马鞍山2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高三英语

1、Gone are the hardest days ______ the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NPC) spread nationwide.

A.which B.that C.when D.whose

2、Tony was very unhappy for ______ to the party.

A．having not been invited

B．not having invited

C．having not invited

D．not having been invited

3、My father thinks I am not capable _______ my own living, but I mean _______ him that he is wrong.

A.to earn, to show B.of earning, showing

C.of earning, to show D.in earning, to show

4、He did not regret saying what he did but felt that he _________ it differently.

A.could express B.would express

C.could have expressed D.must have expressed

5、The word "media" basically refers to ________ we commonly call newspapers, magazines, radios and televisions.

A．which

B．that

C．what

D．where

6、They will fly to South Africa, ______ they plan to stay for half a month.

A.when B.where C.there D.which

7、The policeman asked ______ if they had seen the accident happen.

A.passer-by B.passers-by

C.passer-bys D.passers-bys

8、India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped _______ India’s independence from Britain.

A. get B. win

C. gain D. make

9、One of the advantages of living on the top of a high rise is to get a good .

A.sign B.view C.scene D.scenery

10、The number of cars made in China _________ sharply in the past decade.

A.has risen B.rose C.have risen D.has been risen

11、In my father’s study there are _____ books about how to keep fit.

A.a great many B.large amounts of

C.a great deal of D.a large amount of

12、The e-bikes, ________ can run at about 30 kilometers an hour, enable users to cover longer distances and save time.

A．that

B．what

C．which

D．whether

13、Eating too much fat can ________ heart disease and cause high blood pressure.

A.result from B.attend to C.contribute to D.lead in

14、The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was what made traveling__________ him—he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them.

A. concentrate on B. appeal to

C. hold back D. depend on

15、He has many books, and____ are written in English.

A.most of them B.most of whom C.most of which D.most of those

16、--- Guess what! I have got an “A ” for my term paper.

--- ________!You must have put a lot of work into it.

A．You are so proud

B．Congratulations

C．That’s a piece of cake

D．Ok

17、His dream has at last _____.

A.come true B.been come true C.realized D.being realized

18、When and where to build the new factory ___ ________ yet.

A.is not decided B.are not decided

C.has not decided D.have not decided

19、The concept of sharing is so deep-rooted in Chinese culture that people share their belongings________ even being aware of it.

A．without

B．about

C．at

D．by

20、She liked the souvenir of “Mozart L’Opera Rock” so much that she would like to take it ________ it cost.

A.how much B.what

C.whatever D.however

21、It's against the law for a public official to ask people for gifts or money____________ favors to them.

A. in exchange for B. in place of C. in agreement with D. in preference to

22、If       in a scientific way, this kind of dog will be able to work as a guide for the blind.

A．training

B．having trained

C．trained

D．to train

23、Exercise has a ______ part to play in preventing disease.

A.major B.urgent C.ancient D.violent

24、Along with enthusiasm for composing music _________ his devotion to cultivating young people's passion for music.

A.come B.comes C.coming D.to come

25、Though sometimes he makes mistakes, we can’t doubt his loyalty _______ the company.

A.in B.with C.of D.to

26、We all know the saying, “Nobody is perfect.” It has been planted in our brains since we were children, and of course, it is the truth. So if nobody is perfect, why do we have such a hard time admitting when we are in trouble or need help?

Like many other young people trying to get through their first year of college, I felt anxiety, and it had its grips on me pretty tight. It began getting in the way of my life, and I had to sit down and tell myself that my behavior was not healthy and there was a solution. Finally, I decided to turn to therapy(精神疗法).

Therapy. It has such a negative stigma (污名), but why? Does going to therapy mean that you are failing as a person or that you cannot fix your problems on your own? No. Going to therapy means that you are strong enough to recognize that something inside your head is not working correctly, and you are brave enough to try to fix it.

After a couple of weeks, many parts of my life became so much clearer. I began to understand that I, myself, am my worst enemy, which was pretty frightening. But, although frightened, I knew that it was only I who could guide me towards feeling better, and that was extremely empowering.

I have been guided towards a healthier mindset, one that is positive and powerful. I have been able to understand that no matter what happens in my life. I will always be okay.

A lot of people do not understand that it is normal to have negative feelings and sometimes to feel like we have lost control over certain parts of our lives. Seeing a therapist can greatly change your way of thinking about something if you keep your mind open and I am so thankful that I decided to go and do something for myself.

If you are in need of help, you can go to therapy and then everything will be okay.

【1】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Anxiety greatly influenced the author.

B．Anxiety encouraged the author to change.

C．The author couldn’t deal with the college life.

D．The author had no idea what to do.

【2】In the author’s opinion, going to therapy ________.

A．means you are failing as a person

B．you’re brave enough to solve your problems

C．can make others think wrongly about you

D．can be quite unnecessary and helpful

【3】After a couple of weeks, how did the author react?

A．She became more positive and confident.

B．She became too frightened of her own life.

C．She became worried about her anxiety.

D．She realized college was her worst enemy.

【4】What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To tell us how to think positively.

B．To show it is OK to be imperfect.

C．To help us know better about therapy.

D．To share her college life with us.

27、Dr Dian Fossey, one of the world’s leading women scientists, had a remarkable career. The work she devoted her life to protecting and studying the mountain gorillas (大猩猩) of Africa—has proved highly effective and has resulted in the steady (平稳的) increase of this most endangered great apes.

Fossey made her first trip to Africa in 1963. Three years later, she returned to Africa to begin a long term study of the mountain gorillas. She set up camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo but moved to Rwanda because of political reasons in 1967. She established her “Karisoke” Research Centre camp on September 24,1967.

Fossey’s aims were to study gorilla ecology(生态学) and social organization. She found that in order to achieve this, she needed to recognize individual gorillas, which required that the gorillas get used to her presence(出现). By copying gorillas’ behaviour and sounds, Fossey began to gain their trust, and in 1970 an adult male gorilla she had named “Peanuts” reached out to touch her hand.

Close observations over thousands of hours enabled Fossey to gain the gorillas’ trust and bring forth new knowledge about their behaviour. Stories and photographs of her work were published in National Geographic Magazine and elsewhere.

In 1977, one of Fossey’s favorite gorillas, Digit, was killed by poachers and she established the Digit Fund to help raise money for gorilla protection efforts in the same year.

On December 26, 1985, Fossey was murdered while going back to her house in Karisoke. Her body was discovered near the research centre. Most probably? Dian Fossey had been killed by the poachers she’d fought against. On her tombstone (墓碑): “No one loved gorillas more...”

In 1988, the life and the work of Fossey were made into a movie based on her book.

【1】Why does the author say Dr Dian Fossey “had a remarkable career”？

A. Because she travelled all over the world.

B. Because she liked to play with gorillas.

C. Because she studied gorilla ecology.

D. Because she made great apes increase steadily.

【2】The underlined word “poachers” in Paragraph 5 probably refers to people who .

A. sell drugs against the law

B. hunt animals against the law

C. hate successful people

D. like to do harm to people

【3】From the words on Fosseys tombstone, we can infer that ________.

A. Fossey was the person who loved gorillas most

B. after Fossey died, no one loved gorillas

C. Fossey was the first one to study gorillas

D. everybody loved gorillas as Fossey did

【4】According to the passage, Fossey’s life can be described as ________.

A. sad and unlucky

B. lonely and boring

C. simple and happy

D. challenging and successful

28、   I was watching my kids play on the sidewalk when I looked up and saw a crow sitting on the telephone wire. The crow sat with its head turned to one side， observing us with one friendly black eye.

I'm not a bird expert or a birdwatcher， but crows intrigue me. Since that day， I have become friends with the neighborhood crows， and I've learned a thing or two along the way.

The best way to introduce yourself to a crow is by feeding it. I'm sure there are other ways to go about it， but the easiest and fastest way to a crow's heart is food. Some may argue that a crow is a wild animal and by feeding it， you encourage the unnatural dependence. And to most wildlife， this is an excellent philosophy. But crows and humans have been living side by side for centuries， and researchers like Marzluff and Angell， who wrote In the Company of Crows and Ravens， point to many examples of cultural co﹣evolution （共同进化） between us. It's been a rather symbiotic （共生的） relationship for quite a while.

Certainly， humans' and crows' lives and histories have become closely related. I moved to this neighborhood in this small city 5 years ago. I'm relatively new here， but the crows in my neighborhood may have lived here for many years. They've watched people come and go for years ﹣ people who may have watched them right back.

So anyway， we're neighbors， and feeding is the neighborly thing to do.

【1】Which of the following can replace the underlined word "intrigue" in Paragraph 2？

A.Dislike.

B.Interest.

C.Surprise.

D.Frighten.

【2】What does the author think is the easiest and fastest way to let the crows like you？

A.To play with them.

B.To make friends with them.

C.To give food to them.

D.To watch them closely.

【3】We can infer from Paragraph 3 the purpose of the author is to   .

A.develop a philosophy

B.introduce a book

C.correct people's ideas

D.share personal experience

【4】What's the author's attitude toward the relationship of man and crows？

A.Positive.

B.Unclear.

C.Doubtful.

D.Indifferent.

29、The Mystery of Dark Matter

If you look at the night sky, you'll often see stars moving very quickly. In fact, they move much more quickly than they should according to their size and the laws of physics. Scientists do not completely understand why the speed of these stars is so high. But many believe the reason is that much of the universe is made up of something called "dark matter". Groups of stars called galaxies, such as the Milky Way, might even consist of ninety per cent dark matter.

How much something weighs depends on where it is. The same object weighs only half as much on Mars as it does on Earth and almost three times as much on Jupiter. So scientists prefer to talk about the mass of something rather than how much it weighs, because mass does not change. They can work out the mass of galaxies by measuring the distance between them and the speed they move.  Recently, Dr. Jorge Penarrubia and a team from Edinburgh University discovered something interesting. The mass of the Milky Way is only half as much as the mass of another nearby galaxy, Andromeda. This seems strange, but dark matter may explain why.

Finding out more about dark matter could help us understand how the universe began, but this is not easy. Lots of scientists with different types of expert knowledge are working on the problem. The Edinburgh team is working with many other universities like the University of British Columbia.

We can't see dark matter, it's very difficult to measure and we can't find out its mass. Unlike stars, dark matter doesn't produce or reflect light. But we can make a good guess that it is there because of the way things move and the way light bends. Experts now think dark mater may be very different from the mater which we find on Earth. There may also be five times as much dark matter in the universe as ordinary matter.

The Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky first gave dark matter its name in the nineteen-thirties. Researchers have been looking for it ever since.  Today, technology such as the Large Hadron Collider is collecting more and more information but this technology cannot tell us everything.  New ways of finding dark matter will be needed.  Investigating dark matter may even mean we will need to start asking questions about the way we look at the universe, including the ideas of Albert Einstein.

【1】In what way do scientists find out the mass of galaxies？

A.Depending on where they are.

B.Depending on how much they weigh.

C.According to the way they move and the laws of physics.

D.By calculating how far between them and how fast they move.

【2】Which of the following statements about dark matter is NOT TRUE？

A.It can't be seen.

B.It doesn't reflect light.

C.It is not unlike ordinary matter.

D.It affects the movement of things.

【3】What may get researchers looking for dark matter？

A.To change the way light bends.

B.To prove the ideas of Albert Einstein.

C.To collect more and more information.

D.To help understand the origin of the universe.

【4】How is the article organized？

(P: Paragraph)

A. B.

C. D.

【5】Which heading best matches Paragraph 5?

A.It's there but we can't see it.

B.Sharing ideas leads to success.

C.We may need to change the way we think.

D.What your eyes can see can't be fully explained,

30、   Do you know _______ languages there are in the world? There are about 1500 but many of them are not very _______. English is one of the most important languages because many people _______ it, not only in England and America, _______ in other countries of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it _______ their own language, and another 200,000,000 use it as _______ language. It is _______ to say how many people are learning it. _______ boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. _______ children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Which is the best ________ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt ________ language well when we were ________. If we learn a second language in the ________ way, it won’t seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It________ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ________ it. It is using the language, ________ in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language ________, they will learn it ________.

In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak. It is best to learn all new words through the ________. You can read them, spell them and ________ them later.

【1】A.how many B.what number C.a lot of D.so many

【2】A.useful B.necessary C.important D.good

【3】A.like B.use C.learn D.speak

【4】A.but B.and C.also D.so

【5】A.like B.with C.for D.as

【6】A.foreign B.a second C.the second D.a special

【7】A.easy B.again C.difficult D.best

【8】A.Millions of B.Million of C.Millions D.Several million

【9】A.Some B.Other C.All D.Few

【10】A.time B.way C.thing D.place

【11】A.a foreign B.our mothers’ C.other’s D.our own

【12】A.born B.children C.grown D.boys

【13】A.same B.different C.useful D.good

【14】A.does B.says C.listens to D.follows

【15】A.ask B.want C.get D.ask for

【16】A.speaking B.writing C.thinking D.doing

【17】A.some time B.sometimes C.all the time D.for the time

【18】A.quickly B.soon C.freely D.easily

【19】A.mouth B.hands C.ears D.mind

【20】A.speak B.use C.love D.write

31、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Hundreds of years ago, Charles Darwin predicted that facial expressions of emotion are 【1】. If you’ve ever seen an episode of the popular US TV drama Lie To Me, you will really understand facial expressions. The leading actor of the show, Dr. Cal Lightman has spent 20 years studying nonverbal communication and facial expressions, which allows him to point out other people’s studying nonverbal communication and facial expressions which allows him to point out other people’s 【2】 and on many occasions, to be skilled at tricking in order to get the truth.

Is there really much truth behind this science of 【3】 human emotions through expressions? Paul Ekman, a(n) 【4】 psychologist whose work focuses on mapping facial expressions, is Lie To Me’s scientific advisor and the following are some of his explanations.

Hand-to-face gesture indicates a lie.

Each micro-expression is unique to 【5】 specific emotions because the person is often unaware of doing it. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are lying when someone uses a hand to hide part of his face. The person could be holding back information but you may better consider looking at other more important clues rather than just the simple hand-to-face gesture.

A liar refuses eye contact.

People look away when they are thinking carefully and considering each word before it is spoken, not just when they are 【6】 an excuse. Oblique eyebrows are a very reliable 【7】of sadness and few people can make this 【8】 expression, so it is actually never faked.

Guilty knowledge technique is 【9】.

Lightman often uses the guilty knowledge technique, mentioning something that only the guilty person will know about and show a(n)【10】. This is often used in polygraph exams: “Was the person strangled, shot or stabbed to death?” Only the killer knows and is likely to respond physiologically when the actual weapon is mentioned.

32、最近，你的英国朋友约翰打算在本期班级墙报中开设“the Tomb Sweeping Day”专栏，想请你给他写一篇文章介绍清明节。内容包括：

1. 介绍清明节以及人们开展的主要纪念活动；

2. 描述今年清明节你的经历和感受。

参考词汇：清明节：the Qingming Festival/the Tomb Sweeping Day

烧香和纸币：burn incense and paper money

献祭和鞠躬: offer sacrifices and bow

祖先： ancestor

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