乌兰察布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 visiting Minister expressed his satisfaction with the talks, _______ that he had enjoyed his stay here.

A．having added

B．to add

C．adding

D．added

2、Can you spare me some time? Because I’ve got to talk to you about the moment ________ you made me cross.

A．when

B．which

C．as

D．how

3、Self-objectification may be a bigger problem for men, _____ the time and effort to edit and improve their selfies, before posting them online.

A.many taken B.with many taking

C.many took D.with much taken

4、Although the plan is not so perfect, they are strongly opposed ________ it.

A. to not conduct      B. not to conduct

C. to not conducting     D. not to conducting

5、I arrived late and missed the flight. I _______ the traffic to be so heavy.

A．hadn't expected

B．haven't expected

C．hadn't been expected

D．haven't been expected

6、As expected, the boy who shows great ______ in playing badminton has been admitted to the sport university for his talent.

A．requirement

B．respect

C．addition

D．promise

7、It was ________ of Michael to inform us of his delay in case we got worried.

A．tiresome

B．considerate

C．patient

D．generous

8、People expect Shanghai Disneyland Park to offer better service than ________ of Tokyo’s.

A. this  B. it   C. one D. that

9、My family and I have managed to cross the North American continent and I can’t _________ the stories with you.

A．wait to share

B．help but share

C．help share

D．wait but share

10、Word came _______ the long-awaited agreement was reached after seven months of negotiation ended at 3 am yesterday.

A.what B.that C.when D.which

11、Do you think he is _______ to come here?

A．probable

B．possible

C．likely

D．certainly

12、It is nice _________ him to offer me such valuable advice.

A．for

B．of

C．about

D．on

13、“Don’t worry about me ，”she ______ her sister.

A. said to   B. referred to

C. thanks to   D. spoke

14、If you are travelling ____________ customs are really foreign to you, please do as the Romans do.

A.where B.when C.that D.which

15、That’s the woman ________ photo is on the cover of the latest magazine.

A.that B.who C.which D.whose

16、 —I’m worried about the coming test! —______, you can do it!

A. Don’t mention it   B. come on

C. Well done   D. Not likely

17、______full preparations, they thought it better to put off the conference till next week.

A. Not to have made   B. Not having made

C. Not making   D. Having not made

18、You are hardworking and surely most of you _____ a college admission notice by the end of September this year．

A. will receive   B. will be receiving

C. will be received   D. will have received

19、—Can I have a day off tomorrow? I need to visit my grandma in the hospital.

—__________. I can manage without you.

A．Forget it

B．Of course

C．It depends

D．I’m afraid not

20、I wonder whether his hearing is okay ______ he has turned the television up very loud.

A. unless B. although C. until  D. because

21、A Chinese consortium（联盟）led by China Railway Corp will participate in bidding for a high-speed railroad linking Singapore and Malaysia in 2018, marking another step in China’s ambitious strategy to export its high-speed railway technologies to Southeast Asia.

The consortium, consisting of eight companies including CRRC, China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd, China Railway Signal and Communication Co and Export-Import Bank of China, covers the design, construction, telecommunication, financing, operating and maintenance（维护）sectors for the high-speed rail network.

A joint tender（招标）for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail project was issued by the Malaysian and Singaporean government-owned utilities（公用事业）—MyHSR Corp and SG HSR，on Dec 20.According to a joint statement released by the two companies, the potential bidder would be responsible for the design, construction, financing, operating and maintenance of rolling stock and railway systems for the double-track line with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

The tender is open to all companies, regardless of their location. A tender briefing will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 23, and proposals need to be submitted by June 29. Submissions will be evaluated based on technical merit（优点）, commercial robustness, financial sustainability and price. The preferred bidder will be selected by the end of next year. The governments of both countries signed a bilateral（双边的）agreement late in 2016 to begin the project. According to the agreement, the high-speed rail link is expected to become operational by Dec 31, 2026, and will cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to just 90 minutes.

“The move indicates that China’s State-owned enterprises have stopped cruel competition to hurt each other,” said Du Chunbu, a professor of rail transportation at Beijing Jiaotong University. “Instead, they have started to form a consortium to better compete with companies from Japan, South Korea, Germany and Canada by bringing their specialties into play.”

【1】What can we learn about the high-speed railroad?

A. It is expected to become operational in about five years.

B. It is designed at a speed of 350 kilometers every hour.

C. It is a single-track line linking Singapore and Malaysia.

D. It will cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to one hour.

【2】The underlined word “robustness” in Para.4 probably means “the state of being ________”.

A. strong and unlikely to become weak

B. able to wait calmly for a long time or to accept difficulties

C. able to understand other people’s feelings and problems

D. likely to develop into a particular type of thing in the future

【3】Why do eight Chinese companies join together to bid for the project?

A. To invest more money in the project.

B. To be able to finish the project ahead of time.

C. To avoid fierce competition to hurt each other.

D. To guarantee the quality of the high-speed rail project.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the news report?

A. China to bid for Malaysia railway project

B. A Chinese consortium led by China Railway Corp

C. China to export its high-speed railway technologies to Southeast Asia

D. China to participate in building high-speed railroad linking Singapore and Malaysia

22、Many studies have shown how playing video games can lead to structural changes in the brain, including increasing the size of some regions, or to functional changes, such as activating the areas responsible for attention. New research from the University at Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has gone further to show how cognitive changes can take place even years after people stop playing.

The study involved 27 people between the ages of 18 and 40 with and without any kind of experience with video gaming.

“People who were video gamers before adolescence, despite no longer playing, performed better with the working memory tasks, which require mentally holding and processing information to get a result,” said Marc Palaus, the author of the study.

The results show that people without experience of playing video games as a child did not benefit from improvements in processing and avoiding irrelevant stimuli. Indeed, they were slower than those who had played games as children, which matched what had been seen in earlier studies.

“People who played regularly as children performed better from the outset in processing 3D objects, although these differences were narrowed after the period of training in video gaming, when both groups showed similar levels,” said Palaus.

The study lasted a month and the researchers analyzed participants’ cognitive skills, including working memory, at three points: before starting the training in video gaming, at the end of the training, and fifteen days later. The video game used was Nintendo’s Super Mario 64.

According to Palaus, what most video games have in common is that they involve elements that make people want to continue playing, and that they gradually get harder and present a constant challenge. “These two things are enough to make it an attractive and motivating activity, which, in turn, requires constant and intense use of our brain’s resources.”

“Video games are a perfect recipe for strengthening our cognitive skills, almost without our noticing. However, it’s not the reason for playing too much,” he said.

【1】What can be learned about the study?

A．It looks at different games.

B．It is aimed at adult gamers.

C．Its participants are adults.

D．Its author likes playing games.

【2】How did people playing no video games as children behave in the study?

A．They tended to ignore irrelevant stimuli.

B．They failed to physically hold 3D objects.

C．They performed very slowly after training.

D．They did worse in working memory tasks.

【3】What may Mare Palaus suggest doing?

A．Finding recipes for better cognitive skills.

B．Avoiding getting addicted to video games.

C．Trying less challenging video games.

D．For bidding video games for the young.

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

A．Playing Video Games as Kids Can Cause Changes in Brain

B．Video Gamers Memorize Information Much More Quickly

C．Video Games Help to Improve Children’s Working Memory

D．Playing Video Games Benefits Cognitive Skills Even Years Later

23、Here are some sports in the Winter Olympics:

Sledging

Sledging has been an Olympic sport since 1924. It came from the Swiss town of St. Moritz in the late 1800s and looks great fun! If you want to do this sport, you should be able to run on the ice! Top athletes can sometimes reach speeds about 130 kilometers an hour. Germany picked up the gold for both the two and four men bobsleigh at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

Curling

Curling has also been an Olympic sport since 1924 and its birthplace is Scotland. Curling is a competition between two teams with four players on each side. The game is played on the ice, and the two teams take turns pushing a 19.1kg stone towards a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stone as close to the centre of the circles as possible. You need to be light on your feet and have good balance to walk on the ice.

Hockey

Hockey is an Olympic sport since 1920. It is fun, fast but also a little dangerous. Women were not allowed to play in the Olympics until 1998. Teams consist of 12 people, but each team can’t have more than six players on the ice at one time. The game lasts for three 20-minute periods, with a 15-minute break after the first and second periods. Canada holds the gold for both the men and women’s ice hockey teams, but ice hockey is a growing sport in the UK, with lots of clubs and teams.

【1】What do Sledging and Curling have in common?

A．They come from the same place.

B．They need the same skills in each game.

C．The number of players in each team is the same.

D．They become an Olympic sport in the same year.

【2】If you want to do sledging you should ________ according to the text.

A．have a good sense of balance

B．learn how to run on the ice

C．walk carefully on the ice

D．practice a lot on the ground

【3】Which is a rule of playing hockey?

A．Women are not able to take part in the game.

B．Teams compete by pushing a 19.1kg stone.

C．Players can rest for 20 minutes in each break.

D．Up to 12 players can be on the ice during the game.

24、"The sun isn’t even out. You get up, button your uniform, tie your boot laces, and kiss your family goodbye. You close your eyes and take a moment to make peace with the reality that you may never see them again." This is the daily routine of a ranger.

Globally, about 150 rangers die each year protecting parks and wildlife, according to the Thin Green Line Foundation. This year, this number of rangers lost is likely to increase as the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll-both in terms of rangers catching the disease and in carrying out their duties.

On July 31, World Ranger Day, the Global Wildlife Program（GWP）, funded by the Global Environment Facility（GEF）, would like to honor the bravery and determination of all rangers—who are nature’s frontline defenders—by sharing their stories.

Patience Tsitsi Shumbayaonda, 28, has been a ranger with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority（ZimParks）for three years. She and her colleagues patrol in conservation areas that are benefitting from the GWP-Zambezi Valley Biodiversity Project, to strengthen biodiversity and ecosystems management in the Mid-and Lower Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe.

"Being a ranger is physically strong," with a typical day patrolling protected areas, monitoring for illegal activities, tracking and poachers（盗猎者）, keeping track of available water in water bodies, fire management, looking for animals in distress, and helping communities address human-wildlife conflict.

“Our job is not only to protect the animals from the people, but also the people from animals," she said, "We do come face to face with dangerous animals but if we keep our distance from them, they will go away. I think somehow, they feel our positive energy and do not attack us.”

"It’s not our duty only as rangers to look after wildlife, but it is everyone’s task—as communities, as nations, and globally. I hope that the illegal trade of endangered species is stopped and that people value wildlife as we rangers do, such that we live in harmony with nature.”

【1】What does the first paragraph function as ________

A．An introduction to the topic.

B．A link between the next two paragraphs.

C．A view point to be argued next.

D．A quote to make the author’s view trustworthy.

【2】Why was the World Ranger Day founded?

A．To raise the awareness of environment protection.

B．To let people know the troubles the rangers meet with.

C．To show respect for the courage and will-power of the rangers.

D．To encourage common people to look after wildlife.

【3】Except which situation may the rangers face the following dangers every day?

A．poachers’ attack

B．communities fight

C．wild animals attack

D．catching the COVID-19

【4】From the last paragraph we can conclude that___________.

A．wild animals are likely to attack rangers

B．wildlife poaching is allowed in some countries

C．it’s only rangers’ duty to protect endangered species

D．it’s all the people’s responsibility in the world to take care of wildlife

25、I was only one of the students in college who had to go to the mailbox every weekend. That is mainly because my mother has never believed in _______, texting or cell phones. While other kids were texting their parents, I was only ______ by the mailbox to get a ______ from home to see how their weekend had gone.

When I moved to New York after college and got completely ______, I did the only thing I could think of at the time. I wrote ______ dozens and dozens of letters and ______ them everywhere, in cafes and in libraries... I posted a kind of crazy ______ to the Internet: if you ______ me for a hand-written letter, I would write you one. Overnight, my inbox ______ the harbor of heartbreak—a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied (欺负) in Kansas... All asking me.

As a 22-year-old girl, I ______ knew how to order coffee, but wrote them a letter and gave them a ______to wait by the mailbox. Their stories ______ me that letter-writing will ______ need to talk about efficiency (效率). The fact that somebody would just sit down, pull out a piece of ______ and think about someone the whole way with an intention is ______ to find when the browser is up and the iPhone is ringing and we've got six messages ______. A hand-written letter is an art form that does not ______ the Goliath (巨人) of “get faster”, no matter how many social networks we might join.

We ______ these letters to our chest where we write the ______ that we have needed to _____to sisters and brothers and even to strangers.

【1】

A．newspapers

B．radios

C．TVs

D．emails

【2】

A．crying

B．waiting

C．performing

D．playing

【3】

A．letter

B．present

C．pen

D．book

【4】

A．frightened `

B．inspired

C．depressed

D．relaxed

【5】

A．strangers

B．sisters

C．brothers

D．heroes

【6】

A．burned

B．left

C．threw

D．hid

【7】

A．picture

B．behavior

C．promise

D．dream

【8】

A．asked

B．hated

C．refused

D．praised

【9】

A．broke down

B．came through

C．made for

D．turned into

【10】

A．clearly

B．hardly

C．immediately

D．gradually

【11】

A．request

B．direction

C．reason

D．principle

【12】

A．threatened

B．convinced

C．warned

D．wished

【13】

A．never

B．always

C．usually

D．only

【14】

A．cake

B．soap

C．chocolate

D．paper

【15】

A．important

B．necessary

C．hard

D．interesting

【16】

A．by accident

B．in all

C．within reach

D．at once

【17】

A．fall down to

B．come up with

C．think badly of

D．keep out of

【18】

A．stick

B．attach

C．connect

D．hold

【19】

A．stories

B．words

C．chances

D．answers

【20】

A．reduce

B．develop

C．say

D．represent

26、书面表达

假定你是李华，对中国传统医药很感兴趣。你获悉中国药学家屠哟哟因发现了青篙素被授予2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。请给你的美国朋友David发一封邮件分享此消息。信件须包括以下内容：

心情：骄傲和激动。

评价：她找到了治疗疟疾的方法，数千万人从中受益。

志向：立志考入屠哟坳的母校北大，造福人民。

注意：1．词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

参考词汇：

1．药学家：pharmacologist

2.青篙素：artemisinin

3. 2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖：The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

4.疟疾：malaria