2025届江西省吉安市第一中学高三下学期高考强化训练（二）英语试题

江西省吉安市第一中学2025年高考强化训练（二）

高三英语试卷

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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. ￡19. 15.     B. £9. 18.     C. ￡9. 15.

答案是 C。

1. Which type of dish would the woman like to try now?

A. The Chinese dish.    B. The Indian dish.   C. The Japanese dish.

2. How does the man sound?

A. Nervous.     B. Relaxed.    C. Pleased.

3. What did Carmen do just now?

A. She met her sister.    

B. She had a leg check-up.  

C. She answered a phone call.

4. What does the woman want to do?

A. Move house.    B. Become independent.  C. Live with her grandparents.

5. What's the matter with the speakers?

A. They are lost.    B. Their bus is late.   C. Their car is stuck in traffic.

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几个小题,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 are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. An exciting city.

B. A travel arrangement.

C. A means of transportation.

7. When will the woman probably arrive in Shanghai?

A. On May 26th.    B. On June 3rd.    C. On July 1st.

听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。

8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Fellow workers.

B. Boss and employee.

C. Interviewer and interviewee.

9. Which word can best describe Alan?

A. Curious.     B. Efficient.    C. Unfocused.

听第8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。

10. Why did David travel to England?

A. To visit his family.

B. To enter a sports competition.

C. To take part in an exchange project.

1l. What sports match did Josh's dad take David to watch?

A. Football.     B. Basketball.    C. Table tennis.

12. Which city will David and Josh visit next summer?

A. Oxford.     B. Beijing.    C. London.

听第 9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13. Why does the woman come to the library?

A. To look up some words.

B. To borrow the dictionaries.

C. To find materials for her papers.

14. When does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At the end of the school term.

B. In the middle of the school term.

C. At the beginning of the school term.

15. What did the man lose?

A. A paper.     B. A notebook.    C. Some paper cards.

16. Where will the man go next?

A. To the study hall.    B. To the classroom.   C. To the reading room.

听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What is the speaker?

A. A host.      B. An artist.    C. An architect.

18. What field does Bella work in?

A. Law.      B. Education.    C. Agriculture.

19. What does Thomas enjoy doing?

A. Cooking.     B. Gardening.    C. Woodworking.

20. What kind of house will be shown first?

A. A lake house.    B. A farmhouse.   C. A storehouse.

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

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Our Chrome extension allows you to listen to webpages, Google Docs, online Kindle books, and emails directly from your browser. The extension supports both free and subscription voices, depending on your plan.

21. What is the major function of Natural Reader?

A. Create videos.

B. Write a speech.

C. Generate images.

D. Turn text into audio.

22. What is only available for paid subscription?

A. Offline use of LLM.     

B. Automatic text translation.

C. Efficient voice cloning.     

D. Access to digitalized books.

23. What is the text?

A. A subscription plan.       

B. A program user guide.

C. A job advertisement.      

D. A mobile app review.

B

After taking an introductory course in global health last winter, Yashaswi Bista, president of Stanford SupplyHer, was empowered to take action against malaria —a disease that has been claiming hundreds of thousands of lives every year for centuries.

Stanford SupplyHer, a student group supporting women’s health through art, hosted an event in partnership with United to Beat Malaria (UBM) to encourage funding for malaria prevention, treatment and research initiatives while tabling at White Plaza last Monday. “Knowing that malaria is especially dangerous to pregnant individuals and children makes advocacy for malaria funding and research essential for our mission,” said Bista.

“We in the U. S. need to be aware of the impact of global warming on malaria because less developed countries in other parts of the world are more heavily affected by our emissions,” Bista said. Last year, the U. S. experienced its first local outbreaks of malaria since 2003. Infectious disease experts have warned that climate change will spread malaria and other diseases carried by mosquitoes to areas that were once free of malaria.

This summer, after discovering the work of UBM, a global grassroots campaign of the UN Foundation, Bista met with her congressional (国会的) representatives to advocate for malaria treatment and research. To support continued funding for global malaria programs, Bista wrote to officials in Congress. “It’s easy for people to feel like they are powerless with issues as big as malaria. But any person can give input to their decision makers on issues as big as these,” wrote Macgan Cross, a senior advocate at UBM. “By sending messages to your elected officials in support of global health funding, you are making sure your voice is heard. ” 

Bista encouraged students to become involved in initiatives on campus to spread awareness of malaria and other global health issues. “Global health is important to me because there are so many health inequities around the world and health itself is important to live a fulfilling life,” Bista said. “Because there are so many health inequities around the world, I want to raise awareness and help people live fulfilling lives. ” 

24. What inspired Bista to engage in actions against malaria?

A. A learning experience.  

B. A health crisis.  

C. A grassroots campaign.

D. A tabling event.

25. What did Bista do to support malaria prevention?

A. She organized a charity sale.     

B. She launched a research project.

C. She campaigned for fundraising.     

D. She budgeted for malaria treatment.

26. What is the message Maegan Cross intends to convey?

A. Community voices secure health funding.

B. Malaria outbreaks are difficult to prevent.

C. The public needs more knowledge about health.

D. Individual efforts matter in government decisions.

27. Which of the following best describes Bista?

A. A health advocate.

B. A club founder.

C. A woman pioneer.

D. A disease specialist.

C

When it comes to problem-solving, virtually everyone can use either insightful or analytical methods, but many people tend to use one rather than the other. Mathematician Roger Penrose for example, can obviously think analytically but seems to be naturally insightful. “I do most of my thinking in visual terms rather than writing down equations (方程式),” he once said in an interview.

In the 2010s Brian Erickson, then a doctoral student at Drexel University, and his colleagues demonstrated that people's tendency toward insightful or analytical thinking is evident during “ resting-state” brain activity -- while a person relaxes with no task to perform or expectation about what is to come. Erickson recorded people's resting-state EEGs(脑电图) and then, weeks later, tasked the same participants with solving a series of puzzles. The astonishing result: a few minutes of EEG predicted, up to seven weeks in advance, whether a person would solve the puzzles mostly insightfully or analytically. Our dominant thinking style is stable over time.

The subjects who relied mostly on insight had greater resting-state activity at the back of the brain, whereas the analytical subjects had greater activity in frontal areas. The frontal areas, where a person's executive processes are centered, organize activity in the rest of the brain. These executive processes enable people to think in a focused and strategic way, but they can also restrict creativity by limiting thought to straightforward plans, just as a horse's blinders block out distractions that would lead it to wander from its path. When activity in this region is relatively low, as it was for the insightful subjects, posterior(后部) areas can “go rogue,” sometimes resulting in aha! moments.

Although individuals may tend toward more analytical or insightful thinking, we aren't locked into one or the other. Our thinking style can shift, at least temporarily, to the other strategy. This flexibility is key to making the best possible use of both creativity and logic in our decision-making. By using the right strategy at the right time, we can address challenges more effectively, enhancing our ability to think critically and innovatively.

28. What does the example of Roger Penrose illustrate?

A. Visual images help solve a problem.

B. Scientists favor an insightful solution.

C. Note-taking negatively affects thinking.

D. People have a preferred way of thinking.

29. What did Brian Erickson's study reveal about resting-state brain activity?

A. It predicts our future growth.

B. It reflects our thinking ability.

C. It indicates our dominant thinking style.

D. It determines our problem-solving speed.

30. What does the underlined expression “go rogue” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Get stuck.        

B. Run wild.  

C. Grow mature.        

D. Become inactive.  

31. What advice does the author give in the last paragraph?

A. Follow your natural thinking style.

B. Adjust your thinking style as needed.

C. Reflect on your thinking style regularly.

D. Limit your analytical thinking to stay creative.