2023届甘肃省第三次高考诊断考试英语试题及答案

2023届甘肃省第三次高考诊断考试

英 语 试 题

本试卷满分120分,考试时间100分钟。

注意事项:

1.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.回答选择题时﹐选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号框涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号框。回答非选择题时,将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

3.考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

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2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

Student Volunteering: Project Coordinator（协调员）vacancies

Would you like to make a real difference to your local community? Becoming a Project Coordinator could be the role for you! We're currently looking for our next set of volunteer Project Coordinators for the 2023—2024 academic year. Project Coordinators work with a team of students to run a project with support from the Volunteering and Mentoring Team. This year we are looking for teams to lead the following projects:

Chester Student Dog Walking Project - walking dogs for members of the community who would struggle to do so themselves for health reasons

Chester Healthy Eating Workshops — healthy cooking workshops for people who have experienced homelessness

Welly Wednesdays — one-off conservation activities that benefit the environment like tree planting and hedge laying

Get Talking — students raising awareness, fundraising and talking about issues that can affect students，helping to open dialogue about serious topics and reduce stigma(污名）

inCredible— students helping young people to identify what is credible information and reduce the spread of fake news

Dementia Cafe— a monthly café in Time Square，Warrington for people and families affected by dementia（痴呆）to come together and connect with others

Interested in running any of these projects? Find the role descriptions and application forms on the Volunteer Hub. Email colunteering with any questions or with your completed application form. The deadline to apply is Thursday，April 20.

1. Who can become a Project Coordinator?

A. A cooperative and well-organized clerk.

B. Students eager to give back to society.

C. A well-informed communication expert.

D. People struggling against health problems.

2. Which project would you apply for if you want to go green?

A. Chester Healthy Eating Workshops.

B. Welly Wednesdays.

C. inCredible.

D. Dementia Cafe.

3. What should you do to submit your application?

A. Learn the role descriptions by heart.

B. Raise your tips about volunteering.

C. Upload it on the Volunteer Hub.

D. Email Volunteering

B

More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers.

Mattel is known for making children's toys. The company recently used an Al image generator called DALL-E to come up with ideas for new Hot Wheels toy cars. The used vehicle seller CarMax is using ChatGPT to gather thousands of customer comments. The social media service Snapchat has added a chatbot to its messaging service. And Instacart，a delivery service，now uses ChatGPT to answer food questions.

Even the Coca-Cola company plans to use AI to help create new marketing content. It has not said exactly how it plans to use the technology. But the move shows that businesses are under pressure to use the tools that many of their employees and customers are already trying on their own. "We must embrace the risks,” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said in a video announcing a partnership with OpenAI- maker of both DALL-E and ChatGPT. Some experts warn that businesses should carefully consider possible harms to customers，society，and their own companies before choosing to use Al tools in the workplace.

Claire Leibowicz is with The Partnership on Al，a nonprofit group. The group recently released recommendations for companies producing Al generated images， audio and other media. "I want people to think deeply before deploying this technology.” Leibowicz said. "They should play around ... but we should also think what purpose are these tools serving in the first place?”

While text generators like ChatGPT can make the process of writing emails and marketing documents faster and easier, they also appear to present misinformation as fact. And image generators like DALL-E are trained in copying widely available digital art and photography. This has raised copyright concerns from the creators of those works.

“It is safer to use Al tools as a ‘thought partner but still people as the creator of final products.” said Anna Gressel，who is with the law firm Debevoise &. Plimpton.

4. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about AI tools?

A. Their target users.

B. Their major functions.

C. Their increasing popularity.

D. Their creative service.

5. What can we say about the Coca-Cola company?

A. It calls on its staff to use AI tools.

B. It hesitates to use Al tools.

C. It accepts the risks of using Al tools.

D. It has been warned by experts.

6. What does the underlined word “deploying” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Using effectively.

B. Promoting successfully.

C. Questioning publicly.

D. Presenting confidently.

7. What can be inferred from Anna Gressel's words?

A. Copyright concerns are unnecessary.

B. Al tools should just be humans' assistants.

C. A business should partner with a law firm.

D. The use of Al tools is an open question.

C

For all the talk of helicopter parents and their snowflake children，most parents I know are more concerned with whether their children's development would be considered normal by experts than whether they are raising a prodigy(天才).

When the teen years arrive，the "Is it normal?” instinct can go into overdrive. Adolescence is marked by many changes，including ones that manifest(显示) physically and，their more challenging counterpart ，ones that manifest emotionally. The moods and deep feelings are intense，and make many helicopter parents in a state of extreme panic.

But difficult feelings are often not a cause for concern，according to psychologist Lisa Damour in her new book, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers : Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents. Not only are sadness and worrying healthy and natural parts of being a teenager, but the ability to experience these feelings (without a parent panicking) and to learn how to cope with them is developmentally necessary.

There is a lot of commercial marketing around wellness that can give people the impression that they are only mentally healthy or their kids are mentally healthy if they are feeling good，calm or relaxed. This is not an accurate definition of mental health. Mental distress is not only inevitable—it is part of mental health and experiencing it is part of how kids grow and mature.

There are many other healthy ways kids regulate emotions besides talking. Listening to mood matching music is a very adaptive way to regulate as the experience of listening to the music catalyzes the emotion out of them. Teenagers also discharge emotions physically - by going through a run, jumping on a trampoline or banging on drums. Sometimes they will discharge them through creative channels like drawing or making music.

As adults, we should not diminish the value of emotional expression that brings relief，even if it doesn't come in the verbal form to which we are most accustomed. Don't join in because what we ultimately want is for our teens to become autonomous in dealing with their hard feelings.

8. Why do many helicopter parents feel alarmed in their children's adolescence?

A. They are cager to raise a genius.

B. They are concerned about their children's safety.

C. They can't accept children's physical changes.

D. They are anxious about their children's mental development.

9. What is a common misunderstanding of mental health?

A. It is all about good feelings.

B. It means having the ability to handle hardships.

C. It contributes to kids' growing up.

D. It refers to a person's positive qualities.

10. Why does the author discuss kids’ ways to manage emotions in Paragraph 5?

A. To confirm bad feelings are sure to be gone.

B. To encourage parents to give a helping hand.

C. To show kids can tackle hard feelings themselves.

D. To clarify the definition of mental health.

11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Helicopter Parents: You Can Be More Self-reliant

B. Commercial Marketing: A Magical Trick

C. Snowflake Children: You Are Promising

D. Hard Feelings: A Sign of Teenagers’ Mental Health

D

Just 11 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic(有氧的) activity per day could lower your risk of cancer，cardiovascular(心血管的)disease or premature death，a large new study has found.

Aerobic activities include walking，dancing，running，jogging，cycling and swimming. You can calculate the intensity level of an activity by your heart rate and how hard you 're breathing as you move. Generally, being able to talk but not sing during an activity would make it moderate(中等的)intensity. Vigorous intensity is marked by the inability to carry on a conversation.

Higher levels of physical activity have been associated with lower rates of premature death and chronic disease, according to past research. But how the risk levels for these outcomes are affected by the amount of exercise someone gets has been more difficult to determine. To explore this impact scientists largely from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom looked at data from 196 studies. amounting to more than 30 million adult participants who were followed for 10 years on average.

The study mainly focused on participants who had done the minimum recommended amount of 150minutes of exercise per week, or 22 minutes per day. Compared with inactive participants, adults who had done 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic physical activity per week had a 31% lower risk of dying from any cause, a 29% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 15% lower risk of dying from cancer.

Furthermore, the study states even people who got just half the minimum recommended amount of physical activity benefited. Accumulating 75 minutes of moderate-intensity activity per week – about 11 minutes of activity per day — was associated with a 23% lower risk of early death. Getting active for75 minutes on a weekly basis was also enough to reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by17% and cancer by 7%.

The findings confirm the World Health Organization 's position that doing some physical activity is better than doing none，even if you don't get the recommended amounts of exercise.

12. What can you do in a moderate-intensity aerobic activity?

A. Have a chat.

B. Break into song.

C. Calculate its influence.

D. Adjust your mind mode.

13. Which word can best describe the findings of the new study?

A. Subjective.

B. Unclear.

C. Debatable.

D. Convincing.

14. What is the smallest recommended amount of exercise on a daily basis?

A. 150 minutes.

B. 75 minutes.

C. 22 minutes.

D. 11 minutes.

15. What message does the author seem to convey in the text?

A. Higher levels of physical activity benefit people.

B. A little exercise is better than none.

C. Physical activities must be aerobic and enough.

D. The full recommended amount of exercise matters more.

第二节(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。

Worried about the climate? 16_____. Here are some examples to get you started.

Count the birds and the bees

Get closer to nature by becoming a citizen scientist. You could be counting birds in your garden, butterflies, insects and flowers，or even reptiles and hedgehogs. 17_____. It's a fun group activity，and your data can help scientists better understand the impact of human behavior on natural habitats.

18_____

Media headlines can be alarming when it comes to the climate and nature crisis or ignoring the issues completely. Hosting a local discussion can allow space for reflection，debate，ideas and collaboration(合作) to take action on global issues at a local level.

Set up a library of things

Internet shopping has made it too easy to buy new stuff at the click of a button. 19_____? First, it'll clutter(凌乱地塞满）your house, then it 'll clutter the planet. Setting up a library of things can encourage local people to share everything from tools to instruments，cooking gadgets to toys.

Start a climate emergency center

20_____.That's why more and more climate emergency centers are popping up in derelict(废弃的)shops on high streets and in shopping centers. A climate emergency center can be a space for events such as an exhibition on plastic waste or a workshop to learn how to make eco-cleaning products. It can also be a way to motivate more people to take action.

A. Cooperate with your locals

B. But where is it all going to end up

C. Host a climate and nature discussion

D. But how have we consumed the things

E. The climate and nature crisis isn't going away

F. There are lots of citizen science projects to take part in

G. Small local actions with neighbors，local businesses and politicians can make a difference第二部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 (共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30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。

l decided it was time to learn how to ride a bike. This was not my first 21_____. I had tried on several occasions but always failed. But this shot(尝试) felt somewhat 22_____. Determined to succeed, I 23_____ the streets of our quiet neighborhood.

The learning process proved 24_____. Day after day 1 would fall, but I went at it anyway. After a whole month of this 25_____ of love and hatred，a day came when I could finally do it. Sweet 26_____! I began my daily tours by riding in the light traffic of the back streets，all the while being in constant 27_____. I gradually moved to even 28_____ roads. 1 had a new cycling 29_____.

As my anxieties _ 30,I grew to care for the gust of wind 31_____ fingering my hair，the unexpected drizzle，even snowflakes，on my back. I 32_____ the sight of households tending to their flower beds. I 33_____ the scents(香味) of freshly cut grass and blossoming roses.

34_____, l gathered enough courage to ride alongside those youngsters taking crazy chances. I 35_____ not to get in the way of sweaty joggers or speed walkers and learned to 36_____ the street with dogwalkers. I 37_____ those neighbors busy stocking their garbage bins, chopping wood or sipping wine in their lawn chairs. I pinched（捏)the bell expertly to 38_____ the many squirrels，raccoons and cottontails of my passage.

Learning to cycle has offered me more than just a new 39_____. I can now appreciate the small things in the area 1 live and understand how everything 40_____ in harmony.

21. A. experiment  B. attempt   C. situation   D. experience

22. A. tricky   B. occasional   C. different   D. accessible

23. A. took to   B. kept off   C. walked along  D. responded to

24. A. influential  B. painful    C. costly    D. instructive

25. A. labor   B. test    C. choice    D. memory

26. A. courage  B. leisure    C. victory    D. recognition

27. A. surprise  B. confusion   C. joy    D. fear

28. A. wider   B. rougher   C. safer    D. busier

29. A. camp   B. routine   C. rule    D. trip

30. A. emerged  B. eased    C. changed   D. transferred

31. A. slowly   B. casually   C. gently    D. slightly

32. A. overlooked  B. searched   C. recreated   D. enjoyed

33. A. processed  B. mixed    C. collected   D. loved

34. A. Eventually  B. Tentatively   C. Deliberately  D. Thankfully

35. A. managed  B. refused   C. stopped   D. planned

36. A. describe  B. share    C. avoid    D. cross

37. A. imagined  B. observed   C. greeted   D. approached

38. A. catch   B. tease    C. surprise   D. warn

39. A. skill   B. strategy   C. trick    D. challenge

40. A. recovers  B. fades    C. functions   D. happens

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。

The health condition of Yaya，a 23-year-old giant panda who has lived in Memphis Zoo in the US for 20 years，attracted public concern recently. Tourists posted pictures of Yaya and claimed she suffered from skin disease and malnutrition, 41_____(call) for her return. With it being decided that Yaya will come back home, this episode raises the question of 42_____ giant pandas are so difficult to feed and breed.

Giant pandas only feed on bamboo. The Calgary Zoo in Canada sent two pandas back to China in 2020 due to a 43_____(short) of bamboo. Pandas also have trouble absorbing nutrients. They can only digest 17 percent of what they eat.

Their low reproductive rate is a crucial reason as well. 44_____(general)，giant pandas can breed when they reach 4 to 8 years old. Females breeding only once 45_____ year leave their scent on bamboo so that males can locate them. Even if a pair meets，successful breeding is not certain.

Females normally give birth 46_____ one or two cubs(幼崽). If twins are born，the mother may only raise the 47_____(strong) of the cubs. A newborn panda baby only 48_____(weigh) about 0.1 percent of the weight of a fully 49_____(grow) panda, making its survival extremely difficult.

Despite these 50_____(issue), progress has been made in breeding and protecting the widely loved animals.

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)

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,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:

1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I am used to reading English classics in our spare time. I always enjoy myself following the stories and communicate with the characters. Personally，reading English classics are of great benefit to students. Firstly, it can made us really interested in English learning because of we are often attracted by the touching plots. Also, it broadens our horizons as it like traveling through time and space, where is a good way to learn more about the world. Additionally，we will definite improve ourselves by reading English classics. Namely，those good quality in the characters will shape one into a good person than now. Just have a try!

第二节 书面表达(满分25分)

假定你是李华,上周末你校举办了为期两天的美食节。请你为校英文报写一篇报道,内容包括:

1.活动准备;

2.活动现场概述;

3.活动反响。

注意:

1.词数100左右;

2.短文的题目和首句已为你写好。

A Two-day Food Festival

An annual food festival was held last weekend in our school.

参考答案

第一部分 阅读理解

1-3 BBD  4-7 CCAB  8-11 DACD  12-15 ADCB

16-40 GFCBE

21-25 BCABA  26-30 CDDBB  31-35 CDDAA 36-40 BCDAC 

41. calling

42. why

43. shortage

44. Generally

45. a

46. to

47. stronger

48. weighs

49. grown

50. issues

第二节书面表达

参考范文:

A Two-day Food Festival

An annual food festival was held last weekend in our school. Before the festival, every one of us launched into setting up tents and posting our menus.

There's nothing better than the senses we experienced at a food festival- the rows of food trucks and tents as far as the eye could sec. the rhythmic sound we heard from cooking. the smells of dozens of delicious food being prepared around us and of course the taste of everything we could stomach. However, what impressed me most was in fact the cultures behind the food vividly introduced by the cooks. Also, wonderful background music and colorful flags added to the pleasure of the occasion.

It was everyone's joint efforts that made the activity such a big success and it's the cultures behind the food that made the festival special. Every one of us sang high praise for the event.