2025-2026年湖南益阳高三上册期末英语试卷含解析

1、The small boat was almost sunk by the dinosaurs which suddenly ________ to the surface, fighting each other, but fortunately the three men ________  get away.

A．rose; could     B．rose; were able to

C．arose; could have been able to   D．raised; could have

2、It won’t be long ______ self-driving cars appear on the market.

A. until   B. after

C. when   D. before

3、As far as I know, education is about learning． The more you learn, _______.

A.the better for life are you prepared B.the better you are prepared for life

C.the better life are you prepared for D.you are prepared the better for life

4、When we plan our vacation, mother often offers____________ suggestions.

A．careful

B．practical

C．effective

D．acceptable

5、Students who are found with pets, whether visiting or owned by the student, are _______ to an initial fine of $100 and a continuing fine of $50 a day per pet.

A．bound

B．subject

C．subsequent

D．committed

6、Life is like __________ ocean; only __________ strong-willed can reach the other shore.

A. an; the   B. the; a   C. the; /   D. /; a

7、— Why was our foreign teacher unhappy yesterday?

— News about the tsunami striking her country ______ an attack of homesickness.

A. set for   B. set out

C. set about   D. set off

8、--- I’ve read another book this week.

---Well, maybe ________ is not how much you read but what you read that counts.

A. this   B. that

C. there   D. it

9、 It’s standard practice for a company like this one______ a security officer.

A. employed     B. being employed

C. to employ     D. employs

10、With his seat belt ________, Larry has been fully prepared to drive to ________ the new city on his own.

A.fastened; explore B.fastening; explode

C.to be fastened; exploit D.being fastening; explore

11、Wang Zhizhi's return has _________basketball fans of a far better result in the coming title contest.

A.convinced B.expected C.accused D.believed

12、I'm not a little tired today after giving the room a thorough cleaning and I have never had   today．

A． as tiring a day as B． as a tiring day

C． tiring as a day as   D． day as a tiring as

13、Wherever you prefer to work after graduation, _______ close contacts with your family members.

A. keeping   B. keep   C. to keep   D. kept

14、Unless you are brave enough to speak up, you'll lose chances to make yourself   understood．

A．more B．less

C．much     D．fewer

15、It also gives the interview the impression _______ you actually feel quite nervous, you’re confident.

A. that B. even if

C. that even if D. what

16、I found the film hard to follow because it _______ when I arrived.

A. had begun   B. was beginning

C. has begun   D. would begin

17、----Shall we go and help them with their work?

----We’d better not. They said we’d just be ______ if we tried to help.

A. in a way   B. by the way

C. on the way   D. in the way

18、Changing your habits can be hard and developing new habits takes time, but ________ you stay motivated, you will meet your goal.

A．in case

B．so long as

C．as far as

D．even if

19、The university estimates that living expenses for international students _________ around $8,450 per year, which _________ a burden for some of them.

A．are; is

B．is; are

C．is; is

D．are; are

20、 --- It’s a shame that you missed the lecture on the British culture given by Thompson.

--- I _________ it, but I was busy preparing the coming exam.

A. attended B. had attended

C. would have attended  D. would attend

21、At present, animated (动画) films are popular with us. Most of them rely heavily on computer technology. But this magical world — where witches (魔法师) cast spells and castles float in the sky — is brought to life by hand, Nevertheless, Hayao Miyazaki is referred to as Japan’s Walt Disney and considered by many to be the world’s greatest living animator．

This month, the 72-year-old Miyazaki announced his retirement. The Japanese animator has directed 11 animated full-length films over the past four decades, including the Oscar-winning Spirited Away (《千与千寻》) and his latest release, The Wind Rises (《起风了》), which tells the life story of a man who designed Japanese World War II fighter planes．

Just as The Wind Rises shows, Miyazaki is well-known for his obsession with flight, especially human flight. Other attractive aspects of Miyazaki’s films include his themes of environmental protection and the horrors of war.

Miyazaki’s work is also famous for its lack of clearly defined good and evil characters. He sees the 21st century as a complex time when old standards need to be re-examined.

As a storyteller, he is an inventor of fairy tales full of mystery. In the Miyazakian universe, wizards (巫师) turn into birds of prey; young girls are transformed overnight into 90-year-old women; greedy parents are changed into pigs; and shooting stars become fire demons (恶魔).

People attribute Miyazaki’s success to his long pursuit of his hand-drawn technique, although in an interview with CNN he called himself an “extinct species” in the age of digital animation.

A recent television documentary on the making of The Wind Rises showed a disappointed Miyazaki throwing a pile of drawings into the trash. He is said to have redrawn thousands of frames of the much-praised Princess Mononoke (《幽灵公主》) when they did not meet his standards.

But his huge attention to detail has earned him the respect of the entire animated film world. Even John Lasseter — head of Pixar, the famous US computer animation studio — once called Miyazaki “one of the greatest filmmakers of our time”.

【1】What can we know about Miyazaki’s film The Wind Rises?

A. It was put on a long time ago.

B. Miyaznki was once unsatisfied with some of the drawings.

C．It describes environmental protection.

D．It is an Oscar-winning film.

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

A. Hatred.  B. Enthusiasm.  C. Envy.  D. Sympathy.

【3】What makes Miyazaki earn the respect of the entire animated film world?

A. His emphasis on detail.

B. His pursuit of the hand-drawn technique.

C. His dependence on computer technology.

D. His definition of good and evil characters.

22、Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.

“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back. Whether or not the child takes a secret look is caught on tape.

For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.

Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully  — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.

【1】What’s the purpose of children telling lies?

A. To help their friends out. B. To get rid of trouble.

C. To get attention from others.  D. To create a popular image.

【2】The underlined word “deceive” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “ ”.

A. tell lies   B. handle troubles

C. raise questions  D. do research

【3】From the second paragraph we can know that   .

A. which factors can reduce lying

B. why some lie more than others

C. it is normal for kids to tell lies

D. how lying changes as kids grow

【4】It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. children’s lies are the same as adults’

B. the better kids are, the more they lie

C. the older kids are, the more they lie

D. kids always keep the truth in their mind

【5】What is NOT included in the passage?

A. The reasons why kids tell lies.

B. Which kind of kids tells more lies.

C. Experiments about lying of young kids.

D. What to do with lying children.

23、Norma Newcombe has been a nurse for nearly 60 years. She started her career at a hospital for babies in August 1958, but she has no plans to retire.

She has worked with Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 40 years. She has been a full-time school nurse since 1973. Apart from taking an eight-year break from her career to have her two children in 1965, the dedicated nurse has spent nearly 60 years working in her role.

Modest Norma describes herself as a school nurse who just does her job. She said, “I’m proud to be where I am and I’m very passionate about the local area and everything related to the school nursing. We have brilliant team leaders and I work with a brilliant team of school nurses and health visitors. I’m just happy with what I am and where I am.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Norma had to work from home due to having a weakened immune system (免疫系统). Norma said that she liked people rather than machines. She thought she could still write quicker than she could type. Obviously, things have to progress, but there is not the same personal contact. Despite hitting the milestone, Norma has no plans to slow down.

Norma’s colleagues surprised her with a party at her workplace, where she was gifted flowers and jewellery. Rabina Tindale, chief nurse in the hospital, said, “We are extremely proud to have Norma as part of our team and access to her significant experience and wisdom. She holds a very special place in the hearts of the children and families that she has helped over the years. We hope she has an amazing day to celebrate her birthday with her colleagues.”

【1】How long has Norma been a full-time school nurse till 2022?

A．65 years.

B．60 years.

C．49 years.

D．41 years.

【2】What does Norma’s words show?

A．Her wish for the future.

B．Her love for nursing work.

C．The support from the local area.

D．The reason why she works as a nurse.

【3】Why did Norma have to work at home during the COVID-19 pandemic?

A．Her immune system was weak.

B．She was too old to travel to work.

C．The nursing school was closed down.

D．It was difficult for her to live in the school.

【4】Which word can best describe Norma?

A．Creative.

B．Respectable.

C．Stubborn.

D．Funny.

24、The Science Behind Why We Take Selfies

The selfie has arguably become the greatest photographic trend of our time. Why are we so interested in taking and sharing selfies and how does observing an image of yourself differ from observing a picture of someone else, asks University College London neuroscientist James Kilner.

【1】 Indeed, reading and responding correctly to other people’s facial expressions is essential for successful social interactions.

Through our lifetimes we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other people's faces and fanical expressions. In contrast we have very little experience of looking at our own faces.

Our perception of our own facial expression comes from our sense of feeling our faces move. 【2】 For example, it has been demonstrated that when people are shown an image of themselves and asked to match it they are unable to accurately produce the same facial expression without being able to see themselves.

【3】 When people are asked to pick a photograph which they think looks most like them—from a series of photographs in which an actual photograph has been digitally altered to produce more attractive and less attractive versions—people are very bad at selecting the original photograph.

Given that we have a poor representation of what we look life, this is perhaps unsurprising.【4】.

In other words, we have an image of ourselves that tends to be younger and more attractive than we actually are.

This might in part explain our obsession with selfies. For the first time we are able to take and retake pictures, of ourselves until we can produce an image that comes to matching our perception of what we think we look like.

A．Another reason why people like to take selfies is that people can digitally alter the image to look more attractive.

B．In everyday social situations we spend a lot of our time looking at and interpreting other people’s faces and facial expressions.

C．Kilner said that taking selfies has more to do with one’s facial expressions than one’s face.

D．This lack of visual knowledge about our own faces means we have a very inaccurate representation of what our own faces look like at any given time.

E．This lack of knowledge about what we look like has a profound effect on what we think we look like.

F．What is surprising is that people systematically choose images that have been digitally altered to make the person appear more attractive.

25、   Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skopick, 10, couldn’t agree. Was the bird out on the ice a duck or a goose? There was only one way to find out. So on a chilly January evening last year, the two friends _______ onto the frozen pond near their homes in Frankfort, Illinois, to get a _______ look. First they threw a rock onto the ice to _______ it, Cruz told NBC 5 Chicago. “Then we stepped on it.” _______ the ice would support their weight, Anthony took a few steps, then ... FOOMP. He crashed through the _______ frozen surface. “There was no sound, no crack,” he told ABC7 Chicago. “I just fell through instantly.”

Cruz rushed to help his _______ friend. FOOMP—the pond swallowed him too.

Cruz managed to _______ himself out of the freezing cold water and onto a more _______ section. He then _______ worked his way toward Anthony. But the ice didn’t ________, and he fell in again. This time, he couldn’t get out. The boys were up to their ________ in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs (四肢). Any possibility of their freeing themselves was ________ away. Cruz was sure he was going to die.

Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and started screaming for help. John Lavin, a neighbor ________ nearby on his way to the grocery store, ________ her. He quickly pulled over. Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy, ________ off his shoes, and ran into the slushy water, ________ his way through the ice with his free ________. “It was kind of a ‘Hulk smash, ’” Lavin told NBC 5 Chicago.

Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and hauled them back to ________. They were taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered that their five-minute ________ in the water had lowered their body temperature nearly ten degrees.

Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered, though they are still a little awestruck by their ________ neighbor. “Just to think,” says Cruz, “if he wasn’t there, I could have died.”

【1】A.raced B.chanced C.climbed D.leaped

【2】A.better B.near C.clear D.second

【3】A.scare B.prove C.test D.hit

【4】A.Committed B.Confused C.Content D.Convinced

【5】A.absolutely B.obviously C.seemingly D.tightly

【6】A.panicked B.surprised C.spellbound D.amused

【7】A.push B.lift C.take D.move

【8】A.open B.solid C.strong D.rocky

【9】A.gradually B.lightly C.cautiously D.secretly

【10】A.hold B.melt C.crack D.keep

【11】A.ends B.bellies C.heads D.necks

【12】A.slipping B.dying C.passing D.sliding

【13】A.running B.driving C.walking D.riding

【14】A.sensed B.spotted C.heard D.saved

【15】A.set B.threw C.rolled D.kicked

【16】A.chopping B.leading C.getting D.diving

【17】A.buoy B.will C.fist D.hammer

【18】A.earth B.land C.bank D.surface

【19】A.exposure B.contact C.screaming D.stay

【20】A.generous B.powerful C.friendly D.fearless

26、假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Henry来信询问你校即将举行的英语辩论赛情况。请给他回信，内容包括：

1．辩论赛时间、地点；

2．辩论赛主题：动物保护；

3．奖品设置。

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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