2023届山西省怀仁市教育局高三下学期二调英语试卷PDF版含答案

  怀仁市2022-2023学年度下学期

高三第二次调研测试

英  语

命题：怀仁市教育局高级中学教研组

（考试时间120分钟，满分150分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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、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。

例： How much is the shirt?

A. £19.15. B. £9.18. C. £9.15.

答案是C。

1. What does Jim do?

A. A teacher. B. An officer. C. A student.

2. What time did Suzy leave home?

A. 4:30. B. 5:00. C. 5:15.

3. What is the man's suggestion?

A. Going to the concert. B. Going to see a show. C. Just walking around.

4. How long has the rain lasted?

A. 5 days. B. 6 days. C. 7 days.

5. What opinion do they hold on their chemistry course?

A. It's well organized. B. It is satisfactory. C. It is unsatisfactory.

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，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答6、7题。

6. Where does this conversation take place?

A. In a library. B. In a school. C. In a bookstore.

7. Why is William Shakespeare mentioned (提及) in the conversation?

A. He gave gifts to millions of people.

B. He was a very wealthy man in his times.

C. His signature (签名) is worth a lot of money.

听第7段材料，回答第8至11题。

8. What are the man and woman looking for?

A. A comfortable hotel. B. A modern hotel. C. An inexpensive hotel.

9. Whom did the man and woman ask for help?

A. A policewoman. B. A waitress. C. A passer-by.

10. Where could the man and woman find a hotel they needed?

A. In the next street. B. Next to a bank. C. Two-minute drive to the west.

11. Where did the conversation most likely take place?

A. In a street. B. In a restaurant. C. In a hotel.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What would the woman like to do this weekend?

A. Go climbing. B. Go shopping. C. Go fishing.

13. What does the man plan to do on Saturday?

A. Check his schedule. B. Stay at home. C. Help his sister move.

14. How will the man get in touch with the woman?

A. By making a phone call to the woman's house.

B. By making a phone call to the woman's mother's house.

C. By making a call to her cell phone.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What is the woman doing?

A. Listening to music. B. Seeing a film. C. Writing a letter.

16. How long will the woman stay in Japan?

A. For a year. B. For a month. C. For two years.

17. What will the woman do before she leaves for Japan?

A. Read more Japanese novels. B. Attend a language class. C. Apply for a new program.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is the cause of the explosion?

A. It is unknown. B. Their trucks were attacked.  C.A tour bus slid off a highway.

19. What happened early on Saturday morning?

A.A Russian rocket was sent up.

B.A tour bus slid off a highway.

C. Three aid workers were killed.

20. How many people were killed in the gas explosion?

A. At least 4. B. About 30. C. Over 40.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

A

Branding events of China Daily

Since its launch in 1981, China Daily has grown to become the nation's leading English-language newspaper. With a combined print, online and mobile readership of more than 350 million, it serves a vital role in telling the world about China, providing valuable insight into the world's second-largest economy. A series of branding events are conducted by China Daily to improve public diplomacy (外交) and international communication.

Vision China Lectures

A series of talks are organized by China Daily in which leading political and business figures are invited to speak and interact live with domestic and foreign audiences. The Vision China lectures focus on major issues facing China and the world, explore what China's story means for the world, and how Chinese wisdom can help the world.

China Watch Think Tank Forum

Elites, including opinion leaders, politicians and businesspersons with expertise (专业知识) on China, discuss topics on developments and the future of China and the world in China Watch Think Tank Forum.

Asia Leadership Roundtable

The China Daily Asia Leadership Roundtable provides a platform for high-level dialogue and communication among leaders and social elites in the fields of politics, business and academia in Asia.

“21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition

The competition is the most famous English-speaking competition in China. It is the qualifying round for students who wish to represent China in the International Public Speaking Competition in London.

TESOL China Assembly

Organized by China Daily in partnership with TESOL International Association (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), the TESOL China Assembly is a high-level international English Language Teaching (ELT) event in China. It aims to promote scholarship and cross-cultural understanding among English educators in China, and to enhance dialogue between China's ELT professionals with their peers worldwide.

For more details, click here.

21. What's the main purpose of China Daily?

A. To hold various branding events.

B. To promote interpersonal communication.

C. To combine print, online and mobile readership.

D. To help people around the globe know China better.

22. What do Vision China Lectures and Asia Leadership Roundtable have in common?

A. They involve politicians and businesspersons.

B. They focus on major issues facing China and the world.

C. They provide a platform for public dialogue and communication.

D. They discuss topics on developments and the future of China and the world.

23. Where is the text probably from?

A. A newspaper. B. A textbook. C. A website. D. A magazine.

B

An American teacher who helped make college education accessible to low-income, immigrant, first-generation American, and refugee (难民) pupils has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize. Keishia Thorpe, an English teacher in Maryland, was selected from more than 8,000 teachers in 121 countries.

Ms. Thorpe teaches English to 12th-graders at the International High School Langley Park, where 95 percent of pupils are from low-income families. She redesigned their courses for the English department to make it culturally relevant to her pupils who are from mostly Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America. Since then, her English language learners have shown a 40 percent increase in their reading.

Ms. Thorpe spent a lot of time encouraging her pupils to apply for college and helped them with their applications and accessing fully-funded scholarships. She helped her senior pupils in 2018-2019 win more than $6.7 million in scholarships to 11 colleges, with most of them not having to pay for their education.

She plans to use the prize money to give less well-off pupils an opportunity of receiving a third level education. “Every person deserves the right to education and I want to be that person who champions that for them. I plan to use the money to help students worldwide access higher education,” she said. “Students are the reason I'm here, so I plan to use that to promote them and create a better future for them.”

Organized by UNESCO and first awarded in 2015, the Global Teacher Prize is an annual award to a teacher who has made a vast difference to the profession. The winner of this year was announced at a virtual ceremony in Paris on November 10th, 2021.

24. How do Thorpe's redesigned courses influence her students?

A. Students have spent more time reading.

B. Students are more aware of their culture.

C. More low-income students attend school.

D. More students apply for college education.

25. What can be learned about the Global Teacher Prize?

A. It devotes much to college education.

B. It favors low-income immigrant teachers.

C. It targets teachers with huge contributions.

D. It encourages reforms in English teaching.

26. Which of the following words best describes Thorpe?

A. Selfless and strict.  B. Caring and devoted.

C. Frank and considerate. D. Talented and humorous.

27. What is the best title for the text?

A. A Good Teacher Ensures a Bright Future

B. Teacher Prize Helps Realize Students' Dream

C. Immigrant Teacher Shares Her Moving Story

D. High School Teacher Wins a $1 Million Prize

C

The term “Metaverse” (元宇宙) is the latest buzzword (流行语) to capture the tech industry's imagination. It enjoys such popularity that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has announced recently that he's changing his company's name to Meta Platforms Inc. in order to engage in the creative new trend.

This might be the biggest thing to happen to the metaverse since the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson invented the term for his 1992 novel Snow Crash. But Zuckerberg and his team are hardly the only tech giants with ideas on how the metaverse should take shape.

What is the metaverse? Zuckerberg has described it as a “virtual environment” you can go inside of rather than just looking at on a screen. Essentially, it's a world of interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play, by using virtual reality glasses, smartphone or other devices. The metaverse also could be a game-changer for the work-from-home shift during the COVID-19. Instead of only seeing co-workers on a video call, employees could even join them in a virtual office.

However, Zuckerberg's support for the metaverse contradicts a central belief of its biggest enthusiasts. They regard the metaverse as online culture's liberation from tech platforms like Facebook that not only take control of people's accounts, photos and posts, but also trade off what they collected from that data. “We want to be able to move around the Internet with ease, but we also want to be able to move around the Internet in a way we're not tracked and monitored,” said Steve Jang, who focuses on crypto-currency (数字货币) technology.

When it comes to Facebook trying to lead the way into a virtual world, there is a growing concern among some people that it could require even more personal data and cause greater risks for information abuse when the company hasn't fixed those problems in its current platforms.

28. Why is Zuckerberg changing the name of his company?

A. Because he likes to found the metaverse.

B. Because he intends to get involved in the metaverse.

C. Because he wants to draw public attention.

D. Because he plans to quit his present business.

29. What can people do in the Metaverse?

A. Do everything in the real world. B. Have meetings in the virtual office.

C. Defeat the pandemic.  D. See co-workers in person.

30. What can be inferred about the central belief of Metaverse fans?

A. The metaverse should be tracked by tech platforms.

B. Tech platforms should possess and trade users' data.

C. Crypto-currency technology should be monitored.

D. Users should have control over their own data.

31. What is some people's attitude towards Facebook's attempt to guide the metaverse?

A. Optimistic. B. Neutral. C. Worried. D. Pessimistic.

D

Birds that dive underwater—such as penguins, gannets and pelicans—may be more likely to go extinct than their nondiving relatives, a new study reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society finds.

Many waterbirds have evolved highly specialized bodies and behaviors that facilitate diving. Now, an analysis of the evolutionary history of more than 700 waterbird species shows that once a bird group gains the ability to dive, the change is irreversible, which could help explain why diving birds have a higher extinction rate compared with nondiving birds.

“There are considerable morphologica (形态学的) adaptations for diving.” says Catherine Sheard, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bristol in England. For instance, gannets and some pelicans that dive into the water from the air have twists to the neck muscles and the bones in the chest. It's possible that some diving birds are evolving under an evolutionary “ratchet,” where adaptations to use a certain food source or habitat encourage specialized evolution. These birds may become trapped in their ways, increasing their risk of extinction.

Evolutionary biologists Josh Tyler and Jane Younger investigated the evolution of diving in a collection of 727 waterbird species across 11 bird groups. They explored the link between diving and the development of new species, or their extinction, in various bird lineages (家族). Among 236 diving bird species,75,or 32 percent, were part of lineages that are experiencing 0.02 more species extinctions per million years than the generation of new species. Bird lineages that don't dive, on the other hand, generated 0. 1more new species per million years than the rate of species dying out.

“The more specialized you become, the more reliant you are on a particular diet, foraging (觅食) strategy or environment.” says Tyler. “The range of environments available for foraging is much larger for the nondiving birds than for the specialist divers, and this may play into their ability to adapt and thrive.”

32. What does the underlined word “irreversible” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Unexpected. B. Unchangeable. C. Unreal. D. Unwelcome.

33. Why are “gannets and pelicans” mentioned in Paragraph 3?

A. To present a fact.  B. To illustrate a concept.

C. To give a definition.  D. To explain a phenomenon.

34. What do we know about Josh Tyler and Jane Younger's study?

A. Biologists got the results by comparison.

B. Data were collected by observing waterbirds.

C.32 diving bird species went extinct during the process.

D. The aim is to build connection between diving and nondiving birds.

35. Which of the following factors plays a role in nondiving birds' lower extinction rate?

A. Wider habitat range.  B. Quicker foraging speed.

C. More food options.  D. Stronger reproduction ability.

第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。

Calendars are for managing your time. They work overtime to keep the messiness of human life confined into neat little grids, squeezing our lives into seconds, minutes and hours. I appreciate a calendar's determined efforts to manage time.   36   For the past several years, I've kept a planner with me at all times. The real magic in planners, to me, comes in the blank space where I reflect on the past and imagine the future. Cracking open a fresh week's layout on a Monday morning and seeing the empty pages expand like a canvas waiting to be filled, the tone of the week yet to be set, the possibilities endless.

You start by creating a wish list for your ideal life. The idea is to be as specific as possible. You then pick the one goal that would have the biggest positive impact. You break that goal down into smaller tasks, and then prioritize them.   37  .This method turns a general idea in your head into something that you can actually accomplish. From there, you can reflect every month on how you spent your time, and whether what you did actually is consistent with the goals you set.

  38  . It leaves no digital footprint, but it does leave a paper trail that you can look back on for years to come. It doesn't buzz impatiently when you don't look at it, and it will not be exported to Outlook. It requires you to sit in quiet conversation with yourself, reflecting on your past and visualizing your future. It forces me to answer hard truths, like what do I really want out of life and am I spending my days in line with who I want to be.   39  .

Planning helps me ensure that I'm not a passenger at the mercy of my calendar, but rather driving toward a destination that I choose.   40  . And some really nice pens.

A. Then, add those tasks to the calendar.

B. There's no pressure to make it perfect.

C. But planners are for dreaming without limits.

D. It's easy to appreciate calendars for their usefulness.

E. Using a paper planner brings me both joy and a sense of calm.

F. It's an important ritual(仪式) that deserves weight and ceremony.

G. After all, our lives are the sum of how we spend our time and what we pay attention to.

第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分50分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2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。

There was once a boy called Joseph Webb who always loved to show off how many friends he had at school. One day his   41   said to him, “Joseph, I bet (打赌) you a big bag of popcorn that you don't have as many friends as you think. I'm sure many of them are nothing more than companions.”

Joseph   42   the bet at once. However, he wasn't sure how to test whether his schoolmates were real friends or not, so he asked his grandfather. The old man answered, “Wait a minute.” Then he left and   43   soon as if carrying something in his hands, but Joseph could see nothing there.

“Take it. It's a very   44   chair because it's invisible (看不见). It's rather   45   to sit on, but if you take it to school and   46   to sit on it, you'll activate (激活) its   47   and it'll be able to tell who your real friends are.”

Joseph, brave and determined, set off for   48   with the strange and invisible chair. At break time he asked everyone to form a   49  , and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. Having difficulty seeing it, Joseph tried to sit on it but he   50   the seat and fell straight onto his backside. Everyone around him had a pretty good laugh.

“Wait! Let me try again,” Joseph said. But again, he missed the seat,   51   more surprised looks and a few catcalls (尖叫，喝倒彩). Joseph didn't   52   and kept trying to sit on the magic chair. But he kept falling to the ground…until, suddenly he tried again but didn't   53  . Looking around, Joseph saw three of his best friends holding him up.   54  , many others he had thought of as friends had done nothing but made fun of him.

And there, the show came to an end. Joseph understood that true friends were those who care for him, and not just the   55   that happened to be passing by. And someone who took joy in his misfortunes (不幸) was even less of a friend.

41. A. schoolmate B. grandfather C. companion D. stranger

42. A. accepted B. noticed C. concluded D. believed

43. A. passed B. recovered C. returned D. disappeared

44. A. soft B. beautiful C. comfortable D. special

45. A. exciting B. wonderful C. positive D. difficult

46. A. intend B. decide C. manage D. hope

47. A. promise B. magic C. memory D. knowledge

48. A. home B. school C. party D. hospital

49. A. circle B. popcorn C. chair D. bag

50. A. escaped B. held C. sat D. missed

51. A. providing B. moving C. causing D. losing

52. A. give up B. watch over C. turn down D. sort out

53. A. sit B. care C. fall D. stand

54. A. However B. Moreover C. Besides D. Therefore

55. A. relative B. neighbor C. teammate D. companion

第二节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。

What comes to mind when you think of Chinese kung fu? For Laurence J. Brahm, a US filmmaker who recently completed his   56   (late) work Searching for Kung Fu, the first thing   57   springs to mind is the concept of non-violence.

The official Chinese name for kung fu is wushu. As Brahm explained, if you break down the character “wu”, it   58   (consist) of two characters: one is “ge”,meaning dagger-axe (戈); the other is “zhi”, meaning stopping. So, the meaning of kung fu is not the “art of fighting”. On the contrary, he said, kung fu is the art of stopping fighting, the art of non-violence.

In making his film, Brahm looked into different forms of kung fu widely

  59   (practice) in China, interviewing many masters and scholars. Kung fu practitioners salute with 'baoquan', literally meaning 'fist wrapping', which shows two things at least. One is that you have a fist, but you're also not using it. And then you're showing 'I have no hidden weapons'. It's trust,” he said.

“Kung fu masters will avoid   60   (fight) at all costs. Although you know how to use force, you are the last one   61   (use) force, because you know the outcome of this thing.”

“Kung fu, in my eyes, is   62   mirror of Chinese culture,” Brahm said. “It reminds you why China adopts a policy of not wanting to have conflict with other countries.”

Brahm believes that today's world   63   (urgent) needs to restart equal exchanges between countries,   64   that culture and sports, such as kung fu, can serve   65   a great channel and platform.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假设你是红星中学高三(1)班班长李华。近期你班计划开展“信息安全教育”的主题班会，请你给你班交换生Jim写一封电子邮件，内容包括：

1.班会目的及活动安排；

2.请他参加并在会后发表感想。

注意：1.词数80左右；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

提示词语：information security

Dear Jim,

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节（满分25分）

Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn't help weeping sorrowfully when she thought of the scolding from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat, but it was not even possible for her, since she had nothing with her. She stood beside a stand for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she sighed and had to leave.

The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, “Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?”

“Oh, yes.. but I don't have money on me..” she replied.

“That's nothing. I'll treat you today,” said the man, “come in.”

The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.

“What is it?” asked the man kindly.

“Nothing, actually I was just touched by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears, “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother, drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so merciless compared to a stranger!”

Hearing the words, the seller smiled “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times she cooked for you? Have you expressed your gratitude to her?”

Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock; she remembered mother's familiar face and weathered hands. “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel indebted, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”

On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to make an apology to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.

注意：

1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1: Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath.

______________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2: A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back.

怀仁市2022-2023学年度下学期

高三第二次调研测试 英语答案

听力答案：1-5 ACABC   6-10 CAABB   11-15 CBABA   16-20 CBACC

阅读：（每题3分，共60分）

21-35 DAC, ACBD, BBDC, BDAC,   36-40 CAEGF

完型：（每题2分，共30分）

41-55 BACDD, CBBAD, CACAD

语法填空：（每题2分，共20分）

56. latest   57. that   58. consists   59. practiced   60. fighting

61. to use   62.a   63. urgently   64. and   65. as

写作1：（满分15分）

参考范文：

Dear Jim,

A class meeting with the theme of “Information Security Education” will be held at 2:00 pm this Friday in our classroom. I'm writing to invite you to take part in it.

To raise the awareness of information security and learn how to use it safely, firstly we'll watch some videos to learn about the security problems and threats. In addition, the teacher will instruct us the measures we can take to protect our information security. Last but not least, all the students and teachers can communicate with each other about their own thoughts. Looking forward to your participation and your ideas.

Yours,

Li Hua

写作2.（满分25分）

参考范文：

Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath. When she knocked at the door, she found the door was locked and her mother was not in. Tired and sad, she sat down in front of the house. “Where could my mother be?” she wondered, “ Was she still angry with me?” Again, the scene of the quarrel appeared in her mind. She remembered her rudeness to her mother. Realizing that all the scolding from her mother was due to the fact that her mother really cared a lot about her, she felt rather ashamed, and tears began to roll down her cheeks.

A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back. She raised her head and saw the familiar face of her mother. “Here you come! I've been looking for you,” she said, tired and relieved. Jenny couldn't help throwing herself into her mother's arms. “Mum, I'm so sorry and thank you for all you have done for me.” She expressed her sincere apology and great gratitude. Hearing this, her mother smiled patting her back gently.