江苏省常州市田家炳高级中学2023-2024学年高一上学期10月月考英语试题

2023-2024学年第一学期10月份阶段调研

                        英语                   2023.10

第一部分：听力  略

第二部分 阅读理解

第一节（共15小题，每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

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It's time to play your part!

Our Connect Recover Thrive campaign will help to care for the National Park for the future, If you love thePeak District and want to give something back, please sign up today to give a small amount each month. It's not all about the money, we also need your time and expertise(专长)--could you commit today to giving a few hours a month to help us raise funds and support for the Peak District National Park?

Thank you for your support, there is so much more to do, and we need your help to do it.

Give a monthly donation

 One of the easiest ways for you to help us to care for the Peak District Nation Park is to give a regulardonation, Don't forget that if you are a UK taxpayer you can add gift aid and the government will add 25% to your donation at no cost to you.

Take on a fundraising challenge

We're looking for fundraising heroes to take on exciting challenges to raise money to care for the PeakDistrict National Park Could you do a sponsored walk,run,cycle ,swim? Could you host an event in your community could you break a world record?

Remember the Peak District after you've gone

Do you love the Peak District National Park and want to see it cared for after you've gone? Leaving a gift in your will is a really special way to help us to look after the Peak District National Park for future generations.

Support the Access Fund

The Access Fund is a restricted fund which helps our partners at the Peak District National Park Authority to add new access points, restore paths, enhance the accessibility of paths, replace gates, all to improve accessibility to access land. If you would like to help look after the National Park please consider a donation to the Access End here.

（   ）21.What will people do in the Connect Recover Thrive campaign?

1. Appreciate scenery around the park.
2. Encourage tax payers to volunteer.
3. Solve technical problems of the park.

D.Give support in caring for the park

（   ）22. How can you become a fundraising hero?

A By giving a monthly donation.

B By leaving a gift in your will.

C.By joining in a competitive sport.

D By adding gift aid to your donation.

（   ）23.What is the Access Fund aimed at?

A.Land reservation.

B.Accessibility restriction.

C.Accessibility improvement.

D.Paths replacement.

B

In October 2002, Winston Churchill (丘吉尔) was chosen by the British people as “the greatest British man”. The great British men behind him were Shakespeare, Newton, and Darwin. But many people did not know that Churchill was thought to be a bad boy when he was a child.

At the age of seven, Winston Churchill was sent to a boarding (寄宿) school named St. George. The school rules were strict. He often got serious punishment. Churchill cried loudly and kicked wildly when he was beaten. At the end of the term, he returned home with a report card and pains all over his body. The report card said that he was ‘naughty” (顽皮的).

At the age of twelve, his father sent him to Harrow Public School, which was famous for training English gentlemen. Because he failed the entrance exam, he was placed in the last group of the class with worst grades. He fell behind the others in study. He gave many people the impression of low energy, strangeness, and lawlessness. Fortunately, he still had a friend, his grandfather. He said, “Let him go! If boys have the chance to show their talents, they are sure to become better.” Churchill kept the words of his grandfather in mind, and secretly looked for it in his heart.

Many years later, Churchill was already a successful politician and writer. He worked as a reporter, as Secretary of the Navy, and as Prime Minister (首相) of the United Kingdom. He said, “My grandfather taught me that boys must choose their own path. I don’t have special talents and my success is by working hard.”

24．The second paragraph mainly tells us______________.

A．Churchill loved his school B．Churchill got good education

C．Churchill got less punishment D．Churchill was once considered as a bad boy

25．Churchill’s grandfather was_____________.

A．a gentleman tom France B．of great help to Churchill

C．rich with little experience D．unsure of Churchill’s becoming better

26．Which of the following is the correct order according to the passage?

①Churchill became a successful politician and writer.

②Churchill went to Harrow Public School.

③Churchill was sent to a boarding school.

④Churchill’s grandfather encouraged him a lot.

A．③④②① B．③②④① C．①③②④ D．②③④①

27．Which part of a magazine is the passage probably from?

A．Geography World. B．Science Study.

C．History Character. D．Natural Environment.

C

As an intense heat wave sweeps through China, residents are seeking relief in air raid shelters and swimming pools to stay cool, and dozens of cities, including Shanghai, Chongqing and Hangzhou, have issued their highest-level red alert warnings. Shanghai has issued three red alerts this year, with the temperature hiting 40.9Celsius on July 13, matching the record set in 2017 since 1873. The fact that Shanghai has experienced only 16days of 40°C plus temperatures since the city began keeping records in 1873 should give us an idea about the seriousness of the situation.Medical experts say extreme heat could cause nausea (恶心), fatigue, sunstroke and even death, with seniorcitizens and people with long-term illnesses particularly yulnerable to heat waves.

Extreme heat,events, which began a month ago, have affected the lives of more than 900 million pcople inChina. Between June 1 and July 12, the average number of days with temperatures above 35°C was 5.3, up 2.4days over normal years, breaking the national record set in 1961, according to the National Climate Center.Parts of Europe are also in the grip of heat waves and experiencing extreme weather events after the westernpart of North America faced extreme heat waves last year. In response to the exceptionally high temperatures, theUnited Kingdom has declared a national emergency(紧急状态)and issued the highest-level red alert warning forMonday and Tuesday for the first time. More alarmingly, the average global temperaure in June this year was0.4°C higher than normal years and the highest since 1979, with temperatures in countries such as Spain, France

and Italy exceeding 40°C.Unfortunately, extreme heat, which is directly related to climate change, will become more frequent and intense in the next 30 years, setting new records for high temperatures. As global warming intensifies, losses will increase, forcing natural and human systems to raise their adaptation limits.

（   ）28.What can we know about the heat waves this year?

A. The whole Europe as well as America are suffering from the heat waves.

B.The number of days above 35°C in June breaks the national record.

C.Shanghai has experienced a higher temperature than that in 2017.

D.It may cause more harm to the old and people with long-term illnesses.

（   ）29How does the author develop the text?

A.By giving figures and comparing

B.By explaining and contrasting.

C.By giving examples and quoting

D By analyzing and concluding

（   ）30.According to the writer, what is the trend of extreme heat?

A.Becoming more serious.

B.Remaining stable.

C.Staying unpredictable.

D.Getting controllable.

（  ）31.What is the text mainly about?

AThe solutions to the climate change

B. The economic losses from heat waves.

C.The increase of severe heat waves.

D..The destructive effect of global warming.

D

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-act. New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies at least when they are prosecuted (公诉) for corruption.

　　The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm. This could add value to their businesses in three ways. First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality. Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps. And third, through a more diffuse “halo effect” whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others.

　　Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three. A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under American’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company’s products as part of their investigations，they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

　　The study found that，among prosecuted firms，those with the most comprehensive CSR programmes tended to get more lenient penalties. Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firm’s political influence, rather than their CSR stance, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

　　In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company’s record in CSR. “We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labor-rights concern, such as child labor, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% result in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials.” says one researcher.

Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question at how much businesses ought to spend on CSR. Nor does it reveal how much companies are banking on the halo effect, rather than the other possible benefits, when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.

（   ）32. The author views Milton Friedman’s statement about CSR with        .

A. uncertainty                                                    B. skepticism               

C. approval                                                       D. tolerance

（   ）33. According to Paragraph 2, CSR helps a company by        .

A. guarding it against malpractices                       B. protecting it from consumers

C. winning trust from consumers.                        D. raising the quality of its products

（   ）34. The expression “more lenient” (line 2, Para.4) is closest in meaning to        .

　 A. less controversial                                            B. more lasting

　 C. more effective                                                D. less severe

（   ）35. When prosecutors evaluate a case, a company’s CSR record        .

　 A. comes across as reliable evidence

　 B. has an impact on their decision

　 C. increases the chance of being penalized

　 D. constitutes part of the investigation

第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

 There's a lot to cope with when you go off to university   36    For most students, a completely new environment is waiting to be explored.

We recently drove our daughter Evie 150 miles to start life as a fresher. It was a struggle to find the car parklet alone explore the huge campus Although we knew she had flatmates and phone apps to get her to fit in, thechallenge ahead was clear---to find her way in an unfamiliar world.      

In a recent study, volunteers walked around a virtual forest environment. Then some of them took the samewalk again, while others explored a different forest.  38   According to the-researchers, that was becauseexploring the new environment stimulated their dopamine (多 巴胺) system--setting up their brains formemorizing things.Thus, they scored higher.

So leaving home to study makes perfect sense.39     But we may all be able to gain some of thebenefits, even if it's just by stimulating our senses and challenging our thinking skills. Here are three things to try:

Go somewhere new to tackle an upcoming learning fask--like memorizing a speech in the library, orrevising for anexam in a park---and take an unfamiliar route to get there.

40     To warm yourself up for learning, picture a city you know well, but imagine you're tapped ina part of it that you've never visited, Then try to visualize exactly how you'll get out.

Play video games that get you moving through new landscapes. Then see whether it improves yoursuccess with other learning tasks, like practising a dance or mastering phrases for a foreign trip.

AGet lost in your imagination.

B. Prepare yourself for a city tour.

C.But exploring places as such is beneficial to memory.

D. People prove to be more adaptable after new experience.

E.The latter group performed better in memory tests straight after

F.There are new friends to meet and new responsibilities to accept.

G.Young minds seem to gain most from being in strange surroundings.

第二部分语言运用

第三部分第一节完形填空(共15小题，每小1分满分15分)

The old man awoke just before sunrise，as he often did．He was walking by the ocean's edge to   41    the new day．As he moved through the morning dawn，he   42   on a small，far- away figure of a boy．
  He saw a young man，bending and waving arms，dancing on the beach，no 43     he was in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin．As he  44  he realized that the young man was not dancing to the bay，but rather bending to looking through what was left by the night's 45  stopping now and then to 46  up starfish and then standing，to throw it back into the   47    He asked the youth the   48    of the effort．"The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot   49    to the sea by themselves，"the youth replied．"When the sun rises，they will die，unless I put them back into the sea．"
As the youth made his   50  ，the old man looked at the wide beach，stretching in both    51  beyond eyesight．Starfish lay on the shore,seeming 52 .           The hopelessness of the young man's plan became  53   and the old man countered，"But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is down．Surely you cannot expect to make a（n）    54    ．"
   The young man paused briefly to consider the words，bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as    55   ．Turning to the old man，he said，"I made a difference to that one．"

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。

Consisting of a bamboo frame and a delicately 56.     (paint) paper surface, Chinese oil-paper umbrellas have long been viewed as a symbol of China's tradition of cultural craftsmanship and poetic 57. _  _(beautiful). Not only are they an instrument to keep off rain or sunlight,58._    works of art possessing rich cultural significance.

The first, oil-parer umbrellas appeared during Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220). Later, they 59. (bring)overseas to Japan and ancient Korea during the Tang Dynasty (618-907),60.    _is why they were known as “Tang umbrellas".

It takes quite a lot of time and effort to make a traditional Chinese oil-paper umbrella 61.       hand. For example, in Fenshui township in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, craftsmen must complete mere than 90steps and use over 100 different tools 62.     (creale) a single handmade oil-paper umbrella.

Cjnce the 63.     appear) of modern mechanical umbrellas, traditional oil-paper umbrellas 64.       (suffer)from declining sales,while 65.     number of craftsmen has been on the decrease. Fortunately, with the inclusionof Fenshui oil-paper umbrellas as one of China's national intangible cultural heritages in 2008,things have been improving.

第三节 单句填空：根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空使用0单词。（每题1分；共10分）

66.The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to generate more        （灵活)for the employer rather than the employee.

67.There are heated      （争论）about whether students should use e-dictionaries when doing translation exercises.

68．He asked several questions     （关于）the tuture of the company．

69.For those who are eager to explore the       （惊险的）lands，the local guide planned a variety of thrilling activities to meet their needs.

70.If you get enough sleeo, eat properly, exercise and set aside some time for fun, you'll probably find it less                              （压力大的）.

71.You can have your computer checked by someone that is       （精通）in this field.

72. Your goal should be down to earth,      （基丁）on your abilities and skills.

73.To keep students        （专注）when studying，they＇d better have a quiet and nest space.

74．Any effort， however little it may be     （促成）to your personal growth．

75. Experience is what matters most-age is of         （次要的）importance.

第四节 短语填空：根据句意，用所给短语的适当形式填空，有两项多余。（每题1分；共10分）

shoot up;                sign up for;             in time:             lay out;        stick to;           put stress on

spot-with;            think through:          put together;      rise to;        over time;       remind-of;

76.   the challenges rather than avoiding them heIps the team succeeded in this difficult competition.

77.As a proverb goes, "Where there is awill, there is a way." Our efforts will pay off    

78.Tom was the only one of students who      the Men's 110-metre Hurdle Race.

79.We see the power of perseverance from the successful people who      their drearas for a long time.

80.The price of gold        more than 14%since the beginning of the year.

81.After        ithar might hapren, Sandy finally decided to quit the present job and became a live streamer.

82.After dinner,yoy shouldn't leave your tools      on the kitchen table like that,Bob.

83.          and dirt,this shirt is no longer to be worn again.

84.It seemed to me that we ought to       nstability（不稳定）beneath our feet from time to time.

85.Some teens are really tired that their parents are always      talking about their academic performance.

参考答案：

阅读： DCC   DBBC    DAAC  ACDB 

七选五：  FCEGA

完型： DABAC  BDCBD   ACDCA

语法填空：

Painted   beauty   but   are brought  which   by  to create  appearance  have suffered  the

词汇： flexibility   arguements  concerning  adventurous   stressful   expert   based  foucused  contributes  secondary

选词填空：  rising to   in time   signed up for   have stuck to    has shot up  thinking through   laied out  spotted with   be reminded with   putting stress on