江苏省常州市2023届高三上学期期中考试英语试题含答案.pdf

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1、江苏省常州市教育学会学业水平监测高三英语试题2022.11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.Why does the man need a map?A.To tour Manchester.B.To find a restaurant.C.To learn about China.2.What kind of mask is the man wea

2、ring?A.A N95 mask.B.A cloth mask.C.AKF95 mask.3.What is the relationship between the speakers?A.Husband and wife.B.Mother and son.C.Colleagues.4.How does the woman sound?A.Pleased.B.Touched.C.Anxious.5.What are the speakers talking about?A.A video.B.A singer.C.A program.第二节(共 15 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5

3、 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 6、7 题。6.Where does the conversation take place?A.In an office.B.In a restaurant.C.Over the phone.7.What will the man do tomorrow morning?A.Deliver a suit.B.Attend a meetin

4、g.C.Pick up someone.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8.What is the womans plan for tonight?A.Learning to bake.B.Reviewing for a test.C.Attending a party.9.What dessert does the woman like best?A.Tea ice cream.B.Banana cupcakes.C.Strawberry pancakes.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10.How does the woman sound?A.Satisfied.B.

5、Unhappy.C.Excited.11.What does the woman probably do?A.Shes a lawyer.B.Shes a doctor.C.Shes a salesperson.12.When will the woman take her holiday?A.In the summer.B.In the fall.C.In the winter.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13.What is the woman doing?A.Hosting a show.B.Giving a lecture.C.Having a class.14.Ho

6、w did Stevens mother influence him?A.By sending him to poetry classes.B.By teaching him to write business plans.C.By asking him to read from early childhood.15.What does Steven find most difficult in writing?A.Finding the right words.B.Choosing a suitable topic.C.Describing real experiences.16.What

7、is Stevens opinion on his own writing?A.Creative.B.Successful.C.Encouraging.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What is the rate of the average global temperature increase?A.0.15 to 0.20 per year.B.0.15 to 0.20 every five years.C.0.15 to 0.20 per decade.18.At what average temperature will coral reefs begin t

8、o die?A.35.B.37.C.38.19.What will happen if the average temperature reaches 39 to 41?A.Sunflowers wont survive anymore.B.Most countries will be drowned.C.Sea animals will die massively.20.What does the speaker mean in the end?A.We should make some changes.B.We have lost our last chance.C.We can stop

9、 global warming.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。AHome/Information/Payment methods/Finnair fight gift cardFinnair flight gift cardPlease note that Finnair flight gift cards are currently not available for purchase.If you havean expiring flight gift

10、 card with some balance left,its validity(有 效 期)is extended until 31December 2022 due to the situation caused by COVID-19.If you have received a Finnair flight gift card,pay attention to the following information.You can use the Finnair gift card for purchasing flight tickets on F and Finnairapp.You

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13、ur ticket before the expiration datemarked on the gift card.Travel date can be later(max 360 days from the day of the purchase).Unused gift cards or a part of them are not redeemed(变现).If you lose your Finnair gift card number or the PIN code,please contact FinnairCustomer Service using the CHAT.Fin

14、nair is not responsible for lost gift cards.21.What is this notice for?A.Selling gift cards.B.Using a gift card.C.Changing a gift card.D.Buying a gift card.22.If a Chinese man has a gift card worth 800 euros,what can he do with it?A.Buy two tickets worth 400 euros each.B.Combine it with another card

15、 for a ticket of 1000 euros.C.Buy a ticket worth 600 euros and 200 euros for food.D.Exchange it for money instead of using it for tickets.23.Which of the following tickets can a person buy with a gift card?A.A ticket for 1 July 2023.B.A ticket for 31 December 2024.C.An award ticket for himself.D.An

16、award ticket for his friend.BThe peony has gained extraordinary support in an online vote to be chosen as Chinasnational flower.The final result of the poll,initiated by the China Flower Association,will beunveiled on Friday.The five days of voting began on Monday,and an official from the associatio

17、n revealed thatthe peony has collected more than 90 percent of the votes to date among 10 options.We are stepping into the new era and the county is witnessing social prosperity,theofficial satd.People also have better living conditions.It is time to have an official nationalflower that can represen

18、t our state image and the nations spirit.According to the association,Chinas national flower should meet four standards:It shouldoriginate in China and have a long history in many regions;it should be beautiful in shape andcolor,to represent the Chinese culture and personality;it should have a profo

19、und historicalculture and be widely known to the public;and it should be extensively used in many fields witha competitive ecological and economic value that could benefit the public.The peony was the national flower in the Tang Dynasty(618-907).Apart fromornamental(观 赏的)value,it also has been used

20、as a food and a traditional Chinese herb,forwhich it has strong economic value,Dong said.It is widely known by Chinese people.Even my10-year-old son and his classmates in primary school have voted for it.By Wednesday afternoon,nearly 600,000 people had joined in the discussion on WeChat,with about 4

21、70,000 agreeing that the national flower should be only one certain flower.Among several colors being considered,the red peony bas.gained the greatest support fromthe public with nearly 30,000 votes on Sina Weibo,followed by white and yellow.Many netizens said they didnt realize that China has no na

22、tional flower.In fact,manypeople said they had already accepted the peony as the national flower years before they sawthe vote.24.What is most probably this article?A.An introduction to a flower.B.A news report about a vote.C.An ad for a flower.D.A public notice of a vote.25.What part of the voting

23、is paragraph 4 and 5 mainly about?A.The procedure.B.The standard.C.The reason.D.The result.26.What is the authors attitude towards peony being chosen as Chinas national flower?A.negativeB.supportiveC.unclearD intolerant27.What is the best title for the text?A.Peony leads national flower voting.B.New

24、 era calls for new national flower.C.Peony changes national flower standards.D.Peony represents nations image and spirit.C4 out of 10 parents and carers are thinking of leaving their careers in classical music due tochallenging working practices,according to a new study by Parents and Carers in Perf

25、orming Arts(PiPA)and Birkbeck,University of London.The new report,titled A Bittersweet Symphony,surveyed 410 participants from the musicindustry and conducted focus groups and in-depth interviews.Its findings highlight the struggle that those in the classical music sector face when havingbalance wor

26、k and supporting children,elderly or sick family members.The study said that self-employed women over 85%of whom have parenting and caringresponsibilities reported a pay penalty of 8,000.Women with caring responsibilities were also found to be twice as likely to turn down workdue to highly gendered

27、work and caregiving structures in classical music.“There is greater impact on women,who are likely to work and earn less,and those withoutsocial capital,the report says.Also highlighted,are the logistics(后勒)and financial demands arising from touring andworking away from home,the lack of affordable,f

28、lexible,ad-hoc childcare for working musicians,and the lack of support mechanisms(机制)within the classical industry.The report calls on industry leaders to create a classical music sector that works foreveryone.It highlights flexible working,more advanced scheduling,and sharing best-practicewithin th

29、e industry as key next steps.PiPA will be bringing together a working group comprising of Black Lives in Music,HelpMusicians,Independent Society of Musicians,Liverpool Philharmonic,Musicians Union,Phonographic Performance Limited,Royal Opera House and Scottish Opera to develop a bestpractice charter

30、(章程)to address the challenges raised by Bittersweet Symphony.“Only by re-evaluating established working practices,can we begin to deal with wellbeingimpacts,inclusion and diversity,and potential loss of talent,the report says.“We need to jointly adopt sustainable,considered and flexible practices,HR

31、 policies andprocesses,to address the problem.28.Which aspect of classical music industry does the research focus on?A.Potential loss of its workforce.B.Suggestions on its development.C.Its gendered work structures.D.Its logistics and financial problems.29.What do we infer from the report title“A Bi

32、ttersweet Symphony?A.Performing a symphony of classical music is a bitter job.B.Classical industry is suffering hardships despite its sweetness.C.The survey was compared to a classical symphony.D Life is a symphony mixed with bitterness and sweetness.30.What makes it harder for women to stick with c

33、lassical music careers?A.Their inborn gender disadvantages.B.High challenges on their performance.C.The lack of support mechanisms in the industry.D.The lack of flexibility in their career scheduling.31.What is the key factor in solving the problem?A working group and a charter.D.A gender-balanced s

34、tructure of the industry.C.Sticking to the established working practice.D.Reforming the current working mechanism.DWe ourselves,as products of an educational system,are sufficiently perfect evidence againstit.If we think of what we happily might have been,and then of what we are,we cannot butadmit t

35、he total failure or the helpless insufficiency of our education.Looking back on those years upon years which we spent in school,we know that somethingwas wrong.If we will remember,we did not,at the time,exactly approve of the school system.Many of us,in fact,went in for sabotages.Our favorite brand

36、of sabotage was the“withdrawal ofefficiency in our case a kind of unconscious passive resistance.Good-natured onlookers,suchas our parents or the board of education,might have thought that we were learning somethingall the while;but thats just where we fooled them!There were,of course,a few of us wh

37、o reallylearned and remembered everything who could state off-hand,right now,if anybody asked us,in what year Norman the Conqueror landed in England.But the trouble is that so few people askus!There was one bit of honesty in our schooling at its very end.They called that ending aCommencement(毕业典礼).A

38、nd so indeed we found it.Confused,unprepared,out of touch withthe realities,we commenced(开 始)then and there to learn what life is like.We found itdiscouraging in a thousand ways;but the thing which struck us at the time most forcibly was thatit was in every respect quite unlike school.One could not

39、cram for a job as if it were anexamination;one could not get in the good graces of a machine as if it were a teacher;thedocility(温顺)which won high“marks in school was called lack of originality in the businessworld,dullness in social life,stupidity in the realm of love.We had been quite carefully pr

40、eparedto go on studying and attending classes and taking examinations;but the real world was not likethat.So,what difference does schooling make,to us or to the world?And what to us now arethose victories and humiliations,the failure or success of school?32.What is the purpose of this article?A.To c

41、omplain about the educational system.B To encourage readers to get educated in school.C To discuss about how to get good education in school.D.To talk about the relationship between school and society.33.What does the underlined word sabotage in 2nd paragraph most probably mean?A.an unconscious act

42、of destructionB.the low ability to be efficientC.a deliberate strategy of disrespectD.the active resistance to success34.What does the author mean by the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph?A.Not many understand knowledge learned from education.B.Too much dead knowledge is given to students in school

43、.C.Few people are interested in educational questions.D.The more questions you ask the more trouble you face.35.What is the main idea of the 3nd paragraph?A.Commencements shouldnt be carried out in schools.B.School values are not consistent with outside realities.C.We have attended too many classes

44、and examinations.D.We should be educated on different aspects at school.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。Falling asleep or coming down from anxiety might never be as easy as 1-2-3,but someexperts believe a different set of numbers-4-7-8-comes much closer to do

45、ing the trick.“What a lot of sleep difficulties are all about is people who struggle to fall asleep because theirmind is buzzing,said Rebecca Robbins,an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.36And thats exactly what we need to do before we go to bed.The 4-7-8 method doesnt require any equ

46、ipment or specific setting,bat when youreinitially learning the exercise,you should sit with your back straight,according to Weil.Practicingin a calm,quiet place could help,said Robbins.37During the entire practice,place the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue behind yourupper front teeth

47、,as youll be exhaling(呼气)through your mouth around your tongue.Thenfollow these steps,according to Weil:Completely exhale through your mouth,making a whoosh sound.38 Hold your breath for a count of seven.Exhale through your mouth,making a whoosh sound for a count of eight.Repeat the process three mo

48、re times for a total of four breath cycles.Keeping to the ratio of four,then seven and then eight counts is more important than thetime you spend on each phase,according to Weil.“39With practice you can slow it all down and get used to inhaling and exhaling moreand more deeply,his website advised.Wh

49、en youre stressed out,your sympathetic nervous system(交感神经系统)-responsiblefor your fight-or-flight response-is overly active.This makes you feel overstimulated and notready to relax and transition into sleep,Rebecca said.“An active sympathetic nervous system cancause a fast heart rate as well as rapi

50、d and shallow breathing.”The 4-7-8 breathing practice can help activate your parasympathetic nervous system-responsible for resting and digestingwhich reduces sympathetic activity.40Activatingthe parasympathetic system also gives an anxious brain something to focus on besides why am Inot sleeping?We