咸宁2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、The other day, when passing by his house, I observed him _________ football in the yard.

A．to play

B．played

C．being played

D．playing

2、– You left your umbrella.

– ______. I’m becoming so forgetful these days.

A. So did I   B. So I did

C. So was I   D. So I was

3、The birds that will spend the whole winter here have been digging holes in the snow _______ from the cold weather.

A. to shelter   B. sheltered

C. having sheltered   D. sheltering

4、Tom knew he would certainly get ________ if he was late home

A．shout at

B．to shout at

C．shouted at

D．to be shouted at

5、Sky Hunter successfully captures the bravery of PLA soldiers,   does Wolf WarineⅡ,but met with box office failure.

A. so   B. which

C. what   D. as

6、There are about one million words in English. ________, most people use only about ten thousand of them.

A. Moreover   B. However C. Otherwise   D. Therefore

7、—We have enough time? What about taking a bus?

—OK, ________ the buses are not crowded.

A．as though

B．as long as

C．in order that

D．in case

8、The hotel is ______ easy reach of the town centre. It’s only a ten­minute trip.

A. against  B. beyond C. within   D. beneath

9、She often parks her car near the house ________ she can get to.

A．which

B．where

C．who

D．what

10、He wrote a long letter ______ he explained what had happened in the accident．

A．what B．which C．where D．how

11、________ from space, the earth, with water________ 70% of its surface, looks like a blue ball.

A．Seen; covered

B．Seen; covering

C．Seeing; covering

D．Seeing; covered

12、Sarah, hurry up. I'm afraid you can't have time to ________ before the party.

A．get changed

B．get change

C．get changing

D．get to change

13、Sun Yat-sen ___ the first Republic in China in 1911 after he fought for the Chinese people for many years.

A. found   B. founded C. had founded D. founding

14、—I’m leaving for Shanghai tomorrow for the Spring Festival holiday.

—Good for you. Remember to bring more clothes because the winter in Shanghai _______ be very cold sometimes.

A．would

B．shall

C．can

D．may

15、Ning Zetao easily proved himself to be a rising star with four gold medals during the 17th Asian Games, ______was held in Incheon, South Korea last year.

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

16、The price of vegetables is now much ______ than ten years ago.

A.more higher B.more expensive C.dearer D.higher

17、Lyn gave up the chance of going abroad, but he feels he _________ a right decision.

A. makes B. has made C. had made D. is making

18、The auto factory ______ new profit records through technical innovation — 10% growth rate in the last two years and hopefully 15% this year.

A. set   B. has set

C. is setting   D. has been setting

19、I had to catch my flight. That was ________ I left Tom’s party so early yesterday.

A. what    B. how    C. why       D. when

20、 I am at least   age   Robert if I am not older than he．

A．the same；as B．the same；with

C．as same；as   D．as same；with

21、Have you ever found yourself in a moment when all eyes fall on you and your shining red face, but you can't do anything about it? 【1】 Today, I will be discussing the most embarrassing moments any human can experience throughout their lifetime.

One of the most embarrassing moments anyone can go through may consist of tripping while you are walking up the stairs. Imagine people still walking beside you and behind you then! Then you instantly stop it. Their first reaction is to laugh. 【2】 In the rest of your walk to wherever you are going, you don't want anyone to speak a word to you.

The second most embarrassing moment is waving/talking to a stranger you think you know. I have had this happen sadly more than once before. At one time I was 100% convinced I saw our family friends pull into a parking spot. Silly me decided to get out of my comfort zone and directed the car to an open parking spot. 【3】

The next occurs when you try walking past someone, but you accidentally walk into the same direction as the other person. 【4】 The worst case takes place when you both continuously move left to right and can't find a way to simply pass each other. I have learned from past experiences to walk in a straight-line showing confidence when a person coming at you. I'm sure 90% of people will slide out of your way at the last possible second to avoid creating contact.

The last on this list is when tracking someone's posts on social media, you accidentally like one from over a year ago. The instant your finger touches the screen, your heart drops out of your body. Think of this moment happening to your crush（暗恋对象）! Not knowing what to do at the time, you probably go ahead and like all past pictures. 【5】

There is an unlimited list of this kind, and you might want to crawl into a hole after embarrassing yourself, but I hope you can enjoy life and might as well smile because it happens to everyone.

A．After all, you don't want him/her to think you are spying on him/her, right?

B．You purposely try avoiding getting in his path, but he has the same mind and acts identically.

C．Have you ever thought about the awkward moments everyone has during a conversation?

D．Have you ever tried to figure out how to get yourself out of the embarrassing situations?

E．As they approached near enough, I glimpsed the driver and my face became a tomato.

F．It's likely that your crush is tracking you and gets touched by your heartfelt likes.

G．I am convinced that nobody thinks, “I must see if that person is okay.”

22、   I’m not so sure I like my friends any more. I used to like them — to be honest. We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange e-mails, and they all seemed normal enough. But then came Facebook and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.

Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via Facebook. No longer hidden, they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials — unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.

Take Fred. If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and down-to-earth. Read his Facebook and you realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed bore. He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man — and then write about it.

Take Andy. You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to lull. So he plays Mafia Wars on Facebook. He’s doing well — level 731. Thanks to Facebook, I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day. Andy, you’ve run four companies — and this is how you spend your downtime(业余时间)? What happened to golf? What happened to getting another job?

Take Liz. She is positive that the H1N1 vaccine(甲流疫苗) will kill us all and that we should avoid it. And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find, so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on Facebook and once on Twitter.

In real life, I don’t see these sides of people. Face to face, my friends show me their best. They’re nice, smart people. But face to Facebook, my friends are like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.

I’m left with a dilemma. Who is my real friend? Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine lunatic(狂人)on Facebook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standards?

【1】What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?

A.He’s running his company.

B.He’s playing golf all day.

C.He’s looking for another job.

D.He’s playing computer games.

【2】Who is opposed to the H1N1 vaccine in the text?

A.Fred. B.Andy.

C.Liz. D.Chris.

【3】According to the text, Facebook tends to ______.

A.present another side of people

B.offer some food for free

C.show endless advertisements

D.get you to more parties

【4】The text is developed mainly by ______.

A.giving examples B.following the time order

C.listing figures D.raising questions

23、Each year, backed up by a growing anti-consumerist movement, people are using the holiday season to call on us all to shop less.

Driven by concerns about resource exhaustion, over recent years environmentalists have increasingly turned their sight on our “consumer culture”, with Groups such as The Story of Stuff and Buy Nothing New Day growing as a movement that increasingly blames all our ills on our desire to shop.

We clearly have a growing resource problem. The products we make, buy and use are often linked to the destruction of our waterways, biodiversity, climate and the land on which millions of people live, but to blame these issues on Christmas shoppers is misguided, and puts us in the old trap of blaming individuals for what is a systematic problem.

While we complain about environmental destruction over Christmas, environmentalists often forget what the holiday season actually means for many people. In fact, for most, rather than an add-on to an already heavy shopping year, Christmas is likely the only time of year they have the opportunity to spend on friends and family, or even just to buy the necessities needed for modern life.

This is particularly true for Boxing Day, often laughed at by anti-consumerists the most. While we may look down on the queues in front of the shops, for many, those sales provide the chance to buy things they've needed all year. As journalist Leigh Phillips argues, “This is one of the few times of the year that people can even hope to afford such ‘luxuries’, the Christmas presents their kids are asking for, or just an appliance that works.”

Indeed, the richest 7% of people are responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. This becomes particularly harmful when you take into account of our consumption “problem” anyway. Why are environmentalists attacking these individuals, while ignoring people like Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has his own £ 1.5bn yacht with a missile defence system?

Anyway, anti-consumerism has become a movement of wealthy people talking down to the working class about their life choice, while ignoring the real cause of our environmental problem. It is no wonder no one is changing their behaviour—or that environmental destruction continues without becoming any less severe.

【1】What can be inferred about the environmentalist movement from Paragraphs 2 and 3?

A．It has targeted the wrong persons.

B．It has achieved its intended purposes.

C．It has solved the environmental problems.

D．It has persuaded consumers not to shop any more.

【2】What does Leigh Phillips think of Boxing Day?

A．A trap for consumers.

B．A tough problem to deal with.

C．A precious shopping opportunity.

D．A positive contribution to the economy.

【3】For what purpose is Roman Abramovich mentioned in the text?

A．To show how rich he is.

B．To announce he is a Russian.

C．To present his contributions to the environment.

D．To suggest the real cause of environmental problems hasn't been found.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．The environmental problems are very serious.

B．Less shopping can't solve the environmental problems.

C．Resources are becoming fewer and fewer on the earth.

D．Measures should be taken to protect the environment.

24、Li Bai holds a wine cup in his hand, while Du Fu sits in front of a desk, writing poems on the paper in front of him. It’s not that we have travelled to the past. Modern technology has brought them “back to life”.

The two great poets, along with other humanoid robots, were presented at the World Robot Conference 2023 in late August in Beijing. They looked similar to real human beings.

“The skin is made of medical-grade bionic silicone (仿生硅胶), which is why the skin looks soft and veins can be seen through it,” CGTN explained in a video about Liaoning-based producer EXROBOTS. Goosebumps (鸡皮疙瘩) and palm lines can also be seen on the arms and hands.

Researchers are also trying hard to create other features of humans on robots. A US robotics startup Apptronik brought out its humanoid robot called Apollo on Aug 23. Apollo has around 30 muscles.

However, “humans have around 300 muscles in our bodies,” Nick Paine, the co-founder of the company, told CNN. For now, engineers can only simplify the muscles, allowing them to do basic movements like holding objects and walking.

The robot also contains cameras and sensors in its head, helping it map out a 360-degree view of its environment. They also help the robot keep balance when walking on uncertain surfaces.

Nowadays, bionic (仿生的) human-like robots mostly work with humans, as tour guides or by helping visitors at front desks. There are also robots that share the work of nurses, such as handing out medicine. This could be because people are comfortable living and working with machines that look or act like them. They can “strike a chord with people,” a US robotics scientist Marc Raibert told New Yorker.

As more humanoid robots come out, safety will be the key, according to the Robot Report website. When a 70-kilogram robot breaks down and falls, humans nearby may be hurt.

【1】What do we know about the robots of Li Bai and Du Fu?

A．They can learn from each other.

B．They look lifelike in every detail.

C．They can communicate with visitors.

D．They manage to compose original poems.

【2】According to the text, what is the limitation of the robot Apollo?

A．It can not perform complex movements.

B．It can not keep balance on some surfaces.

C．It moves too slowly when holding objects.

D．It lacks the ability to tell people directions.

【3】Why are most bionic robots currently working with humans?

A．They are as intelligent as humans.

B．People feel comfortable with them.

C．They understand human’s needs well.

D．People treat them as trustworthy friends.

【4】What is a suitable title of the text?

A．Robots Play a Significant Role in Our Life

B．The World Robot Conference Is a Success

C．Two Great Poets Got Revived Thanks to Technology

D．New Technology Makes Humanoid Robots Possible

25、B

One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is__ __.

Once I heard a bald man said, "Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've __ __what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will completely make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different __ __,or forget about it and _ __the tiles in your life that are not missing.

We all know people who have had a relatively __ __ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy.

The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are __ _. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.The second is __ _that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience.Finally,if you choose to find the  __ __in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this largely depends on your decision to make.

【1】A. different    B. missing   C. short   D. broken

【2】A. determined   B. predicted C. assumed D. imagined

【3】A. tile   B. brick C. ceiling D. house

【4】A. look on B. focus on C. count on  D. rely on

【5】A. peaceful B. difficult   C. easy   D. ordinary

【6】A. wealthy B. grateful C. proud   D. generous

【7】A. admitting B. dividing C. proving   D. realizing

【8】A. worst B. best C. positive  D. negative

26、阅读下面短文，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 husband and I had booked a cruise（乘船游览）to celebrate our tenth anniversary. Having worked hard throughout our married lives, we felt like we needed a break and an adventure. As we had expected, while on board, we enjoyed good food and good company, while each stop brought us chances to explore new places and experience new adventures. My husband’s calmness throughout all these new experiences helped me to keep my nerves and fear of new things under control and enjoy myself too.

We were excited as the cruise ship pulled into its final stop, a small port in Mexico, in April 2020. Ryan and I had been zip lining（飞索）before, so when we saw signs for an ecopark boasting 11 lines in the middle of the jungle, we thought, “Let’s go for it.”

We got off the ship at 8 am and had to be back by 5 pm. We travelled through the thick jungle in an old jeep, enjoying the beautiful views and listening to the calls of the animals. By 10.30am, we were admiring the view from a high platform, waiting to cross the deep gorge（峡谷）by zip line-a distance of 700 metres. Ryan went first. It took about a minute for him to cross. Then it was my turn.

I’m petite, at 5ft 3in and 120lb, so wasn’t worried about putting too much weight on the line. I felt safe: I was wearing all the necessary safety equipment. The guide said, “Have fun!” and sent me out.

I was 150 metres up in the air, enjoying the beautiful view of the ocean to the left and the rainforest below. The first I knew that something had gone wrong was a loud bang, then silence. I suddenly realized that the zip line had broken.

Paragraph 1:

I was halfway across the gorge and began falling through the air.

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Paragraph 2:

When he reached my tree, I shouted, “Please, baby, catch me if I fall.”

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