2025年河南省重点高中英语高三上期末考试试题.doc

2025年河南省重点高中英语高三上期末考试试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．Time is pressing．You cannot start your task _____ soon．
A．too B．very C．so D．as
2．－I _______ in the same position too long. My legs have fallen asleep.
－Shake it a little before you get up.
A．will sit B．have sat
C．am sitting D．have been stting
3．—Do you know how I can ____ him?
—On his mobile phone．
A．learn B．reach C．seek D．touch
4．Every four years Americans __________ the transfer of power.
A．carry over B．carry off
C．carry on D．carry out
5．Thanks to her determination and perseverance on the piano lesson, she has a ______ grasp of the subject.
A．comprehensive B．confidential
C．conservative D．compulsory
6．—Peter has spent too much time on novels recently.
—That may ____ his poor grade in the exam.
A．account for B．answer for
C．apply for D．stand for
7．— Hi, Mary. I’m coming, but it’s snowing and traffic is moving slowly.
— ________, Jack. We’ll wait for you. Then we can have dinner together.
A．Take your time B．Don’t be serious
C．What a day D．You are kidding
8．---Can you tell us your ________ for happiness and a long life？
---Living every day to the fullest，definitely.
A．recipe B．effort
C．content D．demand
9．As to the long-term effects of global warming some believe that the damage has been done, ______________________.
A．otherwise we take steps to make up now
B．now that we take steps to make up
C．whether we take steps to make up now or not
D．unless we take steps to make up now
10．—Do you think he is the only person for the job?
—I’m not quite sure but he’ll prove_______ to the task.
A．equal B．essential
C．special D．superior
11．—Mum，look at my shoes．I need a new pair．
—________．I bought them for you only a week ago!
A．You bet B．You said it
C．You don't say D．You name it
12． carefully for long time,the opening ceremony won a great success.
A．Having prepared B．To be prepared C．Being prepared D．Having been prepared
13．How come every kid today is meant to be a champion for something _____ we know every kid can’t be a star?
A．in case B．as if
C．when D．unless
14．This house is almost ________ to the one where I lived as a child.
A．identical B．manual
C．chilly D．enthusiastic
15．Mark drives his car too fast and, what’s more, very carelessly, worries his mother.
A asA．what B．it C．which
16．To work from home, which one could hardly imagine, has been made with the development of computer technology.
A．possible B．it possible C．possibly D．to be possible
17．Premier Li Keqiang officially ______ the plan to develop the Bay Area in his government work report delivered at the start of the National People’s Congress session in March.
A．laid out B．laid off
C．laid down D．laid up
18．I appreciate ______ the opportunity to work in your company two years ago.
A．giving B．to give C．being given D．to be given
19．—The T­-shirt I received is not the same as is shown online.
—________？But I promise you we’ll look into it right away.
A．Who says B．How come
C．What for D．Why worry
20．--- I’ll take the blue one. This is twenty dollars.
--- Here’s the change. .
A．Best wishes B．My pleasure
C．Have a nice day D．Let’s call it a day
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）The Cardboard Box Office is a project created by Lilly and Leon Mackie, who recently moved from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia. The transfer left them with a mountain of cardboard boxes, and the arrival of their baby son Orson 10 months ago meant their social lives were “completely altered (改变.” So the couple decided to try to make some fun of the situation.
“We started after creating a one-off photo where we wanted to portray the general mess and sleep-deprivation (睡眠) that comes with being new parents,” Lilly Mackie said in an email. “People seemed to really love it and asked for more. We had a lot of weekends at home and a stockpile of cardboard so we thought ‘Why not?’ It went from there. ”
The Mackies took the first photos in September and have portrayed 14 movies so far,including their versions of “Cast Away”(or “Castababy”) and “Jurassic Park”(or “Goo-goo Gaa-gaa-rassic Park”). Even “Star Wars” gets the Mackie treatment, with Orson holding a cardboard tube in place of a saber (军刀) and mom sporting impressive Princess Leia-like hair buns ( HI made out of brown paper in the photo titled “Wah Wars.”
The family usually creates the sets on 'Saturdays and posts the whimsical pictures on their blog and Facebook page, which have almost 3,000 fans. Besides cardboard boxes, the photos feature costumes, props (道具) , and sets created out of everyday household items, toys, “and three individuals slowly losing their sense,” they joked on their blog.
Leon, a children’s book designer at a large publishing company, and Lilly, a stay-at-home mom, are both film buffs and photography fans. The baby is also becoming a connoisseur (鉴赏家) of movies and cardboard boxes.
“Orson seems to find the photo shoots quite fascinating and enjoys exploring the sets-and tearing things apart. There’s never a dull moment for him on Saturday nights,” Lilly said. “When he gets a little older, we’11 bring in a lot more of his input, asking for his ideas on films and sets. Make it a real family thing. I think he may come up with some quite funny things.”
1、The original reason why the Mackies create family movies is that______.
A．they want to earn a great deal of money
B．both of them are children’s book designers
C．they have no friends in their new community
D．they want to make their family life interesting
2、What do we know about the Mackies’ family movies?
A．They are usually made on Sundays.
B．They are not popular on the Internet.
C．Some of them are made based on famous films.
D．They are mainly about early childhood education.
3、Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word “whimsical” in Paragraph 4?
A．Unusual. B．Valuable. C．Famous. D．Disgusting.
4、What's the final purpose of the Mackies' making family movies?
A．To teach audiences how to make films. B．To prove their baby is very bright.
C．To develop Orson's skills in art. D．To make themselves .famous.
22．（8分） One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn't wear a mask and he smiled at surveillance cameras before walking out of each bank. Later that night, police arrested a surprised McArthur Wheeler. When they showed him the surveillance tapes, Wheeler stared in disbelief. “But I wore the juice，” he said. Apparently, Wheeler thought that rubbing lemon juice on his skin would make him invisible to videotape cameras. After all, lemon juice is used as invisible ink, so, as long as he didn't come near a heat source, he should have been completely invisible.
The case caught the eye of the psychologist David Dunning at Cornell University, who enlisted his graduate student, Justin Kruger, to see what was going on. They reasoned that, while almost everyone holds favourable views of their abilities in various social and intellectual fields, some people mistakenly assess their abilities as being much higher than they actually are. This “illusion of confidence” is now called the “Dunning-Kruger effect”，and describes the cognitive bias to inflate self-assessment.
To investigate this phenomenon in the lab, Dunning and Kruger designed some clever experiments. In one study, they asked undergraduate students a series of questions about grammar, logic and jokes, and then asked each student to estimate his or her score overall, as well as their relative rankings compared to the other students. Interestingly, students who scored the lowest in these cognitive tasks always overestimated how well they did—by a lot. Students who scored in the bottom estimated that they had performed better than two-thirds of the other students!
Sure, it's typical for people to overestimate their abilities. The problem is that when people are incompetent, not only do they reach wrong conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but also they are robbed of the ability to realize their mistakes. In a semester-long study of college students, good students could better predict their performance on future exams if given feedback about their scores and rankings. However, the poorest performers showed no recognition, despite clear and repeated feedback that they were doing badly. Instead of being confused or thoughtful about their incorrect ways, incompetent people insist that their ways are correct. As Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man(1871): “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Interestingly, really smart people also fail to accurately self-assess their abilities. As much as D- and F-grade students overestimate their abilities, A-grade students underestimate theirs. The difference is that competent people can and do adjust their self-assessment if given appropriate feedback, while incompetent individuals cannot.
1、Which of the following statements about the Dunning-Kruger effect is TRUE?
A．The effect is true for everyone in daily life.
B．It suggests that most people lack cognitive abilities.
C．Some people are overconfident about their abilities.
D．The conclusion is drawn based on a series of bank robberies.
2、What do the college students' behaviors mentioned in the experiments prove?
A．Feedback plays a significant role in estimating one's ability.
B．Incompetent people have a rather fixed attitude towards their choice.
C．Good students always predict their future performance accurately.
D．People can't rely on their previous behavior to make adjustments.
3、The underlined word “begets” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “________”.
A．gives rise to B．takes advantage of
C．makes up for D．breaks away from
4、What can we infer from the passage?
A．Real knowledge is knowing the extent of one's ignorance.
B．It is impossible for people to evaluate their real competence.
C．Illusion of confidence is the major source of people's failure.
D．Those with great abilities often have a low opinion of themselves.
23．（8分）The people of Chicago, Illinois, US, can thank three canals every time they drink a glass of clean water today. The building of the Illinois-Michigan Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the Cal-Sag Canal all helped the Chicago River start flowing in a different direction in 1892.
Since their construction over a century ago, these waterways have connected Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river network and ensured a regular flow of fresh water of Chicago.
However, some unusual and unfortunate side effects have also been created because of their construction. Asian carp(鲤鱼), also known as silver or flying carp, are threatened in their native habitat in the Chinese Heilongjiang, Yangtze, and Pearl River basins. But they have become increasingly successful at filling the Mississippi river network since first being introduced into Arkansas catfish farms in the 1970s to control algae(水藻). By swimming into the canals and spreading further across the country, there are now major fears that this introduced species may be able to access Lake Michigan and the wider Great Lakes - which store an incredible 21 percent of the entire world’s fresh water.
“The actual influence of Asian carp on the Great Lakes has yet to be explained clearly, and we think this uncertainty is part of the reason why they are such an obvious issue,” says Dr Cory Suski, Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Sciences at the University of Illinois. He points out that adult Asian carp are too large to be hunted by anything locally, that they have a prolific(多产的) reproduction rate, and they can steal food from the other native species in the rivers. “Could they survive in the Great Lakes or is there not enough food for them?” he asks.
Stopping the fish from spreading has therefore become a key concern for local lawmakers, who have made efforts such as building electric fences in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. However, any big efforts to stop the carp - such as allowing the Chicago River to once again flow in its original direction - would in turn threaten the security of the city’s water supply, replacing one big problem with another.
1、According to the text, the construction of the three canals .
A．changed the direction of the Mississippi river.
B．brought fresh water to the people of Chicago.
C．lasted for almost a century because of huge cost.
D．has been the largest construction project in US history.
2、According to the text, Asian carps .
A．have nearly become extinct in Chinese rivers.
B．have occupied large areas in the Great Lakes.
C．were introduced to the US to fight against algae pollution.
D．are likely to pollute the fresh water in the Great Lakes.
3、What is the major concern of Asian carp in the US?
A．Its large size and fast reproduction rate.
B．The food shortage facing the species.
C．Its threat to the Great Lakes ecosystem.
D．Its natural enemies in the local areas.
4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．US law makers knew little of the threat caused by Asian carp.
B．Electric fences might not be enough to stop the spread of Asian carp.
C．The Chicago River has changed its flowing direction many times.
D．People in Chicago will soon face a serious water supply shortage.
24．（8分） On Christmas Day, 2003, a woman named Nancy Sue Brown took her daughter and grandchildren to see a movie at an AMC theater. When the movie was over, the crowd made for the exits. A theater employee had just finished mopping the hallway and dutifully placed the “wet floor” sign in the slippery area. No one slipped due to the wet conditions, but someone did manage to knock over the sign. And by the time Ms. Brown got to the area, the sign was lying on the floor. And shortly thereafter, so was she. Her foot got caught in the sign, in a bad way, and she fell. Unfortunately Ms. Brown had undergone a back operation, and the fall caused more damage than it otherwise would have. So she and her husband sued (提起诉讼).
AMC argued that the entire point of the “wet floor” sign above was to warn of danger, and therefore, courts should encourage the use by not allowing Brown’s case to proceed(继续进行). AMC referred to a case about a December, 1998 incident, where a “wet floor” sign, not in use, fell to the floor causing another trip-and-fall. In that case, Georgia’s Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the store, but didn’t go so far as to say that “wet floor’ signs couldn’t give rise to legal liability (责任) in trip-and-fall accidents. In the Brown case, the Supreme Court therefore rejected AMC’s argument that the former case applied.
But the Browns argued something surprising that the “wet floor” sign was, itself, dangerous, because “using thi