2025-2026学年河北省保定唐县第一中学高三英语第一学期期末检测试题.doc

2025-2026学年河北省保定唐县第一中学高三英语第一学期期末检测试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．－ I hear Iron Man III is on recently. Let’s set off for the cinema to appreciate it now.
－ ________ It’s about 10 PM. I’m so tired that I must go to bed.
A．Let’s find some of the action. B．How do you find it?
C．It’s entirely up to you. D．You can’t be serious.
2．I was going to pay by cash when it suddenly occurred to me _________ I had left my purse at home.
A．whether B．what
C．that D．where
3．Different tastes among tourists from outside the mainland ________ the list of the country's attractions．
A．top B．shape C．lead D．show
4．You look frozen．Sit down by the fire and I you some hot tea．
A．make B．was making C．made D．will make
5．The split between humans and living apes is thought by some scholars ____ 15 to 20 million years ago.
A．to occur B．occurring C．to have occurred D．having occurred
6．—— What was wrong? Why didn’t you go to the picnic as scheduled?
—— I’m sorry. I _________ a seriously-injured old man to the hospital.
A．would deliver B．delivered
C．had delivered D．was delivering
7．More and more college graduates, the survey shows, feel it hard to find a satisfactory job.
A．what B．who C．as D．that
8．Although the test ________ look like a simple one, great care is needed.
A．may B．must C．should D．need
9．_____a reception to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China， vice premier Liu attached importance to mutually beneficial cooperation between USA and China．
A．Addressing B．Addressed
C．Being addressed D．To address
10．The country’s chief exports are coal, cars and cotton goods, cars_____ the most important of these.
A．have been B．are
C．being D．are being
11．Sales director is a position _______ communication ability is just as important as sale skills.
A．which B．that
C．when D．where
12．________ the program, they have to stay there for another two weeks.
A．Not completing B．Not completed
C．Not having completed D．Having not completed
13．New energy-sharing projects _____ in dozens of cities across the country to fuel China’s sharing economy in the next few years.
A．are to carry out B．are being carried out
C．were carried out D．will have been carried out
14．Either side seems to have a(n) _________ position; there are still many uncertainties on this issue.
A．ambiguous B．delicate C．explicit D．confidential
15．Though winters in Britain are cold and there is usually snow, there are ________ places for skiing.
A．some B．many C．few D．a few
16．--- ________ I remind you of is to return the book to our English teacher.
---I will give it to him _________ I see him.
A．That; immediately B．What; the moment
C．What; while D．Whether; once
17．Watching basketball games on TV at home is one thing, going to watch them ________ live is quite another.
A．perform B．performing C．to perform D．being performed
18．---I cannot _____ what I have done to annoy Jessica.
---No worries. She is kind of sensitive.
A．turn out B．make out C．put out D．leave out
19．Jane went to her teacher just now. She ________ about the solution to the problem.
A．wondered B．was wondering C．had wondered D．would wonder
20．While we were listening to the speech attentively, a voice _____ to announce the result of the election.
A．broke in B．broke up C．broke off D．broke down
第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21．（6分） When Randy Heiss went hiking behind his Patagonia, Ariz. farm, the last thing he expected to find was a Christmas list from a little girl across the US-Mexico border. “I found this balloon on my morning walk near Patagonia on Sunday. Attached to it was a piece of paper with the Christmas wishes from a little girl,” Heiss wrote on his Facebook page.
When he brought the list home to his wife, who speaks fluent Spanish, they determined that the little girl had asked for Enchantimals toys, clothes, art supplies and various other gifts. That's when Heiss set out to make the little girl's Christmas dreams come true. Heiss said he had attempted to send Christmas letters to Santa Claus via balloon when he was a kid but never received a response.
Heiss sent a Facebook message on Wednesday to XENY, a radio station in Nogales, to see if it could help him track down the girl or her family. He later received a response from the station, which had determined the author of the letter was an 8-year-old girl named Dayami, and the station wanted to set up a meeting between the two on Thursday. “It just changed my entire day,” Heiss told the Washington Post. “Instead of going back to my office in Bisbee, I went with my wife to Walmart. “
The couple bought almost everything on Dayami's list. They also brought a few gifts for Dayami's little sister, Ximena. They told the children they were “ ayudantes de Santa,” or Santa's helpers.
Heiss,60, said the experience was very healing for him and his wife. Nine years ago,the couple's only son died. “ Being around children at Christmas time has been absent in our lives,” Heiss said. We now have friends for life. For a day, that border fence with its concertina wire melted away.
1、How did Dayami send out her Christmas wishes?
A．By calling Heiss. B．By attaching them to a balloon.
C．By writing to a radio station. D．By sending a Facebook message.
2、When did Heiss know what the girl exactly wanted?
A．After the help of his wife.
B．When he found the balloon.
C．After their meeting in America.
D．When he got a response from the radio station.
3、What might make Heiss decide to fulfill the little girl's Christmas wishes?
A．His son's will.
B．The girls request for help.
C．His similar unsuccessful experience.
D．His desire to make friends with the girl.
4、What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．The couple got out of the pain completely.
B．The experience was a great relief to the couple.
C．The couple would help more children from Mexico.
D．There will be no border between countries one day.
22．（8分） Scientists think that growing garden grass could be the secret to solving our energy needs, and we may soon be able to replace our gasoline with “grassoline”.
The team, including experts from Cardiff University in Wales, has shown that hydrogen can be taken from grass in useful amounts with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst(催化剂) —something that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up.
It is the first time that this has been shown and it could lead to a sustainable(可持续的) way of making hydrogen, reported Asian News International. This could be an important kind of renewable energy because it is high in energy and it does not give out harmful gases when it is burned.
Study co-author Michael Bowker said, “This is really a green source of energy. Hydrogen is seen as an important future energy carrier as the world moves from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and our research has shown that even garden grass could be a good way of getting it.”
Cellulose(纤维素), which is a key part of plants and the biopolymer(生物聚合物) found in the largest numbers on the earth, could be a great source of hydrogen.
In its study, the team looked at the possibility of getting hydrogen from cellulose using sunlight and a simple catalyst.
This is called photocatalysis(光催化作用) and in it, the sunlight starts the catalyst, which then makes cellulose and water into hydrogen. The researchers studied the effectiveness of three metal-based catalysts, of which nickel(镍) especially interested the researchers, as it is a much more common metal than gold and palladium(钯) and it saves more money.
According to Bowker, producing hydrogen from cellulose using photocatalysis has not been studied in detail. The team’s research shows that large amounts of hydrogen can be produced using this method with the help of a bit of sunlight and a cheap catalyst.
The study shows that it is effective to use real grass taken from a garden. “This is important as it avoids the need to separate and clean up cellulose, which can be both difficult and costly,” said Bowker.
1、What are needed to get hydrogen from grass?
A．A catalyst and palladium. B．Water and cellulose.
C．Sunlight and a biopolymer. D．Sunlight and a catalyst.
2、Why is the new way of making hydrogen considered significant?
A．It is cheap, green and sustainable.
B．It is the best to produce the renewable energy.
C．It is more productive and efficient than other methods.
D．It can replace the way to make fossil fuels completely.
3、Why does nickel interest the researchers in making hydrogen from cellulose?
A．It can produce the largest amount of hydrogen.
B．It can avoid separating and cleaning up cellulose.
C．It is more common than other metals and costs less.
D．It works quicker than other metals during photocatalysis.
4、What does the author intend to tell us mainly in this passage?
A．Catalysts that could be taken from grass.
B．A new way of making hydrogen from cellulose.
C．The potential of hydrogen as a renewable energy.
D．The connection between hydrogen and photocatalysis.
23．（8分）Training the Brain
People who can accomplish unbelievable tasks, such as memorizing thousands of random numbers in under an hour, state that they just have normal brains. Some memory superstars compete in Olympic-like World Memory Championships. These mental athletes, or MAs for short, can memorize names of dozens of strangers in a few minutes or any poem handed them. Ed Cooke, a 24-year-old MA, explains they see themselves as participants rescuing the long-lost art of memory training. These techniques existed not to recall useless information, but to cut into the brain basic text and ideas.
A study in the journal Nature examined eight people who finished near the top of the World Memory Championships. The scientists examined whether their brains were fundamentally different from everyone else’s or whether they were simply making better use of memorizing abilities we all possess. They put the MAs and control subjects into brain scanners and had them memorize numbers and photographs. The result surprised everyone. The brains of the MAs and those of the control subjects were indistinguishable. On every test, the MAs scored in the normal range. However, when the scientists examined what part of the brain was used during a memory activity, they found the MAs relied more heavily on areas in the brain involved in spatial memory.
MAs offer an explanation: anything can be fixed upon our memories and kept in order by constructing a building in the imagination and filling it with pictures of what needs to be recalled. Dating back to the fifth century, the building is called a memory palace. Even as late as the fourteenth century, when there were copies of any text, scholars needed to remember what was read to them. Reading to remember requires a different technique than speed reading. If something is made memorable, it has to be repeated. Until relatively recently, people read only a few books intensively (细致地) again and again, usually aloud. Today we read extensively, usually only once and without continuous focus.
So the great difference is the ability to create impressive pictures in mind and to do it quickly. Using memory palaces, MAs create memorized pictures. For example, recombine the pictures to form unforgettable scenes such as the ways through a town. One competitor used his own body parts to help him memorize a 57,000-word dictionary.
Anyone who wishes to train the mind needs first to create fantastical palaces in the imagination. Then they should cut each building into cubbyholes for memories. In a short amount of time, they will notice improvement with remembering things. To keep the skill sharp, MAs deliberately empty their palaces after competitions, so they can reuse them and they recommend that beginners do the same.
1、We can learn from Paragraph 2 that a mental athlete ______.
A．owns a brain that is larger in size
B．shows a gift in mental ability tests
C．uses the memorizing technique better
D．depends less on the areas that control spatial memory
2、Why does the author mention “speed reading” in Paragraph 3?
A．To discuss the memorizing technique in the fifth century.
B．To give the reason why people read only a few books carefully.
C．To explain the text fourteenth century scholars had to remember.
D．To compare the type of reading nowadays with that of earlier times.
3、What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A．There is a variety of unforgettable scenes.
B．Memory palaces can be quickly forgotten.
C．Impressive pictures are in actual buildings.
D．One person probably has 57,000 body parts.
4、What does the underlined word “cubbyholes” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A．Small spaces. B．Blacks holes.
C．Technical skills. D．Different numbers.
24．（8分） Over the course of his long and amazing career, W. Somerset Maugham( 1874-1965) achieved great success as a novelist and a playwright. Not happy with just being a writer, Maugham was also a spy. But this was less of a success than his writing.
Dec 15, 2016 marked 51 years since his death, and Maugham’s works have never been out of print. Of Human Bondage(1915) was his masterpiece. The title comes from the great 17th century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The philosopher thought that human beings were slaves to what they wanted and needed. That’s exactly what Philip Carey, the hero of the novel, experiences.
Carey is a slave to his emotional needs. He doesn’t get much love when he is a child, so he looks for love later. After losing both his parents early in his life, Carey is raised by a paternal uncle who is emotionally cold. In his adult life, he goes from woman to woman and job to job, as he finds it a struggle to find either personal happiness or the right job for his talents. Not wanting to become a lawyer, he is eventually trained and qualified as a physician.
But true love is much harder to find. He finds that he attracts women he has no feelings for and falls in love with those who have no interest in him or, worse, try to take advantage of him. He is torn apart by the pain of his helpless love of a waitress and not being able to return the love of a young artist.
Although Maugham tried to hide it, the book is about his own life. Carey’s loveless childhood and romantic troubles were Maugham’s own. However, he managed to turn these painful details into a story that would interest readers who share his characters’ feeling.
Maugham does not just write about his life in the novel. He writes about deeply personal things in a way that speaks to everyone about their wants and needs.
1、In which field did Maugham achieve great success?
A．Politics. B．Writing.
C．Sport. D．Philosophy.
2、What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
A．Maugham’s works may never appear in print.
B．Maugham’s works become a big hit overnight.
C