2025-2026学年江苏省泰州市英语高三上期末检测模拟试题.doc

2025-2026学年江苏省泰州市英语高三上期末检测模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．In the Name of People, a popular TV drama, shows a deep ________ on the fight against corruption.
A．argument B．theme
C．reflection D．impression
2．_____ the oil under the sea, the company has raised ample funds to develop petroleum exploration equipment.
A．Exploiting B．Having exploited
C．To exploit D．Exploited
3．Dream of the Red Chamber is believed to be semi-autobiographical, _______the fortunes of Cao’s own family.
A．mirrored B．to mirror
C．mirroring D．mirror
4．As is known to all, _______ opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games held on November 12th in
Guangzhou was _______ great success.
A．/; a B．the; a C．the; / D．a; /
5．Whitney Houston’s sudden death suggests that drug abuse is such a serious problem ________ we should deal with it appropriately.
A．as B．that C．which D．where
6．In April,2009,President Hu inspected the warships in Qingdao,____ the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PLA Navy.
A．marking B．marked
C．having marked D．being marked
7．Someone called me up at midnight, but he had hung up I could answer the phone.
A．as B．since
C．until D．before
8．Friendship can never be a trade; ______, it needs the most thorough and unprofitable concept.
A．in addition B．by contrast C．in return D．by chance
9．The new local law in Nanjing says parents not physically harm young children or expose them to long­term hunger as a punishment.
A．can B．shall
C．will D．need
10．He insisted what he did _______ right and that anyone who broke laws ________．
A．was ; be punished B．be ; was punished
C．was; was punished D．be ; be punished
11．Instead of making choices for their children, liberal parents usually say, “Go where you ________ .”
A．will B．should
C．can D．must
12．--Tom, your foreign teacher speaks Chinese fluently!
--Oh, she has lived in China for six years; otherwise she such good Chinese.
A．didn’t speak B．would not have spoken
C．would not speak D．hadn’t spoken
13．––Cathy is not coming to your birthday party tonight.
––But she ______!
A．promised B．promises
C．will promise D．had promised
14．He was admitted to Harvard University, ________ was just what his parents expected.
A．who B．which
C．what D．where
15．By the side of the teaching building of our school _____, which was completed in 2009.
A．there standing the library B．does the library stand
C．the library stands D．stands the library
16．Between the two generations, it is often not their age, _________ their education that causes misunderstanding.
A．like B．as C．or D．but
17．________ a bike, she cycled home.
A．Bought B．To buy C．Being bought D．Having bought
18．---May I help you？You seem to be having some trouble.
----____________，thanks. I think I can manage.
A．No problem B．It's all right
C．ok D．No way
19．—Could you tell me the____ of making such tasty cakes?
— Well, I just follow the directons in the cookbook.
A．feature B．plan C．cost D．trick
20．Every classroom in this modern school is ________ with a new TV set on the wall and a computer on the teacher's desk.
A．equipped B．decorated
C．fixed D．placed
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）Feeling down? Why not visit one of these four websites?
C
This site was created in 1999 and gets about seven million visitor per month. Two of its videos have been chosen as winners for the Webby Awards: Pixar Intro Parody and Web Site Story. Other funny videos to looks out for include a debate on the advantages and disadvantages of going to college.
F
This site has lots of really funny videos And as the name suggests, users vote on videos, choosing the options “funny” or “die”. If the video receives too many “die” votes, it's sent to the site's “crypt”. But if it gets enough “funny” votes, it goes into the Hall of Fame. The site was crated in 2006 by comedians Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The site’s first video. The Landlord has had over 70 million views Videos to watch out for include Just a Tip: Taxi, with some valuable advice on how to catch a taxi, and Over Analyzing Texts, with some tips on how to respond to text messages
R
Founded in 2005, R is a social news and entertainment website. Registered users put funny content in the form of the video link or texts on the website. Other users then vote these things “up” or “down”. The most recent and well-liked content appears at the top on the front page of the site.
T
First appearing as a satirical newspaper in 1988, T has hundred of videos and articles on news and current affairs and receives an average of 7.5 million visitors a months. It’s famous for its amusing items, such as Michelle Obama Seen Outside Walking Family Rhinoceros or Dad Can’t Believe Lawn.
1、If you want to watch videos ever winning the Webby Awards, you can visit____________.
A．Reddit. com B．Collegehumor. com
C．T D．F
2、Videos on the website F are __________.
A．watched over 70 million times
B．voted by their users
C．based on newspaper stories
D．created by users
3、What do R and T have in common?
A．They include funny videos
B．They include valuable advice
C．They include debates on education
D．They provide satirical news
22．（8分） In the U. S. state of Washington, a road called Interstate(州际公路；州际的)90 cuts through a wild mountainous area to reach the city of Seattle. For the area's many kinds of animals, busy high- way greatly limits their movements. Animals need to move to find food, to find mates, to find new places to live as their populations expand or just when conditions change, like a fire breaks out. Crossing I-90 – as the road is called – is a risky but sometimes necessary act. But soon, animals will have a safer choice. They will be able to go above it.
To help the animals, the state is finishing work on its largest - ever wildlife bridge. The 11-meter-tall, 20 - meter - wide bridge begins in the forest. It forms two arches above the highway, one for each direction of traffic. Workers are adding fencing anti plants to help guide the animals across the bridge，Two-meter-thick walls will help block noise from vehicles below. Scientists chose the area because it is within a natural migration(迁徙)path for some animals.
The I -90 bridge is part of a growing number of wildlife crossings across the United States. Some are fences, some are overland bridges，and some are underpasses. They all aim to keep drivers and animals away from each other.
A U. S. Transportation Department study found crashes between animals and humans rose year by year. The accidents made up about 5 percent of all crashes nationally, and cost the economy (经济)about ＄ 8 billion. Such costs come from car repaid, emergency room visits and removal of the dead animals on roads. Collisions between animals and drivers are rarely deadly to people. But they are often deadly to wildlife. The study also found that 21 endangered or threatened species in the U.S. are affected by vehicle hits. Bridges, underpasses and fencing reduce I he area's animal - driver collisions by 80 percent.
Most of the wildlife bridges are in western states. Many other areas also need such paths. But finding money for more crossings is“the- number - one problem”. Patty Garvey — Darda of the U. S. Forest Service has worked on the I - 90 crossing from the start of the project. She says the $ 6 - million bridge will one day pay for itself because the highway will not have to be fully or partly closed each time a large animal is struck. “If you shut clown Interstate 90, you shut down interstate trade. she adds.
1、What do we know about die I -90?
A．It goes from Washington D．C to Seattle,
B．It is dangerous for wild animals to cross.
C．It blocks the movements of wild animals.
D．It is the longest - ever highway in the world.
2、What is being done to help the animals?
A．Building a wildlife bridge to keep drivers and animals away.
B．Designing walls to protect animals from traffic accidents.
C．forming 2 arches, one for traffic and the other for animals.
D．Choosing a natural and safe area for wild animals to live in.
3、What can we learn from the study?
A．Traffic accidents went down gradually nationwide.
B．Most money was spent in rescuing wild animals,
C．Collisions are more deadly to wildlife than to people,
D．Some species no longer existed because of vehicle hits.
4、Which of the statements may Patty Garvey - Darda agree with?
A．The bridge costs too much money.
B．Animals won11 be struck by drivers.
C．The effort to build the bridge will pay off.
D．Collisions won't affect national trade at all.
23．（8分）A pretty face is never forgotten. Do you believe so? But maybe it is untrue! Psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognized. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face has particularly distinctive features, such as Angelina Jolie’s.
German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted (扭曲) by emotions. Researchers Holger Wiese, Carolin Altmann and Stefan Schweinberger at the University of Jena, Germany, discovered in a study that photos of unattractive people were more easily remembered than pretty ones when they showed them to a group of people.
For the study, which was published in science magazine Neuropsychologia, the psychologists showed photos of faces to test subjects. Half of the faces were considered to be more attractive and the other half as less attractive, but all of them were being thought of as similarly distinctive looking. The test subjects were shown the faces for just a few seconds to memorize them and were shown them again during the test so that they could decide if they recognized them or not.
The researchers were surprised by the result. “Until now we assumed that it was generally easier to memorize faces which are being considered as attractive, just because we prefer looking at beautiful faces,” Dr. Wiese said. But the study showed that such a connection cannot be easily proven. He assumes that remembering pretty faces is distorted by emotional influences, which enhance the sense of recognition at a later time. The researchers’ idea is backed up by evidence from EEG-recordings (脑电图记录) they used during their experiment which show the brains’ electric activity.
The study also revealed that in the case of attractive faces, considerably more false positive results were detected. In other words, people thought they recognized a face without having seen it before. “We obviously tend to believe that we recognize a face just because we find it attractive.” Dr. Wiese said.
1、What do we know about the photos from Paragraph 3?
A．They were all of pretty faces.
B．They were selected at random.
C．They were not distinctive at all.
D．They were showed twice to the test subjects.
2、What does the underlined phrase “false positive results” in the last paragraph mean?
A．People actually only recognize few pretty faces.
B．People recognize more ugly faces than pretty ones.
C．People claim to recognize a face they have never seen.
D．People recognize fewer faces than they have thought.
3、What can be inferred from the new study?
A．People are reluctant to recognize ugly faces.
B．Beautiful people are particularly distinctive.
C．Attractiveness prevents the recognition of faces.
D．Attractive faces are always easy to be recognized.
4、Which word can show the author’s attitude towards the findings of the research?
A．Doubtful. B．Disapproving.
C．Favorable. D．Objective.
24．（8分）The belief that new technologies are causing the death of work is the idea that never goes away. Despite evidence to the contrary, we still view technological change today as being more rapid and dramatic in its consequences for work than ever before. But this is nothing new. People have always viewed the technological changes that take place during their lives as the most dramatic and dangerous that ever happened in history.
In the 1930s, the British economist(经济学家) John Maynard Keynes predicted the widespread use of electricity would produce a world where people spend most of their time doing nothing. In the United States during the 1960s, the government repeatedly investigates fears that automatic machines would permanently reduce the amount of work available. In 1988, one Australian historian claimed that at least a quarter of the workforce would be without jobs within 10 years because of computers.
Of course, none of these disasters came to pass in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, or anywhere else.
Yet today, we are seeing the return of these predictions, with some experts claiming the world of work is once more undergoing radical and unprecedented change. They argue that robots and other workplace technologies are causing a reduction in the total amount of work available, or are bringing a more rapid pace of substitution of machines for humans than has been seen previously.
But there is a little evidence to support such beliefs. Statistics show that the percentage of people in work, the number of hours they work, and how frequently they change jobs have remained remarkably constant over the past 20 years.
This stability should not come as a surprise. There are good reasons why we should not expect new technologies to cause the death of work. New technologies always cause job losses, but that is only part of the story. What also needs to be understood is how they increase the amount of work available.
One way this happens is through the increases in incomes that accompany the use of new technologies. With the introduction of these technologies, good and services can be produced faster, which results in higher real incomes for workers. Higher incomes then increase demand for other products and consequently more workers are needed to make them. Additionally, while new technologies are likely to substitute for some types of workers, they will also increase demand for other types of workers, especially those with higher level skills and expertise.
So, the end of work is no closer today than at any time in the past. But there is still a need to keep disproving the prediction, to reduce people's fears.
1、What is the function of the second paragraph?
A．To explain the importance of developing new technology.
B．To show how technology affected employment in the past.
C．To argue that technological dangers are becoming more serious.
D．To give historical examples of unnecessary fear about new technology.
2、How can employment statistics over the past 20 years best be described?
A．Confusing B．Reliable
C．Sta