延边州2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Hardly had I stored all the data from the surveys_____the light in the office went out.

A．when

B．than

C．if

D．that

2、—You hate Chongqing Hot Pot, don’t you?

—________. I just think it doesn’t agree with me.

A. Not nearly B. Not exactly

C. Not likely D. Not always

3、— Dad, we _________ the zoo-trip you promised us last week.

— Sorry my girls. I _______ to take you there this week, but I’ve been too busy.

A. expect; intend

B. had expected; had intended

C. are expecting; had intended

D. expected; intend

4、—Cathy, did you attend the lecture given by Mr.Black last night?

—No． I ________ a report at the office．

A．was writing      B．wrote

C．had written      D．have been writing

5、--- Four dollars a pair? I think it’s a bit too much.

---If you buy three pairs, the price for each will _______ to three fifty.

A．come down B．take down

C．turn over D．go over

6、Mr. Lee was thinking how to solve the problem when suddenly he had a ________ of inspiration.

A.cash B.flash C.dash D.crash

7、A woman with a bleeding hand hurried in and asked, “Is there a hospital around _____ I can get some medicine for my wounded hand?”

A．that B．which

C．where   D．What

8、Judging from what he said, he must have witnessed the incident last week, ______?

A.hasn't he B.didn't he C.mustn't he D.wasn't he

9、He is sure to pass the test, for he_____ his lessons for the test every day over the past month.

A.will review B.was reviewing C.has been reviewing D.had been reviewing

10、Their failure suggested that they ________ the lessons before the test at all.

A.didn’t go over B.hadn’t gone over

C.hadn’t went over D.haven’t gone over

11、We will have six-day holiday during the coming APEC meetings   traffic on the roads．

A． to ease   B． easing

C． ease D． having eased

12、—Sorry, I made a mistake again.

—______. Practice more and you’ll succeed.

A. Never mind   B. Certainly not

C. Not at all   D. Don’t mention it

13、 The exhibition _____ such endangered animals as the giant panda and the Siberian tiger and describes the work being done to protect them．

A. exploits   B. features

C. demonstrates   D. inspects

14、—May I have the bill, please?

—Wait a minute please, sir. Well, that’s 100 yuan ________.

A．in addition

B．in total

C．in short

D．in turn

15、You can’t imagine ________ little time I spent with my parents in those busy days.

A. how   B. that C. which D. what

16、2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil，which attracted the whole planet，________on the 12 th of June．

A． fell   B． set

C． lay     D． happened

17、Learning is a process ______ we adapt ourselves to our surroundings.

A．when

B．how

C．that

D．where

18、To be honest, I am not the person deserving the honor; it should be given to _____ we think has made the greatest contribution.

A．who

B．whom

C．whoever

D．whomever

19、The custom ______Roeman times; for detailed information_________the history book.（ ）

A．dating back to ;referring to

B．dates back to;refer to

C．dates from;referring to

D．dating from;refer to

20、—Are you tired after climbing the mountain?

—________, on the contrary, I am very excited.

A．At least

B．At most

C．Not in the least

D．At last

21、Even in a weak job market, the old college try isn’t the answer for everyone. A briefing paper from the Brookings Institution warns that “we may have overdone the message” on college, senior fellow Isabel Sawhill said.

“We’ve been telling students and their families for years that college is the only way to succeed in the economy and of course there’s a lot of truth to that,” Ms. Sawhill said. “On average it does pay off… But if you load up on a whole lot of student debt and then you don’t graduate, that is a very bad situation.”

One comment that people often repeat among the years of slow job growth has been the value of education for landing a job and advancing in a career. April’s national unemployment rate stood at 7.5%, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate for high-school graduates over 25 years old who hadn’t attended college was 7.4%, compared with 3.9% for those with a bachelor’s degree or more education. The difference is even bigger among those aged 16-24. The jobless rate for those with only a high school diploma in that age group is about 20%. At the same time, recent research by Canadian economists warns that a college degree is no guarantee of promising employment.

Ms. Sawhill pointed out that among the aspects that affect the value of a college education is the field of one’s major: students in engineering or other sciences end up earning more than those who major in the arts or education. The cost of tuition and the availability of financial aid are other considerations, with public institutions generally a better financial bargain than private ones.

She suggested two ways of improving the situation: increasing vocational-technical(职业技能) training programs and taking a page from Europe’s focus on early education rather than post-secondary learning. “The European countries put a little more attention to getting people prepared in the primary grades,” she said. “Then they have a higher requirement for whoever goes to college—but once you get into college, you’re more likely to be highly subsidized(资助).”

She also is a supporter of technical training—to teach students how to be workers, such as plumbers, welders and computer programmers—because “employers are desperate” for workers with these skills.

【1】People usually think that _____.

A. the cost of technical schooling is a problem

B. one will not succeed without a college degree

C. technical skills are most important for landing a job

D. there is an increased competition in getting into a college

【2】What does the underlined part “taking a page from” mean?

A. hearing from.

B. changing from.

C. differing from.

D. learning from.

【3】What can we infer from the passage?

A. Public institutions charge more for education.

B. European universities are stricter with students.

C. Students with certain skills are in great demand.

D. Canadian students prefer to major in engineering.

【4】Which would be the best title for the text?

A. Is the ‘Go to College’ message overdone?

B. The new requirement of Labor Market

C. Primary education in European countries

D. Is technical training more popular?

22、   The other day I was shopping at the local Chinese grocery store. There was a line at the fish counter, but only one staff person was there to take care of the customers. Some customers ordered quite an amount of fish for that staff person to work on. At last I was the second in line. All I wanted was a couple of crabs and should get out of there in no time.

Noticing it was very busy at the fish counter, another staff person came over to help. I was ready to be served, but the staff person went to the end of the line and began to help a couple of ladies with snail (蜗牛). The customers in front of me, being served, turned around and looked at me sympathetically and the customer behind me called to the staff person, “You should start here,” pointing at me. He was, well, ignored.

If someone asked me, “What is the most important rule to follow in America?” I would reply without hesitation. “Wait your turn at all times.” Wherever you go here in this country, you will find people waiting in a line quietly to get anything: whether in the supermarkets, department stores, bus stops, or gas stations, it’s just a matter of waiting your turn. In a larger sense, “wait your turn” is more than just a guideline — it is a very basic rule that reflects the fundamental value of the western cultures. But in some situations your turn does not always come based on when you get there and how long you have waited in line, just like my case at the store. Even though this did not often happen, it did make me feel upset.

【1】What happened to the author at the store?

A.He was ill-treated by a customer. B.He wasn’t served upon his order.

C.He was asked to be served later. D.He was asked to do others a favor.

【2】What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to?

A.His belief. B.His culture.

C.His experience. D.His rule.

【3】Why did the author write the text?

A.To emphasize his kindness to others. B.To introduce some western cultures to us.

C.To express his belief and his feeling. D.To show his disbelief in Queuing Rule.

23、   On some level, offices exist to inspire in-person collaboration. But many of the basic technologies that employees now used to work together often encourage them to work virtually independent of one another.

“They wear their headphones—headphones are the new walls—to signal they are involved in high-concentration work and not available for chat,” says Stowe Boyd, a social critic whose research focuses on the future of work. 

Such behavior is indicative of a wider workplace trend. As office-communication technologies have become more advanced, more and more employees are avoiding direct interaction with their co-workers. Experts say this is a shift that is likely to continue. Emerging technologies even suggests a future—perhaps decades away, but maybe sooner—in which offices are populated by employees who engage in virtually no work-focused, face-to-face contact whatsoever.

It isn’t to say co-workers won’t connect. Even as employees make the transition to “individual” work, they may begin to communicate in new ways that are as engaging as real-life interactions. Virtual reality, for example, could “hold 3-D meetings around a digital meeting table where employees are not physically in" says Martin Ford, an author who studies artificial intelligence and robots, among other things.

What’s the upside of a chat-free future, in which colleagues work together in close physical space but never need to talk person-to-person? For one, it may make work experiences more efficient by stopping gossipy distractions that can get in the way of serious affairs. It also may safeguard employees from physical disturbance, a growing workplace concern, says Jamais Cascio, an author and futurist.

But there are possible problems. Virtual environments have the potential to reduce social inhibitions (抑制), which could lead to conflicts. It’s also possible that technology will create a more impersonal atmosphere. Without the water cooler-style chat that can make work life more vibrant—research suggests informal office jokes can boost productivity—office relationships could start to resemble the interactions we have with strangers in public spaces.

Eventually, some experts believe, with technologies making their way into offices, humans may remove themselves from the workplace altogether, though not in the sense that they will be replaced by robots, as many have predicted.

【1】According to Stowe Boyd, what can be widely seen in workplaces?

A.Technologies are used as a barrier against casual chat.

B.Direction interactions are resisted but cannot be avoided.

C.In-person collaboration is the best way to promote efficiency.

D.Face-to-face contact is the guarantee of high-concentration work.

【2】What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A.Coworkers prefer to keep closely connected.

B.Employees engage in developing far-away relationships.

C.Technologies allow for new forms of office-communication.

D.3-D meetings have completely replaced real-life interactions.

【3】What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A.To forecast a new workplace trend caused by technologies.

B.To encourage employees to make better use of technologies.

C.To stress the importance of combining work and technologies.

D.To introduce the effects of technologies on how employees interact.

24、Looking at the photos of public celebrations for International Pillow Fight Day in the news and social media from the 50 cities around the world, one question occurred to me: What are pillows really stuffed with? Not physically, but symbolically? Armed with nothing more than bring-our-own sacrificial cushions, strangers struck heavily each other in playful feather from Amsterdam to Atlanta, Warsaw to Washington DC. But why? Is there anything more to this delightful celebration?

As a cultural sign, the pillow is falsely soft. Since at least the 16th century, the humble pillow has been given unexpected meanings. The Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu tells a famous story about a wise man who meets a depressed young scholar at an inn and offers him a magic pillow filled with the most vivid dreams of a seemingly more fulfilling life. When the young man awakens to discover that his happy 50-year dream has in fact come and gone in the short space of an after-noon’s nap, our impression of the pillow’s power shifts from wonder to terror.

Succeeding writers have likewise seized upon the pillow. When the 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Bronte poetically observed “a ruffled (不平的,起皱的) mind makes a restless pillow”, she didn’t just change the expected order of the adjectives and nouns, but instead she made unclear the boundaries between mind and matter — the thing resting and the thing rested upon.

That can be considered as a trick which perhaps Bronte learned from the Renaissance philosopher Montaigne, who once insisted that “ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”. On Montaigne’s thinking, intelligence and happiness confront each other forever in a pillow fight that only one can win.

Based on the words of Tang, Bronte, and Montaigne, we can perhaps more easily measure the attraction of the global pillow fight. Like a ritual of release, the annual international pillow fight amounts to a kind of cleansing, a brushing off of daily worries, an emptying of the world’s collective mind. Rather than a launch-pad for weightless rest, the pillow is a symbol of heavy thought: an anchor that drags the world’s soul down- one that must be lightened.

【1】The writer uses the example of Tang Xianzu, wanting to illustrate that ________.

A．dreams are always wonderful while the real world is cruel

B．pillows sometimes bless people with satisfactory dreams

C．people’s impression of pillows changes from wonder to terror

D．pillows symbolically convey the meaning in contrast to their soft appearance

【2】From the passage, we can learn that Charlotte Bronte ________.

A．learned a trick from the Renaissance philosopher Montaigne

B．was likely to have been influenced by the thoughts of the Renaissance

C．regarded pillows as reflections of our minds

D．wrote poems about pillows

【3】The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 “ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head” most probably means ________.

A．pillows give us comfort

B．pillows make people more intelligent

C．people with plenty of thoughts have no inner peace

D．people can easily fall asleep when they know little

【4】According to the author why is Pillow Fight Day so popular around the world?

A．Because it is a ritual of release.

B．Because it makes life delightful.

C．Because it comforts restless minds.

D．Because it contains a profound meaning of life.

25、I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family _________ an ant farm at home. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box, and then we brought some ants from the backyard and placed them into the _________ home.

Shortly after the new _________ were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels. I was amazed that each one knew _________ what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had particular given jobs. With my mom’s help, I kept a journal of what happened each day and _________ the ants. My favorite was the biggest, Cinderella. I drew a picture of her in my journal, which I still have.

On day five a disaster _________ the ant farm. While I was observing the ants, I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally _________ it over. Unfortunately, my carelessness caused all the tunnels to _________. Although the ants _________ their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was __________ as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother explained that the ants were actually dying of “frustration”—feeling annoyed and disappointed as they couldn’t control the situation.They simply could not __________ the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed. Cinderella was the last to die; she did so while carrying a dead ant on her back.

Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world,__________ it taught me much more.__________ the years, I came to realize the ants were a study in the benefits of __________. Working together, they were able to create a(n)__________ world for themselves. I also learned that they should be __________ for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored at their task. The ant farm demonstrated that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key__________for success. But there was an even larger lesson that I did not __________ until recently: Disaster is a natural part of life, and must be __________. Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face __________. Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel comes down, we just have to build another.

【1】

A．created

B．bought

C．ran

D．laid

【2】

A．empty

B．new

C．strange

D．distant

【3】

A．guests

B．settlers

C．friends

D．members

【4】

A．probably

B．roughly

C．exactly

D．normally

【5】

A．named

B．trained

C．compared

D．measured

【6】

A．affected

B．struck

C．kicked

D．beat

【7】

A．split

B．took

C．tipped

D．handed

【8】

A．rush out

B．break in

C．drop out

D．falldown

【9】

A．experienced

B．predicted

C．faced

D．survived

【10】

A．annoyed

B．astonished

C．moved

D．thrilled

【11】

A．reflect

B．ignore

C．confirm

D．stand

【12】

A．and

B．but

C．so

D．or

【13】

A．In

B．For

C．From

D．Over

【14】

A．teamwork

B．devotion

C．responsibility

D．organization

【15】

A．relaxing

B．amusing

C．moving

D．amazing

【16】

A．supported

B．inspired

C．admired

D．admitted

【17】

A．solutions

B．approaches

C．recipes

D．circumstances

【18】

A．give

B．realize

C．take

D．adopt

【19】

A．accepted

B．suffered

C．escaped

D．managed

【20】

A．challenges

B．barriers

C．pressure

D．disappointment

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4.你个人的情况。

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