江西省九校联盟2023-2024学年高三上学期8月联考英语试卷含答案.pdf

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1、分宜中学分宜中学 玉山一中玉山一中 临川一中临川一中2024 届江西省届江西省 南城一中南城一中 南康中学南康中学 高安中学高安中学 新高三联合考试新高三联合考试彭泽一中彭泽一中 泰和中学泰和中学 樟树中学樟树中学英语试卷英语试卷注意事项:1.本试卷满分 150 分，考试时间为 150 分钟.2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号镇涂在答题卡相应的位置。3.请将答案正确填写在答题卡上。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:从题中所给的人 B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有

2、 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.What does the man want to do?A.Have something to drink.B.Choose a movie.C Buy some popcorn.2.What does the woman mean?A She wants to try the restaurant.B.She will treat the man.C.She likes to eat out.3.What are the speakers talking about?,A.When T-shirts will arriv

3、e.B.How the quality of T-shirts is.C.Whether they should order more T-shirts.4.What will the woman do today?A.Visit a lake.B.Stay at home.C.Go to Mumbai5.Why does the man come to the company?A To attend an interviewed B.To make an appointment.C,To visit the woman,on第二节(共 15 小题:每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分听下面

4、 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。听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。6.When did the man intend to arrive?A.By 7:15.B.By 7:30.C.By 8:00.7.What is the woman worried about?A.The rush hour.B.Parking.C.Being late.听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。8.Where does th

5、e conversation most probably take place?A.At a hotel.B.At an airport.C.At a travel agency.9.What special request does the woman make?A.She wants a cheap fight.B.She requires a return ticket.C.She would like a specific meal.听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。10.What are the speakers discussing?B.A product.C.A universi

6、ty.A.A lecture.11.What does the woman say about Mr Cobb?A.He founded a start-up firm.B.He is well known for his lectures,C.He has contributed a lot to the field of electronics.12 What does he man ask the woman to do?A Contact a department of the universityB.Conduct interview with Mr Cobb.C.Buy ticke

7、ts for employees.听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。13.What are the speakers short of?A.Tomatoes.B.Cheese.C.Cabbages.14.What does the man think of Bert?A.He is inexperienced.B.He is under a lot of pressure C.He has a good sense of direction.15.Who will go to the grocery store?A.Elizabeth.B.Bert.C.Jordan16.What is Eli

8、zabeth doing now?A Reading a menu,B.Cutting vegetables.C.Looking for Bert听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。17.How long did it take to get to the destination?A.One hour,B.Two hours.C.Three hours.18.What did the class do in the morning?A They admired the scenery.B.They went horse riding.C.They took a class.19.What happe

9、ned to the speaker when riding his horse?A He fell off it B.He lost control of it.C.He moved slowly on it.20.What was the speakers opinion on horse riding?A.Exciting.B.DifficultC.Terrible.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。AWhen you try to blow out

10、2 lot of candles,you may not have enough air in your lungs to get the mall Heres how to measure your lung capacity.What youll needPlastic bottle;such as a camping water container that holds a little more than 2 liters ofwater.A 2-liter soft drink bottle may be large enough:try the experiment and see

11、.Plastic tube 60 centimeters long.Large mixing bowlRubber bandsRulerHelper1Fill the bowl about one third full of water and G1l the bottle to the top with water.Hold your hand over the top of the bottle,turn it upside down and put its top under thewater in the bowl:your helper will hold the bottle in

12、 place.Attach the ruler to the bottle with rubber bands.4Put the tube in the neck of the bottle,take a dep breath.Hold your nos and blow hard into the tube as long as you can.What happened?How much water did you blow out?Compare the amount of air yo blew into the bottle to the amount of liquid the b

13、ottle can hold(2 liters,for example).Do this test on different people and see who has the largest and smallest lungs.SOURCE;INS21.Whats the purpose of the experiment?A.To measure how much water you can blow out once.B.To know the amount of air your lungs can hold.C.To test the size of different peop

14、les lungs.D.To hold the air that you blow out at a time.22.In this experiment whats water in the bottle used to do?A.To measure the air you blow out.B.To display the process of the experiment.C.To show the size of the bottle.D.To hold the air you blow out.23.Which of the following statements indicat

15、es the experimenter has a larger lung capacity?A.The experimenter takes a deeper breath.B.The experimenter blows out air harder.C.Less water is left in the bottle after the experiment.D.Less water is left in the bowl after the experiment.BThe hustle and bustle of lifes routines,wandering back and fo

16、rth from the ideal to reality,and the inner turbulence(动荡)hidden behind a social mask these daily experiences are recorded by Chinese young generations in lines of poetry online.Recently,124 Bilibili internet users shared their works in a poem collection.One blogger on Xiaohongshu who goes by the ni

17、ckname Gehuaren is one such poetry lover.The twenty-something girl not only writes poems as a form of entertainment in her spare time,but also improvises(即兴创作)poems for others at night markets in Xishuangbanna,Yunnan.As a“street-stall poet,Gehuaren often writes pieces of poetry quickly based on them

18、es given by customers.Once the poem has been completed,she refuses to change her work because she feels her poems reflect her first reaction.Therefore,her poems are not very long often just several lines and stated in simple words.For her,everything in the world,no matter trivial(琐屑的)or significant

19、can serve as her poetic muse“A glass,a tree on the side of a street in the dawn or a person who once talked with me these all could become themes for my poems,said Gehuaren.With free verse and broad themes,her poems also strike a chord with many young people online,helping her gain over 190,000 foll

20、owers on Xiaohongshu.Many of her followers have made comments such as“I feel healed by your poems because I can find.beauty from unnoticeable things and in turn,slow down to reflect on my life.Apart from poetry,different means such as vlogging and photosharing can be used to recordfragments of daily

21、 life.But Wu Ruilin,a student from Yaan Tianli School in Sichuan province,considers poetry to be the best way to express them.Wu said,“Taking photos or vlogging can justshow the object or your emotions in real life.Yet poetry,which can be used to excite the imagination,shows the beauty in life bette

22、r.So when he is inspired by the beauty of daily life,the18-year-old writes it down into lines of poetry and then shares them with his friends on his WeChat Moments.No matter why young people write their unique brand of poems,they are attempting to take every moment in lives seriously,face their live

23、s bravely and actively express themselves,Xiang Biao,director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany,told BJNews.24.How does Gehuaren find inspiration for her poems?A:By referring to traditional Chinese poems.B.By traveling to different places.C.By observing everyday life.D.B

24、y attending various online poetry activities.25.Why do Gehuarens poems strike a chord with her followers?A.They have a strong sense of rhythmB.They are original and full of imagination.C.They record the beauty of small and ordinary things.D.They reflect the differences between the ideal and reality2

25、6.What is an advantage poetry has over vlogging and photosharing for capturing daily lifeaccording to Wu Ruilin?A.It better presets the beauty of lifeB.It shows emotions more directlyC It takes less time to write poems.D.It reflects more aspects of life.27.Whats Xiang Biaos opinion on young people w

26、riting their unique brand of poetry?A.They are eager to become famous.B.They hope to impress their peers.C They want to escape from their busy lives.D.They communicate their thoughts bravely.CTake care of your plants!They may scream if you treat them badly Although this is an exaggeration plants can

27、 make sounds when they are stressed according to a recent paper published in Cell.Plants interact with insets and other animals all the time,and many of these organisms use sound for communication so it would be very suboptimal(不太理想的)for plants not to use sound at all Lilach Hadany,co-author of the

28、study,told Science Focus With this in mind,the research team started by recording plants sounds.They placed tobacco and tomato plants in soundproof(隔音的)boxes to shut off the noise in the environment.Several ultrasonic(超声的)microphones were then put near the plants which can record at frequencies betw

29、een 20 and 250 kilohertz(干赫).The maximum frequency that a human adults ear can hear is about 16 kilohertz.There were three groups of plants:One group wasnt watered for five days,another group had the stems cut off and the last group was untouched.The microphones caught sounds at a frequency of 40 to

30、 80 kilohertz from the first two groups.The sound,which was similar to the noise of popcorn popping when translated into a frequency humans can hear,grew louder and louder during the five days of water stress.They then began to decline as the plants dried out.A stressed plant produced the popping so

31、und around 30 to 50 times per hour,while the untouched group only produced around once per hour,according to the study.The researchers havent yet discovered how the sounds are made.One theory is that they could be made during cavitation(气穴现象).which is a process of an air bubble in the plant collapsi

32、ng under some kind of pressure.After the experiment,the team gathered the data on stressed plants and then made machine learning software that could tell how plants feel.It could differentiate between unstressed plants,thirsty plants and cut plants,which can be useful for farmers in monitoring the c

33、onditions of their crops.28.What is the main finding of the study?A.Plants can communicate through sound.B.Plants can produce sounds when under stressC.Plants make sounds when they interact with insets.D.Plants produce sounds when they grow.29 What did the researchers do to record the sounds of the

34、plants?A.They wore ultrasonic headphones to pick up sounds.B.They activated air bubbles in the plants.C.They watered all the plants for five days.D.They placed the plants in a soundproof box30.How did the sound of stressed plants change over time according to the study?A.The sound became quieterB.Th

35、e sound remained unchanged.C The sound first increased and then quieted down.D.The sound was only heard in plants that were cu.31 What was the function of he machine learning software developed by the researchersA.To identity different species of plants.B.To analyze how the sounds were made.C.To mon

36、itor the condition of crops.D.To translate plant sound into what humans can hear.DWhen you think of a map,is north on the top or the bottom?Usually maps are designed with north on top,though when we think about it theres no logical reason for this bias(偏见)After all,there is no up or down in space.So

37、 whats wrong with south,cast or west being on the top of the map?The answer is:nothing at all in fact,north-up maps only became the norm in the last few hundred years.Ancient Egyptian maps had south at the top because the Nile River flows downhill from mountains in the south to the Mediterranean Sea

38、 in the north.Mecca was to the south of most early Muslim civilizations,and south-up maps were designed so that viewers would look up to see Mecca Medieval Christian maps had east at the top,as they believed the Garden of Eden was in the east.The only early maps that had north at the top were those

39、of early China because the emperor lived in the north.North seems to have settled at the top of maps during the 16th century,largely thanks to a Flemish mapmaker,Mercator.Mercator was a great admirer of an early Greek mapmaker,who,for reasons now unknown,put north at the top of maps,so Mercator did,

40、too.When Mercators world map became the standard map to navigate the oceans,north up became standard as well.What is the implication of this north-view of the world?Psychologically,people tend to think of up as good and down as bad.Just think of words and phrases like“upmarket,upbeat and moving up i

41、n the world,and how they contrast with their opposites.Because north is so consistently put at the top of maps,people now think of north as good,tooSeveral attempts have been made in recent years by introducing south-up maps to the marketThese maps not only give us a chance to see the world differen

42、tly,but also give everyone the chance to see themselves on top.32.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?A.Mecca maps were based on a legend.B.The south-up map first appeared in ancient Egypt.C.It is ridiculous to decide up or down in space.D.North-up maps were rare in ancient times.33.Why

43、is north associated with good?A.An illogical reason.B.Peoples preference for upC.An age old tradition in Greece.D.The spread of Mercators map.34.What is the authors attitude to south-up maps?A.Supportive.B.Objective.C.UncaringD.Dismissive.35.Whats the main purpose of the text?A To argue for a viewpo

44、intB.To compare various facts.C.To show different maps.D.To make a standard map.第二节(共 5 小题:每小题 2.5 分，滴分 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住选项。选项中有两项为多余选项，In todays world,its all too easy to judge others based on their appearance,beliefs,or actions.36 Luckily,there are ways to be less judgmental and m

45、ore open minded.Recognize your biases and prejudicesIts natural to have opinions and preferences but when those opinions turn into judgments that harm others its time to take a step back and reassess our beliefs 37 This self reflection canhelp us become more aware of our biases and prejudices and en

46、able us to challenge them.Practice empathyEmpathy means putting yourself in someone elses shoes and seeing the world from their perspective.To practice try to listen actively to others ask questions,and show genuine interest in their lives.38 Cultivate a growth mindset 39 However this is not true Pe

47、ople are capable of change and growth,and when we recognize this,we can become more open minded and less judgmental.To cultivate constructive a growth mindset,try to focus on the positive aspects of others,encourage them to try new things,and provide constructive feedback.Being less judgmental requi

48、res self-reflection empathy and a growth mindset.40 This can help us to have a more positive outlook and see the god in others ultimately leading to a moreFulfilling and enriching life.A.When we judge others we assume they are fixed in their ways and that they cannot changeB.It also helps to interac

49、t with people who are different form us.C.However,being judgmental can harm not only the people we judge but also ourselves.D.When we focus on the good in others,we are less likely to judge hem.E.By practicing these skills,we can become more understanding and accepting of othersF.Its essential to as

50、k ourselves why we feel a certain way about a person or a situation.G.By doing so we can build deeper connections with others and learn more about theirexperiences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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 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 sopped by to get a ne