云南省丘北县第二中学2025-2026学年英语高三上期末质量检测试题.doc

云南省丘北县第二中学2025-2026学年英语高三上期末质量检测试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．It's great that all the visitors who   on the island were saved.
A．trapped B．have been trapped
C．had trapped D．had been trapped
2．When ____ to feel unworthy, children often work extra hard to please their parents．
A．to make B．making C．made D．having made
3．— Mum, would you please buy me an MP5 player?
— If you can help do some housework the whole vacation，you ____ have one as a reward.
A．must B．need C．would D．shall
4．--- Dad, have you seen my Christmas card?
--- ______ you painted last night? I’m afraid I haven’t seen ______.
A．One ; one B．The one ; it
C．One ; it D．The one ; that
5．What the country did _____ the international trade regulations, for which it was widely condemned.
A．approved B．violated C．bothered D．interrupted
6．At school, it is essential that every child ______ equally regardless of family background.
A．treating B．treated C．be treated D．is treated
7．His children were his pride, and being a devoted father became a top ______ in his life.
A．capacity B．anxiety C．priority D．opportunity
8．This football player was accused of taking money for not scoring goals ______.
A．by chance B．on end C．in turn D．on purpose
9．______ his love, Chris sent his mom a thank-you note on Mother’s Day.
A．Expressing B．Expressed C．To express D．Having expressed
10．She must have ranked her birthday presents in order of _because the top one is her favorite．
A．value B．time C．interest D．preference
11．In that remote area, the trees _____ by the volunteers are growing well.
A．planted B．planting C．being planted D．to plant
12．The house caught fire last week, with little of the original building _________.
A．remain B．remained C．remains D．remaining
13．—He is eager to try something he has never tried before.
—Oh, I see. That’s _______ he’s different from others.
A．when B．where C．how D．what
14．—He is so delighted to make friends with Johnson.
—Oh, I see. That’s _______ they have much in common.
A．where B．how C．what D．because
15．Many writers are drawn to building a world, _____ readers are somewhat familiar with but also feel distant from our normal lives.
A．it B．one C．that D．the one
16．She ________ to someone on the phone, so I just nodded to her and went away.
A．talked B．has talked
C．had talked D．was talking
17．———It was a green dinner. _______
———Thanks. But it really only took an hour.
A．You must be tired. B．I enjoyed it very much.
C．You must have spent all day cooking. D．I have never had it before.
18．Despite the obvious privacy concerns, the use of facial-recognition technology is ________ at some public places.
A．out of danger B．on the run C．out of sight D．on the rise
19．Mark ______ have hurried. After driving at top speed, he arrived half an hour early.
A．needn’t B．wouldn’t C．mustn’t D．couldn’t
20．-- Turn off the TV, Jack. _______ your homework now?
-- Mum, just ten more minutes, please.
A．Will you be doing B．Should you be doing
C．Shouldn't you be doing D．Couldn’t you be doing
第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21．（6分） Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.
I was attending a stand­up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their heads off. The main reason why those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, but it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.
In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage you from making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.
1、What did the author find out after studying psychology?
A．Only good jokes make people laugh.
B．Many factors lead to people's laughing.
C．Funny things can make people laugh.
D．Laughter can make people healthy.
2、Why did the audience laugh loud at the pedestrians?
A．They played a trick on the pedestrians.
B．The pedestrians behaved in a funny way.
C．They could feel the pedestrians' happiness.
D．Their emotion was approved of by the show.
3、What does the underlined word “belittling” probably mean?
A．Annoy. B．Blame.
C．Look down on. D．Make up to.
4、Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
A． B．
C． D．
22．（8分）US student Vanessa Tahay stands out from the other teenagers in her school. Her skin is dark, her accent is thick, and if you ask her, she will tell you these are the things she is proudest of. Tahay is a poet, and at 18 she was considered among the best in Los Angeles.
When she is on the stage, audiences often go silent. They also laugh, shout and cry. But this doesn’t come easily for someone who comes from a village that sits at the base of a huge mountain range in Central America. When she first appeared at school, she was teased by others for being short and different. She never spoke, so they called her “mouse”.
“How do I defend myself?” Tahay thought. “I don’t know how.”
“Keep going,” her mother would tell her. “At some point, you’ll learn.”
She spent hours after school and on weekends watching the same DVDs: English without Barriers.
Tahay’s elder brother, Elmer, persuaded her to go to the after-school poetry club. In the last six years, her English teacher Laurie Kurnick has turned Cleveland Charter High School’s poetry program into one of the most respected in the city. Her team draws from the likes of D．H. Laurence, Pat Mora and Kendrick Lamar to create poems about their own lives. The poems focus on many things —some funny, some painful.
The first time Tahay read the group’s poems, chills went up her spine (脊柱). “I wish I could write like that,” she thought. “I want to say something.”
She wrote her first poem about her first year in America. She called it Invisible. The day her turn came to recite in front of the team, she broke down crying. She cried for 15 minutes. “I had so much held in,” Tahay said. “I couldn’t even finish it.”
But she kept at it despite her less-than-perfect grammar, spelling and diction (措辞). Still, she wouldn’t tell her friends about her poetry because she worried they would make fun of her.
But with time, her poems changed her. “They gave me pride,” Tahay said. “They told me that I’m worth something.”
“She had this innocence,” Kurnick said. “This willingness to be genuine and show you things you don’t ever see.”
1、What did Tahay’s mother suggest she do when she was teased by others?
A．Fight with them bravely.
B．Report them to her teachers.
C．Ignore them and keep going.
D．Try hard to make friends with them.
2、What are the themes of Tahay and her team’s poems?
A．Their admiration for the great poets.
B．Their appreciation of natural beauty.
C．Their expectations of a better future.
D．Funny and painful stories about their lives.
3、How did Tahay probably feel when she first read the group’s poems?
A．She was cold. B．She was excited.
C．She was nervous. D．She was frightened.
4、How did Tahay benefit from writing poems?
A．She felt more confident about herself.
B．She won many national poetry competitions.
C．She became the first student poet in the city.
D．She improved her grammar and spelling greatly.
23．（8分）Questioning the existence of aliens is something that scientists have done for decades. In fact, most people do believe that aliens exist in some fashion. The main necessities for life are water and some form of energy source. Not surprisingly, there are some planets, exoplanets and moons that fit the bill. Here are several best chances at finding life in the universe.
◆TRAPPIST-1
TRAPPIST-1 is a planetary system a few dozen light-years away, whose discovery was announced in early 2017. This system consists of seven Earth-like exoplanets orbiting an "ultra-cool" star, and it is one of our shots at finding possible life beyond our own solar system.
◆Titan
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, the sixth planet from our Sun. This moon could potentially harbor life but possibly not in the sense that we think. Titan does not exactly fit the description of being in a typical habitable zone.
Titan has water, and it has liquid. It just doesn't have liquid water. The water on this moon is completely solid because of the extremely cold temperature.
◆Europa
Europa is one of Jupiter's moons here in our own solar system. It is another candidate due to its potential to hold liquid water. Europa is thought to have all the necessities for life including water, energy sources, and the right chemical build-up.
◆Mars
The Red Planet, the fourth from the Sun, is probably one of the most talked-about potential candidates for extraterrestrial(地球外的) life and even for human colonization. Despite some different voices, finding extraterrestrial life on Mars really is a serious possibility.
We know by now that we won't find little green men or any intelligent form of life that we understand. However, there is evidence that there was and may still be microscopic life on the small red planet.
1、The common point of these celestial bodies is that _______.
A．solid water exists on them respectively
B．life might exist on each of them
C．they all contain liquid water
D．each of them has living things on it
2、Which celestial body could have life different from human imagination?
A．TRAPPIST-1. B．Titan.
C．Europa. D．Mars.
3、Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Europa is the most talked-about potential candidate for extraterrestrial life.
B．TRAPPIST-1 is the only body that contains life beyond the solar system.
C．All the scientists do believe that aliens exist in some manner.
D．There is proof that life existed on the celestial body Mars.
24．（8分）The Oklahoma teen’s eyes were covered by two blindfolds (眼罩) for the big surprise: being reunited with her father, James, after 12-year separation.
“I had actually discussed with her the night before at a restaurant and talked over the details of where we would go and how we would pull it off,” said Amanda, Rory Beth’s mother.
A video shows Amanda led her blindfolded daughter out of their car and guided her across the parking lot of Broken Arrow Lanes in Broken Arrow.
Little did she know, her father was on the sidewalk holding a birthday cake that read, “Happy Birthday Rory Beth, Love Dad.” When the teen slowly pulled down her blindfolds, she was dumbfounded. Both the father and daughter stood silently looking at each other until James finally walked over and hugged her. James only broke their embrace to look at his daughter and hold her face. “There were definitely lots of tears from myself, her brothers, and even a few bystanders,” said Amanda.
James was a truck driver who spent a lot of time on the road, and Amanda split with him when Rory Beth was a baby. “It was hard to figure out how to make it work,” Amanda said. Amanda felt Rory Beth was now old enough to understand and to ask any questions she may have, so the reunion happened.
The birthday surprise was on June 4, and the father and daughter had seen each other again since, even celebrating Father’s Day together. Amanda said her daughter and James were both delighted to be reunited “She’s already calling him ‘daddy’ and tells him that she loves him,” Amanda said. “They’re both very committed.”
1、What caused Rory Beth to be separated from her father for 12 years?
A．Her parents’ divorce.
B．Her father’s working as a taxi driver.
C．The misunderstanding between them.
D．Her preference for living with her mother.
2、Why did Rory Beth reunite with her father?
A．Her father was eager to see her.
B．She had many questions to ask her father.
C．She was old enough to recognize her father.
D．Her mother thought it was time for her to see her father.
3、What does the underlined word “dumbfounded” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Tired. B．Scared.
C．Shocked. D．Confused.
4、What do we know from the text?
A．The video about the reunion was shot by James himself.
B．Rory Beth’s brothers accompanied her to see her father.
C．Rory Beth called James “daddy” on her 12th birthday.
D．Amanda had a conversation with Rory Beth on June 3.
25．（10分）Let's Go Fly a Kite...
—at Piedmont Middle School's celebration of kites!
Come and learn how to build all sorts of kites, from the simplest diamond-shaped kites to the most complex box kites. Slay as long as you like and build as many kites as you want. Once you have finished a kite, get advice on flying techniques from kite expert Lorena Hallsberg. The celebration will be at Piedmont Middle School, 151 Piedmont School Drive.
The Piedmont Middle School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) has organized a refreshment (茶点） tent. All profits will benefit future PTO activities. Take a break from kite flying and drink some lemonade! While you are doing so, why not join the PTO? Membership is free; you just donate your time. Show your support for Piedmont Middle School by joining the PTO this Saturday!
When: Saturday, April 11. from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: Piedmont Middle School
Why: For fun!
Cost: Free, thanks to a generous gift from Bizarco Kite Company!
Schedule
9:00 am—Kite-building booths open. All materials are supplied for kites.
10:00 am—Kite-building shows by Lorena Hallsberg in the courtyard. Come by and learn how to build box kites and kites that look and fly like butterflies.
11:00 am—Kite-flying shows on the school track. Learn all the most important skills.
12:00 pm—Kite-flying competitions on the school track.
1:00pm—Presentation by Dr. Brian Lehrman in the show tent: “The History of Kites”.
2:00 pm—Best Kite competitions and judging in the sh