南通海安2023届高三上学期英语期中联考试卷及答案.docx

1、海安市2023届高三期中学业质量监测试卷英 语注 意 事 项考生在答题前请认真阅读本注意事项及各题答题要求1.本试卷共10页，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。考试结束后，请将答题卷交回。2.答题前，请您务必将自己的姓名、准考证号，座位号用0.5毫米黑色字迹签字管填写在答题卷上。3.请认真核对监考员在答题卡上所粘贴的条形码上的姓名。考试证号与你木人的是否相符。4.作答选择题必须用2B铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动。请用橡皮擦千净后，再选涂其它答案。作答非选择题必须用书写黑色字迹的0.5 毫米的签字笔写在答题卷上的指定位置，在其它位置作答一律无效。第一部分: 听力 (共两节, 满

2、分30分)第一节 (共5小题: 每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面的5段对话。每段对话后都有一个小题，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。1. What does the man want to do?A. Eat out. B. Cook dinner himself. C. Have home-made food.2. How does the woman suggest the man go home?A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By car.3. What does

3、 the woman think of her new roommate?A. Careless. B. Thoughtful. C. Noisy.4. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a hospital. B. At home. C. In a chemist shop.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Insurance. B. The womans job. C. A health plan.第二节 (共15小题: 每小题1.5 分，满分

4、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. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?A. Father and daughter. B. Teacher and student. C. Schoolmates.7. What would the $1,500 cash be us

5、ed for?A. Covering the school fees. B. Paying for textbooks. C. Holding parties.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Who are the speakers most likely to be?A. Event organizers. B. Concert performers. C. Magazine editors,9. What will happen to the jazz festival?A. It will be staged this afternoon.B. It will be cowered

6、in a magazine.C. It will be advertised by a reporter.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why is the woman moving to Watertown?A. She is starting her own business.B. Her family lives in the area.C. Her company will relocate.11. What does the woman care most about the apartment?A. The rent. B. The size. C. The locat

7、ion.12. What will the speakers most likely do next?A. Look for a three-bedroom apartment.B. Go to the city entre.C. Schedule a visit.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What do we know about Barrys parents?A. They were both sports lovers.B. They allowed him to develop hobbies.C. They asked him to focus on his stud

8、y.14. What inspired Barry to be a violinist?A.A TV program. B. A musician. C. A band.15. What did Barry do after graduation?A He travelled with other young musicians.B. He studied science courses for a year,C. He went straight to lean music.16. What does Harry mean in the end?A. He will delay his wo

9、rld tour. B. He is satisfied with his career.C. He is looking for better chances.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who is the speaker?A. A college student. B. An activity organizer. C. A participant in an activity center.18. What activity do people do most time in the center?A. Water sports. B. Rock climbing. C

10、. Mountain biking.19. What does the speaker value most about activity centers?A. Different experience. B. Social interaction. C. Sports entertainment.20. What do participants do on the last afternoon?A. Watch TV. B. Sing songs together. C. Play team games.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

11、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。A21. Whats the purpose of the experiment?A. To test the size of different peoples lungs.B. To hold the air that you blow out at a time.C. To know the amount of air your lungs can hold.D. To measure how much water you can blow out once.22. In this experiment whats

12、water in the bottle used to do?A. To hold the air you blow out.B. To show the size of the bottle.C. To measure the air you blow out.D. To display the process of the experiment.23. Which of the following statements indicates the experimenter has a larger lung capacity?A. The experimenter blows out ai

13、r harder.B. The experimenter takes a deeper breath.C. Less water is left in the bowl after the experiment.D. Less water is let in the bottle after the experiment.BThe turn of the year is traditionally the time for reviewing ones life, and perhaps for making some resolutions as to what to concentrate

14、 on in the coming year; and for many years past I have taken advantage of the holiday period to review my own goal and ambition.One thing I do decide to do this year, with some unwillingness, is to give up writing the Grumpy Old Bookman column in this magazine. Its not that Ive lost interest in the

15、book world, you understand. But Leonard Woolf, husband of writer Virginia Wool, used to say that a man should change his career every seven years. Though personally I would say that changing your whole career so often is going a bit far, I do find, during my own working life, that it acts as a great

16、 refresher if you can occasionally try a new job within the same organization or line of business.It is in fact well over 15 years since our editor wrote to me and asked if I would be interested in writing a regular piece about what was, even then, a rapidly changing publishing scene. He approached

17、me because since 2004 I had been writing a regular blog called, amazingly enough, Grumpy Old Bookman.As my monthly survey of developments in both traditional and digital publishing continued, in this magazine, I began to realize that writers in this century, of both fiction and non-fiction, are livi

18、ng in something close to a paradise. Once, you struggled for years to find a publisheror an agent if you wanted onebut now you can publish your own stuff, either digitally or in paperback, without it costing you a penny piece. Amazing.After about five years of producing such columns, at just under a

19、 thousand words a time, it occurred to me that, rather than let these essays drift away on the seas of time, it might be of value to potential readers to publish my thoughts and comments in book form. Hence, in 2014, I published the first 69 GOB columns in paperback format, using Amazons Create spac

20、e facilities. Title: Writers Rejoice! A monthly diary of the dawn of the digital age, which was my first trial. And now I sincerely wish a new 2022.24. Why does the author want to give up writing the column?A. He follows Leonard Woolfs suggestion.B. He is very keen on trying something new.C. He is f

21、ed up with the career linked to books.D. Hes used to changing his job every seven years.25. According to the author, what can be inferred from Paragraph 4?A. It is a blessing to live in the present times.B. Publishing industry is a profitable business.C. It is rather hard to publish books nowadays.D

22、. Now it is amazing to find a publisher easily.26. What do you think of the author?A. Purposeful and good at self-reflecting.B. Dedicated but easy to doubt himself.C. Emotional and good at controlling himself.D. Ambitious but reluctant to change himself,27. What does the author mainly want to tell u

23、s?A. Giving up timely is another virtue.B. The beginning of a year is a new start.C. Reflection can drive us to push forward.D. Changing the job means a new opportunity.CIn English its common to say, “I know this town like the back of my hand!” While we may know our towns really well, how well do we

24、 actually know our hands? Maybe not quite as well as we think, said a scientific study.Matthew Longo and his team from University College London studied the left hands of 100 people. With their hands placed palms down under a board, Longos team gave the instruction to point to their knuckles (指关节) a

25、nd fingertips with a marker. How did they do? Not that well.“People think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said Longo. He said they also seemed to think their fingers were shorter than their true lengths. People were most accurate when finding their thumbs, but became less accurate with eac

26、h finger, up to their pinkies (小手指)。“It is connected to our sense of position,” explained Longo. Humans know where different parts of our bodies are, even if we cant see them. “It tells us whether a joint is straight or not,” said Longo. “We also need to know the distances between our joints, he wen

27、t on. Our brains know the sizes and shapes of our bodies from the maps they make for themselves. “This experiment tried to find those maps, he said.Maybe maps dont need to be perfect. But why arent our brains more accurate? Longo said our brains “see” areas based on our sense of touch, with the stro

28、nger the sense of touch in a specific body part, the bigger that body part seems. An example is our lips. As they have more nerves than our noses, our brains map shows our lips are bigger. The same thing can happen with body parts that have a lot of nerves. If youve ever had something stuck in your

29、teeth it probably felt huge! Thats because our tongues also have lots of nerves.If you want to have some fun, try this test with your classmates. Get some boards and some markers and have them mark the spots where they think their knuckles and fingertips are. Compare their hands to the marker spots

30、and see how well they have performed.28. What can we learn from the experiment?A. People are always more accurate to judge the width of their palms.B. The experiment is to measure with and length of hands accurately.C. People s perception of hands is not something they take for granted.D. The experi

31、ment explores the difference between left and right hands.29. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. The size of the hand. B. The misbelief people had.C. The map the brain makes. D. The position of each body part.30. According to the passage, whats the key factor in affecting

32、our perception of hands?A. The shapes of our bodies. B. Maps of organs.C. The distances between joints. D. The brain.31. Whats the purpose of the passage?A. To give us a further insight into the brain.B. To convince us that seeing is not believing.C. To conduct a wider research about our hands.D. To

33、 introduce an easy but interesting experiment.DSome late Stone Age Europeans may have carried make-up inside mini bottles worm around their necks or waists more than 6,000 years ago.Researchers have found traces of ingredients known to be used in cosmetic formulations (配力) by later civilizations ins

34、ide small bottles unearthed in Slovenia, dating to between 4350 and 4100 B.C, more than 200 years earlier than previously thought. In 2014, Bine Kramberger at the Institute for the PCHS found a mini ceramic bottle al an ancient site once occupied by people of the Lasinja culture in around 4350 B. C.

35、 More than 100 similar bottles have also been found.Their purpose was unknown, but it is thought that some might have been childrens toys. Curiously, most of them have holes in their tiny handles or edges that archaeologists think people threaded string through, enabling them to be worn around the n

36、eck or waist. But Krambergers find was different because it contained a solid white substance. “It was clear that it had valuable information because in such old archaeological sites, we rarely find containers that still keep remains of their former content, he says.Long and thin stone tools were fo

37、und near the bottle, which could have been used to extract the substance within. Now, Kramberger and his colleagues have analysed the substance in the bottle and examined 13 others from the same period. The mystery material contained a white lead mineral called cerussite, while different lead minera

38、ls were identified in two other bottles. The three lead-containing bottles also had contents coming from beeswax (蜂蜡) inside.The bottles contents could have been used for painting. says Kramberger. But he says it is more likely that they were cosmetics, because they contained common ingredients for

39、such products known from later cultures. Cerussite powder was very popular among the ancient Greeks and Romans for skin whitening and remedies, despite is known toxicity (毒性).Gaydarska says the new study supports what archaeologists have long thought“that the abilities and cultures of Neolithic peop

40、le were far more comprehensive and complicated than they are often given credit for.32. Why are the small bottles unearthed in Slovenia special?A. The bottles might have been worn around the necks or waists.B. The bottles contained some ingredients related to the make-up.C. The time of the bottles i

41、s much earlier than previously thought.D. Researchers were astonished at the number of the similar bottles.33. According to Krambergers finding, what is the substance contained in the bottles?A. String. B. White paint. C. Stone tools. D. Cerussite.34. What can we infer from the passage?A. The techno

42、logy of extracting substances was already advanced in ancient times.B. Cerussite powder was a perfect solution to skin problems for ancient Europeans.C. Its easy for archaeologists to find the containers with remains of former content.D. The cultures of Neolithic people were commonly believed to be

43、easy and simple.35. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. People in ancient times had an eye for beauty.B. Europeans may have worn make-up in the Stone Age.C. Contents of the bottles found in Slovenia were analyzed.D. There are various reasons for ancient Europeans wearing make-up.第二节(共5小题: 每小题

44、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。Why is Art so Powerful?Perhaps the simplest answer to this question is that art touches us emotionally.Art is powerful because it can potentially influence our culture, politics, and even the economy. When we see a powerful work of art, you fee

45、l it touching deep within your core, giving us the power to make real-life changes.It has the power to educate people about almost anything. 36 During the pandemic, some artists created vivid and impressive paintings to spread the message of wearing a mask, which was well received by the whole publi

46、c.It breaks cultural, social, and economic barriers. While art hardly really solves poverty or promotes social justice on its own, it can be used as a fair playing field for conversation and expression. 37 Therefore, anyone can learn to appreciate art regardless of their social status, economic stan

47、ding, or political background.It accesses higher orders of thinking. Art doesnt just make you absorb information. 38 This is why creativity is a form of intelligenceit is a special ability that unlocks the potential of the human mind. 39 40 Many times in history we have heard of people being criticized, threatened and even killed because of their artwork. Those responsible for these reactions, may it be an aggress