哈尔滨市第九中学校2023届高三下学期第二次高考模拟考试英语试卷（含答案）

哈尔滨市第九中学校2023届高三下学期第二次高考模拟考试英语试卷

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

一、阅读理解

Four Special Hotels Around the world

Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah

    This place in the Utah desert is a favorite of many celebrities. While every room here has character, none matches the elegance(高雅) of the Girijaala Suite. The room has a large private lap pool, a sweeping balcony, and a sky lounge area where guests can bed down for the night under the clear Utah skies.

Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge, South Africa

    At this place on the border of Kruger National Park, guests can reserve a one -night experience in a four-level tree house to see animals that wander the park.

With no ordinary structure, the house has a supply of solar power, a water collection system, and a bio-rock sanitation(卫生) system. Here, guests can sleep under the night sky taking in the magic of their surroundings.

Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, California

    Beverly Wilshire has been an attraction to many rich and powerful people since its opening in 1928. Guests who reserve the Veranda Suite located on the roof of the hotel are in for a serious surprise. Not only is the room accessed by a hidden entrance behind a staircase, but it also has a 2100-square-foot balcony with dreamy views of the Hollywood Hills. In the middle of this private, urban place is a 10-foot-tall tent with crystal lamps and fur carpets. In a city full of stars, you can get a special feeling.

La Valise Tulum, Mexico

    If you can’t decide whether you would prefer to sleep indoors or outdoors, why not book a room that lets you do both in the same bed? Such is the feature of the Master Suite at this property in Tulum. The king-size bed can be rolled out onto the Caribbean Sea-facing balcony for a night under the stars or rolled in for a more private experience.

1、Which of the following can offer guests a close encounter with some wildlife?

A. Amangiri  B. Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge

C. Beverly Wilshire  D. La Valise Tulum

2、What is special about La Valise Tulum, Mexico?

A. It gives guests two sleeping choices in the same bed.

 B. It is designed in an environmental-friendly way.

C. It provides the best view of deserts and rocks.

D. It is equipped with a bio-rock sanitation system.

3、What do the four hotels have in common?

A. They are all located in a national park.

B. They all provide guests with a great view of hills.

C. They are all modern and well-equipped.

D. They all offer the experience of sleeping outdoors.

    On average, wildfires destroy over 6 million acres of land each year in the U.S. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service spent over S1 billion fighting those fires, mostly out West. Blazes start easily where there's plenty of dry fuel, such as dead grass, sticks and other dried plants. Knowing how much fuel is available can help fire management teams know where and when to be on high alert. And a teen has figured out a way to home in on such areas quickly.

    Nadine Han, 13, is a seventh grader at Boston Latin School. When she built a robot three years ago with FIRST LEGO League, hers was designed to prevent wildfires. When the girl's family visited Yellowstone National Park, later that year, what did they see? Evidence of wildfires. So Nadine followed up on that theme for her science fair project, and decided to find out how to predict wildfires.

    The teen learned about a satellite called SMAP. Launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 2015, it detects how wet or dry the soil is. It also can tell whether that moisture(水分) is frozen or liquid. SMAP's data soil moisture can be combined with other data to determine the vegetation water content, meaning the amount of water present in the plants. SMAP's data and the vegetation water content data are both freely available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. For her project, the teen downloaded a year's worth of data.

    Having compared plant water content and fuel moisture data for 1,413 different locations, she found that an increase in plant water content measured by the satellite was linked with an increase in fuel moisture as measured on the ground. For her study, 87% of the sites showed such a link.

    "This suggests it's feasible to use satellite data to estimate fuel moisture on the ground," Nadine concludes. The teen now hopes her technique will help land managers determine fire risks more quickly. Next, Nadine hopes to make a computer program that will estimate fire risk using satellite data.

4、What is implied about wildfires in the United States in Paragraph 1?

A. They are a natural phenomenon.

B.They happen less frequently year by year.

C.They're mostly caused by human activities.

D.They cause damage to most of the land in the US.

5、What made Nadine Han decide to research into the prediction of wildfires?

A. Her interest in scientific research. B. Her success in creating a robot.

C. Her involvement in a wildfire. D. Her visit to a national park.

6、What does the underlined word "feasible" in the last paragraph mean?

A. Challenging. B. Practicable. C. Valuable. D.Necessary.

7、What can be learned about the teen's research into wildfires?

A. She invested a lot of money in collecting data.

B. She has designed a computer program.

C. She got guidance from land managers.

D. She's confident about her research results.

    Some birds are inside decorators, placing big, showy feathers in their nests. But rather than beautifying their homes, these birds may be trying to scare nest-stealing neighbors.

    Birds sometimes weave feathers into their nests to provide insulation(隔绝). But behavioral ecologists Karen Wiebe and Tore Slagsvold also saw birds placing large feathers on the surfaces of nests. Those feathers wouldn't help with warmth. The researchers wondered whether the birds might be using the decorations to send a message.

    For birds that nest in holes, competition for nests can be really fierce. Birds scream and fight, sometimes killing an opponent. But these holes can also hide danger. Eagles or other predators may be hiding inside. If a nest contains feathers or other remains, it might be evidence that a predator had been there. Those holes might not be desirable.

    During spring, when nest competition is the fiercest, the researchers set up pairs of nesting boxes. One box contained white feathers. The other either contained no feathers or black feathers. Inside the boxes, black feathers were more difficult to see than white ones. Using video cameras, the researchers spied on how tree swallows, blue tits, and pied flycatchers reacted to the boxes. They watched how long birds waited to explore a nest box. When birds took longer to enter, that suggested the birds were scared.

    Birds of all three species hesitated to enter boxes with white feathers. But when feathers were in front of a nest, birds jumped right up and grabbed them. That suggested that birds weren't afraid of the feathers themselves.

    "It was really interesting to discover that birds were using a trick to help them keep their nests," Wiebe says. "When a bird leaves its nest to search for food, it opens the door for a nest stealer. But if it can buy a little time by scaring away intruders(不速之客) with these feathers, then it has a better chance of coming back in time to defend its nest site."

8、Why do birds cover the surfaces of their nests with big feathers?

A.To keep warm.  B. To attract mates.

C. To scare off intruders. D. To hide from predators.

9、What did the researchers find?

A. Feathers alone fail to frighten birds.

B. Holes with black feathers scare birds most.

C. Most birds are hesitant to get into white boxes.

D. Birds like feathers similar to those of their own.

10、What can we infer about birds from Wiebe's words?

A. They are poor at using tricks. B. They use feathers to play catch.

C.They seek food near their nests. D.They may be aware of nest stealers.

11、What can be the best title for the text?

A. Birds protect their food from predators cleverly

B. Birds attach importance to decorating their nests

C. Birds decorate nests to scare off stealers

D.Birds identify danger by feather colors

    Parenting styles and choices are known to influence the way that children develop and grow. Researchers are now discovering more about a similar relationship between owners and their pets. How you "parent" your dog has an impact on the kind of dog it grows up to be.

    The researchers studied 48 dog owners and their dogs, asking them to complete a pet parenting style survey before joining in three behavioral tests in the lab, assessing attachments and interactions between the dog and their human owners. Then researchers put the dog owners into three categories: authoritative (high expectations, high responsiveness), authoritarian (high expectations, low responsiveness), and permissive (low expectations, high responsiveness). The three behavioral tests covered attachment (how the dog responded to its owner during close interactions), sociability (how the dog responded when a stranger and its owner changed places with one another in the testing room), and problem-solving.

    Dogs with authoritative owners had the highest rate of secure attachment and were highly social and sensitive to social context, compared to dogs with authoritarian or permissive owners. What's more, the only dogs to solve the problem best came from the authoritative group. So researchers came with the conclusion that an owner who's highly responsive to a dog's behavior and needs tends to lead to a more social, secure, and smart dog.

    The study matches up in some ways with previous research into parents and kids, specifically that children with authoritative parents are more likely to show secure attachment. It is thought to be because of the reliable support they get. "This research shows that the pet dog-human caretaker bond may be functionally and emotionally similar to the bond between a human parent and their child," says behavioral scientist Lauren Brubaker.

    For now, though the study is enough to show that there is some kind of relationship between the approach we take as dog owners and the way that those dogs then behave, even with numerous other factors in play. "We still need to conduct more research in this area," said the researchers in their published paper.

12、What can we know about the research?

A. A pet parenting style survey was needed.

B. The dogs were divided into 3 categories.

C. Dog owners were tested for sociability.

D. Interactions between the dog owners were assessed.

13、What does Paragraph 3 mainly focus on?

A. The purpose of the research. B. The process of the research.

C. The findings of the research. D. The participants of the research.

14、The underlined word "they" in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.

A. parents B. pet dogs C.dog owners D.children

15、What's the purpose of the text?

A. To introduce some different pet parenting styles.

B. To inform readers of a research finding.

C.To instruct parents how to parent their kids.

D. To persuade dog owners to be authoritative.

二、七选五

16、    Flextime is a flexible hours schedule in which employees choose their own working hours, usually within approximate limits set by the employer or by the government. ①_____

    For employees, flextime has a clear advantage. ②_____ For example, they can use flextime to create schedules which will allow them to go to school, handle childcare, assist relatives, and perform other tasks. Employees may also use their flextime to create a schedule which optimizes creativity. For example, some employees prefer to work earlier in the day to get more accomplished.

    ③_____ First, it tends to increase employees' satisfaction. This makes the company a better and more productive place to work. In addition, flextime can allow companies to serve clients for a longer time, as employees will be around at different times to answer phones, attend meetings, and so forth.

    Most flextime schedules include core time. ④_____ Employees are also usually given an hourly, daily or weekly limit to ensure that they do not break laws on working hours. Or the company is only willing to pay wages for so many hours of work each week.

    A classic example of a flexible time schedule is that someone who works four 10-hour shifts a week can take three days off. Flextime can also be combined with flexplace, in which the environment is better than that of the office. ⑤_____ Employers may also allow people to work in untraditional settings such as coffee houses.

A. Employers benefit from flextime a lot, too.

B. Flextime is also seen as a family-friendly policy.

C. This method has been adopted by many employers.

D. For example, home offices are increasingly popular.

E. However, flextime may not be applicable to all fields.

F. It allows them to create work schedules that suit their lives.

G. It is a period of the day that everyone is expected to be at work.

三、完形填空（15空）

    A few weeks ago, my 3-year-old granddaughter Frances asked, "Why don't cardinals(红雀) migrate?" Frances's question    1    me, not only because I had no idea what the    2    was but also because she knew enough to ask it. When I still    3    to find correct explanations after I had thought for a moment, Frances got bored with me and    4    , intending to ask others.

    Preschoolers love thinking about possible    5    of interesting things. They feel    6    to wonder about anything, and they do so with    7    . However, after entering primary school, discouraged by most adults, including teachers, most children    8    asking how or why questions.

    Fortunately, there's no reason why we can't all be lifelong learners. I'm 69, but I still experienced the same thrill of    9    I had as a child when I tried to    10    information on the Internet to answer Frances's question about cardinals. I learned that Cardinals don't migrate    11    they have enough food, and that they choose to stay together in winter months to keep them    12    . After I learned about this, I was eager to see Frances again to    13    the knowledge with her while also    14    her further investigations.

    By embracing children's acts of wondering, you become their    15    in finding answers. Joining in the learning process, you will find countless opportunities to explore the colorful world all around you.

17、A. moved  B. confused  C. surprised  D. worried

18、A. chance  B. problem  C. influence  D. answer

19、A. struggled  B. learned C. managed  D. hesitated

20、A. held back  B. gave in  C. walked away  D. put off

21、A. benefits  B. solutions  C. designs  D. explanations

22、A. nervous  B. disturbed  C. embarrassed  D. free

23、A. relief  B.joy  C.pity  D. blessing

24、A. regret  B. continue  C. stop  D. enjoy

25、A. challenge  B. discovery  C. doubt  D. competition

26、A. collect  B. hide  C. supply  D. write

27、A. until  B. before  C. because  D. though

28、A. busy B. inspired  C. delighted  D. warm

29、A. compare  B. study C. share  D. create

30、A. promising  B. encouraging  C. permitting  D. controlling

31、A. partners  B. teachers  C. employees  D. learners

四、语法填空

32、    ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released ①_____(show) and test what a very large, powerful Al system can accomplish. You can ask it any question and often will get ②_____ useful answer.

    ChatGPT is a big deal. The tool seems pretty knowledgeable in areas ③_____ there's good training data for it to learn from. Since its launch, more than a million people ④_____(try) out ChatGPT. And it's becoming big business. But ChatGPT is an Al that's trained to recognize patterns in mass text ⑤_____(harvest) from the Internet, then further trained with human assistance to deliver more useful, better dialog. The answers you get may sound ⑥_____(reason) and even authoritative, ⑦_____ they might well be entirely wrong, as OpenAI warns.

    The fact that it offers an answer, though, is a remarkable development in computing. Computers are famously literal, ⑧_____(refuse) to work unless you follow exact requirements. ChatGPT is revealing a more human-friendly style of interaction, not to mention an ability to generate ⑨_____(answer) that are somewhere ⑩_____ copying and creativity.

五、书面表达

33、为了帮助学生解决学习和生活困难,你校最近新成立了青少年互助中心(Teenagers Help Center)。假定你是校英文报记者李华,请你在校英文报上为它写一篇宣传稿,呼吁有需要的同学加入。

注意:

1.词数80左右;

2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart

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六、读后续写

34、   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。

    On a beautiful Thursday of this April, Amy and Alan Green took their daughter Abbey out for a walk in the neighborhood. On their way back, Amy picked up a kite for Abbey from the Dollar Tree, blue with rainbows—there are a lot of rainbows decorating homes around the region these days, which helps make life less dull during the coronavirus pandemic.

    In the afternoon, Abbey took the kite out for its first flight. At first, the wind was perfect. It took the kite high in the sky. However, suddenly, the wind became much stronger and whipped the kite out of Abbey's hands in a moment. It sailed farther and farther and finally got stuck on the power lines next to a big tree, wrapping itself over and over again around the wires. Since the kite was too high for them to reach, the Greens could do nothing about it. Worried less about the kite than the potential danger it might present to the lines, Amy called National Grid to report the incident.

   About one hour later, Mike, a worker from the power company arrived. He carefully unwound the kite line from the wires. After about 10 minutes' effort, he successfully freed it. But unfortunately, as the kite was wrapped so tightly, there was some unpreventable damage. Still, he presented it at the door to Alan Green. As he left, he noticed Abbey took the kite to the backyard. Out of curiosity, he stood there for a while to see how the girl would deal with it. Surprisingly, she dug a hole and buried the kite in a shoebox! Even though he could not see the girl's face clearly, he knew exactly how sad Abbey could be. He really felt bad for her. And it was at that moment that he decided to do something.

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。

    The next day, Alan went out to get the mail as usual.

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    Deeply moved by this act of kindness, Alan posted the whole story on the Internet.

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参考答案

1、答案：B

解析：细节理解题。根据标题“Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge, South Africa”下面内容“At this place on the border of Kruger National Park, guests can reserve a one -night experience in a four-level tree house to see animals that wander the park. (在这个位于Kruger国家公园边缘的地方,游客可以在一个四层的树屋里预定一晚的体验,观赏在公园里游荡的动物。)”可知在这里可以观赏在公园里游荡的动物,即可以近距离与动物接触;故选B项。

2、答案：A

解析：细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“If you can't decide whether you would prefer to sleep indoors or outdoors, why not book a room that lets you do both in the same bed? Such is the feature of the Master Suite at this property in Tulum. The king-size bed can be rolled out onto the Caribbean Sea-facing balcony for a night under the stars or rolled in for a more private experience.(如果你不能决定你是喜欢睡在室内还是室外,为什么不预定一个房间,让你在同一张床上做这两件事?这就是Tulum这个地方的主人套房的特色。这张特大号的床可以铺在加勒比海边的阳台上,在星空下度过一个晚上,也可以铺在阳台上享受更私密的体验。)”可知“La Valise Tulum, Mexico”的特色是能让顾客预定一个房间,在一张床上既可选择睡在室内又可选择睡在室外,因为这张床足够大,可以让顾客在同一张床上有两种不同的睡觉方式的选择;故选A项。

3、答案：D

解析：推理判断题。根据文章第一段“The room has a large private lap pool, a sweeping balcony, and a sky lounge area where guests can bed down for the night under the clear Utah skies.(这个房间里有一个大型的私人游泳池,一个宽敞的阳台和一个天空休息区,客人可以在犹他州晴朗的天空下睡觉。)”可知“Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah”提供户外睡眠体验;根据文章第三段“Here, guests can sleep under the night sky taking in the magic of their surroundings.(在这里,客人可以在夜空下睡觉,感受周围环境的魔力。)”可知“Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge, South Africa”提供户外睡眠体验;根据文章第四段“In the middle of this private, urban place is a 10-foot-tall tent with crystal lamps and fur carpets. In a city full of stars, you can get a special feeling.(在这个私密空间的中央是一个10英尺高的帐篷,里面有水晶灯和毛皮地毯。在一个满是星星的城市里,你会有一种特别的感觉,)”可知“Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, California”提供户外睡眠体验;根据文章最后一段“The king-size bed can be rolled out onto the Caribbean Sea-facing balcony for a night under the stars or rolled in for a more private experience.(这张特大号的床可以铺在加勒比海边的阳台上,在星空下度过一个晚上,也可以铺在阳台上享受更私密的体验。)”可知“La Valise Tulum, Mexico”提供户外睡眠体验;故这四家酒店的共同点是都提供户外睡眠体验;故选D项。

4、答案：A

解析：根据第1段第3句可推断,野火是一种自然现象。

5、答案：D

解析：根据第2段最后三句可知,她去黄石国家公园玩时目睹到的野火促使她产生研究的决心。

6、答案：B

解析：略

7、答案：D

解析：根据最后一段第2句可知,她对自己的研究结果还是很有信心的。

8、答案：C

9、答案：A

10、答案：D

11、答案：C

12、答案：A

13、答案：C

14、答案：D

15、答案：B

16、答案：CFAGD

17、答案：B

18、答案：D

19、答案：A

20、答案：C

21、答案：D

22、答案：D

23、答案：B

24、答案：C

25、答案：B

26、答案：A

27、答案：C

28、答案：D

29、答案：C

30、答案：B

31、答案：A

32、答案：①to show②a③where④have tried/have been trying⑤harvested⑥reasonable⑦but⑧refusing⑨answers⑩between

33、答案：

    Aimed at relieving students' mental stress and helping solve some problems we are faced with, our Teenagers Help Center has been set up recently.

    Generally, there will be a sharing session, various interpersonal activities and some interesting games, which can help us know each other better, improve our relationship with others and refresh ourselves. Meanwhile, we can gradually find a way to maintain the balance between our study and our life. These activities and games are scheduled for Friday from 4 p.m. on the second floor of the Student Center.

    If you have any interest in this center, don't hesitate to join it. You won't be disappointed!

34、答案：

    The next day, Alan went out to get the mail as usual. To his surprise, there was a new kite—a cute robin with beautiful feathers-in the box along with a note written on the National Grid's notepaper. "I felt bad for your daughter, so I hope this new kite could make her smile," it read. "Stay safe and healthy!" The note was unsigned.

    Deeply moved by this act of kindness, Alan posted the whole story on the Internet. Soon, word got back to National Grid, which quickly identified Mike, the worker who had carefully saved the kite from the wires. He told that as he saw Abbey burying the kite, he thought of his own little sister and knew it well that the girl must be extremely sad. So after he left the Greens's house for more service calls that afternoon, he stopped by a shop to buy the new kite and sent it to the family. He didn't expect to be recognized, but Alan's post led to his identity being revealed, which resulted in the story being shared and liked by millions of people throughout the Internet.

解析：