长沙2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测高三英语

1、Whenever I ask him for help, he doesn’t ______ me, which moves me a lot.

A.risk helping B.hesitate to help

C.bend down to help D.doubt to help

2、A medical team________ 150 doctors and nurses went to WenChuan to rescue the trapped.

A．was made up of

B．consisted of

C．made of

D．made up of

3、It is strongly recommended that the machines ________ every year.

A．check

B．be checked

C．checked

D．checking

4、I don't know why his enemy is good __________ him.

A. in B. at C. for D. to

5、You have scolded her for her failure. After all, she had tried her best.

A．must

B．should

C．mustn’t

D．shouldn’t

6、 ---- Shall we take the 10:00 train?

---- No. If we took that train, we ________ too late.

A. arrive  B. arrived

C. Will arrive D. would arrive

7、There is some doubt ________ their football team will win the match.

A．whether

B．that

C．what

D．how

8、It is exciting ________ competing athletes reach the other end of the swimming pool.

A．watch

B．watching

C．to watch

D．that

9、The link between pollution and serious diseases like cancer has long been ______ scientists, but the researches on the link between pollution and baldness are very few.

A．accustomed to

B．attached to

C．similar to

D．familiar to

10、Here ________ the president.

A.is coming B.does come C.comes D.is come

11、I felt very ____and out of place at the beginning. After all, never before had I been invited to such a formal party.

A. guilty   B. sensitive

C. cautious   D. awkward

12、In Singapore, people who litter or dirty the streets are most likely .

A.to fine B.fined

C.to be fined D.being fined

13、I felt tired and in no ______to listen to the lecture, and began to admire the pictures on the wall.

A. mind   B. interest

C. mood   D. feeling

14、If it ______ rain tomorrow, I should not drive my car.

A.were to B.will C.would D.is to

15、—When you come to ________ the scene, isn’t it strange to see so many banks in so small a town?

—Well, it’s convenient for people.

A. think of   B. think out

C. think over   D. think up

16、Here came three________.

A．woman teacher

B．women teacher

C．woman teachers

D．women teachers

17、Though ______ to stop, the ______ speaker kept on talking at the meeting.

A. being told; thrilling  B. telling; thrilled

C. to be told; thrilling  D. told; thrilled

18、How long do you guess it will be ________ we graduate from senior high school?

A. when B. before C. until D. since

19、They believed in man’s ability ________ the world.

A．change

B．to change

C．changing

D．changed

20、If today is anything like yesterday, it will______ sweat and hard work.

A．be full of

B．be in favor of

C．be rich in

D．be located in

21、We ____ having endless supply of clean water for granted, but in fact the resources on the earth are limited.

A．take

B．bring

C．mimic

D．think

22、Physics ________ the scientific study of matter and energy and the effect they have on each other.

A．are

B．were

C．is

D．was

23、________ in complete darkness is an interesting and memorable experience.

A．Dine

B．Dined

C．Dining

D．Having dined

24、The cloth ______easily if _______on a table.

A.measures, spreading B.will be measured, spread

C.measures, spread D.is measured, spread

25、He said in a few days’ time he __________ out of the school gates forever.

A. will walk   B. walked

C. was walking   D. would be walking

26、Deadly floods hit China’s Henan province in July, 2021. Being caught in a flood is incredibly dangerous. 【1】 Floods can cause power outages, communication disruptions, traffic jams and widespread destruction too. Additionally, debris caught in the current can injure anyone in the floodwater, making it more difficult to swim or tread water. 【2】 Here are some skills on how to survive a flash flood.

●Avoid bridges that cross rapidly-moving water.

●Listen to emergency broadcasts for further instructions. 【3】

●Stay inside a car trapped by fast-moving water. Only get out if the water begins to flood the car itself, then move to the roof of the vehicle.

●【4】 Do not go into the attic, as it is possible to become trapped there without a way to escape. Only relocate to the roof if necessary. Once there, signal for help.

●Avoid power lines. A downed power line can cause surrounding water to become charged, leading to electrocution.

●After the flood, don’t drink or use flood water first. Use only bottled, boiled, or treated water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc. 【5】 Avoid driving through flooded areas and standing water is also important. As little as six inches of water can cause you to lose control of your vehicle.

A．If told to evacuate, do so.

B．If trapped within a flooding building, move to the highest floor.

C．Firstly, as little as one foot of flood water can sweep cars away,

D．Safely cleaning your home if it has come in contact with flood water.

E．Apart from that, return to your home only after local authorities have said it is safe to do so.

F．Flash floods are known to rip trees out of the ground, destroy buildings and cause bridges to collapse.

G．The after effects of the flood can be just as deadly, as it may be impossible to deliver essential supplies to the area.

27、The beautiful island country of Madagascar has a serious school shortage. About a third of Malagasy children have no access to education because the schools are too far away or severely overcrowded. Thinking Hus, a non-profit dedicated to increasing global access to education, plans to tackle the issue with a series of 3D-printed schools, the first of which was completed in April 2022.

The 765-square-feet structure, named Bougainvillea, will house 30 students. The construction a began with the printer pouring a cement-like (水泥状) mixture in a pattern to create the walls. The entire process took just 18 hours! The roof, doors and windows were locally sourced, and the walls were made of a cement mixture that can resist big environmental pressures in the area. Bougainvillea was 3D printed by 14 Trees, a company with experience printing buildings throughout Kenya and Malawi.

Maggie Grouts, the 22-year-old founder of Thinking Huts, is a senior at the University of Colorado and was just 15 when she started Thinking Huts. Adopted from a rural village in China when she was 18 months old, Grout realized that not all kids were as fortunate as her and wanted to help. The idea for the 3D-printed schools came to her after brainstorming(集思广益) with her father on ways to use the technology for the greater good.

The 3D printing approach shrinks the construction turnaround time from months to days, as well as the cost. This allows more schools to be built in less time and reduces the building’s carbon footprints. And these savings in time, cost and materials meet a real need for education infrastructure (基础设施) to help bridge the global opportunity gap.

“Thinking Huts hopes to have a Thinking Hut in every community where children do not have a place for education and is fundraising to develop this goal. By using 3D printing, we are combining the potential of technology with architectural solutions that tackle real problems the world faces within education,” says Grouts.

【1】What are 3D-printed schools intended for?

A．Reducing construction wastes.

B．Providing high-quality education for local students.

C．Helping deal with a shortage of schools.

D．Drawing public attention to 3D-printing technology.

【2】What do we know about Bougainvillea?

A．It has a complex architectural structure.

B．It features strong resistance to bad weather.

C．It is built with the help of the local government.

D．It can hold more students than traditional schools.

【3】What can we infer about Maggie Grouts from the text?

A．She is truly creative and warmhearted.

B．She had no access to school as a child

C．She is devoted to designing 3D-printed products，

D．She raised money for kids from rural areas in China.

【4】What does the author mainly want to tell us in paragraph 4?

A．The advantages of 3D-printed schools.

B．The wide popular tyof3D-prining technology.

C．The significance of narrowing the global opportunity gap.

D．The impact of 3D-printed buildings on the environment.

28、A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.

Jose started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago, when he was driving a garbage truck at night through the country’s wealthier neighborhoods. The rejected reading material slowly piled up, and now the ground floor of his small house is a temporary community library piled from floor to ceiling with some 20, 000 books, ranging from chemistry textbooks to children’s classics.

He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his, with new reading material at bookstores too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota, but they tend to be located far away from poorer areas. “Books are our salvation and that is what Colombia needs,” says Jose.

The 53-year-old Jose has a love of reading he attributes(归因于) to his mother, who always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school. “She used to read me stories every night,” said Jose, “To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being.”

Jose still searches through the rubbish for additions to his library though he is very famous in Columbia. Jose is also a greedy reader of works by famous authors. He says he doesn’t reject technology that allows books to be read digitally, but says he prefers to read the printed word on paper. “There’s nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car,” he says.

【1】How did Jose start his library?

A．By receiving textbooks from kids.

B．By collecting rejected books from garbage.

C．By rescuing used books from public libraries.

D．By getting donated books from local communities.

【2】What is the barrier to public libraries in Bogota for kids in poorer areas?

A．High cost.

B．Limited access.

C．Bad location.

D．Long distance.

【3】Why did Jose quit school?

A．He hoped to found a library for poor kids.

B．He loved to stay at home studying alone.

C．His family couldn’t afford his tuition fees.

D．His mother taught him at home every night.

【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．Jose gains fame for collecting trash.

B．Jose has become a well-known author.

C．Jose takes an objective attitude to digital books.

D．Jose prefers to read pocket books inside his car.

29、Every day my husband parked his car in the same open-air car park in Zimbabwe. On this particular day, he had been running to his car with a pile of office papers under his arm. As he opened the car door, he suddenly lost control of his body. He felt a stabbing pain in his arm, and became totally breathless and lost consciousness. As he fell down, half in, half out of the car, his last thought was “what a way to die”.

A young woman getting into her own car in the deserted car park noticed what was going on and at once ran to my husband’s aid, trying to bring his life back. Realizing time was important, she tried to move my husband to her car, calling the guard at the gate.

Fearing an ambulance would take too long to arrive, she felt it better to get to the hospital as quickly as she could. She raced through traffic lights sounding her car’s horn and rushed into the hospital, calling out, “I have an unknown man here who I think is having a heart attack.”

Having realized he was in capable hands, the woman returned to the car park, found his keys on the ground, collected his papers and piled them in the car. Having seen my husband come out of a certain building each day, the security guard thought he knew where he worked. The young woman managed to locate his colleagues and they in turn contacted my niece, who waited for me to return home so she could break the news to me.

After careful tests it turned out that my husband’s disease had nothing to do with heart. We were naturally eager to find the kind stranger who had come to his aid. After some weeks we discovered where the young woman worked. She was overjoyed when my husband walked into her office with a huge bouquet (束) of flowers. She said she required no thanks, and preferred to remain anonymous (匿名的).

We now live in a different country, but each Christmas my husband remembers her act of kindness and sends a gift. We regard every day of his life as a bonus, all thanks to this kind stranger.

【1】From the passage, we can infer that _______.

A. a heart attack hit the writer’s husband suddenly

B. there were few people in the park that day

C. the young woman was at a loss at first

D. the woman was fined for breaking the traffic lights

【2】Who told the writer the news of her husband’s illness?

A. The young woman.

B. The security guard.

C. The colleague of her husband.

D. The writer’s niece.

【3】What might be the most suitable title for the passage?

A. The Gift of Life

B. An Act of Gratitude

C. The Attack of a Disease

D. The Story of a Young Woman

30、On a common morning just inside the entryway to a subway station, a young man took his violin out of its case. He seemed quite common in _________. Then the man plucked (拨) the strings for minutes to tune his _________. After that, he reached into his pocket and _________ a few dollars, which he threw into the violin case, hoping that the passers-by would _________. Then he began to play, and thousands of people were hurrying to work, school, or wherever they were _________ as the morning rush was _________. Though the incredible sound of this man’s violin filled the subway station, it was apparently _________ by all.

If he were any other street _________, perhaps it would have been _________ that he earned little attention of people. __________ , he is Joshua Bell, one of the world’s most renowned __________, and he was playing one of the most classical masterpieces on his $3,000,000 violin. Actually, almost nobody noticed his playing. Why? One reason is that he didn’t look like a special man; the other is that everyone was too busy to __________ Joshua Bell’s excellent music.

“I’m busy!” is an everyday __________ from people like those who walked past Joshua Bell’s music without __________ a moment. All of this got me thinking: sometimes we should say no to useless busyness and allow for some __________ presence so as to perceive the beauty around us.

【1】

A．appearance

B．speech

C．personality

D．skill

【2】

A．instrument

B．behavior

C．posture

D．switch

【3】

A．sorted out

B．made up

C．used up

D．pulled out

【4】

A．set an example

B．follow suit

C．pay it forward

D．extend understanding

【5】

A．suffering

B．attracting

C．heading

D．contacting

【6】

A．in a dilemma

B．in full swing

C．by the book

D．by all accounts

【7】

A．challenged

B．criticized

C．disturbed

D．ignored

【8】

A．performer

B．beggar

C．promoter

D．defender

【9】

A．strange

B．awkward

C．insignificant

D．unreasonable

【10】

A．Furthermore

B．However

C．Therefore

D．Otherwise

【11】

A．composers

B．organizers

C．violinists

D．donors

【12】

A．miss

B．acknowledge

C．create

D．appreciate

【13】

A．excuse

B．lie

C．practice

D．conversation

【14】

A．recalling

B．choosing

C．sparing

D．capturing

【15】

A．permanent

B．unplanned

C．inaccessible

D．constant

31、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

As dusk falls at the Lehua Night Market, the fluorescent (荧光的) lights flicker on and the hungry customers start trickling in, anxious for a taste of the local delicacies that give this island its reputation as one of Asia’s finest cookery 【1】 .

Nearly arranged pyramids of plump fish balls, bowls filled with tapioca balls 【2】  in lightly sweetened sauce, sizzling oyster omelets, hot off the griddle, deep-fried sweet potato puffs (冒热气), still 【3】 with oil. Take a bite of any of these dishes and you’ll discover a unique texture. But how exactly do you 【4】 that perfect “mouth feel” so sought after by local cooks and eaters alike? Slippery? Chewy? Not exactly.

Luckily, the people in Taiwan have a word for this texture. Well, actually, it’s not a word, it’s a letter—one that even non-Chinese speakers can pronounce.

It’s “Q.” Basically, it means springy, soft, elastic.

Andre Chiang, a Michelin-star chef and owner of RAW in Taipei, said he has been 【5】 with the texture at his restaurant, which uses only local materials. “It’s like aldente (筋道) but not quite,” Mr. Chiang said.

Q is so well 【6】 in Taiwan that many in Hong Kong and across the Taiwan Strait in mainland China use the term as well.

There are many other uses for the term Q in Chinese as well. It could be used, for example, as short form for the English word “【7】”, or to refer to the once-popular QQ messaging service from Tencent.

Among the local people, the 【8】 for Q texture starts at a young age. On a recent sticky evening at the Lehua Night Market, a group of people gathered at stand with a sign that 【9】 “QQ ice lolly.” Asked why Q texture was so 【10】 to Taiwanese, Lu Wei-chen, the owner of the stand, smiled as she handed a bright red jelly bar to a delighted toddler.

“It’s simple,” she said. “When you eat it, you will be in a good mood.”

32、假如你是李华, 你远在英国的朋友Smith从网上得知“移动支付”改变了中国人的生活方式, 他想了解一些更详细的移动支付情况, 请你根据下面要点提示, 给Smith发一封电子邮件。

要点:1. 生活中的具体体现;

2. 好处；

3. 有待改进之处。

要求:字数120字左右。

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Dear Smith，

I’m Li Hua,

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