第一部分：听力
1-5. BAACC
6-10. BCCBA
11-15. BCACA
16-20. BCABB
第二部分：阅读理解
第一节
A篇 ADAD
B篇 CDAC
C篇 BDAB
D篇 CBC
第二节：
CEDFB
第二节：完形填空
41-45 BDCCB 46-50 ABDCC 51-55BBBCC
语法填空答案：
41. It 42. to think 43. important 44.the 45. kept 46.friends’ 47. and 48. including 49.is 50. in
第三部分：写作 略10. What lesson did the woman previously learn
A. Leaving for the airport early.
2023-2024学年高三年级开学考试
第一部分：听力（30分）
B. Booking a taxi ahead of time.
第一节
C. Packing the bag in advance.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. How did the woman get the glasses
A. A tech company gave her as a gift.
B. Her friend asked her to test it.
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。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 will the woman’s cousin compete in this year
C. She bought it from a store.
A. Baseball.
B. Running.
C. Swimming.
12. What does the woman’s mother think of the glasses
A. She is surprised at them.
2. Where will the speakers probably get the toy
A. At an online shop.
3. What are the speakers doing
A. Making a card.
B. In a physical store.
C. From a shopping program.
C. Decorating a house.
C. At 7:00 a.m.
B. She is curious about them.
C. She is uninterested in them.
B. Writing a letter.
13. Where will the glasses be used
4. When does the man need to get up
A. In schools.
B. In game stores.
C. In tourist attractions.听第 9
A. At 3:00 a.m.
B. At 4:00 a.m.
段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
5. What will the man probably do this weekend
14. What are the speakers mainly talking about
A. How to put a band together.
A. Have a picnic.
B. Prepare for a test.
C. Learn about science.
B. How to sign up a social media account.
C. How to attract more visitors to a website.
15. How often did the man share his website before
第二节
听下面 5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选
项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5秒钟；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、7 题。
A. Hardly ever.
B. Once a day.
C. Twice a day.
C. Joe.
16. Who is good at designing posters
A. May.
B. Ann.
6. How did the man learn about the movie
17. What have the speakers agreed on doing together
A. By reading a newspaper.
7. What is the probable relationship between the speakers
A. Movie star and fan. B. Husband and wife.
B. By talking to a friend.
C. By watching TV.
C. Friends.
A. Practicing for the band.
B. Putting up posters.
C. Having dinner.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. What is great about Finland’s education system
A. It keeps up with the times.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
B. It sticks to traditional education.
8. Where does the conversation probably take place
C. It focuses on classroom learning.
A. At an airport.
B. At home.
C. In a taxi.
19. Who will help rate the students’ performance
9. Why will the man take circles in the city
A. There is plenty of time.
A. Other students.
B. Company employees.
C. Family members.
20. What is wrong about traditional education according to Kirsti Lonka
A. It makes math and grammar harder to learn.
B. The highway isn’t available.
B. It makes real-life problems simple for students.
C. The traffic is busy during rush hours.
C. It makes students depend too much on teachers.
23. A discussion section does NOT include ______.
第二部分：阅读理解
A. working under the guidance of university professors
第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。（每小题
2.5分，共 37.5分）
B. talking over what the students have read about the courses
C. discussing the problems related to the students' homework
A
D. raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture
Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be
curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow
students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.
First, let's talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may
be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures.
Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or
economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In
lectures, it's very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information
a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have
exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn't enough to just read your textbooks; you have to
attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every
class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty
students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large
universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.
If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you'll also have to spend several
hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend
more time in the classroom than non science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in
subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.
21. The main purpose of this text is ______.
24. According to the author, science majors ______.
A. have to work harder than non science majors
B. spend less time on their studies than non science majors
C. consider experiments more important than discussions
D. read and write less than non science majors
B
Art museums are places where people can learn about various cultures(文化). The increasingly
popular "design museums" that are opening today, however, perform quite a different role. Unlike
most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found by the general public.
These museums sometimes even place things like fridges and washing machines in the center of the
hall.
People have argued that design museums are often made use of as advertisements for new
industrial technology. But their role is not simply a matter of sales—it is the honoring of excellently
invented products. The difference between the window of a department store and the showcase in a
design museum is that the first tries to sell you something, while the second tells you the success of a
sale.
One advantage of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with the
exhibits. Unlike the average art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel frightened or
puzzled(困惑 ). This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-produced
products work and look as they do, and how design has improved the quality of our lives. Art
museum exhibits, on the other hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is
something beyond their understanding.
A. to help the students to learn about university life
B. to persuade the students to attend lectures
C. to encourage the students to take part in discussions
In recent years, several new design museums have opened their doors. Each of these museums
has tried to satisfy the public's growing interest in the field with new ideas. London's Design
Museum, for example, shows a collection of mass-produced objects from Zippo lighters to electric
typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museums seem far less strict
than those to art museums, and visitors may also sense the humorous(幽默的 ) part of our society
while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected in our
everyday life.
D. to advise the students to choose proper majors
22. We can learn from the passage that university professors ______.
A. spend about 5 hours on lectures each week
B. must join the students in the discussion sections
C. prefer to use textbooks in their lectures
D. require the students to read beyond the textbooks
25. Showcases in design museums are different from store windows because they ______.
A. show more technologically advanced products
and from families known to them—a form of favouritism will replace equality. At the moment, the
bright child from an ill—respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a
job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected
school. This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken
away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school's reputation,
unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because
they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different,
academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any
other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made
by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
B. help increase the sales of products
C. show why the products have sold well
D. attract more people than store windows do
26. The author believes that most design museum visitors ______.
A. do not admire mass-produced products
B. are puzzled with technological exhibits
C. dislike exhibits in art museums
D. know the exhibits very well
27. The choices open to design museums ______.
A. are not as strict as those to art museums
29. The word "favouritism" in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that ______.
A. bright children also need certificates go get satisfying jobs.
B. are not aimed to interest the public
C. may fail to bring some pleasure to visitors
B. children from well—respected schools tend to have good jobs
D. often contain precious exhibits
C. poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets
28. The best title for this passage is ______.
D. children attending ordinary schools achieve great success
A. The forms of design museums
30. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author
A. Schools for bright children would lose their reputation.
B. The exhibits of design museums
C. The nature of design museums
B. There would be more opportunities and excellence.
D. The choices open to design museums
C. Children from poor families would be able to change their schools.
D. Children's job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation.
31. The opponents of the examination system will agree that ______.
C
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and
examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy
it.
A. jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection
B. computers should be selected to take over many jobs
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must
regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed—no examination is perfect—but to have to
tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people
who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or
on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend
on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools
C. special classed are necessary to keep the school standards
D. schools with academic subjects should be done away with
32. The passage mainly focuses on ______.
A. schools and certificates
B. examination and equality
D. standards and reputation
C. opportunity and employment
D
A. Slow Down Your Life
Handshaking, though a European practise is often seen in big cities of China. Nobody knows
exactly when the practice started in Europe. It is said that long long ago in Europe when people met,
they showed their unarmed(无武器的 ) hands to each other as a sign of goodwill. As time went on
and trade in cities grew rapidly, people in cities began to clap each other's hands to make a deal or to
reach an agreement. This practice was later changed into shaking hands among friends on meeting or
leaving each other. "Let's shake (hands) on it" sometimes means agreement reached.
Do the Europeans shake hands wherever they go and with whomever they meet No.
Sometimes the Chinese abroad reach out their hands too often to be polite. It is really very impolite
to give your hand when the other party, especially when it is a woman, shows little interest in
shaking hands with you and when the meeting does not mean anything to him or-her. Even if, for
politeness, he holds out his unwilling hand in answer to your uninvited hand, just touch it slightly.
There is generally a misunderstanding(误解) among the Chinese that westerners are usually open
and straightforward, while the Chinese are rather reserved(保守的) in manner. But in fact some
people in western countries are more reserved than some Chinese today. So it is a good idea to shake
hands with a westerner only when he shows interest in further relations with you.
33. In the old days in Europe, people put out their unarmed hands to each other ______.
A. to make a deal B. to greet each other
B. Escape Now and Then
C. Separate Your Actions
D. Allow Yourself to Be Weak
E. Relieve Pressure by Firmly Saying "No"
F. Stop Expecting Everything to Be Perfect
G.Make everything wonderful.
How to Simplify Your Life
Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of
junk instead of piling it up, relax instead of stressing, slow down instead of speeding up. Apply these
principles in your everyday life in a conscious way. You will then find yourself well along on your
journey to simplification.
36.__________
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have energy that you didn’t even know you
had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep
grabbing one and then the other, it will take forever, because one of them will keep slipping out from
under your arm and running off. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your
strength and make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back and get the other one, and
with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, then you can be sure of success.
37._________
C. to show friendliness D. to reach an agreement
34. The first paragraph mainly tells us ______.
A. where handshaking was first practiced
The pressure at work is on the increase in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the
expectations that formerly would have been shared among all the relatives are now concentrated on
the individual partner.
B. how handshaking came about
C. about the relationship between handshaking and trade
D. about the practice of handshaking both in Europe and in China
If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day are not enough for all the things you need to do,
then it’s not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple
fact that overloaded people often tend to forget. The solution is equally simple: refuse to accept so
many work assignments in your private life or your working life.
35. According to the text, which of the following statements is true
A. Westerners are more reserved than the Chinese.
B. Westerners are unwilling to shake hands.
C. We should make a judgement before shaking hands.
38.____________
D. We shouldn't shake hands with European women.
"I can handle stress" is regarded as a positive statement in the world of work. People who can
handle stress are given more and more to cope with—until one day they break.
Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can cope
第二节：下面文章中有 5处（第 36–40题）需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E、F和 G}
中选出符合各段意思的小标题。选项中有两项是多余选项。（每小题 2.5分，共 12.5分）
with. These signals can come from various areas of life. You become ill, or your work efficiency
decreases.
He said, "I will give you my ___46___ tomorrow."
She woke up the next morning, found him gone, and saw a piece of paper on her bed, which
goes "My dear, I would not pick that flower for you, the ___47___ are …"
"When you use the computer you always mess up the software, and you cry in front of the
screen. I have to save my fingers so that I can help to restore the programs . You always leave the
house keys behind, thus I have to save my ___48___ to rush home to open the door for you. You
love traveling but always lose your way in a (n) ___49___ city. I have to save my eyes to show you
the way. You always ___50___ at the computer, and that will do nothing good for your eyes. I have
to save my eyes ___51___ when we grow old, I can help to clip your nails and help to remove those
___52___ white hairs."
If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress.
Say quite openly, "I can't manage that."
39.__________
"If only I were slimmer, more beautiful, richer, more clever, then I would be happier." This is a
dream that makes a lot of people ill, depressed, and unhappy. Life has its flaws, defects, corners, and
edges. Only those who accept this reality can lead a really full life.
Of course there are activities in which errors are dangerous: driving a car; crossing the road.
But life doesn't consist entirely of these things. In among them there is a lot of room for small and
large mistakes.
"Thus, my dear, unless I am sure that there is someone who loves you ___53___I do … I could
not pick that flower yet, and die …"
40._________
Successful people all have their own places where they can withdraw in order to work. Find out
which places improve your creativity. For me it's the train. When I know that I'm going to be
traveling for four hours without phone calls and people knocking on my door, I find nay mind is free
and I can read or write complex articles. There can be problems working on the train, of course: if
the person sitting opposite you keeps talking away, or if train traps make you tired (some people fall
asleep after a few miles).
That's life, and ___54___. flowers, and romantic moments are only used and appear on the
___55___ of the relationship. Under all this, the pillar of true love stands.
41. A. and B. but C. or D. so
42. A. lonely B. shamed C. worried D. tired
43. A. speak B. blow C. change D. keep
44. A. represent B. expand C. convince D. admit
45. A. attention B. death C. interest D. satisfaction
第三节：完形填空
46. A. answer B. agreement C. announcement D. judgment
47. A. meanings B. reasons C. messages D. purposes
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 41 ~ 55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。（每小
题 1分，共 15分）
48. A. dollars B. patience C. energy D. legs
This is the story of two lovers, who finally got married. Both of them were romantic at first,
___41___ on the walk of life, problems, quarrels, profession came into their life.
One day, she finally decided "I want to break up". "Why " he asked.
"I am ___42___." she answered.
49. A. ancient B. modern C. new D. underground
50. A. shout B. jump C. stare D. knock
51. A. as if B. so that C. now that D. in case
52. A. enjoyable B. annoying C. dusty D. amusing
He kept silent the whole night, seemingly in deep thought. finally he asked, "What can I do to
___43___ your mind "
53. A. less than B. more than C. rather than D. other than
54. A. determination B. progress C. love D. power
Looking into his eyes she said, "Answer my question. If you can ___44___ my heart, I will
change my mind. Let's say, I want a flower growing on the face of a mountain cliff (悬崖), we both
are sure that picking the flower will cause your___45___. will you do it for me "
55. A. principle B. way C. surface D. nature
第二节(满分 25分)
第四节：语法填空（共 10小题，每小题 1.5分，满分 15分）
阅读下面材料，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。
Our church charity in Toronto has a way of assisting those who have financial difficulties
without making the receiver feel ashamed or guilty. They often dropped money into an offering box
with only the name of the receiver on the envelope.The envelopes are then distributed to those
members without them knowing the name of the giver.
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is possible that we simply do not stay in one place for a true friendship to develop.
However, there can be no disagreement on the need for each of us
kind of friendships we want.
57 (think) carefully about the
To most of us, friendships are considered
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(importance), but need to have clear in our
(keep) at arm’s
There came a time when my husband and I were among those in need. We did not talk about
our financial difficulty with anyone.The only reason our children knew was that we had to cut back
on many things. Still, we hoped they were not aware of the extent of our need, nor of how much
their father and I were suffering because of it.We did not want to burden them with a problem they
could do nothing to solve.
own minds kinds of friendships we want .Are they to be close or
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length Do we want to share ourselves or do we want to walk on the surface For some people,
many friendships on the surface are quite enough—and that’s all right .But at some point we need to
make sure that our expectations are the same as our
from the friendship than the other, 62 if this is not talked about, one is likely at last to fell that
he’s holding the short end of the stick. The sharing of personal experience 63 (include) our tears
as well as our dark dreams 64 (be) the surest way to deepen friendships. But it must be
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(friend)expectations. If one wants more
Unfortunately, our situation wasn't improving, and my husband and I knew that we would have
to look for outside help. Just as we reached the point of desperation, our church gave us a gift
envelope that had been left in the offering box.We were overjoyed to receive a very large amount of
money, enough to bring us through that desperate time.We couldn't help but wonder who had given
such a generous gift. We were extremely relieved and grateful.
undertaken slowly and carried on only if there signs of interest and action
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return.
A year later, our seventeen-year-old son was applying for a student loan so he could attend
university. It was then that we discovered his savings account was almost empty.His father and I
were very disturbed by this.We had trusted him to put part of his wages from his part-time job into
the bank towards his education.Actually，from the time he was nine years old he had been a paper
carrier for The Toronto Star, and he had worked very hard for his small earnings to achieve his
university dream.
第三部分：写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分 15分)
假定你是李华，打算应聘你校学生英语报 Youth的 Growing Up Stories栏目的编辑，请用英语写一封应
聘信，内容包括：
注意：1.续写词数应为 150左右；
1．对栏目的理解；
2．请按如下格式作答。
2．个人优势。
I asked him repeatedly where the money had gone._______________________________
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Several busy days later, there appeared an envelope in the box.______________________
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注意：
1．词数 100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Chief Editor，
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Yours sincerely，
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