2023届四川省成都市第七中学高三下学期高考模拟考试英语试卷含答案.pdf

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1、第 1页（共 10页）成都七中高 2023 届高三下期 高考模拟考试英英 语语注意事项：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2.答选择题时，必须使用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。3.答非选择题时，必须使用 0.5 毫米黑色笔迹的签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。5.考试结束后，只将答题卡交回。第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 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涂到答题卡上。第一节第一节(共共 5 小题；每

2、小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 7.5 分分)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。例：How much is the shirt?A.19.15.B.9.18.C.9.15.答案是C。1.What will the speakers do on Thursday?A.Play football.B.Watch a movie.C.Go hiking.2.What does the man want to do?A.Place an order.B.

3、Design a uniform.C.Form a team.3.What is Sallys favorite city?A.Paris.B.Madrid.C.Venice.4.Where will the speakers go?A.To a cafe.B.To a dessert shop.C.To a bookstore.5.What relation is Mr.Gomez to the man?A.His teacher.B.His client.C.His boss.第二节第二节(共共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 22.5 分分)听下面 5 段对话或

4、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，回答第 6、7 题。6.What is the man doing?A.Driving a car.B.Repairing a car.C.Borrowing a car.7.How does the man sound in the end?A.Puzzled.B.Hesitant.C.Confident.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8.What ar

5、e the speakers discussing?A.Ajob candidate.B.Anew workmate.C.Travel arrangements.第 3页（共 10页）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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AYour Garden EscapeEven in the big city you can find oases(绿洲)of calm and beauty.From a royal palace to a clas

6、sicalgarden,we recommend great green spaces to escape the hustle and bustle of London.Horniman GardensHorniman Gardens cover 16 acres with breathtaking views of London.Visitors can enjoy the SoundGarden,Meadow Field,and even a Prehistoric Garden,which features a display of“living fossils”.Thegardens

7、 are very popular with families,and dogs can be let off their leads in the Meadow Field.Chiswick House&GardensAs a classical garden landscape in London,it was here that the English Landscape Movement wasborn with William Kents designs.Enjoy fresh bread,seasonal food,and natural wines in theaward-win

8、ning cafe,while admiring the beauty of the naturalistic landscape,spotted with impressive artand statues.Buckingham Palace GardenThe 39-acre garden boasts more than 350 types of wildflowers,over 200 trees and a three-acre lake.The garden also provides a habitat for native birds rarely seen in London

9、.A tour of the garden can becompleted by having a cream tea in the cafe overlooking the Palaces famous grassland and lake.Kew GardensThe Royal Botanic Garden at Kew is one of the worlds most famous gardens and a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site.Have a walk through the vast garden,spot local wildlife at the

10、 lake,or get yourhands dirty by trying a gardening lesson.Be sure to visit the Temperate House,which contains some ofthe rarest and most threatened plants.21.What can visitors do in both Horniman Gardens and Chiswick House&Gardens?A.Study living fossils.B.Taste delicious food.C.Enjoy impressive art.

11、D.Appreciate fine views.22.Where should visitors go if they want to join in hands-on activities?A.Kew Gardens.B.Horniman Gardens.C.Chiswick House&Gardens.D.Buckingham Palace Garden.23.What is the purpose of the text?A.To inform visitors of famous gardens.B.To entertain interested garden visitors.C.T

12、o stress the necessity of garden escape.D.To show the benefits of touring gardens.第 4页（共 10页）BPenn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine is a small shoeshining business in New York City.On arecent weekday,customers sat down at the shoeshine business and pulled out newspapers and phones toread while the

13、ir shoes got shined.The shoeshiners cleaned the footwear and added an oily substance toprotect the shoesleather material.When it was finished,the customers paid eight dollars for the work.Shoeshining has a long history in the United States,dating back hundreds of years.But today,due tothe COVID-19 p

14、andemic,more people work from home than in the past.And it has become popular towear more casual work clothes.Those mean fewer customers for shoeshining businesses.Rory Heenan is a 38-year-old accountant from Philadelphia.He said as a young boy he would takethe train with his father to his office on

15、e Friday each month and watch him get a shoeshine.“And here I am,you know,30 years later,doing the same thing.So,its certainly something thatspassed down over time,”he said.At David Mesquitas Leather Spa,which operates five shoe repair and shine businesses in the area,the repairs are the major part

16、of its sales.But shoeshines are still an important offering to bring people inas most shoe repair businesses dont have the service.Before the pandemic,Leather Spa had four shoeshine chairs at its business inside New Yorks GrandCentral Terminal.It employed six shoeshiners.Together,they would complete

17、 about 120 shines a day.Now,there are only three shoeshiners who do 40 or 50 shines a day at most.“Traffic is slowly coming back in,though were still not back 100 percent of what we were,”Mesquita said,adding that shoeshining isnt something that will ever fully go away.“People like to treatthemselve

18、s,”he said,“whether its once a week or twice a week or once every two weeks.Its just nice.”24.What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?A.The dark future of the shoeshining business.B.Reasons for the change of peoples lifestyle.C.The rise and fall of the shoeshining business.D.Causes of the decline of

19、 the shoeshining business.25.What did little Rory Heenan do regularly?A.He accompanied his father to work.B.He shined his fathers shoes personally.C.He greeted his father at the train station.D.He recorded his shining his fathers shoes.26.According to the text,what is true of Leather Spas shoeshinin

20、g service?A.It means a great deal to its overall business.B.It does expand gradually during the pandemic.C.It can be enjoyed in most shoe repair businesses.D.It is more profitable than its shoe repair business.27.Whats Mesquitas attitude towards the future of shoeshining?A.Mixed.B.Hopeless.C.Optimis

21、tic.D.Worried.第 5页（共 10页）CHumans are not the animal kingdoms only fashionistas.Tits(山雀)can be fashion followers,too,apparently.A latest study shows that,given the chance,they decorate their nests with this seasonsmust-have colour.Dr.Wild and Dr.Aplin were following up on a study published in 1934 by

22、 Henry Smith Williams,an American naturalist.He noticed that when he put various coloured balls of yarn(纱)out in his garden,almost always one and only one became popular that season for being included into local birds nests.But which particular color was favoured varied from season to season.This su

23、ggested that the colourchosen by one of the early birds was spotted and copied by others.Williamss work was,however,forgotten until they came across it while following up on a differentstudy,published by a team at the University of Toulouse,suggesting fashion-following,too.Dr.Wild andDr.Aplin theref

24、ore set out to re-run Williamss experiment,but this time to collect some actual numbers.The birds they followed were part of a well-monitored population of blue tits in a wood near theinstitute.Most birds in this wood carried tracking devices fitted to them after their capture in mist nets.That allo

25、wed the institutes researchers to keep track of a vast number of individuals by recording theirarrival at food containers throughout the wood.Instead of food,these containers were loaded with woolof different colors.Interestingly,researchers soon found that most nests of blue tits included only thec

26、olor of the wool first chosen by a nest-builder.Tits,then,do seem to be“on trend”,when it comes to nest-building materials.Why that shouldhappen remains obscure.Dr.Wild and Dr.Aplin suspect the fashion leaders are older birds,and thatevolution favours younger ones copying their elders since those el

27、ders have evidently survived whatfortune has to throw at a tit.Williamss original work,though,suggests such initial choices are at random a bit like those of the leaders of human fashions.28.What can we learn from Paragraph 2?A.Dr.Wild and Dr.Aplin contributed to Williams work.B.Early birdscolor pre

28、ference was copied by their fellows.C.The color favored by local birds was fixed all year round.D.Yarn was local birdsfavorite material to decorate their nests.29.How did Dr.Wild and Dr.Aplin improve Williams experiment?A.They observed the blue tits.B.They studied the habits of blue tits.C.They adop

29、ted the data-collecting method.D.They fitted tracking devices to food containers.30.What does the underlined word“obscure”in Paragraph 5 mean?A.Hidden.B.Evident.C.Complicated.D.Shallow.31.What is the main idea of the text?A.Birds favor certain colors in decoration.B.Young birds follow their elders i

30、n fashion.C.Young birds are just as intelligent as people.D.Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people.第 6页（共 10页）DRising sea levels and the potential impacts to huge coastal populations worldwide rank near the topof concerns when it comes to consequences of a worsening climate emergency.But a le

31、sser-knowndanger poses an equal or arguably more urgent threat to millions around the world living at much higheraltitudes:flooding from glacial lakes.With average temperatures rising around the world in recent decades,a number of these lakes highabove population centers in South America and Asia ha

32、ve become swollen and unstable as the reservesof snow and ice that feed them melt ever faster.For the first time,an international team of researchers has quantified(量化)this threat.It reportsthat 15 million people are in the path of potential floods from these swollen bodies of water.“Understanding w

33、hich areas face the greatest danger from glacial flooding will allow for more targetedand effective risk management actions,which in turn will help minimize loss of life and damage toinfrastructure(基础设施)downstream,”said Rachel Carr,head of physical geography at NewcastleUniversity.In 1941,a glacial

34、lake outburst flood,or GLOF,from Lake Palcacocha killed thousands in the townof Huaraz below and largely inspired the beginning of research into the phenomenon.Dams and otherinfrastructure were put in place to relieve the threat from the lake in the 1970s,but its volume is nowover 30 times greater,r

35、equiring new improvements to safely drain and release water pressure.Lead researcher Caroline Taylor says the researchers also found that understanding the dangerrequires more than just counting lakes and measuring their volume.“Instead,it is the number of people,their distance to a glacial lake and

36、 importantly,their ability to cope with a flood that determines thepotential danger from a GLOF event.”In recent years,a warning system was set up at Lake Palcacocha that could give residents of Huarazenough time to get out of the way of an incoming flood.Meanwhile,other threatened villages with nos

37、uch alert system continue to rely on hope and luck.32.Why does the author mention rising sea levels in the first paragraph?A.To make a comparison.B.To introduce the topic.C.To provide an example.D.To support his argument.33.What can we learn about GLOF from the passage?A.Effective risk management wi

38、ll rid people of the danger.B.An international team first figured out the dangerous areas.C.Threatened villagers without warning systems can easily get hurt.D.AGLOF in the 1970s determined the start of study into the danger.34.Which factor decides the potential danger according to Caroline Taylor?B.

39、The volume of the unstable lakes.A.The number of the unstable lakes.C.The ability to handle a flood.D.The degree of climate change.35.Which of the following is the best title for the text?A.Glacial Lakes:a Potential DangerB.GLOF:an Overlooked ThreatC.Climate Change:the Cause of GLOFD.Warning Systems

40、:a Solution to GLOF第 7页（共 10页）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Why youre more creative in coffee shopsSome of the most successful people in history have done their best work in coffee shops.36.Among them are Pablo Picasso,J.K.Rowling,Francois Voltaire a

41、nd Bob Dylan.Asweet spot of noise and crowdsSome of us stick in our earbuds as soon as we sit down to work in a public setting.But scientistshave known for years that background noise can benefit our creative thinking.A study showed that amodest level of surrounding noise in a place like a cafe can

42、actually promote your creative output.37.Therefore,this can lead to more creative idea generation.Air of informalityThe typical coffee-shop user might be a lone worker struggling with a creative effort.However,experts say these cafe settings can also benefit work groups who are brainstorming.There i

43、s a formal airwhen gathering on digital meeting platforms.38.All those audio and visual stimuli(刺激)helpgroups,too,compared to the meeting in a formal meeting room.39One thing that can make working from home or the office feel boring is the visual environment.Often we sit in the same chair and look a

44、t the same four walls all day long.In the coffee shops,peoplecome and go.40.The pleasant smells of coffee and food vary.While we tend not to takeconscious notice of these micro-stimuli,and likely dont openly choose to work in this location becauseof them,these activities around us make our brains wo

45、rk a bit differently than at home.A.Visual varietyB.The daylight changesC.The birthplace of countless great worksD.Not all kinds ofnoisy surroundings are bad for your creativityE.By contrast,there is an informal atmosphere when meeting up at a bar or cafeF.Whatever their careers,they have tapped int

46、o their creativity working at a table in a cafeG.Ifyoure slightly distracted from the task at hand,it raises your abstract thinking ability第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。When I was eight,I wanted a toy and needed$10 t

47、o buy it.But,as usual,I was broke.I decided toask my 11-year-old sister,Kathleen,for a loan.I went to her room,41her for the cash.Laughing,she agreed to42me the money,but added,“I will charge you 10 percent compound interest every43until you pay me back.”“Compound interest whats that?”I asked.“Well,

48、interest is what you call the44money borrowers have to pay back on a loan,”sheexplained.“Compound interest means that the interest payments get bigger and bigger the45you第 8页（共 10页）take to pay back the loan.To repay the loan,you will need to give me$11 after one month.If you waittwo months to pay me

49、 back,your46will grow from$10 to$11.So Ill be charging you intereston$11.Then I will add that interest to the$11 you already owe me,for a47of$12.10.Thatswhat youll owe after two months.”“Sure.I get it,”I said.Though truthfully,I was getting48.With the money,I bought the toy.My birthday came a month

50、later,and my mom gave me$10.49,that was just the amount I needed to buy another toy I wanted desperately,the purchase of whichmade me penniless.I50paying my sister for a month.After another month,I51about theloan.Several months later,on Christmas morning,my sister and I each found a$20 bill in our s