襄阳2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、They had no choice but ______ as their mother told them.

A. do   B. to do

C. doing     D. done

2、He tried to _______ his teachers by using big words in all his essays.

A. import   B. imply

C. improve   D. impress

3、They ______the plan because it was very practical

A. resisted   B. agreed

C. refused   D. adopted

4、—Which driver was to blame?

—Why, ________! It was the child’s fault. He suddenly came out between two parked cars.

A. neither   B. each    C. either      D. both

5、AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence machine outperformed Lee, which made the five-match score 4-1 ___________ AlphaGo.

A. in support of   B. in favor of

C. in defense of   D. in need of

6、Proper measures should be taken immediately to our historic and cultural heritage.

A. prepare   B. preserve

C. defend   D. detect

7、After a day of air and activity, you should be in the for a good meal.

A．entertainment

B．mood

C．market

D．spot

8、You can’t imagine what great trouble they will have _________ the problem _________at the moment.

A．to solve... discussed

B．solved... to be discussed

C．unless solving... discussed

D．solving... being discussed

9、The earthquake hit Central Mexico on Tuesday evening, ________31 people.

A.injuring B.injured C.having injured D.to injure

10、From helping in the search for outer-space homes ______ humankind could relocate if necessary, to ______ in mapping climate change, AI might be our best bet at survival.

A．where…assisting

B．which…assisting

C．where…assist

D．which…assist

11、I can still remember the sitting-room ________ my mother and I________ in the evening．

A．which; used to sit

B．that; used to sitting in

C．/; used to sit in

D．/; are used to sitting

12、With the popularity of the Internet banking, it is becoming more convenient to ________ a business credit card for personal use online.

A. apply for    B. look for

C. pay for   D. search for

13、"Daily maintenance plays a more important role than repair   protection,"he said."Archaeological research,as well as monitoring and warning systems,will also help."

A. in regard to   B. in addition to   C. in response to   D. in opposition to

14、The international community should make every effort together to   the barriers of fear and unfriendliness which divide the two countries.

A. break out   B. break down

C. break through   D. break into

15、________ would like to devote his whole life to his country should go________ there are all kinds of difficulties.

A．Who; somewhere

B．Whoever; where

C．Whatever; anywhere

D．Who; there

16、Most writers know clearly that success rarely happens ________, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection.

A．permanently

B．literally

C．overnight

D．surprisingly

17、I believe the beauty of Xikou will make an excellent _________ on the tourists

A.guide B.adjustment C.impression D.attraction

18、You can tell a lot about a person by the food he consumes—as the old saying goes, you are ________ you eat.

A．when

B．where

C．what

D．which

19、With a long report ________, I have to work really hard this week .

A.to write B.written C.writing D.to be written

20、Only when ______ the painting ______ decide whether the painting is worth buying.

A.he sees; he can B.does he see; can he

C.he sees; can he D.see she; he can

21、These measures include better administration of areas that are likely to turn into desert, and ____ people in how to use water without wasting it.

A.train B.to train C.training D.trained

22、My father has got a job in New York, so we are leaving this country________．

A．for good

B．on display

C．on reflection

D．in panic

23、________ about fatness, she still has confidence in her performance of daily life.

A. Teased   B. Teasing   C. Tease     D. To tease

24、 If the old man _______ given first aid immediately, he ________ dead now.

A. wasn’t; would be

B. hadn’t been; would be

C. hasn’t been; would have been

D. weren’t; is

25、The survey used a/an ________ sample of two thousand people across England and Wales and found 31% people suffered severe depression.

A．general

B．random

C．premier

D．initial

26、Water is closely related to our lives, and it is an inseparable part of us. Studies show that drinking enough water fights off health problems.【1】

Help you lose weight. Some research has suggested that drinking plenty of water can help you burn calories.【2】Both hunger and tiredness might be signs of dehydration (脱水), as are headaches.

Protect against cancer and heart disease. Water helps convey nutrients (营养物), hormones and proteins around the body, and “messages” to the nervous system. Water also cleans our liver, kidney and bladder. In fact, a US study found that men who drank six 250 ml glasses of water a day halved their risk of bladder cancer, while another study suggested that women who drink more water cut their risk of colon cancer by up to 45 percent.【3】

Strengthen your immune system with a shower. A shower will surely clean our body from head to toe.【4】A Dutch study where participants took hot-to-cold showers found that they had fewer sick days from work.

【5】Swimming is a great no-sweat exercise. Not only does it give you a full-body workout, reduce stress and increase your energy, it doesn’t leave you sweaty, because the water surrounding you keeps your body cool. Like swimming, boating is also low- quality impact sports that are great for your arms, body and legs, and have the added bonus of having a meditative (冥想的) quality that can release stress.

A．Provide physical activity and relaxation.

B．Reduce stress and develop critical thinking.

C．At the very least, it will ease your hunger and boost your energy.

D．Other research found it also lowers women’s risk of a heart attack.

E．So it is beneficial that both man and woman drink plenty of water.

F．It also has the added advantage of improving immunity from illness.

G．Here are some of the ways your body benefits from this life-saving liquid.

27、Music is an international language. The songs that are sung or played by instruments are beautiful to all people everywhere.

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers (扬声器) and play the music loud as they drive on the street.

Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, politics, and activities of the American people. But most of the radio broadcast is music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard throughout the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.

Besides pop music, there are two other kinds of music that is important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. The other is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.

Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies (交响乐) of Beethoven.There is opera for singers, ballet for dancers like the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in China.

【1】In what way can music be regarded as an international language?

A．Popular music is what everyone enjoys.

B．The wonderful songs are popular with the world people.

C．When music is played, it seems as if it were speaking to us.

D．Music is too popular for everyone to be able to play it.

【2】What can we know about music and people in America?

A．Adult drivers listen to news as well as music when they drive to work.

B．Adult drivers never listen to music when they drive to work.

C．Student drivers carry small radios with earphones when they drive on the streets.

D．Students always listen to music before class, in class and after class.

【3】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．All people in America like popular music.

B．Pop singers can get all the money from the tapes.

C．Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a kind of pop music in China.

D．Now, western or country music is a little different from its beginning.

【4】What’s the best title of the passage?

A．International language

B．Music in America

C．Pop music

D．Music listeners

28、   Located in a comer of north Brooklyn is a 3,000-square-fbot patch of open space. Keap Fourth, at the intersection of Keap and South 4th Streets, is a community garden established in 2013. It’s a well-known part in this largely Dominican and Puerto Rican neighbourhood, at the edge of trendy Williamsburg. The sun is out, and “it’s nearly planting season,” says Crito Thornton, a volunteer who manages the garden, with a grin. After a long winter made worse by Covid-19 there are finally signs of life in the daffodils blooming around the garden.

Keap Fourth is one of 550 community gardens which have sprung up at New York’s street comers since the 1970s, when the city’s economy collapsed and its landscape became dotted by abandoned lots. Activists sought to transform these urban scars into gardens where residents could relax and grow vegetables. These places now cover 100 acres across the city, tended by a volunteer army of nearly 23,000 green-fingered New Yorkers. The gardens are supported by GreenThumb, a government initiative established in 1978, which is now the country’s largest urban-gardening programme.

Running these spaces is no easy task. Keap Fourth’s neighbourhood has been troubled by drug dealers, who moved across the Williamsburg Bridge after being driven out of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The garden is a popular drop-off point, with suspicious packages found among the greens. But the recent death of a local kingpin (毒枭) in a car accident and the efforts of the police may make the gardens more peaceful, says Mr. Thornton.

The future looks bright. A key issue in the past has been a manpower shortage for the harvest. But volunteer numbers across the city’s gardens have gone up slowly since the pandemic’s onset, as locked-down residents have desired for more open space. And in Keap Fourth’s case, the whole neighbourhood seems to have come together over the past year as few people now undergo the daily commute (通勤) across the river to Manhattan. A bountiful harvest is in prospect.

【1】What can we infer about Keap Fourth?

A．It’s mostly owned by volunteers.

B．It can help save people’s lives.

C．It was most depressing last winter.

D．It brings its liveliness to people there.

【2】Why have community gardens become popular since 1970s?

A．They have occupied New York,s street comers.

B．They have been regarded as urban scars.

C．They can be a way to take advantage of land.

D．They have covered 100 acres across the city.

【3】What’s the author’s attitude to the gardens’ future?

A．Positive.

B．Negative.

C．Objective.

D．Indifferent.

【4】What may contribute to the potential harvest this year?

A．The pandemic loss last year.

B．More open space.

C．Togetherness of the neighbourhood.

D．Daily commute across the river.

29、   Noise created by humans, such as car traffic, quieted by about 30% between late March 2020, when Governor Greg Abbott closed schools and restaurants across Texas, and early May, according to the analysis by researchers at Southern Methodist University.

“There was quite a big change in some areas," said Stephen Arrowsmith, a seismologist (地震学家) at SMU, who took on the project with a class of undergraduate and graduate students. Arrowsmith and his students looked at data from a dozen seismometers (地震仪) across North Texas. Seismometers are used to detect earthquakes, but they are sensitive to just about everything that makes the ground vibrate, such as strong winds, ocean waves, construction and traffic.

The idea of using seismometers to track urban noise first gained popularity last March when Belgian seismologist Thomas Lecocq posted some of his urban noise data from Brussels on Twitter. Lecocq, of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, received such an overwhelming response from scientists that he launched the group "Lockdown Seismology" on the Slack communications platform.

"It's where bored seismologists around the world are collaborating," Arrowsmith joked. Lecocq wrote in an email to The Dallas Morning News that he wanted to document the noise levels to show how small changes in personal behavior can make an international impact. Cities have seen a wide range of noise reductions ranging from 20% to 90% during last year, Lecocq said.

Arrowsmith hopes his findings will contribute to a growing list of creative ways in which researchers are using seismometers. In his spring seismology course, Arrowsmith teaches students how seismic stations can help, investigators solve crimes, like terrorist bombings, aid scientists in tracking nuclear tests pr assist inspectors investigating accidents, like chemical plant blasts. One potential application of his research is to better understand the shallow layers of Earth beneath cities. "That could be useful in places where there's a real seismic hazard, like San Francisco or Los Angeles," he said, "where just knowing what that shallow structure is tells you a lot about how it would respond in a big earthquake."

Recently, researchers have begun using seismic stations to track storms over the ocean because large waves register on the instruments too.

【1】What are Arrowsmith and his students' findings about?

A．The quiet of car traffic.

B．The reduction of city noise.

C．A big change in seismology.

D．An earthquake detecting project.

【2】How did Thomas make the urban noise analysis popular?

A．By inspiring a response from scientists.

B．By establishing a communications platform.

C．By revealing the noise data on social media.

D．By launching the group “Lockdown Seismology”.

【3】The underlined word “collaborating” in Paragraph 4 means “________”

A．ignoring each other

B．arguing all the time

C．improving greatly

D．working together

【4】What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?

A．Some additional uses of seismometers.

B．Arrowsmith's spring seismology course.

C．Understanding the shallow layers of Earth.

D．Using seismometers in detecting earthquakes.

30、My mum was a consultant psychiatrist (精神病医师) at Lancaster Moor hospital. At five, I went with her to the _________ on a Christmas afternoon. I didn’t really want to be there, knowing I had not yet opened all my _________ at home. Mum gave me a big box of chocolates and told me to _________ around the psychogeriatric ward (病房).

Our household was the sort where treats were strictly _________ only one packet of crisps a week. So being entrusted (交托) with a huge box of chocolates was _________ indeed. I marched proudly around the ward, operating a “one for you, one for me” policy _________ I went from bed to bed, wondering why no one I talked to _________.

When you are _________, so much of life is new and strange that you quickly accept even the strangest thigns as being _________ normal. But I remember thinking it was __________ that so many of these very old women were holding dollies (洋娃娃) and teddy bears tight.

On the way home, feeling slightly __________ after all the chocolates, I asked Mum why the old ladies had dolls and why they had talked such nonsense. I can’t remember her exact __________, but I learned that most of them had no family, and received no __________.

That Christmas taught me not to be afraid of people with __________ illness. I wasn’t even __________ when my mother put me on the trolley (手推车) in the corridor outside her office if she was busy in the ward.

【1】

A．school

B．hospital

C．grocery

D．restaurant

【2】

A．books

B．mailboxes

C．suitcases

D．presents

【3】

A．promote

B．distribute

C．taste

D．choose

【4】

A．controlled

B．purchased

C．forbidden

D．examined

【5】

A．demanding

B．upsetting

C．exciting

D．confusing

【6】

A．before

B．after

C．as

D．until

【7】

A．followed suit

B．made sense

C．lost heart

D．took office

【8】

A．little

B．old

C．free

D．alone

【9】

A．barely

B．bitterly

C．perfectly

D．hardly

【10】

A．casual

B．typical

C．vital

D．unusual

【11】

A．fortunate

B．energetic

C．reasonable

D．uncomfortable

【12】

A．reaction

B．theory

C．explanation

D．reference

【13】

A．arrangements

B．visitors

C．honour

D．treatment

【14】

A．common

B．deadly

C．mental

D．obvious

【15】

A．bothered

B．embarrassed

C．satisfied

D．relieved

31、根据课文原文填写正确单词，一空一词。

I knew I had chosen a job with a lot of stress but I love what I do. The thing about being a teacher is that you have 【1】 to children’s minds when they are open and eager to learn. If what I do as a teacher can help 【2】a child like Graham into such a successful adult, then I know what I’m doing is 【3】. As John Dewey, the famous educationalist, said, “Education is not 【4】 for life; education is life itself.”

Most people believe when they are living 【5】 and earning enough money, they will have no worries. However, most people never feel they have earned enough. Jason Harley decided to 【6】out of this kind of lifestyle, and he discovered that having only a little money made him free. Are there any things he misses from his past? “No, I’m much happier now, because I am living according to my 【7】. Success is not 【8】 by how much money you have but by how you understand the true meaning of life.”

32、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

My hero — Domi

Five years ago, I had a strange dream, directing me to adopt a particular dog. It was obvious from the dream that I would know the dog by his unusual face. But when I woke up, I could never recall what the unique facial feature was.

I was very curious. So early one Saturday morning, I went to the specified shelter to check the available adoptees. After looking carefully at all the dogs, I was disappointed that not one dog had anything unusual about its face.

On my way out of the shelter, I noticed a box of puppies (小狗) just outside of view from the main area. My attention was drawn to one puppy named Domi who appeared to have no fur on his face. I was worried about this strange-looking puppy, and hoped he hadn’t been injured. However, on closer inspection, I found he did have fur on his face, but it was a very odd shade of gray that made it look like skin. Satisfied and relieved that he was okay, I turned to leave the shelter.

And then it hit me: The face — it’s the dog with the unusual face! Immediately, I returned to the puppy. As I lifted him from the box, we bonded instantly. I knew I could not leave without him so I headed for the adoption desk. In that short amount of time, he had wrapped his paws around my heart; his barks, quite different from other dogs’, had a soothing (抚慰的) and comforting quality, also touching my soul.

Meeting with the shelter manager, I was informed a family had already selected him. There was, however, still a slight chance since the family had not made their final decision. After an anxiety-filled hour, I saw a member of the family, the mother, walk straight toward me, carrying Domi. My heart pounded as she approached. For a moment, she didn’t say a word. Then, with a broad smile, she said, “Here’s your dog.”

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I was speechless as grateful tears were welling up in my eyes.

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When Domi was three. I had a brain disorder and fainted from time to time.

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