莆田2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Some college students are seen doing _____work they can find to support themselves．

A．that B．which

C．whatever D．no matter what

2、------Mom, is Dad coming to pick us up?

------Yes, I am sure he _________ on the platform when we pull into the station.

A．stands

B．stood

C．has stood

D．will be standing

3、 to work on Saturdays, the employees are offered a higher salary.

A. Expecting B. Expected

C. To be expected D. Having expected

4、With too much mathematics homework ________, he determined to give up English reading.

A. finished   B. having finished

C. to finish   D. finishing

5、Perseverance is a kind of quality, and that is ______ it takes to do everything well.

A. why   B. that   C. what   D. which

6、Hearing the doorbell, I ran to answer it but found my brother had ________ me and let the guests in.

A. interrupted   B. updated

C. anticipated   D. overlooked

7、Your question _____ he didn’t inform you earlier has not yet been answered, _____has aroused our curiosity．

A． which；which B． why；it

C． that；it       D． why；which

8、Though the teacher asked a very difficult question, Tom   up with a very good answer immediately.

A. put   B. kept

C. came   D. caught

9、There are no __________ displays in this museum and exhibitions change all the time.

A.temporary B.permanent C.personnel D.persuasive

10、The newly­learnt words will be impressed on us only if they are ________used in everyday communication．

A．gradually B．accurately

C．familiarly   D．frequently

11、Put the letter ______ he can find it easily.

A.in which B.at which C.where D.which

12、— However busy Mary is, she will ______ some time for exercise every day.

— No wonder she is always so energetic.

A．set aside

B．put away

C．get over

D．take in

13、The customer and the seller argued for quite some time before they finally agreed   the price．

A．on   B．with

C．to   D．at

14、 Since I don’t like surfing the Internet, shall I go to the library instead _____ the information we need?

A. to get B. of getting

C. of to get   D. getting

15、The director was fully convinced that this moving story, if ______ for television, would be a hit.

A. adapted   B. being adapted

C. to be adapted   D. having been adapted

16、China is separated _____Japan ___the East China Sea.

A. of; in   B. of; to

C. from; to   D. from; by

17、Although the evidence _______ Tom，he was still worried about whether he would win in the case．

A．favored   B．benefited

C．supported   D．appreciate

18、【2012重庆卷】It was 80 years before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic______ Zheng sailed to East Africa

A. when   B. that C. after D. since

19、 The scientist spent years alone in the forest, ______ by eating wild fruit and small animals.

A. surviving   B. survived

C. to survive  D. having survived

20、As _______ monitor of our class，Jason has _______ great responsibility to get the class to work together as a team..

A.a； the B.不填； a C.a； 不填 D.a； a

21、   There are always stories in the life that can hardly be forgotten and will restore our hope for holidays every time we recollect.

Johnny and I, along with our two young sons, Barry and Doyle, lived in a village in southern Alabama in 1979. We had bought the boys a bicycle for the New Year, and had hidden it in the garage ,where Johnny would assemble (组装)it on New Year5 s Eve after the kids fell asleep. But that day, Johnny had to go to Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, an hour away, to repair a jet. I had my hands busy with baking, preparing for holiday dinner and caring for two energetic boys.

Just as I was making the chocolate cake, a neighbor knocked on the door. It was Beatrice, who was the only person on our road with a telephone. The base had called to say that a heavy tool had come apart suddenly, hitting Johnny's arm and breaking the bone. My brother Otto took me to the base hospital while my mother stayed with the children.

We got there to find Johnny with a cast (石膏)on his arm, anxious to get home regardless of the doctor's orders. It was New Year's Eve, Johnny argued, and he had the bike to assemble for his boys. The doctor said he'd consider dismissing him the next morning if Johnny could find someone to drive him home. On New Year's morning, Johnny called the base and was told everyone was off duty； there was no one to drive him home. Johnny kept making calls. At last, a big blue car with the Air Force sign rolled up.

I was putting dinner on the table when hearing the car. We were thrilled to see Johnny assisted by a uniformed Air Force officer. With Otto's help, Johnny assembled the boy's gift, and they all had a good time that afternoon. Our hearts were full of gratitude to the people who had gone the extra mile to bring us together.

【1】What had Johnny planned to do on New Year's Eve?

A．Repair a jet.

B．Buy his sons a bike.

C．Prepare a surprise gift.

D．Assemble a bike with his sons.

【2】Why did Beatrice come to the author's house?

A．To relay a message.

B．To make a phone call.

C．To lend out her telephone.

D．To take the author to the hospital.

【3】How can we describe Johnny?

A．Diligent

B．Stubborn

C．Considerate

D．Complicated

【4】What can serve as the title for the text?

A．A Hard - won New Year Present

B．A Treasured New Year Memory

C．An Unexpected New Year Dinner

D．A Life - changing New Year Experience

22、   Hospitals employ many therapeutic (治疗的) methods, such as medication, massage therapy and music therapy. And music therapy is growing in popularity.

Sandra Siedliecki is a Senior Scientist at the Nursing Institute of Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She says music is a low-cost treatment. And she says scientists have done a lot of research on music’s effect on pain. Dr. Marian Good did a lot of studies looking at surgery patients and the use of music. In her studies, patients just listened to relaxing music. Dr. Good found that her surgery patients took fewer painkillers after they listened to music. Music had a good effect on short-term pain. However, chronic pain, the kind that recurs (复发) continually, changed little under the effect of music.

Dr. Linda Chian was studying something different. She was not interested in patients’ pain, but instead, their anxiety. She spent a lot of time with people who were in the hospital because their anxiety was so great that they couldn’t breathe. People with this condition often have to use breathing machines. Dr. Chian said that the machines sometimes did little to improve their condition. Sometimes they even made things worse. The patients would become more anxious. Dr. Chian let nurses tell patients that music was a good choice to make them feel better. They also placed signs near the patients’ beds—Listen to your music at least twice a day. The people who listened to music had a reduction in the amount of medication they received. In addition, their anxiety reduced by about 36 percent.

Both doctors had similar explanations why music was so helpful. Music can be a very powerful distracter in the brain when we’re listening to music that is pleasing and then it interrupts stressful thoughts.

【1】After lot of studies Dr. Marian Good found that music therapy________.

A.was the best method to reduce the pain B.could take the place of medication

C.was cheaper than massage therapy and medication D.didn’t work well on all patients

【2】From the third paragraph we can learn that___________.

A.Dr. Chian didn’t agree with Dr. Good on music’s effect

B.music makes patients forget their anxiety completely

C.listening to enjoyable music is a good way to relieve anxiety

D.using breathing machines made things worse when patients were anxious in most cases

【3】What is the meaning of the underlined word in the last paragraph?

A.connection B.disturbance C.guidance D.protection

【4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A.To encourage all patients to listen to music. B.To show that music therapy is useful.

C.To tell how to reduce pain and anxiety. D.To explain how music reduces pain and anxiety.

23、   The killdeer, a small bird known for its high-pitched(声调高的)call, could lead to the cancellation(取消) of one of Canada’ biggest music festivals.

The first hint of trouble for Ottawa’s Bluesfest, an outdoor festival that draws around 300,000 people each year, came last week after workers at the site found one of the birds.It had laid four eggs nearby, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting ground.“This is one of the most challenging problems we’ve been presented with, but we feel we can work through this,” said Mark Monahan, executive director of the festival.“Anything that changes the schedule has a major effect, so we’re taking it very seriously.”

The discovery meant that government officials rushed to protect the nest and the eggs, hiring a security guard to watch over them 24 hours a day.

Environmentalists were also brought in.“We don’t know when the eggs might hatch,” said Monahan. What is known is that the young killdeer will likely leave the nest soon after they are hatched, leading many to hope that the eggs hatch in the next day or so.

The festival is now seeking permission from Environment Canada to relocate(搬迁)the nest some 50 meters away or take it to a wildlife center.Moving the nest would also ensure the bird and its young would be protected during the festival’s 11-day run, said Monahan. It’s highly likely that the festival’s thousands of attendees would cause huge problems for the bird and its eggs.Monahan was confident that the festival would go on as planned, however.“Most of the people we’re working with are looking for a positive solution,” Monahan said.“There is no one saying that the festival can’t go on.”

As news of the dilemma spread, it left residents divided. Some supported the bird, saying that moving the nest might result in the eggs being abandoned.Others expressed annoyance that protecting the eggs of the small bird, which is widespread across North America, was risking an annual festival that contributes millions of dollars to the local economy.

The killdeer’s tendency to build its nest in open fields or flat areas has caused issues in other areas of the US: earlier this year, construction of a health center in Wisconsin was temporarily stopped after a killdeer and its four eggs were discovered.

【1】What can we learn about Bluesfest?

A.It is the first music festival in Canada.

B.It is an important event for music lovers.

C.It is a music festival held every two years.

D.It is a challenging outdoor activity in Ottawa.

【2】What was especially challenging for Bluesfest this year?

A.Pressure from the government.

B.Disagreements with the public.

C.The need to protect the bird’s eggs.

D.The lack of experience in hosting the event.

【3】How did the festival plan to deal with the problem?

A.Move the nest to another place. B.Ask government officials for help.

C.Seek advice from environmentalists. D.Hire security guards to protect the eggs.

【4】The underlined word “dilemma” is closest in meaning to “______”.

A.a difficult situation B.an extreme situation

C.a dangerous situation D.an encouraging situation

24、“Beauty is only skin deep." This expression means that beauty is only a temporary surface quality. Some beauty products can cause lasting damage that goes far below the surface of the skin.

In America，many people use sunlight and non-natural light to darken their skin. Health

experts advise against what is called“tanning”because of its links to akin cancer. In the African country of Senegal（塞内加尔），some women take health risks trying to do just the opposite.

An average beauty supply shop in Dakar has many kinds of skin-lightening creams and

soaps. The World Health Organization says that 25％of Senegalese women use skin-lightening production a usual basis. These products can contain chemicals，like mercury（汞）， hydroquinone（对苯二酚），etc. These are dangerous ingredients that can cause cancer and possibly other physical damage to the akin. They can actually burn the eyes and skin.

Shop worker Adama Diagne advises her visitors to avoid the stronger products that promise fast results. She users a cream that is made from carrots，not the strong chemical，hydroquinone. She says that it is a personal choice and that no one pressures her. Some women want to be black every day，but for her，she likes to be a shade of brown. Women in Senegal say they lighten their skin for the same reason that women all over the world make changes to their appearance. They say they want to look beautiful，to find a husband， to stand out in a crowd or simply to look great for a special event.

This thinking troubles Senegalese film-maker Khardiata Pouye Sall. So，she made“This

Color That Bothers Me"，a film about the subject of skin lightening. She said，“I used the most shocking images so that women would see the dangers. It is hard to understand why a woman says that dark skin is not beautiful. It is in their heads. They want to please a man，to he loved or they want to please society，to succeed."

Ms. Sall says that the government needs to better control the marketing and the sale of skin-lightening products. But she adds that education is the best way to persuade people against using them.

【1】The underlined part“the opposite" in Paragraph 2 means some Senegalese women ．

A. use sunlight to darken their skin

B. try creams to prevent skin cancer

C. use products to lighten their skin

D. take health risks to become beautiful

【2】According to Adama Diagne，women shouldn't believe ·

A. beauty is just a personal choice

B. a cream from carrots is healthier

C. it is beautiful to be black every day

D. a product can make you beautiful quickly

【3】We can infer that women in Senegal   ．

A. attract attention with shockingimages

B. don't consider dark skin to be beautiful

C. find it hard to understand the true beauty

D. put beauty in the first place in their heads

【4】What is Sall's attitude towards skin-lightening products?

A. Unsupportive.  B．Casual.

C. Responsible.   D. Positive.

25、   I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor (拖拉机) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _______ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its mother, so I jumped out of the tractor to tend to it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother reunited. I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. I had put the handbrake (手刹) on when I jumped out. _______ Don had somehow made the vehicle move.

My heart _______ in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the motorway. I ran desperately but failed to _______. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The last thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I reached the fence and looked over. The tractor was _______ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the _______ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I _______ the tractor, he jumped out onto the road, apparently unhurt, and ran back to me.

The police arrived and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn’t quite believe my _______—it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been _______. Don was given a special ____________ that night — I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him.

A．dropped

B．spotted

C．carried

D．returned

A．Fortunately

B．Generally

C．Immediately

D．Obviously

A．froze

B．woke

C．hurt

D．struck

A．take off

B．hold back

C．catch up

D．get out

A．resting

B．running

C．waiting

D．turning

A．steep

B．long

C．rough

D．busy

A．abandoned

B．approached

C．recognized

D．repaired

A．ability

B．dream

C．luck

D．idea

A．common

B．funny

C．wrong

D．awful

A．meal

B．test

C．job

D．lesson

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之成为一篇完整的短文。

In old Paris, a cobbler used to live and make and mend shoes and sing songs. He was a very happy cobbler, singing all day long and keeping time with his hammer or his needle. Up one stair, there lived a very rich man, so rich that he could not sleep at night for trying to count his money, and keep it safe.

So this rich man lay awake all night and always fell asleep in the morning. But no sooner had he fallen asleep than he was awakened again. It was not his money that wakened him this time; it was the cobbler, who was sitting at his door sewing away, and singing as happily as a bird.

The rich man went to a friend and said, "I can't sleep at night for thinking of my money, and I can't sleep in the morning for listening to that cobbler's singing. What am I to do?” This friend was a wise man, and gave him a plan. The next evening, while the cobbler was singing away as usual, the rich man came down with a bag filled with something that jingled （叮当作 响）.

“Here, cobbler," said the rich man, “I have brought you a present of a hundred crowns（克朗，旧时货币名称）,because you're always so happy.”

The cobbler was surprised though, he took the money and thanked the rich man. He had never seen so much money in his life before, but somehow he felt worried if the crowns might be stolen by someone. So he went into the darkest part of his house to count the crowns, and hid the bag in the bottom of the bed. Two or three times every hour he went in to see whether the bag was all right, for he was afraid of somebody taking his money. When his wife asked him what was the matter with him, he became angry and shouted at her, a thing he had never done before.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A change had come over the cobbler.

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The cobbler missed the old happy days. So he made up mind what to do.

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