2025-2026学年江苏常州高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、My brother’s plans are very ______; he wants to master English, French and Spanish before he is 10.

A. arbitrary   B. aggressive   C. ambitious   D. abundant

2、Bob made a promise to the manager ________ the work would all be finished on time.

A. that B. what

C. which D. whether

3、—How can I find your brother at the airport?

—Don’t worry. He________ a board with your name on it at that time.

A．has held

B．has been holding

C．will be holding

D．will have held

4、______________ the right kind of training, these teenage soccer players may one day grow into the international stars.

A．Giving

B．Having given

C．To give

D．Given

5、It is amazing to learn that our human beings tend to   some knowledge when we are exactly relaxing ourselves，such as diving，swimming and so on.

A.take up B.take on

C.pick up D.pull through

6、The economy of the last quarter was much stronger than ______ predicted, driven by a rare increase in government spending.

A. vaguely     B. randomly

C. consistently   D. originally

7、_____ entirely with the flagship smartphone and directed by Peter Chan (陈可辛), the 7-minute video follows a train attendant on a six-day train journey from Nanning to Harbin.

A. Shot   B. Pictured   C. Screened   D. Videoed

8、The power of Charlie Chaplin’s works is not only in his acting, but also in the stories and characters he________.

A．had created

B．has created

C．created

D．creates

9、It’s supposed to be the end of the paperback and the ________ of digital media, but some bookstores are surviving the Internet age with surprising success.

A. deadline B. dawn

C. dusk D. departure

10、 —Sorry for being latethis morning.

—Never mind. The weather was terrible and many people ______ the bus.

A. miss B. will miss C. missed  D. have missed

11、It’s __________ him to be late; he is usually on time.

A.typical B.unlike C.universal D.unlikely

12、Being a popular actor or model, a so-called glamorous job, can be a quite hard life, with a lot of travelling ________ heavy schedules.

A.on account of B.on behalf of C.in regard to D.in relation to

13、A myth is an account of the deeds of a god or supernatural beings, usually expressed in terms of ______ thought.

A. primary B. capital C. initial D. primitive

14、--Can I use the telephone on the table，sir？

--Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs．

A．anyone is allowed  B．nobody is allowed

C．is anyone allowed  D．is nobody allowed

15、Thanks to the “sugar tax”， food factories have reduced sugar in their products, ________ about 45 million kilograms of sugar.

A. to save   B. saved

C. saving   D. having saved

16、—Are you ________ me of lying to the headmaster?

—I’m sure you did.

A．accusing

B．scolding

C．reminding

D．telling

17、Besides which major or which university to choose, students and parents face another ______

— the location of the university.

A. dilemma   B. edition   C. liberty   D. mystery

18、It’s widely acknowledged that reading printed texts is no _______ for personal discussion with a great thinker.

A.substitute B.subject C.submission D.substance

19、We know you care about your home and family. ________ you wouldn't be reading Ideal Home.

A．Therefore

B．Otherwise

C．Instead

D．Meanwhile

20、Dad and mom are busier than before; we're eating out more often than we _________.

A.use to B.used to C.were used to D.are used to

21、The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of any democracy. Yet, for too long, too many of our fellow citizens were denied that right simply because of the color of their skin.

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to change that. The Voting Rights Act broke down legal barriers that stood between millions of African Americans and their constitutional right to cast ballot(投票). It was, and still is, one of the greatest victories in our country’s struggle for civil rights. But it didn’t happen overnight. Countless men and women marched and organized, sat in and stood up, for our most basic rights. For this, they were called agitators(挑拨者) and un-American; they were jailed and beaten. Some were even killed. But in the end, they reaffirmed (重申)the idea at the very heart of America: that people who love this country can change it.

Our country is a better place because of all those heroes did for us. But as one of those heroes, Congressman John Lewis, reminded us in Selma this past March, “There’s still work to be done.” Fifty years after the Voting Rights Act, there are still too many barriers to vote, and too many people trying to erect（建立） new ones. We’ve seen laws that roll back early voting, force people to jump through hoops to cast a ballot or lead to legitimate (合法的) voters being improperly purged from the rolls. Over the years, we have seen provisions (规定) specifically designed to make it harder for some of our fellow citizens to vote. In a democracy like ours, with a history like ours, that’s a disgrace. That’s why, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, I’m calling on Congress to pass new legislation to make sure every American has equal access to the polls.

It’s why I support the organizers getting folks registered in their communities. And it’s why, no matter what party you support, my message to every American is simple: get out there and vote—not just every four years, but every chance you get, because your elected officials will only heed(留心) your voice if you make your voice heard. The promise that all of us are created equal is written into our founding documents but it’s up to us to make that promise real. Together, let’s do what Americans have always done: Let’s keep marching forward, keep perfecting our union, and keep building a better country for our kids.

[From Obama Weekly Address Aug 8th , 2015]

【1】Many Americans were denied the right to vote simply because _____.

A. they were unwilling to go out and vote

B. they were agitators and un-American

C. too many people tried to erect new barriers

D. the color of their skin was different

【2】What message does President Barack Obama want to convey in this speech

A. The President underlined that all people are created equal.

B. The President celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

C. The President reaffirmed the commitment to protecting the right to vote.

D. The President called on everyone to seize every chance to elect officials.

22、   Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, says," Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are."

The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their social behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity for learning.

Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of the colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send messages to each other by means of a "dance". Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new home for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance, the better the new location is.

Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of "sameness" and "difference" to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent American research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants.

They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.

As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate complex actions and accomplish crucial survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities.

【1】What do ants and bees have in common?

A. They live in similar-sized colonies.

B. They make use of collective intelligence.

C. They have small leadership groups that make all decisions.

D. They use the same methods to communicate with each other.

【2】What does the speed of a bee's dance indicate?

A. The quality of a new colony location.

B. The distance to a neighboring colony.

C. The discovery of a new food source.

D. The direction to a potential food source.

【3】In paragraph 3, how does the author demonstrate the idea that Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning ?

A. By using statistics.

B. By explaining reasons.

C. By referencing opinions.

D. By presenting study findings.

【4】What is the benefit of collective intelligence?

A. It allows the colony to reproduce more rapidly.

B. It improves work cooperation within the colony.

C. It reduces the division of labour among members.

D. It enables individuals to teach each other new skills.

23、   Over the past few months huge groups of locusts(蝗虫), one of which occupied an area more than three times the size of New York City, have eaten up crops across the Home of Africa and the Middle East, leaving an estimated 20 million people at risk of famine(饥荒). The first generation's eggs are starting to hatch, and now even bigger swarms(虫群) are forming threatening. Countries from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Yemen, Iran, Pakistan and India, “representing a threat to food security and livelihoods,” says the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).

Desert locusts' populations explode when weather conditions are right. That explosion can create huge swarms that can travel great distance-more than 90 miles in a day-in search of food. Warm weather and unusually heavy rains in the Horn of Africa at the end of 2019 provided the moist(湿润的) soil necessary for hatching eggs. From there, the insects spread rapidly, resulting in one of the worst outbreaks the region has seen in more than 70 years.

A typical swarm numbering 4 billion to 8 billion locusts, can consume in one day the same  amount of food as 35 million people. Some swarms have been so thick in parts of Kenya that they have prevented planes from taking off. Governments have used widespread aerial spraying of pesticides when available; in poorer regions, where aircraft are unavailable, soldiers battle the swarms with handheld spray pump.

The FAO has appealed for $138 million to support affected communities, If the locusts are not stopped before the next generation hatches, the impact could be terrible: the FAO guesses that an additional 25 million people across the region could lose their crops. Scientists in Kenya hope a new computer-assisted tracking program that combines satellite data with weather-mapping software will help predict the swarms next destination, buying-regional authorities enough time to prepare a response. Buy coronavirus- related travel restriction have delayed relief efforts as well as response mechanisms. The locusts have no such travel limitations.

【1】The author uses many statistics in the passage to show_____

A.the disastrous consequence of the outbreaks of locusts

B.the serious conditions facing the New York City

C.the speed of swarms of locusts travelling

D.the exact number of crops consumed by locusts

【2】What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A.The great distances locusts can travel.

B.The explosion of locusts' population.

C.The perfect conditions for hatching their eggs.

D.The result of the unusual outbreaks of locusts.

【3】What does the last paragraph imply?

A.The travel restrictions may probably worsen the urgent situation.

B.It is unlikely to predict the swarms' next destination now.

C.A lot of money has been raised after the FAO's appeal

D.It's not difficult for humans to win the battle against the locust

24、   Children may not be putting coins in piggy banks for much longer. With the move towards a cashless society, pocket money is moving digital.

To reflect this trend, many mobile budgeting apps for children have sprung up worldwide：GoHenry, Osper, and Gimi, to name but a few. These apps offer a simple money management service for children, often for a monthly fee paid by the parents. Parents can add money to children's accounts, set limits and monitor transactions(交易). Children can choose to save their money or spend it using a prepaid card.

These apps aim to teach young childrenfinancial concepts, such as budgeting, interest rates and income. For instance, the Swedish app Gimi—with 1.2 million users globally—has virtual savings jars where children can deposit money. Parents can pay children interest as they save. There is also a chores feature, where parents can pay children for completing household tasks. The account is attached to a prepaid card that is currently available in Sweden only, but is expected to be launched elsewhere in Europe in 2020.

Haglund, CEO of Gimi, believes the app can teach children responsible spending habits. "You don't become better at money management just because you have a degree in economics. It's more about the attitude and the relationship you have with parents' money when you're 6 to 12 years old," he says.

But Catherine Winter, managing director of financial capability at The London Institute of Banking and Finance, warns that while digital tools can help there needs to be a more structured approach to financial education. The area should "have regular, dedicated, classroom time and ideally should be taught as a standalone subject," she said. “Children would then have the right context and foundation to get the most out of both the apps and their money.”

【1】What does the underlined part "this trend" in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Putting coins in piggy banks

B.Pocket money moving digital

C.Mobile budging apps springing up.

D.Money management service being offered

【2】What do we know about the Swedish app Gimi?

A.It pays children interest as they save.

B.It has 1. 2 million users all over Sweden.

C.It can teach children concepts related to money

D.It is attached to a credit card available in Sweden only.

【3】What can we learn from Winter's words?

A.Digital tools can help a lot with spending habits

B.Money management requires financial capability.

C.A regular classroom-based financial education is needed.

D.Children can get the most out of their money with the apps

【4】What's the passage mainly about?

A.The rise of the digital piggy bank.

B.The trend towards a cashless society.

C.The importance of financial education.

D.The popularity of money management apps.

25、   As is much quoted by many there's no scenery where we have long lived.

The Fortune magazine once _________ a question to people all over the world: “If you were to choose again, what would you like to be?” “I'd like to _________ a grocery store and provide daily goods for the locals,” a judge _________. “My dream” said a teacher, “is to go down to the beach of Costa Rica and open a small inn there.” A police officer answered that his _________ is to start afresh as a photographer. However, the answers from several businessmen were _________. One wanted to become a woman; another indicated his wish was to withdraw from the human world which is pretty _________ for him and simply change into a _________. People in other fields answered the same question raised by the magazine m various ways. Some wanted to be diplomats, others longed to turn _________ and experience the feeling of being a top leader, and _________ others held the idea of a cook. Whatever they set their minds on, none was willing to__________ what they are __________ a new choice exist.

People forever face a __________. They live a fairly good life, but from time to time they grow tired of all this. One can hardly put this psychology, resulting from life's boredom and lack of enthusiasm, __________ insatiability (不知足) on the part of humans. In fact, __________ causes that

When one becomes too __________ with something, he loses his __________ and feels bored. What he once regarded as __________ life has been a __________ day. Even things that offered him so much __________ to excite him! Such being the __________, the person truly needs to go elsewhere to look for scenery!

A．posed

B．rose

C．represented

D．said

A．sponsor

B．sell

C．run

D．manufacture

A．recalled

B．responded

C．requested

D．recommended

A．desire

B．determination

C．demand

D．difficulty

A．informal

B．unlikely

C．conventional

D．unusual

A．dull

B．realistic

C．challenging

D．comfortable

A．monk

B．poet

C．dealer

D．plant

A．president

B．professor

C．scientist

D．psychologist

A．otherwise

B．still

C．thus

D．nevertheless

A．admit

B．forget

C．remain

D．consider

A．would

B．should

C．could

D．might

A．loss

B．trick

C．dilemma

D．trap

A．apart from

B．down to

C．out of

D．up with

A．ambition

B．laziness

C．greed

D．familiarity

A．suited

B．surrounded

C．contented

D．acquainted

A．attainment

B．judgement

C．comprehension

D．sense

A．ordinary

B．busy

C．moving

D．appealing

A．fancy

B．confusing

C．long

D．subtle

A．attempt

B．fail

C．manage

D．continue

A．option

B．tragedy

C．case

D．necessity

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Apollo was born in Burkina Faso, a country in Africa. It actually means “The Land of Honest People”. He has always valued the virtue of honesty and he brought it with him when he opened a restaurant in the United Kingdom three years ago. He believes that there are honest people everywhere.

On a regular weekend, customers were pouring in by the thousands, and service was going smoothly. Midway through that busy weekend, three guys entered through the restaurant’s doors evidently looking for a seat and some food. It’s possible that they arrived from out of town. There was a difference in their accents at the very least.

“Can we be served quickly? We have to catch the train,” said one of them to a waiter.

It didn’t take long for them to be served by the waiter. They enjoyed every bite. After the quick but delightful meal, the three friends were ready to pay the bill for their supper. The entire cost of the food was £35. As the waiter approached their table, they gave their credit cards over. They were caught by surprise, however, when the server told them they could only pay in cash. After that, the waiter moved to another table to take orders.

When the waiter came back to collect their cash payment again, he found the three guys had gone missing without paying for their food. As a result, the waiter had no choice but to call Apollo, who was on holiday with his family.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:

When the waiter described what had happened, Apollo was extremely confused.

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Paragraph 2:

After ho opened the package, he believed again that there were honest people everywhere.

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