双河2025学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测三年级英语

1、Chance favors only the prepared mind.That is telling us to be prepared until the opportunity presents ______ .

A. one   B. itself

C. you   D. this

2、 Life is always full of hardships. _______ a better life, we need positive energy.

A. Live   B. To live

C. Living   D. Lived

3、— I’m sure Tom will win the first prize in the final.

— I can’t agree more. He ______ for it for months.

A．is preparing

B．had been preparing

C．was preparing

D．has been preparing

4、_______ early warnings from forecasters, residents were able to prepare and no deaths or serious injuries were reported.

A. In spite of   B. According to

C. Regardless of   D. Thanks to

5、Having a hobby does do good to you. It doesn’t matter what it is ______ it drives you to move forward.

A. if only B. in case

C. as long as   D. in order that

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

A. whom   B. who   C. what   D. which

7、A lot of migratory birds fly to the south in winter to ________from cold weather.

A．stay away

B．keep away

C．get away

D．break away

8、I think it is better to read a good book carefully than to read many ______.

A．at random

B．by chance

C．on purpose

D．in turn

9、The number of Hutongs in Beijing is decreasing, ______ they still attract tourists from all over the world.

A．or

B．and

C．but

D．so

10、The company is making a long-term__________to breaking into the American market.

A.complaint B.comment C.commitment D.contribution

11、—How can you know so much about the incident?

—It took place only 50 yards from ______ I was standing.

A.which B.that C.where D.what

12、The trip aims to provide the children with a________ of the countryside first-hand.

A．taste

B．reach

C．touch

D．load

13、He is rich and brave. __________ is no wonder he is popular with girls.

A.There B.That C.It D.What

14、She's jogging around the park every morning in a（n）______________ to have a good figure.

A.contribution B.effort

C.honour D.purpose

15、The writer has won the hearts of millions of children with the rich stories _______ from her childhood memories.

A. drawing   B. to draw

C. draw   D. drawn

16、--- You didn't sleep well yesterday?

--- No, it was so cold. The fire in the fireplace________.

A．burnt out

B．put out

C．died out

D．went out

17、With several problems _____to be solved, we still need to hold another meeting as soon as possible.

A. remained   B. remaining

C. remain    D. having remained

18、The famous book Frankenstein, ________ by British novelist Mary Shelley, is the first work of science fiction.

A. writing B. having written

C. written D. was written

19、How long do you think it is ______ the National Football Team of china can play in the World Cup Finals.

A.when B.before

C.since D.until

20、_____ entirely with the flagship smartphone and directed by Peter Chan (陈可辛), the 7-minute video follows a train attendant on a six-day train journey from Nanning to Harbin.

A. Shot   B. Pictured   C. Screened   D. Videoed

21、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Edison and Popular Culture

Whenever we play music or go to the movies, we enjoy the benefits of Thomas Edison’s genius and hard work. Although Edison is perhaps most famous for his light bulb, his inventions in sound recording and motion pictures has contributed to entertainment industry.

After his successful development of the first phonograph in 1877, Edison and his researchers made countless improvements to the phonograph (留声机) striving for the finest sound reproduction possible. 【1】 What the public really wanted, however, was a machine to play music. Recognizing the biggest market for the phonograph, Edison began producing musical records in the early 1890s. However scratchy and rough those early records seemed, they were amazing to buyers who were hearing recorded sound for the very first time. The development of records, cassette tapes and finally digital music traces back to Edison’s early experiments with sound recording.

【2】 In October 1888, Edison intended to do “for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion.” Thus began Edison’s development of the kinetograph (motion picture camera) and kinetoscope (motion picture viewer).

Over the next years, Edison experimented with the making of motion pictures, constructing the Black Maria, the world’s first structure especially built to be a motion picture studio. The first motion pictures were not projected on a theater screen. 【3】 For a 5-cent coin, viewers could look through the peephole (窥孔) to see Blacksmith Scene, or the Barbershop. Although the first films lasted less than a minute, they excited audiences as much as any film seen today.

The first films were silent, but in 1895 Edison attempted to combine sound recording and motion pictures in a device he called the kinetophone. Unfortunately, this early effort at talking motion pictures proved unsuccessful. More than thirty years would pass before sound films would become widespread.

Edison wanted to invent things to improve the lives of all people, whether it was electric light bulbs to light their homes or phonographs and motion pictures to inspire their imagination. Every time we turn on a light switch or watch movie, we enjoy the gift of Edison’s genius. But true genius, said Edison, relies on “hard work, stick-to-initiativeness, and common sense”. 【4】

A．Thomas Edison’s own example of dedication and determination may be his true gift.

B．Instead, viewers looked through a peephole fixed on top of a box with the projector inside.

C．Edison managed to make the phonograph praised by most people with effort and devotion,

D．Not satisfied with merely recording sound, Edison turned his attention to another of the senses: sight.

E．Thanks to Edison, people can live a convenient and comfortable life that we couldn’t imagine before.

F．At first, Edison thought the phonograph primarily suitable only for business purposes, like the dictation of letters.

22、In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant rest under a big tree, seemingly bothered by an overhead beehive. It was 2007, and King had just published a behavioral study confirming a belief, widely held by local communities for thousands of years, that elephants are frightened by bees.

King, a zoologist at the nonprofit organization Save the Elephants (STE), asked her research assistant to throw a stone at the hive. “And then suddenly, the bees just erupted,” King says, “the elephants just fled.” That moment led King to a novel design for using live beehives as “fences” to protect farm crops from hungry elephants.

An elephant can eat a farm’s entire harvest in one day, seriously threatening a family’s income and food security. To protect their livelihoods, some farmers have taken to shooting elephants. In an attempt to find a nonlethal solution, nearly 10,000 bee fences like those in King’s initial design are now built into sites in 20 African and Asian countries, she estimates. STE team members focus on providing bee-fence kits to farmers in areas of serious human-elephant conflicts.

In a 2017 field study, King documented that bee fences installed at 10 farms near a national park in Kenya deterred elephants 80 percent of the time. Meanwhile, bee fences have provided some farmers with new income. As part of the STE program, they are taught beekeeping and provided with protective gear such as suits, smokers, rubber boots and gloves.

Farms with bee fences and healthy hives have also inspired another type of enterprise. Mavis Nduchwa started a honey-collecting business in Botswana — a country that has a farm-based economy and is also home to the world’s largest elephant population. The company offers beekeeping training to women at farms with bee fences and helps them sell the resulting honey through her business. The benefits go beyond extra income, she says. “We have seen a decline in the number of gender-based violence cases as women are more empowered and have jobs,” says Nduchwa, who employs more than 1,500 female farmers. “It might sound crazy, but a jar of honey saves elephants and feeds more families.”

【1】Why did King design bee fences?

A．To obtain live beehives.

B．To test the function of STE.

C．To protect crops.

D．To provide jobs for women.

【2】How does King’s design work?

A．It trains farmers to watch over crops.

B．It makes bees provide more honey.

C．It frightens elephants away.

D．It uses kits to reduce conflict.

【3】The author develops the last paragraph mainly by __________.

A．cause and effect

B．example

C．process

D．comparison and contrast

【4】Which word best describe the author’s attitude to bee fences?

A．Skeptical.

B．Tolerant.

C．Worried.

D．Positive.

23、   If you were like most kids, your mother must have told you there were three no-no’s when it came to your fingers: Don’t put them in an electrical outlet, don’t stick them up your nose (at least not in public), and don’t use them when you are counting. 【1】 But experts in education and cognition now believe that using your fingers to do math is not only a perfectly good idea but may even help children become superior students.

It certainly makes sense. When children count on their fingers, they take an abstract concept — mathematics — and translate it into the most basic and visual form 【2】. Even when we aren’t actually counting on figures, they still can help us on math problems.

【3】 It activates when we respond to heat, pressure, pain, or the use of a given finger.

Studying brain scans, researchers discovered that when students aged 8 to 13 work on subtraction (减法 ) equations, this region “lights up” on the scans, even if the students aren’t using their fingers. The more complex the problem is, the more activities are detected.

The connection between finger use and math ability has been proved on old-fashioned math tests as well. With their eyes closed, first graders were asked to identify which of their fingers a researcher was touching. 【4】. When college students were given the same quiz, the highest scores once again performed best on calculation tests.

So what does all this mean? For one thing, parents and teachers shouldn’t discourage children from counting on their fingers. 【5】. Memorizing the multiplication tables may help, but it is not the best option. “I would like to see interesting and creative representations of ideas.” says Jo Boaler, a professor of math education.

Recently, a series of activities have been designed to strengthen students’ perception of their fingers. Maybe in the near future, there will be only two no-no’s regarding the use of fingers.

A.There is a section of the brain, called the somatosensory finger area.

B.Researchers also stress that students simply learn better using visual tools.

C.The first two laws of fingers are as true as ever.

D.That may sound simplistic, but the researchers offer an interesting explanation.

E.Researchers found those scoring highest on the finger-ID questions scored higher on a math test.

F.Researchers are unimpressed by those students who finish quickly as well.

G.In fact, experts believe the brain is built to “see” any process with our fingers.

24、E-scooters are an increasingly common site on Britain’s roads and pavements. With an electric motor attached, they have become the go-to vehicle of unruly teenagers everywhere.

But here are two things that might surprise you: First, Even though they’re quite clearly being used by thousands of people, because of the way the law is written, e-scooters cannot use the pavements and cycle lanes, because they have a motor. But they can’t use the roads as motor vehicles either, because they are not properly licensed or taxed. And the second thing: I think they are brilliant. Because energy density and efficiency has improved, it has made it possible to strap a battery onto a scooter, and actually have it carry you far enough to be useful.

I’m enthusiastic about scooters because I think they’re like a Swiss Army Knife, and can help solve multiple problems in society. They’re much greener than cars, which is great for the environment. They’re much smaller too, so take up less space on the road. They could even help ease Britain’s ongoing housing crisis. Because e-scooters could expand the distance in which it is reasonable to commute, making more housing accessible to the people who need it. And from a less high-minded perspective, it’s impossible to deny that they’re huge fun to ride.

In 2020, the government authorized local authorities to permit trials of rental scooter schemes around the country. The scooters are operated by a range of providers, and can be picked up off the street by scanning a QR-code with an app. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Scooter users are already annoying — so wouldn’t legalizing them make them even worse? I’m not convinced. If e-scooters were legalized, they could be properly licensed and regulated. I also think if privately owned scooters were allowed, it would also incentivize good behavior, as scooter owners rather than renters would be more likely to, for example, own a helmet and take good care of their own equipment.

There is some good news for the sceptics though. At the end of last year, the government scooted the question of legalization into the long grass, announcing that instead of making a decision, the regional trials would be extended until November. So, my dream of an e-scooter utopia might have to wait for a bit longer.

【1】Which of the following may be out of our expectation?

A．E-scooters are common on Britain’s roads.

B．E-scooters cannot be used everywhere legally.

C．The practical value of e-scooters is limited.

D．People prefer riding an e-scooter to using a car.

【2】Why do e-scoters have a positive effect on the housing crisis in Britain?

A．More houses are acceptable to more people.

B．E-scooters are great for the housing environment.

C．E-scooters take up less space in houses.

D．It’s huge fun to ride an e-scooter in the house.

【3】What does the underlined word “incentivize” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Encourage.

B．Maintain.

C．Restrict.

D．Praise.

【4】What is the government’s attitude towards legalization of e-scooters?

A．Favorable.

B．Cautious.

C．Opposed.

D．Indifferent.

25、   In 2016, Wanda, a grandmother meant to text details of her upcoming Thanksgiving dinner plans to her grandson. The person Wanda_______ texted was a 17-year-old high school senior, Jamal. Not _______ the number, Jamal asked who was texting him. Wanda still didn't realize her_______ so she replied “your grandma.”

Jamal asked for _______ and Wanda_________ a photo of herself. Jamal replied with a photo of himself, revealing the grandma had texted the_________, person. He jokingly asked, Can I still get a plate, though? “Wanda immediately replied, "Of course you can! That's what grandmas do. Feed everyone.” Meantime, she extended a(n)_________ to the stranger. It was the grandma's heart-warming _______ that made Jamal deeply touched and he accepted the invitation,_______ at her house with a plate full of turkey! Wanda and Jamal have remained close since their ____________ encounter in 2016. They not only __________ getting together each year for Thanksgiving but ____________ in touch plenty the rest of the year, too. In fact, Jamal and his girlfriend would __________go on double dates with Wanda and her husband, Lonnie.

Years later, Wanda and Jamal are still in each other's__________ . But sadly, Lonnie, Wanda's husband of 43 years, passed away in April, 2020 ____________COVID-19. As the annual Thanksgiving gathering __________, Lonnie's empty seat hung in Wanda's __________ . Still, Wanda overcame her deep__________ and got together with Jamal for a Thanksgiving meal. “Lonnie was__________ this year,” Jamal __________ . “But Wanda and I know for sure Lonnie would have been very angry if we didn't have Thanksgiving together.”

【1】A.originally B.consistently C.actually D.randomly

【2】A.copying B.recognizing C.checking D.dialing

【3】A.fault B.drawback C.blame D.mistake

【4】A.permit B.support C.proof D.number

【5】A.sent B.took C.copied D.enlarged

【6】A.generous B.suitable C.greedy D.wrong

【7】A.invitation B.message C.welcome D.gift

【8】A.recognition B.request C.reflection D.response

【9】A.dropping off B.showing up C.settling down D.turning around

【10】A.occasional B.mistaken C.accidental D.frequent

【11】A.continue B.consider C.practice D.permit

【12】A.get B.grow C.stay D.fit

【13】A.temporarily B.regularly C.annually D.rapidly

【14】A.houses B.jobs C.circles D.lives

【15】A.apart from B.due to C.in spite of D.for lack of

【16】A.happened B.appeared C.passed D.approached

【17】A.mind B.brain C.eyes D.thought

【18】A.regret B.sorrow C.sympathy D.mercy

【19】A.missing B.sick C.injured D.sad

【20】A.complained B.reminded C.explained D.reported

26、假定你是高一学生李华。请你给你的美国网友Tony写一封e-mail，把你的暑假安排告诉他，并询问他的暑假安排。内容包括：

1. 完成作业，适量阅读；

2. 走亲访友；

3. 参加社区组织的志愿者活动。

注意：1. 词数80左右；信的开头已经写好。

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tony,

How is everything with you recently?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua