五家渠2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高三英语

1、We are trying our best to _______ costs and improve quality.

A.cut off B.cut up C.cut through D.cut down

2、 ______ about wild plants that they decided to make a trip to Madagascar for further research

A．So curious the couple was

B．So curious were the couple

C．How curious the couple were

D．The couple was such curious

3、At last, we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and ________ down to eat our picnic lunch.

A.sitting B.having sat C.sat D.to sit

4、China, ______ largest developing country in the world, has made great progress in ______ area of space exploration.

A．a; an

B．the; the

C．the; an

D．a; the

5、From space, the earth looks blue.This is _______about seventy-one percent of its surface is covered by water.

A.why B.how

C.because D.whether

6、_______ of current news, whether it is domestics or overseas, is his daily routine.

A.Being informed B.Informed C.Informing D.Having been informed

7、You’d better not phone our manager from three to four this afternoon; he ________ for a meeting then.

A. will be preparing B. will prepare

C. is preparing D. prepares

8、– The traffic jam is driving me mad.

-- ____ Such is often the case on Monday mornings.

A. Well done B. No way

C. Keep cool D. Sounds good

9、Jim will go on a trip to Sichuan, ________ his parents used to live.

A. where B. which

C. when D. that

10、We shouldn’t spend our money testing so many people, most of ________ are healthy.

A.that B.which

C.what D.whom

11、—What do you think of the 5G technology developed by the Chinese technology firm Huawei ?

—Definitely successful！ I am sure their 5G technology is expected to be _______ in many fields to improve our management .

A. approached B. applied C. combined D. replaced

12、—Hi, I’m Peter. Are you new here? I haven’t seen you around.

—Hello, Peter. I’m Bob. I just _______ on Monday.

A.start B.have started C.started D.had started

13、Each of us is likely to develop a personal __________ for certain types of entertainment.

A. comparison B. possession

C. love   D. advantage

14、Some people might win ______ for their farm produce,like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster.

A. scholarship B. rewards

C. awards D. medals

15、They _______ on the earth tens of thousands of years ago, _______ humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time.

A.had lived, long before B.had lived, long ago

C.lived, long before D.lived, before long

16、You could not have all of a sudden ________ a cold — I assume that you just do not want to attend.

A.run out of B.come down with C.hung on to D.broken away from

17、The reason ______he didn't come was ______he was ill.

A. why; that B. that; why

C. for that; that D. for which; what

18、Luna is a girl of great ______ for she takes a great interest in whatever she sees.

A.curiosity B.belief C.concern D.strength

19、_____, he has a lot of knowledge about computer.

A. A child as he is B. As he is a child

C. Child as he is D. Child as is he

20、— I’m delighted that we have accomplished this tough task successfully.

—_____. There is still a lot of work to be done here.

A.You can say that again B.It’s hard to say C.I’d rather you didn’t   D.Far from it

21、22. While building a tunnel through the mountain, _______.

A.an underground lake was discovered B.there was an underground lake discovered

C.a lake was discovered underground D.the workers discovered an underground lake

22、Great amounts of waste water__________ poured into the river from the factories two years ago.

A.was B.were C.has been D.had been

23、Arconic is working on a project, ______ EcoClean, a special coating (涂料) allowing the building to self-clean and purify the surrounding air.

A.is called B.which called C.called D.that is called

24、It was the third time that she ________ to this mountain village to see the children.

A．comes

B．came

C．has come

D．had come

25、—Tomorrow is Teachers’ Day. What’s your surprise for our teacher?

—The first thing ______ I will do is to make a card for her.

A．who

B．which

C．whose

D．that

26、   Social distancing can impact mental health. How shall we handle it?

More than three billion people globally are living under lockdown measures. Many people in recent weeks have begun working at home, if they haven’t been laid off. Schools have canceled classes. 【1】. Restaurants, retail stores, gyms, bars, theaters and other gathering places have all been shuttered (关门) in many countries.

Though these closures are all attempts to enforce social distancing, mental health experts still suggest scientific and handy measures to reduce people’s mental problems during isolation. Following are some of their tips:

【2】. Engaging in activities that distract you from current events can also be helpful. You can watch your favorite movies and TV shows, pick up a new hobby like baking or DIY crafts, join an online fitness class or enroll in a free online university course. In addition, you can take virtual tours together of museums, national parks and other sites.

Make time for self-care. When stress heightens, please carve out some time for yourself every day, even when you’re hunkered down, to do something that makes you feel good. 【3】. Also,don’t forget the critical self-care activities like eating healthy, getting adequate sleep and regular physical activity.

Stay connected with family and friends. Maintaining social networks can foster a sense of normality and provide valuable outlets for sharing feelings and relieving stress. 【4】

Be there for others. 【5】. In China, some people find self-value by organizing donation activities and volunteering to deliver food and other necessities for the quarantined. In Spain, group exercise classes are being conducted for quarantined residents on their balconies.

A.You won’t get infected with COVID-19 by talking on the phone, texting or chatting with your family members and friends on social media platforms.

B.Move around.

C.And some people will stay connected through phone calls, text message or joining an online community.

D.Helping others is also a good way to improve happiness.

E.Keep yourself busy.

F.Whether it’s journaling, reading a book, playing with your pet or listening to music.

G.Sporting events and religious services have been called off

27、   Is there any evidence that the standard of English as a foreign language has improved in the years since the Second World War? Naturally, as it is the world language, more and mere people are taught it and use it. But do they speak it or write it or understand it better than their patents’ or grandparents’ generations?

Have standards declined? There is no objective way of answering this question. Tests of the traditional sort — compositions, precis writing, and so on — have always been subjective, so they cannot be used to judge whether people have got better or not over the years. But so-called objective tests are useless as a measure of progress too. They have not been used consistently (一贯的) in the same “concentration” over the period they have been in use, so there is no way of comparing exams “now” and “then”. Moreover, usually in the form of multiple choice questions, they do not, by and large, test the things that really count in mastering a language.  Even comprehension is a partly “creative” activity in real life, as we have to think of possible meanings for ourselves rather than have them suggested for us from outside. And people can be trained in the techniques of multiple choice, while others fail the tests because they have been led astray (离开正道) precisely by their “suggestive” nature, so they are not really objective at all. We are left with only personal impression to go on.

My own is that, if anything, standards have declined somewhat in the last thirty or forty years, despite all the new theories, tools and techniques that have been developed. I am not alone in this judgment. In Sweden, for instance, Professors Johannes Hedberg and Gustav Korlen, two of the most experienced workers in the field; have on several occasions drawn attention to the lack of progress in the teaching of foreign languages since the late fifties. Yet Sweden is a sophisticated (先进的) society with extremely high educational and academic standards, and very concerned not to be cut off from the rest of the world. If such a country cannot achieve advances in the study of foreign languages, it is unlikely that many, if any, others have done so.

Japan is another community where remarkably little progress has been made in the learning of English. It is probably as important for Japan as for Sweden to master that language, and there is much academic effort put into linguistic (语言学的) research of various kinds. Yet the average standard of language learning is abysmally low, particularly for such a highly literate and educated society. This is no doubt in part the result of a vicious circle (恶性循环): many of the professors of English at Japanese universities are themselves incapable of speaking or writing or even understanding the language well.

【1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the author?

A.Multiple choice questions are objective because people cannot be trained any techniques.

B.Sweden emphasizes the teaching of English without paying attention to other countries.

C.We have to depend on our own impression to judge the English standards.

D.Compositions are useful to test people’s English ability because people have to write out their viewpoints.

【2】The so-called objective tests cannot be used as a measure of progress because _______.

A.the people who design the tests are changing constantly

B.the tests do not always focus on the same thing

C.the way of scoring is not scientific

D.they contain too many reading comprehension questions

【3】The author’s attitude towards present English standards is _______.

A.negative B.indifferent (漠不关心的)

C.sympathetic D.positive

28、It was past midnight when I saw an email that told me that I had been accepted into Interna-tional Summer School at Oslo University, Norway. I woke up everyone at home to tell them that I would be one often five hundred students visiting this beautiful Scandinavian country for ten weeks on a full scholarship (奖学金). My parents were delighted but anxious about how I’d manage on my own in a foreign land for the first time.

The day I left the county was packed with excitement and nervousness. I slept through the long flight and woke up to the announcement that we had come to Oslo Airport. Now, if I were in India, I would have taken a taxi to my destination, but my online research had taught me that in Oslo, tak-ing a taxi would be considered as a wasteful way. So I took the subway to the university. Upon my arrival, I was told that my room had been arranged and my roommate had settled in. My roommate was a Chinese student, who became my first friend. Though it was sunny outside, I was tired. I re-alized it was close to midnight. Sunsets during summer are very late in Norway.

I was to study a course on International Development and the class had students from 20 different countries, I worked with my classmates on group projects. Team work brought us closer as a u-nit. We realized we shared similar dreams about our future. Oslo is a city that has an excellent pub-lic transport system. One can get to a sandy beach ora forest within minutes. In our free time, we went for hikes and I realized how much I loved being outdoors. I learnt to read maps and picked up Norwegian. The hardest part was getting used to eating dinner at 5:00 pm.

I grew up and into myself during this trip. I came back to my hometown with a bagful of happy memories including my new friends who had helped me and walked with me in this beautiful country.

【1】Why did the author woke up his parents?

A．He had a frightening dream.

B．He was too excited to fall asleep.

C．He wanted to share some good news.

D．He got an email from his brother abroad.

【2】The author’s parents were worried that he couldn’t________.

A．get a full scholarship

B．take good care of himself

C．learn more about a foreign land

D．communicate with Norwegians well

【3】What can we infer about the author from the passage?

A．He hardly spoke Norwegian.

B．He felt terribly homesick in Norway.

C．He caused many misunderstandings at first.

D．He got along quite well with other students.

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The author’s travel experience in Europe.

B．The author’s friendship with a Chinese student.

C．The author’s first experience of overseas study.

D．The author’s most unforgettable summer holiday.

29、The first memory I have of him－of anything, really－is his strength.It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours.The unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose big and opening darkness I knew led to nowhere good.His powerful hands, then age 33, wrapped all the way around my tiny arms, then age 4, and easily swung me up to his shoulders.

The relationship between a son and his father changes over time.It may grow and flourish in mutual maturity.It may sour in hated dependence or independence.With many children living in single-parent homes today, it may not even exist.

But to a little boy right after World War II, a father seemed a god with strange strengths and strange powers enabling him to do and know things that no mortal could do or know.Amazing things, like putting a bicycle chain back on, just like that, or building a hamster cage, or guiding a jigsaw(拼版玩具)so it forms the letter F; I learned the alphabet that way in those pre-television days.

There were, of course, rules to learn.First came the handshake, a good firm squeeze accompanied by an equally strong gaze into the other's eyes."The first thing anyone knows about you is your handshake,” he would say.And we'd practice it each night on his return from work, the serious toddler(学步儿童)in the old Cleveland Indian's cap running up to the giant father to shake hands again and again until it was firm enough.

One day, I realize now, there was a change.I wasn't trying to please him so much as I was trying to impress him.I never asked him to come to my football games.He had a high-pressure career, and it meant driving through most of Friday night.But for all the big games, when I looked over at the sideline, there was that familiar fedora(软呢帽).And by God, did the opposing team captain ever get a firm handshake and a gaze he would remember?

Then, a school fact contradicted something he said.Impossible that he could be wrong, but there it was in the book.These accumulated over time, along with personal experiences, to strengthen my own developing sense of values.And I could tell we had each taken our own, perfectly normal paths.I began to see, too, his blind spots, his prejudices and his weaknesses.I never threw these up at him.He hadn't to me, and, anyway, he seemed to need protection.I stopped asking his advice; the experiences he drew from no longer seemed relevant to the decisions I had to make.

He volunteered advice for a while.But then, in more recent years, politics and issues gave way to talk of empty errands and, always, to illness.

After much thought and practice “ You can do whatever you have to do.”, one night last winter, I sat down by his bed and remembered for an instant those terrifying dark holes in another house 35 years before.I told my father how much I loved him.I described all the things people were doing for him.But, I said, he kept eating poorly, hiding in his room and violating the doctor's orders.No amount of love could make someone else care about life, I said; it was a two-way street.He wasn't doing his best.The decision was his.

He said he knew how hard my words had been to say and how proud he was of me.“I had the best teacher,” I said.“You can do whatever you have to do.” He smiled a little.And we shook hands, firmly, for the last time.

Several days later, at about 4 A.M., my mother heard Dad shuffling about their dark room.“I have some things I have to do,” he said.He paid a bundle of bills.He composed for my mother a long list of legal and financial what-to-do's “in case of emergency.” And he wrote me a note.

Then he walked back to his bed and laid himself down.He went to sleep, naturally.And he did not wake up.

【1】The underlined word “It” in Para 2 may refer to____________..

A．a single-parent home

B．the relationship between a son and his father

C．the mutual maturity

D．the dependence or independence

【2】From the passage we can infer that____________..

A．there was no television when the writer was learning the alphabet

B．the writer’s father was a god who could do many things with strength

C．the writer’s father lived a poor life and couldn’t support his family

D．they practiced shaking hands until the writer grew up

【3】The passage is mainly about____________.

A．the writer’s distrust of his father

B．the expectations of the writer’s father

C．the contradiction between the writer and his father

D．the change of relationship between the writer and his father

30、   When 10 girls from Gardiner High School in Montana received a sum of money to develop an invention to solve a real-world problem, they decided to create a solar-powered shelter to help the homeless.

For over a year, the girls have been using all their free time to complete the ______.

“They have this amazing internal(内心的) ______ that I’ve never seen in any individual,” Violet Mardiro, a teacher at Gardiner High who is ______ with the team on the project, told The Huffington Post. “I thought ______ that maybe some of them would give up, say ‘I didn’t ______ this much work,’ but they haven’t. They’re just working hard and they’re not giving up and they’re super ______.”

Living in a low-income community, the girls have seen the ______ of homelessness first-hand. Many of them are from immigrant families and hoped the ______, which is powered by rechargeable solar panels(电子板), would help the ______.

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Mejia told the Huffington Post that ______ she had no previous ______ experience, the girls figured out as a team how to ______ the shelter using how-to videos and books that taught them how to code. But the most important ______ she’s learned during the project isn’t technical.

“I’ve learned a lot about ______ others, working for the community and being selfless and showing a better world to other people and ______ someone else’s life,” she said. The project was carried out with DIY Girls, a nonprofit that helps fund STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – projects for ______.

Mardirosian said all the participating students have ______ their interest in STEM through this project.

“Many of them didn’t think about engineering before. They thought maybe they’re not ______ out to be an engineer. But working together, now they ______ their skill – whether a writing skill or a drawing skill or a speaking skill, they’re all ______ in this field. Everyone has found their importance in this picture,” she said.

【1】A. course B. homework C. report D. project

【2】A. clock B. drive C. doubt D. pressure

【3】A. agreeing B. meeting C. working D. talking

【4】A. at the beginning B. all the time C. at the moment D. once again

【5】A. receive B. expect C. believe D. mind

【6】A. excited B. confused C. surprised D. worried

【7】A. problem B. adventure C. choice D. difference

【8】A. equipment B. community C. machine D. shelter

【9】A. families B. homeless C. team D. research

【10】A. when B. until C. while D. because

【11】A. engineering B. managing C. teaching D. planning

【12】A. renew B. create C. protect D. describe

【13】A. skill B. fact C. lesson D. subject

【14】A. questioning B. following C. pleasing D. helping

【15】A. running B. leading C. changing D. experiencing

【16】A. children B. adults C. teachers D. girls

【17】A. imagined B. remembered C. discovered D. ignored

【18】A. left B. put C. picked D. made

【19】A. accept B. realize C. wonder D. share

【20】A. needed B. learned C. found D. discussed

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

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United States. He became a【1】 voice in the year before the Civil War.

A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) 【2】Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a【3】 site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year 【4】. (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.)

He was born in Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father who never knew Douglass grew uo to become the first black 【5】 to hold a government office--- as US minister and consul general （总领事）to Haiti.

As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he 【6】 taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity.

In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system 【7】 up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the 【8】, housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time.

He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass 【9】 the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution （美国宪法修正案）, which 【10】 African-Americans the right to vote.

32、假定你是红星中学高一学生李华，当前新型冠状病毒（novel coronavirus)在许多国家蔓延，你很担心英国好友Jim的健康，请你给他发电子邮件，提出预防新型冠状病毒的建议，内容包括：

1. 养成健康的生活习惯（外出戴口罩，勤洗手）

2. 经常锻炼身体

3. 保持积极乐观的态度

注意：1.词数不少于50；

2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

提示词：卫生hygiene

Dear Jim,

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Yours,

Li Hua