2025届江西省南昌新民外语学校高三下学期适应性考试（一）英语试题

新民学校2025届高三适应性考试（一）

英语试卷

命题：高三英语教研组     分值：150分

一、听力选择题

1．Why is the man going to the doctor?

A．He has a stomachache. 

B．He has a headache. 

C．He has the flu

2．What will be served later?

A．Pork. B．Soup. C．Steak.

3．What will the man do next?

A．Visit a café. B．Enjoy artworks. C．Watch a sports game.

4．What is the topic of the conversation?

A．Reporting a traffic accident. 

B．Running to keep fit. 

C．Trying to catch a flight.

5．Where are the speakers probably?

A．In a classroom. B．In a park. C．In a library.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6．When are the speakers going to meet next week?

A．On Thursday B．On Friday. C．On Saturday

7．What do the speakers agree on doing?

A．Going out for a drink. 

B．Running in the park. 

C．Having a meal.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8．What is the man trying to do?

A．Share an experience 

B．Make an invitation. 

C．Promote a sport

9．Why doesn’t the woman want to go to the beach?

A．She has no proper shoes.

B．She has a fear of the sea. 

C．She dislikes the sand.

10．Who is Andrew?

A．The man’s classmate. 

B．The speakers’ friend. 

C．The woman’s brother.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

11．What did the woman’s son do at the weekend?

A．He did sports. 

B．He went shopping. 

C．He had a birthday party

12．How many coats did the woman buy?

A．Two. B．Three. C．Four.

13．What season is it currently?

A．Summer. B．Autumn. C．Winter.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

14．What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Interviewer and interviewee. 

B．Teacher and student. 

C．Publisher and writer.

15．Why does Sarah think she’s qualified for the role?

A．She is strict. 

B．She loves literature. 

C．She has two years of experience.

16．What did Sarah dislike about her last school?

A．Its discipline. B．Its students. C．Its location.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17．What does the speaker say about Chinese culture?

A．It’s complicated with a long history.

B．It’s a mix of traditional and modern ideas.

C．Chinese medicine reflects China’s geography.

18．How many literary classics does the speaker mention?

A．One. B．Two. C．Three

19．What does the speaker think of Chinese cultural heritage?

A．It’s difficult to understand. 

B．It needs to be reshaped. 

C．It’s worth passing down.

20．What will the listeners do first?

A．Have a rest. B．Have a discussion. C．Have a taste of some food.

二、阅读理解

A

Have you ever been really hungry, but there wasn’t much to eat in your kitchen? Did you throw together a bunch of stuff you had on hand and were pleasantly surprised when it tasted good? You aren’t alone. Some of our favorite foods were created by accident. Here’s a sample menu of some familiar foods that never would have happened if someone hadn’t created them by mistake.

POTATO CHIPS

One of the world’s favorite snacks is the result of a complaint. In 1853, a man was eating dinner at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York. He ordered fried potatoes, a popular side dish. But when they came out of the kitchen, he didn’t think they were crispy enough. He sent them back to the kitchen, where Chef George Crum was so angry at having his cooking criticized that he sliced the potatoes really thin, put lots of salt on them, and fried them. Not only did the diner love them, but everyone else did, too. They soon became a specialty of the restaurant.

TOFU

Tofu, or bean curd, is made by curdling (使凝结) fresh soya milk, pressing it into a solid block, and then cooling it. Tofu was accidentally invented in China more than 2,000 years ago, when a cook added seaweed to soya milk, which made it curdle. This is the same process that is used for making cheese. Like cheese, tofu is a great example of how really messing up a recipe can create something unexpectedly good.

CHEESE PUFFS

Did you ever wonder who thought up cheese puffs? The company that invented them wasn’t even trying to make food for people. It was trying to make animal feed. In the 1930s, the Flakall Company of Wisconsin made animal food from small, flaked piece of grain. One day, an employee, Edward Wilson, watched workers pouring cornmeal (谷粉) into the flaking machine, wetting it to keep it from clogging (堵塞). Because the machine was very hot, the wet cornmeal came out of it in puffy ribbons that hardened when they hit the air. Wilson took some of the ribbons home, added oil and flavoring to them, and voila! Cheese puffs!

21．What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To compare the features of some foods.

B．To inform readers of some foods.

C．To recommend some foods.

D．To introduce the origins of some foods.

22．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Seaweed is also used for making cheese.

B．Chef George Crum didn’t like to criticize others' cooking.

C．Hot wet cornmeal hardened when they hit the air.

D．Bean curd dates back to 2,000 years in China.

23．What do the three foods have in common?

A．They are the results of complaints.

B．They were not created on purpose.

C．They weren’t originally made for people.

D．They are all popular throughout the world.

B

Jiang Shumei wasn’t educated as a child, learning her first Chinese character at the age of 60. Now, the 87-year-old grandmother is the proud author of six books. She learned her first character in 1996, after her husband died in a car accident, when her daughter Zhang Ailing suggested that she learn to read to take her mind off the loneliness and sorrow.

Zhang says that her mother had her own way of learning. Whenever she came across characters she didn’t know at bus stops or shop signs, she found someone to ask. Once Jiang had learned enough characters, Zhang started giving her books to read. Enjoying the books, Jiang told her daughter that she wanted to write down her own stories to share.

She first put pen to paper in 2012, at the age of 75. It was not easy. Sometimes,completing a single sentence could take a day. Jiang usually started writing at 3 or 4 am, and revised the pieces several times until she was satisfied.

Zhang began publishing her mother’s stories on social media platforms in 2013. When Zhang and her mother drew the attention of Zhang’s writer friends, the pair made a decision to publish them. The first book, Time of Trouble, Time of Poverty, was published later that year, and proved to be a success. Some critics even praised it as the “live history of a nation plagued by tough times”. The book earned Jiang a lot of fans and sympathy.

So far, the elderly woman has published six books, totaling more than 600, 000characters in length. She lives a healthy life, exercising every day, drinking milk and soy milk, as well as having regular exercise. “If I could live as long as 130, would you still say that it is too late for me to start after 60?” she asks, jokingly.

24．Why did Jiang learn to read in her later years?

A．To become a proud author.

B．To make up for not going to school.

C．To encourage her friends and families.

D．To reduce the impact of her husband’s death.

25．What made Jiang decide to publish her first book?

A．A strong inner desire. 

B．The attention from other writers.

C．Her daughter’s encouragement. 

D．The development of social media.

26．What dose the underlined word“plagued”in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Aided. B．Enlarged. C．Troubled. D．Defeated.

27．What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．One is never too old to learn.

B．All roads lead to Rome.

C．Where there is life, there is love.

D．Gold can’t be pure and man can’t be perfect.

C

In a world of music streaming services, access to almost any song is just a few clicks away. Yet, the live concert lives on. People still fill sweaty basements to hear their favorite musicians play. And now neuroscientists might know why.

Concerts are immersive social experiences in which people listen to and feel the music together. They are also dynamic — artists can adapt their playing according to the crowd’s reaction.

It was this last difference that led neuroscientists, from Universities of Zurich and Oslo, to study the brain responses of people listening to music. In the experiment, participants lay in an MRI (核磁共振) scanner listening to the music through earphones, while a pianist was positioned outside the room. The pianist was shown the participant’s real-time brain activity as a form of feedback. In the recorded condition, participants listened to pre-recorded versions of the same tunes.

The scientists were interested in how live music affected the areas of the brain that process emotions. In the live condition pianists were instructed to change their playing in order to drive the activity in one of these regions known as the amygdala.

The results, just published in the journal PNAS, showed that live music had far more emotional impact. Whether the music was happy or sad, listening to the pianist playing in a dynamic way generated more activity in both the amygdala and other parts of the brain’s emotion processing network.

The study was far from reconstructing the real experience of a concert, and the authors noted that the live music ended up sounding quite different from the recorded tracks, which may have driven some of the differences in participant’s brain activity. Some musical acts now attempt to recreate the real concert experience with everything but the artist — ABBA Voyage is a social, immersive show performed entirely by pre-recorded hologram avatars (全息图). But without Benny’s (a member of the band) ability to read the mood of the room, it will never quite match the real thing.

28．What caused the scientists to study music listeners’ brain response?

A．People’s preference to recorded music. B．The important social function of concerts.

C．The changeable characteristic of live music. D．The easy accessibility of streaming services.

29．How did the researchers carry out the experiment?

A．By clarifying a concept. B．By making a comparison.

C．By analyzing previous data. D．By referring to another study.

30．Why does live music feel better than recorded music?

A．It offers a more traditional and raw sound. 

B．It engages the brain’s emotion centers more.

C．It fosters a sense of community and shared energy. 

D．It guarantees a deeper understanding of the music.

31．What do we know from the last paragraph?

A．The artists will be replaced by technology soon.

B．The immersive audio makes live music special.

C．The study recreated the experience of a real concert.

D．It is vital for musicians to read the audiences’ mind.

D

It is perhaps easy to accept the statement that the universe is expanding. It is just some strange physics indicating that, as time goes on, galaxies (星系) get further away from each other just like two cars racing away from each other.

I personally don’t like it and prefer the balloon analogy. In this situation, there are dots all over a balloon. When we blow it up in real life, the dots would increase in size. In this analogy, let’s assume they don’t. What we are interested in is how the distance between the dots on the surface of the balloon grows as we put more air into it.

The balloon analogy relies somewhat on our geometric sensibilities which refer to our sense of shapes and how they change over time. At its core, what we are trying to develop a sense for is how we measure distances. This concept is also the fundamental goal of general relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity. In general relativity, the most important piece of information is what we call the metric, an equation that describes how distances are measured, and therefore also tells us about the shape space-time is taking.

The whole idea that space-time is expanding was first noticed as a mathematical consequence of general relativity by Georges Lemaitre in 1927, when he solved Einstein’s equation and found a solution for the metric showing that distances grow with time. His work provided a theoretical explanation：the standard for measuring cosmic (宇宙的) distance was itself changing with time.

What is delightful is that it means we can quite reasonably say that universe’s expansion is a gravitational effect. I enjoy this because it is so deeply counterintuitive to our usual understanding of gravity, which teaches us that it is a force that always draws things together. But in this case where gravity is a geometric effect, we are offered a broader range of gravitational possibilities.

It is worth noting that the geometric explanation of general relativity hasn’t been universally popular. The late physicist Steven Weinberg wrote that the geometric explanation of the theory of gravitation has been reduced to a mere analogy, but is otherwise not very useful. Another challenge with the balloon analogy and our reliance on geometric explanation is to explain why gravity seems to pull things together in many situations, while universe is expanding. This difference is resolved by acknowledging that local gravitational effects due to massive objects dominate over large-scale expansion effects, leading to the formation of structures like stars, galaxies and, eventually us.