湖北省恩施州巴东一中2025-2026学年英语高三上期末监测模拟试题.doc

湖北省恩施州巴东一中2025-2026学年英语高三上期末监测模拟试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．_____ annoys the teacher most is that all the students are too quiet in class.
A．What B．That
C．When D．Who
2．What you said doesn’t ________ what the police have told us, so we have to find more evidence.
A．agree with B．make up
C．contribute to D．show off
3．Enter our prize ______and win a break in a National Trust holiday cottage of your choice anywhere in the country.

A．draw B．search C．match D．collection
4．Recently some hospitals in China have adopted ______ they call a robot-doctor, ______ will be used to operate on patients with more accuracy.
A．what; that B．that; which
C．what; which D．which; what
5．Some people suggest changing the date for the college entrance exams into ______ Saturday and Sunday of the first week of June, which I think is ______ good advice.
A．/ ; / B．the; the C．the; a D．the; /
6．---How’s your tour around the North Lake? Is it beautiful?
---It ________ be, but it is now heavily polluted.
A．will B．would C．should D．must
7．According to the local law, no one ______ enter the building site without permission.
A．can B．must
C．shall D．dare
8．________about the man wearing sunglasses during night that he was determined to follow him.
A．So curious the detective was
B．So curious was the detective
C．How curious was the detective
D．How curious the detective was
9．The Japanese people keep up cheerful spirits ________ the world that they can get over the crisis caused by the terrible tsunami（海啸）.
A．being convinced B．convinced C．to convince D．having convinced
10．US slang is hugely ______ thanks to the many different ethnic groups that have settled in the country.
A．delicate B．dynamic C．diverse D．desperate
11．I don’t think she visited the exhibition this morning, ______ she was with me at that time.
A．though B．or C．but D．for
12．lt was in December, 2018 ________ Chairman Xi and President Trump met in Argentina.
A．when B．that
C．before D．since
13．The crazy fans ________ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived.
A．were waiting B．had been waiting
C．had waited D．would wait
14．These new books are a very welcome _________ to the school library.
A．addition B．arrival C．attitude D．audience
15．—How do you find the health club?
—I would rather I ______ it. I feel its management is going from bad to worse.
A．haven’t joined B．hadn’t joined
C．didn’t join D．had joined
16．The country’s chief exports are coal, cars and cotton goods, cars_____ the most important of these.
A．have been B．are
C．being D．are being
17．Wolf Warrior 2, which ________ the “Award for Best Visual Effects” at the Beijing Film Festival, indicates China's film industry has come of age.
A．wins B．won
C．has won D．had won
18．At the end of the historic areaWilmington displayed its ________ as a working port city：large ware­houses and a few other dated office buildings．
A．achievement B．reputation
C．character D．standard
19．—Next Monday is my birthday.
—Is that so? ______
A．I can’t believe my ears.          B．I’m so glad to hear that.
C．What presents do you want?  D．Many happy returns of the day!
20．Be calm, Madam. Can you remember _____________ you had your mobile phone stolen?
A．when was it that B．that it was when
C．where it was that D．it was where that
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）My father was a taxi driver but I am a king—King Renato, of the country Pontinha, an island on Funchal harbour. It’s in Madeira, Portugal, where I grew up. It was discovered in 1419; Captain Cook once came here.
In 1903, the Portuguese government didn’t have enough money to build a harbor port, so the king sold the land to a wealthy British family, the Blandys, who make Madeira wine. Fourteen years ago, the family decided to sell it for just € 25,000 (£19,500). I decided to buy it though I had no money—I was just an art teacher.
I tried to find some business partners, but they all thought I was crazy to want to buy what is actually a large rock; it has a small cave, a platform on top, and no electricity or running water. So I sold some of my possessions, put my savings together and bought it.
When the king of Portugal originally sold the island in 1903, he and all the governors signed a document, selling all the “possessions and the dominions (领土)” of the island. It means I can do what I want with it—I could start a restaurant, or a cinema, but nobody thought that someone would want to start a country. So that’s what I did: I decided that this would no longer be just a rock on the port of Funchal. It would be my island, about the size of a one-bedroom house.
After I bought it, the governor of Madeira asked to buy my island. Of course, I said no. He said that unless I sold it back to the state, he wouldn’t let me connect to any electricity. But I have a solar panel and a small windmill, and maybe in the future I will be able to generate power from the ocean around Pontinha.
1、What does the writer want to show by mentioning his father?
A．He had a royal family. B．He loved his family.
C．He was not a born king. D．He was not a good driver.
2、Who sold the island to the author?
A．A Portuguese king. B．An art teacher.
C．The Blandy family. D．Captain Cook.
3、How did the writer start the country?
A．He discovered the island.
B．He found business supporters.
C．He was supported by citizens in the island.
D．He took advantage of the official document.
4、What can we infer about the country Pontinha?
A．It was a tiny island.
B．A harbor port was built on it.
C．It was a wealthy land.
D．Life there was very convenient.
22．（8分） Pigeons in London have a bad reputation. Some people call them flying rats. And many blame them for causing pollution with their droppings. But now the birds are being used to fight another kind of pollution in this city of 8.5 million.
“The problem for air pollution is that it’s been largely ignored as an issue for a long time,” says Andrea Lee, who works for the London-based environmental organization Client Earth. “People don’t realize how bad it is, and how it actually affects their health.” London’s poor air quality is linked to nearly 10,000 early deaths a year. Lee says, citing(引用)a report released by the city manager last year. If people were better informed about the pollution they’ re breathing, she says, they could pressure the government to do something about it.
Nearby, on a windy hill in London’s Regent’s Park, an experiment is underway that could help—the first week of flights by the Pigeon Air Patrol. It all began when Pierre Duquesnoy, the director for DigitasLBi, a marketing firm, won a London Design Festival contest last year to show how a world problem could be solved using Twitter. Duquesnoy, from France, chose the problem of air pollution.
“Basically, I realized how important the problem was,” he says. “But also I realized that most of the people around me didn’t know anything about it.” Duquesnoy says he wants to better measure pollution, while at the same time making the results accessible to the public through Twitter.
“So”, he wondered, “how could we go across the city quickly collecting as much data as possible?” Drones were his first thought. But it’s illegal to fly them over London. But pigeons can fly above London, right?” he says. “They live—actually, they are Londoners as well. So, yeah, I thought about using pigeons equipped with mobile apps. And we can use not just street pigeons, but racing pigeons, because they fly pretty quickly and pretty low.”
So it might be time for Londoners to have more respect for their pigeons. The birds may just be helping to improve the quality of the city’s air.
1、What can we infer about London’s air quality from Paragraph 2?
A．Londoners are very satisfied with it.
B．The government is trying to improve it.
C．Londoners should pay more attention to it.
D．The government has done a lot to improve it.
2、Duquesnoy attended the London Design Festival to _________.
A．entertain Londoners. B．solve a world problem.
C．design a product for sale. D．protect animals like pigeons.
3、Why did Duquesnoy give up using drones to fly across London?
A．Because they are too expensive. B．Because they fly too quickly.
C．Because they are forbidden. D．Because they fly too high.
4、Which can be the best title for the text?
A．Clean air in London. B．London’s dirty secret.
C．London’s new pollution fighter. D．Causes of air pollution in London.
23．（8分）Getting stitched(缝合) up by Dr. Robot may one day be reality. Scientists have created a robotic system which did just that in living animals without a real doctor pulling the strings. Much like engineers are designing self-driving cars, the medical research is part of a move toward autonomous surgical robots, removing the surgeon’s hands from certain tasks that a machine might perform all by itself.
Doctors wouldn’t leave the bedside they’re supposed to watch. Plus they’d handle the rest of the surgery. In small tests using pigs, the robotic arm performed at least as well, and in some cases a bit better, as some competing surgeons in stitching together intestinal(肠的) tissue. “The purpose wasn’t to replace surgeons, ”said Dr. Kim who led the project. “If you have all intelligent tool that works with a surgeon, can it improve the outcome? That’s what we have done.”
If you’ve heard about machines like the popular Da Vinci system, you might think robots already are operating. Not really. Today many hospitals offer robot-assisted surgery where surgeons use the machinery as tools that they control by hand to operate through tiny openings in the body. But robot-assisted surgery has been controversial, as some studies have shown it can bring higher costs without better outcomes.
Kim’s team at Children’s Sheikh Zayed Institute invented the new STAR system—it stands for Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot—works sort of like a programmable sewing machine. They added sensors to help guide each stitch and tell how tightly to pull. But the approach wasn’t perfect. In the living animals, the robot took much longer and made a few stitching mistakes while the surgeon sewing by hand made none. Kim said the robot can be sped up. He hopes to begin human studies in two or three years.
1What’s the best title for the text?
A．A new robotic system
B．A new-style way of stitching
C．The newly-designed driverless vehicles
D．Robot surgeons one step closer to reality
2、What will surgeons do when Dr. Robot is used in surgery?
A．They can help pull the strings. B．They rest at the bedside.
C．They join in when necessary. D．They perform another surgery.
3、Some people are against using robots in surgery probably because_________.
A．they can be out of control B．they will take shorter time
C．they may be expensive to use D．they are likely to cause great pain
4、What can we infer from the text?
A．Dr. Robot can take the place of surgeons.
B．Dr. Robot will be improved.
C．Dr. Robot has been tested with human trials.
D．Dr. Robot can free doctors’ hands in the operation.
24．（8分） It takes a special person to travel with kids—a parent.Children have their own needs.Their idea of a vacation is more“adventurous”than a parent’s.They need constant inspiration and they can get as tired as they are tiring.
Make sure you have plenty of room while traveling
If you are driving，get a mini-van.Sure，you might be more of a“car”type，and you might have resisted buying a mini—van so far.But pick up a rental van for the vacation just to give the kids a little more room for fighting.
Accommodations along the way can be tricky.Usually it involves a crowded motel for just long enough to sleep，then back in the crowded car.This is not anybody’s idea of a home away from homeAn accommodation alternative is to camp，but not everyone enjoys a good early morning wake-up wrestle with a bear as much as I do，so a motel might be required.
Make sure you have plenty of room when you“get there”
Assuming you are actually heading for a destination，make sure to have lots of room when you get there.This part is easy.But it requires thinking outside the box.Forget hotels，motels，and inns.Look for private rental homes.
Probably the biggest destination for families is Walt Disney World in Florida.Good news—Orlando，Kissimmee and the surrounding area is full of private vacation homes for rent.In Florida they call them vacation villas，and they offer all the space of home.
Be prepared for“children being children”events
Sometimes，stress hits you from behind when the unexpected happens.Like a cut or a scrape…or a child getting sick.Sharon Baillie told me that is why she tells all her villa rental guests where the first-aid case can be found，and exactly where to go for medical attention.This is particularly helpful for her many guests from abroad，who are unfamiliar with the US healthcare system.
Booking tickets to theme parks and making reservations for just about everything in advance makes the trip less stressful.Try having your children baby-sat.Hire a local baby-sitter once or twice.Vacation Home owners can set this up for you，and some hotels might be willing to，too.
1、Where does the author prefer to rest on the way to the destination?
A．In a camp. B．In a mini-van. C．At a motel. D．In a car.
2、What does the underlined word“this”in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Booking tickets in advance. B．Hiring a baby-sitter.
C．Making reservations ahead of time. D．Looking for a tour guide.
3、What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To introduce ways of travelling.
B．To advertise vacation homes for tourists.
C．To reduce the stress while traveling abroad.
D．To show how to travel comfortably with kids.
25．（10分）We humans are sweet on sugar. That makes sense. All animals need sugar to live. It ' s the fuel that powers our cells. So it' s not surprising that we ' re born to want the sweet stuff.
Sugar stores the sun' s energy like a battery. After a meal,your body breaks down foods into their building blocks. It uses some sugars for energy right away. The rest get stored for the body to break down later. It ' s a myth that sugar makes you extremely excited, but having a sugary snack can give you a quick burst of energy. That ' s because the sugars in sweet foods are easy for your body to turn into fuel. When you eat other kinds of foods,like vegetables, it takes longer for your body to break the sugars down.
These days it' s easy to find sweet snacks. Sodas, candy, cakes and even foods that seem healthy , such as yogurt,can be packed with sugar. Food makers add sugar,because they know that to humans, sweet makes everything taste better. Americans eat about 3 teaspoons of extra sugar everyday. That' s way more than what is good for us.
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