2024成都石室中学高三上学期10月月考试题英语含答案

成都石室中学2023 — 2024学年度上期高2024届十月月考

英语试卷

（满分150分  考试时间：120分钟）

第I卷

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。

1. What is new at Uncle Jim’s farm?

A. Cows.     B. Sheep.     C. Goats.

2. What does the woman want about a new car?

A. A smoother ride.   B. A larger size.   C. The cheaper fuel.

3. What is the woman scared to do?

A. Make a new dish.   B. Eat the food.   C. Lie to the man.

4. What does the woman think of the man?

A. He isn’t hard-working.  B. He isn’t strong.   C. He isn’t polite.

5. What does the man find hard to understand?

A. How to plan a book.  B. What to write about.  C. Where to find the time.

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，从题中所给的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。

 听下面一段对话，回答第6至第7题。

6. Who is the man in the conversation?

A. The woman’s father.    B. The woman’s friend.  C. The woman’s teacher.

7. When does the woman need her computer by?

A. Tonight.    B. Tomorrow night.   C. Friday morning.

 听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10题。

8. Where are the speakers?

A. In their house.   B. In the bank.    C. In the mall.

9. How much does the man want to pay Betty?

A. $300.     B. $150.     C. $100.

10. What did Betty leave behind?

A. Her clothes.    B. Her money.    C. Her food.

听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13题。

11. What is the man helping the woman with?

A. Parking.     B. Driving.    C. Giving directions.

12. For what reason is Jackson Avenue closed?

A. The road work.   B. A traffic accident.  C. The bad weather.

13. Why should the woman park on Front Street for the night?

A. It is free.      

B. She has a lot of bags.

C. Her car would be stuck on Jackson Avenue.

听下面一段对话，回答第14至第16题。

14. Why does the man think highly of Michael Jordan?

  A. He is successful after he retired.

  B. He was the best player in a number of ways.

  C. He beat the man’s favorite team many times.

15. How many times did Michael Jordan play on the all-star team?

  A. 9.      B. 10.      C. 14.

16. What does Michael Jordan do after retiring?

  A. He teaches basketball in a high school.

  B. He plays in a senior league.

  C. He runs his clothing business.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20题。

17. What makes whale sharks different from other sharks?

  A. They are gentle.   B. They attack people.   C. They never eat sea creatures.

18. Why do scientists have trouble finding out the ages of older whale sharks?

  A. They live long lives.  B. The population is small.  C. Their home changes often.

19. What caused the mark in the bone of the dead whale shark?

A. The food.    B. The radiation.    C. The fishing.

20. How long can a whale shark live according to the scientists?

  A. For about 20 years.  B. For about 50 years.   C. For about 100 years. 

第二部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

The domestic film market hard-hit from the pandemic for almost three years is handing in an impressive report card. Here are the top 4 films at the box office this year.

1. The Battle at Lake Changjin II

The sequel（续集）to China’s all-time biggest box office hit, The Battle at Lake Changjin II brought in 4.07 billion yuan at the box office, topping the list of this year’s films in China.

Retelling a lesser-known yet extremely cruel mission, the sequel, with the Mandarin title Shuimen Qiao, tells a story about how Chinese People’s Volunteer soldiers endured the bitter cold and sacrificed to tear down a very important route to cut US force’ withdrawal（撤退）.

2. Moon Man

Dugu Yue, a spacecraft maintenance man, is unintentionally left on the moon after the withdrawal of the crew from Lunar Shield, a moon-based project aiming to rescue the Earth from an asteroid（小行星）strike but ending up in failure due to an unpredicted issue.

Witnessing the disastrous hit from the moon, Dugu believes the Earth is completely destroyed and he’s the last human in this universe. However, little does he know that the surviving humankind are all watching his every move from the Earth.

3. Too Cool To Kill

Wei Chenggong, a nameless extra actor, believes it’s finally his turn to shine when he is “given the opportunity to play the role”, Carl the killer. Little does he know that he has become a killer in real life, though accidentally. How will Wei deal with the absurdity（荒唐）of life? What will he encounter in the course of his “performance”?

4. Nice View

Jing Hao, 20, comes to Shenzhen to live with his young sister. By coincidence, Jing is offered an opportunity to work, which he takes gladly to provide a better life for himself and his sister, but things don’t go as he planned. However, Jing fights with perseverance and pens his own business miracle.

21. If you are keen on history, which film will you probably watch?

A. The Battle at Lake Changjin II.    B. Moon Man.

C. Too Cool To Kill.      D. Nice View.

22. What can we know from the passage?

A. The Battle at Lake Changjin II has won the highest box office in Chinese film history.

B. Dugu Yue is left on the moon by the crew because of their failure to rescue the Earth.

C. Wei accidentally becomes a killer in real life before he plays the role as Carl.

D. Jing eventually earns a better life after fighting persistently against hardships in life.

23. Which section of a magazine is this passage probably taken from?

A. Fashion.   B. Entertainment.  C. Science fiction.  D. Art.

B

I was 17 when I discovered shooting stars.

I loved them so much that I invited my high school friends to my family farm and spent an August night in our sleeping bags on the hillside to watch them together.

I can’t help but think of that as the final night of my childhood. I always managed to squeeze in a week or two of vacation before starting back at school, and I’d see shooting stars and remember that brilliant night on the hill. While still marveling at them, I’d work at convincing myself that the joy I’d experience from my accomplishments in college would soon replace my longing for some quiet time beneath a vast sky. But always, I returned to college life in August with deep sadness in my heart.

I’ve given lots of reasons over the past 13 years for my choice to live an independent life on a distant farm and homeschool my daughters. But deep down, I think the shooting stars had a lot to do with it. I couldn’t bear to gaze up at them and think that they were a finale（演出的终场）to be witnessed before returning to the demands of school and careers.

So I said “no” to all of it: no jobs, no school. And I decided to lead a life tied to the seasons, where shooting stars were just one of many gifts from nature.

I changed my life to make room for them and I’m starting to learn the difference between fulfillment and accomplishment.

Accomplishment is a child’s successful test scores. Fulfillment is loving and forgiving each other through times table（乘法表）and written words.

Accomplishment is the publication of 20 essays per year and six books. Fulfillment is the hours spent researching, then walking through the woods to think about each word and thought.

Accomplishment is making enough income to cover my taxes. Fulfillment is sitting outside at 3 am in August, watching the shooting stars, no longer sad at the passage of childhood, but thrilled for the joy of the stars.

It is learned that accomplishment is merely a mark in the book made as a result of following fulfillment above all else.  

24. What does the author think marks the end of her childhood?

A. Leaving home for college.     B. Encountering shooting stars.  

C. Watching shooting stars with friends. D. Sleeping in a sleeping bag on a farm.

25. What caused the author to live independently and homeschool her daughters?

A. The need to live on a farm.     B. The wish for a life connected to nature.

C. The desire for independence.           D. The demands of school and careers.    

26. Which of the following might the author see as fulfillment?

A. Winning a gold medal in a sports competition.

B. Spending quality time with family members.

C. Holding a high position in a famous company.

D. Buying a big, lovely and comfortable house.

27. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. School or Careers           B. Watch Shooting Stars

C. Live a Life of Fulfillment      D. Accomplishment or Fulfillment

C

When you see someone take that first sip of freshly made milk tea, their face looks like pure joy. Today, millions of people enjoy this experience. Across the world, customers flock to their favorite spots to meet with friends and savor sips of these tasty drinks.

In the early 2000s, though, milk tea was just coming on the scene. The few brands that had successfully established themselves in the industry were dearly concerned: Would milk tea just be another fashion food? Sure, people are enjoying it today, but would they still be in a year, or five years? And with so much new excitement for this product, would people be able to distinguish milk tea companies?

These are the questions that Serenitea, a Manila-based milk-tea company, faced in 2014. While successfully opening 60 stores, they found themselves in a strategic fog, which led them to research into the deep, unexplored psychology of milk tea.

Like Airbnb, Serenitea partnered with an agency, CIA Bootleg Manila (CBM), that specializes in drilling down to the deep consumer “why”. The agency conducted a series of intensive, psychological-based techniques in its market research. Specifically, they probed the consumer’s deeper, emotional connections to milk tea, including their earliest childhood memories of milk and tea.

What they found was that milk tea was a complex topic. Their research revealed that milk tea produces three consistent psychological responses. People connected to milk through the concept of nurturing（滋养）; they fondly remembered their childhood and being cared for by their mothers. Next, consumers connected tea to its healing properties. Respondents would recall receiving tea when they had stomachache or seeing their parents drinking herbal tea for health reasons. Lastly, they associated milk tea itself with teenage fun: a guilty pleasure of their youth.

They had uncovered the three psychological cornerstones（基石）of the milk tea experience: nurturing, healing, and teenage fun. This set of insights was crucial. By integrating them into the core of their brand strategy, they struck out an entirely new path.

28. Which is closest in meaning to “probed ” in paragraph 4?

A. Applied.   B. Related.      C. Demonstrated.  D. Investigated. 

29. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Serenata planned to distinguish itself from competitors.

B. Serenitea outperformed its opponents in research field.

C. Serenitea suffered a temporary strategic failure in 2014.

D. Serenitea partnered with a leading psychological agency.

30. What can Serenitea do with the findings from their research?

A. Offer as many new flavors as possible.  

B. Create a youthful and playful brand image.

C. Redesign stores by adding romantic elements. 

D. Conduct intensive market research with CBM.

31. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. A New Path to Business Success   B. Three Cornerstones of Milk Tea

C. Sharing the Pure Joy of Milk Tea   D. Revealing Milk Tea Psychology

D

Big Tech companies are “training” generative AI（生成式人工智能）models by stealing music, books, photographs, paintings and videos off the Internet using copyright “fair use” as an excuse.

Last month, Getty Images took legal action against Stability AI — the maker of the popular image generator Stable Diffusion — for not only using 2 million of Getty’s photos, but also for changing or removing copyright management information from the images. It seems clearly unlawful, but that doesn’t mean the courts will agree. Big Tech has successfully skated through legal matters for years, waving the banner（旗帜）of “permissionless innovation”.

Only the biggest of Big Tech players will dominate generative AI, because it requires massive amounts of computing power. But copyright appears to be anything but a top priority for Google and Microsoft. So while human creators rationally（理智地）explore and debate this issue, tech companies are using their work to train the generative machines that ultimately may make the artists irrelevant in the future.

The problem goes beyond artists losing incomes. AI operates on the theory that all the possible original ideas in the universe are already contained in the data sets from the Internet. So, the intelligence of AI merely requires reorganizing this data into something that differs enough from the original work to not risk a copyright problem.

Surely, the world has plenty of standardized artistic content already. What’s needed: ensuring a continuous flow of original ideas and fresh perspectives — to build a culture that goes beyond what is already found on the Internet and can be enriched by artists who might grow in ways no AI could predict.

We realize that Big Tech’s involvement in AI has raised concerns that may make the endangering of artists’ rights seem pale. Yet a nation’s cultural life is not a minor matter, and preserving artists’ rights is essential to ensuring their continued contribution. Existing copyright laws should ideally prevent abuses, but this is not always the case. Another solution may be needed: new laws governing AI and safeguarding the human core of artistic creativity.

32. How do Big Techs justify their use of copyrighted material?

A. By claiming “permissionless innovation”.

B. By arguing AI operates on existing photos.

C. By editing management information of the images.

D. By avoiding legal consequences with permission.

33. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. AI should be banned by law.

B. Artists should adopt less rational approaches.

C. AI may harm sustainable artistic ecosystem.

D. The courts are to blame for the copyright theft.

34. Which statement will the author probably agree with?

A. Artists will finally be replaced by AI.

B. Artists’ low incomes are caused by AI.

C. A nation’s cultural life will be harmed.

D. Artistic creativity will be totally ruined.

35. What is the purpose of the article?

A. To blame Big Techs for stealing.   B. To focus on a copyright law case.

C. To introduce generative AI technology.  D. To call for a copyright law reform.   

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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。

Do you like cheeseburgers and French fries? How about dumplings or tacos?   36   That’s pretty much what you have to do these days when takeout food is delivered, since so many restaurants now close their bags with staples（订书钉）.

  37   We can rest confident that no one else has access to our meal before it arrives. But surely the use of tape（胶带）, which many restaurants do choose instead, is much safer than staples. The latter are pulled into a bare and sharp position when a bag is opened, exposing lots of little teeth that find and surprise your wrist, hand or fingers. Ouch! Not to mention a wound from a staple is not only painful, but likely to get infected as well.

Furthermore, staples, being made of steel, are hardly environmentally friendly. And they pose yet another danger.   38   Believe me, you don’t want to eat a staple, especially not an open one.

What’s more, the open staple that we’re lucky enough to avoid when eagerly reaching into a bag of food poses a danger to anyone who handles the bag after we throw it away.   39 

Why don’t we put an end to this practice and ensure that rice and bread remain our only “staple foods”, and not French fries?

  40 

第三部分  英语知识运用  （共两节，满分45分）

第一节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

On July 11, famous Czech-French author Milan Kundera passed away at the age of 94. He has
  41   a deep impact on world literature.

Born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1929, Kundera was first   42  as a writer in his homeland. However, his critical views on political   43   led him to move to France in the 1970s, where he could continue to write and   44   his works. This experience greatly   45   his writing, giving it a deeply philosophical   46  .

Most of his novels are full of inspiring ideas as they   47   human nature.   48  , his work The Unbearable Lightness of Being （《不能承受的生命之轻》） leads readers to think about lightness and heaviness in life, body and   49  . Another novel, Life Is Elsewhere （《生活在别处》）, explores

  50   of love, youth and revolution. These novels have been   51   into many languages,
  52   the hearts of readers across the world. 

Kundera’s contributions   53   his novels, however. He also wrote essays   54   literature, art, and culture. His   55   that literature has the power to challenge social issues   56   him a place among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Kundera won many awards for his lifelong   57  .  

As Fudan University scholar Liang Yongan put it, “Kundera’s   58   marks the end of a (an)
  59   in world literature”. “Kundera is a writer and a   60   that we will miss,” French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told Reuters.

41. A. taken away   B. brought along  C. left behind    D. set aside

42. A. educated   B. trained    C. introduced   D. known

43. A. topics     B. opinions   C. campaigns   D. rights

44. A. produce    B. publish    C. appreciate   D. preserve

45. A. motivated   B. inspired   C. influenced    D. proceeded

46. A. advantage    B. argument   C. issue    D. theory

47. A. expand    B. explore    C. extend    D. experience

48. A. As a result   B. To begin with  C. In brief   D. For example

49. A. figure    B. soul      C. mood    D. brain

50. A. themes     B. details    C. accounts   D. plots

51. A. summarized   B. understood   C. promoted   D. translated

52. A. mending   B. following   C. capturing    D. opening

53. A. go beyond   B. brush aside   C. turn down   D. stick with

54. A. resisting against  B. adapted from  C. commenting on   D. concerned about

55. A. quality    B. belief     C. talent    D. wisdom

56. A. rewarded   B. offered   C. provided   D. earned

57. A. achievements   B. ambitions   C. addiction   D. improvement

58. A. devotion   B. appeal    C. career    D. passing

59. A. generation   B. era     C. fiction    D. conflict

60. A. thought    B. eye    C. voice     D. spirit

第II卷

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

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。

Company device allows those   61   lost an arm to retake control of their lives, reports He Qi in Shanghai.

After losing his left forearm during a workplace accident a few years ago, Wu Zheng’an fell into a depression and was   62  (constant) worried that he would never be able to work again. “ I couldn’t accept the new reality,” recalls Wu, who   63  (operate) a crusher at a construction site in Guangdong province when the accident occurred. For a long while, Wu had to survive on the support
  64  (provide) by his family as he couldn’t find a proper job.

  65  , he finally caught   66   glimpse of the light in March 2020 when he happened to watch a video clip of a smart bionic（电动仿生的）hand called OHand. Wu did not hesitate to give the product a go, and he now   67  (describe) that decision as life-changing.

  68   traditional artificial arms, OHand has signal sensors that can track changes in skin and transmit intention signals through muscles. Created by Shanghai-based OYMotion Technologies, OHand weighs just 495 grams and allows users to perform dozens of   69  (task) like holding chopsticks.

  70  (look) ahead, the company is aimed to reduce the cost of the bionic hand to benefit more people.

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，满分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。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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。

A Chinese teenager make history on Aug 21, 2023. The 14-years-old, Chen Yujie, set a new record with the girl’s 100 meters. Chen takes Su Bingtian as his role model but says she will continue working hard. It only took Chen three years to go from a ordinary student to a world champion. Apart from her nature talents, Chen is also a good example of why running is a sport can be taken up at any age. Compare to athletes in other sports, like a gymnast who might start training at age 4 or 5, Chen entered into the sports world at 11.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

 2023年6月5日是第52个世界环境日，主题是“减塑捡塑”(Beat Plastic Pollution)。你校将以此为主题，举办英语征文比赛。请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括： 

 1. 减少塑料污染的重要性；

 2. “减塑捡塑”的倡议。

注意：1. 词数100左右；
   2. 短文的题目已为你写好，可适当增加细节，使行文流畅。

Beat Plastic Pollution