宿迁2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高三英语

1、---What do you think of store shopping in the future?

--- Personally, I think it will exist along with home shopping but _________.

A.will not replace B.will not be replaced C.will not replacing D.will not being replaced

2、I was still sleeping when the fire _____, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out B. put out

C. came out D. got out

3、We can never forget the days we worked together and the days________ we spent together.

A.when; which B.which; when

C.what; that D.on which; when

4、It’s hard to imagine that a white man should become the driver of a black man, serving and ________ him all the way to the south of the USA in the 1960s.

A.approving B.agreeing

C.attending D.accepting

5、This is one of the best films _______.

A.that have been shown this year B.that have shown

C.that has been shown this year D.that you talked

6、After the clock _____ twelve, the students walked out of the lecture room.

A.beat B.hit C.struck D.rang

7、-It ________Jack who is at the gate of the library.

-It ________him. I saw him off at the railway station just an hour ago.

A.can be; can't be B.must be; can't be

C.can be; must have been D.must be; can't have been

8、I was impressed _______ his huge feet ________ approximately 1 foot 8 inches.

A.in; measuring B.on; measured

C.with; measuring D.for; measured

9、The new textbooks designed for high school students _______last year.

A.came about B.came out C.came across D.came up

10、It ________ a lot of people that health is the most valuable thing rather than money when they hear the news that Li Yong died from cancer.

A. struck B. beat C. caused D. erupted

11、YaoMing is very famous now. However, his basketball career __________only after many years of hard work.

A. took on B. took up

C. took off D. took out

12、What surprised me was not what he said but the way _______ he said it.

A.that B.in that

C.what D.where

13、His speech was so ______that we were deeply ______ at it.

A. impressed, impressing B. impressive,  impressed

C. impressed,  impressed D. impressive, impressing

14、In current economic situations, some small businesses will need to _____ costs in order to survive.

A.affect B.adopt C.reduce D.release

15、The reason ________ he didn’t come is ________ he was ill.

A. why;that B. that;why

C. why;because D. why;what

16、 Great changes have taken place in that school. It is no longer ___ it was 20 years ago, ___ it was so poorly equipped.

A.what, when B.that, which C.what, which D.which, that

17、Some of the texts have too many new words and expressions _______ are hard for me.

A. which B. who

C. where D. what

18、We don’t doubt _____ he will succeed in the research work.

A. that B. whether

C. how D. what

19、Although Jim had expected something special from Della, he was still surprised by _______ he saw.

A.what B.which C.that D.how

20、It is eating too much junk food ______ makes him overweight.

A. which B. what C. / D. that

21、In many countries, people_________ fireworks to celebrate their traditional festivals.

A.let off B.put off C.give off D.go off

22、Sometimes, people don't like asking questions appearing stupid and ignorant.

A. in search of B. in memory of

C. for fear of D. in terms of

23、Mozart _________ his last opera shortly before his death.

A.conducted B.composed C.complex D.completed

24、Doctors and nurses bear the responsibility for _______ the infected patients.

A.tending B.claiming C.settling D.intending

25、Chinese people traditionally   firecrackers during the Spring Festival, in the belief that this helps scare off the Nian monster and brings good fortune.

A.set aside B.set off C.set down D.set up

26、Small talk – the likes of “What do you have there? Popcorn?” or “The weather today is beautiful, isn’t it?” – is meaningless and a waste of time, according to some people. But scientists believe that it is actually more useful than it may appear to be.

One example comes when you are on a train or a plane. The thought of talking to the stranger sitting beside you can be scary, because you know the conversation is sure to be awkward. But a study by the University of Chicago in the US found that people who chat to strangers enjoy a better ride than those who sit in silence or occupy themselves with their phones.

In the study, researchers asked people at Chicago train stations to start conversations with fellow travelers. Most of them refused to do so at first because they expected not to get a friendly answer. But the result turned out to be just the opposite – most strangers were not only willing to be talked to, but also pleasant to talk to.

“Human beings are social animals, ” Nicholas Epley, one of the lead researchers, told Live Science. “Other people are people, too. And it turns out that they’d like to get to know you. ”

Apart from making you happier, small talk with strangers can also help you feel connected to your surroundings. Previous studies found that when people a/re frequently smiled at, made eye contact with and spoken to at coffee shops, they tend to have a stronger sense of belonging instead of feeling like they are being ignored and left out.

And if you are already comfortable enough to make small talk with strangers, you should try to develop it into something “bigger”.

A 2010 study proved that having a deep and meaningful conversation gives you even more happiness than small talk. Participants in the study – 79 college students – reported after the four-day experiment that they were much happier when they had a third as much small talk and twice as many in-depth conversations.

But deep conversations can start with small talk, can’t they? So the first step is to start talking, no matter how casual the topic is. And who knows, maybe an opening line as simple as “I like your hat” could lead to a serious conversation in which you learn something new from a stranger.

【1】What is the reason for the result of the study by the University of Chicago, according to Nicholas Epley?

A．Most people are nice to strangers.

B．People are naturally curious about others.

C．People are afraid of loneliness or boredom.

D．People try to show their good side to strangers.

【2】Which of the following is a benefit of small talk ?

A．Wasting less time.

B．Developing useful contacts.

C．Disconnecting from phones for a while.

D．Feeling like you are a part of your surroundings.

【3】According to the 2010 study, in what way can people get more happiness from talking with strangers?

A．Starting with serious topics.

B．Starting with casual topics.

C．Making it important and deep.

D．Choosing pleasant surroundings.

【4】What is the author’s attitude toward small talk?

A．Supportive.

B．Negative.

C．Doubtful.

D．Objective.

27、   Competitive eating has become big business. The International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) holds events for competitive eating all around the world. One of the most popular contests (竞赛) is held every 4th of July on Coney Island in New York. Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest started in 1916 and the event has been dominated (占据优势) by Takeru Kobayashi. The Japanese competitor set his first record in 2001, when he ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes and has won the contest six years in a row.

The main types of food eaten in the contests are fast food. Hot dogs, chicken wings, pickles, corndogs and pizza are main foods of the contests. The contests usually last from around 8 to 12 minutes. Now most of the competitors are men, but there are also women who take part in competitive eating.

Being large and overweight isn’t necessarily an advantage in competitive eating. The biggest advantage a competitor can have is the ability to actually stretch (扩张) their stomach. Many competitors will drink plenty of water over a period of time in order to achieve this. Apart from having an unusually stretchable stomach, another important thing seems to be hand to mouth speed.

The IFOCE has very strict safety guidelines laid out regarding competitive eating. Competitions must take place in a controlled area and only competitors over the age of 18 are allowed to enter. They also advise against any type of home training. There has been much talk regarding the inclusion of competitive eating as an Olympic sport. Although the IFOCE has talked about that with the Olympic committee, it seems that they will not agree to it at present.

【1】Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest _____.

A. has a history of over 200 years

B. takes place once a year in Japan

C. is becoming less popular than before

D. has made Takeru Kobayashi famous

【2】What do we know about eating contests?

A. Fast food is the only type of food.

B. They usually last ten minutes or so.

C. Only men are allowed to enter a contest.

D. They are open to competitors of all ages.

【3】What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A. How to win an eating contest.

B. The history of competitive eating.

C. Safety guidelines from the IFOCE.

D. The disadvantages of eating too much.

【4】What’s the main purpose of the text?

A. To report. B. To advertise. C. To introduce. D. To warn.

28、   How much sleep do we need? It’s a fundamental question about a basic human function we’ve been practicing for long, but there’s still no simple answer. But whether you’re a morning or evening person could be guided by your genes. That said, your sleeping pattern will change naturally with age, which is also reflected in the National Sleep Foundation recommendations: it suggests 14-17 hours of shuteye a day for newborn babies and only 7-8 hours for over-65s.

But scientists said it’s about more than simple duration. Teens and people in their early 20s do want to go to bed later and get up later too, something researchers suggest might be to do with changing hormones(荷尔蒙). “On average, there’s about a two-hour difference in preferred sleep times of somebody in their late teens or early twenties to somebody in their late 50s or early 60s,” he said. “So asking a teenager to get up at 7 o’ clock in the morning is the equivalent of asking a 55-year-old to get up at five in the morning.”

At the end of the day, the best way to measure how much sleep you each need is to listen to your own body. Do you rely on an alarm clock to wake up? Do you take a long time to feel awake? Are you dependent on coffee drinks to keep you focused during the day? Are you overly impulsive(冲动的) or do you find yourself running a lot of traffic lights, for instance? All these could be signs that you’re not getting enough sleep.

And that, we know today, is bad. The environment can affect your sleep preferences but your genes stay. Scientists said that the understanding of the importance of sleep was “one of the great achievements of modern neuroscience(神经科学),” and that society was moving away from the all-nighter culture to respect the need for sleep.

【1】What’s the writer’s intention of writing the passage?

A.To report his research results. B.To express the importance of sleep.

C.To list some sleeping patterns. D.To persuade people to have enough sleep.

【2】What would not change according to the passage?

A.Age. B.Genes.

C.Hormones. D.Sleeping pattern.

【3】What does the underlined word “that’ in the last paragraph refer to?

A.Not getting enough sleep. B.Listening to your own body.

C.Running a lot of traffic lights. D.Not understanding of the importance of sleep.

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

A.Sleeping Patterns

B.The Importance of Sleep

C.A Great Achievement of Neuroscience

D.Different People Need Different Amounts of Sleep

29、   Although many countries love their tea,UK citizens are particularly proud of being"tea people". The average UK citizen consumes nearly 2 kilograms of tea each year.

Tea only made its way to England in large quantities in the first years of the 17th century.Tea from China and a few other Asian countries was being sold more widely in England at that time. Then tea was getting more and more popular among different social classes.

There are many varieties of tea. Black tea mixtures are still the most common type drunk in the UK. Black tea is dark in colour, because the leaves have been allowed to oxidize(氧化)before drying. This is why we usually serve it with milk, although it is not uncommon to drink it black or with lemon. You may still find tea made with loose tea leaves, served up in a pot, and poured into the best china cups with saucers(茶托)for visitors.

Tea is still a large part of daily life in the UK today,but it seems to be on the decrease.The amount of tea sold in the UK fell by more than 10%in the five years leading up to 2002,and has been dropping ever since.Tea sales fell by 6%in 2014 alone,and most restaurants report selling more than twice as many cups of coffee as they do tea. More than £ 1 billion was spent on coffee in high street stores in 2013,more than twice what was spent on tea bags.

Still, what goes around comes around; it's sure to become fashionable again.

【1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.UK citizens take pride in being “tea people”.

B.The UK seldom serves black tea with lemon.

C.Tea made its way to England in the early 16th century.

D.Tea from China is being sold more widely in England now.

【2】What can we learn from paragraph 4?

A.Tea sales have fallen by 6%since 2014.

B.Most restaurant like selling tea than coffee.

C.In 2013, the money spent on tea was f 3 billion.

D.Since 2002, the sales of tea have been on the decrease.

【3】What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?

A.It can never succeed again. B.The tea will become popular again.

C.Coffee is more popular than tea. D.The tea is becoming less popular.

30、   Every summer a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the_________are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and_______.

The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the_______of travel. You can pick grapes on farms in France, entertain kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are_______jobs in hotels and restaurants.

But it is not easy now to find work. “_______you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Althea Ellis, an adviser in_______for students.

“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Pairs, the owner will expect you to speak_______. British students only have a language_______for jobs in the USA and Australia.”

_______enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been________.One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was________home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the__________they made, and what’s worse, Sarah herself was robbed on her only________evening of the entire trip. “I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was________and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”

“The trouble is that students expect to have a(n)________time of it.” Althea Ellis points out. “After all, they see it as a________. In practice,________, you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual (临时的) work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. In the other words, you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that________you. But you have________employment rights. As soon as the holiday season________, they’ll get rid of you.”

A．works

B．challenges

C．changes

D．hardships

A．service

B．industry

C．business

D．science

A．pains

B．comfort

C．difficulty

D．excitement

A．always

B．hardly

C．never

D．seldsom

A．If

B．Unless

C．Because

D．Although

A．health care

B．vacation work

C．language studies

D．tourist safety

A．Italian

B．English

C．French

D．Spanish

A．chance

B．ability

C．possibility

D．advantage

A．No one

B．None

C．Not everyone

D．Everybody

A．abroad

B．employed

C．sad

D．respected

A．driven

B．ridden

C．left

D．flown

A．friends

B．decisions

C．noise

D．destruction

A．busy

B．free

C．tiring

D．pleasant

A．nice

B．reasonable

C．fair

D．poor

A．hard

B．easy

C．difficult

D．ordinary

A．holiday

B．job

C．festival

D．study

A．besides

B．therefore

C．however

D．meanwhile

A．fires

B．employs

C．recommends

D．appreciants

A．few

B．little

C．all

D．much

A．starts

B．lasts

C．approaches

D．finishes

31、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. drive B. return C. mobilizes D. significant AB. helpless

AC. familiarize  AD. address  BC. shameless BD. appeals

CD. transformation ABC. attempts

In Times of Crists, We Need Classical Music

  It’s still lying in front of me on my desk. The booklet, entitled Time for Outrange(愤怒) , was written by the 93-year-old French diplomat(外交官) Stephane Hessel. “The power of money,” Hessel says, filled with anger, “has never been as great and selfish and 【1】 as it is now.”

  But what does the outrage of this Frenchman have to do with classical music and , ultimately, with me, music director of the Orchestre Symphenique de Montreal(蒙特利尔交响乐团) ?

  A lot, I, too, am outraged by the direction of industrial society, with materialism and consumerism leading the way. I want to show that, because of its powerful impact, classical music can play a(n) 【2】 role right now.

  We all sense that our society is experiencing an almost revolutionary 【3】. Life is getting faster, competition is fiercer and social cohesion(凝聚力) is reducing. Like most people, I have no idea how liberty and civil rights would develop in the era of globalization and ever-evolving technological advancement.

  But I see this as an opportunity for a(n) 【4】 to classical music. The great symphonies of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are not museum pieces we should listen to only if we want to 【5】 ourselves with some music history. Now are they a decoration or a relaxation exercise for the quickened pace of life.

  They are more than what a radio station for classical music once promised - “your oasis(绿洲) of well-being.” They are timeless compositions that 【6】 all the uncertainties and insecurities of this new period. They can support us in our search for meaning. Beethoven, for example, was convinced that man had the capacity to change for the better and to go throughout life. This is why there is so much hope in his music. His symphonies was mean to 【7】 people forward.

  Classic music 【8】 our senses and emotions in such a way that we were thrown back onto ourselves. It 【9】 to listeners to make use of their own reason and reflect on their actions. Music’s sole purpose is to be experienced. That experience, in turn, is why music can change our perceptions(认知) of ourselves and thereby our interactions with others.

  【10】 to explain this powerful impact of music will always remain unsatisfying, but this much is certain: aesthetic(审美的) experiences can transform people.

32、假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Jackson打算近期来中国作为交流生学习汉语和和中国文化，但不确定去哪个大学，所以来信征求你的建议，请你给他回信，内容包括：

1. 你所推荐的大学；

2. 推荐理由（至少两条）。

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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