江苏省常熟市2022-2023高三上学期阶段性抽测（一）英语试题及答案.docx

1、高 三 阶 段 性 抽 测 一 英 语 2022.10注意事项： 1. 本调研卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题），满分150分。答题时间120分钟。2. 请将第I卷的答案填涂在答题卡上，第II卷请直接在答题卡上规定的地方作答。答题前，务必将自己的学校、姓名、调研序列号等相关信息写在答题卡上规定的地方。 第I卷 选择题（共95分）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 (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

2、出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How does the man want his pie? A. With cream. B. With cheese. C. With nothing.2. What time is it now? A. 8:25.B. 8:45.C. 9:00. 3. What does the woman think about the scenery? A. Dull. B. Exciting. C. Changeable.4. Where does the convers

3、ation most probably take place? A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In a classroom. 5. Why should the man apologize to Susan? A. He did her hair badly.B. He didnt notice her new hairstyle.C. He made fun of her new hairstyle.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。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最

4、佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. Who is the woman talking with? A. Her classmate.B. Her parent.C. Her teacher.7. Why didnt she do well in the test?A. She wasnt confident.B. She didnt study hard.C. She was too careless.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What

5、 does the woman hurry to do?A. Go to work. B. Pick up James. C. Repair the engine.9. Where will the speakers meet?A. In the office. B. Near Sarahs apartment. C. In Jamess garage.10. What will the man do most probably when he arrives?A. Find a repairman. B. Consult his father. C. Check the car.听第8段材料

6、，回答第11至13题。11.Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a taxi. B. At a bus stop. C. At a subway station.12. What do the speakers have in common?A. They are both likely to be late for work.B. They are both new to the area.C. They work in the same building.13. What did the speakers do in

7、the end?A. They had lunch together.B. They exchanged phone numbers.C. They added each other on social media.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What is the conversation mainly about?A. The speakers favorite stories.B. The atmosphere of the movie.C. The new technology in the cinema.15. Whats Peters attitude to this

8、 type of entertainment?A. Negative. B. Positive. C. Indifferent.16. Where does the woman come from?A. China. B. Italy. C. America.17. Where is the woman going tomorrow?A. To a dance class. B. To the theater. C. To a restaurant.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Where will the junior and senior competitions take

9、place this season?A. At Queens Park. B. At Kings Park. C. At Royal Park.19. What does the speaker recommend the listeners to do?A. Watch an awards ceremony. B. Go to a party. C. Attend a picnic.20. What can we learn about the competition for seniors?A. Four teams will take part in it.B. Players will

10、 wear red shirts this year.C. The games will be played on Sundays.第二部分：阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AAttractive lakeside cottages and cabinsLafittes Landing Guest Quarters, TexasThere are five cottages featuring high ceilings

11、 and spacious bedrooms. Lafittes Landing is acertified backyard wildlife habitat, so you dont have to go far for bird-watching. Explore the lake ona steamboat, or head to Caddo Lake State Park for night adventures such as Owl Nights and BatWatch.Rates: Summer nightly rates range from $559 to $1,899.

12、Lake Placid Lodge, Lake Placid, New YorkWith 17 cabins sitting along the shores of Lake Placid, the arts-and-crafts-style Lake PlacidLodge offers an exciting summer lake experience. Lakefront cabins come outfitted with hand-builtbeds and stone fireplaces. Go for a hike, or hit the lake for swimming,

13、 fishing, or boating.Rates: Rates are $120 per night for double occupancy; each additional person is $20 per night.Lake Crescent Lodge, Olympic National Park, WashingtonIts cottages and cabins are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Choose betweenone and two bedroom Singer Tavern Cot

14、tages, or stay in the always favored (and often booked) Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins. Spend your days hiking in the surrounding Olympic National Park, orexploring Lake Crescent by boat.Rates: Nightly rates for cottages and cabins range between $317 and $398.Tamarack Lodge & Resort, Mammoth Lakes, Cali

15、forniaIt is on the peaceful shores of the Twin Lakes. Choose between recently built deluxe cabins andold wood and stone cabins. Swimming, fishing, boating, biking, and hiking are popular pastimes.Rates: Summer cabin rates range from $369 to $999 per night.21. Where can you observe bats at night?A. A

16、t Caddo Lake State Park. B. At Lake Placid.C. At Olympic National Park. D. At the Twin Lakes.22. If three people share one room in LakePlacid Lodge, how much will they pay?A. $60. B. $120. C. $140. D. $360.23. Which of the following is difficult to reserve?A. Cottages at Lafittes Landing Guest Quart

17、ers.B. Cabins at Lake Placid Lodge.C. Deluxe cabins.D. Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins.BRick Guidotti put aside his career as a fashion photographer toturn his lens to people living with genetic, physical andbehavioral differences.He says what changed his perception of beauty was a chanceencounter with a

18、n albino (患白化病的) girl. “I was just tired ofpeople telling me who was beautiful. Every season that face wouldchange but I was always told who was beautiful. As an artist, I dontsee beauty just on covers of magazines. I see it everywhere. So thatwas my original intentionthat opened my eyes a little wi

19、der andwider.”Guidotti has created Positive Exposure, a not-for-profitorganization that uses photography and video to transform publicperceptions and promote a world where differences are celebrated.Guidotti and Positive Exposure are featured in a new documentarycalled On Beauty.One of the women fea

20、tured in the film is Jayne Waithera. “Inever thought I was beautiful because nobody said that to me, butmeeting him was my profound moment. I remember that particularday. He took my picture and I felt so good like I felt theressomebody who, like, really loves me and sees me for who I am andwho sees

21、me more than my condition.”Guidotti is traveling from city to city to promote On Beauty. Hesays his tour is not about money; its about the message. “As I travelfrom community to community, Im taking photographs and Imempowering individuals with a positive sense of who they are. Theyreseeing beauty i

22、n their reflection but Im also empowering theirfamilies and they in turn are empowering their communities as well.All is based on the philosophy of changehow you see, how youchange.”24. Why did Guidotti change his career?A. Because he wanted to create his own company.B. Because the beauty on covers

23、of magazines is not beautiful.C. Because he couldnt earn enough money from his former career.D. Because his comprehension of beauty changed owing to analbino girl.25. What can we know about Positive Exposure?A. It makes the public more beautiful.B. It brings a lot of money for Guidotti.C. It welcome

24、s differences in the world.D. It makes photography more popular.26. What does the author want to tell us by mentioning Jayne inParagraph 4?A. Jayne was beautiful indeed.B. Jaynes picture was more beautiful than herself.C. It was unfair that nobody discovered Jaynes beauty. D. Photographs gave Jayne

25、a positive sense of who she was.27. What does the author mainly intend to tell us in the lastparagraph?A. We should travel frequently.B. Communities have a great influence on everyone.C. We should make contributions to our community.D. Your attitude to seeing the world decides your behavior.C Studen

26、t loan debt has become a worldwideproblem. In America, the countrys overall student debt reacheda record $1.6 trillion in 2019. The average person with studentloan debt owed between $20,000 and $25,000. A recentJapanese government report says it has been lending over $9billion yearly to students sin

27、ce 2010. Similar conditions exist inAfrica and South America.Several factors account for high student loan debt. One isthat employers everywhere have increased their demands onworkers, making higher education a requirement for many jobs.The students, however, after graduation, often find that theirc

28、ountrys economy is not strong enough to support their financialneeds, so their ability to pay back the loan becomes a problem.To solve the problem, many countries are seeking theirways. Australia has developed a system where students do nothave to pay anything back until they are earning at least$40

29、,000 a year. In America, several candidates running for president have offered more extreme solutions that all or at leastsome of these loans will be forgiven.Some professors in several universities recently studiedwhat the effects of debt forgiveness might be. They found that,overall, sudden debt r

30、elief greatly improved the borrowers lives. Not only did they have more money, but they were morelikely to move to a new area and seek better paying work.Yet the professors research doesnt include a look at whatmight happen to financial institutions or the overall economy ifdebt were totally forgive

31、n. It only looks at how debt forgivenesswould help the borrowers. The professors warn that debt reliefmight actually make borrowers become more reckless (轻率的) with their borrowing in the future.No matter what, the professors agree that if countries dodecide to approve some student debt relief, the n

32、eediest studentsshould be helped first.28. How does the author introduce the problem of student loandebt?A. By making a comparison. B. By presenting some statistics. C. By making classifications. D. By setting down general rules.29. What can we learn about student loan debt relief?A. It will surely

33、provide some benefits to borrowers.B. It has already been carried out in the United States.C. It aims to encourage more students to borrow money.D. It will prevent a person from landing a well paying job.30. What is the professors attitude to debt relief?A. Uncaring. B. Positive. C. Disapproving. D.

34、 Cautious.31. Whats the main idea of the text?A. People hold different opinions on debt forgiveness.B. Growing global student debt fuels search for solutions.C. Student loan debt tends to pull the needy out of trouble.D. Student loan debt is the most serious problem worldwide.D Parents, teachers and

35、 caregivers have long suspected the magic of storytelling to calm kids. Researchers have now quantified the biological and emotional benefits of a well-told tale.“We know that narrative has the power to transport us to another world,” says Guilherme Brockington from Brazils Federal University. “Earl

36、ier research suggested that stories help children process and regulate their emotionsbut this was mostly conducted in a laboratory, with subjects answering questions while lying inside functional MRI machines. There are few studies on biological and psychological effects of storytelling in a more co

37、mmonplace hospital setting.”So investigators working in several Brazilian hospitals split a total of 81 patients aged 4 to 11 into two groups, matching them with storytellers who had a decade of hospital experience. In one group, the storyteller led each child in playing a riddle game. In the other,

38、 youngsters chose books and listened as the storyteller read them aloud. Before and after these sessions, the researchers took spot samples from each child, then asked them to report their pain levels and conducted a free-association word quiz.Children in both groups benefited measurably from the in

39、teractions; they showed lower levels of cortisolthe stress-related hormone and higher levels of oxytocin, which is often described as a feel-good hormone. Yet kids in the storytelling group benefited significantly more: their cortisol levels were a quarter of those in the riddle group, and their oxy

40、tocin levels were nearly twice as high. Those who heard stories also reported pain levels dropping almost twice as much as those in the riddle group, and they used more positive words to describe their hospital stay.The study demonstrates that playing games or simply interacting with someone can rel

41、ax kids and improve their outlook but that hearing stories has an especially dramatic effect. The researchers “really tried to control the social interaction component of the storyteller, which I think was the key,” says Raymond Mar, a psychologist at York University who was not involved in the new

42、research.Next, the investigators plan to study how long these effects last, along with storytellings potential benefits to kids with particular illnesses such as cancer. For now Brockington says the results indicate storytelling is a low-cost and extremely efficient way to help improve health outcom

43、es in a variety of settings. Mar agrees. “Its very promising and scalable,” he says, “and possibly generalizable.”32. What is the second paragraph mainly about?A. The effects of story-telling on children.B. The limitations of the earlier research.C. The methods used in earlier studies.D. The major b

44、reakthroughs achieved so far.33. What does the underlined word “scalable” in the last paragraph probably mean?A. accessible. B. comparable.C. adjustable.D. readable.34. Which of the following is TRUE about the study conducted in Brazilian hospitals?A. It measured participants blood levels.B. It divi

45、ded subjects into groups of 81.C. It quantified the benefits of story-telling.D. It compared impact of two types of story-telling.35. What can be the conclusion drawn from the study?A. Listening to stories reduces pain and stress in hospitalized kids.B. Interacting with others improves sick kids men

46、tal sharpness.C. Story telling has potential benefits for kids with cancers.D. Riddle guessing is as effective as storytelling in helping sick kids.第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。How to deal with negativityIt can sometimes feel like were surrounded by

47、 negative peopleand opinions. Whether it is on social media, the people we meet orin political discourse, things can often seem overwhelming anddepressing. 36But is there a more constructive, compassionate way of dealingwith these kinds of people? Here are a few suggestions.Dont be a receiver, and always be honest. First, when itcomes to dealing with negative people, its essential that you make