广西百色市普通高中2025年英语高三第一学期期末教学质量检测试题.doc

广西百色市普通高中2025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．She was such a proud person that she would die she would admit she was wrong.
A．since B．when
C．unless D．before
2．He asked ______ for the computer.
A．did I pay how much
B．I paid how much
C．how much did I pay
D．how much I paid
3．—Would you mind giving your advice on how to improve our business management?
—If you make ________ most of the equipment, there will be ________ rise in production.
A．the; a B．/; / C．/; a D．the; /
4．— Linda hasn’t shown up yet.
— It’s strange. She ____.
A．could B．might C．must have D．should have
5．There are many famous cultural relics in our country, many _______ thousands of years ago.
A．dating back to B．date back to
C．dated back to D．were dated back to
6．The police are offering ______ reward of $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of _____ murderer.
A．the the B．a; a C．the; a D．a; the
7．The writer was so ________ in her work that she didn’t notice him enter the room.
A．abandoned B．focused C．absorbed D．centered
8．I admire my English teacher. I can remember very few occasions _____ she stopped
working because of ill health.
A．that B．when
C．where D．which
9．If we want students to become effective in multicultural settings, one thing is clear: there is no ________ for practice.
A．prescription B．substitute
C．appetite D．suspension
10．The farmers are in bad need of rain,but a (an) large amount of rainfall will cause Floods.
A．Eventually B．constantly C．gradually D．extremely
11．Some experts fear that too-early ________ to computers will have harmful consequences for children’s development.
A．exposure B．extension
C．exhibition D．expansion
12．We must ______ the time that you’ve wasted this afternoon by working late to-night.
A．make up for B．make out C．do up D．make up to
13．From his expression, I don’t think he could have finished his homework last night, _______?
A．couldn’t he B．do I
C．did he D．hasn’t he
14．We will remain ______to the path of peaceful development and shoulder more international responsibilities.
A．committing B．committed C．to be committed D．to have committed
15．______much pressure the U.S. government put on the Chinese government, China would stick
to its own policy of exchange rate.
A．However B．Wherever C．Whatever D．Whoever
16．— I wonder what chance there is of me passing by the old places without thinking of you.
— ______. Time cures all wounds.
A．My pleasure B．Don’t mention it C．I can’t agree more D．Never mind
17．Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth, because they aren’t covered by skin and can _______ the virus more easily.
A．take up B．pick up C．make up D．set up
18．You can use this room for your club activities tomorrow ______ you keep it tidy and clean.
A．for fear that B．in case
C．on condition that D．even if
19．---It was Sunday today, and I _______ up very early.
---So you really had a good rest.
A．didn’t need to get B．needn’t have got C．needn’t to get D．don’t need get
20．Countries which continue importing huge quantities of waste will have to____ the issue of pollution.
A．maintain B．simplify C．overlook D．address
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）As self — driving cars come closer to being common on American roads, much of the rhetoric (说辞) promoting them has to do with safety. About 40,000 people die on U. S. roads every year, and driver errors are linked to more than 90 percent of crashes. But many of the biggest advocates of autonomous vehicles aren’t car companies looking to improve the safety of their existing products. Huge backing for self - driving technologies is coming from Silicon Valley giants like Google and Apple.
Those of us who have studied the relationship between technology and society tend to look more carefully at the motivations behind any technological push. In this case, it’s clear that in addition to addressing safety concerns, Silicon Valley firms have a strong incentive (动机) to create a new venue for increasing the use of their digital devices. Every minute people spend on their mobile phones provides data - and often money - to tech companies.
At present, digital devices and driving are in conflict: There are serious, often fatal, consequences when drivers use smartphones to talk or to text. Regulators and safety advocates look to resolve dial conflict by banning phone use while driving - as has happened in virtually every state. But the tech companies are taking a different approach. The obvious answer for Silicon Valley is creating an antomobile in which continuous cellphone use no longer poses a threat to anyone.
In recent years, the amount of time adults spend on their mobile devices has grown rapidly. At the moment, it’s around four hours a day for the average adult in the U. S. However, that rapid growth is likely to slow down as people run out of time that ’ s available for them to use their devices. Unless, of course, there’s a new block of time that suddenly opens up. The average American now spends about 48 minutes in a car every day, a sizable opportunity for increased cellphone use.
So as the public conversation around autonomous cars highlights the safety advantages, don’t forget the tech industry ’ s powerful desire for more profits, which goes well beyond simply saving us from ourselves.
1、Who are responsible for most traffic accidents in America?
A．Car companies. B．Tech companies.
C．Drivers. D．Self - driving cars.
2、What is Silicon Valley’s motive for promoting self - driving technologies?
A．To make more money. B．To reduce traffic accidents.
C．To limit the use of digital devices. D．To support car companies.
3、What is the present - day solution to the conflict between digital devices and driving?
A．Teaching people traffic rules. B．Improving self-driving technologies.
C．Fixing digital devices in cars. D．Banning phone use while driving.
4、What does the underlined phrase “a new block of time” possibly refer to?
A．The working time. B．People’s spare time.
C．The time spent in the car. D．The time spent on mobile devices.
22．（8分）Brad closed the door slowly as Sue left home to visit her mother. Expecting a whole day to relax，he was thinking whether to read the newspaper or watch his favorite TV talk show on her first day off in months. “This will be like a walk in the park,” he told his wife, “I’ll look after the kids, and you can go to visit your mom.”
Things started well，but just after eight o’clock, his three little “good kids”—Mike, Randy, and Alex—came down the stairs in their night clothes and shouted “Breakfast，Daddy.” When food had not appeared within thirty seconds, Randy began using his spoon on Alex’s head as if it were a drum. Alex started to shout loudly in time to the beat (节拍). Mike chanted “Where’s my toast, where’s my toast” in the background. Brad realized his newspaper would have to wait for a few seconds.
Life became worse after breakfast. Mike wore Randy’s underwear on his head. Randy locked himself in the bathroom, while Alex shouted again because he was going to wet his pants. Nobody could find clean socks, although they were before their very eyes. Someone named “Not Me had spilled a whole glass of orange juice into the basket of clean clothes. Brad knew the talk show had already started.
By ten o’clock, things were out of control. Alex was wondering why the fish in the jar refused his bread and butter. Mike was trying to show off his talent by decorating the kitchen wall with his color pencils. Randy, thankfully, appeared to be reading quietly in the family room，but closer examination showed that he was eating apple jam straight from the bottle with his hands. Brad realized that the talk show was over and reading would be impossible.
At exactly 11:17, Brad called the daycare centre. “I suddenly have to go into work and my wife’s away. Can I bring the boys over in a few minutes?” The answer was obviously “yes” because Brad was smiling.
1、What can we infer from Paragraph 1?
A．Sue often visited her mother.
B．Brad liked looking after the kids.
C．Brad took his first day off in weeks.
D．Brad thought nursing kids was an easy thing.
2、What do the last but one paragraph suggest?
A．Brad did read some books.
B．The children conducted well.
C．The children were under control.
D．Brad didn’t perform what he wanted to.
3、What’s the passage mainly about?
A．Brad’s happy day during Sue’s absence.
B．Brad’s taking good care of the three children.
C．The mess in her home during Sue’s absence.
D．What happened to Sue during her visit to her mother.
23．（8分） A good disguise keeps you hidden, right? Well, sometimes the best disguise is actually the most dazzling because research reveals that flashy metallic iridescence(金属彩虹色) can visually puzzle predators, which allows colorful prey to survive another day. Those surprising results appear in the journal Scientific Reports.
Shining iridescent color, which changes depending on the angle from which it's viewed, is favored by everything from birds to beetles and blossoms to butterflies.
“And in our research group we are of course interested in why this vivid metallic color is so widespread in nature.” Karin Kjernsmo of the University of Bristol adds that in some cases the showy splashes of light are a sexual strategy. “Here I would like to point out that in some species, particularly those that display strong sexual dimorphism(雌雄两性), such as birds of paradise or some butterflies or fishes, the occurrence of iridescence is most likely driven by sexual selection. For example, in many of these cases it is the males that have these vivid iridescent colors and they use them in mate choice or they use them as a signal to attract mates.” But iridescence also shows up in situations where reproduction is not an issue. “So what we are studying now is whether natural selection imposed by predation(捕食行为) could explain the occurrence of iridescence in prey animals.”
The idea that eye­catching colors could be used as a cover­up isn't a new one.“The father of camouflage theory, Abbott Thayer, really believed that iridescence should be categorized as a camouflage strategy. And he wrote in his famous lifework Concealing­Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, already in 1909, that ‘brilliantly changeable or metallic colors are among the strongest factors in an animal's concealment’. And this sounds like a completely unreasonable thing to say, because how can colors that are both brilliant and changeable contribute to animal's concealment？”
“In a similar way, we were asking whether iridescence, due to its changeability, could work as a form of camouflage by preventing shape recognition.” Kjernsmo and her colleagues trained bumblebees to associate a particular shape—a circle or an oval—with a sugar reward. And they found that the bees, when given a choice, would preferentially visit the shape they knew to be sweet. But when the shapes were iridescent, the bees had trouble telling them apart. “It seemed that the strikingly iridescent surfaces on our targets visually broke up the otherwise recognizable shape of the targets, which made them hard to distinguish.” As for making use of this method for hiding in plain sight, “Any practical applications is of course directly linked to any industry that has an interest in camouflage, that is how to conceal objects or make them more difficult to recognize.” The researchers are currently conducting experiments with birds, which often prey on iridescent insects to see if it helps to have a bird's­eye view.
1、According to the passage, iridescence is not made use of by animals to ________.
A．live a little longer by escaping their predator(捕食者)
B．catch the attention of their mates
C．conceal themselves when in danger
D．catch sight of more colorful preys
2、From the study in the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.
A．Bees can always tell the difference between a circle and an oval
B．Bees are creatures that are fascinated by sweet things that are iridescent
C．If a circle, with a sugar reward, is iridescent, the bees may have difficulty finding it
D．Bees are likely to prefer circles to ovals, whether they are iridescent or not
3、What will be talked about in the following paragraph?
A．Whether there are any differences between bees and birds.
B．Some industries that have great interest in camouflage.
C．Why birds are not effected by iridescent insects.
D．Which camouflage theory applies more to birds.
4、Which of the following might serve as the best title of the passage?
A．A famous camouflage strategy B．Metallic iridescent as the best disguise
C．Colors unique to animals D．Shining colors as a sexual strategy
24．（8分） It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to our future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle aged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal（谷物） into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen cheeks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space,” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially-trained astronauts went into space---and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for daytrips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines(疫苗). With the strawberries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office, autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and move smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
1、What changes the color of your shirt?
A．The mirror. B．The shirt itself
C．The counter.