辽宁省丹东市五校协作体2023-2024学年高三上学期12月月考英语试题

辽宁省丹东市五校协作体2023-2024学年高三上学期12月月考英语试题学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读理解3 Nights Sydney to PerthTrainAustralia: Great Southern Rail-The Indian PacificGeneral InformationThere’s no better way to appreciate Australia than by crossing every inch of it. After setting out on this journey, you’ll have nothing but fun.Details:Day 1: Depart Sydney in the afternoon and start a true journey of contrasts-it will take you through the heights of the Blue Mountains and across the Nullarbor Plain, from cities of four million to towns of just four citizens.Day 2: Wake up to a coffee as you arrive in Broken Hill, a classic mining town. In no time, you’ll notice a dramatic change in landscape. For the afternoon and evening, choose between the picturesque city of Adelaide and the historic Barossa Valley.Day 3: Wake up and be surprised at the beauty of the Nullarbor. Take some time to enjoy the hospitality (服务) of the Outback Explorer Lounge as you travel across Australia’s longest single stretch of railway.Day4: Arrive in Perth after lunch, having finished an amazing Australian journey end-to-end. Choose to spend some more time in Perth and its surroundings with city tours and day trips to Margaret River and Fremantle available.INCLUSIONSPlatinum (铂金金) Service includes comfortable accommodations, elegant dining in the Queen Adelaide Restaurant Car, daily breakfast, onboard lunches, full-size en suite (套房) equipped with shower, tea/ coffee delivered each morning, and select off-train trips.Gold Service includes sleeper cabins (隔间), meals in the stylish Queen Adelaide Restaurant Car, daily breakfast, onboard lunches, tea/ coffee during your journey, and select off-train trips.1．Which of the following suits visitors who want to walk around a mining town?A．Adelaide.B．Fremantle.C．Broken Hill.D．Barossa Valley. 2．On which day will visitors travel along Australia’s longest railway?A．Day 1.B．Day 2.C．Day3.D．Day 4. 3．What will be offered with both Platinum Service and Gold Service?A．Off-train trips.B．Delivered tea or coffee.C．Simple meals in the cabin.D．A suite equipped with shower.The other day, my sister and I were sitting in a restaurant, trying to have a conversation, but her children, four-year-old Willow and seven-year-old Luca, would not stop fighting. The arguments-over a fork, or who had more water in a glass-never stopped.Then my sister reached into her handbag, produced two shiny iPads, and handed one to each child. Suddenly, the two were quiet. They sat playing games and watching videos, and we continued with our conversation.After our meal, as my sister stuffed the iPads back into her bag, she said, “I don’t want to give them the iPads at the dinner table, but if they keep them occupied for an hour so we can eat in peace, I often just hand them over. I’m afraid it’s bad for them. I do worry that it makes them think it’s OK to use electronics at the dinner table in the future.”Dr. Gary Small, director of the Longevity Center at the University of California, Los Angeles says that the brain is highly sensitive to stimuli (刺激物), like iPads and smartphone screens, and if people spend too much time on one technology, and less time interacting with people like parents at the dinner table, that could prevent the development of certain communication skills.“Conversations with each other are the way children learn to have conversations with themselves, and learn how to be alone,” said Sherry Turkle, a professor of science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She fears that children who do not learn real interactions, which often have imperfections, will come to know a world where perfect, shiny screens give them a false sense of intimacy (亲密) without risk. However, they need to be able to gather themselves and know who they are. So someday they can form a relationship with another person without a panic of being alone. “If you don’t teach your children to be alone, they’ll only know how to be lonely,” she said.4．What did Willow and Luca fight about?A．iPads.B．Little things.C．Delicious food.D．Interesting things.5．According to Dr. Small, what should parents do?A．Provide their children with various technologies.B．Teach their children communication skills.C．Talk to their children at the dinner table.D．Limit their children’s screen time.6．What is Sherry Turkle worried?A．Children are afraid of taking risks.B．Children try to escape from the real world.C．Children can’t live without electronic devices.D．Children can’t deal with companion-less situations.7．What is the purpose of this text?A．To tell a true story.B．To discuss a phenomenon.C．To give practical suggestions.D．To compare different opinions.Crime fiction books have been popular with readers for many decades-so popular, in fact, that at a recent London Book Fair sales of the genre (类型) overtook general fiction for the first time ever, a development that had been widely anticipated. Commercial success, of course, does not impress everyone and there are those who believe crime fiction should not be held in such high regard. Well-known in this group is Sebastian Franklin, who has argued that most crime fiction books look more like crossword puzzles than literature. However, increasingly this is a minority opinion as crime fiction is becoming recognized as a rich and dynamic literary genre in around the world.Crime writing really came to the public’s notice in the 1920s and 1930s with the books of the British author Agatha Christie. Christie was a productive writer, publishing more than 60 detective novels over a 50-year period, beginning in 1920.Without a doubt, there are certain elements that tend to be repeated in Christie’s books. The stories generally focus on a well-off circle of people, whose peaceful lives are thrown into chaos by an unexplained crime. The location is often a restricted space of some sort: a train, an island, a boat, or a village. This is quite different, for example, to the world of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who often has the entire city of London as his hunting ground.The books are also action-packed just like today’s most popular thrillers (惊悚小说). Christie mastered the art of the page-turner: events unfold so quickly and unpredictably that we keep reading to find out what happens next. The most significant consequence is that it is so simple to overlook vital clues.It is worth reading a Christie book a second time just to notice how carefully she hides crucial information about the criminal’s identity.A survey of contemporary crime writing shows that Agatha Christie’s legacy (遗产) is more important now than at any time previously, at the very point when crime writing has become the most popular of all book genres.8．What does Sebastian Franklin think of crime fiction books?A．They are overrated.B．They are a rich literary genre.C．Their readers are a minority group.D．Their commercial success is impressive. 9．What does the author intend to do in paragraph 3?A．Contrast Christie’s different techniques.B．Reveal a weakness of Christie’s writing style.C．List some features of a typical Christie story.D．Identify a famous writer important to Christie.10．Which words will the author use to describe Christie’s books?A．Lengthy but understandable.B．attractive and exciting.C．Simple and loosely-organized.D．Quickly-written but popular. 11．What can be a suitable title for the text?A．The Influence of Crime Writer Agatha Christie B．The Surprising Rise of Crime Fiction BooksC．Agatha Christie Enjoys Growing Wealth and Fame D．Crime Writers Sharpen Their Writing SkillsPeople who have trouble walking or moving around often have a hard time enjoying the beach.Most beaches don't have ramps (坡道) or special walkways to allow disabled visitors to move around easily, or to get in and out of the sea safely. But hundreds of beaches in Greece now offer a new way for people in wheelchairs to get into the water by themselves. It's called Seatrac.Seatrac is a system that was designed to solve this problem. Seatrac is basically a chairon a moving ramp that can smoothly carry a disabled person into the sea. Once in the sea, the person can either remain in the chair, enjoying the water, or go for a swim. The Seatrac system can help anyone who has a hard time walking,including older people and pregnant women.The chair is operated by remote control. When the person is ready to get out of the water, the Seatrac system brings the chair back to the top of the ramp. It's even possible to take a shower in the Seatrac chair after going for a swim.Seatrac was invented and developed by Mr. Fotiou, a professor and his partners at Greek university. They designed the system and in time, they formed a company called TOBEA to build and sell the systems. The company worked hard to make the system simple to put in place and easy to run.A wooden walkway allows wheelchair users to reach the Seatrac. The system is solar powered. It doesn't require outside power, and can continue to run even if the electricity goes out. The Seatrac system can easily be packed up and stored when swimming season ends.This summer, the Seatrac system is being used at over 220 beaches in Greece, Cyprus, Italy,and Latvia. The Seatrac service in Greece is gratis to tourists. The Greek government has helped pay for it and hopes that Seatrac will help attract more tourists to the country. 12．How can a disabled man in a wheelchair get into the water through Seatrac?A．He rides the chair of the system into the sea.B．He wheels his wheelchair into the sea by himself.C．The moving ramp carries his wheelchair into the sea.D．The staff of the Seatrac drives him to the sea in a chair.13．What do we know about the Seatrac system?A．It needs recharging regularly.B．It is automatic and portable.C．It is easy to operate and manage.D．It is only intended for disabled persons.14．What does the underlined"gratis"mean in the last paragraph?A．Accessible.B．Profitable.C．First-class.D．Cost-free. 15．What is the best title of the text?A．Seatrac: Helping Wheelchair Users Enjoy the SeaB．TOBEA:A New Company Bringing Joy to TouristsC．A Professor: Helping the Disabled Realize Their DreamD．A Ramp:Allowing Disabled Visitors to Move Around Easily二、七选五My friend James did some first-aid training last week to learn the fundamentals of the CPR. And he asked if I’d ever done the same.“Yes,” I said, “…and no.”Because, yes, I’ve attended several resuscitation (复苏) sessions over the years. 16 In fact, despite being shown all the key information at various points in my career, I don’t think I can remember any of it now.What’s the problem? Every time I’ve had this type of training, it’s been a perfectly good opportunity to learn: an important topic, taught well, in a focused environment, with plenty to see, hear and do. I’ve always taken it seriously, too, and been focused. And I’ve always come away with a wealth of information. 17Here’s what I should have done — and what you can do now — to make sure any training doesn’t go to waste.• 18 You might be surprised to find that you’ve got some foundations of knowledge to build on. Pre-testing sparks your curiosity and puts you in a frame of mind to remember.• Challenge your recall later. 19 If it’s hard to remember, but just about possible with effort, then that’s perfect. You need that little bit of struggle to start embedding (把……嵌入) information in your brain.• Keep coming back. Put a note in your diary to test yourself again in a week, then ten days after that, then a month on…leaving longer gaps between checks. 20 Talking to James has inspired me to book myself onto yet another CPR course. But this time I’m determined to do it right. Remember that it’s the next day when the real training begins.A．Test yourself before you start.B．Wait a day, then see how much you still know.C．Stay curious about what you are eager to know.D．All the basic information has stuck in your mind.E．But no, I don’t exactly feel “trained” to save lives.F．Yet virtually nothing has ever made it to my longterm memory.G．Use the questions you wrote on the day to keep challenging yourself.三、完形填空Students at an elementary school in California, with the help of their art teacher, createdtimes. In just days, the hotline began getting thousands of calls an hour.Jessica Martin, who teaches art at West Side School in Healdsburg, California, 22 her students just might have the magic words needed to bring 23 to people in these difficult times. “To hear the pure 24 from kids is extremely comforting,” she says.The project was called “PepToc”. Actually, they called it “Pep Talk” (鼓励话语) first.. But when Ms. Martin’s 6-year-old son drew an advertisement for the hotline and 25 it “PepToc”, they 26 they liked that even better.The hotline is 27 in English and Spanish. It offers the happy voices of 28 of different ages sharing positive messages. For example, by pressing 3, you can 29 a group of kindergartners saying together, “You can do it! Keep trying! Don’t give up!” Pressing 4 30 the sounds of children giggling and laughing—a sound certain to bring a 31 to anyone’s face. Pressing 1 32 ideas for people who are “feeling mad, frustrated, or 33 ” Helpful suggestions include “punch your pillow”, or “go get a cookie”. Pressing2 results in “words of 34 and life advice”. This includes messages like “The 35 is a better place with you in it.”21．A．reasonable B．rare C．mysterious D．cheerful 22．A．thought B．complained C．declared D．insisted 23．A．wealth B．attention C．calm D．luck 24．A．comment B．joy C．praise D．mind 25．A．pronounced B．typed C．spelled D．drew 26．A．decided B．learned C．changed D．assumed 27．A．spoken B．memorable C．popular D．available 28．A．callers B．children C．artists D．operators 29．A．witness B．suggest C．catch D．hear30．A．generates B．records C．analyzes D．breaks 31．A．mark B．wrinkle C．smile D．tear 32．A．brings up B．laughs at C．gives away D．turn to 33．A．distracted B．content C．peaceful D．nervous 34．A．management B．encouragement C．judgement D．argument 35．A．hotline B．world C．school D．street四、用单词的适当形式完成短文阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。