河北保定市2025年高三英语第一学期期末考试模拟试题.doc

河北保定市2025年高三英语第一学期期末考试模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．We had better put off interviewing the athlete, for he is busy preparing for an international contest __________ in Shanghai next month.
A．held B．to hold
C．being held D．to be held
2．Keep up your spirits even if you _____ fail hundreds of times.
A．must B．need
C．may D．should
3．He gets up at six o’clock, runs for half an hour and then has a meal; that is his morning ______.
A．route B．routine
C．behavior D．tendency
4．A heavy sandstorm is going to envelop our city. It is unwise to have your car .
A．wash B．washed
C．washing D．to wash
5．What he liked to do was to take an idea and ______ it by finding every possible consequence.
A．squeeze B．wrestle
C．switch D．shrink
6．Thanks to Mr. Smith, the father and the son eventually ________after ten years' cold relationship between them.
A．took up B．made up
C．looked up D．turned up
7．(2015·北京)___________the early flight, we ordered a taxi in advance and got up very early.
A．Catching B．Caught
C．To catch D．Catch
8．—What a shame! We misunderstood each other for such a long time.
—Yes, I wish I _____ with you earlier.
A．communicate B．had communicated
C．communicated D．would communicate
9．Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, ______ anyone can start now and make a new ending.
A．for B．and
C．but D．so
10．His children were his pride, and being a devoted father became a top ______ in his life.
A．capacity B．anxiety C．priority D．opportunity
11． _______ his overseas study, he was eventually employed by his dream company.
A．Having completed B．Completing
C．Completed D．To complete
12．Leaders of many countries have been trying to what it is that makes China develop so fast in recent years.
A．carry out B．figure out
C．watch out D．make out
13．I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being _______ blind and deaf for a few days at some time in his life.
A．has been stricken B．were stricken
C．had been D．would be
14．Taking targeted measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty, _____has been predicted, is fruitful.
A．what B．which
C．as D．that
15．—Alice, why aren’t you at work today?
—I a day off．
A．have given B．have been given C．gave D．was given
16．We have brought in a good grain harvest for three years_________.
A．on purpose B．on end C．on duty D．on watch
17．Wolf Warrior 2, which ________ the “Award for Best Visual Effects” at the Beijing Film Festival, indicates China's film industry has come of age.
A．wins B．won
C．has won D．had won
18．—Kevin, time for the next destination!
—No hurry! Another 15 minutes and we _____ all the exhibition rooms of the museum.
A．am exploring B．have explored
C．will explore D．will have explored
19．—Have you heard from Jane recently?
—No，but I ________ her over Christmas.
A．saw B．will be seeing
C．have seen D．have been seeing
20．—Why are you so late?
—The driver couldn’t see clearly because of the fog．____, the road was too icy．
A．Therefore B．Otherwise C．However D．Besides
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） “Don’t answer it,” I said to Sam. Our door in the inner city is constantly knocked on; our previous door in the suburbs rarely so. Sam has a full-time job and cannot spend his days answering requests to fix leaking baths or carry cash to the bank.
Sam opened the door and it was Mervin.
“There’s a bird on the second floor,” he said. “It’s in trouble.”
Sam followed Mervin upstairs. Mervin pointed and turned to let Sam look. It was a pigeon, the most common of all birds, the bird most likely to foul (弄脏) your newly washed car. And
it wasn’t flying away. It was stamping in circles. As Sam bent to look, Mervin coughed, “Number two.”
Sam asked him to repeat that. “Number two,” Mervin said. "The pigeon has been sitting in his own number two, and now it’s stuck to his foot.”
It had rained for five days, and the bird was young. It could have been sheltering in a wet nest of its own waste, which had then dried on its foot, preventing it from flying away. The pigeon moved in a few more circles. Sam bent to take another look. Mervin said, “All right, then.” and walked away.
“Why does everyone think you must solve the problems around here?” I said to Sam when he returned with his story. “It’s a bird. Just leave it on the stairs, and let nature take its course.” Sam didn’t agree. Then he went to the garage and emptied the cardboard box containing our imported camping mats. He returned with the gray pigeon in the box. He showed the bird to our children and they decided to keep it.
They put its foot in the warm water bath and got rid of its waste. Immediately the pigeon erupted in a bomb of feathers and began flying.
1、How did the author feel about the knocks?
A．She felt bored. B．She was frightened.
C．She got excited. D．She was surprised.
2、Why was the pigeon moving in circles?
A．It was learning to fly.
B．It was badly injured.
C．It got caught in the rain.
D．It was trapped by its waste.
3、What did Sam use the cardboard box to do?
A．Shelter from rain.
B．Give it to Mervin.
C．Wash camping mats.
D．Make a nest for the bird.
4、What can we learn about Sam from the text?
A．He was brave. B．He was clever.
C．He was warm-hearted. D．He was easy-going.
22．（8分） About a month after I joined Facebook，I got a call from Lori Goler，a highly regarded senior director of marketing at eBay. She made it clear this was a business call. “I want to apply to work with you at Facebook，"she said. "Instead of recommending myself，I want to ask you: What is your biggest problem，and how can I solve it?”
My jaw hit the floor. I had hired thousands of people over the previous decade and no one had ever said anything remotely like that. People usually focus on finding the right role for themselves，with the implication that their skills will help the company. Lori put Facebook's needs front and center. It was a killer approach. I responded, "Recruiting is my biggest problem. And, yes, you can solve it."
Lori never dreamed she would work in recruiting, but she jumped in. She even agreed to trade earnings for acquiring new skills in a new field. Lori did a great job running recruiting and within months was promoted to her current job, leading People@ Facebook.
The most common metaphor（隐喻，暗喻）for careers is a ladder，but this concept no longer applies to most workers. As of 2010，the average American had eleven jobs from the ages of eighteen to forty-six alone. Lori often quotes Pattie Sellers，who came up with a much better metaphor: “Careers are a jungle gym，not a ladder. ”
As Lori describes it，there's only one way to get to the top of a ladder，but there are many ways to get to the top of a jungle gym. The jungle gym model benefits everyone，but especially women who might be starting careers，switching careers，getting blocked by external barriers，or reentering the workforce after taking time off. The ability to create a unique path with occasional dips，detours（弯路），and even dead ends presents great views of many people，not just those at the top. On a ladder，most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.
1、Why did Lori make the call？
A．She wanted to help Facebook solve the biggest problem.
B．She intended to make a business deal with Facebook.
C．She tried to ask for a pay rise in Facebook.
D．She wanted to become an employee in Facebook.
2、What impressed “me” by Lori？
A．Lori was good at running recruiting.
B．Lori attached great importance to Facebook's needs.
C．Lori jumped in Facebook with no adequate experience.
D．Lori was skilled in marketing at eBay.
3、What is the possible meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph3？
A．She agrees to learn new skills by doing trade.
B．She agrees to learn new skills by making money.
C．She agrees to raise her pay to learn new skills.
D．She agrees to exchange her pay for learning new skills.
4、What can we infer from the passage？
A．Jungle gyms offer limited benefits for employees？
B．None on the ladder can enjoy the great views.
C．Now all people don't tend to climb the ladder.
D．A pregnant woman. jobless，benefits little from the jungle gyms.
5、What is the best title of the passage？
A．It's a Jungle Gym，Not a Ladder.
B．Facebook's Biggest Problem.
C．Applying for a Job in Facebook.
D．How to get to the top of the ladder.
23．（8分）Screaming is one of the responses humans share with other animals. Conventional thinking suggests that what sets a scream apart from other sounds is its loudness. However, many sounds that are loud do not raise goose bumps like screams can. To find out what makes human screams unique, neuroscientist Luc Arnal and his team examined a bank of sounds containing sentences spoken or screamed by 19 adults. The result shows screams and screamed sentences had a quality called “roughness,” which refers to how fast a sound changes in loudness. While normal speech sounds only have slight differences in loudness—between 4 and 5 Hz, screams can switch very fast, varying between 30 and 150 Hz, thus considered to be rough and unpleasant.
Arnal’s team asked 20 subjects to judge screams as fearful or not, and found that the scariest are almost always connected with roughness. The team then studied how the human brain responds to roughness using fMRI brain scanners (磁共振颅脑扫描仪). As expected, after hearing a scream, activity increased in the brain’s hearing centers where sound coming into the ears is processed. But the scans also lit up in the amygdale (脑扁桃体), the brain’s fear center.
The amygdala is the area that responds to danger. When a threat is detected, our adrenaline (肾上腺素) rises, and our body prepares to react to danger. The study found that roughness isn’t heard when we speak naturally, but the most annoying alarm clocks, car horns, and fire alarms possess high degrees of roughness.
One potential application for this research might be to add roughness to alarm sounds to make them more effective, the same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it the easily to be detected. Warning sounds could also be added to electric cars, which are particularly silent, so they can be efficiently detected by pedestrians.
1、What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A．Different types of screams.
B．Specific features of screams.
C．Human sounds and animal cries.
D．Sound changes and screamed sentences.
2、What does the underlined phrase “raise goose bumps” probably mean?
A．Make people feel unpleasant. B．Make people feel cold.
C．Make people rude and rough. D．Make people unique.
3、What can we infer from the passage?
A．Roughness is commonly heard in many artificial sounds.
B．The traveling speed makes screams different from other sounds.
C．Very little scientific research has been done on human screams.
D．Normal human speech sounds vary between 30 to 150 Hz in loudness.
4、What device may be improved with the researchers’ findings?
A．Traffic lights. B．Security cameras.
C．Smart phones. D．Smoke detectors.
24．（8分）Everest
121min Adventure/Biography/Drama
Storyline: A group of climbers start their final climb to the summit of Mount Everest，the highest point on Earth. With little warning，a violent storm strikes the mountain，swallowing the adventurers...
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Stars:Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa, Thomas M.Wright
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War Room
120min Drama
Storyline: Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, seemingly have it all--great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. In reality, their marriage has been a war zone. With guidance from Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them.
Director: Alex Kendrick
Stars: Priscilla C．Shirer, T.C．Stalligs, Karen Abercrombie
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Straight Outta Compton
147min Biography/Drama/Music
Storyline: In 1987,five young men, using honest rhymes, put their frustration and anger about life into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels（叛逆者）stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group N.W.A．
Director: F. Gary Gray
Stars: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
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A Walk In The Woods
104min Adventure/Biography/Comedy
Storyline: After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the US, where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail. He travels with Katz, one of his oldest friends. The trouble is that the two have a completely different definition of the word, “adventure”. The real fun begins...
Director: Ken Kwapis
Stars: Robort Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson
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1、If you prefer family-themed movies, which one should see?
A．Everest B．War Room
C．Straight Outta Compton D．A Walk In The Woods
2、What is N.W.A according to the passage?
A．A movie club B．A music group
C．An adventure team D．A charity organization
3、Why does Bill Bryson hike the Appalachain Trail?
A．To accompany his friend Katz B．To exercise and keep himself fit
C．To strengthen his bond with the US D．To have an adventure in the woods
25．（10分）Travelling with kids isn’t always easy, but it’s always fun．If you are considering abandoning the camping holiday this year．Why not visit one of Europe’s famous cities instead? Here are Europe EHIC Services Limited’s top picks．
Barcelona，Spain
BarceIona is sure to be well loved by younger visitors．The city streets are filled with street performers who swallow fire and juggle swords．If your kids enjoy a challenge，they may even enjoy a bird’s－eye view from the top of the Mirador de Colom．Barcelona even has the Museum of Chocolate which your children will jump at the chance to taste．
Berlin,Germany
Berlin has sights for adults and children in equal measure．With Legoland Discovery Center，Aqua Dome and the Berlin Zoo，the city will not be lacking in choices for your kids．Berlin also has plenty of child-friendly transport，parks and plenty of delicious dishes．
Amsterdam，Netherland
It’s easy to jump on a canal or bus tour in Amsterdam in order to prevent tired little feet．If you have confident cyclists in the family，you can rent a bike and paddle around the city instead．The Tropenmuseum is a popular favorite as the roof top turns into a beach in the summer months．
Reykjavik，Iceland
This city is perfect for kids of all ages．They will love the natural wonders that the city has to offer，such as the hot springs．The Northern Lights，whale watching and trying on Viking armor（盔甲）will also create unforgettable memories for your kids．
No matter where you decide to take your kids on holida