2025-2026学年广东省汕头市潮师高级中学高三英语第一学期期末学业质量监测模拟试题.doc

2025-2026学年广东省汕头市潮师高级中学高三英语第一学期期末学业质量监测模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．—That's the third time you've done that!
—Yeah, _____?
A．what of it B．what’s on
C．what about D．what for
2．The climate conference was attended by 11,000 people, it the largest UN gathering ever held.
A．making B．to make C．made D．to be making
3．If the service is awful, a customer has the right to to the manager.
A．react B．apply
C．complain D．suggest
4．The matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup will be played in 2019 all around France, whose men’s team _____ the 2018 World Cup.
A．wins B．won
C．has won D．had won
5．The desks in our classroom are so close together that there is not enough room to move them．
A．between B．in C．across D．over
6．The science competition is a good opportunity to show students _____ creativity can add new value to their school life.
A．where B．whether C．how D．when
7．It’s _______ for people to blame traffic jams, the cost of gas and the great speed of modern life.
A．reasonable B．available
C．accurate D．cautious
8．-Excuse me, but why am I not allowed to use the gym?
-________， but your room price doesn't cover it.
A．No hurry B．No wonder C．No offence D．No problem
9．Parents need to encourage kids to develop their potential _____ putting too much pressure on them.
A．without B．besides
C．by D．for
10．— Can I pay the bill by check?
— Sorry, sir. According to the rules of our hotel, the payment ______ be made in cash.
A．shall B．need
C．will D．can
11．Don’t throw away the old books．Give them to ____needs them．
A．whoever B．anyone C．who D．whomever
12．She is quite________to office work. You had better offer her some suggestions when necessary.
A．familiar B．similar
C．fresh D．sensitive
13．Our team is world-class and it was no surprise that we won by such a margin.
A．low B．high
C．wide D．narrow
14．—The movie Till Death Do Us Part 《最爱》will be on at 8 pm．What about picking you up at 7pm?
—All right．I will have come back from work by then, and I you at home．
A．will be waiting for B．will wait for C．have been waiting for D．am waiting for
15．The Party could have stated ______ their policy was on this matter, but the voters only received a very dusty answer.
A．why B．when C．whether D．what
16．-- What about the two of us going downtown?
-- ___________ . I hate spending time hanging around.
A．That suits me fine B．Why not
C．It depends on the weather D．Well, that's the last thing I will do
17．Mark has lived in China for many years, yet he still can't ________ himself to the Chinese customs.
A．observe B．adapt
C．lead D．devote
18．Kimberly ______ an article, so don’t disturb her.
A．would write B．writes C．wrote D．is writing
19．The new secretary is and therefore the manager is satisfied with her work.
A．effective B．efficient C．specific D．sufficient
20．Jack and Mike were found cheating in the exam, and_______by their teacher at the moment.
A．were scolded B．are being scolded
C．have been scolded D．were being scolded
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） Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 3,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you give up well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any prize. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
1、Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.
A．the reasons for success B．the standards of success
C．the importance of success D．what people think success is
2、Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ________.
A．work makes one feel pain B．one tends to enjoy his work
C．it takes a lot of time to succeed D．one gives up his work easily
3、What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A．Successful people like to show their great skills.
B．People need to achieve success at the cost of life.
C．People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.
D．It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.
4、What is the main theme of the passage?
A．Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.
B．One cannot succeed without time and practice.
C．Having a goal is very important to success.
D．Being good is different from being great.
22．（8分）The tornado last 4 minutes, to us, it felt like a lifetime.
No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado from the TV than it was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The wind began to roar through the house. We had three flights of steps to get to the first floor. The closet down there is underneath a brick staircase, which seemed like the strongest place in our house to wait things out.
It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. As we finally reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Glass flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us.
We got close to the staircase only to hear the loud sound of our garage door coming off. The back wall of the house followed and tore off into the darkness outside.
By the time I reached the closet, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmy’s arm and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over.
The storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.
1、Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A．They decided to hide in the brick staircase because it was the strongest place to hide.
B．It was hard to make it to the first floor because there was no floor underneath them.
C．Their house was one of the houses in the unit that were completely destroyed.
D．If the tornado hadn’t stopped in time, Jimmy would have been blown away into the darkness.
2、What’s the right order of following events?
a. The back wall of the house tore off into the darkness outside.
b. Jimmy lifted off his feet and was thought to be gone.
c. The author felt no pain although her knees were full of glass.
d. A tree branch whipped through the doorframe and flew over their heads.
e. The garage door came off.
f. The author was pushed down to the closet by Jimmy.
A．deafcb B．deafbc
C．dfeabc D．daefcb
3、Which of the following words can best describe their experience?
A．Thrilling and smooth.
B．Frightening and lucky.
C．Suffering and miserable.
D．Painful and unfortunate.
4、Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A．An unforgettable experience
B．Tornado on the way
C．Love defeats everything
D．The life-long 4 minutes
23．（8分） Hotshot jet pilots are no match for cliff swallows. The birds rocket over bridges and skim over lakes, rushing forward at accelerations that would knock an Air Force. By tracking these contests with high-speed cameras, a new study gives the first, in-depth peek into avian aerodynamics (鸟类空气力学) in the wild. “The findings may even provide insight into how to design better micro air vehicles-tiny drones. This technology will be brilliantly useful,” says biomechanics expert Jim Usherwood of the United Kingdom’s Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield. “High-resolution field studies like this have never been done before for birds.”
For cliff swallows, the trouble starts when they return from wintering in South America to their summer homes in North America. After arrival, they seek out their old mud nests—usually located under concrete bridges and freeways-and start rebuilding their homes. But rather than hunt down a fresh supply of mud, some swallows prefer stealing supplies from their more hardworking neighbors. Others take things further and will even lay an egg or two in their neighbor’s nest before taking off.
Battles in the air follow if the invaders are caught in the act, and a new study takes advantage of these fights to learn how birds perform high-speed maneuvers (演习). The team placed three cameras along a North Carolina lake crossed by a highway bridge that houses several cliff swallow nests and waited for the battles to commence.
The team was surprised to learn that most of the time, chasers copied the move of fleeing invaders. Swallows also pull very hard turns to escape an enemy, with one extreme case reaching 7.8 gravity. Fighter pilots usually pass out at about 5 or 6 gravity, which is why these experiments have earned interest, and partial funding, from the Office of Naval Research. The Navy may use the findings to build better guidance systems for micro air vehicles. However, the swallows’ biomechanics are complex, and now the team is simply trying to collect a few tricks.
1、Why did the Usherwood carry out the studies?
A．To guide a better design of air vehicles.
B．To prove the swallows are better at flying.
C．To experiment with its high-speed cameras.
D．To track how the swallows skim over lakes.
2、What leads to the battles among the birds?
A．Sharing food.
B．Occupying others’ nests.
C．Seizing mud for nesting.
D．Competing for the use of bridges.
3、Which can best replace the underlined word “commence” in paragraph 3?
A．continue B．accelerate
C．end D．begin
4、What is the trick of the swallow to escape its enemy?
A．Accelerating toward it.
B．Copying what its enemy do.
C．Making sharp turns during flight.
D．Seeking for help from its fellows.
24．（8分）Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS, affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord (脊髓) that make the muscles of both the upper and lower body work.
Those nerve cells lose their ability to control muscle movement, which leads to paralysis (瘫痪) and death. Its most famous sufferer was famed physicist Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 76.
Hawking, diagnosed with the condition in 1963, lived with it for more than 50 years — a remarkably long time for an ALS sufferer. The disease left him paralyzed and completely dependent on others and technology for everything: bathing, dressing, eating, mobility and speech. He was able to move only a few fingers on one hand.
“I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many,” he wrote on his website.
“I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope.”
Hawking’s life, including his battle with ALS, was made into a 2014 biopic, The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 20,000 to 30,000 people have ALS in the United States, with about 5,000 new cases diagnosed every year. People usually find out that they have it between 55 and 75 years of age. On average, patients live two to five years after symptoms develop.
For reasons not yet understood, military veterans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ALS as the general public, according to the ALS Association. Scientists have been studying many factors that could be linked with ALS, such as heredity (遗传) and environmental exposures.
1、According to the text, ALS .
A．is linked with climate changes
B．leads to death in one or two years
C．affects the nerve cells all over the body
D．makes people lose control of muscle movement
2、From the text we can infer that Hawking .
A．died of an unknown disease
B．lived with ALS for 55 years
C．felt desperate in his last years
D．was paralyzed due to poor treatment
3、What is the situation of ALS in the US?
A．Over 30,000 people suffer from ALS.
B．ALS is usually found among the elderly people.
C．Patients often enjoy a long lifespan despite ALS.
D．More and more new cases are reported every year.
4、What is the text mainly about?
A．The symptoms and possible cures of ALS.
B．A biographical film about Stephen Hawking.
C．A general introduction of the disease of ALS.
D．Life of the famous physicist, Stephen Hawking.
25．（10分） Wood has many great characteristics that make it the perfect building material. It is cheap，durable(耐用的)，easily available，and most importantly，environmentally sustainable. The one thing it is not，is transparent(透明的). Now thanks to a team of scientists at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology，the material may even be able to add that feature to its already impressive list.
Lead researcher Dr. Lars Berglund said he was inspired to create the transparent wood after learning how Japanese researchers had developed a see-through paper for use in flexible display screens for electronic devices. The team began by pulling out the wood's lignin(木质素). The lignin-free wood was then dipped into a polymer(聚合物)and baked at a temperature of 158F for four hours. The result was a hybrid product that was not only stronger and lighter than the orig