衡阳2025-2026学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、– I’m still repairing my car.

- Oh, you’ll be late for the meeting. Time is   .

A. running out   B. going out

C. giving out    D. losing out

2、Now some world heritage sites are_______from pollution caused by human activities.

A.at threat B.under threat C.in threat D.with threat

3、He was in hospital for six months. He felt as if he was cut ________ from the outside world.

A．of

B．up

C．off

D．down

4、To our astonishment, he has improved himself by ______ his weakness.

A．struggling

B．defending

C．occupying

D．overcoming

5、Students hold different opinions toward the news________ the point value of English______for GaoKao College Entrance Examination.

A.that; decreased B.of; having decreased

C.that; decreasing D.of; to be decreased

6、_______ I always felt I would pass the exam, I never thought I would get an A.

A.As if B.On condition that C.Once D.While

7、Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but ______didn’t help．

A．he

B．which

C．it

D．one

8、It soon became widely known ________ the attempt to save girl had failed.

A.that B.what C.who D.which

9、The restaurant is so popular that you have to book a table ________.

A．in advance

B．in time

C．in return

D．in turn

10、—I’ve never seen Charlie so excited.

—Don’t you know he’s passed the computer science examination? He’s been ________ ever since.

A. hot under the collar    B. down in the dumps

C. flying off the handle   D. over the moon

11、This special cream will protect you _____ the burn-ing sun.

A. with B. about C. from   D. Off

12、Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling and___________ jokes.

A.picking up B.getting up C.making up D.looking up

13、He got up late and hurried to his office, _________the breakfast untouched.

A.leaving B.having left C.left D.to leave

14、As well as teaching soccer's basic skills and rules, the introduced textbooks will ______  team spirit and sense of responsibility.

A. multiply   B. distinguish

C. preserve   D. develop

15、Minor Snow ______ the time when it starts to snow ______ in China’s northern areas and the temperature continues to drop.

A．sticks to; initially

B．objects to; ultimately

C．refers to; mostly

D．contributes to; entirely

16、John,as well as me,   that the actor is going to attend the ceremony of the film.

A. knows   B. know

C. have known   D. am to know

17、As for the plan some agree while others don’t. I’m one of _____ opposed to it.

A. whom   B. those

C. those who     D. who is

18、Tom   full marks, but he was too careless   a spelling mistake.

A. could gain, to make   B. could have gained, to make

C. could have gained, and made   D. could have gained, as to make

19、It is essential that students should not be limited to their classroom and should _______ their knowledge to social life.

A. apply  B. lead    C. switch  D. add

20、It’s natural that a man can hardly ______ a smile when he is informed of some good news.

A.hold up B.hold back C.hold out D.hold on

21、Visitor Code of Conduct (行为准则)

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is a national museum and is open to all. Respectful use of the space, resources, and animals ensures a safe and enriching experience for all visitors. During COVID-19, following the museum and public health guidelines will help to keep you safe during your visit. Wear a mask or face covering where required, or when you cannot maintain a physical distance of two meters.

Prohibited items

The possession or use of objects that are dangerous or prohibited by law is not permitted during museum visits. Backpacks, sports bags and purses may be subject to (易遭受……的) “bag searches” at all entry points. The following items are not permitted into the museum: any object that makes noise, any animal except service animals, any dangerous item, any weapon, pocket knife cutter, blade, pepper spray, and any object considered to be suspicious (可疑的) by security personnel.

Hours

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is open all year round. Current hours of operation are 9:10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. from Wednesday to Sunday. The museum is open on legal holidays, except December 25. The museum offers free admission from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Please reserve your tickets in advance.

Admission

Adult: $12.25

Age 60+: $10.25

Youth (aged 3-17): $10.25

Member: Free

Filming and Photos

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum welcomes visitors to take either still or video images of the museum’s animals buildings, exhibitions, and grounds during opening hours. All photography is for personal use only, not professional. Please be respectful of the animals while using your camera. Getting too close or being too aggressive in your attempt to get an image could compromise your safety and cause stress to the animals. For safety reasons and for the enjoyment of all visitors, all indoor photography or video must be done with hand-held devices only; no tripodsor selfie sticks (三脚架或自拍杆) indoors.

Contact

Phone: 613-991-3044

【1】Which of the following is allowed to be brought into the museum?

A．Pet dogs.

B．Whistles.

C．Fireworks.

D．Guide dogs.

【2】On what day will the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum be open?

A．On Tuesday.

B．On Monday.

C．On Christmas Day.

D．On New Year’s Day.

【3】What should visitors pay attention to when they take photos in the museum?

A．It’s best to use a selfie stick.

B．Keep a safe distance from the animals.

C．They had better use professional cameras.

D．Avoid taking video images of the museum’s animals.

22、In 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific American about tiling, a problem that has interested mathematicians since ancient Greek times. After Rice’s chance encounter with tilings, family members often saw her in the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. “I thought she was just drawing casually,” her daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually discovering never-before-seen patterns.

Born in Florida, Rice went to a one-room country school where she skipped two grades and studied with the older kids. Though she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, tight budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend college. “For Rice, math was a pleasure”. Her son David once said,“She was crazy about pyramids and studied them with extensive drawings and calculations”.

Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American partly because she could read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardner’s column about tiling as she later recalled in an interview:“I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before.” She also wrote in an essay, “My interest was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type.”

Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert at Moravian College. Doris confirmed that Rice’s finding was correct.

Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doris’s invitation, she attended a university mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice still said nothing of her achievements to her children, but they eventually found out as the awards mounted.

【1】Why did Rice often draw shapes in the kitchen?

A．She wanted to be a mathematician.

B．She just drew casually for her daughter.

C．She was totally absorbed in tiling.

D．She was passionate about drawing pictures.

【2】What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

A．She was addicted to drawing pyramids.

B．She came from a family struggling financially.

C．She refused to attend college for the sake of her family.

D．She went to school two years later than average children.

【3】Why does the author mention “a subscription to Scientific American” in Paragraph 3?

A．To show her family was on a tight budget.

B．To imply she prioritized her own business.

C．To demonstrate she was crazy about tiling.

D．To indicate she excelled in housekeeping.

【4】Which of the following best describes Rice?

A．Devoted and proud.

B．Determined and humble.

C．Talented and demanding.

D．Ambitious and amused.

23、Security—for the information on your smartphone, as well as for the phone itself---is a hot topic these days. The truth is that you’re packing a lot of sensitive information on your phone, and you should keep it safe.

When it comes to physical security, iPhone users would do well to download Find My iPhone, a free app from Apple that allows you to visit a website and see your (lost, stolen or misplaced) phone on the map. You can then sound an alarm, send a message that will pop up on its screen, lock the phone or erase all your data.

Android does not have an exact equivalent(等价物), but there are plenty of alternatives. A free app called Lookout offers the find-my-phone feature. The paid version allows you to wipe the data from your phone remotely.

Then there is your coffee shop’s WiFi network. Anyone with minimal technical expert skill can snoop on(窥视) people using shared wireless networks, harvesting passwords and other personal data. Lookout’s apps will caution you when you’ve logged on to an insecure network, but cannot protect you once you’re there.

In order to protect yourself on such networks, you can use a virtual private network, or V.P.N. This turns all your activity into nonsense to anyone trying to read along with you from across the Starbucks. It also keeps websites from tracking you and, if you’re traveling, allows you to get access to sites that may be blocked in other countries.

If you have an iPhone, the simplest V.P.N. app is probably Hotspot Shield, whose distinguishing feature is said to be that it automatically kicks in each time you start browsing (浏览), as opposed to other V.P.N. apps that require you to start them up manually(手动). This matters, because even if you decide you want a V.P.N. app, you want to spend approximately zero time thinking about it. For the most part,thatwas true of Hotspot Shield, though occasionally it took a while to connect or temporarily lost connection without warning. I found myself having to turn the app on and off sometimes, which involved setting my phone constantly.

If even reading about the setting on your phone drives you crazy, then it is probably best to stay away from a V.P.N. app. But if you’re the type who can’t resist checking your bank balance from your comer bar, the hassle (麻烦) may be preferable to the risk.

【1】Which of the following can warn you against the insecure network?

A. Android   B. V.P.N.

C. Lookout   D. Find My iPhone

【2】By using V.P.N., users can ________.

A. find their lost phone on the Internet

B. remove all the data form the phone remotely

C. check the bank balance now and then

D. save their browsing from being tracked

【3】The underlined word “that” in Para.6 refers to the fact that _________.

A. a V.P.N. app kicks in automatically

B. the users starts V.P.N. apps manually

C. the app take a while to connect

D. users spend no time thinking about it

24、With more recognition than Halloween and less than Christmas,Valentine's Day as an imported festival faces a dangerous situation in China, where it's caught between forces of tradition and fashion.Valentine’s Day has a natural enemy in China.And it is not the Chinese equivalent, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar, usually around half a year away from Feb.14. It is the Spring Festival,also known as the Chinese New Year, that will influence the Feast of Saint Valentine.

The real disagreement between East and West probably took place over a century ago,when China’s door was forced open by Western powers and Chinese scholars supported westernization as a means to strengthen our nation’s ability to compete.

The introduction of the solar calendar and Western measurements was both an acknowledgment of their influence and an effort to be accepted by the world order.

For a full century, we have had two systems running in parallel. When it comes to the eventual outcome, practicality usually beats all other concerns. Laws can help, such as the three traditional festivals of Tomb Sweeping, Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn gaining legal status in 2008 and giving every Chinese citizen a day off, but laws cannot push what people have no feelings for. So, the celebration or boycott of imported holidays or homegrown ones should be no cause for worry. If they are irrelevant, no social media will change the public’s mind; and if they are accepted, there must be a need which they happen to satisfy.

Since we have no global Qin Shihuang to force one system on every country,we can always rely on a dual (双重的) approach by which we share with the outside world on the one hand but preserve our own ways of life on the other.

【1】What does the author think about Valentine's Day in present China? ______

A．It meets with a natural enemy.

B．It is better known than Christmas.

C．It strongly attacks Chinese culture.

D．It is more popular with young people.

【2】The underlined word “equivalent” in the first paragraph refers to ______ .

A．the Dragon-boat Festival

B．the Spring Festival

C．the Mid-autumn Festival

D．the Chinese Valentine's Day

【3】According to the author, the leading factor to decide what to celebrate is ______ .

A．current laws

B．people’s needs

C．public media

D．age-old tradition

【4】The author believes that ______ .

A．the conflict between the East and the West will last long

B．Chinese festivals are to be paid more attention to in years

C．both Chinese and foreign systems of festivals can co-exist in China

D．this cultural shock is normal and will be received by more people in the future

25、   Zhong Congrong, a successful businessman from Chongqing, China, has become known as the "the millionaire rubbish collector" for his longtime habit of picking up any garbage he finds in the streets of his city.

Zhong began____ the streets of Chongqing three years ago, ____ a family trip to southern China's Hai nan province. There, he_____ a retired (退休的) university professor who had reportedly been picking up rubbish from one of the local beaches every day, for the last four years. He was so______with the woman's dedication (奉献) to rubbish-collecting. Zhong _______ to copy her daily habit in his home city_____ he got back home from his vacation.

Interestingly, in the beginning, Zhong's rubbish- collecting habit received a lot of___ comments both from locals and the media. People just couldn't__ why a millionaire would do this. They thought it was nothing more than a stunt (噱头) to attract_____ , but Zhong didn't let this_____ him.

Even his family was confused by Zhong's____ at first. His wife and children were_____ by the media reports of his strange habit. And they even_____ to be seen with him in public._____, as time went by, people's _____ changed. They noticed that their neighborhood became_____ thanks to Zhong's efforts.

____ , they started to praise and. ____ him. His wife is now an anti-littering activist herself, and ____ anyone throwing rubbish on the street,

The millionaire rubbish collector has been doing his best to. ___ others as well. He wears an orange T-shirt with " anti-littering" words whenever he does his job" on the street." Whether we throw away or pick up rubbish has nothing to do with our academic degree, cultural background, age, or social status," Zhong said.

【1】A.cleaning up B.worrying about C.looking for D.getting through

【2】A.for B.after C.without D.before

【3】A.recognized B.met C.interviewed D.greeted

【4】A.impressed B.satisfied C.familiar D.bored

【5】A.pretended B.agreed C.remembered D.determined

【6】A.in case B.as long as C.as soon as D.even though

【7】A.negative B.unusual C.unfair D.reasonable

【8】A.explain B.understand C.admit D.prove

【9】A.tourists B.cooperators C.attention D.business

【10】A.ruin B.harm C.stop D.frighten

【11】A.reflection B.questions C.words D.behavior

【12】A.annoyed B.embarrassed C.moved D.shocked

【13】A.failed B.managed C.expected D.refused

【14】A.However B.Therefore C.Besides D.Instead

【15】A.attitude B.life C.hope D.condition

【16】A.larger B.quieter C.brighter D.tidier

【17】A.Strangely B.Unluckily C.Gradually D.Immediately

【18】A.bother B.support C.miss D.hate

【19】A.cheats B.criticizes C.invites D.chooses

【20】A.force B.amuse C.honor D.encourage

26、假定你是李华，你和你的朋友打算在学校创办一个英语读书俱乐部，请写信给你的美国朋友Peter，介绍一下俱乐部的创办目的和运作情况，希望对方提出建议。

注意：1．词数100左右，文章开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter，

How is everything going? I'm writing to ask you some advice on our English reading club．

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Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua