北京八中怡海分校2025-2026学年高三英语第一学期期末监测试题.doc

北京八中怡海分校2025-2026学年高三英语第一学期期末监测试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．_______ progress it is, you can’t stop moving forward.
A．Whatever great B．However great
C．No matter how great D．How great a
2．---May! How is your plan? I heard you started it last Sunday.
---Oh! I for it, but I haven’t decided where to start it.
A．have prepared B．had prepared C．have been preparing D．was preparing
3．The bus dropped me off and pulled away _____I realized I had left my bag on it.
A．while B．before
C．after D．since
4．________ challenges in Chinas car-sharing economy, shared mobility still has a promising future.
A．Despite B．Besides
C．Concerning D．Regarding
5．________Wuhu with Shanghai, to be frank, and you'll find it's more convenient to live in the former.
A．To compare B．Comparing
C．Compare D．Compared
6．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
7．---I’ve heard a lot about you. You got promoted, right? ______
--- Many thanks.
A．Good for you B．You asked for it
C．There you are D．You’ve gone too far
8．Jane went to her teacher just now. She ________ about the solution to the problem.
A．wondered B．was wondering C．had wondered D．would wonder
9．When they first came to the city, my parents often went to neighbors for a talk, just as they ________ in the countryside.
A．will do B．had done
C．have done D．were doing
10．If you sleep less than seven hours, you are three times more to catch a cold．
A．possible B．certainly C．probable D．likely
11．-- Alison, I'm sorry. I can't come to the wedding with you tomorrow morning. -- ________?
-- My grandma was severely ill, so I have to stay in the hospital to look after her.
A．How is it B．How come C．So what D．What's the problem
12．Pele had bags of natural talent, but he ______ without the determination to deal with all the problems life threw in his path.
A．would never succeed B．never succeeded
C．would never have succeeded D．have never succeeded
13．____ clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.
A．On top of B．In the silence of
C．On account of D．In the absence of
14．We’ll go early． ，we may not get a seat．
A．Otherwise B．Meanwhile C．However D．Besides
15．If you want to lead a happy life, you’d better learn to accept life ______ it is.
A．as B．that
C．which D．where
16．I broke my relationship with Peter because he always found _______ with me.
A．error B．failure
C．mistake D．fault
17．He was greatly shocked at Donald Trump’s taking office. Never did he expect that the voters ______ be so unreasonable.
A．should B．could
C．would D．might
18．The police officers decided to conduct a thorough and ______ review of the case.
A．comprehensive B．complicated
C．conscious D．constant
19．During each NBA season, basketball fans cheer on their favorite teams to make _______ through
A．it B．them
C．that D．those
20．Youth is a period of our life we see no limit to our hopes and wishes.
A．where B．that
C．what D．when
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）When an ice cube melts, it creates a puddle (水坑). When an ice sheet (冰盖)melts, it raises sea levels. It sounds simple, but scientists have debated for decades whether both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets actually were shrinking, and how much that melting contributed to rising sea levels.
Now, a new study has provided the best evidence of how the polar ice sheets are responding to our warming world. In the study, an international team of scientists looked at 20 years of' data in the ice sheets collected by 10 satellite missions. The team's conclusion: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets both are losing ice overall. The researchers also found that between 1992 and 2011, melt water from those shrinking ice sheets caused sea levels to rise by about 11 millimeters.
Over the 19 years studied, the Greenland ice sheet lost 2.7 trillion metric tons of ice. The Antarctic ice sheet also shrank by about l.3 trillion metric tons. Previously, some scientists disagreed whether the Antarctic sheet, the largest mass of ice in the world, was shrinking or growing or neither.
While the Earth is warming overall, the effect of climate change varies from region to region. Over the last 15 years, for example, scientists have something disagreed over how climate change has affected the polar ice sheets. Many studies found that the sheets lost a lot of ice and that not enough snow fell on the sheets to compensate for the loss. But other studies found that the loss of ice was balanced by the gain in snowfall.
Richard Alley, a glacier scientist at Penn State University, said that many of those studies looked at different areas, and over different time periods. In addition, the studies didn't all use the satellite data in the same way. Those differences made, it difficult to compare the results.
The data in the new study matched time periods and areas. The study also combined measurements from kinds of satellites.
1、Why does the author use a common-sense phenomenon as the beginning?
A．To present the reason for ice sheet melting.
B．To show us the result of a scientific experiment.
C．To give a simple example to introduce the topic.
D．To present a common daily finding obvious to the readers.
2、The researchers reached their conclusion by_____.
A．analyzing the findings of former studies
B．observing the Antarctic and Greenland
C．referring to the data from satellites
D．making measurements in the Antarctic and Greenland
3、What does the underlined phrase "compensate for" in paragraph 4 refer to?
A．Cut down.
B．Lead to．
C．Bring about.
D．Make up for.
4、Which of the following might be the best conclusion for the passage?
A．Ice sheets are shrinking due to global warming.
B．People are suffering from climate change.
C．Rising sea levels makes people live in danger.
D．Shrinking ice has nothing to do with sea levels.
22．（8分） A 60-year-old homeless woman named Smokie has been sleeping outside in the dirt a few doors down from a man named Elvis Summers.
Most mornings, she stops by Elvis’s Los Angeles apartment and asks if he has any recyclable materials for her. Through these conversations, they struck up a friendship.
One morning, Elvis saw a news article about man in Oakland who has been making tiny houses out of deserted materials. He was inspired to put off paying a few bills so he could buy the wood and hardware to make Smokie a brand new shelter it took him five days to build it, and now, for the first time in ten years, Smokie a brand new shelter. It took him five days to build it, and now, for the first time in ten years, Smokie has a place to hang the sign. “Home Sweet Home”.
“I had nowhere to really build it, so I just built it in the street outside of my apartment,” Elvis told Good News Network. “The local LAPD police have been super cool, and have told me they support it—as long as we move it to a different spot every 72 hours.”
He made this pretty time-lapse(延时的) video showing how he did it. The materials, including two locks on the front door and strong wheels for moving it around, cost him about $500.
“I’ve met so many homeless people, good people,” Elvis said in an email, “Since I built Smokie’s , I’ve had several people asking me to make them a tiny home and it’s turned into much more than just the one house I wanted to build.”
Although he runs an online retail store that sells EDM clothes, he has decided to launch an ambitious project to fund more shelters. He plants to get lighter and cheaper materials—without sacrificing the strength of the house—for the next round. Rick Sassen, a branch manager, kindly donated the roof shingles and cedar supporting Smokie’s house, final items Elvis couldn’t afford on his own. Sassen has promised to work out a deal on future building materials for the same cause.
1、What is the meaning of the underlined words “struck up” in paragraph 2?
A．Kept on. B．Established.
C．Gave out. D．Accomplished.
2、Where did Elvis’s inspiration to build a tiny house come from?
A．A news report.
B．A science book.
C．A fiction story.
D．An advertisement.
3、What is the main feature of the tiny house?
A．It is air-conditioned.
B．It is very light.
C．It can move around.
D．It has no roof.
4、What can be inferred about Elvis from the last paragraph?
A．He will get help from poor people.
B．He earns his living by building houses.
C．He plans to build stronger houses.
D．He will help more homeless people.
23．（8分）Half an hour into a cooking competition at Green Street Academy, Tyana Givens, 15, dipped a plastic spoon into a pot with tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic and mushrooms over a burner in a science classroom. She and the two other students, Kalimah Ball and Maya Smith, were making meat sauce.
The girls had spent the past five weeks learning how to grow their own produce using food computers-tabletop greenhouses controlled by computer programs-at Green Street Academy, a charter school in Baltimore. The course, which weaved together lessons on programming, food systems and agriculture, ended with an “Iron Chef”-style cooking contest.
With the help of instructor Melanie Shimano, the girls finished their contest successfully using the food they planted in tabletop greenhouses. The tabletop greenhouses can control temperature, light and water inside using the computer code that the students wrote by themselves. Shimano, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, piloted(试行)the course as part of Green Street Academy’s junior biotechnology class in the spring and will expand the program to other schools in the fall.
“Technology is not something that a lot of teachers have a lot of resources for all the time, but it’s something that’s not difficult to do with a relatively low amount of funding,” Shimano said. “Baltimore is a center for startups and food, so kind of fostering that culture of being into technology and into design and seeing all the pieces fit together is really cool.”
While her course is unique to Baltimore, it’s part of a broader program born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab called the Open Agriculture Initiative, or OpenAg, which aims to create inventive, sustainable food systems through open-source technology. In addition to 10 full-time staff and researchers, OpenAg is primarily an online community of about 1,400 educators, growers, chefs and retailers in 47 countries, according to Hildreth England, OpenAg’s assistant director.
“The interest level across the board generally comes from folks who are concerned about food systems and concerned about the environment, and it’s usually a combination of the two,” England said.
1、What’s special about the course taken by Tyana Givens?
A．It’s a cooking course
B．It involves several subjects
C．It is intended for a contest
D．It is controlled by tabletop greenhouses.
2、Why did the students have to write computer codes to grow food?
A．To win a cooking contest
B．To finish homework
C．To create a greenhouse
D．To control the growing conditions
3、What’s Shimano’s opinion about technology education?
A．It calls of teachers with many resources
B．It calls for a lot of money
C．It is supposed to combine skills together
D．It can only be carried out in big cities.
4、What can be learned about the Open Agriculture Initiative?
A．It is participated by full-time. M. I. T researchers as well as people from different walk of life
B．It will help create a better education system
C．It only covers the USA
D．It focuses on food and catering industry.
24．（8分）Waiting For You
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge MA Art Study Center Open Hours
Through December 21, the Art Study Center will hold special open hours on Mondays, from 1 pm to 4 pm. The Art Study Center is located on Level 4. Please be prepared to present a photo ID．The workers will charge you 25 cents for access. Level 4 will check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink. Do remember to put things in the lockers on Level 1. Student Guide Tour
These tours, designed and led by Harvard students from a range of scientific groups, focus on animals and plant life. They provide visitors a unique view into learning about creatures. Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Free with museums admission. Tours are limited to 15 people; no registration required. Tours are offered every Tuesday and Friday at 2 pm, and every Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm. Note that there will be no tours on Friday, November 27 or Saturday, November 28, because of the Thanks-giving break. Art Study Center
The public is welcome to visit the museums’ Art Study Center. However, you need to show the tickets. The tickets’ details:
$ 15 Adults
$ 13 Seniors (65+)
$ 10 Non-Harvard students (18+)
Free Harvard faculty, students, and staff (plus one guest)
Free Youth under 18
Free Cambridge residents (proof of residency required)
1、What should the visitors know about the activities?

A．Any adult needs a $15 ticket to visit the Art Study Center.
B．Any Harvard staff can visit the Art Study Center with a friend for free.
C．Visitors can join the Student Guide Tour on Sunday mornings.
D．A group of 20 visitors should gather together to join the Student Guide Tour.
2、Which information can be found in the text?
A．One can take hotdogs to Level 4.
B．The Art Study Center will hold special tours on Tuesday and Friday at 2 pm.
C．The Art Study Center needs registration.
D．No ticket is required for the Student Guide Tour.
3、The Student Guide Tour might be led by students good at___________.
A．art B．literature
C．science D．politics
25．（10分） In recent years I have had two very good roles on television: Florence, the wisecracking maid on the series The Jeffersons, and Mary, the mother who holds things together on 227. But 17 years ago, in 1972 when I was just getting started in theater work, I thought I’d never make it as an actress. For that matter, I couldn’t even hold my life together or afford a home of my own.
Back then I had about as much self-confidence as a chicken in a fox’s nest. I was recovering from surgery and had been off work for six months from my job as a United Airlines reservations agent. I’d had some bit parts in local theater groups, but those came and went, not leading to anything bigger.
Worse, as a single mother with three youngsters, I had no place to live. My children were staying with their father while I recovered in an au