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1、1学科网（北京）股份有限公司2023202320242024 学年第一学期高三四校联考（一）学年第一学期高三四校联考（一）英语试卷英语试卷命题学校：中山市实验中学命题学校：中山市实验中学命题：欧阳凤枝命题：欧阳凤枝周文庭周文庭审题：张梅莉审题：张梅莉说明：本试题共 8 页，满分 120 分，考试用时 120 分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用 2B 铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。2选择题每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案
2、不能答在试卷上。第一部分第一部分选择题选择题（共二节，满分（共二节，满分 50 分）分）第一节第一节阅读理解阅读理解（共共 15 小题小题；每小题每小题 2.5 分，分，满分满分 37.5 分分）阅读下列短文，阅读下列短文，从每题所给的从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。四个选项中选出最佳选项。AOld Furniture Falling Apart?Let Southwark Carpenters help.Want a walk-in wardrobe(衣柜)?Fancy a fitted kitchen?Or just want to replace your oldf
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8、A.Laying new flooring.B.Custom-building a house.C.Repairing old furniture.D.Supplying good-quality woods.2.What do you need to do for a carpentry service?A.Email the staff your budget.B.Make a phone call during the day.C.Discuss with the staff online.D.Provide related data in advance.3.Who praised S
9、outhwark Carpenters for its low price?A.Trankle.B.Loren.C.Dancy.D.Herbert.BIn early 2021,I hit a rut in my studies.As a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago inIllinois,I worked to design safer,more effective materials for vaccine delivery.Although I hadbeen productive early in my graduate
10、 career,my long hours and hard work were no longertranslating into success in the laboratory,and I felt hopeless about achieving my goals.Somethinghad to change.As I began to search for the cause of my struggles,I became increasingly aware that my“quiettime”at the lab bench for instance,when I was r
11、unning columns or experiments wasanything but.Instead of thinking about science,I was watching television or interacting with socialmedia on my smartphone.Although I could cover up this inefficiency with longer hours,my workfelt chaotic(混乱的)and disorganized.I would come home from a long day in the l
12、ab and respondto e-mails or messages over dinner or in bed.This all came to a head last summer,when myinability to balance work and life led me to seek help from the universitys student mental-healthservices.Through a combination of consultation and personal reflection,I came to understand myproblem
13、.To regain my focus,I chose to reduce my connectivity by using a basic mobile phonewithout an Internet connection during work hours,and removing unnecessary apps from mysmartphone when I did use it.Underscoring the addictive nature of smartphones,I experienced symptoms of withdrawalwhen I first did
14、this.With time,however,I began to make practical use of my quiet time.I startedreading papers during long experiments,and developed a habit of writing in my down time.Perhaps most importantly,I have felt my anxiety decrease and my productivity and creativityimprove dramatically,trading my chaotic wo
15、rk-life relationship for one with clearer boundaries andplenty of new scientific ideas.Now,even when I do carry my smartphone,I feel less forced tocheck for e-mails or messages,and can concentrate more closely on whatever task is at hand.4.What does the underlined part“hit a rut”in paragraph 1 mean?
16、A.Stopped progressing smoothly.B.Had very slow reactions.C.Accepted hard works value.D.Overcame a big problem.5.What made the author struggle?A.Running columns or experiments.B.His inability to get mental-health services.C.Replying to e-mails or messages.D.His addiction to the phone.3学科网（北京）股份有限公司6.
17、What did the author choose to do during his quiet time later?A.Reflect on his successes and failures.B.Learn practical writing.C.Watch television news.D.Do some reading.7.How does the author feel now?A.More courageous.B.More sociable.C.More focused.D.More understanding.CWhen the company OpenAI devel
18、oped its new artificial intelligence(AI)program,ChatGPT,in late 2022,educators began to worry.ChatGPT could create text that seemed like a human wroteit.How could teachers discover whether students were using language created by an AI chatbot tocheat on a writing task?As a linguist who studies the e
19、ffects of technology on how people read,write and think,Ibelieve there are other more pressing concerns besides cheating.These include whether AI,moregenerally,threatens student writing skills,the value of writing as a process,and the importance ofregarding writing as a tool for thinking.As part of
20、my research on the effects of AI on human writing,I surveyed young adults in theU.S.about some issues related to those effects.One participant said that at some point if youdepend on predictive text,youre going to lose your spelling abilities.Enter“Was Rom”into aGoogle search and youre given a list
21、of choices like“Was Rome built in a day”.Type“ple”into atext message and youre offered“please”and“plenty”.These tools complete our sentencesautomatically,giving us little chance to think about our spelling,and continuously asking us tofollow their suggestions.Evan Selinger,a philosopher,worried that
22、 predictive texting reduces the power of writing as aform of mental activity and personal expression.“By encouraging us not to think too deeply aboutour words,predictive technology may change how we deal with each other,”Selinger wrote.“Wegive others more algorithms(算法)and less of ourselves.Automati
23、on can stop us thinking and theresulting text didnt feel like mine anymore.”I asked ChatGPT whether it was a threat to humans motivation to write.The bot responded:“There will always be a demand for creative,original content that requires the unique viewpoint ofa human writer.”It continued:“Writing
24、serves many purposes beyond just the creation of content,such as self-expression,communication,and personal growth,which can continue to encouragepeople to write even if certain types of writing can be automated.”I was glad to find the program had seemingly admitted its limitations.8.What is the aut
25、hors main concern about ChatGPT?A.Whether it will lead to studentscheating.B.Whether it will shape studentswriting style.C.How students will make use of it at school.D.What effects it will have on studentswriting.4学科网（北京）股份有限公司9.What will predictive technology do to us according to Evan Selinger?A.G
26、ive us more creative ideas.B.Make us write like a machine.C.Encourage us to think more deeply.D.Make us tend to ignore grammatical mistakes.10.What can we learn from ChatGPTs response?A.Writing will become completely automated.B.Robots will work with humans in writing.C.Robot writing will become mor
27、e creative.D.Human writing will still matter a lot.11.What can be the best title for the text?A.What impact will AI bring to writing?B.What is the future of modern literature?C.How to improve writing with AIs help?D.How to apply AI technology to education?DTwo-thirds of the world population lives un
28、der conditions where the freshwater demand ismore than twice the natural water availability for at least one month per year.According to officialstatistics,one billion of those live in India and 0.9 billion live in China.Other areas facing thisproblem for longer periods include Bangladesh(130 millio
29、n people),the western and southernstates of the USA(130 million),Pakistan(120 million),Nigeria(110 million),and Mexico(90million).Communities use a range of techniques to overcome this issue.In dry summers,those near thecoast can desalinate(淡化)seawater,although the process requires a large amount of
30、 energy andexpenditure.Some remote inland communities have alternative methods that suit their particularconditions.For example,many high-altitude Chilean communities in the Andes use fog collectors,specialized nets that can gather just a few liters a day.Elsewhere,theres another option available.Re
31、searchers at ETH Zurich have developed a newdevice that passively harvests water from the air around the clock.The device is made up of aspecially coated glass pane(玻璃板)that reflects solar radiation and also radiates away its ownheat.In doing so,it cools down by as much as 15 degrees Celsius below t
32、he surroundingtemperatures.This difference in temperature between the air and the pane causes water vapor tocondense(凝结)on its underside,which can then be easily collected.Tests so far have been conducted on a university building in Zurich and suggest that the devicecan produce twice as much water p
33、er day as other passive water-collection technologies.Underideal conditions,researchers harvested 0.53 decilitres of water per square metre of the surface perhour.“Thats close to the theoretical maximum value of 0.6 decilitres per hour,which is physicallyimpossible to exceed,”says Iwan Hachler,a doc
34、toral student who is working on the technology.The zero-energy input of the set-up could make it suitable for use in developing countries,particularly in remote communities where water shortage is often combined with power shortages.The scientists are hopeful that the device could be used with other
35、 water-collection methods,suchas desalination,to increase productivity.12.What does the author want to tell us by mentioning official statistics in Paragraph 1?A.Fresh water insecurity is a global crisis.B.Water resources are unevenly distributed globally.5学科网（北京）股份有限公司C.Lack of water seriously rest
36、ricts many countriesgrowth.D.Developed countries are better at handling water shortages.13.How do many Chileans living in theAndes deal with the inadequate water supply?A.By harvesting water from fog.B.By bringing in seawater and purifying it.C.By moving to water-rich areas in summer.D.By cutting do
37、wn on their water consumption.14.Why is a coated glass pane used in the new device?A.To hold the condensed water.B.To work as a cooling surface.C.To get rid of harmful solar radiation.D.To record the changes in temperature.15.What can be inferred about the new device?A.It produces satisfying outcome
38、s.B.It is limited to laboratory environments.C.It has met with theoretical bottlenecks.D.It needs further confirmation from experts.第二节第二节（共共 5 小题小题；每小题每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分分）阅读下面短文阅读下面短文，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。选项中有两项为多选项中有两项为多余选项。余选项。“Beauty is only skin deep”it is said.This
39、 means that a persons appearance is not as importantas their character.Yet it is strange why people and especially women are willing to spend a fortuneon making themselves more attractive physically.16The reason can only be one,and itis that beauty has its advantages.Attractive people are more popul
40、ar generally.Beauty draws a positive response from thepeople around.This is obvious with children.For example,based on observation,there is atendency for adults to treat good-looking children better.This favorable treatment continues intoadulthood,as attractive people are more likely to be chosen fo
41、r leadership positions and given moreopportunities.17Another important benefit that good-looking people enjoy is that they find a husband or wifemore easily.18This initial attraction may then develop into romantic feelings and aserious relationship if the couple find that they are compatible(和睦相处的)w
42、ith each other.On the other hand,beauty has a number of disadvantages as well.Firstly,a good-lookingperson tends to attract unwanted attention from all kinds of people.The admirer may have badintentions and cause problems for the target.19It is thought that beauty and brains donot go together.Thus,a
43、ttractive people may not gain respect even when they deserve it because ofthis prejudice against them.While every individual should take care of their outward appearance and look their best,theyshould not neglect(忽视)their inner beauty or character.20Also,they should not forgetphysical beauty is inde
44、ed,only skin deep and will not last.A.Life is not always easy for beautiful people.B.The skincare industry is a multi-billion dollar business.6学科网（北京）股份有限公司C.It turns out being conventionally beautiful has its benefits.D.It is a fact that people are first attracted to outward appearance.E.They shoul
45、d not place such importance on beauty that they become proud.F.Being well-treated gives attractive people more confidence and they perform better.G.Another problem faced by good-looking people is that they may not be taken seriously.第二部分第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分语言运用（共两节，满分 3030 分）分）第一节第一节完形填空（完形填空（共共 15 小题小题；
46、每小题每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的阅读下面短文，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。四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。When our neighbors 94-year-old father passed away,his mother moved in with them.She21a home full of canned goods.Later,the womens group in our community22thatanyone in need of home canning supplies cou
47、ld come to the23and take what wasavailable.The contents were too old to eat,but the jars could be24.I was a new canner with not much25but a desire to do more,so our family set outto26supplies.When we27,we found three decades of frugality(节俭)andpreparedness.In the basement of the home was a storehous
48、e of28and canned home-grownfoods.Different-sized jars were filled with decades of autumns harvests.29from thoseshelves were jams,vegetables,fruit,beans,juice,and smoked fish.30,for our family to make use of the jars,the fruits of harvests past had to be31.I carried the jars to the backyard,my wife32
49、them and emptied their contents,my olderson cleaned them out and my daughter kept the baby33.That evening I34sanitizing(消毒)the glass jars.On that day,we filled our vehicle with jars,but more35,we filled our family withlessons of life.I am grateful for the good examples of our neighbors.21.A.came acr
50、ossB.heard aboutC.left behindD.held back22.A.announcedB.admittedC.predictedD.pretended23.A.shelterB.houseC.restaurantD.park24.A.essentialB.powerfulC.familiarD.useful25.A.effortB.energyC.equipmentD.pressure26.A.buyB.deliverC.witnessD.collect27.A.gatheredB.slidC.arrivedD.escaped28.A.stolenB.preservedC