钦州2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、______his death, one of the England’s greatest writers is lost _______the world.

A. For; in   B. By; in

C. By; to   D. On; to

2、A reader can enjoy an indirect experience without any of the dangers or stresses _________.

A.involved B.involving C.to involve D.to be involved

3、The doctor ______ the patient immediately after he was sent to hospital.

A.healed B.treated C.cured D.operated

4、Of these approaches ______ works, there seems little hope that NASA, left to itself, will get it right next time.

A．which

B．that

C．whichever

D．whatever

5、— Was it under the tree ________ you were away talking to him?

— Yes, but when I got back there, my bike was gone.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．while

6、 ______ ever find something you want to save on your own computer, you can download it.

A. Should you B. If should you

C. If you will D. Will you

7、-How do you like the curtains in your classroom?

-Well, I'm afraid they don't______ the wallpaper.

A.match with. B.go with.

C.fit. D.suit.

8、I would prefer a quiet evening at home as opposed to spending my time ________ many people.

A. in the company of   B. in addition to

C. on account of   D. under the umbrella of

9、Not consistent with what they announced before, the government officials made another ______ statement about the cause of the mine accident, which aroused great dissatisfaction among the public.

A. conventional  B. contradictory

C. controversial D. contemporary

10、I saw the person ________ was my English teacher yesterday.

A．whom

B．who

C．which

D．whose

11、Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European _______ India by sea.

A．to reach

B．reaching

C．reached

D．reach

12、Everyone has the right to be treated with ________.

A．reply

B．review

C．respect

D．range

13、Tsinghua University, ______ in 1911, is home to a great number of outstanding figures.

A. founded B. founding C. found D. to be founded

14、—Do you mind choosing Peter to be the new chairman?

—________.

A. Of course. He is the best choice

B. Certainly not. We can’t find a better one

C. Yes, I do. He is the most suitable person

D. No, I don’t. I don’t think he is the suitable person

15、Now that she is out of work,Lucy______going back to school,but she hasn’t decided it.

A.has considered B.is going to considered

C.has been considering D.considered

16、As the clock _________ nine, players _________ their positions and the match began.

A. struck; took up   B. hit; stood up

C. beat; set up   D. rang; made up

17、He was in the mountain for a year. He felt as if he was ________ from the outside world.

A．cut out

B．cut off

C．cut up

D．cut through

18、I’m trying to persuade my dad ________ some shares.

A．to buying

B．to buy

C．buying

D．in buying

19、In the past few days the professor along with his assistants _____on the project day and night to meet the deadline.

A．has been working

B．were working

C．have been working

D．was working

20、 One of the requirements for a fire is that the material _________ to its burning temperature.

A. is heated  B. be heated

C. would be heated  D. shall be heated

21、Sometimes tests are needed _________ doctors discover exactly what's wrong with your body.

A. since   B. before

C. although   D. if

22、During the Singles Day in 2017, the sales of Chinese e-commerce giants such as Alibaba outnumbered   of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US.

A. that   B. those

C. this   D. it

23、Susan was determined to work hard at her lessons this term to ________ the expectations of her parents.

A. live up to      B. come up to

C. get down to      D. look forward to

24、–You must have felt dizzy when you stepped on the glass-bottomed bridge, ___?

–No, I wasn’t scared of the height since it was foggy on that day.

A.mustn’t you B.haven’t you C.weren’t you D.didn’t you

25、_______ to sunlight for too much time will do harm to your skin.

A. Exposed     B. Having exposed

C. Being exposed D. After being exposed

26、Twenty-five years ago, most young Britons wanted a career in law, to be a doctor, or, if they were creative enough, to take up singing. But today, things stand different.

According to a survey by Tesco Mobile, a UK company, the "dream job" of young people aged between 16 and 25 in the UK is a video blogger, or "vlogger". The survey, carried out among 1,002 people, found that as many as 40 percent of them put vloggers as their number one choice on a list of ideal careers.

This change is undoubtedly as a result of the Internet and social media. They have made it so much easier to reach audience of the world, without having to enter a career in show business in the traditional way.

In the past, the biggest stars were trained by the Hollywood studios; now, anyone with a computer camera can become a star. Vloggers are the big stars of today because they are normal people interacting（交流）with their fans about everyday life.

However, what people see is only the bright side of being a vlogger and they fail to notice the fact that only those who are successful earn fame（名声）and fortune. For every success there are hundreds of others who never get off the starting line. There are the dreams that come true and the dreams that remain dreams forever.

Although being vloggers is popular, some young people choose to follow careers that don't necessarily earn them fame, but that allow them to make good use of the Internet to share their hobbies. Young Israeli David Leshaw, for example, runs a business called the

Finishers Club. It's an online platform for runners to keep a record of their races. His job allows him to express his enthusiasm, and is always a learning experience. And that's enough for him.

【1】Why do more and more young Britons choose to be vloggers?

A．Vloggers can earn greater fame and more money on the Internet.

B．There is too much competition in the traditional show business.

C．The Internet makes it convenient to enter show business.

D．Anyone with a computer will surely become a star.

【2】What can we infer from the fifth paragraph?

A．Only a few vloggers can be successful.

B．A vlogger cannot earn fame or fortune.

C．Being a vlogger is not a good career.

D．Dreams will come true one day.

【3】What do some young people like David do on the Internet?

A．Learn from others.

B．Become an online hit.

C．Hold running races.

D．Mix jobs with hobbies.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．Most young Britons choose to be vloggers as their jobs based on their hobbies.

B．The Internet is influencing young Britons' career choice.

C．The Internet is taking the place of traditional studios.

D．Young Britons cannot find jobs without the Internet.

27、   There is an English saying: “ 【1】.” Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects it has on the human body. 【2】.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. 【3】. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The group which tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group listening to a funny programme. 【4】.

【5】 . They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A.Laughter can extend one’s life.

B.As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics to help their patients.

C.The reason is that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which reduce both stress and pain.

D.It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet.

E.Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still cannot put this theory into clinic practice.

F.Laughter is the best medicine.

G.They have found facts that laughter really can improve people's health.

28、

More than 215 pilot whales died after beaching themselves on the Chatham Islands over the weekend. The pilot whales started to become stranded (搁浅的) on the remote islands’ northwest last Friday, according to the Department of Conservation (DoC).

Because of the isolation of the Chatham Islands and an active shark population, it is considered too dangerous to actively refloat stranded whales. Unless they are naturally refloated by the tides, all of them will die.

“We do not actively refloat whales on the Chatham Islands due to the risk of shark attack to both humans and the whales themselves,” DoC said in a statement.

“All the stranded pilot whales are now dead and their bodies will be left to decompose naturally on site.”

A department team was being organized in response to the latest stranding. They will probably be tasked with euthanising (使安乐死) whales that remain stranded.

The Chatham Islands, 840km east of mainland New Zealand, and a resident population of less than 800 people, are “a stranding hotspot, among the top three places for strandings in New Zealand”, according to the conservation department. The islands are the site of the biggest recorded stranding in New Zealand history – an estimated 1,000 pilot whales in 1918.

Pilot whales — which can grow to more than six metres (20 feet) long — are also highly sociable, so they may follow podmates (同伴) who fall into danger.

In New Zealand, about 300 animals beach themselves annually, according to official figures, and it is not unusual for groups of between 20 and 50 pilot whales to run aground.

Why these strandings occurred – and also why they sometimes met with similar strandings in southern Australia – remained a largely unanswered question.

【1】Which of the following blocks the refloating work?

A．The shark attack.

B．The department team.

C．The climate there.

D．The power of the tides.

【2】What does the underlined word “decompose” in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Settle down.

B．Break down.

C．Deal with.

D．End with.

【3】What do we know about this stranding?

A．The reason still remains a mystery.

B．It is the biggest stranding of all time.

C．Most whales are refloated by the tides.

D．All the stranded whales are euthanized.

【4】What is the text?

A．A rescue story.

B．A news report.

C．A book review.

D．A research article.

29、Seamus Blackley is well known as the man who came up with the idea for the Xbox game system. But Mr.Blackley was a scientist long before he worked on video games. Most scientists always want to study everything in the world, and that’s true of Mr. Blackley, too.“I had been baking when I was a child and I picked it back up 10 years ago.” he said. Now Mr. Blackley calls himself a “bread nerd”, and what really interests him is yeast (酵母).

When many people think of bread yeast, they think of something you buy at the store. But yeast is tiny living things found just about everywhere.

Though yeast is animate, it isn’t always active.When there’s not enough food ( like sugar or flour ), yeast becomes dormant (休眠的). Basically, it dries out and goes to sleep. It can stay dormant for thousands of years.

Dormant yeast can be made active again with warmth. In April, Blackley made bread with yeast that someone told him was 5,200 years old. But when he realized he had no way of knowing how old the yeast really was, he decided to colleet his own ancient yeast.

To do this, he worked with two other scientists: Richard Bowman, who studies tiny forms of life, and Serena Love, who studies and teaches about ancient Egypt. Dr. Love was able to connect the scientists with 4,500-year-old Egyptian clay pots (陶土罐) at two museums in Boston.The team successfully collected yeast from the tiny holes in the clay pots.Mr.Bowman took most of the samples (样品) to do other tests. Mr. Blackley kept one sample. He wanted to test it in his own way by making bread.

Mr. Blackley worked carefully to get the dormant yeast active again. Then he made a piece of bread using the yeast.Mr.Blackley said the taste of the bread was “unbelievable” and anyone could tell the difference. But he was still not 100% sure whether he’d baked with 4,500-year-old yeast. It’s possible that some more recent yeast got in the clay pots.

【1】What sort of man is Seamus Blackley?

A．A man who’s outgoing.

B．A man who’s confident.

C．A man with wide interests.

D．A man with a warm heart.

【2】What does the underlined word “animate” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Alive.

B．Popular.

C．Cheap.

D．Useful.

【3】Why did Mr. Blackley work with Serena Love?

A．To get a sample of yeast.

B．To learn tiny forms of life.

C．To make the yeast active.

D．To make clay pots.

【4】What made Mr. Blackley doubt the age of the yeast?

A．He found the taste of the bread was wrong.

B．He doubted the clay pots were not that old.

C．He had done a terrible job in activating the yeast.

D．He thought there might be recent yeast in the clay pots.

30、Paul O’Sullivan was around his Baltimore apartment one evening, feeling bored. Having nothing better to do, he logged on the social network to find out how many others _________ his name. Moments later, many Paul O’Sullivans popped out. On a whim (一时兴起), he decided to _________ friend requests to them all.

Many of his fellow Paul O’Sullivans ignored him but a few felt too curious to resist his invitation. He _________ that four of them were all musicians. Wouldn’t it be funny if he asked the other musical Pauls to _________ a band? So they did.

Starting a band across multiple time zones proved to be _________. Shaky Wi-Fi and other technical difficulties meant they often failed to work _________ at the same time and speed. To _________ this, Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul write and record a basic track (乐曲), then e-mail it to Manchester Paul. _________ he records a bass (低音的) track, he e-mails it back to Baltimore Paul.

Later Pennsylvania Paul adds the drumbeat. Round and round the _________ goes until they released their first original song, “Namesake”, which is about long-distance relationships, just like theirs.

__________, months later, Baltimore Paul had to stop due to health issues. The other Pauls didn’t __________ their friendship. They made sure Baltimore Paul never felt alone. It was about four years before Baltimore Paul was __________ enough to start making music again. They created a music video for “Namesake” in 2020, which pulled in more than 20,000 __________ in its first two weeks online. Now, a new source of joy for the Pauls is to spend time with each other in person.

“What are the odds (可能性),” says Baltimore Paul, “that a random __________ would lead not only to new music but to lasting __________ as well? Some things are just meant to be”.

【1】

A．knew

B．shared

C．signed

D．remembered

【2】

A．decline

B．expose

C．send

D．accept

【3】

A．suspected

B．mentioned

C．anticipated

D．noticed

【4】

A．form

B．inform

C．dominate

D．contact

【5】

A．challenging

B．exceptional

C．awesome

D．astonishing

【6】

A．carefully

B．secretly

C．independently

D．exactly

【7】

A．prove

B．deny

C．fix

D．skip

【8】

A．Unless

B．Although

C．Before

D．Once

【9】

A．beat

B．track

C．story

D．band

【10】

A．However

B．Therefore

C．Otherwise

D．Furthermore

【11】

A．get involved in

B．take advantage of

C．think highly of

D．press pause on

【12】

A．dizzy

B．well

C．confident

D．weak

【13】

A．donations

B．protests

C．views

D．doubts

【14】

A．choice

B．advice

C．request

D．comment

【15】

A．reputation

B．friendship

C．changes

D．impressions

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

“Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling look at the making of a Teen Influencer

Liza Mandelup, the director of “Jawline” a new documentary about the teen- influencer, has said that she filmed for a year before she found her 【1】, Austyn Tester. He curls around his cats, who sometimes slink into the 【2】 as he broadcasts on YouNow, a platform for real-time, chat-based live streaming. “Broadcasting”is what YouNow calls it, and so does Austyn, his voice puffing up to meet the importance of the word--his vocation in life. He’s set up a rig in his small bedroom, where he records himself 【3】 to a small number of viewers, mostly teen-age girls he barely knows. On the Web site’s dash, we can see that he is 【4】 at No 28 under the hashtag guys. The conversations are plain, adorably ordinary. In an early scene in the film, he apologizes for a minor problem in his 【5】. “I know I need to get better Wi-Fi.”

Tester lives in Kingsport, Tennessee, with his mother and his brother. They don’t have money. Tester’s father is absent; when he was around, the family says, he was a(n) 【6】 and was physically abusive. Tester’s brother, Donovan, is 【7】 of his sibling’s dreams, which will make him known around the world. For what? For being famous. For being positive. Social-media 【8】 has been engineered such that the path to fame requires only the 【9】 of fame. “When you become famous, you have a lot of people who look up to you,” Tester says. On YouNow, he is a telegenic preacher, a philosopher of cliched words, delivering himself to his small flock of followers. Both parties are prey to a decentralized economy that has monetized teen-age anxiety, 【10】 and general fragility. In such a tempest, they are making each other feel seen. Remember: storms don’t last forever, Tester promises. “Whatever you’ re going through, it’s not going to last forever.”

32、假定你是李华，准备参加学校举办的主题为“健康成长”的英语作文比赛。请按要求写一篇短文，主要内容包括：

乐观的人生态度；

努力学习；

参加体育锻炼。

生词：态度恶劣attitude

注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

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