2023-2024学年度第一学期高三期中考试
英语试题
第一部分：听力（共两节，20小题，每题1.5分，满分30分）
第一节 (共5小题; 每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. How did the man tour Russia?
A. By train. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What does the man dislike about Professor Scott's class?
A. The lectures. B. The books. C. The tests.
3. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a restaurant. B. At a store. C. At home.
4. What is the man's opinion about the jacket?
A. The style doesn't suit him. B. The price is high. C. The size is small.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A weekend plan. B. An amusement park. C. The weather forecast.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What is the matter with the man?
A. He's got a bad cold.
B. He hurt his foot by accident.
C. He's running a high temperature.
7. Why did the man call the woman?
A. To cancel his training. B. To arrange his operation. C. To make an appointment.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What did the manager take to the woman?
A. A plug. B. A hairdryer. C. An electric fan.
9. What can we learn about the woman's room?
A. It is opposite a park.
B. It has a goodsized bathroom.
C. It offers a TV and a refrigerator.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
A. How bees indicate the direction.
B. How bees provide food for others.
C. How bees share information with each other.
11. How does the bee show the food is nearby?
A. By pointing toward it. B. By turning in circles. C. By dancing fast.
12. What do we know about the man?
A. He is a student. B. He is studying biology. C. He is interested in insects.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why does the woman decide to register for 3 days instead of 2?
A. She can get free dinners.
B. She can't save so much as expected.
C. She can learn more about computing.
14. How will the woman pay?
A. By cheque. B. In cash. C. By credit card.
15. How much will the woman spend on accommodation?
A. $25. B. $50. C. $75.
16. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Find the conference office in advance.
B. Live near the conference center.
C. Book the guest house early.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What will the monthly winners get?
A. An opportunity to exhibit their photos.
B. Free accommodations in London.
C. A trip to Swedish Lapland.
18. What is one rule of the competition?
A. It is only open to professionals.
B. Its theme varies with the season.
C. Participants must be in the UK for some time.
19. What does Fredrik Broman do?
A. A guide. B. A photographer. C. A show host.
20. What are the yearly winners required to do?
A. Write a report. B. Show their prizes. C. Photograph winter subjects.
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。
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For high school students, just thinking about your career probably isn’t enough. You have to actively do some research and plan. Here are some of the best careers for the future and how you can get your foot in the door.
Registered Nurses
To become registered nurses, you’re going to need either an associate degree in nursing, a Bachelor of Science in nursing, or another officially approved diploma(文凭) from a nursing program. If you want to be a practicing physician, you’ll need a medical degree in your chosen field on top of your four-year degree.
Data Analysts
Big data is a growing field with profitable opportunities for college graduates. You are required to have a master’s degree in computer science or another related field. Data science is a traditionally male-dominated industry and only 26 percent are held by women. Thankfully, it is holding out an olive branch to females and there are some terrific（很棒的） programs specially designed for them to break into this dynamic field.
Plumbers (管道工) and Electricians
Not all of the best careers for the future will require a four-year
undergraduate degree. There’s a serious demand for skilled positions jobs like plumbers and technicians. Many of these positions require a high school degree and often an associate degree in a related field, but don’t necessarily require graduation from a four-year university.
Cybersecurity (网络安全) Experts
The average salaries for cybersecurity experts can start at $80, 000 for IT Security Consultants and can reach six figures for other positions such as a security director. The best way to start your path in cybersecurity is with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or other related fields.
21. In which job will the gender distribution probably be more balanced?
A. Data Analysts.B. Registered Nurses.
C. Cybersecurity Experts.D. Plumbers and Electricians.
22. To be a cybersecurity expert, which is the basic requirement?
A. A master’s degree in computer science.
B. A certificate of high school graduation.
C. A bachelor’s degree in information technology.
D. A diploma officially approved from a medical program.
23. Where is the text probably taken from?
A. A health lecture. B. A school website.
C. A job advertisement. D. A science magazine.
B
“Belonging is important throughout the lifetime, particularly during life shifts, such as the first year of college.“reported Janine M. Dutcher in Psychological Science. “This connection to the university community is often referred to as ‘school belonging’, which is thought to be the extent to which students feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others in the school social environment.”
A series of three studies were conducted about the research.During each study, students began the term by self-reporting their symptoms (症状) of depression, sense of social fit, and feelings of belonging. Belonging was measured by asking participants to rate one simple statement on a range from 1 to 7: “Today, I feel like I belong at .…(school name).’
In the initial exploratory study of 157 students and the first confirmatory（验证性的） study of 121 students, participants then reported their sense of belonging at the end of each day for one week at the beginning, middle, and end of the term. In the second confirmatory study, 172 students did this reporting for one week at the beginning and end of both the winter and spring terms. During assessment weeks, participants also completed measures of social interaction, social fit, and symptoms of depression four times each day.
In all three studies, students’ feelings of belonging were found to predict their symptoms of depression in advance even after controlling current depression symptoms, social interaction, and feelings of social fit or loneliness. Additionally feelings of loneliness not the number of social interactions that students reported having each day, were also found to predict symptoms of depression.
“College students’ risk of developing depression has been increasing for academic and social reasons in recent years. However,these daily feelings of belonging actually provide an important signal for changes in depressive symptomatology(症状学), “ Dutcher wrote. “This could have important implications for interventions to relieve depressive symptoms in first-year university students because early detection of risk can allow for both earlier intervention and more positive preventative strategies.”
24. What does the research mainly focus on?
A. The new approaches to relieving depression.
B. The symptoms and prevention of depression.
C. The social interactions between college students.
D. The connection between belonging and depression.
25. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. The process of the research.B. The direction of the research.
C. The abilities of the participants.D. The backgrounds of the participants.
26. Which of the following is true about the research?
A. Feeling lonely frequently means suffering from depression.
B. The sense of belonging can serve as a predictor of depression.
C. The social interactions determine the symptoms of depression.
D. Controlling current depression symptoms leads to a full recovery.
27. What can we conclude from the last paragraph?
A. Depression can be cured easily if detected timely.
B. Depression is unavoidable due to various pressures.
C. Earlier detection makes for the prevention of depression.
D. Students are more likely to develop depression than others.
C
Perhaps you have seen them, those who fall asleep on the subway and then, somehow, wake up exactly at their stop. Perhaps you are one of them. How is this possible? We spoke to two doctors, who offered their insights about it.
It is possible that your body gets used to waking up at a certain point each time during your commute, said Dr. Marc I. Leavey, a primary-care specialist in Maryland. That holds especially true if you commute（通勤）at the same time every day. This suggests that if you were to get on at a different time, or if the journey were delayed, your internal clock might not wake you up at your stop. It is an interesting theory, but Dr. Ronald Chervin, director of Michigan Medicine’s Sleep Disorders Centers, does not fully buy it. He is skeptical that circadian rhythms can also explain why you wake up after a brief nap.
You are also likely to wake up for your particular stop because of an oral cue, such as the conductor stating the name of the subway stop over the public-address system. Such cues al_ert your brain that you have arrived, explained Dr Leavey. According to a study published in the Public Library of Science, during sleep, our brain reacts differently when we hear our own name and other people’s names, noted Dr Chervin. This suggests that your brain does not turn off during sleep, which makes it possible to pick up on the announcement of your stop.
Another reasonable possibility: You may wake up at each stop, check if it is yours, and go back to sleep, all without having remembered it, added Dr. Chervin. He sees this in cases where patients are suffering from sleep apnea（窒息）. They may wake up as many as 200 times during a single night, without having remembered a single instance. That’s because they fall right back asleep before their brain has time to process their experience into long-term memory. Similarly, you could be waking up every time you hear a new stop called. But you just don’t remember such instances even after you fully come awake for your stop—leading you to believe that you have slept the whole way through and miraculously woken up at the right time.
28. According to Dr Leavey, which of the following might wake you up at your stop?
A. Sense of time. B. Sleep apnea.
C. Internal clock. D. Oral communication.
29. What does the underlined expression “doesn’t fully buy it” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. He can’t agree more. B. He can’t catch it well.
C. He doesn’t like it at all. D. He doesn’t totally believe it.
30. How will our brain react when we hear our name called during sleep?
A. Actively. B. Passively. C. Differently. D. Casually.
31. How does Dr. Chervin explain his findings in the last paragraph?
A. By introducing a concept. B. By making a comparison.
C. By using an expert’s words. D. By referring to another study.
D
No more wet towels on the bathroom floor, and no more empty juice plastic boxes. No more doors closing at 3 a.m., and no more coming home to a noisy crowd of strangers around the kitchen table. There's nothing so quiet, says a friend whose youngest has just moved out.
But if adjusting to an empty nest can be tough, it seems there is one thing tougher: a formerly empty nest that suddenly fills back up again. According to a research from the London School of Economics (LSE), parents whose grown up children don't actually manage to leave- who move out, only to bounce right back again- are actually less happy than those whose fledglings(幼鸟) heartlessly fly off without a backward glance. The quality of life for parents of boomerang kids fell on average by about 0.8 points on the LSE researchers’ scale.
A quarter of young British adults now live with their parents, more than at any time since records began in1966. But more shockingly, this is no longer just about the young. Around a quarter of a million people aged between 35 and 44 still live at home with their parents and the idea that that can all be blamed on helicopter parents making it too easy for their little darlings not to grow up isn't logical. Midlife divorce, insecure gig economy work and straightforward poverty all play their part in driving what were once perfectly functioning grown-ups back to their teenage bedrooms.
These kids are admittedly luckier than those for whom going back home is sadly not an option. But when choosing to live with your mum is the only way of coping with an insecure job, or with the costs of renting in the city, then that's not much of a choice. Home is still the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. But a healthy and successful society shouldn't be sending quite many overgrown children hurrying back for shelter, and nor should it leave quite many parents feeling bad about it.
32. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?
A. More youngsters are leaving their parents.
B. Adults dislike returning to their original home.
C. Parents expect their children to live together.
D. The quality of life for those parents is declining.
33. Why do these boomerang kids circle back home?
A. To accompany elderly parents. B. To recall their childhood memory.
C. To avoid their life pressure. D. To help parents adapt to the empty nest.
34. What is the author's attitude to this trend?
A. Disapproving. B. Confused. C. Tolerant. D. Favorable.
35. What’s the best title for the text?
A. Does the empty nest matter? B. Is the nest really empty?
C. What concerns grown- ups? D. How do parents help their kids?
第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分 12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
America is seriously stressed out.According to the American Institute of Stress, even before the pandemic,94 percent of workers said they regularly felt stressed.___36___We all get busy sometimes, but feeling constantly worried and overtired can lead to burnout(倦怠),which can have serious results.
Think of burnout as stress taken to another level.“Typically,burnout is defined as an extreme state of psychological anxiety,”says YoungAh Park, an associate professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations.____37____.
Because so many of us frequently feel stressed, it can be hard to recognize when the line has been crossed.____38____Michael Leiter, a professor of psychology in Nova Scotia, explains“Burnout combines three key dimensions: extreme tiredness,feelings of pessimism and a sense of low achievement.“
39 “This is a sign that demands are building faster than you can recover from them,” he says. That tiredness turns into feelings such as pessimism and withdrawal, especially feeling that way toward people you’re supposed to care about.____40____ In spite of this, it can contribute to making mistakes or even starting to feel emotionally disabled, all of which account for more serious issues to develop.
So before the stress rises up to that extreme alarming level take some steps you can to prevent burnout.
A. Why do people suffer from burnout?
B. True burnout differs from feeling overtired.
C. Feeling tired when you begin working is a red flag.
D. Living at a burnout level can cause a serious disease.
E. That’s the end stage of burnout,but it takes a while to get there.
F. It’s a response to facing the continued stress beyond your ability.
G. And recently, their stress is reported to have reached an alarming level.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Last month, I was told that our group’s project had successfully entered the interview stage during the “It’s good to be in the museum” campaign. This was my first project interview. As a ____41____ girl, it was challenging for me, but as the group leader, I had to stand out and face it ____42____
The first stimulative (模拟的) interview did not go as well as I had ____43____ it would. After watching the performance of another team, I suddenly lost ____44____ . I thought I wasn’t really ready. When it was my group’s ____45____ , I was extremely nervous, and I stuttered while speaking. Although the teacher still encouraged me, I knew the ____46____ between me and other participants was large. So, in the days ____47____ up to the real interview, I worked hard to ____48____ my speech and recite it as often as possible. I knew if I ____49____ success, I would work harder.
On the day of the interview, I unfortunately ____50____ No. 1. “You can do it,” I said to myself as I ____51____ the stare of five experts. To my surprise, I fluently spoke about the ____52____, gained confidence and had the courage to make eye contact with them. The process was ____53____ smooth. Afterward, the experts ____54____ their contentment and gave us some hints to improve our project. I felt honored as our group won first prize. Refuse to back down — strive for your ____55____ . Maybe the result will turn out better.
41. A. sensitive | B. shy | C. lonely | D. humble |
42. A. proudly | B. sincerely | C. courageously | D. critically |
43. A. decided | B. agreed | C. anticipated | D. guaranteed |
44. A. confidence | B. encouragement | C. patience | D. gratitude |
45. A. offer | B. idea | C. duty | D. turn |
46. A. figure | B. gap | C. space | D. issue |
47. A. leading | B. adding | C. growing | D. rising |
48. A. cite | B. deliver | C. publish | D. edit |
49. A. begged for | B. longed for | C. relied on | D. met with |
50. A. drew | B. missed | C. lost | D. brought |
51. A. enjoyed | B. recognize | C. inspected | D. faced |
52. A. project | B. interview | C. speech | D. performance |
53. A. gradually | B. barely | C. unexpectedly | D. equally |
54. A. acknowledged | B. showed | C. covered | D. obtained |
55. A. campaign | B. group | C. task | D. goal |
第二节（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A group of researchers and scientists from China and other countries are working together to help increase__56__(appreciate) of China’s ancient cultural heritage. They are recording and collecting digital images of cultural relics from the Magao Caves,__57__were a key stop along the Silk Road throughout China’s ancient history. Since the international project started in 1994, nearly 500,000 high-quality digital photographs__58__(produce).
The Magao Caves have long been ___59___ meeting point for different cultures. Today, the caves are just as international as they ___60___ (be) at the time when people travelled the Silk Road. Tourists from all over the world visit Dunhuang to see the caves, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles has even reproduced a copy of the caves and paintings for people ___61___ (admire) in America.
By___62___ (share) so many digital photos over the Internet, the group hopes to promote even ___63___ (wide) interest around the world in China’s ancient history, culture, and traditions. They also hope to further educate people about the importance of safeguarding historic and cultural relics for future ___64___ (generation) to understand and appreciate. As one researcher who is working ____65____ the project explains, “Appreciating the cultural heritage is very important for international communication and understanding.”
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
上周日，你们小组的同学参加了学校举办的为贫困山区学生捐增书籍活动。请你为班级英语角写一篇短文，介绍此次活动，内容包括：
1.活动简介；
2.活动过程；
3.个人感受。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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第二节 (满分25分)
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成篇完整的短文。
I’ll admit it. I can be a complainer. After all, there’s so much in this life to complain about: the dirty clothes that don’t make it into the basket, that annoying neighbor’s loud music, my husband’s shoes spread out at the front door, rainy days, traffic…
Complaining is a habit I cultivated（养成）since childhood, a skill I developed through the years. My parents didn’t seem to mind—they were great complainers, too—though I do recall some eye-rolling and long-drawn sighs from friends and schoolmates when I would voice my negative opinions. In fact, I can distinctly recall the exact moment when I first realized my complaining habit reached its expert level.
One day, as I reminded my husband once again to remove his bills from the dining-room table, put his shoes away, and lower that bothersome radio, he put up his hand. “Stop! Stop your complaining. It’s driving me crazy.”
I looked at him blank-eyed.
He took a deep breath. “You never hear me complaining, do you?”
“Well,” I answered, “you’re complaining about my complaining, so actually, yes, I am hearing you complain right now.”
His eyes widened. A drop of sweat formed on his upper lip. Then he grabbed his car keys and ran out of the door.
Perhaps I’d gone too far, I thought. Maybe I really did complain too much. But, what to do about it? After all, it had been a lifetime habit. And habits are hard to break.
I took a break and sat down to think about solutions. When I felt annoyed, I could lock myself in the bathroom and scream. No. The neighbors would probably hear me. Phone a friend? She probably wouldn’t be a friend for very long. Then it hit me.
I’d been in the habit of keeping a journal for most of my life. It provided a sort of timeline for me, and I liked to review past entries occasionally to review the path I had been on at that point. Journaling kept me honest with myself, and I liked it for that reason. Perhaps, I thought, a complaint journal might be the answer I was seeking.
注意:
1. 续写词数应为 150 左右:
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答
That day, I decided to give it a try.
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Besides the improved relationship with my husband, I saw other effects soon.
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