湖南省长沙市长郡中学集团联考2024-2025学年高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷

2024-2025-1长郡中学高三月考（三） 英 语 第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例：How much is the shirt? A. f19.15. B. f9.18. C. f9.15. 答案是C。 1. What is the weather like? A. Rainy. B. Windy. C. Sunny. 2. What does Molly usually do after school? A. Play with her friend B. Work on her homework. C. Ride her bike. 3. Where are the speakers? A. On a bus. B. In a car. C. On the subway. 4. How does the man sound? A. Puzzled. B. Annoyed. C. Tired. 5. When will the man have to leave? A. 1:40 p.m. B. 1:25 p.m. C. 1:15 p.m. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有儿个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What do we know about the woman? A. She likes the outdoors. B. She tripped up on a rock. C. She never camped in the woods before 7. What is hard in the dark according to the man? A. Setting up a tent. B. Avoiding rocks. C. Building a fire. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Modern technology B. Industrial development. C. Environmental problems 9. What's the problem in Africa according to the man? A. The countries there need wood. B. Farmland is turning into desert. C. Air is polluted seriously by factories. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Friends. B. Neighbors. C. Parent and child. 11. Why hasn't the woman had her washing machine fixed yet? A. She keeps forgetting about it. B. She is worried about the cost. C. She has been too busy recently. 12. What will the woman do on the weekend? A. Call a repairman. B. Entertain her parents. C. Buy a new washing machine. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Which books has the man read? A. Fangirl and Landline. B. Fangirl and Attachments. C. Eleanor & Park and Attachments. 14. Why does the man ask the woman about her address? A. She recently moved house. B. Her library card needs to be renewed. C. He will send her information about classes. 15. Which class does the woman show interest in? A. Digital design. B. Photography. C. Photoshop. 16. When will the woman's class take place? A. On Mondays. B. On Wednesdays. C. On Fridays. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What does the market mainly sell? A. Artworks. B. Indian food. C. Cloth. 18. Who is the speaker? A. A fashion designer. B. A filmmaker. C. A photographer. 19. What does the speaker need the dress for? A. Going to a show. B. Attending a wedding. C. Taking some pictures. 20. What surprised the speaker? A. That the dress was cheaper than she thought. B. That the dress she tried on was handmade. C. That her order would take so much time. 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 AI & Theatre: A Discussion at the Library for the Performing Arts With the development of technology, there is the wide use of AI in many aspects of our lives. The Library for the Performing Arts invites you to an afternoon discussion next Thursday. In the discussion, the hope is neither to promote nor to denigrate AI, instead, lectures will allow listeners to have an open discussion about the potential impacts of AI on theatre at a crucial stage in its technological advancement. Seating Policy Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested a week earlier. Registered guests are given priority and allowed to check in 15 to 30 minutes before the start time and holding seats for anyone is prohibited. If you arrive after the program starts, your seat will be arranged at a special place by our staff. Food or drink is not allowed inside. Standby Line If registration has ended, do not worry! We welcome you to the library regardless of registration status and you can wait in our standby line. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining seats are released to attendees in the standby line. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs. Assistive Listening and Interpretation Interpretation in English and the real-time caption are available on request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing us at accessibility@nypl.org. Audio and Video Recording Programs may be photographed and recorded by the Library for the Performing Arts. If you would prefer your image not to be photographed, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Please note that all recordings, including professional video recordings, are not allowed during the discussion. 21. What's the purpose of the discussion? A. To promote the application of AI. B. To show the disadvantages of AI. C. To explore the impact of AI on theatre. D. To appreciate the development of technology. 22. How can you ensure a seat in the discussion? A. Sign up for it ahead of time. B. Pay a registration fee. C. Wait in the standby line earlier. D. Contact the working staff a day ahead. 23. What can people do if they attend the discussion? A. Ask for the real-time caption. B. Hold a seat for a friend. C. Broadcast the discussion live. D. Take photos during the discussion. B Yang Li, a native Miao woman passionate about embroidery, owns a folk culture products shop that sells Miao embroidery, batik cloth, and silver jewelry. At first, the small shop struggled as there were many similar products on the market. Yang realized the need for a unique brand to stand out from the competition. During a hike in Fanjing Mountain in July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf. This gave her an idea; “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroidery yet? Obviously, the reason behind this is that embroidering on leaves requires delicate skills that few possess. Yang Li collected thousands of leaves from Fanjing Mountain and processed them by steaming, boiling, and tanning them to expose their veins. While the leaves become soft, they are also extremely fragile. The biggest challenge was improving the flexibility of the leaves. After consulting local expert Shen Min, she learned that soaking them in acidic water could make them tough enough for embroidery. Through continuous learning and practice, she succeeded in creating her first piece of leaf-vein embroidery, which perfectly combines traditional embroidery patterns with the natural textures of the leaves. By adding traditional designs from the Miao, Tujia, and Dong ethnic groups, she produced art that exhibits a unique aesthetic appeal of traditional embroidery with contemporary craftsmanship. Yang notes that typically, only those with decades of embroidery experience can independently complete the entire leaf-embroidery process, which is fewer than 20 people in Tongren from 2011 to now. Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women, and people with disabilities. "Guizhou is a province with a large number of ethnic groups and has a long history of ethnic embroidery skills," she says. "I will keep doing the leaf-vein embroidery for the rest of my life because it is meaningful." 24. What inspired Yang Li to create leaf-vein embroidery? A. Her love for Miao embroidery. B. The discovery of a special leaf. C. An accidental injury to her hand. D. A decrease in her shop's earnings. 25. What is the biggest challenge for Yang Li? A. Softening the leaves. B. Exposing veins of leaves. C. Collecting suitable leaves. D. Making leaves more flexible. 26. What do we know about Yang Li's leaf-vein embroidery? A. It is costly to complete a single piece. B. It is well-received by international consumers. C. It is demanding for cooperation between craftsmen. D. It is a unique combination of artistic elements. 27. Which of the following words can best describe Yang Li? A. Creative and dedicated. B. Ambitious and cautious. C. Passionate and humorous. D. Optimistic and considerate. C Is modern fruit bred to be sweeter than in the past? The short answer is yes, though the longer answer is more complicated. Some of the most powerful evidence that fruit is sweeter than before comes from zoos. In 2018, it was reported that Melbourne Zoo in Australia had stopped giving fruit to most of its animals because cultivated fruit was now so sweet that it was causing tooth decay and weight gain. The monkeys at the zoo were provided with a lower-sugar vegetable-based diet instead of bananas. Among fruit breeders, the word "quality" is now routinely used as a synonym for "high in sugar" (though firmness, color, and size are also considerations). In 2010, in an article looking at ways to enhance the sweetness of fruit using “molecular approaches", a group of plant scientists of the Republic of Korea wrote that "in general, the sugar content" of many fruits is now higher than before" owing to continuous selection and breeding". Modern apple varieties, the scientists noted, were on average sweeter than older cultivars. Breeding isn't the only reason that modern fruit is sweeter; there's also climate change. Research from Japan found that since the 1970s, with rising temperatures, Fuji apples (which were already a sweet variety) have become significantly sweeter and softer. The lead researcher, Toshihiko Sugiura, said that "if you could taste an apple harvested 30 years ago, you would feel the difference". It is sometimes claimed that the sweetness of modern fruit is not due to higher sugar content so much as the fact that the bitterness and sourness of wild fruit have been steadily bred out of it. There's a grain but only a grain of truth in this. Studies of wild apples do indeed suggest that some ancient varieties were just as high in sugar as a modern Pink Lady or Honeycrisp. The difference is that there was much wider variation in sugar content across wild apples, whereas the modern supermarket apple seldom drops below a certain level of sweetness. 28. Why did Melbourne Zoo stop giving fruit to most of its animals? A. The animals preferred a vegetable-based diet. B. Modern fruit did great harm to animals' teeth. C. The sugar content of modern fruit is lower than before. D. The flavor of modern fruit was not good for the animals. 29. What can we learn from paragraph 3? A. The sugar content is breeders' first priority. B. Sweeter fruits are just a result of natural selection. C. The sweetness of modern apples is equal to the average of older ones. D. Molecular approaches can be used to increase the sweetness of modern fruit. 30. What do studies of wild apples in the last paragraph suggest? A. Apples of old species tasted less sweet. B. The sugar content of wild apples varied greatly. C. The sweetness of modern apples is of the same level. D. Fruit is sweet because bitterness in it has been removed. 31. What's the best title for this passage? A. Modern or Old: Which Is Better? B. Modern Fruit: Sweetness Is Quality C. Fruit Is Sweeter: It's Not a Misconception D. Melbourne Zoo: Animals Stop Eating Fruits D You see a fantastic offer, like a hotel room. You decide to book. Then it turns out there is a service fee. Then a cleaning fee. Then a few other extra costs. By the time you pay the final price, it is no longer the fantastic offer you thought. Welcome to the world of drip pricing - the practice of promoting something at an attractive headline price and then, once you've committed to the purchase process, hitting you with unavoidable add-ons that are "dripped". In most cases, you see through all additionally added mandatory fees, and even though you could relinquish the deal, you choose to bite the bullet and complete the deal. Resistance to the idea of starting the search all over again is not simply a matter of laziness or indecision. There's a profound psychological mechanism at play here, called the present bias. In the paper, Doing It Now or Later, economist Matthew Rabin defines people's present-biased preference via an example of choosing between doing seven hours of unpleasant activity on April 1 or eight hours two weeks later: If asked on February 1, most people will choose the earlier option. But come April 1, given the same choice, most of us tend to put off work till April 15. In simple terms, the inconvenience of doing something “right now” often feels disproportionately large. Beyond the challenge of starting over, there's another psychological phenomenon that drip pricing uses - loss aversion. Imagine you're booking tickets for a show. Initially attracted by the headline price, you're now presented with different seating categories. Seeing a VIP ticket is within your budget, you decide to fork out. But then, during the checkout process, the drip begins. You realize you could have chosen lower-category seats, but by this stage, you've already imagined yourself enjoying the show from those nice seats. Going back to a cheaper seat will feel like a loss. Buyers would benefit from a ban on drip pricing. Many countries are taking steps to protect consumers from drip pricing. The effectiveness of such measures, however, is uncertain. Nonetheless, you can hopefully make a more informed decision by understanding why the strategy works. 32. Which of the following is an example of drip pricing? A. FlightHub introduces a bonus after you choose their flight. B. Airbnb offers you a membership account when you book a trip. C. Rent-A-Car charges wear and tear fees beyond the advertised price. D. Ticketmaster provides optional items at later stages of your purchase. 33. What does the underlined word "relinquish" in paragraph 3 mean? A. Reach. B. Abandon. C. Sign. D. Expand. 34. How will Rabin explain people's refusal to cancel an order and remake one? A. People are likely to blindly stick to their initial intentions. B. People like to grab earlier rewards and delay immediate costs. C. People struggle to make a decision among multiple choices. D. People tend to tolerate additional costs within their budget. 35. What is the author's main purpose in writing the text? A. To explain why people fall into the drip pricing trick. B. To educate customers on how to deal with drip pricing. C. To call on governments to protect consumers' interests. D. To introduce two psychological phenomena about spending. 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。 There is little, it seems, that people won't do for their pets. Americans spent $186bn on them last year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, covering everything from food and vet visits to toys and grooming. That is more than they spent on childcare. 36._______ Mars, a company best known for its chocolate bars, made two-thirds of its revenue last year from pet care. Besides owning the Royal Canin pet-food brand, the company also operates thousands of vet clinics. Nestle and Colgate, two other consumer-products giants, also make around a fifth of their revenue from their pet market. Spending on pets rocketed through the COVID-19 pandemic. 37._______ Between 2019 and 2023, pet spending grew by a compound annual rate of 11%, in nominal terms, compared with 6% for consumer spending overall and 5% for pet spending over the preceding decade.38._______ Unlike virtual yoga classes or meal-kit subscriptions, animals weren't easy to drop once lockdowns ended. Consumers, wrestling lately with higher prices and a cooling job market, have been reluctant to employ tight budgets on their pets. Morgan Stanley, a bank, estimates pet spending in America, compared with other personal expenses, will grow by 2.5% this year. 39._______ The pet business proved similarly strong during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. And analysts hold the pet business will soon go viral again. Morgan Stanley forecasts that annual spending will rise to around $260bn by 2030, consistent with its pre-pandemic growth trend. 40._______ Owners increasingly see themselves as parents, not masters. "Pets have gone from the backyard to the living room to the bedroom," says Loic Moutault, head of the pet division at Mars. A. Plenty more growth is yet to come. B. Catering to pets has become big business. C. Owners are now giving their pets yummier food. D. That is attracting plenty of newcomers to the pet industry. E. It is well ahead of estimates for other spending like clothes. F. Lonely people adopted animals and invested heavily in them at that time. G. Behind that is a shift in the relationship between pets and humans. 第三部分语言运用（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。 Our old, artificial Christmas tree was in rough shape by the time we withdrew it. At least a decade had passed since my wife and I 41._______ the tree from the Christmas retail market in Brooklyn, a medium-sized fir with built-in lights, and moved it on the subway to our previous 42._______. Over the years, we dragged that tree from apartment to apartment, 43._______ it onto a moving truck to Los Angeles and later crammed the 44._______ box which was centuries-old, this time to Chicago and our 45._______ home. By the end, layers of tape held the box together, the wear and tear of a decade of 46._______ holiday cheer. Our little tree looked running 47._______, but it was the only tree our family ever knew. It stood 48._______ and glowing in the background of photos of me and my 49._______ pregnant wife during our last Christmas in Brooklyn without children. She was eagerly expecting the baby's coming. Our 50._______ was born a month later during a January snowstorm. The tree 51._______ again in the next year's photos, this time surrounded by holiday gifts for a boy about to 52._______ one. Then it appeared in photos of our son and his 1-month-old brother. And in more recent photos, our tree lighted up 53._______ overlooking glistening Chicago snow. This year, after much debate, we decided to 54._______ our dear old tree, with its 55._______ branches and the lights that had burned out years ago. Rather than feel terribly blue, we used the moment to launch a new family tradition: our first real Christmas tree. 41. A. brought B. sought C. bought D. held 42. A. apartment B. yard C. garage D. balcony 43. A. changed B. jammed C. pinned D. passed 44. A. painted B. polished C. weathered D. transformed 45. A. current B. instant C. shabby D. spacious 46. A. signalling B. delivering C. adapting D. receiving 47. A. away B. out C. off D. down 48. A. still B. quiet C. proud D. free 49. A. happily B. newly C. motherly D. dearly 50. A. nicer B. braver C. faster D. older 51. A. took up B. pulled up C. showed up D. put up 52. A. count B. turn C. secure D. grow 53. A. stairs B. bars C. doors D. windows 54. A. revise B. reject C. refresh D. retire 55. A. stuck B. stretched C. bent D. lit 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。 Chinese restaurants began to open in America in the mid-19th century, clustering (集中) on the west coast where the first immigrants landed. They mostly served 56._______ unique version of Cantonese cuisine—chop suey, egg foo yung and the like. In that century and much of the 20th century, the immigrants largely 57._______ (flow) from China's south-east regions, mainly Guangdong province. Restaurants began calling their food "Hunan" and "Sichuan", and though it 58._______ (true) bore much resemblance to 59._______ was eaten in those regions, it was more diverse and boldly spiced 60._______ the sweet, fried stuff that defined the earliest Chinese menus. By the 1990s, adventurous diners in cities with sizeable Chinese populations could choose many regional cuisines. A particular 61._______ (favor) Sichuan food, made its diners addictive with its extremely chilly dishes. Virtually every small town had one Chinese restaurant and, generally, the menus were the same: 62._______ (steam) pork dumplings; sour soup; stir-fries listed by main ingredients, 63._______ a pepper star suggesting the amount of pepper. But there were slight changes in some cities. For instance, in Boston, takeaways often come with dumplings 64._______ (feature) as a sweetened sauce, a special cuisine developed in upper Manhattan 65._______ (meet) diners' novel taste. 第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 假定你是校英语俱乐部主席李华，你校正进行读书活动，请你代表俱乐部写一篇倡议书，号召同学们多读中国经典好书。内容包括： 1. 倡议的目的； 2. 读经典作品的好处。 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 fellow students, 第二节（满分25分） 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开篇语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 Lauri, 59, and his son, Johnny, 28, set out to begin the first of three legs of the Ironman competition in Cambridge. They weren't the typical contestants. Johnny has cerebral palsy. His difficulty walking is caused by muscle weakness. Lauri would act as his arms and legs, literally carrying the weight of his son throughout the race. To qualify as having finished, contestants must complete 140 miles of swimming, bicycling, and running under 17 hours. From the day Johnny was born, Lauri refused to let his son's disabilities hold him back. Determined to show Johnny that he could pursue his dream of being an athlete when he was 15, Lauri signed him up with Team Triumph, an organization helping kids with disabilities engage in endurance sports. "It gave me a new perspective on life," Johnny says. Johnny started practicing in racing, and Lauri wanted to be a part of it. Lauri began waking up at 4 a.m. so he could run while pushing Johnny in a personally-designed wheelchair called a racing chair. And Johnny tried so hard to walk using his walker for finishing the last minutes of the Ironman competition, so he may step over the finishing line with his father. "I wanted to fulfill his dreams," Lauri said. The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. Lauri helped Johnny into a kayak. With one end of a rope tied to his waist and the other end to the kayak, Lauri eased himself into the water. Swimming while dragging another person is tough enough. The pair completed the swim in 90 minutes, and it was on to the next leg: a 112-mile bicycle ride. Their specially-made bike has an additional back seat facing backward for Johnny. Then they set their sights on the final leg of the race with Johnny sitting in the racing chair. 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$