高三年级英语试卷
2023.12
出卷老师 审卷老师 考试时间 120 分钟
本试卷共四大题 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）
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 will Matthew do on the weekend?
A. Attend an exhibition. B. Enter a contest. C. Visit China.
2. Where do the speakers want to go?
A. To a supermarket. B. To a bank. C. To a restaurant.
3. When will the man see the film?
A. At 1:30 p.m. B. At3:30 p.m. C. At 5:30 p.m.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A noisy night. B. A place of living. C. Their sleeping habits.
5. Why did the man call the woman last night?
A. To give her fruits. B. To invite her to a party. C. To ask for her cousin's number.
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. How does the man feel about the woman's suggestion?
A. A bit disappointed. B. Very satisfied. C. Greatly surprised.
7. What will the speakers do on Friday evening?
A. Go shopping. B. Eat out. C. Pick up their children.
听第7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。
8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a hotel. B. On a plane. C. On a lake.
9. Why will the man go to Chicago?
A. To attend a meeting. B. To visit his sister. C. To start university.
听第8 段材料，回答第 10至12 题。
10. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. School friends. B. Teacher and student. C. Librarian and library user.
11. What does Michael say about the book?
A. It's sold at a discount price.
B. It's important for Maria's study.
C. It's written by Professor Hughes.
12. What will Michael do for Maria?
A. Share his book with her. B. Lend her some money. C. Ask Noah for help.
听第9 段材料，回答第 13至16 题。
13. Why does the man meet the woman?
A. To look at an apartment. B. To have a meal together. C. To deliver some furniture.
14. What does the man like about the carpet?
A. Its quality. B. Its size. C. Its color.
15. What does the man think of the kitchen?
A. It's well-designed. B. It's well-equipped. C. It's well-painted.
16. What will the man probably do next?
A. Take a bus. B. Make a payment. C. Talk with his wife.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17至 20 题。
17. Why does the speaker organize the activity?
A. To prepare for Children's Day.
B. To celebrate the end of the school year.
C. To welcome children in the neighborhood.
18. What is the activity for children about?
A. Looking for the hidden gifts.
B. Hiding around the center.
C. Having a group discussion.
19. What are the children required to do before going out?
A. Find the flags. B. Write their names down. C. Stay together with their parents.
20. Who will go to the other side of the center?
A. The preschool children. B. The third-grade children. C. The fourth-grade children.
第二部分 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）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Ben Miller is a British actor, as well as a productive writer for children. Here, he shares his favorite books.
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
I loved reading when I was little. My parents were both English teachers, and our home was full of books.
Dickens was a family favorite. But the book that really fired my imagination was King Arthur and His Knights of
the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green.
Buy King Arthur and His Knight of the Round Table here
Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
I’m a fool for a classic, and I’m so glad I finally managed to finish Diary of a Nobody by George and
Weedon Grossmith. Put simply, its the funniest book I’ve ever read, with text by George and illustrations by
Weedon.
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Exhalation by Ted Chiang
It’s never too late to have your life changed by a book, and it happened to me again recently when I read Ted
Chiang’s collection Exhalation. Story of Your Life, one of the best in it, inspired the sci-fi alien visitation classic
Arrival. I love that too, but each and every piece in Exhalation is its match in imagination.
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Ben Miller’s new book The Night We Got Stuck in a Story is available now.
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21. Who wrote the book Ben Miller considers the most amusing?
A. Dickens. B. Roger Lancelyn Green.
C. Ted Chiang. D. George and Weedon Grossmith.
22. Which category does the book Exhalation most likely fall in?
A. Fairy tale. B. Science fiction. C. Poetry. D. Comics.
23. What’s the main purpose of the text?
A. To recommend a famous actor. B. To attract new subscriptions.
C. To advertise some books. D. To share Miller’s reading habits.
B
I was a graduate student in Manhattan having breakfast on my rooftop on Sept. 11, 2001, when I witnessed
planes hit the Twin Towers. For months afterwards, I shook with anxiety every morning. Unwilling to medicate, I
tried everything else. Mindfulness meditation (冥想) caused panic attacks. Hot yoga built muscle but did nothing
for my anxiety. I went to talks by Buddhist monks and meditation teachers hoping to attain inner peace, but in
vain. Finally, I attended a SKY Breath Meditation class, which involves a 20-minute breathing regimen (养生之
道) in different postures and rhythms. Though I went in skeptical, I came out calm. Two decades later, I never
missed a day of my breathing practice, not even when I gave birth.
I've also devoted part of my research career to studying the benefits of breathing for mental health and
well-being. Seven years after 9/11, I was working with veterans returning from war with post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD). Traditional treatments had failed many of them, so my colleagues and I ran a randomized
controlled trial to test the effects of SKY breathing. Compared with the control group, veterans practicing SKY
every day for one week saw their anxiety drop to levels typical of the general population. Even though most did
not continue to practice, they maintained the benefits a year later.
Emotions influence your breathing patterns, and changing your breathing can change your emotions. For
example, anxiety and anger correspond to an irregular, short, fast breath. Adopting the slower and more regular
breathing pattern that corresponds to a calm feeling signals relaxation by activating the vagus nerve (交感神经)，
slowing heart rate, easing blood pressure, and settling you down. A simple exercise you can try is to close your
eyes and breathe out for twice as long as you breathe in. Do this for five minutes in the morning, before a stressful
meeting or as you transit from work to home.
24. Why did the author attend the SKY Breath Meditation class?
A. To relieve inner anxiety. B. To build up muscles.
C. To learn more about meditation. D. To quest for religious belief.
25. How did the author test the effects of SKY breathing?
A. She worked with healthy veterans returning from war.
B. She chose victims suffering PTSD in the 9/11 incident.
C. She cooperated with researchers from mindfulness meditation classes.
D. She divided the veterans into two groups and compared results.
26. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. It is harmful to activate the vagus nerve.
B. Breathing interacts with emotions.
C. Breathing out as long as you breathe in is a simple way to follow.
D. Breathing regimen should be carried out for five minutes every morning.
27. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. PTSD: more awareness needed B. SKY: better well-being attained
C. Meditation: an effective treatment D. Breath: detailed ways to conduct
C
The commonly held belief that it takes 21 days to form a new habit can be traced back to a 1960 book by
plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz called Psycho-Cybernetics. In his work treating patients who had gone through
facial recognition surgery, Maltz noticed that it typically took around three weeks for them to adjust to seeing
their new faces in the mirror. He also found that individuals who had lost a limb still sensed “phantom”(幻觉的)
pains in the missing arm or leg for about 21 days.
Based on these perceptions(认知) of recovery time after significant physical changes, Maltz theorized in his
book that it likely takes a minimum of 21 days for the neurological pathways in our brains associated with old
behaviors and habits to go away, and for new mental images and routines to take firm root. This idea of a
standardized 21-day formation period for habits soon became widely accepted.
However, Maltz was drawing casual inferences rather than conducting strict scientific research. It was not
until 2010 that health psychologist Phillipa Lally at University College London decided to properly study habit
formation timelines. She designed a year-long experiment that tracked 96 participants as they each established a
single new habit of their choosing. Every day, subjects reported on whether they successfully performed their
intended behavior that day as well as how automatic the action felt.
Lally’s findings revealed that on average, it took 66 days before a habit became a normal part of a routine
and felt automatic. But results varied widely, with habits forming anywhere from 18 days up to 254 days between
individuals. Perseverance was the key factor in successfully making a behavior habitual, with sometimes missing
days not stopping overall progress.
This landmark study disproved the assumed 21-day standard and showcased that a wide range of timelines
are normal. Ultimately, being committed to consistently practising a new behavior for months, not weeks, is what
allows real habit change and improvement to occur naturally in the brain. Understanding habit formation as a
gradual, individualized process helps people develop positive routines without unrealistic expectations.
28. What is Maltz’s assumption based on?
A. An intensive survey. B. Psychological work.
C. His personal observation. D. The strict scientific research.
29. Why did Lally’s team conduct the research?
A. To prove Maltz’s theory on habit formation.
B. To identify timelines for establishing new habits.
C. To explore the factors in impacting habit formation.
D. To present advantages of developing good behavior.
30. What do we know about Lally’s findings?
A. There are large individual differences in forming habits.
B. Most participants took 66 days to make a behavior habitual.
C. It is harder to form a new habit that to persist in an old one.
D. Occasional stops have a big effect on the progress of habit formation,
31. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To introduce ways to establish a new habit.
B. To compare different studies of habit formation
C. To correct a misconception about habit formation
D. To involves readers in a 21-day habit formation activity
D
Given how valuable intelligence and automation are, we will continue to improve our technology if we are at
all able to. At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are. Once we have machines that
are smarter than we are, they will begin to improve themselves. The concern is really that we will build machines
that are much more competent than we are. And the slightest divergence (分歧) between their goals and our own
could destroy us.
Just think about how we relate to ants. We don’t hate them. We don’t go out of our way to harm them. In
fact, sometimes we take pains not to harm them. We step over them on the sidewalk. But whenever their presence
seriously conflicts with one of our goals, we will kill them without hesitation. The concern is that we will one day
build machines that, whether they’re conscious or not, could treat us with similar disregard.
The bare fact is that we will continue to improve our intelligent machines. We have problems that we
desperately need to solve. So we will do this, if we can. The train is already out of the station, and there’s no brake
to pull. If we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely develop in ways that we
can’t imagine, and transcend us in ways that we can’t imagine.
So imagine we hit upon a design of super intelligent AI that has no safety concerns. This machine would be
the perfect labor-saving device. It can design the machine that can build the machine which can do any physical
work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. So we’re talking about the end of human
labour. We’re also talking about the end of most intellectual work. So what would apes like ourselves do in these
circumstances?
But the moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, we have to admit that we
are in the process of building some sort of god. Now would be a good time to make sure it’s a god we can live
with.
32. Why does the author mention ants in Paragraph 2?
A. To stress the presence of machines does conflict with our goals.
B. To show improved machines will escape from us.
C. To indicate future intelligent machines could treat us without mercy
D. To compare intelligent machines to ants.
33. What does the underlines word “transcend” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Disable. B. Inspire. C. Disappoint. D. Outpace.
34. How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By showing evidence. B. By giving assumptions.
C. By making comparisons. D. By analyzing statistics.
35. Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s viewpoint towards AI?
A. Human beings will no doubt be destroyed by AI in the future.
B. Super intelligent AI will put an end to human labour eventually.
C. We should keep the development of AI within human’s control.
D. Human beings should stop the development of super intelligent AI.
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。
Why you’re more creative in coffee shops
Some of the most successful people in history have done their best work in coffee shops.
_____36_____. Among them are Pablo Picasso, JK Rowling, Simone de Beauvoir and Bob Dylan.
A sweet spot of noise and crowds
Some of us stick in our earphones as soon as we sit down to work in a public setting. But scientists have
known for years that background noise can benefit our creative thinking. A study showed that a modest level of
surrounding noise in a place like a cafe can actually promote your creative output.____37_____. Therefore, this
can lead to more creative idea generation.
Air of informality
The typical coffee-shop users might be a lone worker struggling with a creative effort. However, experts say
these cafe settings can also benefit work groups who are brainstorming. There is a formal air when gathering on
digital meeting platforms. ____38_____. All those audio and visual stimuli (刺激) help groups, too, compared to
the meeting in a formal meeting room.
_____39_____
One thing that can make working from home or the office feel boring is the visual environment. Often we sit
in the same chair and look at the same four walls all day long. In the coffee shops, people come and go. The
daylight changes. _ 40____. While we tend not to take conscious of these micro-stimuli, and don’t deliberately
choose to work in this location because of them, these activities around us prod our brains to work a bit differently
than at home.
A. Visual variety
B. The birthplace of countless great works
C. The pleasant smells of coffee and food vary
D. Not all kinds of noisy surroundings are bad for your creativity
E. By contrast, there is an informal atmosphere when meeting up at a bar or cafe
F. Whatever their careers, they have tapped into their creativity working at a table in a cafe
G. Because if you are slightly distracted from the task at hand, it raises your abstract thinking ability
第三部分 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，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Like most people, I have to work for a living. We have a bank loan, and other 41 we have to pay. But
I certainly don’t have a 9-5 42 . I decided long ago that I could not 43 fixed working hours for a big
company and I certainly wasn’t suitable to 44 in an office day in and day out. I work 45 as a writer,
garden designer, and sustainability consultant. Many days, I work long hours, but I have a lot of 46 and
control over everything. I have found my 47 — what I really want to do.
But I fully appreciate that most people are not in such a 48 position and some of them have no choice
but to 49 the work they do not like. Therefore, many people feel 50 in their jobs even when they
are not really stuck at all. Finding sustainable solutions and a better quality of life means 51 long and hard
about what you really want to do, and how you can 52 that goal.
Working for yourself is beneficial on 53 levels: you save time, you save money, and you can
potentially 54 your carbon footprint. Consider this: Management consultancy firm WSP found working
from 55 can help reduce your carbon footprint in the summer months.
41．A．wages B．rents C．bills D．fines
42．A．habit B．job C．workout D．trip
43．A．arrange B．resist C．avoid D．bear
44．A．arrive B．compete C．sit D．communicate
45．A．dully B．occasionally C．cooperatively D．independently
46．A．judgement B．flexibility C．burden D．doubt
47．A．routine B．style C．pressure D．passion
48．A．fortunate B．promising C．profitable D．permanent
49．A．submit to B．leave out C．make for D．depart from
50．A．interested B．relaxed C．engaged D．trapped
51．A．complaining B．thinking C．worrying D．arguing
52．A．attain B．ignore C．discover D．switch
53．A．special B．multiple C．high D．spiritual
54．A．decrease B．record C．calculate D．increase
55．A．nothing B．reality C．home D．office
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。
Peking opera is one of the five major traditional operas in China. Its vocal tones are mainly composed
___56___ Xipi and Erhuang, to the music played by such instruments as huqin and drum. Peking opera is the
___57___ (dominate) form of Chinese opera, combining music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics.
It grew out of Huiju opera, a folk opera ___58___ (origin) popular in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River
in the early Qing Dynasty . Due to the strong mobility of Huiju troupes and frequent ___59___ (expose) to other
types of drama, performers integrated different regional musical systems and tunes.
In 1790, ___60___(celebrate) the 80th birthday of the Qianlong Emperor, the Four Great Anhui Troupes (剧
团 )brought Huiju opera to Beijing , ___61___ performances soon found an audience. ___62___ marked the
beginning of the more than 200 years of history of Peking opera.
Peking opera is a combination of some older operatic forms. From 1840 to 1860, it finally developed into
__63___ mixture of elements of Qinqiang opera, certain strengths of Kunqu opera, ___64___ local tunes of
Beijing. The new form then began to create its own innovations. For example, melodies ____65___ (simplify) and
played with different traditional instruments than those used in earlier forms.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假定你是校英语报“读者来信”栏目的主编李华。学生张明写信向你寻求帮助。他对父母充满感激之
情，却又不知如何表达，有点苦恼。请给他回信，内容包括：
1. 表达理解；
2. 提出建议。
注意：1.写作字数应为 80 左右。
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Zhang Ming,
___________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
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。
Catherine was the coolest kid in her class. Whenever she went, she was in the spotlight, with a bunch of kids