新疆塔城地区2025届高三英语下册二月考试题

1、Believe it or not, your parents have experienced ________you have experienced as children and teenagers.

A．how

B．which

C．what

D．that

2、—Simon will listen to music every time he comes across a maths problem.

—You know, music is the source of ______ in life.

A. inspiration B. identification

C. reaction  D. recreation

3、Alan is a careful driver, but he drives ______ of my friends.

A.more carefully B.the most carefully C.less carefully D.the least carefully

4、As I opened my eyes, in ______ direction I looked, I could see smiling, peaceful, calm and content faces.

A. whatever B. however C. whichever D. wherever

5、The expert points out the phenomenon that cream goes bad faster than butter______ its structure rather than its chemical composition.

A. lives up to B. gets down to

C. comes down to D. stands up to

6、Happiness and success often come to those   are good at recognizing their own strengths.

A. whom   B. who   C. what   D. which

7、________, I believe, and you can see he wasn’t lying.

A.Casting a glance at the boy B.One glance at the boy

C.Glance cast at the boy D.If you cast a glance at the boy

8、We are living in an age ______ QR codes（二维码）are becoming more and more popular in our daily life.

A. why   B. that   C. whose   D. when

9、Long-term ______ to domestic and foreign classics has made him so knowledgeable.

A. resistance   B. submission   C. admission   D. exposure

10、Only after talking to two students that having strong motivation is one of the biggest factors in reaching goals.

A. I did discover B. did I discover

C. I discovered D. discovered

11、It could be ________ for Jackson who seldom puts his hearts into his studies to be admitted into a key university.

A. a good Samaritan   B. a Herculean task

C. a dark horse   D. a bit of Scrooge

12、Our school has recently obtained the latest multimedia equipment, __________ students to learn efficiently under special circumstances.

A.allowing B.being allowed C.having allowed D.allowed

13、I've made some really good friends at the gym. Talking to people as you ______ is a good way to get to know them.

A.get down B.stand by

C.hang out D.work out

14、The police still haven’t found the lost child, but they’re doing all they .

A．can

B．may

C．must

D．should

15、The energy program ______ at reducing our dependence on fossil fuels has made considerable breakthroughs in the past decades.

A.aim B.aimed C.being aiming D.to aim

16、Contrary to popular belief, the ants, hardworking ________ they are, have their time for play.

A. because B. while C. as D. where

17、Internet is an important part of society now, ______ has even influenced our language.

A．as

B．that

C．which

D．where

18、David didn’t attend his daughter’s graduation ceremony, but he does wish he   there.

A. should be   B. would be

C. had been   D. were

19、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.

A. has stayed   B. had stayed

C. stayed   D. am staying

20、The government is to _____ the technologies to the full in the structural transformation of the economy.

A. adapt   B. expose

C. exploit   D. attach

21、   Cryonics is the practice of cooling dead organic tissue. This is used on humans or animals that have recently died. The hope is to bring them back to life in the near future. By law, it can only be performed on humans after they are legally dead. Many scientists and doctors think cryonics is totally morally unacceptable. However, there are also many who support cryonics.

Supporters of cryonics hope that future technology will improve. Molecular technology is especially hoped to reverse (逆转) the early stages of clinical death. It is hoped that this will enable the repair of tissue on a very tiny level. It could also allow damaged tissues and organs to regenerate. They also assume that disease and aging will one day be reversible.

These supporters want to store the memory and identity from the brain of people who have recently died. Cryonics attempts to do this by using liquid that preserves the brain. If this is done before cooling, it will prevent injury. This cooling liquid saves the fine cell structures of the brain where memory and identity exist.

Critics of cryonics think this process is a waste of time and money. They base their opinions on the current level of science. It is true that cells, tissues, blood vessels, and some small animal organs can be reversibly preserved. Some frogs can even survive for a few months in a partially frozen state if they are kept a few degrees above freezing. But this is not true cryopreservation. There is no proof that the identity and memory of a person can be restored after death has occurred.

Critics also think that if it were possible to bring dead people back to life, it would cause many social problems. Critics worry it would cause a huge overpopulation problem. Many also think trying to reverse death is immoral because it is against the will of their God.

【1】What can we know about cryonics from paragraph 1?

A.Cryonics is used before people's death.

B.All scientists aren't in favor of the use of cryonics.

C.Laws forbid the use of cryonics on legally dead people.

D.Cryonics tries to cool dead organic tissue by using liquid.

【2】What does the underlined word 'regenerate' in paragraph 2 mean?

A.copy. B.return.

C.freeze. D.regrow.

【3】Why do critics oppose the use of cryonics?

A.It will make people's memory lost.

B.Injury will occur during the process.

C.There is scientific uncertainty about it.

D.It goes along with their religious belief.

【4】What is the main idea of the text?

A.The use of cryonics has a bright future.

B.Cryonics is still a controversial practice.

C.The practice of cryonics is limited by law.

D.There is an advance in medical technology.

22、   Turtles have an unfortunate habit of eating plastic objects floating in the sea. These cannot be digested and may ultimately kill them. It is widely assumed that this fondness for plastics is a matter of mistaken identity. Drifting plastic bags, for instance, look similar to jellyfish (水母), which many types of turtles love to eat. Yet lots of plastic objects that end up inside turtles have no similarity to jellyfish. Joseph Pfaller of the University of Florida therefore suspects that the smell of marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) which grow on floating plastic objects fools turtles into feeding.

The idea that the smell of floating plastic objects might lure animals to their death first emerged in 2016. Researchers at the University of California noticed that certain chemicals, notably dimethyl sulphide (二甲基硫), which are released into the air by floating plastics, are those which many seabirds sniff (嗅) to track down food. These chemicals mark good places to hunt because they indicate plenty of the algae (海藻) and bacteria (细菌). The researchers also found that birds which pursue their food in this way are five or six times more likely to eat plastic than those which do not.

Since turtles are known to break the surface periodically and sniff the air when finding the way to their feeding areas, Dr Pfaller theorised that they are following these same chemicals, and are likewise fooled into thinking that floating plastic objects are eatable.

To test that idea, he and his colleagues set up an experiment. They arranged for 15 turtles to be exposed to four smells: the vapour from deionised water; the smell of turtle-feeding balls made of shrimp and fish meal; the smell of a clean plastic bottle chopped up into ten pieces; and the smell of a similarly chopped bottle that had been kept in the ocean for five weeks to allow algae and bacteria to grow on it.

Two of the smells proved far more attractive to the animals than the others. When sniffing both the smell of food balls and that of five-week-old bottles, turtles kept their nostrils out of the water more than three times as long, and took twice as many breaths as they did when what was on offer was the smell of fresh bottle-plastic or deionised-water vapour.

Though they have not yet tested whether dimethyl sulphide is the culprit, Dr Pfaller and his colleagues think it is the most likely candidate. In an unpolluted ocean, pretty well anything which had this smell would be eatable— or, at least, harmless. Unfortunately, five-week-old plastic bottles and their like are not.

【1】Paragraph 1 mainly tells us that turtles ________.

A.mistake plastic objects for jellyfish

B.are fooled into eating plastics by a smell

C.are dying out as a result of plastic pollution

D.break down plastics without much difficulty

【2】What can we infer from the research on seabirds?

A.Seabirds eat plastics for the taste.

B.The algae and bacteria grow well on plastics.

C.Researchers got the idea from the study of turtles.

D.Some seabirds pursue food in a similar way to turtles.

【3】Dr Pfaller’s research shows_______.

A.turtles prefer the smell of plastics

B.turtles live on marine microorganisms

C.dimethyl sulphide may be to blame for turtles’ death

D.plastics release the same chemicals as microorganisms

【4】What is the purpose of the passage?

A.To propose a new way to study turtles.

B.To stress the importance of improving ecosystem.

C.To introduce the findings on the cause of turtles’ death.

D.To explain the effects of plastic pollution on sea animals.

23、Catching nearly 4,000 wild butterflies with handheld nets and taking the temperature of each tiny insect must rank among the harder of scientific efforts.

However, researchers have discovered significant differences in the ability of British butterflies to maintain a suitable temperature, raising fears that global heating will threaten the populations of some species.

Butterflies are ectotherms-unable to generate their own body heat-and require warm temperatures to fly. However, extreme temperatures can pose problems, particularly for those butterflies that must find shady habitats to regulate (调节) their body temperature.

The study shows that larger, paler butterflies are best able to protect themselves from extreme temperatures, changing the angles of their reflective wings in relation to the sun to direct heat away from or on to their bodies. Darker, large species have greater difficulty controlling their body temperature, but even they are better than “thermal specialists”, which rely on finding a spot at a specific temperature in a landscape-a “microclimate”-to control their body temperature.

“After being caught in butterfly nets on British nature reserves, the 29 different species of butterflies’ temperatures were taken with a fine probe. As we plan conservation measures to address the effects of climate change, it will be important to understand not only the habitat requirements of different butterfly species, but also their temperature requirements,” said Dr Ed Turner, of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, who led the work. “With this new understanding of butterflies, we should be able to better manage habitats and landscapes to protect them, and in doing so we’re probably also protecting other insects too.”

【1】Why did scientists take the temperatures of butterflies?

A．To seek solutions to global heating.

B．To uncover climate threats to them.

C．To classify them into different species.

D．To stress the toughness of scientific research.

【2】How do larger, paler butterflies regulate their temperature?

A．By angling their wings.

B．By generating the body heat.

C．By choosing a microclimate.

D．By making use of their colour.

【3】On what basis do butterflies seek specific locations?

A．Finding a nature reserve.

B．Attracting other butterflies.

C．Adapting to climate change.

D．Perceiving the surroundings.

【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Understanding butterflies should be strengthened.

B．Better management of butterfly habitats is popular.

C．Protecting butterflies can lead to additional benefits.

D．Goals of protecting butterflies have been achieved.

24、 On New Year’s Eves, I would reflect on my best days of the year. Sometimes they were the days I expected. Parties, vacations, weddings. But more often, the real best days weren’t the obvious ones. They were marked by the ordinary: a long conversation with a friend or an unexpected visitor.

The problem with these best days was that they went by without me realizing how special they were. Could I find a way to know when the best days were coming and really feel them as they happened?

So I tried to declare a best day in advance. Even if it felt ridiculous, this effort to make what seemed to be common feel extraordinary usually worked. Staying up chatting until late at night or going for a weekend run through a park in the sunshine felt as wonderful as I had hoped it would. Mundane experiences felt different when I marked them as such.

Marking experiences this way is one key to happiness, said Dr. Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist, the director of the Harvard Happiness Study. “Often we’ll remember the things that more emotionally loaded as opposed to the neutral, the flat, the boring. That’s why you probably can’t remember what you had for dinner last Monday — unless it was something.”

Looking back at 2021, I realized that I was too busy following the news and wishing my would go back to normal. But lately I’ve found the unhappiness during the pandemic made unhappy before, too. The loneliness that I worried at times might become a permanent area of adulthood. They were excuses I made as I waited for something to change.

We can’t wait anymore. The stress we feel now isn’t going to magically disappear, just as it never would have before the pandemic. There’s only one thing we can control: How are we going to live in it? Why not try to have a best day right now, maybe even tonight? So I’m going to go back to my practice of declaring a best day in advance. I’ll start by declaring today or tomorrow or next Monday one of the best days of 2022. I’ll decide to do something I enjoy — it could be as simple as having some friends over or going for a walk.

【1】What does the underlined word “Mundane” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．specific

B．ordinary

C．occasional

D．special

【2】Why does the author mention the words from Dr. Robert Waldinger?

A．To prove what the author tried to do was right.

B．To spread the knowledge about the happiness study.

C．To prove we can’t remember the boring and flat information.

D．To convince readers of the importance of the happiness study.

【3】According to the passage, what attitude should the author have towards negative emotions during the pandemic?

A．Believe these emotions will disappear in the future.

B．Realize these emotions are special in this period.

C．Believe these emotions will not influence his life.

D．Realize these emotions exist in other periods too.

【4】Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

A．You Can Wait For the Best Day.

B．You Can Make Any Day the Best Day.

C．You Can Own the Emotionally Best Day.

D．You Can Recall the Best Day.

25、Do you believe just a simple delivery could change a stranger’s life forever? Well, when 21-year-old Anabelle _________ some food using DoorDash, she _________ started a chain of events. It started when her doorbell camera gave her a _________ of an elderly man delivering her food. He was clearly _________, but he still _________ to get the job done. And it _________ Anabelle’s heart. To help him out, she gave him a $30 tip on a $21 order — but that was just the start of her _________.

After a TikTok she _________ of the delivery went viral, Anabelle became _________ to use the attention to raise money for this man. But first, she had to find him. Against all odds, she tried __________ DoorDash to get his information and kept posting __________ on TikTok.

Finally, Anabelle knew this sweet man’s name: Kerry. And __________ he’s normally very private, she had the __________ to get more information of him. At 71 years old, Kerry has yet to have the opportunity to __________. His wife died in 2011, and his two disabled sons are __________ his care. He works as a driver and that income doesn’t __________ his life. His recent health __________ have even made things more difficult. Anabelle shared his story on GoFundMe where it slowly __________ surely began to reach countless people moved by Kerry’s struggles. Before they __________ it, news outlets around the world were sharing Kerry’s story. And now, over a month later, over $107K has been raised!

“I can’t begin to __________ the amount of support from across the world! This is life changing for Kerry and beyond what I could ever imagine!” Anabelle wrote.

【1】

A．ordered

B．made

C．recorded

D．deposited

【2】

A．apparently

B．unconsciously

C．typically

D．constantly

【3】

A．sense

B．turnover

C．view

D．total

【4】

A．struggling

B．awkward

C．ridiculous

D．terrifying

【5】

A．forced

B．attempted

C．allowed

D．managed

【6】

A．struck

B．gave

C．had

D．played

【7】

A．politeness

B．generosity

C．satisfaction

D．ambition

【8】

A．sent

B．paid

C．fueled

D．posted

【9】

A．grateful

B．excited

C．determined

D．energetic

【10】

A．discovering

B．communicating

C．contacting

D．investing

【11】

A．photos

B．updates

C．predictions

D．stories

【12】

A．even when

B．even as

C．even after

D．even though

【13】

A．privilege

B．effort

C．challenge

D．reward

【14】

A．turn down

B．slow down

C．calm down

D．get down

【15】

A．above

B．in

C．under

D．beyond

【16】

A．spend

B．pay

C．take

D．cover

【17】

A．habits

B．discoveries

C．issues

D．burdens

【18】

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．if

【19】

A．received

B．understood

C．met

D．knew

【20】

A．understand

B．describe

C．repeat

D．quit

26、假如你是英华国际学校学生会主席李华，你在食堂发现有浪费粮食现象，打算向全校师生作"FOOD FOR LIFE"的演讲，请你用英文写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：

1.演讲的主题；

2.演讲的原因；

3.你的倡议。

注意：

1.词数80左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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