浙江省嘉兴市2023届高三教学测试(二)英语试题

浙江省嘉兴市2023届高三教学测试（二）英语试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读理解

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1．What is the focus of Contest Courses?

A．Designing projects.

B．Tackling problems.

C．Improving math levels.

D．Grasping programming concepts.

2．Who can apply for a scholarship?

A．A student who is short of money.

B．A student who has rich math knowledge.

C．A student who is well prepared for the contest.

D．A student who has an account on the registration system.

3．How much can a 6th grader be refunded if he cancels registration 3 days in advance?

A．$175. B．$190. C．$225. D．$240.

Joe Horan, a physical education teacher, has started the program Building Men to create a positive vision of manhood not just for himself, but also for the boys he teaches. Looking back, Mr. Horan says his program developed from a low point in his life. In 2004 as he went through a hard time, he felt society’s definition of manhood was leading him down the wrong path. His life, he says, lacked substance and depth. “A desire became planted in my heart, that is, to find healing from the unhealthy messages I believed about manhood,” he says. Then, his sister recommended a book, Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx, which digs into the discovery of what being a man is all about. Joe took all the clues and started to put life lessons into his class.

Despite limited resources and funding, Building Men began at one middle school in the district in 2006. It grew on a shoestring budget, expanding school by school, year by year. Today, 33 teachers, like Mr. Colabufo, work across 18 schools. Mr Colabufo has known Mr. Horan for several years, noting many people are aware of the program’s success. “Joe’s a legend in this district,’’ Mr Colabufo says.

The program appeals to boys at first because of a basketball component, but its secret is how it dives into off-the-court issues through discussions on character. Building Men helps participants gain insight, work to restore self-worth, and learn to calm emotions. SIR is a central component of lessons, standing for significance, integrity, and relationships.

At a recent breakfast fundraiser, Shateek Nelson, a senior at Nottingham High School, shared his experience, having participated in Building Men since middle school. He said he learned to see the bigger picture, rather than living in the moment. He also came to realize his actions affect others, and now he factors that into his decisions.

4．What motivated Joe Horan to start the program Building Men?

A．An instructional book. B．His personal experience.

C．His sister’s suggestion. D．The society’s expectation.

5．What does the underlined word “shoestring” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Flexible. B．Proper. C．Tight. D．Balanced.

6．What did Shateek Nelson learn from participating in BuildingMen?

A．One should dream big and then start small.

B．One should live each day as if it were the last day.

C．It is good to gain real-life experience at middle school.

D．It is essential to think more of others in decision-making.

7．What is the best title for the text?

A．SIR: Core Component of Physical Education

B．Healthy Life: Involving Substance and Depth

C．Building Men: Teaching Boys About Manhood

D．Manhood: Teenagers’ Power of Handling Issues

Recently, there was a slight growth in the travel industry in the UK after lockdowns. “I think what pandemic(流行病)has done,” said the boss of a travel company, “ is remind people what it’s like when you don’t travel.” Travel is never out of the top three desire purchases. People will give up a kitchen, sofa and surprisingly supermarket shopping, to protect the holiday.

Protecting the holiday at all costs makes total sense to me.Holidays are not a luxury, but one of those essential things in life that allow us to get through hard times. The thought of a holiday promotes a sense of well-being, of calm, of balance.

Holidays do not have to be expensive, or to places far away. Obviously, two weeks in the Maldives is the dream,but others can count as a holiday.For me, a holiday needs only a few things: a drawer to put my phone in, a couple of good books, and a chance to hang out with my family.

In my twenties, when I was almost constantly in a state of anxiety, I never went on holiday. I was scared of flying, scared of my boss noticing how much nicer life was without me in the office. I thought not going on holiday made me a harder worker,when actually it just made me a more tired one. Then, a boss pulled me aside to tell me that he wasn’t going to thank me for not taking my holidays. I then booked a cheap beach holiday with a friend, and was genuinely amazed to find I felt much better for it.

So now, I make sure I always have a holiday booked- even if said holiday is only a weekend staying with my sister. A change is as beneficial as a rest, said Winston Churchill- both at the same time is, in my view, even better.

8．What did people realize after lockdowns according to paragraph 1?

A．The importance of travelling.

B．The harm from the pandemic.

C．The need for more online purchases.

D．The difficulty with holiday protection.

9．Which of the following illustrates the author’s basic criteria for a holiday?

A．A warm climate and beaches.

B．Some quality time with family.

C．Some adventurous travel plans.

D．A five-star hotel and fine dining.

10．What is paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．The benefit the author obtained from travelling.

B．The source of the author’s stress during office hours.

C．The change of the author’s attitude to taking holidays.

D．The reason why the author tried to be a harder worker.

11．What is the function of the quote in the last paragraph?

A．To explain a fact.

B．To provide a detail.

C．To support a point.

D．To offer a suggestion.

For the first time, scientists have measured what actually happens with face-to-face interactions when employees start to work at an open-plan office, and their results show these modern workspaces are not as cooperative as you’d think.

Two researchers from Harvard Business School and Harvard University wanted to test whether removing walls at a real-world workplace really increases interactions between co-workers. “To our knowledge, no prior study has directly measured the effect on actual interaction that results from removing walls to create an open office environment,” Ethan S. Bernstein and Stephen Turban write in the paper. To that end, they approached two multinational companies that were re-organizing their office spaces at the global headquarters, and enlisted small groups of employees for two studies.

For eight weeks before the office redesign and eight weeks afterward, the researchers tracked employees’ social interactions and locations. This data was analyzed together with email and instant messaging information from the company’s servers to measure differences in how people were communicating with each other.

What they found was a pretty astonishing difference in face-to-face interactions — but not in the direction you might think. Across both experiments, employees’ social interactions in person decreased by a crazy 70 percent, while emails saw an uptick by roughly 20 to 50 percent.

So, instead of spending more time cooperating with co-workers in the new space where everyone could see them, people got their heads down and tried to preserve their privacy any way they could. According to these results, it appears that being forced into a more open-plan environment can make people switch from chatting to others in person to sending an email or using instant messaging instead.

As the team notes, it’s not automatically a bad thing, but it can certainly change work dynamics in an unexpected way. “That can have important consequences for how — and how productively — work gets done,” the researchers conclude.

12．How did the two multinational companies redesign their offices?

A．By expanding the total floor areas.

B．By updating the computer servers.

C．By changing the employees’ locations.

D．By tearing down the space boundaries.

13．Why did the employees prefer email or instant messaging in an open office space?

A．To reduce the risk of privacy leaks.

B．To establish efficient communication.

C．To facilitate indirect social interaction.

D．To transform traditional work patterns.

14．What can be inferred from the researchers’ saying in the last paragraph?

A．Further relevant research needs conducting.

B．Their research findings are of practical value.

C．Their team intends to change working environment.

D．People hold different opinions on how work gets done.

15．What is the main idea of the text?

A．Real-world workplaces increase employees’ interaction.

B．Work dynamics don’t have much effect on work efficiency.

C．Modern workspaces change workers’ way of communication.

D．Open-plan offices can’t promote cooperation between co-workers.

二、七选五

Hilde’s father was a reporter. He often took her to work with him, and she developed a strong interest in news stories and reporting.____16____She did the writing, her sister Izzy took pictures, and her father helped her organize and print the newspaper. Hilde wanted to cover big stories in her town. Following the rules her father had taught her, she researched and reported stories in her monthly newspaper.

The newspaper suddenly became famous when a murder happened in the town, and Hilde was the first person to report it. Soon, news organizations around the country were doing stories on Hilde.

____17____Some people criticized her parents for allowing her to report on something as unpleasant as a murder.

Others criticized Hilde for “pretending to be a reporter’’. Some people even suggested she should be playing with dolls.____18____She responded with a YouTube video.“I never began my newspaper so that people would think I was cute,” she said.“I want to be taken seriously.’’

That wasn’t the last time Hilde had trouble getting people to take her seriously. Sometimes, it was because of her age. Other times, it was because she was a girl.____19____Hilde continued reporting and her activities as a reporter have made her famous.

Now Hilde has published a book telling her own story and the challenges she has faced. Some of those challenges came from Hilde herself, struggling to figure out who she was as she grew older.____20____But she is still just 15, and has plenty of time to decide what she wants to do with her life. Her efforts have already inspired people around the world.

A．But she never let that stop her.

B．Hilde was upset by the complaints.

C．For now, Hilde says she has given up reporting.

D．When she was 8, Hilde started her own newspaper.

E．Her great success in reporting has changed her life.

F．Not everyone was happy about Hilde’s efforts, though.

G．She was clearly in a dilemma about how to solve the crisis.

三、完形填空

It was in the midwinter, and a couple trudged(跋涉)along the roadway, seeking shelter. The father- to- be____21____the roadside for a place where his____22____companion might rest safely for the night. She labored along, her way made heavier by the new____23____growing inside her. They needed a ____24____place safe from the bitter wind.

They were not man and wife, but____25____a pair of beagles(比格犬).

That December night, Gus Kiebel was driving home when he____26____ the pair. He parked the truck,____27____the animals, and carefully placed them in his truck. Then he called the number from the dogs’ tags. A man answered and immediately grew____28____.“I gave those dogs away. They’re not mine anymore.” Then he hung up. These beagles were____29____.

Then Gus called his wife, Katie Kiebel.“Y ou cannot put them back in the snow,“ she said.“Bring them home.”Although Gus had_____30_____owning beagles, keeping this pair was out of the question - they already had a dog.

The next day, they took the dogs to a no- kill shelter to drop them off, with one_____31_____. “I’m not signing the dogs over to you if you’ re going to_____32_____them,“ she said. The shelter workers_____33_____they would keep the couple together.

In the days following, Katie phoned the shelter_____34_____to check up on the beagles. Soon after Christmas, they were_____35_____as a pair, by a loving family.

21．A．left B．searched C．chose D．changed

22．A．struggling B．serious C．caring D．adaptable

23．A．fear B．curiosity C．idea D．life

24．A．warm B．clean C．spacious D．remote

25．A．anyway B．also C．rather D．even

26．A．caught B．spotted C．hit D．recognized

27．A．protected B．trained C．studied D．approached

28．A．calm B．bored C．defensive D．shocked

29．A．blamed B．abandoned C．forgotten D．misunderstood

30．A．dreamed of B．believed in C．objected to D．worried about

31．A．purpose B．task C．plan D．request

32．A．abuse B．cage C．separate D．kill

33．A．predicted B．wished C．promised D．concluded

34．A．repeatedly B．nervously C．casually D．secretly

35．A．cured B．adopted C．saved D．released

四、用单词的适当形式完成短文

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。

Tea drinking has been a traditional custom among native Beijingers. Teahouses formed in the Tang Dynasty,took off in the Song Dynasty and were recorded in YuanQu____36____ ( write) in the Yuan Dynasty. As society developed,private teahouses, tea bars and teahouses with diverse features____37____ ( create). Teahouses often served as centers of social interaction where people came to discuss personal affairs or even____38____ ( politics) issues.

There are different types of teahouses including Pure Teahouses, Teahouses for Storytelling, Chess Teouses,etc. In Pure Teahouses, people do nothing but drink tea, most of____39____are unoccupied persons or the young from the rich family. Teahouses for Storyelling,____40____( normal) in the afternoon and night, are welcomed by people with an interest in novels, pingshu and storytelling. Chess Teahouses are popular among those interested in playing chess.In the Qing Dynasty, there were also Chess Teahouses that served scholars and____41____(official) near Shichahai.

The tea culture has regained its popularity after a long term of dcline. In recent years teahouses with local characteristics____42____ ( appear) in Beijing with the performance of Beijing Opera, or the combination of tea culture, folk customs____43____arts.

Laoshe Teahouse, for example, is widely famous in and beyond China____44____a cultural symbol in Beijing, where a large number of tea fans gather,_____45_____(enjoy) its rich tea culture.

五、开放性作文

46．你校正在为即将举行的国际交流生研学活动布置校园文化宣传栏，请你为其中的“书香校园(scholarly school)”版块写一篇英文介绍词，内容包括:

1.内涵意义:

2.具体实践。

注意:

1.写作词数应为80左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Scholarly School

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六、读后续写

47．阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完 整的短文。

I’m not going to say storms are good, because I know what they’ve stolen from people. But my story is of a storm that gave me more than I’d thought to ask for.

The tornado(龙卷风)blew through on a Sunday. We were visiting grandparents in Raleigh then, unaware that seventy miles away the big tree in our front yard was tearing through our roof and destroying the kitchen.

When we returned, we saw Rosica’s father and brothers in our yard, gathering debris(碎片)and using a chain saw to cut the thickest branches of the fallen tree, though we barely knew them then. They were covered in sweat and dirt.

My mom didn’t seem to notice how happy they were to help us because the first thing she said was “Oh, you don’t need to be doing all that work!” Mr. Flores laughed.“Claro! Of course, we don’t. But more importantly, you cannot sleep in that house tonight. Come and speak to my wife. She’ll help you figure out what to do.” My mom doesn’t usually let people tell her what to do, but she sighed(叹气)deeply as she took in the sight of our home in the failing light, reached for my hand, and followed our neighbor to their house.

The Flores family lived across the street. Their home was the same size as ours but housed three generations. Rosica was my age. I knew her name and face, but since she was new to our school, and had a different teacher than I did, we had never spoken. It was she who answered the door.“Mama is changing the sheets on the bed for you, and there’s some lemon cheesecake on the table.”

“Please don’t trouble yourself. I think I’d call a hotel and see about a room,” my mom said, more uneasy than usual. Mrs. Flores came down the stairs and smiled at us warmly, “Y our room is ready. I know it’s more encouraged to give than receive, but allow yourself to receive a place to stay, and allow us the chance to give you something you need!”

注意:

1.续写词数应为150左右:

2.请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:

Our two-week stay at Flores’s home started.

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Paragraph 2:

Following our stay in their home, a beautiful tradition began.

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