铜陵2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、It is believed that the continents ________ always where they ________ today.

A．aren’t; are

B．aren’t; were

C．weren’t; are

D．weren’t; were

2、It doesn't matter if she wants to come to your party,________?

A．does it

B．doesn't it

C．does she

D．doesn't she

3、First impressions are the most lasting. After all, you never get ______ second chance to make a first impression.

A.a B.the C./ D.one

4、With his great talents, the new boy soon became _____ and whatever he said was law to all the other boys.

A.the black sheep B.all ears C.a wet blanket D.the top dog

5、The pulse signal picked up by Chinese patrol ship has not been confirmed as _____ to the passengers onboard the missing flight MH370.

A.to be relating B.been related C.relating D.related

6、________ I hear my alarm clock, I jump out of my bed.

A．For the moment

B．Immediately

C．As long as

D．Shortly

7、—The talent show Youth with You ________becoming hotter and hotter online. 

—Exactly. Half of our class ________interested in it.

A．is; is

B．are; are

C．is; are

D．are; is

8、— I regret _____ you that you have been fired, John.

— OK, I am out of work now. But you will regret _____the decision one day.

A.telling; making B.to tell; to make

C.telling; to make D.to tell; making

9、I don't think she is a reliable woman; I am ______ her empty talk.

A．tired of

B．concerned about

C．crazy about

D．grateful for

10、Because he could not find the right theme , his explanation was vague and uncovering.

A.which to center his thought around B.around which his thoughts to center

C.on which to center his thoughts D.which he centers his thoughts on

11、Let's set some________ goals first,which is the first step to self-improvement.

A．achievable

B．capable

C．valuable

D．comfortable

12、She may have gone out, in ________ case you will need to wait another hour before she comes back.

A．what

B．that

C．which

D．this

13、He didn’t find his child all day, and he never spent a _____ day in his life

A. more worried   B. most worried

C. more worrying   D. most worrying

14、It is unnecessary for you ______ Mary_______money. She won’t follow your advice.

A.arguing with; about B.arguing about; with

C.to argue with; about D.to argue about; with

15、We offer an excellent education to our students. ________,  we expect students to work hard.

A. In all   B. At best

C. In return   D. After all

16、Students at the university have easy to a comprehensive library with extensive resources for their research.

A．way

B．chance

C．access

D．method

17、The famous basketball star, ________is an American, came to China yesterday.

A．which

B．who

C．whose

D．whom

18、Foreign Minister of China used plain language to make the Chinese foreign policy ________ to the whole world at the press conference last week.

A．get through

B．get across

C．get over

D．get around

19、The man ______a blue shirt was caught _________he left the bank.

A.wearing;when B.wear  when

C.wearing;  before D.wear ;  before

20、Wars are disasters. A large number of people will lose their homes if a war_________.

A．breaks out

B．is broken out

C．breaks up

D．is broken up

21、A new community sports center________beyond the river by the government now.

A．is being built

B．was built

C．is building

D．has built

22、Breakfast ________ of cereal, fruit, and orange juice can make our energetic all the day.

A．consists

B．is consisted

C．consisting

D．that consist

23、   of your ability is one of the most important factors of success.

A. Convincing   B. To convince

C. Being convinced   D. Convinced

24、―Look at the woman standing under the big tree. Is she your aunt Mrs. Brown?

―No, it ________ be her. She’s gone to Shanghai for a meeting.

A．may not

B．needn’t

C．can’t

D．mustn’t

25、---Come to my home and enjoy the NBA basketball match?

---    . James is always my favorite star.

A. I couldn’t agree more   B. I’m afraid not

C. It doesn’t matter   D. It’s a piece of cake

26、I went to the Chinatown market in London last Sunday. The first thing I did was to go to one of the Chinese green grocers’ shops. As soon as I entered the shop. I smelt mixtures of Chinese spices and saw the new season’s fruits. My son wanted a bag of sweets, so we walked into the shop next door which sells many kinds of candy.

There is a lot of noise in the Chinatown market and you will see many tourists, too. There are a lot of cars and trucks that never stop beeping (按喇叭). While people are loading and unloading their goods, most of them have their cars and trucks parked in the middle of the road. This causes great trouble for other drivers. Can you imagine that?

After we had done all our shopping, my son and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed our meal very much. But the shopping made us both very tired in the end. We headed down the road to catch our bus home. My son and I enjoyed riding in the bus. We also enjoyed looking at different buildings and people walking by dressed in fancy outfits (服装). Although Chinatown can be a busy place to shop in, I do enjoy going there now and then. I can buy some of my necessities, and I can also look and browse(浏览)around the other shops and department stores where I can indulge (使沉迷) myself with some nice things. Chinatown is located in the heart of central London, where you can find tons of shop and other places to amuse you. And for me, I certainly don’t mind going back there again soon.

【1】What place did the author and her son enter at first?

A．A grocery store.

B．A garage.

C．A clothing shop.

D．A restaurant.

【2】Why are the traffic conditions in Chinatown not very good?

A．Because the road to the Chinatown is too narrow.

B．Because the road to the Chinatown market is being repaired.

C．Because many people are loading and unloading their goods.

D．Because most drivers stop their vehicles in the middle of the road.

【3】What can we infer from the last sentence of the passage?

A．The writer likes Chinatown because it’s near.

B．The writer is not willing to spend much time at the Chinatown market

C．The writer will come to Chinatown again before long.

D．The writer doesn’t have a good impression on Chinatown.

【4】The passage tells us that that day the author ________.

A．drove her car home

B．had lunch after shopping

C．bought a satisfying dress

D．watched some performances with her

27、America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while - then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet n friend. We may take days off to net as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homos, but truly can not manage the lime to do n great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, worm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly lo invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

【1】The writer of this passage must be   .

A. a Chinese   B. an American   C. a professor   D. a student

【2】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

【3】From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be   .

A. warmly welcomed at the airport

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

【4】What does the underlined words in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. strict with time   B. willing to spend time

C. careful with time   D. serious with time

【5】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

28、Humans and elephants don’t always get along. In Africa and Asia, elephants damage farmers’ crops and natural habitats of other species. If an elephant becomes a problem, it may be killed. So, people are trying to find better ways to keep elephants away from these places.

Kenyan farmers have long known that if they hang bee hives (蜂巢) around their farms, elephants would no longer visit. “The problem is how you manage hundreds of thousands of hives, if you have a huge area to protect.” said Mark Wright, a professor at the University of Hawaii.

The idea came up to look at honeybee pheromones (信息素), chemicals that the bees use to repel something that’s attacking the hive. Because elephants have a highly developed sense of smell, Wright and his team thought they might be able to use honeybee pheromones to affect elephant behaviors.

They tested out a mixture of chemicals similar to honeybees’ alarm signals. In Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa, the team hung white socks with the chemicals and normal socks around an elephant watering hole, and observed the animals’ behavior.

“Elephants are really curious creatures. They’ll walk along and see something like a sock hanging in a tree, and they’ll observe it. If it’s not with the pheromones, they’ll pick it up, throw it around, and try to taste it, things like that. And in the case of those with the pheromones, they would quickly show signs of unease or uncertainty, and they’d back off from them. Very seldom would they go pick them up and play with them.”

The study is in Current Biology. Next up, the researchers plan to perfect the chemicals to get an even stronger avoidance response from elephants. That way, these remarkable animals will stay far away from wherever they should not be going — and both elephants and humans can coexist a bit more peacefully.

【1】What is known about elephants in Africa and Asia?

A．They get on well with humans.

B．They must be in great danger.

C．They attack farmers on purpose.

D．They might threaten other species.

【2】What does the underlined word “repel” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Search for.

B．Slow down.

C．Drive away.

D．Look into.

【3】How did Wright’s team conduct the research?

A．By testing predictions.

B．By making comparisons.

C．By analyzing causes and effects.

D．By recording historical development.

【4】What is the main idea of the text?

A．Honeybee pheromones are put into use.

B．Elephants live in harmony with humans.

C．Honeybee alarm signals protect elephants.

D．Elephants’ curiosity is out of expectations.

29、Yellow is usually the color of happy, joyful emotions. But according to a new study, not all people associate the color with good feelings.

To find out what factors might play a role, researchers tested a new hypothesis (假设): What if people’s physical surroundings affect their feelings about certain colors? For example, if someone lived in cold and rainy Finland, would he feel differently about the color yellow from someone who lived near the Sahara Desert?

The researchers looked at color-emotion data from an ongoing international survey of 6, 625 people in 55 countries. The survey asked participants to rate 12 colors on how closely they were associated with feelings including joy, pride, fear, and shame.

The researchers paid particular attention to the data for yellow, and analyzed how different factors—including hours of sunshine, hours of daylight, and the amount of rainfall—were associated with the emotions people reported for the color. The two best predictors of how people felt about yellow were the annual amount of rainfall, and how far they lived from the equator (赤道).

Overall, people were more likely to associate yellow with joy when they lived in rainier countries that lay farther from the equator, researchers reported in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. In Egypt, the likelihood (可能性) of yellow being associated with joy was just 5.7%, whereas in chilly Finland it was 87.7%. In the United States, with its mild climate and amber waves of grain, people’s yellow-joy association levels were between 60% and 70%.

The researchers also checked whether associations changed with the season—whether, for example, people in a certain country liked yellow more in the winter than they did in the summer. They found that opinions about the color remained fairly constant all year round—even when the weather changed, the data on yellow-joy associations were as good as gold.

【1】What did the researchers do before the survey?

A．They went to Finland.

B．They made an assumption.

C．They studied certain colors.

D．They analyzed some data.

【2】Which of the following affects people’s feelings about yellow?

A．The changeable weather.

B．The length of daytime.

C．The geographical position.

D．The amount of snowfall.

【3】How did the researchers carry out the survey?

A．By interviewing participants.

B．By studying the data collected.

C．By traveling around the world.

D．By looking at color combinations.

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

A．Finland: A Country Admiring Yellow

B．Yellow Associated with Joy Conditionally

C．Color: An Important Role in Good Feelings

D．Color-emotion Data Collected Internationally

30、About two months ago, my computer broke and I have been living without one at home. The man in the _______ shop said it would be more expensive to fix my computer than to buy a new one!

Now, I can admit that I’m _______ to the Internet. I spend hours and hours of my free time _______ funny cat videos on YouTube, and playing video games with my friends _______. When I was told my _______ couldn’t be fixed, I was _______! I don’t have enough money to buy a new one _______ and I will have to wait until December.

I have been trying to _______ things to do without a computer, _______ it is a lot more difficult than I was ________! It has taken a while but I am ________ to get used to living without easy access to the online world.

This ________ has made me realize just how useful computers really are. ________, it’s not all bad. I am sleeping a lot better now and I have been baking a lot, which I ________ but never used to find enough time to do.

Living without a computer may not be as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I am ready to leave the Dark Ages and ________ to the 21st century!

【1】

A．tea

B．repair

C．book

D．sweet

【2】

A．opposed

B．thankful

C．deaf

D．addicted

【3】

A．watching

B．making

C．recording

D．cutting

【4】

A．downtown

B．abroad

C．online

D．upstairs

【5】

A．bike

B．car

C．cellphone

D．computer

【6】

A．ashamed

B．unpleasant

C．bored

D．careless

【7】

A．at the moment

B．at table

C．under test

D．on show

【8】

A．think of

B．deal with

C．end up

D．refer to

【9】

A．and

B．so

C．or

D．but

【10】

A．obtaining

B．ignoring

C．expecting

D．discovering

【11】

A．stopping

B．starting

C．continuing

D．refusing

【12】

A．experience

B．conflict

C．adventure

D．task

【13】

A．However

B．Besides

C．Therefore

D．Instead

【14】

A．search

B．love

C．adjust

D．produce

【15】

A．stick

B．object

C．contribute

D．return

31、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is two words more than you need.

Since the United States Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2014, tremendous progress has been made in health, education, and employment. However, progress in other areas has been slow. So, what is 【1】 progress? Two key factors are unequal 【2】to education and discrimination in employment. Sometimes, girl must overcome enormous  barriers just to attend school. In some countries like Ghana, school fees can be 【3】 for the poor. When 【4】 with this dilemma, the father, who usually makes the important family decisions, will usually sent a son to school over a daughter, even if the daughter is more 【5】 capable. As for employment, women can be passed over with the reason that if they get married or pregnant, they will be less reliable or productive.

32、下面是星期一下午高中第一节体育课的有关情况。请你据此写一篇日记。

1.项目：跳远。

2.过程：打上课铃时就在操场集合；听老师讲解并示范；你因心情紧张而失败；不灰心，反复训练；终于跳过了3米。

3.体会：只要有恒心，就一定能成功。

注意：

1.内容必须包括所有要点，但不能逐点翻译；

2.日记格式要正确；

3.词数100左右。

参考词汇：the long jump

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