湖北省金太阳高三12月联考（25-187C）-英语试卷（含答案）.docx

湖北省部分学校 2024-2025 学年高三上学期 12 月联考英语考试
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3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
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
. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A businessman.
B. A book.
C. Computer technology.
2
. What is the problem with the man’s apartment?
A. It is dirty.
B. It has no hot water.
C. The hot water can’t be turned off.
3
. What is the woman going to do?
A. Go shopping.
B. Leave the post office.
C. Write the address on the envelope.
4
. When did the man enter Tsinghua University?
A. Last year. B. Two years ago.
. Where does the conversation probably take place?
C. Three years ago.
C. At a theatre.
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A. At a restaurant.
B. At a gas station.
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 is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Waiter and customer.
B. Professor and student.
C. Taxi driver and passenger.

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7
. What do we know about the woman?
A. She is a tourist.
B. She studied Drama in the UK.
C. She has the same accent as the man.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8
. How does the man feel now?
A. Content. B. Nervous.
. Why does the man do the part-time job?
A. He has a lot of free time.
C. Pleased.
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B. He wants to experience the working life.
C. He needs some money to pay for his board.
1
0. What does the woman mean in the end?
A. The man should take some rest.
B. The man should quit his part-time job.
C. The man is living his life to the fullest.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. What kind of book is the woman looking for?
A. Modern biology.
B. Advanced math.
C. American literature.
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2. Which of the following can the woman use to apply for a library card?
A. Her business license.
B. Her student card.
C. Her ID card.
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3. How long can the woman keep the books normally?
A. Five days. B. Two weeks.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
4. How many times did the man camp before?
A. Once. B. Twice.
5. Why does the man fail to light the fire?
C. Two months.
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C. Three times.
1
A. The wood he uses is wet.
B. He doesn’t have a lighter.
C. He doesn’t know how to do it.
6. Where does the woman ask the man to keep his food?
A. Under a tree. B. In the tent.
7. What will the man use to start the fire?
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C. In the car.
C. Leaves.
1
A. Some newspapers.
B. An abandoned nest.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
8. What color did scientists paint the road?
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A. Black, blue and yellow.
B. Red, yellow and white.
C. Brown, black and green.

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9. Why are young birds drawn to the road surface?
A. It’s warm. B. It’s brown.
0. What is the purpose of the scientists’ experiment?
C. It’s smooth.
2
A. To help students study the birds well.
B. To prevent the birds from being killed.
C. To keep the birds there for a whole year.
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
The local literary festivals take place in the UK in September and October. Here are some relevant festivals for
you.
North Cornwall Book Festival
The seaside town of St. Endellion plays host to a weekend of words featuring speakers including a historian
and an author. Notably, a broadcaster from a British radio will discuss his personal journey through a specific
region; a journalist will talk about the global impact of a historical phenomenon; a writer will lead a practical
workshop.
Time: September 27-29
Website: ncornbookfest.org
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Billed as the world’s longest-running literary festival, the 10-day event comprises some500 talks, workshops,
interviews and debates. The event takes place across the city, from barbershops to Cheltenham’s halls. You can
expect a cast of authors, explorers and some birthday surprises.
Time: October 4-13
Website:
Cliveden Literary Festival
What a celebrity has called “the most dignified and beautiful literary festival on the planet” is held in
Berkshire’s 17th-century Cliveden House, now a hotel. Cliveden has a heavyweight heritage as a literary salon that
hosted the likes of two famous poets. The programme encourages “lively discussion, eye-opening ideas and
political debate” and features past speakers including a novelist, a broadcaster and a poet.
Time: September 21-22
Website: clivedenliteraryfestival.org
Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing
Immerse yourself in the Yorkshire landscapes that inspired the Brontë sisters at this festival of contemporary
female writing held in their former Haworth home, now a museum. The focus this year is on younger readers,
linked to the museum’s 2024 exhibition, The Brontës’ Web of Childhood, with a well-known British author
organizing a programme aimed at encouraging writing for children and young adults.
Time: September 20-22

Website: bronte.org.uk
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1. Which festival features a broadcaster discussing his travel experience?
A. North Cornwall Book Festival.
C. Cliveden Literary Festival
B. Cheltenham Literature Festival.
D. Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing.
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2. What do the last two festivals have in common?
A. The event site.
B. The closing date.
C. The official website.
D. The programme objective.
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3. Where can the text most probably be found?
A. In a political textbook. B. In a cultural magazine.
C. In a historical document. D. In an entertainment newspaper.
B
Ramtiniwati Ramlee is one of Sarawak’s top songket weavers（织布工）. Her company, Seri Gedong Songket,
operates from a pair of wooden buildings in her hometown of Gedong, 90 minutes southeast of Kuching. She
employs 10 women, all of them playing a key role in preserving this traditional craft.
Songket is a fabric woven from cotton that incorporates patterns using gold or silver threads. The name comes
from the Malay word meaning “to hook”, referring to the technique where a weaver hooks a section of the base
threads and weaves the gold or silver thread through the gap. It’s a luxurious material, typically worn by men,
which features in important festivals and events.
Ramtiniwati’s workshop is a busy place. There are 10 stages involved in making songket— from dyeing（染）
the threads to picking out the chosen patterns. I watch a woman sitting on the floor beside a wooden frame
containing rows of spinning threads. Ramtiniwati learnt how to make songket in Kuching before returning home to
set up her business. “When orders became overwhelming, I got help from the community, where the team
developed the workshop into what you see today,” she tells me proudly. None of the first group of the workers had
any weaving skills before, so Ramtiniwati had to train each of them from zero. The team includes several members
of her own family. “One of my sisters is weaving, and my sister-in-law is connecting the threads,” Ramtiniwati
explains.
I take a look at some of the finished products, hanging on display around the edge of the workshop. There’s a
black piece of clothing with silver thread and a white piece of clothing with gold. Another contains traditional
patterns, based on plants. Ramtiniwati says it can take up to five months to create the most intricate piece. And she
further explains and shows me how the complicated clothing is worn, wrapped around the waist and over the
shoulder in a series of folds.
In fact, songket is becoming a dying art because most of the remaining weavers are very old. “I am committed
to keeping songket alive and offering a livelihood to the local community,” Ramtiniwati says.
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4. What aspect does the name “songket” come from?
A. Its practical use.
B. Its multiple colors.
C. Its weaving method.
D. Its traditional patterns.
2
5. What do we know about the initial workers at Ramtiniwati’s workshop?
A. They were all old professional weavers.

B. They were all trained in the community.
C. They all had some extensive weaving skills.
D. They all specialized in modern fabric designs.
2
6. What does the underlined word “intricate” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Complex.
B. Traditional.
C. Colorful.
D. Trendy.
2
7. Which word best describes Ramtiniwati?
A. Humble.
B. Conventional.
C. Sympathetic.
D. Responsible.
C
Dogs may possess a deeper understanding than what they outwardly exhibit. Pet dogs’ brains displayed neural
（神经的）signs of surprise when their owners showed them an unexpected toy. The findings suggest that dogs
create mental concepts of objects.
Anyone who has ever interacted very much with a dog probably is not so surprised to know that dogs
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understand that their speech is referring to at least a few common objects,” says scientist Ellen Lau. But the
majority may have assumed that this sort of “understanding” is just a simple, almost automatic response to the
pronunciation of the term.
Some unusually gifted dogs have extraordinary vocabulary. A famous dog named Chaser knew more than
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,000 words for toys, for instance. In an experiment, the dog heard a recording of its owner’s voice saying the word
for a toy. Then, it saw the owner appear in a window holding up a toy. Electrodes（电极）on its head picked up
stronger brain signals when an unexpected toy was presented instead of the one named by the owner.
The researchers think the signal indicates surprise and suggests that the dog had already formed a mental
concept and expectation of the toy after hearing that word. In fact, the signal was especially strong for a mismatch
involving words that the dogs reportedly knew very well. “That suggests that it is really about understanding and
knowledge of the word,” Marianna Boros, the co-author of the study, says.
Humans have this surprise signal, too. It’s called the N400 effect, and it occurs in the brain just after
something unexpected happens. “There have been now thousands of human studies investigating and using this
N400 effect,” Lau says. But there has been no evidence of a similar signal in dogs, until now.
This neural signal of surprise in the dogs’ brains wasn’t shocking. Scientists have previously found clues about
how dogs process meaningful words, but the findings give a glimpse into the mental lives of dogs that didn’t exist
before. They understand more signs than they show.
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8. What do most people think of dogs’ understanding of human speech?
A. It is passive. B. It is complicated, C. It is flexible.
9. What did the experiment on Chaser reveal?
D. It is reflexive.
2
A. Dogs can recognize their owners,
B. Dogs have no preference for toys,
C. Dogs’ brains react strongly to surprises,
D. Dogs’ memories are limited by vocabularies.
3
0. What can be learned about dogs’ mental abilities?
A. They have been fully understood.

B. They are identical to those of humans.
C. They exclude the formation of object concepts.
D. They are similar to humans in forming expectations.
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1. What is the best title for the text?
A. Dogs Can Understand Humans’ Requests
B. Dogs Know More Words than They Let on
C. Dogs Have Pronunciation Signals in Their Brains
D. Dogs Are Extremely Talented in Learning Words
D
The number of known mountains in the Earth’s oceans has approximately doubled. According to a researchers’
report, global satellite observations have revealed nearly 20,000 previously unknown seamounts.
Just as mountains tower over the Earth’s surface, seamounts also rise above the ocean floor. The tallest
mountain on the Earth, as measured from base to peak, is Mauna Kea, which is part of the Hawaiian-Emperor
Seamount Chain. These underwater structures are often hot spots of oceanic biodiversity. That’s in a small part
because their steep walls formed from the volcanic activity provide plenty of habitats. Most importantly, seamounts
also promote upwelling of nutrient-rich water, which distributes beneficial chemical substances throughout the
water column. “They’re like stirring rods（长棒）in the ocean,” says David Sandwell, a geophysicist.
More than 24,600 seamounts have been previously mapped. One common way of finding these hidden
mountains is to send sound waves to the seafloor with sonar. But that’s an expensive and time-intensive process that
requires a ship. “Only about 20 percent of the ocean has been mapped that way. There are a lot of gaps,” says a
scientist, Julie Gevorgian.
So Gevorgian, Sandwell and their colleagues turned to satellite observations, which provide global coverage of
the world’s oceans, to survey seamounts. The team examined in detail satellite measurements of the height of the
sea surface. The researchers looked for bumps（隆起）caused by the gravitational influence of a seamount. Because
rock is denser than water, the presence of a seamount slightly changes the Earth’s gravitational field at that spot.
“There’s an extra gravitational attraction. That causes water to pile up above the seamount,” Sandwell says.
Using that technique, the team spotted 19,325 previously unknown seamounts. Most of the newly discovered
underwater mountains are on the small side, estimated to be between roughly 700 and 2,500 meters tall.
However, it’s possible that some seamounts can cause a risk to sailors when they’re shallow enough to fall
within the depth range of submarines（潜水艇）. In 2021, a nuclear submarine ran into an uncharted seamount.
Continued scientific research is essential to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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2. Which factor mainly makes Mauna Kea a suitable habitat for creatures?
A. The stirring rods.
B. The volcanic activity.
C. The human interference.
D. The abundant food sources.
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3. What is Gevorgian’s attitude to using sonar to find the hidden mountains?
A. Confused.
B. Contradictory.
C Unsatisfied.
D. Uncaring.
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4. How did the researchers find seamounts according to paragraph 4?
A. By detecting sea surface height changes.

B. By measuring oceanic gravitational fields.
C. By observing seamounts’ impact on water.
D. By studying underwater mountain formations.
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5. Why is a nuclear submarine mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. To honour the sailors.
B. To emphasize its value in the future.
C. To highlight the significance of the research.
D. To show the exact depth of uncharted seamount.
第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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