江西省赣州市十六县市二十校2022-2023学年高三上学期期中联考英语试题.docx

2022年赣州市十六县(市)二十校期中联考 高三英语试卷 考生注意： 1.本试卷共150分，考试时间120分钟。 2.请将各题答案填写在答题卡上。 第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分) 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 will the woman study for the science project? A. The Earth. B. Mars. C.The moon. 2. What does the boy want to do? A. Call his dad. B. Wait for his dad. C. Eat some chicken. 3. Why does the man say sorry to Anna? A. He lost her book. B. He broke her machine. C. He made her book dirty. 4. When will the man check out? A.At 9 a.m. B. At 12 noon. C.At 1 p.m. 5What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. An athlete. B. A movie. C.An interview. 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三个选项中选出最佳选项。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 How will the speakers get to the hotel from the station? A. By bike. B.By taxi. C.By subway. 7.What is the woman going to do next? A.Pack for the trip. B. Take some pictures. C.Make a plan. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8.Where are the speakers? A. In the woman’s house.B.In the street. C.On the subway. 9.Why does the man want to go to Billy’s House? A. To have lunch. B.To work there. C. To pick up a friend. 10. What will the woman do for the man? A.Draw a map. B.Show him the way. C.Make him some coffee. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What is Tom doing at the beginning of the conversation? A. Doing the dishes. B.Cleaning the room. C.Playing on his phone. 12. What is Tom probably? A A businessman. B. A student. C.A sportsman. 13.How does Tom sound? A.Excited. B.Unhappy. C. Grateful. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。 14. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Friends. B. Mother and son. C.Teacher and student. 15. What is Jim worried about? A. His spoken English. B. His written English. C. His relations with classmates. 16. What can we say about Jim? A.He is too shy. B. He has made great progress. C. He works hard on his English. 17. What does the woman suggest Jim do? A. Learn more languages. B. Watch some English movies. C. Find a language exchange partner. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What do we know about the University of Oxford? A. It is in the north of England. B. It is the oldest university in England. C.It was founded in the twelfth century. 19 What is Christ Church? A.A restaurant. B.A shop. C.A college. 20. Who might be interested in the Ashmolean? A. History-lovers. B. Book-lovers. C. Movie-lovers. 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A For those who love the thrill of overhead fireworks, here is a chance to appreciate some fireworks shows. Some are one-night events, while others are part of multi-day carnivals. Annual Carnival The event is part of the annual fundraiser for the poor and free for all. It features an additional concert followed by a fireworks display at 7:30 pm on October 10 at Town Park at Point Lookout. On the same day at 8:30 pm, watch fireworks over the bay. Empire State Fair See fireworks at Nassau Live Center in Uniondale. The fair features the royal circus with many foreign animals, kid game shows, amusement rides and attractions from 7 pm to 10 pm on October 20. Admission is $ 10; free for children under 36 inches. Memorial Fireworks Show Watch fireworks at Firemen’s Memorial Field in Valley Stream. Gates open at 7 pm on November 1, lasting three days, and admission is $15 for all; $10 in advance, purchase your tickets at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, Valley Stream Community Center or Valley Stream Village Hall. Riverhead Raceway Celebration There will be a kid race open at 5:30 pm and the fireworks opening ceremony starts at 6 pm on November 20. 第5页/共16页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 The fireworks shows begin at dusk at the Riverhead Raceway and last four days. Admission is $ 20 for adults; $10 for children aged 6-12; free for children aged 5 and under. Click here to contact us and know more detailed information about the events. 1. Which event is part of the charity? A. Annual Carnival. B. Empire State Fair. C. Memorial Fireworks Show. D. Riverhead Raceway Celebration. 2. What is special about Empire State Fair? A. It offers an outdoor concert. B. It features a fireworks show. C. It requires payment in advance. D. It includes animal performance. 3. How much should a couple with 8-year-old twins pay for Riverhead Raceway Celebration? A. $25. B. $30. C. $45. D. $60. B World-famous music and movie star Olivia Newton-John has died in southern California. The highly awarded Newton-John sold more than 100 million record albums during her career. From 1973 to 1983, she was among the world’s most popular entertainers. She had 14 top 10 singles in the United States alone and won four Grammy Awards. Newton-John is perhaps most remembered for her performance in 1978’s wildly popular musical movie Grease. She starred as a high school student Sandy, and was partnered with John Travolta. One song the two shared in the film, You’re the One That I Want, sold more than 15 million copies. “I was afraid that at 30 I was too old to play a high school girl,” Newton-John told The Telegraph in 2017. “Everything about making the film was fun, but if I had to pick a favorite moment, it was the transformation from what I call Sandy 1 to Sandy 2. I got to play a different character and wear different clothes, and when I put on that tight black clothes to sing You’re the One That I Want, I got a very different reaction from the guys on the set.” Physical, Newton-John’s biggest single, came out in 1981. The energetic dance song was hugely popular, holding Number One position on Billboard’s hit list for 10 weeks straight. Later, the music industry magazine named Physical the Song of the Year. A video linked to the song won a Grammy Award as well. In 1992, Newton-John faced loss and sickness. Her father died and she was diagnosed with breast cancer. 第4页/共16页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 Then Newton-John created an album, Gaia: One Woman’s Journey, about her battle with cancer and the loss of her father. Newton-John married John Easterling in 2008. She became involved in several causes, serving as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme and a national spokeswoman for the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition. She also founded the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center in Melbourne, Australia. 4. What is Sandy in paragraph 2? A. A film director. B. A music teacher. C. A film character D. A music composer. 5. Why did Newton-John worry when playing in the film? A. Because of her age. B. Because of her gender. C. Because of her acting skills. D. Because of her tight clothes. 6. What made Newton-John create the album Gaia: One Woman’s Journey? A. Her film. B. Her dance songs. C. Her sufferings. D. Her husband’s encouragement. 7. What is the last paragraph mainly about? A. Newton-John’s physical pain. B. Newton-John’s social activities. C. Newton-John’s happy marriage. D. Newton-John’s artistic achievements. C When robots appear to engage with people and display human-like emotions, people may think of them as capable of “thinking”, or acting on their own beliefs and desires rather than their programs, according to the research published by the American Psychological Association. “The relationship between human-like shape, human-like behavior and the tendency to owe independent thought and intentional behavior to robots is yet to be understood,” said study author Agnieszka Wykowska, PhD, a principal investigator at the Italian Institute of Technology. “As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of our lives, it is important to understand how interacting with a robot that displays human-like behaviors might cause higher likelihood of attribution of intentional agency to the robot.” Across three experiments involving 119 participants, researchers examined how individuals would see a human-like robot, the iCub, after socializing with it and watching videos together. Before and after interacting with 第5页/共16页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 the robot, participants completed a questionnaire that showed them pictures of the robot in different situations and asked them to choose whether the robot’s motivation in each situation was mechanical or intentional. The researchers found that participants who watched videos with the human-like robot were more likely to rate the robot’s actions as intentional, rather than programmed, while those who only interacted with the machine-like robot were not. This shows that mere expo-sure to a human-like robot is not enough to make people believe it is capable of thoughts and emotions. It is human-like behavior that might be crucial for being deemed as an intentional agent. According to Wykowska, these findings show that people might be more likely to believe artificial intelligence is capable of independent thought when it creates the impression that it can behave just like humans. “This could inform the design of social robots of the future,” she said. 8. What were participants asked to do in the experiment? A. Behave like a robot. B. Complete a questionnaire. C. Show pictures of the robot. D. Watch the behavior of the iCub. 9. What does the underlined word “deemed” in paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Believed. B. Persuaded. C. Performed. D. Advocated. 10. What could the findings be applied to? A. Addressing some technique problems. B. Creating social robots just like humans. C. Revealing artificial intelligence industry. D. Guiding the design of future social robots. 11. What would be a suitable title for the text? A. Human-like robots can interact with humans B. Human-like robots can behave just like humans C. Artificial intelligence has become part of our lives D. Human-like robots may be believed to have mental states D A method to transform a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin(树脂) used in 3D printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste. A team of Washington State University researchers developed a simple and efficient way to transform polylactic acid (PLA) (聚乳酸),a bio-based plastic used in products such as 第6页/共16页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 filament,plastic silverware and food packaging to a high-quality resin. “We found a way to immediately turn this into something that’s stronger and better, and we hope that will provide people with the inspiration to upcycle this stuff instead of just throwing it away,” said Yu-Chung Chang, a postdoctoral researcher in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and a co-corresponding author on the work. “We made stronger materials just straight out of trash. We believe this could be a great opportunity.” Although it’s bio-based, PLA, which is categorized as a number 7 plastic, can float in fresh or salt water for a year without degrading. It is also rarely recycled because like many plastics, when it’s melted down and re-formed, it doesn’t perform as well as the original version and becomes less valuable. “It’s biodegradable and compostable, but once you look into it, it turns out that it can take up to 100 years for it to rot away in a landfill,” Chang said. “In reality, it still creates a lot of pollution. We want to make sure that when we do start producing PLA on the million-tons scale, we will know how to deal with it.” While the researchers focused on PLA for the study, they hope to apply the work to poly-ethylene terephthalate(PET)(涤纶树脂), which is more common than PLA and has a similar chemical structure and presents a bigger waste problem. They have filed a temporary patent and are working to further improve the process. The researchers are also looking into other applications for the upcycling method. 12. What can the method help do according to paragraph 1? A. Solve financial crisis. B. Change waste into wealth. C. Control plastic production. D. Determine 3D printing skills. 13. What does Yu-Chung Chang think of the method? A. Unrealistic. B. Imaginable. C. Promising. D. Common. 14. Which of the following is a feature of number 7 plastics? A. They are hard to break down. B. They are easy to deal with. C. They are invaluable to recycle. D. They are difficult to sort out. 15. What is the text mainly about? A. Applications of an upcycling method. B. 3D printing with newly found materials. C A new way to turn plastic into valuable products. D. Some better methods to break down different plastics. 第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 If you just want to come up with a fun idea that will generate enthusiasm for your community group, we have five worthy suggestions. ●____16____ Getting all your neighbors together for an afternoon or an evening on weekends can help you develop more than a nodding acquaintance with them. This is a bit simple, but things like picking a location, sending out invitations and arranging for food follow pretty organically once you start setting up strategy. ●Hold a hobby show ____17____, from face painting to woodcarving, and most are willing to share their works. From conducting a cooking contest in the public kitchen to putting on a dance show, there are hundreds of ways that you can make your neighbors show their hobbies. ●Host a nature walk Hosting a nature walk around a neighborhood park is a good way to educate the community about green practices and conservation.____18____. In this activity neighbors actively join in the identification of the trees, birds, insects, and other wildlife you share space with. ●Hold a pumpkin painting contest In fall, pumpkin carving is a big contest. This year, instead of slicing those orange globes into scary shapes, hold a kid-focused pumpkin decorating day.____19____. For the grownups, prepare a couple of face painting booths and let a professional to help. ●Have a treasure hunt A treasure hunt gets people thinking creatively and actively engaged in the hunt. We really love this idea because it can be an indoor or outdoor activity, so it’s a year-round option. All you need is some gifts, a hiding place and mysterious clues. You just place a flag where the treasure should be.____20____. A. Throw a community party B. Everyone has a personal interest C. Turn to neighbors in your community D. It also helps identify some regional creatures E. The carving contest is more suitable for grownups F. The winner can use it to claim his prize and get the glory G. Kids can become pumpkin reinvention masters with adults’ help 第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分) 第一节(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 “What would Ms K do?” was in my playlist of the top 10 questions as I was taking books and files in my office. Reports had been____21____over the last few weeks about the growing____22____of COVID-19. My husband, a physician,____23____me that I should make plans to begin working from h