2023届湖南省邵阳市高三上学期第一次联考(一模)英语试题(4)

2023届湖南省邵阳市高三上学期第一次联考（一模）英语试题(4)
一、听力选择题
1. What may cause the woman trouble?
A．Missing a class.
B．Having dinner outside.
C．Getting back home too late.
2. What will the man do next?
A．Close a window.B．Catch a mouse.C．Leave the room.
3. What does the woman suggest the man do?
A．Try other websites.B．Pay to be a member.C．Watch movies in the cinema.
4. When will the speakers meet?
A．At 7:30 p.m.B．At 8:00 p.m.C．At 8:30 p.m.
5. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A．In the car.B．In the kitchen.C．In the supermarket.
二、听力选择题
6. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What puzzles the woman most?
A．How to use chopsticks.
B．How to eat from the same plate.
C．How to behave properly at table.
2. What’s the man advice to the woman?
A．Learning table manners.B．Keeping a good appetite.C．Bringing her own chopsticks.
7. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. Where did the woman learn how to use chopsticks?
A．In Xi’an.B．In Shanghai.C．In Beijing.
2. What does the man probably think of using chopsticks?
A．It is easy.B．It is difficult.C．It is interesting.
3. What will the speakers do tomorrow night?
A．Study together.B．Have some noodles.C．Go out for a big dinner.
8. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What is the man’s job?
A．A gym trainer.B．A financial trader.C．A restaurant owner.
2. Why does the man prefer to cook rather than have a takeaway?
A．He wants to feel creative.B．He loves to cook for others.C．He likes home-made food.
3. What does the man consider the high stress?
A．A totally bad thing.B．A good thing no matter what.C．A good thing if used properly.
4. What part does the man enjoy about his stressful job?
A．The social connection.B．The high payment.C．The uncertainty.
9. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What will the man drink now?
A．Water.B．Juice.C．Coffee.
2. What meal will the speakers cook for?
A．Dinner.B．Lunch.C．Breakfast.
3. What will Jan do this afternoon?
A．Pick up a friend.B．Do some housework.C．Buy an apple pie.
4. How many people will be eating dessert?
A．Two.B．Four.C．Five.
三、听力选择题
10. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1. What happened to Dolly Parton in school?
A．She moved to Nashville.B．Her father paid the teacher with a bag of corn.
C．Her classmates prevented her from performing in a TV show.
2. What was Dolly Parton’s first job?
A．Singing.B．Writing songs.C．Starting a business.
3. How do people always recognize Dolly Parton?
A．By her hair.B．By her clothing.C．By her voice.
4. What does the speaker want the listeners to do with this information?
A．Take notes for a test.B．Be encouraged to find out more.C．Memorize the details.
四、改错
11. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误
仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

By cycling you can not only enjoy the sights along the way but also can exercise your muscles or burn your fat. Y ou can probable burn a lot of calories if you go for one-hour bicycling trip. If weight loss is your objection, one pound a week is beneficial. People who lost weight quickly are likely regain weight within the first year.
If cycling is part of our life, it is not necessary to give up sugar and coffee at a same time. Besides, a healthy diet is of great important as well.
Eating fruit and vegetable can fuel your body on your cycling trips. If you cycle every day along with healthy eating, you will feel much more healthier.
五、完形填空
12. Many years ago at Christmas time I parked my car in the town centre on my way to the post office to post my Christmas cards. It was the
last posting day for Christmas cards if they were to be ______ before Christmas. ______ I came out of the car park I saw a boy who was ______ and holding his right hand side. I ______ some bigger boys had perhaps bullied him and he was in ______ . I had to go to his aid and see if I could ________.
He told me that his sister who was a ______ had bought him a Christmas present. It was a mobile phone. He only had it days when he ________ it and cracked the screen! That’s ________ he was holding his right hand side of his body—his mobile phone was in the upper right hand pocket of his coat. The little guy was extremely _______, tears rolling down his face as he told all this to me. My heart _________ for him. It was clear he ______ his present and knew that this was a lot of money for his __________ to spend on him, for nurses didn’t make much money. He’d been to a phone shop and they’d told him it would be ￡80 to get a new _________ .
I had to help, though I was ________ to make ends meet myself. I searched my purse and gave the boy the only ￡20 I could find and made
some ________ as to why I could only give him so little. I didn’t want him to know it was all I had until pay day. I could not ______ pay for his phone to be repaired but I hope the ________ he received from a stranger was ________ that stayed with him when he became a man.
The Christmas cards not getting posted somehow didn’t seem ______; greater issues had been addressed with a kindness stamp.
六、阅读理解
1.
A ．decorated
B ．received
C ．accepted
D ．bought 2.A ．Since B ．Until C ．As D ．Unless 3.A ．sobbing B ．fighting C ．bleeding D ．starving 4.A ．saw B ．heard C ．remembered D ．thought 5.A ．pain B ．surprise C ．relief D ．debt 6.A ．park B ．pay C ．leave D ．help 7.A ．teacher B ．nurse C ．doctor D ．1awyer 8.A ．lost B ．sold C ．dropped D ．repaired 9.A ．when B ．where C ．how D ．why
10.A ．sad B ．tired C ．grateful D ．embarrassed 11.A ．beat B ．jumped C ．worried D ．ached 12.A ．destroyed B ．missed C ．valued D ．disliked 13.A ．mother B ．sister C ．brother D ．friend 14.A ．screen B ．computer C ．phone D ．present 15.A ．preparing B ．begging C ．struggling D ．deciding 16.A ．change B ．excuse C ．apology D ．noise 17.A ．fully B ．usually C ．hardly D ．warmly 18.A ．money B ．gift
C ．wish
D ．kindness 19.A ．somebody B ．somewhere C ．something D ．sometime 20.A ．beautiful
B ．important
C ．possible
D ．expensive
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为什么电影的时长变得越来越长，文章分析了出现这种现象的原因。

13. Want to know what is coming soon to a cinema near you? Probably not a 1.5-hour-long movie, as in the old days. On October 20th comes Killers of the Flower Moon. At nearly three and a half hours, its length is nearly double that of the average film last year. Even movie fans struggle to concentrate for that long and some viewers even nod off. Afterwards there is a mad dash for the toilets. When does watching a film become such a slog?
The Economist analyzed over 100,000 feature films released internationally since the 1930s, the start of Hollywood’s golden age, using data from IMDb, a movie database. The average length of productions rose by around 24%, from one hour and 21 minutes in the 1930s to one hour and 47minutes in 2022. For the ten most-popular titles, the average length grew to around two and a half hours in 2022, nearly 50% higher than in the 1930s.
One driver of this trend is that studios want to squeeze the most out of their costly intellectual property (知识产权), but they are competing with streaming platforms for eyeballs. The hope is that a spectacular, drawn-out “event” movie will draw audiences away from the small screen and into cinemas. This approach has often paid off: A vengers: Endgame Marvel’s three-hour superhero masterpieces, was the highest-grossing (票房最高的)film in 2019. Last year long movies series made up most of the highest-grossing films in America.
Another explanation for longer films has to do with directors’ growing influence. Who would dare tell the likes of Mr. Nolan to cut out his masterpieces? Moreover, streaming platforms, which do not have to worry as much about the length because viewers can pause whenever they like,may attract big names by promising them sufficient fund and creative freedom. Netflix funded and released three-hour The Irishman in 2019, a film that would have benefited from a decisive editor, Irish or otherwise.1. The underlined part “a slog” in paragraph 1 refers to a(n)___.
A ．pleasure
B ．effort
C ．conflict
D ．feast
2. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?
A ．The average length affects the popularity of films.
B ．Great advances have been made in film industry.
C ．Hollywood starts a golden age of feature films.
D ．The average duration of movies has stretched.
3. What sets the trend of longer movies?
A．Competition for the target audience.B．Thirst for more classic productions.
C．Influence of streaming platforms.D．Preference for decisive editors.
4. What is probably the best title for the passage?
A．Movie Enthusiasts B．Movie Marathons
C．Movie Production D．Movie Influence
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文章介绍许多行业正面临劳动力短缺的问题，同时因机器人的大量出现，很多人担心失去工作岗位，而多项研究发现事实并非如此，拥有更多的机器人来提高生产力将是一件好事。

作者认为没有证据表明机器人会导致大面积失业。

14. Many industries are facing a shortage of labour. Warehousing has grown rapidly. And robots are now indispensable, picking items off shelves and helping people pack an exponentially rising numbers of boxes. They are even beginning to walk slowly along some pavements, delivering goods or food right to people’s doors. Having more robots to boost productivity would be a good thing.
And yet many people fear that robots will destroy jobs. A paper in 2013 by economists at Oxford University was widely misinterpreted as meaning that 47% of American jobs were at risk of being automated.
In fact, concerns about mass unemployment because of robots are overblown. The evidence suggests robots will be ultimately beneficial for labour markets. A Y ale University study found that an increase of one robot unit per 1, 000 workers boosted a company’s employment in Japan. Another study, by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues elsewhere, looked at Finnish firms and concluded that their use of advanced technologies led to increases in hiring.
For all that, the march of the robots will bring big changes to workplaces. The skills and firms that are rewarded will shift, too. But that need not be the disaster many fear. One supposed example of “bad automation” is self-service checkouts in supermarkets because they displace human workers. Checkout staff who retrain to help customers pick items from aisles may well find that dealing with people in need is more rewarding than spending all day scanning barcodes.
Certainly, some people will be on the losing end of change even as the robots make society as a whole better off. One lesson from the freewheeling globalization of the 1990s and 2000s is that the growth in trade that was overwhelmingly beneficial contributed to a political backlash (强烈抵制) because the losers felt left behind. That’s one more reason why firms and governments would do well to recognize the value of retraining and lifelong learning. As jobs change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills, including how to work with and manage the robots that will increasingly be their colleagues.
The potential gains from the robot revolution have just started. It won’t be the plot in some films where the robots fight against their human masters and cause mass unemployment.
1. What does the underlined word “indispensable” mean in Paragraph 1?
A．Essential.B．Spare.C．Detective.D．Complicated.
2. Why does the author mention the example of “bad automation” in Paragraph 4?
A．To prove that robots will not be a disaster.
B．To remind us of the big changes at workplaces.
C．To illustrate checkout staff will scan barcodes slowly.
D．To tell firms the value of retraining and lifelong learning.
3. According to the author, what will happen in the future?
A．It will push losers to leave behind.
B．Robots may lead to mass unemployment.
C．People will help robots to gain new skills.
D．Robots and people may become co-workers.
4. What does the author may agree in the text?
A．Jobs will be at risk due to robots.
B．No evidence shows that robots will destroy jobs.
C．Lifelong learning will quickly boost mass employment.
D．People have benefited a lot from the robot revolution.
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文章主要介绍食物森林通过模仿天然森林生态系统的结构和功能，生产供人类食用的食物。

15. Food forests, also known as forest gardens or edible forests, are appearing in urban settings across the US as a unique way to help food-insecure communities. They imitate the structure and functioning of natural forest ecosystems that produce various edible plants for the community,
which reduces reliance on external food sources and promotes food self-sufficiency.
Food forests can maximize food production in a given area. In a regular garden, you’re probably only planting vegetables along the ground. While this can provide a great harvest, it leaves a lot of space unused. Now imagine you are planting a fruit tree. On the shady side, you add some shade-tolerant berries, and on the sunny side you add some sun-loving berries. At the base of the sun-loving berries, you plant some annual vegetables and herbs. This food forest would result in a truly splendid harvest that would dwarf what a regular garden the same size could provide.
The genius of a food forest lies in its designed cultivation of beneficial interactions between different plant species. For instance, some plants might enrich the soil by fixing nitrogen, a natural fertilizer for neighboring vegetation, while others naturally attract beneficial insects, providing a built-in pest control mechanism. These strategic connections lead to reduced dependency on labor inputs and create an environment that is hardy and sustainable.
Food forests require ongoing care and maintenance, which often involves the participation of community members. This cooperative effort develops a sense of shared responsibility and brings people together to work towards a common goal. Community members can come together to learn about planting techniques, sustainable gardening practices, and the benefits of native plants. This shared learning experience creates a platform for exchanging ideas and skills, promoting a sense of self-reliance within the community.
1. What are food forests intended for?
A．Improving food quality in America.
B．Protecting natural forest ecosystems.
C．Beautifying the urban living environment.
D．Providing food sources for the community.
2. What does the underlined word “dwarf” in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Strengthen.B．Overshadow.C．Widen.D．Enlarge.
3. What does the example in paragraph 3 indicate?
A．Food forests can help increase the diversity of species.
B．Food forests require considerable labor inputs to maintain.
C．Plants in food forests can benefit one another in some ways.
D．The pest control mechanism in food forests is favorable to soil.
4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Planting techniques determine the yield of food forests.
B．The maintenance of food forests is costly and complicated.
C．Food forests serve as a bond to bring community members closer.
D．Food forests have become a popular gathering spot in the communities.
16. Vincent V an Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters. He is famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterized by expressive and emotive use of brilliant color and energetic application of impastoed (厚原料的) paint.
Below are some famous pictures painted by Vincent and the poetic lyrics(歌词) to Don McLean’s hit song Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) in the famous cartoon film 《Loving Vincent》 .
the sunflowers
Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
the Yellow House
Starry Night
Head of a Peasant Woman
七、阅读理解
八、语法填空The Potato Eaters
1. What attitude does the writer of the song have towards Van Gogh?
A．Prejudiced and changeable.B．Admiring and understanding.
C．Doubtful but respectful.D．Positive but contradictory.
2. According to the song, Van Gogh was__________.
A．good at drawing on starry nights B．murdered by one of his lovers
C．a person full of love and beauty D．popular with people when be was alive
3. Which of the following belong to the four famous pictures of Van Gogh’s mentioned in the underlined parts in 4th paragraph?
A．The sunflowers, the Potato Eaters
B．Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Head of a Peasant Woman
C．the Potato Eaters, the Yellow House
D．Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Wheat Field with Crows
17. How to Overcome Jealousy
Everyone feels a little jealous once in a while — maybe someone was acting better than you, or maybe your best friend has been having much fun with a new coworker.
However, 1 they can actually cause a conflict between you and the person you want to be closest to. To save the relationship and get some peace of mind, take some time to sort through your feelings before you act on them.
Admit how you’re feeling to yourself before you do anything else. If you notice you’re feeling a little jealous, take a few minutes to check in with yourself. It’s perfectly normal to get jealous once in a while, so don’t judge your feelings — just let yourself acknowledge that’s what’s going on. 2 .
Don’t act on your jealousy while you’re upset. 3 . There’s nothing wrong with simply feeling jealous — it happens to everyone, However, feeling jealous doesn’t mean you have to withdraw from your partner, or accuse them of anything. If you can observe how you’re feeling without acting on it, you may actually feel your jealousy starting to decrease.
4 . Focus on your positive qualities. Jealousy can sometimes be rooted in insecurity and low self-esteem. However, it’s really important to remember that you re unique, with your own special talents. When you can embrace these, you’ll be less likely to feel jealous or insecure.
Remember that other people have problems, too. 5 . That can sometimes fuel jealous feelings, because you might feel like you want what they have, or that they can come and take what you have. Don’t fall into that trap, though, — other people often have problems that you never know about, no matter what their life looks like from the outside.
A．if jealous thoughts become really disturbing.
B．when you are always jealous of someone.
C．Take some time to cool off so you won’t say anything you’ll regret.
D．It can be really inviting to look at other people and think they have a perfect life.
E．Embrace yourself for who you are.
F．Reflect on the root of your jealous feelings.
G．Sometimes, just naming our emotions can help us start to get some control over them.
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文章主要介绍了在过去的几个月里，中国东部城市淄博因其烧烤而成为中国最受欢迎的旅游景点之一。

18. 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

The eastern Chinese city of Zibo 1 (emerge) as one of the country’s most popular tourist spots in the past few months — thanks to its
barbecue. Favored by so-called internet influencers, the city has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms. 2 (video) on sites such as Xiaohongshu show thousands of people traveling to the city to savor (品尝) local barbecue, 3 they say is wrapped in a pancake. When asked 4 attracts them most, travellers say the awesome food in chorus, though the restaurants were not stylishly furnished.。