2022-2023学年河南省周口市重点中学高三上学期12月月考英语试题（Word版含答案）

2022-2023学年高三上学期12月月考

英语试题

考试时间：120分钟；满分：120分

注意事项：

1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息

2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上

第I卷（选择题）

第一部分阅读(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 D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

BEST BODY FITNESS

About us

You don’t want just gym membership. You want membership that means something. And that means you need support, expert help and a community.

Best Body Fitness isn’t just a gym: it’s full-service fitness membership made for you.

Here’s how it works:

STEP ONE: Your assessment

We begin with an assessment session. This is a chance for you to see what we do at Best Body. Our assessment plans are no-cost and no-risk. We’ll also make a training plan specifically for you.

STEP TWO: Your training

When you decide to become a Best Body member, we show you what to do, how to do it and why you are doing it. After a few sessions with an expert private trainer you will feel comfortable working out on your own. But don’t worry, we’ll always be nearby if you have questions.

STEP THREE: Your membership

Membership works on a month-to-month basis. There are no sign-up fees and no cancellation fees. Start and stop whenever you want. And the best part? Our fees are the most competitive in the whole downtown area.

STEP FOUR: Your community

At Best Body Fitness, we see everyone as part of a big team. And when you work with a team, you can do great things. Join any of our specialized classes, led by expert instructors. Come to our nutrition classes. Participate in our regular social events. Everything is included in your fee.

Finally, share some reasons why our members have chosen us over any other fitness centre in the city.

It’s so EASY

Easy to start, stop, cancel or refund membership

Easy to access — we’re open 24/7, we never close

Easy to do exercise — we have lots of equipment, no long wait

Easy to find — in the centre of town, near public transport and with parking

1．Which statement about Best Body Fitness is correct?

A．It provides you with a fitness assessment after training.

B．It offers you a customized training plan.

C．It allows you to work out without any fees.

D．It asks you to work out on your own.

2．What is the best part of Best Body Fitness?

A．Its price is quite good. B．Its time is enough.

C．Its classes are no-risk. D．Its trainers are experienced.

3．What type of writing does this text probably belong to?

A．News report. B．Speech.

C．Announcement. D．Advertisement.

B

For months now, our routines have been interrupted and we’ve been forced to adapt. Reportedly, one major consequence is a state of mental tiredness. It feels as if we’re all in a state of constant distraction.

“It felt like I had a mental block preventing me from focusing on the page,” says Sophie Vershbow, who recognized the mood early in the pandemic (流行病) when her tweet about “not being able to concentrate enough to read a book” was liked more than 2,000 times.

For many people, especially working parents, the sudden switch to home working has meant a conflict between work and life. It’s tricky to focus on a document as your kids wrestle for the TV remote control. But even when work is finished for the day and the kids are in bed, it’s hard to find any focus to escape into a novel or box-set.

A psychological theory called Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) might help explain why living in the age of COVID-19 may have turned our minds to soup. Put simply, CLT characterizes our minds as information processing systems. When we’re working on a problem, especially an unfamiliar one, we depend on our “working memory”, which is very limited both in its capacity and the length of time it holds information. The less familiar you are with a task, the more you depend on your working memory to help deal with the relevant information; in contrast, when you’re an expert, most of what you need to know is stored in long-term memory and you can complete the task automatically.

So COVID-19 has robbed you of the ability to do things on auto. Take a work meeting for example, before, you would just have turned up and joined in the discussion, but now if you’re working remotely you have to fire up your video-conferencing software, worry about your Wi-Fi and so on. The same applies to domestic challenges too, like ordering your groceries online instead of shopping in person. These adaptations force you out of auto-pilot and draw on your limited working memory capacity.

4．What is the result of COVID-19 mentioned in the text?

A．Being worn out mentally. B．Drawing online attention.

C．Lack of interest in reading D．Sticking to the old routines.

5．What can we know about the parents in Paragraph 3?

A．They wrestle with children for the TV remote control.

B．They can strike a balance between work and life.

C．They enjoy no form of entertainment.

D．They find it hard to concentrate.

6．What turns our minds to soup while living in the COVID-19 age?

A．Being interrupted by our kids.

B．The decline of our memory capacity.

C．Being occupied with new daily routines.

D．The independence of our working memory.

7．Which is the best title for the text?

A．New situation, new solution B．CLT accounts for new challenges

C．New life in the age of COVID-19 D．Adjust yourself to working online

C

Since the age of 5, Laura Lee has had what most would consider an odd habit-she collects toilet rolls. At that time, she didn’t know this habit would eventually become a nationwide recycling campaign.

In December 2018, as a 16-year-old student of Nanyang Girls’ High School in Singapore, Lee founded ToiletRollSG, a national project that aims to collect 1,000 kilograms of cardboard cylinders — or about 150,000 pieces. As of February of 2021, Lee, who was studying at Hwa Chong Institution, had collected 860 kg of toilet rolls, reported Singapore Today. Slightly later, she was awarded Singapore’s National Environment Agency’s Ecofriend Awards, which recognizes individuals for their contributions to the environment, under the Youth and Students category.

But why did she choose toilet rolls? “They are convenient to collect and also one of the purest forms of waste to recycle because they are made of only one material,” Lee told Singapore Today. “Project must be economically practical too. For example, it’s more difficult to recycle pens because they are made up of too many different materials like rubber casings, metals and plastics which require more resources to separate.”

Lee went into a partnership with the waste management firm Veolia, which gives her five cents for every 1 kg of toilet rolls collected.

She organized “toilet roll challenges” within Nanyang Girls’ High School and worked with cleaners to collect used toilet rolls from school toilets. She also conducted talks about ToiletRollSG. But due to COVID-19, she has been unable to conduct physical talks, so she raises awareness about different social causes through her Instagram Live series called On A Roll.

One of the biggest challenges Lee has faced has been others doubting her due to her young age. “I always have to use my actions as well as the different things I’ve done to prove that I’m passionate and know about this,” she told The Straits Times.

Lee will donate the money collected to a social cause that is focused on community health.

8．Why did Lee found ToiletRollSG?

A．To develop some good habits. B．To be honored by Ecofriend Awards.

C．To recycle toilet cardboard cylinders. D．To make contributions to her high school.

9．Lee’s mention of pens in Paragraph 3 is to ________.

A．show toilet rolls are more important B．prove it difficult to recycle pens

C．illustrate the process of recycling pens D．explain Lee’s opinion on recycling

10．What is the biggest challenge Laura is faced with?

A．The failure to conduct talks. B．The ineffective cooperation.

C．The small amount of money. D．The mistrust of others.

11．Which of the following words can best describe Lee?

A．Humorous. B．Responsible. C．Emotional. D．Curious.

D

Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for court. His mission is to save the world’s oceans from plastic pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was upset to see how much it had changed. The sand was no longer visible because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it was plastic waste. The unsightly(难看的)mess Shah had stumbled upon is part of a global environmental crisis. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean.

In October 2015, Shah began picking up trash from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began recruiting others to join in. Word spread and with the help from social media, more volunteers got involved. He’s now spent 209 weekends dedicated to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000 volunteers to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach clean-up. By October 2018, Versova Beach was finally clean and Shah’s clean-up expanded to another beach, as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India. So far, the movement has cleared more than 60 million pounds of garbage — mostly plastic waste — from Mumbai’s beaches and waterways.

While he continues to work as a lawyer during the week, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this cause. He also works with coastal communities to tackle plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking sufficient waste management systems, Shah and his volunteers educate and assist villagers in reducing, managing, and recycling their plastic waste.

12．What has kept Shah busy at weekends over the four years?

A．Handling legal cases. B．Cleaning up the beach.

C．Swimming in the ocean. D．Fishing on the coast.

13．Why was Shah upset after moving to Versova Beach?

A．The beach no longer existed.

B．The community was in a mess.

C．Many fish in the ocean were killed.

D．There was severe plastic pollution.

14．How did Shah carry out his mission?

A．By raising money to recycle plastic waste.

B．By encouraging others to join his clean-up.

C．By appealing to people not to throw garbage.

D．By devoting all his time to collecting garbage.

15．Which of the following best explains the underlined word “tackle” in the last paragraph?

A．Report. B．Predict. C．Deal with. D．Cover up.

第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

根据下面短文，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。

 I have a client, Irene Sardanis, who published her first book, Out of the Bronx this past spring, at the age of eighty-five. ___16__

    Has it been challenging? Yes. Has it been hard and scary at times? Yes. Did she have moments when she didn’t think she could do it? Absolutely! _17____ She has grown on multiple levels. The experience has enriched her and has provided wonderful opportunities she hadn’t previously imagined.

    It’s not surprising that many women make some of their most meaningful contributions later in life. __18___ Thus, little time was left for reflection as well as space and peace that writing requires.

    The trick when beginning any new project is to take it one step at a time. ___19__ This means opening up to not knowing. It probably means asking for help. It will require you to show up in whatever ways that make sense in any given moment. This will likely feel scary, but that’s a good sign, putting yourself out there and growing!

    It’s not about what we cannot do; it’s about what we can do. And more often than not we’re capable of much more than we think because we are unlimited beings. ___20__ You’ll be amazed at how you’ll be guided—and holding your finished book in your hand will bring you unimaginable satisfaction, gratitude, and joy!

A. Allow yourself to be a beginner.

B. Worlds expand and careers may take off at any age.

C. She’s having the time of her life celebrating and promoting it.

D. Encourage yourself as you reach beyond your comfort zone.

E. But writing and publishing this book has been a highlight of her life.

​F. They used to take care of families while working.

G. It was an experience that gave you a chance to think about your life.

第三部分语言运用(共两节,满分45 分)

第一节  完形填空 (共15小题;每小题1.5分，满满分30分)

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。

Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of their country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. As a student and ____21___ she is asking local snack lovers a ____22____ : Rather than throw empty chip bags ____23____ into the trash, ____24____ them! Then she can tum them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip ____25____ drop off their empty bags at two ____26____ : a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize (清洁) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, ____27____ them flat, and iron them together. They ____28____ fillings to line the insides.

It takes about four hours to ___29____ a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family _____30_____. The _____31_____ is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told the News.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has _____32_____ more than 800, 000 chip bags and, _____33_____ last December, created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be _____34_____ to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But the project is only half the _____35_____ for Oleita whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life — and her fellow volunteers. “We are dedicated to making an impact not only _____36_____ but environmentally,” she says.

And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would _____37_____ land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful _____38_____ that environmental _____39_____ and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita told localnews. com,“I think it’s time to show _____40_____ between all of these issues.”

21．A．instructor B．helper C．environmentalist D．tailor

22．A．criterion B．qualification C．question D．favor

23．A．lightly B．deliberately C．occasionally D．indirectly

24．A．sell B．empty C．clean D．donate

25．A．producers B．eaters C．sponsors D．buyers

26．A．dustbins B．locations C．bags D．streets

27．A．lead B．lie C．lay D．print

28．A．check B．need C．reach D．use

29．A．sew B．design C．offer D．discover

30．A．member B．size C．mission D．debt

31．A．result B．relief C．method D．produce

32．A．made B．decorated C．accumulated D．charged

33．A．in terms of B．regardless of C．instead of D．as of

34．A．busier B．simpler C．heavier D．smaller

35．A．goal B．stage C．procedure D．chance

36．A．objectively B．politically C．socially D．secretly

37．A．moreover B．otherwise C．instead D．besides

38．A．report B．blame C．reminder D．solution

39．A．problems B．groups C．regulations D．protection

40．A．divisions B．similarities C．messages D．connections

第Ⅱ 卷(非选择题 共40分)

第二节(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个这适当的单词或括号内单词的正确式。

Scientists are racing to study the volcano in Tonga that___41____ (erupt) just before sundown on January 15,2022.

“Everything so far about this eruption is really strange,” said Janine Krippner,___42___ scientist working on Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program. “The sound of the explosion, the tsunami(海啸) waves that followed eruption and the huge energy of this explosion,___43____equaled to five to six million tons of TNT, were unlike any seen in recent ___44__(year).”

The tsunami waves that followed the eruption____45__ (be)even stranger.Tsunami waves usually start from the center of the eruption. Yet this time,waves appeared in other places far earlier than would be expected of a classic tsunami.  __46____addition,as tsunami waves travel further,they usually become___47__(weak).While the waves that hit the islands in Tonga were damaging,they weren’t high enough to account for the surprisingly larger waves across the ocean.

Monitoring underwater volcanoes is a complex task. GPS-which is frequently used ___48____(track) changes in the surface-doesn’t work on the seafloor.The situation in Tonga shows how well the Tonga Geological Services(TGS)has been applied to___49___(deal)with the latest eruption.“They don’t have a huge amount of money.They don’t have a number of staff, either.”Janine Krippner added.“But ___50___(actual) they have done a really nice job to reduce the possible

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分共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。

Not only can interest drive us learn happily but also make our learning efficient. Take me for example. I used to be weak in English. One day in Senior Grade 1, I happened to seeing an English movie named Speed. It was such interesting that I watched it again and again. Surprisingly, I didn’t felt English boring and difficult any more. From then on, I began to watch English movies but read English novels every week. Naturally, I made a rapid progress in my English. Gradual, my English became the better in my class. Now, when it comes to English, I always feel confident about me. In a word, whoever is interesting in something is sure to do it well.

第二节    书面表达（满分25分）

假设你是红星中学高三学生李华，你班交换生Jim 要参加面向外国友人的“点赞中国”活动，向你寻求帮助，希望通过亲身体验，更好地认识中国。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：

1推荐他做的一件事；

2说明推荐的理由；

3表达愿望。

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参考答案

阅读理解

1．B    2．B    3．D

4.A    5．D    6．C    7．B

8．C    9．D    10．D    11．B

12．B    13．D    14．B    15．C

16．C   17.E   18.F   19.A   20.D

完形填空

21．C    22．D    23．A    24．D    25．B    26．B    27．C    28．D    29．A    30．B    31．A    32．C    33．D    34．B    35．A    36．C    37．B    38．C    39．A    40．D

语法填空

41.erupted   42.a   43.which  44.years     45.were  46.In  47.weaker  48.to track  49.dealing   50.actually

短文改错

1. 在us后加to  2. seeing→see  3. such→so  4. felt→feel  5.but→and   6. 删除a  7. Gradual→Gradually  8. better→best   9. me→myself   10. interesting→interested

书面表达

Dear Jim,

I’m glad to learn that you are going to participate in the activity “Thumbs-up for China”. Let me give you some advice.

I suggest you take the “Fuxing” bullet train, which travels at a speed of about 350 kilometers per hour. I’m sure you’ll get a clear idea of what high technology brings to China. Besides, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way. This experience will help you develop a deeper understanding of China and I do hope you can share your impression with the people around you.

Hope my advice can be of some help. If there is anything else I could do, please let me know.

Yours,

Li Hua