鄂州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、It is considered a terrible mistake to think ________ you know ________ in fact you don’t know.

A．that; what

B．that; what

C．what; that

D．what; that

2、If we want students to become effective in multicultural settings, one thing is clear: there is no ________ for practice.

A. prescription   B. substitute

C. appetite   D. suspension

3、The police chief stood trial in New York on Tuesday, charged with ________ of power.

A.abuse B.absence C.abortion D.advantage

4、The Spring Festival is the most joyful time of the year, but it can also be ______ . With all the traveling, visiting relatives, and gift-buying, the holiday can become a tense time for many families.

A. beneficial   B. optional

C. commercial   D. stressful

5、I like the country music that ________.

A．touching my soul

B．breaks my soul

C．breaking my heart

D．touches my heart

6、Why not try to 　　　 your story into a novel?

A. expend   B. expand

C. expense   D. expect

7、This time tomorrow we_____in the classroom，having an English lesson．

A．will sit  B．will be sitting

C．are sitting D．are to sit

8、Yaoming is so tall that he can be ________ in the crowd easily.

A.picked up B.helped out C.figured out D.picked out

9、Over 200 people died ______ the air crash.

A.with regard to B.as a consequence of C.in the course of D.on the ground of

10、—What do you think of French?

—In my opinion, French is ______ English.

A．a subject so difficult as B．as difficult a subject as

C．as a subject difficult as    D．difficult as subject as

11、The newly elected president required at the meeting that the problem ________ be solved before the National Day.

A. must   B. need

C. can   D. should

12、You are saying that women should stay at home rather than going out to work, and this is _____ I disagree.

A. where   B. what

C. why   D. that

13、What is known to us all is that no one, no matter who he is, can ________ the wheel of history.

A. hold on B. hold back

C. hold out D. hold up

14、Zhurong is the god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology,________echoes with the Chinese name of the red planet, Huoxing.

A．which

B．that

C．when

D．where

15、I will go on a vacation once all the work is _____.

A.at the end B.by the end C.in the end D.at an end

16、Every year I usually subscribe ________ some magazines for my daughter to read.

A．to    B．for    C．at      D．in

17、Many countries are now setting up national parks ______ animals and plants can be protected.

A. when   B. which

C. whose   D. where

18、Jane had many new friends in the school, ______ she shared her feelings.

A．with whom

B．with which

C．to whom

D．for which

19、Either your parents or your elder brother ________ to attend the school meeting tomorrow.

A. is   B. are

C. are going   D. have

20、"You can't catch me!" Janet shouted, _____ away.

A. run   B. running

C. to run   D. ran

21、The most detailed study yet of the physics of a finger snap (响指) has shown that in terms of acceleration (加速度), no other body movement comes close. Using high speed cameras, the researchers found that it reached a speed about 20 times faster than the blink of an eye. This “rotational (旋转的) acceleration” was nearly three times greater than the previous record for humans, set by a professional baseball player's arm.

The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, divides the finger snap into three stages. First, force is first built up by pressing the thumb and middle fingers together. This appears to be stored in springlike muscle in the fingers and forearm. Friction (摩擦力) between the two fingers acts like a latch (门闩), preventing the energy from being released. Eventually, an “unlatching” process begins, with the thumb moving sideways and the middle finger quickly sliding past the thumb, starting the snap motion. The middle finger then slips into the palm, generating shockwaves that result in a “pop” sound.

The study was inspired by the Hollywood movie Avengers: Infinity War and the character Thanos, who destroys half the universe by snapping his fingers. He does this while wearing a metal glove. When they saw this scene, Dr Saad Bhamla, the leading researcher, and his colleagues asked themselves if this was possible - could you snap your fingers while wearing a metal glove?

They explored the role of friction by covering fingers with different materials, including metallic thimbles (金属套管), which reduced friction. The researchers concluded that a “Goldilocks zone” of friction was necessary. Too little friction and not enough energy was stored to power the snap. Too much friction led to displacement of energy as the fingers took longer to slide past each other, “wasting” the stored energy as heat. “Our results suggest that Thanos could not have snapped because of his metal armoured fingers. So, it's probably the Hollywood special effects, rather than actual physics, at play,” said Bhamla.

【1】What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A．The finger snap is the fastest acceleration of our body.

B．The blink of an eye is faster than a finger snap.

C．People can have faster acceleration if they want.

D．Baseball players have the fastest acceleration.

【2】What does the underlined word “This” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The position of the thumb.

B．The rotational acceleration.

C．Friction between two fingers.

D．Potential energy from pressing fingers.

【3】Why did the researchers conduct the study?

A．They questioned a movie scene.

B．They suspected the function of fingers.

C．They wanted to prove a theory in the movie.

D．They hoped to create different movie scenes.

【4】What did the researchers find in the end?

A．A finger snap can happen in any movie.

B．Wearing a metal glove can snap a magic sound.

C．The finger snap of Thanos in the movie is just a play.

D．The friction between fingers is occasionally out of control.

22、Saving money for the future is one of the great passions of wealthy people. The rich are getting richer because of the way they spend their money.

They are successful at controlling their expenses in order to grow their wealth. One example is Warren Buffett, one of the world’s wealthiest people. He always practices spending money wisely. He is not fond of buying expensive things. He knows the benefits of saving money.

John Poole said, “You must learn to save first and spend afterwards.” If you want to achieve your financial goal, the most important step is to save first. You can’t grow your wealth or money if you don’t start saving first. Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg, one of the youngest billionaires and co-founders of Facebook, is a great saver? During his wedding, the reception was held in his backyard in Palo Alto, California rather than in a fancy five-star hotel. During the couple’s honeymoon in Italy, many people saw them eating in McDonald’s. This guy is still wearing ordinary T-shirts to work every day. I understand why he practices saving. Saving money is important to him to grow his wealth and grow it quickly. He uses extra money to put into other businesses, investments and acquisitions.

Saving money for the future gives you protection for unexpected circumstances. You don’t know what will happen to you over the next days or weeks. And living below your means can give you plenty of room to save. You can use your savings to pay off your mortgage (按揭贷款) early. Also, people who are fond of saving money for the future can retire early.

Saving money for the future is essential. Today will not be the same as tomorrow. You don’t know when the rainy season will come. Every day is full of surprises, and to be ready for uncertainty, save now for your future.

【1】What does the example of Warren Buffett explain?

A．The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

B．Buying expensive things is not a good habit.

C．Saving money can bring us a lot of benefits.

D．Controlling our expenses helps to increase our wealth.

【2】Why did Mark Zuckerberg hold his wedding in his backyard?

A．He was not a generous man although he was rich.

B．He had to save money for his honeymoon with his wife.

C．He wanted to use extra money to expand his business.

D．He was practicing the skill of saving money.

【3】What does the underlined part in the fourth paragraph probably mean?

A．Spending according to your habit.

B．Saving money for tomorrow’s uncertainty.

C．Saving money for living better in the future.

D．Spending less than you can afford.

【4】Which benefit of saving money is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．It makes you feel at safe when an emergency happens.

B．It leads you to live a high-quality life.

C．It helps you achieve a debt-free life early.

D．It allows you to enjoy your retirement early.

23、Are Happy Meals Really Happy?

Don’t we all know a “Happy Meal” when we see one--the famous boxed meal that includes a hamburger, kid-sized French fries, fruits and milk, served with a toy that’s extremely popular with children who love to collect them?

A Happy Meal is a form of kids’ meal sold at a certain fast-food chain since 1979. A toy is included in the meal, both of which are usually contained in a box or paper bag. However, collectors of these little toys will not get them any longer, since the company will replace toys with books and each of these books will mainly pass on nutritional messages.

Happy Meals are extremely popular with kids, especially for their collectable toys, when you consider that over 1.3 billion of these packages are sold each year. These packages have been very controversial. Health supporters believe that drawing kids to these meals with toys is a clever way of promoting unhealthy food choices. They see it as an advertising a strategy of “catching its customers young”--a move that has paid off very well for the fast-food company.

Child development experts say that food habits get formed in children by age six and continue through to their adult life. Fatty and sugary foods such as those served in Happy Meals are believed to play a big role in growing health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Public health care costs have gone up and untold amounts of money have been spent on coping with these health problems. On November 2, 2010, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a law requiring that children’s meals sold in restaurants must meet certain nutritional standards before they could be sold with toys, to overcome the problem of childhood obesity--in other words, the State of California tried to ban the toys in Happy Meals. However, it was strongly opposed by some as being heavy-handed, and the ban was thrown out by the government.

While some people believe that the fast-food company, with its large following of children, can create a powerful message through the books, others believe its actions are contradictory. Anyway, the company is trying to spread the message of nutrition while it is serving food that is anything but healthy.

【1】The aim of the question raised in Paragraph 1 is______.

A．give a surprise to the toy lovers

B．get readers’ attention to the article

C．call on readers to buy boxed meals

D．make readers think about the answer

【2】Books will be added into Happy Meals to ______.

A．introduce the use of the toys

B．increase the cost of the meals

C．help kids learn about nutrition

D．spread the message of fast food

【3】According to Paragraph 3, Happy Meals_______.

A．have achieved the desired result

B．help the customers stay young

C．cost more money than ordinary meals

D．receive approval from health supporters

【4】What is the author’s opinion about Happy Meals?

A．They bring much fun to children.

B．They teach children a lot about nutrition

C．They do no actual good to children’s health.

D．They are popular with the young and the old.

24、The State of California is depending on its forests to help cut down planet-warming CO2. But that climate-change strategy may be risky, as new research from the University of California, Irvine(UCI)reports that trees in California’s mountains and open spaces are dying from wildfires and other pressures — and fewer new trees are filling the blank.

“The forests are not keeping up with these large fires,” said study co-author James Randerson, the Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor of Earth system science at UCI. Across the whole state, tree cover area has dropped 6.7% since 1985. “These are big changes in less than forty years,” he said. It’s the first time that researchers have been able to measure tree population fall in California, and find out the reasons (wildfires and woodcutting).

For the study, the UCI-led team used satellite data from the USGS and NASA’s Landsat mission to study plant changes between 1985 and 2021. They found that one of the most obvious falls in tree cover was in southern California, where 14% of the tree population in local mountain had disappeared, maybe everlastingly.

“The ability of forests to recover(恢复)from fire appears to be dwindling in the south,” said Jonathan Wang, a researcher in Randerson’s research group, who led the study coming out in AGU Advances. “At the same time, the state’s coverage of bushes and grasses is rising, which could mean more everlasting ecosystem shifts(生态系统转化).”

“The speed and scale of fall in tree cover is different across the state. Tree cover in the Sierra Nevada, for example, stayed relatively unchanged until around 2010, then began dropping suddenly. Fortunately, in the north, there’s plenty of recovery after fire,” said Wang, perhaps because of the area’s higher rainfall and cooler temperatures. “This threat(威胁) to California’s climate solutions isn’t going away anytime soon,” Wang said. “We might be entering a new age of bigger fire and vulnerable(易受损的) forests.”

【1】What mainly helped California cut down CO2?

A．Energy saving.

B．Rich forests.

C．Less vehicles.

D．Fine weather.

【2】What has caused the drop of tree cover in the past few years?

A．Poor soil.

B．Continual floods.

C．High demand for farmland and food.

D．Large wildfires and people’s cutting trees.

【3】Which is the most suitable title for the text?

A．California’s trees will die out in the future.

B．California’s environment will face a big challenge.

C．Wildfires seriously threaten California’s tree cover.

D．The reason for California wildfires has been found out.

25、A few years back a group of young teachers from another school was spending a day in my class. They were energetic, bright and _______. However, I noticed a key _______in their approach to teaching. Their desire to help kids was so strong that they never allowed the students to get the wrong answer or take a _______.

We were building _______that week. My students were working in groups of four. Each group was _______a small Viking model rocket, instructions, and the materials with which to put it _______. The challenge for each team was to precisely measure, _______, and assemble their project. One group was trying hard but making mistakes in the placement of missile sections. Several of the teachers _______going over to the kids to show them how to build the rocket _______. On a number of occasions I had to politely but firmly ask them to leave the kids alone.

It’s important to remember that we ________individually define the word failure. In my class, a rocket that doesn’t fly is not a failure. Failure ________only when students stop trying to solve a problem. It may he solved in five minutes, or it may take two months, as was the case where my students built an enormous roller coaster and could not create a loop with enough centripetal force to allow the cars to move along the track safely. ________those two months of failed trials were some of the most fascinating and exciting times the kids had in science that year. And when the roller coaster finally ________, the kids could say they did it themselves. They ________the physics of the roller coaster. I did the best teaching during those two months when I decided to ________and leave the kids alone.

【1】

A．curious

B．cute

C．caring

D．encouraging

【2】

A．role

B．reason

C．goal

D．mistake

【3】

A．fall

B．break

C．guess

D．tour

【4】

A．cars

B．roller coasters

C．rockets

D．tracks

【5】

A．showed

B．given

C．called

D．awarded

【6】

A．together

B．down

C．back

D．aside

【7】

A．present

B．plan

C．buy

D．read

【8】

A．avoided

B．forbade

C．suggested

D．kept

【9】

A．quickly

B．firmly

C．correctly

D．politely

【10】

A．students

B．parents

C．friends

D．teachers

【11】

A．continues

B．happens

C．stops

D．matters

【12】

A．Thus

B．Now

C．Then

D．But

【13】

A．broke

B．appeared

C．worked

D．opened

【14】

A．taught

B．understood

C．created

D．changed

【15】

A．shut up

B．come up

C．get up

D．keep up

26、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。

Walking Home Together

Yesterday evening, John and I went to the levee where I am relearning how to run due to illness. Ahead of us was a very tall man with a plastic bag who seemed to be unable to walk a straight line. John said, “You keep running, and I will check on him.” I tried to continue on but then turned around only to find that the man had fallen and was lying on his back with John at his side.

John was holding his hand and tried to help him up. The man said thank you that he was fine but he was going to stay down for a bit. John told the man, “We are going to come back this way, if you are still here, we will check on you.”

We ran on for 10-15 minutes or so and turned around. Many people had passed us. I told John that the man would not be there because for sure someone else could help him also. John ran ahead to see if he was still there. When I got to the spot, John was leaving and told me, “He said he is fine. Let’s go on.”

The man in the meantime tried to climb up the levee and fell again and as he sat there, I walked down. I said, “Hi, my name is Mia. What’s your name?” He laughed and looked at me. I said light-heartedly, “I am relearning how to run. I didn’t realize it was so difficult.” He said, “ Oh, so did my son and I—it's not always easy.” “How old is your son?” I asked. “Huh，” he laughed. “Well, he's 19 but he had got a kind of rare leg disease.” There was a pain in his eyes. I told him my own experience and encouraged him. It was getting dark. John made a gesture of it is time to go.

注意：1．续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:

I said, “Shall we walk together? ”

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Paragraph 2:

After coming down from the levee，we wanted to accompany him farther.

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