内蒙古鄂尔多斯市西四旗2024-2025学年高三上学期期中联考英语试题

鄂尔多斯市西四旗2024～2025学年第一学期期中联考试卷 高三英语 考生注意： 1. 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。 2. 答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。 3. 考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。 4. 本卷命题范围：高考范围。 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 Four Best Books for Teens Just as You Are In this book, psychologist Michelle Skeen and her daughter, Kelly Skeen, offer simple tips to help you overcome feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, stop comparing yourself to others, and be more open and accepting of all aspects of who you are. You’ll also learn how to be more aware of your thoughts and feelings in the moment using powerful mindfulness tools, and build a plan of action for the future based on your values. Make Your Bed According to Admiral William H. McRaven, changing the world can begin with one step: making your bed. In this book, Admiral McRaven shares tales from his life, including his time devoted to the military, providing practical advice, wisdom and words of encouragement to readers of all ages. Shoot Your Shot It’s written by Vernon Brundage Jr. in the context of basketball and divided into “quarters” similar to a basketball game. Throughout the book, readers learn life lessons gained and practiced by some of the greatest athletes, including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Stephen Curry. Shoot Your Shot aims to encourage readers to find success in anything they do in life, whether it’s athletics, academics, the arts, or something in between. Never Fight Alone Sometimes, teens just want to be heard by someone who understands, like some one of their own age. Written by Shelomo Solson, Never Fight Alone consists of 51 inspiring interviews with people — from former professional athletes to authors and teen entrepreneurs — who have faced various life problems, like anxiety, depression, and more. These interviewees detail how they overcame life challenges and provide tips for readers to do the same. 1. Which book refers to military life? A. Shoot Your Shot. B. Just as You Are. C. Make Your Bed. D. Never Fight Alone. 2. Who wrote the book Shoot Your Shot? A. Michelle Skeen. B. Shelomo Solson. C. Admiral McRaven. D. Vernon Brundage Jr. 3. What’s the purpose of the last book? A. To share skills in sports. B. To help readers face challenges. C. To teach how to interview well. D. To make teenagers study hard. B From a young age, Dorothy Jean Tillman excelled in her academic pursuits. By age 7, she was already doing high school work. At that point, she started to take college-level tests and apply the credits toward higher education. By age 14, Dorothy had obtained an associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degree. And she was a year into launching a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) camp startup, and was looking for funding for the organization. Fast-forward two years, when 17-year-old Dorothy successfully delivered her graduation paper. Now, at 18, she is officially Dr. Dorothy Jean Tillman after attending the graduation ceremony at Arizona State University (ASU)’s College of Health Solutions on May 8. In addition to her school work, Dorothy also devotes her time to running the Dorothy Jeanius STEAM Leadership Institute, which prompts hundreds of young people in Chicago, as well as abroad in countries like Ghana and South Africa, to pursue STEAM careers. The program includes guest speakers and open conversations around each of the five areas of STEAM. “We just want to provide them with all possible resources and the best foundation to be able to start walking on that pathway to their dreams,” she says. While so many people wonder at the success she’s achieved, Dorothy says she is still a normal teen who spends time with family and friends. She gives credit to her mother as one of her greatest motivators. “I definitely couldn’t have got this far without her. She’s definitely the best teammate and the best supporter,” she says. Another inspiration for Dorothy is her grandmother, former Chicago official Dorothy Tillman, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. After graduating from ASU, Dorothy hopes to continue developing her camps and start applying her studies on integrated behavioral health into her work. “There is a potential for franchising (授予特许经营权) the camps one day so more kids gain something,” she says. She also hopes to work more with kids in Africa. 4. Which word can best describe Dorothy? A. Talented. B. Humorous. C. Strict. D. Honest. 5. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about Dorothy? A. Her troubles. B. Her achievements. C. Her family life. D. Her job experience. 6. What does the underlined word “prompts” in paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Forces. B. Warns. C. Begs. D. Motivates. 7. Why does Dorothy want to franchise the camps? A. To make money. B. To help teachers. C. To benefit more children. D. To develop local tourism. C People all over the world watch the Olympic Games on TV, cheer on their nations’ athletes, and get into the spirit of friendly international competition. Yet how many people know how these games came about and why they were created? Who came up with the idea of an Olympic torch (火炬)? Looking back in time can answer those questions. The first Olympic Games in recorded history took place in 776 BC on the ancient plains of Olympia in southern Greece. These ancient games took place in a religious festival and were devoted to the Olympian gods. They continued for almost twelve centuries until Emperor Theodosius banned them in AD 393. It was about 1,500 years after the last Olympics that the ancient games were revived (复兴). Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman devoted to the promotion of physical education, was inspired to create a modern Olympic Games after he visited the ancient Olympic site. The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece, in 1896, and were attended by 280 athletes from 12 countries, who competed in 43 events. In 2004, the Olympic Games returned to Greece with nearly 11,000 athletes representing 201 countries. The first opening ceremony (仪式) was at the London Olympics in 1908. The Olympic torch was lit for the first time at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Games in Germany. The ancient Greeks had a ritual fire for their games, but the idea of lighting a torch in Olympia and relaying it to the site of the games actually belongs to Carl Diem, who was the chief organizer of the Berlin Games. The games were cancelled three times due to global conflicts. They were not held in 1916 during World War I and in 1940 and 1944 during World War II. The games have continued uninterrupted since 1948. A minor change did take place in 1994 when the timing of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games was changed so that they would not be held in the same year. 8 What is the function of the first paragraph? A. To lead in the topic. B. To make a comparison. C. To provide an example. D. To present an argument. 9. Where can you find the data that best support “the Olympic Games have grown in size”? A. In paragraph 2. B. In paragraph 4. C. In paragraph 5. D. In paragraph 6. 10. What mainly caused the interruption of the modern Olympic Games? A. The two world wars. B. Carl Diem’s disapproval. C The loss of the Olympic torch. D. The ban from Theodosius. 11. What is the text mainly about? A. The rules of the Olympic Games. B. The importance of doing sports. C. The political events of Greece. D. The brief history of the Olympics. D It’s less furry than a traditional companion, but a six-legged Chinese robot “guide dog” could one day help vision-impaired (视觉受损的) people live with more independence, according to its research development team in Shanghai. The robot dog, which is currently being field-tested, is able to navigate (导航) its physical environment via cameras and sensors, including recognizing traffic light signals, which traditional guide dogs are unable to do. Roughly the size of an English Bulldog but a bit wider, it can communicate by listening and speaking with a visually impaired operator with AI-technology integrated in its voice recognition, route planning capabilities and traffic light recognition. It also has six legs, which the researchers say help it walk smoothly and with maximum stability. Married couple Li Fei, 41, and Zhu Sibin, 42, are among the visually impaired people helping the Jiao Tong University team test the robot using Chinese-language commands. “If this robot guide dog comes onto the market and I could use it, at least it could solve some of my problems in traveling alone,” Li said. Robot guide dogs are under development in other countries, including Australia and Britain, but China has a critical shortage of traditional guide dogs. “In China, there are just over 400 guide dogs for almost 20 million blind people,” said Professor Gao Feng, the head of the research team at Jiao Tong University’s School of Mechanical Engineering in Shanghai. There might be tens of millions of people in the world who need guide dogs. Unlike those dogs, which will always be limited in supply due to the natural limitations of breeding and the intense training required, Gao said the production of robot guide dogs could be scaled, especially in a major manufacturing center like China. “It’s a bit like cars. I can mass-produce them in the same way as cars, so it will become more affordable,” Gao said. 12. Why does the author mention “traffic light signals” in paragraph 2? A. To predict traffic rules in the future. B. To demonstrate the function of the robot dog. C. To stress the importance of obeying traffic rules. D. To show the advantage of traditional guide dogs. 13. What do we know about the Chinese robot guide dog? A. It has four legs. B. It is hard to keep stable. C. It has passed the field test. D. It is wider than an English Bulldog. 14. What is Li Fei’s attitude to the robot dog? A. Unconcerned. B. Doubtful. C. Favorable. D. Unclear. 15. What do the last two paragraphs try to tell us? A. It is easy to train traditional guide dogs. B. China has enough traditional guide dogs. C. Robot guide dogs will have a big market. D. Professor Gao wants to mass-produce cars. 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。 Are you refused when you ask for help from others? The following simple tips will increase people’s acceptance of your request for help. Demonstrate that you’ve tried to help yourself. People are more willing to help those who have attempted to help themselves first. When asking for help, briefly explain what you’ve tried independently. ____16____. Imagine you’re giving a key point list — and be specific. ____17____. People want to help those who they’re sure will act on the help or ad vice offered. Therefore, when you get help from someone who you expect you’ll ask for help again, make sure they’ re aware that you’ve acted on their prior advice — and appreciated it. Consider the timing of your request. Here’s a personal example. My family love to ask me for tech support. So I started a policy that tech support requests could only be made from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm each day. ____18____. This system works great for everyone. Don’t make someone guess what you want. When asking for help, make sure the person knows what you want. The more you practice asking for help in these situations, the easier it will get. Sometimes people are shy about offering help, or are just stuck in their own head and don’t think of offering. ____19____ By asking someone for help, you’re actually giving that person the opportunity to boost their mood. Make your requests using multiple channels. In customer-service situations, there are multiple options to ask for help. It might be best to use the phone, live chat, secure messaging, a face-to-face appointment or Twitter, depending on the situation. It especially helps not to be scared of using the phone if it is the best option for a particular concern. ____20____. A. Get to the point fast B. Make a smaller request C. That way, my workday isn’t disturbed D. If you don’t succeed at first, hang up and try again E. You have to try several of them to get what you need F. Show that you’ve acted on the person’s advice previously G. Providing help to strangers typically boosts the mood of the helper 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。 When Karl Goldstein was a kid, he took piano lessons every Saturday morning with a family friend. But when Goldstein was 12, his teacher told his ____21____ that he needed better instruction. So his mother took him to a music school, and ____22____ for classes taught by Alice Shapiro who was known for being ____23____. On the first day, she told Goldstein that he had to memorize the ____24____ of the Beethoven Sonata within a week. “Well I don’t think I can do that,” Goldstein hesitated. “But you must do it” the teacher said ____25____. This was nothing like his ____26____ Saturday mornings with his former teacher, and it wasn’t ____27____ before Goldstein decided that he didn’t want to take piano lessons anymore. He ____28____ he’d pick up another instrument, or maybe just ____29____ himself the piano after the semester. But a few words of encouragement from the music teacher changed Goldstein’s ____30____. One day, Shapiro turned to him and said something ____31____, “I am really happy that you have made remarkable progress within such a short time! I am sure you’re not going to ____32____.” The encouragement transformed their relationship ____33____ and it was the beginning of a long and ____34____ relationship. “Years later, I became a piano teacher and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 50 years. I ____35____ it all to the precious moment with my seemingly tough teacher, Alice Shapiro.” 21. A. students B. colleagues C. children D. parents 22. A. dropped in B. signed up C. rushed out D. packed up 23. A. tough B. kind C. generous D. selfish 24. A. vocabulary B. brochure C. music D. address 25. A. sharply B. carelessly C. gently D. patiently 26. A. cold B. lighthearted C. short D. unpleasant 27. A. easy B. acceptable C. long D. affordable 28. A. realized B. acknowledged C. pretended D. figured 29. A. buy B. teach C. give D. tell 30. A. mind B. habit C. tune D. goal 31. A. amusing B. alarming C. surprising D. annoying 32. A. argue B. cry C. run D. stop 33. A. occasionally B. magically C. unwillingly D. eagerly 34. A. fruitful B. difficult C. romantic D. distant 35. A. refer B. prefer C. owe D. bring 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。 Such scenes of excitement - thundering drums, yelling crowds and energetic boatmen - ____36____ (be) not rare across China on Duanwu, or Dragon Boat Festival, ____37____ falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year. Although tales of its origin differ, the two-thousand-year-old festival is widely celebrated ____38____ memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). When Qu realized his country’s decline was beyond recovery, he became so unhappy that he killed ____39____ (he) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Legend has it that the locals rowed boats to save the poet and threw zongzi, or sticky rice dumplings, into the river to keep fish from eating his body. ____40____ tradition was passed down in China and even traveled across borders. A host of other ____41____ (practice) are also associated with Duanwu. The fifth day of the fifth month is considered unlucky and ____42____ (poison). To drive away the bad luck, many people, ____43____ (especial) those in South China, take herbal baths and hang special plants over their doors. Some people even wear little bags ____44____ (stuff) with Chinese herbs, all with nice smells, ____45____ (scare) away the bad spirits. 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，在英语学习方面有不少困惑。请你给外教Mr Brown写封邮件寻求帮助。内容包括： 1.简述主要问题； 2.请求给出建议； 3.表示感谢。 注意：1.写作词数应为 80个左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Dear Mr Brown ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours sincerely, Li Hua 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。 “Daddy, I want to ask your permission to study in America,” I said to my father a few months before my graduation from high school. But hardly before I finished, he shouted, “No!” “But why?” I replied. “If you are worried about money, it will be OK since I have got a scholarship…” But he refused to give in. At the moment, I didn’t know what to say. For more than two years, I had been working very hard to pass all the necessary examinations. I had not told my father because I wanted to give him a pleasant surprise. I thought he would be very proud of me because it was many of my classmates’ parents’ dream to send their children to study abroad. “Why do I have to get your permission? I am already 18 and I’m not a kid anymore.” I said angrily and rushed to my bedroom, shutting the door violently. Blinded by anger, I found that I could not stay at my hometown any longer. Late that night, I slipped out of the house and decided to take the bus to the railway station to start my own life as far away from my home as possible. The bus stop was just two blocks away from my home. When I got there, I found that I forgot to take any money with me and missed the last bus. I did not want to go back home, so I sat down on the bench and closed my eyes to have a break. Suddenly, I was woken up by my phone. I looked around and found the road was deserted and the street was so quiet that I regretted that I had left home in such a hurry. I picked up the phone and answered the phone even without checking the number. “Have you had a good sleep? It’s going to rain. Shall we go home now?” 注意：1.续写词数应为150个左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 It was my father’s voice! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grabbed my bag and hurried to ward him. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 鄂尔多斯市西四旗2024～2025学年第一学期期中联考试卷 高三英语 考生注意： 1. 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。 2. 答题前，考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。 3. 考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。 4. 本卷命题范围：高考范围。 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. C 2. D 3. B B 【4~7题答案】 【答案】4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C C 【8~11题答案】 【答案】8. A 9. B 10. A 11. D D 【12~15题答案】 【答案】12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C 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. F 18. C 19. G 20. E 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. B 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. C 32. D 33. B 34. A 35. C 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. are 37. which 38. in 39. himself 40. The 41. practices 42. poisonous 43. especially 44. stuffed 45. to scare 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 Mr Brown, I’m writing to seek your guidance on some challenges I have been facing in my English study. Firstly, I have trouble with grammar. I often get confused about the proper use of tenses. Secondly, expanding my vocabulary is another challenge. I struggle to find the right words to express myself accurately. Lastly, I feel that my speaking skills need improving. I find it difficult to speak English fluently. I’d appreciate it if you could give me some suggestions. Your guidance will undoubtedly contribute significantly to my progress in English learning. Yours sincerely, Li Hua 第二节（满分25分） 【47题答案】 【答案】It was my father’s voice! I rubbed my sleepy eyes and looked around. There, about one hundred meters from the stop stood my father in the shadows. Then I realized that my father had been standing there all the time. Perhaps, he knew it would be useless to argue with his stubborn little girl. What he could do was waiting for my anger to die away. At first, I wanted to ignore him, but his voice sounded so assuring in the frightening quietness of night! I grabbed my bag and hurried toward him. On the way home, my father explained apologetically that he was caught off guard by the news and that he was very worried about my safety if I would go so far away alone. “Now I have realized that you have grown up and it is time for you to chase your dream. I will give my permission as long as you promise to live on campus and will not slip away when you are angry in the US,” my father said with resignation. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$