陕西省汉中市汉台区2023-2024学年高三上学期1月第四次校际联考（期末考试）英语试题（含答案，无听力音频无听力原文）

汉台区2023-2024学年高三上学期1月第四次校际联考（期末考试）
英语试题
注意事项：
1．本试题共10页，满分150分，时间120分钟。
2．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和准考证号填写在答题卡上。
3．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涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
4．考试结束后，监考员将答题卡按顺序收回，装袋整理；试题不回收。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从试题所给的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。
例：How much is the shirt A． 19.15. B． 9.18. C． 9.15. 答案是C。
1．What are the speakers mainly talking about
A．Their apartments. B．Their roommates. C．Their sleep problems.
2．What is “couscous”
A．A new hotel. B．A kind of food. C．A close relative.
3．What does the man mean
A．He watched the game. B．He missed the game. C．He disliked the game.
4．How does the woman’s family celebrate Christmas now
A．By cooking at her parents’ home.
B．By eating out at an Italian restaurant.
C．By going to the Christmas Tree Festival.
5．What do we know about the man
A．He arrived before 3:00 p. m.
B．He didn’t make a reservation.
C．He can’t check in at the hotel.
第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
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。
6．What was the woman’s first job
A．A secretary. B．A manager. C．A cleaner.
7．How long did the woman work at Teknik Ltd
A．For three years. B．For four years. C．For seven years.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8．What makes the man change his appointment
A．The traffic due to the bad weather.
B．His urgent problem at work.
C．An unexpected visitor.
9．When will the man meet Dr. Martin
A．On Wednesday. B．On Thursday. C．On Tuesday.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10．Who does the man think is the most qualified
A．Amy. B．Cameron. C．Hector.
11．What is the woman unsatisfied with Karine
A．Her language ability. B．Her little enthusiasm. C．Her lack of confidence.
12．What do we know about Hector
A．He is the best of the four.
B．He expects the highest salary.
C．He is always punctual.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13．What is the man doing at first
A．Looking for an English language book.
B．Searching for an English magazine.
C．Practicing pronunciation of words.
14．What will the man most probably do
A．Go to the philosophy section.
B．Keep the book for more than two months.
C．Get three books at the same time.
15．How much will the man pay
A．$ 400. B．$ 190. C．$ 150.
16．How does the woman sound B．Indifferent. C．Disappointed.
A．Patient.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．When did the speaker buy his tickets
A．Three months in advance.
B．Three weeks in advance.
C．Five to ten days in advance.
18．How much does a guide generally pay for a plane ticket
A．Half of the regular fare.
B．Two-thirds of the regular fare.
C．One quarter of the regular fare.
19．Where can senior and youth passes be used B．In India.
A．In Europe. C．In Japan.
20．What does the passage mainly talk about C．How to travel on a plane.
A．How to buy train tickets. B．How to travel for less.
第二部分：阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15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
Thanks For Giving 4 Miler
Thurs. January 25,2024
The Event
Sign up today for the 2024 Thanks For Giving 4 Miler and Kids Dash that will take place this month in New Albany! Come out and join us for a fun kick off! As always, 100% of our net proceeds go to help those in need.
All are welcome, including competitive runners, joggers, and walkers wanting to enjoy time with friends and loved ones. Registration ends on January 24,2024.
The Fee
There is no official race fee. You can give as much or as little as you want. However, a $ 40 minimum donation is required to get our soft T-shirt. Our goal is to feed as many families in Central Ohio as we can. You can help by running our race, spreading the word, or making a donation. You may bring any donation you want, from a can of soup to cash. Let’s make a difference.
Event Day Timeline
6:30 am: Race day check-in begins.
8:00 am: Opening ceremony begins!
8:15 am: Kids Dash begins!
8:30 am: The Thanks For Giving 4 Miler kicks off!
Awards
The top three overall male and female finishers will receive a gift certificate. The top three male and female finishers in each of the following age groups will receive a pumpkin pie: 14 and under,15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and above. Every participant of the kids race receives a finisher’s medal!
Safety
For safety, please no bicycles, skateboards, inline skates, or participation with pets.
21．What is Thanks For Giving 4 Miler and Kids Dash
A．A marathon race. B．A family get-together. C．A kid-targeted activity. D．A charity event.
22．What will a man ranking second in his age group be sure to win
A．A soft T-shirt. B．A pumpkin pie. C．A gift certificate. D．A finisher’s medal.
23．What is required for participation
A．Bringing a donation. B．Reaching a certain age.
C．Registering in advance. D．Wearing safety equipment.
B
“In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes,” said US artist Andy Warhol（1928 —1987）. And he is quite right. Now it seems that anybody can become an instant online celebrity.
Warhol is best noted for his paintings that represent celebrity faces and US consumer goods, like Coca-Cola bottles or Campbel’s soup cans. As a great influence on the twentieth century pop art movement, Andy Warhol rose to become a cornerstone in the contemporary art world, devoted to bringing his views on materialism, polities and economics to the art. Actually, the visual world Warhol created is directly connected to his background.
In the mid-1950s, the working class gathered a great deal of fortune. They wanted to achieve a higher status in society. “The consumer goods and Hollywood faces are a working-class-coded iconography（肖像）that is often misinterpreted as generally ‘American’.” Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol’s Working Class commented. Reproducing these themes in his work meant that people outside of the art world could immediately connect with Warhol’s pictures. Considered “a creature of transformation”, Warhol constantly explored with different forms of media to evoke resonance among people.
For example, in addition to being a painter, Warhol was, in the words of UK writer Peter Wollen: “A filmmaker, a writer, a photographer, a TV soap opera producer.” Warhol, in short, was what we might call a ‘Renaissance（文艺复兴） man’, even though he was a leader in pop or perhaps post-modern art.”
In his later years, he founded Interview Magazine and wrote several books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. But UK artist Gillian Wearing said, “Warhol left his mark in many more ways than his actual work.” Warhol’s works are all about “America, money, fame and death”, UK writer Jon Savage remarked. “He summer up , defined and in many ways symbolized the world in which we now live.”
24．What’s Andy Warhol’s purpose of creating his paintings
A．To highlight Renaissance style. B．To combine art with materialism.
C．To attain fame and higher status. D．To challenge traditional art forms.
25．What do Andy Warhol’s paintings focus on
A．Popular drinks. B．Average people.
C．Commercial products. D．Living scenes of working class.
26．What kind of person is Andy Warhol according to the text
A．Constructive and multi-talented. B．Conservative and realistic.
C．Optimistic and encouraging. D．Creative and critical.
27．In which column of the newspaper can we read the passage
A．Health. B．Sports. C．Science. D．People.
C
People, especially adults, have every reason to be concerned about the impact addictive screens make on social skills among youngsters. Recently, researchers compared teachers’ and parents’ evaluation of children who started kindergarten in 1998—six years before Facebook was launched —with that of those who began school in 2010, when the first iPad was released.
The idea for the study was inspired several years ago when Downey, lead author of the study, had an argument at a pizza restaurant with his son, Nick, about whether social skills had been suffering among the new generation of youngsters. “Nick asked me how I knew that. And that was when I realized there really wasn’t any solid evidence,” Downey said. So Downey, with his colleagues, decided to investigate.
For their study, they used data from the Barly Childhood Longitudinal Study（ECLS）, which is run by the National Center for Educational Statistics. The ECLS followed children from kindergarten to fifth grade. The researchers compared data on the children who began kindergarten in 1998（19,150 students） with that on those beginning kindergarten in 2010（13,400 students）. Results showed that children’s social skills did not decline between the 1998 and 2010 groups. And similar patterns remained as the children progressed to fifth grade. Even children within the two groups who had the heaviest exposure to screens showed similar development in social skills compared to those little screen exposure.
While Downey was initially surprised to see that time spent on screens didn’t affect social skills, he really shouldn’t have been. “There is a tendency for every generation at my age to start to have concerns about the younger generation. It is an old story,” he said. These worries often involve “moral panic” over new technology. Adults are concerned when technological change starts to erode traditional relationships, particularly the parent-child relationship.
New generations are learning that having good social relationships means being able to communicate successfully both face to face and online. “You have to know how to communicate by email, on Facebook and Twitter, as well as face to face. We just looked at face-to-face social skills in this study, but future studies should look at digital social skills as well.” Downey said.
28．What drove Downey to conduct the study
A．To argue his friend down. B．To build kids’ social skills.
C．To liberate kids from addictive devices. D．To seek definite proof for his viewpoint.
29．How much do we know about Downey’s findings
A．They confirmed his previous belief.
B．They showed the impact of social media.
C．They totally disagreed with his assumption.
D．They got him more worried about younger generations’ social skills.
30．What does the underlined word “erode” in Paragraph 4 probably mean
A．Enhance. B．Damage. C．Boost. D．Prohibit.
31．Which of the following may Downey agree with
A．As for new generations’ social skills, it’s necessary to readjust assessments.
B．It’s urgent to minimize the use of digital devices among young people.
C．Face-to-face exchanges may give way to online communication someday.
D．Unlike the old, youngsters are better at communicating in the Digital Age.
D
Many of us are disgusted by spiders’ furry legs, or even afraid of them. We don’t like to touch them or go near them. But they are more complicated than we can even imagine. Spiders’ legs seem to have minds of their own. According to a new study, each le g of a spider functions as a semi-independent “computer”, with sensors reading the immediate environment and causing movements accordingly. This helps spiders quickly build perfect webs. The researchers imitated surprisingly simple rules to govern this complex behavior, which could eventually be applied to robotics.
The study involves “morphological computation （形态计算）”, the idea of a function controlled by a body part instead of relying on the brain for instructions. Examples include the human knee jerk reflex （膝跳反射） and the act of walking. “Basically there’s a shortcut, and the brain doesn’t even know what’s happening down there,” says Oxford biologist Fritz Vollrath, the lead author of the paper.
Roboticists also show interest in morphological computation: It saves computing power and time. But few studies have deeply looked at the phenomenon in nature. Spiders, Vollrath says, are ideal for an experiment to bridge this gap—not only because it is easy to spot design changes in their web s but also because spiders reproduce broken-off legs.
Vollrath and his co-author. Thiemo Krink, a computer scientist, filmed and digitized the movements of several cross spiders, each with partially reproduced, half-length legs at certain positions. These spiders built webs as quickly and perfectly as those with eight full-length legs. If the brain were computing how to compensate for shorter legs, the researchers say, they would have seen tiny but measurable delays in operation. Instead the study hints a spider’s leg receives basic brain commands but adjusts its movements based on local input from sensors, which include hairs and slits in the body covering.
The researchers tested the rules by programming a simulated virtual spider, and Vollrath says the next step is to build a physical spider robot.
“I find this work extremely interesting, telling us more about spiders and also about morphological computation,” says Cecilia Laschi, a bio-roboticist, now at the National University of Singapore, who wasn’t involved in the study. “You never know what amazing innovations basic science like this could bring.”
32．Why does the author mention spiders at the very beginning
A．To introduce morphological computation.
B．To stress the unique features of their webs.
C．To draw attention to their potential applications in medicine.
D．To present the common functions that spiders and humans share.
33．What’s the author’s purpose of writing Paragraph 3
A．To highlight the specialties of spiders in the wild.
B．To explain the benefits of morphological computation.
C．To illustrate the principle of morphological computation.
D．To show the cause of selecting spiders for the research subjects.
34．What inferences can be drawn from observing the cross spiders
A．The spiders didn’t need half-length legs to make better webs.
B．The spiders’ brains has a relatively small role to play in their web designing.
C．The spiders’ brains didn’t know what legs were doing down there.
D．The spiders with broken-off legs were seen obvious delays in action.
35．What is the best title for the text
A．Study Shows Spiders Could Make Webs with Half Legs
B．Researchers Are Trying to Make Semi-independent “Computer”
C．Morphological Computation Draws the Attention of Researchers
D．Researchers Study the Secret to Spiders’ Ability to Stick
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。
While sweat serves as the built-in air conditioner, sweating it out can have many other surprising health benefits. 36 .
It eases pain.
37 Are you sore from yesterday’s workout Then the best way to relieve your pain is to work up a sweat. It might be very tempting to skip this step since pain will make you want to sit still. But actually increasing your heart rate and working up a sweat is one of the best things you can do for your pain while sitting around will just make you even more stiff and sore.
It gets rid of toxins（毒素）.
Our bodies are subject to a lot of toxins throughout our everyday lives. 38 , and are created naturally in the body. Sweating is a great way to expel（排出） those toxins from the body, which serves to better your immune system. It can also help get rid of substances like alcohol and salt.
39 .
Along with the sense of accomplishment from working out, working up a sweat releases endorphins （内啡肽）, which make you happy. Sweating helps relieve stress and promote relaxation. Next time you’re feeling stressed out or need a break to clear your mind, think about hitting up a hot yoga class or taking a few minutes for yourself in the sauna to ease your mind.
It helps you avoid kidney stones.
One of the lesser-known benefits of sweating is that it lowers the risk of getting kidney stones. Research has shown that sweating helps you get rid of salt and keep calcium in your bones. 40 . The more frequently you find yourself sweating, the better.
A．It makes you happier B．Did you wake up with back pain C．Where does the toxin come from D．Here are some top benefits of sweating in summer E．Sweating also helps prevent pollutants from entering the body F．This helps keep those elements from your kidney s where small stones will form G．They come from the pollution in the air, our food
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（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。
Because of his severe lung disease, Michael Surrell would be the last person to get into any emergency, let alone a（n） 41 building. But that was not the case with the 42 happening one day.
At first, he didn’t notice black smoke 43 out of his neighbor’s windows, until his daughter phoned to say “The house next door is on fire!” He 44 out and found the woman in a wheelchair crying 45 on the porch, “The baby girl’s on the second floor!”
At that, he immediately dived into the burning 46 . Thick and stifling（令人窒息的） smoke just 47 his eyes. Yet thanks to the familiar layout, he managed to find the dark staircase and 48 his way to the second floor. Moments later, his throat and lungs 49 as if he’d breathed fire. Then he heard a baby’s 50 and broken cries. Unable to see, Surrell 51 , and crawled toward the sound, feeling around for Tiara. He knew he couldn’t hold his 52 for too long before passing out.
All of a sudden, his fingers closed around a 53 wrist. Wild with excitement, he 54 it closer, scooped up the baby, struggled his way downstairs through the smoke and put Tiara, who was already 55 , down gently on the porch. Then he started CPR. After several 56 , she opened her eyes and met his. Surrell hugged her 57 , saying, “Uncle’s got you.” Suddenly his knees went weak. Then he collapsed onto the floor, 58 .
The next thing he knew, he 59 himself lying in bed in a hospital. His 60 significantly worsened but he joked “That’s a small price to pay”.
41．A．smoky B．new C．modern D．old
42．A．flame B．incident C．theme D．circumstance
43．A．taking B．emerging C．pouring D．jumping
44．A．watched B．put C．turned D．rushed
45．A．desperately B．deliberately C．impatiently D．calmly
46．A．school B．house C．restaurant D．store
47．A．caught B．cured C．treated D．stung
48．A．touched B．missed C．felt D．grabbed
49．A．stuck B．closed C．burned D．frozen
50．A．low B．high C．strong D．powerful
51．A．broke out B．fell over C．knelt down D．looked forward
52．A．breath B．case C．lung D．patience
53．A．man’s B．woman’s C．baby’s D．boy’s
54．A．slid B．dragged C．held D．hit
55．A．faint B．anxious C．scared D．asleep
56．A．experiments B．arrests C．rubs D．tries
57．A．sadly B．tightly C．weakly D．angrily
58．A．unreliable B．unfriendly C．unconscious D．unhappy
59．A．woke B．kept C．witnessed D．found
60．A．education B．condition C．emergency D．psychology
第二节 语法填空（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。
On October 18, world leaders came together in Beijing for an eye-catching forum to celebrate the 61． （ten ） anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. The forum was considered 62． （extreme） important in building the Belt and Road.
Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the opening. He said that over the past 10 years, plans of Belt and Road cooperation 63． （turn） into real projects. He also 64． （say） that China would take eight major steps to support high-quality Bel t and Road cooperation, including green development and the advance of science and technology. So far, the Belt and Road Initiative has become the world’s 65． （large） platform for international cooperation. By June 2023, China had worked together with 152 countries and 32 international organisations 66． （build） the Belt and Road. Over 3,000 cooperation projects have been started in the past 10 years, one of 67． is the China-Laos Railway. It was put into use in December 2021, 68． （help） Laos become a country with easy transport in Southeast Asia.
“Bel t and Road cooperation was suggested 69． China, but its fruits are for the world to share,” President Xi Jinping said. There is no doubt that the Belt and Road Initiative will continue to make 70． great difference to the world in the future.
第四部分：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。
Many senior high school students have children’s book that they no longer need. Therefore, my school organize a book drive, with the purpose of donate books to disadvantaged families with young children last weekend. The activity lasted for a week and students in mine school were encouraged collect gently used children’s books from family members, friends and neighbors. I, along with other volunteers, were responsible for checking the donated books and packing them. In order to perform the task well, I had learned what to pack things from my father in the advance. Though I was tiring at the end of the week, I was happy that I got involved in doing something that is benefit to the community.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，刚刚参加了第19届杭州亚运会的志愿者工作。你的新加坡好友David想申请下一届亚运会志愿者，写信向你询问相关情况，请你用英语给他写一封回信，内容包括：
1．个人感悟：
2．如何准备；
3．表达祝愿。
注意：1．写作词数100左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear David,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
英语试题参考答案及评分标准
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
1．C 2．B 3．A 4．B 5．C
第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
6．C 7．B 8．A 9．B 10．B 11．C 12．B 13．A 14．C 15．B
16．A 17．B 18．C 19．A 20．B
第二部分：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）
A）21．D 22．B 23．C
B）24．B 25．C 26．A 27．D
C）28．D 29．C 30．B 31．A
D）32．A 33．D 34．B 35．C
第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
36．D 37．B 38．G 39．A 40．F
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
41．A 42．B 43．C 44．D 45．A 46．B 47．D 48．C 49．C 50．A
51．C 52．A 53．C 54．B 55．A 56．D 57．B 58．C 59．D 60．B
第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
61．tenth 62．extremely 63．had been turned 64．said 65．largest
66．to build 67．which 68．helping 69．by 70．a
第四部分：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）
Many senior high school students have children’s book（books） that they no longer need. Therefore, my school organize（organized） a book drive, with the purpose of donate（donating） books to disadvantaged families with young children last weekend. The activity lasted for a week and students in mine school were encouraged （to）my collect gently used children’s books from family members, friends and neighbors. I, along with other vol-unteers, were（was） responsible for checking the donated books and packing them. In order to perform the task well, I had learned what（how） to pack things from my father in the advance. Though I was tiring（tired） at the end of the week, I was happy that I got involved in doing something that is benefit（beneficial） to the community.
第二节 书面表达（满分25 分）
参考范文：
Dear David,
Delighted to know your interest in my voluntary work in the Asian Games held in Hangzhou. I’m writing to share my experience.
Challenging as the work was, it was a glorious moment for me to be a volunteer in Hangzhou. I was totally impressed by the char m of different sports and the sportsmanship spirit within. As a volunteer, it would help if you are familiar with the rules of the game and wear a warm smile whenever you are needed for help.
Go ahead and sign up! I bet you’ll find it rewarding.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua