2025年云南省昆明市禄劝县第一中学英语高三第一学期期末统考模拟试题.doc

2025年云南省昆明市禄劝县第一中学英语高三第一学期期末统考模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．A lot of suggestions were put forward at the meeting, but ______ was practical.
A．nothing B．none
C．neither D．no one
2．For thousands of years,poetry the favorite type of literature for many in China.
A．is B．has been C．was D．will be
3．My sister met him in the street yesterday afternoon, so he ______ your lecture.
A．shouldn’t have attended B．couldn’t have attended
C．mustn’t have attended D．needn’t have attended
4．Countries which continue importing huge quantities of waste will have to____ the issue of pollution.
A．maintain B．simplify C．overlook D．address
5．________ they choose Chinese company is that China has the most advanced technology of high speed railway in the world.
A．When B．That
C．Where D．Why
6．The government spokesman has to ________ his words before responding to reporters.
A．pass B．weigh C．cover D．express
7．—I have got a headache.
—No wonder.You___in front of that computer too long.
A．work B．are working
C．have been working D．worked
8．________ two hours daily has made considerable difference to my physical condition.
A．To walk B．Walking
C．Walked D．Having walked
9．Mr. Zhang gave all textbooks to all the pupils, except ____________ who had already taken them.
A．these B．ones
C．those D．the others
10．—I dropped by at 6:00pm yesterday but failed to see you at your house.
—I ________ in a gym at that time.
A．was exercising B．am exercising
C．have exercised D．had exercised
11．—She got her first science fiction published. It turned out to be________.
—When was that?
—It was in 2009 ________ she was still in college.
A．success; that B．a success; when
C．success; when D．a success; that
12．Taking drugs has become part of every sport _________ athletes seek to achieve beyond their natural limits.
A．which B．that C．who D．where
13．A hearty laugh relieves physical tension, _____your muscles relaxed for over half an hour.
A．to leave B．left C．leaving D．leave
14．He ________ in a university for five years, but now he runs a company of his own.
A．has taught B．had taught
C．taught D．has been teaching
15．In many homes in the UK, the first person _______ has to make tea for the family.
A．waking up B．to wake up
C．woke up D．woken up
16． “Drive-ins” have large parking lots ________ customers are served in their cars by waitresses.
A．who B．when C．which D．where
17．As one of the most popular artists in the US, not only_______ with her hit songs, but has inspired women with her devotion to charity.
A．has Beyonce influenced pop culture B．influenced pop culture has Beyonce
C．Beyonce has influenced pop culture D．influenced pop culture Beyonce has
18．It came as a great ________ to the parents that their son finally came back safe and sound.
A．relief B．sense
C．relaxion D．favor
19．Don’t throw away the old books．Give them to ____needs them．
A．whoever B．anyone C．who D．whomever
20．—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
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）Bamboo is one of the world's most useful plants. For thousands of years, bamboo has been used in many different ways-from food to medicine to clothing and, in small ways, as a building material.
However, bamboo is not often used as a building material in the developed world. A professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is trying to change that. The professor and his students are testing the strength of bamboo.They are testing how much pressure or weight it can take before breaking.
Kent Harries is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Harries says that testing methods for bamboo need to be the same for all. They need to be standardized. Standardizing test methods for bamboo will help to bring the plant into common use. It will also give engineers and builders around the world a dependable standard.
Harries says that bamboo is strong in nature. The strength of at least three species of bamboo is similar to steel.Besides its strength, bamboo has other features that make it very useful in building. He says it is resilient(有弹力的), meaning it keeps its shape and strength even under pressure.
Bamboo also grows quickly. Bamboo that is suitable for construction needs much less resources than wood. The harvest cycle of bamboo is about 3 years. Softwoods such as cedar, pine and spruce have a harvest cycle of about 10 years. And hardwoods that come from flowering plants such as oak and walnut need more than 30 years.
Bamboo is widely used as food for panda bears. It is also used for flooring and window covers. However, for building, bamboo is not used much outside its native growing area. This is mostly because of its round shape. But there are other reasons too. People think -- or have the mentality--that bamboo is a low quality building material.
1、What is the author mainly talking about in the passage?
A．Make bamboo a common building material.
B．Take advantage of bamboo in our everyday.
C．Consider bamboo to be a common plant.
D．Use bamboo to replace building materials.
2、What is the purpose of what Kent Harries and his students did?
A．To prove what is the most useful plant.
B．To introduce bamboo to the developed world.
C．To give engineers and builders some advice.
D．To make sure of the strength of bamboo.
3、What does Harries think of bamboo in the passage?
A．Harries sees bamboo as a great building material.
B．Harries thinks bamboo is as strong as steel.
C．Harries sees bamboo as the most ideal Plant.
D．Harries thinks bamboo has the reliable shape.
4、What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Bamboo Is an environmentally friendly building material.
B．Bamboo material will go to the market in the soon future.
C．Hardwoods are much more popular than softwoods.
D．Bamboo grows not only faster but takes up less space.
22．（8分） Andrew Jackson has been sitting pretty on the $20 bill for 87 years. Is it time to bring some new blood to the banknote?
The non-profit organization called Women on 20s is campaigning to put a woman’s face on American money. Barbara Ortiz Howard, the company’s founder, would like to see a woman on the $20 bill by 2020.That year marks the 100-year anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
Howard got the idea when she realized that her daughter had no everyday reminders of famous women in history. She asked her friend Susan Ades Stone, a journalist, to join her cause. “Part of the aim is to educate as many people as possible about as many women as possible,” Ades says. “We want to see how many people we can reach.”
American money values the successes of former presidents and founding fathers. Currently, there are only two women on money: Susan B．Anthony is the face of the rare dollar coin, and Sacagawea can be seen on the gold dollar coin. There are no women on paper bills.
With help from writers and historians, Howard and Stone came up with a voting list featuring 15 important women. Ades says there is a standard for choosing candidates. They look at the women’s contributions to our world, and at what challenges they faced.
More than 72,000 people have voted so far in the poll. Ades says the competition has narrowed to a “very close race”, but won’t say who’s in the lead. After two rounds of voting, Women on 20s will send their campaign to the White House for consideration. The final decision is up to the Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew. Lew is unlikely to make a change without the president’s approval. But last year, when a little girl asked the president why there aren’t any women on US currency, he said that adding a woman is a “pretty good idea”.
1、When did American women begin to enjoy voting rights?
A．In the 1920s. B．In the 19th century.
C．Fewer than 20 years ago. D．More than 200 years ago.
2、We can know from the text that ________.
A．Howard and Stone decided the voting list on their own
B．Howard’s idea has something to do with her daughter
C．so far no American women have appeared on coins
D．former presidents rule American money
3、What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Ades has announced the victor of the voting.
B．It’s impossible for Jack Lew to make a change.
C．The president will probably support such a change.
D．The final decision is due to be made by the president.
4、What can be the best title of the text?
A．The future faces of money
B．Different faces chosen on money
C．Constant changes in money faces
D．A campaign for women’s faces on money
23．（8分）It seemed like a typical November day, a month after my grandmother had passed away. I was frustrated by everything that was going on around me.
I was mad and confused about everyone especially when I saw a young girl walking through the store holding her grandmother’s hand. The little girl was begging her grandmother for ice cream just like I used to when I was young. I was jealous of the little girl, because she had something I didn’t have anymore — a grandmother by her side.
I had to force myself to ignore the little girl. She was just too happy for me and that was unacceptable at that time in my world.
I went to the cash register to pay for my things. It was then that my anger quickly shifted from the little girl to the cashier. She took my things to another register. When the cashier gave me my change I didn’t say thank you. I simply took my change and left.
Feeling tired and hopeless, I began walking to my car. As I stood in a public parking lot a million questions formed in my mind. Why did this happen to me? Aren’t we supposed to get signs from the people that passed on? Why didn’t I feel her presence anymore?
Suddenly, a woman driving right by my side rolled down her window. “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,” she said loudly. Thinking she was going to ask for my parking spot, I simply pointed to my car. “No, excuse me,” she said again.
Then I felt I had no choice but to see what this annoying lady wanted. She reached to the very bottom of her bag and handed me a three-page booklet. “It looks like that you need this,” she said calmly with a smile on her face.
I looked down at the used booklet and there were some big bold letters on the front cover reading, “What Hope for Dead Loved Ones?” By the time I looked up she had gone.
I felt a sense of relaxation as I read the first page. It explained how people pass on and that their spirit remains with us. It was the first time since my grandmother passed away that I had felt her with me. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I knew that I finally felt happiness from a stranger.
1、Why was the author jealous of the little girl?
A．She had her grandmother by her side.
B．She could ask her grandmother for some flowers.
C．She was walking with her grandfather.
D．She gave the booklets to the woman.
2、The woman driving right by the author’s side wanted to give the author _______.
A．some flowers B．a notebook
C．a letter D．a booklet
3、What can we know from the last paragraph?
A．The woman became the author’s friend. B．The author was happy in the end.
C．The author was with her grandmother again. D．The author felt angry.
24．（8分）I still remember my hands and my fingers still remember — what used to lie in store for us on our return to school from the holidays. The trees in the school yard would be in full leaf again and the old leaves would be lying around like a muddy sea of leaves.
“Get that all swept up!” the headmaster would tell us. “I want the whole place cleaned up, at once!” There was enough work there, to last over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hands, our fingers, our nails. “Now see that it’s done properly, and be quick about it,” the headmaster would say to the elder pupils, “or you’ll have to answer for it!”
So at an order from the elder boys we would all line up like peanuts about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simpler to beat us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe (贿赂) the elder boys with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us, the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, or if we were afraid of going home with an empty stomach or an empty purse, the blows were redoubled. They hit us so violently and with such evil enjoyment even a deaf and dumb person would have realized that we were being beaten not so much to make us work harder, hut rather to beat us into a state of obedience (服从) in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money.
Occasionally one of us, worn out by such calculated cruelty, would have the courage to complain to the headmaster. He would of course be very angry, but the punishment he gave the elder boys was always very small — nothing compared to what they had clone to us. And the fact is that however much we complained, our situation did not improve in the slightest. Perhaps we should have let our parents know what was going on, but somehow we never dreamed of doing so; I don’t know whether it was loyalty or pride that kept us silent, but I can see now that we were foolish to keep quiet about it, for such beating was completely foreign to our nature.
1、The statement “my hands and my fingers still remember” (Para. 1) means that ________.
A．the author seldom did such hard work as the cleaning up
B．the author’s hands were his only tool for the cleaning
C．the author’s hands were severely injured in the cleaning up
D．the author was bullied by the big boys in the cleaning up
2、The headmaster would tell the students to clean up the school yard at the beginning of the term because ________.
A．the students didn’t finish their homework
B．the school yard were covered with mud
C．he was too lazy
D．there were many fallen leaves on the ground
3、The headmaster asked the elder boys to ________.
A．beat those who worked slowly
B．treat the small boys as peanuts
C．lake charge of the process of the cleaning
D．do the cleaning all by themselves
4、According to Para. 3, if the author had any money on him, he most probably ________.
A．gave it to the big boys so as to please them
B．gave it as a bride to the headmaster
C．spent it all on his midday meal
D．spent it buying midday meals for the big boys
25．（10分）Robert Todd Duncan was born in 1903 in the southern city of Danville, Kentucky. His mother was his first music teacher. As a young man, he continued his music study in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In 1930, he completed musical education at Columbia