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1、2022-2023-2 雅礼中学高三下模拟考试（一）雅礼中学高三下模拟考试（一）英英语语时量：120 分钟满分：150 分第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）略第二部分阅读（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。AVisiting Information of the MuseumOpening HoursFrom Tuesday to Sunday,9:0017:00(last entry at 16:00);the museum is closed on Mondays(

2、exceptstatutory holidays)and on Chinese Lunar New Years Eve.Free Admission PolicyThe museum is free to the public except for some special exhibitions.Children under the age of 14 shall beaccompanied by adults.An adult can only bring up to 2 children under the age of 14 to visit the museum.Guided Tou

3、rsThe museum has resumed free tour guide services at designated time and spots;educational activities,the VRDigital Experience Hall and multimedia equipment in the exhibition hall are now available again.Reception ServiceConsultation service,direct drinking water facilities,chairs and benches,parkin

4、g space for vehicles andnon-motorized vehicles.The museum also provides visitors with free lockers,wheels,prams and crutches.Guided Tours and InterpretationThere are free multi-language guide maps and exhibition leaflets written in Chinese and English.Docents ofvarious languages,touch screen compute

5、rs for information searching and App with multi-language interpretationservices are also available.Educational and Interactive ServiceThemed lectures,children-oriented activities,hands-on activities and interactive multimedia programs are heldall year-around.Leisure ServiceRestaurants,cafs,teahouses

6、,souvenir shops,bookstores,post offices and public telephones can all be foundin the museum.Parking LotVehicles will be charged according to the standards set by the Pricing Agency.AccidentsPersonal accident insurance regarding the visitor is covered.Over-the-counter medicine and bandages arereadily

7、 available.In case of emergency,the staff will call an ambulance and send the visitor to the nearest publichospital as soon as possible.21.When can visitors enter the museum?A.At 10:00,Monday.B.At 8:30,Thursday.C.At 16:30,Friday.D.At 13:00,Saturday.22.Which is NOT free of charge?A.Wheels.B.Parking s

8、pace.C.Multi-language guide maps.D.Tour guide services.23.What do we know about the museum?A.All exhibitions in the museum are free of charge.B.The VR Digital Experience is available to visitors.C.Visitors need to call an ambulance for emergency.D.Visitors are forbidden to have meals in the museum.B

9、As a child,I never considered myself an athlete at all as I was very uncoordinated(不协调的).However,I didlove to run because I felt as if I was flying but this all changed two years ago when I suffered a knee injury.I wasbedridden for two weeks and I had a difficult time moving even short distances.I l

10、iterally cried myself on my wayto the car for a few days.When therapy wasnt working well for me,I signed up for a hot yoga class for girls,Bikram Yoga to be exact.Starting a yoga practice was truly a godsend because it helped me gain strength in my knees but,most importantly,yoga helped me attain a

11、more peaceful state of mind,body and spirit.Since each class was heated to 105F,every time I stepped foot in the yoga studio,Id feel a surge(涌起)ofnegative thoughts come upon me like a big ocean wave.Some of these thoughts were,in the beginning of mypractice,so strong that I walked out of the class s

12、everal times.However,as the months passed by,I noticed thatwhen I didnt get swayed away by my negative thoughts,I could stay in the hot room for longer.After 3 4 months of practicing hot yoga,my arms and legs were beginning to get definition.I also woke upwith so much more energy than I had before s

13、tarting my yoga practice and I gradually started shedding the poundsfrom my body.Yoga literally made me feel as if Id taken a shot of energy drink and just gave me that burst thathelped my knees heal and made my overall health better.As I saw some of my classmates do poses that looked appealing to m

14、e,I started to think maybe I could dothem too.Therefore,yoga helped show me that I have no real limitations physically unless I set those limitationsmyself through eating junk and thinking in negative limiting terms.Also,practicing yoga in front of a mirror helped me connect with myself and practici

15、ng with a group of peoplereally helped me to feel a greater sense of connection with humanity whereas before I didnt.Overall,this yogapractice has helped me to see Im part of a bigger picture in life!24.What made the author sign up for the yoga class?A.Her currently disabled knee.B.Her being uncoord

16、inated.C.Her failure to find her car.D.Her serious mental disease.25.What can we learn about the author from paragraph 3?A.Lack of confidence prevented her doing yoga.B.The temperature was difficult to bear in yoga classes.C.She couldnt stand the pain the knee injury brought.D.She was greatly impact

17、ed by negative thoughts at first.26.What effect did yoga have on the author?A.She did better than her classmates at school.B.Her physical and mental states have improved a lot.C.She has developed many healthy eating habits.D.Her social circle was widened in the yoga classes.27.What is the authors pu

18、rpose in writing the passage?A.To share her experience in taking yoga classes.B.To call on readers to sign up for yoga courses.C.To present the benefits of practicing yoga regularly.D.To show readers the necessary skills needed to do yoga.CFirst constructed in the 10th century as a part of a villa,t

19、he garden of Keyuan in Suzhou,Jiangsu province,was rebuilt and redecorated on numerous occasions throughout history until it became a Confucian academy in1805.The waterscape,rockeries and flourishing willows may have greeted students to step into a“painting”whereearthly beauty and dynamics of a real

20、 world can be felt.However,in recent history,the shine of the past seems to have been forgotten by the passing of time.Thepond was muddy.Rocks were unstable.Plants were withering.Termites also damaged the buildings,the structureof which had been damaged through decades of neglect.The contrast became

21、 even more regrettable when the GreatWave Pavilion,a garden on the UNESCO World Heritage List that is just a few meters away across a narrow lane,was crowded with tourists every day.When Keyuan was handed to He Fengchun,an experienced garden renovation designer,in 2016,her work tomake“the pearl”shin

22、e again was challenging.“Every step in the restoring and decorating process has to followhistorical recordings,”says the designer.“It took just more than one year for us to actually renovate this garden,butmuch longer time was spent in evaluating every detail in the plan and making sure of its histo

23、rical accuracy,”shesays.Renovation of Keyuan was recognized with an Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation byUNESCO in 2021.A bright and elegant garden is now accessible to visitors and jointly describes a culturally richneighborhood with the Great Wave Pavilion.And now,to keep health

24、y,it also needs regular maintenance,in which modern science plays a key role.Forexample,with support of big data analysis and scientific evaluation of impact brought by tourism,the largestnumbers of visitors within a day or even an hour are set for every key site to create a comfortable experiencefo

25、r both tourists and the gardens.28.What do the underlined words“the pearl”in paragraph 3 refer to?A.Keyuan.B.The UNESCO World Heritage.C.Renovation of Keyuan.D.The Great Wave Pavilion.29.What does the designer say about renovating Keyuan?A.Its practical.B.Its significant.C.Its time-consuming.D.Its u

26、rgently needed.30.What does the author want to tell us by the example in the last paragraph?A.The need to limit the number of visitors.B.The negative impact tourism has on gardens.C.The comfortable experience gardens give visitors.D.The role modern science plays in protecting gardens.31.What is the

27、most suitable title for the text?A.The Process of Repairing KeyuanB.Beauty of Classical Suzhou GardensC.The Shining of the Garden of Keyuan AgainD.Classical Gardens of World Cultural HeritageDPeople with social anxiety may benefit from mindfulness therapy combined with exposure to odours(aparticular

28、 smell,especially an unpleasant smell)from others sweat,according to a study.Lead researcher Elisa Vigna,of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm,Sweden,explained that an individualsstate of mind caused the production of chemo-signals in sweat that communicated an emotional state and producedcorresp

29、onding responses in other people.“The results of our initial study show that combining these chemo-signals with mindfulness therapy seems toproduce better results in treating social anxiety than can be achieved by mindfulness therapy alone,”she said.The study which is being presented this week at th

30、e European congress of psychiatry in Paris involvedcollecting sweat from volunteers,and then exposing patients being treated for social anxiety to chemo-signalsextracted from those samples.The samples were collected from people who were watching clips from films chosento elicit particular emotional

31、states,such as fear or happiness.They included Mr.Beans Holiday and Sister Act,aswell as horror films such as The Grudge.Once the sweat had been collected,researchers selected 48 women,all of whom suffered from social anxiety,and divided them into three groups,each of 16 people.Over two days,they al

32、l underwent mindfulness therapy forsocial anxiety.At the same time,each group was exposed to the odour samples or to clean air.The study found that the women who had been exposed to the odour samples responded better to the therapy.Patients who undertook one treatment session of mindfulness therapy

33、together with being exposed to human bodyodours showed about 39%reduction in anxiety scores.There was a 17%reduction in anxiety scores after onetreatment session in the group receiving only the therapy.Vigna said:“We were a little surprised to find that the emotional state of the person producing th

34、e sweat didntdiffer in treatment outcomes:sweat produced while someone was happy had the same effect as someone who hadbeen scared by a movie clip.So there may be something about human chemo-signals in sweat generally whichaffects the response to treatment.It may be that simply being exposed to the

35、presence of someone else has thiseffect,but we need to confirm this.”32.What can be inferred from Elisa Vignas words?A.She has got the results of the final research.B.Mindfulness therapy alone was of little use.C.Chemo-signals produced better results than mindfulness therapy.D.Mindfulness training w

36、orked better when combined with chemo-signals.33.Which of the following is TRUE about the study?A.All groups were exposed to the odour samples.B.39%of the patients benefited from odours of others sweat.C.All participants received mindfulness therapy for social anxiety.D.The emotional state of the pe

37、rson producing the sweat mattered.34.What does the underlined word“elicit”mean in paragraph 4?A.To cause something to happen.B.To remove it completely.C.To make your meaning clearer.D.To make something stronger.35.What may the researchers do next?A.Promote the result of the research.B.Treat people w

38、ith the new method.C.Confirm what affects the responses.D.Do the same experiment with 48 men.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。Build up your self-confidenceSelf-confidence is about trusting your judgment and your ability to do something well.It is also about be

39、ingwilling to consider the possibility that you are wrong and to change your mind.It is a combination of courage andhumility,which leads to open-minded thinking.Low self-confidence,in contrast,will make you feel unsuccessful,unmotivated and inferior to others.36When you do try,your lack of trust in

40、yourself mayultimately lead you to fail.The reasons for low self-confidence are many and varied,and often differ from person to person.37They may find it difficult to develop self-confidence if their parents are critical or overprotective.Once they fail to fulfill expectations,they may feel bad abou

41、t themselves and get trapped in the cage of self-doubt.38If a child gets bullied in school or in the neighborhood,he or she may be afraid of speaking in public,even when he or she grows up to be an adult.39Firstly,work on positive thinking.A positive attitude will lead to positive results.Do not wor

42、ry about letting others down.All they expect is that you do your best.Turn your negative thoughts intopositive ones.You can always talk to yourself in a positive way,such as“I can do it!”or“Ill give it another try!”Secondly,set realistic goals for yourself and visualize yourself achieving these goal

43、s.40Therefore,it is important to break down the overall goal into smaller and more measurable tasks.For those tasksyou are not so sure about,ask your friends or family for advice.Also,understand that it is perfectly normal if youdo not succeed in completing a task.Finally,permit yourself to make mis

44、takes.It is not always possible to getthings right the first time.Therefore,do not always feel bad about yourself when you make a mistake,but accept itas an opportunity to reflect on what has gone wrong and how you can do better when you try again.Recognize yourmistakes and make a plan to avoid them

45、 in the future.A.Confidence is built on a sense of accomplishment.B.The overall goal must be based on your own capability.C.The good news is that your self-confidence can be improved.D.Building up your self-confidence is of great benefits as follows.E.Negative experiences also have a huge impact on

46、self-confidence.F.It often prevents you from doing your best and perhaps from even trying.G.One of the reasons is the home environment where children grow and develop.第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。I was sitting in a chemistry class when I

47、and six other kids were called down to the counselors(顾问)office.Itwas pretty strange because none of us were“41”students.We all42what she wanted tosay.This was when she told us she would be choosing43of us to be nominated(提名)for the largest44in Canada.I never realized I was that45.She said,since we

48、all had a(n)46high average,she would talk to our teachers to see who most47it.A week later,I got an email from the counselor.It was48to me and another student at themeeting.I was shocked;this must have49we were the two people she would be choosing from.Wewere required to write about where we50oursel

49、ves in ten years.I knew I had to make this count.Ispoke from the heart,describing my51life:living in the big city,having finished my degree,doingwhat I loved every day.About another week later,I got called back to her office,only me.I didnt want to be overexcited becausemaybe she was being52,telling

50、 me I wasnt chosen.She told me I was the one picked.Nobody couldhave53my smile,what a moment!She told me about all the54things my teachers said about me;I never realized I was held insuch high-regard to them.Over 350,000 students graduate from high school every year and I was one of the only1,500 ki