广东广雅中学花都校区2024-2025学年高三上学期9月测试英语试题

2024学年上学期高三年级9月考试卷 英 语 本试卷共10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、考生号、试室号和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型涂在答题卡相应位置上。并在答题卡相应位置上填涂考生号。 2. 作答选择题时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡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。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上,如需改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新答案;不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效. 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Branding events of China Daily Since its launch in 1981, China Daily has grown to become the nation’s leading English-language newspaper. With a combined print, online and mobile readership of more than 350 million, it serves a vital role in telling the world about China, providing valuable insight into the world’s second-largest economy. A series of branding events are conducted by China Daily to improve public diplomacy (外交) and international communication. Vision China Lectures A series of talks are organized by China Daily in which leading political and business figures are invited to speak and interact live with domestic and foreign audiences. The Vision China lectures focus on major issues facing China and the world, explore what China’s story means for the world, and how Chinese wisdom can help the world. China Watch Think Tank Forum Elites, including opinion leaders, politicians and businesspersons with expertise (专业知识) on China, discuss topics on developments and the future of China and the world in China Watch Think Tank Forum. Asia Leadership Roundtable The China Daily Asia Leadership Roundtable provides a platform for high-level dialogue and communication among leaders and social elites in the fields of politics, business and academia in Asia. “21st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition The competition is the most famous English-speaking competition in China. It is the qualifying round for students who wish to represent China in the International Public Speaking Competition in London. TESOL China Assembly Organized by China Daily in partnership with TESOL International Association (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), the TESOL China Assembly is a high-level international English Language Teaching (ELT) event in China. It aims to promote scholarship and cross-cultural understanding among English educators in China, and to enhance dialogue between China’s ELT professionals with their peers worldwide. For more details, click here. 1. What’s the main purpose of China Daily? A. To hold various branding events. B. To promote interpersonal communication. C. To combine print, online and mobile readership. D. To help people around the globe know China better. 2. What do Vision China Lectures and Asia Leadership Roundtable have in common? A. They involve politicians and businesspersons. B. They focus on major issues facing China and the world. C. They provide a platform for public dialogue and communication. D. They discuss topics on developments and the future of China and the world. 3. Where is the text probably from? A. A newspaper. B. A textbook. C. A website. D. A magazine. B Think you have a good grasp of English? Good. Read the six sentences below, then. Sentence 1: The old man the boat. Sentence 2: The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. Sentence 3: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Sentence 4: Fat people eat collects. Sentence 5: The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. Sentence 6: The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. Linguists (语言学家) call these “garden path sentences”, which take you by the hand and lead you down a winding path to a dead end. Despite this, they’re all grammatically correct. Let’s see why. Sentence 1: The old man the boat. Besides sounding like a rejected Hemingway title, this sentence is indeed grammatically correct thanks to some well-placed homonyms—words that share the same spellings but have different meanings. Homonym 1 here is “old”, used as a noun, meaning “old people”; homonym 2 is “man”, used as a verb, meaning “to serve in/on”. With that in mind, the sentence means “The old people serve on the boat”. Sentence 2: The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. At first read, you’d think “is made of” is the main verb of this sentence. But it’s not. The simplest form of this sentence is “The cotton grows in Mississippi”; confusingly, “clothing is made of” is used to tell us what cotton we’re talking about. This sentence would make way more sense if written “The cotton that clothing is made of grows in Mississippi”, but English allows us to remove certain conjunctions like “that”, with its meaning maintained. Sentence 3: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. The first half of this sentence is easy to catch. So when dealing with the other half, people usually follow the structure of the first half, and it’d be understood as “fruits fly like bananas”. This is obviously unreasonable. Only when people rethink can they recognize the true meaning of the sentence. Therefore, such sentences manage to make people ignore the structure of the sentence itself, thus departing from its original meaning. Come on! Take a walk down the garden path with the rest of the sentences. 4. What’s the characteristic of “garden path sentences” according to linguists? A. Misleading but error-free. B. Accurate and plain. C. Improperly-worded and meaningless. D. Ungrammatical but comprehensible. 5. Which word is an example similar to the homonym of “man” in sentence 1? A. “grows” in sentence 2. B. “eat” in sentence 4. C. “hunts” in sentence 5. D. “houses” in sentence 6. 6. Which of the following correctly interprets “fruit flies like a banana” in sentence 3? A. “fruit flies” refers to a sort of insect. B. “flies” serves as the verb of the sentence. C. “flies like” explains what fruit is talked about. D. “like” has the same meaning as the “like” before it. 7. What can be the troublemaker in sentence 4? A. The ill-placed verbs. B. The removal of “that”. C. The grammar mistakes. D. The lack of noun behind “collects”. C Whales are celebrated for being the largest and most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Now, biologists have discovered that they also capture (捕获) tons of carbon from the atmosphere, a service with an economic value of US $1 trillion for all the great whales, according to a new study published by the International Monetary Fund. The study points out that protecting whales, normally viewed as a human good, also has a monetary motivation. “The carbon capture potential of whales is truly incredible,” said the report. “Our conservative estimates put the value of the average great whale at more than US $2 million, and easily over US $1 trillion for the current stock of great whales.” Whales absorb carbon in their bodies during their long lives, some of which stretch to 200 years. When they die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean, taking the carbon with them. According to the study, each great whale traps around 33 tons of carbon dioxide on average. A tree during the same period only contributes to 3 percent of the carbon absorption of the whale. Whale populations are today a smidgen of what they once were. It is estimated that there are slightly more than 1.3 million whales in the ocean, a quarter of their pre-whaling number of 4 to 5 million. Some species in particular, like the blue whale, are only 3 percent of what they used to be. “We can create financial methods to promote the restoration of the world’s whale populations,” said the report’s authors. “Rewards could help those who pay significant costs as a result of whale protection.” With the Paris Agreement coming into force next year and the effects of climate change ever more widespread, we must prevent the harm to whales. Researchers analyzed that unless new methods are put forward, it would take over 30 years to double the number of current whales, and several generations to return them to their pre-whaling numbers. “Society and our own survival can’t afford to wait this long,” they said. 8. What does the new study reveal about whales? A. They are money-makers for good. B. Their intelligence is unquestionable. C. They are a natural climate solution. D. Their survival is threatened by carbon. 9. Why is a whale compared with a tree in paragraph 2? A. To indicate all matter regarding green efforts. B. To illustrate whales are friendly to the oceans. C. To highlight whales’ carbon capture potential. D. To emphasize the importance of tree planting. 10. What can be inferred from what researchers said in paragraph 4? A. Climate change intensifies. B. Whale populations stay low. C. Our survival is endangered. D. Whale protection is a priority. 11. What is the most suitable title for the article? A. Protect whales to protect the planet B. How to restore whale populations C. Live in harmony with ocean giants D. Whales can guarantee our survival D The notion that we live in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many. Searching the term “simulation hypothesis” (模拟假说) returns numerous results that debate whether the universe is a computer simulation — a concept that some scientists actually take seriously. Unfortunately, this is not a scientific question. We will probably never know whether it’s true. We can, instead, use this idea to advance scientific knowledge. The 18th-century philosopher Kant argued that the universe ultimately consists of things-in-themselves that are unknowable. While he held the notion that objective reality exists, he said our mind plays a necessary role in structuring and shaping our perceptions. Modern sciences have revealed that our perceptual experience of the world is the result of many stages of processing by sensory systems and cognitive (认知的) functions in the brain. No one knows exactly what happens within this black box. If empirical (实证的) experience fails to reveal reality, reasoning won’t reveal reality either since it relies on concepts and words that are contingent on our social, cultural and psychological histories. Again, a black box. So, if we accept that the universe is unknowable, we also accept we will never know if we live in a computer simulation. And then, we can shift our inquiry from “Is the universe a computer simulation? ” to “Can we model the universe as a computer simulation? ” Modelling reality is what we do. To facilitate our comprehension of the world, we build models based on conceptual metaphors (隐喻) that are familiar to us. In Newton’s era, we imagined the universe as a clock. In Einstein’s, we uncovered the standard model of particle (粒子) physics. Now that we are in the information age, we have new concepts such as the computer, information processing, virtual reality, and simulation. Unsurprisingly, these new concepts inspire us to build new models of the universe. Models are not the reality, however. There is no point in arguing if the universe is a clock, a set of particles or an output of computation. All these models are tools to deal with the unknown and to make discoveries. And the more tools we have, the more effective and insightful we can become. It can be imagined that comparable to the process of building previous scientific models, developing the “computer simulation” metaphor-based model will also be a hugely rewarding exercise. 12. What does the author intend to do by challenging a hypothesis? A. Make an assumption. B. Illustrate an argument. C. Give a suggestion. D. Justify a comparison. 13. What does the phrase “contingent on” underlined in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Accepted by. B. Determined by. C. Awakened by. D. Discovered by. 14. As for Kant’s argument, the author is _________. A. appreciative B. doubtful C. unconcerned D. disapproving 15. It is implied in this passage that we should _________. A. compare the current models with the previous ones B. continue exploring the classical models in history C. stop arguing whether the universe is a simulation D. turn simulations of the universe into realities up. 第二节(共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分) 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。 If you want to develop maximum credibility (可信性), is it better to be a hedgehog (刺猬) or a fox? According to Isaiah Berlin, the hedgehog knows one thing very well, and the fox knows a lot of things. Is there a clear advantage of one style over the other? Hedgehog thinkers tend to answer yes. ___16___ And they are usually very credible in doing so. According to Jim Hart, the “hedgehog concept” is one of the factors that lead companies to greatness. They focus on one thing and do it really well. They figure out what they are good at. ___17___ The hedgehog concept makes perfect sense for companies. ___18___ Philip Tate has studied the track records of those folks on the Sunday talk shows who make predictions about what will happen. He has found that hedgehogs are not only wrong more often than foxes, but that they are less likely to recognise or admit that they are wrong when events do not match their predictions. The advantage that foxes have is that they are more likely to seek out new information from a broader range of sources, and are comfortable with uncertainty and new information. ___19___ They try to include it in their viewpoint rather than to exclude it from their thinking. They also have a clearer estimation of what they know and don’t know. So, which is better? The question can be answered in a foxy hedgehog style. ___20___ The choice between being a hedgehog or a fox is a false trade-off. The most effective way to go through life is to try to be that rare mixture known as foxy hedgehog. A. In other words, there are clear advantages for each. B. They are more likely to remember people’s mistakes. C. Hence, they have the advantage of clarity and confidence. D. But there can be a downside to concentration on one big thing. E. However, hedgehogs remain open to others’ reactions and inputs. F. When something is contradictory to their view, they don’t treat it as exceptional. G. They come down squarely on one side or the other and fully support their position. 第二部分 语官运用(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。 Summer Clayton may not have children in real life, but he’s “a proud dad” to 2.8 million people on the Internet. Every week, he sits down to dinner and has a ___21___ chat with his “kids”. He looks into the camera and asks about their day. He ___22___ them how to shave, and reminds them it’s OK to be ___23___ when life hurts. To some, his one-way conversations may seem ___24___ . But his efforts have struck a chord (引起共鸣) among people who ___25___ a father figure — or just someone who listens to their___26___in the daily life. Clayton is a civilian fitness trainer in real life. He started ___27___on the Internet in late 2020 with inspirational and how-to videos, and___28___ jokingly called him “dad”. His first video to go viral was a shaving how-to — a ___29___ to someone who sent him a message asking, “Hey Dad, can you teach me how to shave?” The video ____30____ , earning him tens of thousands of new fans within hours. Clayton’s extended family comes in all ____31____ . Many of his “kids” are old enough to be his parents. Clayton’s ____32____ doesn’t seem to bother his fans. At 58, Sarah D’Imperio may not seem like Clayton’s target audience, but she believes that it’s a(n) ____33____ idea, especially for youngsters who may not have a paternal (父亲的) role model that listens or has ____34____ to listen. “It’s just heartwarming to see someone trying to____35____ a small part of that role for anyone,” she says. 21. A. quick B. formal C. secret D. virtual 22. A. trains B. convinces C. teaches D. supports 23. A. painful B. peaceful C. shameful D. hopeful 24. A. dull B. tough C. silly D. brief 25. A. find B. need C. admit D. start 26. A. decisions B. hobbies C. excuses D. troubles 27. A. posting B. profiting C. searching D. donating 28. A. critics B. followers C. experts D. reporters 29. A. suggestion B. promise C. reward D. response 30. A. caught up B. came out C. blew up D. held out 31. A. places B. ages C. types D. classes 32. A. faith B. experience C. youth D. appearance 33. A. brilliant B. ambitious C. complicated D. abstract 34. A. luck B. time C. energy D. honor 35. A. value B. create C. define D. fill 第二节(共 10 题: 每小题 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。 Heatherwick Studio recently built a greenhouse at the edge of the National Trust’s Woolbeding Gardens. This beautiful structure, named Glasshouse, is at the centre of a new garden that shows how the Silk Road influences English gardens even in modern times. The latest ____36____ (engineer) techniques are applied to create this protective ____37____ (function) structure that is also beautiful. The design features ten steel “sepals (萼片)” made of glass and aluminium (铝). These sepals open on warm days ____38____ (give) the inside plants sunshine and fresh air. In cold weather, the structure stays ____39____ (close) to protect the plants. Further, the Silk Route Garden around the greenhouse ____40____ (walk) visitors through a journey influenced by the ancient Silk Road, by which silk as well as many plant species came to Britain for ____41____ first time. These plants included modern Western ____42____ (favourite) such as rosemary, lavender and fennel. The garden also contains a winding path that guides visitors through the twelve regions of the Silk Road. The path offers over 300 plant species for visitors to see, too. The Glasshouse stands ____43____ a great achievement in contemporary design, to house the plants of the southwestern part of China at the end of a path retracing (追溯) the steps along the Silk Route ____44____ brought the plants from their native habitat in Asia to come to define much of the _____45_____ (rich) of gardening in England. 第三部分写作(共两节, 满分40分) 第一节(满分15分) 46. 假定你是高二学生李华，开学已经一个多月，对于高三生活有一些困惑，请你写一封邮件给 21 世纪报 Teens’ World 栏目主编 Max，向他求助。内容包括： 1. 你的困惑； 2. 请求帮助。 注意：1. 写作词数应为 80 左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节(满分25分) 47. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成-一个完整的短文。 Our Garden and the Salad “Christine, come and help me in the garden. I want to plant all of the seeds today.” My father was calling to me. “I'm busy...” I said. I didn't understand why working in the dirt excited him so much. By the end of April, his plants had come up in neat rows. Unfortunately, in early May, my father was seriously injured in an accident. He was in hospital for about two months and during that time he often asked me about his garden. Even after he came home, he had to stay in bed for a while. My mother had several business trips so I said that I would take care of his garden. I assumed that the little plants would continue to grow as long as they had water, and luckily it rained fairly often so I didn't think much about the garden. One Saturday morning in July, my father said to me, “Christine, I think that the vegetables should be about ready to be picked. Let's have a salad today!” I took a bowl and went out to the garden. I looked at the leaves and was upset to see that many of the leaves had been half eaten. There were hundreds of bugs (虫子) all over them! I tried to get them off, but there were just too many. I looked at the carrots next, but they didn't look healthy. I got in panic for a moment, but then thought of a good idea. I quietly went to the nearest store to buy some vegetables. I went back home and cut them up to make a salad for my father. When I gave it to him, he said, “Oh, Christine, what a beautiful salad! You must be taking very good care of my garden.” My father looked happy, but I felt a little bit guilty. 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。 I went back to the kitchen when my mother came home. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I carefully made a salad and took it to my father. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2024学年上学期高三年级9月考试卷 英 语 本试卷共10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、考生号、试室号和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型涂在答题卡相应位置上。并在答题卡相应位置上填涂考生号。 2. 作答选择题时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡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。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上,如需改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新答案;不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效. 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A 【1~3题答案】 【答案】1. D 2. A 3. C B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. A 5. D 6. A 7. B C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. C 9. C 10. D 11. A D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. C 13. B 14. A 15. C 第二节(共5小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分12.5分) 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. G 17. C 18. D 19. F 20. A 第二部分 语官运用(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。 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. D 22. C 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. B 32. C 33. A 34. B 35. D 第二节(共 10 题: 每小题 1.5分, 满分15分) 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. engineering 37. functional 38. to give 39. closed 40. walks 41. the 42. favourites##favorites 43. as 44. which##that 45. richness 第三部分写作(共两节, 满分40分) 第一节(满分15分) 【46题答案】 【答案】Dear Max, I am Li Hua, a student who is about to enter the third year of senior high school. I’m writing to you to ask for some help. First of all, I am very confused and don’t know how to adjust my mentality. As a consequence, it is very difficult for me to stay calm. Besides, I don’t know how to arrange time reasonably to cope with the college entrance examination. Faced with the difficulties, I have to turn to you for some help. Would you like to introduce to me some good ways to deal with these problems? Yours, Li Hua 第二节(满分25分) 【47题答案】 【答案】One possible version: I went back to the kitchen when my mother came home. She saw the bag from the supermarket. I was embarrassed and told her the truth. She laughed but promised to make time to help me in the garden. We made a mixture of water with chopped up fresh hot peppers and then watered it on the vegetables. The water is not harmful but can drive away the bugs. The bug free vegetables grew quickly, and finally I was able to pick some. I carefully made a salad and took it to my father. He looked at it with a smile. “Christine, the carrots are smaller in this salad, but they taste better.” I realized that he had known all along about my shopping trip. I smiled back at him. Now, I better understand how putting a lot of effort into caring for something can help you appreciate the results more, however small they may be. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $