2023天津市耀华中学高三上学期第一次月考试题英语含答案

天津市耀华中学2023届高三年级第一次月考

英语学科试卷

★请同学们将试题答案填涂或填写在答题卡上

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)，第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)和第III卷(听力试卷)三部分，共150分，第I，Ⅱ卷考试时间100分钟，听力考试时间为20分钟。

答卷前，请务必将自己的姓名、考号、座位号填写在答题卡上和密封线外相应位置。答卷时，务必将答案涂写在答题卡上，答在试卷上的无效。考试结束后，将答题卡和答题纸一并收回。

祝各位同学考试顺利!

第I卷(95分)

第一部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分，15分)。

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. —I have been considering cancelling the project because it seems hard to go farther.

—But it’s too early to________ now. There’s still much hope.

A. have second thoughts B. throw in the towel

C. test the waters D. make ends meet

2. Many enterprising young people present their ideas________ getting investment and advice to start their own business.

A. at the cost of B. by means of C. as a result of D. in the hope of

3. ________leaving high school, Ernest Hemingway joined a local Kanas newspaper as a trainee reporter.

A. On B. At C. For D. In

4. Music boxes, toys that make pleasant sounds and soft music________ the babies’ sense of hearing, encouraging it development in their growth.

A. acquire B. display C. stimulate D. claim

5. Speech________ enables them to understand what a person is saying, and natural language processing is used to work out a response.

A. contribution B. recognition C. possession D. admission

6. Completed in________ was known as The Gilded Age, the five—storied mansion is now owned by a famous actor who stages the production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

A. that B. what C. which D. who

7. Despite being a sports journalist with a successful career ahead of him, Mitch Albom feels that there is something________ from his life.

A. missing B. to miss C. being lost D. to be lost

8. —The test results are terrible. Is it too difficult for the students?

—Not really. Some students lost marks________ because they didn’t read the question properly.

A. automatically B. hardly C. deliberately D. simply

9. The painting of Apsaras are full of life, ________the confidence and optimism of people during the Tang Dynasty.

A. consuming B. distributing C. reflecting D. boasting

10. —What’s the problem, Sir?

—You________ at least at a speed of about 100 miles per hour.

A. are driving B. had driven C. were driving D. have been driving

11. In choosing one job from the two presented in front of us, we are unknowingly________ other future opportunities.

A. turning down B. breaking up C. putting away D. giving out

12. His private museum together with his art collections________ to the country as a gift.

A. has offered B. have offered C. is offered D. are offered

13. The beautiful scene, ________small, was an important moment on my journey to discovering the power of achieving health and happiness.

A. when B. unless C. if D. although

14. This wealth of ways of sharing is a response to our increasing demand for quality goods and services at competitive prices, with all________ at the click of a button.

A. being delivered B. to deliver C. delivered D. having delivered

15. Green Equator Coffee is grown on the Green Equator Estate(庄园),________coffee is 100% organic and sells at a very low price.

A. where B. whose C. when D. which

第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Elsa Desmond knows she is not going to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but she is ____16____ as the first women’s luge(无舵雪橇)Olympian from Ireland. She was the 26th to ____17____ the line in the first run of the women’s race on Monday night, ____18____ than none of the other athletes. However, that did not ____19____ to her and she celebrated with a large smile on her face.

Although she will not win in Beijing, she has already won some ____20____ . She had been given many reasons why she could not compete: she is too short, she did not start ____21____ at a young age, and she could not balance a(n) ____22____ job with competing in a sport. The biggest ____23____ simply might have been that Ireland did not have a luge organization. So, she ____24____ one herself; she had to self-fund.

Now, ____25____ , she is a luge Olympian. “I’m a doctor in general surgery, I have all these really ____26____ challenges, but I think everyone has worked as hard as they can to be here. ”She is expected to return to work on this Friday because she was given some time ____27____ to compete in the Olympics, and now she has ____28____ parts of her job.

Desmond has to balance these two ____29____ jobs—sliding a few months out of the year and living a life in medicine. There was a(n) ____30____ last season when she had to take important medical examinations in hotels in Germany where other sliders from different countries were staying. “I had to stick signs on my door saying ‘Do not disturb, exam in ____31____ , in about six different ____32____ .”

Desmond got the honor of ____33____ her country in Beijing, and being one of two people ____34____ Ireland’s flag during the opening ceremony on Friday. “I don’t think I can ____35____ words how excited I was to lead out the team. I really hope that I make my country proud.”

16. A. visiting B. studying C. leading D. competing

17. A. break B. cross C. follow D. draw

18. A. slower B. lower C. faster D. higher

19. A. upset B. respond C. happen D. matter

20. A. potentials B. challenges C. operations D. alternatives

21. A. swimming B. sliding C. sailing D. running

22. A. financial B. athletic C. medical D. educational

23. A. expectation B. achievement C. difficulty D. pleasure

24. A. started B. stopped C. continued D. joined

25. A. privately B. traditionally C. similarly D. officially

26. A. visible B. imaginary C. absurd D. dangerous

27. A. off B. up C. out D. away

28. A. ruined B. exceeded C. covered D. delayed

29. A. frustrating B. rewarding C. demanding D. embarrassing

30. A. interview B. time C. vacation D. chance

31. A. peace B. need C. progress D. public

32. A. characters B. approaches C. styles D. languages

33. A. investigating B. preserving C. strengthening D. representing

34. A. holding B. raising C. preparing D. storing

35. A. set down B. put into C. pick up D. get through

第二部分：阅读理解(共20小题：每小题2.5分，满分50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。

A

Behavior Under Risk: How Animals Avoid Becoming Dinner

By: Renee L. Rosier & Tracy Langkilde © 2021 Nature Education

Most animals face the risk of being eaten. To avoid becoming someone’s dinner, an organism must be able to identify predatory threats and employ effective strategies to avoid detection by predators. In the event that avoidance fails, animals can use strategies that will increase their chances of surviving attack if they do encounter predators.

Detecting predators (捕食者):

a. Visual — Many animals respond to general visual cues(提示), such as the presence of a new object or sudden movement. Other visual cues, including an animal’s size and behavior, can provide specific information about the identity and intention of a potential predator. For example, prey may be able to visually identify a predator based on its shape, size, and color, and can use the predator’s behavior to determine the immediate threat that it poses.

b. Auditory—Auditory cues can provide reliable, direct information about a predator’s presence, identity. These cues are especially helpful for nocturnal (夜间活动的) prey species or animals that avoid predators that frequently use sound to hunt or communicate. For example, toadfish recognize sound of dolphins when they are looking for food, one of their main predators, and reduce their activity levels in response.

c. Chemical — Chemical cues can be present in the air, in water, or on the ground, and can be detected by prey through smelling or tasting, providing a reliable indication of a predator’s presence even if it is visually undetectable. Some species are even able to determine how old a predator scent is, and will avoid only fresh scent cues as they indicate a predator’s recent presence.  Animals can also use changes in the concentration or age of a scent to determine which direction a predator was traveling, in order to better avoid it.

d. Vibration (震动) — Vibration cues can provide useful information about a predator’s presence, and can be difficult for predators to hide. Many animals, including some spiders, caterpillars, and tadpoles, use vibrations as indicators of predator presence, and can distinguish vibrations made by predators, non-predators, and abiotic (非生命的) cues (such as rainfall). It is important for prey to be able to distinguish cues from threats versus non-threats, as responding to every tactile stimulus (触觉刺激) would waste time and energy, and may actually attract the attention of predators.

36. How many kinds of visual cues are mentioned in the passage?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

37. How does toadfish avoid threat from dolphins?

A. By making noises. B. By looking for food.

C. By responding actively. D. By reducing their move.

38. Which of the following cue can best be used to detect the direction of predators at night?

A. Visual. B. Auditory. C. Chemical. D. Vibration.

39. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A Chemical cues fail to function if the predators are out of sight.

B. Visual cues can be used as an indication of predators’ intention.

C. Vibration cues are reliable as predators can hardly stop vibrating.

D. Auditory cues help prey to figure out what kind of predators they meet.

40. Which of the following topic might be talked about in the following paragraphs?

A. Prey species and their behaviors B. Distinct Characteristics of Predators

C. Surviving Encounters with Predators D. Effective Ways to Find out Prey species

B

If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times or others, I would have replied, “Definitely not! ” This was partly because I did not want to think of myself as an ambitious sort. Working in restaurants was honest labor, and anyone could see that. Writing about them for the mainstream press was not.

However, the renewing was fun, so much fun that when mainstream publishers started paying me for my opinions, I didn’t do the decent (体面的) thing, and before I knew it, I had stopped cooking professionally. Then I stopped cooking altogether. “She’s joined the leisure class.” my friend said.

I disarmed my critics by inviting them along; nobody I knew could afford to eat out and nobody refused. We went with equal amounts of guilt and pleasure, with a feeling that we were stepping onto the playgrounds of the rich.

We knew we didn’t belong to these grand restaurants. We always got the worst table, and since I didn’t own a credit card, I had to pay in cash. The year turned into two and three, and more. Then, I got a credit card as well as good clothes. I was writing for increasingly prestigious (声誉高的) publications. Meanwhile, a voice inside me kept whispering, “How could you?”

The voice is still there, never coming to a stop. When I receive weekly letters from people who think it is unacceptable to write about $100 meals while half the world is hungry, the voice rings right along, “They’re absolutely right, you elitist (精英) pig is not”. When it asks, “When are you going to grow up and get a real job?”, it sounds a lot like my mother.

It is just at that moment that I tell the voice to shut up because I realize all I’m doing with my life is telling rich people where to eat and how much the world has changed.

Yes, there are still restaurants where rich people go to remind themselves that they are different from you and me, but there are fewer and fewer of them. Going out to eat used to be like going to the opera; today, it is more like going to the movies.

Therefore, everyone has become a critic and I couldn’t be happier with this. The more people pay attention to what and how they eat, the more accustomed they become to their own senses and the world around them. As A. J. Liebling once said, all it really takes to be a restaurant critic is a good appetite.

41. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?

A. The author was too honest to work as a restaurant critic.

B. The author found it hard to work for the mainstream press.

C. The author didn’t think highly of the job as a restaurant critic.

D. The author wasn’t able to renew the work as a professional cook.

42. How did the author feel about eating out?

A. She felt like eating out with the rich.

B. She refused to eat out with the critics.

C. She had a mixed feeling about eating out.

D. She got much fun from being invited to eat out.

43. What does the author want to tell us by saying “The year turned into two, and three, and more.”?

A. She stayed in the career as a professional cook for years.

B. She took up the job of writing as a restaurant critic for years.

C. It took a long time for the publications to increase their prestige.

D. It was years before her application for a credit card got approved.

44. What changes have taken place to American restaurants?

A. Restaurants make people confused about their social status.

B. Rich people can get special treat in some restaurants.

C. Ordinary people have become accustomed to fancy restaurants. o

D Restaurants have become affordable to common people.

45. Which of the following statements will the author probably agree with?

A. Eating out is not a privilege of the rich.

B. There is no need for restaurant critics at all.

C. The writer is getting tired of her current job.

D. Good appetite makes a good restaurant critic.

C

Tourists visiting the Canary Islands can often hear locals communicating over long distances by whistling—not a tune, but the Spanish language. The locals are communicating in Silbo, a much more widespread use of whistled languages. In at least 80 cultures worldwide, people have developed whistled versions of their local languages when the circumstances call for it.

Whistled languages are almost always developed by traditional cultures that live in mountainous regions or in dense forests. That’s because whistled speech carries much farther than ordinary speech or shouting, says Julien Meyer, a linguist who explores the topic of whistled languages. Skilled whistlers can reach 120 decibels (分贝) —louder than a car speaker. As a result, whistled speech can be understood up to 10 times as far away as ordinary shouting can. That lets people communicate when they cannot get close enough to shout.

Whistled languages work because many of the key elements of speech can be mimicked in a whistle. We distinguish one speech sound from another by minor differences in their sound frequency patterns. Whistlers can express all of these distinctions by varying the pitch (音高) of their whistle. And the skill can be adapted to any language, even those that have no tradition of whistling.

However whistled languages are disappearing rapidly all over the world, and some—such as the whistled form of the Tepehua language in Mexico—have already disappeared. Modernization is largely to blame, says Meyer, who points to roads as the biggest factor. “That’s why you still find whistled speech only in places that are very, very remote, that have had less access to roads,” he says.

Fortunately, there is still a ray of hope. UNESCO has listed two whistled languages—Silbo in the Canary Islands, and a whistled Turkish—as elements of the world’s intangible cultural heritage. Such attention can lead to conservation efforts. In the Canary Islands, for example, Silbo is now taught in schools. “If people hadn’t made that effort, Silbo would probably have disappeared,” says Meyer. There, at least, the future of the whistled language looks bright.

46. What can be learned about Silbo?

A. It is an endangered tune. B. It is employed to entertain tourists.

C. It is used in more than 80 cultures. D. It is a whistled version of Spanish.

47. What are whistled languages mainly used to do?

A. Pass on secret information.

B. Get messages across over long distances.

C. Imitate the sound patterns of other languages.

D. Show minor differences between speech sounds.

48. What does the underlined word “mimicked” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. imitated B. developed C. combined D. appreciated

49. Why are whistled languages disappearing according to Meyer?

A. Lack of skilled teachers. B. Contact with modernities.

C. Difficulty in learning them. D. Popularity of official languages.

50. What is the author’s attitude towards the future of Silbo?

A. Critical. B. Dissatisfied. C. Optimistic. D. Ambiguous.

D

Since the early to mid-2010s, social media apps have made a permanent home in many people’s phones, and spending time on social media has become as much of a daily activity as drinking water. Since so many people are on it for much of their days—especially kids, teens, and young adults—there is increased concern over what social media is doing to people.

Many argue that social media is an unhealthy way to pass the time, and that false information from online is causing confusion and panic. This type of thing happens with every generation when something new that people don’t understand comes along: So many people thought rock-and-roll was making teens morally bad, which really wasn’t the case. It is fair to say that the teenage years are hard, and that teens need an escape. Back before phones, teens would listen to rock music as a form of escapism, or they would watch TV, go to the movies, skate around, or dress up in crazy clothes. Unfortunately, all of those things at one point in time were blamed for being a bad influence on young people. Social media is the new rock-and-roll: it’s a new thing, and people demonize(妖魔化)change.

For example, many believe that everything on social media apps is filtered(加滤镜)and that seeing perfect people and their perfectly edited lives often leads to lots of negative emotions. However, models, magazines. and movies have been using retouching(修整)tools for photos and media since Photoshop and other post-production services were invented. Social media has made it easier to see more edited pictures, but social media itself isn’t making people want to look a certain way. People should acknowledge that these pictures aren’t authentic, and the posts are made to look good on purpose. Social media is hot to blame for body confidence issues when the things people want to look like aren’t even real in the first place.

It seems like most issues around social media are user errors, like anyone complaining there are too many people being addicted to social media. However, not everyone is addicted to social media; people who have any grasp on reality wouldn’t spend every waking second on the phone. It is really up to the individual how they use social media. Keeping up with the flood of posts, stories, and photos takes a lot of time—many young people admit that they spend hours on their phones every day. Yet, this seems like an easy problem to solve when the solution is simply clicking off the phone a couple hours early. Therefore, it is clear that moderation(适度)is the key to dealing with all the issues around social media.

51. Why does the author mention “rock-and-roll” in Paragraph 2?

A. To demonstrate the advantages of social media.

B. To predict the future development of social media.

C. To explain why social media is regarded as negative.

D. To analyze why social media becomes so popular today.

52. What does the author think of posting edited photos on social media apps?

A. Understandable. B. Disturbing. C. Intolerable. D. Convincing

53. Why do some people spend a lot of time on their phones?

A. Because they have grasp on reality

B. Because they want to know what happens.

C. Because they can keep up with the modern trend.

D. Because they are looking for a solution to the errors.

54. What does the text advise people to do about social media?

A. Make the best use of it. B. Completely stay away from it.

C. Prohibit young people from using it. D. Spend reasonable amounts of time on it.

55. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A. What makes us so addicted to social media?

B. Why is social media so popular among teenagers?

C. Should we depend on social media for information?

D. Is it right to blame social media for all the problems?

第II卷(35分)

第三部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

阅读下列短文，按照要求用英文回答问题。

I love beautiful scenery as much as others do, but I have always focused downwards wherever I walk. I love finding unexpected treasures—the habit likely goes back to my childhood. Even today, I engage in this obsession while walking the dog up and down the river park, Don Valley.

In January 2019, a few days after an unusually heavy snowfall, I was struggling through the Don Valley as usual with my dog. Snow days are not the best for treasure hunting, so I was surprised to see a shiny gold beneath the snow near the bottom of a hill. I carefully took out a ring decorated with a Cartier logo. I walked into the local coffee shop nearby to see if anybody had reported lost jewelry. Sadly, they had no news, so I headed home to print up flyers (传单) to post around the neighborhood. I also tried a local Facebook group.

I waited and waited but nobody called to lay claim to my small treasure. After putting it on the shelf, I eventually forgot all about it. That is, until many months later when our daughter Katie came back home for holiday. She happened to see the ring when reaching a book. With far better eyesight, she soon noticed the tiny letters on the inside of the ring that read, “Omar and Yoshi.” It was so obviously important to them. I promise to do whatever I could to track down this couple.

We searched through years of wedding notices but there was nothing on record for those two names. Frustrated, I began to give up hope, then had one last thought: why not call Cartier stores in the city? I called one store. An understandably confused gentleman listened to my story, went silent for a moment and then stated that the ring was totally untraceable(无迹可寻的). He apologized, and I was about to hang up when he suddenly asked if I had found a name on the ring. I told him just the first name, Omar.

“Omar?” he said excitedly. “Omar and Yoshi?”

After nearly a whole year, I finally made it to return my small treasure to Omar and Yoshi.

56. What does the underlined word in Para 1 mean? (1 word)

________________

57. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us? (no more than 15 words)

________________

58. Why didn’t the author find the letters on the ring? (no more than 15 words)

________________

59. What finally helped the author find the ring owner? (no more than 10 words)

________________

60. What do you think of the author? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)

________________

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

61. 假设你叫李津，你校曾经的来自加拿大的交换生Jason给你写信，询问你关于非现金支付在中国的情况。现在你给他回信，信的主要内容包括：

1. 问候他近况

2. 介绍中国人的支付方式（手机，信用卡，现金）

3. 你对非现金支付的看法（包括这种方式的优点和不足）

参考词汇：非现金支付Non—cash payments

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1. 词数不少于100词。

2. 文章的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jason,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Li Jin

天津市耀华中学2023届高三年级第一次月考

英语学科试卷

★请同学们将试题答案填涂或填写在答题卡上

本试卷分第I卷(选择题)，第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)和第III卷(听力试卷)三部分，共150分，第I，Ⅱ卷考试时间100分钟，听力考试时间为20分钟。

答卷前，请务必将自己的姓名、考号、座位号填写在答题卡上和密封线外相应位置。答卷时，务必将答案涂写在答题卡上，答在试卷上的无效。考试结束后，将答题卡和答题纸一并收回。

祝各位同学考试顺利!

第I卷(95分)

第一部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分，15分)。

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

【1题答案】

【答案】B

【2题答案】

【答案】D

【3题答案】

【答案】A

【4题答案】

【答案】C

【5题答案】

【答案】B

【6题答案】

【答案】B

【7题答案】

【答案】A

【8题答案】

【答案】D

【9题答案】

【答案】C

【10题答案】

【答案】C

【11题答案】

【答案】A

【12题答案】

【答案】C

【13题答案】

【答案】D

【14题答案】

【答案】C

【15题答案】

【答案】B

第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

【16~35题答案】

【答案】16. D    17. B    18. C    19. D    20. B    21. B    22. C    23. C    24. A    25. D    26. A    27. A    28. D    29. C    30. B    31. C    32. D    33. D    34. A    35. B

第二部分：阅读理解(共20小题：每小题2.5分，满分50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。

A

【36~40题答案】

【答案】36. C    37. D    38. B    39. A    40. C

B

【41~45题答案】

【答案】41. C    42. C    43. B    44. D    45. A

C

【46~50题答案】

【答案】46. D    47. B    48. A    49. B    50. C

D

【51~55题答案】

【答案】51. C    52. A    53. B    54. D    55. D

第II卷(35分)

第三部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

【56~60题答案】

【答案】56. Addiction./Passion./Enthusiasm./Habit.   

57. The author picked up a ring and tried his/her best to find the owner.   

58. Because of his/her poor eyesight.   

59. The help of a gentleman in a Cartier store.   

60. He/She is kind-hearted and honest. Because he/she spared no effort to find the owner.

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

【61题答案】

【答案】Dear Jason,

How are you getting on recently? Knowing that you are interested in non—cash payments in China, I am glad to share something with you. At present, there are three main payment methods in China: mobile phone, credit card and cash, among which mobile payment is the most used.

As we can see non-cash payment has quite a few advantages. Firstly, it can reduce the risk of losing money, and prevent receiving counterfeit notes. In addition, we can pay for whatever we buy with only a smart phone. And the best part is that we don’t need to worry about having no change when taking a bus. However, non-cash payment also has some disadvantages. It is not convenient for some elderly people who don’t use mobile phones. Additionally, it can’t protect people’s privacy.

As for me, I prefer non-cash payment, which I think is an indispensable part of modern life.

Yours

Li Jin