淮南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 Zhuang is an ethnic group________ the population is the largest of all ethnic groups in China.

A．of whom

B．of which

C．of who

D．of that

2、People all think it strange that the boy should tell what’s written on the paper in another room without looking at it. It really ________ explanation.

A. prevents   B. challenges   C. interrupts     D. confuses

3、They______ jewellery since eight o'clock and had only just finished when two robbers broke in .

A.had been arranging B.were arranging

C.have been arranging D.had arranged

4、Each road leads to Rome. If you can't get ________ you want to go by one road, just try another.

A.what B.how C.which D.where

5、If you were wrong, admit it. You won't lose________, but will gain respect.

A.dignity B.confidence C.fascination D.identity

6、They arrived at the border between Kenya and Tanzania at 2 pm, ______ lies a national nature reserve.

A. what B. which   C. where D. when

7、In all aspects of the society, there are many heroes dedicated to their work. So they should get the ________ they deserves.

A．award

B．ceremony

C．price

D．credit

8、Nowadays the_________for travelling is shifted from shopping to food and scenery.

A．priority

B．potential

C．preference

D．prejudice

9、The government has been under growing pressure to ______ the causes of air pollution as smog frequently smothers the country’s large cities.

A.release B.schedule

C.maintain D.address

10、—Jerry, where did you guys go for the summer vacation?

—We ___ busy with our work, or we would have gone to Brazil to watch the games.

A.were B.have been C.had been D.would be

11、________ the doors were closed, and ________ all the lights were off, the boy opened the door to his bedroom.

A.Having checked; that B.Having checked; /

C.Checking; where D.To check; that

12、—Mum, where`s my bag?

—How________ I know where you have left your bag?

A．need

B．would

C．should

D．might

13、There are no ______ proposals to reduce the road accidents. We are still seeking inspiration.

A. contradictory   B. concrete

C. confidential   D. controversial

14、In the past few years, we’ve seen works by Chinese sci-fi writers winning international ______.

A．conclusion

B．standard

C．potential

D．recognition

15、A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.

A. nothing   B. none

C. neither   D. no one

16、Japan is facing an ageing population, with the population ______ from the current 127 million to 90 million.

A. expecting to shrink   B. expected to shrink

C. expecting to have shrunk   D. expected to have shrunk

17、This is a demanding job and a small mistake can ________.

A．make a difference

B．make an appointment

C．make sense

D．make up

18、This magazine is very   with young people , who like its content and style .

A.familiar B.popular C.similar D.particular

19、Try to be a responsible school by not allowing anyone to attend class, ________ has had a fever.

A.who B.which C.as D.that

20、If you have a job, ______ yourself to it and finally you’ll succeed.

A. do devote B. to devote

C. devoting D. devoted

21、Best International Photography Contests to Enter

RHS Photographic Competition

If you are interested in taking photos of your garden, enter this flower-photo-friendly contest, which includes categories for 11~17-year-olds and even kids under 11 years old. This photo competition is organized by the Royal Horticulture (园艺) Society, which is intended for photographers, horticulturists and garden lovers.

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: $6,000 for each winner of first prize

Istanbul Photo Awards

Organized by the Anadolu Agency, the international news photography contest aims to develop the news photography area and seeks to reward hard-working news photographers around the world. The categories in this contest are Photo of the Year, Single News, Story News, Single Sports and Story Sports.

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: $8, 000 for Photo of the Year and first prize in Single News Category. The first prize in other categories is $5,000.

ZEISS Photography Award

ZEISS Photography Award is organized with the partnership of Zeiss and the World Photography Organization. The photographers are invited to submit photos themed "Seeing Beyond Discoveries". Each photographer has to submit 5~10 images which have not been published before. Winners will be invited to London to participate in the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition opening.

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: ZEISS lenses (镜头) of your choice(worth 12,000 Euros) and 3,000 Euros to cover travel expenses

MonoVisions Photography Awards

Leading photography magazine Mono Visions will award creative expression in the black and white medium. This black and white photography competition is also open for amateurs, and photos taken with traditional or digital media are accepted. The two sections of the competition are the Black and White Series of the Year and Black and White Photo of the Year.

Entry Fee: $ 20 for a single photo; $ 25 for a series(maximum 8 photos with common concept & idea)

Prize: $2,000 for the top single; $3,000 for the top series

【1】Which of the following is the organizer of a news photography contest?

A．Zeiss.

B．The Anadolu Agency.

C．The Royal Horticulture Society.

D．The World Photography Organization.

【2】What can the winner of ZEISS Photography Award get?

A．A full-time job offer from London.

B．12,000 Euros to cover travel expenses.

C．An invitation to an exhibition opening.

D．A camera with high-quality ZEISS lenses.

【3】What are the participants of MonoVisions Photography Awards required to do?

A．Submit colorful pictures.

B．Work for MonoVisions.

C．Use digital media only.

D．Pay for their entry.

22、   Does it matter if a language dies out? The traditional answer is yes, because every language is a repository (智囊) of ideas and culture and represents a unique way of looking at the world. The planet only has about 7,000 languages; the extinction of even one decreases the sum total of human knowledge.

But in some cases, extinction can be seen in a more positive light. Take Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language（ABSL）for example, restricted to about 1,000 users in a small Israeli village with a high level of born deafness, the language seems to be bound to die by the spread of Israeli sign language.

The natural reaction to the loss of ABSL is regret. It is a fascinating language that has kept linguists busy since it came to their attention around 15 years ago. But for the deaf villagers, Israeli sign language is an upgrade: it allows them to speak to tens of thousands of people rather than a few hundred, and enables them to work and marry outside the village. It is hard to see that as anything other than progress. Similarly, other endangered languages die out because people abandon them in favor of ones that serve their needs better.

Technology also softens the blow, as endangered languages can now be captured in detail — which also means they could eventually be brought back from the dead, much as the Hebrew language was in the 19th century. It is now the first language of 9 million people.

Linguists naturally condemn the loss of language much as conservationists (环保主义者) once mourned the loss of every single species. But they are moving towards acceptance that not all species can be saved, that invasive species are not always bad and that human-engineered ecosystems are not necessarily inferior to natural ones. Perhaps our attitudes to language extinction are due for a similar change.

【1】What can we infer about ABSL?

A.Another language replaced it. B.It is an endangered language.

C.Deaf villagers prefer to use it. D.It has been studied for over 15 years.

【2】What does the underlined word “upgrade” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Recovery. B.Opportunity.

C.Improvement. D.Update.

【3】How does technology affect languages?

A.Technology can remove people’s regret.

B.Languages may be rescued from the extinction.

C.Technology increases the number of endangered languages.

D.Endangered languages might be abandoned because of technology.

【4】What’s the main idea of the text?

A.More and more languages are dying out.

B.Technology creates some new languages.

C.People feel ashamed of language extinction.

D.Language extinction is not necessarily a bad thing.

23、   Plastic is used to make a large number of products we use every day， such as drink and food containers，trash bags and grocery bags，cups and children's toys，and bottles for everything from mouthwash and shampoo to glass cleaner and dishwashing liquid. And that's not even counting all the plastic that goes into furniture， appliances， computers， and automobiles.

As the use of plastic has increased over the years，it's become a large part of America's solid waste﹣growing from less than 1 percent in 1960 to more than 13 percent in 2017. As an example of how and why plastic waste is increasing， the International Bottled Water Association reports that the US consumed 9. 67 billion gallons of bottled water in 2017， compared to 9.1 billion gallons the year before. The United States is the world's leading consumer of bottled water. A good first step in reducing plastic waste is switching to a reusable water bottle.

Recycling plastic reduces the amount of energy and resources （资源） needed to create plastic. Research shows that a bottle of water requires about 2，000 times as much energy to produce as the same amount of tap water. Recycling plastic products also keeps them out of landfills（垃圾填埋）and allows the plastic to be reused in making new products. Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7. 4 cubic yards of landfill space. And let's face it，a lot of plastic ends up directly in the environment，breaking down into tiny pieces ， polluting our soil and water.

Today，80 percent of Americans have easy access to a plastic recycling program. A universal numbering system for plastic types makes it even easier. According to the American Plastics Council， more than 1，800 US businesses handle plastic waste. In addition， over 200，000 grocery stores now serve as recycling collection sites for plastic waste.

【1】What message does the first paragraph mainly intend to convey？

A.Plastic products are quite common.

B.Plastic is widely used in our daily life.

C.What functions plastic has.

D.Why humans make use of plastic.

【2】According to paragraph 2， .

A.plastic waste is on the rise in America

B.Americans prefer bottled water to tap water

C.plastic waste is the leading type of waste in America

D.using reusable water bottles doesn't help reduce plastic waste

【3】What benefit does recycling plastic mainly bring？

A.It helps cut down on pollution.

B.It helps to make soil more rich.

C.It makes plastic easily broken down.

D.It produces new energy and resources.

【4】What do the figures listed in the last paragraph suggest？

A.Americans suffer a lot from plastic waste.

B.Americans are good at recycling plastic.

C.Recycling plastic is convenient in the US.

D.Recycling plastic brings great profits in the US.

24、   Every Morning, Breanna Roque goes out to the farm to feed the cows. But this isn’t your typical farm; it’s a laboratory, and Roque is a graduate researcher at the University of California, Davis. She’s been spending her time among the cows to see if she can adjust their diets so they burp (打嗝) less. The cows’ special diet includes small parts of a red seaweed. It contains a chemical combination, which prevents the production of CH4 during the cows’ digestion. Less CH4 means less burping. And less burping could mean slowing down climate change globally.

Although agriculture accounts for a smaller percentage of total greenhouse gas production than sectors like transportation and energy, it produces more CH4, which warms the Earth up to 86 times as much as CO2. When cows eat, they burp food back up, producing CH4 as a byproduct. Researchers across the globe have been pursuing the idea that adding substances to feed might help reduce these CH4 -loaded burps. But it wasn’t until 2016 that researchers in Australia found that grass feed of 2 percent seaweed could cut CH4 productions by nearly 99 percent. In 2019, Roque’s team published the results of a similar study: They cut CH4 production 95 percent by adding to a typical U.S. dairy cow diet with just 5 percent seaweed. But questions remained about the seaweed’s effectiveness in actual cow stomachs.

So more researchers headed to the farm. They found that a diet of just 0.5 percent seaweed led to a 26-percent decrease in CH4. A 1-percent seaweed diet produced 67 percent less CH4. Further research is needed to fully understand why this seaweed in particular works best and to see if adding seaweed to cows’ diets will affect the quality of the products coming from the animals. In the future, they’ll run trials to see if seaweed gives cow’s milk an unpleasant taste or leaves steaks smelling of seafood.

Researchers still need to ensure the seaweed combination, which is sensitive to heat and light, will be shelf-stable and remain effective in real-world applications. And even if the seaweed succeeds, CH4 from cattle account for just 5 percent of greenhouse gas production in the U.S., so the overall picture won’t improve much.

Still, last August, researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, announced they would be trying to find ways to farm the seaweed on a large-enough scale to break into the cattle feed market. Roque says she’s regularly contacted by annoying businessmen who want her help to mass produce the seaweed for global animal consumption. “People reach out to me all the time,” she says. “Unfortunately, I’m an animal biologist and not a sea biologist.”

【1】What is the purpose of Roque’s research?

A.To reduce global warming through cow feed.

B.To enrich cattle diets with a special seaweed.

C.To make food digestible in cows’ stomachs.

D.To reduce CH4 in the production of seaweed.

【2】According to Paragraph 2, the 2016 and 2019 studies were imperfect as they failed to find out ________.

A.why CH4 was more harmful than CO2 in climate change

B.which seaweed worked best in cutting CH4 production

C.whether seaweed would work in practical cow feeding

D.what was the right proportion of seaweed in cows’ diets

【3】Future research will probably not deal with ________.

A.how to grow seaweed on farmland economically

B.how to bring out the best function of the seaweed

C.how to prevent beef and milk from tasting weird

D.how to lengthen the store time of seaweed feed

【4】Roque’s response to the businessmen indicates that ________.

A.she regrets not having studied seaweeds

B.she is willing to offer more help to them

C.she is negative about the cow feed market

D.she is not interested in farming seaweed

25、A recent series of studies examined the role of talent in the sports world. They focused on three different sports: World Cup soccer, professional basketball, and professional baseball. The results are mixed. For soccer and basketball, the studies revealed that adding talented players to a team is indeed a (n) _______ strategy, but only up to a point. Performance _______ when about 70% of the players were considered top talent. Above that level, the team’s performance began to decline. Interestingly, this trend was not evident in baseball, where additional _______ talent continued to enhance the team’s performance. (Figure 1 and 2)

In looking for an explanation for the different results for different sports, the researchers _______one important factor — the extent to which a good performance by a team required its members to coordinate (协调) their actions. This task _______ distinguishes baseball from basketball and soccer.

In baseball, the performance of individual players is _______ teammates than in soccer and basketball. The researchers concluded that when, during the course of play, task interdependence is high, team performance will _______ when there is too much talent in the group. When task interdependence is lower, _______ individual talent will have a positive effect on team performance.

One explanation for this phenomenon is not so far from the pecking order (等级排序) situation among chickens. If a basketball star is pursuing his own personal goals,_______ trying to gather a high personal point total, he may be less ________ than team player. He may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a team mate, thus making the team’s overall performance suffer. “There is no________in TEAM,” young children learning to play team sports are often told. Apparently stars ________ follow this basic principle of sportsman ship.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may begin to________ This is referred to as the Ringelmann effect. Ringelmann conducted an experiment in which he asked two, three, four, and up to 28 people to participate in a game of tug-of-war. He measured how much force each person used to pull the rope. He found that whenever he added a person to the team, everyone else pulled with less force.

________ the ideal team — for sports, business, science, or entertainment — is more complicated than simply hiring the best talent. An A-team may require a________ not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

【1】

A．sensible

B．partial

C．alarming

D．attainable

【2】

A．faded

B．peaked

C．evolved

D．proceeded

【3】

A．team

B．creative

C．academic

D．individual

【4】

A．identified

B．overlooked

C．considered

D．concealed

【5】

A．explanation

B．conclusion

C．discussion

D．interdependence

【6】

A．more suitable for

B．more critical to

C．less dependent on

D．less involved in

【7】

A．swing

B．suffer

C．endure

D．function

【8】

A．in principle

B．in a sense

C．in other words

D．on the other hand

【9】

A．as a rule

B．by contrast

C．for example

D．as a matter of fact

【10】

A．stressed

B．genuine

C．sensitive

D．generous

【11】

A．I

B．HE

C．THEY

D．WE

【12】

A．closely

B．rarely

C．humbly

D．jointly

【13】

A．make less effort

B．cause more trouble

C．take less advantage

D．attach more importance

【14】

A．Inspiring

B．Intensifying

C．Gathering

D．Training

【15】

A．exploration

B．balance

C．stability

D．flexibility

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。

When my daughters reached the third and fourth grades, I occasionally allowed them to walk to and from school alone if the weather permitted. One warm spring day, a little dog followed them home after school. It had short legs and long lovely cars, with a fawn-colored coat. It was the cutest dog I had over seen and the girls begged me to keep it.

The dog was barely twelve weeks old. It had no collar or identifying marks of any sort, I didn't know what to do. I thought about running an advertisement in the lost-and-found but I really didn't want to. It would break the kids' hearts if someone should show up. Besides, its owners should have watched it more closely.

By the end of the week the dog was part of our family. It was very intelligent and good with the girls. The following week something told me to check the lost-and-found section in the local paper. One particular advertisement jumped out at me and my heart pounded with fear at what I read. Someone was begging for the return of a lost dog in the neighborhood of our grade school. They sounded desperate. My hand shook. I couldn't bring myself to pick up the phone.

Instead, I pretended I hadn't seen the advertisement. I quickly put paper away in the drawer and continued with my dusting. I never said a word about it to the kids or my husband.

By now we had named the dog. It looked like a Molly, so that was what we called it. It followed the girls everywhere they went. When they went outside, it was one step behind them. .When they did housework, it was there to lend a hand.

There was only one problem with this otherwise perfect picture: my conscience was bothering me. I knew in my heart I had to call that number and see if our Molly was the dog they were desperately seeking. It was the most difficult thing I've ever done.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

With mixed feelings, I finally picked up the phone.

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Opening the door, I saw a woman with a little girl sitting in a small wheelchair.

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