2023届江西省九江市高三下学期第三次模拟考试英语试题（含答案）

2023届江西省九江市高三下学期第三次模拟考试英语试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读理解

Not too hot, not too cold. Spring is the perfect time to visit Europe for ideal weather. The best European countries to visit in the spring include: France, Netherlands, Slovakia, Romania and so on.

France

As one of the most tourist-packed countries in Europe, France offers lesser crowds and more excellent weather during the spring months. Just outside of Paris are the impressive castles and country houses of Sccaux, whure the cherry blossom can easily be seen in spring.

Netherlands

The Netherlands is well-known for its vast fields of flowers, making spring a perfect time for a Dutch holiday. The tulip fields in the Noordoostpolder are a must. In Veluwe National Park, tourists will be rewarded with the sight of red deer eating grass. A' trip to the Netherlands would, of course, be incomplete without a visit to Amsterdam.

Slovakia

Slovakia is a wonderfully diverse country with rich cultural history and awe-inspiring natural sites. Slovak Paradise is a natural park that offers 19 nature reserves and over 350 caves. Due to its hot summers and cold winters, spring is a perfect time to explore all that Slovakia has to offer.

Romania

Romania hosts a variety of great cultural sites and lively cities, especially attractive during spring months. The Statue of King Decebalus, a 141-foot-high upper part of Decebalus carved into the side of a rock, is a wonderful attraction. Braov Old Town is one of' Europe's most charming destinations for those looking to escape the capital city of Bucharest.

1．What can tourists enjoy in both France and Netherlands?

A．Flowers. B．Rocks. C．Castles. D．Deer.

2．Which is the best choice for cave lovers?

A．France. B．Netherlands. C．Slovakia. D．Romania.

3．In which section of a newspaper can you find this passage?

A．History. B．Education. C．Geography. D．Travel.

Zheng, 22, was born in Taiwan. But, because her parents are from different sides of the Taiwan Straits — her mother is from Fujian province, while her father is from Jiayi, Taiwan — she has felt the connection between the island and the Chinese mainland from a very young age.

Currently studying at Hunan University, Zheng has taken part in various cross-Straits exchanges but she’s always wanted to do something food-related, since it’s not only her personal passion, but also, she believes, a passion shared by people across the Taiwan Straits.

So, during this past Spring Festival, Zheng set up a stand on the streets of Taiwan’s Beigang to sell renaibao (hot rice cream), a trendy kind of “ice cream cone” that originated in Henan province.

Initially worrying that people would hesitate to try something they were not familiar with, Zheng was quickly overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the crowd. The sales easily went beyond her expectations — she sold more than 200 renaibao on her first day.

“It was not just a business,” says Zheng. “I was deeply affected by the enthusiasm of everyone I met.”

This enthusiasm, Zheng believes, is thanks to online video platforms like TikTok, Xiaohongshu and Bilibili. According to her, she and her high school friends used to watch online cooking videos together of, for example, the Tianjin-style jianbing guozi — known as Chinese crepes. They were so addicted to it that Zheng can still remember the process, step-by-step, in detail. Among her customers were also those who learned about the snack she was selling from just such a video.

Zheng is planning to bring home more trendy foods from the mainland, so that more people can experience their wonderful flavor. She would also love it if her friends in Taiwan can join her for an exchange of knowledge and travel in the mainland.

4．What made Zheng set up a street stand?

A．Her preference for the food business.

B．Her parents’ long lasting influence.

C．One cross-Straits exchange program.

D．The great value Chinese attach to food.

5．How did Zheng mainly feel on her first selling day?

A．Proud. B．Concerned. C．Surprised. D．Curious.

6．Why were the customers so enthusiastic about renaibao?

A．They had ever tasted it somewhere, before.

B．They liked this new flavor in particular.

C．They wanted to do something food-related.

D．They had known it on some video platforms.

7．What does the underlined word “They” in paragraph 6 refer to？

A．Video platforms. B．Chinese crepes.

C．Zheng and her friends. D．Online cooking videos.

Fungi (菌类) often appear naturally around trees, but a new study has found that growing edible mushrooms (types that can be safely eaten) in forests on purpose could be a good way to provide healthy food for millions of people and help the environment too.

Fungi are living things that feed on organic matter, such as dead plants. Mushrooms, mould and yeast are all types of fungi.

Paul Thomas and Alistair Jump, from the University of Stirling in Scotland, spent two years studying edible fungi that grow alongside trees. The pair discovered that while they are growing, fungi remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the soil. This is good for the planet, because too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one of the main causes of climate change.

Thomas points out that forests around the world are often cut down to create fields for producing food, such as beef or wheat. Trees take in carbon dioxide as they grow, so chopping them down makes climate change worse. However, edible fungi thrive in the shade of trees. That means if fungi was being grown as a food crop, there would be no need to chop down forests. In fact, if fungi became very popular, more trees could actually be planted. Edible fungi contain lots of substances that are good for humans. Thomas’s idea is that other ingredients, such as meat, could be swapped for fungi in people’s diets. He estimates that growing fungi around trees could feed up to 19 million people each year.

Blue milk caps are a species of edible fungi that Thomas says could work particularly well. They can be grown on and around trees, exchanging useful minerals and nutrients in return for carbon. They are also very nutritious, and some studies have suggested that they can help to treat cancer.

8．How do fungi help the environment?

A．They release oxygen into the atmosphere.

B．They prevent soil from being washed away.

C．They provide shade for other plants and animals.

D．They absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

9．What does the underlined word “thrive” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Struggle. B．Boom. C．Weaken. D．Shrink.

10．What could be the future of edible fungi like?

A．Disappointing. B．Promising. C．Controversial.  D．Doubtful.

11．What can be a best title for the text?

A．The Nutritional Benefits of Edible Fungi

B．Fungi: A Sustainable Solution to Organic Food

C．The Role of Fungi in Fighting Climate Change

D．How Fungi Could Feed and Benefit the World

You can misremember something just seconds after it happened, reframing events in your mind to better fit with your own preconceptions (预想).

Marte Otten at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and her colleagues wanted to figure out the relationship between previous expectations and short-term memories. The team conducted several experiments on more than 400 people that involved showing the participants random letters arranged in a circle on a computer screen.

In the simplest form of this experiment, the participants were shown the letters for a quarter of a second before the screen went blank. After a gap of 3 seconds, a box appeared where one of the letters had been for half a second, followed by a different circle of letters for half a second. The participants were asked to recall which letter from the original circle had been in the position held by the box on the screen. Crucially, some of the letters were flashed, which Otten calls “fake-letters”. The participants were clearly warned not to mistake them for real ones. This test was repeated.

After recalling the letters, the participants were asked to rate their confidence in each answer. The team focused its analysis on the most confident participants, in order to remove random guesses. The researchers found that, when asked to recall the position of a fake-letter, the confident participants incorrectly gave the answer as its real letter 39 per cent of the time, despite their high confidence in the answer.

“People seem to be sensitive to this memory illusion(错觉) where they already have a preset concept of what the world should look like. This effect appears to be due to a feature of our neural system that relies on generating predictions about the world. We expect to see normal letters when reading. These predictions are normally quite helpful and efficient in normal life and this is not something we have control over,” says Otten.

Several studies have previously shown that long-term memory is unreliable and affected by previous expectations. This new study reveals that the same is true for short-term memories.

12．What did the participants see on the computer during the experiment?

A．Random letters hidden in a box. B．Random letters lined in a circle.

C．Random boxes arranged in a circle. D．Random circles showed in a box.

13．What is the main purpose of paragraph 3?

A．To introduce the topic of the passage. B．To unfold the process of the experiment.

C．To present the result of the experiment. D．To show the background of the research.

14．How did the researchers ensure the accuracy of the results?

A．By focusing on the least confident participants.

B．By showing participants’ letters after 3 seconds.

C．By changing letters’ positions from a different circle.

D．By analyzing participants’ confidence in each answer.

15．What can we know from the new study?

A．Short-term memories can be affected by preconceptions.

B．Long-term memories are unreliable and easily affected.

C．Memory illusion relies on predictions about the world.

D．Our predictions about the world can be controlled.

二、七选五

A recent study found that only eight percent of people actually end up achieving their new year’s resolution. Here’s a couple of tips and tricks on how to do just that.

____16____.

No one has ever said “oh, I’m going to be healthier this year” and the next day woke up healthy. There has to be a plan, goals, and action that need to be taken. So you can say something like “I’m going to go to the gym every other day this year.”

Choose resolutions wisely.

____17____. The majority of resolutions involve some sort of habit change, and habit changes have a huge consumption on your body’s willpower. Willpower is like a battery that needs to be charged every night. When you have too many resolutions, the burden on this battery causes it to run out before you have a chance to charge it.

Write your resolutions down.

This makes the resolution feel like a contract. ____18____. You can write down every resolution for the entire year. Every time you look at it, you will feel a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure that you continue to keep your resolution.

Don’t tell anyone about your new year’s resolution.

Usually, when you talk about something that you haven’t accomplished, you will trick their brains into visualizing a situation where you have accomplished it.____19____

Find yourself an accountability buddy.

An accountability buddy is somebody who makes sure that you’re going out there every single day, and doing the things that you promised yourself that you would do. ____20____. At the same time, you help them keep themselves in lines too!

A．Have a plan

B．Keep healthy

C．Don’t choose too many resolutions

D．It creates pressure for you to complete it

E．It’s interesting how physical a contract can feel

F．It’s somebody who helps you keep yourself in line

G．This causes you to lose tons of motivation that you had beforehand

三、完形填空

Why are younger age group so much more willing to post an offensive message on social media? Why aren’t we changing the ____21____ in the actual cyberbully (网络欺凌)? That’s when I had a(n) ____22____. What if I gave them a chance to ____23____ what they were doing? If an adolescent ____24____ to post an offensive message on social media, and if I went, “Whoa! Hold on. You’re about to ____25____ an offensive message to someone. That can really ____26____ them. Are you sure you want to post this message?”, would they still be ____27____to do it?

So early this year, using my science and technology skills, I ____28____ a software system. And basically, they were able to compare whether a ____29____ which caused adolescents to consider what they were doing actually reduce their _____30_____ to post offensive messages.

In the end, I was able to get 1,500 _____31_____ trials of data. 93% of the time when adolescents _____32_____ a caution that says, “Whoa! You’re about to post an offensive message”, they finally _____33_____ their mind. I was able to _____34_____ the willingness to post offensive messages from 71.4% to 4.6%.

Now, the app Rethink has become _____35_____ popular. I also currently hold a patent for this _____36_____ idea. According to the data, Rethink has _____37_____ that, in those seconds, when you decide whether or not you’re going to hit “post”, the _____38_____ of the seconds means so much in the future. So, I_____39_____ all of you: rethink before the damage is done. We need to slow down,_____40_____, and consider what we’re doing.

21．A．value B．attention C．behavior D．interest

22．A．idea B．promise C．conclusion D．approach

23．A．complain about B．think about C．focus on D．comment on

24．A．arranged B．refused C．managed D．attempted

25．A．shoot B．distribute C．transform D．explain

26．A．sacrifice B．motivate C．hurt D．confuse

27．A．stubborn B．willing C．ashamed D．warm-hearted

28．A．acquired B．invested C．approved D．created

29．A．threat B．caution C．concern D．restriction

30．A．intention B．strength C．desire D．courage

31．A．unique B．academic C．complicated D．effective

32．A．ignore B．send C．receive D．post

33．A．lost B．changed C．kept D．set

34．A．challenge B．adjust C．betray D．decrease

35．A．wildly B．permanently C．mildly D．accidentally

36．A．ridiculous B．shallow C．fantastic D．conflicting

37．A．proven B．guaranteed C．assumed D．known

38．A．imagination B．flash C．inspiration D．stimulation

39．A．believe B．prefer C．respect D．encourage

40．A．struggle B．hesitate C．pause D．decline

四、用单词的适当形式完成短文

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

More people have strong desire to travel and the market is seeing more _____41_____ (opportunity) for healing tourism, which means less tight schedules and more health-related projects, _____42_____ (bring) joy to the spirit, a new survey shows.

As China optimized (优化) their COVID-19 response measures , the pent-up (被抑制的) travel demand _____43_____ (release) in the past few months. About 91.24 percent of respondents to the survey said they have a plan to travel this year. About 60 percent of respondents said they have a plan to travel domestically, while 32.37 percent choose both domestic _____44_____ oversea tourism this year.

Though the tourism industry was hit hard by COVID-19, after the pandemic people began to pay more attention to _____45_____ (they) health and have strengthened their will to travel. _____46_____ increasing number of consumers are paying more attention to health-related projects, among_____47_____ healing tourism, has become a bright spot.

About 87 percent of respondents to the survey said they are ready _____48_____  (purchase) healthy products, and more than half, or 55. 24 percent, said they plan to participate in healing tourism_____49_____ (active) this year. Data from travelling platforms showed cities______50______ (locate) around the Tropic of Cancer such as Sanya, Zhuhai, Xishuangbanna, Dali, Xiamen, Haikou, Tengchong and Beihai are becoming popular.

五、短文改错

51．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。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（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。

Ruth was once a community worker. In 2015, she quitted her job and begin to learn singing. When Ruth first started singing, there was little opportunity to singing with others. Then, through a friend, he discovered an excellent singing class. She became very interested in it that she started running her own classes, that she taught others how to sing well. The classes are held twice a month very successful. Ruth believes that singing has been brought them many benefits. Through singing, they often become confident than before but also learn to control stress. “Singing helps us live on peace together,” she says happily.

六、其他应用文

52．为助力创建文明城市，你校英文报社正在举办主题为“文明习惯满城市”的倡议信征文活动，现请你写一份倡议信投稿，内容包括：

1.存在的不文明现象；

2.应对措施；

3.提出呼吁。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

参考答案：

1．A    2．C    3．D

4．A    5．C    6．D    7．C

8．D    9．B    10．B    11．D

12．B    13．B    14．D    15．A

16．A    17．C    18．D    19．G    20．F

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

41．opportunities    42．bringing    43．has been released    44．and    45．their    46．An    47．which    48．to purchase    49．actively    50．located

51．1.begin→began

2.singing→sing

3.he→she

4.very→so

5.that→where

6.successful→successfully

7.去掉been

8.在confident前加more

9.but→and

10.on→in

52．Dear fellow students,

With our country becoming stronger and stronger, we can’t deny that there are some uncivilized practices in our city, like throwing rubbish everywhere and smoking in public.

Faced with these problems, it is high time that we took measures to change the situation. At first, tougher regulations on public areas may help citizens behave themselves. Besides, it would also be sensible to put up more banners to encourage good deeds, which can arouse citizens’ awareness to spread the beneficial habits. More importantly, we must plant more trees, flowers and plants to make the city become greener.

Please keep it in mind that a small action can make a huge difference. As a teenager, let’s join hands and act jointly to make the glory of civilization shine in every corner of our city.