上海市市北中学2024-2025学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题(无答案)

2024学年市北中学第一学期高三英语期中考试试卷 命题人 ___史海蓉___ 审题人 ___韩叶淼___ I. Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. In an office. B. In a hospital. C. In a hotel. D. In a drugstore. 2. A. The woman likes this apartment. B. The couple has limited budget to buy an apartment. C. The apartment without balcony is the best choice for the couple. D. The apartment with a balcony facing north would be hot in the summer. 3. A. Regretful. B. Confident C. Indifferent. D. Sympathetic. 4. A. The cellphone has a quality problem. B. The phone’s quality is guaranteed for a year. C. The cellphone can be repaired free of charge within a week. D. The man can get his money back within a year if there is a quality problem. 5. A. Employer and employee. B. Interviewer and interviewee. C. Teacher and student. D. Parent and child. 6. A. It was inspiring. B. It was not true. C. It was surprising. D. It was not interesting. 7. A. Mary. B. Joanna. C. Kate. D. May. 8. A. She wouldn’t mind their cutting down the tree. B. She would be glad if they cut down the tree. C. She would rather they didn’t cut down the tree. D. She likes to sit in the garden and look at the tree. 9. A. It is expensive during the Christmas season. B. She can reserve a room for the man for the whole week. C. The man has to change a hotel during the Christmas season. D. The man has to live in different rooms during the Christmas season. 10. A. The man canceled the trip because it was too expensive. B. The man received a notice and had to cancel the trip. C. There was some mechanical problem with the liner. D. Bad weather led to the cancellation of the trip. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. It prevents oceans from oil pollution quickly. B. It effectively improves air quality on airplanes. C. It treats diseases happening on airplanes quickly. D. It costs more but can be easily fixed into airplanes. 12. A. To inspire teenagers to challenge the authorities. B. To persuade more teens to do good for society. C. To get more teens involved in scientific competitions. D. To encourage young people to get interested in science. 13. A. More than 30% of finalists received awards and prizes. B. Scientists all over the world competed for grand prizes. C. Nearly 1000 judges were present at the competition. D. The prize money was offered by Intel alone. Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. It can satisfy the tastes of different people. B. People can pay less money. C. People can get together with their friends. D. It can cook different meals. 15. A. You should use the Wolt app. B. It has been run for more than two years. C. It will replace take-out restaurants soon. D. You can enjoy the service in your living-room. 16. A. The way to order take-out. B. A worldwide food service. C. American Express and Wolt. D. The “Take In” restaurant in Helsinki. Question 17 through 20 are based on the following, conversation. 17. A. Editor. B. Waitress. C. Politician. D. Teacher. 18. A. Because the Youth Council asked her to choose it. B. Because she wanted to win equal rights for women. C. Because she managed to fit it all in her schedule D. Because it could leave her much time for studying. 19. A. Youth Council members are aged between 14 and 16. B. Caroline is having a lot of trouble with her studies. C. Caroline finds her minor subject very interesting: D. Caroline studies history as her minor subject. 20. A. 4p. m. B. 4: 30p. m C. 5p. m. D. 5: 30p. m. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20分) Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. I used to have an obsession with consumption, thinking that possessions would bring me happiness. Back then, whenever I felt a sense of dissatisfaction, the only solution 21 I would come up with was to purchase new things. The excitement instantly overcame me as I browsed the internet or headed to the store. But that excitement or happiness was always short-lived, if I ever had any. Now the irony is that the things I own end up 22 (own) me. I have become a slave of them and a mindless man manipulated by advertising 23 (spend) more money on things I don’t really need. That’s when it hit me. What I really want is 24 simple, non-materialistic life focused on having fewer things but more experiences and still feeling truly content. For me, the difference between things and experiences is that things seemingly persist in time 25 experiences have a limited duration. A stone is a prototypical (典型的) “thing”. If I place it somewhere, chances are that this stone will stay there for quite a long time. Conversely, a kiss is an“experience”. It makes no sense to ask 26 the kiss will be tomorrow. Most people worship kisses but they never cherish. Instead, they all chase the stones. Don’t get me wrong. I am not stating there is anything wrong about people’s attaching more value to stones, since all of our time in this world is limited. It’s the great equalizer with 27 an exception. That said, some of us try our 28 (hard) to fight this fact. One of the ways we do this is by becoming extremely attached to what we have in this lifetime. By possessing all sorts of material things, perhaps we can forget about the finiteness of life. But what in my eyes, 29 (give) so much value to life is the constant yet fleeting occurrence of kisses. That’s why I have decided to reconstruct my world 30 (两个空) it can be made up of kisses, not of stones. Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. possibility B. gloomy C. superficially D. challenge E. opposite F. unbalance G. intelligently H. escape I. maximize J. false K. energetic If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange aspiration for fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis (静止) : if our lives were ever in balance — parents happy, kids taken care of, work working then our thought would be to shout“Nobody move!” and pray all would stay perfect forever. This 31 hope is made worse by the implication that work is bad, and life is good; we lose ourselves in work but find ourselves in life; we survive work, but live life. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life. Yet work is not the 32 of life. It is instead a part of life just as family is, as are friends and hobbies. All of these aspects of living have their share of wonderful, uplifting moments and their share of 33 moments that drag us down. The same is true of work, yet when we think of it as something bad in need of a counterweight, we lose sight of the 34 for better. It seems more useful, then, to. not try to balance the unbalanceable, but to treat work, the same way you do life to 35 was t you love. Think of your life’s many different activities as threads. Some are black, some are grey and some are white. But some of these activities contain all the signs of love: before you do them, you find yourselves looking forward to them; while you’re doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself involved; and after you’ve done them, you feel 36 . These are your red threads, and our research reveals that 73% of us claim that we have the freedom to modify our job to fit our strengths better. but that only 18% of us do so. Your 37 , then, is to use your red threads to 38 change, over time, the content of your job, so that it contains more things that you love doing and fewer that you’re aching (渴望) to 39 . The most helpful categories for us are not “work” and “life”. We should not struggle to balance the two. Instead, the best categories are “love” and “loathe (憎恨)”. Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally 40 . all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best. We can’t always do only what we love. But we can always find the love in what we do. II. Reading Comprehension Section A Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that bestfits the context. Don’t Talk to People Like They’re Chatbots For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers 41 carefully constructed instructions; then came a command-line interface (界面), followed by menus and options and text boxes. If you wanted results, you needed to learn the computer’s language. This is beginning to change. Large language models (LLMs, 大语言模型) allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage (看法) from human-to-human 42 . Early on in my explorations of ChatGPT, I found myself typing a word that I’d never said to no computer before: “Please”. I speak to this chatbot as if it were a person — even when I know that it’s not. Right now, this sort of interaction is a (n) 43 . But as chatbots become a common· element of modern life and affect many of our human-computer interactions, they have the 44 to subtly reshape how we think about both computers and our fellow human beings. One direction that these chatbots may lead us in is toward a society where we ascribe humanity to AI systems, whether abstract chatbots or more physical robots. Just as we are biologically primed to see faces in objects, we imagine intelligence in anything that can hold a conversation. We say “please” to ILMs because it feels 45 not to. Chatbots are growing only more common, and there is reason to believe they will become ever more intimate parts of our lives. The market for AI companions, ranging from ends to romantic partners , is already 46 . Several companies are working on AI assistants that will 47 and satisfy our needs. And other companies are working on AI therapists, mediators (调停者), and life coaches— even simulacra (模拟物) of our 48 relatives. More generally, chabots will likely become the interface through which we interact with all sorts of computerized processes — an Al that responds to our style of language, ’emotion, and even tone of voice. The other direction these chatbots may take us is even more 49 : into a world where our conversations with them result in our treating our fellow human beings with the indifference, disrespect, and incivility we more typically show machines. Today’s chatbots perform best when instructed with a level of precision that would be fairly 50 in human conversation, like: “Draft a 250-word paragraph in my typical writing style, detailing three examples to support the following point and cite your sources.” Not even the 51 CEO would likely talk this way to their assistant, but it’s common with chatbots. If chatbots truly become the 52 daily conversation partner for some people, there is an acute risk that these users will adopt a lexicon (词汇) of AI commands even when talking to other humans. Rather than speaking with empathy and subtlety, we’ll be trained to speak with the precision of a programmer talking to a computer. The colorful aphorisms and anecdotes (格言秩事) that give conversations their inherently human quality, but that often 53 large language models, could begin to disappear from the human discourse. Of course, history is full of people claiming that the digital sky is falling, bemoaning (叹息) each new invention as the end of civilization as we know it. In the end, LLMs may be little more than the word processor of tomorrow, a hardy innovation that makes things a little easier while leaving most of our lives 54 . Which path we take depends on how we train the chatbots of tomorrow, but it also depends on whether we invest in 55 the bonds of civil society today. 41. A. received B. rejected C. required D. revised 42. A. barriers B. conflicts C. differences D. exchanges 43. A. cruelty B. identity C. novelty D. priority 44. A. courage B. desire C. opportunity D. potential 45. A. dangerous B. foolish C. secure D. wrong 46. A. banned B. crowded C. deserted D. emptied 47. A. anticipate B. guarantee C. memorize D. neglect 48. A. close B. distant C. elderly D. late 49. A. confusing B. disturbing C. fascinating D. inspiring 50. A. casual B. humble C. polite D. rude 51. A. coldest B. cleverest C. kindest D. richest 52. A. alternative B. dominant C. obedient D. temporary 53. A. assist B. improve C. puzzle D. weaken 54. A. unexpected B. unfinished C. unnoticed D. untouched 55. A. breaking B. loosening C. strengthening D. testing Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one thatfits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. (A) At 14, Fraser Doherty was busy making jam after his grandparents taught him a family recipe. He started selling jars of his jam door to door near his parents’ home in Edinburgh. As interest grew, his hobby stated to turn into a business. He now makes 40,000 jars of jam a month and is well on his way to making his first million. Doherty, who has been chosen to represent Britain in the Global Students Entrepreneurs Awards in Chicago next month, said there are several advantages to having started young: “As a young person you have a different view of the world. You have a naivety and an optimism and are willing to give things a shot. The downside for me isn’t particularly scary. I don’t have a mortgage or kids to worry about so I didn’t have a huge amount to lose if my idea had not worked.” Duncan Cheatle, founder of The Supper Club, a forum for established entrepreneurs in London, agreed that becoming an entrepreneur at a young age has a lot to recommend it. “For young people there is no concept of thinking outside the box because there isn’t a box. There is capacity in young people to see things in a different way that older people lose. And often not being an expert in something can be helpful because if you don’t understand why something works in a certain way, you will decide to do it differently.” Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation, the home business website, said that young people were much more confident about using technology as a base for their business than the older generation. “Whole sectors that didn’t exist ten years ago are coming up now because young entrepreneurs are challenging all previous rules and saying technology means that we can do things like this. They have an open capacity to think of new ideas and as a result they are starting very interesting businesses.” 56. According to Doherty, ________ is the competitive edge of young people starting business compared with the older generation? A ignorance of the reality B. naive pursuit of a hobby C. readiness to try things out D. parents shouldering the financial burden 57. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 means young people ________. A. are reluctant to obey the existing rules B. are not bound by established ways of doing things C. have superior ideas to those of the older generation D. will not fall into traps that old people set up for them 58. Which of the following statements will Emma Jones most likely agree with? A. Abandoning all previous rules is a must to establish new sectors. B. As people grow older, they are less able to take a fresh approach. C. Those lacking confidence are less able to start creative businesses. D. The use of technology contributes to the creation of new businesses. 59. The purpose of this passage is to ________. A. inform readers of success stories of young entrepreneurs B. introduce opinions on the advantages of being young entrepreneurs C. convince young people to follow the trend and start their own businesses D. provide specific guidance on how to become successful young entrepreneurs (B) Six Best Places for ________ in Paris Le Closerie des Lilas This restaurant/ cafe/ brasserie is a true literary location. On the terrace, F. Scott Fitzgerald apparently first revealed the manuscript for The Great Gatsby to Ernest Hemingway. This spot in Montparnasse was also frequented by Paul Verlaine, Max Jacob and Henry Miller, among others. 171 Boulevard du Montparnasse Les Deux Magots Located in Saint-Germain-des-Pres on the Left Bank, Les Deux Magotx gets a mention Nabokov’s novel Lolita. It. was also frequented by such heavyweights as Albert Gamus, James Joyce, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Even Julia Child liked the food enough to plant herself at one of its famed outdoor tables. Today, tables are occupied by tourists instead of typists, but it’s worth paying a few euros for a coffee here. 6 Place Saint-Germain Des Pres Pere Lachaise Cemetery Perhaps the world’s most famous resting place, Pere Lachaise is the home of Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde, among scores of other famous people buried here. Singer and ‘poet’ Jim Morrison is, of course, famously six feet under in this verdant (郁郁葱葱的), ambient cemetery as well. 8 Boulevard de Menilmontant Polidor Ernest Hemingway Paul Verlaine, James Joyce, Victor Hugo, Henry Miller, Arthur Rimbaud and Jack Kerouac all enjoyed classic French dishes like-steak, beef Bourguignon, steak tartare, escargot, and foie gras at this sixth-arrondissement restaurant. In the 2011 Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris, the protagonist meets Hemingway and Salvador Dali here. 41 Rue Monsieur Le Prince Bar Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald used to put ‘em back at this fashionable and expensive bar in the Ritz. Musician Cole Porter would spend hours nursing cocktails at the bar and even composed a tune or two here. And, of course, the bar’s namesake. Mr Ernest Hemingway was a regular and even likened the drinking space to heaven. He also mentions the bar in The Sun Also Rises. 15 Place Vendome Shakespeare & Company Since 1951, this Left Bank bookshop has been a central meeting point for the city’s English-language lovers of great literature. It’s also attracted many legendary writers as well. Williams Burroughs, Anais Nin, James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Paul Auster, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith, among countless others, have shopped for books or participated in literary events here. 37 Rue de la Bucherie 60. Your friend Jenny plans to go to Paris for travelling and she is a big fan of the famous movie director Woody Allen. Which place would you recommend that she visit? A. 171 Boulevard du Montparnasse B. 41 Rue Monsieur Le Prince C. 8 Boulevard de Menilmontant D. 37 Rue de la Bucherie 61. Earnest Hemingway was a regular to the following places EXCEPT ________. A. Pere Lachasise Cemetery B. Les Deux Magots C. Bar Hemingway D. Polidor 62. Which of the following phrases best complete the title? A Literature Lovers B. Experienced Tourists C. Cuisine Enthusiasts D. History Researchers (C) Eating out goes a long way back. The Romans had their pubs serving set meals and cook shops called thermopolia selling hot ready-to-eat dishes. In the Middle Ages, inns would provide buffets of cold meats or roasts to serve the many people who didn’t have kitchens. Before the revolution in France, there were plenty of places where you could eat out but fine dining was something enjoyed merely by the aristocracy (贵族) in the comfort of their own homes. In 18th-century France, while the aristocrats were enjoying food prepared by personal chefs, cold winters and oppressive taxation had left most of the French population unable to afford bread. When the starving masses finally took to the streets of Paris in 1789, commonly known as the French Revolution, the aristocrats fled to the countryside, leaving their chefs and their fine wines behind. Both found their way to the cities’ existing eateries and within a year, a host of new elegant restaurants with extensive menus had been established. “These restaurants were a microcosm (缩影) of the New France,” says David Gilks, a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. “They were the places where the nouveau riche, who had profited from the revolution, were to be seen. There were still shortages of basic food stuffs in many parts of Paris but in the nicer parts you would see people enjoying fine food in elegant surroundings.” In the 1760s the merchants of Paris developed a taste for light soups known as “restoratives” or “restaurants”, and dining halls where customers could sit at individual tables and have them began popping up around the city. The new post-revolutionary restaurants took their names from these and the new class of French businessmen, booming in the early 19th century when Napoleon decided that if people were enjoying food and drinks, they’d be unlikely to rebel again. Citizens were granted the “freedom of pleasure” and restaurants began to compete with each other. They were featured in travelogues and became tourist attractions in their own right. “Intended or not, restaurants can signpost both the decline and success of an Empire,” says William Sitwell, author of The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out. “The extraordinary advancement of the dining scene of ancient Pompeii was indicative of the Roman Empire’s vision breadth and booming. The dark restaurant scene of the United Kingdom in the 1940s after World War II showed quite how the horrors of conflict had damaged the country’s food, culture and taste.” 63. Which of the following is a consequence of the French Revolution? A. Most personal chefs were left unemployed. B. Eateries found their way to the countryside. C. Fine dining no longer just belonged to the aristocrats. D. There were almost no shortages of basic food stuffs in Paris. 64. What can be learned about the word “restaurant” from the passage? A. It was coined by the nouveau riche. B. It originally referred to a type of food. C. It came into being after the French Revolution. D. It was first defined as the “freedom of pleasure”. 65. What can be inferred from William Sitwell’s comments on restaurants? A. They are symbols of transformation. B. They are the result of development. C. They lost their appeal to British people in the 1940s. D. They made their first appearance in ancient Pompeii. 66. What is the passage mainly about? A. The national vision of eating out. B. The varying popularity of restaurants. C. The unintended purposes of eating out. D. The history and evolution of restaurants. Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. Try to use pieces that share a similar style or material and repeat these items in the garden. B. Wildlife shelters can also be included in garden recycling C. Reuse newspaper for creating flowerbeds, and egg cartons for seed trays. D. Indeed, reusing old objects or waste materials in the garden is nothing new. E. Just as with garden art, there can be a mass of uses when garden recycling. F. With a little creativity, you can turn an otherwise useless item into a one-of-a-kind piece of art. Garden recycling is a great way to help the environment while saving money and sparking the imagination. There are several ways to recycle in the garden; for instance, by creating unique garden art from everyday items. 67 However, in keeping with greener living, garden recycling has recently become more popular. There are several benefits to garden recycling, the most common of which is saving the environment. Reusing everyday items helps keep trash out of landfills (垃圾填埋场). Recycling materials in the garden is also less expensive and with creativity, making every garden unique. From simple household items to junkyard castaways or antiques, would-be art pieces are all around us. In order to ensure items for garden recycling harmonize within their new setting, it helps to consider how each fits into the surroundings beforehand. 68 One of the most popular ways to garden recycle is by reusing old objects as garden art. Nearly any object has potential for transformation into the garden or elsewhere. 69 From various metal objects like bed frames, bicycles and gates to aluminum washtubs and tire rims, there is potential for sculptures, trellises, flower containers and other interesting focal points. There’s a place for everything in the garden. Fountains, ponds, and other water features can be made easily from found objects. 70 Turn an old mailbox into a birdhouse. Transform a slightly chipped flowerpot into a frog shelter. Create birdbaths from dishes. Just about anything imaginable can be transformed into a container by simply adding drainage (排水) holes. From tubs, baskets, boots, and even toys, when it comes to garden recycling, the possibilities are endless. IV. Summary Writing 71. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point (s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible. People are social creatures by nature, and so it is hardly surprising that some portion of their self-esteem (自尊心) comes from the approval of others. This instinct is why the approval of peers, and the fear of disapproval, is such a powerful force in many people’s lives. Despite the most common associations with the term peer, peer pressure is not always 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$