盐城2024-2025学年第二学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)高三英语

1、 Poetry written from the perspective of the urban youth tends to _______ their anxiety over a lack of sense of belonging.

A. rebel B. refresh

C. reveal D. resign

2、It is announced that ______$20,000 reward will be offered for______ _return of the stolen sculpture．

A． a; the   B． 不填; the

C． a; a     D． 不填；a

考点：冠词

3、Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to ________ anything of average quality.

A．figure out

B．turn down

C．settle for

D．leave behind

4、Considering the heavy pollution caused by fossil fuels, many people are _______ the use of alternative energy sources .

A.accenting for B.catering for C.compensating for D.pushing for

5、I’m sorry, but you _____ go wrong. There’s no such man here.

A.need B.can C.must D.will

6、The recent air crash, ________ more than two hundred people lost their lives, has renewed concerns over the safety of flight travel.

A. that B. which   C. where D. when

7、You can get to your destination earlier ________ you don’t mind taking the night train.

A．when    B．if    C．though        D．until

8、______ in the training, Marbury couldn't play in the basketball season.

A. Injuring   B. Injure

C. Injured   D. To injure

9、________preparations from now on, she would be able to finish the essay on Sunday.

A. Would she make   B. If she make

C. Were she to make   D. If she had made

10、The vote of the government does not have an overall ____compared with that of all the other parties added together.

A.major B.majority C.maximum D.matter

11、Meetings ________ in the company every two days and he is fed up with them.

A．hold

B．are held

C．are holding

D．were held

12、______ being relaxed, we both felt so uncomfortable that we hardly spoke.

A．Apart from

B．Far from

C．In spite of

D．In addition to

13、There is no doubt that _________ a goal, one needs not only knowledge but also good personalities.

A. achieve   B. achieving

C. to achieve   D. achieved

14、The Small Goose Pagoda in Xi’an, one of the 22 Silk Road relics located in China, _______ back in 707 during the Tang Dynasty.

A. dated   B. was dated

C. dates   D. is dating

15、The village isn’t ________ it used to be and the life we were used to _____ greatly since 1992.

A. what , has changed B. that, changed C. what, changed D. that , changing

16、It was by reading it a third time _______ Sammy got a thorough understanding of passage E．

A. that   B. who   C. when   D. which

17、We feel our duty to make our country a better place.

A．it

B．this

C．that

D．one

18、The loss has not yet been ____accurately, but it is believed to be well beyond a hundred million dollars.

A. calculated   B. considered

C. completed D. controlled

19、By pretending to be ill, the candidate tried to run away from _______ issues, which always aroused too much debate．

A．confidential B．controversial

C．contemporary D．contradictory

20、________ excited the engineer most was that he eventually succeeded in ________ seemed to be the most difficult challenge to him.

A．That; what

B．What; what

C．That; that

D．What; that

21、The New York Times reported that phone calls have made a comeback during the pandemic. Verizon, an American wireless network operator, told the Times that it’s now handling an average of 800 million wireless calls daily during the week. That’s more than double the calls made on Mother’s Day, which is one of the busiest days of the year for phone calls. 【1】 Similarly, AT&T Inc. reported that the number of cell calls has increased by 35%.

【2】 And there’s nothing like creating a big family get-together by cramming everyone on a screen. It’s great that you can see the people you’re talking to.

But sometimes, something gets lost when video is involved. Video calls and apps are “undeniably brilliant,” writes the Guardian. “But there’s a performance involved, distractions, and people coming and going. If you want to actually say something to someone, just call them. 【3】”.

If you are old enough, you might remember having one phone for the whole family. “The shared family phone served as an anchor for home,” Luke Fermandez, a computer-science professor at Weber State University says. “With smartphones, we have gained mobility and privacy. 【4】”

But now so many of us are turning back to our phones to find family. In Dickinson, the city council members shared the city phone book in late March to call residents to check in. Council member Katie Pinkie wrote in the Dickinson Press, “They shared stories of faith, friendly and health. The people I called to check in on ended up helping me more. 【5】 “What would happen if we all used this time of the social distancing to reconnect the old-fashioned way?” Landline or mobile phone, start dialing.

A．Before Caller ID, you did not know who was calling.

B．Many of us are also talking to our families on video chat.

C．Everybody had a handle on everyone else’s business field.

D．However, the value of the home has been reduced considerably.

E．Nothing can beat a comforting human voice straight into the ear.

F．They gave me a sense of purpose for the week and unknowns ahead.

G．In addition, the length of calls is up 33% now compared to an average day before the outbreak.

22、   It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.

A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle that’s 15.4 degrees off to the observer’s right—well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you.” This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa Effect”. That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.

This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you don’t cast the gaze of the character to that side—surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn’t looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.

Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars ( 虚拟头像 )when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wasn’t looking at him. To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected(相交) Mona Lisa’s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the “Mona Lisa” portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.  So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first invented the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name.

【1】It is generally believed that the woman in the painting Mona Lisa ___________

A.attracts the viewers to look back

B.seems mysterious because of her eyes

C.looks at the viewers wherever they stand

D.fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers

【2】What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?

A. B. C. D.

【3】The experiment involving 24 people was conducted to ___________

A.create artificial-intelligence avatars.

B.confirm Horstmann’s belief.

C.calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze.

D.explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied.

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.

B.Horstmann thinks it’s cool to invent the term “Mona Lisa effect”.

C.The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.

D.The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgment.

23、After their three children grew up and left home, Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders (滑翔伞运动员) launch themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return to the earth. “Some day I’d love to do that,” Thompson told Kenneth.

But there was always so much to do in Interlaken. Besides, Thompson didn’t know if Kenneth would have enjoyed it. He was not so keen on heights as I was, she said. So she continued to watch the gliders take flight and land.

Kenneth died in 2005. Eleven years later, Thompson finally took to the skies herself, in a paraglider at the age of 80. Although some people get scared while flying, she said she just feels free. Thompson did her second paraglide when she turned 85, and raised nearly £2, 000 for a local charity.

Before leaving Interlaken after her second flight, Thompson asked the organizers about the age limit for paragliding. They said: “Any age, as long as you’re fit.” Thompson, now 86, plans her third flight for when she is 90.

Thompson grew up living above her parents’ shop in Belfast. At 18, she helped in the shop while studying for her music diploma in Stranmillis, south Belfast. She started to teach piano to local children, and at the height of her teaching she gave 70 lessons a week. She still has 15 pupils. “Over the years I’ve had so many that I’m teaching their children now.”

Is she scared of getting older? “Fear? No. People say: ‘Isn’t getting old awful?’ I say: ‘No. You are free to do more of the things that you want to do.’” “People might worry about falling, it being the end of them. But that doesn’t bother me at all. When it’s your time, it’s your time. No matter where you are.” Thompson added.

【1】What can we know about Thompson from the first two paragraphs?

A．She appreciated being alone.

B．She was crazy about paragliding.

C．She often worked overtime.

D．She didn’t fit in with her husband.

【2】Which of the following best describes Thompson?

A．Courageous and optimistic.

B．Sensitive and open-minded.

C．Romantic and cautious.

D．Considerate and humorous.

【3】Why does the author mention Thompson’s words in the last paragraph?

A．To compare different old people.

B．To inspire people to care for the old.

C．To show getting old isn’t so unpleasant.

D．To erase doubts about old people’s health.

【4】What can we learn from Thompson’s story?

A．Aging makes a difference.

B．Time and tide wait for no man.

C．Rome wasn’t built in a day.

D．It’s never too late to fulfill a dream.

24、   When Shakespeare was twenty-one, he went to London to try his fortune in that great city, and a very interesting place was the London of his day.

There was the famous London Bridge and St. Paul’s Cathedral, and palaces and markets and long streets full of shops.

Then, too, there were the daily crowds where people from all over the world could be seen. Knights, scholars and the highwayman or thief, who had been infamous for his clever robberies,

Here, also, were noblemen dressed in gold, from Italy and Spain and France; slaves from Spanish America, sea captains and ministers, soldiers and servants—all held by chance or interest within the gray walk，ls which circled London, and whose gates gave welcome to as strange a crowd as could be found in the world.

Into this curious crowd came Shakespeare, quick to see and eager to learn. And before long all these strange sights were as familiar to him as the faces of his own town’s residents. Each one told its story to him so plainly that, as before he had learned the secrets of the fields and woods, so now he learned men and men’s interests that make up the great world.

And he learned these lessons so well that when he came to write his plays, he made such use of them as no writer ever made before or since; for it is the use of this knowledge of the world, combined with his own genius, that makes Shakespeare the greatest dramatist that has ever lived.

【1】What was London like in Shakespeare’s eyes when he first went there?

A．Strange and interesting.

B．Dirty and small.

C．Infamous and terrible.

D．Familiar and modern.

【2】Which of the following best describes Shakespeare?

A．Shakespeare got inspiration to write from his hometown, London.

B．Shakespeare was eager to make friends with the noblemen in London.

C．Shakespeare became the greatest dramatist owing to his own genius.

D．Shakespeare was good at observing and learning from the daily life.

【3】What does the word “one” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．Face.

B．Sight.

C．Crowd.

D．Resident

25、   Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $ 20. This was the 1970s, and $ 20 was quite a bit of money.

But I saw it ___. My father trusted me to have the ________ to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the ____ to get it. On a very basic level ,my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢）every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to ____ money and making me feel like a/an _______. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.

My mother had a/an____for giving me what I needed, usually____at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I _____at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my ___job but had no new one. But when my mother____me a visit, I____a good show, telling her I had started my own company.

My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until____she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with _________. She knew how _______ I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or____to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much __________ . The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the____with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to ___my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own ____ ,and the other was giving me a second ____ when those decisions had cost me dearly.

【1】A.positively B.differently C.naturally D.originally

【2】A.intelligence B.passion C.power D.potential

【3】A.courage B.suggestions C.discipline D.means

【4】A.spend B.carry C.manage D.use

【5】A.grown-up B.teenager C.adventurer D.pioneer

【6】A.habit B.gift C.approach D.tradition

【7】A.approximately B.about C.right D.slightly

【8】A.failed B.fooled C.dropped D.fell

【9】A.important B.creative C.challenging D.previous

【10】A.brought B.suggested C.paid D.gave

【11】A.put on B.put away C.put off D.put forward

【12】A.before B.after C.when D.as

【13】A.credit B.loans C.receipts D.cash

【14】A.desperately B.hardly C.eventually D.accurately

【15】A.attempted B.offered C.promised D.refused

【16】A.better B.more C.less D.worse

【17】A.decoration B.love C.distance D.method

【18】A.defend B.equip C.fix D.develop

【19】A.actions B.opportunities C.risks D.decisions

【20】A.solution B.chance C.visit D.assistance

26、A set of textbook designed to help high school student learn about Chinese traditional culture is to be published soon, Beijing Times reported on Monday.

The books are the first national-level works of their kind and have been developed by a working group that promotes traditional culture. They will be used by students from autumn this year, the report said.

The set contains four classics from ancient times. Two of the works, The Confucian Analects and Mencius, are for 10th-grade students, while the other two, Great Learning and Dao De Jing, will be used by 11th graders.

The initiative follows a series of steps the authorities have taken in recent years to spread and promote traditional Chinese culture on campus.

Last April, the Ministry of Education released a series of guidelines requiring the inclusion of more information about traditional culture in primary and middle school textbooks, especially those used for subjects such as Chinese Language, history, art and physical education.

The guidelines said students’ knowledge of traditional culture will be tested in the senior high school entrance examination and the gaokao, the college entrance exam.

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