【期中真题】河北省唐山市第一中学2022-2023学年高三上学期11月期中英语试题.zip

唐山一中2022—2023学年度第一学期期中考试

高三年级英语试卷

Ⅰ卷(选择题共95分)

第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答 案转涂到答题卡上。

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。

例：How much is the shirt?

A. £19.15. B. £9.18. C. £9.15.

答案是C。

1. What will the woman do tomorrow?

A. Organize a meeting. B. Make a speech. C. Take a plane.

2. What does the man want to do?

A. Borrow money from the bank. B. Meet the bank manager. C. Open a bank account.

3. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a supermarket. B. In a restaurant. C. In a cake shop.

4. What does the woman think of drawing?

A Easy. B. Demanding. C. Enjoyable.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. When the conference is held.

B. How many brochures are needed.

C. What they should do with the mistake.

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. Who will leave the company?

A. Sally. B. Susie. C. The man.

7. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Visit a restaurant. B. Attend a party. C. See a film.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。

8. What does the woman dislike about the running shoes?

A. The model. B. The color. C. The size.

9. What will the woman probably do next?

A. Place an order. B. Try on shoes. C. Check a list.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题

10. What is the minimum entrance requirement for Cambridge University?

A. Getting three As and a B.

B. Getting two As and two Bs.

C. Getting an A and three Bs.

11. Which subject makes the woman anxious?

A. Biology. B. Physics. C. Math.

12. What will the woman do if she fails the exams?

A. Start to work.

B. Choose another university.

C. Retake them after another year of study.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. What is the woman doing?

A. Running background checks. B. Offering a position. C. Having an interview.

14. What does the woman say about Mr. Chan?

A. He was impressed by the man’s skills.

B. He is the Director of Operations.

C. He needs better candidates.

15. How soon will the man be ready for the job?

A. In one week. B. In two weeks. C. In three weeks.

16. What will the woman do?

A. Contact Watchdog Security. B. Send a job offer letter. C. Wait for further notice.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17 What could the speaker probably be?

A. A driver. B. A tour guide. C. A hotel clerk.

18. What will the listeners book by themselves?

A. Breakfast. B. Lunch. C. Dinner.

19. What will the listeners fail to do?

A. Visit a castle. B. Tour around the gardens. C. Listen to a lecture.

20. When will the listeners go to the art gallery?

A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.

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

Every year, Time magazine picks out what it calls “The 25 Best Inventions” of the year. Here, Teens has chosen some of the most interesting ones.

Ember Mug

It’s hard to always keep coffee at the right temperature, especially in winter. It’s too hot to drink at first, but before we know it, it gets too cold and loses all its taste. The perfect level of warmth for a cup of coffee only lasts for 37 seconds, which makes the Ember Mug a great invention. It keeps your coffee or tea at a certain temperature, anywhere between 45℃ and 62℃, once you set it through a smartphone app.

Tasty One Top

TV cooking shows make cooking look so easy, but it’s almost impossible to get the recipes to cook the same as how the professionals cook. However, the Tasty One Top DIY cooking companion is here to help. Developed by BuzzFeed, the cooker can be connected to a smartphone app, which has more than 1,700 recipes and videos. You choose a recipe and the app will let the cooker know what to do. For example, it’ll tell you when to turn your steak or when to add certain ingredients.

Jibo

Smart speakers from companies like Amazon and Xiaomi have added a lot of fun to our lives, but they’re still just faceless speakers. However, Jibo, developed by MIT professor Cynthia Breazeal, has brought smart technology to life. Said to be “the world’s first social robot for the home”, Jibo looks like a cartoon character. Inside its “head”, there are various sensors and cameras, which allow it to recognize faces and speech. It can also set alarms, remind you of important things, tell you the weather and read news or messages from your friends and family.

1. How can Tasty One Top help people?

A. By teaching people how to cook. B. By offering people different recipes.

C. By saving energy while cooking. D. By offering different kinds of cooking apps.

2. What can Jibo probably be?

A. A cartoon character. B. A faceless robot. C. A family assistant. D. A smart alarm.

3. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To advertise hightech products. B. To introduce some new inventions.

C. To encourage subscription to Time. D. To tell about some “tasty” products.

B

Kite surfing is a sport that takes place on the surface of the water, on top of boards that are similar in design to wakeboards (尾波滑水板), with the surfer pulled by a kite. The popularity of kite surfing has grown, although it is rather difficult to master. Kite surfing uses the same equipment as kite boarding, but is generally given more to riding on top of waves, rather than on smaller lakes or other calm bodies of water.

Early experiments in kite transportation took place through the 19th century, and at the dawn of the 20th century Samuel Cody crossed the English Channel using kites and a small boat. Kite surfing itself, however, wasn’t really born until the late 1970s. Beginning in that decade, more people became involved in using kites for personal transport and sport. Kite technology itself advanced enormously during the 1970s, with kites becoming much more controllable.

The early kite surfing was rather accidental, but innovators continued to develop the technology to make it easier to control and safer. By the late 1990s, kite surfing was becoming popular off the coast of Maui, France and throughout the world. In 1997, a special kite system was built specifically for kite surfing, which helped kite surfing into the mainstream.

Because of the high speeds and the dangers, it is generally recommended that would-be kite surfers take at least a few basic classes to learn the fundamentals. The main attraction of kite surfing is the potential for amazing tricks. The kite allows the surfer to experience enormous jumps, flying through the air for large distances before hitting the water in a controlled fashion. Like skateboarding, kite surfing makes use of a number of board grabs, with complex tricks possible due to the long period of time the surfer can remain in the air.

4. What does the author mainly intend to tell us in Paragraph 1?

A. What is kite surfing. B. Where to go kite surfing.

C. How to enjoy kite surfing. D. Why people like kite surfing.

5. In the 19th century, people intended to use kite for ________.

A. sport B. experiment

C. entertainment D. transportation

6. What can we know from the third paragraph?

A. Kite surfing often leads to accidents.

B. Maui is home to kite surfing.

C. Kite control is the key to kite surfing.

D. Kite surfing came into being in the 1990s.

7. What is most charming for people surfing?

A. Its potential for tricks. B. Its long time in the air.

C. Its speed across the water. D. Its big distance over the water.

C

The safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage is considered an important part of sustainable development. Among the 629 UNESCO-listed traditions are five entries in Estonia, the most recent of which is the building and use of dugout canoes in the Soomaa region.

Every year, before spring, Soomaa National Park transforms into an almost drowned world, when water from melting snow in the eastern uplands floods the low-lying forests, wetlands, roads and yards of the residents who still live here. The water level rose so high that villagers could roll a dugout canoe right through their windows and into their living rooms. Everyone has had to learn to adapt to the natural annual phenomenon.

Building a dugout canoe requires a good trunk of an aspen, which grows throughout the forests of Estonia. Once cut down, the trees are peeled and shaped like a cigar using an axe. From here, the inside of the boat is carved out to give it shape. Builders cut the frame down to a few centimetres in thickness. A long log fire is then built alongside the canoe, which is filled with several bucketfuls of water and left to warm up. Once the water has evaporated, sticks are squeezed into the frame lengthways to open it up. Aspen is a soft wood and a trunk half a metre across can be expanded into a metre-wide boat. The boat is then left to cool in the shade and is traditionally finished the following spring, once the wood has fully dried, when it’s given its final design and covered with tar.

Aivar Ruukel, one of only five Estonians who still preserve the skill, chooses to build them as a way to connect with the history, As a young man, Ruukel attended workshops led by two master boat builders, both in their 70s at the time. He hopes that by the time he’s 70 there will be more young people doing the same. Enthusiasts hope that its joining the heritage list will safeguard the ancient practice and attract the next generation of boatmasters to keep the tradition alive.

8. Why do villagers have to preserve dugout canoes?

A. To survive floods. B. To go canoeing in the park.

C. To learn about a natural phenomenon. D. To apply for intangible cultural heritage.

9. What’s the right order of building a dugout canoe?

① The boat is left in the shade to dry.

② The inside of the boat is carved out to give it shape.

③ Builders warm up the canoe and open the frame up.

④ The boat is given the design and covered with the tar.

⑤ Builders remove the barks and make the trees into cigar shapes.

A. ⑤③②④① B. ②⑤④①③ C. ⑤②③①④ D. ②③⑤④①

10. Which statement will Ruukel probably agree with?

A. Young people shall become boatmasters.

B. The practice will die out in the next generation.

C. More people are needed to pass on the tradition.

D. One cannot master the skill without learning history.

11. What is the best title for the text?

A. Dugout canoes come to life B. Boat building industry in Estonia

C. Cultural heritage protection in Estonia D. Dugout canoes in Estonia boat to future

D

The world is on a fast track toward an autonomous future. From off-road tractors and rural transit systems to air vehicles and space exploration, automation will enhance safety, increase efficiency and improve people’s lives. The more we can automate, the more we can protect people’s life and happiness.

To make the autonomous future safe and secure, manufacturers and operators will need reliable, assured positioning, said Michael Ritter, president of Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division. At the HxGN LIVE Global 2022 event, he gave an overview of assured positioning and demonstrated how it provides the foundation for safe autonomy.

Ritter explained how positioning technologies can enable the future of autonomy for good publicity across industries including agriculture mining and automotive. “We’ve all heard about autonomy,” he said. “What’s one of the big problems there? It doesn’t always work as advertised.” He mentioned Tesla’s AutoPilot as an example. “In our industry, we need to have autonomy solutions that we can trust.” “If that is not a hundred percent waterproof, crystal clear, and protected from outside interference (干扰) and cybersecurity threats, you can’t trust that positioning,” he said. “We have to know where we are at all times, and we cannot have that signal falsified (歪曲).”

While Ritter doesn’t think he’ll see the universal use of autonomous vehicles in passenger traffic during his lifetime “because laws will be in the way.” he said. “Applications in off-road autonomy — construction, mining and agriculture — are here today, which all take place in controllable spaces; laws are not such a big problem.” he said. “This is happening right now. We don’t have to wait 10 to 20 years for that.”

However, a big safety challenge in expanding autonomy is anticipating “all the stuff that could happen once in a lifetime,” Ritter said. Those can be overcome by real-life testing, multiplying that with simulation (模拟) “a hundred million times over,” and then going “back into real life” and performing “real, extreme testing.”

12. What’s Ritter’s purpose of mentioning Tesla’s AutoPilot?

A. To show its good publicity.

B. To support its assured positioning.

C. To put forward reliable autonomy solutions.

D. To serve as a reminder for the autonomy-related industries.

13. What is Ritter’s attitude towards the development of autonomy according to paragraph 4?

A. Cautious. B. Optimistic. C. Doubtful. D. Objective.

14. What does the underlined word “that” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Real and extreme testing. B. Real-life testing.

C. A big safe challenge. D. Expanding autonomy.

15. What is the text mainly about?

A. Big challenges for future automation. B. The impact of automation on daily life.

C. Necessary regulations for safe automation. D. Different fields of automation development.

第二节(共5小题;每小题 2.5分，满分12.5分)

阅读下列短文，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。

Are You a Prisoner of Perfection?

Do you struggle for a goal that is beyond your reach? ___16___ Are you setting yourself up for failure and shame when you can’t achieve the unachievable? Understanding what drives perfectionism is the first step toward releasing this self-created anchor that keeps us stuck.

Shame and fear are often the hidden drivers of perfectionism. We believe that if we can fashion a perfectly polished personality, flash our intelligence, and perfect our humour, then no one can hurt us with criticism and we’ll win respect and approval.

___17___ Politicians who display a desperate need to be right and refuse to acknowledge mistakes or uncertainty are often driven by a secret shame. They fear that showing vulnerability(弱点) will expose them to the accusation that they’re weak. They stick to a desire to be right, perfect, and polished, even when it’s obvious that the emperor has no clothes.

Perfectionism keeps us leaning toward the future. We’re constantly evaluating ourselves in order to do better. ___18___ However, if we can’t relax and enjoy lighter moments, then we become prisoners of our perfectionism. We get painfully self-conscious and take ourselves too seriously. Sadly, we deprive(剥夺) ourselves of the simple pleasure of enjoying the moment and being ourselves.

___19___ We realize that failing at any enterprise doesn’t mean that we are a failure. Without failures, we’ll never learn from our mistakes; we’ll never move forward in our lives. Those who succeed have made countless mistakes. The important thing is to learn from our error, forgive ourselves and move on.

Being human, perfection is impossible. ___20___  Releasing ourselves from the desire to protect our image, we’re freed to sail gracefully through our successes and failures—and enjoy our precious life.

A. Do you hold an idealized vision that is impossible to realize?

B. A cure to perfectionism is to make room for our human shortcomings.

C. Do you fear that others will be horrified by what you judge about yourself?

D. The addiction to staying perfect protects us from any sign of being imperfect.

E. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to do our best and self-correcting along the way.

F. People who are addicted to perfection are often isolated, even if they seem outgoing and popular.

G. By accepting ourselves as we are and doing our best, we begin to rid the shame that drives perfectionism.

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)

阅读下列短文，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。

Colin Coleman was a 16-year-old employee who had been working for 6 months at a Kroger grocery store where Josh York___21___does the shopping, so they became___22___with each other. Unluckily, Josh York has impaired___23___, so he needs some help to see the products at the grocery store.

One day when Josh went to Kroger for his___24___grocery shopping, Colin recognized him and immediately began to guide him around the store and help him find what he___25___. He didn’t stop until Josh’s___26___was entirely checked off. Colin guided the shopping cart around___27___that could be obstacles. Throughout this moment of___28___, Colin and Josh were overheard making small talk and finding out one another’s lives.

Another customer saw this___29___act and took a picture of it, where the two really worked together as a(n)______30______to get the shopping done. The picture______31______being posted on the social media, where it received 46 thousand likes, and 9.9 thousand shares.

Josh York really______32______Colin’s actions, not just because he helped him around the store, but because Colin made sure to______33______the experience with respect and kindness. Colin often helps______34______out, especially Josh. Even though Colin doesn’t seem impressed with his own kind behavior, lots of other people felt their______35______ are lifted because of him.

21. A. occasionally B. regularly C. accidentally D. seldom

22. A. concerned B. bored C. familiar D. patient

23. A. smell B. vision C. hearing D. balance

24. A. painful B. slow C. last D. normal

25. A. valued B. needed C. lost D. ordered

26. A. list B. card C. parcel D. information

27. A. vehicles B. furniture C. objects D. rubbish

28. A. struggle B. success C. test D. helpfulness

29. A. brave B. confident C. rude D. generous

30. A. department B. organization C. team D. building

31. A. ended up B. aimed at C. carried on D. contributed to

32. A. approved B. appreciated C. stressed D. expected

33. A. share B. treat C. describe D. prove

34. A. customers B. passengers C. employers D. colleagues

35. A. loads B. depressions C. spirits D. incomes

II卷(共 55分)

第二节词汇运用(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

36 Many experts _______________ (提倡) rewarding your child for good behavior.(根据汉语提示单词拼写)

37. The wind grew strong and the sail of the boat _______________ (摇荡；摇摆) crazily from one side to the other. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

38. In the past 30 years, our country has _______________ (目击；见证) great improvement in people’s life thanks to the open and reform policy. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

39. There would be fewer international _______________ (危机) demanding his attention. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

40. The soil was washed away by the flood, _______________ (暴露;露出) bare rock. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

41. A victory in this game will earn him the _______________ (资格) for the World Cup. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

42. His sudden ________ (离开) threw the office into chaos. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

43. Our risk of cancer rises _______________ (dramatic) as we age. (所给词的适当形式填空)

44. She desperately wanted to win her father’s _______________ (approve). (所给词的适当形式填空)

45. He’s not the person I saw just now. I mistook someone else _______________him. (用适当的词填空)

46. I was lucky because that was the second time that I _______________ (visit) Russia. (所给词的适当形式填空)

47. When I graduated from high school, I _______________ (bless) with the opportunity to be the first person in my family to attend college. (所给词的适当形式填空)

48. If you study hard, you are likely _______________ (admit) to your dreaming university. (所给词的适当形式填空)

49. It was quite a long time _______________ the little kid realized his mistake. (用适当的词填空)

50. The young lady rushed into the room _______________ (instant) she heard the noise. (所给词的适当形式填空)

第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

51. 假定你是光明中学学生会主席李华，上周你校邀请Smith教授来校做了一场有关各国身势语的专题讲座。请你代表学校全体师生，用英语给他写一封感谢信。

内容包括：

1.表达感谢;

2.通过讲座，师生对身势语有了更多的了解。

注意：

1.词数应为80左右;

2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Professor Smith,

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Yours,

Li Hua

第二节(满分25分)

52. 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。

Early one cold November morning, my mother dressed me in thick clothes. “Now come outside with me.” she said. Once outside, she handed me a brown paper bag that held something that smelled like wet dirt.” We need to plant bulbs before the first hard freeze. I have already dug the holes.” she said. “So take each bulb from the bag, drop it in the hole, and then gently push the dirt back into the hole covering the bulb—like so.”

I opened the bag. “These bulbs are ugly and look dead!”

“You're right. They’re not at all pretty. But they’re not dead; they’re just sleeping until spring.”

“And all the bulbs look alike,” I continued. “How do we know what they’ll look like next spring?”

“We won’t know for sure until spring, but that’s the joy of gardening. We’ll just have to be patient.”

All winter long I hoped that the flowers would bloom some day.

One day in late April, I found some pink pushing up through the ground. My mother was excited when I showed her. "Perfect!” she said. “They'll be ready at just the right time.”

A few days later, she took me to the local store where she gathered up colored paper, colored ribbons, and all the baskets on sale. “Okay, now we’re ready to make May baskets.”

“May baskets? What are May baskets?”

“They are small baskets filled with fresh flowers and secretly left at someone’s front door.” Her eyes shone with delight. “So when we get home we’ll cut the flowers that are blooming in the garden to make May baskets. Then tomorrow, May first, we’ll get up early and take them to our neighbors. Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

“But I waited all winter for the flowers to bloom, and they’re so beautiful. And... and... I thought we would keep them forever,” I said, close to tears.

“I know you’re disappointed, sweetie, but flowers—like kindness—are meant to be shared. Their beauty is not ours to keep. You understand?” my mother replied in a tender voice.

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。

“No! I don’t understand. I want to keep the flowers.” I protested.

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Shortly after dawn the next morning, we began our journey through the neighborhood.

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