2024学年山东省菏泽市鄄城县第一中学高三下期中考试（英语试题文）
考生须知：
1．全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。
2．请用黑字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。
3．保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。
第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．—Why are you in such a hurry, Bob?
—Mother told me I ________ be home by 9:00 pm, or she will be worried.
A．must    B．might
C．can    D．may
2．Most spending that results in debt is like a drug: a quick hit of pleasure that ______, only to drag you down for years to come.
A．takes off    B．wears off    C．sets off    D．shows off
3．---When shall we start the reconstruction of the historic building?
    --- Not until our program ______ by the authority.
    A. will approve                            B. will be approved 
C. has approved                            D. has been approved
4．—Betty was feeling pretty blue for a while, but she’s better now.
—_______.
A．Oh, that’s kind of you            B．Congratulations
C．Oh, I’m glad to hear that            D．It’s my pleasure
5．The matches of the FIFA Women’s World Cup will be played in 2019 all around France, whose men’s team _____ the 2018 World Cup.
A．wins    B．won
C．has won    D．had won
6．Professor Wang ________in our school till next Sunday．
caberA．will have stayed    B．has stayed    C．is staying    D．stayed
7．—It’s really great to have a computer to store my photos.
—Don’t count on it too much. It ________ break down and you’d better make a copy of them.
A．must    B．can
C．should    D．will
8．Due to the reform and opening­up, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved ________ over the past decades.
A．considerately    B．approximately    C．appropriately    D．considerably
9．________ by many potential customers, the salesman had to gather his courage and sell the product in different ways.
A. Having denied    B．Denying
C．Being denied        D．Having been denied
10．While interacting with people in India, I was ________ to a way of life completely different from my own.
A．reduced    B．exposed    C．committed    D．transferred
11．A storm buried Illinois under several inches of snow on Tuesday,______at least 100 people dead in traffic accidents.
A．to leave    B．leave
C．left    D．leaving
12．Both men have been _______to life imprisonment because of robbery.
A．choked    B．condemned
C．consisted    D．convinced
13．We’ll go early．    ，we may not get a seat．
A．Otherwise    B．Meanwhile    C．However    D．Besides
14．Although the Roma couldn’t be forced to pay taxes, they couldn’t vote ______they agreed to ______a government.
A．unless, submit to    B．until, correspond to
C．when, resign to    D．while, compromise to
15．We sell a lot of products offshore and the opportunity to open up markets in regions  ________ we don't currently sell a lot to is a great one.
A．where    B．that
C．what    D．when
16．Mark drives his car too fast and, what’s more, very carelessly,        worries his mother.
A  asA．what    B．it    C．which
17．Smoking ______ in the kitchen in my house.
A． doesn’t allow    B． didn’t allow
C． isn’t allowed    D． won’t allow
18．My toothache      me. I thought it was going away, but it is getting worse now.
A．kills                B．is killing      C．has killed      D．killed
19．They _______ the business deal in less than an hour, after which they had a golf game.
A．wrapped up    B．picked up
C．called up    D．took up
20．—Alice has just lost her husband to heart failure.
—Her ______ smile can’t hide her sorrow.
A．arbitrary    B．artificial
C．compulsory    D．conventional
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）    Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist of Stanford University, says, “Ants aren’t smart. Ant colonies are.” The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically, they have a lot in common in terms of their behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity of learning.
Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send message to each other by means
of a “dance”. Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new hoe for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance the better the new location is.
Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of “sameness” and “difference” to accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent America research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants. They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.