文山州2025届高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

1、The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market ________ its superior quality.

A．in terms of

B．on account of

C．on behalf of

D．on top of

2、Mike’s never willing to change his mind. It’s no use ________ with him.

A．to argue

B．arguing

C．argued

D．have been argued

3、________ he is determined to do something, no one is able to persuade him to________.

A．If; give away

B．Although; give in

C．As long as; give out

D．Once; give up

4、 _____from what he said, he must be the thief who has stolen the car.

A. Judging B. Judged

C. To judge   D. Judge

5、    parents’ complaints, some cities have significantly cut school hours to give children more time for leisure and play.

A. In exchange for   B. In response to

C. In harmony with   D. In terms of

6、The goal, which they are unlikely to live to see ______, is to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases” in the next 80 or so years.

A．accomplish

B．accomplished

C．accomplishing

D．being accomplished

7、—Tom, how was your weekend?

—Very disappointing! The heavy rain threw on our plan for a picnic.

A. a black sleep   B. a top dog

C. a wet blanket   D. a green hand

8、“Never for a second,” the boy said, “ ________ my father would come to my rescue.”

A.I doubted that B.do I doubt whether

C.did I doubted if D.did I doubt that

9、—How much did the old man ________ you for repairing your bike?

—Five yuan.The price is very low.

A．charge

B．spend

C．cost

D．pay

10、Hearing the __________news that he failed the exam, a ___________look appeared on his face.

A. disappointed; disappointed

B.disappointed; disappointing

C. disappointing; disappointing

D.disappointing; disappointed

11、—Darling, the headache ________ me.

— No wonder, you _________ the South Korean TV soaps since last night.

A. kills; have watched

B. is killing; have been watching

C. is going to kill; were watching

D. was killing; had watched

12、Almost all the people present were touched                  words after hearing his moving story.

A.within B.upon C.at D.beyond

13、--- Have you seen the film?

---Of course, I have. It was in our university   it was made.

A. that   B. where

C. when   D. which

14、People of a kind come together. Birds of a _______flock together.

A.leather B.fur C.moustache D.feather

15、In American the relation between parents and children is usually not so close as _______of the Chinese family.

A.that B.it C.one D.the other

16、All the Chinese workers do ________ they can ________ through the hard time.

A．what; get

B．what; to get

C．all what; get

D．that; to get

17、A good many proposals were raised by the experts, ________ was to be expected.

A．that

B．what

C．so

D．as

18、We all know that _____ carefully dealt with, the situation will get worse．

A．once     B．when

C．if    D．unless

19、It is said that Darwin once received a letter from his father _______ that he would be a failure.

A．predicted

B．having predicted

C．predicting

D． to predict

20、It takes years to _________ a good name but only seconds to destroy it. For example, some celebrities（名人）were caught taking drugs by the police.

A. build up  B. take up  C. make up  D. put up

21、Although sisters Carmencristina Moreno and Rosemary Selzer were born 14 years apart, they both have vivid memories of growing up surrounded by music.

Their dad was very fond of music and there was always music in the house. Dad composed his own songs. He would sit in the back seat of the white station wagon(旅行车)with a sheet of paper and a pencil. He would say, “Well, this is the only place I can get some peace and quiet to write.” Their father would write lyrics onto whatever paper he could find, however unconventional. “No blank cardboard was safe,” said Carmencristina.

In the 1940s, music promoters invited their dad to tour South America. Carmencristina was a young child, and Rosemary wasn’t yet born. But their dad, who was orphaned (使成孤儿) at an early age, never wanted to be away from his daughter for too long. So he refused.

When their dad had a pause in his music career, he picked up another job as a farm irrigator (农场灌溉工). He would come home with burst blisters. It must have been hard for him because he had to do what it took to feed the family.

Their father Luis died in 1974. Rosemary wondered where her dad’s music career could have gone if he hadn’t sold his music to support his family. “He composed approximately 300 songs in his lifetime, but he gave away the songs or sold them for $50 a song,” she said. “So, I could imagine that as he got older and heard his music on the radio and all of these people getting famous, it must have been painful for him.”

She asked her sister how she thought their father would want to be remembered. “Aside from being a good family man, he wanted people to know that he composed music, beautiful music,” said Carmencristina.

【1】What does the underlined part “No blank cardboard was safe” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．Ordinary paper was unfit to be used.

B．Dad composed using diverse kinds of paper.

C．Dad preferred writing lyrics on blank cardboard.

D．Blank cardboard was not a guarantee of a writing tool.

【2】Why did Dad give up his tour in South America?

A．To prevent his daughters being orphaned.

B．To stay with his wife for her safety.

C．To make sure his child didn’t suffer.

D．To avoid living a tough life.

【3】What do we know about the father?

A．He had little expectation of fame.

B．He tended to write songs while traveling.

C．He went into business in the 1940s.

D．He gave up a lot to support the family.

22、   Turtles have a problem. They are delicious, and so are their eggs. That has led to heavy hunting in the past. These days, though, the seven species of marine turtles are protected in most countries. If turtle soup is legally on the menu, its source will be a freshwater species. But that does not stop the eggs of marine turtles from being poached. Such poaching is often ignored by local police. But even if the authorities do wish to clamp down on it, arresting the small fry who dig the eggs up on beaches where turtles nest would not deal with the problem. That requires finding the trade’s organizers. And this can be hard.

To assist the process, Kim Williams-Guillén of Paso Pacifico, an American conservation charity, and Helen Pheasey of the University of Kent, in Britain, have come up with a practical device. It is a global-positioning-system transmitter placed in a plastic shell made by 3D printing. The result looks like a turtle’s egg and weighs about the same. Dug up and carried away by poachers, it can lead the police to those poachers’ bases of operation.

As they report this week in Current Biology, Dr. Williams-Guillén and Dr. Pheasey have now tested their invention in Costa Rica, a place where turtle-egg poaching is common. They set the printer to mimic the eggs of two species, the green and the olive ridley, which frequent that country’s coastlines, and placed a decoy egg into each of 101 turtle nests on four beaches where poaching is a problem. The decoys were controlled to remain inactive until their shells were exposed to the air. At that moment — presumed to signal the arrival of poachers — the “egg” in question starts broadcasting its location once an hour.

In all, 25 of the decoys were poached. They told different stories. Some travelled just a few kilometres, with one ending up at a bar 2km away from the nest it was taken from, where its signal abruptly ended. Others went quite a distance. One, for example, was carried 137km inland, to a supermarket loading bay, before transmitting its final signal from a residential property nearby.

Given the success of their project, Dr. Williams-Guillén and Dr. Pheasey propose that the idea should be used more widely for turtles. They also suggest that similar decoys might help protect the eggs of other endangered reptiles — and birds — that are collected and traded illegally.

【1】What problem are turtles facing?

A.Their eggs are being legally hunted. B.Their habitat is being destroyed.

C.They are in danger of extinction. D.They are heavily hunted for food.

【2】What do we know about the transmitter?

A.It is produced through 3D printing technology.

B.It has the same shape and weight as a turtle’s egg’s.

C.It can offer timely information of poachers’ location.

D.It’s a positioning device attached to the turtles’ eggs.

【3】What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.The effects of the decoy eggs. B.The features of the decoy eggs.

C.The invention of the decoy eggs. D.The experiment on the decoy eggs.

【4】What can we infer from paragraph 4?

A.The decoys were easy to identify.

B.The decoys only worked in a limited distance.

C.The decoys helped police find the trade’s organizers.

D.The decoys turned out to be effective in the experiment.

23、   The e-commerce company that retailers (零售商) talk about most these days is neither Amazon, the American giant, nor Alibaba, China’s biggest. It is Pinduoduo (PDD), a Chinese firm that started in 2015 as an online food supplier, but whose success has driven its market value above $200bn. Last year it was China’s fastest-growing Internet stock, rising by 330%.

PDD attracts attention for two reasons. One is its business model. David Liu, vice-president of strategy, explains that it has drawn on the popularity of smart phone in China to create an e-commerce experience in which people club together to buy products from robot vacuum-cleaners (吸尘器) to bananas. During the pandemic this has expanded into a fast-growing business across thousands of towns and villages, in which PDD’s users gather to buy local farm produce at low prices. Some call this “community group-buy”. Mr. Liu calls it “interactive (互动的) commerce”. It is one of the hottest parts of the Chinese Internet.

The second is the way PDD has broken the record of giants of online shopping. Until a few years ago, China’s e-commerce market seemed a two-way competition (竞争) between Alibaba and JD.com, a competitor platform. No longer. Elinor Leung of CLSA, a brokerage (经纪公司), expects PDD’s share of online retail in China to go beyond that of JD in 2021. She expects the number of users over Alibaba. And although PDD put a huge amount of money to lower the prices of goods, ensuring the customers from poorer parts of China easy access to its app, she thinks it may turn profitable this year.

Remarkably, the key to its success focused on parts of the market they have been unable to reach instead of defeating its bigger competitors. Although online sales of groceries have rocketed during the pandemic, less than a tenth of the 8.1trn yuan ($1.25trn) farm-produce market is bought and sold digitally. “We are continuing to grow the pie,” says Mr Liu. That lesson applies elsewhere too. However, no matter how a future market looks, there is opportunity for new online businesses because e-commerce is at an early stage of development.

【1】What does the underlined “club together” mean in Paragraph 2?

A．Share the expenses.

B．Have a club together.

C．Buy something in groups.

D．Interact with each other.

【2】What mainly makes PDD go off with a bang?

A．Ensuring easy access to the app.

B．Exploring new markets.

C．Lowering the price of goods.

D．Competing with giants of online shopping.

【3】Which of the following may Elinor Leung agree with?

A．E-commerce has yet to be developed fully.

B．PDD may end up making profits this year.

C．PDD is China’s fastest-growing largest Internet business.

D．PDD’s share of online retail in China has gone beyond that of JD in 2021.

【4】What’s Mr Liu’s attitude towards the future e-commerce?

A．Negative.

B．Causal.

C．Positive.

D．Objective.

【5】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．There’s opportunity for new online businesses.

B．E-commerce profits may become harder to make.

C．The Amazons and Alibabas are not as strong as they might seem.

D．PDD, China’s fastest-growing online business is to beat giants of e-commerce.

24、People have long known that dogs have a great sense of smell. But scientists weren’t sure whether stressed people had a special smell. And if they did, they weren’t sure whether dogs could detect that smell.

All day long, our bodies go through changes and produce different chemicals. They come out in our breath and sweat, slightly changing the way we smell. But it wasn’t known if stress could cause changes that could be detected. So researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, led by scientist Clara Wilson, collected breath and sweat samples(样品) from 36 different people. They got samples when the people were calm and when they were stressed.

The calm part was easy. They asked people to report their stress level, and measured their heart rates and blood pressure. The people were asked to wipe their skin with a clean piece of cloth. Then they had to put the cloth sample in a tube(管子), breathe on it hard three times, and seal the tube.

Then the scientists asked a really difficult math problem, and forced people to do it in their heads quickly. They kept telling the people to hurry up, and didn’t give them any help. That lasted for three minutes. Then the researchers collected two more sweat and breath samples. They also asked the people about their level of stress, and measured their heart rates and blood pressure. Most people said they felt very stressed. On average, the heart rate increased from about 91 beats per minute to about 105 beats per minute.

The scientists used one of the stressed samples, along with two clean pieces of cloth, to train the dogs to find the stressed smell. Then came the challenge: the dogs had three choices: a sample from a calm person, a stressed sample from that same person, and a clean piece of cloth. In all, the dogs did 720 of these tests. They correctly identified the stressed sample about 94% of the time.

The results make it clear that stress does have a smell that dogs can detect. Ms. Wilson says the news could be especially useful in training service dogs, since their job is to help relieve stress.

【1】What conclusion can be drawn from paragraph 2?

A．One’s body smell almost stays the same.

B．Our breath and sweat contain chemicals.

C．Stress plays a big role in one’s body smell.

D．Our bodies produce chemicals only when we’re awake.

【2】What was the purpose of the scientists’ behaviors during the three minutes?

A．To stress people out.

B．To hold people back.

C．To cheer people up.

D．To keep people interested.

【3】The figures in paragraph 5 are mainly used to show_________

A．the difficulty of the challenge

B．the complexity of the experiment

C．the dogs finished the challenge quite well

D．the experiment needed to be improved

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

A．Dogs Prove to Have a Great Sense of Smell

B．It Turns Out That Stress Does Have a Smell

C．Scientists Learn That Dogs Can Smell Stress

D．Research Shows That Dogs Can Be Stress Relievers

25、Sophie, 13, won the 2019 New Zealand’s “Think kind” competition for student. “I_________ a beach clean-up, because it really_________ me that marine(海洋的) life is hurt by thoughtless decisions of humans.”

Sophie saw_________ on the sea floor while snorkeling(徒手潜泳). “It was the first time I’d seen marine life _________ among plastics.”

It was the trigger of her act. “We weren’t taking enough_________. Everyone needs to do their_________, otherwise we’re going to_________our planet.”

Sophie turned to media to get her_________out and ask for volunteers at the clean-up. To her surprise, more than 200 people turned up. 200 kilograms of rubbish were_________ that day. “It was horrible. We knew rubbish was there but we didn’t realize how__________ until we started collecting.”

Once ecological(生态的)__________had hit Sophie, it hit hard. On her l4th birthday, she decided to celebrate differently.__________ holding a party creating waste, she decided to__________ it. On her “party,” Sophie and her friends__________ to pick up the rubbish that__________ along the river bank near the town.

“If there is one thing everyone could do, it is to ‘__________ after yourself’,” says Sophie. “It’s hard for some families to__________plastic alternatives, but just not buying things wrapped in plastic will help.” She suggests using__________ materials like metal straws. “When there are more__________on the market, it will be__________for individuals to make a change.”

【1】

A．improved

B．held

C．planned

D．supported

【2】

A．interests

B．impresses

C．puzzles

D．bothers

【3】

A．rocks

B．creatures

C．garbage

D．plants

【4】

A．increasing

B．living

C．dying

D．eating

【5】

A．advice

B．time

C．patience

D．action

【6】

A．favour

B．part

C．work

D．role

【7】

A．adjust to

B．devote to

C．let down

D．put down

【8】

A．message

B．stories

C．concept

D．approaches

【9】

A．recycled

B．buried

C．sold

D．collected

【10】

A．smelly

B．tough

C．much

D．far

【11】

A．awareness

B．disaster

C．imbalance

D．development

【12】

A．In spite of

B．For the sake of

C．Instead of

D．Because of

【13】

A．store

B．make

C．sort

D．reduce

【14】

A．managed

B．expected

C．continued

D．claimed

【15】

A．wanders

B．runs

C．disappears

D．accumulates

【16】

A．pick up

B．set up

C．turn up

D．back up

【17】

A．avoid

B．afford

C．select

D．protect

【18】

A．reusable

B．advanced

C．valueless

D．inexpensive

【19】

A．inventions

B．sellers

C．options

D．creations

【20】

A．better

B．easier

C．happier

D．longer

26、中学生英语报社正开展一场题为”Young teachers or elderly teachers, which do you prefer?”的讨论活动。请你依据下面表格所提供的要点写一篇短文，向该报社投稿。

老年教师: 教学耐心．讲解细致．经验丰富

青年教师: 精力充沛．教学活泼．勇于创新

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