泰州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Mary __________ up the toy car and let it run across the room.

A.worked B.walked C.washed D.wound

2、Tony is really quick at taking notes in class, as almost every word his professor says ______ in his notebook.

A. goes down     B. puts down

C. writes down   D. keeps down

3、The mother never criticized her children, but used praise to________their best.

A.put out B.give out C.pick out D.bring out

4、His comprehensive surveys have provided the most________statements of how, and on what basis, data are collected.

A.explicit B.ambiguous C.fundamental D.arbitrary

5、— What do you think of The Wandering Earth?

— It’s really ________ wonderful movie.

A.a B.an C.the D./

6、Please ________ your ashes before it fails on the carpet.

A. cut off B. knock off

C. get off D. drop off

7、Can it be ______ in a fast-changing world we don’t know what to teach our children today?

A.which B.that C.why D.since

8、______my weak spots can make me become a better person.

A．Having been known

B．Knowing

C．Known

D．To be known

9、Experts believe   people can waste less food by shopping only when it is necessary.

A. why   B. where   C. that   D. what

10、— I'm sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.

— I think so. He ________ for it for months.

A．is preparing

B．was preparing

C．had been preparing

D．has been preparing

11、The mother told the little child not to speak to a stranger even if ______________

A.speaking B.spoken

C.spoken to D.he spoken to

12、This was returned because the person ________ this letter was addressed had died three years ago.

A．to whom

B．to which

C．which

D．whom

13、－I _______ in the same position too long. My legs have fallen asleep.

－Shake it a little before you get up.

A. will sit B. have sat

C. am sitting D. have been stting

14、As is often the case, there are always some obstacles in the way，something ________ before we realize the real goal of education.

A. to be got through B. got through

C. getting through D. having been got through

15、You should take ______of this opportunity and try to get the post.

A．care

B．charge

C．place

D．advantage

16、With scenic spots exploring new projects, ticket sales will no longer be the only source of______.

A.revision B.revenue C.revolution D.review

17、I really want to go to a place for the summer vacation, ________ especially with beautiful scenery and unique culture.

A．it

B．that

C．this

D．one

18、It was two days after he arrived at the mountain village______ he found the villagers faced with a severe shortage of clean drinking water.

A.when B.since C.where D.that

19、John is good at seizing every opportunity ________ he thinks he can show his best self to others

A．when

B．that

C．what

D．where

20、—Julia said she sent you a birthday card yesterday. Have you got it?

—Oh, really! I haven’t ________ my mailbox yet.

A. examined B. reviewed.

C. tested D. checked

21、Enjoy yourself in the beauty and energy of Havana and the charm and history of Trinidad as we explore these two dynamic Cuban cities. We’ll experience the people, politics, and culture of the island during this important period in the country’s history.

THE HIGHLIGHTS

Learn about housing, infrastructure(基础设施),and restoration(修复)programs in Havana during a lecture with urban planner Miguet Coyula.

Hear from Norma Guillard, a Cuban social psychologist and former brigadista(准将)with the 1961 Cuba Literacy Campaign, about Cuba’s efforts to bring literacy to the entire country.

Attend a discussion about the current process of economic reform with economist Giulio Rioci.

Visit the site of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 196l and the Bay of Pigs Museum. Take a walking tour of Old Havana and feel amazed at the splendid architecture.

Wander the cobblestone(鹅卵石) streets of Trinidad, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with Nancy Benitez, an expert in restoration, architecture, and history.

Tour a second UNESCO World Heritage site—Cienfuegos—and observe wonderful French and Spanish architecture during a walking tour.

These are only a few of the highlights of this extraordinary program. See the full travel guide at the Nation.com/ HAVANA—TRINIDAD.

The whole trip costs $ 5,455 per person ($ 370 extra for a single room) and includes hotel accommodations for 7 nights, all transportation within Cuba, all tours, all lectures, meals, tips, and numerous other events and activities.

100% of the income from our travel programs supports our journal The Nation.

For more information, e—mail us at travels@thenation.com, call 212—209—5401, or visit us at the Nation.com/ HAVANA—TRINIDAD.

【1】If you want to know the 1961 Cuba Literacy Campaign，whose lecture will you attend?

A．Miguet Coyula.

B．Norma Guillard.

C．Giulio Rioci.

D．Nancy Benitez.

【2】What can we learn about the THE HIGHLIGHTS?

A．The cobblestone streets of Trinidad is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

B．The Bay of Pigs Museum mainly holds world—famous artworks.

C．People can appreciate much European architecture in Old Havana.

D．People can watch a video about the current process of economic reform.

【3】How much should you pay for the trip if you want to live in a single room?

A．$ 5,085.

B．$ 5,455.

C．$ 5,825.

D．$ 6,195.

22、The Bristol International Balloon Festival is a world-class hot air ballooning festival and is recognized as one of the UK’s top five outdoor events. Founded in 1978, the Festival has become a symbol for Bristol, the same as Brunel’s famous Suspension Bridge.

Held in the rolling hills of Ashton Court on the edge of Bristol, the Festival is hugely popular and completely free, attracting around half a million people from across the country and beyond. This year, for the first time, visitors will get to see how a hot air balloon is made. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the world’s largest hot air balloon producer, Cameron Balloons, will take on the challenge of constructing a passenger-carrying balloon, on site, in about four days.

Other events to look forward to at the Bristol International Balloon Festival include daredevil stunts(冒险特技表演) from the Red Arrows, over 250 trade stalls, local and international food stalls, and a funfair(露天游艺集市). Here’s what’s on in detail:

Thursday 11th August:

12 pm Gates Open and Trade Village open

6 pm Special Shapes Ascent — a number of hot air balloons will take to the sky

9:30 pm Nightglow and Firework Finale — 30 or more balloons will glow in time to music

10:30 pm Gates Close

Friday 12th August:

6 am Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

9 am Trade and Entertainment Village open

12 pm Arena(竞技) Entertainment and Tethered Balloons

6 pm Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

8:30 pm Gates Close

Saturday 13th August:

6 am Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

9 am Trade and Entertainment Village open

12 pm Arena Entertainment and Tethered Balloons

6 pm Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

9:30 pm Nightglow and Firework Finale

10:30 pm Gates Close

Sunday 14th August:

6 am Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

9 am Trade and Entertainment Village open

12 pm Arena Entertainment and Tethered Balloons

6 pm Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascent

【1】On which day can’t you see the Hot Air Balloon Mass Ascents twice?

A. 12th August   B. 11th August   C. 13th August   D. 14th August

【2】What can we learn from the passage?

A. Visitors can see how a hot air balloon is made every year.

B. The festival was founded in the rolling hills of Ashton Court.

C. Cameron Balloons is the world’s largest hot air balloon producer.

D. The festival is hugely popular only because it is completely free.

【3】The passage mainly talks about the Festival’s .

A. origin and history   B. new challenges

C. time and place   D. main activities

23、A new keyboard can tell whether you are its owner. The keyboard records information about the typing pattern and sends it to a computer program. The program then checks to see if the pattern matches the right user. If not, an alarm sounds, and the computer locks the typist out. It locks out anyone else, even if the person knows password. What’s more, this device needs no batteries. It harvests all the energy it needs from the action of your typing. Besides, the keyboard is also self-cleaning and the keys are free of damage from water, oil and dirt.

The keys of the new keyboard are made of the same inexpensive plastic that might be found on any other standard keyboard. But instead of being smooth, the keys have millions of tiny plastic nanowires（纳米线）on their surface area to every key, increasing the effective contact area between the plastics and fingers. This ensures that there's enough power to run the keyboard as someone types.

Liming Dai, a scientist, did not work on the new keyboard, but he thinks the design could be important in getting better performance from a variety of devices. “It could also be applied to a touch screen, for instance,” Dai says. “Then smart phones and notepads could harvest energy from the action of someone typing or drawing.”

“Future work might make the keyboard even more useful,” Dai adds. “A later design might build tiny capacitors（电容器）onto the nanowires,” he suggests. Capacitors are little devices that temporarily store electric charges. Those might then LEDs to light a Keyboard in the dark.

Zhonglin Wang is a co-designer of the new keyboard. His team has built a working model of the keyboard. “If a company decides to fund（投资）its production, this keyboard could be in stores in as little as two years,” says Wang.

【1】How does the new keyboard tell whether you are its owner?

A. By matching the typing pattern to the right user.

B. By sending alarms to a computer program.

C. By checking the right user's passwords.

D. By recording information about the typing pattern.

【2】Why are there many nanowires on the surface of the keys?

A. To increase the effective contact area.

B. To improve the speed of typing.

C. To make the keys smooth.

D. To help produce power.

【3】What’s Dai’s attitude to the new keyboard?

A. Unconcerned.   B. Doubtful.

C. Positive.   D. Critical.

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

A. A New Keyboard Made of Nanowires

B. A New Keyboard Entirely Owned by you

C. A New Keyboard’s Future

D. A New Keyboard Powered by Typing

24、The Benefits of After-school Activities

Your kid is asking for piano lessons, joining a soccer team or taking ballet classes, but you’re not so sure that your money will be well spent. 【1】 , read these next benefits of participating in hobbies outside the home. It might just convince you to book the first class.

Build confidence through creative hobbies

From arts and poem writing to music and crafts, there are lots of creative after-school activities available out there for kids of all ages. Not only do these classes stimulate your little one’s imagination, but they also encourage curiosity. 【2】 . Interacting with others, sharing, cooperating and solving conflicts are all added bonuses and they are all extremely helpful tools in building self-confidence.

【3】

These days, the fast-paced world we live in causes stress to us all, including children — and providing fun environments and spaces where they can feel safe and creative is an excellent idea to help your child reduce the stress.【4】 . You have to aim to eliminate the stressors in your child’s life, regardless of the type of stress your child is dealing with, be it the case of shyness, social anxiety or pressure from school or home life.

Gain physical and psychological strength with sports

Avoiding childhood obesity has become a real issue in a world where kids spend more and more time indoors, glued to screens. But if your child shows any interest in a sport (even if just by watching it on their iPad), grab the opportunity and introduce after-school activities that focus on said physical activity. In these activities, your kids can also learn important lessons like respecting others and teamwork. 【5】 .

A．Reduce stress with after-school activities

B．Boost children’s enthusiasm and participation in class

C．When your kids spend 80 percent of their hours at school

D．Besides, they make your child more confident in the process

E．If you can’t decide about sending your kids to after-school activities

F．Choosing activities that don’t put extra pressure on your kids is also essential

G．Most importantly, your children can develop their mental strength while doing sports

25、   If you are at all typical, listening takes up more of your waking hours than any other activity. A study of persons of varied occupational backgrounds showed that 70% of their waking moments were spent in communication. And of that time, writing took 9%, reading absorbed 16%, talking occupied 30%, and________accounted for 45%. Other surveys underscore the large amounts of time that people in different walks of life spend in listening. It is important to listen effectively because of the sheer amount of it that you do each day.

________, many of the most important aspects of your life are greatly influenced by your skills or________of skill in listening. The quality of your friendships, the ________of your family relationships, your effectiveness at work these depend, in large measure, on your ability to listen.

Unfortunately, few people are good listeners. Even at the purely informational level, researchers claim that 75% of oral communication is________, misunderstood, or quickly forgotten. Rarer still is the ability to listen for the deepest meaning in what people say. How________, but how common, to talk with someone about subjects of intense interest to oneself ________to experience the choking realization that the other person was not really listening and that his responses were simply________and mechanical.

A major reason for the poor listening in our society is that most of us receive a very rigorous early training in non-listening. The therapist Franklin Ernst says that "from the earliest years of life, a person's________ activity is the most heavily trained of all activities... The person's listening ... is more attended to than his bowel training, his bladder activity, or his genital activity." Ernst points out that the typical child, in his most impressionable years, receives a steady________of anti-listening regulations. ________say things like:

“Pretend you don't notice."

“Don't take it so seriously.”

“He didn't mean what he said.”

“We don't listen to those things in our family.

The typical parent not only________these anti-listening comments, he demonstrates them daily in his own life. By word and________we are taught to be non-listeners in our childhood.

Most of us have been trained to be poor listeners. Yet ________we spend more time listening than doing anything else, and the quality of our listening greatly affects both the personal and the________dimensions of our lives.

A．thinking

B．waking

C．learning

D．listening

A．Nevertheless

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Furthermore

A．lack

B．mastery

C．failure

D．pursuit

A．happiness

B．seriousness

C．cohesiveness

D．creativeness

A．ignored

B．retained

C．taken

D．remembered

A．undermining

B．destructing

C．deceiving

D．irritating

A．so

B．as

C．except

D．only

A．natural

B．logical

C．automatic

D．reasonable

A．thinking

B．speaking

C．listening

D．reading

A．nutrition

B．coaching

C．diet

D．supplement

A．Teachers

B．Parents

C．Coaches

D．Doctors

A．criticizes

B．verbalizes

C．compliments

D．values

A．speech

B．analysis

C．example

D．deed

A．surprisingly

B．increasingly

C．reversely

D．ironically

A．vocational

B．academic

C．social

D．life

26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Yollie was slender as a tulip, pretty, and one of the smartest girls at Saint Theresa's. She was an honor student, and a winner in the school's monthly spelling bees. She lived with her mother, Mrs. Moreno.

Recently one thing bothered Yollie a lot. She needed a new dress for the twelfth-grade fall dance. But her mother couldn't afford one. "We don't have the money," said her mother, genuinely sad. The best Mrs. Moreno could do was buy Yollie a pair of black shoes with velvet bows and dyed color to her white summer dress black.

"We can dye your dress so it will look brand-new," her mother said brightly, shaking the bottle of dye as she ran hot water into a plastic container. She poured in the black liquid and stirred it. Then, slowly and carefully, she lowered the dress. Yollie couldn't stand to watch. She doubted whether it would work. But to her surprise, the dress came out shiny black. Mrs. Moreno beamed at her and said, "See, what did I tell you?" Yollie hugged her mother in relief. At least she had a new dress for the ball which was important to girls at her age.

Yollie bathed, dressed, and did her makeup carefully until her mother yelled, "All right already?"

Yollie bounced out of Mrs. Moreno's car in front of the school and ran into her best friend, Janice. They didn't say it, but each thought the other was the most beautiful and charming girl at the dance; the boys would fall over themselves asking them to dance. Everyone danced, sipped punch, and stood in knots of threes and fours, talking. The evening was warm but thick with clouds. Gusts of wind picked up the paper lanterns hanging in the trees and swung them, blurring the night with reds and yellows. The lanterns made the evening seem romantic, like a scene from a movie.

注意：

1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

As the boys and girls circled under the lanterns, rain began falling, lightly at first, then poured.

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Paragraph 2:

Yollie hurried from the restroom, heading home directly.

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