广东省汕头市2024届高三上学期四校期中联考 英语试卷

2024届高三级11月四校联考 英语 试题佛山市第一中学、广州市第六中学汕头市金山中学、中山市第一中学试卷总分：120分 考试时间：120分钟注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。本次考试采用特殊编排考号，请考生正确填涂。2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第一部分 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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ABEST BODY FITNESSAbout usYou don’t want just a gym membership. You want a membership that means something. And that means you need support, expert help and a community.Best Body Fitness isn’t just a gym: it’s full-service fitness membership made for you. Here’s how it works:STEP ONE: Your assessmentWe begin with an assessment session. This is a chance for you to see what we do at Best Body. Our assessment plans are no-cost and no-risk. We’ll also make a training plan specifically for you.STEP TWO: Your trainingWhen you decide to become a Best Body member, we show you what to do, how to do it and why you are doing it. After a few sessions with an expert private trainer you will feel comfortable working out on your own.STEP THREE: Your membershipMembership works on a month-to-month basis. There are no sign-up fees and no cancellation fees. Start and stop whenever you want. And the best part? Our fees are the most competitive in the whole downtown area.STEP FOUR: Your communityAt Best Body Fitness, we see everyone as part of a big team. And when you work with a team, you can do great things. Join any of our specialized classes, led by expert trainers. Come to our nutrition classes. Participate in our regular social events. Everything is included in your fee.Finally, we want to share with you some reasons why our members say that they have chosen us over any other fitness centre in the city.It’s so EASYEasy to start, stop, cancel or refund a membership.Easy to access we’re open 24/7, we never close.Easy results our trainers and equipment give you success, fast. Come and visit us for a personal tour!21. What can one do in the second step?A. Have a full assessment.B. Work with a team.C. Learn from the private trainer.D. Make a training plan.22. If you become a member of this gym, you can ________.A. get refund when you cancel your membershipB. get expert training but you need to pay extra feeC. go to the gym only from 6:00 am to 10:00 pmD. go to the gym only from Monday to Saturday23. What do you think the above passage is?A. A story book.B. A science magazine.C. A TV show.D. An advertisement.BIt’s perhaps the world’s most famous underwater attraction that remained in film and in legend: the Titanic. But now experts say the ocean liner, once a wonder of the high seas, is falling to pieces.Capt. Alfred McLaren, the scientist who in July led the most recent expedition to the ship’s underwater grave, said his team saw clear signs of the accelerating damage of the wreck (残骸). There was damage likely caused by rust and sea life, and the captain’s cabin had collapsed.“I was absolutely astonished,” McLaren said.Worse still, the fallen mast (桅杆) that crushed the ship’s deck is believed by many to be the result of an unapproved salvage (打捞) operation. “It was almost depressing to see how quickly she was getting worse,” McLaren says. “I would be really surprised if there’s very much standing up from the bottom, two decades from now.”Ed Kamuda, who runs the Titanic Historical Society in Springfield, Mass., says adventure tourists who pay $36,000 each to visit the wreck are also contributing to the destruction of it.“This is something I expected. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly,” Kamuda said. “People are going down just as an ego trip to say ‘I was there.’ All this takes a fare on the ship.”The Titanic has sat at the bottom of the Atlantic since it sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 people died that night. The ship came to rest at the bottom of the freezing North Atlantic, more than 2 miles beneath the waves. The wreck was discovered in 1985, and since then it has been repeatedly visited by treasure hunters.But still some scientists say those divers, and other thrill seekers are not necessarily to blame for the Titanic’s current problems.Capt. Craig McLean of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration went on an expedition to the Titanic in June as part of a government study that is monitoring the condition of the ship. He says it’s unclear what part of the damage is from Mother Nature and which is from human nature.“It’s too early and there isn’t enough evidence to put our fingers on anything,” McLean said.Regardless, most agree there’s little that can be done for this most famous of wrecks. And soon, the mighty Titanic could well be lost again.McLaren expected that in twenty years _______.Only a minor part of the wreck would remain as it isThe wreck would be getting worse at a faster speedOnly salvage operation with the purpose of research would be approvedThe wreck would be completely destroyed by unapproved treasure huntersWhat is the tourist’s purpose of visiting the wreck, according to Kamuda?To contribute to the breaking down of the Titanic.To help finance the preservation of the Titanic.To satisfy their curiosity and adventurousness.To better understand the history of the Titanic.Craig McLean is one of the scientists who believe _______.Visitors should not be prohibited from the Titanic and other famous wrecksThe influence of the thrill seekers on the wreck will finally be determinedThe government should contribute more to the monitoring of the TitanicThe damage of the Titanic is not necessarily attributed to the adventure touristsThe author is most likely to agree that the future of the Titanic is _______.promising B. discouraging C. controllable D. vagueCIn department stores and closets all over the world, they are waiting. Their outward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles, patterns, materials, and colors. But they are eventually the biggest deception (欺骗) that exists in the fashion industry today. What are they? They are high heels a woman’s worst enemy (whether she knows it or not). High heel shoes are the downfall of modern society. Fashion myths have led women to believe that they are more beautiful or stylish for wearing heels, but in reality, heels succeed in creating short as well as long term troubles. Women should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in order to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.For the sake of fairness, it must be noted that there is a positive side to high heels. First, heels are excellent for aerating lawns (草坪通气). Anyone who has ever worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about. A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies gets rid of all the need to call for a lawn care specialist, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all those messy blocks of dirt lying around. Second, heels are quite functional for defending against potential enemies, who can easily be scared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion items.Regardless of such practical uses for heels, the fact remains that wearing high heels is harmful to one’s physical health. Talk to any podiatrist (足病医生), and you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing women. High heels are known to cause problems such as deformed feet and torn toenails. The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three times higher for a high heel wearer than for a flat shoe wearer. Wearing heels also creates the threat of getting a heel caught in a narrow sidewalk gap and being thrown to the ground possibly breaking a nose, back, or neck. And of course, after wearing heels for a day, any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain as she tries to comfort her aching feet.28. Women don’t take the disadvantages of high heels too seriously because of _______.A. their attempt to show off their status B. the rich variety of high heel stylesC. their wish to improve their appearance D. the multi-functional use of high heels29. What’s the author’s tone in presenting the positive sides of high heel shoes?A. ironicB. favorable C. sympatheticD. objective30. The writer uses “those babies” (Paragraph 2) to refer to high heels _______.A. to show their fragile characteristic B. to show women’s affection for themC. to emphasize their small size D. to indicate their trendy appearance31. It can be inferred from the passage that women should _______.A. refuse to buy the products of the fashion industry B. go to a podiatrist regularly for advice C. avoid following fashion too closely D. see through the very nature of fashion mythsDCarried by the wind, dust particles (微粒) from places such as the Sahara Desert can float halfway around the world before settling to the ground. As the plastics abandoned by humans break down into tiny pieces in the environment, they, too, travel through the atmosphere. Now scientists are a step closer to understanding how these microplastics travel in the globe both locally and on long-distance flights.Researchers spent more than a year collecting microplastics from 11 national parks and wilderness areas in the western U.S. They examined the particles that settled on dry days and those that fell along with rain or snow. In addition to making clear how microplastics move around, the results, published on Thursday in Science, reveal the seriousness of the problem: more than 1 million kilograms of microplastics the weight of 120 million to 300 million plastic water bottles fall on protected lands in the country’s western region each year.The new findings add to scientists’ concern over microplastic pollution’s potential impacts on the environment and human health. “We’re not supposed to breathe in this material,” says Steve Allen, a microplastics researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who was not involved in the new study. Plastics in the environment “carry all sorts of pesticides (农药), heavy metals and all the other chemicals that we’ve made over time,” he adds. “They’re going to carry them directly into our lungs.”Since their discovery in oceans in the 1970s, microplastics which can be as large as a grain of rice or smaller than a particle of dust have been found nearly everywhere researchers have looked: in cities, in Arctic snow, on remote mountaintops. Their presence in areas distant from the place where human live has pointed to them being carried by winds.What do the scientists further understand now?A. Why Sahara Desert is expanding to the south of Africa.B. How plastic particles travel on the wind.C. Why it is hard for plastics to break down.D. How dust particles are spreading through the wind.33. What do we know about the new study?A. The results showed the amount of microplastics is huge.B. Researchers collected microplastics across the U.S.C. Researchers focused on plastic particles in dry days.D. Numerous plastic water bottles were found each year.34. What does Steve Allen say about plastics?A. They should be recycled.B. They do harm to weather.C. They can be used to make all sorts of pesticides.D. They carry harmful chemicals to human lungs.35. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Dust Particles Is Harmful to Our LungsB. The Environment Is Threatened by PlasticsC. Microplastics Are Falling from the SkyD. Microplastics Do Harm to Health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。Teenagers are spending more money than ever. Just last year, 31.6 million teens spent 155 billion, according to the North-brook, Illinois-based market research group Teenage Research Unlimited. 36 Shocked at how much money kids spend? Maybe you haven’t checked the price tags lately on some of the younger generation’s must-haves. To some, such luxurious spending on the changeable young might seem unbearable. 37 Timothy Marshall, an associate professor of developmental psychology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, analyzed the widespread phenomenon after some research. One factor is surely the sheer power of marketing through mass media. Teenagers are exposed to an estimated 3,000 advertisements each day. Combine the ads with programming itself, like the fashion-, music- and skin-filled shows on MTV, and you’ve got a large number of messages telling kids what they should own if they want to fit in.Many working parents probably compensate by spending money on their kids. 38 But also, spending money is often more convenient in our fast-paced society than going to baseball games or other activities.For many families, of course, keeping up with their children’s costly demands for designer clothing, CDs, and concert tickets is a financial impossibility. Marshall says, even for those families who can afford such luxurious spending, striking a compromise between spoiling the kids and denying them is tricky, but possible.Why do some parents give in?How did they persuade parents to pay? Teaching kids how to budget and save is key.Kids shouldn’t always take money for granted. Much of that money, of course, comes from parents.We need to step up and tell kids where the boundaries are.There is probably some guilt involved in not spending enough time at home. 39 Instead of just giving children the toys or clothing they desire, give them an allowance and show them how they can save up for whatever they want. And don’t be afraid to just say no. Most of the parents are working nine-to-five or even working overtime to make ends meet. Therefore, shoulder the responsibility of instructing the kids to tell right from wrong, and developing healthy habits of spending money is of great importance. 40 第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节 （共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。The last attempt of Ken Campbell to run could trace back to high school. When his wife, Susan, injured her foot, she needed 41 to rejoin her running group, so Campbell went along to keep her company in the 42 . “We were just walking at the beginning,” he says, “I was heavy, and weighed over 90kg.” But as the weeks and months passed, the weight fell away, Susan recovered and Campbell’s 43 grew. At the age of 63, he ran 50km, and at 70, he 44 a 100km ultramarathon.So how does someone with no 45 experience of running become an ultradistance runner in his 60s and 70s? Susan had run marathons before her 46 , but for Campbell, the turning point came when Susan’s Fleet Feet running group started the trails in the Sierra Nevada foothills near their home.Campbell went out to visit Susan’s group, and “the trails were a terrible 47 . It had been raining, and I was slipping, sliding and 48 . But I thought, well, I like this a lot.” What he liked above all was the feeling of “being wrapped by the trail, being 49 by the closeness of the vegetation (植被) and the nearness of the river”. Running the 100km ultramarathon took Campbell 16 hours. When Campbell 50 the finish line at 3 am, Susan handed him a 100km sticker to 51 on the back of his truck. He already had a 50km one on there. “It is a public 52 that you are part of this community,” he says. “Wherever we park, I see a line of vehicles with their various stickers and I feel that we are a tribe (部落).”Campbell suffered from arthritis (关节炎) before he started running, and was “a(n) 53 for knee replacement”, but for now, he no longer needs a surgery. It can 54 the running but the “sense of well-being and accomplishment will carry me on forever”, he says, “If I can’t run, I will 55 .”41. A. arrangementB. operationC. confidenceD. support42. A. progressB. treatmentC. recoveryD. diagnosis43. A. talentB. abilitiesC. experiencesD. health44. A. completedB. managedC. wonD. joined45. A. preciousB. previousC. specialD. sufficient46. A. graduationB. growthC. injuryD. attendance47. A. practiceB. atmosphereC. dreamD. mess48. A. sighingB. fallingC. complainingD. moving49. A. appreciatedB. appealedC. embracedD. buried50. A. approachedB. accomplishedC. dividedD. crossed51. A. remainB. advertiseC. locateD. display52. A. statementB. reminderC. truthD. expectation53. A. targetB. alternativeC. candidateD. survivor54. A. put an end toB. get involved inC. keep an eye onD. take advantage of55. A. dieB. walkC. stopD. cry第二节 （共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Machines work well at a constant speed and the faster the better. Whether they are spinning cotton 56 dealing with numbers, regular, repetitive actions are what they excel at.Increasingly, our world is being designed by machines and for machines. We adapt to machines and hold ourselves to their standards: People 57 (judge) by the speed at which they respond, not the quality of their response. “Always on” becomes something to take pride 58 . When I ask people 59 they are doing, they almost always answer “busy”. Ticking things off the “to do” list becomes 60 means of defining ourselves. 61 (occupy) if not with work then with family or our social networks, most of us feel exhausted. A few years ago, I became very interested in what it meant 62 (pause). I started to notice where pauses show up in my own work and life. For example, I realized when I was writing, a short walk was a(n) 63 (effective) way to focus than concentrating harder. The small walk acted as a pause, 64 (enable) me to rest, reflect or refresh, appreciate and break a block in my 65 (creative). I realized that pause is not nothing!A minute eating ice-cream is not the same as a minute doing push-ups. Even time itself isn’t a uniform raw material as the physics of Einstein shows. 写作（共两节，满分40分） (满分15分)假定你是某国际学校的学生会主席李华。随着手机越来越智能，学生们所受的影响也越来越大。请你围绕“合理使用手机”这个主题，根据下面的提示，用英语给你校学生写一封倡议书。内容包括：智能手机给学生带来的不良影响；学生应如何减少智能手机的影响；发出倡议。注意：1. 词数不少于80； 内容充实，行文连贯；3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。Dear fellow students,________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Li Hua第二节（满分25分）阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。The boy sat on his chair, with his hand above the keyboard. He thought about what to write. He recalled that the competition deadline was merely a week away. But he still had not even started on his piece. He looked at the brochure again. “WRITING COMPETITION!” the title read. His mom had encouraged him to enter the writing competition, and now he was taking it on as his personal task for the holidays. As the boy reflected on his previous writing efforts, he realized how hopeless his task of winning was. Every story he ever wrote was based on other stories. He had little imagination, and unfortunately, imagination was the key to writing. Suddenly, he had a brainwave. This time, he came up with an original and imaginative story. The words shot towards him like a storm of leaves. Words were coming easily, flowing through him, faster than he could type. He typed faster than he ever had before. He continued to type, amazed at how easy writing this story was. The boy could not stop writing. He looked at the word count and saw the number “248” staring right back at him. He was not even halfway yet. Then he heard the call of his mother saying time for bed. He continued writing the piece, ignoring her. He had to make up for the time he had lost thinking about a topic to write. Finally, he finished. The word count now read “498”. “Perfect,” he thought, “just under the word limit.” He knew this was the story that would win.He went onto Google and searched for the competition. He found the page but there was no “Enter” button. Confused, he then re-read the page again. It read COMPETITION CLOSED.注意：1. 续写词数应为 150 左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡相应位置作答。Paragraph 1: After a few seconds, the boy eagerly checked the deadline of the COMPETITION on the website. ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Paragraph 2: His mother came up and comforted him. _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________