厦门2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、Although quite a lot of people regularly participated in sports events in 2019, some ________ 'sports' with just going to the gym.

A.equated B.equipped C.combined D.impressed

2、—This new dress code ______ everyone at school, teachers and students alike.

—Yes, there are no exceptions.

A.contributes to B.subscribes to C.adds to D.applies to

3、Oh, it’s so hot in here . Somebody ______ the window, please.

A.opens B.open C.shall open D.will open

4、— It's Mary's own fault if she feels ________ at the party.

— She makes no effort to be friendly to people.

A. cut out B. stood out

C. left out     D. made out

5、 The Alibaba Group, _____was founded in 1999, has become China’s largest e-commerce company.

A. what   B. which

C. whose   D. whether

6、______ flag-raising ceremony was held at the Golden Bauhinia Square on July 1 to celebrate   ______ 17th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China.

A. A; /   B. A; the

C. The; the   D. /; the

7、The parents spoil their child so much that they are ready to buy any toy for him ________ he likes it.

A．as far as

B．as soon as

C．as long as

D．as well as

8、New traffic rules that took effect on January l, 2013 are much stricter than ________ in the past．

A. that   B. this   C. those   D. What

9、--- Why do you think he is feeling spiritless?

--- Because staying up late makes him at his worst ___________ physical situation．

A．in terms of B．in addition to  C．on account of  D．regardless of

10、Lucas failed his driving test again. ________ harder, he ______ the test now.

A.If he practiced; would pass

B.Had he practiced; would pass

C.Did he practiced; would have passed

D.Should he practice; would have passed

11、With the on－going campaign of banning cigarette，the number of people who have given up smoking________．

A. is increasing   B. increased

C. has increased   D. will increase

12、His food ______, the man had to come out of his hiding place.

A.run out B.was run out

C.running out D.using up

13、It is high time you  ____ your homework.

A. do   B. have done

C. will do   D. did

14、Dr. Black comes from either Oxford or Cambridge. I can’t remember ____.

A．where

B．there

C．which

D．that

15、----- Try not to work yourself too hard. Take it easy.

 ----- Thanks._______

A. So what?    B. No way.

C. What for ?    D. You too.

16、His brother , who____ in the army for five years，is now running a farm in our village.

A.serves B.served C.had served D.has served

17、. ___________ the extreme levels of air pollution, city authorities have started to take measures to quickly reduce pollution levels and protect city dwellers.

A. In spite of   B. As well as

C. In response to   D. By means of

18、______we'll go swimming tomorrow depends on the weather.

A．If

B．Whether

C．That

D．Where

19、The study of natural history is not something to be left to biologists. In fact, their capacity __________ the time they can spend away from their offices is very limited.

A. in favour of  B. in search of

C. in terms of   D. in view of

20、Bob's father can't stand________ soap operas. He enjoys sports games on TV.

A．watch

B．to watch

C．watching

D．watched

21、The Buy Nothing Movement

Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes than ever before. The average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which might not sound like much. 【1】 A lot of consumer spending is by means of credit cards. British people currently owe about £670 per adult to credit card companies. Also, people are spending money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites.

People might not realize the problems because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities. But charity shops can't sell all those unwanted clothes. A lot of clothes that charities can't sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.

【2】 The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US. On Buy Nothing Day people organize various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organize the exchange and repair of items they already own.

The trend has now reached influencers on social media who now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all of for periods as long as a year. Two friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months they learned how to live without buying electrical goods, clothes or things for the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example, haircuts, eating out or buying petrol for their cars. 【3】.

The changes they made meant two fewer cars on the roads, a reduction in plastic and paper packaging and a positive impact on the environment from all the energy saved. 【4】 But even if you can't manage a full year without going shopping, you can participate in the anti-consumerist movement by refusing to buy things you don't need.

A．In one year, they'd saved $55,000.

B．If everyone followed a similar plan, the results would be impressive.

C．Online shopping means it is easy for customers to buy without thinking.

D．Second-hand clothes are often of too poor quality to recycle in charity shops.

E．But that figure hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment

F．However, a different trend arises in opposition to consumerism - the 'buy nothing' trend.

22、

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It's time to pack your bag and explore the 4 corners of France!

Good to know: you can start the validity of your card up to 5 months after the date of purchase (Ex: you buy 1 card on 01/01/2022, you can start its validity on 01/06/2022, to use it until 31/05/2023).

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-60% for 1 child aged 4 to 11 accompanied by the card holder

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【1】This piece of information is________.

A．sent by TGV INOUI

B．sent by INTERCITES

C．aimed at selling train tickets

D．aimed at selling discount cards

【2】Which of the following is true of the discount card?

A．It costs you €79 for an intermediate trip ticket.

B．It does not work for a first-class ticket.

C．Its validity starts from the date of buying.

D．It allows you to return tickets at any time.

【3】If a long tip ticket to London from Paris costs €200, then an adult with a discount card and his 10-year-old son should pay ________.

A．€400

B．€280

C．€159

D．€158

23、Dogs are known for a strong sense of smell. Their noses can be trained to identify different smells. Dogs are often used in search and rescue operations and to sniff for things like drugs and explosives. Some dogs have even been trained to sniff for cancer in people.

Researchers have been trying to reproduce the extraordinary sense of smell that real dogs are born with. Now, officials at the Glasgow airport in Scotland are testing a new security device called an “electronic sniffer dog”. The electronic sniffer dog represents one of the latest developments in the area of smell technology.

A Scottish company, Cascade Technologies, joined with the French security company Morpho to develop it. The device uses lasers to identify explosive materials in gases in the air. The purpose is to identify explosives that may be hidden on a person’s body.

The machine looks similar to the metal detectors now used at airports. Passengers walk through the machine as the lasers test the surrounding air. People are not required to take off their coats, belts or shoes as part of the security process. And, unlike full-body scanners, the new device does not show images of the passengers.

Officials at Cascade Technologies say the machine can process one person per second and produce almost immediate results. They say future development could cut security processing times at airports by screening all passengers at walking speed.

Professor Yushan Yan, the head of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, points out that unlike real dogs, electronic devices do not get tired or need to be walked or require food and water. Professor Yan says real dogs also have other needs. “They also need very extensive training that could be expensive. And when they work they have to have a very skilled handler around them.”

But Professor Yan says there is an important area where man’s best friend still wins compared to technology. “In terms of sensitivity and selectivity, the current technology out there is still inferior. The real dog has amazing capability of identifying some really minor amount of explosives.”

【1】 The electronic sniffer dogs will be used to____

A. replace real dogs to be as pets for people

B. search for and rescue people who are in trouble

C. help people look after patients in the hospital

D. identify drugs and explosives in places like the airport

【2】Which of the following is true of the electronic sniffer dog?

A. The device uses lasers to examine for explosive materials.

B. People have to take off their clothes when walking through the device.

C. The device will show images of the passengers.

D. The device can process all passengers at walking speed.

【3】 The advantages of the electronic sniffer dog over the real dog include the following EXCEPT______

A. its convenience   B. its high efficiency

C. its sensitivity D. its low consumption

【4】The underlined word “inferior” in the last paragraph most probably has the meaning of_____.

A. concentrating all one’s effort on a specific area

B. not as good as sb. / sth. else

C. that cannot be clearly understood

D. necessary for completeness

24、A major new facility to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere has started operating in Iceland, which is a boost to an emerging technology that experts say could eventually play an important role in reducing greenhouse gases.

The plant in southwest Iceland is the biggest of its kind, its builder says. It is able to capture 900 tons of CO2 every year but it needs heat and electricity to work. It is using energy produced from waste and is built on the roof of a waste incineration plant, and through the burning of rubbish, energy is generated.

Human-sized fans are built into a series of boxes. They take CO2 out of the air, catching it in sponge like filters(过滤器). The filters are blasted with heat freeing the gas, which is then mixed with water and pumped deep into deep underground basalt caves, where over time it turns into dark-gray stone. Pumping CO2 into the ground is just one way to deal with it. The makers are also selling the gas to be used again. The CO2 can be captured just a few 100 miles away. It is pumped through an underground pipe line directly into a greenhouse. Vegetables and plants love CO2 and higher concentrations of the gas within the greenhouse improve the growth of plants.

By 2050, humanity will need to pull nearly a billion metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year through direct air capture technology to achieve carbon neutral(碳中和) goals, according to International Energy Agency recommendations. The plant in Iceland will be able to capture 4,000 metric tons annually—just a small amount of what will be necessary, but one that Clime works, the company that built it, says can grow rapidly as efficiency improves and costs decrease.

【1】What does the underlined word “boost” mean in Paragraph 1?

A．Promotion.

B．Advertisement.

C．Decrease.

D．Innovation.

【2】What do we know about the new facility ?

A．It uses waste to get power.

B．It is built at high water level.

C．It makes Iceland free of air pollution.

D．It produces lots of heat during operation.

【3】What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A．The ways of breaking down CO2.

B．The approaches to reusing waste gas.

C．The necessity of building greenhouses.

D．The workings of the carbon-catching plant.

【4】What can be expected from the direct air capture technology?

A．Decreasing the cost of energy production.

B．The rapid reduction of CO2 levels in the air.

C．The early realization of the carbon neutral goals.

D．The disappearance of the traditional carbon treatment.

25、   That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend school. Usually，mother_________me to sleep in on holidays. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning，_________, I felt like getting up early. 

I stood by my window overlooking the _________ having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something _________ in life.

As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I _________an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its _________and a basket of rags and bottles on its back-carriage. He _________from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already _________ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning. Several thoughts ___________ my mind as I watched him work. He wasn’t well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) ____________ T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern__________ would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed ____________with life. There he was, working hard at his small business, __________ at passers-by and stopping to chat __________ with elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.

There was a noticeable touch of __________ in the way he seemed to be doing things ---- __________ the windscreen(挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it; scrubbing(擦净)the wheels and __________ , standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.

It was a __________to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a living if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt __________ of myself. Young as I am — just sixteen，there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the ____________.

【1】A.allows B.forces C.causes D.forbids

【2】A.otherwise B.besides C.therefore D.however

【3】A.bus stop B.parking lot C.school D.market

【4】A.useful B.surprising C.awful D.interesting

【5】A.called B.recognized C.noticed D.assisted

【6】A.seat B.back C.wheel D.handle

【7】A.searched B.moved C.wandered D.1eft

【8】A.stopped B.intended C.finished D.started

【9】A.disturbed B.slipped C.crossed D.inspired

【10】A.simple B.shiny C.attractive D.expensive

【11】A.repairmen B.motorists C.drivers D.cyclists

【12】A.content B.busy C.careful D.bored

【13】A.laughing B.1ooking C.waving D.pointing

【14】A.more or less B.sooner or later C.here and there D.now and then

【15】A.concern B.pride C.sympathy D.respect

【16】A.fixing B.cleaning C.replacing D.covering

【17】A.still B.again C.yet D.soon

【18】A.fact B.subject C.skill D.1esson

【19】A.ashamed B.doubtful C.fearful D.tired

【20】A.flash B.sunlight C.horizon D.shelter

26、假定你是学生会主席李华，你校即将举办新春联欢会，请你写一封邮件邀请外教老师Bob参加此次活动。要点如下:

1.时间、地点:

2.活动内容。

写作要求:

1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾部分已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Bob,

I’m Li Hua, chairman of the Student Union.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua