2025-2026学年山东滨州高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、The entire country was _______ with grief for the eighteen firefighters and one guide who were killed in Liangshan mountain fire.

A.accumulated B.distributed C.spoiled D.overcome

2、Some elderly people find it hard________ the things that happened while they were children.

A．remember

B．to remember

C．remembering

D．remembered

3、—Mum, where`s my bag?

—How________ I know where you have left your bag?

A．need

B．would

C．should

D．might

4、People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often ______ rather than based on fixed criteria.

A．appropriate

B．conscious

C．arbitrary

D．controversial

5、Just hang the towel _______ the back of the chair so that it will dry soon.

A. over   B. behind

C. with   D. from

6、The minister warned that any civil servant not a this desk faced immediate .

A.suspension B.suspicion C.submission D.separation

7、The paper was due next month, and I am working seven days ______ week, often long into ______ night.

A.a, the B.the, / C.a, a D./, the

8、The collection, sorting and   of historical materials and cultural relics of the May Fourth Movement should be strengthened, President Xi said.

A. consideration B. conservation

C. constitution D. construction

9、Once the massive rocket by SpaceX sprinted off (腾空而起) at about 3:45 p.m, everything seemed to _____ as planned, from the activation of David Bowie’s (大卫·鲍威)  music as soundtrack to the pinpoint return of two reusable booster rockets.

A. take off   B. go off   C. set off   D. pull off

10、“______, we believe the overall policy stand to support a two-way opening of the Chinese capital marked and it will continue this year.” he added.

A. As some bottlenecks are difficult to be broken

B. As some bottlenecks are difficult to break

C. Difficult as some bottlenecks are to be broken

D. Difficult as some bottlenecks are to break

11、--- It is ridiculous for people to only focus on the ring that didn’t light up during the opening ceremony in the winter Olympics in Sochi.

--I can’t agree more. we should concentrate our attention the highlights are in the Games.

A. what   B. when   C. where   D. how

12、With rising work pressure in big cities, Zhang Yixuan decided to return to his hometown. Before that, he _________ at a media company since his university graduation.

A. had been working   B. had worked   C. worked   D. has worked

13、_____________equal opportunities, both Frank and Billy may accomplish the task.

A.Given B.Giving

C.To give D.to be given

14、________ the concert to raise money for hunger relief and to make the public aware of the problem, Geldof invited many famous musicians to take part in it.

A. Intended B. Intending C. Having intended D. To intend

15、--Would you like to enjoy the ballet performance at the Grand Theatre with us?

---Oh, sorry. I ____to see the film Interstellar by Christopher Nolan.

A. arranged B. had arranged

C. have arranged D. arrange

16、They won the game, _____ they didn’t really deserve the victory.

A.if B.though C.before D.since

17、Once you’ve ________ the items you ordered, put this record in your file.

A. checked in B. checked off

C. checked out D. checked with

18、When I was twenty, I had to________ before graduation and work in a clothes shop to help support my family.

A. come out B. stay out

C. leave out D. drop out

19、––Are the repairs finished yet?

––Yes, they ______ when I came back home.

A. would be completed   B. would complete

C. had completed   D. had been completed

20、–The difficult maths problem has been solved by Tom at last.

– Indeed; and the ___ way Tom worked out the problem impressed the teacher deeply.

A. outstanding     B. unique

C. particular     D. strange

21、   On my fourth day in a self-driving car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself. Before then, Id allowed the car- a Volvo S90 sedan to control the direction, with my hands still on the wheel, and to adjust speed in traffic. By Day 4, I was ready to make a jump into the future.

With the car traveling on a busy road, I activated the driverless mode. Soon, a traffic light turned red. For a split second, I prepared to get on the brakes. There was no need. The cameras and computers in the Volvo recognized the traffic conditions and smoothly began applying the brake.

If you're anything like most people, you're familiar with this anxiety. Almost 80 percent of Americans fear traveling in a self-driving car, a recent survey found.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have conducted some clever experiments studying the phenomenon. They asked participants to complete tasks and compared their performance with a computer system's. After the computer made a mistake, people were unwilling to use it again. After the people made mistakes, their self-confidence wouldn't change. It didn't matter that the human beings made more mistakes than the computer. So it is with driving. More than 37,000 Americans died in crashes last year, most from human error. The death count from cars goes beyond that from guns. So if you are shocked and angry by guns and want things to change, you should feel the same about car crashes.

Technology creates an opportunity to save lives. Computers don't get drunk or distracted by text messages, and they don't have blind spots. Just look at commercial airlines: Automation has helped all but get rid of deadly crashes among American air carriers. The last one happened in 2009.

The technology for self-driving cars still isn't good enough. But it is improving rapidly. Within a few years, many cars will have advanced crash-avoidance systems and driving will be revolutionized sooner than many people now understand.

【1】How does the author introduce the topic?

A.By offering a piece of news. B.By describing an experience.

C.By giving background information. D.By introducing a latest car.

【2】What can we know from the fourth paragraph?

A.The participants lost self-confidence after making mistakes.

B.The participants would ignore the mistakes made by the computer.

C.Car crashes is no less shocking than gun incidents.

D.The death count from cars is the same as that from guns.

【3】The author mentioned commercial airlines___________.

A.to advertise for the commercial airlines. B.to assess the security of driverless cars.

C.to find fault with computers. D.to prove the advantage of technology.

【4】What's the author's attitude towards self-driving cars?

A.Favorable. B.Indifferent.

C.Skeptical. D.Concerned.

22、   Oindrila Basu from India, 25, is a key member of a global forestry organization. Back in her youth, she had to be taught the importance of nature. She used to destroy nests of birds just for fun. Once, her mother caught her and forced her to find the eggs and replace the nest. With a heavy heart, the girl realized she had done something terrible.

This is just one way that Basu’s parents shaped her understanding and appreciation of nature. Living in the countryside, she spent her youth studying ants before a rain, watching sunbirds, counting fireflies and watching seedlings (幼苗) grow. Then her parents decided to move to a nearby city with better educational opportunities and she stopped having first-hand experiences with nature.

As she struggled to choose a college major, her mother suggested a career in forestry. That’s when her journey began and she fell in love with forestry. Away from the crowded cities, in the lap of the Himalayas, she got her bachelor’s degree in forestry from Kumaun University, India.  When she went on to study for master’s in forestry from the Forest Research Institute, India, she finally got introduced to a group of people who were devoted to the same cause—the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA).

IFSA is a global organization that connects forestry students to their peer and forest-related organizations and policy platform, enabling them to participate in forestry activities. The youth joining IFSA are encouraged to achieve its vision—to have all the people and societies on the earth recognize the full worth of forests and fully understand forests.

After six months of exciting international conferences and workshops, Basu found her home—a family that loved forests as much as she did. She felt her passion had a direction. Now she wants to do more.

【1】What can we infer from the first two paragraphs?

A．Basu found her love for nature 25 years ago.

B．Basu’s love for nature grew as she learned more about it.

C．Basu’s parents had only one way to cultivate her love for nature.

D．Basu would not have studied forestry without her mother’s suggestion.

【2】What do we know about IFSA?

A．It is an Indian organization.

B．It encourages people to escape city life.

C．All the members can get a master’s degree in forestry.

D．It organizes activities around the world to show the importance of forest protection.

【3】What do we know about Basu?

A．She got her master’s degree in the lap of the Himalayas.

B．She joined IFSA during the time at Kumaun University.

C．She didn’t find the meaning of forest protection until she joined IFSA.

D．Her parents helped her build the understanding and appreciation of nature.

【4】What is the best title of the text?

A．Basu: a Master’s Degree Holder

B．Basu: a Well-Behaved Student in IFSA

C．Basu: a Forest Angel Devoted to the Forest Protection

D．Basu: an Indian Scientist Dedicated to the Eight Against Forest Damage

23、   Turtles have an unfortunate habit of eating plastic objects floating in the sea. These then cannot be broken down and digested, and may ultimately kill them.

It is widely assumed that this special liking for plastics is a matter of mistaken identity. Floating plastic bags, for instance, look similar to jellyfish, which many types of turtles love to eat. Yet lota of plastic objects that end up inside turtles are not similar to jellyfish. Joseph Pfaller of the University of Florida therefore suspects that the smell of micro-organisms (微生物) which grow on floating plastic objects fools turtles to feed.

Researchers at the University of California noticed that certain chemicals, which are released into the air by micro-organism — colonised plastics, are those which many seabirds sniff to track down food. These chemicals mark good places to hunt because they indicate an abundance of the seaweed and bacteria. Since turtles are known to break the surface and sniff the air when swimming towards their feeding areas, Dr. Pfaller indicated that they are following these same chemicals, and are fooled into thinking that floating plastic objects are edible.

To test that idea, he and his colleagues set up an experiment. They arranged for 15 of the animals, each around five months old, to be exposed, in random order, to four smells delivered through a pipe to; the air above an experimental area. The smells were: the vapour from deionised (去离子) water; the smell of turtle-feeding meal; the smell of a clean plastic bottle; and the smell of a similarly plastic bottle that had been kept in the ocean for five weeks to allow seaweed and bacteria to grow on it. Two of the smells-the smell of meal and that of five-week-old bottles-proved far more attractive to the animals than the others.

On the face of it, then, the turtles were responding to the smell of old bottles as if it were the smell of food. In an unpolluted ocean, pretty well anything which had this smell would be edible-or, at least, harmless. Unfortunately, five-week-old plastic bottles and their like are not.

【1】What is most people's opinion on turtles' special habit?

A．Turtles prefer jellyfish to plastics.

B．Turtles enjoy the taste of plastics.

C．Turtles like being fed with plastic tools.

D．Turtles choose to eat plastics for a mistake.

【2】What does the underlined word “edible" in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Fit to eat.

B．Pleasant to smell.

C．Far to reach.

D．Easy to digest.

【3】What can we infer from Dr. Pfaller's research?

A．Many seabirds can track the food.

B．Most animals find food through smells.

C．Two smells are especially favored by turtles.

D．The favored smell leads turtles to seek for food.

【4】Why did the author mention the unpolluted ocean at last?

A．To explain why the ocean is polluted.

B．To ask for people to feed turtles proper food.

C．To arouse the awareness of protecting the ocean.

D．To show his agreement on Dr. Pfaller's research.

24、   “The Great Good Place” is a short story by American novelist Henry James, first published in 1900. Its theme is that people need a place where they can escape the grind of daily life. This is an idea that Howard Schultz, who turned the Starbucks coffee chain into an international giant, used in his business strategy.

Born in 1952, Schultz grew up in Brooklyn. After university, he worked for a firm supplying coffee-making equipment. Shortly after working there, Schultz noticed that a company in Seattle was buying a surprisingly large amount of the firm's equipment, and he decided to investigate. It turned out to be a simple coffee-bean store, but its owners were committed to teaching the public to appreciate good coffee.

This store in Seattle opened in 1971 and took its name from Starbuck, a sailor in the classic novel Moby Dick.  Its logo was a two-tailed mermaid. Fascinated by its owners' commitment to coffee, Schultz joined Starbucks.  Later, on a trip to Europe, he was impressed by the way that street cafés in Italy were both meeting points and places to drink espresso. This was something American didn't have yet.

In 1985, Schultz started his own coffee-bar business, which soon became a success. Two years later, he got together with some other investors and bought Starbucks for US $ 3. 8 million. Adopting the name and logo, Schultz developed a marketing strategy that turned ordinary cafés into fashionable outlets for coffee. He used clever tricks, such as selling coffee in "short", "tall" and "grande" size rather than the usual small, medium, and large. Customers learned to pronounce unfamiliar Italian names like latte and macchiato. Schultz actually created a market that hadn't existed before.

Within 20 years, Schultz had taken coffee culture from the streets of Europe to almost every city in developed countries. Today, millions of people a week visit Starbucks locations in countries globally. Clearly, these customers are happy with the "great good place".

【1】What does the underlined word “grind” mean in paragraph 1?

A．boredom

B．flavor

C．virtue

D．intervention

【2】Why did Schultz decide to join Starbucks?

A．He wanted to expand his business of equipment.

B．His trip Europe instructed him and changed his initial mind.

C．He was struck by the its owner's devotion to coffee.

D．He was impressed by the relaxing atmosphere in Starbucks.

【3】According to the passage, Schultz's business strategies do NOT include        .

A．opening stores all over the world.

B．changing the name and logo of the store at some locations.

C．selling coffee in “short”, “tall” and “grande” sizes.

D．His wisdom and cooperation with other investors.

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

A．The Starbucks coffee chain originated in Seattle.

B．Street cafes in Italy usually have far more customers than cafes in America.

C．Starbucks are what American novelist Henry James described “great good places”。

D．Schultz successfully transformed Starbucks into an international giant.

25、   Recently while driving, I heard poet Robert Pinsky on the radio. He was talking,______, about poetry and said something that ______ the way I had always thought about the ______. The idea was so ______ that I was almost embarrassed to admit it. It was something ______this: when we look at a painting, we don’t expect ourselves to ______ its literal meaning, or any meaning at all, right away. No, we enjoy ______because we like it, and we don’t know why. We generally ______ this as aesthetics (美学), a word that ______ the most “un-artsy” recognize and willingly accept.

Yet, when words on a page come into play, our brains ______, and we start trying to ______ and understand word structure. If we can’t assign a meaning within the first few ______, then our brains, ______ since childhood in the task of “reading comprehension”, may start to panic at our ______. The information becomes difficult, maybe even unknowable and therefore ______. This can happen to even a great____, a lover of literature — for poetry is a different animal.

However, as Pinsky______ that day, if we can recognize this, let it go, and ______ourselves to read poetry as we would look at a painting, with no ______of “translation”, then we may decide if we like it — or maybe even ______ it. Once we fall in love, a true passion is awakened.

A．at least

B．of course

C．by accident

D．in vain

A．approached

B．changed

C．proved

D．repeated

A．talent

B．lesson

C．subject

D．example

A．strong

B．special

C．simple

D．stupid

A．similar to

B．familiar to

C．useful for

D．famous for

A．hide

B．limit

C．remember

D．understand

A．art

B．culture

C．literature

D．history

A．write

B．accept

C．memorize

D．report

A．yet

B．seldom

C．even

D．again

A．pause

B．recall

C．return

D．switch

A．organize

B．miss

C．recommend

D．believe

A．goals

B．offers

C．rules

D．lines

A．trusted

B．worried

C．trained

D．sharpened

A．failure

B．illness

C．regret

D．carelessness

A．unarguable

B．unappealing

C．unavoidable

D．undemanding

A．speaker

B．adviser

C．performer

D．reader

A．showed up

B．handed out

C．pointed out

D．took up

A．allow

B．inspire

C．warn

D．forbid

A．loss

B．expectation

C．evidence

D．suggestions

A．create

B．see

C．hear

D．love

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。

Eight-year-old Amanda heard Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Hyman, who was very sick and learnt that only a very costly surgery could save him. Being in heavy debt, Dad said to Mom in desperation, “Only a miracle can save him now.”

Amanda went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jar in the closet. She poured all the change out and counted it carefully. Three times. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar, she slipped out the back door and made her way six blocks to the pharmacy (药店).

On arriving the pharmacy, she poured her jar on the counter. The pharmacist got annoyed as she was talking to her brother, Dr. Bethune, a neurosurgery (神经外科) surgeon, who happened to be on a visit. Asked what she wanted, Amanda answered back, “My brother’s really, really sick... and I want to buy a miracle.” She explained her brother had something bad growing inside his head and needed an operation, and her Dad said only a miracle could save him. The pharmacist shook her head and said softly, “We don’t sell miracles here, little girl. I’m sorry but I can’t help you.”

Hearing this, Amanda couldn’t help wailing, tears rolling down like a broken string of beads. Witnessing this, Dr. Bethune leaned down and asked her, “How much do you have?” “One dollar and eleven cents.” Amanda responded proudly. “Well, what a coincidence,” smiled Dr. Bethune, “A dollar and eleven cents-the exact price of a miracle for your little brother.” Overjoyed, Amanda twirled and jumped.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph1: Dr. Bethune held her hand and said kindly, “Take me to see your brother.”

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Paragraph2: “That surgery,” her Mom whispered to Amanda, “was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost.”

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