2025-2026学年湖南长沙高三(上)期末试卷英语

1、The way Tom operated the machine was different________ we were used to.

A．in which

B．in what

C．from what

D．from which

2、Great pity! His illness is ________ the treatment available so far.

A. within   B. above   C. about   D. beyond

3、Scientists are working hard to ______ how COVID-19 spreads among people.

A.figure out B.lead to C.get through D.consist of

4、Self-driving is an area ________ China and the rest of the world are ________.

A.where; on the same starting line B.where; in the same started line

C.which; in the same starting line D.in which; on the same started line

5、________, people born in the Year of the Dog make the best of friends.

A. Loyal, faithful, and true   B. Loyally, faithfully and truly

C. Loyal, faithful and truly   D. loyally, faithful and true

6、Local governments   to strengthen water transport safety management   recent fatal accidents.

A. are urging, followed   B. are being urged, following

C. are urged, to follow   D. urge, being followed

7、The stronger the ________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.

A．motivation

B．cooperation

C．qualification

D．interaction

8、My aunt is thought very fashionable，for she is always wearing a sweater______ on TV these months．

A．advertising     B．having advertised

C．being advertised   D．to be advertised

9、---What are you going to do with the flaw in the vase?

---I can either send a new one to you by express mail or _____ compensate you at a reasonable price.

A．artificially

B．accordingly

C．alternatively

D．consistently

10、Although this sound like a simple process, great care is needed.

A. need   B. would   C. should D. may

11、Children, in my opinion, ________ creative ability is unthinkably rich, ________ is seldom taken notice of by us, should be trained in that area.

A．which; that

B．whose; which

C．which; which

D．whose; that

12、…I wonder if I could use your cellphone．

… _．It is on the desk next to you．

A．No way   B．That's right

C．It’s a pleasure D．Be my guest

13、— How do you think I can make up with Jack?

— Set aside _______ you disagree and try to find _______ you have in common.

A. what; what   B. what; where   C. where; what   D. where; whether

14、 --- Do you mind if I leave my car here for a minute?

--- ______.

A. Great! I love cars

B. Of course not. It’s not allowed here

B. No, you can’t

D. I’d rather you didn’t, actually

15、The crazy fans______ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till Ang Lee,the winner of best-director Ocar arrived.

A. were waiting   B. had been waiting

C. had waited   D. would wait

16、According to the national population survey concluded recently, Florida is home to the largest population of people aged 65 and older, and this group ______ over 17 percent of the state’s population.

A. takes up B. holds up

C. makes up D. keeps up

17、–Volunteering is becoming   popular in China.

--Yeah, people are now aware that helping others is helping themselves

A.naturally B.successfully C.splendidly D.increasingly

18、She didn't recognize the man who hit her because she could only   a dark shape moving towards her．

A．turn out   B．make out C．set out D．bring out

19、In the traditional Chinese calendar, each year _________a name of 12 kinds of animal.

A. gives    B. is given

C. has given   D. has been given

20、The sportsman didn’t manage to break _____ record, but it was _____ good try.

A. a; the   B. the; a   C. a; 不填   D. the; 不填

21、Need some inspiration for Mother’s Day gifts for all the wonderful women in your life? We rounded up the best ideas to suit every type of mom.

Best for the mom who wants smarter sleep

Hatch Restore Smart Sleep Assistant

Give Mom the gift of better sleep and more energy. With the Restore Smart Sleep Assistant, she can customize her bedtime routine to create an ideal sleep environment. The smart device features a completely personalized reading light, sound machine, sunrise alarm, wind-down meditations, and an alarm clock. Mom sets everything to her specific preferences via the app. From April 28 through May 8, save $15 with promo code MOMs15. Sweet dreams!

Best for the plant lover

Bloomscape Lavender Tree

Bring natural aromatherapy (天然香薰) and houseplant goodness to her favorite room with this bonsai-style (盆景) lavender tree. It’s a sweet-smelling classic that offers color, scent, and texture to any design scheme. Even better? She doesn’t need to have profession skills to maintain it, as lavender is famous for being low maintenance and easy to grow.

Best for the home chef

Caraway Cookware Set

Home chefs are fond of these elegant Caraway cookware sets—and for good reason. They come in seven hard-to-find colors and offer chemical-free ceramic coatings that moms (and everyone else) can feel good about cooking on. Ceramic pots and pans are among the safest cookware choices, and they make cleanup a breeze too.

Best for the gardener

Pioneer Woman Gardening Tool Set

This floral-printed Pioneer Woman gardening set is the thoughtful, affordable Mother’s Day gift she’ll treasure all season long. It comes with everything she needs to make her favorite flowers grow, and it’s a great gift for the mom who loves making the most of a sunny spring day.

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【1】Which gift can help mothers enjoy a good night?

A．Hatch Restore Smart Sleep Assistant.

B．Bloomscape Lavender Tree.

C．Caraway Cookware Set.

D．Pioneer Woman Gardening Tool Set.

【2】What do the Bloomscape Lavender Tree and Pioneer Woman Gardening Tool Set have in common?

A．They are both related to indoor plants.

B．They are both used to deal with plants.

C．They both require excellent skills.

D．They both can be bought with promo code.

【3】Where might this article come from?

A．A news report.

B．A household manual.

C．A product brochure.

D．A shopping website.

22、Metaphor is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish - a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action as well. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of the intellect. They also govern our everyday functioning, down to the most ordinary details. Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor.

But our conceptual system is not something we are normally aware of. In most of the little things we do every day, we simply think and act more or less automatically along certain lines. Just what these lines are is by no means obvious. One way to find out is by looking at language. Since communication is based on the same conceptual system that we use in thinking and acting, language is an important source of evidence for what that system is like.

To give some idea of what it could mean for a concept to be metaphorical and for such a concept to structure an everyday activity, let us start with the concept ARGUMENT and the conceptual metaphor ARGUMENT IS WAR. This metaphor is reflected in our everyday language by a wide variety of expressions: ARGUMENT IS WAR.

Your claims are indefensible.

He attacked every weak point in my argument.

His criticisms were right on target.

I demolished his argument.

I've never won an argument with him.

You disagree? Okay, shoot〜!

If you use the strategy, he’ll wipe you out.

He shot down all of my arguments.

It is important to see that we don't just talk about arguments in terms of war. We can actually win or lose arguments. We see the person we are arguing with as an opponent. We attack his positions and defend our own. We gain and lose ground. We plan and use strategies. If we find a position indefensible, we can abandon it and take a new line of attack. Many of the things we do in arguing are partially structured by the concept of war. Though there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure of an argument - attack, defense, counterattack, etc. -reflects this. It is in this sense that the ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor is one that we live by in this culture; it structures the actions we perform in arguing.

【1】Which of the following statements will the author most probably agree with?

A．Metaphor is primarily a literary tool that polishes our thoughts and expressions.

B．The actions involved in argument is understood in terms of war conceptually.

C．People's action is generally more dependent on metaphor than on concept.

D．The concept of argument exists on the precondition that there is war.

【2】According to paragraph 3, what is the relationship between language and our conceptual system?

A．Language and the conceptual system are structured separately and automatically.

B．The conceptual system remains inaccessible despite the revelation of language.

C．The conceptual system provides various definitions for our language.

D．Language provides clues to what constitutes the conceptual system.

【3】The underlined word “demolished” is closet in meaning to “________”.

A．defeated

B．dismissed

C．justified

D．favored

【4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．War is non-verbal argument.

B．Our communication is metaphorical.

C．Concepts are internally constructed.

D．Few people speak in metaphorical language.

23、Babies born in summer are more likely to become short-sighted in late life, a study has shown.

As many as a quarter of all cases of short-sightedness are caused by too great an exposure to sunlight in the first weeks of life, say eye experts.

They are advising all parents to put sunglasses on their babies during the first weeks.

Scientists had already established that over-exposure to sunlight caused shortsightedness in animals.

Researchers who compared the months in which babies were born with whether they needed glasses later on say the principle also applies to humans.

A study of almost 300,000 young adults-the largest of its kind-showed that those born in June and July had a 25 per cent greater chance of becoming severely short-sighted than those born in December or January.

Research leader Professor Michael Belkin, of Tel Aviv University, said it was because prolonged illumination(光照) causes the eyeball to lengthen-causing short-sightedness.

Hence the more light a newborn is exposed to, the more the eyeball lengthens and the worse the short-sightedness will be.

The mechanism which lengthens the eyeball is associated with levels of melatonin(褪黑激素), a pigment (色素) which protects the skin against harmful rays of the sun.

In young babies not enough melatonin is released as protection, meaning they are more _____to sunburn and changes to eyeball shape.

Sight expert Professor Daniel O’Leary, of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, said “At the moment we don’t know the precise cause of why light exposure affects sight, but the evidence seems to prove that it is one of the reasons for people becoming shortsighted.”

【1】Babies born in summer are more likely to be shortsighted ____________.

A．because the summer sun is too strong for babies

B．because babies born in summer have lengthened eyeballs

C．if they are exposed too much sunlight in the first weeks after they are born

D．if parents don’t know a proper way to protect their babies’ eyes

【2】Melatonin is a kind of material to ___________.

A．prevent the eyes from becoming near-sighted

B．protect the skin from harmful sun rays

C．make our body strong

D．protect babies’ eyes from summer sun

【3】From what Professor Daniel O’Leary says we can conclude that ___________.

A．there is no evidence that shortsightedness is related to exposure to sunlight

B．whether light exposure affects sight still needs to be further proved

C．he believes that light exposure can cause shortsightedness

D．he tries to give the cause of why light exposure affects sight

【4】The underlined word “vulnerable” in the passage probably means __________.

A．easy to be harmed

B．resistant

C．protective

D．changeable

24、   A Swedish power plant is taking reuse and recycle to the next level by burning unusable clothing instead of coal, Bloomberg reports.

Retail giant Hennes & Mauritz, more commonly known as H&M, is helping the utility transition away from coal through its moldy (发霉的) or otherwise unsalable clothing.

The multi-fuel power and heating station in Västerås, central Sweden, is planning to be completely fossil-fuel free by 2020. It’s the largest station of its kind and Sweden claims it’s one of Europe’s cleanest. To kick its coal habit, the station is turning instead to other burnable materials including recycled wood, rubbish and yes, clothes.

“Our goal is to use only renewable and recycled fuels,” Jens Neren, head of fuel supplies at the utility company which owns and operates the Västerås plant, told Bloomberg.

Johanna Dahl, head of communications for H&M in Sweden, told Bloomberg that the company allows only the burning of clothes which are no longer safe to use.

“It is our legal obligation to make sure that clothes that contain mold or do not meet the requirements of our strict restriction on chemicals are destroyed,” she said.

The Västerås plant has burned around 15 tons of old H&M clothes so far this year, compared with about 400,000 tons of rubbish, Neren told Bloomberg.

Sweden has one of the world’s greener energy generating systems, and has invested in bioenergy, solar power and electric buses. In 2015, the Scandinavian country announced an ambitious aim to become one of the first nations in the world to end its dependence on fossil fuels. According to the Swedish government, the country has already heavily reduced its dependence on oil, which accounted for 75% of the energy supply in 1970, and now makes up a 20% share.

【1】Which of the following can serve as fuel in the Västerås plant?

A.Fashionable coats in H&M chain store. B.Old TV sets deserted as rubbish.

C.Wooden furniture in second-hand shop. D.H&M clothes unsuitable for sale.

【2】The underlined word in the last paragraph “generating” is closest in meaning to ______.

A.eliminating B.adjusting

C.producing D.circulating

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A.The Swedish government discourages the development of bioenergy.

B.Clothes only take up a small proportion of the burning material.

C.Sweden’s fossil-fuel free plan is almost accomplished by now.

D.Sweden has an ambition to be the cleanest country in the world.

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

A.A Swedish power plant is burning unusable H&M clothes for fuel.

B.The Swedish government aims high and is taking effective action.

C.H&M is looking for a new way to strengthen its position in fashion.

D.Coal and oil are no longer regarded as the primary fuels in Sweden.

25、Adam Pearl found a baby squirrel _________ in his yard. He decided to take him in and named him Joey. Pearl set an alarm to bottle-feed Joey every two hours. Joey learned to use a litter box and _________ to a diet of nuts and greens. In just a few months, he became a member in the house and would let anybody pet him.

That was the day Pearl came home to obvious _________ of a robbery. Strange, snowy footprints tracked around the yard. A few items of value were missing. He _________ police about the break-in, and officer Ashley Turner _________ the residence to make a report. Turner asked if Joey _________ . Usually not, Pearl explained, but _________ , he is a wild animal. You never know. Hours later, Turner returned with a(n) _________ story: She’d identified a _________, based in part on the suspicious __________all over his hands. The Pearls got their stuff back, and Joey got his favorite treat.

That spring, Pearl noticed Joey’s growing __________ to return to nature. Joey became __________interested in the windows, and he even began playing with other squirrels through the sliding door. Pearl __________ a cat door for Joey to come and go.

After a few weeks, Joey made his __________ return to the wild. “He was up in the apple tree and climbed down on my shoulder, and I gave him a nut and scratched his ears. . . then he hopped back up in the apple tree and was gone, ” says Pearl. “He didn’t come back home that night, so I think that was kind of his last little __________ . ”

【1】

A．orphaned

B．stolen

C．thrown

D．stricken

【2】

A．returned

B．graduated

C．hurried

D．attended

【3】

A．signs

B．notices

C．copies

D．models

【4】

A．consulted

B．helped

C．attracted

D．alerted

【5】

A．settled down

B．ran into

C．came to

D．knocked down

【6】

A．eats

B．attacks

C．plays

D．runs

【7】

A．after all

B．above all

C．in addition

D．on the contrary

【8】

A．humble

B．artificial

C．remarkable

D．spiritual

【9】

A．worker

B．suspect

C．hunter

D．citizen

【10】

A．scratches

B．tattoos

C．pictures

D．spots

【11】

A．response

B．ability

C．disappointment

D．desire

【12】

A．increasingly

B．slightly

C．deliberately

D．unwillingly

【13】

A．broke

B．installed

C．closed

D．painted

【14】

A．instant

B．voluntary

C．permanent

D．controversial

【15】

A．touch

B．kiss

C．gift

D．bye

26、假如你是李华，作为交换生正在美国乔治中学学习，发现学校附近的“市民中心公园（Civic Center Park）”的步行小道没有照明路灯，导致发生几起跌倒事故，存在严重安全隐患。请你用英语给市长写一封邮件，内容包括：

1. 反映问题；

2. 说明理由；

3. 提出建议。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：步行小道small lanes

Honourable Mayor,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua