湖南省株洲市天元区名校2023届高三上学期12月月考（A）英语试卷

株洲市天元区名校2022-2023学年高三上学期12月月考

英语试题（A）

第一部分 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。

A

Young Writers Awards

About the Contest

Bennington College has a unique literary tradition. We’ve had twelve Pulitzer Prize winners, three US poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, and two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. In celebration of this, Bennington launched the Young Writers Awards to promote excellence in writing at the high school level. Students are invited to enter with the following work:

•Poetry: A group of three poems

•Fiction: A short story (1,500 words or fewer) or one-act play

•Nonfiction: A personal or academic essay (1,500 words or fewer)

A first-, second-, and third-place winner is selected in each category. We welcome participation of both US and international students.

Awards & Rules

First-place winners in each category are awarded a prize of $1,000; second-place winners receive $500; third-place winners receive $250.

•No charge for entrance. Fees for accidents caused by participants are required.

•All entries must be original work reviewed, approved and guided by a teacher. We will use your teacher as a contact for the competition should we have any questions. For homeschooled students, please contact one to assist in your writing even if you have experience in such competitions.

Young Writers Awards finalists and winners are also qualified for undergraduate scholarships at Bennington. Young Writers Awards finalists who apply and gain admission to Bennington will receive a $10,000 scholarship every year for four years, for a total of $40,000. Young Writers Awards winners reaching the standard will receive $15,000 every year, for a total of $60,000.

1．What can be learned about the Young Writers Awards?

A．It rewards three winners at last.

B．It’s a tradition of Bennington College.

C．It accepts participants worldwide.

D．It offers scholarships to undergraduates.

2．What are the participants asked to do?

A．Hand in a personal essay. B．Have related writing experience.

C．Pay an entry fee on time. D．Find a teacher to help with the entry.

3．How much will the second-place winner to be admitted into Bennington gain in total?

A．$10,500. B．$15,500.

C．$40,500. D．$60,500.

B

In August 2012, when thousands of honeybees landed on the wings of a Delta aircraft headed to New York, interrupting refueling and baggage loading, Ben Shertzer, wildlife administrator at Pittsburgh International Airport, turned to master beekeeper Steve Repasky. Shertzer learned from Repasky that honeybee numbers have sharply declined in recent years. Perhaps, thought Shertzer, the airport could host some hives (蜂箱).

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), first reported in 2006 by Pennsylvania beekeeper David Hackenberg, occurs when the vast majority of bees in any given colony — generally worker bees — die out unexpectedly. Therefore, Hackenberg transports his hives across the country to pollinate (对……授粉) crops: They might travel from Pennsylvania to California, and then, a few months later, those same hives might be moved to Maine for the blueberry crop. In 2006, Hackenberg had left 400 hives in a field to pollinate Brazilian pepper trees; when he returned to the hives a month later, all but 36 hives had been abandoned. The bees had just disappeared, leaving behind the queen and a few baby bees. By 2013, more than 10 million bee colonies had been lost worldwide.

Shertzer and Repasky approached airport management about placing hives in 2013, but were told that the program didn’t fit the airport’s vision. It wasn’t until Christina Cassotis came on board as CEO in 2015 that things turned around. The airport currently has 110 colonies. The program actually benefits the airport as well as the honeybees.

“Swarming (成群飞行) is reproductive behavior,” says Repasky. “In the spring, a healthy colony will divide into two parts, and will take off in a swarm to locate a new home, traveling upwards of a mile or more. While they’re searching, they’ll stop to rest on the first solid object they can find, whether it’s the wing of an aircraft, a runway taxi light, or a baggage cart.” To prevent this behavior, Shertzer and Repasky have placed 15 “swarm traps” around the airfield offering the bees alternative landing spots. It’s worked: Whereas the airport used to have 15 or more swarms a year interrupting air operations, in the past year it has had just three.

4．Why did Shertzer contact Repasky in 2012?

A．To let him help with baggage loading.

B．To learn how to refuel a Delta aircraft.

C．To ask him to help relocate the honeybees.

D．To seek advice on how to raise honeybees.

5．What is Hackenberg’s purpose of traveling around?

A．To come to crops’ rescue. B．To do research on CCD．

C．To build more new hives. D．To search for bee colonies.

6．What do “swarm traps” mentioned in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Baggage carts. B．Beehives.

C．The wings of an aircraft. D．Runway taxi lights.

7．What is a suitable title for the text?

A．Fun facts about honeybees B．Colony Collapse Disorder

C．The latest in airport jobs: beekeeper D．Unwanted visitors at an airport

C

Was your school noisy or peaceful? It might not seem important, but a growing body of research suggests that sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity.

Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is—and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people's creativity while exposed to a soundtrack made up of background noises—such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling—at different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged their creativity.

This makes sense for a couple of reasons, says psychologist Dr Nick Perham, at Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK, who studies the effect of sounds on learning but was not involved in the study. Firstly, he says, sounds that are most disturbing tend to be very variable. A general hum(嗡嗡声)in the background suggests a steady-state sound with not much variation. "So there's not much there to capture your attention- nothing disturbing the subjects," he says. At the same time, the background noise might cause the subjects to be in a slightly heightened state of arousal(觉醒), says Perham. "Medium arousal is best for good performance. So it might be that a general hum in the background gives an ideal level of arousal. " With that in mind, Perham suggests there may be some benefits to playing music or other sounds in an art class or other situations where creativity is key.

Many teachers all over the world already play music to students in class. Many are inspired by the belief that hearing music can improve IQ in tasks, the so-called Mozart effect. While the evidence actually suggests it's a stretch to say classical music improves brainpower, researchers do think pleasant sounds before a task can sometimes lift your mood and help you perform well, says Perham, who has done his own studies on the phenomenon. The key appears to be that you enjoy what you're hearing. "If you like the music or you like the sound—even listening to a Stephen King novel -then you did better. It didn't matter about the music," he says.

8．Which of the following is true according to the studies by Ravi Mehta and Nick Perham?

A．It's better not to expose people to any background noise while at work.

B．Construction-site drilling should be forbidden where there is a school.

C．Noises will harm people's health however low their volumes are.

D．A certain level of noise may do good to people's creativity.

9．According to Dr Nick Perham, it can be inferred that in an art class, teachers had better________.

A．keep the classroom quiet

B．play music at a steady and medium volume

C．broadcast classical music

D．vary the volume of the music constantly

10．In the last paragraph, the underlined part "it's a stretch" is used to________.

A．prove the usefulness of pleasing sounds

B．confirm the belief of Mozart effect

C．challenge the importance of soft music

D．cast doubt on the power of music in raising IQ

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

A．Learning Power: Noise and Music Work

B．Noise Meeting Music: A Blessing?

C．Noise or Music: Creativity in Danger

D．Brainpower: More Music and Less Noise

D

12．Which show is already finished?A．Sony World Photography Awards. B．Travel Photographer of the Year.

C．Bird Photographer of the Year 2022. D．International Photography Exhibition 163.

13．How long will the Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition last?

A．A month. B．27 days. C．A year. D．Unknown.

14．If you want to visit an exhibition on Tuesday, you will choose ________.

A．Sony World Photography Awards B．Travel Photographer of the Year

C．Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 D．International Photography Exhibition 163

15．What information do the four programmes focus on?

A．Photography theoretical study. B．Photography review.

C．Photography show. D．Photography award ceremonies.

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  为多余选项。

Think about how much reading you do everyday. When you look at it, you might find that reading is the work-related skill that you use most often! ____16____ After all, if we can read and comprehend textbooks, then aren’t we good readers? Maybe not. Given the time that reading consumes, it may be a skill that we can and should improve.

____17____ It means getting faster and more efficient at reading, while still understanding what you’re reading. Although you spend a good part of your day reading, have you ever thought about how you read? How do your eyes make sense of the shapes of the letters, and then put those letters together to form sentences that you can understand?

Reading is quite a complex skill. It was previously believed during reading, both eyes focus on particular letters.____18____ Scientists now believe that the eyes lock onto different letters at the same time, usually two characters apart. Your brain then fuses (融合) these images together to form a word. This happens very swiftly, as we look through pages of text！

Many people read at an average rate of 250 words per minute. ____19____

Imagine, then, if you could double your rate to 500 words per minute. ____20____ You could then spend the saved time on other tasks, or take a few extra minutes to relax. Another important advantage of speed reading is that it allows one to better comprehend the overall structure of an argument. This leads to better “big picture” understanding, which can greatly benefit your work and career.

A．Recent research shows this isn’t the case.

B．Speed reading has a great many benefits.

C．You should practice to improve your reading speed.

D．But what does becoming a better reader involve?

E．You could read all of this content in half the time.

F．It’s also a skill that most of us take for granted by the time we reach age 12.

G．This means that an average page in a book or document takes 1-2 minutes to read.

第二部分 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。

Days after Argentina canceled all international flights to protect the country from COVID-19, Manuel Ballestero ____21____his journey home the only way possible. He stepped aboard his small sailboat for an 85-day journey back.

The 47-year-old sailor could have stayed on the tiny Portuguese island of Porto Santo, to ____22____ the time of lockdowns in a scenic place largely free of the ____23____. But the thought of living away from his family, especially his father who was soon to turn 90, was unbearable . So he loaded his 29-foot boat with canned food and ____24____ in mid-March.

A particularly ____25____aspect of this awful period was the inability of an untold number of people to rush home to help loved ones. Friends tried to ____26____Mr.Ballestero from starting the risky journey and the ____27____ in Portugal warned him he might not be allowed to reenter if he ran into trouble and had to ____28____. But he was determined.

Sailing across the Atlantic is challenging in the best of circumstances. The added difficulties of doing it during a pandemic became ____29____three weeks into the trip. On April 12, the authorities(当局) in Cape Verde _____30_____ him to dock at the island nation to get a new supply of food and fuel. He was experienced in spending long time at sea, but being _____31_____ on the open ocean is frightening to even the most experienced sailor.

Learning about his voyage, people bored at home were impressed. He _____32_____created an Instagram account to _____33_____ the final leg of the trip. “Entering my port where I learned how to sail gave me the taste of a(n) _____34_____ accomplished,” Juan said.

_____35_____ Mr.Ballestero didn’t get to celebrate his father’s 90th birthday in May, he did make it home in time for Father’s Day.

21．A．stopped B．expected C．started D．changed

22．A．shift B．share C．survive D．reflect

23．A．poison B．virus C．gene D．cell

24．A．went on B．took off C．settled down D．set out

25．A．painful B．dangerous C．complex D．important

26．A．save B．protect C．discourage D．ban

27．A．reporters B．relatives C．citizens D．government

28．A．turn away B．turn back C．give up D．give in

29．A．common B．different C．obvious D．minor

30．A．urged B．forced C．threatened D．prohibited

31．A．awake B．alone C．forgotten D．deserted

32．A．even B．just C．yet D．still

33．A．instruct B．afford C．serve D．document

34．A．skill B．mission C．experiment D．exploration

35．A．While B．As C．Unless D．Since

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。

China is the global host of the 2019 World Environment Day celebrations, and the main event is being held in Hangzhou in East China.

Over the past decade, Hangzhou government ___36___(improve) bike-friendly infrastructure, such as lanes and traffic signals ___37___ (create) for cyclists and has provided almost 86,000 public bikes. In Hangzhou, a smart card allows users to  ___38___ (easy) access all forms of public transport,___39___bikes to buses. Apart from leading the Chinese cycling resurgence, Hangzhou is also home to an innovative way to encourage more ___40___ (sustain) lifestyles, with an app ___41___is helping to stop desertification, cut air pollution and plant millions of new trees.

The “Ant Forest”mini-program, a Hangzhou-based project from giant Chinese payments and lifestyle app Alipay, encourages users to make small, environmentally friendly ____42____(decide) in their daily lives, such as cycling rather ___43___driving to work, or recycling clothes. If users perform any carbon-reducing activities, they ___44___(reward) with “green energy” points. If they accumulate enough virtual points,____45____ real tree will be planted. According to Ant Financial, more than 100 million trees have been planted, thanks to the low-carbon actions of 500 million individuals, roughly 5% of the world’s population.

第三部分      写作（共两节，满分 40 分）

第一节（满分 15 分）

46．2022年的春季疫情使得同学们又开启了网课模式，为鼓励同学们积极锻炼，增强“运动有助于健康”的意识，校学生会英语社团决定举办主题为“Life lies in movement”的征文活动。请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：

1. 运动的好处；

2. 你喜欢的运动及理由。

注意：1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；

3. 首段已给出，不计入总词数。

Life lies in movement

Due to the epidemic, our school launched the online course, during which many of us students don’t get much exercise learning at home all day. However, it’s universally acknowledged that physical exercise is so important to our health.

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第二节（满分25 分）

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。

Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. l knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home，and I told her everything. She was ready for me.  “No Santa Claus!” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. That rumor has been going around for years，and it makes me mad, plain mad.”

“Now，put on your coat，and let’s go.”

“Go where, Grandma?” l asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store. the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors，Grandma handed me ten dollars.“Take this money.”she said，“and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

l was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother，but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded，full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there，confused，holding that ten-dollar bill，wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker，who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class.

Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. l knew that because he never went out for recess(休息) during the winter. His mother always wrote a note，telling the teacher that he had a cough，but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough，and he didn’t have a coat. I fingered the ten dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red one，which looked really warm，and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?”the lady behind the counter asked kindly，as I laid my ten dollars down.“Yes.”

The nice lady smiled at me，put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

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。

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper.

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Grandma and I waited breathlessly in the bush for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.

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参考答案

1．C    2．D    3．D  4．C    5．A    6．B    7．D  8．D    9．B    10．D    11．B  12．D    13．B    14．B    15．C  16．F    17．D    18．A    19．G    20．E  21．C    22．C    23．B    24．D    25．A    26．C    27．D    28．B    29．C    30．D    31．B32．A    33．D    34．B    35．A

36．has improved/been improving    37．created    38．easily    39．from    40．sustainable    

41．that/which    42．decisions    43．than    44．will be rewarded    45．a

46．Life lies in movement

Due to the epidemic, our school launched the online course, during which many of us students don’t get much exercise learning at home all day. However, it’s universally acknowledged that physical exercise is so important to our health．

Taking exercise, which can not only enhance our immunity but also release us from the fast-paced life, plays an important role in our heath．

There are various kinds of sports activities including ball games as well as other activities like swimming and hiking. When it comes to the sports which I am fond of, running must be mentioned. For one thing, it is easy to carry out. We can do running in our community or in the park, saving us much time and money in finding a proper place. For another, we can do it as we like, by ourselves or in a group. At last, all things taken into consideration, running not only supplies us with good health, but also a positive mind．

So why not choose a sport and enjoy the benefit it brings you?

47．One possible version:

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper. She wrote “To Bobby，From Santa Claus” on it, after which she drove me over to Bobby Decker’s house, explaining l was officially one of Santa’s helpers. Grandma parked down the street from Bobby’s house, and l took a deep breath, and dashed for his front door. Seeing no other people notice us, l put the Christmas present down, pounded his doorbell and then Grandma and l hid in the car.

Grandma and l waited breathlessly in the bush for Bobby Decker’s front door to open. Out went Bobby Decker. Seeing the coat in the bag, he looked very astonished and then called his mother to go out. After hearing them say “Thanks”to Santa Claus, I felt very proud of what l had done. At that time, I decided to be Santa’s helper forever. It was on that night that l realized the truth that he who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.