江西省南昌市三校2022-2023学年高三上学期11月期中英语试题.docx

南昌市三校（一中、十中、铁一中）高三上学期第一次联考
英 语 试 题
命题：铁一中 高三英语备课组 考试时长：120分钟 试卷总分：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。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 kind of life is the man expecting this weekend?
A. A busy one. B. A colorful one. C. A relaxing one.
2. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. In a clothing shop. C. In the woman's house.
3. What is the woman worried about?
A. She won't go back until midnight.
B. Her son might be caught in the storm.
C. Her friend can’t receive her message.
4. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Balance study and voluntary work.
B. Work at the community part-time.
C. Stick to her weekly schedule.
5. When did the woman get off work yesterday?
A. At 6:00 pm. B. At 8:00 pm. C. At 9:00 pm.
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 does the man say about Vivian’s car?
A. It's dangerous to drive. B. It won’t cost much to repair. C. It's a bit small for her.
7. What does the man offer to do for Vivian?
A. Give her a ride home. B. Lend her some money. C. Help fix her car.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What does the man plan to do tomorrow?
A. Go fishing. B. Attend a party. C. Do some shopping.
9. What will the speakers buy for their grandfather?
A. A fishing pole. B. A camera. C. A bag.
10. How soon will the sporting goods store open?
A. In 10 minutes. B. In half an hour. C. In an hour.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. How many people will have dinner together?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Six.
12. What does the man complain about?
A. It's unable to sit together. B. It's hard to see the band. C. It's too noisy near the stage.
13. Who is the woman?
A. A manager. B. A musician. C. A waitress.
听第9段材料，回答第 14 至17 题。
14. What did Kayla help Megan with?
A. A presentation. B. Last month's schedule. C. An important project.
15. Why does the man talk to Kayla?
A. To give her a promotion. B. To discuss a new project. C. To criticize her performance.
16. What is Gary’s plan?
A. Taking early retirement. B. Starting his own business. C. Joining another company.
17. How does Kayla feel at the end of the conversation?
A. Disappointed. B. Nervous. C. Happy.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What does the speaker remind people to do?
A. Buy extra food and water. B. Work from home for two weeks.
C. Leave the area as soon as possible.
19. What season is it now probably?
A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Winter.
20. What is the main topic of the talk?
A. The change of the seasons. B. The course of the hurricane.
C. The measures to cope with bad weather.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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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21. Who is O Wines Opportunity for Success Scholarship intended for?
A. Undergraduate exchange students. B. Part-time graduate students.
C. Female high school seniors. D. Poor pupils failing to afford education.
22. What will result in disqualification for the Paradigm Challenge?
A. Having no teammates. B. Showing less interest in charity activities.
C. Being inactive in community events. D. Submitting the statement on May 3rd, 2022.
23. Which of the following offers an individual the highest scholarship?
A. Paradigm Challenge. B. O Wines Opportunity for Success Scholarship.
C. Don’t Text & Drive Scholarship. D. “A Voice for Cats” Essay Contest Scholarship.
B
Most boyhood dreams are never realized, particularly if you grew up in the 1960s and desired to become Tarzan of the Apes. But that is not the case for young Fred Bercovitch. His dream of swinging from jungle vines (藤蔓) and communicating with chimps and elephants began when he read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books. These books attracted him to the jungles of Africa and eventually brought him before a United Nations conference where he advocated helping save giraffes.
Bercovitch answered the call of the wild in 1978. He flew to Kenya to live close to a group of olive baboons (狒狒), which he hoped would result in a doctoral paper about their reproduction. Denise, his classmate, accompanied him. Their two-year adventure in the wild resulted in a Ph.D. in biological anthropology (人类学) from UC, Los Angeles for Bercovitch and some astonishing stories.
It was his time at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance that brought him worldwide recognition when a study he conducted was featured as one of the Top 100 Science Stories of 2002 by the magazine Discover. As head of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Behavioral Biology Division, he documented the social habits of giraffes. “We found giraffes behaved pretty much like people who attend parties. Some talked to a few friends, some enjoyed communicating with strangers, and others were looking for pleasure together,” said Bercovitch.
To confirm that giraffes behave in the same way in the wild, Bercovitch flew to Zambia and consulted with a researcher with 30 years of data on giraffes. He ran the researcher’s data through a complex computer program and confirmed giraffes’ social preferences are the same in the wild as they are kept in a limited space.
As a professor at Kyoto University since 2010, Bercovitch has published more than 150 scientific papers in an effort to advance the understanding of animals. He wishes for a better world for humans and animals to live in, which is far less violent.
24. What was young Fred Bercovitch’s dream?
A. Saving giraffes. B. Working for the UN.
C. Exploring the wildlife in the jungle. D. Writing books about animals.
25. How did Fred Bercovitch complete his doctoral paper?
A. By conducting a field study.
B. By performing lab experiments.
C. By referring to previous documents.

D. By turning to biological anthropology professors.
26. What can be known about giraffes from Bercovitch’s research?
A. They are socially active. B. They show a gift for self-defense.
C. They prefer to live in a limited space. D. They are strict followers of social rules.
27. What would be the best title for the text?
A. The charm of the jungles of Africa
B. The key to amazing academic success
C. Fred Bercovitch’s adventure in the wild
D. Fred Bercovitch’s devotion to his childhood dream
C
The “butterfly effect” may have it all wrong. Instead of a single insect’s wing flap setting off a distant tornado weeks later, rain in sub-Saharan Africa can lead to more wing-flapping butterflies in southern Europe the next spring, a new study finds.
Orange with black and white wing tips, the painted lady is one of the planet’s most widespread butterflies, living on every continent except Antarctica and South America. Populations reach tens of millions in Europe alone. Like the monarch butterfly, the painted lady undertakes impressive annual migrations (迁徙); its round-trip journeys of some 12,000 to 14,000 kilometers reach from sub-Saharan Africa to Scandinavia and back again. It is one of the longest known annual insect migrations. “But this migration is strange, with the number of immigrant insects arriving in Europe sometimes varying greatly year over year, which has confused naturalists for generations,” says ecologist Richard Fox.
Adult painted ladies only live about 2 weeks, so the butterflies’ migrations are multi-generational affairs. Experts have long suspected variations in spring numbers in the Mediterranean occur because conditions farther south have affected the breeding success of an earlier generation. To see whether that’s true, Jason Chapman and his colleagues collected 21 years’ worth of butterfly observations from West Africa to Western Europe. The researchers found that the butterflies’ spring numbers in Europe are heavily influenced by the amount of monsoon(雨季) rainfall in western sub-Saharan Africa in the previous summer and fall.
More rain there, they found, leads to flooding, which fuels plants that emerging larvae(幼虫) feast on in the winter. Wet years appear to have produced European butterfly booms in 2009, 2015, and this year. Spring plants amount in northwestern Africa can also affect the numbers of the painted ladies the butterflies make some stops in the region on the way to Europe.
The findings help scientists know what a changing climate could mean to the insects, according to ecologist Constanti Stefanescu. “Now that researchers have taken some mystery out of the insects’ northward migration, one remaining puzzle is how they manage to survive their return journey southward at the end of the summer,” says another ecologist, Chris Thomas.
28. Which of the following agrees with painted ladies’ living habits?
A. They have a long annual migration route.
B. They are equally distributed around the world
C. They flap their wings more frequently than other butterflies.
D. They share a migration time similar to the monarch butterflies’.
29. What drove the naturalists to carry out the study?
A. Short lifespan of the butterflies.
B. Migration route of the butterflies.
C. Returning time of the butterflies after the migration.
D. Changing populations of the immigrant butterflies in Europe.
30. How does more rain increase the population of European butterflies?
A. By making the air fresh. B. By providing enough food.
C. By providing safe habitats. D. By lowering the local temperature.
31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. There’s more to be learned about the painted lady.
B. It is a mystery how the painted lady survives summers.
C. It’s necessary to help the painted lady find its way home.
D. It’s hard for the painted lad y to survive in its return migration.
D
When we want to communicate with another person, we generally use our voice, such as speaking or shouting. They are great ways to communicate, but they have some drawbacks.
For instance, if you live on a mountainside and your friend lives on another mountainside, shouting to each other isn’t always that effective. Shouting creates lots of echoes (回 声）among the corners and holes of mountains, and the average outdoor range of an understandable human voice is only about 180 meters. Unless you walk over to where your friend lives to carry on a conversation at a reasonable speaking distance, or communicate by some sort of visual technique like smoke signals, there’s not much to be done except whistle (吹口哨).
Whistling is the product of air being forced through a small hole made by your lips. A whistle is different from your voice because it’s clear, and the frequency is high. The sound of a whistle can carry for over 8 kilometers and it holds its form, while a shout can become a mess because of the echoes.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on spoken language to accomplish daily, face-to-face communication most of the time. And in recent years, the coming of text messaging has also made whistled languages take a dive worldwide. Luckily, there are still over 70 groups around the world that engage in special whistled languages.
They’re most commonly found in mountainous regions where farmers need to pass messages around without walking up and down hills, and whistles are also used to communicate through the thick Amazon rainforest and are useful to Inuit at sea as well. Hunters can use whistling to communicate with each other in a way that doesn’t alarm their targets as the voice-produced language might.
Whistled languages are unique to a certain area and they are not distinct from spoken language. However, whistled language speakers around the world are found to be able to understand about 90 percent of what’s communicated. When whistled languages are still present, it signals that traditional activities are still commonly practiced and therefore the cultures behind them have been maintained.
32. What does the author want to express in the first two paragraphs?
A. Reasons for producing echoes outdoors.
B. The difficulty of living on the mountainside.
C. The necessity of adopting face-to-face communication.
D. Limitations of communicating by speaking or shouting.
33. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Stay adaptable. B. Become influential.
C. Get an improvement. D. Experience a decline.
34. How does the author prove whistled languages useful?
A. By providing research results B. By listing the statistic data.
C. By giving examples. D. By doing some questionnaires.
35. What can be learned about whistled languages?
A. They will disappear gradually.
B. They could help keep traditional cultures alive.
C. They are independent of the local spoken language.
D. They become much more complex as time goes by.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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。
In the mad rush of day-to-day living, we can often forget to find opportunities for our families to relax and have fun together. But having fun is an essential part of growing up. It’