广东省深圳市盐田区深圳外国语学校2024-2025学年高三上学期9月月考英语试题

深圳外国语学校2024-2025学年度高三第一学期第二次月考 英语试题 试卷共8页，卷面满分120分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写在答题卡上。 2.作答时，务必将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。 3.考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 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 South America has a long and interesting coastline. When it comes to beaches, there are some excellent options to be found across the continent. Sancho Beach This beach is an amazing stretch of sand with peaceful waters. The clear waters are perfect for swimming but it is difficult to access. It can only be reached by boat or by climbing down the rocky hillsides on each end, so it isn’t particularly good for younger children or people who are physically challenged. Vichayito Beach Just a short distance from the waterfront town of Mancora, this lovely beach is often quiet and peaceful, offering some nice shallow water to swim in for little ones. A little further out, the waves pick up, making for fine surfing and windsurfing surroundings, while the charming village offers nice accommodation. Copacabana Beach The cold water here means it isn’t an ideal swimming location, but there are good spots for surfing and windsurfing. Various water activities make it a great beach. Visit early, especially in the busy tourist seasons, not only to avoid crowds, but also to gain admittance — visitors will be turned away once the park reaches peak capacity. Jericoacoara Beach Located near the city center, this beach is very popular among surfers thanks to its great waves. It isn’t too rough to swim for experienced swimmers, although a slightly rocky seafloor means you should be careful. With large crowds of people, the best time to visit is sunset-arrive early to get a good viewing spot. 1. What may make Sancho Beach difficult to reach? A. The great waves. B. Its unique location. C. Lack of boat services. D. Large crowds of tourists. 2. Which beach is the most ideal place for young children to swim? A. Sancho Beach. B. Vichayito Beach. C. Copacabana Beach. D. Jericoacoara Beach. 3. What do Copacabana Beach and Jericoacoara Beach have in common? A. They both appeal to those loving water sports. B. Tourists may be rejected due to their limited capacity. C. Tourists should arrive early to get a good viewing spot. D. They provide perfect swimming options for professionals. B When my editors asked me to report on forest bathing, I packed a swimsuit. I assumed it must involve getting in the water. It turns out, my interpretation was too literal. I met certified Forest Therapy (治疗) guide Melanie Choukas-Bradley at an urban forest in Washington, D. C. Here, I began to get it. Forest bathing isn’t a bath or a hike. We did walk the forest trails, but we wandered with no particular destination in mind. The aim of forest bathing, Choukas- Bradley explained, is to slow down and throw oneself in the natural environment. She helped us be aware of the smells, tastes and sights of the forest. We took in our surroundings by using all our senses. As we passed through a stand of trees, we touched the trunks. We smelled the black walnuts, which give off a lovely fragrance (香气). We got a little shower of ripe mulberries, too. “Close your eyes and just breathe.” Choukas-Bradley told us. After I opened my eyes, the green looked a lot greener. And I began to see things I hadn’t noticed before. “A forest guide helps us be here, not there,” says Amos Clifford, the founder of the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy, the organization that certifies the guides. They support what the forests could offer us, inviting us into practices that deepen physical presence, pleasure, and partnership with nature. When we connect with nature in this way, we are connecting with ourselves. Clifford’s goal is to encourage health care proyiders to integrate forest therapy as a stress- reduction strategy. In the United States, work- related stress accounts for up to $190 billion in health care costs each year. “It’s my hope that the health care system will include forest therapy into the range of services,” Clifford says. 4. What is forest bathing? A. A hike up the mountain. B. An adventure in the woods. C. A swimming in open water. D. A guided nature healing practice. 5. How can we benefit from forest bathing? A. By improving our awareness. B. By doing intense training. C. By experiencing nature mindfully. D. By carrying out eyesight tests. 6. What can a guide help forest bathers do? A. Locate and pick ripe fruits. B. Put exercise plans into action. C. Identify different trees and birds. D Concentrate on the surrounding nature. 7. What can we learn from Clifford’s words in the last paragraph? A. Health care system needs updating. B. Nature- based therapy costs too much. C. Stress- related diseases are commonly seen. D. Forest therapy could be an alternative treatment. C It’s commonly acknowledged that our lives are ruled by algorithms (算法), but have we really collectively understood how they have transformed our culture and personality? In Filterworld: How algorithms flattened culture, Kyle Chayka argues convincingly that the rise of algorithm-driven feeds, used everywhere online from Instagram to Spotify, has led to a more uniform culture. Our tastes and desires increasingly don’t belong to us, but to algorithms that are designed to keep people engaged at all costs. If the collection of our tastes truly shapes our entire personality, then this loss is more psychologically damaging than it first appears. Aimlessly scrolling (滚屏) through Netflix or TikTok may seem harmless, but over days, months or years, we lose touch with what we like and enjoy. Taste-making algorithms are inescapable. Chayka shows this by working through all corners of life: what we wear(TikTok), where we eat(Google Maps), music we listen to(Spotify), even who we date or marry(Tinder). This universe of algorithm-driven decisions has society-wide implications: “It extends to influence our physical spaces, our cities, and the routes we move through…flattening them in turn.” No one gets out of the Filterworld untouched. If you’re lucky enough not to need any sort of algorithm-based system for your work, then you have the option to step back from algorithms for a while. But if your friend suggests a film recommended on X/Twitter or you feel the need to buy those shoes suddenly everyone has started wearing after social media advertisements, what are you to do? It all feels fruitless. This Filterworld may be inescapable, but there is hope. You can start by engaging more with the media you do choose to consume. This could mean reading up about a film you watched or paying artists you like directly. Even the thoughtful act of recommending an album (专辑) to a friend is more rewarding than a random TikTok feed. As Chayka says, resistance to algorithms “requires an act of willpower, a choice to move through the world in a different way.” 8. What is Kyle Chayka’s opinion on algorithms? A. They improve our tastes. B. They make our culture more alike. C. They help to identify our personality. D. They contribute to psychological problems. 9. What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 refer to? A. The society with advanced technology. B. The world without social media platforms. C. The network of algorithm-driven decisions. D. The community free from algorithmic influence. 10. Which of the following is a way to resist the impact of algorithms? A. Limiting the use of social media platforms. B. Making choices based on friends’ suggestions. C. Getting more involved with the selected media. D. Disconnecting from social media advertisements. 11. What is the best title for the text? A. Algorithms: Cultural Takeover B. The Secret of Algorithms C. Social Media: Cultural Messenger D. The Rise of Digital Platforms D Some languages are rapid-fire and others more unhurried but there is no difference in the speed at which information is shared, according to the new research. The world's 7000 or so languages differ greatly not only in their range of available phonemes-the units of sound that make up speech, but also in the pace at which these building blocks are thrown together in speech. But the new research into the information content in speech shows that languages allow their speakers to communicate about the same amount of information per second despite wide variations in the speed of speech. To understand this better, researchers led by Christophe Coupé from the University of Lyon and Yoon Oh from the University of Canterbury studied recordings of 170 native adult speakers of 17 European and Asian languages. Each speaker read a set of standardized texts containing about 240, 000 syllables (音节). The researchers found that the fastest language hit 9.1syllables per second, and the slowest a mere 4. 3. But this was cancelled out by the amount of information, measured in bits, that each syllable contained. This varied significantly from 4. 8 bits per syllable for Basque to 8. 0 bits per syllable for Vietnamese. The study found languages that pack a lot of information into sounds and syllables tend to be spoken more slowly, while those with a low information density (密度) are delivered more rapidly. While speech rat and information density fluctuate (波动) widely, the information rate-the speed at which information is delivered-stays consistently around 39. 15 bits per second. The researchers say this appears to represent a optimal (最佳的) rat for giving and receiving information. Languages seem to stably inhabit an optimal range of information rates, away from the extremes that can still be available to individual speakers. Of course, not everybody speaks at the optimal information rate. We all know people who talk too quickly or slowly, and the new research may cast light on why we find listening to them hard work. 12. What has the new research found out? A. Languages tend to convey information with similar efficiency. B. Languages have nearly the same range of available phonemes C The number of languages has gradually decreased to about 7000. D. The speed of speech is determined by the information content. 13. What is paragraph 3 mainly about? A. A further explanation of the research methods. B. A brief introduction of the research process. C. Potential application of the research findings. D. Supporting evidence for the research results. 14. What can we learn from the finding of Christophe’s study? A. More words in speech convey more information B. The information rate remains at a reasonable level. C. The speech rate can affect the information density. D. Languages with more syllables are delivered faster 15. What can be inferred about the optimal information rate? A. It can lead to smooth communication. B. It may result in the difficulty of listening C. It stays the same for individual speakers. D. It prevents speakers from going to extremes. 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。 Advice on Choosing Your Career You probably are very much concerned about which direction you take in your career, but before working through the process of generating and refining specific career choices, helicopter up to 10,000 feet from where you can view your overall career map, answer the big questions and set your overall direction. ____16____What is your aim? How long have you got? Remember that there are no right answers, only the best choice for you, based on what you know now. Having laid out your overall map, set boundaries and defined your personal targets, you can then turn to practical issues. ____17____ Write down examples of how you demonstrate key employability skills such as team work, leadership, and communication. ____18____ Go out and meet people, attend talks, go to relevant lectures, watch videos about industries and organizations, seek out websites that can give you objective and general career advice, for example, the open access Oxford university careers website. Over time you can start to narrow down your choices and then choose one. ____19____ In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off with a compass and direction, and a general destination of mapping the new Louisiana territories in America. But they had no exact map. ____20____ Your career will be much longer but, like Lewis and Clark, it is about direction, not destination. A. Where, roughly, are you going? B. Their successful expedition took two years. C. In any event, you have a few years to explore. D. Identify what you are good at, based on your skills and experiences. E. That way, you’ll be more focused and thus more likely to achieve your goal. F. You are looking for a match to what might suit you now, but that changes over time. G. Your career project might take some time, as now you are probably short of information. 第二部分 语言运用(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，从各题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Owning chickens may be nothing special for you, but in the life of a chicken, we catch a glimpse (一瞥) of an important truth. You see when a hen lays her egg, she labors to make sure the ___21___are just right to promote life for that little chick. She must lay it in a ____22____spot. She also must apply heat to the egg for it to ___23___. In the life of this baby chick though, there comes a point that is necessary but that is often ___24___. As the egg begins to crack and slowly break ___25___, what you will not see is the mother hen ____26____the chick to get the shell off. No matter how hard the chick____27____, pushes and strains (拉紧) itself, the mother hen will not do the ____28____ for it. At this point, someone can see the ___29___of this chick and think the mother does not ___30___ her young. This person can then seek to help the chick and ____31____ the pieces of the shell. However, if such a thing really happens, often this person ____32____ does not save the chick’s life but rather ____33____ its death. This ____34____ stage is essential for the chick. It will produce within the chick the ____35____ that will allow it to live and thrive (茁壮成长). 21. A. actions B. experiences C. conditions D. chances 22. A. safe B. remote C. shady D. new 23. A. hatch B. live C. move D. continue 24. A. evaluated B. checked C. made D. overlooked 25. A. up B. open C. free D. away 26. A. urging B. preferring C. assisting D. encouraging 27. A. rolls B. knocks C. jumps D. shakes 28. A. work B. harm C. exercise D. same 29. A. depression B. confusion C. growth D. struggle 30. A. take in B. care about C. play with D. bring up 31. A. collect B. remove C. throw D. spread 32 A. carelessly B. impatiently C. unknowingly D. purposely 33. A. slows B. causes C. faces D. prevents 34. A. beginning B. developing C. resting D. falling 35. A. nutrition B. health C. luck D. strength 第二节(共10小题;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。 The term Xuan paper first appeared in On Famous Paintings through the Ages, a book written by Tang Dynasty scholar Zhang Yanyuan, ____36____ he described Xuan paper as an ideal carrier for calligraphy and painting. Handmade Xuan paper from Jingxian county, East China’s Anhui province, ____37____ (list) as a gift to the imperial court then for its supreme quality, During the Tang and Song Dynasties Xuan paper reached its peak of ____38____ (popular) and quality. The traditional craft (工艺) of making Xuan paper is extremely ____39____ (demand). Sandalwood bark, a plant native to southern China, ____40____ (go) through108 procedures over the course of three years before it can transform into fine Xuan paper. The flow of ink determines the output of Chinese art, and Xuan paper outshines others with its excellent ability ____41____ (give) full play to ink. Different proportions (比例) of bark to straw during the paper- making process can create different canvases (帆布) best suited ____42____ artistic expression in freehand ink paintings or calligraphy. The unique quality of Xuan paper is ____43____ (high) valued in the world of Chinese calligraphy and painting. Xuan paper is very resistant to damage brought by time. It is this durability ____44____ has made the preservation of many valuable works from ancient China possible. The long history unique craftsmanship, and high quality of Xuan paper have made it a _____45_____ (treasure) cultural heritage of China. 第三部分 写作(共两节，满分40分) 第一节(满分15分) 46. 假定你是李华，上周参加了WWF举办的为期一周的野生动物保护冬令营。请你写一篇博客分享这段有意义的经历。内容包含： 1.活动内容和相关安排； 2.个人感想。 注意： 1.写作词数应为80左右; 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 A Week in the Wild ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节(满分25分) 47. 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。 I’m Tia, a passionate teenage girl, living next door to the corner of 71st Street. It’s my corner. Most folks find there’s nothing there, just an empty lot. But to me, it’s like a wide-open treasure box. Stepping into it, I feel like leaping into a sea of green. The tall grass, probably just weeds, with butterflies gathering around, smells clean and fresh, and I wonder why I’m the only one who’s thankful for this place. One evening, Mama said, “Tia, the city wants to turn that comer of yours into a parking lot.” I stopped in my tracks. “No! They can’t do that!” “Tia, you have to make them see what you see. Make some noise about it. No one ever got any place by sitting back and staying quiet.” That night, I lay awake thinking for a long time. “I’ve got to do something.” Early the next morning I dragged a chair down to the corner with a big cardboard on which I’d painted “No Parking Lot! Save Our Nature” in large letters. I sat down and waited. Most people passed by, paying no attention to me. My friend Tanya asked me what I was doing, and I told her. Then came Mrs. DiRisio, a beauty shop owner, who angrily waved her hand at my sign, saying. “My customers need a place to park. You go home, little girl.” But I didn’t move. Then I noticed a woman down the street taking pictures of my corner. She walked over to me, smiling, “I’m Sara Bennett. Can I talk to you?” I nodded. I knew I needed to make some noise. I started talking, and Ms. Bennett scribbled on a notepad. “A walking path would be nice, maybe a vegetable garden. And a bench, so people could sit down and listen to the birds singing.” I was surprised at myself, at how many ideas I’d got for this corner. The next morning, my brother burst into my room with a morning paper. “Fighting for Nature on the Corner of 71st” was the title of the article, and along with it was a picture of me! After breakfast my brother, Mama and I dragged our chairs and signs back to the corner. 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。 Paragraph 1: To my amazement, I saw some familiar figures coming towards us. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: A year later, the sign on the corner made it official. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 深圳外国语学校2024-2025学年度高三第一学期第二次月考 英语试题 试卷共8页，卷面满分120分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写在答题卡上。 2.作答时，务必将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。 3.考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 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. B 2. B 3. A B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. D 5. C 6. D 7. D C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. B 9. C 10. C 11. A D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. A 13. B 14. B 15. A 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。 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. A 17. D 18. G 19. E 20. B 第二部分 语言运用(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，从各题所给的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. C 22. A 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. B 32. C 33. B 34. A 35. D 第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分) 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. where 37. was listed 38. popularity 39. demanding 40. goes 41. to give 42. for##to 43. highly 44. that 45. treasured 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】范文 A Week in the Wild Last week, I, together with 30 other students, went to Yunnan and took part in the Wildlife Protection Winter Camp held by WWF. We spent one week in the wild rain forests learning about endangered animals from wildlife professionals. We observed how different species of monkeys adapted themselves to their natural habitats. Plus, various activities to help protect them have been organized, such as picking up plastics, removing nets and traps and putting up posters. We were amazed by the tireless efforts that the locals were making. The camp not only raised our environmental awareness, but also deepened our understanding of wildlife protection. Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature can we enjoy a better future together. 第二节(满分25分) 【47题答案】 【答案】Possible version: To my amazement, I saw some familiar figures coming towards us. My friend Tanya and her family, each carrying a chair, joined us! “Tia, You’ve got some good ideas for this corner. We need a little nature around here.” More and more neighbors showed up, waving signs and making noise, including Mrs. DiRisio. Mom inspired me to make a speech to the city call. I did so days later. “If this is the last little bit of nature in our neighborhood,” I spoke, ”doesn’t it make sense to try and save it? ” Everyone applauded at the end of my speech. A year later, the sign on the corner has made it official. Now we’ve got a walking path that curves and winds its way through the 71st Street Nature Preserve. We’ve got a stone bench and plans for a vegetable garden. School groups come here to collect leaves and study the insects and birds. Folks come here to walk, run or just sit, talking, laughing and listening to birds singing. My corner isn’t just mine anymore, but I’m more than happy to share it. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$