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1、2022-2023 高三上英语期末模拟试卷 注意事项：1 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信息条形码粘贴区。2选择题必须使用 2B 铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用 05 毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。4保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第一部分（共 20 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）1I will be a vice president in a year or two.You cant be se
2、rious!_.AI cant make it BI cant help it CI wont tell a soul DI wouldnt bet on it 2 NASA has made a _ that our earth has no threat associated with the film 2012 which is based on pure myths.Aclarification Bclassification Cidentification Dpresentation 3Keeping a regular sleep schedule is important for
3、 setting a babys body clock,_researchers note should be in place by about 4 months of age.Awhose Bwhich Cwhen Dwhere 4-I feel nervous when taking an exam.-and you can do it well.ATake it w easy BTake your time CGood luck DIts up to you 5Abraham set himself up in front of his daughter,hands _ her hai
4、r,and was close to tears,reluctant to tear himself from her.Ato toy with Btoyed with Ctoying with Dbeing toyed with 6Their youngest girl is at the stage _ she can say a single word but not a full sentence Awhen Bwhich Cthat Dwhere 7Michelle Obama wears clothes that anyone can buy in a mall and _ she
5、 may have a larger effect on consumers than ordinary models.Afurthermore Botherwise Cnevertheless Dtherefore 8 These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have _ a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.Abuilt up Bpacked up Cbrought up Dtook up 9The problem _he will have his c
6、ollege education at home or abroad remains untouched.Ahow Bwhether Cthat Dwhen 10-Excuse me,but why am I not allowed to use the gym?-_，but your room price doesnt cover it.ANo hurry BNo wonder CNo offence DNo problem 11As a doctor,I spend most of the time with my patients,and thats _ it is in my day.
7、Ahow Bwhen Cwhy Dwhere 12This course is of great interest to students,_ to improve their writing skills.Ahope Bto hope Choping Dhoped 13But for your instruction,I _ such great progress in so short a time.Thanks a lot.Awouldnt make Bhadnt made Cwont make Dwouldnt have made 14-Can you tell us your _ f
8、or happiness and a long life？-Living every day to the fullest，definitely.Arecipe Beffort Ccontent Ddemand 15_?You look really down.Im tired of my job.There are endless problems to deal with.AWhy bother BSo what CWhats up DWhy not 16More often than not,the enterprise around us are getting even richer
9、,_ recipe is dont put all your eggs in one basket.Aof which Bwhich Cwhose Dof whom 17Youve made great progress in your English study,havent you?Yes,but much .Aremains to do Bis remained to do Cremains to be done Dis remained to be done 18 How do you find your new classmate?Oh,she is really _ of a mu
10、sician,who can not only sing very beautifully,but also compose skillfully.Asomething Bsomebody Ceverything Deverybody 19 After three years of preparation for the 2011 Xian International Horticultural Expo(西安园博)会），the city is presenting the world_ many people think is the green Special Olympics Athat
11、 Bwhich Cwhat Dwhere 20 I am so glad to find you at home.Can you do me a favor?Sure._?AWhy not BWhats up CHow come DHow is it going 第二部分 阅读理解（满分 40 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。21（6 分）Many managers believe that overworking is an evidence of devotion from their employees side.Still few others
12、 regard this custom as a threat to the workers work-life balance,which may negatively influence the level of productivity and efficiency.Employees at Amsterdam design studio Heldergroen wont be putting in much overtime.Not in the office,at any rate.Thats because every day at 6:00 pm,their desks,tabl
13、es and other work surfaces,with their computers attached,are lifted to the ceiling by steel cables（绳索）normally used to move heavy props（道具）in theatrical productions.If you leave a half-eaten sandwich on your desk,youre out of luck.“Once the chairs and other workplace paraphernalia are cleared away,t
14、he space is free for evening and weekend use as a dance floor,yoga studio.or anything else you can think of the floor is actually yours,”doctor Sander Veenendaal said.In a way,the office space itself is working overtime for Heldergroen,bringing about lots of publicity and carrying an enlightened（有启发
15、的）message of career-life balance far and wide.”We think that doing activities like this makes it easier for people to work here,”says Veenendaal.“You know when it is time to relax or do something else that inspires you.”That sounds awesome.Theres just one catch.In the morning,the desks reappear and
16、everybody has to go back to work.1、What can we learn about the employees at Heldergroen?AThey are unwilling to work late BThey are discouraged from working overtime CThey are persuaded to leave the office earlier DThey are to put away their computers after work 2、What does the underlined word“paraph
17、ernalia”in paragraph 3 refer to?AProps.BFood.CEquipment.DCables.3、What does the author think of the Heldergroens office design?ACreative.BInconvenient COrdinary DStrange 22（8 分）Screaming is one of the responses humans share with other animals.Conventional thinking suggests that what sets a scream ap
18、art from other sounds is its loudness.However,many sounds that are loud do not raise goose bumps like screams can.To find out what makes human screams unique,neuroscientist Luc Arnal and his team examined a bank of sounds containing sentences spoken or screamed by 19 adults.The result shows screams
19、and screamed sentences had a quality called“roughness,”which refers to how fast a sound changes in loudness.While normal speech sounds only have slight differences in loudnessbetween 4 and 5 Hz,screams can switch very fast,varying between 30 and 150 Hz,thus considered to be rough and unpleasant.Arna
20、ls team asked 20 subjects to judge screams as fearful or not,and found that the scariest are almost always connected with roughness.The team then studied how the human brain responds to roughness using fMRI brain scanners(磁共振颅脑扫描仪).As expected,after hearing a scream,activity increased in the brains
21、hearing centers where sound coming into the ears is processed.But the scans also lit up in the amygdale(脑扁桃体),the brains fear center.The amygdala is the area that responds to danger.When a threat is detected,our adrenaline(肾上腺素)rises,and our body prepares to react to danger.The study found that roug
22、hness isnt heard when we speak naturally,but the most annoying alarm clocks,car horns,and fire alarms possess high degrees of roughness.One potential application for this research might be to add roughness to alarm sounds to make them more effective,the same way a bad smell is added to natural gas t
23、o make it the easily to be detected.Warning sounds could also be added to electric cars,which are particularly silent,so they can be efficiently detected by pedestrians.1、What is the first paragraph mainly about?ADifferent types of screams.BSpecific features of screams.CHuman sounds and animal cries
24、.DSound changes and screamed sentences.2、What does the underlined phrase“raise goose bumps”probably mean?AMake people feel unpleasant.BMake people feel cold.CMake people rude and rough.DMake people unique.3、What can we infer from the passage?ARoughness is commonly heard in many artificial sounds.BTh
25、e traveling speed makes screams different from other sounds.CVery little scientific research has been done on human screams.DNormal human speech sounds vary between 30 to 150 Hz in loudness.4、What device may be improved with the researchers findings?ATraffic lights.BSecurity cameras.CSmart phones.DS
26、moke detectors.23（8 分）A dozen international coffee experts shuffle（把脚挪来挪去）around a long wooden table,pausing at each steaming cup,heads dipping and sniffing deeply.Then the slurping（吃喝或吸吮的声音）begins.In the wings,coffee farmer Yang Fan watches intently as the judges circle,awaiting a verdict（裁定）on her
27、 latest crop of beans.China may be the spiritual home of tea,but it is fast developing a reputation as a top coffee producer.This tasting was a side event to the first ever Puer International Specialty Coffee Expo in Chinas southwestern Yunnan province,which ran this winter and drew more than a thou
28、sand attendees,including industry aficionados(酷爱者)from across the globe.Coffee has huge potential in China,says Liu Ying,who swapped her life working in private-equity（私人股权）investment in Beijing to grow coffee in Puer five years ago.The younger generation prefers to drink coffee in their offices muc
29、h more than tea.Still,Puer remains synonymous with tea.This bustling（喧闹的）town near the Laos border is surrounded by the green hills scored with tea plantations;it produces a variety of tea which is also called Puer,considered one of Chinas most refined.But the regions mild climate is also perfect fo
30、r growing Arabica coffee.And as Chinas fast-living millennials move away from traditional tea in favor of the invigorating coffee,Puers farmers are catering to the demand.Yunnan accounts for 98%of Chinas coffee harvest,with half coming from the misty landscape around Puer.Today,China is the 13th big
31、gest coffee producer in the worldrising from zero output three decades ago to 136,000 tons annually today.In April,Seattles annual Specialty Coffee Expo decided to showcase China as its portrait country of origin.It follows on the heels of Starbucks launching its first single-origin Yunnan coffee la
32、st year after eight years of partnership with Yunnan farmers.With global coffee prices at record lows,Yunnan farmers are processing beans in bespoke ways to create distinct flavorsallowing them to enter the market of specialty coffee.At current coffee prices,I cant even feed my family,says the farme
33、r Yang.My only way out is to produce specialty coffee,to make the best coffee beans.That means letting beans dry in their cherries,thus producing a wild,fruity flavor via environmental fermentation（发酵）,or allowing them to honey in their sugary inner layer,which adds a subtle sweetness.Back in the ta
34、sting room,Yang awaits the experts verdict on whether all that extra effort was worthwhile.If I told you this was Colombian or Panama coffee,nobody would argue with me,says Samuel Gurel,CEO of Puers Torch Coffee Roasters,as Yang breaks into a huge grin.Its a great example of how Chinese coffee is ev
35、olving.1、What caused Liu Ying to quit her former job to grow coffee in Puer?AYunnan accounts for 98%of Chinas coffee harvest.BThere is a huge potential of coffee market in China.CShe wants to introduce the younger generation to coffee.DShe is tired of her work in private-equity investment.2、Accordin
36、g to the passage,we know that Arabica coffee _.Ais mainly grown in Yunnan Bappeals to Chinese,especially the young Cis a more invigorating drink compared with tea Dneeds mild climate to grow 3、The“extra effort”in the last paragraph refers to _.Aprocessing coffee beans in bespoke ways to create disti
37、nct flavors Bforming a business partnership with Starbucks Clowering the price of Yunnan coffee beans Dreplacing Yunnan coffee with Colombian or Panama coffee 4、What does Samuel Gurel think of Yangs coffee beans?Apraiseworthy Barguable Cinferior Dunsatisfactory 24（8 分）Think of the empty cities in zo
38、mbie(僵尸)movies.The streets,the shops and the schools still there just like they would be on a normal day,except there are no people to be seen.It is the emptiness that scares you.Now a real-life ghost city is being built in the US.But fortunately,it has nothing to do with zombies-it is going to be a
39、 place to test the technology of the future Called CITE-the Center for Innovation(创新),Testing and Evaluation(测评)-the city is the idea of technology company Pegasus Global Holdings.Covering an area of 15 square miles(39 square kilometers),it is the size of a small US city and sits in the middle of th
40、e New Mexico desert.But why do we need an empty city that nobody will call home?The reason is that we cant afford to test the latest technologies in the cities that we live in-they might not be ready and could cause problems and danger in our everyday lives.It will be a true laboratory without the p
41、roblems and safety issues that come with people living there.Here you can break things and run into things,and get used to how they work,before taking them out into the market,Pegasus managing director Robert Brumley told technology magazine Wired.In fact,without worrying about hurting people,anybod
42、y with a new idea can ask to test it in this city.Just think about the possibilities-driverless cars can move freely on the streets,homes with robots can be designed and energy sources like nuclear power can also be put to the test.As good as the idea may seem,however,there are still doubts about CI
43、TE.One of the most difficult things to do when developing these new technologies is to have them safely move around people,who can suddenly jump out in front of something,Reese Jones,a founder of Singularity University,US,told Fortune magazine.Jones is worried that,even if a technology works perfect
44、ly well in CITE,introducing it to a real city will still be a whole different story because there will be people living in the city.But no matter what,perhaps we should wait until CITE is finished in 2018.Maybe it will turn out to work just fine.1、The empty city is being built_.Aso people can experi
45、ence the technology of the future Bto try driverless cars and robots in Cto test new technology in Das a place full of the latest technology 2、Which of the following statements is TRUE about CITE?AIt is located beside the New Mexico desert.BIt was started by Singularity University.CThings in the cit
46、y can easily be broken down and built again.DAnyone can ask to try out their new designs there.3、According to Jones,_.ACITE offers great possibilities for future technology Bnew technologies will work perfectly well with the help of CITE Csettings in CITE should be real in order to create the best r
47、esults Dtesting results in CITE may not prove to work in a real city 4、What is the main purpose of this article?ATo explain why CITE could be very helpful.BTo show that CITE has a bright future.CTo explain CITE and problems it may have.DTo offer a good solution that will help to develop future techn
48、ologies.25（10 分）The repairman told me,“No charge,Professor Pan!”Were friends.“Id rather pay,I replied.“If its free,I cant afford it!”Chinese often refuse payment for professional services.insisting,“Were friends now!”But then they show up later to ask me to tutor them in English，or get them into an
49、American university,and I wish Id have just paid the 30 yuan I owed them in the first place!According to the Americans,“There is no free lunch.”,means that theres a price for everything.And Im always looking around to figure out what this means.Many of our neighbours have given us fruit or flowers o
50、r costly teas,never asking anything in return.For years,a bicycle repairman has repeatedly refused to let me pay him.“Wait until you have something major to fix!”he insists.I mentioned to a peasant friend that I wished I had a stone mill to grind(磨)flour for bread.A month later he showed up with a b