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1、1四川省泸县四中高 2023 届高三上期期末考试英语试题注意事项:1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，只需将答题卡交回。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。录音内容结束后，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，从题中所给的 A、
2、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。1Whats the regular price for the haircut?A20 yuan.B60 yuan.C130 yuan.2What is the probable relationship between the speakers?ABoss and secretary.BDoctor and patient.CSalesman and customer.3What is the woman doing?ADrinking juice.BEating bre
3、akfast.CWriting an essay.4What does the woman usually have?AThe steak.BThe lamb.CThe chicken.5What is the weather like now?AIts raining.BIts cloudy.CIts sunny.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
4、独白读两遍。听第 6 段对话，回答以下 6-7 小题。6Which sport are the speakers talking about?ATennis.BVolleyball.CBasketball.7What does the man think of the sport?AEasy.BBoring.CInteresting.听第 7 段对话，回答以下 8-9 小题。8What happened to the womans flight?AIt failed to take off on time.BIt was canceled without notice.CIt arrived
5、about two hours earlier.29Where does the conversation probably take place?AAt the cafe.BAt the airport.CIn a restaurant.听第 8 段对话，回答以下 10-12 小题。10What will the woman do tonight?AWatch TV.BMake a meal.CVisit her friend.11Where did Mary go last year?ASpain.BFrance.CPortugal.12What will the man do next?
6、AMake a plan.BCall his friends.CBuy some hot dogs.听第 9 段对话，回答以下 13-16 小题。13What is the relationship between the speakers?ADriver and passenger.BClub owner and customer.CInterviewer and interviewee.14What can the guests do on the bus?ADrive the bus.BHave cold drinks.CCook food.15What are guests expec
7、ted to do for parties?AGet dressed smartly.BBring their VIP cards.CBook clubs in advance.16What does the man suggest guests do before a fancy-dress party?AControl the number of people.BInform him of the booking time.CAvoid wearing jeans and sports shoes.听第 10 段对话，回答以下 17-20 小题。17Where does the speak
8、er come from?AAustralia.BEngland.CAmerica.18What do English people think ofAmericans?ASelf-centered.BHumorous.CCool.19What did the speaker like to do in the afternoon in England?AHave a cup of tea.BWatch comedy shows.CPlay with his friends.20What did the speaker find amazing in England?AThe TV progr
9、am.BThe tea shop.CThe old buildings.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)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。ATravel is the only thing that will really make you richer.While its very valid,therere many times whenwe are simply unable to travel for certain reasons.However,theres still a
10、great and affordable way toexperience new places:books.WildWild is Cheryl Strayeds beautifully written story of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for 1,100 miles all by3herself.Her journey of self-discovery and facing her painful past is fascinating and will keep you fascinatedfrom the first page up un
11、til the last.You will feel like youre hiking alongside Strayed the whole time.On the RoadJack Kerouacs classic novel in 1957 is a masterpiece from the Beat Generation,which tells the timelesstale of being young,confused,and just getting on the road to try to figure it all out.The book tells the pers
12、onaldevelopmental story of Sal,who is strongly based on Kerouac himself,leaving New York City and travelingaround the country.The book ensures madness,along with colorful characters and heartbreaking moments.The Caliphs HouseThis book is written by author Tahir Shah,whose experience of vacationing i
13、n Morocco ofAfrica duringhis childhood growing up led him to move with his family from London to Morocco,where he learned a lot.His writing is rich and fascinating and tells an incredible story of their time of living there.The Great Railway BazaarPaul Therouxs book narrates his four-month experienc
14、e in 1973 traveling by train from London toEurope,the Middle East,the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia,as well as his return trip on theTrans-Siberian Railway,enriching and improving himself.Theroux explored poverty and ignorancethroughout the book,which is often considered as a classic in the
15、 travel writing world.21Which book tells of the authors long journey on foot?AWild.BOn the Road.CThe Caliphs House.DThe Great Railway Bazaar.22What is the main content of The Caliphs House?AThe authors rich writing experience.BThe story of British children inAfrica.CThe vacation of anAfrican family
16、in London.DThe authors childhood experience in Morocco.23What are the four books mainly concerned with？AMadness and sadness.BTravel and self-growth.CPoverty and confusion.DChildhood and ignorance.BWe were a good 90 minutes into the hike and now were on the backside of Stump Pond at BlydenburghCounty
17、 Park in Smithtown.Typically,when hikers reach the backside of a lake or a mountain or whatever they experience a measure of relative peace.But this was lastAugust,in the midst of the pandemic ofCOVID-19,and on that backside in Blydenburgh we crossed paths with a group of hikers coming in the otherd
18、irection,and then a family of four hanging out just off the trail by the waters edge,and then a solo hiker,andthen a group of boys rushing around on bicycles.There was a lot of that going around in the year of the coronavirus.Over the past year,we sought out ourparks like never before.Long Islands s
19、tate parks had more than 32 million visitors in 2020,a 5 million-plusjump from 2019,with big increases posted in flagships like Jones Beach,Robert Moses and Sunken Meadowas well as lesser-known places like Napeague,Trailview and Hallock State Park Preserve.The samephenomenon seemed to occur at count
20、y,town and village parks,too.Nassau Countys Nickerson Beach sawattendance jump from 11,477 in 2019 to 23,586 in 2020 even though the parks were capped at 50%capacity.4However,all that park-love took a toll.There was more littering,more people leaving more pet droppingson trails,more hikers taking mo
21、re shortcuts off marked trails which leaves channels destroyed and just doesntlook good.There were many reports of people not following masking and distancing guidelines,and of parkpersonnel serving as ambassadors for respect and common sense.As good as they are,our parks on all levels need more mon
22、ey and personnel to maintain and upgradethem,and more help from us in terms of politeness to our fellow parkgoers.Anyway,were still in the outdoors,still seeking peace and recreation.And we might keep coming,evenas the malls and movie theaters have reopened their doors.24What can we infer from parag
23、raph 1?AHikers found a new form of recreation.BThe coronavirus might set off going around in the park.CStump Pond is famous all around the world.DIts easy to reach the backside of Stump Pond.25What does the underlined word“flagships”in paragraph 2 refer to?AThe noted parks.BThe best products.CPlaces
24、 of interest.DThe most important ship.26What bad influence did the park-love bring about?AThe parks were overcrowded.BThe limited capacity was broken.CThere were more pets and marked trails.DDamage has been done to the parks.27Whats the purpose of writing this passage?ATo show the impacts of the cor
25、onavirus on parks.BTo encourage people to go hiking in parks.CTo appeal to people to do their part to protect parks.DTo illustrate current situation of the pandemic.CScientists at MIT have managed to change ordinary spinach plants into natural sensors which can findchemicals used in bombs.The secret
26、 to giving spinach these special powers is nanotech,which is scientificarea that deals with making or changing things that are extremely tiny.“Ordinary spinach plants can be found everywhere and easy to store;like other plants,they normally takein carbon dioxide gas,”the scientists say.“But actually
27、 they can sense small changes of soil and waterpotential and respond to them.If we tap into this point,there is a wealth of information to access.Thats whatthe scientists use to power their tiny experiments.”For this experiment,the scientists placed two different kinds of tiny nano-materials into sp
28、inach plants.To get them into the plants,the scientists put a liquid containing them on the bottom of the plants leaves.Aspart of its natural process,the spinach plant pulls water through its roots and into its leaves.If the watercontains certain chemicals used in bombs,the tiny sensors in the leave
29、s make the nano-tubes,which,alongwith the sensors,were placed into the spinach plant before by the scientists,produce a slightly special kind oflight.By watching the plant constantly using a camera attached to a cheap computer,the scientists set up asystem that can send a warning email if chemicals
30、from explosives are found in the water.The computer the scientists used is about the size of a playing card.They say that in the future,their5system could even use a cell phone with its camera changed slightly.Discovering chemicals used in bombs isjust one of the many uses the researchers are explor
31、ing.They have used such plants to discover several otherdangerous chemicals as well.From their point of view,theres no doubt that in the future,such systems couldgive farmers specific information about the health of the land and water on their farms.28Why do the scientists use plants to do the exper
32、iment?AThey are common in the daily life.BThey are environmentally responsive.CThey absorb much carbondioxide gas.DThey are small in size and easy to store.29Whats the function of the carbon nano-tubes placed into spinach plants?ATo control the camera.BTo contain the liquid.CTo fix the tiny sensors.
33、DTo give off plant light.30What can we say about the application of the experiment?AIts diverse.BIts unexpected.CIts limited.DIts cheap.31Whats the suitable title for the text?ASpinach Is Sensitive to Chemicals in BombsBSpinach Is taught to Send Warning EmailsCNanotech Helps Spinach Grow HealthilyDN
34、anotech Protects Spinach from DangerDInternational demand for black rhinoceros horn has seen the animals killed relentlessly for decades incountries such as Namibia,Zimbabwe and SouthAfrica.In 1960 there were an estimated 100,000 left,and by1995 fewer than 2,500 remained.Conservation efforts have br
35、ought the number up to around 5,600 today-but the species is still critically endangered,and poaching(偷猎)is among its biggest threats.Scientists have worked to protect these rare creatures by tracking them with GPS devices strapped to theirnecks or ankles or implanted in their horns.The resulting da
36、ta let researchers monitor the rhinos numbers andwhen they enter poaching hotspots.But the devices can fail,and drugging the animals to attach them maycause harm.Arecent study describes a new tracking technology that uses smartphones to record rhino footprints.Called the footprint-identification tec
37、hnique(FIT),this system includes software that can analyze the animalsmovements from a distance to help keep them safe from poachers.The idea came from working with local trackers in Zimbabwe.These footprint-reading experts canidentify individual black rhinos from the shape of their feet and,when vi
38、sible,the impressions left by cracksin the animalsheel pads(爪垫),which are as distinctive as a human fingerprint.We probably wouldnt evenhave looked at the footprints in the first place if we didnt have indigenous trackers,says Sky Alibhai,co-founder of conservation organization WildTrack.To use the
39、system,scientists gather rhino footprint images with a smartphone application and upload thepictures to a global database.FIT software analysis can then identify the individual animal and determine itsage and sex with up to 99 percent accuracy.Researchers can also estimate the number of black rhinos
40、 in anarea and watch their movements.“I think this is great for monitoring animals and counting individuals,”says Ciska Scheijen,aconservation scientist.Scheijen wonders about FITs performance during the rainy season,when footprints are6often indistinct,and if it can track larger herds as opposed to
41、 the 35 odd individuals this study monitored.32What does the underlined word them in Paragraph 2 refer to?AHoms.BRhinos.CDevices.DSmartphones.33What do we know about FIT?AIt is a GPS device implanted in rhinos.BIt has been widely applied in animal protection.CIt can analyze footprints with a rather
42、high accuracy.DIt can identify the rhino footprints and human fingerprints.34What is Ciska Scheijens attitude towards FIT?APositive.BUncertain.CDisapproving.DObjective.35What is the text mainly about?ABlack rhinos are endangered due to poaching.BA new app tracks black rhinos through their footprints
43、.CScientists have invented a new tracking technology FIT.DConservation organizations save endangered black rhinos.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。From the moment we wake up each day,were faced with a continuous stream of choices.When there aretoo many options,we t
44、end to feel overwhelmed,anxious,stressed or otherwise out of sorts._36_.Itcan prevent us making additional decisions.When decision tiredness kicks in,you may feel like you just dont have the mental band-width to dealwith more decisions.This can lead to decisional paralysis or less self-control,causi
45、ng you to avoid makingcertain choices entirely and to make ones that arent in line with your goals or values,experts say._37_.Make some choices automatic._38_.When you go grocery shopping,use a master list that has thesame staples,and buy the same brands each time.If you like having soybean milk for
46、 breakfast,stick with iton a daily basis.And if youre trying to exercise regularly,practice it every day._39_.Be alert to signs of decision tiredness and act accordingly:If youve had a demanding daythat was filled with lots of decisions,put off making another one.If things that wouldnt normally trou
47、ble youstart bothering you,you may not be in the best state of mind to make a major decision._40_.But itssomething to watch out for.AMake decision seriouslyBSome easy ways to do thisCTune into how youre feelingDThis is called decision tirednessEWe all probably suffer from decision tirednessFHeres ho
48、w to improve or manage this phenomenonGPeople may not realize theyre experiencing decision tiredness7第三部分 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。Extremely tired from work,I finally made it back home at 1 a.m.,to find my husband drinking whisk
49、eywith a stranger in our lounge.What an unusual _41_!Out of _42_,I had to stay up and _43_ them.“Hello!”I said,waiting for some kind ofintroduction or _44_.They said nothing,just smiling at me.“So?Whats going on then?”I asked.My husband replied,“I _45_ a new friend at the pub.ItsAndreAgassi,the worl
50、d No.1 tennis player.”I was now _46_.It was late and this was no time for childish _47_.“Agassi”_48_ into his back pocket and _49_ in it for something.Then he pulled out aphoto.“Im notAndreAgassi,but you do _50_ me.The last time you saw me,I looked like this.”He_51_ a passport photo of my cousin,Ali