2023兰州西固区兰州第六十一中学高三上学期11月期中英语试题含答案

兰化一中2023届高三第三次阶段考试

高三英语

第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题两分，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

This chart shows how much money Americans have in savings at every age.

The typical American household has an average of $ 8,863 in an account at a bank or credit union, according to a recent report from Bankrate that analyzed inflation-adjusted data from the Federal Reserve. That’s purely in liquid savings, so it doesn’t include retirement funds or other investments.

However, that amount varies greatly by age and household type.

Savings vary widely by household type and age

For many families, this amount of savings falls short, some experts warn. “The ultimate destination should be enough to cover six months’ expenses, perhaps 9 to 12 months for sole breadwinners or self-employed individuals,” Greg McBride, CFA and chief financial analyst for Bankrate, com, says in the report.

”Here’s the thing with emergency money: More is always better,” best-selling author and co-founder of AE Wealth Management David Bach tells CNBC Make It. “You hear all the time experts say, you should have three months of expenses set aside. Well, it depends. In the recession, when people lost their jobs, three months of expenses set aside wasn’t enough.”

Meanwhile, other research has found that 60 percent of millennials don’t have enough money to cover a $ 1,000 emergency.

In addition to building your emergency fund, you should aim to put around 15 percent of your income towards retirement savings, according to the financial services company Fidelity.

If you want to put more away each month, start by cutting back on Americans? three biggest expenses: housing, transportation and food. You can also research ways to trim (削减) your budget and look into strategies for boosting your income.

1. According to the chart, for those between 35 and 44, who have the most in savings?

A. Singles with children. B. Singles without children.

C Couples with children. D. Couples without children.

2. According to Greg McBride, at least how much money should be set aside for a family with only one person who earns money?

A. 3 months’ expenses. B. 6 months’ expenses.

C. 9 months’ expenses. D. 12 months’ expenses.

3. Which column of a newspaper is this article probably from?

A. Business and trade. B. Saving and investing.

C. Health and wellness. D. Employment and retirement.

B

Quite often no matter how good you are, your success is dependent on how other people such as your boss, peers, clients and customers perceive(感知) your communication and responses.

So when you come to people who make the key difference between helping you or holding you back, how can you influence and persuade them to give what you want?

Psychological research repeatedly shows that people generally make up their minds whether to help or hinder(阻碍) you, based on whether they like you or not. It is human nature. What can you do about it? You need to make a good impression on others to ensure they like you and give you what you want. Research again shows that people give opportunities to the people they like best. In fact, most people make up their minds about other people in the first five minutes or less of meeting someone. These are called first impressions or “moments of truth”.

Once they make up their minds, they tend to be very reluctant to change their opinions. You hardly have room for error when making a first impression on a new acquaintance. Therefore, whether you are applying for a job, going for an interview, attending a meeting with your boss or peers, or serving a customer, you need to prepare yourself mentally and rehearse how you will manage the first few minutes of your interaction. This includes doing your homework to gather information and researching all possible issues so you will know how to address them if the other party should raise them unexpectedly.

It is amazing how poorly some people can come across at the beginning. The worst thing is that they do not even seem to realize it. Despite having good qualifications and excellent work performance, the candidates cannot be excused from trying to make good first impressions.

4. Which of the following is the way people tend to decide whether to like other people or not?

A. They make quick decisions.

B. They change their opinions frequently.

C. They prefer people who are experienced.

D. They pay much attention to good qualifications.

5. Which of the following strategies might help in an interview according to the author?

A. Show your friendliness and confidence.

B. Ask the interviewers for homework to do.

C. Know as much as possible about the situation.

D. Do something unexpected to impress the interviewers.

6. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Making a good first impression. B. Approaches to applying for a job.

C. People making the key difference. D. Winning strategies for a job interview.

7. What will probably be talked about in the next part of the passage?

A. Questions that might be asked by the interviewers.

B. How to win over people who don’t like you at first.

C. Examples of how good first impressions help people succeed.

D. Some specific advice on how to make a good first impression.

C

It seems like people today are more easily offended than ever before.

If smoking in an elevator or talking in a movie theater were normal in the past, they are considered to be rude today. We used to be obliged to answer whatever questions a family elder asked, but now when a prying relative asks about our test grades or dream university — information that we’d rather keep to ourselves — we feel offended, even if they mean well.

The boundary between “politeness” and “rudeness” has changed over the years, especially among young people.

But this change doesn’t just go one way — things that used to be considered rude may also go across to the other side of the boundary. For example, to stand up for themselves, some youths may try to make statements by using phone cases printed with phrases like “Leave me alone” or “None of your business”. In their eyes, this is more like being independent than being rude.

“These phenomena involve rejecting previously moral order to ignore insults, recognize the good intentions of those who accidentally give offense, and be charitable toward those with whom we disagree,” wrote Time. “They suggest a new morality.”

And this fresh morality is introduced by a new group of people. According to The Economist, young people, or millennials, are “the best-educated generation ever”, which is why they tend to be more conscious about their privacy and personal space. They are also freer than previous generations, more eager to explore the world and refuse to be tied down by elders’ rules.

But there are, of course, people who think that millennials have gone too far to defend their own needs. An earlier Time article called millennials the “Me Me Me Generation”, saying that they are self-involved, less grateful and less tolerant of people.

But Lauren Martin, a lifestyle writer in the US, and a millennial herself, has a theory.

“Our generation is an anomaly (与众不同的事物),” she wrote on Elite Daily. “We refuse to do things their way, so they call us entitled. We refuse to sit in cubicles, so they call us spoiled. We refuse to follow their plans, so they call us stubborn. What they are slowly realizing, however, is we’re not lazy, stubborn or entitled. We just refuse to accept things as they’re given to us.”

8. What is the article mainly about?

A. Why people today are more easily offended.

B. The definition of “politeness” and “rudeness”.

C. The morality of millennials and some views on it.

D. Key characteristics of the millennial generation.

9. What can we conclude from the first four paragraphs?

A. A prying relative always makes people feel offended.

B. Many young people can’t tell politeness from rudeness.

C. Young people today don’t care what people think of them.

D. Traditional morality has been rejected by some.

10. According to The Economist, millennials ______.

a. are more curious about the outside world

b. are less thankful and understanding

c are more concerned about their privacy

d. are more likely to challenge elders’ rules

e. enjoy more freedom and are self-involved

A. a, b, c B. a, c, d C. b, d, e D. c, d, e

11. What does Lauren Martin think of millennials?

A. They are too stubborn to listen to others.

B. They cannot get along well with others.

C. They have their own ways of viewing things.

D. They should adjust their way to defend their own needs.

D

Without sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change threatens future Winter Olympic Games because their locations would be too warm to host the events, a new study has found.

If the world’s high emissions continue their trend, by the 2080s all but one of the 21 cities that previously hosted the Winter Games - Sapporo, Japan - would not be able to do so again. Among them, 6 cities would be considered “marginal” while 14 would even be seen “unreliable”— meaning the right conditions for snow and athlete safety cannot be met.

But that won’t necessarily happen if the world takes urgent action and follows the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, according to Daniel Scott, the lead researcher for the University of Waterloo’s report. Under that deal, nearly 200 countries agreed to greatly cut their collective greenhouse emissions.

Athletes and coaches surveyed by the researchers said they re already seeing the effect climate change has on their sports. “Some of the coaches that did the survey have been coaches in the sport for 30 years,” Scott said. “They’ve traveled the world, back to the same competitions, and they’ve seen that certain competitions don’t happen, as regularly or uninterruptedly as they used to because of warmer temperatures.”

The Summer Olympics are also feeling the effects of climate change. Tokyo’s Olympic and Paralympic Games are likely one of—if not—the hottest and most humid Games on record. Daily temperatures reached 80F high with high humidity (湿度) that could make it feel like 100°F.

But winter sports seem more strongly influenced by the impact of a warmer world. During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia, skiers were overheating in the same way a marathon runner would at nearly 90F weather. Due to the great impact, the study makes us worry that outdoor games may have to move indoors or be held at a different time of year altogether in order to accommodate higher temperatures.

12. What does the underlined word “marginal” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Almost unqualified.

B. Pretty satisfactory.

C. Rather unpopular.

D. Quite suitable.

13. Why are Tokyo’s Olympics mentioned in Paragraph 5?

A. To show the spirit of the Olympics.

B. To stress the impact of climate change.

C. To reveal the cause of warmer climate.

D. To compare summer and winter Olympics

14. What is the author’s attitude to the finding of the study?

A. Conservative.

B. Tolerant.

C. Optimistic.

D. Concerned.

15. What does the text mainly talk about?

A. Global climate changes.

B. Greenhouse gas emissions.

C. The Winter Olympics crisis.

D. The future Olympic Games.

第二节：补全短文(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。

Why is Eating Colourful Food Good for You?

Most of us are faced with the same choice numerous times a day: what to eat. Along with price, accessibility and preference, we’ll often use a food’s healthfulness to help us make a decision. ____16____

It’s widely accepted by researchers that we need a varied diet. ____17____ The proof may be in the Mediterranean diet, which contains a lot of fruit, vegetables and healthy fats such as extra virgin olive oil, and is frequently rated the healthiest diet by scientists.

Eating lots of colours may lower your risk of missing out on all vital nutrients. “If we re missing a colour of the rainbow, we may be missing a function of that food,” says Minich. This is because plant foods contain thousands of natural compounds, which have anti-inflammatory (抗炎的) benefits.

____18____ Blue and purple foods, including blueberries, have a high content of the plant anthocyanin (花青素), which has been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Flavones (黄酮), which give foods a yellow colour, may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Research follow at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, says eating a colourful diet can also help people avoid possible side effects of eating too much of one food. “____19____ For example, research has found that orange juice is associated with a lower risk of cognitive decline, but too much intake is associated with type 2 diabetes,” she says. Although, this is because of its sugar content, not flavones.

Eating a rainbow diet may also be complex. ____20____ We could tie ourselves in knots. We also need to eat from other food groups to get all the nutrients we need, such as protein.

A. Food is very complex.

B. A varied diet is packed with different vegetables.

C. It could be really tricky to get every colour every day.

D. But how do we know we’re getting enough nutrients?

E. Different coloured foods come with different benefits.

F. However, is colour the best guide to getting all the nutrients?

G. And one way to do this is by eating all the colours of the rainbow.

第二部分 英语知识运用(共三节，满分45分)

第一节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They ___21___ anxiously at their desks. The professor handed out the ___22___ with the text facing downwards.

Once he handed them all out, he asked his students to ___23___ the page and begin. To everyone’s ___24___ ，there were no questions - just a ___25___ in the center of the page. The professor thoroughly read through everyone’s ___26___ expressions and said, “I want you to write what you ___27___ there.”

At the end of the class, the professor took all the papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of the students. All of them ___28___ the black dot. After all had been ___29___， the professor explained:

“I just wanted to give you something to ____30____. No one wrote about the ____31____ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot - and the same ____32____ in our lives. This is exactly what we ____33____ to do. We have a white paper to hold onto and enjoy, but we are so busy ____34____ on the dark spots. Life is a special gift, and we will always have reasons to ____35____.”

And yet we insist on focusing only on the dark spots - problems with family members or friends, issues that are____36____ us, the money that we need to have and so on.

You need to ____37____ that the dark spots are very ____38____. Take your eyes ____39____ the black spots in your life.____40____ each one of your blessings and each moment that life gives you.

21. A. talked B. waited C. stood D. prepared

22. A. books B. gifts C. cards D. papers

23. A. turn B. check C. fold D. cover

24. A. delight B. surprise C. relief D. disappointment

25. A. question mark B. smiley face C. black dot D. small circle

26. A. embarrassed B. annoyed C. confused D. excited

27. A. see B. imagine C. like D. expect

28. A. ignored B. painted C. described D. decorated

29. A. collected B. graded C. introduced D. read

30. A. think about B. refer to C. hand out D. take along

31. A. upper B. bottom C. important D. white

32. A. develops B. works C. continues D. happens

33. A. tend B. want C. plan D. wish

34. A. relying B. concentrating C. trying D. passing

35. A. celebrate B. practice C. improve D. compete

36. A. attracting B. changing C. guiding D. bothering

37. A. pretend B. admit C. realize D. suppose

38. A. boring B. small C. useful D. weak

39. A. across B. through C. away from D. back to

40. A. Accept B. Enjoy C. Examine D. Trust

第二节：语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

After orbiting Earth for six months, the three members of China’s Shenzhou XIII mission returned to Earth safely on April 16h, 2022, ____41____ (conclude) the nation’s longest manned spaceflight.

During their stay in the space station, the crew preformed two spacewalks and conducted a series of scientific experiments using a large robotic arm and other ____42____ (equip) to install and adjust devices. Meanwhile, it was the first time that a female Chinese astronaut ____43____ (perform) a space walk. Besides, the astronauts, with the ____44____ (assist) of the staff on the ground, delivered a science lecture 400 kilometers above Earth to millions of students. They showed viewers ____45____ they lived and worked inside the space station. The uniform called a “penguin jumpsuit”, ____46____ (special) designed to help the astronauts maintain their muscle strength, was introduced. The astronauts also demonstrated (演示) some experiments related to physical phenomena in the weightless environment, during ____47____ they compared the growth of cells in artificial gravity and zero-gravity.

The Shenzhou XIII’s space-based lessons, intended to popularize space science and spark enthusiasm in science among youngsters, ____48____ (mark) the start of the Tiangong Class series. ____49____ its space station construction advancing, China will share its breakthroughs and strengthen cooperation with other countries to push space exploration _____50_____ (far) forward.

第三部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

51. 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2处，每处错误仅涉及1个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号，并在其下面写上该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限于一词;

2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Have you heard from Singles’ Day in China? Many people stay up lately that night, shop online to get big savings. Well, the US has something like it calling Black Friday.

Black Friday is one of the bigger shopping days in the US. It always falls on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. On this day, store will offer special deals, just like on Singles’ Day in China. On Black Friday, shoppers will often wake up very early to wait in line at stores after they open. They might start wait in line as early as 2 or 3 am. Sometimes, the crowds will be such big that it is impossible to get inside the store. People sometimes fight over things because there are only a few are left.

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

52. 假定你是李华，你所在的足球队在全市高中生足球比赛中获得一等奖。请你写一篇获奖感言在足球比赛颁奖会上宣读，内容包括：

1.参赛的准备过程；

2.参赛的收获；

3.表示感谢。

注意：

1.词数120左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

兰化一中2023届高三第三次阶段考试

高三英语

第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题两分，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

【1~3题答案】

【答案】1. C    2. C    3. B

B

【4~7题答案】

【答案】4. A    5. C    6. A    7. D

C

【8~11题答案】

【答案】8. C    9. D    10. B    11. C

D

【12~15题答案】

【答案】12. A    13. B    14. D    15. C

第二节：补全短文(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。

【16~20题答案】

【答案】16. D    17. G    18. E    19. A    20. C

第二部分 英语知识运用(共三节，满分45分)

第一节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-40各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

【21~40题答案】

【答案】21. B    22. D    23. A    24. B    25. C    26. C    27. A    28. C    29. D    30. A    31. D    32. D    33. A    34. B    35. A    36. D    37. C    38. B    39. C    40. B

第二节：语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

【41~50题答案】

【答案】41. concluding   

42. equipment   

43. had performed   

44. assistance   

45. how    46. specially   

47. which    48. marked   

49 With    50. further

第三部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

【51题答案】

【答案】1.from→of/about

2.lately→late

3.shop→shopping

4.calling→called

5.bigger→biggest

6.store→stores

7.after→before

8.在start后加to 或把start后的wait→waiting

9.such→so

10.删除a few后的are

第二节：书面表达(满分25分)

【52题答案】

【答案】Ladies and gentleman,

I’m so excited that our football team won the first prize in this competition.

Before the competition we kept on practicing for a long time. Luckily, our efforts paid off, which, to be honest, is beyond our expectations. What’s more, we learned a lot from this competition. On one hand, participating in the football match helps me to learn more about sport techniques, improve my team consciousness and develop my self-confidence as well. On the other hand, thanks to the football club, I have known many friends sharing the same interest with me. Finally, I’d like to express my thanks to all of our teachers who directed us, our friends who helped me, and our partners who worked hard. Without you, we couldn’t have made such a great achievement.

Thank you so much, again.