2022-2023学年新疆塔城地区乌苏市第一中学高三上学期11月月考英语试题（A）（word版）

乌苏市第一中学2022-2023学年高三上学期11月月考

英语试卷

（A）

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）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

The world is waiting for you to explore. Where will you go next? Our editors pick four exciting destinations for the year ahead. Grab your bags and go!

Maldives

Why go now: Explore islands on the front lines of climate change

What to know: Maldives is the lowest-lying country on the planet and may disappear in decades due to the rising sea level. So forward-thinking green actions are a matter of survival. The Baa Atoll Biosphere Reserve helps protect the Maldives’ coral reefs, which support many coral and fish species, as well as sea turtles, whale sharks, and other animals living in the ocean.

Tasmania, Australia

Why go now: Go to an island that’s wild and beautiful

What to know: Once considered a backwater(闭塞的地方),Tasmania is now one of Australia’s fastest-growing tourism destinations. The key to the attraction of Australia’s southernmost state is its natural beauty, which owes largely to the lasting green spirit of about half a million residents there.

Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Why go now: Jump through the Ring of Fire

What to know: Extending into the sea between the Japanese and Aleutian archipelagoes (群岛), Kamchatka is part of the Ring of Fire, the chain of volcanoes. And six separate areas of Kamchatka Peninsula are included within the Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Guizhou Province, China

Why go now: Step into villages almost untouched by time

What to know: The mountainous region’s plentiful water and cool climate are draws for Apple, Huawei, and other tech powerhouses. This has improved access to the entire province. In Guizhou’s villages, days unfold at a slow pace and people continue farming and textile (纺织品) traditions, which have been practiced since the sixth century. And you can experience this kind of life yourself.

1．What may contribute greatly to the natural beauty of both Maldives and Tasmania?

A．Their small populations. B．The support of UNESCO.

C．Their underdeveloped economies. D．People’s environmental awareness.

2．What is Kamchatka Peninsula probably famous for?

A．Wildfire. B．Volcanoes.

C．Historical sites. D．Plentiful rainfall.

3．Why is Guizhou recommended by the editors?

A．It maintains traditional villages. B．There are numerous mountains.

C．It welcomes large tech businesses. D．The weather is very comfortable there.

B

For years experts have argued that poor households are consuming less nourishing food than the rest of the population.

But a survey of some of the lowest earners in Britain shows the nutritional value of what they eat is little different to everyone else.

In fact, the same deficiencies in diet were shared by all the population and the findings suggest that poor eating choices are far more widespread than previously suspected - affecting many wealthier families.

These included low fruit and vegetable consumption, not eating enough oily fish and eating too much saturated fat and sugar.

“This is a large and significant study and it shows we are all eating just as bad a diet as each other,” said Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University.

The poorest families were eating only slightly more sugar and slightly less fruit and vegetables, according to the study of 3,728 respondents in the bottom of the population.

Alison Tedstone, head of nutritional science at the Food Standard Agency, said: “Overall, people on low incomes have less than ideal diets, but their diets are only slightly worse than those of the rest of the population.”

The study also showed that low earners are choosing to eat unhealthily. Their food choices were not linked to their income, their access to shops or their cooking skills.

The findings appear to contradict assumptions that the poor cannot afford healthier foods or are too far away from shops that sell them.

The Low Income Nutrition and Diet Survey showed that like the rest of the population, the poor's daily fruit and vegetable intake on average is below the recommended five portions. Fewer than 10 per cent of respondents hit this target, while around 20 per cent ate less than a portion per day.

More than three quarters (76 per cent) of men and 81 per cent of women did less than one 30-minute session of moderate or vigorous exercise per week.

Some 45 per cent of men and 40 per cent of women were smokers.

This compares with 28 per cent of men and 24 per cent of women in the general population.

4．According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A．Whether the poor or the rich maybe have a bad diet.

B．Even the poor can enjoy enough fruit and fish consumption.

C．Only the poor have a bad diet.

D．The study was conveyed in both the rich and the poor.

5．What kind of persons maybe eat most sugar?

A．The rich. B．Men. C．The poorest. D．Women

6．From the passage, we can learn __________.

A．the poor choose unhealthy food because of low income

B．having no access to shops also leads to the poor’s bad diet

C．the poor’s daily fruit intake is as much as general people

D．the number of smokers in the poor is bigger than that in general people

7．What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The poor’s healthy problem. B．Keep off junk food.

C．How to have a good diet. D．A diet survey.

C

On a hot summer weekend, Jorge Ayub saw the public beach north of Boston already crowded with nearly 1 million people drawn to the annual sand sculpture festival. Traffic on the nearby road was heavy, bands played music loudly, and later that night fireworks would light up the beach.

And on the sand were four pairs of tiny shorebirds. These chicks(小鸟) were still too young to fly and a precious addition to the national endeavor to save a bird once down to 139 pairs in Massachusetts. It was Mr. Ayub’s job. “Everyone made it,” Ayub, a coastal ecologist reported at the end of the long weekend over the nests.

Once common, piping plovers(笛鸻) were hunted and then squeezed out of their habitats(栖息地) by coastal development until, in 1986, the federal government listed the Atlantic Coastal birds as threatened. The bird’s recovery has been halting. After three decades, the Atlantic population stands just under the 2,000-pair goal set by federal law.

But the star has been Massachusetts, which has seen plovers increase to 687pairs from 139 pairs in 1986. One reason for that: “chick-sitting” in which conservationists sometimes spend all day watching over the birds.

That progress has made Massachusetts the only East Coast state that decided to relax some Endangered Species Act restrictions: for example, to reduce the fenced-off areas and vehicle limits that have annoyed residents（居民）.

“Look at the stretch(一片土地)，”Anyb says. “We had six nesting pairs between here and that bathhouse 600 yards away. By regulation, each nest should have 100 yards of fencing. We could have put up fencing and closed the beach all the way to the bathhouse.”

Instead, the plovers are surrounded in much smaller areas by “symbolic fencing”. None of the 52 seawall entrances to the beach are closed. “If we put up too much fencing, people will be upset, and they are going to destroy it or walk right through the nesting areas,” Ayub says. “By opening the beach, people are happier and the species does better.”

8．What was Jorge Ayub doing at the beginning of the text?

A．Directing traffic.

B．Enjoying fireworks.

C．Looking after some birds.

D．Watching some bands perform.

9．Which of the following best explains “halting”underlined in Paragraph 3?

A．slow B．Similar

C．Important D．Complete

10．What do you know about Massachusetts?

A．It is an important habitat for wildlife.

B．It has done well in protecting piping plovers.

C．It encourages the residents to keep piping plovers.

D．It allows ecologists to test certain species of birds.

11．What might be Jorge Ayub’s attitude to “symbolic” fencing?

A．Supportive B．Disapproving

C．Uninterested D．Doubtful

D

The US scientists at the University of Vermont and Tufts University who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce — and in a way not seen in plants and animals.

Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blob were first brought out in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups and self-heal.

“I was shocked by it,” said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research, adding that when you free the cells from the rest of the frogs’ embryo(胚胎) and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment and a new way to reproduce.

“In that way it’s a robot but it’s also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell.” said Josh Bongard, a computer science professor and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.

Bongard said they found that the xenobots, which were initially sphere-shaped and made from around 3,000 cells, could replicate(复制). But it happened rarely and only in specific situations. The xenobots used “active replication” — a process that is known to occur at the molecular(分子的) level but has never been observed before at the scale of whole cells or organisms.

The xenobots are very early technology — think of a 1940s computer — and don’t yet have any practical applications. However, this combination of molecular biology and artificial intelligence could potentially be used in a host of tasks in the body and the environment, according to Bongard. This may include things like collecting microplastics in the oceans, inspecting root systems and regenerative medicine.

12．What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

A．American scientists found that African clawed frog can reproduce.

B．Xenobots got its name because they are less than a millimeter wide.

C．Xenobots are an entirely new life form different from any animal or plant.

D．African clawed frog could move, work together in groups, self-heal and reproduce.

13．What might Josh Bongard agree?

A．He was surprised by what have been found.

B．Xenobots could replicate only in particular circumstances.

C．The cells from frogs figure out a new way to move and reproduce.

D．Xenobots are very early technology that have a few actual applications.

14．What is Josh Bongard’s attitude towards xenobots’ use in the future?

A．Unfavorable. B．Concerned.

C．Indifferent. D．Positive.

15．What is the text mainly about?

A．The explanation of xenobots’ difference.

B．The introduction to the first living robots.

C．The amazement of the creation of xenobots.

D．The presentation of molecular active replication.

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。

Chefs typically toss（抛）the frying food into the air from deep, rounded pans or woks before catching it again. Launching rice and its fixings allows a chef to cook it over really hot flames without burning. At times, temperatures in a pan can reach 1,200。 Celsius. ___16___

Scientists found that the chefs relied on a specific pattern of motion. And they repeated those motions about three times a second. ___17___ At the same time the wok was rocked to and fro. The chefs used the edge of the stovetop as a fulcrum（支点）on which to balance as they rocked it.

Cooks use similarly complex patterns of movement to cook up other foods. ___18___

Scientists used a computer to simulate（模仿）the tracks of rice that would occur in a wok moved in various ways. Along the way, the scientists hit on some key coo king tips. The wok moved in various ways. Along the way, the scientists hit on some key cooking tips. The rocking and sliding motions shouldn’t be done at the same time. ___19___ Also, the wok’s movements should repeat rapidly. Moving the wok even faster could launch the rice higher. That might allow cooking at higher temperatures and perhaps a quicker meal.

___20___ Chefs at Chinese restaurants can struggle with shoulder pain, studies have shown. Rapidly shaking their heavy woks could be part of the problem. One solution might be a stir-frying robot. It could be built based on their new found results to take the weight off chefs’ shoulders.

A．But faster shaking may be hard on a cook.

B．To make fried rice like a professional, use science.

C．If they are, the rice won’t mix well and could burn.

D．Each repetition included sliding a wok back and forth.

E．Cooking is hard work that needs patience and perseverance.

F．The high temperature helps create the tastiest stir-fried food.

G．They will turn the pan quickly, for instance, to get smooth, flat egg cakes.

第一部分 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。

Many people dream of going on a great travel adventure. Most of us keep dreaming; ____21____ make it happen.

Gregg Bleakney’s ____22____ was to travel the Americas from top to ____23____. He ____24____ the idea after he finished a 1,600-kilometer ____25____ ride. Gregg’s friend Brooks Allen was also a cyclist. The two friends talked and ____26____ on their goal: They would ____27____ from Alaska to Argentina—by bike.

To pay for the journey, Gregg and Brooks worked and ____28____ money for years. In 2005, after four years of planning, they ____29____. Once they were on the road, they often _____30_____ outdoors or stayed in hotels. In many places along their route, _____31_____ people opened their homes to the two friends and gave them _____32_____ and water.

During their trip, Gregg and Brooks cycled through _____33_____, rain forests, and mountains. They visited _____34_____ cities and explored ancient ruins, such as Tikal in Guatemala. In many places, they _____35_____ other cyclists from all over the world.

In May 2007—two years, countries, and over 35,500 km later—they _____36_____ reached Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America.

Gregg and Brooks kept a _____37_____ of their adventures in an online blog. The trip _____38_____ both men a lot about traveling. Here is some of Gregg’s advice.

Travel light. The less luggage you have, the less _____39_____ you’ll be.

Be flexible. Don’t plan everything. You’ll be more relaxed and happy, even when there are _____40_____ along the way.

21．A．they B．we C．others D．all

22．A．imagination B．dream C．thought D．opinion

23．A．bottom B．side C．ground D．foot

24．A．found B．made C．got D．changed

25．A．car B．bus C．train D．bike

26．A．depended B．decided C．took D．went

27．A．continue B．discover C．travel D．arrive

28．A．saved B．spent C．donated D．paid

29．A．take off B．set off C．leave off D．come off

30．A．lived B．survived C．hunted D．camped

31．A．local B．foreign C．familiar D．ordinary

32．A．money B．food C．hope D．comfort

33．A．buildings B．bridges C．deserts D．rivers

34．A．noisy B．lively C．green D．modern

35．A．met B．missed C．called D．avoided

36．A．actually B．possibly C．hardly D．eventually

37．A．secret B．promise C．plan D．record

38．A．led B．won C．taught D．told

39．A．worried B．excited C．interested D．disappointed

40．A．surprises B．challenges C．pleasures D．opportunities

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。

Over the centuries, farmers ___41___ (discover) thousands of different species of food crops. Each species has special qualities. To feed the seven billion people on Earth, most farmers today are growing only species of plants that are easy ___42___(produce) in large numbers. Meanwhile thousands of other species are becoming extinct. For example, in China, 90 percent of the wheat ___43___ (vary) grown just a century ago have disappeared.

One solution ___44___ this problem is to collect and preserve the seeds of as many different species as we can ___45___ they disappear. This idea ___46___ (suggest) for the first time by Russian scientist Nikolay Vavilov. In ___47___ 1920s and 1930s, he collected around 400,000 seeds from five continents. There are now around 1,700 seed banks in countries around the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which preserves almost one million seed samples, has one of the ___48___ (large) collections.

In the US, Diane Ott Whealy and her husband founded Heritage Farm, a place ___49___ people can store and trade seeds. By doing this, they are reintroducing foods into the marketplace ___50___ haven’t been grown for years.

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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

For some people, making friends are easy. For others, it can be a struggle. You don't need to being clever or charming to make friends. These who make friends easily know how to be themselves. There's an old saying. "A friend is someone who knows all your strength and weaknesses—and liked you anyway."

There are two simple things you can do make friends. First, learn how to true listen. To succeed in friendship, you need to show a interest in others. Ask questions about other people. Second, it's a good idea to join in a club or take a class. That way, you can meet people which have similar interests. Good friends usually like the same things.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

52．“Planning is good, but doing is better.”是一句英语名言。请以此为题用英语写一篇80词左右的短文。要求如下：简述你对这句名言的理解；用一个具体事例加以说明；给出恰当的结尾。

Planning Is Good, But Doing Is Better

参考答案

1．D    2．B    3．A

4．A    5．C    6．D    7．D

8．C    9．A    10．B    11．A

12．C    13．B    14．D    15．B

16．F    17．D    18．G    19．C    20．A

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

41．have discovered    42．to produce    43．varieties    44．to    45．before    46．was suggested    47．the    48．largest    49．where    50．that##which

51．1. are→is

2. being→be

3. These→Those

4. strength→strengths

5. liked→likes

6.在make前面加to

7. true→truly

8. a→an

9.去掉in

10. which→that/who

52．Planning Is Good, but Doing Is Better

Planning is good, because it decides in detail how we do it. However, a plan will come to nothing without being actually carried out.

My experience in the English speech contest last October is a case in point. A month before the event, I took hours working out a schedule outlining my goals and practical steps. After that, I set out to read widely for an inspiring topic, wrote a speech and practiced its delivery in beautiful pronunciation with good public speech skills. I finally came out of the contest as the first prize winner.

From this experience, I know how I achieved my success. It came from good planning and better doing combined.