辽宁省六校2023届高三上学期期初考试英语试卷.docx

2022—2023学年度（上）六校高三期初考试
英语试题
考试时间:120分钟 满分：150分
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
1. What does the man suggest doing?
A. Eating out. B. Leaving Jack alone. C.Comforting Jack.
2. What will Jane probably do in the vacation?
A. Help the man review English.
B. Make a study plan.
C. Take an English class.
3. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
A. A cyclist. B. An accident. C. A race.
4. How can we describe the game?
A. Close. B. Unequal. C. Surprising.
5. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Neighbors. B. Strangers. C. Workmates.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 weather like now?
A. Clear. B. Windy. C. Foggy.
7. Where is Jack now?
A. On the highway. B. At home. C. In the office.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. Where does the woman work?
A. At a hotel. B. At an airport. C. At a bus company.
9. When will the man probably reach Sydney’s airport?
A. On March 3rd. B. On March 6th. C. On March 9th.
10. What can we learn about the man?
A. He has booked an ordinary single room.
B. He needs to confirm the flight next.
C. He will take the shuttle to the hotel.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a garden. B. In a gift shop. C. In a flower shop.
12. How did the woman develop an interest in growing flowers?
A. She took it as a pastime.
B. She was influenced by her husband.
C. She was fond of the smell of flowers.
13. What do we know about the man?
A. He has green fingers.
B. He is a bank clerk now.
C. He has taken up stamp collecting.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
14. When did the man’s aunt and uncle first go to Ibiza?
A. About thirteen years ago.
B. About seventeen years ago.
C. About thirty years ago.
15. Why did the man’s aunt and uncle choose Ibiza last summer?
A. They had good memories of it.
B. They booked cheap flights.
C. They liked parties.
16. What was the trip like last summer?
A. Peaceful. B. Perfect. C. Noisy.
17. How do the old couple feel about trips now according to the man?
A. Regretful. B. Annoyed. C. Uninterested.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. What is the cash prize for the first-prize winner?
A. $5,000. B. $4,000. C. $1,000.
19. Who has dropped out of the competition?
A. Donald Wreck. B. Rose O’Brien. C. Maria Sanchez.
20. What does the speaker think of the result?
A. Satisfying. B Surprising. C. Disappointing.
第二部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
Under Singapore’s Vaccinated Travel Framework, all travellers including Singapore citizens and permanent residents arriving from all countries/regions can enter Singapore without quarantine (隔离), testing or entry approvals if they meet the following requirements:
*Be a child born on or after 1 Jan. 2010 — children who meet this criteria can enter regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status (疫苗接种状态).
*Be fully vaccinated with WHO EUL vaccines if born on or before 31 Dec. 2009 (i. e. age 13 and above by year of birth). Mixed doses using WHO EUL vaccines, and one vaccination dose after a COVID-19 infection are also acceptable.
*Be vaccinated against Yellow Fever if you have visited Yellow Fever high risk countries/regions in Africa and Latin America — a valid Yellow Fever vaccination certificate is required.
Travellers born on or before 31 Dec. 2009 who do not meet the vaccination requirements above are considered non-fully vaccinated travellers. They will be subject to entry approvals, tests and quarantine. This includes travellers who:
*Are medically exempted (免除) from COVID-19 vaccination.
*Took non-WHO EUL vaccines only, and did not take the minimum dosage of WHO EUL COVID-19 vaccines.
*Recovered from COVID-19 but did not complete the minimum dosage of WHO EUL COVID-19 vaccines.
Generally, non-fully vaccinated long term pass holders and short-term visitors are not allowed to enter Singapore unless in exceptional circumstances.
Click the orange button below for a detailed checklist of travel requirements.
21. Who can enter Singapore without entry approvals?
A. A college graduate unvaccinated.
B. A business man from Africa with Yellow Fever.
C. A Singaporean infected with COVID-19.
D. A ten-year-old boy from Australia.
22. What will the non-fully vaccinated travelers do to enter Singapore?
A. Get a long term pass.
B. Provide entry approvals and receive tests and quarantine.
C. Have physical examination on a regular basis.
D. Take non-WHO EUL vaccines.
23. Where is this text probably taken from?
A. A textbook. B. A magazine C. A website. D. A brochure.
B
Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution to two of our country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than toss your empty chip bags into the trash, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.
Chip eaters drop off their empty bags from Doritos, Lay’s, and other favorites at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize (消毒) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use padding and liners from old coats to line the insides.
It takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told the Detroit News. Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags.
Sure, it would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life—and her fellow volunteers. “We are devoted to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” she said.
And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would otherwise land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful reminder that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita said, “I think it’s time to show connections between all of these issues.”
24. What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
A. How they make the sleeping bags. B. Why they sanitize the chip bags.
C. Where they collect the chip bags. D. What they use to line the insides.
25. What do the numbers in paragraph 3 show?
A. The new sleeping bags have many benefits.
B. A lot of effort is put into making the sleeping bags.
C. People consume a large quantity of chips every day.
D. People are aware of the importance of environmental protection.
26. Why do the volunteers make rather than simply buy sleeping bags?
A. They aim to help the homeless by recycling waste.
B. They think it is difficult to raise a lot of money.
C. They wish they could earn better life.
D. They want to find a simpler way to help the homeless.
27. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Recycling chip bags can remove poverty.
B. The new sleeping bags have been put into wide use.
C. Few chip bags will end up in the trash in the country.
D. Environmental injustice and poverty are usually closely connected.
C
Some of the world’s best Coffea arabica is grown on Mount Kenya. This variety of the plant produces beans that are tastier than those from its poor cousin, Coffea canephora (known as robusta), which often ends up in instant coffee. However, global warming may reduce the total area that is most suited to growing arabica beans by about half by 2050.
Some farmers are trying to adapt to warming by moving uphill. Yet this pushes them into areas long used for growing tea. Not only is there less space higher up; the move stresses how warming also threatens to harm the tea crop, which supports about 10% of Kenya’s population. Warmer weather will push tea itself higher up area.
Kenya’s government-funded Coffee Research Institute is trying to find other ways of helping farmers adapt, such as encouraging them to plant trees to shade their coffee bushes, or to grow hardier (适应性更强) robusta plants. It is also trying to plant a hybrid, Arabusta, which would combine the hardiness of robusta with the flavour of arabica. Coffee lovers may turn up their noses at it, but they may have no other choices.
However, such adaptations may bring social costs. Many smallholder farmers are at risk of being pushed out of the industry altogether because they cannot afford the money needed to protect their crops.
Another option may be entirely new varieties. Researchers in London are studying a wild type of coffee, Coffea stenophylla. It is delicious and can also take the heat. But it produces lower harvest than existing varieties and it may be years before it is widely grown. Without a breakthrough of some sort, caffeine addicts may face a future too unpleasant to imagine. “If we don’t have the innovation to respond to climate challenges,” Vern Long of World Coffee Research says, “we’re just going to be drinking man-made coffee.”
28. In what way is Coffea arabica better than Coffea robusta?
A. Sales. B. Harvest. C. Hardiness. D. Flavor.
29. What does the underlined “it” refer to in Paragraph 3?
A. Robusta. B. Arabica. C. Arabusta. D. Stenophylla.
30. What might be the impact of the government’s policy?
A. Smallholder coffee farmers may disappear.
B. The areas of tea crop will be reduced.
C. The cost of coffee-planting may drop.
D. Good money will be brought in.
31. What’s the purpose of this text?
A. To give suggestions to coffee farmers.
B. To recommend new varieties of coffee.
C. To introduce coffee industry under threat.
D. To list possible solutions to climate changes.

D
Contrary to “popular opinion”, the scientific pursuit for knowledge is not a predictable process. To make new discoveries researchers need the freedom to be creative, fail, and learn by chance. This aspect is similar to art. This is why Wageningen scientists look to artists for inspiration and exchange ideas about how to increase creative freedom.
“Science and art are two different ways to make something understandable. They both provide a perspective on reality,” says Biochemistry Professor Dolf Weijers. “From the outside, the research process looks very formal and the artistic process looks somewhat messy. But the scientific process can also unfold in an unpredictable way.”
“Scientists can learn a lot from artists,” says Weijers. “Association and creativity are central to art. Those aspects require more attention in science as the creative process is the key of science.”
“As a scientist, you use different methods, but it is equally about how you visualize(可视化) your understanding of reality and the connections that there are. This is sometimes just as visual as art,” says Weijers. One example is a recent special project in which Weijers and his colleague Joris Sprakel, professor of Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, measured the forces that act on plant cells. A molecular(分子的)sensor was used to visualize the different forces. They showed the results in colorful images, each representing a different force.
What science and art also have in common is that they are topics of discussion in society. There are people who say that they do not value art and people who mistrust science. Weijers says, “It often creates the wrong impression because only the results of scientific studies are presented, and people do not have any insight into the process leading to discovery. As a scientist, you are doubted if you say that something is different a few years later. Then you are viewed as unreliable. But what is often poorly understood is that there are no final results in science. What we scientists can achieve in the coming period is to provide more chances for people to focus on the process. Personally, I think that the connection with art can help to lead the focus on the process than the result.”
32 What might be the “popular opinion” about the scientific discovery?
A. It is creative. B. It can be accidental.
C. It allows failures. D. It is predictable.
33. In Dolf Weijers’s view, the artistic process_________.
A. totally differs from the scientific one
B normally looks formal and controlled
C. offers inspiration for scientific research
D. focuses on putting the messy in order
34. Why does the author mention Dolf Weijers’s research on plant cells?
A. To prove that science can be visualized like art.
B. To stress that understanding science is difficult.
C. To show the value of his scientific achievements.
D. To tell obvious differences between science and art.
35. What does Dolf Weijers say about scientific studies?
A. They have little to do with the discoveries.
B. Their process should be more open to people.
C. They always present unchanged final results.
D. Their focus is not the process but the result.
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。
The most relaxing colors are generally believed to be cool shades such as green and blue. 36 So we can often see these colors in hospitals, test centers, and television stations, where people may want some help to ease their nerves and bad emotions.
Home designers note that people often describe rooms painted blue and green as relaxing and comfortable. As a result, architects often use colors from the cool part of the color circle in bedrooms and bathrooms. 37
Driving down a highway. you’ll notice that some signs consist of white letters on a dark green background. 38 Another place where we see green used is in the “green room” of theaters or television studios because nervous performers are quieted by the color. This is also the reason why doctors wear green clothes in the operating room. And prison cells often paint their walls green for the same effect.
39 Our eyes sense color using tiny sensors sensitive to the red light, the green light or the blue light. However, generally they are the most sensitive to the green light. Researchers think that this sensitivity to green objects might affect hormonal production that in turn influences the mood. What’s more, recent studies have shown that when a person looks at the green colored paper or is placed in a green room, their heart rate drops, blood