广东省深圳外国语学校2023-2024学年高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷

深圳外国语学校2023—2024学年度第一学期高三年级第三次月考 英语试卷 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共9页，满分120分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、班级、座位号等相关信息填写在答题卷指定区域内。 2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案；不能答在试卷上。 3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4．考生必须保持答题卷的整洁。 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 By our very rough calculations, Reader’s Digest has published 35,000 articles in nearly 1200 issues. These small pages have held some very big names, including U.S. presidents, world leaders, sports legends, and, indeed, the biggest contributors of all, everyday Americans with a story to tell. These are some of our proudest moments. How to Keep Young Mentally by Mary B. Mullett This first article in the first issue highlighted inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his belief in lifelong learning: “The first essential of any real education is to observe. Observe! Remember! Compare!” It was an appropriate beginning, reflecting our self-educated founder’s endless curiosity. I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes by Madge Harrah The morning of a family funeral, an acquaintance shows up unannounced and says, “I’ve come to clean your shoes.” He spends the day quietly shining every pair in the house. The writer ends with: “Now, whenever I hear of an acquaintance who has lost a loved one, I try to think of one specific task suiting that person’s need. And if the person says, ‘How did you know I needed that done?’ I reply, ‘it’s because a man once cleaned my shoes. ’ ” Strange Encounter on Coho Creek by Morris Homer Erwin A miner spends days camping in the Alaskan wilderness, working hard to earn the trust of a mother wolf stuck in a trap before she and her four pups starve to death. Eventually, he is able to free her. Four years later, he encounters a wolf in the same meadow. Yes, the same wolf. When we shared this classic on rd.com in 2019, it went viral and it has now been read by many mill