貴州省重點中學(xué)2023學(xué)年高三下學(xué)期聯(lián)合考試英語試題（含解析）

1、2023學(xué)年高考英語模擬測試卷注意事項1考生要認真填寫考場號和座位序號。2試題所有答案必須填涂或書寫在答題卡上，在試卷上作答無效。第一部分必須用2B 鉛筆作答；第二部分必須用黑色字跡的簽字筆作答。3考試結(jié)束后，考生須將試卷和答題卡放在桌面上，待監(jiān)考員收回。第一部分 （共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分）1I have been considering cancelling the project because it seems hard to go farther.But its too early to_ now. Theres still much hope.Apick up the

2、 piecesBthrow in the towelCgo through your pacesDjump down your throat2 “Could we put off the meeting？” she asked.“_.” He answered politely. “This is the only day everyone is available.”ANot likelyBNot exactlyCNot nearlyDNot really3Jim told us all that _ he said so at the meeting was right.AallBwhat

3、Call thatDthat4When _ leave for Japan?When _ leave for Japan is kept secret.”Athey will, will theyBwill they, they willCthey will, they willDwill they, will they5I need help now! I have to fix a leaking pipe in my bathroom but Im not sure _to begin.Awhat BwhichCwhere Dwhen6The bus would not have run

4、 into the river _ for the bad tempered lady.Aif it were notBhad it not beenCif it would not beDshould it not be7Ted has never been so rude!He _something he shouldnt have, but I guess he didnt mean that.Ahas saidBhad saidCsaidDwas saying8Id never wondered before whether or not he was kid-friendly. Wi

5、th one glance, I quickly that he probably wasnt.AagreedBreportedCexplainedDdecided9Mark has lived in China for many years, yet he still cant _ himself to the Chinese customs.AobserveBadaptCleadDdevote10There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds _ they are not objectively true,

6、and that giants, witches, two-headed dragons etc do not exist.AthatBwhatCwhichDwhen11- I have been working for more than 30 years! Im going to retire next month.- Really? You dont look a day 40!Aover BbyCwith Dfor12If we use the new recycling method, a large number of trees .Aare savedBwill saveCwil

7、l be savedDhave saved13_ clear goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily doings until we become slaves of them.AOn top of BIn the silence ofCOn account of DIn the absence of14It is widely acknowledged that students should be _ in terms of overall quality.AsupportedBmatchedCevaluatedDcontr

8、olled15Kate was very sad over loss of the photos she had shot in China, _this was a memory she especially treasured.Aif BwhenCas Dwhich16Im sorry for breaking the cup.Oh, _. Ive got plenty.Ahelp yourselfBforget itCmy pleasureDpardon me17A public health campaign _ the number of heart disease deaths b

9、y 80 percent over the past three decadesAhad reducedBhad been reducedChas reducedDhas been reduced18 Hey! Everyone in the office was at the dinner party in honor of Mr. Charles except you. What happened? I _ after Mike, my colleague. He was badly ill.Ahave looked Bwas looking Cwould look Dhad looked

10、19I felt it very difficult to carry on the work all by myself. I could have helped you, but you _me to.Ahadnt askedBdidnt askChavent askedDdont ask20When she was in trouble, I did what I could to help her_ my help, she wrote me a letter of thanksAIn honor ofBIn case ofCIn terms ofDIn return for第二部分

11、閱讀理解（滿分40分）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。21（6分）It warmed my heart today to walk into the Thirsty Camel downtown in the Thanksgiving Day, for a quick lunch before a haircut and library trip. Ihan, a food shop owner, said that he was refusing to take money today because it was Buy Nothing Day. To i

12、ncrease awareness(意識) of the strange over spending nature of our society, Ilan suggested a trade for food today. He simply asked that you offer something of equal personal value for the meal you received.At first I was really uncomfortable, wondering if it would be fair to exchange a yet to be deter

13、mined “I Owe You” (IOU) for food? What could I give him of equal value? After all, his food is the best in the town!We ended up writing our IOUs with promises of a book, some paintings and the offer of work in a variety of ways if he needs it.I think the idea isnt that the trade is equal so much as

14、the importance of the kind of transaction. We put thought into our offer and we had an even greater understanding for the meals we ate.We dont buy a lot, especially at this upcoming time of year. We dont give gifts at all in fact. The holiday time is spent enjoying each others company and doing thin

15、gs together with family and friends. This is what seems most sensible.Ilan is a good person. We are all lucky to have someone like this in our community.1、Ilan did not take any money that day in order to_.Ahave a quick lunch before a haircut and library tripBbuy nothing that day to save some moneyCm

16、ake people aware of their over spendingDtrade for something of equal value in return2、For the meal, the author finally offered Ilan _.Asome promises Ba bookCsome paintings Dwork in different ways3、Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “transaction”?Atransport BtradeCmea

17、l Dgiving4、What is the authors attitude to Buy Nothing Day?ADisagreeable BMeaningless.CSupportive. DDoubtful.22（8分） Listen carefully to the footsteps in the family home, especially if it has wooden floors, and you can probably work out who it is that is walking about. The features most commonly used

18、 to identify people are faces, voices, finger prints and retinal scans. But their “behavioural biometrics”, such as the way they walk, are also giveaways.Researchers have, for several years, used video cameras and computers to analyse peoples gaits, and are now quite good at it. But translating such

19、 knowledge into a practical identification system can be tricky-especially if that system is supposed to be hidden. Cameras are often visible, are hard to set up, requi5re good lighting and may have their view blocked by other people. So a team led by Krikor Ozanyan of the University of Manchester,

20、in England and Patricia Scully of the National University of Ireland, in Galway have been looking for a better way to recognize gait. Their answer: pressure-sensitive mats.In themselves, such mats are nothing new. They have been part of security systems for donkeys years. But Dr. Ozanyan And Dr. Scu

21、lly use a complex version that can record the amount of pressure applied in different places as someone walks across it. These measurements form a pattern unique to the walker. Dr. Ozanyan and Dr. Scully therefore turned, as is now common for anything to do with pattern recognition, to an Artificial

22、 Intelligence system that uses machine learning to recognize such patterns.It seems to work. In a study published earlier this year the two researchers tested their system on a database of footsteps trodden by 127 different people. They found that its error rate in identifying who was who was a mere

23、 0.7%. And Dr. Scully says that even without a database of footsteps to work with the system can determine someones sex-women and men, with wide and narrow pelvises(骨盆) respectively, walk in different ways,- and guess, with reasonable accuracy, a subjects age.A mat-based gait-recognition system has

24、the advantage that it would work in any lighting conditions-even pitch-darkness. And though it might fail to identify someone if, say, she was wearing stilettos and had been entered into the database while wearing trainers, it would be very hard to fool it by imitating the gait of an individual who

25、was allowed admission to a particular place.The latest phase of Dr. Ozanyans and Dr. Scullys project is a redesign of the mat. The old mats contained individual pressure sensors. The new ones contain optical fibres(光纖). Light-emitting diodes(二極管) distributed along two neighbouring edges of a mat tra

26、nsmit light into the fibres. Sensors on the opposite edges( and thus the opposite ends of the optical fibres) measure how much of that light is received. Any pressure applied to part of the mat causes a distortion(變形) in the fibres and a consequent change in the amount of light transmitted. Both the

27、 location and amount of change can be plotted and analyzed by the machine-learning system.Dr. Ozanyan says that the team have built a demonstration fibre-optic mat, two meters long and a metre wide, using materials that cost 100($130). They are now talking to companies about commercializing it. One

28、application might be in health care, particularly for the elderly. A fibre-optic mat installed in a nursing home or an old persons own residence could monitor changes in an individuals gait that warn certain illnesses. That would provide early warning of someone being at greater risk of falling over

29、, say, or of their cognition becoming damaged.Gait analysis might also be used ass a security measure in the workplace, monitoring access to restricted areas, such as parts of military bases, server farms or laboratories dealing with harmful materials. In these cases, employees would need to agree t

30、o their gaits being scanned, just as they would agree to the scanning of their faces or retinas for optical security systems.Perhaps the most fascinating use of gait-recognition mats, though, would be in public places, such as airports. For that to work, the footsteps of those to be recognized would

31、 need to have been stored in a database, which would be harder to arrange than the collection of mugshots and fingerprints that existing airport security systems rely on. Some people, however, might volunteer for it. Many aircrew or pre-registered frequent flyers would welcome anything that speeded

32、up one of the most tiresome parts of modern travel.1、Camera-based gait recognition fails to come into wide use, because _.a. its not easy to find the camerasb. finger print recognition is still popularc. sometimes the cameras can be coveredd. its a waste of money to fix the equipmente. good lighting

33、 conditions cant be guaranteedf. its difficult to set up the system.AacfBbdeCcdfDcef2、Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Paragraph 6-8?AThe new mats function greatly with individual pressure sensors built in.BThe new mats will be likely to work better with enough pressure.CThe el

34、derly are cured of their diseases with the monitor of the fibre-optic.DRestricted areas are accessible to those with their gaits scanned beforehand.3、What does “it” refer to in Paragraph 5?AThe mat-based gait-recognition systemBThe gait stored in the databaseCThe advantage of working in any light co

35、ndition.DThe admission to a particular place.4、Whats the best title of the passage?AListen to your footstepsBApplaud pattern recognitionCLove the way you walkDBetter the mats you step on23（8分） It was rainy, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyns house. But

36、she had insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain.So here I was, reluctantly making the two-hour journey through fog that hung like veils. By the time I saw how thick it was near the summit, Id gone too far to turn back.Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I inched along

37、the dangerous highway.“Ill stay for lunch, but I m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts,” I announced when I arrived.“But I need you to drive me to the garage to pick up my car,” Carolyn said, “Could we at least do that?”“How far is it?” I asked.“About three minutes,” she said, “Ill driveIm us

38、ed to it.”After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her anxiously. “I thought you said three minutes.”She grinned. “This is a detour.”Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out. We walked along a path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens towered

39、 over us. Gradually, the peace and silence of the place began to fill my mind.Then we turned a comer and stoppedand I gasped in amazement.From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across the mountain side and valleys, were rivers of flowers in numerous colors. It looked as though the s

40、un had tipped over and spilled gold down the mountainside.A series of questions filled my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How?As we approached the home that stood in the center of the property, we saw a sign that read: “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.”The first answer was: “One W

41、omanTwo Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second was: “One at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen. I could scarcely speak. “She changed the world.” I finally said, “one bulb (球莖) at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably ju

42、st the beginning of an idea, but she kept at it.”The wonder of it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if Id had a vision and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have accomplished?”Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “Better yet, start today.”1

43、、What was the weather like when the author drove to visit her daughter?AIt was snowing.BIt was foggy.CIt was freezing.DIt was sunny.2、What can be inferred about the daughter?AShe told a white lie to her mother.BShe was an experienced driver.CShe didnt know the way very well.DShe knew everything abou

44、t the woman.3、The mother began to enjoy herself when _.Athey were driving in the carBthey were at the garageCthey were on their way backDthey were walking in the woods4、Which of the following can best describe the owner of the property?ACrazy and silly.BDetermined and persistent.CBrave and careful.D

45、Beautiful and courageous.5、What do you think the mother will do after this visit?AShe will look after her grandchildren.BShe will pay a second visit to the garden.CShe will begin to do something meaningful.DShe will come and live with her daughter.24（8分） Picture an iceberg(冰山).Youll probably imagine

46、 something white as snow rising up out of a blue sea. But icebergs can be all sorts of shades. They can be from a frosty blue to an attractive green.Researchers and sailors have observed emerald(翠綠色)icebergs for years. A large piece of ice mast-high and green as emerald even appears in Samuel Taylor

47、 Coleridges 1834 poem. But they havent found out exactly why these icebergs look the way they do.A new paper led by Stephen Warren was published. It all has to do with what icebergs are made out of. Icebergs break off glaciers(冰川)or ice shelves, which happens mainly around Antarctica and Greenland.

48、They begin their lives as snowfall that accumulates over time. So. icebergs contain air pockets with the form of bubbles that spread light. With some exceptions and rare lines, glacier ice tends to look bluish white.At first，Warren guessed that the green was a product of melt carbon. And it came fro

49、m rotting plants or sea animals. But samples(樣本)didnt prove it. Another idea started to take shape after they had found a high concentration of iron in a sample of sea ice from the Amery Ice Shelf.When glaciers rub across land, they produce whats known as glacier flour. It is a product of bedrock be

50、ing ground clown by the moving mass. As glaciers move away, these remains are usually washed out into water. in particles sometimes too small to be noticeable to your eyes. But on land. soil and rocks contain iron oxides that often have rosy colors. like reds, yellows, and browns-and since the sea i

51、ce contained 500 times more iron than the glacier ice, Warren wondered whether the remains were responsible for icebergs taking on a green appearance.He doesnt know for sure. Hes hoping to secure money so that he can return to the area and study the icebergs themselves.1、Why is Samuel Taylor Colerid

52、ges poem mentioned in the text?AIt tells why icebergs look the way they do.BIt describes vividly what icebergs are like.CIt says causes of the appearance of icebergs.DIt proves the existence of colorful icebergs.2、What can we know about Stephen Warrens paper?AIt draws on researchers and sailors view

53、s.BIt is the record of the movement of icebergs.CIt talks about how icebergs come into being.DIt is a collection of various social phenomena.3、What does the underlined word it in paragraph 4 refer to?AA sample of sea ice.BWarrens first guess.CWarrens idea on iron.DA product of melt carbon.4、What is

54、paragraph 5 mainly about?AThe possible reason why icebergs look green.BWhere most of icebergs eventually disappear.CHow icebergs take in the colors from glaciers.DThe way in which icebergs breaks off glaciers.25（10分）A company has designed a water bottle, the Memobottle, which is ideal for the office

55、 workers bag, because its completely flat. With the same shape as a piece of paper, the Memobottle is a reusable water bottle that slides into your bag to lie next to books and laptops. The bottle, which can also be washed in a dishwasher, is designed to help reduce the number of plastic bottles in

56、landfills（填埋）.Two creative people Jesse Leeworthy and Jonathan Byrt, both 28,designed the bottle to be convenient to carry and environmentally friendly. It is made from a durable and dishwasher-friendly“green” plastic.Leeworthy and Byrt,from Australia, say more than 600 billion single-use bottles we

57、re sold globally last year. In America alone, studies show that around 1,500 single-use water bottle are consumed every secondonly 20 percent of these are recycled. And the cost of buying more and more plastic bottles adds to the pair say that bottled water costs approximately 1,400 times more than

58、tap water.“Weve always been passionate about the environment,” said Leeworthy.“For years we have been focused on creative design that provides environmental remedy while improving social convenience. The Memobottle was designed to overcome two problems that we see in our society: our attachment to t

59、he outdoors,and our inability to fit water bottles in laptop bags.”The bottle will be available in three different sizes A5 which holds 750 ml,A4 which holds 1.25 litres and letter size which stores 1.25 litres. The product is seeking funding on Kickstarter and has already soared（飆升）past its primary

60、 goal of raising 8,310 ($13,500),reaching it in just 36 hours. Jonathan Byrt said, “The feedback weve received has been overwhelmingly positive! The emails of support and interest, and social media comments have been amazing!”The product is expected to be on the market by Christmas and will be avail