衡阳2025届高三毕业班第一次质量检测英语试题

1、 —I have some good news for you. You’ve got the first prize in the competition!

—________ That’s great!

A. Pardon?     B. Have I?

C. Congratulations!   D. Good idea!

2、Now the world’s attention____ the stock market, as they have a great influence on the world’s economy.

A. has fixed on   B. is fixing on

C. is being fixed on   D. had been fixed on

3、The students entered the classroom，smiling and________，and ______ down to have their lessons.

A.talked；sat   B.talking；sitting

C.talking；sat D.talked；sitting

4、________ you can sleep well, you will lose the ability to focus, plan and stay motivated after one or two nights.

A.Once B.If C.Unless D.While

5、The most important thing ________ we should pay attention to is the first thing ________ I have said.

A．what; which

B．that; which

C．that; that

D．which; what

6、—________ ! Somebody has left the lab door open.

—Don’t look at me.

A. Dear me   B. Hi, there

C. Thank goodness   D. Come on

7、"It's such a nice place," Mother said as she sat at the table______ for customers.

A．to be reserved

B．having reserved

C．reserving

D．reserved

8、A warm thought suddenly came to me ________ I might use the pocket money to buy some flowers for my mother’s birthday.

A. if B. when

C. that D. which

9、Mrs. Li explains English grammar so_____ that even I can understand it.

A. clear   B. clearly C. more clearly  D. good

10、To improve my spoken English, I make ________ to recite a passage of English every day.

A．a rule

B．a rule that

C．it a rule

D．a rule it is

11、— I’ve moved into the new house last weekend.

— _____!

A．Definitely  B．Congratulations

C．Cool   D．Absolutely

12、Children to whom parents always ___________ soon become selfish.

A．give in

B．give off

C．give up

D．give out

13、—Would you mind answering some questions on shopping habits?

— ________．

A. Yes, with great pleasure

B. No, I am afraid I can't make it

C. Yes, it is worth the time

D. No, as long as it doesn't take long

14、Every classroom in this modern school is __________with a new TV set.

A. equipped   B. installed

C. fixed   D. placed

15、With everything ________, the teacher started the slide show.

A.in the place of B.in places C.in place

16、—What does the hydro-electric project of the Three Gorges Dam means?

—It means ________ the danger of flooding.

A.to bring an end of B.to bring an end to

C.bringing an end of D.bringing an end to

17、Ellen jumped with excitement ______ she received the good news that she had passed the exam.

A．until

B．as long as

C．as soon as

D．unless

18、Lichun is a Chinese word for one of the 24 solar terms,   means the beginning of spring.

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

19、— I saw your uncle take a taxi to the airport. Why didn’t you drive him there?

— I ________. But my car ________.

A. would; was fixed

B. would have; was fixed

C. would have; was being fixed

D. would; was being fixed

20、—Do you enjoy the movie Fast & Furious 8?

—______. I just kill my time.

A. Of course   B. Not really

C. Not likely   D. Not a little

21、My friend’s grandfather came to America from a farm in Thailand. After arriving in New York, he went into a cafeteria(自助餐厅) in Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a big plate full of food came up to him. She sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said, “Just go along the line and choose what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend later, “Life’s a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want as long as you want to pay the price. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

【1】My friend’s grandfather came from ________.

A. Thailand   B. Manhattan  C. New York   D. China

【2】The grandfather went into a cafeteria to ________.

A. wait for someone      B. get something to eat

C. meet my friend      D. buy something

【3】The woman in the cafeteria might be ________.

A. a waitress       B. a friend of grandpa’s

C. a customer       D. an assistant

【4】What should we do to get food in a cafeteria?

A. Wait for the waiter.

B. Ask someone for help.

C. Get it ourselves.

D. sit down at an empty table

【5】What can we learn from the grandfather’s words about the life in the US?

A. Get up early and you can succeed.

B. Act and get what you want on your own.

C. Nobody brings you anything unless you pay the price.

D. Waiting is very important.

22、   In colleges around the country, most students are also workers.

The reality of college can be pretty different from the images presented in movies and television. Instead of the students who wake up late, party all the time, and study only before exams, many colleges are full of students with pressing schedules of not just classes and activities, but real jobs, too.

This isn't a temporary phenomenon. The share of working students has been on the rise since the 1970s, and one-fifth of students work year round. About one-quarter of those who work while attending school have both a full-course load and a full-time job. Such jobs can also be critical for developing important professional and social skills that make it easier to land a job after graduation. With many employers looking for students with already-developed skill sets, on-the-job training while in college can be the best way to ensure a job later on.

But it's not all upside. Even full-time work may not completely cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. That means that though they're sacrificing time away from the classroom, many working students will still graduate with at least some debt. And working full time can reduce the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the time available for studying and attending classes.

There is little reward for attending but not finishing college. Students who end up leaving school because of difficulty in managing work and class are likely to find themselves stuck in some of the same jobs they might have gotten if they hadn't gone at all. The difficulty of working too much while in school can create a cycle that pushes students further into debt without receiving any of the financial or career benefits.

【1】According to the passage, what is the reality of college students?

A．They throw parties a lot.

B．They stay up late every night.

C．They work besides attending classes.

D．They pay no attention to exams.

【2】What is the indirect cause of an increasing number of working students?

A．The need of developing social networks.

B．The lack of summer jobs for young adults.

C．The chance of finding a job after graduation.

D．The expenses of high tuition and living costs.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Working students are more likely to finish college.

B．Students can cover their college expenses through working.

C．Students receive a huge reward for managing work and class.

D．Working while attending school may not help students get career benefits.

【4】What is the best title for the passage?

A．The Difficulties of Landing a Job

B．The Struggle of Work-School Balance

C．The Reward of Working While Studying

D．The Images of Working College Students

23、Balzac was good at buying things at its lowest price. One day he wanted to buy a vase in a shop window that was much more expensive than he could offer. Not being able to make the shopkeeper cut down its price very much, he left without further talking. Collecting a half dozen of his friends, he explained his wish to them and they worked a plan. The first would enter the shop and make an offer, lower than the marked price. Not getting the vase at his price, he would walk out. Shortly after another would enter and ask for a price lower than the first. In this way, each of the others would offer a price lower than the one before, and the last of his friends made a great effort to attempt to get it at the lowest price. Before long Balzac himself would return, offer more than the last two or three persons made and trust to luck. The plan worked--- Balzac got the vase at his price!

【1】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．A vase in the window was placed much higher than Balzac could reach.

B．At first the price of the vase was much higher than Balzac could offer.

C．Balzac always wanted to buy a vase that was much more expensive than he could pay

D．Balzac was very poor. He couldn’t buy the vase at a high price.

【2】How many friends did Balzac gather?

A．Six

B．Twelve

C．Ten

D．Five

【3】Who asked for the lowest price?

A．The first one.

B．The second one.

C．The last of his friends.

D．Balzac.

【4】What kind of person does the writer try to tell us about Balzac and his friends?

A．Unkind

B．Dishonest

C．Selfish

D．Clever

24、Several Jobs That Will Be Automated By Artificial Intelligence(AI) And Robots

Translator

Image recognition software and voice recognition software are bringing some major advances to language translation．Applications like Google’s Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there are a lot of translation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for you．

Some will even speak the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soon．

Fast food workers

Automated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonald’s restaurants around the world，and cooking positions could be removed next．The booths probably can’t handle customer service problems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaints．

Field technician

New advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsolete.

Low-cost sensors combined with high availability cellular／satellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites, and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile device.

Sales representative

But, e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions, especially those where there isn’t much differentiation among the major competitors.

If you’re selling a high-differentiation product and／or a high-price, low-volume product you have some job security, but if you’re selling a high-volume, low-differentiation product, you better start polishing your resume, said Doug Camplejohn, CEO of Fliptop. “These kind of product sales are all moving online.”

【1】What can Google’s Word Lens do?

A. Translate by image and voice recognition software.

B. Speak the phrase or word for you.

C. Make real-time translation.

D. Allow you to type in a word or phrase.

【2】What can we infer from the second part?

A. All the restaurants own automated ordering booths.

B. Service problems can’t be handled automatically.

C. Cooks will not be automated by AI and robots.

D. Customers will have no complaints because of AI．

【3】What does the underlined word“obsolete”mean in Part 3?

A. Abandoned.   B. Welcome.   C. Forbidden.   D. Efficient.

【4】What does the author mean by“you better start polishing your resume” in the last paragraph?

A. You must value your present work.

B. You have some job security.

C. Your resume needs correcting further.

D. You should consider changing the job.

25、I was suddenly awakened at about 4 a.m. by a strange experience which I did not understand at first. I was _________ for a few seconds, as though I was in a cradle (摇篮). I heard _________ sounds in which I could identify the tinkling of pots, the rattling of windows, and certain deep rumbling noise _________ from the earth. After a few moments I realized, to my _________, that it was the earthquake.

Others too in my house and neighborhood must have _________ it at the same time or a little earlier, because we all jumped up from our beds in a second and _________ out of our houses. The quake of the earth had stopped; yet we stood in the open for an hour, extremely _________ about another quake. There was nip (寒冷) in the air that early morning, and the electric lights had _________. People stood in darkness, talking about the earthquake and praying (祈祷) to God that it might not be _________.

The quakes of the earth caused no damage in Mumbai. For several hours next morning we thought, with __________ to Nature, that the disaster had been __________ on the whole. But at about noon, bad news came that all the houses in parts of Latur had been __________ to the ground and hundreds of human lives __________.

The destruction caused by the earthquake at Latur proved the __________ of man in the face of an unexpected natural disaster. He still has much to achieve in dealing with Nature. Isn’t it a(n) __________ that he is wasting away the natural resources and energies?

【1】

A．attacked

B．comforted

C．rocked

D．sheltered

【2】

A．pleasant

B．strange

C．fascinating

D．fluent

【3】

A．coming

B．flashing

C．reflecting

D．tracking

【4】

A．annoyance

B．joy

C．relief

D．horror

【5】

A．warned

B．recognized

C．impacted

D．prevented

【6】

A．jumped

B．walked

C．rushed

D．struggled

【7】

A．anxious

B．excited

C．curious

D．hopeful

【8】

A．blown up

B．come out

C．died down

D．gone off

【9】

A．expected

B．forgiven

C．repeated

D．stopped

【10】

A．admiration

B．gratitude

C．regret

D．satisfaction

【11】

A．generous

B．impressive

C．harmless

D．tough

【12】

A．burned

B．frozen

C．thrown

D．ruined

【13】

A．lost

B．cured

C．discovered

D．rescued

【14】

A．power

B．creativity

C．helplessness

D．limit

【15】

A．fact

B．pity

C．honor

D．wonder

26、假设你是李华。你远在美国的笔友Jack对中国的春节很感兴趣，他来信询问有关情况。请你给他回一封电子邮件，简单介绍春节及中国人是如何过春节的。应包括如下要点：

1. 春节在中国的地位……

2. 春节持续的时间……

3. 春节来临之前人们……

4. 除夕之夜人们……

5. 春节期间人们……

6. 你对春节的态度……

注意：1. 词数100左右。

2. 可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：春节联欢晚会 Spring Festival Gala

Dear Jack,

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Yours,

Li Hua