广东省广州市执信中学2022-2023学年高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷.docx

广州市执信中学2023届高三年级第二次月考
英 语
全卷满分120分，考试用时120分钟。

一、单项选择（共10 小题；每小题0.5 分，满分5 分）
1. I haven’t seen ______ Maggie since I came here.
A. so a lovely girl as B. as lovely a girl as
C. such girl as lovely as D. as a lovely girl as
2. It is reported that Americans eat too much protein every day, ______ as they actually need.
A. as twice much B. twice much as
C. as much twice D. twice as much
3. Race walking shares many fitness benefits with running, research shows, while most likely contributing to fewer injuries. It does, ______, have its own problem.
A. therefore B. however C. moreover D. otherwise
4. Quan Hongchan also shared how she ______ her win. She said, “I want to eat a lot of delicious food tonight!”
A. is going to celebrate B. had celebrated
B. would celebrate D. celebrates
5. I ______ to send Peter a gift to congratulate him on his marriage, but I couldn’t manage it.
A. had hoped B. have hoped C. hope D. am hoping
6. --- Can I call you back at two o’clock this afternoon?
--- I’m sorry, but then I ______ to Beijing. How about five?
A. be flying B. will have flown C. will fly D. will be flown
7. The musician along with his band members ______ ten performances in the last three months.
A. have given B. will give C. gave D. has given
8. It was the first time that China’s lecture ______ from the orbiting Chinese Space Station.
A. was delivered B. had been delivered
C. has been delivered D. delivered
9. My washing machine ______ this week, so I have to wash my clothes by hand.
A. will be repaired B. was repaired
C. is being repaired D. has been repaired
10. --- Do you know Russian?
--- Yes, I ______ it for two years when I lived in Harbin.
A. has been learning B. have learned
C. was learning​ D. learned

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二、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。
A
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11. In which part of the magazine can you find instructions on experiments?
A. Global Eye. B. Features. C. Brain Dump. D. How To.
12. How much should you pay if you make a yearly subscription in print?
A. $121. B. $116. C. $28. D. $8.93.
13. According to the passage, subscribers of the magazine can ______.
A. purchase the magazine on the App Store
B. be informed of the latest news inhumanity
C. cancel the order within 14 days of its purchase
D. get a full refund if they find it cheaper elsewhere

B
Special boxes lie at the bottom of my locked filing cabinet. Deposited there are important letters and cards collected throughout my life, from my grandparents, school friends, parents, wife and son. Since the invention of e-mail though, they’ve been few and far between.
Tonight is New York’s Eve 2029 and there’s a very special box of letters I want to look at. But first there’s something I have to do – The Ritual（惯例）.
I go to my trusted computer and start. I begin to type: Dear ______. I leave the name blank for now, anticipating the thrill of typing it in. “I hope you are well and I wonder how this will find you. And you still planning to move to that villa in Portugal? Did your son marry Fiona? Is your mother still alive? Questions surge into my mind.
For the next two hours I sit writing. About what I’ve been doing for the last year, my failing health, my increasing wealth and sometime difficult marriage. Then about my goals and ambitions. Will he be interested? Do I climb Mt. Kilimanjaro? Do I get that novel published? the one that’s been rejected more times than I care to think about.
Finally, it’s finished.11:30 pm. I fill in the recipient’s name, print my letter, sign and address it and then seal it up with tape. I then delete the document and empty the trash folder – to avoid the possibility of temptation. That completes the ritual!
I walk over to my “special box”. It contains ten long, white, thick envelopes, all with the same handwriting. I place the one I have just written in at the back and take out the one at the front. It’s dated2019,and labeled “to be opened 31st December 2029”.
The cycle is finally complete! I open it, trembling with anticipation. I begin to read, my eyes tearing up a little as I do so. Throughout the last ten long, eventful years, of life, death, joy and heartbreak, it has been waiting patiently in this box for me, though I now have no memory of ever
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having written it.
14. Why does the author receive fewer “important letters” these days?
A. He has moved from his original address.
B. He is rarely in contact with his friends and family.
C. People communicate with each other less often than before.
D. Electronic communication has largely replaced physical letters.
15. Who does the underlined word “he” in paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The author himself.
B. The author’s son.
C. The author’s school friend.
D. The author’s book publisher.
16. Why does the author probably delete the completed letter from his computer?
A. So that no one else will be able to read it.
B. So that he won’t read it ahead of schedule.
C. Because he decides at last not to send it.
D. Because he wants forget what has happened.
17. How does the author feel as he is about to open his special letter?
A. Relieved. B. Moved. C. Excited. D. Afraid.

C
What does it mean to live a good life? This question has been debated for centuries. In the field of psychology, two main concepts of the good life have been quite popular: A happy life full of pleasure and positive emotions, and a meaningful life full of purpose and sacrifice. But what if these aren’t the only options?
In recent years, a long-neglected version of the good life has been receiving greater attention: the psychologically rich life. It is full of complex mental engagement, a wide range of intense and deep emotions, and diverse, novel, surprising and interesting experiences. Sometimes they are neither pleasant nor meaningful. However, they are rarely boring or monotonous.
After all, both happy and meaningful lives can become monotonous and repetitive. A person with a steady office job, married with children, may be satisfied and find his or her life meaningful and still be bored. Also, the psychologically rich life doesn’t necessarily involve economic richness. For instance, consider Hesse’s character Goldmund, who has no money but pursues the life of a free spirit.
Research has found psychological richness is related to, but partially distinct from, both happy and meaningful lives. Psychological richness is related with openness to experience and experiencing both positive and negative emotions more intensely. But is the psychologically rich life one that people actually want?
In a new study, Oishi and his colleagues asked people in nine countries the degree to which
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they value a psychologically rich life, a happy life and a meaningful life. They found many people’s self-described ideal lives involve psychological richness. When forced to choose a life, however, the majority chose a happy life and a meaningful life. Even so, a minority of people still favored the psychologically rich life, ranging from 6.7% in Singapore to 16.8% in Germany.
These numbers went up when the desire for a psychologically rich life was measured indirectly. To understand what a person wishes their lives might have been, it is important to explore what people wish they had avoided in their lives. When asked what they regret most and whether undoing this event would have made their lives happier, more meaningful or psychologically richer, about 28% of Americans said undoing the regrettable event would have made their lives psychologically richer.
These findings suggest that while most people strive to be happy and have meaning in their lives, a sizable number of people are content merely living a psychologically rich existence.
As Oishi and his colleagues conclude, “We believe that taking the psychologically rich life seriously will deepen and enrich our understanding of well-being.” At the end of the day, there is no one singularly acceptable path to the good life. You have to find a path that works best for you.
18. According to the passage, the psychologically rich life ______.
A. involves various intense emotions B. means living a luxurious life
C. combines pleasure with purpose D. emphasizes openness and repetition
19. What does Oishi’s research indicate?
A. The Germans prefer psychological richness to a happy life.
B. Undoing regrettable events has enriched many people’s lives.
C. A hidden desire for psychological richness exists among some people.
D. People with psychological richness tend to describe their lives as ideal.
20. We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. purpose outweighs pleasure in terms of significance
B. the choice of a good life differs from person to person
C. a positive mindset helps us understand our well-being
D. we should never be content and always strive for thebest
21. What is the main purpose of the article?
A. To compare different concepts of a good life.
B. To explain how to live a psychologically rich life.
C. To persuade people to attain psychological richness.
D. To draw attention to a less familiar version of a good life.

D
We are the products of evolution, and not just evolution that occurred billions of years ago. As scientists look deeper into our genes（基因）, they are finding examples of human evolution in just the past few thousand years. People in Ethiopian highlands have adapted to living at high
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altitudes. Cattle-raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation（突变）that helps them digest milk as adults.
On Thursday in an article published in Cell, a team of researchers reported a new kind of adaptation — not to air or to food, but to the ocean. A group of sea-dwelling people in Southeast Asia have evolved into better divers. The Bajau, as these people are known, number in the hundreds of thousands in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. They have traditionally lived on houseboats; in recent times, they’ve also built houses on stilts（支柱）in coastal waters. “They are simply a stranger to the land,” said Rodney C. Jubilado, a University of Hawaii researcher who studies the Bajau.
Dr. Jubilado first met the Bajau while growing up on Samal Island in the Philippines. They made a living as divers, spearfishing or harvesting shellfish. “We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders,” Dr. Jubilado said, “I could see them actually walking under the sea.”
In 2015, Melissa Ilardo, then a graduate student in genetics at the University of Copenhagen, heard about the Bajau. She wondered if centuries of diving could have led to the evolution of physical characteristics that made the task easier for them. “It seemed like the perfect chance for natural selection to act on a population,” said Dr. Ilardo. She also said there were likely a number of other genes that help the Bajau dive.
22. What does the author want to tell us by the examples in paragraph 1?
A. Environmental adaptation of cattle raisers.
B. New knowledge of human evolution.
C. Recent findings of human origin.
D. Significance of food selection.
23. Where do the Bajau build their houses?
A. In valleys. B. Near rivers. C. On the beach. D. Off the coast.
24. Why was the young Jubilado astonished at the Bajau?
A. They could walk on stilts all day.
B. They had a superb way of fishing.
C. They could stay long underwater.
D. They lived on both land and water.
25. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea
B. Highlanders’ Survival Skills
C. Basic Methods of Genetic Research
D. The World’s Best Divers

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

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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。
People connect to their cultural or ethnic group through similar food patterns. People from different cultural backgrounds eat different foods. ___26__ These food preferences result in patterns of food choices within a cultural or regional group.
Regional food habits do exist, but they also change over time. ___27___ They may use their old recipes with new ingredients, or experiment with new recipes to match their own tastes. Because people and food are mobile, attempts to characterize a country or people by what they eat are often inaccurate.
In addition to impacting food choices, culture also plays a role in food-related etiquette（礼节）. For example, the amount people eat and leave uneaten varies from culture t