胡杨河2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、Some parents want their children to show complete ________ to their wishes, which is harmful to their kids’ character building.

A.submission B.addiction C.limitation D.admission

2、—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

3、Alan is a careful driver, but he drives ______ of my friends.

A.more carefully B.the most carefully C.less carefully D.the least carefully

4、The wooden tower that _________ will be open to tourists soon, and the work is almost finished.

A．is being restored

B．is restored

C．is restoring

D．restores

5、______ the past year as an exchange student in Hong Kong, Linda is more independent now.

A. Spending     B. Spent

C. To spend   D. Having spent

6、He doesn’t think that the plan is practical, _____?

A．does he

B．doesn’t he

C．is it

D．isn’t it

7、The cost of living in big cities ________ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.

A. is climbing B. is being climbed

C. has been climbing D. has been climbed

8、We are living in an age   most of things are done on cell phones.

A. which   B. that

C. whose   D. when

9、Whenever you ______ a present, you’d better think about it from the receiver’s preference.

A. bought   B. buy C. will buy   D. have bought

10、— Hey, the washing up has been done!

— That ______ Cynthia, She’s always helpful.

A. need have been    B. could have been

C. should have been  D. must have been

11、________ some teenagers don’t realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs.

A．That; how

B．Which; what a

C．What; what

D．What; how

12、Happiness and success often come to those   are good at recognizing their own strengths.

A. whom   B. who   C. what   D. which

13、Before we come to a decision,  we must make  sure  we have ______ all  the  relevant facts.

A.set foot on B.set fire to

C.made way for D.taken account of

14、Common sense tells that there is still power loss even when you leave the TV set________.

A．in its own right

B．on the edge of your seat

C．in the stand-by mode

D．around the corner

15、A number of high buildings have arisen ________there was nothing a year ago but ruins.

A.when B.where

C.before D.until

16、The three parties will meet next month to ______remaining differences.

A．carry out

B．pull through

C．get out

D．work out

17、Billy Crystal will host the Academy Awards again this year, and his performances always _____ the expectations of most audience.

A.sign up for B.drop out of C.give in to D.live up to

18、Only after he was brought to the police station did the boy ________ he had stolen some purses from other passengers.

A. participate B. acknowledge

C. realize D. summarize

19、— Why are you so upset, Doctor White?

— The project didn’t _________ as we expected. It was such a waste of time!

A.break out B.run out C.make out D.work out

20、Nature’s repair process is slow and steady, with cells being ______ renewed.

A．strangely

B．constantly

C．casually

D．relatively

21、Last year scientists reported using a neural implant (神经植入物) in a man’s brain to restore his ability to communicate. The man has been partially paralyzed and unable to produce comprehensible speech since suffering a severe stroke. It is the latest advance in the exploding field of brain-computer interfaces (接口), or BCIs, which allow computers to read information out of a living brain.

Brain-computer interfaces are possible because of two facts. The first is that your brain contains hundreds of tiny maps. Each represents specific features of your physical feelings and intended actions. And crucially, the basic set of brain maps and their locations within the brain are very similar across individuals.

Thanks to their specialized functions and universal locations, brain maps are ideal entry points for BCI technologies. Picking up signals from a brain map is only the first step in making a useful BCI. Although the location of a brain map is the same across individuals, the details — what patterns of activity within the map mean — differ from person to person. In a sense, the unique features of your specific brain maps serve as a kind of encryption (加密), safeguarding your specific thoughts and feelings from would-be spies.

That brings us to the second fact that makes BCIs possible. Thanks to advances in machine learning, scientists have developed programs that can learn to recognize key patterns in a vast sea of numbers. They train these programs to decode (解码) brain signals by feeding them tons of examples. Researchers developing BCIs often create such examples by instructing an individual to think specific thoughts at specific times, creating a neural curriculum for the program to learn from.

While the universal features and locations of brain maps make them obvious entrances for BCIs, the unique features of your brain maps tend to protect them from spying eyes. In cases where BCIs have successfully read specific thoughts or intentions from a brain, it has been with the permission of the individual whose brain was being read. But there are surreptitious ways to train decoders on your brain without your knowledge. This can happen if your neural data falls into the hands of companies with detailed information about your activities.

Like all technologies, brain-computer interfaces are not necessarily good or bad. Yet while harvesting the benefits of BCIs, we need to ensure that we have the means to protect ourselves from corporations with every motive to take advantage of this technology for their financial gain.

【1】What can we learn about brain maps?

A．They carry unique messages.

B．They can process encrypted signals.

C．Their functions vary from person to person.

D．Their locations reveal human thinking patterns.

【2】What can we infer from the passage?

A．BCIs can boost brain signals dramatically.

B．BCIs could help recover from brain injuries.

C．Machine learning enables BCIs to read mind.

D．The decoding of brain may be affected by BCIs.

【3】What does the underlined word “surreptitious” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Secure.

B．Stable.

C．Standard.

D．Secret.

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The future trend of BCIs.

B．The potential risks of BCIs.

C．The working principle of BCIs.

D．The general applications of BCIs.

22、Ideas are extremely valuable in the twenty-first century. Some people are good at presenting their ideas. 【1】 There’s nothing more inspiring than a brilliant idea delivered by a great speaker. Ideas, effectively packaged and delivered, can change the world.

So, wouldn’t it be amazing if you can identify the exact techniques shared by the world’s greatest communicators? 【2】 TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, posts its best presentations for free on the Internet.

In March 2012, lawyer Bryan Stevenson delivered a talk to 1, 000 people attending the annual TED conference in Long Beach, California. 【3】 For 18 minutes, Stevenson conquered (征服) the audience by appealing to their heads and their hearts. The combination worked. Stevenson told me that the attendees that day donated a combined $1 million to his non-profit, the Equal Justice Initiative. That’s over $55, 000 for each minute he poke.

【4】 Famous actors and musicians make a beeline for a TED stage when they have ideas to hare. A few day, after accepting the Oscar for best picture, Argo director Ben Affleck appeared at TED in Long Beach to talk about his work in the Congo. Earlier in the week U2 singer Bono delivered a presentation on the success of antipoverty campaigns around the world. When celebrities want to be taken seriously, they hit the TFD stage.

【5】 However, if you want to succeed in business, you’d better be able to deliver a TED-worthy presentation. It represents a creative, fresh, contemporary, and interesting style that will help you win over your audience.

A．TED conference was created in 1984.

B．You may never speak at an actual TED conference.

C．Today TED has become such an influential platform.

D．Their skill help them gain popularity in today’s society.

E．TED presentations change the way people see the world.

F．Now you can, thanks to a world-famous conference—TED.

G．His presentation has been viewed nearly two million time online.

23、In 1992, when Xi Jinping worked in Fuzhou, he came across a newspaper report about “My Guling,” written by a Chinese student studying in the United States.

The report described an American couple who tried in vain to revisit a southern Chinese town called Guling, where the husband, Milton Gardner, had spent 10 years of his childhood before moving back to the United States in 1911.

Gardner, who later became a professor of physics at the University of California, had been longing to revisit Guling since 1979 when the diplomatic ties between China and the US were set up. But he had never made the trip due to his failing health.

According to the newspaper, Gardner kept uttering (叨念) “Kuling, Kuling” in the final hours of his life.

After he passed away, his wife Elizabeth Gardner decided to carry out the dying wish of her husband and since then made several trips to China in an attempt to find the small town that her husband had so much affection about. Her efforts ended in vain as she had few clues (线索) about the exact spot of the town. But a Chinese student lodging (寄宿) at the Gardners’ recognized the small town as Guling near Fuzhou City from postmarks on some old mails of late Mr. Gardner. The student wrote an article about Gardners’ story and sent it to the People’s Daily, one of the major newspapers in China.

“After I read the story, I immediately contacted Mrs. Gardner through the departments concerned and invited her to visit Guling,” Xi told the media. Thanks to Xi’s arrangement, Mrs. Gardner finally arrived at Guling in August 1992. She met there with nine childhood friends of her husband, all of whom were over 90 years old at that time.

It was a happy occasion for Mrs. Gardner, who was later awarded the honorary citizenship of Fuzhou City, Xi recalled.

“She said that she would value this bond (纽带) of friendship between her husband and the people of China, because after seeing for herself the beautiful Guling and the warmth and goodwill of the Chinese people, she now understood why her husband had been so deeply attached to China.”

“I believe there are many such touching stories between our two peoples,” said Xi.

【1】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Mr. and Mrs. Gardner were brought up in a southern Chinese town.

B．The name of the town changed shortly after Milton Gardner left.

C．Guling might have originally been pronounced as Kuling in English.

D．Mrs. Gardner knew exactly where the small town lay in south China.

【2】According to the passage, Mr. Gardner_________.

A．lived and worked in Guling for ten years

B．had few memories about the small Chinese town

C．kept in touch with his childhood playmates until he passed away

D．was deeply impressed by Guling’s people and environment

【3】What played the most important part in making Milton Gardner’s wish come true?

A．The help from newspapers.

B．Mrs. Gardner’s hard efforts.

C．Mr. Xi’s concern and arrangement.

D．The Chinese student’s letter to Mr.Xi.

【4】From the passage we can learn that_____.

A．the Gardners’ story is a moving one with a happy ending

B．the Chinese student studying in the US must be from Fuzhou

C．the mails which became clues of Guling were sent by Gardner

D．the American couple revisited China trying to find Guling but in vain

24、   With more than two million videos on YouTube, cats are one of the most searched things on the Internet. A new exhibition called “How Cats Took Over The Internet” opened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. It looked at the history of how cats rose to Internet fame, and why people like them so much.

Almost half of all original YouTube videos are of people ’s pets, and around 26 billion views are just for cats, making them the single most popular category. Some cats have become famous and earned millions of pounds after their owners posted their pictures online.

So how did cats become so popular?

Since the Internet became widely used in the 1990s, people have been sharing pictures of their cats via email. In 2005 one of YouTube’s co-founders Steve Chen posted a video of his cat called Pyjamas playing with a rope, making him the first person to upload a cat video to YouTube.

In 2007 Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami started a website sharing funny pictures of cats, The site quickly became popular, and users were able to upload pictures of their cats with writing over the top. It now has over 100 million views a month and has created a whole new form of communication on the Internet.

Why cats? A scientific study has proved that looking at videos of cats can improve people's mood. Assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick from Indians University, America, asked 7,000 people how they felt before and after watching videos of cats. The results showed that people felt happier after watching videos of cats, and that they felt less anxious.

The Internet has also been responsible for creating a number of famous cats such as Grumpy Cat, Lil BUB and Maru. They have appeared on lots of TV shows, advertisements and film festivals, and even have their own brands. Lil BUB even has her own charity, and has raised around $130, 000 for pets with special needs.

【1】What’s true about cats according to the text?

A.Their fame is related to the widespread of the Internet and a relative website.

B.Cat videos take up half of all the original YouTube videos.

C.They are the first to be filmed among all the animals throughout the world.

D.They earned millions with their videos in the 1990s.

【2】Why did Jessica make the study?

A.To improve people's mood and reduce people's anxiety.

B.To ask about people's present feelings and living conditions.

C.To find the effect of watching cat videos on people's mood.

D.To help people live their life to the fullest.

【3】What’s special about Lil BUB?

A.She has the most videos online. B.She is popular at home and abroad.

C.She has her own brands. D.She has her own charity.

【4】What’s the best title for the text?

A.Cats become celebrities B.Cat videos rule the Internet

C.Watching cat videos counts D.Cats’ contributions to the world

25、Last July I got a job at a theater I admire. I was feeling lucky. But something, wasn't _________.

My daughter was going to leave for university in the fall and I wasn't _________ for her to go. Our household is small and tight-knit (关系亲密的). It's just the two of us. I was excited for my daughter and I felt I had _________ her well. But no one had prepared me for this. I was panicking. I felt _________ I were drowning (溺水).

Somehow, this feeling of drowning was what _________ me. One day as I was walking home, 1 _________ the university pool. I must have walked past it a million times. Swimming wasn't something I usually did. And yet something _________ me to take it up.

The next morning, I _________ the pool. I headed over to the shallow end, the area reserved for _________ like me, I walked down the cold steps into the pool and all of a sudden, I was in. I could touch the floor, and that was reassuring (安心的). I looked around to make sure the other people weren't watching my awkward strokes. "No one is watching," I ____________ to myself. No one cares if you look like a baby elephant swimming for the first time. No one cares if your heart ____________ when all of her things are packed up and she ____________. Somehow, in that moment, this was ____________.

I swam slowly from one end to the other, feeling a ____________. I found myself crying. Thankfully, no one could tell my ____________ from the water running down my face. Afterward, I headed for the changing rooms, smiling and feeling proud that 1 faced this ____________.

When I got home, my daughter said that 1 looked ____________.

The next day, 1 was up early, swimming bag in hand. 1 was ____________ afraid of drowning. I was breathing easier. I was feeling better.

Having "an empty nest" is an easy catchphrase (口头禅) for something that is impossible to describe. It is not just an empty room. It is a ____________ part of who you are. And for me, swimming ____________ a part of that hole.

【1】

A．special

B．right

C．true

D．strange

【2】

A．afraid

B．sure

C．ready

D．sorry

【3】

A．prepared

B．treated

C．cared

D．planned

【4】

A．when

B．even if

C．as though

D．why

【5】

A．controlled

B．improved

C．bothered

D．saved

【6】

A．examined

B．realized

C．noticed

D．recognized

【7】

A．pushed

B．expected

C．ordered

D．allowed

【8】

A．stare at

B．set out for

C．get out of

D．get away from

【9】

A．fighters

B．volunteers

C．losers

D．beginners

【10】

A．repeated

B．remembered

C．recalled

D．replied

【11】

A．races

B．pounds

C．stops

D．breaks

【12】

A．appears

B．leaves

C．escapes

D．fails

【13】

A．comforting

B．upsetting

C．annoying

D．confusing

【14】

A．release

B．connection

C．pressure

D．conflict

【15】

A．rain

B．blood

C．tears

D．sweat

【16】

A．hope

B．surprise

C．anger

D．fear

【17】

A．tired

B．pale

C．happy

D．healthy

【18】

A．once again

B．no longer

C．as usual

D．so far

【19】

A．missing

B．natural

C．unique

D．useful

【20】

A．touches

B．forms

C．involves

D．fills

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.

Nada Popovici was at a professional hockey (曲棍球) game. She kept looking at the back of the man’s neck. She wrote a message with the words “mole (痣)”“cancer” and “doctor” on her phone in bright red type. She did it to get the attention of the man, Brian Hamilton. He is an assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team.

Mr. Hamilton had a small mole on his neck. It was irregularly shaped and red-brown. These are the signs of a cancerous mole that Ms. Popovici had learned to spot. Maybe he already knew? But if so, why was the mole still there? She thought that Mr. Hamilton did not know.

“I need to tell him.” Ms. Popovici typed a message on her phone. The game ended. After waving at him several times, she finally drew Mr. Hamilton's attention. She placed her phone against the glass. The message read, “The mole on the back of your neck is possibly cancerous. Please go see a doctor!”

Mr. Hamilton looked at the message, rubbed the back of his neck, and kept walking. He was thinking, “Well, that’s strange.”

After the game, Mr. Hamilton went home and asked his partner to spot the mole, and she said she could. He asked the team doctor if it was worrisome. It was. Then after he had it removed, he waited for the biopsy (活检) results. Was the fan sitting behind the team's bench right？

Indeed, Ms. Popovici was correct. She had saved Hamilton’s life. Doctors later told him that it was a type of skin cancer. They said they could remove with ease and treat. But early detection is important. “The sooner you find something, the better it is,” a doctor said.

Mr. Hamilton recalled the doctor telling him, “I am going to diagnose you with cancer. And I am going to cure you of cancer in the same phone call.”

Once he knew he was fine, Mr. Hamilton tried to find the woman he described as “a hero”.

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。

Mr. Hamilton wrote a letter posted on the team’s Twitter account.

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A couple of days later, at the next game, they met each other.

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