2023南通海安高三上学期期初学业质量监测英语试题含答案

2023届高三期初学业质量监测试卷

英  语

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第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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）

听下面的5段对话。每段对话后都有一个小题，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。

1. What does the woman suggest the man do first?

A. Rent an apartment.    B. Call the house owner.    C. Pay his electricity bill.

2. Why won’t the woman stay at her own house?

A. She is locked out.

B. She is scared of being alone.

C. She is invited to her brother’s house.

3. What do we know about the woman?

A. She likes vegetable soup.    B. She just had a rest.    C. She has a bad cough.

4. What are the speakers going to do?

A. Attend a wedding.    B. Change clothes.    C. Go shopping.

5. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student.    B. Workmates.    C. Husband and wife.

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。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. Where does the man do sports?

A. At a badminton court.    B. At Moulton Industrial Park.    C. At Springfield Sports Center.

7. How much docs the man pay?

A. £10.    B. £30.    C. £200.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Why does the woman call the man?

A. To book a fight.    B. To cancel a visit.    C. To inform him of a change.

9. What industry do the speakers work in?

A. Technology.    B. Cloth.    C. Advertising.

10. What will the man do?

A. Call the potential customer.    B. Reschedule the meeting.    C. Take another flight.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Why does the man’s school need to raise money?

A. To buy more books.    B. To help people in need.    C. To have a field trip.

12. How will the man’s school raise money?

A. By going camping,    B. By washing cars.    C. By selling posters.

13. Where will the activity take place?

A. At school.    B. At a camping site.    C. At each student’s home.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What is the woman doing?

A. Offering information.    B. Sharing an experience.    C. Seeking help.

15. What does the man need to do?

A. Show his passport.    B. Bring his credit card.    C. Complete some forms.

16. Why is a bank statement needed?

A. It offers one’s address.

B. It proves one’s identity.

C. It shows one’s economic condition.

17. How many books can the man borrow at a time?

A. 12.    B. 8.    C. 4.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. Ways of reducing stress.    B. Tips on spending holidays.    C. Reasons for taking a holiday.

19. What will happen if people take few holidays?

A. They are hardly affected.

B. They may suffer great stress.

C. They can work more productively.

20. What problem can stress cause?

A. Bad sleep.    B. Reduced responsibility.    C. Poor memory.

第二部分  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

Performances

Let’s Face the Music

Ria Jones the world-famous star of Cats and Les Misérables, returns home for two special concerts. Ria invites you on a memorable journey that goes from musical to classical and from classical to pop. Songs from Miss Saigon perfectly mix with Disney favorites from Beauty and the Beast along with popular standards for a great evening in the company of a very special vocal talent.

Song Recital

Judy Coe performs widely as a soloist (独唱者) in America and is also a music teacher. The program includes songs from Porgy and Bess, a successful American opera, with special solo piano arrangements by Katherine Morris. Judy ends the concert with songs whose texts are by Shakespeare, Yeats, Eliot, Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickinson.

Mayte Martin

Mayte Martin is the best-known Catalan singer. She has been very popular since her early twenties, when she won a string of prizes. She has taken part in Barcelona’s WOMAD festivals and in the Gipsy King’s celebrated festival Mustique Gitano at Nimes. She will be accompanied by her regular solo guitarist, two dancers and a “clapper”.

The Adventure of Malic

This show is about the fantastically dangerous life of an imaginary Iberian character called Malic. In this show he visits China and gets into fights with dragons and then travels to Barcelona where he comes across many dangerous characters. The show is told using Chinese shadow puppets (皮影), with a live narrator-musician who gives life to the show in English.

1. In whose show can you enjoy famous writers’ works?

A. Ria Jones. B. Judy Coe. C. Mayte Martin. D. Katherine Morris.

2. In which performance can you enjoy Disney songs?

A. Let’s Face the Music.

B. Song Recital.

C. Mayte Martin.

D. The Adventure of Malic.

3. What do we know about “The Adventure of Malic”?

A. It is based on a sci-fiction.

B. It is shot and presented in China.

C. It uses a traditional Chinese art form.

D. Its characters speak Chinese fluently.

【答案】1. B    2. A    3. C

B

It was a reading class. While all her classmates were flying through the 2nd and 3rd books in the Harry Potter series, Skye Malik, only on page four of the first book, got impossibly stuck on the word “doughnut”.

Her unexpected difficulty with reading is called dyslexia. Skye got a professional diagnosis at the end of the 2nd grade. Knowing that other kids were going through the same thing made it easier on her somehow. What wasn’t easy, even after all the help she got from special tutors and reading programs, was fluent reading. What many people do without thinking—reading—she had to struggle with word by word, sometimes letter by letter. In class, she would hear the other kids flip through the pages on assignments and go on to the questions while she was still doing battle with the first paragraph.

She was as frustrated as she was discouraged. But she didn’t know of any other way until her 4th grade teacher, Miss Pollock, told her about something called Learning Ally.

Learning Ally is a non-profit organization that offers audio versions of books. A crew of volunteer readers has recorded 75,000 classic novels, children’s books, and school textbooks that help more than 300,000 students and adults with learning differences or who are blind. Now Skye could listen to the books with her ears and follow the words with her eyes on the page. Instead of having her mother read her textbooks to her, she could independently do her work. “With Learning Ally, I feel confident and capable and can easily keep up with my classmates,” Skye explains, “and I want other kids to feel empowered, just the way I did.”

So Skye, now aged 16, created The Paco Project which was named after her grandfather, whose nickname was “Paco”. The Paco Project is a fundraiser and educational initiative focusing on giving students with dyslexia access to the same Learning Ally technology that changed her life.

Skye has realized that she is one of the lucky kids who have been diagnosed. She knows that educating teachers about dyslexia and giving students with the leaning challenge the tools they need is a great first step in meeting dyslexia head on and helping them be confident, capable students.

“Right now they feel stuck ashamed, unsure and insecure about their school work. I hope I could help stop these students feeling this way, which would mean the world to me.”

4. According to the passage, what can we learn about Skye?

A. She felt annoyed at being teased by her classmates.

B. She found a way out with the help of Miss Pollock.

C. She preferred reading the first book of Harry Potter.

D. She was diagnosed with dyslexia in her fourth grade.

5. What’s the purpose of the Paco Project?

A. To be in honor of Skye’s grandfather.

B. To promote Learning Ally technology.

C. To empower those with reading difficulty.

D. To meet the growing demands of teachers.

6. Which of the following can best describe Skye’s character?

A. determined and social. B. independent and helpful.

C. empathetic and ambitious. D. considerate and confident.

7. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. What people with dyslexia are suffering?

B. What measures are needed to beat dyslexia.

C. How Learning Ally influenced people with dyslexia.

D. How Skye battled against dyslexia and helped others.

【答案】4. B    5. C    6. C    7. D

C

Climate change leads to threat to the world’s sandy beaches, and as many as half of them could disappear by 2100, a new study has found. Even by 2050 some coastlines could be unrecognizable from what we see today, with 10% to 12% facing serious erosion (侵蚀).

Using updated sea level rise predictions, the researchers analyzed how beaches around the world would be in a future with higher seas and more damaging storms. They also considered natural processes like wave erosion, as well as human factors — like coastal building developments, all of which can affect a beach's health. The study found that sea level rise is expected to outweigh (胜过) these other factors, and that the more heat-trapping gases human put into the atmosphere, the worse the influences on the world’s beaches are likely to be.

It’s hard to overstate just how important the world's beaches are. They cover more than one third of the world’s coastlines, and protect coastal areas from storms. Beaches are also important economic engines, supporting relaxation, tourism and other activities. And in some areas, the beach is more than a vacation destination. In places like Australia, life near the coast revolves (围绕) around the beach for much of the year.

Some of the world’s most popular beaches are already taking action. Places like Miami Beach are trucking in thousands of tons of sand to patch up (修复) badly eroded shorelines, while others have built sea walls and breakwaters in an attempt to hold precious sand in place. But the financial and environmental costs of these projects are huge, and scientists say rising seas and more powerful storms, as well as a warmer climate, may make this a losing battle.

However, the researchers did find that humans have some control over what happens to the world's beaches. If the world’s governments are able to continue cutting heat-trapping gas pollution, the researchers found that 22% of projected beach losses by 2050 could be prevented, a number that grows to 40% by 2100 if greenhouse gases are limited.

8. Which of the following mainly causes serious beach erosion?

A. Higher seas. B. Human factors.

C. Damaging storms. D. Wave erosion.

9. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. Storms damage one third of world’s coastlines.

B. Significance of beaches can’t be underestimated.

C. Economic activities may cause damage to beaches.

D. Beaches are the only economic engine for Australia.

10. How do scientists think of the actions taken to protect beaches?

A. Costly but failed. B. Effective but not enough.

C. Orderly but slow. D. Enormous but not constant.

11. What is the text mainly about?

A. Actions have been taken to protect beaches.

B. Beaches are facing the threat of disappearing.

C. Life in coastal areas mainly depends on beaches.

D. There exist challenges to protect eroded beaches.

【答案】8. A    9. B    10. B    11. B

D

In the villages of the English countryside, there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about.

Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the world’s biggest community. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.

SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in. Farmer has made program publicly available, among much criticism. A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites that are easy to steal in.

But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far, events have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.

So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it. In the early days, when you visited a Website, your browser simply looked at the content. Now the web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your own machine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.

But let’s look on the bright side. Given the lack of locks, the Internet is surely the world’s biggest (almost) crime-free society. Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest. Or that there currently isn’t much to steal. Or because vandalism (蓄意破坏) isn’t much fun unless you have a special dislike for someone.

Whatever the reason, let’s enjoy it while we can. But expect it all to change, and security to become the number one issue, when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for.

12. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?

A. Many Internet sites are not well protected.

B. Those happy times appear still to be with us.

C. There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about.

D. Hackers don’t actually break into an Internet site.

13. What can SATAN be used to do?

A. To prevent hackers breaking into websites.

B. To investigate the security of Internet sites.

C. To improve the security of the Internet system.

D. To download useful programs and information.

14. What’s the author’s attitude to SATAN?

A. Favorable B. Indifferent C. Cautious D. Doubtful

15. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To promote and sell the SATAN program.

B. To advocate people fleeing from the Internet.

C. To make netizens aware of the security of the Internet.

D. To inform netizens that the Internet is safe with SATAN.

【答案】12. A    13. B    14. A    15. C

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。

Evaluating Sources of Health Information

Making good choices about your own health requires reasonable evaluation. A key first step in bettering your evaluation ability is to look carefully at your sources of health information. ____16____. Besides, how to separate fact from opinion, how to recognize poor reasoning, and how to analyze information and the reliability of sources are of great importance. The following suggestions can help you sort through the health information you receive from common sources.

Go to the original source. ____17____. Find out for yourself what a study really reported, and determine whether it was based on good science. Think about the type of study. And examine the findings of the original research.

Watch for misleading language. Some studies will find that a behavior “contributes to” or is “associated with” an outcome; this does not mean that a certain course must lead to a certain result. Be aware that information may also be incorrectly explained by an author’s point of view. ____18____.

Use your common sense. If a report seems too good to be true probably it is. ____19____. The goal of an ad is to sell you something. Evaluate “scientific” statements carefully, and be aware of quackery (江湖骗术).

____20____. Friends and family members can be a great source of ideas and inspiration, but each of us needs to find a healthy lifestyle that works for us.

Developing the ability to evaluate reasonably and independently about health problems will serve you well throughout your life.

A. It’s right for you to make choices.

B. Make choices that are right for you.

C. Media reports often simplify the results of medical research.

D. Be especially careful of information contained in advertisements.

E. Carefully read or listen to information in order to fully understand it.

F. Reasonable evaluation includes knowing where and how to find relevant information.

G. Reasonable evaluation can distinguish between research reports and public health advice.

【答案】16. F    17. C    18. E    19. D    20. B

第三部分：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。

“Ladies and gentlemen, the time train has arrived at the terminal!” It felt like I had woken up from a dream, ____21____ soon discovered I had come to 2035. Suddenly, I heard a strange voice calling my name. I turned around, only to find a robot ____22____ to me enthusiastically. “I’ll show you around the city in 2035!” I nodded immediately, ____23____ what the city would be like.

Once I walked out of the train station, many crossed air lanes came into view. The robot, seeing how ____24____ I was, explained the new traffic system to me. The system was put into place by many famous engineers using highly ____25____ technology. In fact, it eliminated (消除) the issue of traffic jams entirely.

Next we made our way to a restaurant nearby. Just as I ____26____ that there was no menu, a waiter began to scan my body with a special ____27____, which gave me a big fright, so I ____28____ out of my seat immediately. The robot explained it was just a machine that was able to figure out what our body needed and chose the recipe that ____29____ us most. The waiter then introduced me to the electronic screen that allowed me to choose the environment according to my _____30_____. I pressed the “beach” button on the screen and _____31_____ I felt a sea breeze. I couldn’t help but _____32_____ at how rapidly technology had advanced.

We _____33_____ returned to the train station. Just as I _____34_____ the train, I heard a familiar voice calling my name. I opened my eyes to see my mom standing over me. What a _____35_____ dream!

21. A. while B. so C. if D. but

22. A. singing B. waving C. screaming D. flying

23. A. getting B. knowing C. wondering D. wandering

24. A. astonished B. scared C. bored D. moved

25. A. standard B. useless C. unusual D. advanced

26. A. told B. realized C. heard D. reminded

27. A. instrument B. button C. engine D. accelerator

28. A. took B. left C. jumped D. danced

29. A. attracted B. suited C. provided D. offered

30. A. temperature B. taste C. gene D. place

31. A. suddenly B. sadly C. absolutely D. casually

32. A. aim B. guess C. sigh D. stare

33. A. immediately B. hardly C. occasionally D. eventually

34. A. put off B. brought in C. got on D. looked into

35. A. terrible B. practical C. awful D. fantastic

【答案】21. D    22. B    23. C    24. A    25. D    26. B    27. A    28. C    29. B    30. B    31. A    32. C    33. D    34. C    35. D

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。

When ____36____ (ask) to talk about air and water quality in his hometown by a TV reporter, Qi Mu noted, “The air is great now and we can take more ____37____ (walk) and enjoy being outdoors again.” He felt quite pleased because the villagers were living ____38____ (harmony) with nature once more. However, he could not forget about an earlier time ____39____ his village had been struggling with a serious air quality problem.

In the 1990s, garbage from a nearby city was usually brought to the village. “How can we make use of this?” the villagers wondered. Soon they found that garbage could be used to feed pigs. “Over the next few years, dozens of pig farms ____40____ (set) up,” Qi recalled. But then nobody in the village wanted to open their windows. “The smell from the garbage and pig waste was making us sick.” Qi said. The numbers of mosquitoes and files were also ____41____ (horrify). “____42____ such circumstances, no single women wanted to marry anyone in our village and move here,” Qi sighed.

The villagers could no longer tolerate the situation. So an initiative was launched ____43____ a “clean-up” campaign was added to the government agenda, ____44____ (include) restricting larger vehicles from passing through the village. Garbage from the city was no longer disposed of in the village, and more tees were planted. “We can all breathe more freely now that the natural beauty of our village _____45_____ (restore),” said Qi.

【答案】36. asked   

37. walks    38. harmoniously   

39. when    40. were set   

41. horrifying   

42. Under    43. and   

44. including   

45. has been restored

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

46. 假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Michael打算来中国旅行，让你推荐一个旅游胜地。请你给Michael回信，内容包括：

1.你的建议；

2.你理由；

3.你的祝愿。

注意：

1.写作词数应80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答

Dear Michael,

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

【答案】Dear Michael,

I’m glad that you are coming to visit China. There is one city I want to recommend to you.

Bejing, the capital of China, has a long history. Many ancient dynasties made it their capitals, so there are many majestic buildings. If you want to have an enjoyable journey, I advise you to visit the Great Wall, the Summer Palace and the Palace museum. Besides, Beijing is also famous for its local delicacies that you haven’t tasted. Wishing you a pleasant trip in China!

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节（满分25分）

47. 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。

At 76 years old, Melanie felt tired all the time. It had nothing to do with her age, though. 14 years ago, her son, Anthony, died in a plane crash. After a long-time search, the rescuers said there were no survivors and no hope for the victims’ families.

Luckily, Melanie had Anthony’s son, Mark, and his wife, Kayla, to get her by. But it wasn’t the same. She missed Anthony and often felt hopeless about life. Her son died at a young age. He left a baby, and Kayla had not recovered from his death either.

One day at home, when watching the news on TV, Melanie and Kayla were suddenly surprised by what they were seeing. A news reporter was talking beside a man who looked like Anthony. He seemed older than he had ever been. The news caused great excitement. “It must be him!” Melanie and Kayla both said happily.

“If you recognize this man, please call the number on the screen. Recently, a vague (模糊的)memory of having a plane crash hit this man’s mind. But he still doesn’t remember anything before the crash 14 years ago near the Canary Islands. Authorities now have reason to believe that there was a mistake in the previous report that the crash left no survivors…”

When the news ended, Kayla called the number immediately. She told the attendant that she believed the man was her husband Anthony and provided details. Kayla also asked for more information about what had happened over the past 14 years since the accident. The attendant said, “14 years ago, some local fishermen found him who lost his memory. They offered him a job, and he has worked and lived with one of them since then.”

This attendant then told Anthony that his family were waiting for him to go home. Weeks later, Anthony went to the city where Melanie and Kayla lived. All the family members were waiting at the airport. Finally, the gates opened, and people were coming out.

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。

Suddenly, Kayla noticed a familiar face in the crowd.

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Back home, Melanie and Kayla tried to restore Anthony’s memory.

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【答案】Suddenly, Kayla noticed a familiar face in the crowd. She could hardly contain her excitement. “Anthony!” She screamed, waving joyfully at her long lost husband. Hearing his name called, Anthony immediately hurried to them. Meanwhile, Melanie recognized her son in an instant, who hadn’t changed so much except for some wrinkles on his forehead. “Thank goodness! How nice to have you come back!” She said in a trembling voice and held him tightly, tears blurring her eyes. Confused as Anthony was, he believed they were his beloved family members mentioned by the attendant and agreed to go back home with them.

Back home, Melanie and Kayla tried to restore Anthony’s memory. Every day, they accompanied him to receive the rehabilitation treatment in the hospital. Apart from that, they showed him their former pictures, which they hoped would bring back his memory. One day, as they were browsing the pictures, one of them caught his eyes. It was Anthony and his son, in which they took a trip to their old house. “Mark! It’s Mark!” he yelled. Happy memories of the past flooded into his mind. With great effort, Anthony’s memory was restored.