黑龙江省大庆实验中学2023-2024学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题含答案.pdf

大庆实验中学大庆实验中学 20232024 学年度第一学期高三期中考试学年度第一学期高三期中考试英语试题英语试题第一部分听力（共两节，满分第一部分听力（共两节，满分 20 分）分）第一节（共第一节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 5 分）分）听下面听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的段对话。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。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.Why didnt the woman sleep well last night?A.There was a dog barking.B.There was some loud music.C.There were some birds singing.2.What is the man doing?A.Checking a map.B.Driving a car.C.Pointing the directions.3.What does the woman mean in the end?A.The man made a poor excuse.B.The train is unreliable on rainy days.C.The man is the only one to take the subway.4.Where does the conversation probably take place?A.In a car shop.B.At a car park.C.At a garage.5.What are the speakers mainly talking about?A.An event.B.A budget C.The boss.第二节：（共第二节：（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分）听下面听下面 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，各秒钟；听完后，各 小题将给出小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。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。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.What are the speakers discussing?A.When to get fully prepared.B.When to visit a customer.C.When to meet the accountant.7.What will the woman do at 2:30 p.m.?A.Meet the man.B.Talk with the accountant.C.Attend an appointment.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8 Whats the best language study method according to the man?A.Using an app.B.Speaking with local people.C.Listening to news.9.What does the man value most?.A.Touring the country.B.Exploring local cafes.C.Getting involved in culture.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10.Where is Pizza Delight?A.In the city center.B.Near the mans house.C.By the movie theatre.11.What is the womans opinion of the pizza in Pizza Delight?A.Its fancy.B.Its fine.C.Its bad.12.How soon will the speakers leave?A.In 15 minutes.B.In 30 minutes.C.In 45 minutes.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13.What is the key factor in windsurfing?A.High-quality equipment.B.Personal physical condition.C.Previous sporting experience.14.What advice does Lily give on safety?A.Use noticeable board and sail.B.Prepare life-saving equipment.C.Teal someone how you can be identified.15.What does Lily enjoy most about windsurfing?A.Forgetting everyday worries.B.Learning new techniques.C.Developing her muscles.16.What might Lily do in the future?A.Give up windsurfing.B.Act as a windsurfing coach.C.Take part in windsurfing competitions.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What can the listeners do during the opening?A.Enter a competition.B.Meet a sportsman C.Get a signed copy.18.What will all competitors receive?A.Tickets for sports events.B.Sports calendars.C.Signed copies of CDs.19.How much does the fitness test cost this month?A.15.B.30.C.50.20.What does the speaker encourage listeners to do in the end?A.To book a place via email.B.To try out equipment at opening mornings.C.To open an account for more offers.第二部分阅读（共两节，满分第二部分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）分）第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。四个选项中选出最佳选项。AEvery year,TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better,smarter and even a bit more fun.Here are some selected ones that will absolutely blow your kids mind.Sphero Indi($124.99)Coding is a matter of problem-solving and pattern recognition.Sphero Indi teaches both,no screen required.Instead,kids use different-colored cards to move a robotic car from point A to B green cards increasing its speed,pink cards telling it to turn left,and so on.“We really wanted to bring these abstract concepts into the physical world,”says Jeff Wiencrot,one of the product developers.Thames&Kosmos Mega Cyborg Hand($39.95)The effort to get kids interested in science just got a helping hand a cyborg hand,to be precise.Kids build a robotic arm that copies their hand gestures,while they learn about engineering and robotics.Once assembled(组装)and slipped on like a glove,the device passes forces from the users fingers to the extended ones of the robotic hand.Sproutel Purrble($49.99)For children who are upset for some reason,Purrble comes to their rescue.An interactive toy equipped with seven sensors that respond to touch,Purrbles heartbeat speeds up when it senses somebodys playing with it.Kids can then comfort their companion with gentle petting,slowing Purrbles rapid heartbeat to a purr(咕噜声)calming themselves as well in the process.Lego recycled brick(Unpriced)The Lego Group,intending to make all Lego bricks from sustainable resources by 2030,spent the past three years testing different recycled PET plastic materials,and finally developed its first recycled PET brick that is nearly identical to the usual brick.The Danish toy company hopes to integrate the recycled blocks into Lego sets in the next 18 to 24 months.1.What do Sphero Indi and Thames&Komos Mega Cyborg Hand have in common?A.They train kids in programming.B.They are invented by kids.C.They need fitting together first.D.They combine fun with learning.2.Which invention best suits kids who need emotional comfort?A.Sphero Indi.B.Sproutel Purrble.C.Thames&Kosmos Mega Cyborg HandD.Lego recycled brick.3.What makes Lego recycled brick special?A.It is environmentally friendly.B.It can be mass-produced.C It looks distinct from the usual one.D.It is a solution to testing.BWhen I made the decision to quit my full-time employment,I never thought that I could get involved in an increasing global trend.I had to leave my relatively high-profile position for an unexpected move that hurt my pride and prevented me from getting promoted.Yet,I excused my departure by saying“I wanted to spend more time with my family”.Curiously,after around two and a half years,my experience in what Americans refer to as“downshifting”has turned my excuse into an absolute reality.I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of Linda Kelseys“have it all”concept,which she has been promoting for the past seven years in the pages of She magazine,into a woman who is content to accept a little bit of everything.I have discovered that abandoning the idea of“juggling your life”and adopting the alternative strategy of“downshifting”has benefits that go far beyond financial success and social status.Nothing could convince me to go back to the lifestyle Kelsey used to promote and which I had previously enjoyed:12-hour workdays,tight deadlines,the terrifying pressure of office politics,and the demand of being a parent on“quality time”.After the widespread layoffs(裁员)brought on by cost-cutting in the late 1980s,America started to move toward a simpler,less materialistic way of life as a response to the economic downturn.In America,simplifying ones life is frequently done for financial reasons,but in Britain,at least among the middle class I know,we have different motivations for doing so.For the women of my generation who were encouraged to keep juggling,downshifting is not so much a search for a mythical(虚无的)good lifegrowing your own organic vegetables,and risking turning into oneas a personal recognition of your limitations.4.What can we learn from paragraph 1?A.The writer didnt take pride in her original job.B.Full-time employment is a new international trend.C.The writer was eager to spend more time with her family.D.The writer was forced to resign due to an external factor.5.What do we know about downshifting according to the text?A.The writer abandoned her high social status for downshifting.B.Downshifting allowed the writer to make her dream come true.C.The writer changed her way of thinking through downshifting.D.The writer accepted the concept of She magazine because of downshifting.6.What does the underlined phrase“juggling your life”in paragraph 3 mean?.A.Settling for a bit of everything.B.Choosing to live a simple life.C.Adopting a busy and stressful lifestyle.D.Staying away from a materialistic way of life.7.What does the writer intend to tell us?A.It is never too late to pursue your dream.B.Downshifting results in a more satisfactory and simpler life.C.There is a difference between the American and British cultures.D.People should adopt downshifting to search for mythical experiences.CA workday filled with a string of mentally demanding tasks can leave you feeling burned out.After long hours of mentally tracking one thought after another,youre probably more likely to choose a relaxing evening of streaming TV shows than to tackle a tough task on your to-do list or to make time for a creative pursuit.For some time,researchers have suspected that long periods of mental effort lead to a shortage of glucose(葡萄糖),a key resource that supplies the energy-hungry brain.Experiments in the early 2000s supported this concept reporting that people experienced a reduction in blood glucose after a mentally demanding task and that consuming a sugary drink could make good sense.But subsequent work failed to reproduce those findings.Actually,the energy cost associated with thinking can be negligible.One analysis suggests that overworked brains use much less than one-tenth of a small Tic Tac candys worth of glucose.A team of scientists led by Antonius Wiehler of Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital,looked at things from a different angle.To produce mental tiredness,a group of participants were asked to perform over six hours of various tasks that involved thinking.Half were assigned easy things to do and half hard ones.During the experiment,the scientists used a technique to measure the changes of chemicals in the brain.They found that people who had taken on the harder task had higher concentrations of glutamate(谷氨酸)in the LPFC(an area involved in mental processes such as decision-making)than those who had performed the easier one.Throughout the experiment,participants were asked to make decisions that could reveal their mental tiredness.Participants who were assigned the more challenging task were more likely to choose low-cost and little-effort options,especially towards the end of the six hours.So,is there some way around this limitation of our brains ability to think hard?“Not really,Im afraid,”said Pessiglione,Wiehlers colleague.“I would remind you that tiredness is indeed a signal indicating you need to stop working to preserve the effectiveness of brain functioning.There is good evidence that the balance of glutamate is restored after a nights sleep.8.What did researchers find through experiments in the early 2000s?A.Blood glucose influences the brains performance.B.Human brains use much of the bodys glucose.C.Humans can gain enough energy from daily diets.D.Blood glucose levels fall fast with our emotional changes.9.What does the underlined word“negligible”in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A.Sensitive.B.Insignificant.C.Immeasurable.D.Complicated10.What conclusion can be drawn from the teams research?A.Thinking hard consumes a lot of glutamate.B.Mental tiredness leads to peoples false sense of time.C.Single-minded people are likely to make wise decisions.D.The buildup of glutamate upsets brain functioning.11.What can be the best title for the text?A.Why does thinking hard wear you out?B.Why do people tend to make a to-do list?C.How does your emotion affect your productivity?D.How do varied leisure activities promote your sleep?DScience is a process that builds upon existing theories and knowledge by continuously revising them.Every aspect of scientific knowledge can be questioned,including the general rules of thinking that appear to be most certain.So why is science trustworthy if it is always changing?If tomorrow we will no longer see the world as Newton or Einstein found it to be,why should we take seriously todays scientific description of the world?The answer is simpler.Because at any given moment of our history,this description of the world is the best we have.The fact that it can be made better cant weaken the fact that it is a useful instrument for understanding the world.Consider a folk healers medicine.Can we say this treatment is“scientific”?Yes,if it is proven to be effective,even if we have no idea why it works.In fact,quite a few common medications used today have their origin in folk treatments,and we are still not sure how they work.This does not imply that folk treatments are generally effective.To the contrary,many of them are not.What distinguishes scientific medieine is the readiness to seriously test a treatment and to be ready to change our minds if something is shown not to work.A research doctor in a modern hospital must be ready to change his theory if a more effective way of understanding illness,or treating it,becomes available.What makes modern science uniquely powerful is its refusal to believe that it already possesses ultimate truth.The reliability of science is based not on certainty but on a complete absence of certainty.As John Stuart Mill wrote in“On Liberty”in 1859,“The beliefs which we have most warrant(依据)for,have no safeguard to rest on,but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.”12.Why does the author raise the two questions in paragraph 1?A To add some fun.B.To introduce the topic.C.To express doubts.D.To provide background.13.What can we learn about todays scientific description of the world?A.It can be timeless.B.It is of little value.C.It can be improvedD.It is the best at any moment.14.What is the authors attitude towards folk treatment?A.Indifferent.B.Pessimistic.C.Objective.D.Sympathetic.15.What is the main idea of paragraph 4?A.It is unwise to believe in science.B.Too much uncertainty lies in science.C.The foundation of science is unfounded.D.The lack of certainty makes science reliable.第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）分）阅读下列短文，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。阅读下列短文，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。In 2019,Gotham Greens opened its 9,300-square-metre Baltimore farm on the former site of Bethlehem Steel,which was the largest steel-manufacturing plant in the world._16_ It aimed to repurpose unused rooftop spaces and abandoned factories for food production.Urban populations are projected to increase by 2.5 billion by 2050._17_ But despite the rise in city-based farms,theres still a lot we dont know about them,including the economic and environmental costs.Florian Payen,an environmental scientist,and his colleagues looked at previous studies done in 53 countries where crops were grown in different urban environments,including“grey”spaces such as rooftops,and by using different growing methods.They found that yields(产量)of urban crops were often the same as those from conventional farms.Just as importantly,they revealed the most commonly-grown types of crops and the most effective growing methods._18_.Its known that the benefit of urban farming is a reduction in food miles._19_ In one study,researchers analyzed the carbon footprint of different vegetables grown in greenhouses in Canada and that of the importing vegetables from th