中山2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Though the college entrance exam is drawing near, study shouldn’t take up all of your time. It’s important to some time for relaxation and hobbies as well.

A. put away B. set aside C. lay down D. take off

2、To battle world hunger, the great scientist once traveled to many places where populations _______ faster than crop production at that time.

A. expanded   B. were expanding

C. has expanded   D. would expand

3、He got up early ________ the first train, but he missed it.

A．caught

B．to catch

C．catching

D．catch

4、People depend on cars so much they forget to exercise their bodies and end up _______ various diseases.

A. having developed   B. developed

C. developing   D. to develop

5、 Mother often reminds me that the best thing one can do ______ it is raining is to let it rain.

A. unless B. when   C. even if D. in case

6、The party, whose __________ arrangement was due last Friday, was finally delayed because of the bad weather.

A. temporary   B. arbitrary

C. ambiguous   D. original

7、The librarian insists that John ________ no more books from the library before he returns all the books he borrowed.

A.will take B.took C.take D.takes

8、I’ve been trying to ________ him to see a doctor because he has coughed for a whole moth.

A. respond   B. indicate

C. convince   D. influence

9、As many as 20 dishes are provided in the dining hall today, choose

_ suits you best．

A．whatever   B．whenever

C．whichever D．wherever

10、_______ Bagrit’s predictions so remarkable is their accuracy.

A. How many are   B. Why are

C. What makes   D. They make

11、________, more Asian politicians are voicing support for clean power. In July, 2019, Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ president, also instructed his energy minister to reduce his country’s dependence on coal.

A.Surprisingly B.Unfortunately C.Horribly D.Promisingly

12、 No matter how many times Mike says it was an accident, I believe he tried to knock me down.

A．voluntarily

B．deliberately

C．randomly

D．cautiously

13、China has made great achievements in agriculture over the past seven decades, successfully _____ nearly 20 percent of the world’s population.

A．fed

B．to feed

C．being fed

D．feeding

14、--- Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?

--- Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practise strict   .

A. economy   B. medicine   C. self-control   D. patience

15、Now the question that you must carefully consider is ____ can be put into practice.

A. how you have learned

B. how what you have learned

C. that why you have learned

D. how that you have learned

16、One-third of the country _____ covered with trees and the majority of the citizens _____ black people.

A.is; are B.is; is

C.are; are D.are; is

17、Dressing before going to work is a task which we do every day as a matter of   .

A. drill   B. action   C. regulation   D. routine

18、I trust the historian completely. His description of these events ________ other accounts written at the time.

A.subscribes to B.attends to C.relates to D.corresponds to

19、The mixture of his improved self-confidence and never-ending efforts is ________ lies behind his rapid progress in his study.

A. what   B. that   C. where   D. which

20、It is such a delicate face that the girl has ______ she looks like someone straight out of a painting.

A.as B.that C.which D.who

21、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

According to a new study just published in Psychological Science, any one person seen in a group just seems better looking than when viewed alone. The reason: human eyes average things out, and when it comes to faces, average is usually good.

【1】 Facial analysis studies show the symmetry(对称) is almost always regarded as prettier than asymmetry and the most beautiful faces are the ones on which eyes are no more or less than a certain distance apart, and the forehead, chin, cheeks and other features take up no more than a certain share of the whole. It’s the reason that models may be gorgeous but can prove awfully difficult to tell apart.

“Perhaps,” says psychological scientist Drew Walker of the University of California, San Diego, in a statement that accompanied the release of the study, “beautiful people are all alike, but every unattractive person is unattractive in their own ways.”

To test how that plays out in a group setting, Walker and his UCSD collaborator, psychological scientist Edward Vul, recruited 130 undergraduate students and showed them pictures of 100 different men and women. 【2】 Other times they were cut out to show just one face at a time. Still other times, the faces were taken out of context and arranged on a simple grid (网格) of either four, nine or 16 faces.

Consistently, the researchers found, the sole shots were regarded as less attractive than the faces viewed in a group—whether in a real setting or on the grid. This was true regardless of the gender of the subjects and regardless of whether they would broadly be described as following most definitions of attractiveness or unattractiveness. 【3】

The explanation for the phenomenon, they believe, is the averaging effect and how it works. 【4】 “Individuals with complementary features—one person with narrow eyes and one person with wide eyes—would enjoy a greater boost in attractiveness when seen together, as compared to groups composed of individuals who have similar features,” Walker and Vul write.

A. Both the gorgeous and non- gorgeous improved by being with other people.

B. Sometimes the subjects in the pictures were shown as part of a three-person group.

C. It turns out that people don’t even need to be in an actual group to look more attractive.

D. It’s no secret that our definition of beauty is defined by a very clear set of physical norms.

AB. A big nose in the company of a small nose does not look bigger still; rather, both noses move closer to the average.

AC. While being average-looking might seem like a bad thing, the research suggests that’s not necessarily the case for attractiveness.

22、Either consciously or not, we spend our lives continually gathering knowledge, information, facts which help define who we are. 【1】

Each fact learned, each skill acquired should have a purpose. We should not, therefore, waste our time learning facts by rote(死记硬背), simply to pass exams. But the training of the mind to remember crucial pieces of information and to exercise is a vital part of our personal development.

We should not underestimate(低估)how much children can learn. In memorizing lines of poetry or play scripts, children's minds are spongelike(海绵状). 【2】Properly engaged, the sky is the limit.

In recent years, however, the Internet has given us pause to re-visit the debate of skills versus knowledge and to look at what we need to commit to memory.

No one would argue about the value of learning information by heart, but there is a lot more "knowledge" to choose from now and we have better tools by which to sort, gather and store knowledge. 【3】

They lead us to focus instead on improving the technical and kills required to sort, prioritize and use the knowledge that lie therein.That fact, above all others, should be reflected in our schools.

For decades, schools have been notorious(臭名昭著的)for teaching the same topics or"facts." 【4】

I recently found my late father's History exercise book with its notes copied from 5ome authoritative tome(巨著), but without any real explanation or analysis. Ox-bow lakes were one favourite topic that my father learned about at school, that I learned about at school and then taught to my pupils in turn. Why? Why ox-bow lakes? Why nuclear physics and not nanotechnology(纳米技术)? How do we choose?

That is our responsibility. 【5】 The important questions, however, should always be: What specific skills and prior knowledge do our children need to make sense of facts? How well equipped are they already to analyze all of this extra information? And how do we change our teaching to achieve these very different outcomes? That is the challenge facing our schools.

A．Nor should we place limits on what the brain can do.

B．The Internet can be our memory and we should therefore entirely rely on it.

C．At school, these facts are usually delivered to us to prepare us for jobs in the future.

D．Teaching facts is as important in education as it ever was.

E．Change, educational change, is slow indeed, in almost every subject.

F．Wikipedia and Google have changed what we need to commit to memory.

G．We should, however also spend our time remembering facts.

23、Some people think going to the gym takes time and effort. It often hurts, and it can be extremely boring. Most weight-related exercises are a combination of sets and reps(几次几组). In order to see any significant change from any exercise, it will probably need to be repeated six to eight times for a minimum of three sets for about three months. Then there's aerobics( 有氧运动). For some, there's nothing more boring than endless miles spent running on a treadmill(跑步机).

But what if there is a way to reduce the boredom of exercise while still getting a good workout?

Luckily for us, there's virtual reality(VR).

“In the past, playing video games was a sedentary( 久坐不动的) experience ， ” says Jo Stauffer of the VR Health Institute, “but VR changes all of that.” Many VR games are played while standing. In order to play properly, the players are forced to move around swinging their arms or using their legs. After an hour of this on a regular enough basis, it's not surprising that many people unexpectedly find themselves a little fitter. There are already a number of virtual reality games which, deliberately or not, result in their player “getting a good sweat on” if played for enough time. For example, there's a music game which forces players to shadow-box(做空拳攻防练习) in order to hit the notes—that's an upper-body workout.

The benefit of VR has been noticed by one company. They want to take the whole experience into the gym. They are making a resistance machine, designed to be used in combination with a VR headset. Players challenge a virtual competitor in a series of games, which results in a 30-minute full-body workout. “However, the cost of the equipment is expensive and there are safety concerns to be worked out,”says J. P. Gownder from the consultancy Forrester.

Although it's early days for those of us who struggle to overcome the boredom of exercise, a new solution could be coming. And a world where a person can exercise and have fun at the same time might be something that many people would want—virtual or not. So don't give up exercising.

【1】What conclusion can we draw from the first paragraph?

A．Most weight-related exercises nearly have no effect.

B．You'd better not go to the gym because of the risk of injury.

C．Running on a treadmill won't bring any significant change.

D．Some people think exercising in the gym is difficult and tiring.

【2】Compared with video games, VR games ______.

A．bring more fun to play

B．take people less free time

C．are more popular in the gym nowadays

D．are more likely to bring players health benefits

【3】What can we know about the resistance machine?

A．It has been widely used in the gym.

B．There are some disadvantages of it.

C．It can result in a 40-minute full-body workout.

D．When using it, people need to have a partner.

【4】Which is the best title for the passage?

A．The Boredom of Exercise

B．Keep Going to the Gym

C．Virtual Exercise in the Gym

D．The Popularity of VR Games

24、5 of the Best O. Henry Short Stories Everyone Should Read

The stories of the US short-story writer O. Henry, real name William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), are characterized by their irony and by their surprise endings, which became something of a signature of a good O. Henry short story. However, another word that is often used to describe O. Henry’s short stories is ‘sentimental’, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that he is no longer appreciated as he perhaps should be, despite the wit of O. Henry’s narrative style and the cleverness of his twist endings.

Below, we select and introduce five of O. Henry’s very best short stories. Many of them are only five pages long in the average paperback reprint of his stories (we recommend in particular 100 Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics), which is excellent value for money), so can be ready in no more than ten minutes. What are you waiting for?

Most (though not all) of these stories are included in the anthology mentioned above. O. Henry was a prolific writer so even those 100 collected in that fat volume aren’t his full, collected works...

1. The Gift of the Magi’.

This is surely O. Henry’s best-known story of all. Published in 1906, it’s about a husband and wife, Jim and Della, buying Christmas presents for each other, without much money to spend on them. The two of them have a special possession they prize above all others: Jim has a gold watch that’s been MAGI handed down through the generations, and Della has her long, thick hair.

How will Della be able to raise the money to buy Jim a gold chain for his watch? We won’t say any more...

2. ‘Mammon and the Archer’.

This story is also from 1906. A retired soap manufacturer named Anthony Rockwall worships ‘Mammon’, i.e., money above everything else. The ‘Archer’ of the story’s title is Cupid, the god of love.

Rockwall tells his son Richard that money can buy him anything in life, but Richard points out that the girl he loves is leaving in a few days' time and he hasn’t managed to win her hand. He takes a ring with him, which his mother left to him in her will, with the intention of asking his sweetheart to marry him but he drops the ring and... well, we won’t say more, but let’s just say that once again, O. Henry’s gif for twist endings turns things around...

The story is a curious counterpoint to ‘The Gift of the Magi’, in which a married couple uses their last few dollars to buy each other a Christmas present. Here, there is a suggestion that money can buy you time, after all.

3. ‘The Duplicity of Hargraves’.

First published in 1902, this story is about the elderly Major Pendleton Talbot and his spinster daughter Lydia. After the pair move to Washington D. C. from the American South, they meet Henry Hopkins Hargraves, a vaudeville actor.

However, the impecunious Major and his daughter are shocked, when they go to see a show, to find Hargraves impersonating the Major in front of the audience. Then a man claiming to be one of the Major’s former slaves from the antebellum era turns up and offers to help the pair out of hardship...

As ever, we won’t spoil the ending. But let's just say the word ‘duplicity’ in this story’s title itself has a double meaning.

4. ‘The Sleuths’.

This 1911 story is a more light-hearted tale from O. Henry, and a pastiche of the popular Sherlock Holmes stories.

A man searching for his missing sister in New York realizes the official police detective can’t help him. Only one man can: the famous private consulting detective Shamrock Jolnes. As the narrator informs us: ‘The famous sleuth’s thin, intellectual face, piercing eyes, and rate per word are too well known to need description.’ Sound familiar?

5. ‘After Twenty Years’.

This 1906 story is a tale of a reunion. Two men who grew up together in New York City agree to meet up, twenty years later, in the restaurant where they last bid each other farewell two decades ago in order to seek their fortunes. However, one of the men, Bob, has become a hardened criminal and the other man, Jimmy, has become — well, let’s not give too much away, other than to say the reunion does not exactly go according to plan.

【1】Which of the following serves as a counterpart of the story in The Gift of the Magi?

A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.

B．The Sleuths.

C．Mammon and the Archer.

D．After Twenty years.

【2】If someone is fond of detective stories, which book would you recommend to him?

A．The Duplicity of Hargraves.

B．The Gift of the Magi.

C．Mammon and the Archer.

D．The Sleuths.

【3】Where can you most probably come across an article of this kind?

A．In a list of reference book for high school.

B．At an online book fair.

C．In a lecture by a professor from Literature Department.

D．On a mobile shopping app.

25、   “5 pm, ma’am.”“ What? My baby can no longer wait for that! Can you please ask the crew a favor to

make it ________?” My 3-month-old-baby was already very ________. His stomach became larger and larger in each hour that passed by.

Three days ago, we brought him to be ___________to the hospital where I worked due to several vomiting (呕吐). I knew the danger very well because there were already____________patients of this case that we had encountered. But it was not as simple as I ____________. It held a bigger unknown threat that needed a(an) ___________surgery. But before the doctor could figure out the best ___________, he ordered a CT Scan of the Whole Stomach. It was scheduled at the most famous hospital of the city____________our own hospital didn’t have it yet.

Everything about him suddenly became so ________. I knew that his chance of________became very thin. So I was afraid that he couldn’t wait for another few hours if no intervention would be given.

“Ma’am, we’re so blessed. His ________is moved to 3pm.”

I was ________but another much bigger problem __________, I did not have the money needed. I had to send messages with my ________to borrow money to the persons in my contact list. I only had few minutes left then. I asked for a vacant room and there I rolled down and cried while ________a miracle to provide me with ways right then. As soon as I got up from my ________, my cell phone suddenly rang ________.

“Ms.Lucero, please claim your money through...” And one after another, I ________different messages telling me to get the money they sent for my baby. I had the money then in less than an hour! Not only for the CT Scan but for our immediate needs during our whole hospital stay!

I was so awed (敬畏的) at how destiny (命运) ________all the incidents in our lives to come up for blessings that it has prepared ahead of us! But most of all for the first ________ that he has shown me, that my baby shall live!

【1】A.later B.longer C.earlier D.shorter

【2】A.weak B.thin C.upset D.conscious

【3】A.left B.admitted C.reserved D.accustomed

【4】A.selfless B.valueless C.homeless D.countless

【5】A.desired B.expected C.provided D.felt

【6】A.fast B.simple C.complete D.immediate

【7】A.approach B.thing C.tool D.hospital

【8】A.since B.though C.unless D.and

【9】A.changeable B.unstable C.predictable D.incredible

【10】A.return B.death C.survival D.danger

【11】A.departure B.result C.routine D.schedule

【12】A.nervous B.relieved C.anxious D.desperate

【13】A.rose B.raised C.arose D.aroused

【14】A.request B.command C.suggestion D.application

【15】A.meeting with B.looking for C.praying for D.finding out

【16】A.memory B.dilemma C.feet D.knees

【17】A.randomly B.surprisingly C.noisily D.continuously

【18】A.accepted B.received C.wrote D.sent

【19】A.found B.built C.arranged D.damaged

【20】A.sign B.belief C.word D.look

26、Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假设你是明启中学的高三学生王蕾。学校正在招募话剧团(drama club)和机器人社团(robot blub)新成员。你在日记中表达获知该消息时的感受，做出选择，并阐述理由。

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