湖北省宜昌市二中2025年英语高三第一学期期末学业水平测试试题.doc

湖北省宜昌市二中2025年英语高三第一学期期末学业水平测试试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．—Did your father enjoy seeing his old friends yesterday?
—Yes, he did. They each other for ages.
A．didn’t see B．wouldn’t see
C．haven’t seen D．hadn’t seen
2．—What did she want to know, Tom?
—She wondered we could complete the experiment
A．when was it that B．it was when that
C．it was when D．when it was that
3．---- 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
4．After seven hours’ drive, they reached ______ they thought was the place they had been dreaming of.
A．that B．what
C．where D．which
5．The creation can keep people away from their smart phones in a way similar to ________ e﹣cigarettes have allowed people to quit smoking．
A．that B．how
C．which D．what
6．—I’m afraid I couldn’t go to your birthday party.I have a test next Monday.
—Oh， ！You’re my best friend and you must be there！
A．go ahead B．come on C．you needn’t D．it doesn’t matter
7．Although passing the driving test ________ be difficult now, it’s worth the efforts.
A．need B．shall
C．can D．should
8．––Cathy is not coming to your birthday party tonight.
––But she ______!
A．promised B．promises
C．will promise D．had promised
9．If the traffic so heavy, I could have been back by 6 o’clock.
A．hadn’t been B．wasn’t
C．couldn’t be D．hasn’t been
10．____________the fierce competition in job seeking, many university graduates have no choice but to reduce their own demand for the salary.
A．Faced B．Facing
C．To face D．Having faced
11．— I want to learn tennis. Would you like to help me?
— . But learning tennis is no walk in the park.
A．No kidding B．No wonder C．No problem D．No way
12．The Japanese suffering from the worst natural disasters .
A．are; ever since B．are; of all time
C．is; ever since D．is; of all time
13．To tell the truth, I would rather I ________ the pain instead of you. You don’t know how worried I was.
A．took B．had taken
C．have taken D．should have taken
14．Zhang Xuan, ______ university student from Shanghai, learns ______ art in her spare time.
A．an; / B．a; the C．a; / D．an; the
15．He has written two articles for the journal，one to be published in this issue，the other to___________ in the next.
A．turn out B．come out
C．bring out. D．leave out
16．________ the program, they have to stay there for another two weeks.
A．Not completing B．Not completed
C．Not having completed D．Having not completed
17．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
18．The coat I bought yesterday is not expensive at all. As a matter of fact, I would gladly have paid ______ for it.
A．as much twice B．much as twice
C．as twice much D．twice as much
19．—I am putting on weight again! Maybe I should start doing yoga.
—You _______ that the whole morning!
A．are saying B．have said C．have been saying D．were saying
20．—Shall we put off the experiment till next week?
—______, I don’t think our teacher will be happy with it.
A．Never mind B．Sure, go ahead
C．Yes, better not D．I’d rather not
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）What’s that one thing you really should do, but keep putting off? We all have time-consuming or difficult chores we’re afraid of, and drag out until the last minute —if we complete them at all.
But what if we could drive ourselves into those boring tasks by pairing them with something we really enjoy? Research suggests that combining the things we want to do with the things we should do could be a nice trick to reaching our goals. The method is known as “temptation bundling (捆绑)” and it allows you to combine two different, but complementary (补充的) activities at the same time.
“I only let myself get a footbath when I’m doing some work,” says Katherine Milkman, a professor of behavioral economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Another example? Go to your favorite restaurant with a difficult colleague or someone you’re supposed to spend time with, such as a relative.
In short, it’s pairing a thing you like with something you don’t like that offers you motivation to do something you might be putting off.
Exercise is one activity routinely being treated as a chore —so Milkman used it in an experiment to know how temptation bundling works in reality.
In her experiment, Milkman encouraged students to exercise while listening to addictive, page-turning audiobooks. One group, which could only access the audiobooks while at the gym, were 51% more likely to exercise than the control group, which were able to listen when they liked. Another group, whose access to the audiobooks was not restricted but who were merely encouraged to bundle the activities, were 29% more likely to exercise than the control group.
The benefit of temptation bundling comes from doing two things that go well together at one time, says Milkman. “The secret is to bundle tasks that require different effort. For example, if one task requires focus or concentration, you want the other not to be too distracting —reading while listening to a podcast is very difficult, for example, while cooking and listening is more realistic,” Milkman adds.
1、What do we know about temptation bundling?
A．To do two things you like at the same time.
B．To do two things you hate at the same time.
C．To do something you like and then do something you hate.
D．To do something you hate while doing something you like.
2、What did Milkman’s experiment find about temptation bundling?
A．It was very popular. B．It was effective indeed.
C．It was rather impractical. D．It was interesting actually.
3、Which of the following would be a good choice according to Milkman?
A．Reading and watching TV.
B．Driving and having a chat.
C．Running and listening to music.
D．Chatting and playing computer games.
4、What would be the best title for the text?
A．A Good Way to Get Work Done
B．A Nice Trick to Make Things Easier
C．Can We Do Two Things at One Time?
D．Can We Accomplish More With Less Effort?
22．（8分） Recently， a 1935 letter in which Ernest Hemingway detailed his catch of a 500lb blue marlin（青枪鱼）， an adventure that is believed to have partly inspired his novel The Old Man and the Sea， has been sold for﹩28，000 （£22，000）．
The handwritten letter was sent by Hemingway on 8 May to the fishing editor of the Miami Herald， laying out in great detail how the author and his friend Henry Strater battled to keep sharks away from the marlin after catching it off the Bahamian island of Bimini．
Nate D Sanders， the auction（拍卖） company which sold the letter， said it documented for the first time in Hemingway's own words not only the size of the marlin， but also the attack by sharks， reflecting the plot of the novel．
The company added that Hemingway's account of the marlin catch differed from other anecdotes of it， one of which described Hemingway using a machine gun on the sharks， which is said to have attracted more sharks rather than frightened them away．
The Old Man and the Sea was also inspired by an anecdote told by Hemingway's Cuban friend Carlos Gutierrez． In 1936， Hemingway wrote in a magazine that Carlos had told him about an old fisherman who caught a great marlin alone．
Three years later， Hemingway told his editor Max Perkins that he was planning a short story about the old commercial fisherman who fought the swordfish all alone in his sailing boat． Instead， he ended up writing For Whom the Bell Tolls， not returning to the story about the old fisherman until January 1951． It won him the Pulitzer in 1953， and was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954．
1、What does the underlined phrase "laying out" in the second paragraph mean？
A．Discussing．
B．Wondering．
C．Imagining．
D．Presenting．
2、What did the auction company stress when selling the 1935letter？
A．The style of the writer．
B．The history of the letter．
C．The contents of the letter．
D．The popularity of the writer．
3、What inspired Hemingway to write The Old Man and The Sea besides his own adventure？
A．Henry Strater's account．
B．Carlos Gutierrez's story．
C．Max Perkins' life experience．
D．Nate D Sanders' description．
4、Which is the correct order of time for the following facts in the passage？
1Hemingway wrote a letter to describe his adventure．
2Hemingway caught a big blue marlin．
3The letter was sold at auction．
4The Old Man and The Sea won the Nobel Prize．
A．①③②④
B．②①④③
C．②④①③
D．②③①④
23．（8分） Most people who own iPhones use them as their alarm clocks―making it very easy to check emails one last time before falling asleep and hard to ever feel away from work and social networks.
Several years ago, my boss fainted due to exhaustion after staying up late to catch up on work. She banged her head and ended up with five stitches (缝针)―and became what she calls a “sleep evangelist (传教士).” Now she leaves her phone charging in another room when she goes to bed and encourages her friends to do the same.
“I sent all my friends the same Christmas gift―a lovely alarm clock―so they could stop using the excuse that they needed their very attractive iPhones by their beds to wake them up in the morning.” she said.
If your phone wakes you up in the morning, it may also be keeping you up at night. A 2008 study showed that people exposed to mobile radiation took longer to fall asleep and spent less time in deep sleep. “The study indicates that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals, components of sleep believed to be important for recovery from daily wear and tear are severely affected,” the study concluded.
A quarter of young people feel like they must be available by phone around the clock, according to a Swedish study that linked heavy cellphone use to sleeping problems, stress and depression. Unreturned messages carry more guilt when the technology to deal with them lies at our fingertips. Some teens even return text messages at midnight.
Most of us choose not to set limits on our nighttime availability. Nearly three quarters of people from the age of 18 to 44 sleep with their phones within reach, according to a 2012 Time poll. That number falls off slightly in middle age, but only people aged 65 and older are leaving the phone in another room as common as sleeping right next to it.
1、Why did the author’s boss start to enjoy sleeping?
A．Her friends encouraged her to sleep on time.
B．Mobile phones couldn’t wake her up on time.
C．Her friends sent her a lovely clock to wake her up.
D．She got hurt due to working too late.
2、Why did the author’s boss give her friends alarm clocks as Christmas gifts?
A．Alarm clocks don’t give off any radiation.
B．Alarm clocks are better at waking her friends up.
C．She advised them to replace phones with alarm clocks.
D．She used alarm clocks to remind them not to work too late.
3、What can we learn from the 2008 study?
A．Mobile radiation makes people unable to fall asleep.
B．Mobile phones can release 884 MHz wired signals.
C．Sleep can help people fight against radiation.
D．Components of sleep can be seriously affected by wireless signals.
4、What is the best title for the passage?
A．How Mobile Phones Affect Sleep
B．Why Alarm Clocks Are Better than Phones
C．How we can sleep better at night
D．How Mobile Phones Affect Health
24．（8分） We all have defining moments in our lives ---- meaningful experiences that stand out in our memory. Many of them owe a great deal to chance: a lucky encounter(相遇) with someone who becomes the love of your life. A new teacher who spots a talent you didn’t know you had. These moments seem to be the product of fate or luck. We can’t control them.
But is that true? No necessarily. Defining moments shape our lives, but we don’t have to wait for them to happen. We can be the authors of them. It is possible to create defining moments if we understand more about them. Our research shows that they all share a set of common elements. We start by asking: why do we remember certain experiences and forget others? In the case of big days, such as weddings, the answer is pretty clear----it’s a celebration that is grand in scale and rich in emotion. No surprise that it’s more memorable than a maths lesson. But for other experiences in life ----from holidays to work projects----it’s not so clear why we remember what we do.
Consider an experiment in which participants were asked to submerge(浸入) their hands for 60 seconds in buckets filled with 14℃ water. (Remember 14℃ water feels much colder than 14℃ air.) They were then asked to submerge their hands for 90 seconds instead of 60, but during the final 30 seconds, the water warmed up to 15℃. The participants were then given a choice: would you rather repeat the first trial or the second?
Psychologists have explained the reasons for this puzzling result. When people assess an experience, they tend to forget or ignore its length. Instead, they seem to rate the experience based on two key moments: the best or worst moment, known as the peak, and the ending.
In the participants’ memories, what stood out for them was that the longer trial ended more comfortably than the shorter one. So when we assess our experiences, we don’t average our minute-by-minute feelings. Rather, we tend to remember flagship moments: the peaks, the pits(低谷) and the transitions. What we don’t remember are the bits in between----sometimes there is little to distinguish one week from the next.
Partly this is because there may be only a dozen moments in your life that show who you are----those are big defining moments. But there are smaller experiences, too, in the context of a memorable holiday, romantic date or work achievement. Once we understand how we remember certain moments and why, we can start to create more moments that matter.
1、How does the author understand defining moments?
A．We can create defining moments in our lives.
B．Defining moments are just out of our control.
C．No similarities exist between defining moments.
D．Defining moments consist of smaller experiences.
2、We can learn from the experiment that _____.
A．the striking moments are more likely to be remembered.
B．the length of an experience determines our memory of it
C．it is meaningful to distinguish the bits in between flagship moments.
D．all the components of an experience should be equally remembered
3、What would probably be discussed in the following part of the text?
A．What to prepare for life’s trials.
B．Why to create defining moments.
C．Whom to owe our good fates to.
D．How to create life’s big moments.
25．（10分）Killer whales in Alaska’s Bering Sea have figured out an easy way to get fed. Instead of seeking out the fis