1、2022-2023高三上英语期末模拟试卷 注意事项 1.考试结束后,请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回. 2.答题前,请务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用0.5毫米黑色墨水的签字笔填写在试卷及答题卡的规定位置. 3.请认真核对监考员在答题卡上所粘贴的条形码上的姓名、准考证号与本人是否相符. 4.作答选择题,必须用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应选项的方框涂满、涂黑;如需改动,请用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案.作答非选择题,必须用05毫米黑色墨水的签字笔在答题卡上的指定位置作答,在其他位置作答一律无效. 5.如需作图,须用2B铅笔绘、写清楚,线条、符号等须加黑、加粗. 第一部分 (共20小题,每小题1
2、5分,满分30分) 1.— Did you catch the first bus this morning? —No. It had left the stop _________ I got there. A. in the time B.at the time C.by the time D.during the time 2.---Let's walk to that village together. ---__________. How can we two girls do that in the dark? A.I agree with you. B.That'
3、s a good point. C.You must be joking! D.That's not your opinion! 3.______ for the fire at Notre Dame de Paris, a church famous for its large collection of art treasures, I would be there for a visit this summer vacation. A.Had it not been B.Should it not be C.Were it not be D.If had it not been
4、 4.Yet _______ in the process of development did they stop to consider the impact of their “progress” on nature. A.in no time B.at no point C.as likely as not D.more often than not 5.I wonder ________ the equipment will be available in ten days. A.that B.when C.whether D.where 6.— Hello,
5、I ________ to ask if I can book a flight ticket to Hainan tomorrow? — Sorry, we’ve already sold out. A.phone B.will phone C.am phoning D.have phoned 7.—What did you say you were reluctant to risk just now? —_________ to high levels of radiation. A.Being exposed B.Having been exposed C.T
6、o be exposed D.Exposed 8.I felt like giving up. I probably ________, but my Dad whispered, “Come on! You can make it.” A.would have B.would C.should D.should have 9.—Can I have a day off tomorrow? I need to visit my grandma in the hospital. —__________. I can manage without you. A.Forg
7、et it B.Of course C.It depends D.I’m afraid not 10.I don’t mind her criticizing me,but___is how she does it that I object to. A.it B.that C.this D.which 11.In my opinion,_____ shouldn’t be any doubt that China will become one of the most powerful countries in the near future. A.this B.th
8、at C.it D.there 12.The movie couldn’t be more boring.I wish I ________ to it. A.had not been B.have not been C.did not go D.have not gone 13.It was lucky that little Jack was not at home when the fire broke out;otherwise,he his life. A.had lost B.would lose C.would have lost D.might lose 14.__
9、 travelling expenses rising a lot, we had to change all our plans for the tour. A.As B.By C.Since D.With 15.Going out is __________good means of relaxation. Would you like to go to______ park with me in the afternoon? A.the ;the B.the; a C.a; the D./;a 16.The real reason why prices ____ , a
10、nd still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem. A.were B.will be C.have been D.had been 17.---Turn off the TV, Jack. Your homework now? ---Mum, just ten more minutes, please. A.Should you be doing B.Couldn’t you be doing C.Shouldn
11、’t you be doing D.Will you be doing 18.Perhaps you ________ stop playing computer games now. Your boss may be turning up in the office at any moment. A.will B.must C.should D.can 19.As often happens after long sleeplessness, he was ________ by an unreasoning panic. A.seized B.fascinated C.i
12、mpressed D.embarrassed 20.After college, he was employed in a middle school and there ever since. A.would worked B.had worked C.worked D.has worked 第二部分 阅读理解(满分40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。 21.(6分)Our neighbor said the storm lasted four minutes. The town houses are destr
13、oyed or damaged. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured. On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication that severe weather was on its way. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some rolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to fin
14、d me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station. No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We had three flights of steps to get to the relatively safe closet dow
15、n on the first floor. As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have stuck through us. Finally, Jimmy pushed me down to the
16、closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmy’s arm as the tornado sucked the door open and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and scalp(头皮) were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back
17、of the house and into the bay. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. 1、How was the old couple aware of the tornad
18、o? A.They learned it from their neighbors who passed their house. B.They learned it from some common indications before a tornado. C.They found the news report forecasting the tornado on TV. D.They found the tornado on top of them when they were upstairs. 2、We can infer from paragraph4 that ___
19、 A.The old couple was very grateful to the branch. B.The old couple missed the branch very much. C.The old couple was hit by the branch on the head. D.The old couple was fortunate to have a narrow escape. 3、Why did the old woman feel no pain in paragraph5? A.Because she was worried ab
20、out her husband. B.Because she was brave enough to bear the pain. C.Because she didn’t actually feel any pain. D.Because she had a good husband to comfort her. 4、The passage is most probably taken from _______. A.a brochure B.a novel C.newspaper D.a magazine 22.(8分) News anchors(主播) mu
21、st have been reluctant to read out the following news: Xin Xiaomeng began working as the world’s first female artificial(人工的) intelligence news anchor at Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, three months after a male robot joined the profession. Unlike previous news robots though, Xin does not read news l
22、ike a cold machine; she reads it almost like a human being. The muscles on her face stretch and relax-and her reactions change-as she continues reading. That’s why many news anchors were worried: Will AI replace us in the near future? To find the answer, we have to analyse the technologies that sup
23、port Xin at her job. Three key technologies are used to support Xin. First, samples of human voices are collected and synthesized (合成). This is followed by the collection and synthesis of human muscle movement samples. And third the voices and movements are married in a way that when the Al news anc
24、hor reads, the micro -electric motors behind her face move to make her expressions seem more human. Yet we need a thorough knowledge of deep leaning technology to make a robot imitate a person’s voice. The developer needs to collect tens of thousands of pieces of pronunciations, input them Into the
25、 machine and match them with the text or the Al to lean and read. The process for imitating facial movements is similar. The developer has to analyse the movements of the 53 muscles in the human face, make a model set from the collected data for the AI news anchor to lean, and imitate the movements
26、of facial muscles via programs Both the technologies used to make Xin’s performance impressive are mature. The real difficulty lies in the third -the technology to match the pronunciations with facial movements so that Xin expressions vary according to the content of the news report. In fact, Xins
27、expressions don' t always change according to the content. As a result, her expressions look anything but human. Actually. AI is still no match for human qualities. 1、What does the underlined word "reluctant "in the first paragraph mean? A.Delighted. B.Unwilling. C.Confused. D.Optimistic. 2、What
28、can we infer about previous news robots? A.They read news without expressions. B.They looked like a human being C.They could interview sports stars D.They could interact with audience. 3、What do we know about the third technology? A.This technology is very perfect so far B.This technology is qu
29、ite popular now C.This technology remains at the theoretical stage D.This technology is far from mature. 4、From the last paragraph, we can draw a conclusion that____. A.human news anchors should learn from AT anchors to save their jobs B.Al anchors perform much better than human news anchors at
30、 present C.Al news anchors won 't replace human news anchors in the near future D.Xin Xiaomeng s expressions vary so naturally that they are true to life 23.(8分) Why have so many awards ceremonies appeared recently? Shakespeare never won a prize, nor did Leonardo da Vinci or Adam Smith or Char
31、les Dickens. It would be possible to say, however, that in the past, scientists and artists could win "patronage" from rich people-a king or a lord would give the artist or scientist money to have them paint their palaces or help them develop new ways of making money. With the change in social syst
32、ems across the world, this no longer happens. A lot of scientific research is now cither funded by the state or by private companies. Perhaps awards ceremonies are just the most recent face of this process. However, there is more to it than that. When a film wins an Oscar, many more people will go
33、and see it or buy the DVD.When a writer wins the Nobel prize, many more people buy his books. When a group win the MTV awards, the ceremony is seen by hundreds of thousands of people across the world. The result? The group sell lots more records. Most awards ceremonies are now sponsored by big orga
34、nizations or companies. This means that it is not only the person who wins the award who benefits but also the sponsors. The MTV awards, for example, are great for publicising not only music but also MTV itself! On the surface, it seems to be a "win-win" situation, with everyone being happy, but le
35、t me ask you a question-how far do you think that publicity and marketing are winning here, and how much genuine recognition of achievement is taking place? 1、Why are some successful people like Shakespeare mentioned at the very beginning of the passage? A.To show great admiration. B.To provide th
36、e background. C.To prepare for the topic. D.To answer the question. 2、Artists and scientists used to receive money from______. A.rich people's support B.ales of their works C.different awards D.the government 3、The writer thinks awards actually do a better job in____. A.getting the winners' gr
37、eat achievements recognized B.financially supporting a scientist's or an artist's work C.improving the status of the greatest scientists or artists D.earning more money for the awards ceremony sponsors 4、What is the writer's attitude towards awards ceremonies? A.Subjective. B.Approving. C.Doub
38、tful. D.Indifferent. 24.(8分)The World’s Largest Libraries British Library(United Kingdom,London) The British Library was created by Act of Parliament in 1972;previously,the library had been part of the British Museum,where the famous circular reading room had accommodated researchers including Ka
39、rl Marx,who worked on‘Das Kapital’there,as well as Oscar Wide and Mahatma Gandhi.The British Library is now housed in a new building in St.Pancras,London,where its treasures include two Gutenberg bibles,the Lindisfarne Gospels and one of Leonardo da Vmci’s notebooks. Library of Congress(United Stat
40、es,Washington,D.C.) Founded in 1800 with the private collection of Thomas Jefferson,the Library of Congress is in effect the USA’s National Library.It receives two copies of everything published in the United States.The Library of Congress wag burned by the British Army in 1812,and severely damaged
41、 by fire again in 1851.The collection includes many rare books,drawings and two Stradivarius violins. New York Public Library The New York Public Library developed gradually in the nineteenth century from the merger and acquisition(收购兼并)of a number of public and private collections;it has many bra
42、nches in different districts of New York City.It remains a structure which combines public and private finance and governance.Treasures held at the library include a Gutenberg Bible. Russian State Library(Moscow) Founded in 1862 as the Moscow public library and museum,this collection became the St
43、ate Library in 1925.In consequence it receives copies of all Russian publications,and also holds large collections of maps,journals,music scores and recordings.Its possessions include the Archangel Gospel,a codex in the Slavonic language dating from 1092. 1、Which library met with two big losses in
44、history? A.British Library. B.Library of Congress. C.New York Public Library. D.Russian State Library. 2、What can we find in the Russian State Library? A.Lindisfame Gospels. B.Stradivarius violins. C.A Gutenberg Bible. D.The Archangel Gospel. 3、What do we know from the text? A.Karl Marx and O
45、scar Wide worked as librarians in the British Library. B.The Library of Congress receives two copies of all publications in Russia. C.The New York Public Library is supported by state and personal donation. D.The Russian State Library possesses a Gutenberg Bible in Slavonic. 25.(10分)Life Is Beau
46、tiful is a 1997 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1939 in the K
47、ingdom of Italy, a bookstore keeper Guido, who is a Jew, falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is to be engaged to a rich civil servant. Guido steals her from her engagement party on a horse. Soon they are married and have a son, Giosue. In 1945, Guido and his son are forced onto a t
48、rain and taken to a concentration camp. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, telling him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him po
49、ints;the first team to reach 1,000 points will win a tank. Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness and death at the camp, Giosue does not question this fiction because of his
50、 father’s convincing performance and his own innocence. Guido keeps the story right until the end when, in the chaos(混乱)of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a small box until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guid






