平凉2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、We climbed up to the top of a hill,   we got a good view of the whole forest park.

A. which   B. where

C. when   D. that

2、She looks as if ________ something.

A.in search of B.she looked for C.she had looked for D.she was in search of

3、Is Fast & Furious 9 ________ most young people have been looking forward to these days?

A．that

B．which

C．the

D．the one

4、Had you listened to the doctor, you ____ all right now.

A．are

B．were

C．would have been

D．would be

5、The music, ________ which the active elderly were dancing, sounded a bit familiar to me.

A．to

B．from

C．in

D．at

6、Today, Dunhuang is a world-class tourist destination ________ sites with UNESCO-protected heritage status.

A．to boast

B．being boasted

C．boasted

D．boasting

7、Base your research on ____ evidence, or its conclusions will be doubtful.

A.fierce B.severe C.solid D.potential

8、—He’s been to China.

—___________ I

A.So am B.Nor have C.So have D.Neither do

9、I ________ Mr. Bert of the change of the meeting. You don’t have to phone him again.

A. have informed   B. will have informed

C. would inform   D. had informed

10、________ many Brits like nothing better than spending their Sunday cutting the grass, some people are happy to sit and enjoy the beauty around them.

A．If

B．While

C．Unless

D．Until

11、The GPNP is intended to provide stronger protection for all the species ________ live within the Giant Panda Range and significantly improve the health of the ecosystem in the area.

A．who

B．where

C．which

D．that

12、Hot ______ the night air was, we slept soundly after the long tiring journey.

A. although B. as   C. while D. however

13、The girl, when _____ why she _____ in the exam, just lowered her head and kept silent.

A．questioned; was cheated

B．being questioned; was cheating

C．questioned; had cheated

D．being questioned; has cheated

14、My elder brother has been working hard in the hope of earning enough money to ________ his own company one day.

A．quit

B．target

C．establish

D．represent

15、Under the new schedule, teachers of primary and secondary schools must _____each class on time instead of adding extra lessons．

A. cancel   B. advocate

C. postpone   D. Dismiss

16、I do remember _______ the message, but I cannot find it now. Please send it again if you don’t mind.

A.to receive B.receiving C.received D.being received

17、Only when one loses something valuable _______ its value.

A．he can know

B．he knew

C．can he know

D．did he know

18、—I saw Lily in the teacher’s office just now.

—You _________ her, she has gone back home.

A．must not see

B．mustn’t have seen

C．can’t have seen

D．couldn’t see

19、The noise upstairs is too loud and I can’t simply ________ it.

A．keep up with

B．catch up with

C．come up with

D．put up with

20、A person may have a good knowledge of one subject, ______ unable to get it over to an audience.

A. so   B. for

C. yet   D. or

21、Lake Baikal, the biggest body of fresh water on Earth near Russia’s border with Mongolia, is home to several unusual animals, including the world’s only species of freshwater seal.

Seals exist in large quantities in Baikal, about 100,000 of them, though the lake is poor in nutrition.【1】. A study just published by Watanabe Yuuki of the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo suggests the answer is tiny organisms.

Most seals eat fish. And Baikal seals do, indeed, have needle-pointed teeth. But in 1982 researchers noted that they develop a second sort of specialized tooth behind those canines. They have sharp teeth which look like combs.【2】But Dr Watanabe guessed that they might be an adaptation for feeding on other strange creatures in the lake.

Seals arrived in Baikal 2 m years ago, from the Arctic Ocean. So too did some much smaller sea creatures, known as amphipods. These have grown into more than 340 species.【3】. But Dr Watanabe wondered if the Baikal seals’ comb-like teeth might enable them to filter these tiny creatures from the water in sufficient quantities to make them useful food sources.【4】.

Records showed that the seals would dive in with their mouths open and collect amphipod groups that form at night. Dr Watanabe estimates that each seal catch an average of 57 amphipods per dive.【5】, for the seals do hunt fish as well. But they also compete with those fish for the amphipods, thus partially bypassing a link in the food chain and perhaps maintaining themselves in larger numbers than would otherwise be possible.

A．The needlelike canines are necessary

B．So how they do so well has been a puzzle

C．This has led to their numbers increasing sharply

D．At the time, nobody knew what to make of them

E．He therefore used waterproof cameras to observe a few seals

F．Cameras remained attached to some seals for between two and four days

G．Sea mammals the size of seals would normally see amphipods as too small to hunt

22、Santa Cruz County is home to the rough coastline, grand redwoods, and tracks to secret beaches making it the primary destination for your next adventure!

Berry Creek Falls at Big Basin State Park

Big Basin is California's oldest state park and is home to the largest continuous stand of ancient Coast Redwoods south of San Francisco. The park offers over 80 miles of tracks and has a surprising number of waterfalls. It features a series of year-round waterfalls, lush redwood forest and steep canyons.

Phone: 8637-0835976

Wilder Ranch State Park

Grasslands, small pines, coastal redwoods, the rough coastline, tidepools, hidden beaches, Victorian farmhouse, barns-need we say more? Wilder Ranch owns a wide variety of landforms and habitats, and offers over 34 miles of hiking, biking and horse tracks winding through coastal terraces (梯田) and valleys.

Phone: 8637-0835886

Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Whether you're a family with tiny pets or tough teens, Henry Cowell has a track for you and yours. The main park area features 15 miles of hiking and riding tracks through a variety of forested areas with redwoods, mixed evergreens, yellow pines, and even sandhills. For slightly older kids—take the River Track for a scenic hike with great rewards — i.e. some water sports!

Phone: 8639-0836886

West Cliff Drive

Although not considered a traditional “hike", West Cliff Drive delivers on some serious strides (大步) with seaside views. Busy beaches and surf spots to quiet bays and wildlife? this coastal path serves up some breathtaking sceneries. When the path ends, take a glance toward the ocean and see the photogenic Natural Bridges State Beach.

Phone: 8635-0936888

【1】Which number can you contact when you want to travel by bike?

A．8637-0835886.

B．8635-0936888.

C．8637-0835976.

D．8639-0836886.

【2】Which of the following can you swim in?

A．West Cliff Drive.

B．Wilder Ranch State Park.

C．Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

D．Berry Creek Falls at Big Basin State Park.

【3】Who is the text intended for?

A．Schoolboys.

B．Naughty children.

C．Adults with families.

D．Adventurous people.

23、Sometimes we may find that every week there are a lot of new stories about how climate change is affecting the planet, or new plans to battle its effects like the one announced by President Barack Obama the other day. But the concept itself isn't new at all --- in fact, scientists have been exploring questions about climate change for almost 200 year.

The idea of “greenhouse gases” goes back to 1824, when Joseph Fourier wondered what was regulating the earth's temperature. Fourier concluded that the atmosphere must be responsible for containing the heat absorbed from the sun and described it as a box with a glass lid: As light shines through the glass, the inside gets warmer as the lid traps the heat. As Fourier's ideas spread, it came to be called “the greenhouse effect”.

Scientists continued to study the greenhouse effect. Until a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius came along, scientists understood how global warming actually works. After years of work, Arrhenius determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere did in fact have a direct effect on global temperatures.

Arrhenius found that CO2, and other gases trap radiation, which warms the atmosphere. Arrhenius was the first to suspect that burning coal could contribute to the greenhouse effect. But Arrhenius welcomed the warming effect on the planet. At a lecture later that year, Arrhenius noted that creatures of a warmer earth “might live under a milder sky and in less barren surroundings”.

While Arrhenius' findings won him the 1903 Nobel Prize in chemistry, scientists kept debating whether the greenhouse effect was increasing until 1950, when researchers finally began to find strong data supporting it. By the end of the 1950s, American scientists had been sounding the alarm on the long-term consequences of climate change. Climate change research has come a long way since Fourier first described the greenhouse effect – still, maybe Arrhenius should have been more careful of what he wished for.

【1】What can we know from Paragraph 1?

A. Climate change has caused terrible disasters.

B. The topic of climate change has been talked a lot.

C. Scientists should work harder to research climate change.

D. The whole world should cooperate to protect the environment.

【2】What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The atmosphere.

B. The idea.

C. The earth.

D. The earth's temperature.

【3】What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. Serious consequences of climate change.

B. The history of studying the greenhouse effect.

C. Significant research findings about climate change.

D. Scientists' doubts about the cause of global warming.

【4】What did Arr henius think of the greenhouse effect?

A. It was beneficial for creatures on the earth.

B. It was totally responsible for climate change

C. It brought more troubles than benefits to human beings.

D. It worked as a punishment for human harmful activities.

【5】What's the author's attitude towards Arr henius' expectation?

A. Cautious.   B. Defensive.   C. Positive.   D. Negative.

24、Think about the last time you did something that you found difficult. Was it working out a puzzle or working hard on your math homework? Can you remember the expression you had on your face? Most people will press their lips together and frown when they are doing something they find difficult. This is normally seen as a sign of effort. Now we’ve found that it can also say more than that.

A recent study at the University of Portsmouth in England suggests that the human expression of effort and frustration is our way of asking others for help. Scientists at the university gave children and chimps an impossible puzzle to work out. When the children couldn’t work out the puzzle, their faces expressed determination and effort. The chimps did not. Humans and chimps, however, have many facial expressions that share the same meaning. A human smile is the same as a chimp showing its teeth in happiness. Scientists believe that over time, humans have evolved (进化) to use this facial expression to ask for help. We have also learned to respond to it by offering help.

According to Dr Albert Mehrabian, a well-known professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), only 7% of human communication happens through words and 55% is through body language. Therefore, understanding expressions is second nature to human beings.

With this in mind, next time you see a person with a frustrated expression, listen to your heart and stop to lend them a hand.

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

A．The occasion.

B．The facial expression.

C．The puzzle.

D．A sign of effort.

【2】What do people express through the facial expression of effort or frustration according to the recent study?

A．They need others’ help.

B．They can do things themselves.

C．They will give up.

D．They want to be alone.

【3】What do we know about the chimps in the study?

A．They had no difficulty working out the puzzle.

B．They smiled as they worked out the puzzle.

C．Their faces didn’t show determination or effort.

D．They used other expressions to ask for help.

【4】What does Dr Albert Mehrabian say about human communication?

A．It happens more through body language.

B．It doesn’t have to use any word at all.

C．Facial expression hides true feelings.

D．Spoken language is more powerful.

25、As is known to all, positive people are lucky people. They can see the roses _________ others see only the thorns (刺). They _________ bring more luck to themselves. Positive people through adversity (逆境) still see the _________ and consider themselves fortunate.

I met a man who couldn’t move from the neck down in Cape Town. He said since his accident, he _________ he was lucky to have found the kind of peace although only his head could move. He painted the most beautiful pictures with brushes in his _________ and held talks on personal development. He considered he had _________ more and helped more people than before. He said he was now truly _________ . Seeing his positive thinking, I was greatly amazed. Instead of complaining, he found something good in his situation and _________ it.

There is an old _________ that goes something like “I had no shoes so I had the blues, until I walked the streets and met the man who had no __________ .” We should always count our blessings and be __________ for what we have.

If you believe you are lucky, you will be lucky with that positive mindset. Things in the world just __________ , and it’s how we view it that decides our standpoint. The __________ event can be lucky or unlucky depending on your perceptions. Do positive people think everything will just come to them without action or any effort on their parts? No. It’s just a way of getting the best out of any result with an optimistic mind __________ a black cloud following us everywhere. Positive thinkers learn from their mistakes and put __________ behind them with the strength and fortitude to continue.

【1】

A．when

B．although

C．since

D．while

【2】

A．gradually

B．suddenly

C．magically

D．deliberately

【3】

A．sadness

B．light

C．darkness

D．pleasure

【4】

A．imagined

B．felt

C．struggled

D．promised

【5】

A．hands

B．feet

C．teeth

D．arms

【6】

A．lost

B．gained

C．dreamed

D．considered

【7】

A．educated

B．skilled

C．cheerful

D．powerful

【8】

A．put up with

B．came up with

C．made use of

D．paid attention to

【9】

A．saying

B．story

C．evidence

D．rule

【10】

A．feet

B．friends

C．food

D．home

【11】

A．ready

B．grateful

C．suitable

D．good

【12】

A．develop

B．work

C．happen

D．gather

【13】

A．great

B．different

C．simple

D．same

【14】

A．as for

B．except for

C．because of

D．instead of

【15】

A．arguments

B．warnings

C．disappointment

D．experience

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。续写的词数应为150词左右。

There was a rich couple who was holding a big new year party at their house. So they went shopping at the market where everything was expensive, but they didn’t mind paying a lot for it. After buying everything they needed, they called a porter(搬运工) to carry it and drop it off at their home. The porter who came was of an old age, not very healthy looking. His clothes were torn and he looked as if he wasn’t even able to meet his daily needs.

They asked the porter about the charges for sending their goods at their home. The old porter quoted(报价) $20, a price well below the market rate. Yet, the couple argued and bargained(讨价还价) with the porter and finally settled for $15. The porter was trying to make money for every meal so he needed anything he could earn.

The couple was very happy thinking how well they bargained with the poor porter and paid him $15 in advance and left after giving the porter their home address. They reached their home and two hours passed, the porter still hadn’t delivered their stuff.

The wife started to get angry at her husband, “I always tell you not to trust such person but you never listen to me. Such a person is not even able to earn to feed himself for one time in a day, and you handed him everything we bought for our big party. I am sure he must have disappeared with everything. We must immediately go back to the market to inquire(询问) and then to the police station to file the complaint against him(报案).”

They both went to the market. On their way, near the market, they saw another porter. They stopped him to inquire about the old porter and noticed that he was carrying their stuff(东西) in his cart!

Paragraph 1:

The angry wife asked him, “Where is that old thief? This is our stuff.”

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Paragraph 2:

Upon hearing this, the husband had tears in his eyes and turned to his wife.

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