海北州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、It is time for the West to learn from China's responsible efforts to   fake news.

A.weed out B.work out C.turn out D.bring out

2、 ––Have you asked Peter for advice?

––No, he ______ someone, so I didn’t disturb him.

A. is talking with  B. has talked with

C. was talking with D. had talked with

3、––Do you mind if I smoke here?

––I suggest you go to the separate room ______ for smokers.

A. to reserve B. reserving

C. reserved   D. being reserved

4、I wonder whether his hearing is okay ______ he has turned the television up very loud.

A. unless B. although C. until  D. because

5、_____________equal opportunities, both Frank and Billy may accomplish the task.

A.Given B.Giving

C.To give D.to be given

6、Just hang the towel _______ the back of the chair so that it will dry soon.

A. over   B. behind

C. with   D. from

7、It was the first time in six attempts that Peters ______the world champion.

A．has beaten

B．was beaten

C．beat

D．had beaten

8、—Do you think I really ________ the bad handwriting in your composition at yesterday’s meeting?

—Sure. Why ________ you always pick holes in everything I write?

A. wouldn’t have mentioned; can

B. mustn’t mention; should

C. shouldn’t have mentioned; must

D. couldn’t mention; would

9、Some new degree courses will be carried out   the current ones，so that students can gain success more easily.

A.in respect to B.in terms of

C.in contrary to D.in parallel to

10、The girl conquered her fear and ___ the enormous spider in sight of it last night.

A. took up   B. picked up

C. put up     D. set up

11、How come every kid today is meant to be a champion for something _____ we know every kid can’t be a star?

A. in case   B. as if

C. when   D. unless

12、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.

A. has stayed   B. had stayed

C. stayed   D. am staying

13、Once he makes up his mind to do something, seldom ______ give it up.

A. he will B. does he

C. would he D. will he

14、When   for his views about his teaching job,Philip said he found it very interesting and rewarding.

A. asking   B. asked   C. having asked   D. to be asked

15、Mr. Smith was having a meeting at that time, otherwise he ______________ over to help us.

A.might have come B.would come

C.had come D.were to come

16、—Mr. Smith said we had only three days to finish the project.

―Don't worry. We have already________ two thirds of it.

A．given away

B．given in

C．got through

D．got down

17、—Where was I?

—You ________ you didn’t like your job.

A. had said   B. said

C. were saying   D. has said

18、After ________seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.

A. that   B. it C. what D. there

19、You are being such a busybody. How I choose to conduct my private life is my own _______!

A.experience B.agenda C.business D.problem

20、— I'm sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.

— I think so. He ________ for it for months.

A．is preparing

B．was preparing

C．had been preparing

D．has been preparing

21、Life Begins on Board Your Next Cruise(邮轮)

On a cruise, it’s all about choices. And never about effort or annoyance. Simply step aboard and float away, as your grand accommodation takes you from port to port, country to country. Maybe you haven’t been on a cruise yet. Let’s see what it might look like.

Rise and shine

Everyone is a morning person on a cruise. Wake up to find yourself floating joyfully somewhere out on the horizon, between vast blue skies and rolling oceans. You’ve travelled far through the night, and each morning begins with a completely new and foreign destination calling from outside your window. What a way to start your day!

Breakfast of champions

Before the morning truly begins, spend some time relaxing on the top floor with a steaming cup of coffee and warm French pastries, taking in the unbelievable views and the fresh sea air. Or head to one of the many restaurants on the ground floor to find a rich meal fit for a king, then walk to the front of the ship and have some fresh fruit and American pancakes in the open-air market.

Ease into your day

Energize your morning with a yoga class, strengthening your body on the open-air board, palms stretched to the sea. Hit the gym for a refreshing workout or take a swim that will set you up for the day. If you are not so sporty, simply spend your morning sitting by the pool reading a book, perhaps losing yourself in the history, culture and legends of your next port of call.

【1】Where can you enjoy a cup of coffee on the cruise?

A．On the top floor.

B．On the ground floor.

C．In the open-air market.

D．In the front of the ship.

【2】What can you do for a relaxing morning?

A．Do yoga outdoors.

B．Work out in the gym.

C．Take a swim.

D．Read by the pool.

【3】Who is this text intended for?

A．Cruise organizers.

B．Potential cruise participants.

C．Cruise advertisers.

D．Experienced cruise travelers.

22、   Natural lakes cover about 2.8% of Earth's non-oceanic surface. Despite the small percentage, they are very important to both regional and global ecosystems. However, lakes around the world, such as the Great Lakes in the United States, the Aral Sea and the Dead Sea in Asia and the Lake Chad in Africa, are disappearing and even have disappeared. Identifying the main factors of lakes' decline is of great value for global lake management and lake recovery, especially for the largest freshwater lake in China, Poyang Lake.

Located in eastern China's Jiangxi Province, Poyang Lake has a drainage(灌排) area of 162,225 km2，feeds a population of up to 44 million and annually supplies 17% of the water for the Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world. It also provides a home for millions of birds during the lake's low water stages in late autumn and winter, including 95% of the world's endangered white cranes. Moreover, the variations in the lake's water output directly affect the environments in the East China Sea.

However, since the beginning of the 21st century, Poyang Lake has experienced continuously extreme low water levels in autumn, which has put the threatened birds at risk of extinction.

Despite several efforts to explore the causes of the Poyang Lake's dryness, to date, there have been no studies that attempt to distinguish and quantify the contribution of each possible factor on the lake's recent low water levels.

Therefore, the objectives of my study are to quantify the contribution of each factor leading to Poyang Lake's dryness. These results are of vital value in characterizing the problems of the Poyang Lake and its related wetlands. They also can be applied to other large lakes in similar situations around the world.

【1】What is the author's main purpose in the first paragraph?

A．To tell the necessity and value of his study.

B．To show the problems of the four largest lakes.

C．To introduce the lakes' coverage of the earth's surface.

D．To prove the lakes' importance to the global ecosystems.

【2】What can be known about Poyang Lake?

A．It is the main water source for the Yangtze River.

B．It is the third biggest freshwater lake in the world.

C．It is home to 95% of the world's endangered animals.

D．It is important to the ecosystem of the East China Sea.

【3】What does the author say about the previous studies?

A．Their theories about the lake are wrong.

B．They should carry out their study in quality.

C．They have not analyzed each factor in quantity.

D．Their studies cannot be applied to the other lakes.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A．A textbook.

B．A newspaper.

C．A research paper.

D．An advertisement.

23、This was the first communication that had come from her aunt in Jessie’s lifetime.

“I think your aunt has forgiven me at last,” her father said as he passed the letter across the table.

Jessie looked first at the autograph(签名). It seemed strange to see her own name there. There was a likeness between her aunt’s autograph and her own, a hint of the same decisiveness and precision. If Jessie had been educated fifty years earlier, she might have written her name in just that manner.

“You’re very like her in some ways,” her father said, as she still stared at the autograph.

“I should think you must almost have forgotten what Aunt Jessie was like, dear,” she said. “How many years is it since you last saw her?”

“More than forty,” her father said. “We disagreed. We invariably disagreed. Jessie always prided herself on being so modern. She read Darwin and things like that. Altogether beyond me, I admit.”

“And so it seems that she wants to see me.” Jessie straightened her shoulders and lifted her head. She was excited at the thought of meeting this mythical aunt whom she had so often heard about. Sometimes she had wondered if the personality of this remarkable relative had not been a figment(虚构) of her father’s imagination.

But this letter of hers that now lay on the breakfast table was admirable in character. There was something of intolerance expressed in its tone. It was just like what her father had told her.

Mr. Deane came out of his past memories with a sigh.

“Yes, yes; she wants to see you, my dear,” he said. “I’ve heard she has set up a school and helped many youngsters. I think you had better accept this invitation to stay with her. If she took a fancy to you, you could get a better education…”

He sighed again, and Jessie knew that for the hundredth time he was regretting his own past weakness...

【1】How was the relationship between Jessie’s father and her aunt?

A．It remained very close over the years.

B．It was broken when they were young.

C．It got tenser due to a misunderstanding.

D．It was uneasy for their financial differences.

【2】From the passage, we know Jessie was .

A．eager to meet her aunt.

B．cautious about her aunt’s invitation

C．angry with her aunt for ignoring her family.

D．puzzled by her aunt’s sudden interest in her

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Jessie’s aunt promised to offer her better education.

B．Jessie’s aunt’s personality seemed to change a lot.

C．Jessie and her aunt were different in personality.

D．Jessie’s father felt sorry for what he had done.

24、What’s really green?

Most of us are aware that we must take care of the environment, and the majority of us take steps to save energy and reduce waste and pollution. But recently, some “green truths” have been shown to be only half true, or even completely false. 【1】

Paper shopping bags are better than plastic ones.

Plastic bags cause litter and are a danger to wild animals, which mistake them for food. It takes hundreds of years for plastic to break down, but much less time for paper. Because of this, people think paper bags are the better environmental choice.

However, making a paper bag uses four times as much energy as making a plastic bag and up to three times the amount of water. 【2】 In fact, both kinds of bags are bad for the environment. So, take a reusable bag with you when you go shopping.

【3】

It seems like common sense: eating local food should be better for the environment, because it does not need to be transported long distances and kept cold during transport. 【4】 It is the production of food, not its transport, that uses most of the energy and produces most of the greenhouse gases. In some cases, local produce might have used more energy and produced more greenhouse gases than produce grown a long way away-even taking into account its transport.

It’s better to take a shower than a bath.

【5】 If you spend more than eight minutes in a shower, you’ll use as much water as in a bath-about 50 litres of water. Therefore, the key is to keep your shower time as short as possible.

Environmental awareness is now part of daily life. But it’s worth checking common ideas and opinions to see what’s really green.

A．So say no to plastic bags.

B．Here are some common ones.

C．Unfortunately, it is not that simple.

D．Eating local food is good for the environment.

E．The process also produces more greenhouse gases.

F．It’s time that we took measures to protect our environment.

G．It depends on how long you spend in the shower and how large your bath is.

25、   Once I went with my brother to watch how the villagers caught fish in the local pond. Usually the locals catch fish in the _______ morning. It was exciting so we _______ at 4 o’clock. Not only did it sound like a(n) _______ to me, but it also turned out to teach me a _______lesson.

The fishermen had a big fishing net, one side of which was _______ along with the boundary of the pond and the other end was taken to the _______ boundary of the pond underwater. After a certain time they slowly started _______ the free end towards the fixed end. Most fish got _______ inside the net and the fish had already started feeling _______ wrong. Because of the lack of ________, they started panicking. Some started ________ to get out of the net. Though they knew getting out of the water was a big risk, they still ________ their best to jump with all their strength; ________ few fish got out of the net. I asked a fisherman about the fish that “escaped”. They told me it usually ________ that next time they would again get ________ after another 6 months. Hearing this, I realized one of the greatest life lessons. The fish that took the risk actually ________ their life time by 6 months! I ________ what would happen if they lived in big lakes. Maybe, they could live longer.

In life there are certain situations where we might feel we are ________ our living space. We take the biggest risk of our lives and jump out of the space, ________ we fall into another small one where we may end up failing. So we need to be wise enough to choose to live in much ________ spaces where we have more conditions to help survive or succeed.

【1】A.fine B.summer C.cold D.early

【2】A.got up B.went on C.took off D.set sail

【3】A.adventure B.amusement C.advantage D.game

【4】A.music B.business C.life D.duty

【5】A.drawn B.arranged C.thrown D.fixed

【6】A.common B.opposite C.close D.natural

【7】A.escaping B.connecting C.moving D.driving

【8】A.trapped B.counted C.pressed D.pulled

【9】A.anything B.everything C.nothing D.something

【10】A.water B.air C.space D.power

【11】A.running B.jumping C.sinking D.swimming

【12】A.tried B.controlled C.developed D.found

【13】A.proudly B.suddenly C.expectedly D.unluckily

【14】A.predicted B.disappeared C.happened D.returned

【15】A.discovered B.caught C.saved D.assisted

【16】A.increased B.wasted C.calculated D.spent

【17】A.regretted B.hoped C.worried D.imagined

【18】A.using B.losing C.shaping D.changing

【19】A.so B.and C.but D.for

【20】A.bigger B.shorter C.easier D.harder

26、Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

It's natural to feel the need to control something when everything around you feels out of control, and you feel helpless. When a friend of mine first heard about the coronavirus outbreak, she got down on her hands and knees and cleaned her kitchen floor. She told me, “My floor wasn't even dirty, but doing something constructive made me feel in control and that I was holding on to my power, despite the desperate circumstances.”

Your most powerful weapon against uncertainty is your perspective because nobody and no situation can take that from you unless you give it away. Your perspective can victimize or empower you. When you look for the upside in a downside situation and figure out what you can control and what you can't, it's easier to accept whatever is beyond your control.