常德2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、 _________the first exam, he had to work harder to pass a similar exam later.

A．Having not passed

B．Not having passed

C．Not passing

D．Not to have passed

2、David asked to be ________ in that foreign bank but was refused for his poor health.

A.interviewed B.introduced C.educated D.employed

3、By the end of last year, the railway station ________.

A．will be completed

B．had been completed

C．was completed

D．has been completed

4、Some top American universities are accused of _______ Asian-American applicants using race as a factor.

A. deleting   B. removing

C. denying   D. restoring

5、____ she finds out that you’ve lost her book?

A. What about   B. How about   C. How if D. What if

6、Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has fully ____food-delivery startup Ele. me to expand its business.

A. allocated   B. advocated   C. acquired   D. adopted

7、 How can you blame others? It was your carelessness that _______ the loss of the company.

A. resulted from B. led to

C. lay in D. counted on

8、Keep the things you’ll need during the week in a safe place ________ you can easily find them.

A．from which

B．that

C．which

D．where

9、---Can you lend me two magazines?

---Sorry, but I haven`t got_____ at the moment.

A. either B. each   C. any   D. it

10、It was between 1920 and 1930 _______ the television was invented in America.

A．which

B．when

C．since

D．that

11、The last few years ___ the worst period on record for environmental disasters and experts are predicting far worse to come.

A. see   B. saw

C. have seen   D. are seeing

12、On hearing the news, the girl rushed out without hesitation, ______ the luggage ______ on the floor, and ______ in the dark.

A. left, lied, disappeared   B. leaving, lying, disappeared

C. leaving, lie, disappeared   D. left, lay, disappear

13、No sooner ______ on board the train than it______ to move.

A. did he go; had started B. he went; started

C. had he gone; started D. he had gone; had started

14、________ has help to save the drowning boy is worth________.

A．Who; to praise

B．Who; praising

C．Whoever; to praise

D．Whoever; praising

15、I thought she was the very girl that I should marry_______I met her.

A.at the first time B.for the first time

C.the first time D.first time

16、These MBAs are undeniably expensive and ______ pose the question as to how much value and payback they can provide.

A．essentially

B．absolutely

C．consistently

D．consequently

17、Chichester covered anyone had previously sailed alone.

A.more than twice the distance B.more than twice longer

C.over twice longer the distance as D.as over twice long as

18、Finding a date ____________ suits everyone seems difficult.

A.that B.when C.what D.where

19、You’re going to have to _________ your pride and ask for your job back.

A.seize B.escape C.swallow D.choke

20、______of all the staff,I would like to wish you a happy retirement.

A.In honour B.In place C.On behalf D.On account

21、   When travelling abroad, you have to spend some time thinking about gifts. What should you buy your family or your best friend? It could be a Yankees baseball cap if you Visit the U.S.A. In Vietnam, a straw hat called a non la is a popular tourist gift. If you ever visit Russia, you may want to think about buying a set of Russian dolls (玩具娃娃).They are like no other doll.

The proper name for a Russian doll is a Matryoshka doll. When you first see it, it looks like a single doll. Pick it up and twist(扭转)its top, you will find that it comes apart around the middle. Inside is a second doll, looking exactly the same as the first, but smaller. Twist the second doll, and the same thing happens. You keep twisting each doll until you end up with a very tiny doll. Usually, there can be up to 10 dolls making up a set.

Russian dolls were first made in 1890 and included eight dolls. These were all hand carved and painted. They were dressed in a traditional dress called a sarafan. The word “Matryoshka” means matron — an older married woman. The idea was that it meant a family with the mother being at its head. The dolls proved to be very popular and it was not long before every woodworker was making them.

The Russian doll appeared at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900. Everyone who saw them wanted one. Soon people visiting Russia also wanted to have one. Being quite small, they could fit into tourists’ luggage (行李) very easily — unlike a non la! The dolls were all hand carved and painted until about 1930, when factories began producing Russian dolls which are not expensive.

Walking around the tourist streets of Moscow, you will find many shops selling Russian dolls. The traditional Matryoshka dolls are still there, but today you can also find the images(形象)of all kinds of different people.

【1】As a tourist gift, where does a non la most probably come from?

A.France. B.Russia. C.Vietnam. D.America.

【2】What can we learn about the early Matryoshka dolls?

A.They were named after an old woman.

B.They were images of a big family.

C.They were gifts for mothers.

D.They were made by hand.

【3】What happened to the Russian doll at the Paris World’s Fair?

A.They were hugely popular. B.They were produced in factories.

C.They were put into a small bag. D.They were given to tourists as a gift.

【4】What's the advantage of a Russian doll?

A.It is cheap. B.It is useful.

C.It is easy to carry. D.It is made to order.

22、How do the world’s only flying mammals communicate? Researchers have observed young bats adopting new “dialects” simply by hearing them repeatedly, making them one of the few animals known to have a capacity for vocal (声音的) learning. “These bats may help us clarify the evolution of speech acquisition (习得) skills,” says Yosef Prat, a PhD at Tel Aviv University (TAU).

For one year, researchers raised 14 Egyptian fruit bat pups with their mothers in controlled area, exposing each young bat to two different vocalizations: the natural call of its mother and a separate recording that varied in pitch (音高) or frequency. They found that the pups in each group developed a dialect like the recording. “The general assumption in this field is that most animals develop their born vocalizations regardless of what they hear, and that human vocal learning abilities have developed during evolution,” says Mr Prat. “The finding that bats learn the common dialect in their rest place was unusual.”

Scientists know little about the origin of spoken language, which is believed to have appeared in humans within the past 500,000 years. Dozens of theories attempt to explain the complexity of this skill, but none have done so conclusively.

“Studying vocal communication and vocal learning in animal models is a very useful way to approach the problem,” says Olga Feher, an assistant professor at the University of Warwick in England.

But animal vocalizations and human speech are very different things, says Jamin Pelkey, a professor at Ryerson University. “All species communicate. Unlike other animals, though, human beings are able to use sound patterns for functions that are far stranger—functions that are imaginative, theoretical, and critical. When speech is involved in these stranger functions, that is what we mean by spoken ‘language’.”

【1】How do young bats acquire their “language” according to the research?

A. Flying in the air slowly.

B. Hearing it again and again.

C. Communicating with partners.

D. Repeating it with their mothers.

【2】What was the general view about animal vocalization?

A. Most animals are born with it

B. Its process was unusual.

C. It is easier than human speech.

D. What animals heard doesn’t affect their learning.

【3】What does the underlined word “problem” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. The difference between animals and humans.

B. The complexity of spoken language.

C. The origin of spoken language.

D. The study of animal models.

【4】What does professor Pelkey think of researching young bats?

A. It is far from the fact

B. Its result is beyond doubt.

C. It is of great scientific value.

D. It doesn’t relate to human speech much.

23、The Shaanxi Archaeology (考古学) Museum, China’s first archaeological museum, is to be opened to the public soon in 2022.

The museum focuses on the results of archaeological research in Shaanxi Province over the past century and the more than 200, 000 cultural relics that have been unearthed, aiming to introduce Chinese history and the spirit of the Chinese nation to the world.

A total of 4,218 of the 5,215 cultural relics in the collection are on display. Pottery figurines (小雕像) from the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han from the Western Zhou Dynasty and the epitaph (碑文) of Yan Zhenqing from the Tang Dynasty will be presented to the public for the first time, according to a report from CCTV.

Sun Zhouyong, director of the museum, told the Global Times on Saturday that the museum focuses on the development of Chinese archaeology as its main thread, so all of the displayed cultural relics are introduced alongside the background of their unearthed sites so that the public can have a deeper understanding of the field of archaeology.

Media reported that many of the displayed relics have been restored and are being protected using new techniques and advanced technology. The museum includes sample rooms, an archaeological content center, and a public archaeological center that allows visitors to excavate their own objects using ancient techniques at the hand-on archaeological sites.

With advanced equipment and technical know-how, the Science and Technology Protection Center at the museum conducts research on the protection and restoration of cultural relics mainly unearthed in Shaanxi Province. Some working areas are open to the public, and tourists can see the restoration process of cultural relics through workshops so as to deepen their understanding of the cultural relic protection work.

【1】What is the museum designed for?

A．Restoring the unearthed cultural relics.

B．Protecting the displayed cultural relics.

C．Displaying the collection of pottery figurines.

D．Promoting the history and spirit of Chinese nation.

【2】What can we know about the displayed cultural relics?

A．They are displayed on their unearthed sites.

B．Tourists can use new techniques to restore them.

C．All of the cultural relics in collection are on display.

D．They tell us the development of Chinese archaeology.

【3】What does the underlined word “excavate” in paragraph 5 mean?

A．Protect.

B．Carve.

C．Dig.

D．Restore.

【4】What’s the text mainly about?

A．The introduction to a museum.

B．The importance of archaeology.

C．The protection of cultural relics.

D．The development of Chinese culture.

24、Trust me, you don't want to get caught under a tsunami! Tsunamis are one of the world's most powerful natural forces.【1】

But do you know exactly what a tsunami is? It is huge, powerful waves in the ocean that grow as they reach the shore.【2】An earthquake happens when a big piece of the Earth's crust（地壳）suddenly moves. When the piece of ocean floor moves, it creates big holes. The water floods in to fill these holes. When the water moves that quickly, it creates a huge wave.【3】

Other natural disasters like landslides, volcanic eruptions, and glaciers breaking off can also cause tsunamis. Once the water starts moving because of the force of the disaster, large waves begin to spread.【4】They have been recorded at speeds from 400 up to 500 miles per hour! They can also move across very long distances.

At first, the waves of the tsunami may not seem that tall. That's because when the waves travel through the deep parts of the ocean, the top of each wave is very short. But as that wave comes near to the coast, it grows in height.【5】If you are sitting on a beach, you may not see the wave coming at first. But when the wave arrives, it will be like a towering wall of water. Some waves are as tall as 100 feet high.

A．They can cause great damage.

B．This is how tsunamis are born!

C．These waves can move very fast.

D．Remember, the tsunami travels quickly.

E．A tsunami wave is a force of Nature.

F．Tsunamis, are also known as seismic waves.

G．Most tsunamis are actually caused by earthquakes.

25、Last August, we hiked about half a mile to a popular spot called Diana’s Baths in an American park. The ________ falls off a series of flat rocks into small pools, where kids in swimsuits were ________ around.

I was ________ as I saw my two boys jump between the slippery rocks. “No running,” I said again and again. “Stay away from all those edges.” But I soon ________ and we were all having fun. Then, seconds later, I ________ my son Wyatt sitting down between two rocks in a fast-moving stream. I yelled at him to ________. He yelled something that I couldn’t hear, and then he disappeared over the edge.

My husband was already swimming down the rocks. To my ________, I finally discovered Wyatt was sitting up. Wyatt had fallen on his back, straight onto the rocks. That’s what Lisa told us. We didn’t know her ________ at that point. All we knew was that when everyone else looked on from a distance, too afraid or unbothered to help, this slim woman didn’t ________. In fact, by the time my husband pulled Wyatt out of the water, she had already called 911. She gave Wyatt towel to put under his head. She ________ us to keep him still and on his back in case he injured his spinal cord. Only at this moment did I get the chance to ask her name and she told me she was Lisa.

The rescue team ________. They took Wyatt out of the ________. An ambulance took us to the small local hospital. As soon as the ________ told me that Wyatt was going to be OK, my thoughts fell to Lisa. If she had not ________, would someone else have done so? Perhaps. But it was her.

She was the one who went toward the ________ instead of turning away.

【1】

A．trash

B．mud

C．sand

D．water

【2】

A．looking

B．swimming

C．travelling

D．gathering

【3】

A．terrified

B．excited

C．disappointed

D．confused

【4】

A．returned

B．disappeared

C．relaxed

D．understood

【5】

A．kept

B．stopped

C．suggested

D．saw

【6】

A．get out

B．give up

C．lie down

D．turn around

【7】

A．surprise

B．relief

C．disappointment

D．annoyance

【8】

A．hobby

B．weight

C．name

D．profession

【9】

A．telephone

B．yell

C．apologize

D．hesitate

【10】

A．told

B．forced

C．ordered

D．encouraged

【11】

A．succeeded

B．came

C．agreed

D．failed

【12】

A．bathroom

B．theater

C．park

D．school

【13】

A．teachers

B．coaches

C．patients

D．doctors

【14】

A．helped

B．refused

C．accepted

D．tried

【15】

A．funny

B．challenging

C．time-consuming

D．thinkable

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Dear Mr. Wang,

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