山西省太原市2022-2023学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题含答案.pdf

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1、12022-2023 学年第一学期高三年级期末考试英 语 试 卷学年第一学期高三年级期末考试英 语 试 卷（考试时间上午（考试时间上午 10：00-1200）说明）说明本试卷为闭卷笔答，答题时间 120 分钟，满分 150 分（不含听力）。请将第一卷试题答案填在第二卷卷首的相应位置。第第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）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写到答题卡上。第一节第一节（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

2、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。答案写在答题卡上例：How much is the shirt?A.19.15.B.9.18.C.9.15.答案是 C.1.Where are the speakers probably？A.At home.B.At the airport.C.At a flower shop.2.Who needs treatment？A.The man.B.The pet.C.The mans daughter.3.When does the conversation probably take plac

3、e？A.On Monday.B.On Saturday.C.On Sunday.4.What does the woman advise her kid to do？A.Study outside.B.Refresh himself.C.Surf the Internet.5.What does the woman mean？A.She deserves the honor.B.Shes a good companion.C.Shes not interested in cooking.第二节第二节（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

4、白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 AB、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。答案写在答题卡上。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.What are the speakers talking about？A.Clicking with friends.B.Planning for the evening.C.Preparing an art festival.7.What will Lara probably do tonight？A.Shop for festival ite

5、ms.山西省太原市2B.Enjoy her me-time at home.C.Join the man and his friends.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8.Which is the mans favorite sport？A.Kick-boxing.B.Judo.C.Yoga.9.What is the membership benefit？A.Access to all the facilities.B.Discount in taking classes.C.Free meals in the restaurant.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10

6、.Who is the man probably？A.A house painter.B.A kind neighbor.C.The womans husband.11.How much will the house-painting cost？A.$250.B.$500.C.S 1000.12.What will the woman have to do during the house-painting？A.Help paint the wall.B.Live somewhere else.C.Move the furniture herself.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16

7、题。13.Why does the woman go back to cash instead of the payment apps？A.Thats the only option.B.She is trying to save money.C.The apps are not available on her new phone.14.How does the man find using payment apps？A.It may bring property loss.B.It leads to phone addiction.C.It may cause over-consuming

8、.15.How did the man prefer to pay previously？A.In cash.B.By credit card.C.With mobile payment.16.What might the man tend to do later on？A.Set payment limits.B.Reduce living cost.C.Stop unnecessary spending.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What is the speakers job？A.A tour guide.B.A department manager.C.A

9、wildlife researcher.18.What are visitors advised to do？A.Rent walking boots.B.Wear short trousers.C.Visit in groups.19.What is required to do to be friendly to the rainforest？3A.Respect the locals.B.Avoid touching plants.C.Keep distance from wild animals.20.What will the visitors probably do next？A.

10、Claim their luggage.B.Start to explore the rainforest.C.Settle themselves in the room.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 60 分)第一节分)第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 3 分，满分 45 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。AWhat insiders look for when assessing a high schoolTons of AP classes.Beautiful buildings.A winning socce

11、r team.What makes a high schoolgreat is all the stuff you hear about？Think again.Here are some absolutely vital，but oftenoverlooked things that indicate a quality high school.Adults and students high five each other in the halls.Or at least smile and say hey.Are students comfortable to enter a teach

12、ers office or classroomduring a break，just to check in？Do they trust the adults at the school enough to share their livesoutside of school？Indeed，strong，caring relationships with adults in a school setting increasestudents motivation and academic success.No child is left without a plan.Good high sch

13、ools make sure theres a well-maintained and real-time updated system thatstudents and parents know how to use to check on their progress before report cards come out,especially for students at risk of failing or dropping out.They give all students access todemanding academics and meaningful career o

14、ptions throughout their high school years,plus extrasupport for applying for college or pursuing a career.Everyones voice is being heard.All of the students should be valued as individuals and as members of the community.Dostudents get to participate in decisions that affect their learning？Do the ad

15、ults and students at theschool feel that their personal identities are valued and respected?When you ask a kid,why are you doing that?He has an answer.At a quality high school,students should be able to say why theyre spending their valuabletime programming a robot,testing the water at the local str

16、eam,or designing a museum exhibit.Ofcourse every single assignment will not get a clarity of purpose,but the more you hear a logicalresponse to why,the more its likely that students are engaged in realistic ways of learning how tosolve complex,open-ended,real-world problems.21.Why is campus greeting

17、 valued in a quality high school according to the text？A.It shows respect for school staff.4B.It helps build a harmonious relationship.C.It demonstrates examples of good manners.D.It weighs the overall performance of the students.22.How does a quality school guarantee every child has a plan？A.By han

18、ding out report cards in advance.B.By involving students in decision making.C.By updating teaching methods frequently.D.By giving timely feedback and career guidance.23.What is the purpose of the text？A.To define the success of a student.B.To recommend a quality high school.C.To clarify the purpose

19、of school education.D.To offer some criteria for school assessment.BWhen Tavia Gilbert studied acting at Seattles Cornish College of the Arts,she drove home toIdaho for holidays.Shed listen to audiobooks on those long,seven-hour drives back and forth.After graduating with an acting degree,Tavia stud

20、ied documentary radio at the Salt Institute.Unexpectedly,this six-month program in Portland turned into a twenty-year stay.Audiobook narration seems like a natural fit for her.Twenty years and 700 audiobooks later,Tavia Gilbert has narrated every book genre fot almost every publisher in the industry

21、.Shes woncountless awards and earned a Grammy nomination（格莱美提名奖）Although Tavias successful,established and respected in the business,narrating opportunitiesdont just pop into her inbox.Once she does land a job-non-fiction,mystery,novel,science fiction,or picture book-Tavia precisely marks her manusc

22、ripts in a rainbow of colors.She notes acharacters screaming,Southern lengthened tone or Bostonian accent with a blue marker.Greenindicates verbslike screamed,weptto emphasize.Red marks alert Tavia to double-check apronunciation.To record the book,Tavia has to stay in her homes whisper room.Such a p

23、rofessionalrecording studios double walls block noises that may ruin a production.There Tavia pictures thestory with her voice as she tells it to listeners.In a short time period,she must perform numerouscharacters in a 350-page novel,wrap up the recording,and send it to the publisher.Shes studiedFr

24、ench and Russian and sings in these two languages.Moreover,Tavia feels comfortable narratingin a wide variety of dialects.Scottish characters are the most troublesome for her.“The dialect israther tongue-tying,”she laughs.Several years ago,Tavia narrated the audiobooks all day long.“Sitting with my

25、recordingequipment for twelve hours a day helped me escape the painful loneliness of divorce,illness,师5injury and lifes chaos.I always had a story to put myself in.”she says.Nowadays,Tavias life haschanged for the better.She narrates,teaches college classes,sings in chorus and auditions.Her lifetake

26、s off because of her busy but wonderful career.24.What is the first paragraph mainly about？A.Tavias travel log.B.Tavias college life.C.Tavias acting talent.D.Tavias career preparation.25.Why are color-marked manuscripts mentioned in the text？A.To show her taste in coloring.B.To show her devotion to

27、the job.C.To show her artistic creativity.D.To show her learning competence.26.What does Tavia have to do to record an audiobook？A.Avoid using Scottish dialect.B.Draw pictures to match the story plot.C.Master various foreign languages.D.Put herself in a noise-cancelling environment.27.What can we in

28、fer about Tavia from the last paragraph？A.Her life used to be messed up by her work.B.She felt painful and lonely recording a book.C.She found an outlet for lifes hardship in her job.D.Her unpleasant experiences resulted in her success.CUnlike octopuses（章 鱼）,we donthave brains in our limbs.So we can

29、treally“remember”anything with our arms and legs.But its true that once we learn how to dosomething physicalwhether riding a bike or weightliftingit becomes easier and easier to doit without conscious thought.Most people are referring to this phenomenon when they talk about“muscle memory”.They think

30、 the secret to learning a skill is to do it over and over again untilthey have developed muscle memory.But when biologists and neuroscientists（神经学家）studyit，they mean at least two slightly different things.A recent research by biologists at the University of Oslo found that the key indicators ofmuscu

31、lar growth myonuclci（肌核），which are inside muscle fibers，wont disappear asmuscles shrink,which suggests that our myonuclei are doing at least some of the remembering.The researchers have noted that muscle built during ones younger years might functionally serveto allow individuals to“bank”myonuclei t

32、hat could be drawn upon later in life to slow the effectsof aging.Neuroscientists,on the other hand,believe that learning to ride a bike is an exercise in episodememory:You can know how to ride a bike without being able to explain how youre doing it.Itfeels to us as if that memory is stored in our m

33、uscles and theyre remembering how to perform anaction without our really being aware of it.But the reality is that the activity is happening in ourbrains.“The processes that are important for learning and memory of new skills occur mainly inthe cognitive（认知）system，not in the muscles，”explained Ainsl

34、ie Johnstone，a neuroscientist6at Oxford University.The parts of your brain responsible for that movement develop strongerconnections between neurons that serve as the representation for the motion,and its theseconnections that make the memory better and easier to access.Your new understanding of mus

35、cle memory is probably some combination of the two basicideas.Anyway,the proverb,practice makes perfect”,always holds true for us non-octopuscreatures.28.What is peoples common belief in“muscle memory”？A.It relies heavily on the passion for sports.B.It can refer to two slightly different things.C.It

36、 means remembering things with our arms and legs.D.It is acquired from frequent repetition of a movement.29.Which of the following may biologists agree with？A.Muscle memory is a short-term memory.B.Muscle memory performs best at an old age.C.Myonuclei fail to function as muscles disappear.D.Myonucle

37、i help explain the phenomenon of“muscle memory”.30.What plays a major role in“musclememory”according to Ainslie Johnstone？.A.Personal feelings.B.Episode memoriesC.Neuron connections.D.Musclemyonuclei.31.What can be the most suitable title for the text？A.How different are we from an octopus？B.What is

38、 the secret to being skillful at sports？C.Muscle memory is real,but more than what you thinkD.The existence of muscle memory is being challengedDBy 2100,cities around the world could warm by 4 on average,exposing the growing urbanpopulation to conditions that will damage humans life.Cities are on th

39、e frontlines,dealing dailywith the impacts of climate change.At this years 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference,the UN EnvironmentProgramme(UNEP)announced a new initiativethe Nature for Cool Cities Challenge,whichencourages cities to use the cooling power of nature.Solutions such as forests

40、,green belts andparks in and around cities can deliver cooling services，without damaging emissions（排放）.Thecooling benefits of such solutions are well-documented,but they need to be better understood andmanaged to bring about changes at a global level.Cities across the world that are already too hot

41、in summer are taking a variety of measuresfrom insisting new buildings have gardens on their roofs,painting existing roofs white,to coloring7roads light grey and planting trees in streets and open spaces.The good news is that all thesemeasures work,mitigating land surface temperatures by 2 to 3 in t

42、he areas where they areapplied.Qatar,host country of 2022 World Cup,surprises the world with an open mind about usingtechnological innovation to deal with the environmental challenges of living in the desert.Thegovernment has implemented(实施）a pilot“cool pavement project in the capital,Doha,whichinvo

43、lves the use of a cooling material to decrease the temperature of the asphalt（沥青）on roads.Unlike conventional asphalt,which contributes to increased temperatures by absorbing up to 95percent of sunlight,the so-called cool pavement”reflects UV rays and absorbs solar radiation to alesser extent,contri

44、buting to overall temperature reduction in a greener way.The government,using the World Cup event as a platform,is seeking for partnership with more countries inaddressing global environmental issues.Many hands make light work.Just as Sheila Aggarwal-Khan,Director of UNEPs EconomyDivision put it,“Tr

45、uly effective solutions require partnership between governments,the privatesectors,experts,and practitioners,nationally and internationally.It is decisive that the joint effortsfrom financial institutions,investors and businesses help make this vision a reality.”32.What does UNEPs new initiative aim

46、 to do？A.Cool cities with nature-based methods.B.Cut down the emissions in public places.C.Document the benefits of living in the city.D.Decrease urban population to improve living.33.What does the underlined word“mitigating”in paragraph 3 probably mean？A.Reducing.B.Increasing.C.Maintaining.D.Adjust

47、ing.34.How does the new material work in Qatar“cool pavement”project？A.It takes in much of the sunlight.B.It enlarges the exposure to solar radiation.C.It helps improve the air quality of Doha effectively.D.It absorbs less and reflects more than conventional materials.35.What did Sheila Aggarwal-Kha

48、n stress？A.Finance.B.Cooperation.C.Professionalism.D.Management.第二节第二节（共 5 小题;每小题 3 分，满分 15 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。Most of us regard chores as annoying tasks to get done,but the evidence shows they areactually good for us.For some,cooking is very enjoyable,while for others its ju

49、st a daily chore._36_cookingregularly can have some serious benefits for your health.The most obvious benefit is that the8more you cook basic ingredients,the less processed food youll end up eating.As we know,processed food is often short of nutrients and can hide several questionable ingredients.37

50、Another less obvious benefit is that cooking can lower stress levels.We know any type ofcreativity lowers stress and benefits overall health.This certainly includes making food.Planninga recipe,chopping produce,adding seasoning,making adjustmentsthese are all parts of thecreative process of cooking.