宣城2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高三英语

1、The girl has a great interest in sport and ____ badminton classes twice a week over the last three years.

A. took   B. is taking

C. takes D. has been taking

2、It’s based on the idea   all people are created equal, is accepted by most people.

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

3、— A sports meeting is going to ______ next month.

— Oh, that’s wonderful.

A.organize B.be organized

C.be organizing D.have been organized

4、Although Mrs. Smith has spared a lot of time for exercising, her health ______ poor.

A. proves B. remains

C. values D. graduates

5、Ladies and gentlemen, please remain __________ until the plane has come to a complete stop.

A．seated

B．seating

C．to seat

D．seat

6、I can’t get my car _____ on cold mornings, so I have to try ______ the radiator with some hot water.

A.run; to fill B.running; filling

C.running; to fill D.ran; filling

7、He always seems so confident, but _____ he's sometimes extremely nervous during some exams.

A.in trouble B.in anger C.in reality D.in relief

8、The film My People, My country was a great success, ______ huge audiences.

A．attracts

B．attracting

C．attracted

D．to attract

9、Free film tickets will be sent to _______ are interested in film.

A.whomever B.whoever C.no matter who D.whichever

10、Finally，I ______ her idea that I should _____ myself to the new life here first.

A.adopted; adapt B.adapted; adopt C.adopted; adopt D.adapted; adapt

11、People were ________ at his sudden death. It was really ________ to them.

A．shocked; shocked

B．shocked; a shock

C．shocking; a shock

D．shocking; shocking

12、We travel_____________ all the time between Canada and England for the business.

A.bit by bit B.back and forth C.now and then D.little by little

13、―Whose textbook is this？Is it yours?

―No,it isn’t.______is over there.

A.Me B.I C.My D.Mine

14、– 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

15、It is polite _____ you to give your seat to the old man on the bus.

A.for B.to C.of D.about

16、I found that the young man was always spying ________ me all the way，so I glared ________ him.

A.at；with B.on；with

C.at；on D.on；at

17、The subject ________ in conversation.

A．came up

B．came down

C．came out

D．came over

18、More than one boy of your members ______ to act in the short play, which is ______ tomorrow.

A．are; to be performed

B．are; to perform

C．is；to be performed

D．is; to perform

19、If you are caught cheating in the exam, you’ll never   it.

A.get down to B.get through C.get away with D.get along with

20、To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their ________ and weaknesses.

A．strengths

B．benefits

C．values

D．manners

21、Water，which seems so simple and common，is ________ makes life possible.

A. what B. that

C. which D. how

22、The new car there ______ to my sister.

A.belongs B.is belonging

C.is belonged D.was belonged

23、Eat in services in most cities are now back to ______ because China has passed the climax of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

A.usual B.common C.ordinary D.normal

24、— I’m so sorry for what I said to you yesterday.

— Forget it! I know you were just letting off ______.

A．emotions

B．liquid

C．feelings

D．steam

25、Take the medicine three times a day. _______ your doctor if the pain continues.

A.Defend B.Accuse C.Consult D.Challenge

26、   The San Diego Splash senior women’s basketball team plays three-on-three in 30-minute half-court games — looking at the score-board and it doesn’t take long to realize that there’s nothing “senior” about these athletes.

The Splash may be the oldest team under the San Diego Senior Women’s Basketball Association (players must be 80 or over to join), but its members play to win and have won two championships (冠军称号) at the National Senior Games. Nine women are on the record, including Meg Skinner and Grace Larson — both of whom are 91.

Born in the 1920s and 1930s, Larson and the rest of her teammates are making up for the lost time and missed chances. “I was 80 when I got my first basketball shoes, and I was excited,” Larson said. Players in the Splash didn’t just wake up on their 80th birthdays and decide to join the team, and many of them have been playing basketball for many years, both as players in the San Diego Senior Women’s Basketball Association and other organizations.

Since it’s medically proved that seniors’ sports can lead to a longer and livelier life, it comes as no surprise that many Splash players have lived longer. “A lot of my childhood friends thought I was crazy to play basketball at 66,” explained 87-year-old Marge Carl. “They thought I’ll break an arm or a leg, but I’m the only one surviving of my childhood friends. They’re all gone, every one of them.”

“Seniors have to join us,” Carl told a San Diego newspaper. “They can’t sit in a room watching TV. That’s a death warning.” With over 6 million views, the videos about the Splash are very popular. “A friendship, a sisterhood, a family” is how Larson describes her team —“It’s the nicest group of people from all walks of life.”

【1】What does the underlined sentence in the first paragraph mean?

A. The athletes are not as experienced as they look.

B. The athletes can’t wait to have another game.

C. The athletes play as well as young players.

D. The athletes are actually very young.

【2】What do we know about the Splash?

A. It is the oldest team in the world.

B. It has won two games in the finals.

C. The players must be less than 80.

D. Members don’t have basketball experience.

【3】What will probably happen if senior people play basketball?

A. They will live a healthier life.

B. They will be very excited every day.

C. They are sure to break arms and legs.

D. They will live longer than anyone else.

【4】What could be the best title for the text?

A. Age is just a number

B. Everyone should do more exercise

C. Playing basketball makes us healthy

D. Old people should be taken good care of

27、Interactions between people and elephants have a long history. Elephants have been trained and used by human beings for thousands of years, for everything from transportation to construction to logging to war.

In more recent times, Asian elephants have been used in entertainment and as a living 'machine' to help move logs through the jungle as part of the logging industry. The latter changed in Thailand in 1989, when the Thai government banned the use of elephants in the logging industry. Owners of elephants had very little choice but to turn to tourism to earn enough to care for themselves and their elephants by offering elephant riding to tourists.

Mahouts (象夫) are the elephant handlers who you will see riding or managing the elephants at any camp you visit. The traditional mahout life isn't easy. They are bonded to their elephant and they rarely have time off or time for family.

These years, younger mahouts in Thailand have been more likely to leave the mahout life to find jobs in the city, resulting in elephants having to get used to multiple mahouts. This can lead to additional stress on the elephant, or result in abuse by a mahout trying to manage an elephant that hasn’t built any level of trust with him.

Opponents of elephant riding may suggest that elephant rides be illegal. My worry is that an immediate ban could lead to another massive change in how elephants are treated, similar to ending elephant logging in 1989. How will mahouts that are currently making a living and supporting their elephants through rides be able to continue to do so? The average lifespan of an elephant is 60 years. Any solution needs to take into account the long-term effects on the elephants currently employed giving rides.

【1】What happened in 1989 in Thailand?

A．Elephants lost their jobs.

B．Elephants joined in tourism.

C．Entertainment was forbidden.

D．The government banned logging.

【2】What will cause the ill treatment of some elephants?

A．The great stress to make money.

B．The former masters’ leaving them.

C．The heavy load on the elephants.

D．The owners' mistrust of the elephants.

【3】What's the best title for the passage?

A．Will You Go to Thailand?

B．Why are Elephants Trained?

C．How do Mahouts Train Elephants?

D．Should You Ride Elephants in Thailand?

【4】Why does the author write this passage?

A．To present a problem.

B．To criticize mahouts.

C．To introduce Thailand.

D．To record his experience.

28、   Why does cream go bad faster than butter? Some researchers think they have the answer, and it comes down to the structure of the food, not its chemical composition-a finding that could help break away from some chemicals. Cream and butter contain pretty much the same things, so why cream should go bad much faster has been a problem. Both are small globules (小球) of one liquid which spreads throughout another. The difference lies in what's in the globules and what's in the surrounding liquid, says Brocklehurst, who led the research. In cream, fatty globules drift about in a sea of water. In butter, globules of a watery roads are locked away in a sea of fat. The bacteria (细菌) which make the food go bad prefer to live in the watery areas of the mixture. "This means that in cream, the bacteria are free to grow throughout the mixture," he says, "when in butter, the bacteria are locked away in locked places buried deep in the sea of fat. Trapped in this way, those colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out. They also slowly poison themselves with their waste products." "In butter, you get a self-limiting system which stops the bacteria growing." says Brocklehurst. The researchers are already working with food companies eager to see if their products can be made to stand bacterial attack through changes of the food's structure.

Brocklehurst believes it will be possible to make something used in salad cream, for instance, more like that in butter. The key will be to do this while keeping the salad cream liquid and not turning it into a solid state.

【1】The significance of Brocklehurst's research is that __________.

A.it discovered small globules in both cream and butter

B.it suggested a way to keep some foods fresh without using some chemicals

C.it showed the secret of how bacteria increase in cream and butter

D.it found that cream and butter share the same chemical composition

【2】According to Brocklehurst, we can keep cream fresh by __________.

A.changing its structure B.killing the bacteria

C.reducing its water D.removing its fat

【3】The underlined word "colonies" in the first paragraph refers to __________.

A.tiny globules B.watery regions

C.the surrounding liquid D.bacteria society

【4】Commercial use of the research finding will be possible if salad cream can be made to stand bacterial attack _____.

A.by changing its chemical composition

B.by turning it into a solid lump (肿块)

C.while its liquid form remains

D.while keeping its structure unchanged

29、2050 seems a long way away, but it is not impossible to predict the future though. With the speed we are moving now so many amazing things are going to happen in the future.【1】? Let’s start our predictions.

◆The Internet will be free for everyone.

The Internet is really a key driver these days. But it is not free for everyone yet. There have already been attempts like Facebook’s Free Basics.【2】, there is a very strong possibility that the Internet will be free for everyone in the future.

◆【3】

With the increasing population, it is not very hard to predict that common methods of transportation will not be enough. There will be much heavier traffic on the road. So in this case personal airplanes will be a handy method of transportation for common people.

Of course, there will be proper air traffic control for these personal airplanes.

◆Most cancers will be treated successfully.

【4】. It will be a huge achievement in the history of medical science. Many studies are already showing a trend towards this.

◆Humans will live on other planets.

There will be great achievements in space research. In the year 2050, humans will be able to live on Mars. We will receive more intelligent signals from space.【5】.

A．Though it hasn’t happened yet

B．So where is technology going in the future

C．The world’s population will cross 9.6 billion

D．What do you think of my predictions of 2050

E．Chances are we will be able to find the next Earth-like planet

F．Personal airplanes will be used widely for short journeys

G．The number of deaths caused by cancers will be greatly reduced

30、   Worth the pain in the end

I used to hate running. It seemed too hard and pushing outside my comfort zone was not something I was raised to do.

In fact, I wouldn’t have become a _______ if it weren’t for my husband Charles. He had been a serious competitive runner for many years. After our marriage, he wouldn’t stop talking about how much he missed it.

“So start running again, why don’t you?” I was getting _______ of hearing about it.

So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to join him at the track (跑道). Just a few weeks later, Charles signed us both up for a five-kilometer race. I _______about doing it. It was too soon.

But on _______ day, there I was.

The gun went  _______.Thousands of runners pushed forward.

The first kilometer was _______.

“I don’t think I’m going to make it.” I was already breathing heavily and painfully aware of the group of runners  pounding past me.

“No, you’re doing _______”, said Charles. He was trying to encourage me, to get me focused on something other than my  _______.

“I can’t,” I said, barely audibly (听得见地).

He tried a different way to _______ me. “Just make it to that house and let’s see how you feel.”

After another minute I saw the three-kilometer  ________. All I could think of was that I was dying and that my husband was torturing (折磨) me.

Miserable doesn’t even begin to describe  ________ I felt. And there was so much pain.

“You’ll be fine. You’ve got less than a kilometer to go.”

I rounded a corner and saw both sides of the street thick with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on. I willed my legs to keep going.

Then I looked up and saw the clock. The seconds ticking away (一分一秒地过去) gave me an incentive (助力). I knew that if I finished this race, I would have achieved something. So, I straightened up, and kicked it.

I had my arms held higher when I passed ________the finish line. A volunteer put a  ________ around my neck.

“You did great! I’m so proud of you!” Charles was thrilled that I’d ________ it.

“That was AMAZING! I want to do another race. This running stuff is amazing!” I proudly hugged my medal as we started to walk to the post-race festivities.

My lungs and my comfort zone both ________.

【1】A.runner B.traveler C.racer D.cheerleader

【2】A.afraid B.tired C.aware D.confident

【3】A.thought B.dreamed C.hesitated D.cared

【4】A.race B.sport C.show D.task

【5】A.on B.off C.up D.down

【6】A.long B.short C.easy D.tough

【7】A.wrong B.right C.great D.bad

【8】A.disability B.dishonor C.disgrace D.discomfort

【9】A.advise B.persuade C.urge D.force

【10】A.signal B.symbol C.point D.mark

【11】A.how B.what C.when D.why

【12】A.by B.over C.across D.through

【13】A.ring B.necklace C.medal D.scarf

【14】A.done B.made C.taken D.caught

【15】A.developed B.expanded C.changed D.progressed

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.

Hundreds of years ago, Charles Darwin predicted that facial expressions of emotion are 【1】. If you’ve ever seen an episode of the popular US TV drama Lie To Me, you will really understand facial expressions. The leading actor of the show, Dr. Cal Lightman has spent 20 years studying nonverbal communication and facial expressions, which allows him to point out other people’s studying nonverbal communication and facial expressions which allows him to point out other people’s 【2】 and on many occasions, to be skilled at tricking in order to get the truth.

Is there really much truth behind this science of 【3】 human emotions through expressions? Paul Ekman, a(n) 【4】 psychologist whose work focuses on mapping facial expressions, is Lie To Me’s scientific advisor and the following are some of his explanations.

Hand-to-face gesture indicates a lie.

Each micro-expression is unique to 【5】 specific emotions because the person is often unaware of doing it. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are lying when someone uses a hand to hide part of his face. The person could be holding back information but you may better consider looking at other more important clues rather than just the simple hand-to-face gesture.

A liar refuses eye contact.

People look away when they are thinking carefully and considering each word before it is spoken, not just when they are 【6】 an excuse. Oblique eyebrows are a very reliable 【7】of sadness and few people can make this 【8】 expression, so it is actually never faked.

Guilty knowledge technique is 【9】.

Lightman often uses the guilty knowledge technique, mentioning something that only the guilty person will know about and show a(n)【10】. This is often used in polygraph exams: “Was the person strangled, shot or stabbed to death?” Only the killer knows and is likely to respond physiologically when the actual weapon is mentioned.

32、假如你是李华，你的英国留学生朋友Roy得知你校正在举行为期两周的绘画摄影艺术展，发来邮件向你询问相关情况。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：

1. 艺术展的内容；

2. 艺术展的意义；

3. 发出邀请。

注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Roy,

Glad to hear from you.

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Best wishes.

Yours,

Li Hua