克州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、John accompanied me to the airport so that he could____the driving when I felt tired.

A.take over B.run over C.turn over D.rule over

2、The energy program ______ at reducing our dependence on fossil fuels has made considerable breakthroughs in the past decades.

A.aim B.aimed C.being aiming D.to aim

3、Some parents are just too protective.They want to ________ their kids from every kind of danger，real or imagined.

A.spot B.dismiss

C.distinguish D.shelter

4、A Chinese student’s print-like handwriting caused controversy among British Internet users, _____ both praise and questions about individuality.

A. having drawn   B. drawing     C. to draw   D. drew

5、______ what had happened, they knew I would struggle and simply wanted to help because it was the right thing to do.

A. Hearing B. To have heard C. Having heard D. Heard

6、We’re all ready to put it into operation, ____________, we’re going to take action as fast as possible.

A.on the whole B.in general C.in conclusion D.in other words

7、From 1902 to 1904, Picasso painted a series of pictures________ the main color was blue.

A.which B.that C.where D.when

8、China’s top education authority has implemented a revision of textbooks on the length of the country’s war against Japanese aggression, ______ the start of the war began on Sept 18,1931.

A. one that   B. one where

C. the one that   D. the one where

9、Wang Ping flashed a switch on a computer screen, and a table and some chairs rose___ the floor as if by magic.

A. from B. under     C. from under     D. from up

10、I like your products very much ________ quality but I think the price is too high.

A．in charge of

B．in place of

C．in terms of

D．in spite of

11、—______ you sing and dance at this late hour of the night?

—Sorry, I will stop right now.

A.May B.Shall

C.Will D.Must

12、When he saw the mists rising from the river and the soft clouds   the mountain tops, he was reduced to tears.

A.being surrounded B.surrounded C.surrounding D.to surround

13、All the photographs in this book, __________ stated otherwise, date from the 1950s.

A.if B.when C.which D.unless

14、Self-confidence is a kind of quality and that is it takes to do everything well.

A．why

B．that

C．what

D．which

15、--He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________．

--No．He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all．

A．interviewing; to prepare

B．interviewed; to prepare

C．interviewing; preparing

D．being interviewed; preparing

16、For breakfast Lisa only drinks juice from fresh fruit ______ on their own farm.

A．being grown

B．grown

C．to be grown

D．to grow

17、Go for a walk in the countryside, you can enjoy the beautiful views and a peaceful atmosphere.

A．when

B．which

C．where

D．what

18、–Don’t _____ this plan to the public until we give you the go-ahead.

–OK. I will not.

A. release   B. relate C. retell     D. relieve

19、We believe the time and hard work _______ in completing such an important project are worthwhile.

A．involved

B．involving

C．to involve

D．to be involved

20、_______ early warnings from forecasters, residents were able to prepare and no deaths or serious injuries were reported.

A. In spite of   B. According to

C. Regardless of   D. Thanks to

21、A recent story in the Wall Street Journal newspaper looked at students who went to celebrated universities such as Columbia and New York University, for advanced degrees in subjects like art, film and even social work. Many of the students said they learned a lot. However, when they graduated, they were deep in debt and did not think they would find work that would let them pay back their loans.

Students said they spoke with Columbia about the high cost of advanced arts degrees but never received a reasonable answer. Education experts say the school is very wealthy, with large funds. The University, however, prefers to ask the students to pay the full cost.

Kevin Carey is a higher education expert for New America, a public policy research center. He called master’s degrees “a scam” in a conversation. “Charging people a ton of money to go into any artistic career is often super problematic,” he said.

Castillo is an actor in New York City. He earned an MFA from The Actors Studio in New York City. Was his MFA worth the cost? “I do think it was worth it. I don’t put a price tag on my education or my experience. I think it’s sort of unfortunate that so many people take education for granted.” Castillo said students who are thinking about an advanced degree in art should be sure they are doing it because they value the education, not because they want money or to be famous.

Plazinska is a filmmaker in New York City. She attended graduate school both at Baylor University in Texas and at the University of Lowa. Arts graduate programs can help students meet and make friends with fellow artists with whom they can work throughout their careers. For school to be of value, students need to remember why they started making art in the beginning. “It’s just for the pure pleasure of creating and fulfilling myself this way.”

【1】What’s the problem for students in famous universities for art advanced degrees?

A．They can’t take loans.

B．They can’t find any work.

C．They may be heavily in debt.

D．They may drop out of university.

【2】What does the underlined word “scam” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Way.

B．Trick.

C．Skill.

D．Game.

【3】What does Castillo think of his MFA?

A．He thinks highly of it.

B．It’s a waste of money.

C．He takes it for granted.

D．It brings him fame and money.

【4】What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．Arts graduate programs ensure a promising future.

B．Students had better consider whether they can afford the fee.

C．Arts graduate programs introduce celebrity artists to their students.

D．Students should stick to their original purposes while learning.

22、Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer (零售商) who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's. Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department scores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, “The customer is always right,” which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase “Only [so many] Shopping Days until Christmas”.

When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no match of their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges. a department store named after him. at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team shaped an ambitious classical palacc building with a wall of plate glass windows.

Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first aid room and. most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale.

Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker.

【1】What can be learned about Mr. Selfridge from Paragraph I ?

A. lie was well-educated.

B. He was a gifted businessman.

C. He was a modest man.

D. He was dishonest.

【2】What made Selfridge build a department store in London?

A. The large population in London.

B. His desire to own a department store.

C. His confidence in business success.

D. Affection for London architecture.

【3】What was Selfridges' most impressive characteristic?

A. The number of departments.

B. The broad choice of goods.

C. The small group of guards.

D. The well-trained sales guides.

【4】What is the main purpose of the article?

A. To introduce the history of Selfridge .

B. To compare different department stores.

C. To encourage readers to spend more.

D. To explain how to start a department store.

23、   Hikers, soldiers and school children all know the burden of a heavy backpack. But now, researchers from three Chinese institutes have developed a prototype(雏形) that not only makes loads feel about 20% lighter, but also harvests energy from human movements to power small electronics.

The new backpack, reported in ACSNano, could be especially useful for athletes, explorers and disaster rescuers who work in remote areas without electricity, the researchers say.

Backpacks are widely used in everyday life for the hands-free carrying of loads. Over time, however, walking or running with a heavy bag can cause back and neck pain. Also, backpackers in wilderness areas or even those in cities who don’t have ready access to a charger might wish for a bag that could harvest the mechanical energy of walking to power portable electronics or health-monitoring sensors.

Previously, researchers have used triboelectric nanogenerators(TENG) –– small devices that convert mechanical energy into electricity –– to make energy-harvesting backpacks, but those bags had relatively low power outputs and they didn’t provide added benefits, such as load lightening or shock absorption. Zhong Lin Wang, Jia Cheng and their colleagues wanted to design a prototype that overcame these limitations.

To save labor and absorb shock, the researchers installed two elastomers(弹性体) into the backpack that stretched and shrank, keeping the bag steady as the wearer walked. This resulted in about a 20% reduced force on the wearer. Meanwhile, the movement between the frame of the backpack and its load during walking drove a TENG to convert mechanical energy into electricity, with 14% efficiency.

“The researchers showed that the bag could power LEDs, an electric watch and fluorescent tubes. Once some challenges, such as improving the energy conversion efficiency, are overcome, the backpack has promising potential as a power source for small-scale wearable and portable electronics, GPSs and health care sensors,” the researchers say.

【1】Who will be the most probable users of the new backpack?

A．Doctors in the hospital.

B．Workers in the factory.

C．Researchers in the science lab.

D．People traveling to unknown places.

【2】What is the function of Paragraph 4?

A．Provide some background information.

B．Make comments about the new invention.

C．List the disadvantages of the new backpack.

D．Compare TENG and the new backpack.

【3】Which makes it easier for wearers to carry the backpack?

A．TENG.

B．Two elastomers.

C．Fluorescent tubes.

D．Health care sensors.

【4】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．The new backpack could hit the market soon.

B．The new backpack needs further improvement.

C．Consumers are in need of chargeable backpacks.

D．The researchers have difficulty meeting challenges.

24、   Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new method that doesn't require any special equipment and works in just minutes to create soft, flexible,3D-prnted robots.

The innovation comes from rethinking the way soft robots are built : instead of figuring out how to add soft materials to a rigid robot body, the UC San Diego researcher started with a soft body and added rigid features to key components. The strictures were inspired by insect exoskeletons,which have both soft and rigid parts — the researchers called their creations

“flexoskeletons (柔性外骨骼）”.The new method allows for the construction of soft components for robots in a small bit of the time previously needed and for a small bit of the cost.

“We hope that these flexoskeletons will lead to the creation of a new class of soft robots, ” said Nick Gravish， a mechanical engineering professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the UC San Diego and the paper ’ s senior author. “ We want to make soft robots easier to build for researchers all over the world. ”

The new method makes it possible to build large groups of flexoskeleton robots with little hand assembly (装配）as well as assemble a library of Lego-like components so that robot parts can be easily swapped.

Researchers detail their work in the April 7 issue of the journal Soft Robotics. The team plans to make their designs available to researchers at other institutions as well as high schools.

One flexoskeleton component takes 10 minutes to print and costs less than $1. Flexokeleton printing can be done on most low-cost commercially available printers. Printing and assembling a whole robot takes under two hours.

The final goal is to create an assembly line that prints whole flexoskeleton robots without any need for hand assembly. These small robots could do as much work as one massive robot on its own — or more.

【1】What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A.The origin of the new method.

B.The function of the new method.

C.The advantages of the new method.

D.The cost of the new method.

【2】What’s Nick’s attitude towards flexoskeletons?

A.Indifferent. B.Skeptical.

C.Curious. D.Hopeful.

【3】What will researchers intend to do with flexoskeletons?

A.Benefit moss students.

B.Produce a lot of flexoskeleton robots.

C.Build robots by hand.

D.Create many larger ones.

【4】What can be the best title for the text?

A.New Robos Made of Special Equipment and Materials

B.A New Method of Building Giant,Soft and Flexible Robots

C.Flexoskeletons Make Soft Robots Faster and Cheaper to Make

D.Flexoskeletons Create Lots of Soft Robots with Hand Assembly

25、   After my husband Tom retired, we moved to South Carolina. During the first few weeks, we were busy unpacking our boxes. Venturing outdoors, we explored parks and tried out restaurants. We waved to neighbors, but aside from simple _______, we hadn't really made connections.

We had a community page online. I usually _______ it, but one day a post from a young mother caught my eye and I studied it carefully. She said she got a（n）_______ that afternoon and urgently needed someone to _______ her baby. I'd run a home daycare for years and I _______ it, so I sent a _______ to her and gave her my phone number. She called _______——"You're a lifesaver!" was the greeting I got when I _______.

She was just two blocks away, so I _______ over to meet her. She opened the door with a 14-month-old in her arms. "This is Macy," she informed me. She made a ________ list of some instructions and then rushed out. I ________ a basket of toddler（学步的小孩） books. Picking out some, I invited Macy to sit with me. What a ________ to find a copy of a classic book I'd read repeatedly! Turning the pages and pointing at the pictures, I recited it from ________.

Before I knew it, Macy's mother went back and I went home. I'd had a really ________ afternoon. Macy's interesting ways of behaving brought a lot of ________. Perhaps I could find some children here to care for. I brought the ________ up to Tom. To my delight, he ________ it, and I founded a home daycare.

Kids are really ________——like Jenny who often sings "Rock-a-Bye Baby" in my ear. I laugh a lot! Now, I have a wonderful collection of "________" to greet me——it ________ my heart when I open my front door, see a sweet face and hear, "Good morning, Ms. Mary!"

【1】A.congratulations B.comments C.greetings D.celebrations

【2】A.managed B.assessed C.ignored D.scanned

【3】A.organization B.emergency C.wedding D.habit

【4】A.look after B.listen to C.test out D.search for

【5】A.banned B.escaped C.forgot D.enjoyed

【6】A.message B.book C.box D.gift

【7】A.nervously B.instantly C.suddenly D.slowly

【8】A.arrived B.applied C.answered D.resigned

【9】A.walked B.drove C.climbed D.trembled

【10】A.casual B.quick C.strange D.cheap

【11】A.posted B.wrote C.bought D.spotted

【12】A.shame B.burden C.surprise D.task

【13】A.memory B.future C.dream D.present

【14】A.boring B.pleasant C.ordinary D.challenging

【15】A.intelligence B.confusion C.laughter D.generosity

【16】A.idea B.treat C.hobby D.bargain

【17】A.changed B.doubted C.resisted D.supported

【18】A.innocent B.funny C.creative D.talented

【19】A.colleagues B.teachers C.neighbors D.students

【20】A.warns B.breaks C.warms D.hurts

26、假定你是一所国际学校的学生李华。你原定本周六去参加同学 Kevin的18岁生日聚会，现因故无法参加。请给他发一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1. 深表歉意；

2. 解释原因；

3. 衷心祝福。

注意：1. 写作词数应为 80 左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Kevin,

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua