1、1学科网（北京）股份有限公司20232024 学年第一学期高三四校联考（一）英语试卷命题学校：中山市实验中学命题：欧阳凤枝周文庭审题：张梅莉说明：本试题共 8 页，满分 120 分，考试用时 120 分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用 2B 铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。2选择题每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。第一部分选择题（共二节，满分 50 分）第一节阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满
2、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。AOld Furniture Falling Apart?Let Southwark Carpenters help.Want a walk-in wardrobe(衣柜)?Fancy a fitted kitchen?Or just want to replace your oldfloorboards?We custom-build furniture and fittings to work with your house,and your vision.Wework with a variety of
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7、ty!”Dancy(Sussex)“Klaus has done a couple of carpentry projects for us.He is 100%reliable and a real artisan.”Herbert(Surrey)2学科网（北京）股份有限公司1.Which work is Southwark Carpenters capable of?A.Laying new flooring.B.Custom-building a house.C.Repairing old furniture.D.Supplying good-quality woods.2.What d
8、o you need to do for a carpentry service?A.Email the staff your budget.B.Make a phone call during the day.C.Discuss with the staff online.D.Provide related data in advance.3.Who praised Southwark Carpenters for its low price?A.Trankle.B.Loren.C.Dancy.D.Herbert.BIn early 2021,I hit a rut in my studie
9、s.As a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago inIllinois,I worked to design safer,more effective materials for vaccine delivery.Although I hadbeen productive early in my graduate career,my long hours and hard work were no longertranslating into success in the laboratory,and I felt hopeless
10、about achieving my goals.Somethinghad to change.As I began to search for the cause of my struggles,I became increasingly aware that my“quiettime”at the lab bench for instance,when I was running columns or experiments wasanything but.Instead of thinking about science,I was watching television or inte
11、racting with socialmedia on my smartphone.Although I could cover up this inefficiency with longer hours,my workfelt chaotic(混乱的)and disorganized.I would come home from a long day in the lab and respondto e-mails or messages over dinner or in bed.This all came to a head last summer,when myinability t
12、o balance work and life led me to seek help from the universitys student mental-healthservices.Through a combination of consultation and personal reflection,I came to understand myproblem.To regain my focus,I chose to reduce my connectivity by using a basic mobile phonewithout an Internet connection
13、 during work hours,and removing unnecessary apps from mysmartphone when I did use it.Underscoring the addictive nature of smartphones,I experienced symptoms of withdrawalwhen I first did this.With time,however,I began to make practical use of my quiet time.I startedreading papers during long experim
14、ents,and developed a habit of writing in my down time.Perhaps most importantly,I have felt my anxiety decrease and my productivity and creativityimprove dramatically,trading my chaotic work-life relationship for one with clearer boundaries andplenty of new scientific ideas.Now,even when I do carry m
15、y smartphone,I feel less forced tocheck for e-mails or messages,and can concentrate more closely on whatever task is at hand.4.What does the underlined part“hit a rut”in paragraph 1 mean?A.Stopped progressing smoothly.B.Had very slow reactions.C.Accepted hard works value.D.Overcame a big problem.5.W
16、hat made the author struggle?A.Running columns or experiments.B.His inability to get mental-health services.C.Replying to e-mails or messages.D.His addiction to the phone.3学科网（北京）股份有限公司6.What did the author choose to do during his quiet time later?A.Reflect on his successes and failures.B.Learn prac
17、tical writing.C.Watch television news.D.Do some reading.7.How does the author feel now?A.More courageous.B.More sociable.C.More focused.D.More understanding.CWhen the company OpenAI developed its new artificial intelligence(AI)program,ChatGPT,in late 2022,educators began to worry.ChatGPT could creat
18、e text that seemed like a human wroteit.How could teachers discover whether students were using language created by an AI chatbot tocheat on a writing task?As a linguist who studies the effects of technology on how people read,write and think,Ibelieve there are other more pressing concerns besides c
19、heating.These include whether AI,moregenerally,threatens student writing skills,the value of writing as a process,and the importance ofregarding writing as a tool for thinking.As part of my research on the effects of AI on human writing,I surveyed young adults in theU.S.about some issues related to
20、those effects.One participant said that at some point if youdepend on predictive text,youre going to lose your spelling abilities.Enter“Was Rom”into aGoogle search and youre given a list of choices like“Was Rome built in a day”.Type“ple”into atext message and youre offered“please”and“plenty”.These t
21、ools complete our sentencesautomatically,giving us little chance to think about our spelling,and continuously asking us tofollow their suggestions.Evan Selinger,a philosopher,worried that predictive texting reduces the power of writing as aform of mental activity and personal expression.“By encourag
22、ing us not to think too deeply aboutour words,predictive technology may change how we deal with each other,”Selinger wrote.“Wegive others more algorithms(算法)and less of ourselves.Automation can stop us thinking and theresulting text didnt feel like mine anymore.”I asked ChatGPT whether it was a thre
23、at to humans motivation to write.The bot responded:“There will always be a demand for creative,original content that requires the unique viewpoint ofa human writer.”It continued:“Writing serves many purposes beyond just the creation of content,such as self-expression,communication,and personal growt
24、h,which can continue to encouragepeople to write even if certain types of writing can be automated.”I was glad to find the program had seemingly admitted its limitations.8.What is the authors main concern about ChatGPT?A.Whether it will lead to students cheating.B.Whether it will shape students writ
25、ing style.C.How students will make use of it at school.D.What effects it will have on students writing.4学科网（北京）股份有限公司9.What will predictive technology do to us according to Evan Selinger?A.Give us more creative ideas.B.Make us write like a machine.C.Encourage us to think more deeply.D.Make us tend t
26、o ignore grammatical mistakes.10.What can we learn from ChatGPTs response?A.Writing will become completely automated.B.Robots will work with humans in writing.C.Robot writing will become more creative.D.Human writing will still matter a lot.11.What can be the best title for the text?A.What impact wi
27、ll AI bring to writing?B.What is the future of modern literature?C.How to improve writing with AIs help?D.How to apply AI technology to education?DTwo-thirds of the world population lives under conditions where the freshwater demand ismore than twice the natural water availability for at least one m
28、onth per year.According to officialstatistics,one billion of those live in India and 0.9 billion live in China.Other areas facing thisproblem for longer periods include Bangladesh(130 million people),the western and southernstates of the USA(130 million),Pakistan(120 million),Nigeria(110 million),an
29、d Mexico(90million).Communities use a range of techniques to overcome this issue.In dry summers,those near thecoast can desalinate(淡化)seawater,although the process requires a large amount of energy andexpenditure.Some remote inland communities have alternative methods that suit their particularcondi
30、tions.For example,many high-altitude Chilean communities in the Andes use fog collectors,specialized nets that can gather just a few liters a day.Elsewhere,theres another option available.Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a newdevice that passively harvests water from the air around the clock
31、.The device is made up of aspecially coated glass pane(玻璃板)that reflects solar radiation and also radiates away its ownheat.In doing so,it cools down by as much as 15 degrees Celsius below the surroundingtemperatures.This difference in temperature between the air and the pane causes water vapor toco
32、ndense(凝结)on its underside,which can then be easily collected.Tests so far have been conducted on a university building in Zurich and suggest that the devicecan produce twice as much water per day as other passive water-collection technologies.Underideal conditions,researchers harvested 0.53 decilit
33、res of water per square metre of the surface perhour.“Thats close to the theoretical maximum value of 0.6 decilitres per hour,which is physicallyimpossible to exceed,”says Iwan Hachler,a doctoral student who is working on the technology.The zero-energy input of the set-up could make it suitable for
34、use in developing countries,particularly in remote communities where water shortage is often combined with power shortages.The scientists are hopeful that the device could be used with other water-collection methods,suchas desalination,to increase productivity.12.What does the author want to tell us
35、 by mentioning official statistics in Paragraph 1?A.Fresh water insecurity is a global crisis.B.Water resources are unevenly distributed globally.5学科网（北京）股份有限公司C.Lack of water seriously restricts many countries growth.D.Developed countries are better at handling water shortages.13.How do many Chilea
36、ns living in the Andes deal with the inadequate water supply?A.By harvesting water from fog.B.By bringing in seawater and purifying it.C.By moving to water-rich areas in summer.D.By cutting down on their water consumption.14.Why is a coated glass pane used in the new device?A.To hold the condensed w
37、ater.B.To work as a cooling surface.C.To get rid of harmful solar radiation.D.To record the changes in temperature.15.What can be inferred about the new device?A.It produces satisfying outcomes.B.It is limited to laboratory environments.C.It has met with theoretical bottlenecks.D.It needs further co
38、nfirmation from experts.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。“Beauty is only skin deep”it is said.This means that a persons appearance is not as importantas their character.Yet it is strange why people and especially women are willing to spend a fortuneon making t
39、hemselves more attractive physically.16The reason can only be one,and itis that beauty has its advantages.Attractive people are more popular generally.Beauty draws a positive response from thepeople around.This is obvious with children.For example,based on observation,there is atendency for adults t
40、o treat good-looking children better.This favorable treatment continues intoadulthood,as attractive people are more likely to be chosen for leadership positions and given moreopportunities.17Another important benefit that good-looking people enjoy is that they find a husband or wifemore easily.18Thi
41、s initial attraction may then develop into romantic feelings and aserious relationship if the couple find that they are compatible(和睦相处的)with each other.On the other hand,beauty has a number of disadvantages as well.Firstly,a good-lookingperson tends to attract unwanted attention from all kinds of p
42、eople.The admirer may have badintentions and cause problems for the target.19It is thought that beauty and brains donot go together.Thus,attractive people may not gain respect even when they deserve it because ofthis prejudice against them.While every individual should take care of their outward app
43、earance and look their best,theyshould not neglect(忽视)their inner beauty or character.20Also,they should not forgetphysical beauty is indeed,only skin deep and will not last.A.Life is not always easy for beautiful people.B.The skincare industry is a multi-billion dollar business.6学科网（北京）股份有限公司C.It t
44、urns out being conventionally beautiful has its benefits.D.It is a fact that people are first attracted to outward appearance.E.They should not place such importance on beauty that they become proud.F.Being well-treated gives attractive people more confidence and they perform better.G.Another proble
45、m faced by good-looking people is that they may not be taken seriously.第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节完形填空（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。When our neighbors 94-year-old father passed away,his mother moved in with them.She21a home full of canned goods.Later,the womens grou
46、p in our community22thatanyone in need of home canning supplies could come to the23and take what wasavailable.The contents were too old to eat,but the jars could be24.I was a new canner with not much25but a desire to do more,so our family set outto26supplies.When we27,we found three decades of fruga
47、lity(节俭)andpreparedness.In the basement of the home was a storehouse of28and canned home-grownfoods.Different-sized jars were filled with decades of autumns harvests.29from thoseshelves were jams,vegetables,fruit,beans,juice,and smoked fish.30,for our family to make use of the jars,the fruits of har
48、vests past had to be31.I carried the jars to the backyard,my wife32them and emptied their contents,my olderson cleaned them out and my daughter kept the baby33.That evening I34sanitizing(消毒)the glass jars.On that day,we filled our vehicle with jars,but more35,we filled our family withlessons of life
49、.I am grateful for the good examples of our neighbors.21.A.came acrossB.heard aboutC.left behindD.held back22.A.announcedB.admittedC.predictedD.pretended23.A.shelterB.houseC.restaurantD.park24.A.essentialB.powerfulC.familiarD.useful25.A.effortB.energyC.equipmentD.pressure26.A.buyB.deliverC.witnessD.
50、collect27.A.gatheredB.slidC.arrivedD.escaped28.A.stolenB.preservedC.bakedD.damaged29.A.Looking downB.Showing offC.Turning upD.Breaking away30.A.HopefullyB.FinallyC.ExpectedlyD.Unfortunately31.A sharedB.frozenC protectedD.removed32.A.packedB.openedC.paintedD.repaired33.A.entertainedB.annoyedC.frighte
51、nedD.bathed34.A.laughed atB.referred toC.stayed upD.applied for35.A.strictlyB.significantlyC.urgentlyD.amazingly7学科网（北京）股份有限公司第二节语法填空（共 10 小题；每题 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。A new study has shown that consuming artificial sweetener(甜味剂)may lead to an increasedrisk of cancer.The st
52、udy,36appeared in the journal PLOS Medicine,indicates thatindividuals who take in higher-than-average amounts of artificial sweetener are 13%more likely37(suffer)from cancer.The authors of the study collected daily dietary38(diary)from 102,865 Frenchadults over eight years.After39(take)into account
53、other risk factors for cancer such asage,weight,physical activity,and fat intake,the authors found those consuming high amounts ofartificial sweetener had a higher cancer occurrence rate40non-consumers.Meanwhile,they found that cancer rates were just as high in excessive consumers of artificial swee
54、tener andexcessive sugar intake may be41(equal)associated with cancer risk,according to theauthors.While artificial sweetener42(add)to many food products routinely,other kindsof natural sweetener such as stevia(甜菊糖)are also highly popular with health-conscious eaters.The study doesnt note43these pla
55、nt-based alternatives carry similar health risks or not.However,from the study the authors draw the44(conclude)that artificial sweetenershouldnt be used as45safe alternative to sugar.第三部分写作（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（满分 15 分）假如你是李华，你的好友 Caroline 即将参加你们学校举办的留学生中文写作大赛的决赛，写信询问你的建议。请你给她写封邮件，内容包括:1.表达祝贺;2.提供建议；3.表达
56、祝愿注意:1.词数 80 左右;2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;3.开头和结尾已给出,不计人总词数。Dear Caroline,Yours sincerely,Li Hua8学科网（北京）股份有限公司第二节（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。Edward walked slowly past the school blacktop where his older brother,Leon,was playingbasketball with his friends.Leon didnt notice Edward until he tu
57、rned to shoot the ball.Leon reallyloved basketball and was good at it.But Edward was another story.Edward would beg to play with them but Leons friends complained a lot.For some reason,inthat last game,Edwards playing was worse than ever.He couldnt do anything right.He wascompletely unable to keep p
58、ossession of the ball.He missed even the easy rebounds.His dribbling(控球)was useless,and none of his throws were anywhere near the basket.Leon had to turn hisbrother away.Edward was always a genius at maths.He was so advanced that he already knew how to solvelong division problems before he was taugh
59、t in school.Word problems,even the complicated oneswith several steps,were no problem.One day,Leons maths teacher pulled him aside.“You need to do better,a lot better,or yourenot going to pass this class.Theres a big test coming up.”Leons heart sank.When he got home,he talked with Edward about it.Th
60、e boys agreed thatover the next two weeks they intended to spend an hour each day after school working on mathsproblems and then an hour playing basketball.“Here is a good one,”Edward said and pointed to a word problem.“Why dont you read it?”Leon looked at the book for several seconds.“Im dizzy alre
61、ady!”he exclaimed.“Do you know what the first step is?”asked Edward.“The first step is to stay cool andfocused,”Edward talked Leon through the problem.“Think about what you need to find out.Dontlet the problem trick you.”Step by step,together they figured it out and got the right answer.Leonsoon discovered that Edward was really good at helping him.注意:1.续写词数应为 150 左右;2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。Paragraph 1:Soon it was time for basketball practice.Paragraph 2:The morning of the maths test came all too soon for Leon.
