山东省名校考试联盟2023-2024学年高三下学期开学考试英语试题

机密★启用前 试卷类型A 山东名校考试联盟 高三年级下学期开学联考 英语试题 2024.2 本试卷共10页。满分120分。考试用时100分钟。 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信息条形 码粘贴区。 2.选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书写，字体 工整、笔迹清楚。 3.请按照题号顺序在答题卡各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草 稿纸、试卷上答题无效。 4.保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。 第一部分阅读（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和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Some bridges are suspended at dizzy heights,others stretch for miles.Take a look at some of the world's greatest bridges. THE MOST TERRIFYING-Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge If you're afraid of heights,you might not want to walk along the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge in central China,which is the world's longest and highest glass bridge.It is suspended 300 metres above the ground,and walkers can see the sheer drop below as they walk over 99 glass panels.The terrifying structure was completed in December 2015 and cost around 2.6 million to build.How safe is it?To test it,Chinese officials struck 高三英语试题第1页（共10页） the bridge with hammers and drove a car over it. THE TILTING(倾斜的)BRIDGE-Gateshead Millennium Bridge The Gateshead Millennium Bridge in the north-east of England is the world's first tilting bridge.A tilting bridge is a moving bridge that uses motors to lift the arching structure- rather than opening in the middle and lifting up like a drawbridge-to allow ships to pass underneath.It has eight motors and can tilt at about 40in four and a half minutes,making it a most extraordinary one throughout the world.Opened to the public in 2001,the bridge spans the River Tyne. THE LONGEST BRIDGE-Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge At an enormous 102 miles,Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China is the world's longest bridge.Its span is the same as the distance from Birmingham to London,and it took a workforce of 10,000 people four years to complete it.Around 450,000 tons of steel was used in its construction,and it is so stable that it can stand 8-magnitude earthquakes or being hit by a 300,000-ton ship.It can even cope with the power of a strong