海西州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、—You wanted to see me?

—Yes, ________ I need some money. Could you lend me some?

A．I’ll come straight to the point.

B．I’ll throw light on that question.

C．keep cool!

D．well done!

2、To tell the truth, you can't________to learn a foreign language in a week.

A．practice

B．expect

C．admit

D．imagine

3、This is the first time that I__________ Xi'an and I am deeply impressed with its ancient buildings.

A．visit

B．visited

C．will visit

D．have visited

4、The teacher decided to give the task to ____________ had a strong sense of duty.

A.whomever B.whoever C.who D.whichever

5、______ he was 12, Einstein had learned advanced mathematics by himself.

A. The first time   B. At the time

C. By the time   D. During the time

6、Jane has made up her mind to ________ teaching as her profession after she graduates from college.

A．clean up

B．take up

C．pick up

D．put up

7、—How do you find ____ park?

—Well, ____ great one. It has left a deep impression on me.

A./; the B./; a C.the; a D.the; the

8、His ____ from the carnival (狂欢节) was a pity for his fans.

A.absence B.presence C.attendance D.appearance

9、They only publish novels which __________the mass-market.

A.back up B.carry out C.cater to D.quote as

10、Several of us were asked to attend the meeting, as ________ below.

A．listed

B．listing

C．to be listed

D．having listed

11、 Although the tradition of drinking tea dates back to more than 3,000 BC in China, it was not until the mid 17'th century in the UK appeared the concept of "afternoon tea".

A. when B. where   C. that   D. which

12、It is in the factory ______ you’re going to pay a visit to ______ this kind of computer is made.

A. that; which   B. where; that   C. / ; that   D. / ; where

13、All the police went out ________ the missing boy.

A.searching B.in search for

C.search for D.to search for

14、—Is Robert coming by coach?

—He should, but he ___________ not. He likes driving his car.

A.may B.could C.need D.must

15、As one walks along the paths of Oxford, one realizes _________ different British Civilization is from the vigor of American Civilization.

A．what

B．how

C．that

D．if

16、These problems are different in nature, so you must treat them________.

A．totally

B．specially

C．extremely

D．separately

17、Was it in June 2016 ______ Shanghai Disney land ______ you have been dreaming of visiting was opened to the public.

A.when; that B.that; which C.that; where D.when; where

18、— What’s the matter? He’s been walking around with ________.

— He failed the examination.

A．a long face

B．a wide face

C．a straight face

D．a good face

19、The twin pandas born in Germany were named Meng Xiang and Meng Yuan, ______ means “beautiful dreams come true.”

A.whom B.they C.which D.that

20、 —Wow, you have a really good voice. I_____ you were good at singing.

—Thank you.

A. haven't known    B. hadn't known

C. didn't know    D. don't know

21、Junior Alvarado was worried when he began his first year at a public high school in Washington, DC. He often struggled in his math classes and earned poor grades in middle school. But the teachers at the Washington Leadership Academy used computer programs to identify the areas he was weak in and design a learning plan just for him.

As Alvarado started geometry in his second year of high school last week, he said he felt much better about his math skills. "For me, personalized learning is having classes set at your level," the 15-year-old said. "They explain the problem step by step. It wouldn't be as fast. It will be at your speed."

Many schools in the United States struggle to raise the high school graduation rate. They also have difficulty helping many minority and low-income students perform at the same level as others. So many educators see digital technology as a way of solving these problems.

The use of technology in schools is part of a larger idea of personalized learning. This idea has been gaining popularity in recent years. The Education Department put $500 million into personalized learning programs in 68 school districts. These programs served almost 500,000 students in 13 states and Washington, D.C.

Supporters say traditional methods do not match the modern world, but personalized learning helps teachers follow their students' progress and make changes to lessons that meet students' individual needs and students, in this way, are able to master subjects at their own speed.

Still, many researchers say it is too early to tell if personalized learning works better than traditional teaching. The Rand Corporation recently did a study of personalized learning and found that it only led to small improvements. It found only a 3-percentile improvement in math and even smaller improvements in reading compared to schools with traditional teaching methods. Some teachers have their doubts as well. They admit that technology can be helpful in many ways, but they argue that no computer program should ever replace the personal touch, support and inspiration that teachers give their students.

【1】What or who did Alvarado give his thanks to for his better performance in math skills?

A．His new math teacher.

B．Personalized learning.

C．The Education Department.

D．The traditional teaching.

【2】What is the Education Department’s attitude to the application of digital technology to education?

A．Doubtful.

B．Favorable.

C．Reserved.

D．Disapproving.

【3】What do we know about personalized learning?

A．It has benefited students all over the USA.

B．It can help improve students’ scores greatly.

C．It can be helpful for students’ individual learning.

D．It will take the place of traditional teaching in no time.

22、   Every two or three months, Thyago Ohana goes out on the busy streets of Vienna with a sign saying "Free Hugs". The handsome 32-year-old Brazilian, who works in international trade at India's Vienna embassy, chooses a popular site, like the historic shopping street, Kaerntner Strasse. There he opens his arms to anyone who wants a hearty embrace(拥抱).

He does it because back in 2012, when he was feeling very stressed and anxious during a visit to Paris, a stranger gave him a free hug. He's never forgotten how it filled him with unexpected calm and joy.

For those who take up his offer, the hug makes them laugh and smile. But sometimes it does more, as when an elderly woman in a tour group stopped and watched him. The group moved on, but she remained and asked, "Can I have a hug?" "Of course you can!" said Thyago who wrapped his arms round her. When they broke their embrace, she kept holding onto his shoulders and looked into his eyes. "Thank you," she said. "I can't remember the last time I was hugged this way."

It's a memory that still makes Thyago emotional. "It was a really powerful moment of human connection. It's why 1 keep doing it."

Of our five senses, our sense of touch is the one that is most easily taken for granted. "A child can be born blind or deaf and they will grow up just fine," says David J Linden, author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind. "Yet if a baby is lacking in loving social touch for the first two years of life, then all sorts of disasters unfold." That's one reason why when babies are born, they are now usually placed on their mother's skin.

Linden says however you do it, "maximizing touch in your life is a good thing"- whether holding hands, petting a dog, going to the hairdresser, hugging our kids, our partners or even a

stranger.

【1】Why did Thyago Ohana offer free hugs to strangers?

A.He longed for calm and joy.

B.He felt stressed and upset.

C.He wanted others to feel connected and cared.

D.He hoped to help others cure their diseases.

【2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 suggest?

A.Our sense of touch isn't so important.

B.Our sense of touch is undervalued.

C.Our sense of touch does no good to us.

D.Our sense of touch is thought highly of.

【3】What does David J Linden think of social touch?

A.The way of offering social touch counts.

B.Offering hugs is the best way to get social touch.

C.Blind kids will be cured as long as they get enough social touch.

D.Many problems can be tracked back to babyhood short of social touch.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A health magazine. B.A research paper.

C.A guide book. D.A biology textbook.

23、Crushing disappointment

“If you want to make money in Cuba, buy garlic,” says a farmer in Artemisa province, in western Cuba. Garlic, known as “white gold” for its value, is critical to the unique seasoning of Cuban food. 【1】. A lack of fertilizer and pesticide makes it especially hard to grow. And it is harvested only once a year, in January.

Every year garlic-sellers on the streets of Havana peddle bulbs from backpacks, as if selling fake luxury handbags or electronics. The price of garlic tends to boom around November and December, before more comes onto the black market. A pensioner in one part of the capital complains that a bulb now costs 25 pesos ($1) and 450g (11b) costs 240 pesos, four times the price in September.

【2】. They pay garlic farmers $50,000-100,000 to buy their whole harvest and then resell it to a network of other resellers, who in turn sell to smaller resellers and so on. The dealers make so much cash from these transactions that banks, especially the small ones out in the provinces, sometimes have to close to the public while they process the sacks of money being deposited. “You can recognize the big resellers by their cars,” sighs the farmer in Artemisa.

【3】.In 1986 Fidel Castro, then Cuba’s dictator, discovered that a garlic farmer was making $50,000 a year—ten times a local surgeon’s wage at the time— by privately selling what he had left over after meeting his quota for the state agriculture system. Outraged to see that people were behaving like “capitalists in disguise”, he closed the private farmers’ markets where it was sold.

But the pandemic has worsened shortages of basic goods in Cuba, along with fertilizers, fungicide, seeds and supplies for animals. Thousands of rabbits died last summer in an outbreak of haemorrhagic disease. Pigs may be next. 【4】. Last year the government mooted eating guinea pigs, a popular food in parts of South America, but the idea was largely ridiculed. Then again, Cubans cannot live by allium alone.

A．Profiting from garlic is nothing new.

B．Another way to get the bulbs is through garlic resellers.

C．The country is on high alert following an outbreak of African swine fever in the Dominican Republic.

D．Ministry of Agriculture of Cuba has been developed a program of plant breeding with the aim of obtaining adaptation to the country conditions.

E．That is why these pensioners refuse to pay the garlic sellers on the street.

F．As with so many things on the communist island, however, it is in short supply.

24、Doing your laundry with cold water can help save the planet, and maybe save you some money along the way. That’s the message from Tide in a newly launched campaign to decarbonize laundry. The goal is for consumers in North America to do three out of every four loads of laundry with cold water instead of hot by 2030, up from about half today. That would eliminate the power consumption required to heat cold water.

If this goal is met, it will have the same impact on greenhouse gas emissions as removing about a million cars from the road for a year. “There is no tradeoff. You will save 150 a year in energy costs, your garments will last longer. And by the way, you’re helping to save the planet,” Shailesh Jejurikar, CEO of Procter & Gamble’s fabric and home care division, said in an interview. “It’s a beautiful win-win-win if we get this right.”

“This is going to be the defining decades for where we end up on climate change,” Jejurikar said. “If we don’t get this situation under control in the coming years, we are going to pay the price. There is a need to act now.” Beyond its focus on cold-water washing, Tide set a new goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions at its factories in half by 2030. That’s in addition to the progress it already has made cutting emissions by three-quarters over the past decade as the brand adopted 100% renewable energy at its manufacturing plants. Tide also plans to reduce its carbon footprint by using 100% recyclable packaging for all products by 2030 and by teaming up with Silicon Valley startup Opus12 to capture carbon from its factories.

Jejurikar said P&G does want to get to zero emissions in its factories, but added that how people use Tide products has 10 times more impact than what happens in its plants. “We are trying to give them chance to take their ordinary daily actions, and make them have an extraordinary impact,” Jejurikar said.

【1】What can we learn from the passage?

A．We need to heat cold water before laundry.

B．Tide will remove a million cars from the road.

C．Hot water laundry could save energy and protect the planet.

D．Cold water laundry might increase by a quarter in North America.

【2】Which word can be used to replace “tradeoff” in Paragraph 2?

A．advantage.

B．need.

C．hesitation.

D．emission.

【3】Which measure has been taken by Tide to cut greenhouse emission so far?

A．Advertising for its new products.

B．Using 100% recyclable packaging for all products.

C．Adopting completely renewable energy in its factories.

D．Cooperating with a new High-Tech company to recycle carbon.

【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Cold Water Laundry—An Eco-friendly Campaign

B．Advanced Technology Being Applied to Cars

C．The Vital Decades for Climate Change

D．Cutting Emission to Protect Our Planet

25、Children find meanings in their old family tales.

When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker,_______all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times_______his strong-minded grandfather was nearly_______, he loaded his family into the car and_______them to see family members in Canada with a_______, “there are more important things in life than money. ”

The_______took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to a_______house from a more expensive and comfortable one. He was_______that his children ,a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset. To his surprise, they weren’t._______, their reaction echoed （共鸣） their great-grandfather’s. What they________was how warm the people were in the house and how________of their heart was accessible.

Many parents are finding family stories have surprising power to help children________hard times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon reflects a growing________in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in a storytelling events and festivals.

A university________of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to________parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety.

The________is telling the stories in a way children can________. We’re not talking here about the kind of story that________, “ When I was a kid, I walked to school every day uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow. ” Instead, we should choose a story suited to the child’s________, and make eye contact （接触） to create “a personal experience”. We don’t have to tell children________they should take from the story and what the moral is . ”

A．missed

B．lost

C．forgot

D．ignored

A．when

B．while

C．how

D．why

A．friendless

B．worthless

C．penniless

D．homeless

A．fetched

B．allowed

C．expected

D．took

A．hope

B．promise

C．suggestion

D．belief

A．tale

B．agreement

C．arrangement

D．report

A．large

B．small

C．new

D．grand

A．surprised

B．annoyed

C．disappointed

D．worried

A．Therefore

B．Besides

C．Instead

D．Otherwise

A．talked about

B．cared about

C．wrote about

D．heard about

A．much

B．many

C．little

D．few

A．beyond

B．over

C．behind

D．through

A．argument

B．skill

C．interest

D．anxiety

A．study

B．design

C．committee

D．staff

A．provide

B．retell

C．support

D．refuse

A．trouble

B．gift

C．fact

D．trick

A．perform

B．write

C．hear

D．question

A．means

B．ends

C．begins

D．proves

A．needs

B．activities

C．judgments

D．habits

A．that

B．what

C．which

D．whom

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。

Dario and his mother loved their new apartment. In fact, the moment they stepped into that apartment, they had fallen in love with it — the light was so cosy, and the windows were so clear. More importantly, compared with the previous one back in New York, the living room here was large enough for their piano! That night, the two of them sat side by side at the piano. They played jazz music to celebrate their new home. The loud music filled the room. No matter how painful the past experience was, they had left it behind and opened a new chapter for their life here. The mother and son were so absorbed in playing one piece after another that they totally forgot how late it was.

The next morning, however, their happiness disappeared. Someone had left a note under their door during the night. One of their neighbors had written to complain about the sound of the piano. Dario’s mother asked the building manager if he knew anything about it. But he said that they were all nice people and he couldn’t imagine any of them had done that. They did not intend to make neighborhood relations rigid. Neither did they want the piano to become a decoration.

Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their neighbors and apologize for their playing.

“Maybe we could go and visit everyone in person,” his mother said.

But the time-consuming and troublesome idea was quickly denied. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration went across Dario’s mind. Nothing could serve as a bridge to remove the distance between them and their new neighbors better than a party. They both loved the fantastic idea. Over the next few days, they sent out invitations and prepared desserts for their guests. They decorated the apartment with streamers and party lights. A smile of expectation could be seen on their faces as they held a strong belief that it would be a perfect beginning of their new life in the new neighborhood.

Finally, the day of the party arrived. Some guests brought presents. Others brought flowers. Some even brought desserts to share.

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:

One neighbour, Mrs. Gilbert, presented Dario’s mother with an old but well-preserved book of piano music by Chopin.

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Paragraph 2:

“You play, you play!” Mrs. Gilbert said. “I like what you play! Just not so loud at night.”

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