中卫2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Our football team had a lead in the match, but the last minute goal of the guest team   .

A. gave it away   B. put it away

C. wiped it away   D. carried   it away

2、_____the energy problem, more than 100 experts from different countries got together and had a heated discussion.

A．Solving

B．Solved

C．To solve

D．Having solved

3、—John's gift? He ______a better one for me.

—He must be very happy to know it.

A．should have chosen

B．may have chosen

C．couldn't have chosen

D．needn't have chosen

4、The company ___ a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A．has been promising

B．has promised

C．promised

D．promises

5、Be careful not to________any letter when you spell the word.

A．leave off

B．leave out

C．pick out

D．take off

6、— How well Anna dances! I can’t believe my eyes!

— ________.

A．So she does

B．So does she

C．Neither can she

D．So can I

7、Can it be ______ in a fast-changing world we don’t know what to teach our children today?

A.which B.that C.why D.since

8、A recent Canadian study suggests that a child ________ from interactive music classes has better communication skills.

A．benefit

B．benefiting

C．benefited

D．to benefit

9、I don’t believe you. What you said just doesn’t ______.

A. make an impression

B. make sense

C. come as a surprise

D. go on

10、I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, but it’s worth it if my old partner ________ to meet me.

A．turns up

B．sets up

C．puts up

D．picks up

11、How did it come about ________ a quiet person should appear so wild today?

A. whether B. that C. if D. what

12、Although old, my car is kept _______ good condition and runs well.

A. of B. in   C. out D. on  

13、You ________ be tired—you’ve only been working for an hour.

A.must not B.won’t C.can’t D.may not

14、The team are working hard to ___ the problem so that they can find the best solution.

A. face   B. prevent

C. raise   D. analyze

15、Will you   p   an old pupil to shake hands with you?

16、Universal themes like “love conquers all”, “good vs. evil” and “from rags to riches” etc. enhance the timelessness of great works of literature, because they are ___________ to us all.

A.belonged B.related C.adapted D.added

17、--- Tom, why didn't you go to work today?

--- Oh, the manager said he no longer wanted to see me again; ________, I was fired.

A．above all

B．after all

C．in other words

D．in some ways

18、________ to speak when the audience interrupted him.

A. Hardly had he begun   B. No sooner had he begun

C. Not until he began   D. Scarcely did he begun

19、As you go through this book, you______that each of the millions of people who lived through World War Ⅱ had a different experience.

A．will find

B．found

C．had found

D．have found

20、The police officers stood at either end of the highway, 　　　　Ray no chance of escape.

A. to give   B. giving

C. given   D. gave

21、What will power your house in the future? Nuclear wind or solar power? According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) in the US, it might be artificial leaves.

Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water into energy. It is known as photosynthesis (光合作用). Now researchers have found a way to imitate this process.

The artificial leaf developed by Daniel Nocera and his colleagues at MIT can be seen as a special silicon chip with catalysts(催化剂). Similar to natural leaves, it can split water into hydrogen and oxygen when put into a bucket of water. The hydrogen and oxygen gases are then stored in a fuel cell (电池), using those two materials to produce electricity, located either on top of a house or beside the house.

Though the leaf is only about the shape of a poker card, scientists claimed that it is promising to be an inexpensive source of electricity in developing countries. “One can imagine villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology” said an American scientist, Nocera.

An artificial leaf is not a new idea. The first artificial leaf was invented in 1997 but was too expensive and unstable for practical use. The new leaf, however, is made of cheap materials, easy to use and highly stable. In laboratory studies, Nocera showed that an artificial leaf could operate continuously for at least 45 hours.

The wonderful improvements come from Nocera’s recent discovery of several powerful new, inexpensive catalysts. These catalysts make the energy transformation inside the leaf more efficient with water and sunlight. Right now the new leaf is about 10 times more effective at carrying out photosynthesis than a natural one. Besides, the device can run in whatever water is available. This is important for some countries that don’t have access to pure water.

Hopefully, each home could have access to the new application in the future.

【1】The purpose of this article is to ________.

A．introduce a new kind of device

B．ask people to do the research

C．advertise the new product

D．show the process of photosynthesis

【2】Which of the following is NOT the advantages of the new leaf?

A．It’s low in cost.

B．It’s small in size.

C．It has a wonderful fuel cell.

D．It’s convenient for people to use.

【3】What conclusion can be drawn from the text?

A．Nocera thought the new leaf is expensive for developing countries.

B．Villages in Africa have benefited a lot from the new invention.

C．Silicon chip can help the new leaf work more effectively.

D．The equipment doesn’t necessarily operate in pure water.

【4】What’s the writer’s attitude towards the new device?

A．Negative.

B．Optimistic.

C．Doubtful.

D．Uncertain.

【5】According to the text, what will take place in the future?

A．Natural leaves will take the place of artificial leaves.

B．Scientists will develop more ways to produce energy.

C．The new invention could be widely used in the future.

D．Developing countries will contribute more to the research.

22、   For many people, selfies(自拍照) have been so popular as to be a must. New hairstyle? Snap a selfie. Dining out? Selfie. They’ve even been taken from beyond Earth’s atmosphere. A Japanese astronaut, Aki Hoshide, snapped one while visiting the International Space Station. In what may be one of the coolest selfies of all time, Hoshide caught his likeness alongside the sun, Earth, a robotic arm. a spacesuit and the inky darkness of the universe. In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries even crowned “selfie” as the word of the year.

It isn’t difficult to judge someone’s mood when a selfie is snapped—the images are, by their very nature, mood-driven. Whether you capture yourself with a smile or a fierce facial expression, scientists are figuring out ways to study self-portraits taken by smart phones and analyze what they say about you. Selfie studies will allow them to predict not only the subject’s mood, but also the mood of an entire region. A team of researchers led by Dr. Lev Manovich of the City University of New York has been studying thousands of Instagram self-portraits in select cities, including Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paulo, to analyze how mood affects selfie poses. While many wondered if it was even possible to determine an entire city’s mood based on a smattering of self-portraits, the study has delivered promising results. Among the most interesting findings: People in Moscow smile the least of all the selfie cities that were analyzed, while Bangkok and Sao Paulo selfie subjects looked the happiest. The researchers were even able to uncover data on gender and age differences: On the whole, women were more expressive than men in their self-portraits, but men older than 30 were more likely to post selfies on Instagram than women.

Another study, started by Manovich and researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the City University of New York, studied 1 million selfies posted on Twitter. Is it possible to judge a person’s mood, or even a city’s mood from a selfie? The answer, researchers say, is yes. They posit(断定) the ability to measure “happiness” of geographic regions using selfies and hope to use the method as an alternative to traditional surveys.

【1】What does the example of the Japanese astronaut try to show?

A.Snapping selfies isn’t easy.

B.Snapping selfies is a high technology.

C.Snapping selfies has become very popular.

D.Snapping selfies seriously affects people’s life.

【2】Why can we easily judge people’s mood by their selfies?

A.Selfies can affect the mood. B.Selfies can reflect the mood.

C.Selfies are supported by technology. D.Selfies may improve the mood.

【3】What is the purpose of Dr. Lev Manovich’s study?

A.To know why people love selfies.

B.To know the number of selfie lovers.

C.To know whether selfies predict moods.

D.To know the disadvantages of snapping selfies.

【4】What can we learn from the text?

A.Men like selfies more than women.

B.People in Moscow seldom smile at others.

C.Living in Bangkok is the happiest in the world.

D.Selfies may be used as a way of surveying a city’s mood.

23、   Born on May 27,1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson became an avid explorer as well as reader, and took an interest in writing stories. By age 10, she had published her first story in St. Nicholas. She would often read this magazine, as well as many others that concerned the natural world. In 1925, she finished at the top of her class in high school in a class of 45 students.

Carson would go on to attend the Pennsylvania College for Women, which is known as Chatham University now. This is where she would end up pursuing the sciences, in this case biology. She would eventually attend Johns Hopkins University in 1929, continuing her studies in zoology and genetics.

Carson completed her Master’s in zoology in June of 1932, and went to work at a local radio station. Here she would write educational broadcasts for a weekly radio show called Romance Under the Waters. This led her to her job at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and she became just the second woman to be employed by the bureau.

In 1951, Carson had her book The Sea Around Us published, which explains the complexity of the ocean to non-scientists. Carson wrote the book with poetry and science, and she intended to spark in her readers a sense of the fragility of the world’s ecosystem. The Sew Around Us made Carson the voice of public science in America, an internationally recognized authority on the oceans, and established her reputation as a nature writer of the first rank.

In 1962, Carson became well-known when her most famous book Silent Spring was published. This book described the negative effects of pesticides on the environment. Her concern with pesticides dated back to the 1940s, but no one would take her seriously until this book was finally published On April 14th, 1964, Carson passed away due to a heart attack but her work towards preserving the environment has continued to this day. Silent Spring was even republished in 1994 with an introduction from then vice-president Al Gore.

【1】What do we know about Carson’s early life?

A.She was a great fan of St. Nicholas. B.She worked me at a radio station.

C.She pursued the sciences in high school. D.She moved to Springdale at the age of 10.

【2】According to the text, The Sea Around Us ________.

A.is a science book for professionals.

B.was published after Carson passed away.

C.aimed to raise public environmental awareness.

D.has made Carson a fiction writer of international significance.

【3】What might be Al Gore’s attitude toward Silent Spring?

A.Critical. B.Ambiguous. C.Skeptical. D.Approving.

24、At thirteen, I was diagnosed(诊断) with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.

In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”

She glanced down at me through her glasses, “you are no different from your classmates, young man.”

I tried, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.

In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?

I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day—with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words: “See what you can do when you keep trying?”

【1】The author didn’t finish the reading in class because ________.

A．he was new to the class

B．he was tired of literature

C．he had an attention disorder

D．he wanted to take the task home

【2】What do we know about Louis Braille from the passage?

A．He had good sight.

B．He made a great invention.

C．He gave up reading.

D．He learned a lot from school.

【3】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The disabled should be treated with respect.

B．A teacher can open up a new world to students.

C．One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.

D．Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.

25、We once had a poster design competition in our fifth grade art class.

“You could win ________ ,” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out ________ of construction paper while ________ , “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard ________ somewhere on your poster.”

We studied the blackboard ________ . Some of us looked with one ________ and held up certain colors against the black,   ________ the sheets to the right or left while we thought over our designs. We had ________ plans for that ten-dollar prize.

Everyone in the class made a poster. Some students would ________ around the good students' desks and then return to their ________ with a growing sense of hopelessness.

I drew a sailboat. I ________ it with certainty. I determined it to be the very best, and then I turned it in.

Minutes ________ . No one came along to give me the prize, and then someone distracted me, and I didn't think about that poster again.

I stayed still ________ at my desk when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar ________ in it and everyone in the class ________ for me.

【1】

A．rewards

B．prizes

C．ranks

D．grades

【2】

A．blocks

B．piles

C．sheets

D．slices

【3】

A．continuing

B．greeting

C．ensuring

D．assisting

【4】

A．present

B．appear

C．quit

D．expose

【5】

A．casually

B．cautiously

C．roughly

D．seriously

【6】

A．hand

B．mouth

C．ear

D．eye

【7】

A．seeking

B．rocking

C．throwing

D．varying

【8】

A．accessible

B．grand

C．accurate

D．steady

【9】

A．rewind

B．surround

C．wander

D．dash

【10】

A．rooms

B．comments

C．colors

D．projects

【11】

A．made

B．prohibited

C．took

D．found

【12】

A．approached

B．ended

C．passed

D．killed

【13】

A．seated

B．sat

C．conflicted

D．condemned

【14】

A．sum

B．quantity

C．bonus

D．bill

【15】

A．registered

B．reflected

C．apologized

D．applauded

26、书面表达

假如你是李明，上周你班同学就“毕业前我们该为学校做些什么？”进行了讨论。请你根据以下内容要点，将同学们的建议用英语写一封信告诉你的笔友David,并谈谈你的想法及理由。

1.为图书馆捐书；

2.美化校园；

3.刻苦学习。

注意：

1.词数120左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear David,

Last week we held an enthusiastic discussion on what we should do for our school before we graduate.

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