龙岩2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、You can get   you want as a gift for your fantastic performance in the final examination for you and your friends.

A.whoever B.whichever C.however D.whatever

2、The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter______ its structure rather than its chemical composition.

A. lives up to B. gets down to

C. comes down to D. stands up to

3、A broad smile spread_____ Jack’s face when he eventually gained a scholarship．

A．across B．through

C．at  D．in

4、________is the power of global warming that the climate goes from one extreme to the other.

A．Such

B．This

C．That

D．So

5、--- Why didn’t you help the little boy?

--- Oh, he had struggled to his feet ______ I could run over and offered any help.

A. before B. after

C. when D. since

6、We_______along a country lane when suddenly a car_______past us.

A.drove;drove B.drove;was driving

C.were driving;drove D.were driving;was driving

7、A Chinese student’s print-like handwriting caused controversy among British Internet users, _____ both praise and questions about individuality.

A. having drawn   B. drawing     C. to draw   D. drew

8、The inner thoughts of the two young persons are revealed in the book, ______ both of them fail to express.

A. where   B. when

C. who   D. which

9、 things had been tough when he was in school, he graduated from college with the highest honor.

A．If

B．While

C．Because

D．As

10、It is the bus driver who should ______ the safety of the passengers.

A. answer for   B. search for   C. stand for   D. go for

11、Teachers should be aware that students may forget what you taught or what you did, but they will never forget ___ you made them feel.

A.why B.how C.what D.that

12、Over 1,000 elephants face starvation in Thailand because the coronavirus crisis has _______ revenues from tourism.

A.cut down B.put down C.break down D.pull down

13、No matter how low you consider yourself, there is always someone _______ you wishing they were that high.

A.getting rid of B.getting along with

C.looking up to D.looking down upon

14、--- ____ busy schoolwork, the children also have to take arts, music and sports classes in    their free time.

--- I wonder what they will become.

A．Rather than

B．Owing to

C．Apart from

D．Expect for

15、There was a long wait at the reception desk, ______ everyone was checking in.

A．why

B．which

C．whom

D．where

16、People may think that dinosaurs were big, green with hard skin covering their bodies. But in fact, it seems that dinosaurs appeared very different from________ we think.

A．which

B．that

C．who

D．what

17、I ______ to visit him in the hospital, but I was fully occupied the whole of last week.

A.had gone B.might go C.must have gone D.would have gone

18、Since its start, WeChat ______into the most popular messaging communication service in China.

A. has developed   B. developed

C. develops   D. was developing

19、The police are investigating the company, three of ________ managers have already been arrested.

A. whose B. that

C. which D. where

20、Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, has inspired the imagination and creativity of generations around the world since it ______ into different languages.

A．translated

B．has translated

C．was translated

D．has been translated

21、   Hayley Arceneaux, 29 will be the youngest person to go to space when she joins Inspiralion4, a private mission led and funded by Jared Isaacman, a- billionaire businessman and pilot. The mission which is scheduled to launch in October from Cape Canaveral, Florida, will be the first mission to include non-professional astronauts. For that , the crew are receiving training in areas such as the operations of the spacecraft and the rocket that will launch it, working in microgravity, emergency preparedness and mission simulations (模拟).

Arceneaux underwent treatment for bone cancer from the age of ten in St Jude Children's Hospital in Tennessee. She endured a dozen rounds of chemotherapy (化疗) and surgery to replace her left knee and thigh bone with titanium (钛) implants after her diagnosis nearly 20 years ago. She now works at the hospital as a physician's assistant.

“Honestly, I'm not nervous at all — I am just so excited," said Arcencaux, "I think having cancer made me tough." Dr. Michael Neel, who operated on Arceneaux, said, “Hayley's story will show people that not even the sky is the limit for what you can do, whether it's in medicine, commerce or life in general."

"Right now we are at step zero. The door is closed to persons with disabilities. With this pilot project, we have the ambition to open this door and make a leap, to go from zero to one,"the European Space Agency said.

【1】What can we learn about Inspiralion4?

A．Arcencaux will command the mission.

B．The mission will be launched privately.

C．The crew prepare themselves in many areas.

D．The mission includes no professional astronauts.

【2】What can people get from Hayley's story according to Dr. Michael Neel?

A．Confidence.

B．Honesty.

C．Ambition.

D．Toughness.

【3】What does “the door” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．A leap.

B．A step.

C．A solution.

D．A chance.

【4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Inspiration4 is to be launched in October from Cape Canaveral, Florida：

B．A cancer survivor is chosen as the youngest person to travel to space.

C．The ESA promises to employ professional astronauts with disabilities.

D．Jared Isaaeman funds a private spacecraft to travel in space.

22、Amazing Train Journeys

The Beijing to Lhasa Express, China

Departs daily; Distance—2,330 miles; Duration—40 hours

Linking the royal wonders of Beijing with the dreamlike palaces of Lhasa, the Z21 train travels from the modernity of urban China to a once-remote land. Running westward, the train climbs nearly 16,400 ft (5,000 m) on its journey to the roof of the world: the Tibetan Plateau.

London to Fort William on the Caledonian Sleeper, UK

Departs daily; Distance—509 miles; Duration—13 hours 30 minutes

This overnight train journey is filled with the romance of rail travel. It’s just a pity that the whole experience—from dining-car chatting and light beer, to being carried into a la-la land by the rhythm of the rails and waking to bedside views of towering peaks—feels like it’s over in a flash. Though it may be short, the Caledonian is surely Britain’s best train ride.

Tazara Railway, Tanzania and Zambia

Departs twice a week; Distance—1,160 miles; Duration—46 hours

Few trains offer the chance of spotting big game from your seat, but the Tazara Railway does exactly that. For many, the highlight is neither the scenery nor the wildlife, though; it’s the chance to spend two days watching everyday life out of the window, and enjoying the crowds and chaos when the train pulls to a stop.

Perurail’s Lake Titicaca Railway, Peru

Departs twice a week; Distance—241 miles; Duration—10 hours

Traveling across the Altiplano, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the beating heart of the Inca capital, the railway from Puno to Cuzco cuts a picturesque path through the snow-dusted peaks and fantastic valleys of the Andes. Passengers can enjoy the landscape from an open-air observatory car, as they travel through remote towns and villages.

【1】What do the first two train journeys have in common?

A．They make weekly departure.

B．They are over a thousand miles.

C．They travel to highlands.

D．They are the longest train rides nationwide.

【2】On which journey can passengers watch people’s daily life outside the train?

A．Tazara Railway.

B．The Beijing to Lhasa Express.

C．Perurail’s Lake Titicaca Railway.

D．London to Fort William on the Caledonian Sleeper.

【3】What can passengers do on Perurail’s Lake Titicaca Railway?

A．Travel around Lake Titicaca.

B．Admire the view in the open air.

C．Go through two countries on a journey.

D．Have a deep understanding of towns and villages.

23、By now you’ve probably heard about the “you’re not special” speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: "Do not get the idea you're anything special, because you're not." Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony — and a whole lot of other parents across the internet — took issue with McCullough's ego-puncturing words. But lost in the anger and protest was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they're particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, it's not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average.

Such inflated (膨胀的) self-judgments have been found in study after study, and it's often exactly when we're least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously. In a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self-evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more strictly. Poor students, the authors note, "lack insight" into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with co-author Justin Kruger, suffer from a "dual burden": they're not good at what they do, and their wry ineptness (笨拙) prevents them from recognizing how bad they are.

In Dunning and Kruger's study, subjects scoring at the bottom of the heap on tests of logic, grammar and humor "extremely overestimated" their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition to clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was "metacognitive skill" (元认知技巧): the capacity to monitor how well they're performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There's a paradox (悖论) here, the authors note: “The skills that develop competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain. "In other words, to get better at judging how well we’re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself.

There are a couple of ways out of this double bind (两难). First, we can learn to make honest comparisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don't possess it, and compare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to accomplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you're doing, but just what it is that you're doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up.

If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won't need parents, or a commencement(毕业典礼) speaker, to tell them that they're special. They'll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.

【1】The underlined phrase "took issue with" in paragraph 1 most probably means .

A．totally approved of

B．disagreed with

C．fully understood

D．held discussion about

【2】The author thinks the problem that shouldn't be overlooked is that .

A．we don’t know whether our young people are talented or not

B．young people can't reasonably define themselves

C．no requirement is set up for young people to get better

D．we always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged

【3】Which is NOT mentioned about poor students according to the passage?

A．They lack the capacity to monitor how well they are performing.

B．They usually give themselves high scores in self-evaluations.

C．They tend to be unable to know exactly how bad they are.

D．They are intelligently inadequate in tests and exams.

【4】We can infer from the passage that those high-scoring students .

A．are not confident about their logic and grammar

B．tend to be very competent in their high-scoring fields

C．don't know how well they perform due to their stringent self-judgment

D．is very careful about their self-evaluations because they have their own limits

【5】The strategies of becoming special suggest that .

A．the best way to recognize excellence is to study past success and failure

B．through comparison with others, one will know where and when he fails

C．we need internal honesty with ourselves and external honesty from others

D．neither parents nor a commencement speaker can tell whether one is special

【6】Which can be the best title of this passage?

A．Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It Out

B．Let's Admit That We Are Not That Special

C．Tips On Making Ourselves More Special

D．Tell The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents

24、The health of millions could be at risk because supplies of medicinal plants are being used up. These plants are used to make traditional medicine, including drugs to fight cancer. “The loss of medicinal plants is a quiet disaster,” says Sara Oldfield, secretary general of the NGO Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Most people worldwide rely on herbal (药草制的) medicines which are got mostly from wild plants. But some 15,000 of the 50,000 medicinal species are under threat of dying out, according to report from the international conservation group Plantlife. Shortages have been reported in China, India, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda.

Over-harvesting does the most harm, though pollution and competition from invasive species (入侵物种) and habitat destruction all contribute. Businessmen generally harvest medicinal plants, not caring about sustainability (可持续性),” the Plantlife report says, “damage is serious partly because they have no idea about it, but it is mainly because such collection is unorganized”. Medicinal trees at risk include the Himalayan yew (紫衫) and the African cherry, which are used to treat some cancers.

The solution, says the report’s author, Alan Hamilton, is to encourage local people to protect these plants. Ten projects studied by Plantlife in India, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Uganda and Kenya showed this method can succeed. In Uganda, the project has kept a sustainable supply of low-cost cancer treatments, and in China a public-run medicinal plant project has been created for the first time.”

“Improving health, earning an income and keeping cultural traditions are important in encouraging people to protect medicinal plants,” says Hamilton, “You have to pay attention to what people are interested in.”

Ghillean Prance, the former director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, agrees that medicinal plants are in need of protection. “Not nearly enough is being done,” he told New Scientist. “We are destroying the very plants that are of most use to us.”

【1】From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that ________.

A. millions of people are threatened with cancer

B. most countries see a shortage of herbal medicines

C. about two thirds of medicinal species will disappear

D. a number of medicinal species are in danger of extinction

【2】The major factor that causes the decreasing of supplies of medicinal plants is ________.

A. over-harvesting   B. habitat destruction

C. pollution   D. invasive species

【3】The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A. pollution   B. other species’ invasion

C. sustainability   D. over-harvesting

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Protecting medicinal plants has a long way to go.

B. Local people don’t know how to protect medicinal plants.

C. Ghillean Prance is optimistic about medicinal plants’ future.

D. China has made great progress in protecting medicinal plants.

25、After a whole week of rain we finally had a comfortable, beautiful summer day outside. My family and I were driving to a nearby town when my daughter _________ a yard sale. Then, a few miles down the road, we saw another, and another, and another, We saw tables full of knickknacks. We saw plates, glasses, and silverware. _________, we saw lots of smiling people talking, laughing, sitting, and standing in the sunshine.

Seeing all of this brought back _________ of my childhood. Most of the clothes in my closet back then came from _________. My mom was a talented yard sale-shopper. When I was little, she would drag me along with her. I used to _________ going to them, until one special day when I saw that they also sold old _________. After that, I always browsed through the books until it was time to _________. Sometimes mom would _________ me one too. Soon, a large part of my home library came from yard sale books. For me, these books were more _________ than their first editions.

Why do we have yard sales? It certainly isn’t for the ____________. For all the time and ____________ people put into them, they would hardly make minimum wage from the sales. I think, rather, it is yard sales that ____________ us together. We ____________ our old things and we buy “new” old things. We talk and ____________ old friends and new neighbors. We get a ____________ to give and share. We ____________ through kindness and love among all the old stuff. It’s all about ____________, both in goods and between people.

I think yard sales teach us something about ____________ too. We can’t really ____________ anything here, after all; all we get is ____________ possession of our stuff, then it comes time for us to let it go and pass it on.

【1】

A．announced

B．spotted

C．prepared

D．recalled

【2】

A．Even so

B．In short

C．At least

D．Above all

【3】

A．problems

B．memories

C．realities

D．dreams

【4】

A．markets

B．neighbors

C．yard sales

D．shopping malls

【5】

A．imagine

B．enjoy

C．practice

D．hate

【6】

A．books

B．paintings

C．plates

D．toys

【7】

A．go

B．start

C．work

D．register

【8】

A．award

B．write

C．buy

D．lend

【9】

A．popular

B．useful

C．different

D．priceless

【10】

A．fun

B．money

C．relaxation

D．responsibility

【11】

A．love

B．resource

C．fund

D．effort

【12】

A．mix

B．bring

C．guide

D．inspire

【13】

A．get rid of

B．put away

C．go through

D．make use of

【14】

A．pass by

B．look for

C．catch up with

D．face up to

【15】

A．tradition

B．goal

C．chance

D．job

【16】

A．extend

B．connect

C．learn

D．compete

【17】

A．communication

B．information

C．delivery

D．exchange

【18】

A．life

B．ethics

C．economy

D．society

【19】

A．purchase

B．explore

C．own

D．trust

【20】

A．temporary

B．legal

C．normal

D．full

26、假定你是李华, 你的美国笔友Tom得知你校上月举办了首届校园科技节活动, 发邮件向你询问相关情况。请你回复邮件。内容包括：

1. 活动的目的；

2. 活动的形式, 如智能校园创客(maker)大赛, 科创成果展等；

3. 你的感受。

注意：1. 词数80左右, 开头已给出, 不计入总词数；

2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

I am excited to tell you that the first Science and Technology Festival was held in our school last month,

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