黄冈2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Anxiety about social status leads to high levels of stress, which ________ leads to health problems.

A.in turn B.in order C.in fact D.in short

2、Tom's wife was saved in the earthquake and he was so grateful that he decided to help some poor children _____.

A.in turn B.in brief C.in return D.in all

3、--- Four dollars a pair? I think it’s a bit too much.

---If you buy three pairs, the price for each will _______ to three fifty.

A．come down B．take down

C．turn over D．go over

4、Last night, there were millions of people ______________ the opening ceremony live on TV.

A．watch

B．to watch

C．watched

D．watching

5、John________ to make an apology, but somehow he changed his mind at the last minute.

A．had intended

B．would intend

C．intended

D．was intending

6、The number of people who______ English as a foreign language_______ more than 750 million.

A.learns; is B.learn; are C.learns; are D.learn; is

7、I had enough time_____something before____ for the airport.

A.doing, leave B.to do, leaving C.doing, leaving D.to do, leave

8、I remember a _____ famous scientist said that we should believe in ourselves first of all.

A.some B.certain C.sure D.other

9、Once upon a time, with roots that go back to medieval marketplaces ________ stalls(货摊) that functioned as stores, shopping offered a way for people to get socially connected.

A.featuring B.featuring in C.featured D.featured in

10、Hot _______the night air was, we slept deeply because we were so tired after the long journey.

A. although  B. as

C. while     D. however

11、I am so ______ that I can hardly fall asleep at night.

A．narrow

B．anxious

C．awesome

D．pure

12、The news of the earthquake ______ when a large quantity of relief supplies _______ to the disaster-stricken area．

A．was hardly spread; was delivered

B．was hardly spread; were delivered

C．had hardly spread; was delivered

D．had hardly spread; were delivered

13、 He is one of the most excellent students in our class, and he always _____ himself in his studies.

A．buries

B．hides

C．covers

D．leaves

14、He's such a remarkable tennis player ______________ seems to get the credit he deserves．

A.that B.as C.which D.whom

15、The teacher asked the students to do the experiment _____ small groups.

A. to   B. for C. on D. in

16、The bus stopped at the station, _____ several people and drove off.

A. pulled up   B. picked up C. took up   D. put up

17、Genes are tiny sets of chemical instructions that________ how each living creature looks and behaves.

A．determine

B．assign

C．signal

D．reflect

18、The houses for the low-income families _______ at present in our city will be completed next year.

A. to be built     B. built

C. being built   D. having been built

19、What a terrible experience! ___________, you’re safe now----that’s the main thing.

A. Anyway   B. Besides   C. Otherwise D. Therefore

20、I want to learn about your holidays. Could you tell me how you usually_______ Thanksgiving Day in your country ?

A. Congratulate   B. remind

C. remember   D. observe

21、By now you’ve probably heard about the “you’re not special” speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: “Do not get the idea you’re anything special, because you’re not.” Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony — and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet — took issue with McCullough’s ego-puncturing words. But lost in the uproar was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they’re particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, it’s not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.

Such inflated self-judgments have been found in study after study, and it’s often exactly when we’re least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously. In a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self-evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more stringently. Poor students, the authors note, “lack insight” into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden”: they’re not good at what they do, and their very ineptness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.

In Dunning and Kruger’s study, subjects scoring at the bottom of the heap on tests of logic, grammar and humor “extremely overestimated” their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition to clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was “metacognitive skill”: the capacity to monitor how well they’re performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There’s a paradox here, the authors note: “The skills that engender competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain.” In other words, to get better at judging how well we’re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself.

There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest comparisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don’t possess it, and compare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to accomplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you’re doing, but just what it is that you’re doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up.

If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won’t need parents, or a commencement（毕业典礼） speaker, to tell them that they’re special. They’ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.

【1】Which can be the best title of this passage?

A. Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out

B. Let's Admit That We Are Not That Special

C. Tips On Making Ourselves More Special

D. Tell The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents

【2】The author thinks the real problem is that ______.

A. we don't know whether our young people are talented or not

B. young people don't know how to assess their abilities realistically

C. no requirement is set up for young people to get better

D. we always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged

【3】Which is NOT mentioned about poor students according to the passage?

A. They usually give themselves high scores in self-evaluations.

B. They tend to be unable to know exactly how bad they are.

C. They are intelligently inadequate in tests and exams.

D. They lack the capacity to monitor how well they are performing.

【4】We can infer from the passage that those high-scoring students ______.

A. know how to cultivate clear logic and proper grammar

B. don't know how well they perform due to their stringent self-judgement

C. don't view themselves as competent because they know their limits

D. tend to be very competent in their high-scoring fields.

【5】The strategies of becoming special suggest that ______.

A. we need internal honesty with ourselves and external honesty from others

B. the best way to get better is to carefully study past success and failure

C. through comparison with others, one will know where and when he fails

D. neither parents nor a commencement speaker can tell whether one is special

22、A new research shows that blood from young adult mice that get lots of exercise benefits the brains of same-aged, inactive mice. A single protein in the blood of exercising mice seems largely responsible for the benefit.

For the study in Nature, researchers compared blood from exercising and inactive mice of the same age. They showed that transfusions（输入）of blood from running mice reduced neuroinflammation（神经炎症）in the inactive mice and improved their cognitive performance.

Mice love to run. Give a caged mouse access to a running wheel and it will run up 4 to 6 miles a night. If you lock the wheel, the mouse won't log nearly as much exercise, although it's still free to walk about in its cage.

The investigators put either functional or locked running wheels into the cages of 3-month-old lab mice. A month of steady running was enough to greatly increase the quantity of neurons and other cells in the brains of marathoner mice when compared with those of inactive mice.

Next, the researchers collected blood from marathoner and inactive mice. Then, every three days, they injected other inactive mice with plasma（血浆）from either marathoner or couch-potato mice. Each injection equaled 7% to 8% of the recipient mouse s total blood amount.

On two different lab tests of memory, inactive mice injected with marathoner plasma outperformed their equally inactive peers who received couch-potato plasma.

In addition, the researchers discovered a protein in the blood that appears to play an important role in the anti-neuroinflammatory exercise effect. Remove a single protein, clusterin（丛生蛋白）, from marathoner mice's plasma and there will be no anti-inflammatory effect on inactive mice's brains. No other protein the scientists similarly tested had the same effect. There was significantly more clusterin in the marathoners' blood than in the couch potatoes' blood.

Researchers are expecting that a drug that can play clusterin's role might help slow the course of neuroinflammation-associated diseases.

【1】What happened in the experiment?

A．The mice were kept inactive.

B．A protein was fed to the mice.

C．Exercising mice got neuroinflammation.

D．Inactive mice got blood from exercising mice.

【2】What can be inferred about the mice?

A．They are naturally inactive.

B．They enjoy playing with potatoes.

C．Exercising does good to their brains.

D．Blood transfusions are harmful to them.

【3】What do exercising mice have more than inactive mice?

A．Blood.

B．Plasma.

C．Clusterin.

D．Brain.

【4】What is a possible application of the discovery?

A．Blood test.

B．Drug development.

C．Disease prevention.

D．Animal behavior study.

23、Over 60% of pupils in South African schools choose English for learning and teaching, but only 7% of pupils speak English as their home language, a recent South Africa survey shows.

Out of the country’s 12.2 million pupils only 851,536 speak English at home, yet 7.6 million pupils choose English as their favorite language of learning and teaching. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language, spoken by over 3.1 million pupils. However, less than a third of them choose to be taught in Zulu. The same thing is true of Pedi-speaking pupils, only a third of such pupils choosing to be taught in their home language. Besides English, Afrikaans is the only language that has more pupils choosing it as their language of instruction than it has pupils who speak it at home. In primary schools, most pupils will choose African languages. As early as grade four, many would choose English or Afrikaans in their lessons.

The rising number of English-learning pupils is mainly caused by social and cultural reasons. English is the most common spoken language in official and public life in South Africa, the survey reports. In April 2011, the leaders of higher education and training said that they would take some steps to improve the university teaching and prevent the continuing decline of African languages. They suggested that in future every South African university student could be required to learn at least one African language in order to complete their studies at school.

【1】We can learn from the passage that most South African pupils_________.

A．speak English both at home and at school

B．are required to learn two languages at school

C．choose English as their primary school language

D．are expected to speak their native language at home

【2】It can be inferred from the passage that_________.

A．Afrikaans is the most popular home language in South Africa

B．it’s easier for South African pupils to learn Afrikaans at school

C．the number of South African pupils learning Afrikaans has increased

D．many South African pupils use Afrikaans at school instead of at home

【3】The underlined word “decline” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “_________”.

A．going downhill

B．spreading widely

C．growing upwards

D．developing further

【4】What is the survey in the passage mainly about?

A．The use of native languages in South African families.

B．The language choice and use among South African pupils.

C．The progress in South Africa’s language teaching education.

D．The spread of English at schools in South Africa.

24、A Massachusetts man has got his wedding ring back thanks to some hikers who decided to try their luck at finding it.

It all started after Bill Giguere lost his gold wedding ring. Looking for the lost golden wedding ring was like searching for a needle in a haystack (干草堆). He had lost it during a daytime hike on Mount Hancock. Giguere was not sure about the location of the missing ring. He only remembered that he had briefly pulled off his gloves at the top of the mountain. And he guessed that the ring might fall off at that time. By the time he returned to his car after the hike and noticed that his ring was missing, it was completely dark.

He then decided to take his chances by posting information about his missing ring in a Facebook group for hikers. Luckily, the post was seen by Tom Gately. “As I read the post, my heart went out to him because I had lost my wedding ring before and luckily a man picked it up and returned it to me. So I decided to help him and I was going to be on the mountain to look for it,” Gately said.

Gately didn’t believe there was any chance of finding the ring on a snowy 10-mile trail if he only depended on his eyes and hands. So he decided to improve his chances by bringing along his metal detector (探测器). Within minutes of Gately and his friends reaching the top for the ring, his metal detector started ringing. He then brushed away some snow only to find the missing wedding ring. “Everybody just started laughing,” Brendan, Gately’s friend, said, “You couldn’t believe it.”

After Giguere received a Facebook message about how they had found the ring, he drove 60 miles to Gately’s house so he could pick up his wedding ring. And he thanked the hikers for their efforts again and again.

【1】What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A．Giguere accidentally fell during the hike.

B．Giguere realized he lost the ring while hiking.

C．It seemed impossible to find the lost wedding ring.

D．It was difficult for Giguere to finish a long hike alone.

【2】How can you understand the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

A．Gately felt pity for Giguere.

B．Gately shared his story with Giguere.

C．Gately wished to be friends with Giguere.

D．Gately wanted to repay Giguere for his kindness.

【3】How did Gately manage to find the missing ring?

A．He made use of a tool with friends.

B．He got help from an experienced ring finder.

C．He searched the snowy trail several times alone.

D．He posted information about the missing ring online.

【4】Which of the following can best describe Gately?

A．Brave and lucky.

B．Helpful and wise.

C．Honest and thoughtful.

D．Humorous and positive.

25、One day it was raining heavily and it’s getting dark. I was ________ for an appointment(约会) in a nearby city that I knew only by GPS, and now my phone had ________. The usual interstate exits(州际公路出口) were closed and I couldn’t ________ because it was raining so much. I couldn’t ________ how to get where I was going or how to let my partners know that I was ________ to make it on time.

I ________ at a McDonald’s in a poor area of a town and walked up to what appeared to be a mother and her teen daughter. “I’m sorry,” I said, “but do you mind ________ I search a number on your ________ and make a call? I need to let them know I’m ________.” The mum handed me her phone and then told me I was lucky. She was about to turn it ________ because she didn’t have enough ________ to pay her bill.

The young girl and the mother talked together as I made the ________. I managed to get in touch with the people. They ________ knew where I was and told me ________ to get out of trouble.

As I was ready to leave, I ________ into my wallet. I didn’t usually have ________, but today I found a $20 bill. In gratitude(感激), I pressed it into the mother’s ________ and then turned to leave quickly. As I walked through the doors, I heard the mother ________. Her daughter called after me and said, “You have no idea how you just ________ us."

I still think back to that day,even now. They had no idea how much they helped me, yet I was the one being thanked. It’s funny how that ________.

【1】

A．hungry

B．ready

C．late

D．nervous

【2】

A．started

B．died

C．charged

D．disappeared

【3】

A．find

B．sleep

C．leave

D．see

【4】

A．figure out

B．move out

C．pick out

D．take out

【5】

A．possible

B．quick

C．unlikely

D．able

【6】

A．left

B．stopped

C．stood

D．sat

【7】

A．as

B．so

C．or

D．if

【8】

A．phone

B．map

C．picture

D．book

【9】

A．scared

B．anxious

C．lost

D．gone

【10】

A．on

B．off

C．in

D．up

【11】

A．time

B．effort

C．energy

D．money

【12】

A．plan

B．call

C．decision

D．point

【13】

A．thankfully

B．hopefully

C．importantly

D．interestingly

【14】

A．how

B．when

C．why

D．whether

【15】

A．put

B．looked

C．reached

D．turned

【16】

A．check

B．coins

C．cards

D．cash

【17】

A．arm

B．hand

C．mouth

D．fingers

【18】

A．talking

B．listening

C．crying

D．laughing

【19】

A．helped

B．moved

C．troubled

D．annoyed

【20】

A．pushes

B．starts

C．pays

D．works

26、假设你是李津，你的英国朋友Tom对你们学校最近开展的“书香校园”活动很感兴趣，写信向你咨询相关情况。请你用英语给他写一封回信，介绍此次活动的开展情况，内容包括：

（1）开展此次活动的目的；

（2）此次活动的具体内容（例如：二手书市，读书分享会，……）；

（3）此次活动反响如何；

（4）你对此次活动的看法。

注意：

（1）词数100左右；

（2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：Scholarly Campus 书香校园；second-hand book fair二手书市

Dear Tom,

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Yours,

Li Jin