2023年山西省运城市中条山集团普教中心子弟中学高三英语下学期期末试卷含解析

1、2023年山西省运城市中条山集团普教中心子弟中学高三英语下学期期末试卷含解析一、 选择题1. Going to the Annes wedding to be held this weekend?_ Ill be free then.A. You bet! B. I cant help it. C. Believe it or not. D. Forget it参考答案：A2. _ makes this small restaurant different is that it offers three free cups of beer to its customers every Sund

2、ay morning AWho BWhat CWhoever DWhatever参考答案：B3. I dont say I am against their plan. But the trouble is _ they do doesnt agree with what they say. A. what that B. that what C. if what D. what if参考答案：B 4. One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness.That s exactly the case!

3、A man who wants to throw up never .A. has green fingersB. puts on airsC. feels blueD. kills the fatted calf参考答案：B5. Before the Hope Project was carried out in this poor area, children here had no _ to education. A. access B. approach C. attitude D. attraction参考答案：A略6. You look pretty tired today!I a

4、n environmental report over the last few days, which should be submitted to the boss tomorrow. A.wrote B.was writing C.had written D.have been writing参考答案：D 7. The sun began to rise in the sky, _ the mountain in golden light. A. bathedB. bathingC. to have bathedD. have bathed参考答案：B8. Thanksgiving Da

5、y offers the Americans an opportunity to join in a spirit of fellowship and express_ for the years bonuses and blessings Aconsideration Bresolution Cappreciation Dreflecti on参考答案：C9. The science of computer, rapid progress has been made in recent years，plays a very important role in our daily life A

6、. from which B. in which C. with which D. to which参考答案：B10. Though you have failed many times, you shouldnt _.A. make up your mind B. lose your heartC. lose heart D. lose mind参考答案：C11. In addition to the farming they _ since the 1990s, the Smiths have started a small business.A. have done B. had bee

7、n done C. were doing D. have been doing 参考答案：D略12. The key to our success was having the courage to take on any job and then being creative in our _ to getting it finished. A. measure B. method C. appoint D. approach参考答案：D13. You must have read about Mark Twain long ago, _? A. mustnt you B. havent y

8、ou C. didnt you D. neednt you参考答案：C14. Did the manager give you the offer? _. But he promised to inform me if he decides to.A. Yes, thank you B. Not yet C. Not at all D. Almost not参考答案：B15. Alice _ a good salary in a job but she stayed at home for the sake of her family. A. must take B. should have

9、madeC. would make D. could have made 参考答案：D16. I had just about given myself up for lost _ I was spotted by a ship. A. when B. while C. as D. until参考答案：A二、 完型填空17. Nowadays, I acknowledge that a revolution has occurred. That much has been21by having hand-held iPads or smart phones that allow us not

10、only to communicate while on the22but also reserve parking spaces, get weather reports, and23tell us where, at any given moment, we are standing on the planet Earth.But I must acknowledge a24. Conversation used to be surprisingly25to start. When I would take a seat next to someone on a train, bus, o

11、r plane, the first thing I would do was26the person. Once the ice had been broken, the following chat27erupt naturally.Time has changed, and the change has been28. Recently, while I was29a long-distance bus, I couldnt help but notice everyone was staring at their30, clicking. I found an empty seat n

12、ext to a middle-aged man and saidMorningto him. He threw me a31and saidMorning. Then he returned to his32. So I left him in his world.I miss the33conversations with fellow travelers. One never knows what will be34, and in fact, sometimes how35it will be. I was once on ing from Iceland to Denmark. I

13、noticed an old man looking out over the North Sea.Its beautiful, isnt it?I said. He turned to me,37, and we were soon chatting away.38I told him that I didnt know39I was going to get from the port in Denmark to my destination city. His40:Of course you know. I have a car and Im going to drive you the

14、re.21A.abandonedB.deliveredC.gainedD.released22A.spotB.sceneC.runD.line23A.basicallyB.preciselyC.brieflyD.randomly24A.discoveryB.pleasureC.failureD.loss25A.difficultB.easyC.comfortableD.important26A.praiseB.greetC.watchD.respect27A.aimed toB.happened toC.tended toD.required to28A.strikingB.challengi

15、ngC.touchingD.puzzling29A.leavingB.visitingC.expectingD.boarding30A.seatsB.baggageC.handsD.windows31A.cigaretteB.smileC.glanceD.gesture32A.bookB.newspaperC.musicD.phone33A.politeB.casualC.frequentD.cautious34A.exposedB.chosenC.doubtedD.preserved35A.helpfulB.typicalC.suitableD.convenient36A.shipB.tra

16、inC.planeD.bus37A.repliedB.rejectedC.hesitatedD.nodded38A.EventuallyB.ImmediatelyC.PurposelyD.Secretly39A.whyB.whetherC.howD.when40A.responseB.recognitionC.explanationD.advice参考答案：21-25CCBDB 26-30BCADC 31-35CDBAA 36-40ADACA21根据后文中的by having hand-held iPads or smart phones that allow us not only to c

17、ommunicate.可知,此处指的是iPad和智能手机使我们获得(gained)了很多。22此处指iPad和智能手机让我们在忙碌中也能和人交流。on the run为固定短语,意为不停地奔波,忙碌。23根据语境可知,此处指它们能精确地(precisely)告知我们所处的位置。24根据上下文可知,此处指电子产品带给我们的损失(loss)。25根据语境及上文中的used to be和下文的Once the ice. naturally及we were soon chatting away可知,此处表示在过去发起谈话是很容易的(easy)。26此处表示上火车、公共汽车、飞机后的第一件事是问候(gr

18、eet)坐在旁边的人。27此处意为一旦打破了沉默,随后的谈话便趋向于(tended to)自然喷发。28根据语境可知,此处指这一变化是显著的(striking)。29根据下文中的I found an empty seat可知,此处指最近,当作者在坐长途汽车时。board上(飞机、车、船等)符合语境。30根据上文中的hand-held iPads or smart phones及下文中的clicking可知,此处指每个人都在看着自己的手(指手中的电子设备)。31根据前文中的threw和后文的returned to his可知,应选glance,指他瞥了作者一眼。32根据语境可知,此处指他继续看他

19、的手机(phone)。33根据上下文可知,此处指作者想念和旅行者之间的随意的(casual) 攀谈。根据常识及下文的One never knows.可知,旅行中陌生人之间的谈话是随意的。34根据语境可知,此处指一个人永远不知道那些谈话会揭示(exposed)什么和实际上,有时那会是多么有用(helpful)。35参见上题解析。36结合语境和后文中的the port in Denmark可知,作者乘坐的是船。37根据语境和下文的we were soon chatting away可知,此处应是老人对作者说的话表示赞同,因此谈话得以顺利地进行。nod(尤指表示赞同或理解而)点头。38根据下文老人说

20、的话可知,此处指最后(Eventually)作者告诉他自己不知道怎么从丹麦港口到目的地城市。39参见上题解析。how怎样,如何,在此引导宾语从句。40此处老人说的话是对作者上一句话的回复,故选response。【备注】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者通过自己的经历讲述了手机等数码产品的弊端。三、 阅读理解18. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, accord

21、ing to a study published in the journal Science. Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA materialsome of it unearthed by miners in Alaskato conclude that todays domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first hu

22、mans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that mans best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce

23、 animals, and theyre useful to eat.” Researchers have agreed that todays dog is the result of the domestication (驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North Americas domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the de

24、scendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48. Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairban

25、ks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find th

26、e age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pu

27、re native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America. Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens (标本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed befo

28、re the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wan

29、dered east over the land bridge. Leonard and Waynes study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or

30、they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didnt feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”50. The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to _.A. leftover food B. animal waste C. dead bo

31、dies D. living environment51. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that _.A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from Native American dogsC. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolve

32、s D. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans52. What can we know from the passage?A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.C. Latin Americas dogs are different from North Americas in genes.

33、D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.53. The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them because _.A. dogs fed on mice B. dogs were easy to keepC. dogs helped protect their resources D. dogs could provide excellent service54. What does the passage main

34、ly talk about _.A. the origin of the North American dogsB. the DNA study of ancient dogs in AmericaC. the reasons why early people entered AmericaD. the difference between Asian and American dogs参考答案：CDDDA19. Theres a mistakeMoonlight，you guys won best pictureAnd with those words，producer Jordan Hor

35、owitz ofLa La Land，told the cast and crew of a competing film that it had won the Oscarsbiggest awardPresenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were given the wrong categorys envelope before they went on stageBeatty was clearly confused about what he saw when he opened the envelope，but Dunaway read t

36、he name of the film listed below Stones nameThe actors and producers fromLa La Landleft their seats and filled the stage to accept their Oscar statuesThey gave many speeches before Horowitz interruptedThis is not a jokeMoonlight has won best picture，he saidHe took the card from Beatty and held it up

37、 for the camerasMoonlightBest Picture，he said as the camera moved closerThe shows host，Jimmy Kimmel，made the best of the situationHe went up to Beatty，and exclaimedWarrenWhat did you do？Kimmel also said，Personally，I blame Steve HarveyThat was in reference to the mistake Harvey made in 2015at the Mis

38、s Universe pageantHe announced the wrong winner，first saying it was the contestant from Colombia，and then realizing the correct winner was actually from the PhilippinesOnce order had been restored，Beatty tried to explain what happened，saying he had been given the wrong envelopeBarry Jenkins is the w

39、riter and director ofMoonlightOnce he reached the stage，he saideven in my dreams，this cannot be trueStone，happy to have won the best actress award，later saidis that the craziest Oscar moment of all time？Cool!Many people are wondering how the mistake was madeThe accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Cooper

40、s has been handling Oscar votes for over 80years without any problemsThe firm apologized to all of the people who were made uncomfortable by the mistakeIt promised to investigate what caused the errorHorowitz is being credited for staying calm and stopping the show to correct the errorPeople are calling himgracious，a great producer，andclassyEven Jenkins saidmuch respect to that dude32What can we know from the words of Horowitz？ ALa La Land won the best pictureBBeatty a