平凉2025届高三毕业班第三次质量检测英语试题

1、It’s really exciting to imagine my future when I____ a new life at university.

A.would experience B.have experienced

C.will be experiencing D.experienced

2、We express the hope that a climate beneficial to a negotiated settlement would be created soon, ________ there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.

A. in case   B. even though

C. so that   D. as long as

3、It is the bus driver who should ______ the safety of the passengers.

A. answer for   B. search for   C. stand for   D. go for

4、It rained heavily in the south, _________ serious flooding in several provinces.

A．caused

B．causing

C．having caused

D．to cause

5、Nearly all educators believe that a challenging situation can often ______ the best qualities of a person.

A. cheer up B. take over

C. bring out D. put away

6、----I have been watching “I am a singer” and Gloria Tang (邓紫棋) is my favorite star.

----- Me, too. Her new album is said to be ______ next month. By then, we , fans, will buy some.

A. relieved   B. delivered   C. produced   D. released

7、In some western countries， demand for graduates from MBA courses has______.

A.turned down B.turned over C.fallen down D.fallen over

8、—Why are you all ________ me? I did not steal the computer!

—I’m sorry, but you were the only one who had access to it.

A.calling on B.taking on C.turning on D.putting on

9、— The rent of our flat will see a 20% rise this year?

— Yes. That’s ______ I have compromised with the flat owner.

A. what   B. where

C. how   D. when

10、_____ entirely with the flagship smartphone and directed by Peter Chan (陈可辛), the 7-minute video follows a train attendant on a six-day train journey from Nanning to Harbin.

A. Shot   B. Pictured   C. Screened   D. Videoed

11、 ______ from endless homework on weekends, the students now find their own activities, such as taking a ride together to watch the sunrise.

A．Freed

B．Freeing

C．To free

D．having freed

12、Raymond’s parents wanted him to have_______ possible education.

A.good B.better C.best D.the best

13、She’s late for work every day, but she still has the nerve to lecture me about ______.

A. punctuality   B. priority   C. preference   D. privilege

14、Sometimes,_______we make choices has a lot to do with what we feel.

A.what B.how C.which D.why

15、He amazed ________ all with his kindness and his beautiful, gentle, caring spirit.

A.our B.we C.us D.ours

16、Can we stop the ______ of the world’s deserts and save the land that man depends so much on?

A.loss B.heat C.spread D.defence

17、As soon as the children were _____， their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.

A.woke B.waken C.wake D.awake

18、Peppa Pig, a Bristish cartoon character with a face ______ like a hair dryer, is placed on the cup ______ blue, green and celadon colors.

A.shaping; featuring B.shaped; featuring

C.shaping; featured D.shaped; featured

19、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

20、   _____ team wins on Saturday will go through to the national championships.

A．No matter what

B．No matter which

C．Whatever

D．Whichever

21、Just like happiness and sadness, anxiety is part of everyone's lived experience—but it's not always tolerated as such. “People often spend too much time and effort trying to rid anxiety,” says Dr Joel Minden, a clinical psychologist. “I encourage them to remember that anxiety is a normal emotional response.”

If you try to banish anxiety, all you're doing is putting it more at the forefront of your mind. But if you accept anxiety as part of life, you can learn to relate to it with self-pity or even with humour. This is a cornerstone of acceptance and commitment therapy(ACT), which has been gaining clinical validation, including by the American Psychological Association. ACT guides people to see their unpleasant emotions as just feelings and to accept that parts o£ life are hard. Sufferers are encouraged to begin a dialogue with anxious thoughts, examining their causes while also keeping in mind their personal goals and values.

This way of relating to anxiety has been a powerful strategy for John Bateman, the 52- year-old host of the podcast Our Anxiety Stories. When negative thoughts arise, he acknowledges them but doesn't let them drive his decisions. Over the years, Bateman has noticed that if he submits to his thoughts, they don't go away but dramatically increase. But if he recognizes them for what they are, just a passing thought and not a fact that needs to be acted on, they gradually go away.

Learning to live with anxiety is an individual process and one that requires trial and error to get just right. While acceptance is the first and most important step to take, some lifestyle changes have been proven to take the edge off, as well. Since tiredness, increased tension and stress leave us much easier to fall into anxiety, a well-balanced diet, sufficient rest and, especially, regular exercise can help us manage it better.

【1】What may Dr Joel Minden agree about anxiety?

A．It goes hand in hand with joy.

B．It should be seriously taken.

C．It is easily-earned experience.

D．It is often improperly treated.

【2】What can explain the underlined word “banish” in Paragraph 2?

A．Ignore.

B．Hide.

C．Recognize.

D．Control.

【3】Why does the author mention John Bateman in Paragraph 3?

A．To explain a strategy.

B．To describe a phenomenon.

C．To present a successful case.

D．To introduce a public figure.

【4】What is advised to deal with anxiety in the last part?

A．Concentrating on the process.

B．Making lifestyle adjustments.

C．Avoiding exposure to pressure.

D．Learning to get things in place.

22、Mystery of Evolution

Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia(NCP), also named COVID-19 by WHO, there is a general fear of the unknown virus as its full effects remain to be seen. Fever, coughing, sore throat, difficulty breathing-the NCP's symptoms are similar to the common cold or the flu. but it's potentially more dangerous.

Viruses could be deadly, like HIV and Ebola (埃博拉) . But what are viruses? How can they cause so much trouble? Viruses are non-living organisms (有机体) approximately one-millionth of an inch long. Unlike human cells or bacteria, they can't reproduce on their own. 【1】 

Viruses can infect every living thing-from plants and animals down to the smallest bacteria. For this reason, they always have the potential to be dangerous to human life. Sometimes a virus can cause a disease so serious that it is fatal. Other viral infections cause no noticeable reaction. Viruses lie around our environment all of the time, waiting for a host cell to come along. They can eater our bodies by the nose, mouth, eyes or breaks in the skin. 【2】For example, HIV, which causes AIDS. attacks the T-cells of the immune system.

But the basic question is, where did viruses first come from?【3】"Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult. " Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told Scientific American, "because viruses don't leave fossils (化石) and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells they've invaded." 【4】First, viruses started as independent organisms, then became parasites (寄生者) . Second. viruses evolved from pieces of DNA or RNA that "escaped" from larger organisms. Third, viruses co-evolved with their host cells, which means they existed alongside these cells.

For the time being, these are only theories. The technology and evidence we have today cannot be used to test these theories and identify the most plausible explanation. 【5】 Or future studies may reveal that the answer is even murkier (含糊不清的)  than it now appears.

A.Once inside, they try to find a host cell to infect.

B.Until now, no clear explanation for their origin exists.

C.Continuing studies may provide us with clearer answers.

D.There's pretty strong evidence that this is a bat origin coronavirus.

E.However, there are three main hypotheses (假说) to explain the origin of viruses.

F.Instead, they invade the cells of living organisms to reproduce, spread and take over.

G.Bat is a flying mammal with a long lifespan, whose temperature is high, similar to a fever.

23、I started the latest round of the NutriFit programme weeks ago. We take about 45 minutes to go through participants’ health records, previous diets, expectations, and levels of willingness to change to customize the programme to meet each individual’s needs.

I was shocked by one thing. When it comes to weight-loss goals, I usually ask, When was the last time you were happy with your body? The reply usually relates to pre-wedding, pre-kids, pre-college—the usual suspects. However this time, almost everyone said, “Of course, I wasn’t happy with it then, but I’d be happy with it now!”

It made me stop to think. For most of us, no matter how much we don’t really like the body shape, there will likely be a point in the future when we would kill for the body we currently have. I don’t mean to upset anyone from improving their health right now. But maybe we need to stop and smell the roses. We should be happy and grateful for our bodies exactly as they are.

That’s why NutriFit has changed into something much more holistic. Now we have every shape and size taking part, but the goals are so much bigger: disease prevention, more energy and clarity, better immunity, well-balanced hormones... the list goes on. Yes, we get great body part results, but you are about so much more than what your body looks like.

In my opinion, the key rule of a successful nutrition programme is to be based on real food. If you focus more on balanced diets and less on weight, it becomes a mentally healthier process. If you’re going to maintain your new, healthy lifestyle, it needs to be something you actively enjoy—a lifestyle that you want to maintain. If you eat healthily because you want to rather than you have to, life gets 1,000 percent easier.

【1】What did the author do to customize the programme for individuals?

A．Analyze and adjust participants’ dietary structure.

B．Examine participants’ physical health condition.

C．Make clear of people’s health history and plans

D．Introduce the programme in detail.

【2】What made the author shocked?

A．People’s discontent with their previous life.

B．People’s optimism about their current body.

C．People’s satisfaction with their former body.

D．Peoples ambitious goals of losing weight.

【3】What does NutriFit pay attention to now?

A．People’s image.

B．People’s health

C．People’s weight

D．People’s appearance

【4】What should a successful nutrition programme focus on in the author’s view?

A．A healthy lifestyle.

B．A sound exercise plan

C．Enough nutritious food

D．Weight loss.

24、Books are typically written first, then narrated (朗读) for audio (有声) books. Until now. Audible , the largest company of audio books, has begun asking well-known writers to create works specifically for audio, instead of inviting people to narrate already existing print books. It’s a new chapter for the book industry.

Audible now has about 30 totally new audio works in production. And it turns out that audio books, which have long been regarded as less important than e-books, have actually been doing quite well. They are a $1,000,000,000 industry, with more than 35,000 titles published in 2013 alone.

What promotes that progress is not only an evolution of technology, but more importantly ,the rise of the celebrity (名人) narrator. Narrators are key to the success of an audio book and these days, producers are signing on more and more celebrities. Celebrities’ narration is like a private performance to customers, who get a feeling of closeness in listening to their voices. Many of the customers buy audio books based on the narrator. They will listen to anything a specific actor or actress reads.

That is why Audible is taking the risk of not producing print books at all but starting totally new audio works. There’s another reason why the company is expecting its risk-taking action to pay off: humans have been telling stories since the beginning of time. We are taking part in a little habit that goes back thousands and thousands of years—before the first mark was ever made on a stone. Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audio book goes all the way back to that tradition. As Peter Allen sang softly in the 1970s, everything old is new again.

【1】The “new chapter” (Para. 1) refers to a time of ______.

A. producing totally new audio works

B. starting audio companies

C. narrating print books for audio

D. creating electronic books

【2】What does Paragraph 2 tell about audio books?

A. Their difference from e-books.

B. Their previous production.

C. Their great importance.

D. Their bright future.

【3】Customers like celebrities’ narration because ______.

A. celebrities help them understand the stories

B. celebrities have more attractive voices

C. celebrities have better narrating skills

D. celebrities seem to be within their reach

【4】Audible believes its risk-taking action will be rewarding because ______.

A. the action agrees with the story-telling tradition

B. customers play an active role in the action

C. the company has spent a lot on the action

D. the action has lasted for a long time

25、A Good Man

It’s a late Saturday afternoon in early March, and I am sweating in search of the only gift my son wants from Los Angeles: a ______ to the homes of the stars such as Brad Pitt and Jet Li.

A cheerful taxi driver says, “No problem. Map sellers are everywhere!” When the taxi stops, a fellow ______ with a thin folded sheet and says: “Ten dollars.”

Ten dollars! With absolute ______, I inform him, “That’s too much.” The map man leaves. I begin walking, certain I’ll find a (an)______ star map soon.

I am ______. There’s hardly anybody on the street. There don’t seem to be many real stores, just cars and bars. No maps. No stars. Blocks pass. The sun begins to sink. At the edge of West Hollywood,______ fellow wanders ahead, selling star maps to some teenage girls.

Ten dollars ______. Forget it. My son will ______.

That night, I call my wife. “Did you get one of those maps to the stars? He’s been talking about ______ else.”

This ______ is hard to ignore, It’s late. At all-night markets: no maps. I head back to the hotel. Morning is coming. There will be one last ______. After I check out, I take a taxi. But at nine in the morning, map sellers are ______ to be found.

“You know,” says the driver, “The guys with the maps just ain’t up yet!” He’s right.

“Forget it. Let’s go to the airport.”

“Well,” says the driver, “I could ______ you one if you like.”

Sure. Trust this guy? I might as well throw cash onto the freeway. But exiting the taxi, I ______ my last chance. I hand him $13 and my business card. Three weeks pass. I’ve ______ on the star map. My son has stopped mentioning it.

Then one afternoon, sticking out from under piles of flyers, there it is: a big white envelope. There is a small note. I can hardly read it,______ I make out a few phrases一“forgive ______,” “taxi’s been down” and, finally, “here’s map for your son.” There’s no return address. It’s signed, “kind regards, M.”

I hold the note in my hand,______ what my son said to me when I got back from Los Angeles.

“Did you meet any ______, Dad?” he asked.

Now I know what to tell him.

“Yes, I did. I met a guy named M.”

If you never ______ anybody, you’ll never find the good guys.

【1】A. decoration   B. map   C. book   D. symbol

【2】A. argues   B. requests   C. competes   D. approaches

【3】A. assurance   B. permission   C. anxiety   D. bargain

【4】A. perfect   B. inexpensive   C. proper   D. detailed

【5】A. shocked   B. confused   C. impatient   D. wrong

【6】A. one   B. some   C. another   D. either

【7】A. still   B. even   C. almost   D. yet

【8】A. believe   B. regret   C. understand   D. admit

【9】A. anything   B. everything   C. something   D. nothing

【10】A. idea   B. news   C. change   D. reason

【11】A. try   B. journey   C. action   D. minute

【12】A. everywhere   B. somewhere   C. anywhere   D. nowhere

【13】A. give   B. mail   C. show   D. spare

【14】A. create   B. recognize   C. deserve   D. blow

【15】A. given up   B. thrown doubts   C. refused offers   D. dropped in

【16】A. and   B. or   C. but   D. for

【17】A. fault   B. delay   C. carelessness   D. rudeness

【18】A. remembering   B. reminding   C. reviewing   D. realizing

【19】A. admirers   B. friends   C. stars   D. heroes

【20】A. look up to   B. turn to   C. have faith in   D. agree with

26、假设你是红星中学的李华。近期，你校正在开展“捐献一本书，奉献一份爱”的主题活动，以帮助贫困地区的孩子体会阅读的乐趣。你将作为学生代表面向交换生进行英文演讲，号召大家积极参与活动。演讲内容如下：

1. 活动简介；

2. 活动意义；

3. 发出号召。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear fellow schoolmates,

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