2023兰州一中高一下学期3月月考英语试题含解析

兰州一中2022-2023学年度第二学期3月月考

高一英语试卷

说明：本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。

第一部分：听力测试(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，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. What is the woman going to do next?

A. Go out for coffee. B. work out at the gym.   C. Work with the man.

2. Where is Lucy in the picture?

A. In a cinema.  B. In a zoo.  C. On a farm.

3. What does the man plan to do first?

A. Read the novel. B. Have some food.  C. Do his homework.

4. Where probably are the speakers?

A. At an airport. B. At a railway station. C. At a post office.

5. What color is the woman’s toothbrush?

A. Red.  B. Green.   C. Blue.

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2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;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至7题。

6 What are May’s lessons about?

A. Chinese culture.  B. Chinese speaking.  C. Chinese characters.

7. What does May say about her teacher?

A. He makes learning fun. B. He tells her to be patient. C. He makes the lesson easy.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Why does the man want to borrow money?

A. To pay for his school fees. B. To buy a mobile phone. C. To prepare for a job.

9. How much money does the man want to borrow?

A. 1 500 yuan.   B. 2 000 yuan.   C. 3 500 yuan.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the girl doing?

A. Reading news on the Internet.   

B. Searching for new movies.     

C. Reading a newspaper.

11. What do the speakers think of the movie?

A. Funny.      B. Moving.  C. Scary.

12. When will the speakers watch the movie?

A. On January 4th. B.On January 6th. C. On January 18th.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Which is the highest mountain in this area?

A. Mount Karen.   B. Mount Heather.  C. Mount Brown. 

14. What is the most popular activity in this mountain?

A. Skiing.   B. Feeding deer.  C. Watching small animals. 

15. How is the weather here in summer?

A. A bit cold.   B. Quite cool.  C. Very hot.

16. What season is it?

A. Winter.     B. Autumn.    C. Summer.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17 What is the speaker’s job now?

A. A secretary.  B. A designer.  C. A bank clerk.

18. When did the speaker go to college?

A. At the age of 29.   B. At the age of 27.  C. At the age of 25.

19. What did the speaker do in the third year?

A. She worked in a clothes store.

B. She learned to make clothes.

C. She learned about the past designs.

20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A. How to be a good designer.

B. How her dream has come true.

C. How to choose children’s clothes.

第二部分 单项选择(共10小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)

1. Many people are ________ about the current political situation.

A. amazed B. afraid C. concerned D. confused

2. She is planning to ________ a speech on virtual reality.

A maintain B. confirm C. deliver D. replace

3. She has turned down several invitations in order to ________ on her studies.

A. crash B. benefit C. addict D. concentrate

4. You can ______ the small and unnoticeable device to your pet so that you can easily find it.

A. conduct B. attach C. press D. draft

5. It is said that the world would ________ fresh water in 2050.

A. run out B. run out of C. move out D. move out of

6. —Zhen He was a Ming dynasty ______ that we Chinese people are proud of.

—I agree with you. He even succeeded ______ sailing to the east coast of Africa.

A. tourist; to B. philosopher; in C. inventor; to D. explorer; in

7. A ________ method is to prepare well for the final-term examination without complaints.

A. shallow B. virtual C. fancy D. sensible

8. No one was injured in the landslide, but several cars were ________ .

A. damaged B. erupted C. supplied D. delivered

9. After the earthquake, the first thing the local government did was to provide________ for the homeless families.

A. occupation B. accommodation C. region D. platform

10. You can ________ the magazine for as little as $32 a year.

A. write down B. look through C. subscribe to D. pick up

第三部分 阅读理解(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。

A

Best Apps for High School Students

Educational App Store has identified the best apps for high school students to help them study and save their time in the classroom.

Study Blue

Study Blue is a brilliant app which uses technology to help high school students and make leaning an easy process. It is an amazing way to create smart notes/cards, share and learn them. As one of the best educational apps, it allows students to make cards of whatever topic they want, helping them study anywhere without carrying any materials with them.

My Study Life

Designed for high school students, this app lets you build your own timetable to easily keep track of your classes, assignments and exams. It lets you assign(布置) tasks to specific classes and comes with reminders so you don’t forget a thing! Plus, it comes with day and week timetables, so you can easily pop in those classes that you only have every other week.

My Homework Planner

My Homework Planner can help you keep track of all your homework. Sorting it by due date, week and month, the app is more organized than a Trapper Keeper. By means of Questia, the world’s largest online library, you can connect your reading materials to your assignments so you don’t have to dig through a pile of papers to find the right information.

Socrative Student

This app offers an interactive environment for students and teachers to share their learning. Teachers can ask questions and make comments with real-time data when using, which makes it more engaging for students. Showing comprehension of their reading can occur straight through their handheld device, and they are able to receive feedback quickly.

If you are interested in these apps, click here to find more.

11. What does My Study Life have in common with My Homework Planner?

A. Both are helpful with assignments.

B. Both are designed to deal with exams.

C. Both are equipped with a reminder.

D. Both are connected with Questia.

12. Which app focuses on both teens’ and teachers’ involvement?

A. Study Blue B. My Homework Planner

C. Socrative Student D. My Study Life

13. Where is this text most likely from?

A. A brochure. B. A website. C. A guidebook. D. A magazine.

B

Naming hurricane

New research from the University of Illinois finds that hurricanes with female names are likely to cause more deaths than those with male names. The study examined over 60 years of hurricanes which hit the US. The results showed there were higher death tolls, on average, when the hurricanes were given a female name. This wasn’t because female-named hurricanes were any more severe; rather that people’s behavior changed.

Sharon Shavitt, one of the authors of the report, explained: “In judging the intensity of a storm, people appear to be applying their beliefs about how men and women behave. This makes a female-named hurricane, such as Belle or Candy, seem gentled and less violent.” People unconsciously say to themselves: how could I be killed by a hurricane called Candy? In fact, hurricanes are named arbitrarily, and the names tell you nothing about the severity of the storm.

But, if people in the path of the storm are letting its name affect whether they take shelter, what we call it may matter more than we think. Having searched through the records, the researchers returned to the lab to test their finding experimentally. People were given a series of hypothetical storms with male and female names and asked to make judgments about their intensity and the risk they faced. The results showed that people often regarded male-named hurricanes, like Hurricane Christopher or Hurricane Victor as more intense and riskier than the female-named ones, like Hurricane Alexandra and Hurricane Christ. Shavitt continued, “People imagining a ‘female’ hurricane were not as willing to seek shelter. The fixed ideas that underlie these judgments are subtle and not necessarily hostile toward women — they may involve viewing women as warmer and less aggressive than men.”

The fact is that until the late 1970s hurricanes were always given female names, as they were thought to represent women’s qualities like unpredictability. This practice — and the sexist reasoning behind it — was rightly abandoned in favour of choosing between male and female. Strangely, though, what we’ve learnt is that we’d be better off naming all hurricanes after men to take advantage of people’s fixed views.

The researchers estimate that changing a severe hurricane’s name from “Eloise” to “Charles” could potentially cut the death toll by one-third. Perhaps the naming of hurricane is one specific situation where we shouldn’t worry about being sexist, if being a little sexist is going to save lives.

14. Hurricanes with female names are likely to cause more deaths because________.

A. male named hurricanes are not terrible

B. female-named hurricanes are more severe

C. people think the female-named hurricanes are not severe

D. people prefer to challenge the male-named hurricanes

15. The underlined word “arbitrarily” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.

A. for humor B. on purpose C. by chance D. in turn

16. According to the passage, which name can possibly cut the death toll?

A. Eloise. B. Candy. C. Christina. D. Charles.

17. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. future hurricane’s will be named after men more often B. being sexist in naming hurricane’s helps save lives

C. sexism in naming hurricane’s will be banned D. rules of naming hurricane will be changed

C

In less than 2 months, the artificial intelligence (AI) program ChatGPT has become a cultural sensation (轰动). ChatGPT is developed with a technique called Reinforcement (增强) Learning from Human Feedback to train the language model, enabling it to automatically create text based on written prompts (提示). I asked it to rewrite the first scene of the classic American play Death of a Salesman. The output (输出) was an amusing conversation. This is certainly fun, but there are serious implications for generative AI programs like ChatGPT in science and academia.

Many concerns relate to how ChatGPT will change education. It certainly can write essays about a range of topics. I gave it both an exam and a final project. It did well finding factual answers, but the scholarly writing still has a long way to go. If anything, the implications for education may push academics (高校科研人员) to rethink their courses in creative ways and give assignments that aren’t easily solved by AI. That could be for the best.

More worrisome are the effects of ChatGPT on writing scientific papers. In a recent study abstracts created by ChatGPT were submitted to academic reviewers, who only caught 63% of these fakes. That’s a lot of AI-generated text that could find its way into the literature soon.

The text written by ChatGPT is not acceptable. An AI program cannot be an author. Still, according to Editorial Policies, text generated by ChatGPT (or any other AI tools) cannot be used in the work, nor can figures, images, or graphics be the products of such tools. Breaking these policies will be considered scientific misconduct (学术不端) no different from plagiarism (剽窃) of existing works.

The scientific record is one of the human efforts of struggling with important questions in the end. Machines play an important role, but as tools for the people giving the hypotheses (假设), designing the experiments and making sense of (理解) the results. Finally, the product must come from and be expressed by the wonderful computer in our heads.

18. What does the underlined word “implications” probably mean in Paragraph1?

A. Competitions. B. Events . C. Limitations. D. Effects.

19. What could be ChatGPT’s benefit for education, if any?

A. It could help better the scholarly writing.

B. It could write essays about varieties of topics.

C. It could be used to design difficult assignments.

D. It could push academics to make improvements.

20. What can be inferred about ChatGPT?

A. It is welcomed by academics.

B. It may cause scientific misconduct (学术不端).

C. It is basically useless for scientific research.

D. It works greatly to the advantage of education.

21. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. ChatGPT Is Fun, But Not an Author

B. ChatGPT Has Become a Cultural Sensation

C. ChatGPT Will Change Our Way of Education

D. ChatGPT Plays an Important Role in Science

D

There is hot, and then there is hot! Extreme heat is a period of high heat and humidity (湿度) with temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for at least two to three days. Extreme heat is responsible for the highest number of annual deaths among all weather-related hazards (危害).

It’s not your imagination. Summers have been getting hotter and hotter with extreme heatwaves occurring earlier and more frequently. But why is this happening and can we better predict heatwaves in advance to give people time to prepare?

“Climate change is here and it’s already been changing human behavior and causing significant influence in the society. As global temperatures rise, historically excessive (过高的) temperatures are more likely to occur.” says Craig Ramseyer, an assistant professor who studies climate modeling in the department of geography at Virginia Tech.

Ramseyer says heatwaves are the most concerning because of the lack of attention they normally receive. “Hurricanes, tornadoes, and flash floods drive more media attention because of the natural attraction with the visual impact of those types of hazards. However, heat does not tend to be as attractive and it becomes very difficult to communicate the danger to the public,” said Ramseyer. “Around the world, more deaths occur due to extreme heat than from hurricanes, flooding, and drought combined. It impacts the most helpless of our citizens who do not have enough access to air conditioning, water, and other important resources.”

Since the Earth is running warmer than it used to, Ramseyer says that when these heatwave-related weather patterns take place, it results in higher extreme temperatures than we used to experience 30 years ago.

“As a global community, we need to decrease carbon emissions as soon as possible. We have rapidly developing technologies that are going to help advance the process, but the faster the better, there is no time to waste.”

22. What can we learn from the article?

A. Extreme heat is a No.1 death cause. B. People are suffering more extreme heat.

C. A 100-degree heat is an extreme heat. D. Extreme heat is getting better over the years.

23. What will Ramseyer possibly agree with?

A. Climate change will soon affect human behaviors.

B. High temperatures happened frequently in history.

C. Air conditioning and water can reduce the impacts of extreme heat on people.

D. Garbage sorting can less advance the climate change.

24. Why is extreme heat lack of attention?

A. Extreme heat can be stopped by technology.

B. People have enough time to solve the climate problems.

C. It is not easy for the public to learn the danger of extreme heat.

D. Heatwave-related weather patterns will decrease in the future.

25. What’s the article mainly about?

A. Complaints about extreme heat. B. Prevention of extreme heat.

C. Characters of extreme heat. D. Technologies behind extreme heat.

第二节 (共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。

You've probably noticed that new emoji show up on your phone every year.____26____This year is no different. If you have an Android device, you may have used a new emoji such as a melting face. Other devices, such as Apple products, will have these now emoji soon.

The updates come from a California-based nonprofit called Unicode Consortium. Each year. the emoji committee releases (发布) new emoji that will update the existing keyboard._____27_____“It's important for people to understand that we're not inventing language and that it's really the people who create it and are inventive,” says Jennifer Daniel, chair of the committee.

_____28_____He created emoji because the mobile phone company where he worked offered email communications that were limited to 250 characters and emoji are only one character each but can be used to say more. Emoji have since become popular around the world.

Anyone is allowed to make a proposal for a new emoji. Unicode get proposals in lots of different languages from around the world. If the proposal is strong enough Unicode will accept it____29____

The process does not simply involve coming up with something that doesn't have an emoji representing it. An emoji idea has to meet certain criteria (标准). These criteria include its uniqueness, whether it can be used with existing emoji and whether it can have lots of meanings.____30____You can pair it with many other emoji to express how you are feeling. Additionally, this emoji has adopted many meanings.

A. The keyboard has acquired more than 3.600 emoji characters.

B. Emoji aren't tied to any language or any region of the world.

C. But it's not the organization coming up with these new characters.

D. And it can take up to two years to create and release the new emoji.

E. The “tears of joy” emoji, for example, is special and easy to identify.

F. The first emoji keyboard was created by the designer Shigetake Kurita.

G. For example, the ninja emoji was introduced in 2020, or the yawning face in 2019.

第四部分 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。

My daughter has been crazy about raising a pet for a long time.

Last spring I bought two small chickens for her. She got excited and ____31____ good care of them. ____32____, a few days later, both chickens died. She burst into tears because of their ____33____. I helped her bury the two chickens under a tree behind our house. I thought it would be the end of her idea.

However, I was ____34____. Children are children after all. The ____35____ hasn’t upset my daughter in ____36____ way. She still tried to keep a small animal or even a snail.

One day last winter, I noticed a ____37____ of sparrows (麻雀) under the eaves (屋檐) of the house. So I told my daughter to put some rice on the windowsill (窗台). A few minutes ____38____, the sparrows came to land on the windowsill one after another and pecked (啄) at the ____39____. Suddenly my daughter asked me, “Mum, can we catch and cage (圈养) the sparrows, and let them live with us in the room? How cold it is for them to live ____40____.”

“Oh, my dear, I do not think it is a good idea. You know,” I ____41____ to her. “____42____ is important for sparrows. No one can keep them in a cage. If they are ____43____, they will die quickly. They are used to living in the open air. Moreover, they have warm nests under the eaves.”

From then on, we have ____44____ a kind of relationship with the sparrow family. We feed them and treat them as pet birds. ____45____, we do not need to possess them. We enjoy seeing these little birds flying and jumping among branches, leaves and flowers in the spring morning.

31. A. looked B. took C. acquired D. reminded

32. A. Slightly B. Definitely C. Extremely D. Unluckily

33. A. desire B. escape C. focus D. death

34. A. certain B. sure C. wrong D. right

35. A. argument B. happiness C. success D. failure

36. A. some B. any C. no D. every

37. A. family B. couple C. pair D. pile

38. A. before B. after C. more D. later

39. A. bread B. rice C. fruit D. vegetable

40. A. downwards B. upwards C. inside D. outside

41. A. explained B. adapted C. attached D. preferred

42. A. Spring B. Freedom C. Trees D. Nests

43. A. concerned B. shot C. caught D. viewed

44. A. made up B. pulled up C. set up D. cheered up

45. A. But B. However C. Then D. Otherwise

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。

Bike-sharing is popular in China, with an increasing number of people choosing bike riding instead of ____46____ (drive). The bike often has GPS or Bluetooth on it, and can be unlocked with a smart phone and left anywhere in public. Bike-sharing allows people ____47____ (borrow) a bike from one place and return it at another place.

____48____ is very convenient to use the sharing-bikes if you have a smart phone. First, you have to download an APP onto your smart phone. Then what you need to do is to find the nearest bike. Scan the QR code (二维码) on the bike with your phone in order to make a Bluetooth ____49____ (connect). You will find the bike will have unlocked ____50____ (it). Then you can enjoy your trip. The greatest advantage of bike-sharing is that you can ____51____ (easy) find one and never worry about where to park it. The cost of riding depends on the time ____52____ is spent on your trip. Generally, it doesn’t cost too much.

So far, technology and science ____53____ (change) our lifestyles greatly. We have to say bike-sharing brings us ____54____ (much) convenience than before. And we also hope that people can not only enjoy it 61.____55____ put it to good use.

第五部分 写作(满分25分)

56. 假设你是红星中学高一学生 李华。你校英语报社征集主题为“Does the Internet harm or help Friendships?”的英文稿件。请你写一篇征文投稿，内容包括：

1.你的观点及理由；

2.你的建议。

注意：词数100左右。

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