四川省泸县第四中学2022-2023学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题Word版.docx

四川省泸县四中高2023届高三上期期末考试英语试题注意事项：1 .答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2 .回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡 皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。问答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3 .考试结束后，只需将答题卡交回。第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡 上。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. What's the regular price for the haircut?A. 2() yuan.B. 60yuan.C. 13() yuan.2. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Boss and secretary. B. Doctor and patient.3. What is the woman doing?A. Drinking juice.B. Eating breakfast.4. What does the woman usually have?A. The steak.B. The lamb.5. What is the weather like now?A. Il's raining.B. Ifs cloudy.第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)C. Salesman and customer.C. Writing an essay.C. The chicken.C. Il's sunny.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段对话，回答以下6-7小题。6. Which sport are the speakers talking about?A. Tennis.B. Volleyball.C. Basketball.7. What does the man think of the sport?A. Easy.B. Boring.C. Interesting.听第7段对话，回答以下8-9小题。8. What happened to the woman's flight?A. It failed to take off on lime.B. It was canceled without notice.C. It arrived about two hours earlier.9. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At the cafe.B. At the airport.听第8段对话，回答以下10-12小题。10. What will the woman do tonight?A. Watch TV.B. Make a meal.11. Where did Mary go last year?A. Spain.B. France.12. What will the man do next?A. Make a plan.B. Call his friends.听第9段对话，回答以下13-16小题。13. What is the relationship between the speakers?C. In a restaurant.C. Visit her friend.C. Portugal.C. Buy some hot dogs.A. Drive the bus.B. Have cold drinks.C. Cook food.A. Driver and passenger. B. Club owner and customer. C. Interviewer and interviewee. 14. What can the guests do on the bus?15. What arc guests expected to do for parties?A. Get dressed smartly.B. Bring their VIP cards. C. Book clubs in advance.16. What does the man suggest guests do before a fancy-dress party?A. Control the number of people.B. Inform him of the booking time.C. Avoid wearing jeans and spoils shoes. 听第10段对话,回答以下1720小题。17. Where does the speaker come from?C. America.C. Cool.A. Australia.B. England.18. What do English people think of Americans?A. Self-centered.B. Humorous.19. What did the speaker like to do in the afternoon in England?A. Have a cup of tea. B. Watch comedy shows. C. Play with his friends.20. What did the speaker find amazing in England?A. The TV program.B. The tea shop.C. The old buildings.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分3()分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Travel is the only thing that will really make you richer. While it's very valid, there're many times when we arc simply unable to travel for certain reasons. However, there's still a great and affordable way to experience new places: books.WildWild is Cheryl Strayed's beautifully written story of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for 1,100 miles all by herself. Her journey of self-discovery and facing her painful past is fascinating and will keep you fascinated from the first page up until the last. You will feel like you're hiking alongside Strayed the whole time. On the RoadJack Kerouac's classic novel in 1957 is a masterpiece from the Beat Generation, which tells the timeless tale of being young, confused, and just getting on the road to try to figure it all out. The book tells the personal developmental story of Sal, who is strongly based on Kerouac himself, leaving New York City and traveling around the country. The book ensures madness, along with colorful characters and heartbreaking moments.The Caliph's HouseThis book is written by author Tahir Shah, whose experience of vacationing in Morocco of Africa during his childhood growing up led him to move with his family from London to Morocco, where he learned a lot. His writing is rich and fascinating and tells an incredible story of their time of living there. The Great Railway BazaarPaul Theroux's book narrates his four-month experience in 1973 traveling by train from London to Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, as well as his return trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway, enriching and improving himself. Theroux explored poverty and ignorance throughout the book, which is often considered as a classic in the travel writing world.21. Which book tells of the author's long journey on foot?A. Wild.B. On the Road.C. The Caliph's House.D. The Great Railway Bazaar.22. What is the main content of The Caliph's House?A. The author's rich writing experience.B. The story of British children in Africa.C. The vacation of an African family in London.D. The author's childhood experience in Morocco.23. What are (he four books mainly concerned with?A. Madness and sadness.B. Travel and self-growth.C. Poverty and confusion.D. Childhood and ignorance.BWe were a good 90 minutes into the hike and now were on the backside of Stump Pond at Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown. Typically, when hikers reach the backside of a lake or a mountain or whatever they experience a measure of relative peace. Bui this was last August, in the midst of the pandemic of COVID-19, and on that backside in Blydenburgh wc crossed paths with a group of hikers coming in the other direction, and then a family of four hanging out just off the trail by the water's edge, and then a solo hiker, and then a group of boys rushing around on bicycles.There was a lot of that going around in the year of the coronavirus. Over the past year, we sought out our parks like never before. Long Island's state parks had more than 32 million visitors in 2020, a 5 million-plus jump from 2() 19, with big increases posted in flagships like Jones Beach, Robert Moses and Sunken Meadow as well as lesser-known places like Napeague, Trailvicw and Hallock State Park Preserve. The same phenomenon seemed to occur at county, town and village parks, too. Nassau County's Nickerson Beach saw attendance jump from 11,477 in 2019 to 23,586 in 2020 even though the parks were capped at 50% capacity.However, all that park-love took a toll. There was more littering, more people leaving more pet droppings on trails, more hikers taking more shortcuts off marked trails which leaves channels destroyed and just doesn't look good. There were many reports of people not following masking and distancing guidelines, and of park personnel serving as ambassadors for respect and common sense.As good as they are, our parks on all levels need more money and personnel to maintain and upgrade them, and more help from us in terms of politeness to our fellow parkgoers.Anyway, we're still in the outdoors, still seeking peace and recreation. And we might keep coming, even as the malls and movie theaters have reopened their doors.24. What can we infer from paragraph 1?A. Hikers found a new form of recreation.B. The coronavirus might set off going around in the park.C. Stump Pond is famous all around the world.D. It's easy to reach the backside of Stump Pond.25. What docs the underlined word "flagships“ in paragraph 2 refer to?A. The noted parks.B. The best products.C. Places of interest.D. The most important ship.26. What bad influence did the park-love bring about?A. The parks were overcrowded.B. The limited capacity was broken.C. There were more pets and marked trails. D. Damage has been done to the parks.27. What's the purpose of writing this passage?A. To show (he impacts of the coronavirus on parks. B. To encourage people to go hiking in parks.C. To appeal to people to do their part to protect parks. D. To illustrate current situation of the pandemic.CScientists at MIT have managed to change ordinary spinach plants into natural sensors which can find chemicals used in bombs. The secret to giving spinach these special powers is nanotech, which is scientific area that deals with making or changing things that are extremely tiny.“Ordinary spinach plants can be found everywhere and easy to store; like other plants, they nonnally take in carbon dioxide gas/' the scientists say. "But actually they can sense small changes of soil and water potential and respond to them. If we tap into this point, there is a wealth of information to access. That's what the scientists use to power their tiny experiments.”For this experiment, the scientists placed two different kinds of tiny nano-materials into spinach plants. To get them into the plants, the scientists put a liquid containing them on the bottom of the plant's leaves. As part of its natural process, the spinach plant pulls water through its roots and into its leaves. If the water contains certain chemicals used in bombs, the tiny sensors in the leaves make the nano-tuhes, which, along with the sensors, were placed into the spinach plant before by the scientists, produce a slightly special kind of light. By watching the plant constantly using a camera attached to a cheap computer ,lhe scientists set up a system that can send a warning email if chemicals from explosives arc found in the water.The computer the scientists used is about the size of a playing card. They say that in the future, their system could even use a cell phone with its camera changed slightly. Discovering chemicals used in bombs is just one of the many uses the researchers are exploring. They have used such plants to discover several other dangerous chemicals as well. From their point of view, there's no doubt that in the future, such systems could give farmers specific information about the health of the land and water on their farms.28. Why do the scientists use plants to do the experiment?A.They are common in the daily life.B.They are environmentally responsive.C.They absorb much carbondioxide gas. D.They are small in size and easy to store.29. What's the function of the carbon nano-tubes placed into spinach plants?A.To control the camera.B.To contain the liquid.C.To fix the tiny sensors.D.To give off plant light.30. What can we say about the application of the experiment?A. Itrs diverse. B. It's unexpected. C. It's limited. D. It's cheap. 31. What's the suitable title for the text?A. Spinach Is Sensitive to Chemicals in Bombs B. Spinach Is taught to Send Warning Emails C. Nanotech Helps Spinach Grow Healthily D. Nanotech Protects Spinach from DangerDInternational demand for black rhinoceros horn has seen the animals killed relentlessly for decades in countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. In 1960 there were an estimated 10(),()00 left, and by 1995 fewer than 2,500 remained. Conservation efforts have brought the number up to around 5,600 today -but the species is still critically endangered, and poaching (偷猎)is among its biggest threats.Scientists have worked to protect these rare creatures by tracking them with GPS devices strapped to their necks or ankles or implanted in their horns. The resulting data let researchers monitor the rhinos' numbers and when they enter poaching hotspots. But the devices can fail, and drugging (he animals to attach them may cause harm.A recent study describes a new tracking technology that uses smartphones to record rhino footprints. Called the foolprint-ideniification technique (FIT), (his system includes software (hat can analyze the animals' movements from a distance to help keep them safe from poachers.The idea came from working with local trackers in Zimbabwe. These footprint-reading experts can identify individual black rhinos from the shape of their feet and, when visible, the impressions left by cracks in the animals' heel pads "K,垫)，which are as distinctive as a human fingerprint. "We probably wouldn't even have looked at the footprints in the first place if we didn't have indigenous trackers," says Sky Alibhai, co-foiinder of conservation organization WildTrack.To use the system, scientists gather rhino footprint images with a smartphone application and upload the pictures to a global database. FIT software analysis can then identify the individual animal and determine its age and sex with up to 99 percent accuracy. Researchers can also estimate the number of black rhinos in an area and watch their movements.“I think this is great for monitoring animals and counting individuals,says Ci ska Scheijen, a conservation scientist. Scheijen wonders about FIT's performance during the rainy season, when footprints arc often indistinct, and if it can track larger herds as opposed to the 35 odd individuals this study monitored. 32. What does the underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Homs.B. Rhinos.C. Devices.D. Smartphones.33. What do we know about FIT?A. It is a GPS device implanted in rhinos.B. It has been widely applied in animal protection.C. It can analyze footprints with a rather high accuracy.D. It can identify the rhino footprints and human fingerprints.34. What is Ciska Scheijen's attitude towards FIT?A. Positive.B. Uncertain. C. Disapproving. D. Objective.35. What is the text mainly about?A. Black rhinos are endangered due to poaching.B. A new app tracks black rhinos through their footprints.C. Scientists have invented a new tracking technology FIT.D. Conservation organizations save endangered black rhinos. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。From the moment vc wake up each day, wc'rc faced with a continuous stream of choices. When there are too many options, we tend to feel overwhelmed, anxious, stressed or otherwise out of sorts. 36.It can prevent us making additional decisions.When decision tiredness kicks in, you may feel like you just don't have the mental band-width to deal with more decisions. This can lead to decisional paralysis or less self-control, causing you to avoid making certain choices entirely and to make ones that aren't in line with your goals or values, experts say.37.Make some choices automatic. 38. When you go grocery shopping, use a master list that hasthe same staples, and buy the same brands each time.If you like having soybean milk for breakfast, stick with it on a daily basis. And if you're trying to exercise regularly, practice it every day.39. Be alert to signs of decision tiredness and act accordingly: If you've had a demanding daythat was filled with lots of decisions, put off making another one. If things that wouldn't normally trouble you start bothering you, you may not be in the best state of mind to make a major decision. 40. Butit's something to watch out for.A. Make decision seriouslySome easy ways to do thisB. Tune into how you're feelingThis is called decision tirednessC. We all probably suffer from decision tirednessHere's how to improve or manage this phenomenonD. People may not realize they'