浙江省台州市书生中学2023-2024学年高三上学期9月22日英语模拟卷

绍兴市高考模拟试题：第一节：(共15个小题；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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Eggs-perimenting with eggs

What can you do with eggs other than eat them?

Naked Eggs

What does an egg look like without its shell? You may be picturing the white and yolk in a bowl after cracking it, but that isn’t the only way to remove the shell.

Materials: an egg, white vinegar, a bowl, a spoon

Directions: Fill a bowl with one cup of vinegar. Add the egg to the bowl, and wait at least 24 hours. When you check it after a day, you’ll notice some bubbles on the egg and a residue (残留物) in the water. Use the spoon to gently remove the egg from the bowl. Dump out the old vinegar, and add a cup of fresh vinegar. Return the egg to the bowl, and wait another 24 hours. When you remove the egg this time, the shell should be completely dissolved. What remains will be the contents of the egg.

Walking on Eggshells

Can Eggs hold the weight of your entire body?

Materials: six cartons (硬纸盒) of eggs, a garbage bag

Directions: Place the garbage bag on the floor to make any necessary clean up easier. Place the cartons of eggs into two rows of three. Make sure all the eggs are pointing in the same direction— either all pointy end up or all rounded end up. Step onto the first carton of eggs carefully. Make sure your foot is as flat as possible and that you are distributing your weight evenly. If you’re careful, you will succeed. Eggs are actually incredibly strong. The arch shape at the top and the bottom of the egg allows pressure to be distributed evenly over the egg. If you were to place the eggs on their sides instead, you’d be likely to wind up with a gooey (胶粘的) mess.

1. In the first experiment, what causes the eggshell to dissolve?

A. Vinegar. B. Water. C. Bubbles. D. Residue

2. What makes the eggs strong enough to walk across?

A. The position of eggs.    B. The number of eggs.    C. The weight of eggs.    D. The distribution of eggs.

3. What was the author’s purpose in writing this text?

A. To persuade readers to use eggs in new ways.         B. To entertain readers with funny use for eggs.

C. To tell readers some ways to experiment with eggs.    D. To inspire readers to conduct experiments carefully.

B

Nick Verel, a 53-year-old kidney transplant (肾脏移植) recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine (疫苗). Yet like millions of others, he wasn’t having any luck scheduling an appointment. Nick would sit with computers on his lap trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, which ended up in vain no matter how concentrated he was. “I felt hopeless,” Nick says.

Then he heard about Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mother of three who was helping to secure appointments for vulnerable individuals like Nick. So he messaged Zwinggi on Facebook: Can you help? Thirty-five minutes later, Zwinggi reported back—Nick successfully had an appointment to get the vaccine.

Zwinggi’s vaccine hunting started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has diabetes and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition—were unable to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Zwinggi, who has helped her husband develop websites, says “It was like trying to get a ticket to the Baseball World Series final”.

She applied strategies that web insiders are familiar with (keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I drink a lot of coffee, and I’m a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Zwinggi had secured appointments for both of her parents. “I felt like a rock star,” she says.

Zwinggi decided that helping others would be her way of giving back. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic,” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was assisting with bookings. By March 2, she’d secured appointments for 400 people, a feat (壮举) that made Nick conclude, “Marla is an angel.”

4. The underlined words “vulnerable individuals” in paragraph 2 refer to those ______.

A. who are too old to book an appointment. B. who need vaccine badly with serious disease.

C. who have little experience with computers. D. who have little spare time with many kids.

5. Why did Zwinggi start to search for vaccines online?

A. Because she has helped her husband develop websites.  B. Because Nick made contact with her on Facebook for help.

C. Because her parents failed to secure appointments themselves.

D. Because she was familiar with the vaccine registration sites.

6. Which of the following best describes Zwinggi?

A. Caring and confident B. Passionate and persevering

C. Thoughtful and talented D. Supportive and skillful

7. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A. A Tough Battle Against COVID- 19 B. The Vaccine Hunter

C. A Great Way to Get the Vaccine D. The Vaccine Chaos

C

Top European hotel chains are hiring workers without experience or even a resume as executives admit years of underpaying staff have come back to bite, leaving them unable to meet post-pandemic travel demand.

Thousands of workers left the hospitality industry (酒店业) when international travel shut down during the COVID- 19 pandemic. Many chose not to return, finding better paid employment elsewhere, leaving hoteliers facing a desperate shortage.

Europe’s largest hotelier Accor ACCP. PA is running trial initiatives to recruit people who haven’t previously worked in the industry, Chief Executive Sebastien Bazin said at the Qatar Economic Forum last month.” We tried in Lyon and Bordeaux 10 days ago and this weekend we’re having people interviewed with no resume, no prior job experience and they are hired within 24 hours. The new recruits are given six hours of training and learn on the job,” he said.

In the short term, Accor is filling roles in France with young people and migrants while also limiting services. “It’s students, people coming from North Africa,” Bazin said. “And basically closing restaurants for lunch or opening them only five days a week. There’s no other solution.”

Staff shortages are particularly pressing in Spain and Portugal. Spain’s hospitality industry is 200,000 workers short and Portuguese hotels need at least 15,000 more people to meet growing demand, according to national hospitality associations.

Bazin said that while hotels are only 60 percent or 70 percent occupied they can cope with staff shortages, but the time will come when they’re fully booked.

“In the past, the industry has neither paid enough or focused on developing staff,” Bazin said, “Half of it is that we’ve been blind, we’ve been not paying attention to a lot of people and probably underpaying some people for too long as well,” he said. “So it’s a wake-up call.”

8. What problem is the European hospitality industry facing?

A. Shortage of resources. B. International travel bans.

C. Staffing challenges.  D. Dissatisfactory service.

9. What’s the essential reason for the problem?

A. The travel demand is increasing. B. The job is highly demanding.

C. The hospitality industry isn’t developed. D. The staff hasn’t been fairly paid.

10. What needs to be done before someone starts working in Accor at present?

A. Explaining previous work experience. B. Sending the resume in advance.

C. Receiving a six-hour training for the job. D. Going through a competitive interview.

11. Which of the following would Bazin agree with concerning the problem?

A. Hoteliers have been turning a blind eye to the problem.

B. The problem is a reminder that hotel staff deserves attention.

C. The problem is too pressing for hoteliers to address right now.

D. The problem can be solved with the help of students and migrants.

D

New research found that children with positive, early interactions with their care givers - characterized by warmth, responsiveness, and a stimulating home environment -were at reduced risk of childhood obesity.

“A lot of the discussion around childhood obesity and other health risks focuses on identifying and studying the exposure to risk,” said Professor Brandi Rollins. ”We took a strength-based approach in our analysis. We found that a supportive family and environment early in a child’s life may outweigh some of the cumulative (累计的)risk factors that children can face. ”

The study recently appeared in the journal Pediatrics. In the article, Rollins analyzed data from over 1,000 mother-child pairs and found that children’s early exposures to family psychosocial assets (有价值的 事物)- including a quality home environment, emotional warmth from the mother, and a child’s ability to self-regulate - reduced the risk of developing childhood obesity.

“Research on parenting has shown that these types of family assets influence children’s behavior, academic success, career, and-not surprisingly - health,” Rollins said. “It’s inspiring to know that, by providing a loving, safe environment, we can reduce the risk that children will develop obesity.”

This work is based on research in parenting and child development. Responsive parenting, one of the family assets measured in the study, involves responding to children in a timely, sensitive, and age-appropriate manner based on the child’s presenting needs. This study focused on childhood obesity, but the researchers said that parents may improve many outcomes for their children by learning responsive-parenting skills. Knowledge of responsive-parenting skills, however, may not lead directly to implementing those skills in the home.

“No one can read a pamphlet (小册子) about cars and suddenly expect to drive,” said Rollins. “Driving is a skill that requires education and practice. The same is true of responsive parenting. Public health professionals, clinicians, and researchers must collaborate to help families develop psychosocial assets, including responsive parenting and a structured home environment. This could improve childhood obesity rates and other important quality-of-life outcomes,” she continued.

12. What was the focus of the new research?

A. The potential psychosocial causes of childhood obesity.  B. Contributing factors to children’s reduced risk of obesity.

C. The link between childhood obesity and other health risks.

D. The harmful impacts of obesity on kids’ psychosocial health.

13. According to the text, kids _______ are less likely to develop obesity.