昌吉州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Although dishonesty seems so common in recent years, people still believe that honesty will not go out of   ．

A． style B． order C． balance D． shape

2、_______was not ______she took off her dark glasses _______I recognized her.

A. It; when; before   B. It; until; that

C. That; after; that   D. This; when; after

3、The stronger the________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.

A．motivation

B．ambition

C．effect

D．imagination

4、The remaining several thousand contractors have no guarantee of work __________the program is over.

A．though

B．while

C．now that

D．except when

5、The long hot summer has _____ serious water shortage.

A．belonged to

B．led to

C．caught up

D．picked up

6、I have a habit of taking a coffee, which makes me feel _____when I have to stay up late.

A. adequate   B. pessimistic

C. sensitive   D. Energetic

7、Hardly the bus suddenly pulled away.

A.they had got to the bus stop than B.they got to the bus stop than

C.did they get to the bus stop when D.had they got to the bus stop when

8、Tina ________ have known the truth, or she would have told us.

A．mustn't

B．needn't

C．shouldn't

D．can't

9、China has a rapid rising middle class and a culture _____ it is polite to over-order food for guests in restaurants.

A.which B.who C.where D.when

10、This job doesn’t pay well, but it’ll _________ cover your daily expenses.

A. directly   B. extremely

C. especially   D. roughly

11、The reason________their failure you know is________they are lazy.

A.why,that B.that,why C.for,that D.why, because

12、Directed by Peter Chen and   A-list actress Gong Li, the film Leap is based on the volleyball team's story spread over for more than 40 years.

A.starred B.to star C.starring D.being starred

13、She _______Mr White for two years.

A. married   B. has been married to

C. married with   D. has bee marrying

14、The new product which was developed  ____the customer demand will come into the market next month.

A. in response to   B. in addition to   C. in honor of   D. in charge of

15、A great deal of hotel business comes from people travelling not just for holidays but by people travelling ________ their business activities．

A． in harmony with   B． in conflict with

C． by order of D． by virtue of

16、________carefully, please! There is a school ahead.

A．Drive

B．Driving

C．To drive

D．Drove

17、 But for the fact that Mr Smith ________ill yesterday, he would have attended the important meeting.

A. was   B. be C. were D. had been

18、It greatly ______ me that this film, adapted from my favorite novel, is going to be shown soon.

A. entertains B. thrills

C. absorbs D. strikes

19、It’s no use ______ about it. You can’t do anything to change it.

A．worried

B．to worry

C．worrying

D．worry

20、 --I believe that more effective measures have to be taken before we can breathe cleaner air.

--______. Air pollution has become too serious a problem.

A. I don’t like it

B. I am with you on that

C. I don’t care about it

D. I can’t agree with you

21、MySpace, the social networking website, is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast your own stories and personal information to as many people as you like. Founded in 2003, it is a big source of information for and about American kids.

Teenagers and their parents feel very differently about it. Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their parents’ worries. It signals yet another generation gap in the digital era.

For teenagers, it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames, birthdays, after-school jobs, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information. “MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don’t have all the phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace,” said Abby Van Wassen. She is a 16-year-old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Parents, on the other hand, are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. “Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace,” said Kent Gates, who travels the country doing Internet safety seminars (研讨会). The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace-related complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in Pittsburgh.

“Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It’s like a free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children,” Buchanan said.

【1】From the passage, we can learn that MySpace _________.

A．is popular with parents

B．is very careful about people’s privacy

C．encourages you to list your personal information

D．lists the telephone numbers of your friends

【2】What can we infer from the sentence “Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace”?

A．MySpace has become a top issue troubling parents.

B．MySpace often holds parents meetings.

C．MySpace is quite popular with parents.

D．Parents have lots of questions about the website.

【3】The writer’s attitude towards MySpace is _________.

A．negative

B．positive

C．optimistic

D．objective

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Internet Safety

B．The Digital Era

C．Generation Gap

D．MySpace

22、   Kites have been around for a long time. The Chinese invented kites over 2000 years ago. A determined man named Mo Zi had an idea as he watched hawks(鹰) fly. He spent three years making a wooden hawk “kite”. It broke after one flight! Mo Zi and his Chinese friends did not give up. Soon they perfected the art of creating kites.

Kites became part of many Chinese festivals. Pictures of kites were also on vases and in paintings. But kites were meant to fly in places other than China! Marco Polo visited China in the 13th century and brought kites back to Europe with him. Europeans loved them, and the art of kiting “took off”!

Many kites have stories behind them. One Chinese novel, called Journey to the West, was written around 1400 AD. In the story, a priest(僧侣) traveled with three students. One student was a monkey. The second student was a man with pig ears. The third student was a former river monster. These characters often appear on Chinese kites. Another splendid(壮观的) Chinese kite is the dragon kite. A dragon kite is made of many round discs strung together. Often the dragon is bright red, with fat horns and white teeth. The dragon is the king of beasts in Chinese myths. It represents goodness, even though it looks scary. Two kinds of kites have pictures of birds on them. One kite is called the phoenix(凤凰) bird kite. The phoenix bird symbolizes peace. Another kite shows the redheaded crane(鹤).The crane represents happiness, good fortune, and a long life.

Kites come in all shapes and sizes. Flat or bowed kites have a simple shape, such as a diamond or a rectangle(长方形). Delta(三角形) kites are triangular. Rokkaku kites are six-sided and often bear a striking image. Sometimes these kites “fight” each other until one kite drops from the sky. The other kite then wins the “battle”.

【1】Who introduced Chinese kites to Europe?

A.A foreigner from Europe. B.Three students in Journey to the West.

C.The priest in Journey to the West. D.A Chinese artist.

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.The novel Journey to the West mainly talks about the art of kiting.

B.The characters in the novel Journey to the West are often painted on kites.

C.The dragon kite represents happiness, good fortune and a long life.

D.A phoenix bird is a main character in the novel Journey to the West.

【3】Which statement expresses an opinion rather than a fact?

A.Kites became part of many Chinese festivals.

B.There are many different kinds of kites.

C.The dragon kite is the most splendid Chinese kite.

D.Kites were invented 2000 years ago.

23、Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature; an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a very simple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover for mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive bomb to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it was used as a weapon of war to kill and injure his fellow men. During his useful life, he often felt he was useless. "Alfred Nobel," he once wrote of himself, "ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life." World-famous for his works, he was never personally well-known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. "1 do not see," he once said, "that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it." But since his death, his name has brought fame and glory to others.

He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented the landmine and made a lot of money from government orders during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred rejoined them in 1863, beginning his own study of bombs in his father's laboratory. He had never been to school or university but had studied privately. And by the time he was twenty, he was a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, Alfred Nobel was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more financial sense. He was quick to see industrial openings for his scientific inventions and built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. Indeed his greatness lay in his outstanding ability to combine the qualities of an original scientist with those of a forward-looking industrialist.

But Nobel’s main concern was never with making money or even with making scientific discoveries. Seldom happy, he was always searching for a meaning to life, and from his youth had taken a serious interest in literature and philosophy. Perhaps he could not find ordinary human love---he never married---he came to care deeply about the whole of mankind. He was always generous to the poor: “I'd rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the dead in the form of stone materials.” he once said. His greatest wish, however, was to see an end to wars, and thus peace between nations, and he spent much time and money working for this cause until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideals. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long after his death.

【1】The reason why Alfred Nobel invented the bomb is to ________.

A．get government orders during the Crimean War

B．protect the country from being invaded

C．mine and build roads

D．open new companies in other countries

【2】What was Alfred Nobel searching for in the long course of his life?

A．Fame and wealth

B．A meaning to life.

C．How to end the war.

D．The peace between nations.

【3】What is the implied meaning of the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A．We should honor the dead in some other way rather than by building stone monuments for them.

B．Rather than spend money and make efforts in building monuments in memory of the dead, we should do something to provide more food for the living.

C．When we are planning to build monuments to honor the dead, we should also make real efforts to provide the living with more food.

D．Living with honor comes more important than death with dignity.

【4】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

A．In leaving behind a well-meant will, Alfred Nobel succeeded in building a permanent monument for his interests and ideals.

B．Alfred Nobel made a glorious will so that he might be remembered and respected after his death.

C．In his famous will, Alfred Nobel expressed his wish that a monument should be put up in memory of him as a scientist and inventor.

D．According to his will, Nobel Prizes are given to those who did outstanding work in fields of Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, Medicine, Literature and Peace.

24、Standing in my office 25 years ago was an unknown young astronomer with a half-smile on her face. She had come with an impossible request that my team modify (修改) our thoroughly tested software to make one of our most important scientific instruments do something it had never been designed for and risk breaking it. All to carry out an experiment that was basically a waste of time and couldn’t be done—prove that a massive black hole lay at the center of our Milky Way.

My initial “no way” gradually gave way in the face of her cheerful but firm determination. Andrea Ghez, one of three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, impressed me with her work on providing solid evidence of a supermassive black hole with the mass of four million suns living at the center of the Milly Way galaxy.

That determination and the willingness to take calculated risks has always characterized Andrea. For 25 years she has focused almost completely on Sagittarius A—the name of our own local supermassive black hole. It is remarkable that an entire field of study has grown up in the quarter century, of searching for and finding evidence of these monsters thought to lie at the heart of every large galaxy.

Andrea did her work at the W. M. Keck Observatory’s (天文台) twin telescopes on Maunakea, Hawaii, in the calm and clear air almost 14000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. She started using the very first instrument fixed on Keck Observatory’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRC), now gracing the lobby (大厅) at our headquarters.

Andrea is fond of pointing out that one of the reasons for her success has been this tight and rapid loop (循环) between the needs of the needs of the astronomers and the engineers who responded to the challenge.

This is my friend and longtime colleague, the one who refused to take “no” for an answer: Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

【1】Which words best describe Andrea Ghez?

A．Determined and creative.

B．Confident and adaptable.

C．Brave and kind.

D．Cooperative and generous.

【2】What is the passage mainly about?

A．The Noble Prize for physics.

B．Friendship between colleagues.

C．How Andrea won the Nobel.

D．What makes Andrea different.

【3】What does the underlined word “gracing” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Making more attractive.

B．Bring honour to.

C．Moving in a smooth way.

D．Advancing the level.

25、COVID-19 entered my life in the form of an e-mail. My friends and I were in a small café as I read that our university had been ______ down for the following week.

It was three days later when the ______ hit. I watched my friend throw all her ______ into a suitcase and take the next flight out of the country. Her ______ words: ‘‘better locked out of Venice than locked in’’ caused fear and ______ inside me. I wondered: ‘‘Will I be able to graduate from school?” and “What if everyone leaves and I am alone and ______ in Venice?’’

I turned to my roommate and the ______ and rational (理性的) voices of my parents. I decided to ______. We all thought it would be two weeks, maybe three and then life would return to ______ and our semester (学期) would go on as planned.

Things changed so fast, I felt like a ______ out of water, turning between thoughts and ideas every time I read another news ______. Every day my phone ______ new information that made me uneasy. Life was ______, but life was continuing.

Then Italy went into a full lockdown and I was restricted to Venice. Two days later, I joined the few ______ exchange students for pizza but we were told we must only ______ two at a time and stand a metre away from each other.

I am taking ______ of this time to do yoga on the roof, take Italian lessons on YouTube with my roommate, cook on our hotplate and ______ afternoons studying and writing on my balcony.

I have learned things that I could have ______ learned in a lecture hall. I have learned how to step back and let go of ______ my semester abroad could have been and instead ______ the small things that fill me with happiness.

【1】

A．torn

B．shut

C．pulled

D．taken

【2】

A．rudeness

B．sigh

C．sadness

D．reality

【3】

A．money

B．books

C．belongings

D．food

【4】

A．unbelievable

B．parting

C．greeting

D．beneficial

【5】

A．uncertainty

B．surprise

C．impression

D．inspiration

【6】

A．affected

B．trapped

C．screamed

D．starved

【7】

A．considerable

B．puzzled

C．upset

D．calm

【8】

A．leave

B．travel

C．stay

D．hide

【9】

A．fundamental

B．normal

C．messy

D．cheerful

【10】

A．cat

B．fly

C．fish

D．horse

【11】

A．combination

B．arrival

C．announcement

D．update

【12】

A．delivered

B．reminded

C．confirmed

D．achieved

【13】

A．respectable

B．modest

C．different

D．impressive

【14】

A．floating

B．remaining

C．wandering

D．exhausting

【15】

A．apply

B．measure

C．enter

D．stare

【16】

A．consideration

B．charge

C．care

D．advantage

【17】

A．devote

B．spend

C．waste

D．adjust

【18】

A．ever

B．thus

C．yet

D．never

【19】

A．why

B．when

C．what

D．how

【20】

A．block out

B．focus on

C．come across

D．refer to

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Late one evening, my constant yawns(呵欠)convinced me to retire for the night. I put on a comfortable cotton gown, turned the lights low, and crawled into bed between the cool but comfortable sheets. To ensure a good night’s rest, I called out towards the kitchen to my smart speaker, “Alexa, play sounds to sleep by.” As I gathered my cozy sheet up under my chin, I felt at peace with my cat Bella snuggled up(依偎)to me.

During the night, a heavy object landed on my stomach, causing me to scream and sit up, only to discover that it was Bella. She had a habit of waking me up to get her a snack, but the hands on the clock said 3:00 am, and I was annoyed that she had interrupted a happy dream. I fell back against the pillow and promised I’d feed her in the morning. That wasn’t acceptable to her, so she continued to walk on top of me while pressing her paws into my body.

Because that proved to be unsuccessful, she jumped over to the bedside table and deliberately used her paw to knock things on the floor, one at a time, to keep me from going back to sleep. Her efforts paid off as I looked over in the dark room and knew the smug(沾沾自喜的)look on her face conveyed a serious demand. “Get up, human. I’m ready for my nightly treat.”

Knowing she would keep disturbing me until she got her snack, I took a few minutes to focus my eyes and heard what sounded like running water or someone pressure-washing a wall. I couldn’t imagine our apartment staff doing maintenance in the middle of the night, so I assumed I had turned off the water tap. I would regret the large water bill it would bring about, so I unwillingly got up and went into the kitchen. I found nothing out of the ordinary so I continued to search with Bella following me. I checked the bathroom, where I found no running water.

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Since the sound was still evident, I realized the seriousness of the situation.

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I didn’t see water on the wall, so I thought it wasn’t an emergency.

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