江苏省扬州市武坚中学2025-2026学年高三英语第一学期期末达标检测模拟试题.doc

江苏省扬州市武坚中学2025-2026学年高三英语第一学期期末达标检测模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．_____ annoys the teacher most is that all the students are too quiet in class.
A．What B．That
C．When D．Who
2．Andrew lives alone and enjoys the company of a pet cat _______ he’s grown so fond.
A．which B．in which
C．of which D．when
3．－What about inviting Tracy to host the party?
－Good idea! She is very quick in mind. Oh, _______, here she comes.
A．don’t pull my leg B．a little bird told me
C．speak of the devil D．it’s a piece of cake
4．Tom’s score on the test is the highest in the class. He _____.
A．should study last night
B．should have studied last night
C．must have studied last night
D．must study last night
5．The new supermarket has announced that the first to purchase goods on the opening day ________ get a big prize.
A．must B．could
C．would D．shall
6．I will go to Beijing on business tomorrow, do you have anything ____ to your son studying in Peking University?
A．to be taken B．to take C．taken D．being taken
7．We packed all the hooks in wooden boxes so that they damaged.
A．don’t get B．won’t get
C．didn’t get D．wouldn’t get
8．My cousin insisted that she ______ to Australia for further study. But the company refused her application.
A．sends B．will be sent
C．be sent D．would be sent
9．Although passing the driving test ________ be difficult now, it’s worth the efforts.
A．need B．shall
C．can D．should
10．As a teacher, you have to _____ your method to suit the needs of slower children.
A．display B．test
C．adjust D．transfer
11．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
12．—All the containers have been unloaded! Can it have been done by Frank?
—Impossible! He ________ his car last night.
A．has fixed B．had fixed C．would fix D．was fixing
13．Although Jane agrees with me on most points, there was one on which she was unwilling to ______.
A．give out B．give in
C．give away D．give off
14．—You all like your English teacher?
—Yeah, she devotes herself____ to teaching and it earns her a good reputation．
A．originally B．extremely C．obviously D．entirely
15．The following________________ chosen as the candidates of the competition.
A．is B．are
C．has D．have
16．The police are investigating the company, three of ________ managers have already been arrested.
A．whose B．that
C．which D．where
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．The students have decided on a final date by which everyone ________ reading the books assigned by their professor.
A．finishes B．finished
C．have finished D．will have finished
19．Though lacking the necessary working experience, my cousin got the job ______ her confidence and flexibility.
A．in terms of B．in response to
C．by virtue of D．with respect to
20．Have you read the book Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, _____ that won him the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature?
A．the one B．one C．those D．ones
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）Martha Gruber, a Tampa Bay Watch environmental scientist, has been honored with a Disney Conservation Hero Award from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund( DWCF)
The award recognizes local citizens for their tireless efforts to save wildlife, protect habitats and educate communities. Recipients were nominated(提名) by nonprofit environmental organizations, and each honoree receives an award of $l,50o from DWCF.
“Working with students in Tampa Bay is rewarding because I get to see firsthand the impact that our hard work has on the local habitat,” Gruber said. “I’m proud to say that Tampa Bay Watch’s Bay Grasses in Classes(BGIC) program has given me the opportunity to assist in restoring close to 300 acres with over 19,000 students. Being a Disney Conservation Hero is truly an honor and I am proud to share this achievement with the other Tampa Bay Watch staff members that have contributed to these efforts.”
Gruber has worked with Tampa Bay Watch since 2003, overseeing the Community Salt Marsh program and the BGIC program. She also has been in charge of many large-scale(大规模的)community plantings in her term. In her more than 11 years, Gruber has worked with more than 4,400 community volunteers to restore approximately 148 acres of marsh(湿地) habitat.
The BGIC program works with local middle and high schools to grow salt marsh grasses on their campuses and then involves them in the planting of their nursery raised grasses at a restoration site.
In her time, Gruber has led the BGIC program to contribute salt marsh grasses to help restore 91 acres of habitat around Tampa Bay. In addition to Martha’s impressive restoration impact, she also has a deep impact on everyone with whom she works. She approaches each project with a passion and work ethic(职业道德) that is inspiring.
Since 2004, Disney has honored more than 100 leaders around the world for their extraordinary conservation efforts.
1、DWCF gives its awards to people who .
A．devote themselves to education
B．have a good impact on students
C．promote the knowledge of nature
D．achieve greatly in wildlife protection
2、Why does Gruber think her work worthwhile?
A．Her work connects students with nature.
B．Working with children makes her happy.
C．Her colleagues support her work heartily.
D．She can see their efforts make a difference.
3、What does the underlined word “approaches” in Paragraph 6 probably mean?
A．Assists.
B．Provides.
C．Deals with.
D．Comes up with.
4、How are the students involved in the BGIC program?
A．By attending classes.
B．By planting salt marsh grasses.
C．By contributing salt marsh grasses.
D．By calling on the public to take action.
22．（8分） Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.
The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You can be a success if only you make the right choice.
You cannot be successful without first developing your self-esteem (自尊). Your level of self-esteem is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-esteem do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their life. They are leaves tossed (摆) by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather.
You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for whatever happens in your life. Losers think that everything happens by accident while successful people realize that they are responsible.
Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we consciously choose to accept and believe. Thoughts and beliefs cause everything. Our attitudes and actions are a result of habits ingrained in us over a period of time. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success depends upon our level of confidence. We are responsible for either reinforcing (强化) good habits or kicking bad habits and consciously replacing them with consistently practiced good habits.
If you associate with positive-thinking people, you are definitely going to achieve success. On the contrary, the opposite happens. We are responsible for finding, planting, and nurturing (培育) the seeds that contain future victory, born from setbacks.
In short, in all areas of your life, whether they are financial, physical, emotional, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it, you are on the road to success.
1、People with low self-esteem are compared to leaves because they ________.
A．are ready to change their minds
B．are easily affected by windy weather
C．don’t have the power to face their fate
D．can’t exercise control over themselves
2、Losers would think that ________.
A．success is the result of hard work
B．working hard will lead to success
C．their failure is only because of bad luck
D．they don’t make efforts to succeed
3、It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that ________.
A．whether we will succeed depends on our attitudes
B．developing confidence is the key to future success
C．thoughts and beliefs are the result of creative mind
D．setting our expectations is essential before taking action
4、The last paragraph serves as ________.
A．the proof of the author’s points
B．the conclusion of the argument
C．an introduction to another topic
D．a comparison between two views
5、Which is the best title for the passage?
A．Success Is a Choice B．The Secrets of Success
C．Develop Our Confidence D．How to Achieve Success
23．（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.
24．（8分）It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there?” I called to him.
He looked up, smiling. “I’m making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us. Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the business of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise.
Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses（番红花）throughout the front lawn blue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I remembered the things Dad secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?
My father’s crocuses bloomed（开花）each spring for the next five seasons, always bringing the same assurance: Hard times are almost over. Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon.
Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses, so I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did. He died suddenly one October day. My family were in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith.
On a spring afternoon four years later, I was driving back when I felt depressed. It was Dad’s birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusual－my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived up to his faith. Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway. I