襄阳2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、They preferred their son ________ a job rather than ________ to college.

A. to find; to going   B. to finding; to go

C. finding; to go    D. to find; go

2、What I really admire is the way she has ________ that good health not only makes us more beautiful, but happier, too!

A．enlarged

B．misjudged

C．pretended

D．acknowledged

3、A Wechat (微信) is an invention______ can help people talk to friends, share photos, ideas and feeling freely.

A.which B.what C.whose D.it

4、Labradors and springer spaniels are ideal candidates for sniffer dogs, because they are known for their __________ sense of smell, and they are active but less aggressive than other breeds.

A．keen

B．strong

C．genuine

D．profound

5、I’d love to, but I have a(an) _______ with my doctor.

A．appointment

B．certificate

C．sympathy

D．basement

6、-I’d like to find a job in the library.

-Good idea, ______ it doesn’t affect your studies.

A.now that B.as soon as C.as long as D.even if

7、Jerry didn't ________ his primary school classmate Mary until he listened to her self-introduction.

A．explore

B．publish

C．recognize

D．reflect

8、I wonder if the Chinese Football National Team will be able to take part in the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, and ___, I would drink beer with friends for a whole night.

A. or so   B. as if

C. even so   D. if so

9、Helen ________ a gift from her friend yesterday morning, but she didn't ________ it.

A．accepted; receive

B．received; receive

C．received; accept

D．accepted; accept

10、It is said that the world would ________ fresh water in 2050.

A．run out

B．run out of

C．move out

D．move out of

11、So easy was the maths problem that it didn’t take much time for the students to _______ the correct answer．

A. make out   B. bring out

C. figure out   D. carry out

12、Peter searched all the places where he________have left his iPad but it was all in vain.

A．might

B．would

C．must

D．should

13、The course normally attracts 20 students per year, ____up to half will be from overseas.

A.in which   B. of whom

C. of which D.for whom

14、Fortunately, rescuers were able to gain __________ to the disaster-hit area soon enough.

A.means B.way C.access D.passage

15、All the staff in our company are considering ______ to the city centre for the fashion show.

A．to go

B．going

C．to have gone

D．having gone

16、All of us were _________ by the ________ question ___________ by a six-year-old boy.

A．puzzled; puzzling; rose

B．puzzling; puzzled; raised

C．puzzled; puzzling; raised

D．puzzled; puzzled; being raised

17、That old house will need to be ________ before people can live in it again.

A. ruled   B. restored   C. funded     D. worshiped

18、It was ________ that we tried to make him change his mind.

A. paid off   B. in vain

C. took off   D. in effect

19、Some drivers still drive under the influence of alcohol ________ repeated warnings.

A．besides

B．despite

C．beyond

D．regarding

20、The author couldn’t _________it _________, so I can’t make out what the article says.

A. get; across   B. get; over

C. give; away   D. give; out

21、In recent years, little free libraries of all shapes and sizes have popped up. Often built by community members, they could be found on street corners and the sidewalks across the United States, hoping to share their book collections with their neighbors. Minneapolis, Minnesota, even hosted the first Little Free Library Festival, where book fans came together to promote literacy (读写能力)in their communities．

For the most part, little free libraries have more in common with book sharing shelves in hotels, local parks, coffee shops and other public spaces than the traditional public library. Based on the rule of "take a book, leave a book," these little libraries can take many forms from birdhouse-like wooden structures to redesigned newspaper selling machines, Robert Wirsing writes for the Bronx Times.

The little free library organization began when a citizen of Hudson, Wisconsin, named Todd Bol built a little one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books and placed it in his front yard to honor his mother who passed away in 2009. Together with a local educator named Rick Brooks, the two began placing little free libraries across Wisconsin and sharing the idea with people across the country.

"Something we are eager for in this information age is that connection between people," Bol tells Margret Aldrich for Book Riot. "I want to show how Little Free Library is about readers inspiring readers. It goes on and on."

While Little Free Libraries seem like a harmless means to promote literacy by sharing books with neighbors, a few of the roadside landing libraries have caused minor legal problems. officials in Los Angeles and Shreveport, Louisiana, have told some citizens that their homemade libraries broke city roles and that they would have to remove them to avoid being fined.

Still, little free libraries have been well accepted by their commnunities. For anyone interested in making their own at home, the organization has posted helpful tips and guides for building the little book lending boxes in their neighborhoods.

【1】What can we know about the little free libraries in America?

A. They are state-owned.

B. They are popular nationally.

C. They are set up to sell books.

D. They help those with no books to read.

【2】What is a common character of little free libraries?

A. They lie in many public places.

B. They share a large collection of books.

C. They compete with traditional public libraries.

D. They exist mainly in the form of wooden houses.

【3】What is Todd Bol's primary aim of building, a library?

A. To remember his dead mother.

B. To help people form a habit of reading.

C. To set an example to other communities.

D. To share his knowledge, with other citizens.

【4】What does Todd Bol think of the little free libraries?

A. They cause minor legal problems.

B. They should continue to exist.

C. They mean a lot to community members.

D. They should be supported by the government.

22、Applied Ethics

Although ethics classes are common around the world, scientists are unsure if their lessons can actually change behavior; evidence either way is weak, relying on contrived laboratory tests or sometimes unreliable self-reports. But a new study published in Cognition found that, in at least one real-world situation, a single ethics lesson may have had lasting effects.

The researchers investigated one class session’s impact on eating meat. According to study co-author Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at the University of California, Riverside: students’ attitudes on the topic are variable and unstable, behavior is easily measurable, and ethics literature largely agrees that eating less meat is good because it reduces environmental harm and animal suffering. Half of the students in four large philosophy classes read an article on the ethics of factory-farmed meat, optionally watched an 11-minute video on the topic and joined a 50-minute discussion. The other half focused on charitable giving instead. Then, unbeknownst to the students, the researchers studied their anonymized meal-card purchases for that semester — nearly 14,000 receipts for almost 500 students. “It’s an awesome data set,” says Nina Strohminger, a psychologist who teaches business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and was not involved in the study.

Schwitzgebel predicted the intervention would have no effect; he had previously found that ethics professors do not differ from other professors on a range of behaviors, including voting rates, blood donation and returning library books. But among student subjects who discussed meat ethics, meal purchases containing meat decreased from 52 to 45 percent — and this effect held steady for the study’s duration of several weeks. Purchases from the other group remained at 52 percent.

“That’s actually a pretty large effect for a pretty small intervention.” Schwitzgebel says. Strohminger agrees: “The thing that still blows my mind is that the only thing that’s different between these two cases is just that one day in class.” She says she wants the effect to be real but cannot rule out some unknown confounding variable. And if real. Strohminger notes, it might be reversible by another nudge: “Easy come, easy go.”

Schwitzgebel suspects the greatest impact came from social influence — classmates or teaching assistants leading the discussions may have shared their own vegetarianism, showing it as achievable or more common. Second, the video may have had an emotional impact. Least rousing, he thinks, was rational argument, although his co-authors say reason might play a bigger role. Now the researchers are probing the specific effects of teaching style, teaching assistants’ eating habits and students’ video exposure. Meanwhile Schwitzgebel who had predicted no effect — will be eating his words.

【1】Paragraph 2 is mainly about .

A．Research reasons and process

B．Research subjects and findings

C．Research topic and significance

D．Research data collection and analysis

【2】Which of the following doesn’t lead to the researchers’ investigation into meat-eating among students?

A．Students’ knowledge of the topic.

B．Students’ easily-measured behaviors.

C．Students’ changeable and unsteady attitudes.

D．Students’ unawareness of ethics lessons’ impact.

【3】What does the underlined phrase “blows my mind” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Convinces me.

B．Upsets me.

C．Alarms me.

D．Amazes me.

【4】What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To prove Schwitzgebel’s prediction is wrong.

B．To show teaching works in behavior changing.

C．To explain students are easy to make a change.

D．To justify investigation into ethics is worthwhile.

23、Many kids and teenagers have cell phones in their hands. However, is it really necessary for them to have phones at school? Here are the pros and cons.

Pros

They can get in touch when necessary. The main benefit of having a phone is that your children can get in touch with you whenever they need to.【1】They can call the emergency services if necessary. If your children are in immediate danger, they can use their phones to call not only you but the emergency services. This is of great benefit and could potentially save your children’s lives.

【2】As long as your children remember to do this, their phones won’t cause distraction in class. Giving them a standard instead of a smartphone will also reduce the risk of distraction.

Cons

The latest smartphones can almost double as a computer. It means they offer far more of a distraction to kids than they used to.【3】All these characteristics could disturb your children’s concentration if they play with them in class.

Cell phones could interrupt lessons. Many children, even though they are asked to do so, forget to turn off their phones during lessons and their phones may make sounds.【4】 Besides the distraction problem, cell phones can also be used to look up answers on the Internet.【5】 The possibility of children having access to these during exams could be attractive for them.

A．Cell phones can be turned off or put on mute.

B．Children use ordinary phones instead of smartphones.

C．This allows you to feel they are safe.

D．Without cell phones, campus life would be less colourful.

E．They have some other functions — a calculator and the ability to save notes.

F．This not only annoys other pupils, but also prevents them from learning well.

G．Nowadays, children can not only text and make calls with their phones, but also play games, surf the Internet and listen to music.

24、Being a young boy, I began to learn what people said was not always what they really meant or felt.And I knew it was possible to get others to do what I wanted if I read their real feelings and responded suitably to their needs.At the age of eleven, I sold rubber door-to-door after school and quickly worked out how to tell if someone was likely to buy from me.When I knocked on a door, if someone told me to go away but their hands were open and they showed their palms (the inside surfaces of their hands), I knew it was safe to continue because they weren’t angry although they may have a dismissive (不屑的) attitude.If someone told me to go away in a soft voice but used a pointed finger or closed hand, I knew it was time to leave.

As a teenager, I became a salesperson, and my ability to read people earned me enough money to buy my first house.Selling gave me the chance to meet people and study them close and to know whether they would buy or not.

I joined the life insurance (保险) business at the age of twenty.And I went on to break several sales records for my company, becoming the youngest person to sell over a million dollars’ worth of business in my first year.This achievement allowed me to become a member of the well-known Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), which recognizes the world’s top achievers in life insurance.I was lucky that the skills I’d learned as a boy in watching body language while selling could be used in this new area, and were directly related to the success I could have in any business closely connected with people.

【1】What is the author’s main purpose of mentioning the success in life insurance?

A．To attract more people to buy his life insurance.

B．To simply let readers know about his good luck.

C．To prove the magic of his studying body language.

D．To show off his unusual insurance-selling achievements.

【2】Which is the correct order of the author’s life events?

①He bought his first house.

②He became a member of MDRT.

③He broke the first sales record for the insurance company.

④He got the chance to meet people and watch body language.

A．①④③②

B．④①③②

C．④②①③

D．①③②④

【3】What does the underlined words “new area” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The study of selling products.

B．The work for the MDRT.

C．The research of body language.

D．The life insurance business.

【4】According to the passage, which of the following can best describe the author?

A．Overconfident.

B．Open-minded.

C．Observant.

D．Kind-hearted.

25、It was Jennifer Williams’s mother who got her fascinated by books. As a librarian, she ________ to her three children every day.

When Williams, now 54, became an elementary school teacher and tutor in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to ________ with reading just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids had ________ access to books.

To Williams, the ________ was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, as part of a civic (市政) event called Engage Danville, she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. She set a new ________ for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t complain in the bleachers if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field.”

So she got to work, first by roping in friends to ________ books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’s project ________, friends started leaving bundles of books on her front porch (前门廊). As ________ as the books come in, Williams gives them to local schools-free of ________ —and also supplies books to little free libraries around the city of 41,000 just over the North Carolina border.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her goal! And she’s not ________. It’s too important for kids with few choices.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she told CNN. “You can travel in ________ and space. If you can read, you can ________ almost anything.”

【1】

A．read

B．wrote

C．expressed

D．announced

【2】

A．keep up

B．fall in love

C．come up

D．get together

【3】

A．limited

B．ready

C．abundant

D．financial

【4】

A．goal

B．thought

C．solution

D．step

【5】

A．looked for

B．gave away

C．put back

D．threw away

【6】

A．school

B．goal

C．store

D．role

【7】

A．unbearable

B．uncontrolled

C．unreachable

D．unacceptable

【8】

A．posted

B．required

C．shared

D．showed

【9】

A．rent

B．donate

C．borrow

D．deliver

【10】

A．raised

B．spread

C．arrived

D．disappeared

【11】

A．quickly

B．slowly

C．indirectly

D．cautiously

【12】

A．use

B．care

C．charge

D．post

【13】

A．calming down

B．slowing down

C．giving up

D．moving on

【14】

A．city

B．world

C．knowledge

D．time

【15】

A．change

B．choose

C．learn

D．appreciate

26、假设你是李华，你的英国笔友David对中国的长城很感兴趣，来信向你询问长城的有关情况。请根据以下要点给他写一封回信。

1．长城有两千多年的历史；长城全长8 851．8千米，高6至7米，宽4至5米；

2．长城代表了中国悠久的历史；

3．如今，长城已经成为了著名的旅游景点。

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3．信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear David，

How have you been lately? You wanted to know about the Great Wall in your last 1etter．_________________

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Yours,

Li Hua