四川省仁寿县二中、华兴中学2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末复习检测模拟试题.doc

四川省仁寿县二中、华兴中学2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末复习检测模拟试题
考生须知：
1．全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．The same boiling water softens the potato and hardens the egg. It’s about ________you’re made of, not the circumstances.
A．that B．what
C．how D．who
2．For a third-culture kid,it is often easier to a new foreign country than to their "home" country.
A．moving B．to move C．move D．moved
3．---There are probably aliens living here on earth.
---_____! I can’t believe you said that.
A．Come on B．Forget it
C．Go ahead D．Allow me
4．If he had been working hard, he ______ in the office now. However, he didn’t.
A．would be working B．were to be working C．was working D．should work
5．The Games are known as the friendly games because of their ________ on kindness and mutual respect.
A．lacks B．focuses
C．challenges D．researches
6．I think that this is the best mobile phone available in the world. No other one can ________it.
A．compare B．match C．produce D．win
7．--- You look happy today. Is there anything good?
--- I’m very delighted ______ as one of the exchange students.
A．to choose B．to have been chosen
C．choosing D．having been chosen
8．The survey shows that speed at least 30 percent of road traffic and deaths.
A．contributes to
B．results from
C．lies in
D．relies on
9．（2018·海淀二模）—Excuse me, sir. Can you spare me a dollar ________ I can buy this book?
—Sure, no problem.
A．for B．so
C．but D．or
10．He’s as a “bellyacher”—he’s always complaining about something.
A．who is known B．whom is known
C．what is known D．which is known
11．I’m tired out．I stayed up the whole night, ______ for my midterm math exam．
A．studying B．to study C．to be studying D．studied
12．--- Ann, our department may be named the Department of the Year because of the outstanding performance.
--- _______.
A． Good to know B． I’ll say
C． I hear you on that one D． Can’t argue with that
13．Despite the knowledge he has accumulated, He Jiang continues to be troubled by the question of the unequal_______ of scientific knowledge throughout the world.
A．advocate B．distribution
C．allocation D．division
14．---Can those___________ at the back of the classroom hear me?
---No problem.
A．seat B．sit
C．seated D．sat
15．This raw chocolate tastes pretty delicious due to ______ amount of melted pure fresh cream.
A．equal B．generous C．insufficient D．tiny
16．I _________ to help you to do homework but I couldn't spare any time. I ________ a composition last night and I'll finish it tomorrow.
A．wanted；wrote B．had wanted；was writing
C．had wanted；wrote D．wanted；have been writing
17．--- 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
18．Your letter will get attention! They know you’re expecting the answer.
A．careful B．common C．instant D．general
19．_____ to manage time wisely, and you can make the most out of each day.
A．Learning B．To learn
C．Learned D．Learn
20．Whenever you ________ a present, you should think about it from the receiver’s point of view.
A．bought B．have bought C．will buy D．buy
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） On Sunday, March 11, most Americans will set their clocks forward an hour, as daylight saving time (sometimes wrongly called daylight savings time) begins and most of the United States can enjoy an extra hour of daylight. The spring and fall clock changes continue a long tradition started by Benjamin Franklin to conserve energy.
Benjamin Franklin lakes the honor (or the blame, depending on your view of the lime changes) for coming up with the idea to reset clocks in the summer months as a way to conserve energy. By moving clocks forward, people could take advantage of the extra evening daylight rather than wasting energy on lighting. At the time, Franklin was ambassador to Paris and so wrote a letter to the Journal of Paris in 1784, rejoicing over his “discovery” that the sun provides light as soon as it rises.
Even so, DST (Daylight Saving Time) didn’t officially begin until more than a century later. Germany established DST in May 1916 as a way to conserve fuel during World War I. The rest of Europe came onboard shortly thereafter. And in 1918, the United States adopted DST.
Though President Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep daylight saving time after WWI ended, the country was mostly rural at the time and farmers objected, partly because it would mean they lost an hour of morning light. And so daylight saving time was abolished until at the start of WWII, on Feb. 9, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt re-established daylight saving time year- round, calling it “War Time.”
After the war, a free-for-all system in which U.S. states and towns were given the choice of whether or not to observe DST led to disorder. And in 1966, to avoid such “Wild West” confusion, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act. That federal law meant that any state observing DST — and they didn’t have to jump on the DST system — had to follow a uniform timing system throughout the state in which daylight saving time would begin on the first Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October.
Then, in 2007, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 went into effect, expanding the length of daylight saving lime to the present timing.
1、What is the passage mainly about?
A．What is Daylight Saving Time?
B．How did Daylight Saving Time start?
C．Who proposed Daylight Saving Time?
D．Why Daylight Saving Time is adopted?
2、It can be inferred that .
A．DST was adopted in the US mainly to preserve fuel
B．DST lasted for 24 years in the US before being canceled
C．it is still free for the states in the US to adopt the DST or not
D．farmers in the US rejected DST for losing an hour of evening light
3、What is the meaning of the underlined expression “rejoicing over” in paragraph 2?
A．Taking pride in. B．Taking interest in.
C．Feeling regret for. D．Feeling surprised about.
4、Which country adopted DST earliest, according to the passage?
A．France. B．Germany.
C．England. D．The United States.
22．（8分）Decades before the first unaccompanied child was put on a plane to grandma’s in the care of a flight attendant, a few resourceful parents accomplished the same end by simply dropping their kids in the mail.
This was in the earliest days of the parcel post service, which launched in 1913. Before that, U.S. Postal Service packages were capped at four pounds, which limited the goofy things people tried to send by post.
But when the parcel service began, all kinds of cargo showed up in the mail stream, including coffins, eggs, dogs and, in a few cases, human young.
According to National Postal Museum historian Nancy Pope, the first known case of a mailed baby was in 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beauge of Glen Este, Ohio, shipped their 10-pound infant son to his grandmother’s home about a mile away, paying 15 cents in postage and springing for $50 in insurance (because they were worriers).
But some children were mailed much farther, Pope said. Edna Neff of Pensacola, Fla., was 6 when she was packed off — or packaged off — to her father’s home in Christiansburg, Va., 720 miles away.
The precious parcels weren’t truly parcels in the brown-paper. Instead they were more like companions in the arms of their carriers or walked along the route(路线). But the most famous mailed child, May Pierstorff, was indeed sent by an Idaho railway mail car in 1914 with the appropriate stamps stuck to her traveling coat. May’s picture survives, but no physical evidence of her trip. “We would sure love to have that coat,” Pope said.
In 1914, the postmaster general instituted a rule about the mail that stands to this day: no humans. But that didn’t stop an ambitious thief from crating himself up and shipping himself airmail. When William DeLucia, packed in a trunk labeled “Musical Instruments” along with food and an oxygen tank, was airborne, he climbed out, pilfered thousands of dollars’ worth of goods from the registered mail and sealed himself back up. He was arrested at the Atlanta airport in 1980 after his trunk popped open as it was being unloaded.
“We have his oxygen tank” at the Postal Museum, Pope noted with pride.
1、What did U.S Postal Service put a limit to before 1913?
A．The value of the mail.
B．The weight of parcels.
C．The content in the mail.
D．The postage for packages.
2、How was Jesse Beauge’s son mailed?
A．Packed in a mailbox.
B．Walked along the route.
C．Sent by a railway mail car.
D．Carried in the arms of the postman.
3、What does Nancy Pope wish to be exhibited most in the Postal Museum?
A．May’s picture.
B．The brown-paper.
C．May’s traveling coat.
D．Idaho railway mail car.
4、Who discovered William DeLucia at last?
A．The airport porter.
B．The airport police.
C．The passenger victims.
D．The postmaster general.
23．（8分） GOING TO UNIVERSITY is supposed to be a mind-broadening experience. That statement is probably made in comparison to training for work straight after school, which might not be so encouraging. But is it actually true? Jessika Golle of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, thought she would try to find out. Her result, however, is not quite what might be expected. As she reports in Psychological Science this week, she found that those who have been to university do indeed seem to leave with broader and more inquiring minds than those who have spent their immediate post-school years in vocational (职业的) training for work. However, it was not the case that university broadened minds. Rather, work seemed to narrow them.
Dr. Golle came to this conclusion after she and a team of colleagues studied the early careers of 2,095 German youngsters. The team used two standardized tests to assess their volunteers. One was of personality traits, including openness, conscientiousness（认真）and so on. The other was of attitudes, such as realistic, investigative and enterprising. They administered both tests twice—once towards the end of each volunteer’s time at school, and then again six years later. Of the original group, 382 were on the intermediate track, from which there was a choice between the academic and vocational routes, and it was on these that the researchers focused. University beckoned for 212 of them. The remaining 170 chose vocational training and a job.
When it came to the second round of tests, Dr. Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had not changed significantly. Those who had undergone vocational training and then got jobs were not that much changed in personality, either—except in one crucial respect. They had become more conscientious.
That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of lazybones. But changes in attitude that the researchers recorded were rather worrying. In the university group, again, none were detectable. But those who had chosen the vocational route showed marked drops in interest in tasks that are investigative and enterprising in nature. And that might restrict their choice of careers.
Some investigative and enterprising jobs, such as scientific research, are, indeed beyond the degreeless. But many, particularly in Germany, with its tradition of vocational training, are not. The researchers mention, for example, computer programmers and finance-sector workers as careers requiring these traits. If Dr. Golle is correct, and changes in attitude brought about by the very training Germany prides itself on are narrowing people’s choices, that is indeed a matter worthy of serious consideration.
1、Which of the following can best replace “beckoned for” in Paragraph 2?
A．Examined. B．Attracted.
C．Organized. D．Recognized.
2、What can we learn from the research?
A．The degreeless have not changed in personalities.
B．Going to university is a mind-broadening experience.
C．Working straight after school narrows people’s minds.
D．College students pride themselves on their education.
3、According to the last two paragraphs, .
A．college students enjoy a very good public image
B．the undergraduates have changed significantly in attitude
C．the degreeless are much better at dealing with challenging tasks
D．people show less interest in investigative jobs due to vocational training
4、What is the author’s attitude towards the finding?
A．Concerned. B．Optimistic.
C．Unclear. D．Sceptical.
24．（8分） The Gold Coast Wax(蜡)Museum is one of the Gold Coast’s longest running attractions. It’s a collection of famous figures. It’s Australia’s largest museum of its kind, featuring more than 110 life-size copies of wax figures of British and Australian History．
The Wax Museum is visited by many thousands of the people each year who are amazed at the amazing realism of the life-size figures in real costumes. This is your invitation to wander through at your leisure and meet many important and famous people’s figures on Queensland’s Gold Coast．
Come face to face with such famous people as Michael Jackson, President Barack Obama，Past President John F. Kennedy, King Hussein’s Royal Family members, and many others whose lives have all left an unforgettable mark on our world. Information cards are located alongside each figure, helping visitors know them well．
The old Coast Wax Museum contains figures which have been crafted by leading local and overseas sculptors to international standards’ equal in quality to the world’s best, as seen in Europe, the United Kingdom, and USA．The detail in the figures is amazing and includes hair applied one strand(线)at a time, requiring many working hours for one hand and the eyes so real that they seem to follow the viewer around．
Price
Child (1～3 yrs): free
Child (3-~12 yrs): $22.00
Adult: $29.00
Open hours
Open 7 days a week, 10 am to 10 pm
Closed Christmas Day (25 Dec.) and Anzac Day (25 Apr.)
Location
Ferny Ave, Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast) QLD
How to get there
You can choose any of the Gold Coast airport transfers, car rentals, shuttles and private transfers to／from your hotel．
Notice to visitors
●All carried items including food and drinks will be inspected upon entry．
●Coats, umbrellas, etc. should be left in the checkrooms (行李寄存处) (max size 40×40×50 cm and max weight 8 kg).
●The checkroom is to the left of the Main entrance (￡1.50 per item)．
●When maximum checkrooms capacity is reached the Museum cannot accept any more items．
●Bring your sense of adventure and your camera with you and see something exciting and quite unique．
For further information, please click here to see more about gold coast wax-museum／contact Us Page．
1、According to the passage, visitors can______ .
A．visit the Gold Coast Wax Museum anytime
B．enjoy some wo