2025年安徽省黄山市屯溪一中高三英语第一学期期末监测模拟试题.doc

2025年安徽省黄山市屯溪一中高三英语第一学期期末监测模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．Will it be ages ______ he goes back to school? I'm so worried about him.
A．before B．after
C．when D．as
2．If you want to improve your figure and health, the most effective thing to do is to show up at the gym every time you ________ be there.
A．can B．will
C．may D．shall
3．Dad is used to smoking and drinking. There’s no chance _____ I’m able to talk him into .
A．whether ; giving it up B．of whether; giving them up
C．that; getting rid of them D．which; stopping it
4． for years of hard training, she would not be standing on the stage, receiving huge cheers and applause.
A．It were not B．It had not been
C．Were it not D．Had it not been.
5．Only after talking to two students that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.
A．I did discover B．did I discover
C．I discovered D．discovered
6．—What’s wrong with you?
—Oh, I am sick. I ________ so much ice cream just now.
A．shouldn’t eat B．mustn’t eat
C．couldn’t have eaten D．shouldn’t have eaten
7．The businessman studied the market in his hometown to find the____ for investment.
A．potential B．reservation C．criterion D．allowance
8．—I'm going to order chicken and salad．What about you?
— .I'll have the same.
A．I'm afraid not B．It's up to you
C．That sounds good to me． D．That depends
9．Their products enjoy 30 percent ________ of the market in this country because both the quality and their service are fine.
A．features B．shares C．interests D．sales
10．Jess was sad and her friend helped her ___ the first awful weeks after her husband Bill died.
A．break through B．break down
C．get through D．get rid of
11．I wonder ________ the equipment will be available in ten days.
A．that B．when C．whether D．where
12．Enter our prize ______and win a break in a National Trust holiday cottage of your choice anywhere in the country.
A．draw B．search C．match D．collection
13．The incomes of skilled workers went up. , unskilled workers saw their earnings fall.
A．Moreover B．Therefore
C．Meanwhile D．Otherwise
14．—Do you really plan to drop out of the football team?
—________ It’s time for me to concentrate on my study.
A．I’m just kidding. B．Definitely not.
C．I mean it D．What a pity!
15．I like these English songs and they ________ many times on the radio.
A．taught B．have taught
C．are taught D．have been taught
16．________ the danger of drunk driving, many drivers promised never to drive after drinking.
A．Realizing B．To have realized
C．Realized D．Having realized
17．Who ______ the fight against the H1N1 flu ______ it not been for the Chinese scientists’ great efforts?
A．could have won; had B．would win; had C．would have won; has D．could win; has
18．I will be surprised if you can get Calvin, who is a close-fisted man, these donation draw tickets from you.
A．buy B．buying
C．buys D．to buy
19．---Mom, I have passed the admission examinations!
--- ______!
A．Good for you B．Good luck C．Cheer up D．Go ahead
20．I'm calling to enquire about the position __________in yesterday's China Daily.
A．advertised B．to be advertised C．advertising D．having advertised
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 Today I learned–The New York Times’ fun column always highlights some surprising and interesting facts. In that spirit,The New York Times lists some of the most eye-catching things out of the column and edits them into What I Learned This Year.Following are some facts out of What I Learned in 2016.
The world’s most-used natural resource (apart from water,listed at the second place and air,as the champion) is sand,which consists of extremely small pieces of stone-and it’s disappearing.
A team’s success (at work) is often driven by 3 factors (with the importance from high to low) —its culture,the interpersonal relationship and the IQ or talent of its individuals.
Giraffes have been keeping a secret from most of us for a long time: They’ really four different species,not one. The Greenland Shark lives at least 272 years and it could live as long as 512 years,which makes it the oldest living thing with a backbone（脊椎）on Earth.
More that 70 percent of Americans think Granola Bars (格拉诺拉燕麦棒)are healthy.Interesting,less than 30 percent of nutritionists（营养学家）agree.
Nearly 80 percent of teenagers say they don’t like to eat cereal porridge（燕麦粥）for breakfast,because they have to clean up the bowls after eating it.
It’s myth that closing unused apps on your smartphone will prolong battery life.And turning off Wi-Fi doesn’t help,either.
Annual percentage of highway death had been going down for the last four decades till it last year recorded the largest increase in 50 years.Blame Snapchat and other smarphone apps.
Death from gun-shooting is as enough as from car accidents in the United Stated and as scarce as from lightning strikes in Japan,which owns the reputation of one of the safest countries.
1、According to the passage,the world’s most-used natural resource is______.
A．water B．air C．sand D．stone
2、According to the passage,the most important factor of a team’s success is_____.
A．a team’s culture B．the interpersonal relationship C．individual IQ D．individual talent
3、Which of the following descriptions is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Most people still don’t know that giraffes have four species.
B．The Greenland Shark is the oldest living life on Earth.
C．Cereal porridge is as unhealthy as Granola Bars for teenagers.
D．Closing unused apps on smart phones will prolong battery life.
4、The underlined word “scarce” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A．enough B．safe C．familiar D．rare
22．（8分）My husband Dave and I unloaded our car after a fun-filled day trip to Wellington. As soon as I walked in the front door, I noticed a flashing light on our answering machine. I pressed the button. “Hi, Dave and Sharon. You don’t know me. My name is Janet. I have your camera.”
What? I rummaged(仔细搜寻) through my bag—sure enough, my camera was nowhere to be found. How did this stranger have it? How did she know it was mine?
The photos on this camera were priceless. Almost all from our recent vacation to Wyoming to visit our youngest son and his wife were on it. Our oldest son joined us and it was the first time we’d all been together in over a year. I’d cleared the memory card beforehand—just some old photos that I’d already downloaded—so I would have plenty of room to capture every precious moment.
Dave and I had one day after our trip to Wyoming before we had to return to work, so we mapped out a bike ride in Wellington. Upon our arrival, I took a few photos while Dave took our bikes out of our car. Now I realized that was the last time I’d seen my camera.
I hadn’t downloaded our Wyoming pictures. They could have been lost forever. There was no name or address on the camera. Who was this Janet? Some detective?
I called her back. “How did you find it?” I asked. “How did you find me?”
“I recognized your church in a few photos,” she said. “Another photo had a young man wearing a name badge(姓名牌). I phoned the church secretary to connect the dots.” Janet described old photos I thought I’d deleted. But how could she have recognized our church?
“Where are you?” I asked. “Where can I meet you to get the camera?”
I didn’t have to travel far. Janet lived just fifteen minutes away—she attended our sister church the next town over.
1、Hearing the message on the answering machine, the author was ________?
A．very excited
B．deeply grateful
C．pretty annoyed
D．greatly surprised
2、What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．The advantages of the camera.
B．Why the photos were important.
C．The author’s love for photographing.
D．How much the author missed her sons.
3、It turned out that Janet ________.
A．was the church secretary
B．also attended the author’s church
C．knew the young man in the photo
D．was familiar with the author’s church
4、What does the underlined part “connect the dots” in Paragraph 7 mean?
A．To form a good relationship.
B．To feel a sense of agreement.
C．To make connections in one’s mind.
D．To have the dots on a paper connected.
23．（8分）Today tropical rainforests are disappearing from the face of the globe. Despite growing international concern, rainforests continue to be destroyed at a pace over 80,000 acres per day. World rainforest cover now stands at around 2.5million square miles. Human activities have had an effect on much of this remaining area.
Deforestation(森林滥伐) of tropical rainforests has a global effect through species extinction, the loss of important ecosystem services and renewable resources, and the reduction of carbon sinks. However, this destruction can be slowed, stopped, and in some cases even reversed(逆转). Most people agree that the problem must be solved, but the means are not as simple as building fences around the remaining rainforests or banning the wood trade. Economic, political, and social pressures will not allow rainforests to continue to exist if they are completely closed off from use and development.
So, what should be done? The solution must be based on what is practical, not completely idealistic and depends on developing a conservation approach built on the principle of sustainable(可持续的) use and development of rainforests. Beyond the responsible development of rainforests, efforts to restore damaged forest lands along with the establishment of protected areas are key to securing rainforests for the long-term benefits they can provide for mankind.
Historic approaches to rainforest conservation have failed, as shown by the increased rate of deforestation. In many regions, closing off forests as untouchable parks and reserves has neither improved the quality of living or economic opportunities for the rural poor, nor stopped forest clearing by illegal woodcutters and developers.
The problem with this traditional approach to preserving wildlands in developing countries is that it fails to develop proper economic motives for preserving the forest. Local people and the government itself must see financial returns to prove the costs of maintaining parks from economic activities.
1、What has caused some species extinction in the tropical rainforests?
A．Humans' destroying the trees.
B．Carbon sinks being reduced.
C．Lacking renewable resources.
D．Fences not being built around the rainforests.
2、What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Tropical rainforests can be easily preserved.
B．Rainforests must be closed off to be better protected.
C．Human activities have had an effect on tropical rainforests.
D．Economic returns can make some difference in protecting tropical rainforests.
3、What is the author's attitude to tropical rainforest protection?
A．Indifferent.
B．Concerned.
C．Doubtful.
D．Puzzled.
4、What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To show the bad effects of deforestation.
B．To stress the importance of the rainforests.
C．To appeal for right ways to save the rainforests.
D．To introduce the fact of forests disappearing.
24．（8分） Artificial intelligence (AI) technology may soon be a useful tool for doctors. It may help them better understand and treat diseases like breast cancer in ways that were never before possible.
Rishi Rawat teaches AI at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Clinical Science Center in Los Angeles. He is part of a team of scientists who are researching how AI and machine learning can more easily recognize cancerous growths in the breast. Rawat provides information about cancer cells to a computer. He says this data helps the machine learn. “. . . You can put the data into computers and they will learn the patterns and the pattern recognition is important to making decisions.”
David Agus is another USC researcher. He says machines are not going to take the place of doctors. “Computers will not treat patients, but they will help make certain decisions and look for things that the human brain can’t recognize by itself. Once a confirmed cancerous growth is removed, doctors still have to treat the patient to reduce the risk of cancer returning. The form of treatment depends on the kind of cancer.”
Currently, researchers take a thin piece of tissue, put it on a small piece of glass and add color to better see the cells. That process could take days or even longer. Scientists say artificial intelligence can do something better than just count cells. Through machine learning, it can recognize complex patterns, or structures, and learn how the cells are organized.
The hope is that machines will soon be able to make a quick identification of cancer that is free of human mistakes. “All of a sudden, we have the computing power to really do it in real time. . . We couldn’t have done this, we didn’t have the computing power to do this several years ago, but now it’s all changed.” Agus adds that the process could be done for almost no cost in the developing world. He says that having a large amount of information about patients is important for a machine to effectively do its job in medicine.
The University of Southern California researchers are now only studying breast cancer. But doctors predict artificial intelligence will one day make a difference in all forms of cancer.
1、In Rishi Rawat’s research, ________.
A．the data put into computers contributes to cancer recognition
B．many cancers are being studied at the moment
C．machine learning has replaced doctors’ work
D．the focus is on the cure for cancer
2、David Agus’s words in Paragraph 3 are used to ________.
A．provide some advice for doctors
B．introduce the development of cancer
C．appeal to scientists to research into cancer
D．explain the function of AI in treating cancer
3、What can we infer from the text ?
A．AI can make decisions for doctors.
B．Developing countries might be lack of funds.
C．AI will hopefully make an accurate identification of cancer.
D．Computing power has long helped with the identification of cancer.
4、What is the author’s attitude towards AI used in treating cancer?
A．Positive. B．Indifferent.
C．Doubtful. D．Negative.
25．（10分） “With depressingly few exceptions, performances are dull and lack vitality…
After years of trying to convince myself otherwise, I now feel sure that ballet is dying.”
-----Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels

Is ballet dead? Has the art form evolved to depression? Jennifer Homans’s conclusion to her fascinating history of ballet, Apollo’s Angels, is worrying.
It appears that ballet’s pulse continues to beat strongly, however, especially with a Tchaikovsky defibrillator attached. So why are some dance commentators arguing that ballet is dying? And do they have a point?
“Balle