2022-2023学年四川省宜宾市重点中学高三上学期12月第三次月考英语试题Word版含答案.docx

宜宾市重点中学2022-2023学年高三上学期12月第三次月考英语试题注意事项：答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。第一部分 听力（共两节，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. What kept the woman awake last night?C The repairs of the power.C. In a bookstore.C. Arguing with Maggie.C. At 1:30.A. The storm.B. The temperature.2. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a clothing store.B. In a furniture store.3. What has the man been doing?A. Greeting his guests.B. Cleaning the house.4. When did the man get to class yesterday?A. At 2:30.B. At 2:00.5. . What airline is the man taking?A China Airline.B. China Northern Airline. C. China Southern Airline.第二节（共15小题，每小题15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段长对话，回答第6、7题。6. Which city did Henry and his parents first visit?A. Luoyang.B. Xi'an.C. Beijing.7. What was Henry's biggest gain when traveling in Xi'an?A. Joining in local activities.B , Experiencing ancient Chinese culture.C. Improving the relationship with his parents.听第7段长对话，回答第8至9题。8 . What made the book interesting according to the man?C. The language.C. Classmates.A. The main character. B. The storyline.9 . What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Interviewer and interviewee.B. Teacher and student.听第8段长对话，回答第10至12题。10* What9re they talking about?A. May Day.B. National Day.C. Children's Day.11. What may most people in the woman's country do on National Day holiday?A. They visit friends. B. They buy flags. C. They go shopping.12. Where is the man probably going?A. To the classroom. B. To the library. C. To the laboratory.听第9段长对话，回答第13至16题。13. How many Economics lectures will the man attend every week?A. Five times, from Monday to Friday.B Two times, on Thursday and Friday.C. Two times, on Tuesday and Thursday.14. Why did the man miss the meeting for the new students yesterday?A. Because he hadn't received any notice about that meeting.B Because he had to attend the group discussion.C. Because he had to do some part time jobs yesterday.15. If a student wants to earn the scholarship, what is the required attendance rate?A. 80%.B. 90%.C. 100%.16. Which of the following statements is not true according to the conversation?A. The man is a freshman in the university.B The man has to work after school.C. The man thinks the time of the lecture is too early.听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?A A measure to deal with being overweight.B. A school to offer cooking lessons.C. A way to set up cooking clubs.18. What do we know about the cooking lessons?A. They will be given in primary schools.B They will be provided one hour a week.C. They will last for the whole school year.19. Why are schools setting up "Let's Get Cooking clubs?A. To teach children to cook healthy food.B To train more cookery teachers for schools.C. To help students remember simple recipes.20. What does the government promise to do?A. Buy the equipment. B. Build new kitchens. C. Help poor students.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30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。AIt's enjoyable to travel like a local around Sydney on this city cycling tour with different options. Various tour lengths allow you to choose a bike tour that suits your schedule and budget.OverviewCovering more than 30 of the top Sydney sights.Use of bicycle and all safety equipment included. Led by a cycling guide so travelers can focus on scenery instead of directions.Refuel with included lunch and a drink on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Ride.DetailsMeet your group and guide at The Rocks at the appointed time for your tour. Choose from several tour options, including the Sydney Classic Tour, the Sydney Highlights Tour, the Sydney Harbour Bridge Ride and the Manly Beach and Sunset Cruise Tour. Highlights include Royal Botanic Gardens, Hyde Park, Darling Harbour, Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House. Your tour ends at its original departure point.Important Information Secure storage is available fbr backpack, purse, or other items which need to be stored until you return from your tour.Baby seats for children up to 25 kg can be provided free of charge.Tour operates in wet weather, and raincoats will be provided.No wheelchair is accessible.Animals aren't allowed.Travelers have to keep a normal physical fitness level.21. What can the tourists do during the cycling tour?A. Watch many animals.B. Have free lunch.C. Get access to wheelchair service.D. Enjoy all Sydney sights.22. Where is the starting point of the tour?A .The Rocks.B.Hyde Park.C.Harbour Bridge.D.Sydney Opera House.23. Which is a must for the tourists?A.Living in Sydney.B.Bringing raincoats.C.Being in good health.D.Riding their own bikes.A YOUNG girl raises her hand in class to answer the teacher's question. She proudly gives the correct answer when her classmates start to giggle . Among them, she hears somebody call her a “know-it-all“ and sees another roll his eyes. She doesn't dare to speak up again because confident women are often called” “bossy”.Despite decades of advances, it seems that women continue to face prejudice when it comes to holding a position of power.Laila Farah, an associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago in the US, said the reason for this stereotype lies in history.“This is an old phenomenon which reflects the fact that many people think females don't have the same brain capability compared to the male brain J Farah said.What's more, the prejudice is so deep in our society that it has become hard to ignore. "Gender bias is found in the media, schools, the workplace-basically everywhere/9 Farah said. “It is learned in infancy and goes from toys chosen to assuming females aren't good at math.Another reason fbr confident women being called bossy is that "some people aren't used to women being confident enough to speak their minds”, said high school junior Jessica Bella from Illinois. Embarrassing women by calling them “bossy“ has caused some of them to tone down their confidence.In a study done by the Girls Leadership Institute, a program that helps girls develop strong leadership skills, many girls said the biggest thing holding them back from participating in class was being judged."Sometimes, I know I have the right answer in class, but I don't raise my hand because I don't want to be annoying,said high school junior Emily Grigg from Illinois.Still, some women have bravely stood up against this stereotype.“If women in leadership positions are considered to be bossy, then I like to do all I can to prove that wrong. We all have an equal opportunity to present our knowledge no matter how that may come across, “said ChristinaJakubas, an English teacher from Illinois.Maybe what we need to do is turn being bossy into something empowering for women. After all, bossy people get the job done.24. Why does the author write about the experience of a girl raising her hand in class?A. prove that confident women tend to be bossy B explain why bossy women are unpopular in groups C. explore what stops women from being themselves D. show how women should fight against gender bias 25 . What do the underlined words “this stereotype“ in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Females failing to do as well as males in math.B Gender bias becoming hard to ignore in society.C. Women who hold a position of power facing prejudice.D. Females not having the same brain capabilities as males.26. Which of the following would the author probably agree with according to the article?A. Confident women tend to possess strong leadership skills. B. Bossy women usually get their jobs done better than men. C. Females in leadership positions should try to avoid being bossy, D. Females should ignore negative comments and bravely speak their minds 27. In which part of the magazine can we read the passage?A. HealthB. SocietyC. PoliticsD. EntertainmentCFor several decades, there has been an organized campaign intended to produce distrust in science, funded by those whose interests are threatened by the findings of modern science. In response, scientists have tended to stress the success of science. After all, scientists have been right about most things, from the structure of the universe to the relativity of time and space.Stressing successes isn't wrong, but fbr many people it's not persuasive. An alternative answer to the question “Why trust science? is that scientists use the so-called scientific method. But what is called the scientific method isn't what scientists actually do. Science is dynamic: new methods get invented; old ones get abandoned; and at any particular point, scientists can be found doing many different things. False theories sometimes lead to true results, so even if an experiment works, it doesn't prove that the theory it was designed to test is true.If there is no specific scientific method, then what is the basis for trust in science? The answer is the methods by which those claims are evaluated. A scientific claim is never accepted as true until it has gone through a long process of examination by fellow scientists. Scientists draft the initial version of a paper and then send it to colleagues for suggestions. Until this point, scientific feedback is typically fairly friendly. But the next step is different: the revised paper is submitted to a scientific journal, where things get a whole lot tougher. Editors deliberately send scientific papers to people who are not friends or colleagues of the authors, and the job of the reviewer is to find errors or other faults. We call this process “peer review“ because the reviewers are scientific peersexperts in the same fieldbut they act in the role of a superior who has both the right and the responsibility to find fault. It is only after the reviewers and the editor are satisfied that any problems have been fixed that the paper will be printed in the journal and enters the body of “science.”Some people argue that we should not trust science because scientists are “always changing their minds.” While examples of truly settled science being overturned are for fewer than is sometimes claimed, they do exist. But the beauty of this scientific process is that science produces both creativity and stability. New observations,ideas, explanations and attempts to combine competing claims introduce creativity; transformative questioning leads to collective decisions and the stability of scientific knowledge. Scientists do change theic minds in the face of new evidence, but this is a strength of science, not a weakness.28. Scientists stress the success of science in order to.A. promote basic knowledge of scienceB. remind people of scientific achievementsC. remove possible doubts about scienceD. show their attitude towards the campaign29. What can we learn about the so-called scientific method?A. It's an easy job to prove its existence.B. It usually agrees with scientists9 ideas.C. It hardly gets mixed with false theories.D. It constantly changes and progresses.30. What can we learn about "peer" review?A. It seldom gives negative evaluation of a paper.B. It is usually conducted by unfriendly experts.C. It aims to perfect the paper to be published.D. It happens at the beginning of the evaluation process.31. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that. A. it is not uncommon for science to be overturnedB. scientists are very strong in changing their minds C. people lose faith in those changeable scientists D. changes bring creativity and stability to scienceDTo promote employees, creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards fbr them to choose from, according to a new study by management experts at Rice University.The study, co-authored by Jing Zhou, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, is the first to systematically examine the effects of reward choice in a field experiment, which was conducted in the context of an organization-wide suggestion program."Organizations spend a lot of resources and make a great deal of effort in designing incentive （激励的）plans that reward the employees who exhibit creativity at work J Zhou said. "Our results showed that the effort may be a bit misplaced. Instead of discovering one reward type that is particularly effective at promoting creativity, what is more effective is to provide the employees with the opportunity to choose from several reward types, if they submit one or more ideas that are among the top 20% most creative ones.”Workers in the study were given a range of options: a financial reward for the individual employee or their team, a self-discretionary （自 己自由决定的）reward such as getting priority to select days off, or a donation the company made to a charity selected by the employee. Those choices had positive, significant effects on the number of creative ideas employees thought up and the creativity level of those ideas.The studies also found that rewards aimed at helping others, such as making a donation to a charity, might be especially powerful. But for less-creative employees, alternative rewards that benefit those in need might actually lower creativity and should be avoided.The researchers also found that the choice of rewards developed creativity by raising the employees5 belief in their ability to be creative. Alternative rewards also had a powerful impact on promoting the creativity of employees who earlier had scored high on an assessment of creative personality characteristics.32. Why was the study conducted?A. To promote employees5 creativity.B. To discover and reward creative employees.C. To set an example to other organizations.D. To examine the effects of different reward choices.33. Which statement would Professor Zhou agree with?A. It's ambitious to examine the effects of reward choice.B It's necessary to confirm which reward is the most effective.C. It's advisable to let employees choose their own favorite reward types.D. It's inappropriate to choose from the top 20% most creative employees.34. What reward would be least beneficial to less-creative employees?A Financial reward.B. Assessment priority.C. Occupation promotion.D. Charity donation.35 . What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Choice of rewards promotes creativityB. Financial rewards can motivate employeesC. Use resources effectively to promote creativity D. Effects of rewards on employees can't be ignored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。Parents sometimes struggle to find a balance between encouraging an adolescent to achieve without pushing too hard. Pushing a child