安徽省阜阳市颍上县第二中学2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末考试试题.doc

安徽省阜阳市颍上县第二中学2025-2026学年英语高三第一学期期末考试试题
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．I could not ________my tears when I saw the picture of my father working at the quake zone.
A．bring In B．turn up
C．take off D．hold back
2．We’d better discuss everything ______before we work out the plan.
A．in detail B．in general C．on purpose D．on time
3．—Why not talk with your parents about your willingness to attend 2017 Peking University Summer Camp?
—I tried____ to get them to listen to me.
A．in time B．in vain
C．in need D．in case
4．---- Hi, Maria! I got the first place in the exam.
---- ______ ! Everyone knows you cheated and you just copied Tony's.
A．Congratulations B．Come on C．Good luck D．Cheer up.
5．—What did you say you were reluctant to risk just now?
—_________ to high levels of radiation.
A．Being exposed B．Having been exposed
C．To be exposed D．Exposed
6．Since the middle of the last year, the bike-sharing market _____in Beijing.
A．boomed B．was booming C．will boom D．has boomed
7．---What do you do, Susan?
I am a clerk in a foreign company now. But I __________English in a high school for 8 years.
A．teach B．had taught
C．have taught D．taught
8．He always keeps an eye on shortcomings of his brother’s _________ refusing to admit his own mistakes.
A．but B．while
C．although D．though
9．Both men have been _______to life imprisonment because of robbery.
A．choked B．condemned
C．consisted D．convinced
10．She is a strong-willed woman and not once _______ in to any difficulty in her life.
A．she has given B．did she give C．she gave D．has she given
11．I ______ for Shanghai this Saturday, so I want to know when the earliest plane ______.
A．leave; takes off B．am leaving; takes off
C．leave; is taking off D．am leaving; is taking off
12．Within even the weakest of human bodies lies a life that is precious indeed--- ____ needs to be respected and honored.
A．something that B．one C．one that D．something
13．Professor Wang ________in our school till next Sunday．
A．will have stayed B．has stayed C．is staying D．stayed
14．-Are you ready for the history test tomorrow?
-No,I wish I_____the clock back.
A．had turned B．could turn
C．will turn D．would have turned
15．Not until the bus disappeared in the distance ________ her school bag was gone.
A．Tina had found B．had Tina found
C．did Tina find D．Tina found
16．_____ with so much trouble, we failed to complete the task on time
A．To face B．Faced C．Face D．facing
17．—I will pick you up at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning. Is that all right?
—________. See you then.
A．I’d love to. B．That’s settled.
C．It’s up to you D．My pleasure
18．These new books are a very welcome _________ to the school library.
A．addition B．arrival C．attitude D．audience
19．—Mum, I broke Dad’s sunglasses this morning.
—You need to make an apology for your fault, ________ you will regret.
A．and B．or
C．but D．for
20．-I feel caught between experience and jobs after graduation.
-It’s really_________—without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.
A．a catch-22 B．a Herculean task
C．a sacred cow D．a Mickey Mouse course
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）Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Sometimes you’ll hear people say that you can’t expect someone else to love you until you love yourself. Either way, you’ve got to love yourself first and this can be tricky. Sure we all know that we’re the apple of our parents’ eyes, and that our Grandmas think we’re geniuses and our Uncle Roberts think that we will go to the Olympics, but sometimes it’s a lot harder to think such nice thoughts about ourselves. If you find that believing in yourself is a challenge, it is time you built a positive self-image and learnt to love yourself.
Self-image is your own mind’s picture of yourself. This image includes the way you look, the way you act, the way you talk and the way you think. Interestingly, our self-images are often quite different from the images others hold about us. Unfortunately, most of these images are more negative than they should be. Thus changing the way you think about yourself is the key to changing your self-image and your whole world.
The best way to defeat a passive self-image is to step back and decide to stress your successes. That is, make a list if you need to, but write down all of the great things you do every day. Don’t allow doubts to occur in it.
It very well might be that you are experiencing a negative self-image because you can’t move past one flaw or weakness that you see about yourself. Well, roll up your sleeves and make a change of it as your primary task. If you think you’re silly because you aren't good at math, find a tutor. If you think you’re weak because you can’t run a mile, get to the track and practice. If you think you’re dull because you don’t wear the latest trends, buy a few new clothes. But remember, just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.
The best way to get rid of a negative self-image is to realize that your image is far from objective, and to actively convince yourself of your positive qualities. Changing the way you think and working on those you need to improve will go a long way towards promoting a positive self-image. When you can pat yourself on the back, you’ll know you’re well on your way. Good luck！
1、You need to build a positive self-image when you ________.
A．dare to challenge yourself B．are unconfident about yourself
C．feel it hard to change yourself D．have a high opinion of yourself
2、According to the passage, our self-images ________.
A．have positive effects B．have different functions
C．are often changeable D．are probably untrue
3、How should you change your self-image according to the passage?
A．To change the way you think. B．To make your life successful.
C．To understand your own world. D．To keep a different image of others.
4、What is the passage mainly about?
A．How to prepare for your success.
B．How to build a positive self-image.
C．How to face challenges in your life.
D．How to develop your good qualities.
22．（8分）British Airways booking secrets-and the best late deals this week: Short holidays and European city breaks.
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1、Which destination is the cheapest?
A．Dublin B．Bruges
C．French Alps D．Tenerife
2、Where can you treat mom to a mother’s day city break?
A．Madrid B．Bruges
C．Tenerife D．French Alps
3、Where would you most probably see this text?
A．UK airlines B．A magazine
C．ATV program D．The Internet B
23．（8分） Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry(模仿) allows us to empathize with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our ability to read and properly react to their expressions. A review of this emotional mirroring appears on February 11 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
In their paper, Paula Niedenthal and Adrienne Wood, social psychologists at the University of Wisconsin, describe how people in social situations copy others’ facial expressions to create emotional responses in themselves. For example, if you’re with a friend who looks sad, you might “try on” that sad face yourself without realizing you’re doing so. In “trying on” your friend’s expression, it helps you to recognize what they’re feeling by associating it with times in the past when you made that expression. Humans get this emotional meaning from facial expressions in a matter of only a few hundred milliseconds.
“You reflect on your emotional feelings and then you generate some sort of recognition judgment, and the most important thing that results in is that you take the appropriate action—you approach the person or you avoid the person,” Niedenthal says. “Your own emotional reaction to the face changes your perception of how you see the face in such a way that provides you with more information about what it means.”
A person’s ability to recognize and share” others’ emotions can be prevented when they can’t mimic faces. This is a common complaint for people with motor diseases, like facial paralysis(瘫痪) from a stroke, or even due to nerve damage from plastic surgery. Niedenthal notes that the same would not be true for people who suffer from paralysis from birth, because if you’ve never had the ability to mimic facial expressions, you will have developed compensatory ways of interpreting emotions.
People with social disorders associated with mimicry or emotion-recognition damage, like autism(自闭症), can experience similar challenges. “There are some symptoms in autism where lack of facial mimicry may in part be due to limitation of eye contact,” Niedenthal says.
Niedenthal next wants to explore what part in the brain is functioning to help with facial expression recognition. A better understanding of that part, she says, will give us a better idea of how to treat related disorders.
1、According to the passage, facial mimicry helps ________.
A．experience one’s own feelings clearly B．change others’ emotions quickly
C．respond to others’ expressions properly D．develop friendship with others easily
2、We can know from Paragraph 4 and 5 that ________.
A．people with motor diseases may also suffer from autism
B．people born with facial paralysis may still recognize emotions
C．people with social disorders can’t have eye contact with others
D．people receiving plastic surgery have difficulty in mimicking faces
3、According to Niedenthal, the next step of the study will focus on ________.
A．how we can treat brain disorders
B．what can be done to regain facial mimicry
C．how our brain helps us with emotional mirroring
D．what part of our brain helps recognize facial expression
4、The passage is written to ________.
A．discuss how people react positively to others’ smiles
B．draw people’s attention to those with social disorders
C．introduce a new trend in facial expression recognition
D．explain how emotional mirroring affects people’s empathy
24．（8分）A new device the size of a coffee cup can make drinkable water from dry air using nothing but sunlight. With this device, “you can harvest a glass of water in an hour,” says Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley. “That’s about how much water a person needs a day to survive in the desert.”
Although the current device is just a prototype (原型), the technology could be adopted to supply fresh water to the most remote regions of the globe, such as the Middle East and North Africa.
Similar devices in previous attempts worked only below 50 percent relative humidity (湿度). They can extract water from the air even at low relative humidity. However, they either collect water too slowly or require lots of energy.
However, the new device, using a new special material, pulls water from air with as low as 20 percent relative humidity and successfully avoids both problems. Developed by MIT engineers from an existing material, the special material, called MOF-801, creates a network of very small pores (气孔) that can trap water vapor. At room temperature, water vapor collects in the pores. As temperatures rise, the water escapes into the box designed for water collection.
When the device is left in the shade, the layer of MOF-801 collects water vapor from the air. When moved into direct sunlight, the layer heats up and the water vapor escapes into a box, which cools the vapor, making it into drinkable water. This entire process takes around two hours.
Laboratory tests of the device harvested 2.8 liters of water per day. Therefore, the device could be used us a personal water source in dry regions, Yaghi says, or the techonology could be used to produce enough water for a whole community.
1、The new device is invented to according to Yaghi.
A．provide solar enegy B．make the desert hospitable
C．make water from air D．measure humidity
2、What helps the device avoid the problems of previous attempts?
A．A new material called MOF-801.
B．Large pores which can trap water.
C．The box cooling water vapor.
D．The layer powered by the sun.
3、Which is the right order of how the device works?
a. Collect vapor from the air.
b. The device is left in the shade.
c. The device is moved in the sunlight.
d. Cool the vapor into drinkable water.
A．a→b→c→d B．b→a→c→d
C．c→a→b→d D．a→c→b→d
25．（10分） The secret to living longer could be as simple as picking up your walking pace, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Sydney found that walking at a brisk(快的) or fast pace was associated with a risk reduction of 24 percent for any cause of death.
This effect was even more obvious in older age group, with fast walkers over the age of 60 reducing their risk of death by a surprising 53 percent. Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, who led the study, explained, “A fast pace is generally five to six kilometers per hour, but it really depends on a walker’s fitness levels; an alternatives indicator is to walk at a pace that makes you slightly out of breath or sweaty.”
In the study, the researchers looked at the results of 11 surveys from 134 to 2008, in which participants recorded their walking pace, as well as age, sex and BMI. The analysis showed that walking at an average pace was associated with a 20 percent risk reduction for all-cause mortality(死亡率) compared with walking at a s