2023届陕西省咸阳市高三下学期三模英语试题(4)

2023届陕西省咸阳市高三下学期三模英语试题(4)
一、听力选择题
1. What will the woman speaker do?
A．Hold a sweet birthday party.
B．Ask Reggie about the time of his party.
C．Invite the man speaker to a concert.
2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A．Their career plans.B．Their favourite teachers.C．Their dream universities
3. What are the speakers doing?
A．Driving a car.
B．Seeing the sunset.
C．Climbing the mountains.
4. What is Jimmy doing?
A．Reading a storybook.
B．Doing his homework.
C．Playing computer games.
5.
A．She knows a helpful young man.
B．She has never lived in London before.
C．She does not like the topic at the time.
D．She remembers vaguely about London.
二、听力选择题
6. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A．Neighbors.B．Roommates.C．Host and guest.
2. What did Diane see the cat do?
A．Go outside.B．Run past her quickly.C．Get behind the bookcase.
3. Where was the cat hiding?
A．In the bedroom.B．In the living room.C．In the laundry room.
4. What does the man imply about the cat?
A．She never tries to go outside.
B．She is afraid of the outside world.
C．She always comes back by herself.
7. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What is the man doing?
A．Taking a road test.B．Directing the traffic.C．Teaching the woman to drive.
2. How will the man probably feel at last?
A．Excited.B．Nervous.C．Disappointed.
8. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What tea does good to your lungs?
A．Green tea.B．Dark tea.C．Black tea.
2. How much will the woman pay?
A．100 yuan.B．150 yuan.C．200 yuan.
9. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?
A．Boss and employee.
B．Husband and wife.
C．Neighbors.
2. What does the man have to do now?
A．Talk with the woman.
B．Go to the airport.
C．See Mr. Brown off.
三、听力选择题
10. 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1. When did the speaker begin to learn Chinese?
A．27 years ago.B．17 years ago.C．10 years ago.
2. Which of the following means fluency in Chinese in the speaker’s opinion?
A．Reading a newspaper quickly enough.
B．Answering teachers’ questions in Chinese.
C．Talking freely without referring to a text.
3. What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A．How one can gain fluency in Chinese.
B．How long it takes to be fluent in Chinese.
C．What fluency in Chinese really means.
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。

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（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。

Not long ago, our school organize a charity walk to raise money for children in poor areas. It was on 23rd December, that was a cold day. We walked from the school to centre of the city. Before the walk, we grouped themselves into a team of four and planned everything good. During the walk, we supported but helped each other. With the help of many people, we raised more than 5,000 dollar in the end. We all felt tiring, but we were very happy. It was a significance experience and an excellent chance to learn from team spirit.
五、完形填空
12. The trip to that city was eye-opening for everyone, and near its end , all the young people in our group began to reflect on what it had meant. We
______the first night we had arrived. We had all gone into the markets of the city______ the young people could experience its energy. But what we actually saw simply______us all –the rundown houses, the children in rags, the people begging for money… Walking home,_______under a low bridge, we came across______families of homeless people seeking a bit of dry ground to sleep on______the night. We had to step over bodies as we found our way through the darkness.
The poverty(贫困) was______than anything my young companions had ever imagined. Back in the hotel, an air of sadness settled over the group.
Many_______and cried. Spending time in this______moves a person to care about humanity.
That evening, our group spent hours talking about what we had________. Gently, I encouraged everyone to talk about the difficult_______that day’s discoveries had inspired. Sitting together______a circle as everyone had a chance to speak, we all began to realize that _______of us was alone in our struggle to cope with our reactions.
Based on my________in poverty-stricken areas, I suggested that ________the emotions we had were painful, they could also be important in helping us to move forward. We all_____that we had seen things that should never be allowed to happen._______, what could we do about it? Together, we
began to brainstorm ways we could help to ease the_______we had seen. As I encouraged group members to focus on_______they could do, a sense of determination_______the previous sadness. Instead of despair, these young people began to feel a call to action.
1.A．put up with B．got back to C．looked back on D．made up for
2.A．now that B．so that C．as if D．even if
3.A．puzzled B．annoyed C．embarrassed D．shocked
4.A．marching B．running C．passing D．moving
5.A．entire B．normal C．average D．general
6.A．beyond B．with C．till D．for
7.A．stronger B．deeper C．worse D．less
8.A．gave up B．broke down C．set off D．held on
9.A．environment B．hotel C．house D．background
10.A．inspected B．attempted C．witnessed D．challenged
11.A．feelings B．decisions C．thoughts D．impressions
12.A．along B．around C．by D．in
13.A．neither B．either C．none D．each
14.A．experiences B．schedules C．data D．position
15.A．once B．while C．since D．unless
16.A．supposed B．advised C．confirmed D．agreed
17.A．Surely B．Rather C．Now D．Indeed
18.A．burden B．suffering C．anxiety D．difficulty
19.A．how B．where C．what D．when
20.A．replaced B．changed C．covered D．improved
六、阅读理解
13. Rodgers was born in 1897, in Meridian. His mother died when he was young, and Rodgers spent the next few years with relatives. He then
went to live with his father who worked on the Ohio Railroad and had married a new wife.
By age 13, Rodgers had twice organized traveling shows. The first time, he borrowed his sister-in-law's bed sheets to make a tent. Upon his return to Meridian, he paid for the sheets with money he had made from his show! And not long after the second trip, his father found Rodgers his first railroad job as a brakeman.
In 1924, Rodgers got tuberculosis (肺结核). The disease temporarily ended his job but gave him the chance to get back to his first love, entertainment. He organized a traveling road show and performed across the Southeast until a hurricane destroyed his tent. He returned to railroad, working as a brakeman, but his illness eventually cost him his job. He moved to Arizona thinking the dry climate might lessen the disease.
In April 1927 Rodgers performed for the first time on the Asheville's radio station. Months later, Rodgers recruited a group and they secured a weekly show on the radio station as the Rodgers Entertainers. A columnist said, “Whoever that fellow is, he either is a winner or he is going to be.” In November, Rodgers recorded four songs, Ben Dewberry’s Final Run ,Mother W as a Lady , Away out on the Mountain and T for Texas. In the following years, “T for Texas" sold nearly half a million copies.
In 1933, Rodgers traveled to New Y ork for recording. But his tuberculosis worsened. He had to record, sitting down and soon returned to his hotel, hoping to regain enough energy. Rodgers recorded “Years Ago” by himself, with just a guitar. 36 hours after that, “The Father of Country Music” died.
1. What can we know from the second paragraph?
A．Rodgers was once a thief as a boy.
B．Rodgers didn’t get along with his sister-in-law.
C．Rodgers loved music at an early age.
D．Rodgers’ father spoiled his children very much.
2. Which of the following ruined Rodgers’s road show?
A．The police.B．The weather.
C．Rodgers’s father.D．Rodgers’s brother.
3. Why did Rodgers go to Arizona?
A．To find a better job.
B．To receive better education.
C．To hope to make his disease less serious.
D．To break away from his father’s control.
4. What was Rodgers’s last recorded song?
A．Years Ago.B．T for Texas.
C．Mother Was a Lady.D．Ben Dewberry’s Final Run.
文章大意：这是一篇说明文，燃烧煤炭作为一种产生热量和电力的方式可能已经不再受欢迎，但这并不意味着这种材料不再有任何有价值的用途。

阿卜社拉国王科技大学的研究团队发现煤炭可以用于海水脱盐。

14. The burning of coal may be falling out of favor as a means of generating heat and electricity, but that doesn’t mean it no longer has valuable uses. The team of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is using coal for a new economy.
The project is led by Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi. While reading about challenges of ending the use of coal in power generation, Fratalocchi was struck by a novel possible use for coal. “Why don’t we use coal for seawater desalination(脱盐)?” Fratalocchi recalls, still excited. Capable of taking in sunlight, the black mineral adds to the list of substances in dark colors serving the purpose, which the team is on a long-standing hunt for.
Fratalocchi and his team began to explore the use of a material known as carbonized compressed powder(压缩粉末), also CCP, which is created by breaking coal into powder, and then pressing that powder back into a solid that has more tiny holes—it can also be made into a desired shape. The team combined CCP with natural cotton fibers, producing a block which was then placed within a seawater-containing container, with its bottom touching water surface. While sunlight heated the black surface of the block, the inside fibers helped water flow in and through the block from the bottom. When that liquid water reached the hot surface, it turned into steam which rose and condensed(冷凝) on the inside of a specially shaped cover. That condensation then flew down the cover and was collected as fresh, drinkable water. The seawater’s salt content remained behind within the CCP. A simple wash was enough to remove most of it, so the material could be reused multiple times.
KAUST has partnered with the Dutch start-up PERA Complexity to promote the technology. The material will see its first use in a pilot plant in Brazil. “CCP is abundant in nature and reasonable to use, besides being lightweight and highly changeable,” says team member Marcella Bonifazi. “The device’s desalination rate per unit of raw material is two to three times higher than that of any other solar desalination system, but it produces fresh water at around one-third the expense of current state-of-the-art technologies.”
1. What is Fratalocchi’s team seeking for?
A．Fibers functioning well with CCP.
B．Green ways to desalinate seawater.
C．Novel industrial applications of coal.
D．Dark-colored materials for desalination.
2. How did the team get water into the CCP device?
A．By placing cotton fibers inside.
B．By heating its black surface.
C．By making the powder into a block.
D．By installing a special cover.
3. Which feature of CCP does Marcella Bonifazi stress?
A．Being eco-friendly.B．Being low-cost.
C．Being efficient.D．Being flexible.
4. What does the text mainly talk about?
A．Scientists have made a breakthrough in desalination.
B．Coal finds new use in desalination technology.
C．CCP is expected to be in real-life use soon.
D．Drinkable water will be got from the sea.
文章大意：这是一篇说明文。

文章介绍了英语在未来世界语言体系中的地位变化。

15. The world’s language system is at a crossroads and a new linguistic order is about to appear. That is the conclusion of a recent study authored by David Graddol, a linguistic researcher.
In the mid-twentieth century, nine percent of the world’s population was estimated to have spoken English as a first language. By 2050, the
number is expected to be just five percent. English is still ranked as the language with the third largest number of native speakers, but Arabic and Hindi are expected to catch up by around 2050. Instead of one language acting as a “world language,” it seems likely that no one language will dominate in the near future. Linguists expect that English will continue to be important, but Mandarin Chinese will probably be the next must-learn language, especially in Asia.
However, just as the relative number of native speakers of English is decreasing, a separate study shows that English is expanding its dominance in the world of science. The dominance of one language in the area of science allows for greater international collaboration and research, making it possible to publish scientific articles to broader audiences. More than 90 percent of journal literature in some scientific fields is already published in English. “More and more scientists who are non-native speakers of English will need to become multilingual,” Graddol says. The predominance (优势) of English in science will result in new generations of speakers of other languages who acquire English to exchange ideas and discoveries with scientists in other countries.
In addition, multilingual employees will gain an edge in international businesses. As China plays an increasingly prominent global role, employers in parts of Asia are already looking beyond English to Mandarin Chinese as the most important language to facilitate the global exchange of goods and services. Linguists anticipate that in the future, most people will speak more than one language. Furthermore, it’s likely that speakers will switch between languages for routine tasks. Monolingual speakers may have a difficult time participating fully in a multilingual society. Some monolingual speakers, especially native English speakers, according to Graddol, “have been too proud about the lack of need to learn other languages.”
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph Two?
A．English is the most important language to grasp.
B．Arabic and Hindi will be the must-learn languages.
C．More languages will be powerful in the near future.
D．Mandarin Chinese will be more important than English.
2. Why is the authority of English useful in science?
A．To achieve global cooperation.B．To popularize English.
C．To simplify publishing process.D．To attract audiences.
3. Who are most suitable as employees in business?
A．Monolingual speakers.B．Native English speakers.
C．Multilingual speakers.D．Mandarin Chinese speakers.
4. Which is the suitable title for the passage?
A．Will Mandarin Be the Next Must-learn Language?
B．What The Future of Language Will Be?
C．Will English Vanish in the Future?
D．Who Is Badly Needed in Future Business?
文章大意：这是一篇说明文。

文章主要说明了人们发现乌鸦可以理解类比，介绍了这项研究开展的过程以及专家对乌鸦学习能力的看法。

16. People may use the expression “birdbrain” in English to talk about someone who is stupid, but crows prove that this is unfair. Now it has been discovered that crows may understand analogies.
It was once thought that only humans could understand analogies, which help us to solve problems creatively, put things into categories, and make scientific discoveries.
To test this ability in animals, scientists do “relational matching-to-sample”(RMTS) tests, according to the IFL Science website. If a pair was AA, for example, then picking BB to match it would be correct. If the pair was CD, however, then EF would be correct.
Apes and monkeys have learned RMTS, but scientists wanted to know if crows could do it, too. An international team led by Edward Wasserman from the University of Iowa in the US first trained two hooded crows to match things by color, shape, and number in what is called “identity matching-to-sample (IMTS)”, then moved onto RMTS.
For the IMTS test, the birds were put in a cage with a plastic tray that had three cards and two cups in it. The card in the middle was the sample card. The cups on either side were covered with the other two cards: One was the same as the sample (in the color, shape, or number of shapes pictured), while the other wasn’t. The cup with the card that matched the sample card contained two worms to eat.
In the second part of the experiment, the birds were tested with relational matching pairs. A card with two same-sized circles, for example, meant they should pick the test card with two same-sized squares and not two different-sized circles. The birds did well in the more difficult test and picked the correct card more than three quarters of the time, Science News reports.
Wasserman was surprised that crows were able to solve the problem without any training in RMTS. “What the crows have done is extraordinary,” he said in a news release. “Honestly, if it was only by force that the crows showed this learning, then it would have been an impressive result. But this was spontaneous.”
So perhaps it’s time to stop saying “birdbrain” permanently!
1. Why does the author mention the expression “birdbrain” in the opening paragraph?
A．To get the reader interested in the origins of the expression.
B．To urge people to stop saying that birds are stupid.
C．To introduce the topic of Edward Wasserman and his experiments.
D．To introduce recent findings about crows’ intelligence.
2. Which of the following is TRUE about the tests on the hooded crows?
A．The birds did better in RMTS than in IMTS.
B．The birds were first made to do RMTS, then IMTS.
C．The birds picked almost all the correct cards in RMTS.
D．In the IMTS test, the birds needed to identify the sample card to get rewards.
3. In the RMTS test, if the birds were given the sample card with two same-sized triangles, they had to pick the test card with ________.
A．two same-sized circles B．one circle and one triangle
C．two different-sized circles D．two different-sized triangles
4. The underlined word “spontaneous” in the second-to-last paragraph is closest in meaning to ________.
A．central B．creative C．natural D．predictable
5. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．Monkeys Are Clever Than Crows B．Crows Show Cleverness
C．Crows Did Well in RMTS D．Don’t Look Down on Birds
七、阅读理解
文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文。

主要讲述了Colrerd Nkosi 在无数次的实验后，最终实现了为他的家乡供电的愿望。

17. “To invent,” Thomas Edison said, “you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Colrerd Nkosi had all the junk he needed, and the will to bring electricity to his small village in Malawi. As a result, he not only accomplished his goal, but won an award from the Queen of England. 1
In the beginning, he put a bicycle in the river and wondered how the current moved the pedals, and how it might be turned into power. Then he used an old refrigerator compressor(压缩机) to power six homes. 2 Finally, using a recycled corn- shelling machine motor and a fast-moving river, Nkosi created an electric turbine(涡轮机) that’s now lighting up homes in the town of Mzimba for free.
In a country where only 11%of the population has access to electricity, having a reliable and renewable source of energy has been a game-changer. 3
“In the past, we had to study by candlelight, and whenever there was no money to buy candles, we could not study,” student Gift Mfune said.
“Now that we have access to electricity, many more of us will pass our exams.”
4 Indeed, the only charge for his service is a€1- per- month maintenance fee.
Over 2,000 people have benefited from his sustainable and locally generated electricity. And in 2018, Mr Nkosi won a Point of Light A ward from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for his dedication to innovation.
In addition to lighting up his neighbors literally, Nkosi’s dream is to bring light to them as well through education. 5 He also hopes to expand his own skillset with more advanced studies.
A．That’s especially true in schools.
B．But that’s another story for schools.
C．And just like Edison, he did a lot of experiments.
D．Nkosi eventually succeeded after years of hard work.
E．His neighbors were excited about it, so he continued to upgrade it.
F．The driving force behind Nkosi’s DIY power project has nothing to do with profit.
G．He already gives hands-on lessons in the basics of engineering to village children.
八、语法填空
18. It was October, but a seven-year-old boy 1 (suffer) from a bad brain tumor in southern Ontario had a white Christmas on Saturday
evening. Although 2 (treat) very carefully, the boy couldn’t get well. Doctors had said they didn’t know if Evan Leversage would live to see this
holiday season, 3 many people gathered at his home to give 4 (he) a final Christmas party. On Saturday afternoon, 5 ground outside his home was covered with artificial snow. There were 6 (decorate) everywhere and a sign that read “Santa, stop here!” in the window. A snow machine brought a lot of snow.
Evan 7 (have) a brain tumor since he was just two years old, and doctors told his family last month that the tumor had spread. So Evan made a bucket-list (遗愿清单), 8 included a visit to Niagara Fails, a movie, and his favorite restaurant. And of course, Christmas in October. All these things appealed 9 Evan. Everyone said yes, Evan’s story spreading around the world.
“It’s been an experience that I don’t think anyone’s going to forget,” Evan’s mother Nicole said. “It is amazing to have the love and support from around the world. It 10 (true) has been lifting up a lot of spirits and bringing in a lot of sunshine during a hard time.”。