河南省鹤壁市浚县二中2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末教学质量检测试题.doc

河南省鹤壁市浚县二中2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末教学质量检测试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．Nobody knows why the boy can tell what’s written on the paper in another room without looking at it. It really _______ explanation.
A．prevents B．challenges C．interrupts D．confuses
2．The general secretary stressed that what he had just said was only his _________view, not official intentions.
A．private B．separate C．personal D．single
3．A large number of excellent films ______ all over the world over the past decades.
A．have produced B．have been produced
C．were produced D．produced
4．Catherine came home happily, which suggested that she the final exam.
A．had passed B．pass C．would pass D．should pass
5．—Sorry, Mum! I failed the job interview again.
—Oh, it's too bad. You________ have made full preparations.
A．must B．can C．would D．should
6．Please wear your best clothes on Monday, as your class photos ______ then.
A．will take B．will be taken C．have taken D．have been taken
7．House prices are usually much higher ________ there are subway stations around.
A．where B．unless C．while D．though
8．John lives ________. He has a very small budget and little money to spend on clothes.
A．in the black B．on a shoestring
C．over the moon D．at the drop of a hat
9．—Alice, why aren’t you at work today?

—I a day off．
A．have given B．have been given C．gave D．was given
10．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
11．---I’m sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.
---I think so. He _____ for it months.
A．is preparing B．has been preparing C．was preparing D．had been preparing
12．—Jack, my plane arrives at 8:30 pm when, I suppose, you ______ dinner.
—But I can wait.
A．will have B．have had
C．will have had D．are having
13．These new books are a very welcome to the school library.
A．addition B．arrival C．attitude D．audience
14．—The movie Till Death Do Us Part 《最爱》will be on at 8 pm．What about picking you up at 7pm?
—All right．I will have come back from work by then, and I you at home．
A．will be waiting for B．will wait for C．have been waiting for D．am waiting for
15．I refuse to accept the blame for something ________ was someone else's fault.
A．who B．that
C．as D．what
16．The split between humans and living apes is thought by some scholars ____ 15 to 20 million years ago.
A．to occur B．occurring C．to have occurred D．having occurred
17．---We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale _____.
--- Why not promote it by posting an advertisement online?
A．fell through B．got through
C．cleared up D．looked up
18．When the admission letter from Harvard University arrived, Ben's parents were and threw a big party.
A．in the red B．tickled pink
C．as white as a sheet D．in a blue mood
19．––Is this tea good cold as well?
––______ with ice, this tea is especially delicious.
A．Served B．Serving C．Having served D．To be served
20．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
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） In A History of Reading, the Canadian novelist Alberto Manguel describes a remarkable transformation of human consciousness, which took place around the 10th century A．D．: the arrival of silent reading. Human beings have been reading for thousands of years, but in ancient times, the normal thing was to read aloud. With the arrival of silent reading, Manguel writes, …the reader was at last able to establish an unrestricted relationship with the book and the words. The words no longer needed to occupy the time required to pronounce them. The reader’s thoughts inspected them at leisure, drawing new ideas from them, allowing comparisons from memory or from other books.
①To read silently is to free your mind to reflect, to remember, to question and compare. The cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf calls this freedom “the secret gift of time to think”. A thousand years later, critics fear that digital technology has put this gift in danger. The Internet’s flood of information, together with the distractions of social media, threatens to overwhelm the space of reading, leaving us in what the journalist Nicholas Carr has called “the shallows”. In Carr’s view, the “endless, tempting buzz” of the Internet endangers our very being: “One of the greatest dangers we face,” he writes, “as we give up control over the flow of our thoughts and memories to a powerful electronic system, is a slow damage to our humanness and our humanity.”
②There’s no question that digital technology presents challenges to the reading brain. But seen from a historical perspective, digital reading and silent reading look like differences of degree, rather than of kind. To the extent that digital reading represents something new, its potential cuts both ways. Done badly, the Internet reduces us to mindless clickers, racing numbly to the bottom of a bottomless feed; but done well, it has the potential to expand the very contemplative (沉思的) space that we have prized in ourselves ever since we learned to read without moving our lips.
③In the fifth century B．C．, Socrates worried that writing would weaken human memory, and stifle(扼杀) judgment. In fact, as Wolf notes in her 2007 book Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain, the opposite happened: Faced with the written page, the reader’s brain develops new capacities.
④The Internet may cause our minds to wander off, and yet a quick look at the history of books suggests that we have been wandering off all along. When we read, the eye does not progress steadily along the line of text; it alternates between saccades —little jumps—and brief stops, not unlike the movement of the mouse’s cursor across a screen of hypertext.
It’s true that studies have found that readers given text on a screen do worse on recall and comprehension tests than readers given the same text on paper. But a 2015 study by the German educator Johannes Naumann suggests the opposite. He gave a group of high-school students the job of tracking down certain pieces of information on websites; he found that the students who regularly did research online were better at this task than students who used the Internet mostly to send email, chat, and blog.
A new generation of digital writers prefers to include interactive features. The 2014 iPad novel, Pry, tells the story of a demolition(爆破) expert returning home from the first Gulf War. The story is told in text, photographs, video clips, and audio. It uses an interface(界面) that allows you to follow the action and shift between levels of awareness. As you read text on the screen, describing characters and plot, you draw your fingers apart and see a photograph of the chief character, his eyes opening on the world. Pinch your finger shut and you visit his troubled unconscious; words and images race by, as if you are inside his memory. Pry is the opposite of a shallow work; its whole play is between the surface and the depths of the human mind. Reading it is stimulating.
1、In Alberto Manguel’s opinion, silent reading ________.
A．is an abnormal thing to human consciousness
B．offers readers’ mind freedom and time to think
C．strengthens readers’ power of memory and reflection
D．allows readers to gain an insight into books and words
2、Why is digital technology considered to have endangered our being?
A．It presents challenges to the reading brain.
B．It harms our humanness and humanity gradually.
C．It is very likely to expand our contemplative space.
D．It leaves our thoughts and memories out of control.
3、The sentence “The fear of technology is not new.” should be placed in ________.
A．① B．② C．③ D．④
4、What can we infer from Johannes Naumann’s study?
A．It’s easier to collect information on the Internet than in books.
B．People’s habit of using the Internet influences their performance.
C．The Internet isn’t supposed to be used as a tool of entertainment.
D．Paper reading is better than screen reading in improving comprehension.
5、The 2014 iPad novel, Pry, is mentioned in the last paragraph to ______.
A．introduce the occurrence of a reading revolution
B．show the technology employed in digital reading
C．prove digital reading not shallow but attractive
D．illustrate the impact digital reading has on our life.
6What is probably the best title for the passage?
A．The deep space of digital reading
B．The timely arrival of silent reading
C．The development of traditional reading
D．The potential damage of electronic books
22．（8分）Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.
Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.
This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.
More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.
Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged to a person whose real speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.
As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such deception （ 欺 骗 ） are being developed.
Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put authentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colleagues or heads of state.
1、Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about .
A．significant elements influencing voice cloning
B．possible applications of voice cloning in reality
C．complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice
D．differences between traditional and existing voice banking
2、What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?
A．Optimistic. B．Conservative.
C．Unconcerned. D．Subjective.
3、The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers .
A．identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds
B．preferred a real speech to a voice sample
C．proved only a little harder to fool than software
D．found it hard to use the software to record their voices
4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．Investments should be increased to advance voice cloning.
B．Long-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.
C．Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.
D．Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.
23．（8分）Uber
Uber is available in over 70 cities throughout 40 countries worldwide. You can either choose a typical Uber unmarked car or a regular taxi. The app can show you where drivers are, so you know how long you’ll be waiting. You can also get fare quotes(报价)in advance. Your payment source is linked to the app and is automatically charged, so no physical money is ever needed.
Lyft
Lyft is a service that is also available in many large cities in the US. However, it offers something different, one of which is Lyft Line. With this service, you can find people that take the same route on a daily basis as you and split the fare with them. Lyft’s regular service lets you easily see where rides are, catch one, and easily pay right within the app.
Easy Taxi
Easy Taxi is available in 86 cities across 26 countries and lets you quickly browse through maps and find locations you’d like to be picked up at. From there, just make sure there are taxis in your area. Confirm your ride and then pay for it within the Easy Taxi app. Once you book a ride, you should see the taxi’s plate number and phone number appear on the map, making it easy for you to pick out both the car and the driver.
Curb
Curb, formerly Taxi Magic, is currently available in around 60 cities across the United States as well as select cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico. It ties in with taxi companies and their drivers. As your taxi makes its way to your location, you’ll be able to track its progress inside the app. You can link a payment account to Curb to pay your fare through the app. You can also pay in cash.
1、Which app is available in the most countries?
A．Uber. B．Lyft.
C．Easy Taxi. D．Curb.
2、What’s the special service of Lyft?
A．You can pay the fare in cash. B．You can see where your ride is.
C．You can get fare quotes in advance. D．You can find someone to share the fare.
3、What do the four apps have in common?
A．They are avai