2025年陕西省西安市第六十六中学英语高三第一学期期末经典模拟试题注意事项:1答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在条形码区域内。2答题时请按要求用笔。3请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试卷上答题无效。4作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5保持卡面清洁，不要折暴、不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1-Can you help me with my English homework? Youre a genius.-_, but Ill try to help you. Whats your problem?AFar from itBSounds goodCBy all meansDIts out of question2Loneliness is a feeling _ people experience a powerful rush of emptiness and solitude.AwhichBwhereCthatDhow3Mary became _ homesick and critical of the United States, so she fled from her home in West Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.Acompletely BsincerelyCapproximately Dincreasingly4I dont mind her criticizing me,but_is how she does it that I object to.AitBthatCthisDwhich5More and more college graduates, the survey shows, feel it hard to find a satisfactory job.AwhatBwhoCasDthat6_ for the free tickets, I would not have gone to see films so often.AIf it is notBHad it not beenCWere it notDIf they were not7- _ I remind you of is to return the book to our English teacher. -I will give it to him _ I see him.AThat; immediately BWhat; the momentCWhat; while DWhether; once8Thatsfarmore thanthenumberthathaveactually_in recent years.Acometolight Bcome to life Ccome across9_ the danger of drunk driving, many drivers promised never to drive after drinking.ARealizingBTo have realizedCRealizedDHaving realized10We are to hold the sports meeting next weekend, _ the air quality becomes better.AwhichBwhenCwhereDwhile11You can use a large plastics bottle, _ cut off, as a plot to grow flowers in.Awith its topBthe top of whichCwhose topDits top is12How about his design?Well, to tell the truth, it is _ but satisfactory. So youll have to try your best to better it.AsomethingBanythingCeverythingDnothing13Look! Mary is crazily looking for something again! _ , she cant find her keys.ATypicallyBOccasionallyCAccordinglyDParticularly14The cost of living in big cities _ steadily for many years，and it has led some youths to drop out of the big city race.Ais climbingBis being climbedChas been climbingDhas been climbed15 Do you like the book you father bought you? Very much. Its exactly_I wanted.AwhichBthatCwhatDhow16Like all parents in the world，we want you to grow up in a world _ is full of love and kindness.AwhereBthatCwhenDwhat17 Mary looks hot and dry. So _ you if you had a high fever.AcouldBwouldCmayDmust18Bill was doing a lot of physical exercise to build up his .AabilityBforceCmindDstrength19The beautiful mountain village we spent our holiday last year is located in is now part of Guangxi.Awhich; whereBwhere; whatCthat; whatDwhen; which20It was when she first arrived in China _ she developed a passion for paper-cutting.AwhereBthatChowDwhy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）In my very first job with some archaeologists, I wasnt digging objects out of the ground, instead I was employed as an artist, drawing what they found. However, I was soon more interested in the stories behind the objects than in drawing them and thats how my career in archaeology started. I still draw what I find in my work as a specialist on the Silk Road, the old trade route running from Egypt to Mongolia, and I also work on some underwater projects too.In archaeology, my all-time hero is an American called Raphael Pumpelly. I first heard about him when I was a student on a trip to Turkmenistan, a country right in the heart of Asia. To get around the country, I had to learn Russian so that I could speak to the local people. When I got there I thought, “Wow! Im one of the first Americans here!” Then an old man told me about an American archaeologist, Raphael Pumpelly, who was there doing the same thing over 100 years ago.Archaeologys in my family. My wifes in the same profession, and, although our two boys arent interested in the future in archaeology themselves, weve been on some great digs together and they love what we do because they get to travel with us. Last summer, we took them to Lake Titicaca in South America, in the high areas of the Andes mountain range. My best experience was when I was digging on the Egyptian Red Sea coast. Theres very little rain and its so dry that everything is kept as it was. In an old house, where the owner used to store goods from the ships that came in, I picked up a 700-year-old mat in front of the house and there, under it, after all that time, was the house key with the owners name carved on it. It felt like he could be on his way home