2023届山东省济宁市兖州区高三上学期期末考试英语试卷

2022-2023学年度第一学期高三质量检测

英语试题

2022.12

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第一部分  阅读(共两节,满分 50分)

第一节  (共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5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

1. What's the similarity between Turtle Race and Decorate with Ellie?

A. They ask for a donation.

B. They require registration.

C. They take place at weekends.

D. They provide photos afterwards.

2. How much can be saved with a package ticket?

A. $5.   B. $ 15.   C. $ 20.   D. $ 30.

3. What's the purpose of the brochure?

A. To motivate visitors to volunteer.

B. To encourage people to adopt a pet.

C. To attract people to the reopened attraction.

D. To display the attraction' s Guinness World Record.

B

In the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 , educators across Qatar Foundation (QF) have found creative ways to take advantage of the global sporting event in the classroom to teach both physical and social skills, and to bring their lesson plans to life.

“Apart from encouraging them to take part in the physical aspect of the game,it's a perfect opportunity to teach social skills, such as team spirit, fair play, respect for rules, cooperation，discipline and tolerance, etc. These are all essential skills for future participation in group activities and professional life," explained Sara Hal Hajri, assistant director of QF.

The topics include learning about the event, the sport of foot ball, stadiums and how they link to Qatari culture and heritage, and the positive impact the FIFA World Cup Qatar  2022 will have on the local community, etc. Classes will also be designing and creating a sustainable football in honor of the landmark year.

At the heart of the activities are friendly football matches organized to simulate the match experience where students will engage as either football players or audience. They will create cheers for their favourite team ,use a match ticket, and purchase refreshments to mirror the experience at a match,

Football in Qatar Academy Sidra (QAS), a QF school, has been included in the curriculum across the age groups to teach subjects like geography, art writing , math and others in creative ways. For example, grade 4 students are using maps to determine the distances between stadiums while grades 11 and 12 engage in redesigning the FIFA World Cup using recycled materials.

Fatima Saad Mohannadi,a grade 10 student from QAS said, "Everyone is pumped up about the World Cup- -it's a once- in-a-lifetime opportunity and there are so many activities being linked to it. And when we also have it included in our day to-day learning,it just makes school that much more fun and something that, like the World Cup, we all look forward to.

4. What does Sara want to stress concerning integrating football into class?

A. Its diversity.

B. Its significance.

C. Its prospect.

D. Its efficiency. .

5. What does the underlined word“simulate”in paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Model.   B. Sponsor.   C. Observe.   D. Recall.

6. What's Fatima's attitude to football-related activities?

A. Excited.   B. Resistant.   C. Doubtful.    D. Tolerant.

7. What's the best title of the text?

A. The Cultures Behind the Football Event

B. The Positive Impacts of Playing Football

C. Qatar Plays Host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup

D. QF Schools Use Football As a Novel Teaching Tool

C

On November 15，the count of humans on this planet reached 8 billion. Population growth has been steady over the past few decades. But that pattern is gradually changing ,as is shown in the following chart.

That slowdown is partly the result of a shift toward fewer offspring. High- income nations currently have the lowest birth rates, and the opposite is true: nations with the highest birth rates tend to have the lowest incomes. The gap has continued to widen between wealthy nations and poorer ones. But longer term，it is moving toward convergence (趋同).

Many factors contribute to the changes of the world's population, such as migration,death rate, longevity and others. Focusing on fertility (生育率)，however, helpfully clarifies why the total number of humans on Earth seems set to fall. Fertility refers to the average total number of live births per female individual in a region or country. The U. S. 's current fertility rate, for example, is about 1. 7; China'sis 1.2. A fertility of 2.1 is considered the replacement rate- that is, the required number of offspring, on average,for a population to hold steady. Today birth rates in the wealthiest countries have dropped below the replacement rate, the rest likely following suit over the coming decades.

Humanity's future clearly depends on many things besides fertility. For example, people in wealthier nations may produce fewer children， but those offspring tend to consume more resources- so rich countries can still have outsize planetary impacts despite their decreasing populations. Organizations such as the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs are working toward policy-based solutions for how all of us  can have healthy, satisfying and sustainable lives on Earth. A clear-eyed understanding of population changes is critical for reaching that bright future.

8. Which time period may witness the slowest global population growth?

A.1960~ 1974.   B.2037~ 2058.   C.1987~1998.     D.2022~ 2037.

9. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. The definition of fertility rate.

B. The cause of the low fertility rate.

C. The fertility rates in different countries.

D. The impact of fertility on world population.

10. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. The richer the nations are, the higher the fertility will be.

B. The smaller the population is, the more resources are used.

C. Achieving human' s sustainable future is a challenging task.

D. Understanding population shifts can tackle the fertility issue.

11. What is the text?

A. A blog entry.            B. A book review.

C. A theme speech.         D. A research report.

D

An asteroid (小行星) is moving very fast toward Earth, threatening every human being on the planet. Humanity has one shot to save itself with brave, selfless heroes piloting a spacecraft into the universe to destroy the asteroid.

But that' s the movies.On Monday evening， NASA showed what the reality was like. There was an asteroid, but it wasn't threatening the Earth. And there was a spacecraft，relying on advanced technology from the Earth. The human heroes of the mission were actually at a physics and engineering lab between Baltimore and Washington,D. C. And there was a collision (碰撞). In this case it was the final act of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a spacecraft that was launched in November, 2021 and then raced around the sun for 10 months as it pursued its target a small space rock,Dimorphos，seven million miles from Earth.

“For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to change the orbit of an asteroid," said Ralph Semmel, director of the lab. In its last moments, the spacecraft sent back a series of photographs. DART had spotted Dimorphos only an hour earlier, as a dot of light. Then, Dimorphos grew bigger and bigger, until its surface filled the screen. The engineers were on their feet, cheering. “ Normally, losing signal from the spacecraft is very bad,”Semmel said.“But this time, it was the ideal outcome.”

With movies like “Deep Impact"，Hollywood has long been enthusiastic about the prospect of disaster raining down from the universe.“In reality, big asteroids that would cause planet wide destruction occur very rarely, once every 10 million years or so. Hence,planners at NASA and elsewhere devote their attention to smaller ones in space， which would not set off mass extinctions, but can release more energy than a nuclear bomb. If any of those asteroids turns out to be on a collision course with Earth, the DART mission shows that changing its orbit is a realistic possibility.

12. What's paragraph 1 describing?

A. A movie plot.                 B. A natural disaster.

C. A witness account.             D. A virtual experiment.

13. What's the mission of DART?

A. Racing around the sun.

B. Tracking asteroids in space.

C. Changing the orbit of Dimorphos.

D. Establishing a permanent space lab.

14. Why were the engineers cheering?

A. They obtained clear desired photos.

B. They made a safe landing from space.

C. DART crashed Dimorphos into pieces.

D. DART completed its mission successfully.

15. What's the significance of the DART mission?

A. Preventing the earth from being destroyed.

B. Providing a solution to an asteroid impact.

C. Fueling people' s interest in Hollywood movies.

D. Increasing chances of humans going into space.

第二节  (共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)

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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Hunger and malnutrition still exist in the world. Luckily, there are exciting, creative solutions to solving the extra food coming from restaurants, grocery stores, and farmers.   16  

On June 7, 2022，Spain adopted a draft bill on leftovers. Food businesses will have to submit their plans to  reduce food waste.  17   Restaurants will soon be required to provide containers for customers to take home their leftovers. Although this may seem like normal practice, in Spain, this is not the custom. With this upcoming law, diners can request their leftovers to be wrapped in recycled packaging for no extra cost.  18   Supermarkets will also be asked to donate their unsold food to food banks and neighborhood organizations.

It can help reduce greenhouse gasses， ensure there is more food for the hungry, and save money in an economic depression. It may also heal nature as there'll be less demand to destroy forest to grow crops and raise livestock. This, in turn, could reduce the usage of water and decrease pollution in the agricultural sector.

Along with France and Italy, Spain is paving the way for other countries to address this global issue. Spain hopes to enforce these new laws by 2023 and is also developing an awareness program to educate the consumer. Much food waste also comes from within the household.  20   Hence，teaching children about food waste is a big step towards making the world a better, less hungry place.

A. As the proverb goes,“Charity begins at home.”

B. If restaurants fail to do this, they could be fined.

C. Joint efforts are needed to deal with this global issue.

D. As a famous saying goes,“One good turn deserves another.”

E. Reducing food waste is of great significance in a hungry world.

F. Instead of being thrown out, unused food will soon be repurposed.

G. This new bill will impress upon the public a new attitude towards food waste.

第二部分  语言运用(共两节,满分 30分)

第一节  (共15 小题;每小题1分,满分15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。

Just before New Year's Day,I was in a cheese store , purchasing some cheese. I   21   a young man asking the salesgirl about“meringue (蛋白酥皮) sugar”. His mother had given him strict  22  

to buy no other kind, but he didn't know what the stuff was.

The salesgirl  23   to be without a clue, too. Actually, none of this was any  24   of mine. I could have- should have-  25    purchased my cheese. But instead I  26   myself saying: “ What your mother probably wants is something like... But really,ordinary white sugar  27   just fine for meringues as long as you beat it in very slowly...”With these words escaping my lips, I was  28   with shock. How come I   29   all this unasked-for advice to a complete stranger so automatically?

My own mother was of the non-disturbance school unless it was a(n)  30   of life . and death. Though she could always produce   31   advice when asked for it, she would let us learn by experience. Honestly, I really  32   these silences of my mother's.

For centuries，the young have been  33  on the receiving end of instructions from their elders，whether they liked it or not. Maybe the elders  34   more useful knowledge，but the young have to make their own voyage. Sometimes all they need is not your   35   ，but your blessing.

21. A. contacted   B. overheard   C. praised   D. followed .

22. A. instructions  B. punishment  C. training   D. expectations

23. A. chose  B. pretended  C. remained   D. appeared

24. A. interest  B. concern   C. passion    D. appetite

25. A. gradually  B. regularly  C. definitely  D. simply

26. A. found  B. busied   C. enjoyed  D. introduced

27. A. counts  B. happens   C. works    D. fits

28. A. faced   B. frozen  C. impressed   D. burdened

29. A. made up  B. took in  C. dished out   D. commented on

30. A. matter  B. priority   C. sense  D. option

31. A. risky   B. sensible  C. temporary  D. odd

32. A. ignore   B. protest   C. tolerate   D. appreciate

33. A. ultimately  B. accidentally  C. willingly  D. passively

34. A. handle  B. assess   C. possess    D. perceive

35. A. advice   B. kindness   C. company   D. permission

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个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

My Great Escape : Inspiring Innsbruck

I was finally on my way to Innsbruck， with the recent  36  ( relax) in travel restriction. It was the capital 500 years ago  37   the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian resided here and it still lives up to its royal connections with its impressive architecture.

  38   (lie) within snow-capped mountains, this attractive , underrated destination, is perfect for a short break. As a combination of modern architecture and historic buildings，the city serves both as a dynamic university town and  39  popular tourist attraction.Even the approach to Innsbruck Airport by air is a breathtaking sight as the plane  40  (gentle) flies. The Golden Roof, a significant landmark with its golden copper roof shining in the sunlight, can  41  ( view) from the street. Wandering through the marbled streets,  42   ( amaze) at the dramatic mountain range,I could not help but be impressed by this awe-inspiring city.

Of course, no visit to Innsbruck is complete  43  trying traditional Austrian food.Pavement cafes are plentiful in the city and there is nothing more relaxing than sitting in the sunshine, tasting coffee and watching the world go by. Undeniably, up to now, Innsbruck   44  (steal) my heart. I can't wait to come again   45  ( sample) more of this delightful city.

第三部分  写作(共两节,满分 40分)

第一节  (满分15分)

假定你是李华,得知你的英国朋友Eric对中国文化感兴趣,请你给他写封邮件推介短视频系列一英文动画版《西游记》( Journey to the West)。 内容如下:

1.写信目的;

2.推荐理由;

3.期待交流。

注意:

1.词数80左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

第二节  (满分25分)

阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Bob was a small-built child who preferred indoor to outdoor activities. He was mild-mannered and mostly kept to himself. Sitting in the corner of the class, he was very much a loner. Whenever he was made fun of in class, he would turn to his mother for comfort.

At the beginning of semester 2，Bob had a new classmate，Alex，who had just returned to New Zealand. Alex was assigned a seat next to Bob. To his surprise, within weeks , he became good friends with Alex even though they were poles apart in personality.Alex was popular, outspoken and artistic.“Alex is all that I want to be," Bob thought to himself. He began listening to the music Alex listened to and having similar haircut. He even quit his drama club and started playing the online games that Alex played. He seemed to have been out of his loneliness.

It was not long before Bob was introduced to Alex's“cool”friends. He told himself that he would try all means to be part of the group. He would follow them to the football games and join the art club after school so he could spend more time hanging out with them. Bob followed them around laughing when they told jokes, agreeing when they had opinions- most enthusiastically at the ones he disagreed with. He did not dare to differ in opinions as he would not want them to think badly of him. This continued for several months. At last, Bob felt relieved that he had finally fitted in.

One day, Bob overheard Alex and his cool friends talking“Bob's such a loser,”one boy commented in a playful tone.“He just follows you around trying to be you. He copies you; he does not have a personality of his own!”another boy exclaimed. Alex laughed, to make matters worse， he added,“That fellow wears me out. I wish he would leave me alone. He thinks we are best friends. A thorough fool!”

注意:

1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

2022—2023学年度第一学期高三质量检测

参考答案及评分标准

第一部分  阅读

第一节

1-3 CAC   4-7 BAAD   8-11 BDCD   12-15 ACDB

第二节

16- 20 FGBEA

第二部分  语言运用

第一节

21- 25 BADBD   26- 30 ACBCA   31- 35 BDDCA

第二节

36. relaxation   37. when   38. Lying  39.a   40. gently   41. be viewed   42. amazed

43. without     44. has stolen    45. to sample

第三部分  写作

第一节

Dear Eric,

Guess what I've got to share? Since you show keen interest in Chinese culture, I'm writing to recommend an English short video series，Journey to the West.

Journey to the west, a Chinese literary classic, enjoys lasting popularity in China. The cartoon version series，integrating authentic English and amusing cartoon plots，has gained numerous favorable reviews. Immersed in the playful story full of wisdom and civic virtues, you will definitely gain a glimpse into the profound Chinese culture. Hopefully, it can fuel your passion to further explore Chinese culture.

Looking forward to our further exchanges.

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节

Bob stood rooted to the ground and could not believe his ears. Trembling and sobbing uncontrollably, he collapsed on the ground, feeling alone and betrayed. He had no option but cry all the way back home. Seeing his mother, he couldn't conceal his sorrow, pouring the incident out to her，who would always be there for him whenever he felt down. Stroking her trembling boy, the mother said gently, “Just be yourself, son! People will like you for who you are.”Bob had heard the remarks a million times before, yet he never truly got the point. Suddenly, it all clicked.

Bob decided to change himself. He bought a new schoolbag and chose a haircut he fancied. He dropped his art class and joined the drama club. He made new friends who liked him for who he was. He seemed to have rediscovered himself. If he had not been given the chance, he might have been too concerned with“fitting in”desperately to experience some of the“best” times of his life. It dawned on him that despite the pain he felt that day,it was a gift they had given him，which taught him to be himself.