信阳2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、I used to quarrel a lot with my parents，but now we________fine.

A.look out B.stay up

C.carry on D.get along

2、The old lady looked wonderful at the wedding，proudly ______next to her granddaughter, the bride.

A.talking B.gesturing

C.posing D.behaving

3、With the new family planning policy _______, many young parents are considering having their second child.

A. introduce     B. introducing

C. to introduce   D. introduced

4、Excuse me, Madam. Ellen, a journalist from the Daily Mail all day. Could you speak to him now?

A．was phoned

B．has been phoned

C．is phoning

D．has been phoning

5、Eventually the two sides reached an agreement ___ could not be taken the place of.

A. whose the details B. the details of whose

C. whose details     D. of which details

6、_____ I make a promise to help others, I will manage to complete it.

A. Although   B. Once   C. Unless   D. Before

7、   laborers can be released from ting and repetitive task on the production line by industrial robots.

A.Artificial B.Authentic C.Innovative D.Manual

8、Mr. Wilson is a man of patience and kindness, and his good temper never ______ him.

A．fails

B．disappoints

C．controls

D．worries

9、—Sorry, I have to________ now. It 's time for class.

—OK. it'll call back later.

A．give up

B．hang up

C．hold up

D．break up

10、Dragon Boat Festival is held ________ Qu Yuan, a well-known poet in ancient China.

A．in honor of

B．in search of

C．in the hope of

D．in the face of

11、— Have you bought the house?

— No, because I can only _____ 300,000 dollars for it.

A. offer   B. spend   C. charge D. owe

12、—Why not take my car to the museum instead of walking?

—No, thanks_________.

A．I’m used to

B．I’m able to

C．I’m about to

D．I’ve got to

13、This restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere ______ many others are short of.

A. where B. when

C. that D. what

14、 Before you quit your job, ______how your family would feel about your decision.

A. consider B. considering

C. to consider   D. considered

15、He keeps himself._____of the current events by reading three newspapers a day.

A. informing B. to inform

C. informed   D. to be informed

16、There are other languages that sound extremely different, ________ they’re conveying exactly the same meaning.

A.as though B.even though C.so that D.in that

17、—Where are you going to hang the picture?

—I haven’t decided yet. I ________ hang it in the dining room.

A. might   B. must

C. need   D. would

18、－The online shopkeeper has made an apology for his rude behavior.

－OK. If you’re still not satisfied, you can _______ compensation.

A. claim B. afford

C. sacrifice D. dismiss

19、President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the First China International Import Expo was ________ welcomed by participants at the event.

A.quietly B.frequently C.widely D.gradually

20、News of the world was gone, shut down after ______ in the biggest newspaper scandal ever to hit Britain.

A. catching  B. caught

C. being caught    D. having caught

21、   Holidays can be enjoyable and relaxing. But sometimes a holiday can change your life completely, which is what happened two years ago to Victoria Smith and Sally Gook.

Victoria Smith, six years ago, was working as a manager at Next, a British chain store. Then she went on holiday to Borneo. “It was a working holiday,” said Victoria, “where you could study the orang-utan in the wild — I have always been interested in apes, so I thought it would be fun. ” The holiday was wonderful, and when Victoria came home she found it very difficult to return to her old life. Although everybody told her she was mad, she decided to go back to university and study biology. Four years later she became a chimpanzee keeper.

For the last two years Victoria has been working at Monkey World, a centre in southwest England that looks after apes which used to be ill-treated. She works long hours, and the pay isn’t very good, but she loves it. “I’m really happy now. Since I started working here I feel that I’ve been doing something important, not just wasting my life.”

Sally Gook wakes up every morning to a deep blue sky and blazing sun. For the last two years she has been living on the tiny Greek island of Lipsi, which is only 16 square kilometers in size and has a population of just 650.

But until a few years ago she lived in London. “I was working for American Express and I had a good social life and earned a lot of money. But I had to get up very early every morning, often in horrible weather, and got a train and the tube to work.”

Then one day she and a friend decided they needed a relaxing holiday, and they came to Lipsi. “I loved it — the people, the mountains, the sun, and the delicious food. Suddenly I knew there was a different life waiting for me here.” A few months later she applied for a job at the travel company which had organized her holiday. Since then she has been living on Lipsi and working as a tourist guide. Sally said, “I’ve only been back to London once, and I can’t imagine ever living there again.”

【1】“The orang-utan” (in paragraph 2) most probably refers to ________.

A．a chain store

B．a holiday resort

C．a kind of animal

D．a zoo for wildlife

【2】What can be learned from the passage about Victoria Smith?

A．She hesitated over whether to become a chimpanzee keeper.

B．She quit her job as a manager regardless of others’ objection.

C．She finally chose to work and live in Borneo.

D．She felt it unnecessary to work long hours.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE about Sally Gook’s former job?

A．She didn’t earn much.

B．She worked as a tourist guide.

C．She often went to Greece on business.

D．She spent much time on the way to work.

【4】What is the passage mainly about?

A．How the two girls’ holidays changed their life.

B．Why the two girls preferred to live outside cities.

C．How the two girls planned their holidays.

D．Why holidays were enjoyable and relaxing for the two girls.

22、When one door closes to Li, another one opens. Born with severe hearing loss, Li has found her way to communicate with the world—through painting. Moreover, painting led Li to meet her husband Hu at the Changsha Vocational and Technical School. Losing his hearing due to medication when he was 1 year old, Hu is also an art-lover.

Before learning to paint in primary school, Li always felt lonely in a silent world. She knew she was different from her peers because she could not hear. But a painting class opened for her a door to creativity and away of expression.

Graduating from college in 2005, Li got a job as a typist at a public institute in Zhuzhou, Hunan. It was a decent job in the eyes of her father, but Li was not happy because she could not communicate with other colleagues and the lonely feeling from childhood came back.

In 2016, Li quit the job and joined her husband’s company, which specializes in 3D wall and ground paintings, to be a wall painter. All the five painters there are hearing-impaired. “I know how difficult it is for hearing impaired people to find a job. So I want to help those who are passionate about painting to pursue their dreams,” said Hu, adding that the company is more like a family.

As all the people are hearing-impaired, communication with clients is the most common challenge that the team faces. Li said, “We communicate through typed words, which is slow and has caused us to lose some clients.” Apart from that, Li is confident about the team’s painting and design skills.

Li hopes that their stories can inspire more people facing similar battles. The painter said, “Life can be challenging to the hearing loss community who are somehow excluded (排除) from conversations, but we are not alone, and we can find our way of expressing ourselves.”

【1】What does Li have in common with her husband?

A．They are crazy about painting.

B．They were born with hearing loss.

C．They set up a company after graduation.

D．They started learning painting before primary school.

【2】Why did Hu hire hearing-impaired people in his company?

A．To please his wife.

B．To realize his painting dream.

C．To prove they can do everything.

D．To help the same people as him.

【3】What can we infer about Li’s team members?

A．They are professional.

B．They are all Li’s family.

C．They are famous artists.

D．They can’t communicate with others.

【4】What do Li’s words in the last paragraph mean?

A．Life is not fair for the disabled.

B．She hopes to be treated as a normal person.

C．She is hopeful about her career and future life.

D．Working in her husband’s company makes her depressed.

23、   Selah Thompson shares her love of reading and even creates her own stories.

Books have the power to transport you to another place and make you feel like you are part of the story. A love of reading should be developed at a young age so children can benefit a lot. That’s a gift 8-year-old Selah Thompson from Atlanta, Georgia, received from her parents and wants to pass on to other children.

When Selah was five, she came home from her first day at kindergarten and told her parents that a lot of her new friends at school didn’t know their ABCs, which really bothered Selah and she wanted to do something about it.

She then asked her parents to give away 20 hundred thousand books. Her parents began to do research and found that there is a huge amount of illiteracy (文盲) in America and that two-thirds of students who cannot read skillfully by the end of the fourth grade will end up in prison or on welfare.

After understanding the need for books and establishing a love for reading, Selah’s parents were on board. In 2018, they created the nonprofit Empowered Readers Literacy Project. This organization promotes families to create solid reading habits so children see books as something positive.

More than 2,400 kids and their parents participated in the reading activities in Atlanta in the first year. They also run an adventure time readers club and the 500 books project to get books into children’s hands.

Over the past two years, the literacy project has donated 8,000 books, including Selah’s own series. Although her goal of “20 hundred thousand books” is still quite far, Selah is on the right track. She is ambitious and a true role model for children and adults. Hopefully her love for books is contagious and children will be more willing to read when the main character actually looks like them.

【1】How did Selah feel when knowing some kids were illiterate?

A．Surprised.

B．Relieved.

C．Concerned.

D．Embarrassed.

【2】What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A．Selah’s parents have the habit of researching literature.

B．Poor reading skills might cause one to fail in life.

C．Only a small number of parents teach kids at home.

D．Two-thirds of kids receive good school education.

【3】What does the underlined phrase “on board” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．Deeply moved.

B．Ready to take action.

C．In a group as a member.

D．Riding on or in a ship, train, airplane.

【4】What do the last two paragraphs mainly focus on?

A．What they have done to help local schools.

B．How kids have formed the habit of reading.

C．How Selah has turned her dream into reality.

D．The influence Selah and her parents have brought.

24、   The world’s glaciers are melting. Each year, they become smaller in size as ice breaks off and floats away. These giant pieces of ice also hold very old viruses and bacteria and as the ice melts, some of them may be waking up.

In 2015, scientists took ice from a 15,000-year-old glacier in Tibet, hoping to learn more about the history of life in the area. What was the result? The scientists found 28 new viruses frozen in the ice. Experts think they can learn a lot from these ancient viruses. They hope to find out how viruses and bacteria survive and this may help future people as new viruses turn up in the Earth’s changing climate. However, others worry whether these viruses and bacteria could cause sickness in humans. As yet, the viruses found in the Tibetan glacier seem to only infect amoebas, a very small living animal, they may not be a threat to people. But melting ice elsewhere in the world might be a different story.

In 2016, parts of Siberia saw a heat wave. The higher temperatures caused melting of soil that normally stays frozen year-round. As the ground warmed, bacteria escaped, which caused a sudden start of a serious disease in the area. In 2017, a teacher in Alaska came home from a trip with a skin infection. He visited his doctor. That’s when he learned that the infection was caused by bacteria from melted sea animal bodies. The bacteria had been frozen with the animals for many years before infecting him.

How worried should people be about the viruses and bacteria escaping from melting ice? Most experts aren’t ringing the alarm bells, yet. Instead, scientists worry that many viruses and bacteria will be lost as the ice melts, and so do the learning chances. Is there any hope of saving the world’s glaciers? Most experts say no — the planet has already warmed too much.

【1】What do we know about the viruses and bacteria in glaciers?

A．They will not be harmful to humans.

B．They only threaten small living animals.

C．They have stayed in ice for over 15,000 years.

D．Studying them helps humans in the long run.

【2】What does the teacher’s experience show?

A．Sea animal bodies are very common in ice.

B．Climate change can cause disease indirectly.

C．Some bacteria are safe for animals.

D．It’s easy to suffer a skin infection.

【3】What do experts care more about according to the last paragraph?

A．Having no ways to stop climate change.

B．Being unable to save the world’s glaciers.

C．Losing the chances to study the viruses and bacteria.

D．Helping the people infected with viruses and bacteria.

【4】What can be the best title for the text?

A．Ancient bacteria’s and viruses’ waking up causes worry.

B．Ancient bacteria and viruses are trapped in melting ice.

C．What can we do to protect the environment?

D．What can scientists learn from glaciers?

25、My friendship with the students in a primary school in Uganda started on a shaky ground. The _______of not being understood was hidden within, for they spoke a language different from that of mine and mine too fell on _______ears.

I greeted them with a broad smile, and they replied with ice cold_______when I spoke further. A _______ echoed in my mind: you must live through it to get to them. So I gave it another try. I spoke _______English with hand gestures and a bit of dancing. If all failed, the smile would _______Soon we picked up and then the _______of the learners came into play. At the mention of a name, reddish cheeks and shaking voices were the response I got. I decided to_______a desk with a team each day during group work to get closer. After school, I _______them home.

________, we became friends. They were eve aware of my favorite fruit, avocado (牛油果) . If I didn’t get one on my desk, it would ________ me wherever I was. My slippers were ________.One night I left them out as no one could steal a pair of slippers in that state. The next morning, I was ready to drag my slippers on as usual and I was surprised they had been ________.Wow!

The little things we do for each other bring us great joy and ________. We don’t have a proper spoken language, but we are fluent in the language of ________.

【1】

A．anger

B．fear

C．desire

D．belief

【2】

A．sharp

B．all

C．deaf

D．long

【3】

A．agreement

B．blame

C．comment

D．silence

【4】

A．reminder

B．doubt

C．confusion

D．relief

【5】

A．simple

B．official

C．academic

D．unusual

【6】

A．turn up

B．break off

C．take over

D．fade away

【7】

A．shyness

B．laziness

C．loneliness

D．calmness

【8】

A．clear

B．share

C．search

D．exchange

【9】

A．prevented

B．forced

C．allowed

D．accompanied

【10】

A．Suddenly

B．Obviously

C．Accidentally

D．Gradually

【11】

A．miss

B．find

C．refuse

D．leave

【12】

A．carried out

B．put out

C．made out

D．worn out

【13】

A．packed

B．cleaned

C．repaired

D．abandoned

【14】

A．freedom

B．warmth

C．chance

D．challenge

【15】

A．sympathy

B．admiration

C．friendship

D．confidence

26、假设你是红星中学高三1班的学生李华。你班同学参加了学校的“地球日”系列活动。请以“Actions for a Greener Earth”为题，根据下面的写作要求，给校刊英语角写一篇英文稿件，介绍活动的全过程。

1. 张贴海报。

2. 利用旧物变废为宝。

3. 把制作好的物品赠送给社区居民。

4. 和同学交流经验。

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：地球日Earth Day。

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