江苏省无锡市普通高中2025年英语高三第一学期期末调研试题.doc

江苏省无锡市普通高中2025年英语高三第一学期期末调研试题
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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．Whether the buildings in this area should be pulled down has remained ____；people are still looking for other possible solutions.
A．unchallenged B．relevant
C．controversial D．contradictory
2．The party last month really gave me a lot of fun. So can we have this month,Mr.
James?
A．any B．one C．another D．the other
3．Many of us see reading as an investment in ourselves，so it’s only natural that we want to learn something useful ________ our efforts.
A．in view of B．in response to
C．in parallel with D．in return for
4．I didn􀆳t see your sister at the meeting. If she 　　　　, she would have met my brother.
A．has come B．did come
C．came D．had come
5．— Lucy, could you please spare me a few minutes?
一 , but I hope “a few minutes”, won’t turn into an hour.
A．It doesn’t matter B．That's kind of you
C．I’m afraid not D．I guess so
6．The warmth of ____ coat will mostly be determined by ____ soft of cloth used.
A．the; a B．a; the C．/; the D．a; a
7．Laughter produces short-term changes in the function of the heart and blood circulation,_________heart rate and oxygen consumption.
A．increasing B．to increase C．having increased D．being increased
8．Young couples will be happy to see their babies _______ with good health and intelligence when they are born.
A．to bless B．blessing
C．blessed D．being blessed
9．Teaching as a career is to many people owing to the long holidays.
A．popular B．familiar
C．attractive D．fantastic
10．We had wanted to surprise Father with a birthday gift, but my sister _______ by asking him what he would like.
A．licked her lips B．ate her words
C．spilt the beans D．pulled his leg
11．—Did you have difficulty finding Ann'house?
—Not really.She___us clear directions and we were able to find it.easily?
A．was to give B．had given
C．was giving D．would give
12．﹣It really annoys me when a person's cell phone goes off during a movie？
﹣Yeah， me too． It really _________．
A．costs me an arm and a leg B．gets on my nerves
C．beats my brains out D．pulls my legs
13．I decided to do a random act of kindness last year. And ______ that the person I would end up helping most would be myself.
A．I little knew B．little did I knew C．little did I know D．little I knew
14．I quickly lowered myself, ducking my head to avoid looking directly into his eyes so that he wouldn't feel ________.
A．challenged B．challenging
C．to be challenged D．having challenged
15．From his expression, I don’t think he could have finished his homework last night, _______?
A．couldn’t he B．do I
C．did he D．hasn’t he
16．In order to finish the work time,the man in charge decided to some more workers.
A．give up B．take on C．look after D．find out
17．Pandas are _____ to the mountains of central China and only about 1,000 remain in the wild.
A. native B．sensitive C．relate D．familiar
18．________ some teenagers don’t realize is ________ difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs.
A．That; how B．Which; what a
C．What; what D．What; how
19．After _______ had happened he could not continue to work there.
A．which B．how
C．what D．having
20．This project ______ considered thoroughly, and I’m sure it ______ finished on time.
A．must be; may be B．should be; can be
C．may be; must be D．can be; should be
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）Two new studies suggest that modem running shoes could increase the risk of injuries to runners.
One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week. The runners were observed on a treadmill machine (跑步机). Sometimes they wore running shoes. Other times they ran barefoot.
Researchers from the JKM Technologies Company in Virginia, the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado did the study.
They found that running shoes create more stress that could damage knees, hips and ankle joints than running barefoot. They observed that the effect was even greater than the effect reported earlier for walking in high heels.
The study appeared in the official scientific journal of the American Academy of Physical Medicine.
The other study appeared in the journal Nature. It compared runners in the United States and Kenya. The researchers were from Harvard University in Massachusetts, Moi University in Kenya and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
They divided the runners into three groups. One group had always run shoeless. Another group had always run with shoes. And the third group had changed to shoeless running.
Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first. That puts great force on the back of the foot. But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot. That way they ease into their landing and avoid striking their heel.
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman led the study. He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels. The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first. Also, the heel generally has thick material under it to soften landings.
But the researchers do not suggest that runners immediately start running barefoot. They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.
The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot. The findings have gotten a lot of attention. But the researchers say there are many problems in the way the press has reported in their paper. So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Website.
1、What can we learn from the passage?
A．The way that we run by landing on the front or middle of our foot could avoid damaging our heel.
B．We should start running barefoot in no time.
C．Running in modem running shoes could have more serious effects than running in high heels.
D．We won’t be injured if we run barefoot.
2、How many organizations are involved in the two studies?
A．Three. B．Four.
C．Five. D．Six.
3、How did the researchers do the two studies?
A．By practising. B．By comparing.
C．By questioning. D．By reasoning.
4、What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Walking in high heels could have fewer serious effects than running barefoot.
B．Two new discoveries encourage people to run in high heels.
C．Running in shoes is partly good to runners.
D．Two new studies prove running without shoes is beneficial to runners in most cases.
22．（8分）My Best Enemy
Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Lisa. That was where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while she was 11 and the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn’t. I couldn’t stand her, considering her my enemy. But she liked me and wanted to make friends with me.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes---I was too shocked to answer any other way. My family had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.
She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all-night bookstore, a movie theater and a park. As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, tried to guess which house might be hers. Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the three-story house with a front porch? I got very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was my next surprise. I had never played with them. We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had wild imaginations. We had a great time that afternoon.
Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owner lent her fashion magazines; the movie theater gave her free tickets... Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other’s houses and spent every free moment together.
Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence (青春期) and taught me an amazing thing about making friends: your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.
1、In the passage the writer described Lisa as a gir1 who was .
A．awkward and shy B．noisy and proud
C．quiet and lonely D．fashionable and friendly
2、What did the writer learn from Lisa?
A．How to turn to her neighborhood. B．How to dress and look fashionable.
C．How to become a good writer. D．How to make friends.
3、From the passage, we can see that through her friendship with Lisa, the writer .
A．found she and Lisa had a lot in common
B．was able to fit in at her new school with Lisa’s help
C．was not so awkward or shy as before
D．learned more about fashion herself
23．（8分）For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, lifting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and touching electronic pages on an iPad. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued ipads, each loaded with electronic textbooks and other online resources in place of traditional texts. Apple officials say they know of more than 600 districts that have launched what are called " one-to-one " programs.
At Burlington High in suburban Boston, Principal Patrick Larkin says the $ 500 ipads is better than textbooks in the long term, though he said the school will still use traditional texts in some courses if suitable electronic programs aren' t yet available. Larkin said of textbooks, " but they' re pretty much outdated the minute they're printed and certainly by the time they're delivered".
But some experts warn that the districts need to ensure they can support the wireless infrastructure (设施 ), repairs and other costs that accompany a switch to such a tech-heavy approach. Mark Warschauer, an education and informatics(信息学) professor said, "I think people will like it.I really don't know anybody in high school that wouldn't want to get an iPad," he said. "We' re always using technology at home, then when you' re at school it' s textbooks. So it' s a good way to put all of that together. " Districts are varied in their policies on how they police students' use.
And the nation' s textbook publishing industry, accounting for $ 5.5 billion in yearly sales to secondary schools, is taking notice of the trend with its own shift in a competitive race toward developing curriculum specifically for ipads.Jay Dickey, executive director of the Association of American Publishers' schools division, said all of the major textbook publishers are moving toward electronic offerings, but at least in the short term, traditional bound textbooks are here to stay. "I think one of the real key questions that will be answered over the next several years is what sort of things work best in print for students and what sort of things work best digitally. "
1、The first paragraph is mainly about
A．a program to promote ipads marketing in new school year
B．a program to spread electronic learning in new school year
C．a plan of how to use ipads in the coming school education
D．a plan of how to oppose IT technique in the coming school teaching
2、What's the problem for ipads to be used in schools at present?
A．Some students wouldn't like to have ipads in schools.
B．The ipads are too expensive for school students to buy.
C．Most experts oppose the idea that ipads replace paper textbooks.
D．The ipads may be unavailable for some traditional courses.
3、The underlined sentence in the passage implies that
A．traditional textbooks are behind the times before they are printed
B．traditional textbooks possibly need to he printed again before delivered
C．contents of traditional textbooks can't be renewed in time as electronic ones do
D．the ipads can deliver information much more rapidly than printed textbooks
4、From the passage we can draw conclusion that
A．more students tend to use printed textbooks rather than electronic ones
B．textbook publishing houses will develop more electronic textbooks of their own
C．it is impossible for the ipads to be widely used in schools in the future
D．electronic textbooks will take the place of printed ones in new school year
24．（8分）You can either travel or read, but either your body or soul must be on the way. The popular saying has inspired many people to read or go sightseeing. Here are four books we recommend that you take on your trip.
1. On the Road, 1957, by Jack Kerouac
The book is a popular spiritual guide book about youth. The character in the book drives across the US continent with several young people and finally reaches Mexico. After the exhausting and exciting trip, the characters in the book begin to realize the meaning of life.
2. Life is Elsewhere, 1975, by Milan Kundera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”. The book describes a young artist’s romantic but miserable life, about how he reads, dreams and has a relationship during his trip to Central Europe. The hook invites you to deeply reflect on your current life and to honor Kundera, a Czech-born writer and who went into exile in France in 1975.
3. My Name is Red, 1998, by Orhan Pamuk
The book, featuring a peak masterpiece of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Orhan Pamuk, has been translated into more than 50 languages and published around the world. It tells a story of a young man, who has been away from home for 12 years, coming back to his hometown in Istanbul. What embraces him is not only love, but a series of murder cases as well.
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, 2013, by Rachel Joyce
The novel tells a story of a 60-year-old man who lives a boring and unhappy life, until one day, he received his old friend’s letter who got cancer. In deep shock and sorrow, he went out to send his reply letter. 627 miles in 87 days, he walks depending on one belief that “his friend can survive as long as he walks”.
1、Which hook can make you think of your own life?
A．On die Road. B．Life is Elsewhere.
C．My Name is Red. D．The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
2、Who wrote a book sold globally?
A．Jack Keroua