桂林2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、—Why did none of you answer the phone?

—We ______ badminton outside then.

A．had played

B．are playing

C．were playing

D．play

2、The TV program host says that huge amounts of money _________ for the sick boy so far and the audience needn’t donate any!

A．has been collected

B．was collected

C．have been collected

D．were collected

3、Only a quarter of the students were ________ the plan while a half of them were against it.

A．in need of

B．in favour   of

C．in terms of

D．in search of

4、It was the driver rather than the passengers who was to for the accident.

A. accuse B. blame C. analyse D. behave

5、Recently I bought an ancient Chinese vase, ________ was quite reasonable.

A．which price

B．of which the price

C．price of which

D．in whose price

6、Jeremy is well-known for his great sense of humour, but he is in no ______for telling jokes today.

A.emotion B.attitude C.gesture D.mood

7、--What's the matter with you, Sandy?

--I'm _____ a bad cold. I think I am dying.

A. going through   B. suffering from

C. catching up with   D. getting into

8、The number of the elderly as well as a number of other statistics like booster-injected rate (加强针接种率)and mask-wearing rate ______ a significant effect on the spread of Omicron-Covid since 2021.

A．had had

B．have had

C．has had

D．has been had

9、To keep healthy, Professor Johnson________ cycling as a regular form of exercise after he retired.

A. took up B. caught on C. carried out  D. made for

10、Mark has many friends online, but he still feels lonely and ________ from others.

A．deadly

B．isolated

C．dissatisfied

D．positive

11、It   the train pulled into the station he found that his suitcase was gone.

A. was until， when   B. was until that

C. wasn’t until， when   D. wasn’t until， that

12、I consider ____ a good idea to be trained in a special way to improve my spoken English

A. that   B. this

C. he   D. it

13、His plans were too ________ to be put into operation.

A．ethnic

B．genuine

C．delicate

D．abstract

14、____in a poor family made Tom very diligent when he was still young.

A. Brought up

B. Bring up

C. Being brought up

D. Having brought up

15、When he took a deep breath after exercising, he felt his chest ________, so he went to the doctor.

A.hurt B.wound C.injure D.damage

16、Even though you offered ________ you have just offered, I would not sell it to you.

A. the money twice that   B. twice the money that

C. twice the money what   D. the money that twice

17、The reason why the girl decided to leave her boyfriend was that she didn’t feel ____.

A.accurate B.secure C.unbearable D.athletic

18、You _______ how angry the boss was had you been here with us.

A. would see   B. had seen

C. would have seen   D. saw

19、People worry more about their safety now in regards to terrorist threats, like the one ________ for this anniversary weekend in New York City and Washington D.C.

A．having recently issuing

B．having recently issued

C．recently issued

D．recently being issued

20、We are proud of our hometown, which is ________in natural crystal.

A. abundant   B. universal

C. remote   D. explicit

21、—It rained cats and dogs this morning. I’m glad we took an umbrella.

—Yeah, we would have got wet all over if we ________ .

A．didn’t

B．hadn’t

C．haven’t

D．don’t

22、I am filled with the desire ________ back to my hometown.

A．going

B．gone

C．to go

23、It is known to all that every minute _____ full use of ______ the lessons will benefit students a great deal.

A. which makes; studying B. when made; to study

C. that made; to study D. when is made; studying

24、______, there is a good chance that our team will win ____we have made full preparations.

A.However fierce the competition is ; so long as

B.However the competition is fierce; as long as

C.However fierce is the competition ; as long as

D.However fierce the competition is; as far as

25、–The two computers are the best in the shop.

–I think so. ________ can be better.

A. Nothing   B. No one

C. None   D. Neither

26、Getting less than five hours of sleep in mid-to-late life could be linked to an increased risk of developing at least two chronic (慢性的) diseases, according to a new study. The research analyzed the effect of sleep time on the health of more than 7,000 men and women over 50. Researchers examined the relationship between how long each participant slept for and whether they had two or more chronic diseases over the course of 25 years.

People who were reported getting five hours of sleep or less at age 50 were 20% more likely to have two or more chronic diseases, as opposed to people who slept for up to seven hours Additionally, sleeping for five hours or less was linked to a 30% to 40% increased risk of multimorbidity (多病症) when compared with those who slept for up to seven hours.

Lead author, Dr Sabia, said: “To ensure a better night’s sleep, it is important to promote good sleep, such as making sure the bedroom is quiet, dark and a comfortable temperature before sleeping. It’s also advised to remove electronic devices and avoid large meals before bedtime. Physical activity and being exposed to light during the day might also promote good sleep.”

Dr Sabia said, “Short sleep increases the risk of chronic diseases that in turn increase the risk of death. However, if a participant has already suffered from a chronic condition, then long sleep time is associated with around a 35% increased risk of developing another illness. Researchers believe this could be due to unnoticed health conditions impacting sleep.” Dr. Sabia added, “This research adds to a growing body of research that highlights how important it is to get a good night’s sleep.”

【1】How did the experts carry out the study in Paragraph 2?

A．By making contrasts.

B．By having interviews.

C．By conducting online surveys.

D．By analyzing published papers.

【2】Which of the following will increase the quality of night’s sleep?

A．Being exposed to light at night.

B．Avoiding phone use before bedtime.

C．Limiting physical exercise in the day.

D．Finding a bright and peaceful bedroom.

【3】What can we infer from what Dr Sabia said in Paragraph 4?

A．Short sleep may increase deaths by 35%.

B．Lack of sleep directly leads to more deaths.

C．The longer you sleep, the more diseases you will have.

D．The research further stresses the importance of good sleep.

【4】What is the best title of the teat?

A．Longer Sleep, Better Health

B．Shorter Sleep, Fewer Risks

C．Less Sleep, Poorer Health

D．More Exercise, Better Sleep

27、This is an excerpt from a speech at the United Nations headquarters given by Emma Watson, who starred in Harry Potter series.

Today we are launching a campaign (called “He For She”). I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of this kind in the UN. We want to try to involve as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

I started questioning gender-based assumption a long time ago. When I was 8, I was confused being called bossy because I wanted to direct a play that we put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When I was 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. At 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of a lot of sports teams because they didn’t want to appear masculine(男性化的). At 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.

I decided that I was a feminist (女权主义者). This seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I’m from Britain and I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.

But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality. These rights, I considered to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones.

My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My tutors didn’t assume that I would end up nowhere because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it but they are the unintentional feminists who are changing the world today. We need more of those.

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend you a formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it will make them less of a man, or less of men. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by false sense of male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive; both men and women should be free to be strong. This is what “He For She” is about. It’s about freedom.

You might be thinking: who is this Harry Potter girl? What is she doing at the UN? I’ve been asking myself at the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better. And having seen what I’ve seen and given the chance, I feel my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said all that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.

In my nervousness for this speech and in my moment of doubt, I told myself firmly: if not me, who? If not now, when? If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope those words would be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years, or for me it will be nearly 100 before women can be expected to be paid as same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the 16 years as children. At current rate, it will be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have secondary education. We are struggling for a uniting world, but the good news is that we have a uniting movement. It is called “He For She”. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and to ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when?

Thank you.

【1】The campaign “He For She” aims to ________.

A．give women more freedom than before

B．give men more freedom than women

C．involve as many men and boys as possible to live a free life

D．involve everyone to struggle for the end of gender inequality

【2】We can know from Emma Watson’s personal experience that ________.

A．feminism has become an unpopular word

B．her parents didn’t love her because she was born a daughter

C．her tutors treated her the same way they treated boy students

D．she was called bossy because she didn’t want to appear masculine

【3】What does the underlined part in the last but one paragraph mean?

A．Good men and women doing nothing lead to the growth of evil forces.

B．If evil forces do nothing, good men and women can win the victory.

C．When evil forces dominate, there’s nothing good men and women can do.

D．All that is necessary for good men and women to do is nothing compared to evil forces.

【4】In the speech, Emma calls on people to ________.

A．participate in the campaign actively and take action

B．admit that men and women should be equally paid

C．believe in her as the spokesperson of Harry Potter series

D．pay more attention to both genders suffering from mental illnesses

28、There are times when nothing seems to be working in our favor. We may use complaining as a coping mechanism (办法，途经) when we are truly unhappy. However, there are many times when we don’t try our best and just want things to work our way. We may try to cover our faults by complaining about the unfairness of it all. These are expressive complaints where the complainer just wants to let out his/her anger or frustration, with no real intention of solving the problem. The complainer expects pity and recognition from the listeners although the results often disappoint him/her.

Sometimes, we use complaints as a conversation starter. Conversations that start with a complaint often have a domino effect. It may cause the listener to include his/her complaints in the conversation as well, which makes you think that you are not the only one facing problems. However, your good feeling won’t last long as long as you are always focusing on the negative.

When complaining becomes a habit, you complain to anyone that comes around. Negativity that comes from complaining kills creativity and innovation (创新). Habitual complainers are less likely to come up with new ideas, as they are busy finding faults and discourage others from trying new things by making them feel that they won’t work. When you spend time with people who constantly complain, you are likely to view things in a negative light. This will make things worse. This can affect the way you perceive your own situation, and even the people around you.

Though expressing your feelings may momentarily improve your state of mind, it could sometimes have a bad effect on the listener’s state of mind. A recent study has shown that at social gatherings while people who are unhappy may join you when you play the victim at the beginning, the majority would start avoiding you because of your negativity.

【1】Why do people who don’t try their best often complain?

A.They want to get others’ pity.

B.It is the best way to let out their anger.

C.They try to find an excuse for their faults.

D.They hope to get a solution to their problems.

【2】According to Paragraph 2, complaints in conversations ________.

A.are easy to deal with

B.can spread to others

C.may help you make friends

D.help focus on the similar unfairness

【3】What do we know about habitual complainers?

A.They can hardly influence others in their negative way.

B.They can get momentary comfort by complaining.

C.They have a better understanding of their faults.

D.They are more likely to put forward new ideas.

【4】According to the author, complaining at social gatherings is ________.

A.unusual   B.acceptable

C.unwelcome   D.frustrating

29、Nowadays kids can access various websites. However, they also need to aware of some websites that may bring them bad influences. There are a lot of good websites for kids that can be useful for their overall development.

Kids, national geographic

National Geographic Kids is one of the best websites for kids to stay updated with latest information on a wide range of topics. Every kid will surely find something important when he/she visits this website. It covers exciting information about activities, animals, education, fun and intellectual games, people and places, science and technology, stories, etc.

Factmonster

We know how much kids hate to study. If you also find it hard to make your kids study, you can ask him to visit Factmonster. This website is a fun way to study on all the school subjects. Kids will not have any punishments or long hours of lectures, but instead they will learn in a free way to study on their own!

Clubpenguin

Clubpenguin is an entertaining website, operated by Disney. As the name suggests, kids need to create a penguin alter ego (密友)and play online games and chat with fellow penguins, or friends. So, if you are looking for the chat rooms for kids only, then club penguin is a great choice for you! The best part is that all the chat information and history can be monitored by parents, in any time they want. Along with online chatting with friends, your kids can also participate in various activities that take place on club penguin, like drawing, painting! etc.

【1】Kid. national geographic is a good website for kids because ______.

A. it enjoys the largest amount of topics

B. it provides online teaching by educators

C. it is good for kids’ over-all development

D. it has academic papers written by scientists

【2】If the parents want their kids to learn in a more relaxing way, then they can visit _________.

A. Ebay   B. Factmonster

C. Clubpenguin   D. Kids. national geographic

【3】Why is Clubpenguin better than other websites that have chat rooms?

A. It can useful for children’s intelligence

B. Kids can change their names as penguins

C. Kids can play online games with their friends

D. Parents get all the chatting records of their kids

【4】The passage is most probably taken from ______.

A. education report   B. science news report

C. ad for some websites   D. Internet training course

30、At a young age, Patti Wilson was an epileptic (癫痫病患者). Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day Patti said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is ________ with you every day, but I’m ________ I’ll have a seizure (癫痫发作).” Her father told her, “If you do, I know how to ________ it so let’s start running!”

That’s just what they did every day. It was a ________ experience for them to share and there were no seizures at all. After a few weeks, she told her father, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is ________ the world’s long distance running record for women.” Her father ________ the Guiness Book of World Records and found that the ________ any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti ________, “I’m going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco.” (A distance of 400 milcs.)

________ her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she ________ the handicap of being an epileptic as simply an inconvenience. She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had ________.

In her sophomore year (二年级) Patti’s classmates got ________ her. They built a giant poster that ________, “Run, Patti, Run!” She finished her second marathon Portland, ________ her last mile with the governor of Oregon. After four months of almost ________ running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington. She told the media, “I wanted people to know that epileptics are ________ human beings.”

I told this story at one of my seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came up to me, ________ his big hand and said, “Mark, my name is Jim Wilson. You were talking about my daughter, Patti.” Because of her constant ________, he told me, enough money had been ________ to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country.

If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform (超出) yourself in a state of total ________?

【1】

A．work

B．run

C．stay

D．play

【2】

A．afraid

B．sure

C．curious

D．careful

【3】

A．help

B．handle

C．fix

D．ignore

【4】

A．private

B．different

C．wonderful

D．essential

【5】

A．keep

B．destroy

C．seize

D．break

【6】

A．checked

B．reviewed

C．afforded

D．examined

【7】

A．latest

B．farthest

C．slowest

D．newest

【8】

A．responded

B．invented

C．announced

D．argued

【9】

A．In view of

B．In contrast with

C．On behalf of

D．In memory of

【10】

A．stuck to

B．took on

C．made up

D．looked at

【11】

A．earned

B．deserved

C．left

D．desired

【12】

A．around

B．over

C．about

D．behind

【13】

A．read

B．sounded

C．engaged

D．felt

【14】

A．leaving

B．completing

C．attempting

D．fighting

【15】

A．free

B．frequent

C．continuous

D．regular

【16】

A．tough

B．cautious

C．typical

D．normal

【17】

A．extended

B．took

C．felt

D．withdrew

【18】

A．pressure

B．failure

C．efforts

D．challenge

【19】

A．spent

B．drawn

C．lost

D．collected

【20】

A．wealth

B．wellness

C．honour

D．action

31、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

An hour’s nap at work may help IT programmers to write better code(编码), according to recently published research. So it does the same to children in learning. Traditionally seen as the 【1】 of older people or the very young, experts now say that a midday nap can reserve information overload,【2】 information processing and aid learning. These findings from Harvard University have important implications for learning real-life skills, including those 【3】 with sports, playing a musical instrument and IT workplace situations such as complex software coding.

The studies suggest that the brain uses sleep to restore overused brain circuits and strengthen the 【4】 of actions and skills learned during the day. They have found that any amount of sleep, even a short nap, appears to improve our ability to 【5】 information and to learn. As part of the research, volunteers were trained to perform a complex visual task and were then 【6】 into three groups where some had no sleep, others a 30-minute “power” nap and another group a one-hour nap. The longer they slept, the better they performed. Researchers believe 【7】 that the brain continues to learn after training has stopped and this learning only occurs during the sleep.

According to the website www.self-hypnosis.co.un, self-hypnotism(催眠) will improve your self confidence, help you to 【8】 anxiety, sleep better, enjoy public speaking and create concentration and focus. The website gives advice on how to perform self-hypnosis at work. It recommends going to the toilet, a quiet room or even taking in some fresh air in the local park. Sit down, close your eyes and recall a time when you felt 【9】 and then focus on relaxing all the parts of your body. Try this for 10-20 minutes and you should 【10】 an increase in mental agility(机敏), creativity and problem-solving skills.

32、为了帮助中学生健康成长，某中学英文报开辟了“HEART-TO-HEART”专栏。假设你是该栏目的编辑Jamie，收到一封署名为Worried的求助信。信中该同学向你诉说了自己的困扰：近日情绪不好，容易发脾气，使正常的学习和生活受到了影响。请用英文给该同学写一封回信。内容：

1．表示理解并给予安慰；

2．提出不少于3条建议并说明理由。

注意：l．词数100左右；

2．信中不能出现与本人相关的信息；

3．开头与结尾已为你拟好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：temper 脾气，情绪；mood 心态

Hi, Worried,

I’m sorry to know that you’re having such a bad time at the moment.

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Yours,

Jamie