宁夏银川2025届高二英语下册三月考试题

1、What surprised me was not what he said but the way _______ he said it.

A.that B.in that

C.what D.where

2、________ some water and you will feel better.

A．Drink

B．Drinking

C．To drink

D．If you drink

3、Although there is more female participation in IT workforce,______ a significant imbalance of male and female senior positions.

A.it remains B.there remains

C.there remaining D.that remains

4、Each of us is likely to develop a personal __________ for certain types of entertainment.

A. comparison B. possession

C. love   D. advantage

5、What was her explanation for ________ she was late on such an important occasion?

A.which B.why C.that D.when

6、We students should ___________ ourselves with knowledge, for the competition nowadays is very fierce.

A.supply B.equip C.relate D.feed

7、He was lying on the grass, his hands _____ under his head.

A. crossing B. crossed

C. to cross D. having crossed

8、The sign here says “No parking”. Why ____ your car in the underground parking lot?

A. not park B. don’t park

C. not parking D. aren’t parking

9、More than one boy of your members ______ to act in the short play, which is ______ tomorrow.

A．are; to be performed

B．are; to perform

C．is；to be performed

D．is; to perform

10、My brother bought a telescope, ______ he could study the star in the night sky.

A.of which B.through which C.in which D.on which

11、If you have any questions, please do not____________ to ask your teachers.

A.suffer B.hesitate C.attack D.ensure

12、Nothing but several glasses________ bought by my father yesterday．

A.were B.was C.have been D.would be

13、There are several ______ in this novel that are different in ______.

A.character; character B.characters; characters

C.character; characters D.characters; character

14、The word "media" basically refers to ________ we commonly call newspapers, magazines, radios and televisions.

A．which

B．that

C．what

D．where

15、Doctor Wang ________ at seven o’clock for the conference, but she didn’t turn up.

A.should have arrived B.should arrive

C.should be arrived D.should be arriving

16、It never occurred to me ________ you should persuade him to change his mind.

A.how B.whether C.that D.why

17、—Oh, no! I failed my math test again!

— ______. Practice makes perfect.

A.It’s hard to say. B.It’s up to you. C.You’re not alone. D.I’m afraid not.

18、John invited about 40 people to his wedding, most of _____ are family members.

A. them B. that C. which D. whom

19、I missed the last bus and had no money for a taxi，so I could do nothing but ____ home last night.

A. to walking B. walk

C. walking D. walked

20、It is quite warm _________January in Chongqing.

A. to   B. with

C. in D. for

21、Some people are wasting food ______ others haven’t enough.

A.because B.although C.while D.since

22、He managed to_______ a place in the final exam by working hard constantly.

A. explore B. reserve C. award D. secure

23、—Shall we have a smoke here?

—No, we _____ because this is gas station and the worker is carrying some petrol.

A. can’t   B. needn’t

C. mustn’t   D. won’t

24、---What do you think of store shopping in the future?

--- Personally, I think it will exist along with home shopping but _________.

A.will not replace B.will not be replaced C.will not replacing D.will not being replaced

25、I'm sure David will be able to find the library —— he has a pretty good ______ of direction.

A.idea B.feeling C.mind D.sense

26、   As missing children age, their appearances are quite different from their last known photographs, which makes finding them tough. Now AI could make it quicker to match any found children to those old photos.

Police can use software to age photos of people who have been missing for a while, but these tend to work best in adults, as age-related changes to adult faces are more predictable and so easier to simulate.

With children, these aged images don't tend to be like the older child, and matching photos of found children to old images in a database of missing children is difficult.

Now Debayan Deb, a professor at Michigan State University, and his colleagues have created an program to do this for them. They trained a face-recognition program on data sets including the Children Longitudinal Face data set, which contains images of nearly 1000 children aged between 2 and 18 years old. Each was photographed at least four times over a period of six years.

The AI learned to match recent photographs of children with images taken 2.5 years earlier  80 per cent of the time.

With one year between the two photographs, the method was 90 per cent accurate at identifying faces. This dropped to 73 per cent after three years. The approach beats comparing children with photos taken when they were aged 0 to 4 that have been aged by software, which hovers at 50 percent recognition after six months. The new AI might help to improve accuracy of this kind of software as well.

"This is a very good paper that could potentially be used to identify missing children," says Amarjot Singh at the University of Cambridge.

Deb's next goal is to extend the age gap. His team also hopes to develop an app that could be used to fight child trafficking.

【1】The software which police has used can_________.

A．match photos of found kids to former images

B．predict the changes of people over time

C．produce accurate images of children

D．age the photos of missing people

【2】Why it is difficult to match photos of found children to their old images?

A．Because the data set of child face images is quite large.

B．Because the software can’t age the photos of those kids.

C．Because aged images aren’t very alike to the older child.

D．Because it’s difficult to recognize the older kids with photos.

【3】It can be learned that Deb’s team________.

A．helps police identify missing children

B．intends to develop a new app

C．improved the software used by police

D．will give their app to police

【4】What do we know about the approach created by Deb and his colleague?

A．It is based on the Children Longitudinal Face data set.

B．It can recognize children’s images between 2 and 18.

C．It is more accurate than the software to match photos.

D．It has been used to identify missing children.

27、   Several recent studies examined how machine automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future of work.

Some people predict these technologies could replace up to 30 percent of workers worldwide by 2030. The possibility of being replaced will greatly increase for workers with less education, said Price Waterhouse Coopers, an international company providing financial and tax services. It estimated(估计) that in Britain, up to 46 percent of workers without a college degree could be in danger because of automation. This would drop to about 12 percent for workers with undergraduate degrees or higher.

“New smart machines have the hidden power to replace our minds and to move around freely in the world,” the study said. It added that the greatest job replacement is expected to come in the areas of transportation, storage, manufacturing (制造业)and retail（零售）.

The Rand Corporation recently published its own report on the future effects of automation and AI on jobs and the workplace. Osonde Osoba was a co-author of the report. He noticed that fears over machines taking jobs from humans goes back centuries. He agrees there will be major job disruptions(混乱) because of AI and automation, especially for lower skilled workers. But he believes the future problems have been overestimated(高估) without historical evidence to support the predictions. “It’s not so much that the jobs are getting replaced, but it’s more like tasks are getting replaced and jobs are reconfiguring(重新装备) over time to account for that automation.” He added that it will be very difficult for companies to completely automate most jobs, because they request a worker to perform many different duties and to respond to unexpected situations.

“If you are thinking about detailed things an individual(个人) might do to prepare themselves, I guess being more adaptable and being able to reeducate yourself to fit into a different job.” Osonde Osoba suggests.

【1】According to the whole passage, _________are most likely to lose their job?

A. scientists in laboratories B. teachers in colleges and universities

C. milkmen in milk companies D. officers in governments

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

A. Companies have completely automated most jobs for saving cost.

B. Humans have feared to be replaced by AI and automation.

C. The job replacement has come in transportation and retail.

D. People with high degrees get higher danger of losing jobs than those with no college degree.

【3】What do you think is the best title of the passage?

A. Future workers: what to do to keep the job.

B. Job replacement: who is to blame.

C. Automation and AI: how to replace the future job.

D. New studies: why the future job is replaced.

28、   Recently, a 1935 letter in which Ernest Hemingway detailed his catch of a 500lb blue marlin(青枪鱼), an adventure that is believed to have partly inspired his novel The Old Man and the Sea, has been sold for﹩28，000 (£22，000).

The handwritten letter was sent by Hemingway on 8 May to the fishing editor of the Miami Herald, telling in great detail how the author and his friend Henry Strater battled to keep sharks away from the marlin after catching it off the Bahamian island of Bimini.

Nate D Sanders, the auction(拍卖)company which sold the letter, said it documented for the first time in Hemingway's own words not only the size of the marlin, but also the attack by sharks, reflecting the plot of the novel.

The company added that Hemingway's account of the marlin catch differed from other anecdotes(轶事) of it, one of which described Hemingway using a machine gun on the sharks, which is said to have attracted more sharks rather than frightened them away.

The Old Man and the Sea was also inspired by an anecdote told by Hemingway's Cuban friend Carlos Gutierrez. In 1936, Hemingway wrote in a magazine that Carlos had told him about an old fisherman who caught a great marlin alone.

Three years later, Hemingway told his editor Max Perkins that he was planning a short story about the old commercial fisherman who fought the swordfish all alone in his sailing boat. Instead, he ended up writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, not returning to the story about the old fisherman until January 1951. It won him the Pulitzer in 1953, and was specifically mentioned when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.

【1】What did the auction company stress when selling the 1935 letter？

A. The style of the writer. B. The history of the letter.

C. The contents of the letter. D. The popularity of the writer.

【2】What inspired Hemingway to write The Old Man and The Sea besides his own adventure？

A. Henry Strater's account. B. Carlos Gutierrez's story.

C. Max Perkins' life experience. D. Nate D Sanders' description.

【3】Which is the correct order of time for the following facts in the passage?

1. Hemingway wrote a letter to describe his adventure.

2. Hemingway caught a big blue marlin.

3. The letter was sold at auction.

4. The Old Man and The Sea won the Nobel Prize.

A. ①③②④ B. ②①④③ C. ②④①③ D. ②③①④

29、Travel Is Good For Your Health

Americans are losing their vacation days, leading to more stress, anxiety and other negative effects because of not taking time off from work. In fact, a report by Project: Time Off, shows U.S. employees took about 16 vacation days in 2013, down from about 20 in 2000. Apart from taking away yourself the chance to improve your productivity and work performance, not taking a break can lead to overloaded stress and other potentially damaging. 【1】

After all, vacations offer the chance to relax and restore your health. 【2】 You should travel to new places because traveling somewhere new can enable you to put yourself in new surroundings and recharge your brain power.

【3】 According to Dr. Margaret J. King, the director of the Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis, “There are lots of psychological benefits when you travel from home and work to ‘third places’, not just experiencing the environment. With a short list of activities each day, freed up from the projects and relationships, the mind can reset, as does the body, with stress relief the main outcome.” she says.

Little sleep mixed with high stress can lead to anger and negative consequences on your cognitive performance and efficiency. Max Hirshkowitz, chairman of the board of the National Sleep Foundation says a vacation is a great opportunity to catch up on sleep. 【4】 “Keep that time,” he says. “Make it an important thing you need.”

Many studies suggest that travel can improve our emotional state. A 2014 survey conducted by Diamond Resorts International found over three-quarters of people said feeling happier when they planned a trip at least once a year. Dr. Leigh Vinocur, a certified physician and spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians, isn’t surprised by the findings. “It’s hard to sit on a beautiful beach somewhere and think about paperwork or deadlines. That is why over three-quarters of people to the Diamond Resorts International survey reported feeling happier when they regularly had a vacation. Regular vacations while taking time for yourself and your family lowers your stress level. 【5】” she says. Besides, studies show that looking back on the pleasant vacation may keep happiness long after your trip.

A.They have bad effects on your health, experts say.

B.Traveling has many advantages, with stress relief topping the list.

C.Travelers may be more active than sitting in an office chair all day.

D.Travel can help us reset our emotions and actually increase compassion.

E.But simply taking some time from your demanding workday schedule isn’t enough.

F.To feel more energized, the NSF recommends at least seven hours of sleep per night for adults.

G.It also decreases the production of all the stress hormones that contribute to damaging our health.

30、   What will man be like in the future? How about in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make a ________, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from ________ he is today, for man is slowly ________ all the time.

Let us take an example. Man, even 500 years ago, was ________ than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. 500 years is a relatively short period of ________, so we may guess that man will ________ to grow taller.

Again, in modem world we use our ________ a great deal. Even so, we still ________ only about 20% of the brain’ s capacity (容量).As time ________, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more --and finally we shall need even larger ones! This is likely to ________ a physical change, too. The head, ________ , the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in ________ use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear ________. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we ________ to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, ________ our fingers will grow more sensitive (敏感的) because they are used a great deal in modem life.

But what about hair? This will probably ________ from the body altogether in course of time because it does not ________ a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald(无发或少发的).

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very ________ creature to look at! All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in ________ with us. He will still be a human being, with ________ and emotions similar to our own.

【1】A.guess B.research C.joke D.decision

【2】A.what B.how C.that D.which

【3】A.dying B.changing C.growing D.improving

【4】A.longer B.taller C.bigger D.shorter

【5】A.journey B.life C.time D.distance

【6】A.stop B.continue C.keep D.hope

【7】A.minds B.heads C.brains D.hearts

【8】A.occupy B.choose C.control D.use

【9】A.passes down B.goes on C.moves away D.runs out

【10】A.cause B.take C.occur D.lead

【11】A.in total B.in trouble C.in particular D.in charge

【12】A.constant B.practical C.proper D.suitable

【13】A.hats B.smiles C.clothes D.glasses

【14】A.plan B.mean C.tend D.decide

【15】A.therefore B.however C.otherwise D.besides

【16】A.grow B.appear C.disappear D.survive

【17】A.have B.keep C.hold D.serve

【18】A.attractive B.ugly C.special D.ordinary

【19】A.size B.difference C.appearance D.common

【20】A.bodies B.thoughts C.mouths D.noses

31、

The meaning of silence varies among cultural group. Silence may be 【1】, or they may be empty when a person has nothing to say. A silence in conversation may also show stubbornness, uneasiness, or worry. Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every 【2】 with conversation. Persons in other cultural groups value silence and view it as necessary for understanding a person’s needs. Many native Americans value silence and feel it is a basic part of 【3】 among people, just at some traditional Chinese and Thai persons do. Therefore when a person from one of these culture is speaking and suddenly stops, what may be 【4】 is that the person wants the listener to consider what has been said before continuing. In these culture, silence is a call for 【5】.

Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with 【6】 among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power. For example, Russian, French, and Spanish persons may use silence to show 【7】between parties about the topic under discussion. However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority（权威）rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her. In still another use, persons in Asian cultures may view silence as a sign of respect, particularly to an elder or a person in authority.

Nurses and other care-givers need to be aware of the 【8】 meanings of silence wen they come across the personal anxiety their patients may be experiencing. Nurses should recognize their own persona and cultural construction of silence so that a patient’s silence is not 【9】 too early or allowed to go on unnecessarily. A nurse who understands the healing 【10】 of silence can use this understanding to assist in the care of patients from their own and from other cultures.

32、假如你是李华，中国传统节日端午节（Dragon Boat Festival）即将到来，请你写一封邀请信，为来中国留学的朋友Tom简要介绍端午节庆祝活动，并邀请他一起庆祝节日。

注意：1.词数100左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

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Yours,

Li Hua