2025-2026学年甘肃平凉高三(上)期末试卷英语

1、—Simon, do you know who invented the kite?

—Sure! It ________ by Mozi over 2,000 years ago.

A．is invented

B．invented

C．was invented

D．will be invented

2、Paul is studying Chinese and________is his dream to work in China.

A．it

B．this

C．that

D．there

3、Among those contributing a lot to the Hope Project ________ a famous star, who graduated from our school.

A. are   B. have

C. is   D. has

4、China has a lot of beautiful scenery and historic sites, ________ a number of tourists every year.

A．which attracted

B．attracting

C．to attract

D．where attracts

5、He spent 3 hours ____________his homework.

A. finish B. finishs C. finished D. finishing

6、He decided that he would drive all the way home instead of________at a hotel for the night.

A．putting down B．putting off

C．putting on   D．putting up

7、Those who know how to ________ others can naturally lead a happy life.

A. approve   B. tolerate   C. exchange     D. contain

8、One should apologize ______ his taking the wrong glass at the party .

A.to B.on C.for D.of

9、Our teacher is ill, and we are all ______ her health.

A.concerned about                      B.careful of                      C.interested in                      D.aware of

10、—You know, a new park ________ near the river now.

—Wow, we’ll have a good place to relax in the future.

A．building

B．will build

C．to be built

D．is being built

11、It's difficult for me to understand what the professor is trying to ________ because I know little about the relevant background.

A．make up

B．catch up

C．get across

D．get along

12、Because of the ________ of teachers, many adolescents in the west of China have no access ________ good education.

A．absent; to

B．absence; of

C．absence; to

D．short; to

13、—Did you get Wechat red(微信红包) during the Spring Festival?

—Yes. It`s ______ the most popular way of sending traditional holiday presents now.

A. totally   B. widely

C. actually   D. hardly

14、Holiday is coming. Students are busy _______ their things in the suitcase.

A.pack up B.packing up

C.packing off D.pack into

15、—What are you looking for?

—I' m looking for the dictionary ______ you lent me last week.

A．who

B．what

C．that

D．when

16、My uncle knows several foreign languages，________English，French and Japanese.

A.for example B.for instance

C.such as D.that is

17、Researchers who have been working on non-avian dinosaurs were surprised to see an embryo beautifully ________inside a dinosaur egg,________ in a bird-like posture.

A．preserving … laying

B．reserving … sitting

C．preserved … lying

D．reserved … seated

18、We should _________that every coin has two sides.

A．keep an open mind

B．lose track of

C．keep in mind

D．make sure

19、On every single move you have to analyze a situation, process what your opponent is doing and evaluate the best move________all your options.

A．since before

B．from among

C．except for

D．until after

20、Technologically   ,China’s Chang’e Project does better than any earlier project of the same kind.

A. speaking   B. spoken   C. speak   D. to speak

21、Since Yuan Longping graduated from university, finding ways to grow more rice______ his life goal.

A.was B.were C.has been D.have been

22、--- When will the party be held?

--- It is still _____.

A.making preparation B.making preparations C.in preparation D.in preparations

23、—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

24、We all admire and respect our English teacher because she has a gift for creating an atmosphere   we can communicate freely with each other.

A. what   B. which

C. where   D. when

25、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

26、Parents and math teachers regularly asked by their school-aged charges whether math matters in real life now have an answer.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this week, Harvard Kennedy School Policy Professor Joshua Goodman took a look at what happened to students whose high schools were required in the 1980s to increase the minimum level of coursework required to graduate. What he found is that the students were more likely to increase the number of math courses they took as a result of the change in standards and that translated into higher earnings down the line.

Put simply: About 15 years after they graduated, the high school graduates who went to school when these changes took effect saw their average earnings increase about 10% for every extra year of math coursework. The findings may add fuel to the steady drum of education experts, policy makers and others calling for an increased focus on science and math education.

The increase in required math courses didn’t necessarily produce rocket scientists, Goodman notes, because the extra coursework wasn’t at a particularly high level. But becoming familiar with and practicing relatively basic math skills allowed high school graduates to pursue and excel at jobs that required some level of computational knowledge, he said.

Goodman acknowledged that the earnings boost for the students connected with the up tick   （上升 ）in math education may be dependent on the state of the economy. When Goodman checked in the late 1990s and early 2000s on the earnings of the students who graduated in the late 1985，he found that their earnings increased significantly if they took more math.

【1】What does Joshua Goodman’s study find?

A．High school graduates earn more.

B．High school students prefer math.

C．Math matters a lot in one’s income.

D．Math is a compulsory course in school.

【2】Why is increase in required math courses useful?

A．It produced rocket scientists.

B．It makes high school students smarter.

C．It meets the requirements of the government.

D．It enables high school graduates to get better jobs.

【3】What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To give a warning to policy makers.

B．To seek help for high school students’ problems.

C．To show the great importance of learning math.

D．To tell a struggling history of high school students.

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

A．Efforts matter most

B．Math makes money

C．Earnings of different graduates

D．Changes of high school courses

27、I work in downtown Orlando and have been passing by the same homeless woman every week.She never asks me for money,but always greets me with a smile.

I wrote in a Facebook post,"Each Tuesday,Amy simply said 'Good morning Sir,have a great day.'and smiled.I wear a suit to work every day,so I get asked a lot for money quite often in downtown but never once from Amy Joe." Every Tuesday,Amy and I have lunch together,during which I get to hear how positive she is even though she really has nothing.Last week,Amy dropped a bomb on me—she can't read.She told me how hard it was for her to find work not being able to read.She began to use her collected money to check out library books instead of buying food.This crushed me!

I have been blessed with a family that has provided me with everything that I wanted to do.Amy Joe has not.So I start to teach her to read.I rent one library book a week and we read it together on Tuesday,and she practices on her own throughout the rest of the week.

This post is in no way to make anyone feel sorry for Amy or show off me something good.I wanted to share this because there area lot of people like Amy Joe—not all are hungry,homeless or hurt.Helping someone could be as easy as saying hello and smiling.

I also started a web page for Amy and have raised $ 5,000.The donations will to to food,clothing,a library card, and much more to help the less fortunate in the downtown Orlando area.

【1】Compared with other homeless people,Amy ______.

A. can't read or write

B. finds it hard to find a job

C. says hello to the author every day

D. uses her collected money to buy books

【2】How does the author help Amy?

A. By renting books to read with her.

B. By buying library cards for her.

C. By teaching her to write books online.

D. By buying food for her and her family.

【3】The author expects his post to .

A. raise more money for Amy

B. make others feel sorry for Amy

C. call on others to do good deeds

D. make him popular on the Internet

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

A. Helping Others Makes Us Happy

B. Donate What You Have to the Homeless

C. Teach a Homeless Woman to Read

D. Facebook Is a Useful Tool for the Homeless

28、Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned something, additional learning trials increase the length of time we will remember it.

In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.

The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表) are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood. The law of overlearning explains why cramming (突击学习) for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one's future development.

【1】What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1?

A. Children have a better memory than grown-ups.

B. People remember well what they learned in childhood.

C. Poem reading is a good way to learn words.

D. Stories for children are easy to remember.

【2】The author explains the law of overlearning by ________.

A. presenting research findings

B. setting down general rules

C. using examples

D. making a comparison

【3】According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is ________.

A. a result of overlearning

B. a special case of cramming

C. a skill to deal with math problems

D. a basic step towards advanced studies

【4】What is the author's opinion on cramming?

A. It leads to failure in college exams.

B. It increases students' learning interest.

C. It's possible to result in poor memory.

D. It's helpful only in a limited way.

29、   Jose Adolfo is a banker from Peru. He encourages children to save money and offers his customers cash for recycling plastic wastes. But the remarkable thing is that he is still a child himself.

By the age of 7,he decided to create a bank for children. He was motivated by seeing his classmates skipping lunch because they had spent the little money they had on sweets or football cards. What drove him even more was the poverty he saw among children.

With the support of a local company, the 14-year-old founded the Bartselana student bank which now has more than 2,000 customers between the ages of 10 and 18. Children can withdraw(提取) money from several cashpoints of the bank. They can also monitor their balances online. What makes it different from traditional banks is that it sets savings goals for children. They have to reach those goals in order to withdraw their money.

The student bank really caught onwhen he came up with the “Recycle Plan”, a new way for the children to earn money by collecting recyclable plastic or paper waste. Students can bring recyclable plastic bottles, used school books and old newspapers to the schools and put them into the collecting boxes. The recycling is weighed and the money goes to their bank accounts.

The bank recycles 4.4 tons of material a month and has collecting boxes in seven schools in Arequipa. More are on a waiting list. Increasingly the model is in demand in the rest of Peru and abroad.

His efforts have been noticed by Peru’s environment ministry. “He’s making an amazing change in financial education that perhaps many adults could not come up with,” said the Peru’s environment minister, Lucia Ruiz. “He’s achieving a double goal because he’s not just designing a financial opportunity for children and teenagers but also helping to reduce waste in the country.”

【1】What’s the purpose of creating a bank for children for Jose?

A．To recycle the waste.

B．To provide free lunch.

C．To learn to manage money.

D．To help children in poverty.

【2】What is special about the student bank?

A．Saving goals are set for children.

B．The balances are monitored online.

C．Customers should obey the bank rules.

D．Money can be withdrawn from some cashpoints.

【3】What’s the similar meaning of caught on in paragraph 4 ?

A．Drew on.

B．Took off.

C．Looked forward.

D．Gave rise to.

【4】According to Lucia Ruiz, why is Jose’s job meaning?

A．He told children the significance of running a bank.

B．He contributed to financial education and recycling.

C．He let children know how important saving money is.

D．He solved children’s realistic problem—skipping lunch.

30、How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives

Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox as usual. But it was filled with Facebook notifications (通告) ________ that friends had posted messages on his wall. The messages made him sad. The blocked inbox was ________, but what really upset him was having disclosed his birth date to Facebook in the first place. It’s not necessary for social networking to comply with (遵守) privacy laws, as some people ________ believe. He hadn’t paid much attention when he signed up—as with most electronic contracts, there was no room for negotiation about terms. He ________ Facebook’s instructions, entered the data and clicked a button.

A few days later, the law professor decided to change the birth date on his Facebook profile to ________ the same situation next year. But when the fake date rolled around, his inbox again was flooded with Facebook notifications. Two of the messages were from close relatives, one of whom he had spoken with on the phone on his actual birthday! How could she not realize that the date was ________?

Our hypothesis (假设): she’d been programmed!

That law professor was one of us, and it confirmed his ________ that most people respond ________ to Facebook’s prompts (提示) to provide information or contact a friend without really thinking much about it. That’s because digital networked technologies are engineering humans to behave like simple stimulus-response machines.

Social media plays a tremendous role in modern life. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become the primary ways of keeping in touch with friends, family, classmates and colleagues. To date, ________, researchers have not fully explored the degree to which these platforms are literally programming human responses. Social media platforms encode a range of social ________: Facebook notifies us when it is time to wish our friends a happy birthday; LinkedIn prompts us to congratulate contacts on their work anniversaries. As a result, social interactions are often ________ to the click of a button.

Facebook may increase the number of people to whom we wish a happy birthday with a few clicks of a button; it’s not as if we remember the birth dates of that high school classmate or distant cousin. But if it becomes ________ behavior, is it even meaningful? As for people who aren’t on Facebook or don’t post their birth dates publicly, the ________ they exact over their data comes at a cost: they don’t receive scores of well-wishes from far-flung contacts. ________, it’s still nice to be thought of, even if just once a year.

Digital platforms are ________ what it means to be human, and we can’t rely on the platforms to police or research ourselves. In the meantime, when your birthday rolls around, enjoy the warm feelings from friends sending their regards—but remember that they don’t know when your birthday really is any more than you do theirs.

【1】

A．requiring

B．recognizing

C．indicating

D．summarizing

【2】

A．annoying

B．embarrassing

C．frustrating

D．exciting

【3】

A．hardly

B．passionately

C．mistakenly

D．slowly

【4】

A．lacked

B．suspended

C．obeyed

D．offered

【5】

A．accept

B．avoid

C．analyze

D．arrange

【6】

A．significant

B．definite

C．correct

D．fake

【7】

A．doubt

B．appointment

C．statement

D．plan

【8】

A．cautiously

B．positively

C．automatically

D．aggressively

【9】

A．thus

B．however

C．moreover

D．otherwise

【10】

A．reforms

B．problems

C．issues

D．behaviors

【11】

A．adapted

B．reduced

C．committed

D．admitted

【12】

A．suspected

B．accepted

C．programmed

D．benefited

【13】

A．control

B．judgments

C．influence

D．skills

【14】

A．In return

B．In addition

C．For example

D．After all

【15】

A．enriching

B．examining

C．shaping

D．retaining

31、根据课文原文填空，每空一词。

We no longer have to wait in line or carry【1】 around when we go shopping. We can get the most 【2】 information from large【3】.

32、假设你是李华，你校校报正在开展保护动物的征文活动。请你给报社投稿呼吁人们保护动物。

注意：1、词数80左右；2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。