2025-2026学年河南南阳高三(下)期末试卷英语

1、It was the middle of night ________ my husband woke me up and told me to watch the football game.

A. while   B. that   C. as   D. when

2、 Between the two generations, it is often not their age, _________their education

that causes misunderstanding.

A. like B. as   C. or   D. but

3、—Mr. Smith said we had only three days to finish the project.

―Don't worry. We have already________ two thirds of it.

A．given away

B．given in

C．got through

D．got down

4、--- Mike went to the hospital alone.

---If he ________me about it, I would have gone with him

A. should tell   B. told

C. had told   D. tells

5、There are so many spelling mistakes in the composition, and I have to write the letter out again. It means I will  ______.

A.give the cold shoulder B.kill the fatted calf

C.cost an arm and a leg D.start from scratch

6、—You seem to be fond of classical music.

—________. As a matter of fact, I like jazz music better.

A. I don’t agree    B. Not really

C. I couldn’t agree more D. No doubt

7、Whether something is alive or dead is a crucial ______ and it is one that children have no difficulty understanding by the age of five.

A. declaration B. distinction C. division D. distribution

8、We are determined that our teacher training programs should ________ current developments in the field of education.

A．catch sight of

B．make room for

C．take pride in

D．keep pace with

9、Take the note as a reminder ______ you forgot to buy some sweets for the kids while shopping there.

A. how B. that

C. in case D. even if

10、The CEO of the company is a position ____ many abilities are required to deal with all types of problems.

A. which   B. that C. when   D. where

11、 _____, I believe, and you will find the boy is very outgoing.

A. Having a talk with the student

B. One talk with the student

C. Given a talk with the student

D. If you have a talk with the student

12、The government is to _____ the technologies to the full in the structural transformation of the economy.

A. adapt   B. expose

C. exploit   D. attach

13、It is only when an NBA player has aged and been through many battles _____he learns an important lesson;

there is no "I" in "team".

A. after   B. before   C. that   D. what

14、___________ its size with that of the whole earth, we find the highest mountain does not seem high at all.

A.When compared B.Compared to C.To be compared D.Comparing

15、—Our flight is boarding now. We’ll have to part.

—Don’t feel sad. ______.

A. All that glitters is not gold

B. All roads lead to Rome

C. All good things come to an end

D. A still tongue makes a wise head

16、—Where was I?

—You ________ you didn’t like your job.

A. had said   B. said

C. were saying   D. has said

17、Everything ______ into due consideration, she eventually decided to further her education at home.

A. having taken   B. to be taken   C. being taken   D. taken

18、It is reported   the housing prices in some big cities fall in different degrees.

A. which   B. what

C. that   D. where

19、With several problems _____to be solved, we still need to hold another meeting as soon as possible.

A. remained   B. remaining

C. remain    D. having remained

20、— How is the result, doctor?

— Well, your health is _____ good, but you still have a few minor problems.

A.normally B.generally C.gradually D.frequently

21、Have you ever been into a cave? If not, please follow us and explore some of the most beautiful caves from around the world!

Marble Caves

Located in the center of Lake General Carrera, the Marble Caves in Chico, Chile, are only accessible by boat. The surrounding crystal clear waters allow visitors to see the rock formations beneath them while the rock ceilings above change color(depending on the writer levels and the season). The best time to visit: during sunrise and sunset, when the sun’s rays light up the cave walls, making it an experience to remember.

Reed Flute Cave

Reed F1ute Cave known as “the Palace of Natural Arts” is located in the northwest of Guilin in southern China.The limestone cave offers a grand fairyland of stalactites(钟乳石), stone pillars, stone curtains, birds, plants and animals in fantastic shapes and colors.

Fingal’s Cave

This incredible sea cave is located on the uninhabited island of Staffa in Scotland. The cave’s size, shape, and naturally—arched(拱形的) roof combine with the waves to create strange sounds that enhance its cathedral—like atmosphere.

The Blue Grotto

The Blue Grotto is the symbol of Capri. It is a sea cave found on the coast of the island and is a well-known spot to all who visit the area. This cave is unique for its brilliant blue light which comes from two sources: the entrance to the cave and a bigger hole beneath the entrance. When viewed from inside the cave, the entrance appears as a brilliant white light just above the waterline, while the underwater hole, which is the larger source of light, provides a blue light.

【1】Why is sunset the best time to visit Marble Caves?

A．Because it has enough light in it.

B．Because it has the most beautiful scenery.

C．Because it is surrounded by clear waters.

D．Because boats are only available at sunset.

【2】Which cave will you go to if you want to enjoy the strange sound?

A．Reed F1ute Cave.

B．Marble Caves.

C．The Blue Grotto.

D．Fingal’s Cave.

【3】What is special about the Blue Grotto?

A．C1ear waters.

B．Various birds and animals.

C．Bright blue light.

D．Strange shapes.

22、   A new study published in the journal Educational Studies shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education.

The research was carried out by Josip Šabić and Boris Jokic at the Centre for Educational Research and Development of the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia. The authors wanted to discover the main factors affecting pupils’ intention to continue to higher education as they reach the end of elementary school.

To find out children’s aims, they asked just over 1,000 pupils aged 14-15 at 23 elementary schools in Zagreb to complete three separate questionnaires during their last two years at elementary school. The researchers also obtained information on the pupils’ academic grades, as well as on the size of each school and its classes, the grade point average (GPA) for each school, and property prices in the area around each school as a measure of socioeconomic status.

The study revealed that none of the school-level factors, including school and class size, the GPA of the school and property prices, had any influence on the desire to continue to higher education. In contrast, several factors related to parents and home life, such as parental educational aspirations, maternal (母亲的) academic support and having a desk to work on, did have an influence. As did gender, with girls more likely than boys to want to continue to higher education. And while school-level factors didn’t have any influence, performance at school did: high academic grades were the single strongest predictor of a pupil’s desire to continue to higher education, while enjoying school was also an important factor.

“The major finding arising from the present study is that none of the school level variables used in our analysis contributes to the explanation of pupils’ aspirations (志向) for higher education,” said Josip Šabić. “Another important finding is that parents can influence their child’s aspirations by expressing their expectations regarding the child’s educational path and by providing the basic conditions for completing homework and learning.”

【1】What does the research focus on?

A．Where do pupils go for help in choosing college?

B．Who gives pupils more support to go to college?

C．What makes pupils choose to attend college?

D．Which do pupils like most in choosing further education?

【2】Which of the following do the researchers care least in designing the research?

A．Class sizes.

B．Family incomes.

C．Property prices.

D．Academic grades.

【3】What can we infer from paragraph 4?

A．The GPA of school blocks pupils from going to college.

B．Gender has little influence on choosing a college.

C．Decisions of parents make pupils choose what to do.

D．Pupils’ preference to their school is important.

【4】What does Josip Šabić stress in the last paragraph?

A．School level variables.

B．Financial support to pupils.

C．Parental academic supports.

D．Learning environments for pupils.

23、   Thomas Edison, inventor of such items as the phonograph (留声机) and the world's first practical light bulb, is known around the world. But another lesser-known figure is owed his share of credit — Edison's competitor, Nikola Tesla. It took the work of both men to make possible a world that runs on electric power; however, their names were not always shared.

Edison, a self-made American inventor, built his name as a successful businessman.Tesla, a well-educated Serbian immigrant, was a tireless thinker. In 1882, Tesla got a job in the Paris branch of Continental Edison Company. Soon, his obvious skill won him a position at the Edison Machine Works in the United States, where the goal was to bring electricity to all of New York City. But Edison and Tesla had different ideas about how to make that goal a reality.

Edison worked mainly with direct current (DC) power. Although DC would prove useful in the decades to come, it was only effective at the time for powering things that were about a mile or less from the power source. However, alternating current (AC) power-supported by Tesla allowed electricity to be carried over long distances through power lines.

Soon the battle between the two was on. Edison proposed that several small DC-based power plants could be constructed to power different parts of a city, but this was impractical. Desperate to succeed, Edison attempted to show that DC power “was safe”— he even electrocuted (电死) an elephant to show the “dangers” of AC. In the end, however, it was practical, inexpensive AC that won the battle. By 1896, even Edison's own company had adopted AC.

Tesla succeeded, but Edison, whose self-branded companies won him over a thousand patents, is the more well-known of the two. Regardless, each inventor had a big hand in shaping the way we live.

【1】What does the underlined word “credit” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．Cast.

B．Trust.

C．Recognition.

D．Debt.

【2】What do we know about Nikola Tesla?

A．He finished college in Paris.

B．He worked as Edison's employee at first.

C．He invented many things with Edison.

D．He was admired by Edison for his invention.

【3】What's a big difference between AC and DC power?

A．DC power moves more quickly.

B．AC power ranges over larger areas.

C．AC power is much safer and cheaper.

D．DC power can be widely used in more fields.

【4】What's the best title for the text?

A．Edison vs Tesla: the war of the currents

B．Edison: the inventor of the first light bulb

C．DC vs AC: the theory behind the two concepts

D．Nikola Tesla: a name that should be remembered

24、It all started when I typed a perfectly reasonable prompt (提示词)into one of several apps on the market that can create an image based on text. “Skull space laser dinosaur starship explosion, ” I wrote. The app processed for a few seconds, and returned four images, one of which was strangely accurate: a dinosaur-looking skull screamed out of an empty space, trailing fire. Text-to-image AIs identify images by looking at the text that people have used to describe those pictures online. When the app got my prompt, it studied images that random people had described as “dinosaur” or laser and soon then used what is called a diffusion model (扩散模型) to add a bunch of random chaos to those pictures. Once they were suitably completed, it “upscaled” them, removing noise and sharpening focus. Its work is so good that an artist using it recently won first place for digital images at the Colorado State Fair.

But there is the question of all the other pictures online that are being transformed into AI-generated masterpieces. As many artists have pointed out, their works are being used without payment. The image-generating algorithm (算法) creates illustrations and even movies by using data sets stocked with art stolen from artists who post their works online.

Some AI researchers argue that their algorithms aren’t stealing from artists so much as learning from them just as human artists learn from each other. But a more ethical approach would be for companies to acknowledge their debt to artists and create a model of voluntary collective licensing, much like what radio stations first did in radio’s early days. Back then, musicians created groups like BMI to collectively license their music to radio stations-then BMI would pay artists based on how often their songs were played. Perhaps artists and art institutions today could form a “collecting society” that would allow companies to license their artwork for data sets.

To create ethical AI systems, we need to acknowledge the people whose work makes those systems so magical. We can’t simply take advantage of every image online - we need humans to manage those data sets and we need to pay them to do it.

【1】What can we learn about Text-to-image Als from the first two paragraphs?

A．They are developed to process pictures.

B．They are used to describe online pictures.

C．They use a diffusion model to beautify pictures.

D．They create their works based on online pictures.

【2】One of the issues raised by the success of Text-to-image AIs is ________.

A．the influence upon art creation

B．the availability of online pictures

C．the neglect of the artists’ copyright

D．the prospect of artists being replaced

【3】Why did the author mention BMI in Paragraph 4?

A．To introduce the role that BMI played in AI history.

B．To present a way to regulate the use of online pictures.

C．To prove the necessity of licensing music to radio stations.

D．To demonstrate the urgency of forming a collecting society.

【4】What can we infer from the passage?

A．It is not practical to improve the image-generating algorithm.

B．The function of Text-to-image AIs shouldn’t be underestimated.

C．Human efforts should be valued in the application of Text-to-image AIs.

D．Companies should be held responsible for the illegal pictures on public websites.

25、   My 14- year- old son, John, and I spotted the coat at the same time. The coat had a black velvet(丝绒) collar, delightful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a(an)_______ price of merely $28. We looked at each other, saying nothing, but John's eyes_______. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with teenagers. John put the coat on and

_______ it. He turned from side to side, _________ himself in the mirror with a serious, studied_______ that soon changed into a smile. It’s a perfect_______

John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile. 'How did the kids like your coat? ' I asked. “They love it.” He said, carefully _______ it on the chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, the_______came over John. Quiet, reasoned discussion_______ argument. He became more thoughtful and eager to

________. 'Good dinner, Mum, ' he would say every evening. One day when I __________ that he start on homework before dinner, John said, 'You are right, and I guess I will.'

When I __________ this to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn’t know what caused the changes, she said with laughter, 'It must be his coat! '

John and I both know we should never________ a person's clothes for the real person within them. But it is meaningful to __________ a standard of excellence for the world to see, to practice a standard of excellence in thought, speech and behavior, and to ____________ what is on the inside with what is on the outside.

【1】A.special B.reasonable C.unbelievable D.cheap

【2】A.closed B.shone C.opened D.lowered

【3】A.touched B.buttoned C.held D.obtained

【4】A.feeling B.looking C.glancing D.eyeing

【5】A.gesture B.expression C.attitude D.feeling

【6】A.colour B.price C.fit D.style

【7】A.pressing B.taking C.throwing D.folding

【8】A.happiness B.satisfaction C.change D.generosity

【9】A.replaced B.made C.took D.transformed

【10】A.please B.understand C.admire D.apologize

【11】A.insisted B.suggested C.asked D.commanded

【12】A.wrote B.reported C.mentioned D.explained

【13】A.watch B.judge C.mistake D.consider

【14】A.do B.show C.speak D.wear

【15】A.compare B.connect C.mix D.match

26、阅读下面材料, 根据所给情节进行续写, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Jennie Grant lay on a cot (小床)   near the window. She had been lying in that same place for many weeks. One of her legs was shorter than the other, and the doctor had fastened a heavy weight to it in order to make it grow. But she must be still all the time.

Every morning before her father went to work, he moved her cot close to the window so she could look out. There was not much to see, for the buildings were high. But she loved to watch the swallows against the sky, and there was a flock of doves that often alighted (飞落) on the roof across the way. Still she became very tired with nothing to do and no one to play with.

One day Mrs. Brightly came to see if she could help her. On the way home, she was busy thinking about Jennie. Suddenly she said to herself, “I know what I’ll do. There are my two little sisters who have plenty of money and hardly ever think of anyone but themselves, and there are some other little neighbors. We will have a little ‘Sunshine Band’ and make her happy, and the children will enjoy doing something for someone who needs help. They will find that ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

She wrote notes to the girls, asking them to come to her house Monday afternoon. Then she told them the plan. They decided to fill a pretty basket to stand by Jennie’s bed, and took it to her on her birthday. Everything was to be put in packages, so her pleasure would last a long time, and everything was to be something for Jennie to do. Week after week they met and worked on the articles for the basket. They enjoyed it so much that they could hardly wait for Jennie’s birthday to come.

注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1:

One bright morning when Jennie opened her eyes, she remembered it was her birthday.

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Paragraph 2:

The girls enjoyed their giving so much that they decided to be “Sunshiners” all the year round and asked Jennie to join.

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