2026届甘肃省白银市第九中学英语高三上期末学业质量监测试题.doc

2026届甘肃省白银市第九中学英语高三上期末学业质量监测试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．Everybody was touched ______ words after they heard her moving story.
A．without B．beyond
C．against D．despite
2．It’s certainly hard work.But, a man who wishes to have a career has to make a great many sacrifices.
A．on the contrary B．in addition C．on the other hand D．in that case
3．Scientists have introduced a new model of 3D printer, ______ differs from the existing ones in certain aspects.
A．as B．which C．who D．that
4．一Would you be so kind as to take this heavy box upstairs for me?
一
A．It's my pleasure． B．Help yourself．
C．Sure，with pleasure． D．Take your time．
5．These diagrams are especially helpful when we have a concrete problem ______ at hand.
A．be solved B．to solve C．solved D．being solved
6．Could I speak to__________ is in charge of International Sales please?
A．who B．what
C．whoever D．whatever
7．I really don’t know how to express my thanks to Mr. Li, my high school English teacher, without whose help I__________ to college that year.
A．weren’t to go B．hadn’t been able to go
C．couldn’t go D．couldn’t have gone
8．I hope when you come tomorrow, you _____ the reading and have something to share.
A．did B．are doing
C．will be doing D．will have done
9．I would appreciate you could come to my birthday party.
A．that B．that it C．if D．it if
10．Any information of the oral test paper are regarded as strictly ______ before it is open.
A．conventional B．analytical
C．controversial D．confidential
11．We all know that good results ________ for you when you start doing things you love.
A．are waiting B．have waited
C．have been waiting D．will be waiting
12．If I _____it with my own eyes ,I wouldn’t have believed it.
A．didn’t see B．weren’t seeing
C．wouldn’t see D．hadn’t seen
13．— Hello, Paul, do you like to join us in playing football? We need one more person to ____ a team.
— Yes, I’d like to.
A．pick up B．pick out C．make up D．make out
14．---- Which of these digital cameras do you like best?
---- ______. They are both expensive and of little use.
A．None B．Neither C．Nothing D．No one
15．After receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Benedict went on all the people who had helped in her career.
A．to thank B．thanking
C．having thanked D．to have thanked
16．—Have you heard of yesterday's gas explosion?
—Yes. Only two of the 35 miners at the scene ________ to have made it out safely.
A．have thought B．are thought
C．had thought D．were thought
17．________ in the last examination, she was more confident of another success in the coming one.
A．To succeed B．To have succeeded C．Having succeeded D．succeeding
18．The new product is beyond all praise and has quickly taken over the market ________ its superior quality.
A．in terms of B．on account of
C．on behalf of D．on top of
19．Mary really hard on his book and thinks he’ll have finished it by Friday.
A．worked B．has been working
C．had worked D．has worked
20．—What do you think of your preparations for the final exams?
—Not so good. Actually I feel like ______ for I’ve made little progress in Maths.
A．Daniel in the lion’s den B．Achilles’ heel
C．a good Samaritan D．a sacred cow
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）While global warming and ocean acidification driven by pollution cause a real threat to sea creatures, climate change is not the primary driver threatening to cause the extinction (灭绝) of large ocean animals. It is humans that are threatening large sea creatures primarily by hunting and fishing them.
Researchers findings reflect a phenomenon experienced by ancient land ecosystems (生态系统). These losses in the ocean are paralleling what humans did to land animals some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, when we wiped out around half of the big-bodied mammals on Earth, like mammoths, mastodons. saber-tooth cats and the like.
The increasing threat to large groups of sea animals is a recent phenomenon. The researchers made this discovery by comparing characteristics of nearly 2,500 extinct sea vertebrates and mollusks alongside others currently in danger of extinction. They found that smaller sea animals were a little more likely than large ones to be killed off during five previous mass extinction events—the most recent of which was associated with a small planet’s strike some 65 million years ago.
What was surprising to the researchers was that they did not see a similar kind of pattern in any of the previous mass extinction events that they studied.
The study shows that a sixth mass extinction, which may already be underway, could kill off larger-bodied animals while leaving smaller ones behind. That could have a terrible long-term impact.
Such removal of the largest animals from the modern oceans, which never happened in the history of animal life, may disturb the order of ecosystems for millions of years even at levels of taxonomic loss far below those of previous mass extinctions.
This news should serve as a wake-up call for humans to fundamentally change the way they manage the oceans. That is to say, it is a warning of what will happen if we don’t get our act together.
Limiting industrialization of the oceans may be necessary to give threatened animals time and space to recover. Most whaling has been banned since the 1980s. We have brought gray whales back from the edge of extinction and blue whales are coming back too.
The researchers point out that cutting back on carbon emissions (排放) will also be necessary to slow extinctions.
1、Paragraph 2 is intended to tell us that ________.
A．both land animals and sea animals die out because of humans
B．big-bodied animals were killed as they were threat to humans
C．humans tended to kill animals on land instead of those in seas
D．humans have been main killers of animals for a very long time
2、What can we learn from the researcher’s studies about animal extinction?
A．It is easier for sea creatures to go extinct than land ones.
B．The patterns of sea animal mass extinction are irregular.
C．Humans were responsible for all those extinctions.
D．Small-bodied creatures produce their young more easily.
3、Which does the passage suggest is the most important in stopping sea animal extinction?
A．To completely ban people from hunting them.
B．To fully realize the urgency of protecting them.
C．To unconditionally release kss CO2 into the air.
D．To reasonably keep control of the trade in them.
22．（8分）Do you listen to the songs that your parents like? Chance are that you don’t. You probably think the music that they like is old and dull and that the Songs on your playlist are much cooler.
But here is what scientists found recently: people’s music tastes change as they age, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. So it’s likely that your own musical preference will follow a similar path to your parents’ whether you like it or not.
We used to think that culture and personality arc the only factors that affect one’s music choice. But researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, gathered data from more than 250,000 people over the past 10 years. They noticed that as people age, their social circumstances change, and so does their music taste.
There are three musical periods that people pass through as they mature-intense”, “contemporary” and “sophisticated”.
The first period comes in the teenagers years, during which time people like intense music such as punk and rock because teenagers tend to be aggressive and want to establish their identity as independent individuals.
But as people move into early adulthood, their lifestyle changes—they socialize more and want to build close relationships with others. As a result, they become more fond of contemporary music, such as pop and R&B, which is usually uplifting and danceable and played at parties where people hang out together and chat.
When middle age comes, things have settled down for most people. This period will be dominated (支配) by more “sophisticated” music, such as jazz and classical, as well as more catchy music like country, folk, and blues.
“For many, this life stage is frequently exhausted by work and family, and there is a requirement for relaxing, emotive (动情的) music,” Jason Rentfrow, a researcher member, told The telegraph.
But you must be thinking: “Aren’t there old people who are still into rock music?” Of course there are. But Rentfrow explained that their reasons for listening to rock music may have changed. “We use music for different reasons,” he said, and thus at that age people may listen to remind themselves of their youths.
1、Why do children usually like different songs from their parents according to the passage?
A．Children prefer cool music.
B．Music taste changes with age.
C．parents’ songs are always dull.
D．Parents have better social circumstances.
2、The underlined word “catchy” in Paragraph 7 probably means ________.
A．touching and easily remembered B．awkward and easily captured
C．elegant but difficult to understand D．flexible and difficult to catch
3、Middle age is a period when people ________.
A．have an aggressive goal B．like Pop and R&B
C．desire close connections with others D．lead a stressful life
4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．Old people don’t like rock music. B．Music can serve as a reminder.
C．Rock music makes old people younger. D．Listening to rock music needs reasons.
5、What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．Why do people like music?
B．How can you improve your music talent?
C．What influences peopled music taste?
D．Why do different people like different music?
23．（8分）Every day, we are inching closer to some kind of artificial intelligence. Advances in big data, machine learning and robotics are going to give us a world where computers are effectively intelligent in terms of how we deal with them. Should you be scared by this? Absolutely, but not in the usual “robot overlords” (机器人帝国) kind of way. Instead, the real fear should be about getting human beings wrong, not getting AI right.
The key to the technology is the ability of computers to recognize human emotions based on the ‘‘activation” of muscles in the face. A computer can identify the positions of facial muscles and use them to infer the emotional state of its user. Then the machine responds in ways that take that emotional state into account.
One potential application of it is to provide “emotional robots” for the elderly. Having a machine that could speak in a kind way would comfort a lonely older person. That is a good thing, right? But that won’t also relieve us from questioning how we ended up in a society that takes care of the elderly because we don’t know what else to do with them? Can’t we have more humane solutions than robots?
“Emotion data” aren’t the same thing as the real and vivid emotional experiences we human beings have. Our emotions are more than our faces or voices. How can they be pulled out like a thread, one by one, from the fabric of our being?
Research programs can come with much philosophical concern, too. From the computers’ point of view, what the computing technology captures are emotions, but at its root is a reduction of human experience whose outward expressions can be captured algorithmically (计算上). As the technology is used in the world, it can reframe the world in ways that can be hard to escape from.
The technology will clearly have useful applications, but once it treats emotions as data, we may find that it is the only aspect of emotion we come to recognize or value. Once billions of dollars floods into this field, we will find ourselves trapped in a technology that is reducing our lives. Even worse, our “emotion data” will be used against us to make money for someone else. And that is what scares me about AI.
1、Why does the author feel scared of the development of artificial intelligence?
A．The technology is developing much too slowly.
B．Computers can’t recognize human emotions.
C．Robots would get control of human beings.
D．People may use artificial intelligence improperly.
2、Why does the author dislike the idea of providing “emotional robots” for the elderly?
A．The aged people will find it hard to live with them.
B．What elderly people need is much more than that.
C．It can’t relieve us of the pressure from modern society.
D．It’s impossible to use them to keep the elderly healthy.
3、What does the author intend to conclude in Paragraphs 4 and 5?
A．Emotional data can’t be equal to human emotions.
B．AI technology itself has fewer and fewer faults.
C．AI-built-in robots won’t have the ability to understand human beings.
D．The information computers get can reframe human emotions.
4、How does the author think about ‘‘emotion data” according to the last paragraph?
A．It can arouse people’s sense of value.
B．It can improve people’s human experience.
C．It may be misused as a tool to make profits.
D．It may push the AI technology forward.
24．（8分）People and animals often enjoy loving relationships with each other. When people adopt domesticated(家养的) animals into their families as pets, animals give humans the blessings of companionship and fun in return. In the wild, animals sometimes carry out dramatic rescues of people in dangerous situations, miraculously(奇迹般地) sensing human needs and jumping in without fear to help.
In 2000, a 6-year-old boy named Elian Conzalez left Cuba on a boat bound for Florida in the United States, but the boat sank and everyone aboard drowned except for Elian and two adults. Elian and the other two survivors held onto inner tuber for 48 hours to try to stay afloat in the sea. After a while, however, Elian began to lose strength, slipping under the water and then grabbing the tube again as he fought to stay alive.
A small group of dolphins noticed Elian struggling and swan over to him to help. The dolphins formed a circle around the inner tube and took turns using their noses to lift Elian until fishermen working in the area discovered and rescued Elian and the two adults who floated nearby. The fishermen reported that, when they discovered Elian, he was repeating a prayer that his mother had taught him before drowning, asking guardian angels to protect him.
Miraculously, the dolphins knew that a child would need more help than adults, so they focused on Elian —and they figured out exactly what needed to be done and cooperated carry out that plan successfully. They made it!
1、Why did Elian slip off the tube?
A．He was tired out.
B．The dolphins helped him.
C．The two adults pushed him.
D．The tube was too smooth to grab.
2、How did the dolphins save Elian Conzalez?