2023届广东省梅州市高三下学期二模英语试题（无答案）

2023届广东省梅州市高三下学期二模英语试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读理解

Master Gardener Volunteers Wanted

What is a Master Gardener?

A master gardener is a citizen that is interested in gardening and can fulfill the training and volunteer hours necessary. Requirements vary by county and state,and the course is tailored for that specific region. You will receive special education on the soils in your area,the types of native plants，insect and disease issues，basic botany，and other information pertinent(相关的)to your gardening zone.

The educational opportunity to learn specifics about where you garden will not only help you be-come a better gardener but is then passed along to the general public in lectures,clinics,and through newsletters.

What Qualifications Must You Meet?

Anyone can apply to be a Master Gardener——you don’t need to be an expert or have a degree. You do, however, need to:

●Have certain experience or know a little about gardening or landscape management.

●Be willing to share horticulture(园艺学)information with others.

●Be willing to attend a training program and can devote time to volunteering and continuing education.

Besides,to become a Master Gardener volunteer, each applicant needs to complete an application,prepare background screening paperwork and schedule an interview with Extension staff.

What Does the Training Involve?

Training sessions are offered one day a week over a three-month period and are led by expert educators in the region. Approximately 60 hours of classroom instruction and field study and 50 hours of volunteer internship(实习)work are required to complete the program and become certified. In order to remain a certified Master Gardener,30 hours of volunteer work and 10 hours of continuing education or advanced training are required each year.

1．What does a Master Gardener do?

A．Promote gardening practices abroad.

B．Train volunteers to help with agriculture.

C．Teach the youth about diets and agriculture.

D．Donate time to the local gardening extension.

2．What is required if you want to apply to be a Master Gardener?

A．Having some relevant knowledge. B．Acquiring excellent teaching skills.

C．Completing given training sessions. D．Obtaining rich volunteer experience.

3．How long will it take to remain a qualified Master Gardener the second year?

A．About 40 hours. B．Three months. C．About 150 hours. D．About 110 hours.

二、未知

A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez. He is bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.

Gutierrez started saving books from the trash 27 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country’s richer neighborhoods. The books that were thrown away slowly piled up. Now the ground floor of his small house is a community library. It is stacked(堆放)from floor to ceiling. They range from chemistry textbooks to children’s classics.

Books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods. New reading material at bookstores is too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota, a city of 8.5 million people. But the libraries tend to be located far away from poorer areas.“They should be in all neighborhoods and on each comer of every neighborhood,“the 60-year-old says.“Books can save us. That is what Colombia needs.”

Gutierrez has a love of reading,which comes from his mother. She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school. Gutierrez is a keen reader of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy and Victor Hugo. His favorite books include One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Gencral in His Labyrinth by Colombia’s Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The first book Gutierrez found was a copy of the classic novel Anna Karenina. The Tolstoy book was later joined by The Little Prince,Sophie’s World,The Iliad and a number of novels. Today, he has collected around 25,000 books.

Now,Gutierrez still looks through the rubbish for additions to his library, named“The Strength of Words.”His fame as Colombia’s“Lord of the Books”has helped a lot. It has brought him thou-sands of donated books. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. Moreover, Gutierrez has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with the books that are thrown away.

Gutierrez says he doesn’t reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed words on paper.“There is nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket,in your bag or inside your car.“

4．How old was Gutierrez when he started saving books from the trash?

A．In his twenties. B．In his thirties. C．In his forties. D．In his fifties,

5．What does the underlined word”They“in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Luxury books. B．Garbage trucks. C．Public libraries. D．Poor areas.

6．What did the book Anna Karenina mean to Gutierrez?

A．The beginning of his charity project. B．A window to the world.

C．One of his greatest achievements in life. D．Some comfort in difficult times.

7．Which of the following sayings does Gutierrez’s story lead us to believe?

A．Actions speak louder than words. B．A good book can shine a light upon the soul.

C．One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. D．The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Jobs that use both technical and creative thinking are among the fastest-growing and highest-paying ones,according to a new report from Burning Glass Technologies,a job market analytic company in Boston.

It studied millions of job postings to better understand the skills companies require. What they discovered was that many want workers with experience in such new abilities as big-data gathering and analytic, or design using digital technology.

Burning Glass came up with the term“hybrid jobs”to describe these kinds of positions,which require skills not normally found together. For example,these hybrid jobs might require people with skills in data science and advertising, or engineering and sales.“The jobs of the future don’t involve just one skill,“ says Matt Sigelman,chief manager of Burning Glass.

The company expects general job growth of about 10% between 2018 and 2028,but the hybrid jobs by 21%. What’s more,hybrid jobs pay more than positions that call for a traditional set of skills. For example, a marketing manager mastering a database program gets paid 41% more than a traditional one,with an average yearly salary of $100,000. Moreover,an engineer who improves her sales skills and becomes a consulting engineer fora software company can more than double her pay from $180,000 to $400,000.

While data shows that workers who fail to update their skills will be able to find fewer jobs, people in hybrid jobs are less likely to become out of date, with only 12%. possibility of being re-placed by machine,compared with 42% for general jobs, says Burning Glass. Hybrid jobs are mostly not beginner roles,so they mainly go to workers with years of experience and,most importantly,more training after leaving college. That means workers,bosses and educators will have to think about how to better prepare people for these roles.

8．Why did the company research into job advertisements?

A．To understand the growth of best paid workers.

B．To compare workers’ experience with new abilities.

C．To find out companies’ requirements about skills.

D．To tell the possible changes in future job market.

9．Which of the following jobs can be hybrid?

A．Data engineer. B．Machine operator.

C．Marketing manager. D．Medical consultant.

10．How much is a traditional marketing manager possibly paid every year?

A．$180,000. B．$71,000. C．$41,000. D．$10,000.

11．Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A．Future Jobs Requiring“Hybrid”Skills. B．How to Get Trained for Jobs.

C．Tips on Finding Fastest-Growing Jobs. D．The Jobs with Highest Pay.

三、阅读理解

Art and science may seem like opposite things. One means the creative flow of ideas, and the other means cold, hard data—some people believe. In fact, the two have much in common. Now, a study finds art can help students remember better what they learned in science class.

Mariale Hardiman, an education specialist at Johns Hopkins University, noticed that students who used art in the classroom listened more carefully. They might ask more questions. They might volunteer more ideas. What's more, students seemed to remember more of what they had been taught when their science lessons had involved（涉及）art. To prove that, Hardiman teamed up with some researchers and six local schools.

In the experiment, the researchers worked with teachers in 16 fifth-grade classrooms. They provided traditional science lessons and art-focused ones. In a traditional science class, for example, students might read aloud from a book. In the art-focused one, they might sing the information instead.

The team randomly assigned（随机分配）each of the 350 students to either a traditional science classroom or an art-focused one. Students then learned science using that way for the whole unit—about three weeks. When they changed to a new topic, they also changed to the other type of class. This way, each student had both an art-focused class and a traditional one. Every unit was taught in both ways, to different groups of students. This enabled the researchers to see how students did in both types of classes.

The team found that students who started off in traditional classes performed better after they moved into an art-focused class. But those who started in an art-focused class did well even when they went back to a traditional science class. These students appeared to use some of the art techniques（技巧）after going back to a traditional class. Classroom teachers reported that many students continued to sing the songs that they learned after finishing the unit. "The more we hear something, the more we retain it," Hardiman says. "It suggests that the arts may help students apply creative ways of learning on their own."

12．Why did Mariale Hardiman do the study?

A．To prove the importance of art at school.

B．To know how to encourage students to ask questions.

C．To find a way to help her students learn better.

D．To see if art might improve science learning.

13．What were the students required to do in the experiment?

A．Learn three units in total.

B．Choose what they'd like to learn.

C．Learn two topics for three weeks.

D．Take two types of classes.

14．What does the underlined word “retain” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Remember. B．Express.

C．Improve. D．Finish.

15．What is the text mainly about?

A．Art helps students develop creativity.

B．Art-focused classes interest students a lot

C．Art can make science easier to remember.

D．Art has something in common with science.

四、未知

Perhaps,you are a smart person with good knowledge and creative ideas, but when you move to a new environment or have to work with some new people,it is not always easy for them to recognize you or respect you immediately.____16____How can you get other people to pay attention to you and respect you?

Be curious and be willing to learn new things.

Moving to a new working environment,you may need to deal with new things or skills. ____17____ In such a case,people who are more willing to learn new things can become more flexible and be able to meet new requirements in their job.

____18____

Learning or working in a new environment,you need to have a good sense of judgement when joining a discussion or making a decision. You should consider what is virtually right, and look for long-term goals,and not be distracted by small choices for the short term.

Be confident and make eye contact when talking to people.

When you go out and meet people,it is important to look confident. For example, if you are going to an interview,but you don’t feel confident, what can you do? Before you walk in, think to yourself,“I own the room.”____19____Remember to look other people in the eye—it’s the key to creating a connection with people. Soon,you will feel as confident as you look.

Set clear goals and learn.

When working together with others,it is important that you have a clear vision and a working plan to achieve it. Let people know what you stand for. You need to find out which ideas can really unite people and then express those ideas clearly.____20____.

Be helpful to others. When working, don’t focus on what is your work and what isn’t. After do-ing your own work,always be ready to help others.

A．How can you be a leader soon?

B．How can you get along with others?

C．Then, walk in holding your head high and smile.

D．Quiet often, they don’t belong to your own field.

E．Remember not to judge a person by his appearance.

F．Also, treat your team members respectfully as equals.

G．Have a good sense of judgement on important aspects.

Last week，I had a wisdom tooth(智齿)pulled， which left me swollen and unable to speak. It was very strange spending a few days in this________,but judging from other people’s responses,not as strange as it was for them.

I thought my husband would be the first to feel upset. I tried to imagine how________it must be to have half of the house go silent.________,when I found him in the kitchen at midnight, cooking potatoes for my recovery and________the silence by singing“your lovely swollen face”to the tune of My Humps,I,too,was surprised,but also________.

When I felt________I went to my local shop. It still hurt when I moved my face,so when I   ________ a friend,I couldn’t say anything. The friend wanted my________on a Twitter disagreement that I didn’t seem bothered. I was not bothered — and it felt good to remember that.

Later I visited my mom,who chatted away as normal. She didn’t even________that I was on the silent mode. This makes me certainly believe that my family role is part________,part listener.

People say________is golden and that sometimes it is wise to say nothing and to let people reveal (吐露)themselves.Perhaps that is the________of the wisdom tooth. Maybe when they arrive with all their pain,forcing us —even just for a while—to move our________a little less,they give a lesson for living well:Listen,________and try being quiet now and then. Then maybe adulthood won’t be quite like________teeth.

21．A．room B．state C．position D．period

22．A．embarrassing B．lively C．pleasant D．frightening

23．A．Finally B．Luckily C．However D．Therefore

24．A．enjoying B．filling C．keeping D．welcoming

25．A．amazed B．annoyed C．disappointed D．touched

26．A．hungry B．weaker C．stronger D．thirsty

27．A．called up B．looked at C．turned to D．ran into

28．A．study B．opinion C．report D．information

29．A．accept B．expect C．hear D．notice

30．A．daughter B．patient C．speaker D．friend

31．A．health B．family C．silence D．love

32．A．lesson B．secret C．treatment D．wisdom

33．A．arms B．eyes C．mouths D．faces

34．A．observe B．smell C．review D．suggest

35．A．cutting B．pulling C．brushing D．losing

五、用单词的适当形式完成短文

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。

25-year-old Wan Minghui is a girl from a small city of Zigong in Sichuan Province. When she was young, she grew up closely with her grandparents. Now her grandfather is 84 years old,  ____36____(live) alone after her grandmother passed away. During an unannounced visit____37____him one day in May, Wan noticed his loneliness,____38____made her sad. Then an idea came to mind that she would quit her job to accompany him and set out to help him realize some of his wishes on his bucket list.

However, neither her parents____39____her grandfather agreed with her decision to quit her job, afraid that it would harm her career development. To make____40____living after quitting,she got three part-time jobs,including writing advertising online. So they____41____(final) agreed. Wan began to record her grandpa’s life in videos, which were posted to Douyin (抖音). Recently，the short videos under the names “Fulfilling Grandpa’s 100 Wishes ” and “Taking Grandpa for Travel”____42____ (view) more than 100 million times, receiving more than five million likes and a long list of____43____ (comment), including praise for Little Wan, best wishes for her grandfather and discussions about the meaning of life.

Although Wan has to stay up late____44____(work) sometimes, she thinks it’s all worthwhile when she sees her grandpa smile more and more.“She wrote in the video, My grandpa accompanied me as I grew up and I will accompany him as he_____45_____ (grow) old.”

六、未知

46．假定你是李华，你的外国朋友Peter给你发邮件说最近经过多次尝试终于学会了做中国传统美食——饺子，开心不已。询问你在日常的学习和生活中，是否有过类似经历。请回复邮件，分享你的经历。内容包括：

1.一件曾尝试的新事物;

2.学习的过程;

3.你的感受。

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。

Dear Peter,

I’m glad to receive your email.

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Yours,

Li Hua

七、读后续写

47．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。

“Mom！” I screamed as I looked through the window, “Why is my Ink Spot sitting in Mrs. Cleary’s window？”

Mom pushed past me to confirm it. Sure enough, across the street was Ink Spot cleaning himself in the window of Mrs. Cleary’s sitting room. I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was my cat, not Mrs. Cleary’s. She had already adopted twelve cats. Why must she keep my cat？I could feel anger boiling up inside me. Meanwhile, Ink Spot’s leaving without any signs upset me. A sense of being left out hit me hard.

Ink Spot was special for me. After my baby sister’s birth, “my” parents’ time was taken by her. It seemed no one in the family cared about or even noticed me. Worse still, I was packed off to a kindergarten. I hated being left out from the bottom of my heart.

It was when mom noticed me weeping in a corner one night that things began to change. After that, Ink Spot came into my life. Every night, he curled（卷曲）up beside me in bed and he was there for me after school when I raced home just to be with him.

I fell in love with Ink Spot the first time I saw its tiny black and white kitten, for which I called him Ink Spot. Mom and daddy beamed with pleasure as my eyes danced with joy again. It was the first time that I had smiled since my little baby sister came into the family. As for me, he was more than a cat. Actually, he was my life.

But today when I came home, Ink Spot was in Mrs. Cleary’s window. I wanted him back. But mom insisted that if Ink Spot stayed at Mrs. Cleary’s, that meant it was where he wanted to be. “No！Mom, Ink Spot is my cat”, I protested wildly but I had to admit the truth of mom’s words. Standing on the sidewalk, I was at a loss as to what to do. Staring at Ink Spot for a while, I couldn’t stand the anger any longer.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

I walked towards Mrs. Cleary’s house hurriedly and knocked at the door angrily.

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Upon seeing me, Ink Spot jumped off the window, running towards me in a flash.

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