湖北省襄阳市第四中学2025-2026学年高三上学期9月周考二英语试题

襄阳四中2023级高三上学期质量检测（二）

英 语 试 题

考试时间：2025年9月9日8:00 — 10:00     时间：120分钟     分值：150分

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第一部分  听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满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. What are the speakers doing?

A. Sorting out the clothes.        B. Selecting a cupboard.     C. Tidying up the storeroom.

2. What do we know about the man?

A. He is highly focused.    

B. He is good at multitasking.    

C. He is easily bothered by the TV.

3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Changes in news consumption.

B. Latest features of mobile phones.

C. The development of printing newspapers.

4. Where are the speakers?

A. In a restaurant.     B. In a gift shop.    C. In a taxi.

5. Why does the man complain?

A. He didn’t get a reply to his message.

B. He got the inaccurate information.

C. He met an unprofessional worker.

 

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 can we learn about the man and Sam?

A. They get along well.

B. They will do a project together.

C. They have trouble working together.

7. What does the man think of Sam?

A. He is mean.      B. He is direct.        C. He is friendly. 

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does Jack make the call?

A. To reschedule an appointment.     B. To confirm an appointment.     C. To cancel an appointment.

9. What will the woman do next?

A. Treat Jack herself.     B. Take a lunch break.    C. Tell Dr. Lee an emergency.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the relationship between Janice and Mr. Franks?

A. Boss and secretary.

B. Deliveryman and customer.

C. Sales representative and customer.

11. What problem did Mr. Franks bring up?

A. A late delivery.     B. A mistaken order.   C. An overdue payment.

12. Who did Janice contact today?

A. An IT technician.     B. Mr. Franks.     C. Her workmate.

听第 9 段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does Max think is the best solution to his homesickness?

A. Keeping himself busy.

B. Going back home during breaks.

C. Being with his family’s company.

14. What is Max’s opinion on filming underwater?

A. Easy.       B. Stressful.     C. Dangerous. 

15. What should an underwater film-maker be good at?

A. Making predictions.    B. Dealing with emergencies.  C. Handling the pressure.

16. What does Max advise a would-be film-maker to do?

A. Focus on one thing at a time.     B. Buy a professional camera.    C. Practice filming locally.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. Why does Don want to attend the sale?

A. To call for nature conservation.

B. To try to help children in need.

C. To attract attention to his daughter’s illness.

18. How old is James Chang now?

A. 56.        B. 65.      C. 69.

19. Whose pictures might appeal to abstract art enthusiasts?

A. Don Studley’s.     B. Natalie Stevens’s.   C. James Chang’s.

20. What are most of Natalie Stevens’s works about?

A. Birds.       B. People.     C. Countries.

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37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

 Power of Public Speaking has partnered with ASI Innovation Labs to integrate artificial intelligence into the Pops Classroom platform for improving public speaking skills. The first project is the Pops Advisor which provides an automatic evaluation of students’ video presentations with visual feedback.

The Advisor offers on-demand comments to students practicing public speaking from anywhere. This flexibility benefits instructors, who can be as hands-on or hands-off during practice. While students can operate autonomously with the tool, instructors can also choose to keep track of students’ progress.

Criteria

Using machine learning models, the Pops Advisor analyzes the following criteria:

Feedback

The presenter receives feedback on the above four categories. And this feedback is given in the following formats:

• Recommendations

To provide presenters with valuable feedback for the next practice, recommendations focus on specific aspects needing improvement. For instance, the recommendation can be “Your message is clear, but be sure you are grabbing your audience’s attention in your introduction to ensure they are listening.”

• Speech Metrics (指标)

Useful speech metrics serve as quantitative descriptors on several aspects of the presentation including number of words, total presentation time, speaking rate and vocal fillers percentage.

Pops Advisor can be used in any classroom setting where students are presenting, particularly in the Basic Public Speaking Course. When you are considering what can be achieved by your students toward skill development in a single school semester, Advisor increases the overall development.

21. What is the Pops Advisor?

A. A voice assistant.        B. A video player.     C. A time tracker.       D. An evaluation tool.

22. Which of the following categories provides feedback on facial expressions?

A. Delivery.           B. Introduction.   C. Body.       D. Conclusion.

23. Who is the text intended for?

A. Lab technicians.        B. Public speech instructors.

C. Foreign language learners.      D. Artificial Intelligence engineers.

 

B

Jules Verne is widely regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction. His “Extraordinary Voyages ” series transport readers on grand adventures to the far reaches of Earth and beyond. But Verne did more than just tell entertaining stories — he also predicted over 100 modern-day inventions and technologies in his writings.

For example, in the 1889 short story In the Year 2889, Verne painted a picture of a highly networked world with global multimedia communications. He described the “phonotelephone” which sent sound and images over great distances. The main character, Fritz Napoleon Smith, is able to easily communicate via this technology with his wife on another continent:

“Mr. Smith was able distinctly to see his wife despite the distance that separated him from her... Mrs. Smith immediately appeared on the telephotic screen, with her features smiling and her eyes moist with tears.”

Verne’s technically-grounded adventure tales represented a new approach to imagining the future through fiction. Unlike other writers of his day who penned more fanciful or supernatural stories, Verne aimed for realism in his futuristic visions, always basing them on cutting-edge science and his own extensive research. This laid the foundation for the “hard science fiction” of the 20th century and beyond.

Verne is often thought of as a technological optimist, a champion of scientific progress and innovation. But his writings also reveal another perspective. Many of his stories feature a brilliant but mad scientist whose inventions ultimately bring more harm than good. Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea uses his submarine (潜艇) to violently attack ships. For Verne human nature determined whether technology would be a force for good or a source of destruction.

The spirit of adventure in Verne’s timeless stories will live on, continuing to inspire generations to push the boundaries of the possible and create the world of tomorrow. That is perhaps the greatest achievement of the extraordinary voyages of Jules Verne.

24. How does Mr. Smith contact his wife in In the Year 2889?

A. By holding an in-person talk.                 B. By making a long-distance call.

C. By sending a letter back home.                  D. By having an instant video chat.

25. What is the “hard science fiction” based on?

A. The unrealistic fantasies.       B. The fictional technologies.

C. The latest research findings.       D. The imagined future worlds.

26. What can we infer about Verne from Captain Nemo’s story?

A. He is disappointed with human nature.    B. He is aware of the danger of technology.

C. He is in favour of scientific development.    D. He is different from the writers of his time.

27. Which of the following best describes Jules Verne according to the text?

A. Strong-willed.         B. Fantasy-seeking.

C. Positive-minded.         D. Forward-thinking.    

 

C

When Alexander Fleming returned to his lab in 1928, he found a bacteria culture he had grown was infected by fungus (霉菌), killing any colonies it touched. Rather than simply starting over, Fleming switched his focus to the fungus. He identified the bacteria-killing substance, which he called “penicillin” and seemingly in a single stroke, created the new field of antibiotics (抗生素).

That’s how most people see innovation: A flash of brilliance and Eureka, a new world is born. The truth, however, is messier. It wasn’t until 1943 that penicillin came into widespread use.

To put Fleming’s discovery in context, consider Ignaz Semmelweis, who pioneered hand washing in maternity wards (产房), significantly reducing childbed fever but being ignored instead of receiving fame. That was because in the 1850s, his ideas conflicted with the popular miasma theory, which attributed disease to “bad airs.” After his death in 1865, germ theory was accepted, paving the way for Fleming’s later work.

Fleming was a gifted biologist but a poor communicator. When he published his results in 1929, few took notice. In 1935, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain discovered Fleming’s paper, understood its importance, and

developed methods to produce penicillin in quantity. By 1943, with World War Ⅱ spreading, the War Production Board enlisted 21 companies to mass-produce penicillin, saving countless lives and ushering in the new age of antibiotics. Fleming, Florey and Chain received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945.

Penicillin owes much of its success to government support. For many other groundbreaking innovations like the Internet and GPS, their innovators, while carving their own path, are often uncertain of where the opportunity lies until they team up with other visionaries and corporations, who might have the resources to fast-track their ideas. So, look at any significant innovation and the myth of the lone genius and the “eureka moment” breaks down.

28. What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?

A. An account of a lab story.                    B. Redefinition of a traditional view.

C. Correction of a popular misconception.         D. An analysis of a scientific phenomenon.

29. What is the message conveyed in paragraph 3?

A. Great minds think alike.

B. The early bird catches the worm.

C. Luck’s got your back when it comes to success.

D. Early work is a stepping stone to later breakthroughs.

30. What does the underlined part “ushering in” in paragraph 4 mean?

A. Delaying.      B. Introducing.          C. Predicting.         D. Transforming.

31. Which of the following can be the best title?

A. Great Innovations: Individuals Are True Heroes.

B. From Failure to Success: The Story of Penicillin.

C. The Lone Genius: Fleming’s Discovery of Penicillin.

D. The Long Road to Penicillin: How Innovation Happens.   

 

D

Online marketplaces for goods and services are increasingly valuable and powerful. When it comes to their reputation systems, they typically take the form of five-star ratings. While the systems are good enough at identifying and weeding out very low-quality products or suppliers, they do a poor job of separating good from great products or suppliers.

This may not be a big issue for marketplaces offering basic, mass-market products and services (e. g. Uber or Didi), but it can be a serious problem for marketplaces where it is important to allow truly great providers to distinguish themselves clearly.

In their current application, five-star rating systems suffer from several shortcomings. Lacking motivations for providing truthful feedback, users who have extreme experiences (either very bad or very good) are much more likely to leave feedback than users who have average experiences, thus creating selection biases (偏见). Ratings are also likely to experience “grade” inflation (贬值), so that in some marketplaces having a 4.8-star average, or 96% positive feedback, does not mean that the supplier is particularly exceptional. And on some marketplaces, the difference between 4.5 stars and 4.8 stars could be massive, making it hard for users to distinguish OK suppliers from very good ones.

Several options are available to offer users a more precise sense of suppliers’ relative ranking. A basic thing they could do would be to show users the average score for all suppliers in the relevant category. By seeing the whole distribution and where the supplier fits in it, the user could quickly get a sense of the overall situation. The second key measure advocated is to adjust user ratings for differences in reviewing behavior. Specifically, a given user’s review could be given a larger weight if there is a higher variance in the individual’s reviewer scores(in contrast to someone who always gives the same or similar score).

Although rating systems alone can’t guarantee trust and safety in online marketplaces, applying these measures can make rating systems more reliable and reduce the need for additional services.

32. What role can five-star rating systems play in online marketplaces?

A. They can make online platforms look more reliable.

B. They can make excellent providers stand out easily.

C. They can ensure consumers always get the best quality.

D. They can help tell extremely poor products from others.

33. What can be inferred from a hotel’s 4.8-star rating on an online travel site?

A. Most guests had great stays.              B. It offers incomparable service.

C. The rating may be misleading.                D. It’s far better than 4-star hotels.

34. What helps users better understand suppliers’ relative ranking?

A. Presenting the exceptional scores of all suppliers.

B. Displaying the total number of reviews for each supplier.

C. Highlighting reviews from the same user with distinct scores.

D. Evaluating reviews from various users with consistent scores.

35. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To contrast rating methods for suppliers.

B. To expose the problems of rating systems.

C. To present the advantages of rating systems.      

D. To suggest improvements for rating systems.

 

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Green roofs have been around for thousands of years, long before modern housing was developed. From the simple grass-covered roofs above caves to the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon, they remained an important part of architecture.    36    They bring enormous environmental benefits and offer solutions to some pressing ecological challenges of our time.

In the design of a green roof, there are key factors that count. The first step is to install a protective layer over the roof to prevent water damage.    37    It’s essential to choose high-quality materials, as once the green roof is completed and the building is in use, replacing the protective layer becomes difficult and expensive.

Next, a drainage (排水) layer, which is often made of pebbles or a special mat, is placed on top. It helps water flow off the roof instead of pooling on it. Then, a growing medium, like soil or other similar materials, is spread over the drainage layer.    38    

Now it’s time to choose plants for the roof. Some plants have shallow root systems and don’t need much water.    39    Sedum and chives are good examples of such plants. They are not only water-efficient but tough and long-lasting.

    40    It’s important to think about your budget. On average, it costs $25 to $30 per square foot to install a green roof. This doesn’t include the cost of installing or repairing the normal roof underneath. And there is labour cost to cover. If a traditional roof costs $30 per square foot, installing a green roof could easily double that expense.

 

A. This is where the plants will grow.