梅州2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、I’d like to ______ to your apartment.

A. come up   B. come about

C. come out   D. come across

2、You, who _____ always ready to offer him your assistance at any critical moment, are a true

friend indeed.

A.is B.are C.was D.were

3、I know how busy you must be and naturally I wouldn’t want to ________ too much of your time.

A．take up

B．make the most of

C．care about

D．deal with

4、The number of Chinese students attending Hong Kong universities_________ rising steadily since1990.

A．is

B．are

C．has been

D．have been

5、New technology should provide a ________ firewall against hackers (黑客) .

A.swift B.sincere C.straight D.secure

6、The prize will go to the writer ________ story shows the most imagination.

A．that

B．which

C．whose

D．what

7、I am ________ exchange student from the UK.

A．an

B．不填

C．the

8、Like other animals, we are ________ until we know it is safe to relax.

A.on purpose B.on fire C.on guard D.on duty

9、(2016·北京)______ over a week ago, the books are expected to arrive any time now.

A．Ordering

B．To order

C．Having ordered

D．Ordered

10、—Could you tell me_________ ?

—I heard that there was a car accident.

A．what happens over there

B．when can I go across the road

C．what happened over there

D．when I can go across the road

11、If I can help ______, I don’t like getting up before half past five in the morning.

A. so   B. this

C. that   D. it

12、—Must the government of Philippines (菲律宾政府) say sorry to China.

—Yes, they ________. Their behaviour has deeply hurt Chinese people.

A．need

B．must

C．can

D．may

13、Water _____ out of pipes; burning gas flared into the sky; the bombed transformers cut the electricity of the district; a school and a hospital were also hit.

A．blanketed

B．secured

C．gushed

D．burned

14、If you visit France today, it is not a surprise to meet street artists in the city or ________ a singer in the subway.

A．come by

B．come over

C．come across

D．come up with

15、He believes people will be more likely to trust self-driving cars as they become more ______ features such as automatic braking or parking.

A．confused about

B．familiar with

C．passionate about

D．mysterious about

16、He ________ a film tomorrow morning.

A.is going to see B.will be going to C.is going to seeing D.was going to see

17、The sentence structure of “I painted the wall white.” Is________

A．S+V+DO+OC

B．S+V+IO+DO

C．S+V+O

D．S+V+P

18、Life in the following ________time may be harder than before, but everyone should stick to his goals and make an effort to achieve them.

A．three-months

B．three-month

C．three months

D．three month

19、Maria has written two novels, both of _____ have been made into television series.

A．them

B．whom

C．which

D．that

20、His serious illness ________ his absence yesterday.

A．account for

B．stood for

C．watched out for

D．set off for

21、Here is my classmate _____ bicycle was lost yesterday.

A.his B.that C.whose D.which

22、Catherine is a very brave girl. She always asks questions in class and ______.

A.neither has Mary B.so has Mary

C.neither does Mary D.so does Mary

23、You can’t take photos without her________.

A．adventure

B．fault

C．patience

D．permission

24、In recent years, the Everest Summit ______ many climbers trapped in the death zone above 8, 000 metres, unable to move freely and dying from lack of oxygen.

A．witnessed

B．was witnessed

C．has witnessed

D．has been witnessed

25、We will put off the picnic in the park until next week, ________ the weather will be better.

A．that

B．where

C．which

D．when

26、Libraries

Public libraries

Most towns in Britain have a public library.A library usually has a large selection of books and other resources，which library members can use and borrow for free.

Britain's First Public Library

The first public library in Britain opened in Manchester in1852.It's first librarian was a man called Edward Edwards，Edwards attended the library's opening ceremony and two famous writers called Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were there too.

How to Join a Library

To join a library，go to your local library and fill in a form.you'll receive a library card which is needed when using library services.

Mobile Libraries

Not everyone can get a library.Some people live far away from towns and cities.Other people find it difficult to go out because they have an illness or a disability.Thanks to mobile libraries，these people can still borrow books.

Unlike most libraries，which store books in buildings，mobile libraries usually keep their books in a mini-bus.The back of the mini﹣bus has shelves for the books，and it is big enough for borrowers to step inside and look around.A driver takes the mini-bus to a certain place at a certain time，so people know when to expect it.They can then return their books and borrow some more.

All Aboard the Library!

A school in London didn't have space for a library inside the building.However，everybody agreed that it was still important to have a school library.So the head of the school，Graham Blake decided to park  an old bus on the school car park and changed it into a library.Pupils helped to paint the bus，and after eight months，the new library was ready.

【1】Who was the first librarian of the first public library in Britain？

A. Charles Dickens.   B. William Thackeray.

C. Edward Edwards.   D. Graham Blake.

【2】Who can use public library services？

A. CD or DVD sellers.   B. Anyone living in Britain.

C. A person with a library card.   D. Newspaper or book writers.

【3】What is special about the mobile library？

A. Keeping books in buildings.

B. Returning books to readers.

C. Offering special services to pupils.

D. Going to a certain place at a certain time.

【4】Why did the school in London build its library on an old bus？

A. Because parents offered the school an old bus.

B. Because pupils thought it was fun to read on a bus.

C. Because the school didn't have enough money to buy books.

D. Because the school didn't have enough space inside the building.

【5】What can we learn from the passage？

A. Schools in London like mobile libraries.

B. Public library services in the UK are free.

C. People living far away can't use libraries.

D. Many famous British writers lived in Manchester.

27、During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another .Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to parent educator Diane Loisie ,it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a number of sporting events, besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day that they’re going to be taking a break.”

Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow, are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, but it also helps to understand the learning that’s gone on that day.”

It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However, Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for the family drivers!

【1】What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?

A.They can get bored easily about everything.

B.They might have no time to do the homework.

C.They might not pay much attention to learning.

D.They cannot easily focus on learning during the day.

【2】What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?

A.It is productive. B.It is helpful. C.It is a bad habit. D.It is a waste of time.

【3】Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?

A.Because children have no time.

B.Because children cannot learn many things.

C.Because children do not have enough sleep.

D.Because children cannot focus on too many activities.

【4】What is the main idea of this passage?

A.Don’t be children’s drivers after school.

B.Choose activities for your children wisely.

C.Make your children learn as much as possible.

D.Let children learn something from various subjects.

28、I have a friend who bird watches. She feels comfortable whenever she’s doing it. If you ask her why she likes it, she will say things like “Well, birds are the world’s most magical creatures.” I have another friend who knits. She likes it because it’s satisfying, and has an astonishingly impressive impact on people for whom being able to knit gloves is out of reach.

As a term, “hobby” has always been of arguable meaning. Ask someone what they think a hobby is, and you’ll get a dictionary definition that they will have just looked up on their phones and, then, a passionate speech on all of the activities that can under no circumstances be put into groups as hobbies by their own highly unique and inflexible standards. Being online is not a hobby, apparently, nor is listening to music.

Hardly anyone knows what a hobby is, and this is particularly the case now that so many of us are spending our leisure time online arguing about these sorts of basic definitions with people, as the writer Max Read put it in an essay, “to whom the world has been created again every morning, for whom every settled argument of modernity must be rewritten, but this time with their engagement.”

Even taking these difficulties into account, however, it seems obvious that birdwatching and knitting are classic hobbies. They are enjoyable, involve practice and reward effort, and they are given immediate access to a group with the same interests. They are the sorts of hobbies advice columnists (专栏作家) have in mind when people write in about their imbalanced lives. It’s interesting, then, that not one of my two clearly hobby-having friends would admit to the practice.

They worried that their hobbies, which give them pleasure and keep them far from their computers, made them seem like they had too much leisure time and too Lew inner resources that would enable them to naturally avoid boredom. They are fully paid-up members of society, with busy lives, fulfilling interpersonal relationships and, again, hobbies that make them happy. It’s just that hobbies have an undeservedly bad reputation, one made worse by the Internet, like everything else.

The birdwatcher said the problem with having a hobby was that it made people seem like they were contributing and learning nothing. The knitter said that she personally connected hobbies with having no friends and no idea of what normal people do to have fun, Actually, they do not want to be seen as mad people who intentionally get away from the correct course.

Well, I enjoy certain light operas. I play music for my own amusement. And yes, I am an ordinary student, and that is not a sign of madness.

【1】The author mentions two friends with different hobbies in Paragraph 1 mainly to .

A．explain the definition of “hobby”

B．attract the readers’ attention to hobbies

C．stress the importance of having a hobby

D．compare two different types of hobbies

【2】What does the author mean by quoting Max Read in Paragraph 3?

A．“Hobby” as a term can only be defined without the Internet.

B．People online discuss the definition of “hobby” to change lives.

C．People create a new world by expressing their ideas of hobbies online.

D．It is hard for online people to reach an agreement on the definition of “hobby”.

【3】What can be inferred from the two friends’ concerns about their hobbies?

A．They are afraid of being seen as crazy people.

B．They fear their hobbies are not impressive enough.

C．They find it necessary to share hobbies to balance their lives.

D．They refuse to share their feelings about their hobbies with mad people.

【4】What does the author intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．Hobbies are great for people’s mental health.

B．Different people have their own standards of hobbies.

C．It is reasonable and normal for people to have hobbies.

D．People who suffer from madness can also have hobbies.

29、Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just taken out from the freezer. Fruit, candies, nuts, chocolate, cake with buttercream frosting(糖霜), even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.

I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer — finally, two freezers — to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.

If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen buttercream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.

The freezer treats a lot of fruit kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(点心). This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get super­hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freeze, they will have a double taste.

As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.

【1】What is the passage intended to tell us?

A．Fruit should be frozen before one eats it.

B．Frozen food is better than hot food.

C．The author prefers frozen food.

D．Hot food is not healthy.

【2】The author began to enjoy frozen food when he _____________.

A．was young

B．learned cooking

C．got married

D．got a fever

【3】Why does the author NOT advise us to take hot cookies?

A．Because they need more time to prepare.

B．Because the taste is not good when they are hot.

C．Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.

D．Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.

【4】What does the underlined word ＂it＂ in the third paragraph refer to?

A．The taste.

B．Buttercream.

C．The cookie.

D．Frozen buttercream frosting.

30、   Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computers in the school he works in. I think it is a___________school except for the fact that the school didn't have computers.

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture, people could see he was teaching his students by_________an entire computer on the blackboard. The photos showed the poor level of education for children in Ghana. People were_________that Owura made sure each button (按钮) was drawn correctly.

Owura wanted the students to_________what life with a computer could be like someday. He would come to school half an hour ahead of_________every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was_________off to start the next class, so he had to repeat it the next day!

Owura's efforts were_________when Microsoft (微软公司) took_________of his act. They first took him to an international educators' meeting in Singapore. He made a_________about his teaching methods at the meeting. He__________a standing ovation (起立鼓掌) after the speech.

Importantly, Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies__________computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher's__________the world took notice and responded with__________to them.

“Your work has really__________the world. At Microsoft, we believe that educators are heroes. They__________influence the lifelong skills of their students,” said Anthony Salcito, vice president at Microsoft.

A．final

B．dusty

C．normal

D．personal

A．operating

B．repairing

C．describing

D．drawing

A．worried

B．disappointed

C．afraid

D．amazed

A．start

B．imagine

C．rebuild

D．harm

A．line

B．culture

C．schedule

D．deadline

A．rubbed

B．called

C．cut

D．shown

A．selected

B．rewarded

C．simplified

D．affected

A．care

B．charge

C．place

D．notice

A．plan

B．speech

C．decision

D．medal

A．decreased

B．replaced

C．received

D．contained

A．lent

B．sold

C．gave

D．applied

A．doubt

B．pains

C．humour

D．efforts

A．wisdom

B．kindness

C．honesty

D．pride

A．inspired

B．stuck

C．formed

D．comforted

A．directly

B．briefly

C．quickly

D．rarely

31、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A Peking Opera Legend That Redefined Female Roles

When it comes to Peking Opera, a few key things come to mind for most Chinese: its quintessential connection to the history and traditions of China; the richness of its dazzling costumes with their 【1】 colors and patterns; and the bold work of its facial make-up. Some may even be able to hum a few lines or talk about their favorite artists, but for the vast majority of people, traditional Chinese opera remains a classic art form that is far 【2】 from everyday life.

However, only a century ago, Peking Opera was no less 【3】 to the regular populace than is today’s pop music. The performers were admired by a large number of fans who were willing to spend a fortune on a ticket to their performances. Throughout the history of Peking Opera, there have 【4】 many renowned masters of the form. But MeiLanfang (1894 - 1961) was arguable the most outstanding figure of this craft, who was famous for his portrayal of the female lead roles (dan)

【5】 as one of the “four famed dan,” Mei was so much more than even this. He brought forth a number of new ideas to several aspects of Peking Opera: make-up (he was the first to war lipstick), music (his productions first 【6】 the erhu in shows), choreography(编舞艺术)(his iconic sword dance in Farewell My Concubine《霸王别姬》) and, most importantly characterization.

At a time when actual women were banned from performing, Mei 【7】 the dan to starring roles. He combined elements of the qingyi (elegant lady), huadan (young woman) and daomadan (female warrior) into a new huashan character that excelled in singing, dancing and martial arts. The techniques he introduced led to the development of the “Mei School”, which was considered one of the three major dramatic performing art systems in the world at the time.

“My father broke the 【8】 between almost all the different types of female role,” Mei Baojiu, the youngest child of Mei Lanfang who followed his father into dan acting, was quoted as saying.

Thanks to Mei’s 【9】 innovations, even those who know little about traditional Chinese opera can easily see the beauty of the art form the moment performers take the stage. “His make-up, the overlay of carmines(胭脂红) and darker tones, is the most beautiful I have ever seen in a theater,” wrote U.S. playwright Stark Young after watching Mei Lanfang’s performance in New York in 1930.

But the true beauty of Peking Opera is not solely about visual aesthetics. “For veteran artists, even their performances without make-up can be just as 【10】 as full-on stage performances,” Mei wrote in his 1958 memoir, Forty Years of Life on the stage. Just as Peking Opera has become an icon of Chinese culture, Mei has come to be acknowledge on the grand stage of the world as its quintessential performer.

32、假定你是李华。临近期末，你的美国笔友Peter上周发来电子邮件，询问你寒假的打算，但你未能及时回复。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1.未能回复的原因；

2.你的寒假打算。

注意：

1.词数不少于100；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Peter,

How is it going?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua