云南昆明市黄冈实验学校2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末综合测试模拟试题.doc

云南昆明市黄冈实验学校2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末综合测试模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．﹣Have you got the results of the final exam？
﹣Not yet．It will be a few days ________ we know the full results．（　　）
A．before B．after
C．until D．when
2．She was in a ________ condition after the heart transplant operation when her body rejected the foreign organ.
A．skeptical B．critical C．theoretical D．practical
3．—Amazingly, I’ve managed to start my own shop online!
—________ I told you it was easy.
A．There you are! B．Believe it or not.
C．How come? D．You got me there!
4．—Why did you let ____ kids off this time?
—I just want to give them ____ second chance．
A．/; the B．the;/ C．the; the D．the; a
5．The traffic problems we are looking forward to seeing should have attracted the government's attention.
A．solving B．solve C．solved D．to solve
6．The debate here will be limited in two main respects，________ the time available.
A．in view of B．in return for
C．in addition to D．in comparison with
7．—________? You look really down.
—I’m tired of my job. There are endless problems to deal with.
A．Why bother B．So what
C．What’s up D．Why not
8．We can never expect ____ bluer sky unless we create ____ less polluted world.
A．a; a B．a; the
C．the; a D．the; the
9．I like such houses with beautiful gardens in front, but I don’t have enough money to buy .
A．it B．one C．that D．this
10．________ from J.K. Rowling’s book series of the same title, the “Harry Potter” movies are universally acknowledged as classics.
A．Adapting B．Having adapted
C．Adapted D．To be adapted
11．We have already discussed this plan _____, so next we should spare no effort to carry it out.
A．at length B．at random C．at ease D．at best
12．—Did you enjoy the party?
—Yes. We ___________ well by our hosts.
A．were treated B．would be treated
C．treated D．had treated
13．After looking at many new cars, I found ________ which I would accept just as suitable.
A．it B．this C．that D．one
14．Was it at the beginning _____ you made the promise ____ you would do all to help make it?
A．that; that B．when; that
C．that; when D．when; when
15．If you think that the illness might be serious, you should not _________ going to the doctor.
A．put off B．set about
C．hold back D．give away
16．Due to large investment in housing, many cities can ________ the flow of new arrivals, improving the quality of their life.
A．give rise to B．make way for C．take part in D．keep pace with
17．—To apply for a short-term study visa in the UK, I have to be able to speak some English, but I want to go there just to learn English.
—Oh, it’s really____.
A．a confidential source B．a catch-22 situation
C．a Pandora’s box D．a Herculean task
18．When caught _____ in the exam, he begged for the teacher’s pardon and tried ______ punishment.
A．cheating; escaping B．to be cheating; to escape
C．cheating; to escape D．to be cheating; escaping
19．—Fiona never fails to grasp any chance of promotion.
—She’s a woman of ________.
A．ambition B．attention
C．expectation D．reputation
20．What I love most about reading novels is ______ the authors vividly describe the characters.
A．what B．why
C．how D．whom
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）How many girls in this world fall behind? The answer is hard—too many to count. This is why the phrase “Go Get It Girl” popped up in my head one day. This would be my project. Thus begins the journey of my Cold Award project, the largest and most important step of Girl Scouts (女童子军).
“Go Get It Girl” is a girl’s self-empowerment (自我授权) project centered on a website called gogetitgirl.org. It focuses on areas including education, health, and financial literacy. The education section includes information on applying to college and, maintaining good grades. The health section contains information on basic health and self-respect. Lastly, the financial literacy section has all the information a girl needs to manage her money properly.
As part of my project, I was able to work one-on-one with girls in elementary, middle, and high school. I gave a speech at a local high school’s College Night. I spoke to Hispanic girls and their parents about applying to college. In addition, I worked with an organization called Cool Girls, Inc. Cool Girls is an organization focused on the advancement of girls in all aspects of their development. I worked at the afterschool program, Cool Girls Club. The girls I worked with were primarily minorities, and Cool Girls truly helps them to rise above any current difficulties in their lives.
To provide inspiration for the girls who visit gogetitgirl.org, I interviewed successful women in my community, including a doctor and business owner.
The project has been a lot of work, arid it’s not over yet. It will never be over, hopefully, because I will always look for ways to help girls.
1、603．What does the underlined phrase “popped up” in Paragraph to) refer to?
A．took root. B．gained popularity. C．made its way. D．appeared all of a sudden.
2、605．What does the writer mainly tell us in the first paragraph?
A．Why the writer started “Go Get It Girl’. B．Why many girls fall behind.
C．How Girl Scouts is founded. D．What Girl Scouts refers to.
3、607．What can help a girl learn how to make both ends meet?
A．Education. B．Cool Girls Club. C．Financial literacy. D．College Night.
4、609．Why did the writer interview successful women in the community?
A．To finish the Gold Award project as soon as possible.
B．To offer good ideas to girls visiting gogetitgirl.org.
C．To promote the local community construction.
D．To seek financial support for the project
22．（8分） Ray Tokuda, a 54-year-old Japanese American, is proud of the title his school has given him. He is a Shifu, a Chinese word literally meaning a master, mentor or senior practioner of martial arts.

Tokuda has reason to be proud. He has been involved with Chinese martial arts for almost four decades. After learning them at the martial arts school in New Mexico State, today he is among the most experienced kung fu teachers of the school.
Practicing martial arts two to three hours and helping students improve their skills have become Tokuda’s daily routine. He expects to practice and teach martial arts for the rest of his life. “I’m still learning. It’s worth more than a lifetime to learn Chinese martial arts,” he said. “Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. I think it’s also the magic of Chinese culture.”
Tokuda was sent to the martial arts school when he was 10. He still remembers how unwilling he was when starting out. “My father had always wanted to learn Chinese martial arts but never got the chance, so he put his kid in,” he said. “I was so afraid at that time because I thought kung fu was all about fighting.”
But things changed after he learned that martial arts were more than punching and kicking.
“One of the things martial arts teach me is overcoming adversity,” Tokuda said. “As a little kid, my first lesson was like, oh, look, this is a thing that I can get through by diligence, perseverance(毅力) and dedication, and that was priceless for my life.”
Learning Chinese martial arts opened a gateway for him to better understand Chinese culture because he could hear a lot of ancient Chinese kung fu-related stories. “It is like in America, where we hear stories about knights in shining armor and King Arthur and noble deeds done,” he said. “I feel martial arts preserve something of ancient China that can’t be found in books. They are sort of an oral history.”
Tokuda has also been invited to various events in his home state to showcase traditional Chinese culture, including the dragon dance and lion dance, which he also learnt at the martial arts school. Because of this, he is now considered a cultural envoy (使者) in the eyes of the public.
1、Tokuda didn’t want to learn kung fu because he had thought it was ________.
A．practical B．magical
C．violent D．difficult
2、From the passage, what can we learn about Tokuda?
A．He learnt martial arts from his father.
B．He is the founder of the kung fu school.
C．He learnt from martial arts how to deal with difficulties.
D．He is the most experienced kung fu teacher of his state.
3、Which of the following words can best describe Tokuda?
A．Modest and friendly. B．Devoted and persevering.
C．Talented and humorous. D．Motivated and considerate.
23．（8分）When an ice cube melts, it creates a puddle (水坑). When an ice sheet (冰盖)melts, it raises sea levels. It sounds simple, but scientists have debated for decades whether both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets actually were shrinking, and how much that melting contributed to rising sea levels.
Now, a new study has provided the best evidence of how the polar ice sheets are responding to our warming world. In the study, an international team of scientists looked at 20 years of' data in the ice sheets collected by 10 satellite missions. The team's conclusion: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets both are losing ice overall. The researchers also found that between 1992 and 2011, melt water from those shrinking ice sheets caused sea levels to rise by about 11 millimeters.
Over the 19 years studied, the Greenland ice sheet lost 2.7 trillion metric tons of ice. The Antarctic ice sheet also shrank by about l.3 trillion metric tons. Previously, some scientists disagreed whether the Antarctic sheet, the largest mass of ice in the world, was shrinking or growing or neither.
While the Earth is warming overall, the effect of climate change varies from region to region. Over the last 15 years, for example, scientists have something disagreed over how climate change has affected the polar ice sheets. Many studies found that the sheets lost a lot of ice and that not enough snow fell on the sheets to compensate for the loss. But other studies found that the loss of ice was balanced by the gain in snowfall.
Richard Alley, a glacier scientist at Penn State University, said that many of those studies looked at different areas, and over different time periods. In addition, the studies didn't all use the satellite data in the same way. Those differences made, it difficult to compare the results.
The data in the new study matched time periods and areas. The study also combined measurements from kinds of satellites.
1、Why does the author use a common-sense phenomenon as the beginning?
A．To present the reason for ice sheet melting.
B．To show us the result of a scientific experiment.
C．To give a simple example to introduce the topic.
D．To present a common daily finding obvious to the readers.
2、The researchers reached their conclusion by_____.
A．analyzing the findings of former studies
B．observing the Antarctic and Greenland
C．referring to the data from satellites
D．making measurements in the Antarctic and Greenland
3、What does the underlined phrase "compensate for" in paragraph 4 refer to?
A．Cut down.
B．Lead to．
C．Bring about.
D．Make up for.
4、Which of the following might be the best conclusion for the passage?
A．Ice sheets are shrinking due to global warming.
B．People are suffering from climate change.
C．Rising sea levels makes people live in danger.
D．Shrinking ice has nothing to do with sea levels.
24．（8分） When my grandmother died at the age of 96, there were two things she left behind in abundance—nearly 100 photo albums documenting decades of travel and home life, and a dozen quilts, one of which my mother gave me.
Quilting is the process of sewing together fabric(布料) to make one large piece of fabric. In my family，quilting and sewing is a tradition that has been passed down through the generations. My mother says her great-grandmother would occasionally travel around New York State to sew clothing for other families.
In the United States，quilting was a craft(手艺) that started as a necessity and eventually became much more. In 1862, the U.S. government offered millions of acres of land to Americans who wanted to move west. This allowed families to settle on land that that could eventually own. They often built their own homes and lived off the vegetables in their gardens and the livestock they had. Sewing was very important for women because they were responsible for clothing their families and keeping them warm.
Quilting also became a chance for women to socialize with each other. They would gather for so-called “quilting bees”，where they would meet up and work on one quilting project together. This provided a much-needed relief from the lonely life of living on a large piece of land.
Throughout history, the different patterns on American quilts have conveyed all kinds of information. From then，we can tell where a person lived，what region of the world they originated from, or sometimes a story is told in pictures on a quilt.
Even today，women still gather to quit together in a show of friendship and a love for the craft，just like the old days. My sister has tried quilting a few times，and hopefully，her two daughters may one day continue this family tradition.
1、What do we know about quilting?
A．It is a lost traditional craft.
B．It is a major means of making a living in the USA．
C．It is a craft that has become a cultural symbol.
D．It was a way to carry on the American history.
2、What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3？
A．Introduce a new topic for discussion.
B．Summarize the previous paragraphs
C．Add some background information.
D．Praise the U.S.government's policy.
3、What does the underlined word “this” in paragraph 4 refer to？
A．Working on the land.
B．Participating in “quilting bees”.
C．Designing a quilting project.
D．Clothing the family.
4、What is the author’s purpose in writing the text？
A．To instruct how to sew together fabric.
B．To show the author's skills of quilting.
C．To tell about the struggle of women.
D．To appeal for preservation of quilting.
25．（10分） While elephants born without tusks (长牙)are not unheard of，they normally form just 2 to 6 percent of the population. However, that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, where an astonishing 33 percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in 1992 are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence, Joyce Poole, an elephant behavior expert, has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing unnatural evolution of the species due to the constant hunting of elephants for valuable ivory.
Poole says before the country’s 15-year-long civil war, the 100,000—acre park was home to over 4,000 elephants. However, by the time the conflict ended in 1992, about 90 percent of them had been killed for ivory to help finance weapons (武器)and meat to feed the soldiers. Of the less than 200 survivors, over 50 percent of adult females had no tusks. Therefore, it is