晋中2025届高三毕业班第一次质量检测英语试题

1、The sales of houses in our city fell by 40 percent last month, and it will be 48 percent ______ we don’t count low-price houses provided for poor residents.

A.as B.unless C.if D.before

2、Using this data, third party companies could then paint an accurate picture of users’ habits and ________ in order to serve them more targeted advertisements.

A.presentation B.preservation C.preference D.persistence

3、It's really hard to ______ the exact meaning of some words when you translate them into a foreign language.

A.go through B.bring out C.make up D.turn out

4、Young people who have got jobs may realize university lessons can’t be the only preparation for all of the situations ________ appear in the working world.

A. where   B. when   C. that D. what

5、— How can I wake up so early?

—Set the alarm at 5:00 am.,   you will make it.

A. and   B. but

C. or   D. so

6、—Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?

—No, I wish I_____the clock back.

A．had turned

B．could turn

C．will turn

D．would have turned

7、--- I wonder ________ Mary has changed so much.

--- She has been suffering a serious disease.

A. why B. what C. when   D. where

8、I've been looking forward for a long time ______ a chance to have a job interview.

A.getting B.to get C.of getting D.to getting

9、The government has_______ a series of policies and measures to ensure the improvement in living standards.

A. put down   B. put out

C. put off    D. put forward

10、She works in a _______ school and teaches children between 5 and 11 years old.

A．primary

B．precious

C．secondary

D．senior

11、______ the past year as an exchange student in Hong Kong, Linda is more independent now.

A. Spending     B. Spent

C. To spend   D. Having spent

12、After work I went to the box office to buy the tickets for Kungfu Panda 2, only to be told there was ______ left．

A.nothing B.none C.no one D.neither

13、The possibility of employing more staff is still _____ discussion.

A.up B.with C.at D.under

14、The bungalow near the south school gate will be ______ into classrooms for music and art.

A. transmitted   B. transferred   C. transformed   D. transported

15、After Jack ________ some e-mails, he started working on his report.

A. sends B. has sent C. had sent   D. would sent

16、When I returned to my high school in town, I found it ______ completely.

A．changed

B．to be changed

C．having changed

D．changing

17、The president must have received the result of medical research by the time the disease spread widely, _______?

A.hasn’t he B.mustn’t he C.hadn’t he D.didn’t he

18、____visa change made by China and the US will witness _____increase in economy, tourism and education.

A. A; the B. The; ／ C. A;／ D. The; an

19、--- Hey, Sherly, welcome back! __________?

  ---- Ok, I guess. My son and I went to Hainan and enjoyed the beautiful scenery there.

A. How was your holiday   B. How is your son

C. Where did you go for holiday   D. What did you do in your holiday

20、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.

A. has stayed   B. had stayed

C. stayed   D. am staying

21、   For many, finding an unattended wallet filled with 400 in cash would be a source of temptation (诱惑). But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money. All of this makes the actions of the homeless Tom Smith even more remarkable.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

After hours in the cold and wet, he reached inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some ID so he could contact the driver, only to discover it contained 400 in notes, with another 50 in spare change beside it.

He then took the wallet to a nearby police station.When the car’s owner John Anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the ear, they were shocked to find two policemen standing next to it. The policemen told them what Mr. Smith did and that the wallet was safe.

The pair were later able to thank Mr. Smith for his kindness.

Mr. Anderson said: “I couldn’t believe that the guy never took a penny. To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in. This guy has nothing and yet he didn’t take the wallet for himself; he thought about others instead. It’s unbelievable. It just proves there are honest guys out there.”

Mr. Smith’s act drew much of the public’s attention and won praise from social media users after Mr. Anderson posted the story on Facebook.

Now Mr. Anderson has set up an online campaign to raise money for Mr. Smith and other homeless people in the area, which by yesterday had received 8,000. “People have been approaching him in the street; he’s had job offers and all sorts,” Mr. Anderson commented.

【1】Which of the following can we learn from the passage?

A.There was E400 in total in the unattended wallet.

B.The police found the owner of the wallet through an ID card.

C.John and his colleague thanked Tom Smith later face to face.

D.Tom Smith might later get a job offered by kind people.

【2】Mr. Anderson’s words tell us that________.

A.sometimes he didn’t have faith in others

B.Tom Smith took some pennies from the wallet

C.usually the homeless are greedy for money

D.Tom Smith was always thinking of others

【3】Which words can best describe Tom Smith?

A.Generous and considerate.

B.Kind and honest.

C.Respectful and determined.

D.Reliable and stubborn.

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A.Kind people assisted a homeless man in their own ways.

B.A homeless man returned an unattended wallet to its owner.

C.The police helped find out the owner of an unattended wallet.

D.Social media played a major role in helping the homeless.

22、   There are around 100 tribes that live in global isolation, mostly in South America and India.

The Sentinelese(250 people)have lived on one of the Andaman Islands in Eastern India for 60, 000 years. They protect their island by fighting against people from outside. Their language is different from any other known language.

Another Andaman tribe is the Jarawa(300 people). In the past, they were independent and fought against anybody trying to make contact with them. But in 1998, the Indian govemment built a road across their land, and since then, they’ve had more contact with the outside world.

Some Amazon tribes avoid contact because of unhappy memories. The Mashco—Piro left their vegetable gardens after rubber companies killed most of their tribe at the beginning of the 20th century. Those who survived became nomadic(游牧的)and started hunting animals in the forest.

The Awa live in the Amazon forests of Brazil. Out of 350 members, 100 have no contact with the outside world. They left their villages and adopted a nomadic lifestyle around 1850 to escape attacks by Europeans. In the following years, farmers in nearby communities started cutting the trees to expand their farmland. The Awa lost most of their hunting land.

The few Amazon tribes that still exist are fighting to keep their traditional way of life.

Survival, an organization that fights for the rights of tribal people, says that uncontacted tribes are the most vulnerable(弱势的)humans on the planet and that’s why their environment should be unavailable to the rest of us.

After years of pressure, the organization got Brazil’s government to clear invaders from the Awa land. All non-Awa people are leaving so the tribe can get their forest back. But some think it’s impossible for tribes to stay isolated forever in a connected world. Contact will be made one day. So the question is：Whose choice should it be, ours or theirs?

【1】What could be learnt about the Sentinelese from the text?

A．They speak the same language as the Jarawa.

B．They resist contact from the outside world.

C．There are about 350 members in their tribe.

D．They received help from the Indian government.

【2】Why did the Awa adopt a nomadic lifestyle?

A．To avoid being attacked by Europeans.

B．To avoid being robbed by rubber companies.

C．To protect their hunting land.

D．To maintain their traditional way of life.

【3】What is Survival’s view of the tribal people?

A．They should fight for their rights by themselves.

B．We should show them respect and not disturb them.

C．It’s impossible to stay isolated from the outside world.

D．We should help them get used to the connected world.

【4】How does the author describe the isolated tribes?

A．Doubtfully.

B．Critically.

C．Indifferently.

D．Objectively.

23、   The world’s first telephone call — “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” — was a request for a face-to-face meeting. In Brantford, the “Telephone City”, there’s a giant memorial to Alexander Graham Bell that includes a bronze casting with figures meant to represent Knowledge, Joy and Sorrow — the information spread by the telephone.

Today maybe we should have a bit of sorrow for the weakening of the personal connections developed by Bell’s great invention. We own more “phones” than ever, but we don’t use them primarily for voice calls. In 2010 Americans spent 2.24 trillion minutes talking on their mobile devices — which averages out to 7, 813 minutes per mobile line. By 2017 that had dropped to just 5, 539 minutes per line. That’s still 18 minutes per person per day, but it’s a small part of the five hours a day we spend doing other things on our phones: watching videos, browsing Twitter and Facebook, sending text messages, — and all the rest.

So what leads to the fall-off in voice communication? One is digital data. We consumed 28.6 trillion megabytes of data on our phones in 2018, a dramatic 82 percent increase over 2017 levels. The other is robocalls (机器人电话) . YouMail, which makes a robocall-blocking app, says that 4.7 billion calls were placed to U.S. phone numbers in July 2019 alone. My own phone shows that I got 36 robocalls that month — so many that I’ve ignored all strange calls.

Then, what’s lost when texts and posts replace conversation? Briefly put, it is Joy and Sorrow: the emotional content conveyed by the human voice. Without this real-time engagement, we’re left only with Knowledge, which, as the past few years have shown, is so easily misrepresented. Our telephones may have evolved into machines for 24/7 tweeting and texting, but we’re more alone than ever.

【1】Why does the author mention Alexander Graham Bell in paragraph 1?

A．To attract the readers to the topic.

B．To introduce the city of Brantford.

C．To emphasize the contribution of Bell.

D．To show the importance of the first call.

【2】What is the reason for the fall of telephone communication?

A．The application of YouMail.

B．The ignorance of all the calls.

C．The breakdown of the telephone system.

D．The increasing consumption of digital data.

【3】How does the author mainly support the theme of the passage?

A．By giving examples.

B．By quoting others’ words.

C．By providing statistical data.

D．By providing research results.

【4】Which of the following can serve as the best title?

A．The Evolution of Telephones

B．The Emotion Conveyed by Telephones

C．The Fall-off of Talking on the Phone

D．The Weakening of Personal Communication

24、   Close to the North Pole, remote and rocky Plateau Mountain in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems an unlikely spot for any global effort to safeguard agriculture. In this cold and deserted environment, no grains, no gardens, no trees can grow. Yet at the end of a 130-meter-long tunnel cut out of solid stone is a room filled with humanity’s most precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection—more than a half-billion seeds.

A quiet rescue mission is under way. With growing evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously affect food production and threaten the diversity of crops around the world, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault represents a major step towards ensuring the preservation of hundreds of thousands of crop varieties. This is a seed collection, but more importantly, it is a collection of the traits found within the seeds: the genes that give one variety resistance to a particular pest and another variety tolerance for hot, dry weather.

Few people will ever see or come into contact with the contents of this vault. In sealed boxes, behind multiple locked doors, monitored by electronic security systems, enveloped in below-zero temperatures, and surrounded by tons of rock, hundreds of millions of seeds are protected in their mountain fortress. Frozen in such conditions inside the mountain, seeds of most major crops will remain viable for hundreds of years, or longer. Seeds of some are capable of retaining their ability to grow for thousands of years.

Everyone can look back now and say that the Seed Vault was a good and obvious idea, and that of course the Norwegian government should have approved and funded it. But back in 2004, when the Seed Vault was proposed, it was viewed as a crazy, impractical, and expensive idea.

We knew that nothing would provide a definite guarantee. But we were tired, fed up, and frankly scared of the steady, greater losses of crop diversity. The Seed Vault was built by optimists who wanted to do something to preserve options so that humanity and its crops might be better prepared for change. If it simply resupplied seed gene banks with samples those gene banks had lost, this would repay our efforts.

The Seed Vault is about hope and commitment——about what can be done if countries come together and work cooperatively to accomplish something significant, long-lasting, and worthy of who we are and wish to be.

【1】What is the Seed Vault according to the passage?

A．It’s a tunnel where the collected seeds are displayed.

B．It’s a stone room that contains the seeds of endangered crops.

C．It’s a seed gene bank that stores diverse seeds for future agriculture.

D．It’s a lab where researchers study how to maintain the diversity of crops.

【2】What does the underlined word “viable” in Paragraph 3 probably means?

A．Mature.

B．Alive.

C．Clean.

D．Valuable.

【3】What does Paragraph 3 mainly tells us?

A．How the seeds are preserved.

B．Where people keep the seeds.

C．Why the seeds are protected.

D．What people do to study the seeds.

【4】We can know from the passage that ________.

A．the Seed Vault offers a solution to climate change.

B．most countries took part in rescuing the seed varieties.

C．the Seed Vault guarantees to prevent the loss of crop diversity.

D．many people originally considered building the Seed Vault unwise.

25、This Too shall pass

When my family moved to Ohio over the summer, I feared attending another new school and knowing no one because I was able to expect what was coming. I had bright red hair and enormous glasses. In addition, I was _________ and not very sociable.

Boarding the school bus that first day, I felt like all eyes on me. I could hear the words “She's huge!” Obviously, the kids on the bus had known each other well. I spent that first bus _________ in silence.

The following day was even worse. I did not notice that a few boys had tied a shoelace across the aisle and thus fell face first on the bus, dropping everything I was carrying. While I was embarrassingly gathering my supplies, I could hear the laughter, and then the comments “That felt like an earthquake!” Anyway, I _________ to find a seat. Looking out of the window, I _________ the tears welling up in my eyes.

It was then that I sank into myself. I began walking everywhere. I would wander through the woods behind our house. I would also walk to & church about two miles down the road, where I would chat silently with God. I began _________ the afternoon school bus on purpose, walking home instead. Then, _________, I started losing weight. And as I became content with myself, I began making friends.

One of my newly-found friends also _________ with her weight, wanting to be a “perfect” cheerleader. She lived near my neighborhood so we would meet and walk together. This became a daily activity with talking and laughing _________ the way-different from the lonely walks I had taken. My friend said that I didn't have to be perfect. I just had to be me, and be happy with myself.

While I would not want to _________ that time of loneliness, sadness and embarrassment, I am proud I made it through. Whenever I am struggling with any other problem in life, I always remember the proverb “This too shall pass.” If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't ____________ anywhere.

A．outgoing

B．overweight

C．intelligent

D．friendly

A．drive

B．lift

C．ride

D．travel

A．determined

B．attempted

C．pretended

D．managed

A．kept away

B．took back

C．put away

D．held back

A．escaping

B．missing

C．delaying

D．stopping

A．uninterestingly

B．uncertainly

C．unfortunately

D．unexpectedly

A．struggled

B．competed

C．dealt

D．lived

A．along

B．across

C．by

D．in

A．relive

B．remind

C．relate

D．rethink

A．exist

B．stretch

C．lead

D．stay

26、COVID-19的爆发改变了我们的生活，然而在防疫所带来的生活改变之中，有没有哪些是你希望继续保持的?请你以此为主题给校报专栏写一篇文章投稿。内容包括：

1、疫情带给你的生活改变；

2、防疫生活中的哪些做法是你希望继续保持的，说明理由。

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1、字数100左右；

2、可适当添加细节，以使行文连贯。