常州2023届高三期中考试英语试题及答案（不含听力音频）

常州2023届高三期中考试

英 语 试 题

第一部分: 听力（共两节，满分30分)

第一节

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. Why does the man need a map?

A. To tour Manchester.

B. To find a restaurant.

C. To learn about China.

2. What kind of mask is the man wearing?

A. A N95 mask.

B. A cloth mask.

C. A KF95 mask.

3. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Husband and wife.

B. Mother and son.

C. Colleagues.

4. How does the woman sound?

A. Pleased.

B. Touched.

C. Anxious.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A video.

B. A singer.

C. A program.

第二节

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In an office.

B. In a restaurant.

C. over the phone.

7. What will the man do tomorrow morning?

A. Deliver a suit.

B. Attend a meeting.

C. Pick up someone.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What is the woman's plan for tonight?

A. Learning to bake.

B. Reviewing for a test.

C. Attending a party.

9. What dessert does the woman like best?

A. Tea ice cream.

B. Banana cupcakes.

C. Strawberry pancakes.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How does the woman sound?

A. Satisfied.

B. Unhappy.

C. Excited.

11. What does the woman probably do?

A. She's a lawyer.

B. She's a doctor.

C. She's a salesperson.

12. When will the woman take her holiday?

A. In the summer.

B. In the fall.

C. In the winter.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the woman doing?

A. Hosting a show.

B. Giving a lecture.

C. Having a class.

14. How did Steven's mother influence him?

A. By sending him to poetry classes.

B. By teaching him to write business plans.

C. By asking him to read from early childhood.

15. What does Steven find most difficult in writing?

A. Finding the right words.

B. Choosing a suitable topic.

C. Describing real experiences.

16. What is Steven's opinion on his own writing?

A. Creative.

B. Successful.

C. Encouraging.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the rate of the average global temperature increase?

A. 0.15 to 0.20℃ per year.

B. 0.15 to 0.20℃ every five years.

C. 0.15 to 0.20℃ per decade.

18. At what average temperature will coral reefs begin to die?

A. 35℃.

B. 37℃.

C. 38℃.

19. What will happen if the average temperature reaches 39℃ to 41℃?

A. Sunflowers won't survive anymore.

B. Most countries will be drowned.

C. Sea animals will die massively.

20. What does the speaker mean in the end?

A. We should make some changes.

B. We have lost our last chance.

C. we can stop global warming.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分)

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。

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21. What is this notice for?

A. Selling gift cards.

B. Using a gift card.

C. Changing a gift card.

D. Buying a gift card.

22. If a Chinese man has a gift card worth 800 euros, what can he do with it?

A. Buy two tickets worth 400 euros each.

B. Combine it with another card for a ticket of 1000 euros.

C. Buy a ticket worth 600 euros and 200 euros for food.

D. Exchange it for money instead of using it for tickets.

23. Which of the following tickets can a person buy with a gift card?

A. A ticket for 1 July 2023.

B. A ticket for 3 1 December 2024.

C. An award ticket for himself.

D. An award ticket for his friend.

B

The peony has gained extraordinary support in an online vote to be chosen ad China's national flower. The final result of the poll, initiated by the China Flower Association, will be unveiled on Friday.

The five days of voting began on Monday, and an official from the association revealed that the peony has collected more than 90 percent of the votes to date among 10 options.

"We are stepping into the new era and the country is witnessing social prosperity," the official said. "People also have better living conditions. lt is time to have an official national flower that can represent our state image and the nation's spirit."

According to the association, China's national flower should meet four standards: It should originate in China and have a long history in many regions; it should be beautiful in shape and color, to represent the Chinese culture and personality; it should have a profound historical culture and be widely known to the public; and it should be extensively used-in many fields with a competitive ecological and economic value that could benefit the public.

   "The peony was the national flower in the Tang Dynasty(618-907).Apart from ornamental(观赏的) value, it also has been used as a food and a traditional Chinese herb, for which it has strong economic value," Dong said. "It is widely known by Chinese people. Even my 10-year-old son and his classmates in primary school have voted for it."

By Wednesday afternoon, nearly 600,000 people had joined in the discussion on WeChat, with about 470,000 agreeing that the national flower should be only one certain flower.

Among several colors being considered, the red peony has gained the greatest support from the public with nearly 30,000 votes on Sina Weibo, followed by white and yellow.

Many netizens said they didn't realize that China has no national flower. In fact, many people said they had already accepted the peony as the national flower years before they saw the vote.

24. What is most probably this article?

A. An introduction to a flower.

B. A news report about a vote.

C. An ad for a flower.

D. A public notice of a vote.

25. What part of the voting is paragraph 4 and 5 mainly about?

A. The procedure.

B. The standard.

C. The reason.

D. The result.

26. What is the author's attitude towards peony being chosen as China's national flower?

A. negative

B. supportive

C. unclear

D. intolerant

27. What is the best title for the text?

A. Peony leads national flower voting.

B. New era calls for new national flower.

C. Peony changes national flower standards.

D. Peony represents nation's image and spirit.

C

4 out of 10 parents and carers are thinking of leaving their careers in classical music due to challenging working practices, according to a new study by Parents and Carers in Performing Arts(PiPA) and Birkbeck, University of London.

The new report, titled A Bittersweet Symphony, surveyed 410 participants from the music industry and conducted focus groups and in-depth interviews.

Its findings highlight the struggle that those in the classical music sector face when having balance work and supporting children, elderly or sick family members.

The study said that self-employed women - over 85% of whom have parenting and caring responsibilities - reported a pay penalty of 8,000.

Women with caring responsibilities were also found to be twice as likely to turn down work due to highly gendered work and caregiving structures in classical music.

“There is greater impact on women, who are likely to work and earn less, and those without social capital," the report says.

Also highlighted, are the logistics(后勤) and financial demands arising from touring and working away from home, the lack of affordable, flexible, ad-hoc childcare for working musicians, and the lack of support mechanisms(机制) within the classical industry.

The report calls on industry leaders to create a classical music sector that works for everyone. It highlights flexible working, more advanced scheduling, and sharing best-practice within the industry as key next steps.

PiPA will be bringing together a working group comprising of Black Lives in Music, Help Musicians, Independent Society of Musicians，Liverpool Philharmonic，Musicians’ Union, Phonographic Performance Limited, Royal Opera House and Scottish Opera to develop a best practice charter(章程) to address the challenges raised.by ‘Bittersweet Symphony'.

“Only by re-evaluating established working practices, can we begin to deal with wellbeing impacts, inclusion and diversity, and potential loss of talent," the report says.

“We need to jointly adopt sustainable, considered and flexible practices, HR policies and processes, to address the problem.”"

28. Which aspect of classical music industry does the research focus on?

A. Potential loss of its workforce.

B. Suggestions on its development.

C. Its gendered work structures.

D. Its logistics and financial problems.

29.What do we infer from the report title “A Bittersweet Symphony"?

A. Performing a symphony of classical music is a bitter job.

B. Classical industry is suffering hardships despite its sweetness.

C. The survey was compared to a classical symphony.

D. Life-is a symphony mixed with bitterness and sweetness.

30. What makes it harder for women to stick with classical music careers?

A. Their inborn gender disadvantages.

B. High challenges on their performance.

C. The lack of support mechanisms in the industry.

D. The lack of flexibility in their career scheduling.

31. What is the key factor in solving the problem?

A. A working group and a charter.

B. A gender-balanced structure of the industry.

C. Sticking to the established working practice.

D. Reforming the current working mechanism.

D

We ourselves, as products of an educational system, are sufficiently perfect evidence against it. If we think of what we happily might have been, and then of what we are, we cannot but admit he total failure or the helpless insufficiency of our education.

Looking back on those years upon years which we spent in school, we know that something was wrong. If we will remember, we did not, at the time, exactly approve of the school system. Many of us, in fact, went in for sabotages. Our favorite brand of sabotage was the "withdrawal of efficiency" - in our case a kind of unconscious passive resistance. Good-natured onlookers, such as our parents or the board of education, might have thought that we were learning something all the while; but that's just where we fooled them! There were, of course, a few of us who really learned and remembered everything - who could state off-hand, right now, if anybody asked us, in what year Norman the Conqueror landed in England. But the trouble is that so few people ask us!

There was one bit of honesty in our schooling - at its very end. They called that ending a Commencement(毕业典礼).And so indeed we found it. Confused, unprepared, out of touch with the realities, we commenced(开始) then and there to learn what life is like. We found it discouraging in a thousand ways; but the thing which struck us at the time most forcibly was that it was in every respect quite unlike school. One could not cram for a job as if it were an examination; one could not get in the good graces of a machine as if it were a teacher; the docility(温顺) which won high "marks" in school was called lack of originality in the business world, dullness in social life, stupidity in the realm of love. We had been quite carefully prepared to go on studying and attending classes and taking examinations; but the real world was not like that. So, what difference does schooling make, to us or to the world? And what to us now are those victories and humiliations, the failure or success of school?

32. What is the purpose of this article?

A. To complain about the educational system.

B. To encourage readers to get educated in school.

C. To discuss about how to get good education in school.

D. To talk about the relationship between school and society.

33. What does the underlined word sabotage in 2paragraph most probably mean?

A. an unconscious act of destruction

B. the low ability to be efficient

C. a-deliberate strategy of disrespect

D. the active resistance to success

34. What does the author mean by the last sentence of the 2 paragraph?

A. Not many understand knowledge learned from education.

B. Too much dead knowledge is given to students in school.

C. Few people are interested in educational questions.

D. The more questions you ask the more trouble you face.

35. What is the main idea of the 3paragraph?

A. Commencements shouldn't be carried out in schools.

B. School values are not consistent with outside realities.

C. we have attended too many classes and examinations.

D. We should be educated on different aspects at school.

第二节 (共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多于选项。

Falling asleep or coming down from anxiety might never be as easy as 1-2-3, but some experts believe a different set of numbers -4-7-8 - comes much closer to doing the trick.

"What a lot of sleep difficulties are all about is people who struggle to fall asleep because their mind is buzzing," said Rebecca Robbins, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

“36________ And that's exactly what we need to do before we go to bed."

The 4-7-8 method doesn't require any equipment or specific setting, but when you're initially learning the exercise, you should sit with your back straight, according to Weil. Practicing in a calm, quiet place could help, said Robbins. 37________

During the entire practice, place the tip of your tongue against the ridge of tissue behind your upper front teeth, as you'll be exhaling(呼气) through your mouth around your tongue. Then follow these steps, according to Weil:

Completely exhale through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.

38________

Hold your breath for a count of seven.

Exhale through your mouth, making a whoosh sound for a count of eight.

Repeat the process three more times for a total of four breath cycles.

Keeping to the ratio of four, then seven and then eight counts is more important than the time you spend on each phase, according to Weil.

“39________ With practice you can slow it all down and get used to inhaling and exhaling more and more deeply," his website advised.

When you're stressed out, your sympathetic nervous system(交感神经系统)-responsible for your fight-or-flight response - is overly active. This makes you feel overstimulated and not ready to relax and transition into sleep, Rebecca said. "An active sympathetic nervous system can cause a fast heart rate as well as rapid and shallow breathing.”

The 4-7-8 breathing practice can help activate your parasympathetic nervous system --responsible for resting and digesting-which reduces sympathetic activity. 40________ Activating the parasympathetic system also gives an anxious brain something to focus on besides "why am I not sleeping?" Weil said.

A. Breathe out some air for a count of four.

B. It can put the body in a state easier for restful sleep, he added.

C. Once you get the hang of it, you can use the technique while lying in bed.

D. But if you're a beginner, you could feel a little lightheaded at first, Rebecca said.

E. Close your mouth and quietly inhale through your nose to a mental count of four.

F. But exercises like the 4-7-8 technique give you the opportunity to practice being at peace.

G. If you have trouble holding your breath, speed the exercise up but keep the ratio (consistent) for the three phases.

第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分)

第一节 (共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Charlie Plumb was a Navy jet pilot. On his 75th mission, his fighter was destroyed by a missile and he was forced to 41______.The only thing between him and 42______ was his parachute(降落伞) that he prayed would open. The parachute did open and Charlie made it down to the ground, but he was 43______ and spent 6 years in a prison camp.

One day, 15 years later, Charlie was sitting in a restaurant when he 44______ two tables over was this guy who kept looking at him. Charlie looked back but didn't 45______ him. Finally, the guy walked over to Charlie's table and said, "You're Captain Plumb. You flew jet fighters in the war. You 46______ from the aircraft carrier(航母) Kitty Hawk, you parachuted into enemy territory ...”

Astonished，Charlie asked，"How did you know? "The man laughed and said, "Because I 47______ your parachute."

Charlie was 48______. The man grabbed Charlie's hand and said, "I guess it worked," and walked off.

Charlie lay awake that night, thinking about all the times he had walked through the long narrow room of the 49______, with the tables where the men packed the parachutes. He wondered how many times he must have walked past this man 50______ saying “hi," or “good job” or “I 51______ what you do."

Think about this for yourself. How many times in life do you 52______ the people who help you out the most? The people who come out of the 53______ corners of your life just when you need them the most? The people who go the 54______ mile, the people who don't look for the 55______ or the achievement medal or even the bonus check - the folks who are just out there packing parachutes?

41. A. stop   B. escape   C. jump    D. uphold

42. A. death   B. faith    C. courage   D. confidence

43. A. protected  B. seized    C. denied   D. admitted

44. A. noticed   B. faced    C. witnessed   D. accepted

45. A. appreciate  B. discover   C. acknowledge  D. recognize

46. A. fell    B. collapsed   C. launched   D. bounded

47. A. collected  B. packed   C. unlocked   D. shifted

48. A. embarrassed B. ashamed   C. motionless   D. speechless

49. A. prison camp  B. restaurant room  C. aircraft carrier  D. enemy territory

50. A. while   B. without   C. by    D. before

51. A. know   B. notice    C. remember   D. appreciate

52. A. pass   B. save    C. test    D. cheat

53. A. dark   B. far    C. small    D. secret

54. A. required  B. mistaken   C. regular   D. extra

55. A. trouble   B. beauty    C. praise    D. comfort

第二节 (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。

Hanson, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, a popular 56_______ publicly available open-source AI image generation tool. She's one of several artists interviewed 57_______ were unhappy to learn that pictures of their work were used without someone 58_______ (inform) them, asking for consent, or paying for their use.

Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and 59_______(power). These systems include Stable Diffusion, from a company that recently raised more than $100 million in funding, and DALL-E, from a company that has raised $1 billion 60_______ now.

In just months, millions of people 61_______(enter) text-to-image Al systems and they already being used to create experimental films, magazine covers and images to illustrate new stories. An image 62_______ (generate) with an Al system called Mid journey recently won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair, and caused 63_______ uproar(怨愤) among artists.

But as artists like Hanson have discovered that their work is being used to train AI, it raises an even more fundamental concern: that their own art is 64_______ (effective) being used to train a computer program that could one day cut into their livelihoods. Anyone who generates images with systems such as Stable Diffusion or DALL-E can then sell them.

"I don't want to participate at all in the machine that's going to 58_______ (cheap) what I do, said Daniel Danger, an illustrator and print maker who learned a number of his works were used to train Stable Diffusion.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分)

第一节（满分15分)

假定你是李华，上周日你参加了学校组织了一场志愿者活动。请写一篇文章向校英文报投稿，内容包括:

1.所作所为;

2.参与动因;

3.参与感受。

注意:

1.写作词数应为80左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节（满分25分)

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Pinty Tailor was a little boy who enjoyed going to school and doing all sorts of things, except for art and writing. Using brushes and pencils did not come easy to Pinty, so his works of art did not end happily, and he would just give up in disgust. But one day Pinty found a pencil of such lovely colours that he could not resist, and he tried drawing a circle. As ever, it did not go well, and he was about to throw the pencil away when his drawing began to speak to him. "Psst! You aren't going to leave me like this, are you? Come on, the least you can do is draw me a pair of eyes!” said the drawing. Pinty was understandably shocked, but he managed to draw two little spots inside the circle. "Much better, now I can see myself,” said the circle, looking around at itself... "Arghh! But what have you done to me?!"“I don't draw very well," said Pinty, trying to make excuses. "OK, no problem," the drawing interrupted him, "I'm sure that if you try again you'1ll do better. Go on, rub me out!” So Pinty erased the circle and drew another one. Like the first one, it was not very round. "Hey! You forgot the eyes again!" "Oh, yeah." "Hmmm, I think I'm going to have to teach you how to draw until you can do me well," said the circle with its quick, high-pitched little voice. To Pinty, who remained almost paralyzed with shock, this did not seem like a bad idea, and he immediately found himself drawing and erasing circles. The circle would not stop saying “rub this out, but carefully; it hurts,” or "draw me some hair, quickly, I look like a lollipop(棒棒糖)!” and other funny remarks.

After spending nearly the whole afternoon together, Pinty could already draw the little figure much better than most of his classmates could have. He was enjoying it so much that he did not want to stop drawing with this crazy new teacher of his. Before going to bed that night, Pinty gave his new instructor a hearty "thank you” for having taught him how to draw so well.

Para 1

The next morning Pinty jumped out of bed and went running to find his pencil, but it was not there.

Para 2

He realized that the crazy little teacher had been right.

参考答案

听力

1-20 BBACA  CBBAB  ACACA  CCBCA

阅读

21-35 BAABC  CAABC  DACBB

36-40 FCEGB

语言运用

36-55 CABAD CBDCB   DABDC

56. and

57. who

58. informing

59. powerful

60. by

61. have entered

62. generated 63.an

64. effectively

65. cheapen

写作

第一节

In order to improve our sense of responsibility, our school organized a voluntary activity to help the elderly in the local nursing home.

Inspired by the selflessness demonstrated by the volunteers in the pandemic prevention, I took an active part in it, talking with the lonely old people, helping them with their housework and trying my best to amuse them. By the time we left there, l had made friends with some of them. Looking at their smiling faces, l really felt happy and proud. l think l will continue to be a volunteer whenever l am needed.

第二节

Para 1

The next morning Pinty jumped out of bed and went running to find his pencil, but it was not there. He searched everywhere, but there was no sign of it. Pinty began to worry, and he did not know if he had really spent the previous afternoon talking with the little man or whether he had dreamt the whole thing.

So, to try to settle the matter, he took a pencil and some paper and tried to draw a little man. It turned out not bad at all, except for a couple of jagged lines. He imagined his bossy little teacher telling him to round out those edges, and that it looked like he was trying to give him spots. Pinty gladly rubbed out those bits and redrew them.

Para 2

He realised that the crazy little teacher had been right: it made no difference whether you had the magic pencil or not; to manage to do things, you only needed to keep trying and to enjoy doing so. From that day on, whenever Pint y tried to draw or paint, or do anything else, he always had fun imagining the result of his work protesting to him and saying 'Come on, my friend, dome a bit better than that! l can't go to the party looking like this!' The courage to accept your own weaknesses and make efforts to improve is all that matters.