澄迈2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、In 1985, the idea of dropping out of Harvard came to Bill Gates, while ______ on a basic interpreter for the platform of microcomputers.

A．devoting a lot of energy to working

B．devoted to work

C．devoting to work

D．he was devoted to working

2、 It was sad to me that they, so poor themselves, ___________ bring me food.

A. might   B. would   C. could   D. should

3、Distance learning is being ______ in several countries to help children in remote rural schools obtain higher education.

A.adopted B.allocated C.transformed D.accompanied

4、As a new driver, I have to practice ________ the car in my small garage again and again.

A．parking

B．to park

C．parked

D．park

5、I  behaved badly yesterday and I am ________   of myself now.

A. ashamed   B. ashame

C. shame   D. ashamed for

6、For years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription(题词) at the upper left corner of the frame of Edvard Munch's "The Scream", ________:"Could only have been painted by a madman".

A．read

B．reading

C．reads

D．to read

7、Though bought several years ago, the car is still in good   .

A.situation B.condition C.standard D.position

8、Many children of Chinese immigrants in Canada study English at school and speak Chinese at home, ________to fluency in both languages.

A．led

B．to lead

C．leading

D．having led.

9、At the railway station, the mother waved goodbye to her daughter until the train was

_______.

A. out of sight     B. out of reach

C. out of order     D. out of place

10、The professor was about ________ about violent movies ________ a violent man knocked on the door violently.

A．talking; when

B．to talk; when

C．talking; while

D．to talk; while

11、I saw a man shouting at a driver, ________ the car is blocking the street.

A.whose B.of whom C.of which D.whom

12、—Can you really make sense of what I mean, Cathy?

—I'm sorry. Your meaning didn't really ________.

A．get across

B．live up to

C．put on

D．break down

13、It took the ambulance about ten minutes to get to the __________ of the accident and the injured were sent to the hospital very quickly.

A. scene   B. scenery

C. picture   D. view

14、When you take medicine, you should follow the doctor’s   .

A.instruction B.instructions C.introduction D.introductions

15、A great many teenagers became________to playing computer games, wasting their precious time.

A．accustomed

B．addicted

C．abandoned

D．accommodated

16、A case of suspected food poisoning in New York has led to 6 high school students _____to hospital.

A．being sent

B．sent

C．sending

D．to be sent

17、The “new” Japanese prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants the USA to promise _________ Japan declares war against China，the USA will give military aid，__________ promises to be impossible.

A． if；which   B． whether；it

C． if；that  D． when；it

18、—Listen, someone is knocking at the door.

—I ________ it.

A. should answer   B. will answer   C. answer   D. have answered

19、 -- Our trip to Xinjiang is like tasting a thick book of Xinjiang history and culture.

--- Absolutely! I’ve never had   one before.

A. a pleasant       B. a more pleasant

C. a most pleasant D. the most pleasant

20、The ________ of the group that will be studied depends on the interests of the researcher: all high school students, all college students, or half high school students and half college students.

A．ingredient

B．convention

C．compound

D．composition

21、E

However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someone’s time or money could be better spent on something else.

Every hour of our time has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity cost—namely, what they cost us in missed opportunities.

Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? This—the alternative use of your cash and time—is the opportunity cost.

For economists, every decision is made by knowledge of what one must forgo—in terms of money and enjoyment—in order to take it up. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.

Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating whether your time would be better spent elsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a sense it’s human nature to do precisely that we assess the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time.

In the business world, a popular phrase is “value for money.” People want their cash to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “value for time.” The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By reading this passage you are giving over a bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.

【1】According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost” is applied to ________.

A. weighing the choice of opportunities

B. reducing missed opportunities

C. making more money

D. taking more opportunities

【2】The “leftover ... time” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time ________.

A. taken to have dinner with friends

B. spared for watching the match at home

C. saved from not going to watch the match

D. spent on the way to and from the match

【3】What are forgone opportunities?

A. Opportunities you make up for.

B. Opportunities you forget in decision-making.

C. Opportunities you give up for better ones.

D. Opportunities you miss accidentally.

【4】What is the author’s attitude towards the concept of “opportunity cost”?

A. Indifferent   B. Negative

C. Subjective   D. Objective

22、WeChat is one of the well-established digital platforms in China. Launched in 2011, WeChat’s active users reached 0.768 billion in 2016, to say nothing of the number in 2022. The lifestyle changes brought by WeChat are very obvious.

Before the existence of WeChat, Weibo is the social platform where people got connected and shared information with each other. People still texted to each other at that time. When WeChat just came out, the pain point Wechat solved at first was the trouble of texting long messages. It came out with the outstanding function of sending voice messages.

WeChat launched a sharing function called “Moment” in 2012. People share images and words in Moment.   WeChat users can only see the Moment and activities posted by their friends. They can also like and comment on their friends’ Moments.

Later on, WeChat started to have more and more functions, including Official Account, Money Transfer, Service Account and etc. With Official Account, companies found a novel approach to promote their brands (品牌) and products. According to the WeChat Influence Report, there are over 12 million Official Accounts on WeChat. It is becoming an industry.

After other financial functions launched on WeChat, people can go out with only a smartphone. People no longer bring their wallets when going out. It is really convenient. They only need no scan a QR code and confirm with their Touch ID. This function can be used in almost every store and market.

The success of WeChat is not random (随机的). With updating its new versions in function, it makes or life much easier. According to the WeChat Influence Report, 94% of We-Chat users use WeChat every single day. It becomes a part of our life.

【1】Why was WeChat so popular when it came out according to the text?

A．It offered voice message service.

B．It allowed texting long messages.

C．It contributed to financial functions.

D．It allowed people to have a video call.

【2】What can we know about the “Official Account”?

A．It’s a new way for companies to advertise their products.

B．More and more people are setting up Official Accounts.

C．It’s an industry for all the WeChat users to earn money.

D．Official Account will replace other kinds of advertisements.

【3】What’s the author’s attitude to the use of WeChat?

A．Doubtful.

B．Positive.

C．Unconcerned.

D．Critical.

【4】What can be the best title for the text?

A．What are the advantages of WeChat?

B．How does WeChat beat Weibo?

C．How does WeChat grow into a huge part of life?

D．What excellent functions does WeChat have?

23、The topic “How much privacy can a photo show” has been trending on Sina Weibo, causing concern and heated discussion about privacy awareness.

In group chats, some people may post their original photos. But that may give away your home address and other information. Images often contain a lot of information and various traces left by digital cameras or photo processing software.

This data, called Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF), is a key tool for many professionals. It can detail whether the photographer used a flash, which digital effects were applied to a picture and when the photo was taken. EXIF can also contain the precise GPS coordinates (坐标) of the location where a photo was taken, according to CNN.

If you take a landscape picture from your window and send the original picture to a group chat, it means that you are releasing your location data to all strangers in the group. They may even accurately infer your house number by analyzing the shooting time and angle.

Not just in a group chat, sending an image in a text message, email, or other delivery tools will also include the accompanying information. So how do we protect our privacy when sending photos?

The most effective way is to avoid sending original photos in group chats. If it’s necessary, try not to tap the “original picture”. However, photos sent by WeChat Moments are automatically compressed (压缩) by the system, and they travel without location and other information, according to the WeChat team.

To tackle the problem at its root, we can delete and remove a picture’s EXIF data on a computer. If you are using an IOS smartphone, you can turn off location services for the camera in the privacy settings. If you’re using an Android, the settings vary. Typically, you can go to the setting menu and switch the services off for the camera, according to CTV News.

There is one more thing you can do — photoshop your photos before you share it. What comes with your edited images is photos without stored location data.

【1】What information does EXIF data include?

A．The home address of the viewers.

B．A photo’s exact shooting time and location.

C．The location where the image is sent.

D．How many times a photo has been shared.

【2】When can our personal information be given away?

A．When we post pictures on WeChat Moments.

B．When we send emojis in group chats.

C．When we attach original photos to emails.

D．When we forward images of others on WeChat Moments.

【3】How can we protect our privacy when sharing photos?

A．Edit the photos with photo editing apps.

B．Switch off location services for WeChat.

C．Send out their EXIF data on our phone.

D．Turn off internet connection when taking photos.

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Methods to get personal information from photos.

B．A tool that can obtain personal data of photos.

C．The importance of protecting our private pictures.

D．Avoiding giving away personal data through photo sharing.

24、 Leon, 12, was born without fingers on his left hand.That didn't -stop him from being able to do many tasks. But Leon could not grasp more than one object at a time. So Leon's father, Paul, created a prosthesis(假肢），using a 3D printer. Now Leon has fingers that open and close."It was a do-it-yourself, father and son adventure," says raw.

When Leon was a baby, his doctor advised his parents not to give him a prosthetic hand until he was in his early teens. "The doctor said Leon should first learn to get full use out of the hand he was born with," says Paul. As Leon got older, his father looked into buying a prosthetic hand, which can cost as much as $30,000. Paul found a more affordable solution.

One day, Paul discovered a video on the Internet about Robohand, a prosthesis created with a 3Dprinter. He downloaded the free instructions and called Robohand's creators for advice. They told him all he needed was a 3D printer一which costs around $2,000- and some materials.

Luckily, Leon's school had recently purchased a 3D printer and it offered to help Paul build the hand for Leon.“We used a soccer shin guard（护胫），cardboard, and tape. They cost about＄10," says Paul.

With his new hand, Leon can do things better. "I can help my mom more, because now I can carry two grocery bags,”he says.

Leon's father has already built .several hands for Leon. Leon helps design each one. He says there's one thing in particular that he wants to do with a future prosthesis.“The goal," he tells the

reporter from the local evening paper,“is to be able to tie my shoelaces:'

【1】Why did Leon's doctor disapprove of his using a prosthesis in his childhood?

A.The prosthetic technology was underdeveloped then.

B. A prosthesis was very expensive at that time.

C. To master the disabled hand was important.

D. The original hand could do many tasks.

【2】Leon's father managed to get Leon a new hand by

A.collecting money on the Internet.

B. buying a prosthetic hand

C. purchasing a 3D printer

D. printing a hand

【3】The materials used for Leon's hand can be described as

A. cheap and common B. strange and valuable

C. personal and lovely  D. basic and solid

【4】Where can the passage be taken from?

A. An advertisement  B. A newspaper

C. A poster    D. A travel guide

25、Nine years ago around Christmas, I was on a Captiva Island beach at sunrise. I crouched low there and was lost in the false hope of finding a treasure larger than the small____on the shore.

A man ran slowly along the waves ____my direction. When he came near me, he slowed to a walk. I didn’t 　___him until he was almost standing over me. Too young to be ____of strangers, I got on my feet and looked at him. It was then that I saw what was in his____, a beautiful bright cream-colored shell, the kind of thing that I was looking for. He smiled as I stared in ____, and then, to my shock, he handed it to me. I held it ____before me like a diamond, not ____my eyes.

“I think you will like it,” he said, and then continued his ____down the beach. I do not ____his voice, his clothes or even his face, ____I do still have the shell, and the greatest lesson I’ve ever ____. Now the shell sits on my bedside table, not as____as it was, but it is ____ there, a reminder that there is quiet in the world.

That man saved my belief in the______of people, and he saved my belief that one can find what means something in life. I see my shell every day, and I know that I can ____bad days because there are good things in my life. In the end, all that we have is ____we have done for others. The shell is to me, as______as another man who returned to the plane to ____me my lost jacket.

I know that ____a difference in someone’s life, no matter how big or small, is what truly matters, and that it is worth all the treasure in the world.

【1】A. shell   B. frog   C. fish   D. diamond

【2】A. to   B. in   C. through   D. for

【3】A. recognize   B. know   C. follow   D. notice

【4】A. tired   B. fond   C. shy   D. proud

【5】A. clothes   B. coat   C. hand   D. bag

【6】A. despair   B. fear   C. disappointment   D. amazement

【7】A. formally   B. calmly   C. hopefully   D. carefully

【8】A. imagining   B. believing   C. thinking   D. presenting

【9】A. run   B. walk   C. ride   D. drive

【10】A. respect   B. realize   C. remember   D. remind

【11】A. but   B. or   C. unless   D. so

【12】A. accepted   B. taken   C. learned   D. received

【13】A. dirty   B. hard   C. bright   D. soft

【14】A. also   B. just   C. still   D. even

【15】A. equality   B. kindness   C. bravery   D. honesty

【16】A. get through   B. get down   C. turn down   D. turn off

【17】A. what   B. how   C. where   D. why

【18】A. necessary   B. important   C. valuable   D. essential

【19】A. hand   B. give   C. remove   D. fetch

【20】A. telling   B. getting   C. doing   D. making

26、三年快乐而充实的初中生活结束了，你将进入高中学校学习。展望未来，你对高中生活充满期待。请以“I Expect My School Life”为题，写一篇100词左右的短文。文章的开头己经给出，不计入总词数。

要求：1、内容要点：

1）生活、学习环境（餐厅、图书馆，运动场……）；

2）师生、同学关系；

3）生活多彩、学业进步；

4）补充一点自己的想法。

2、文章不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称；要点齐全，语言通顺，意思连贯，书写规范， 可以适当发挥。

3、提示词：get along with相处；colorful（adj.）多姿多彩的；knowledge 知识；habit习惯