苗栗2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、What kind of phrase does the underlined one belong to?

“Susan had quit her well-paid job and was working as a volunteer in the neibourhood.”

A.NP B.AdjP C.AdvP D.VP

2、Carl is studying ________ food science at college and hopes to open up _______meat processing factory of his own one day.

A．/；a   B．/；the

C．the；a   D．the；the

3、Taiyuan,   in the central part, is the capital and the largest city of Shanxi Province   a history of more than 2500 years.

A．situating; with  B．situated; has

C．situating; has  D．situated; with

4、Mr. Wang made up his mind to devote all he could ____ his oral English before going abroad .

A. improve   B. to improve

C. to improving   D. improving

5、The driver wanted to park his car near the roadside but was asked by the police   ________．

A.not to do     B. not to

C. not do   D. do not

6、After a heated discussion, we decided _______ we should buy for the elder people.

A. when   B. that

C. what   D. why

7、 --What are you going to do this afternoon?

-- I am going to the cinema with some friends. The film _______ quite early, so we __________ to the bookstore after that.

A．finished; are going

B．finished; go

C．finishes; are going

D．finishes; go

8、How I wish I   to repair the watch! I only made it worse.

A. had tried   B. hadn't tried

C. have tried   D. didn't try

9、If the teams were not evenly matched, it could be easier to foretell the outcome.找出划线词的同义词

A．prepare

B．predict

C．prevail

D．precede

10、I don’t like the way ______ you speak to your mother but I like the way ______ you think of to solve the problem.

A.which, which B.in which, in which

C.不填, that D.不填, in which

11、________to Tan’s music is ________a mix of Chinese musical traditions and Western influences.

A．To listen; to experience

B．To listen; experiencing

C．Listening; to experience

D．Listen; experiencing

12、I can’t say which one is best—— it’s________personal taste.

A.a lack of B.a means of C.a manner of D.a matter of

13、── Do you know our town?

── No, this is the first time I ________ here.

A. was   B. have been

C. came   D. am coming

14、The fact that she looked like a sensitive, friendly girl didn’t matter. ______, it made me even angrier.

A. If any   B. If anything

C. If so   D. If not

15、The plane flew smoothly________in the sky and people spoke________of the experienced pilot.

A．high; high

B．high; highly

C．highly; highly

D．highly, high

16、Whether big or small, ________ all our choices have in common is that they lead to specific consequences.

A．how

B．what

C．that

D．where

17、Dr. Rowan, ______ secretary resigned two weeks ago, has had to do all his own typing.

A．whose

B．of whom

C．of which

D．which

18、Mary has her weakness, ___________ that doesn’t mean she is not qualified for her job.

A. and   B. yet   C. so   D. or

19、Rose left her homework ________and went shopping. Her mother was very angry, but Rose just said, “please leave me ______ .”

A.doing; lonely B.done; alone C.undone; alone D.undone; lonely

20、Mike is _________than Betty.

A．tall

B．taller

C．big

D．tallest

21、   How long have we had a soft spot for dogs? A reanalysis of a prehistoric dog that was buried with two people reveals that the animal had experienced several bouts of potentially fatal illnesses, but it survived.

The Bonn-Oberkassel dog was unearthed a century ago in Germany. It was buried alongside the remains of a man in his 40s and a woman in her 20s, and all are about 14,200 years old. The animal probably lived long after dogs were domesticated, as evidence for this process stretches back at least 32,000 years. But the Bonn-Oberkassel dog is still important because it is the oldest known dog burial, says Luc Janssens at Ghent University in Belgium, which means it can help us understand why dogs were domesticated.

A common assumption is that prehistoric humans domesticated dogs to put them to work, helping with hunting, guarding settlements or used as pack animals for transport. However, Janssens and his colleagues say there is an alternative: we domesticated dogs simply because we liked having them as pets.

Their reanalysis of the dog reveals it had terrible oral health. Although only about 7 months old when it died, the dog had experienced three bouts of severe illness when it was between 19 and 23 weeks old. “The first infection would be enough to be fatal to most dogs in the wild,” says Janssens. “Then came two extra bouts, and the probability that the animal would survive without human help is very, very low.”

The researchers argue that the sick puppy would have been unable to do any useful work. In fact, keeping it alive was probably an unpleasant burden on its owners: it might have vomited 吐）regularly and had diarrhoea（腹泻）.

Its survival hints that its owners felt a bond of friendship，just like a modern dog owner. “This is the first time we find evidence to suggest that dogs were treated emotionally without expectation of any benefit,” says Janssens.

Bonds of friendship may have helped drive domestication, says Mietje Germonpre at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. “Baby wolves could have been ‘adopted’ to provide company,” she says. “This raising of baby wolves as pets could have been a stepping stone，together with other motivations, on the pathway to the domestication of the dog.”

It is significant that the dog was buried, says Pat Shipman at Pennsylvania State University. 、‘When you start burying animals，it indicates a special relationship of some kind.” Nevertheless， Shipman says we can’t rule out the possibility that the Bonn-Oberkassel dog was - or could have become - a useful working dog, which might explain why its owners cared for it through its illness, in the hope that it would recover.

【1】Which of the following statements is true of The Bonn-Oberkassel dog?

A.It lived longer than the dogs of its time. B.It was taken good care of by its owners.

C.It had a terrible problem with its eyes. D.It was once used for transportation.

【2】According to Luc Janssens, why is the Bonn-Oberkassel dog important?

A.It was unearthed almost 100 years ago.

B.It was among those earliest domesticated dogs.

C.It can lead to new perspectives on dogs’ domestication.

D.It can help people understand why dogs were buried with humans.

【3】Which of the following statements is Pat Shipment most likely to agree with?

A.We can't say for sure that the Bonn-Oberkassel dog wasn't a working dog.

B.Domestication has turned out to be a stepping stone to bonds of friendship.

C.It is no more than 10,000 years since humans started to bury animals.

D.Dog owners have long been known to be more caring than others.

【4】Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.How dogs were domesticated B.Ancient humans loved their dogs

C.The changing human-dog relationship D.Why dogs became pets while wolves didn’t

22、The world’s largest factory built specially for the purpose of drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it, has just come online in Iceland.

Built in the park in Hellisheidi, the company hopes this is merely a stepping stone necessary to increase the model by 80 times, and by that means remove millions of tons of CO2 by the end of the decade. The Orca factory, just one of a number of climate change solutions offered by the Icelandic firm Carbfix, takes CO2 from the air before separating the carbon from the oxygen, mixing it with water and sending it deep underground into basalt (玄武岩) rock formations where it mineralizes.

The company says it can pull 4, 000 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year, which is equal to taking 870 cars off the road. On its own, it’s a small impact for the $ 10—15 million it takes to build, but as companies are increasingly pressured to provide carbon offsets (补偿) for their operations, the technology offers a huge appeal if costs come down and production is boosted. For example, offsetting emissions by planting trees is great, but it takes 50 years for a tree to gather enough CO2 to actually lock it up. If the tree dies before that period, it’s as if the company did nothing.

A Canadian company, Carbon Engineering, which has received $25 million in funding from the government, is building a technology that directly captures CO2 from the air and stores it as compressed (压缩) gas, or creates a near-carbon-neutral fuel. They are currently building what they call the world’s largest direct air capture plant in the southwestern US that, when operational, will remove more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, about the same as 40 million mature trees.

But for Carbfix, knowing the carbon is stored in the form of metamorphic rocks (变质岩) deep underground where it won’t emerge for hundreds of millions of years is the most practical way of demonstrating their commitment to dealing with the climate crisis.

【1】What is the Orca factory’s goal?

A．To become a hit online.

B．To get through basalt soon.

C．To draw more participants.

D．To remove the CO2 from the air.

【2】What’s the author’s attitude to planting trees to offset emissions?

A．Skeptical.

B．Favourable.

C．Subjective.

D．Ambiguous.

【3】What do we know about Carbon Engineering?

A．It takes the lead in capturing CO2 from the air.

B．The Canadian government is in favor of it.

C．It loves working with American companies.

D．It is bound to plant more and more trees.

【4】What’s the best title for this text?

A．Removing CO2 Becomes More Urgent

B．The Method to Capture CO2 Is Practical

C．Iceland Builds a Factory to Bury CO2 in Rock

D．A Canadian Company Won Worldwide Praise

23、   Archaeologists used DNA taken from a broken clay pipe stem found in Maryland to build a picture of an enslaved woman who died around 200 years ago and had origins in modern-day Sierra Leone. One researcher called the work “a mind-blower.”

“In this particular context, and from that time period, I think it's a first,” team member Hannes Schroeder told The Washington Post. “To be able to get DNA from an object like a pipe stem is quite exciting. Also it is exciting for descendant(后裔) communities... Through this technology, they're able to make a connection not only to the site but potentially back to Africa.”

The pipe stem was found at the Belvoir plantation in Crownsville, Maryland, where enslaved people lived until 1864 and where a likely slave cemetery was recently found. DNA taken from the pipe linked back to a woman either directly from or descended from the Mende people, who lived in west Africa, in an area now part of Sierra.

Julie Schablitsky, the chief archaeologist with the Maryland state highway administration, told The Post the discovery, based on saliva(唾液) absorbed into the clay pipe, was a “mind-blower”. She also said records show the existence of a slave trade route Sierra Leone to Annapolis, plied(定期往来) by British and American ships. "As soon as people stepped on those slave ships in Africa," she said, “whether they were from Benin or whether they were from Sierra Leone, wherever they were from, that identity was lost. Their humanity is stripped from. Who they are as a people has gone.”

The new analysis is part of ongoing research around Belvoir that has given descendants of the people enslaved there new insight into the lives of their ancestors. Speaking to The Post, Nancy Daniels, a genealogist from Laurel, Maryland, who thinks she is a descendant of enslaved families from Belvoir but was not linked to the research on the pipe, called the discovery “overwhelming.” “I'm sitting here about ready to cry,” she said. “I'm sorry. I'm so happy ... Thank God for the DNA.”

This year, events and ceremonies are being held to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved people in America, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Slavery was effectively abandoned in the US on 1 January 1863, with the issue by Abraham Lincoln of the Emancipation Proclamation. It formally ended in December 1865, after the civil war, with the approval of the 13th amendment(修正案).

【1】What does the phrase “a mind-blower” in paragraphs 1 and 4 refer to?

A.A surprise B.A confusion

C.An excitement D.A fascination

【2】According to Hannes Schroeder, the pipe stem was of great significance because________.

A.it was the first direct evidence that slaves living in Maryland were originally from Africa.

B.it helped the archaeologists to draw a portrait of the enslaved woman.

C.it might contribute to identifying the birthplace of the descendant communities.

D.it contained genic clues to the ancestral background of its owner.

【3】What can be inferred from the passage?

A.The owner of the pipe once lived in what is now an area in west Africa.

B.The history of slavery in America is an ongoing topic of concern.

C.African slaves lost their identities when they arrived at the Belvoir plantation.

D.Nancy Daniels, a genealogist was sorry for not being involved in the research.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.DNA from an old pipe throws lights on the origins of the enslaved

B.A new research reveals the origins of enslaved African woman

C.The descendants of enslaved people seek their identities

D.DNA contributes to the breakthrough of a new research

24、   They have beaten us at chess, and now computers are taking a step into a very human territory: the reading comprehension test.

Alibaba said its artificial research outperformed human beings in a global reading comprehension test that seeks answers to such pressing questions as “what was Nikola Tesla’s ethnicity (种族划分)?” and “how big is the Amazon rainforest?”

Luo Si described the machines’ victory as “a milestone”. He said the technology has many uses, from customer service to museum tutorial (教程) to medical inquires — some of which are already being handled by chatbots globally.

In the test, companies subjected their artificial intelligence systems to questions from the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, which assessed reading comprehension. The computers’ answers were compared against average human responses and ranked.

Tying (打平) in top place were Microsoft, the US software giant, and Alibaba, and — like its peers at home and abroad - is putting more funds into AI, much of it via its research arm.

While Microsoft and Alibaba won by the slimmest of margins (幅度) — at accuracy levels a few basis points (基点) above humans’ 82.3 per cent in providing exact matches to questions- the tie provided a symbol of the AI arms race (军备竞赛) launched by the US and China.

China aims to use its vast data, collected from its 1.4 billion population including 730 million who are online, and financial resources to overtake the US in creating a $150 billion industry that is seen as the next industrial revolution.

Baidu made an early bet on AI, and is leading its rivals in autonomous driving. Tencent, which boasts 1 billion monthly active users on its social media WeChat app, and Alibaba have adopted AI in operations such as customizing news and ads, and are investing in new fields.

【1】What does Luo Si think of AI’s performance in reading comprehension?

A.He feels frightened at it. B.He has some doubts about it.

C.He thinks highly of it. D.He considers it worth a try.

【2】What does China depend on to lead in AI?

A.The new industrial revolution.

B.The huge market of $150 billion industry investment.

C.The vast amount of data from its 1.4 billion population.

D.The cooperation between Chinese government and Microsoft.

【3】In which field does Baidu do better than its rivals?

A.The medical enquiries. B.The customer service.

C.Customer news feeds. D.The driverless cars.

25、Some years ago, a young man came to me for advice. He told me that reading a whole paragraph _________ made him tired. His _________ was that he was working at a dead-end job for two years. All his friends, none of whom enjoy reading, were in the same _________ . They were all working at low-level jobs with no _________ .

I told him that he had to learn to read well. However, he said he wanted to be successful at something that didn’t _________ reading. I told him that this was not a matter of _________ . The only jobs that have _________ to do with reading were the jobs they were doing. And they would even soon be _________ by younger people with better education. He finally accepted the _________ that he had to become a good reader. He began taking courses in reading. He ____________ a technical institute (技术学院). Because of his poor education, it took him almost three years to ____________ a two-year program in biomedical (生物医学的) engineering.

A small company employed him at $22,000 per year. It wasn’t much, but he ____________ it. He ____________ to read and studied. In his third year, he was ____________ by a company with $40,000 per year. Two years later, an international company ____________ his success and employed him at more than $50,000 per year, with other ____________ .

In eight years, he ____________ a lot, from a low-paid worker to a highly-paid one. He led a ____________ life. The interesting thing was that as he went around ____________ his old friends, he found they were still working as before. Eight years seems like a ____________ time in life, but it passes quickly when you are busy doing something and getting continually better at it.

【1】

A．rarely

B．hopefully

C．narrowly

D．actually

【2】

A．duty

B．danger

C．problem

D．hobby

【3】

A．part

B．situation

C．way

D．place

【4】

A．pay

B．experience

C．future

D．luck

【5】

A．need

B．prevent

C．ruin

D．affect

【6】

A．chance

B．choice

C．attitude

D．thought

【7】

A．something

B．everything

C．anything

D．nothing

【8】

A．forgotten

B．replaced

C．hated

D．doubted

【9】

A．honour

B．invitation

C．fact

D．report

【10】

A．founded

B．left

C．refused

D．joined

【11】

A．complete

B．plan

C．design

D．explore

【12】

A．understood

B．offered

C．stopped

D．accepted

【13】

A．continued

B．started

C．stopped

D．decided

【14】

A．found

B．trained

C．encouraged

D．employed

【15】

A．learned from

B．listed out

C．heard about

D．spoke of

【16】

A．benefits

B．services

C．results

D．tips

【17】

A．dreamt

B．changed

C．corrected

D．remembered

【18】

A．busier

B．better

C．quieter

D．longer

【19】

A．welcoming

B．guiding

C．visiting

D．telling

【20】

A．long

B．certain

C．free

D．valuable

26、假如你是某国际学校的学生李华，你校学生会准备举行一次“读书月（Reading Month）”活动。请你根据下面的提示，用英语写一则书面通知，并号召大家积极参与。

1.目的：丰富校园生活，开阔视野，提高阅读水平；

2.内容：每人至少读三本书，并写一篇读后感（impressions of after-reading）,于6月30日前交给学生会；

3.时间：6月1日至6月30日

注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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