding clothes. Once you feel sleepy, head back to bed.

And don’t be annoyed. It never puts anyone to sleep. Keep training your brain, and it will respond in some way that you need.

A．Don’t watch TV

B．Don’t lie in bed not sleeping

C．Make a sleep schedule and stick to it

D．Moreover, you had better forget sleeping pills

E．It is important to consider sleep and physical activity together

F．Short sleepers have more risks of many diseases and even death

G．But in reality, only people with a short sleep gene have that ability

22、Four new books to read

The books that are included in this list can meet your reading needs at any time of year.

Nobody Will Tell You This but Me

Bess Kalb

In this book, the author shares the advice her beloved grandmother Bobby left her. Bobby was a powerful woman who should never be underestimated, and she was very knowledgeable about the family’s traditions and secrets. The book proves that family bonds can endure through generations and beyond death.

We Came Here to Shine

Susie Orman Schnall

We Came Here to Shine focuses on the strong female friendship between an aspiring journalist and an unlucky actress at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Leaning on each other, these two ambitious women struggled against adversity(困境) at a time when women had little say.

A Star Is Bored

Byron Lane

Favored by television star Jonathan Van Ness, this novel is partly based on the author’s experiences as the former personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, a legendary American actress. The book follows Charlie Besson, the new assistant to the Hollywood icon, Kathi Kannon. Their three-year journey together is an unforgettable adventure that is funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful.

Fast Girls

Elise Hooper

The story in Fast Girls took place during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Betty Robinson, Louise Stokes, and Helen Stephens overcame difficult pasts to attain Olympic glory as the world’s fastest female athletes. Beyond the athletic journey, they also aimed to challenge the social standards of what females can achieve.

【1】Who is the character in Bess Kalb’s book?

A．Bobby.

B．Susie Orman Schnall.

C．Carrie Fisher.

D．Betty Robinson.

【2】What kind of book is A Star Is Bored?

A．A biography.

B．An industry report.

C．A real-life based novel.

D．A fictional adventure story.

【3】Which of the following books will you choose if you are interested in sports?

A．We Came Here to Shine

B．Nobody Will Tell You This but Me

C．A Star Is Bored

D．Fast Girls

23、Lately, my 90-year-old mother has been sleepier and sleepier. This is very strange and worrying. At the same time, my 92-year-old father has been suffering his own health problems. It is a terrible thing to see my father struggle to get my mother to talk, say something, when she doesn’t have the energy.

The other day, I recalled how my mother used to visit a woman named Mrs. Demopolis, a Greek immigrant, who made the best baklava(果仁蜜饼) in the world! She gave lessons on baking it to my mother. Also, my mother often baked baklava at home. As I spoke of this over the phone, my silent mother perked up and said how much she’d like to have one again.

Now, they live in Florida and I live in Wales, UK, so I can’t go and bring her some baklava or even make some in her kitchen. But what I did suggest was that my father could buy some baklava at a Greek restaurant and I could do the same, and wouldn’t it be fun to eat our baklava at exactly the same time and so, be together sharing the moment and the pleasure? My parents loved the idea and we decided to do it.

Two days later we both had our baklava and shared the experience. It meant a lot to my parents, and to me, to do this. My mother said she wanted to do this again, maybe with another food or even baklava again! Why not? And as she only keeps losing weight instead of gaining, it is good for her to find foods that appeal to her appetite . It is becoming harder to find ways to communicate over the phone, but this is at least a very good way to do so.

【1】Why does the author feel worried?

A．Her mother can’t walk by herself.

B．Her mother is becoming less active.

C．Her father has to get her mother to talk.

D．Her mother refuses to talk with her father.

【2】What does the underlined phrase “perked up” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Calmed down.

B．Turned around.

C．Held one’s breath.

D．Came to life.

【3】What did the author suggest to please her mother?

A．They should enjoy the same food at the same time.

B．The author should buy some baklava for her mother.

C．Her mother should make some baklava in her kitchen.

D．Her family should get together to look after her mother.

【4】What do we know about the author’s mother?

A．She hopes to live with her daughter.

B．She is looking for her favorite food.

C．She likes communicating in this way.

D．She thinks baklava is the most delicious.

24、We’ve long been taught that helping others helps ourselves. As Charles Dickens wrote, “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

Science has shown that unselfish behaviors actually do improve our health. 【1】 It can reduce the risk for cognitive impairment(认知障碍). It can even help us live longer.

【2】 A 2017 study found pain sufferers who volunteered reported decreased pain along with an improved sense of purpose. A new series of studies may have found one reason. Regions of the brain that react to painful stimulation seem to instantly disappear by the experience of giving.

In another study, the researchers employed cancer patients living with pain and asked them to cook and clean for themselves or for the benefit of others at their treatment center.

【3】 When they did the work for their own personal benefit, the pain-relieving effect was reduced by over 62%.

In addition, the study found it was the meaning people gave to their good deeds that predicted how much pain the brain would perceive. Researchers believe the medicine should consider using unselfish “supplement therapies(补充疗法)to treat pain.” 【4】 A reduced sense of pain combined with feel-good chemicals—it seems our brains reward us for helping others even when we’re not expecting anything in return. 【5】 It is a good way to improve your health and others.

A．It is true for volunteers.

B．Helping others helps ourselves.

C．However, more research is needed about the idea.

D．It also appears that giving can help us cope with pain.

E．When they were helping others, their pain levels dropped.

F．Volunteering, for example, has been shown to reduce stress and improve depression.

G．Sounds like a great reason to put volunteering and other giving behaviors on your to-do list.

25、I could feel the excitement rising in me as I held the beautifully wrapped present in my hands. Unable to _______ my curiosity any longer, I tore it open. It was a brand-new laptop. I had scored straight As for my examinations and this was my _______. I had always _______my friends who were exchanging news in “chat rooms”, all of which I knew nothing about. Now was going to find out.   

It started out _______ enough. I was searching for information online when I came across a social networking site. Soon I was _______to my new-found electronic friend and then my sleep was _______to some naps, and my _______at school also began getting worse.

It was about this time that my parents started voicing their _______. I was asked to reduce my_______of the internet. Yet, however hard I tried, I was unable to pull myself away unable to stop my chat ________ and unable to concentrate on my lessons. I was ________for just another click and another look. Then one day, my father took away my laptop. I complained but ________.

Over time, I realized that Dad and Mom had always ________the best for me. That was when I decided to take the big step- to ________my internet addiction. Quitting was harder than I expected. But with dogged determination, I knew that I would ________ a new leaf.

【1】

A．keep

B．contain

C．leave

D．conclude

【2】

A．reward

B．profit

C．income

D．treat

【3】

A．bore

B．joined

C．blamed

D．envied

【4】

A．barely

B．originally

C．simply

D．frequently

【5】

A．accustomed

B．committed

C．glued

D．introduced

【6】

A．reduced

B．fed

C．promoted

D．caused

【7】

A．matters

B．majors

C．needs

D．grades

【8】

A．delight

B．disapproval

C．inspiration

D．imagination

【9】

A．usage

B．boredom

C．tiredness

D．thought

【10】

A．favor

B．doubt

C．sessions

D．security

【11】

A．curious

B．desperate

C．impatient

D．dynamic

【12】

A．in peace

B．in regret

C．in secret

D．in vain

【13】

A．spent

B．wanted

C．compromised

D．stored

【14】

A．clarify

B．display

C．kick

D．identify

【15】

A．tum over

B．move on

C．drop out

D．take away

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The e-mail request came in to Ekiben restaurant in Baltimore on a Thursday in March: tempura broccoli (天妇罗西兰花) topped with fresh herbs, diced onion, and fermented cucumber vinegar (醋腌黄瓜)- with a twist. The man who sent the e-mail didn’t actually want the food itself. He was writing on behalf of his mother-in-law, who adored the dish. He explained that she was now in the final stages of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to get the recipe to make it for her there.

Steve Chu, one of Ekiben restaurant’s co-owners, read the e-mail and quickly replied with an alternative suggestion. “Thanks for reaching out,” he wrote. “We’d like to meet you in Vermont and make it fresh for you.”

Brandon Jones, the son-in-law, was shocked. “I e-mailed back, saying, ‘You do know that this is Vermont we’re talking about, right? It is an eight-hour drive,’” says Brandon. “But Chu responded, ‘No problem. You tell us the date, time, and location and we’ll be there.’”

For the past six years, every time Brandon’s mother-in-law visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was Ekiben so she could order that one dish. As for Chu, he also kept his loyal customer in memory. “She always stood out,” he says. “She loves the food and made sure to tell us. She’s an amazing, sweet lady.”

“She had always told us, ‘When I’m on my deathbed, I want to have that broccoli,’” recalls Brandon’s wife, Rina Jones.

That Friday after work, a day after receiving Brandon’s e-mail, Chu and his business partner, Abebe, loaded his truck with a hot plate and a cooler filled with ingredients (材料).

注意：

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And then they headed for Vermont.

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As soon as Rina opened the door, her mother recognized the smell.

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