2023届福建省龙岩第一中学高三上学期第一次月考英语PDF版含答案

  龙岩一中2023届高三第一次月考

英语试题

（满分：150分时间：120分钟）

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。

1.What does the woman want to buy?

A.A skirt.     B.A handbag.     C.A purse.

2.What time of day is it now?        

A. Morning.        B. Afternoon.              C. Evening.

3.How does the woman feel?        

A. Excited.        B. Confused.               C. Annoyed.

4.What is the conversation mainly about?

A. Bad neighborhoods.     B. Chinese New Year.      C. A loud noise.

5.What does the woman mean?

A. The butter is not in its usual place.

B. She doesn't want to ask Andy again.

C. They should get more butter.

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。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.What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A. Boss and assistant.  B. Customer and waitress. C. Husband and wife.

7.Who is Tom?

A.A waiter.          B. The new secretary.     C. The old secretary.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9、10题。

8. Why didn't the man know about the news?

A. He was in a different area of the country.

B. He only pays attention to local reports.

C. He has been busy with his presentation.

9.How many people were still lost after the rescue?

A.21.     B.25.           C.29.

10.Where is the woman from?

A. Rome.    B. New York.             C. Tokyo.

听第8段材料，回答第11、12题。

11.Where can the man learn more about how people talk?

A. In the newspaper.     B. On TV shows.          C. From his translator.

12. What did the man already do?

A. He learned to be humorous.

B. He talked about current events.

C. He found a group of friends in a similar situation.

听第9段材料，回答第13、14、15、16题。

13. When did the man fall in love with the ocean?

A. In his childhood.         B. In his teens.             C. In his adulthood.

14.How has the ocean changed recently?

A. There are more whales in it.

B. It is cleaner at the bottom.

C. There is more trash in it.

15.According to the man, what affects the recycling of plastic?

A. The price of oil.     B. The number of recycle bins.   C. The amount of plastic.

16.What is the man's suggestion when people shop in the grocery store?

A. Bringing their own containers.

B. Using the plastic bags.

C. Buying things wrapped in plastic.

听第10段材料，回答第17、18、19、20题。

17. What is the main topic of the speech?

A. The media.  B. Television channels.    C. The Internet.

18.What is the most important reason for people to have the right information?

A. To limit the power of government.

B. To help themselves vote wisely.

C. To participate in important decisions.

19. Why are politicians unsatisfied with the media?

A. They don't think the media is reliable.

B. They think the media only cares about money.

C. They don't think the media provides enough variety.

20.Why have more choices of news caused problems?

A. The government is more careful.

B. Citizens are watching more channels.

C. People disagree on what the facts are.

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

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●Download free legal forms and contracts

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●Complete your will or estate plan

●Access prenuptial agreements, divorce papers and more

●Upload a speeding ticket

●Contact your law firm

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If you ever need emergency help, your App can connect you with legal assistance anytime, day or night. With the App, you always have legal counsel ready and waiting — right in your back pocket.

21.What do we know about LegalShield?

A. It offers 24-hour legal protection.         B. It serves people over 47 years old.

C. It protects you from having trouble.       D. It provides better post-paid service.

22.What’s the advantage of LegalShield compared to most lawyers?

A. It’s more professional and time efficient.

B. It’s more money-saving and convenient.

C. It’s more accessible in all conditions.

D. It can answer more questions over the phone.

23.Being a member of LegalShield, by checking their App often, you may_____________.

A. get extra service for free

B. pay for their service by hour

C. get the help from the best lawyers nationwide

D. pay less than $24.95 per month for service

B

My name is Destiny, working at a Psychological Counselling Center. In my teens, there was nothing special about me. My older sister, Antia, is beautiful. My younger brother, Tye, is a genius at the age of 13. He completely skipped the sixth grade. How do I compete with that?

My mom and I were home alone one day. I went into the room where she was watching television and blurted out, “Mom, is there anything special about me?”

She thought about it for a moment and then turned down the volume on the TV. She took a deep breath，took my hand and exhaled (呼气).

“You have the ability to say just the right thing at just the right time.”

“Really! Is that it, words?" I tried to keep my voice steady but I could hear the anger even as I fought to control it.

“It's more than words, Destiny," my mom said. I know my mother meant well but I felt worse than ever. I burst into tears. Why was I even born?

The next day is when my whole life changed. I went to school earlier than before and noticed Darwin sitting across the room which is strange because no one ever notices Darwin.  Suddenly, Darwin stood up and threw away all his books, shouting loudly. I could hear screaming and crying but the sounds seemed distant as I focused my full attention on Darwin six feet in front of me. I felt the words swell up in me. “Darwin," I heard myself say with a calm, steady voice. "I have family and friends with so much talent and potential and I have none. There is nothing special about me." From the corner of my eye, I could see other staring at me in silence. I continued talking. “You are so smart. You can answer questions that the teacher hasn't even asked yet. Do you know that everyone in this class is envious of you?” Hearing my words, he calmed down and gave me a big hug.

Then the teacher came. Learning about what happened the teacher smiled, “That was a great job you did, young lady Superman could not have done a better job than you did here today.” I couldn't believe that she compared me to Superman. Well, I work at Psychological Counselling Center now. There is a cork board over my desk filled with thank-you cards and letters from people who say they owe their lives, careers, or their family's to my words. But to me, they are more than words, they are my super power!

24. Why does the author mention her sister and brother?

A. She wants to show family love.          B. She feels really proud of them.

C. She envies them their superiority.        D. She considers competing with them.

25. What is the author's reaction to her mother's words in Paragraph 6?

A. She could hardly believe her mother.     B. She understood her mother's white lie.

C. She said more words to her mother.      D. She had doubt about her family origin.

26. What do we know about Darwin from the text?

A. He quarreled with his classmates.           B. He became wild for some reason.

C. He failed again in the examination.          D He lacked great talent and potential.

27. What does the author mean by the last sentence?

A. She was grateful to her teacher.            B. She owed her career to her customers.

C. She understood what her mother had said .   D. She thought she was a lady superman.

C

Mangroves are trees that typically grow in saltwater along coasts. But some red mangroves end up deep in the rainforests of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. These plants live in freshwater along the San Pedro Martir River. That's nearly 200 kilometers from the sea. Scientists wanted to know how these mangroves got trapped so far inland. Carlos Burelo was among them. He became curious about these mangroves on a childhood fishing trip there 35 years ago. Burelo saw that the roots of the mangroves grew above ground. This was different from the other trees.

Burelo's team first investigated where the freshwater mangroves came from. They started by collecting their leaves and then compared their DNA to the leaves from coastal mangroves which were growing along the Gulf of Mexico. The DNA helped identify the origins of the mangroves on the San Pedro Martir River. They had started along the Gulf of Mexico, some 170 kilometers away from the river. The team discovered other evidence that this ecosystem had once been coastal. They discovered 112 other species in this region that are typically found near coasts.

The researchers looked at the soil too. "These sediments （沉积物）near the mangroves revealed exactly what we expected," says ExequielEzcurra, an ecologist at the University of California. In all, the researchers turned up coastal stones, shells of sea snails and clay sediments rich in shell fragments （碎片）. These led the researchers to conclude the area used to be part of the ocean long ago.

Computer models of how sea level has changed over time confirmed those findings. The models showed that when sea levels were higher in the past, the ocean merged with the lower basin of the San Pedro Martir River. That would have been around 150,000 to 130,000 years ago. This pushed red mangroves and other species inland.

“This discovery highlights how changes to the past climate have affected the world's coastlines," Ezcurra says. "It also offers a chance to better understand how future sea level rise may affect these ecosystems. "

28. What did Burelo notice as a child?

A. The changes of the sea water.              B. The problems facing the rainforest.

C. The unusual roots of some mangroves.       D. The influence of mangroves on fishing.

29. What can we infer about the freshwater mangroves and the coastal ones?

A. They are close in DNA.     B. They have different leaves.

C. They have different origins.    D. They both have many species.

30. What does the research of the soil show?

A. The composition of the soil is very complicated.

B. The freshwater mangroves once grew in the sea.

C. Sea creatures influence the growth of mangroves.

D. The sea level has little change over the past years.

31. What does the underlined phrase “merged with" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Developed from.       B. Changed into.

C. Depended on.       D. Combined with.

D

Stanford University researchers have developed a device called a nature-inspired aerial grasper, or SNAG, which can be attached to a quadcopter drone （四轴无人机） to give it feet and legs like those of an eagle. When equipped with the device, the drone is able to fly around catching and carrying objects and perching（栖息）on various surfaces, according to a Stanford news release dated Dec. 1, 2021, describing the work.

But copying the flexibility of birds wasn’t easy to do. The researchers shot videos of small parrots flying back and forth between special perches that contained sensors to measure the physical forces of landing, perching and takeoff.

“What surprised us was that they did the same aerial military exercise, no matter what surfaces they were landing on,” one of the researchers, William Roderick, explained in the news release. “They let the feet handle the variability and complexity of the surface texture itself,” he said.

Giving a drone similar abilities required technological feat. SNAG has a 3D-printed structure that imitates an eagle’s lightweight bones, and each of its legs is equipped with a motor for moving back and forth and a second one for grasping.

Mechanisms in the robot’s legs are designed to absorb impact energy and passively change it into grasping force, the way that a bird’s muscles would. As a result, a drone equipped with the device can grasp something strongly in just 20 milliseconds. Once the robot’s feet are wrapped around a perch, its ankles lock and an accelerometer—a device that measures vibration-detects the landing and activates a balancing algorithm（算法）to stabilize it on the perch.

Elsewhere, researchers at other institutions also have been working for years on giving drones the ability to land and hang onto something. As this 2019 Smithsonian article explains, being able to land in various places helps drones to conserve energy that would expend by having to remain in the air. That’s important, because the flight time of robotic aircrafts is limited by their battery power.

32. What inspired the SNAG’s development?

A. The way parrots perch.              B. The military exercise.

C. The 3D-printed technology.          D. The eagle’s lightweight bones.

33. What makes the drones’ grabbing something strongly so quickly possible?

A. The powerful battery.

B. Their ability to imitate parrots’ taking off.

C. The application of advanced flying techniques.

D. The mechanical devices modeling a bird’s muscles.

34. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Flight time is not vital to the drones.

B. After 2019, researchers quit efforts to improve flight time.

C. Flight time has been a problem before this study.

D. Researching the ability to land and hang onto something is meaningless.

35. What is the most suitable title for the text?

A. Drones, an application to the military      B. Robotic drones, really like birds

C. Robotic drones, a comparison of birds      D. Quadcopter drones, advanced technology

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。

As the proverb goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.36      A paper published two years ago in Nature found a connection between people's sense of well-being and the scenicness（美景）of where they lived. The paper’s authors measured scenicness by conducting a survey among volunteers.

The connection, the paper's authors found, held true whether a neighborhood was urban or rural.37     ___Nor did levels of air pollution have any influence on it. The authors also discovered that differences in volunteers' health were better explained by the scenicness of where they lived than by the amount of green space around them.

38    The team behind that Nature paper have nevertheless decided to have a go. They have adapted a computer program to recognize beautiful landscapes, whether natural or artificial, using the criteria that a human beholder would employ. The program's task was to work out, by analyzing each photograph's features in the context of its Scenic-or-Not ratings, what it is that makes a landscape scenic.

Most of the results are not surprising. Lakes and horizons scored well. So did valleys and snowy mountains. In artificial landscapes, castles, churches and cottages were seen as scenic.39       . The analysis did, however, confirm one important finding from the team's previous study, which is also a message for town planners. Green spaces alone are not scenic. To be so they need to involve contours（高低起伏的轮廓）and trees.40                                  A. But surroundings matter.

B. Hospitals, garages and motels were not so much

C. So people have a deep affection for where they live.

D. It bore no relation to volunteers' social and economic status.

E. Therefore, less grass and more trees and bushes would be welcome.

F. Natural landscapes are rated as scenicness as opposed to artificial landscapes.

G. Determining what scenicness is, though, has always been frustrating for scientists.

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。

Today’s birthday gift was to my friend Oscar in Portland who is unhoused. I got him a $50 Kroger    41    so that he can buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Oscar and I have been talking a lot about his health and how important    42    is. It’s really    43    for Oscar to get good food. Most of what is    44    to him are not fresh foods. As he has an immune（免疫的）disease, these kinds of foods are really making it    45   . Now that spring is here,    46   , he can get fresher produce.

I    47    him to the book called Fiber Fueled. After reading it, I started learning to make meals just from plants. The more I learn about plant fueled eating, the better I feel about this decision. And this book is specifically about    48    the body’s capacity to cure itself. So my friend    49    the book from the library and it will come in soon. He wants to learn about this too since he has serious immune issues. That’s how he lost his job and then his    50   .

I want him to    51   , and find a job and a home again. And I won’t stop helping him until that    52   . Once my social security checks come in, I plan to make sure he gets Kroger cards every time I get paid so that he has plenty of fresh produce.

Oscar’s page on Twitter is @MyHomelesMeals. More than anything, he shows    53    for every single person who helps him on a daily    54   . He always shares what we send if he can, too. He recently joined Service Space because he said their mission statement is    55    with his values. He’s quite an exceptional young man.

41. A. card  B. cake  C. book   D. dinner

42. A. medicine  B. treatment  C. nutrition  D. communication

43. A. splendid  B. incredible C. impossible      D. difficult

44. A. turned in  B. given out C. sorted out       D. focused on

45. A. worse  B. better    C. easier  D. healthier

46. A. definitely  B. desperately   C. endlessly  D. hopefully

47. A. introduced  B. distributed  C. presented       D. devoted

48. A. making up for    B. taking hold of   C. making room for  D. taking advantage of

49. A. packaged   B. preferred  C. ordered         D. searched

50. A. family B. apartment C. plants  D. friends

51. A. emerge  B. recover  C. shine  D. tolerate

52. A. passes  B. varies  C. happens         D. updates

53. A. affection  B. passion  C. confidence       D. gratitude

54. A. basis  B. range C. target  D. pursuit

55. A. content  B. concerned  C. consistent D. familiar

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。

Many excellent warship crews have been trained on aircraft carrier the Liaoning of the People's Liberation Army Navy. As the only female deck operation officer on it, RemilaDabul of Kazak ethnicity (哈萨克族), whose story 56      (report) by the media in January, has attracted much public attention.

Before working on the deck, Remila was a radar and telephone 57        (operate). But when she first saw a J-15 fighter taking off, the idea of working alongside it crossed her mind.   58       eager was she to be a crew member that she overcame many difficulties and ultimately became 59        _________(qualify).

During her work, Remila wears a blue helmet, goggles, and blue suits. After a J-15 lands,  60______      she needs to do is carry the heavy wire after 61        (get) signals and run to the fighter to take a series of actions for a quick installation. “The higher risk our work is, the 62________(firm) belief we should have,” said Remila. She has put her belief 63        practice in her daily security and guarantee work.

This year, Remila spent her64       (five) Spring Festival aboard the carrier. Remila said, “I miss my parents in Xinjiang. I love my career and 65       (be) willing to shoulder the responsibility to safeguard the happiness and peaceful life of millions of families in the motherland.”

第三部分写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

学校英文报正在开展以Learning English Beyond the Classroom为题的讨论。请使用图表中的调查结果写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：

1．学习活动状况描述：

2．简单评论；

3．你的建议。

注意：

1．词数100左右；

2．短文的题目已为你写好。

Learning English Beyond the Classroom
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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。

It was a cold yet sunny Saturday morning in February. Dad’s New Year’s resolution had been to get fit. Mum pushed him out of bed and told him to go jogging by the river. Later, after a nice lie-in, she went downstairs in her dressing gown and found the kids watching TV. She turned it off and said she was going to do something really special for Dad’s birthday. If they overheard anything, just promised to keep it secret.

   Jenny looked at Mum with a puzzled expression on her forehead and promised they wouldn’t say anything whatever happened. But Jenny reminded Dad’s birthday was in June and it might be a little too early to get all steamed up about it.

   Silent for a moment, Mum said she was not getting everything ready but just wanted to spare enough time for preparation as this year it’s a bigger deal than usual. Dad was going to be 50.

“50! Gosh, that’s half a century,” spluttered Gerry. “I knew he was old, but I didn’t realize he was ancient!?”

    Indeed, that was why Mum started planning a special party for him. Mum talked with grandma about the plan because her house was the only one in the family that is spacious enough for all friends and relatives. Grandma quite agreed and also started preparing.

“But you know how Dad feels guilty to bother others. You’ve got to admit,” reminded Jenny. Thinking over the special occasion, Mum was continuing with her secret when one evening, Dad was sitting at the dinner table and he suddenly slapped his forehead, “I just realized that I am going to be 50 in June. Let’s just quietly forget about it. I want to mourn (哀悼) the passing of my youth in private.”

“Oh, come on Dad, don’ t be such a spoil-sport!” begged the kids, hoping to give mum a hand.

   Realizing no more chance to hide the secret, Mum carefully worded her thought and shared her plan of having a little party at grandma’s house. Dad was stunned(震惊的) to no reply.

Paragraph 1: Frustrated, Mum made a call to Grandma.___________________________________________

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Paragraph 2: They got everything ready as planned when June finally came. __________________________ 

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