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万州二中 2023 年高 2023 届 1 月质量检测
英语试题
满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
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满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案
转涂到答题卡上。
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15. B. £9.18. C. £9.15.
答案是C。
1．Where was the man last night?
A．In the library. B．At the concert. C．At home.
2．What’s wrong with the woman’s sun cream?
A．It is outdated. B．It seems useless. C．It feels different.
3．A．At Susan Baker’s. B．At the computer company. C．In his own office.
4．Who is the boy probably talking to?
A．His boss. B．His fitness coach. C．His teacher.
5．What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A．Where the map is. B．When to work. C．How to find their way.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6．What is the woman most worried about?
A．Her house keys. B．Her documents. C．Her camera.
7．What date is it today?
A．May the 12th. B．May the 13th. C．May the 14th.
8．Where did the woman leave her suitcase?
A．On a train. B．In a taxi. C．On a bus.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
9．What color is the woman’s dress?
A．White. B．Cream. C．Silver and gold.
10．How many people will be present at the ceremony?
A．100. B．200. C．300.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司11．What will the woman provide?
A．Drinks. B．Balloons. C．Chair covers.
12．What are the speakers talking about?
A．A birthday party. B．A wedding ceremony. C．A funeral.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13．Why does the woman call?
A．To book a table. B．To reschedule an interview. C．To apply for a part-time
job.
14．What will the woman do at 2:30 this afternoon?
A．Attend a class. B．Meet the manager. C．Work in a restaurant.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
15．Where does the man most probably work?
A．At an airport. B．At a hotel. C．At a travel agency.
16．Which airport is the best choice for the woman?
A．Reagan National. B．Dulles. C．Baltimore-Washington.
17．Why is the woman going to Washington DC?
A．To visit a friend. B．To meet the man. C．To go sightseeing.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
18．What language did the speaker learn from the teacher?
A．French. B．German. C．English.
19．What did the speaker’s coursebook look like?
A．It was very modern. B．It had a red back cover. C．It was full of pictures.
20．How does the speaker feel about having classes?
A．Bored. B．Tired. C．Pleased.
21．What do we know about the speaker?
A．She knew a lot of French.
B．She had some lessons at home.
C．She has a talent for learning languages.
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题：每小题1.5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
The number of weather-related disasters has increased by five times over the past 50 years,
the latest report by the World Meteorological (气象) Organization (WMO) said on September.
However, thanks to improved early warning systems and disaster management, the number of
death from these hazards (危险) has been almost three times less.
According to the WMO, from 1970 to 2019, weather, climate and water hazards accounted
for 50 percent of all disasters. Among the top 10 hazards that led to the largest loss of human life
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司during this period were droughts, storms, floods and extreme temperatures. However, deaths fell
from over 50, 000 in the 1970s to less than 20, 000 in the 2010s.
“Weather, climate and water extremes are increasing and will become more frequent and
severe in many parts of the world as a result of climate change,” says WMO Secretary-General
Petteri Taalas.
“That means more heat waves, drought and forest fires such as those we have observed
recently in Europe and North America. We have more water vapor in the atmosphere, which is
worsening extreme rainfall and deadly flooding. The warming of the oceans has affected the
frequency and area of existence of the most intense tropical storms.”
“Economic losses are increasing as exposure increases. But behind the statistics lies a
message of hope. Improved multi-hazard early warning systems have led to a significant reduction
in deaths. Quite simply, we are better than ever before at saving lives,” Taalas said.
22．What do we know from the first paragraph?
A．Disasters connected with weather have gone up.
B．The number of weather-related disasters has decreased.
C．The number of deaths from hazards has been increasing.
D．Early warning systems have made disasters decline much.
23．What will happen according to Petteri Taalas?
A．There will be more extreme weather.
B．Extreme rainfall will no longer exist.
C．Water vapor in the atmosphere will go down.
D．Humans will defeat extreme weather in the end.
24．What is hopeful behind the bad news?
A．Improved warning systems will save economic losses.
B．Economic losses are going down as exposure increases.
C．More lives will be saved thanks to early warning systems.
D．Improved early warning systems will control extreme weather
25．Where may the text be taken from?
A．A novel. B．A brochure. C．A magazine. D．A guideline.
B
Steve Forest is a scientist. He’s standing on an island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Below him are several hundred penguins and their children. Forrest’s job is to count every one of
them. It's snowing. There is a big wind, too. And their children won’t stay still. Penguins are great
climbers. So Forrest and the team members must be too. And penguins aren't always clean.
Forrest has been coming to Antarctica every January for six years. He's helping count the
area’s penguins. This will help researchers better understand the Antarctic environment. There
used to be lots of penguins in Antarctica, “It's all because of climate change,” Heather J. Lynch
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司says seriously. She is leading the research team. The team member Noah Strycker adds, “We know
climate change is hitting the Antarctic Peninsula harder than anywhere else in the world. We are
following the situation closely.”
Scientists think that warming waters do harm to krill, the tiny animals that penguins eat. This
is bad for the sea life. But krill are hard to study, so researchers pay attention to penguins. They’re
easier to follow. They return to the same place each year to lay eggs. If penguins aren't doing
well , krill probably aren't either. “Penguins give us an idea about what is going on in the sea
around us,” Forrest says.
This year, Lynch’s research team uses a drone to help them. They fly it over an area to take
pictures to count penguins.
Counting penguins is quite necessary. The more we learn, the more we know about krill and
the ocean animals that depend on them. When we understand them, we can start fixing them. We
should consider carefully what Lynch says: “What’s happening in the Antarctic is happening
everywhere.”
26．What is required of scientists like Forrest according to Paragraph 1?
A．Being clean. B．Being good at math.
C．Being cool-headed. D．Being skilled in climbing.
27．What's the point of counting penguins in the Antarctie?
A．To protect this animal species from extinction.
B．To help find out how many krill might be living
C．To have a better knowledge of the Antarctic environment
D．To collect first-hand data for analyzing global warming.
28．What does the underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Scientists. B．Krill. C．Penguins. D．Ocean animals.
29．What can be inferred from the text?
A．Penguins lay eggs in the same place on the island every year.
B．The penguin population is increasing due to climate change.
C．The penguin population determines the krill population.
D．Climate change is most obvious in the Antarctic Peninsula.
C
Curiosity is what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how
does one generate (产生) curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of
psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, offered an answer in the classic1994 paper, “The
Psychology of Curiosity.”
Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one's
knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation (匮乏) labeled curiosity.
The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司deprivation.” Loewenstein's theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: it's not only a
mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.
Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that
we do not devote enough time to developing the question.” Yet it's the question that stimulates (刺
激) curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going.
In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge.
We're not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know
even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that
curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this
process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incomplete
information.
Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap
and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one
student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the student's
partner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with
each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others'
information gaps.
30．When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he .
A．desires to fill it B．tends to be afraid
C．might get tired and sad D．will become focused on his learning
31．What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article?
A．Answers are more important than questions.
B．Teachers should be eager to get to the answer.
C．Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity.
D．Teachers are partly to blame for students’ hating school.
32．According to George Loewenstein’s paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you
.
A．have read a lot of books B．know little about something
C．have some related information D．are given incomplete information
33．What is the article mainly about?
A．Why students hate school. B．Why curiosity is important.
C．How to stimulate curiosity. D．What makes people hungry for knowledge.
D
Alaska’s Yukon River has faced major salmon shortages in recent years. Officials say record-
high temperatures last year killed most salmon in the 3,200-kilometer river before the fish were
able to reproduce. The losses led Alaska to stop their salmon harvests in 2021 to make sure that
enough fish survived to reproduce for another year.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司The poor salmon harvests caused major financial losses to private fishing companies in the
area. The die-offs also hurt native communities, which traditionally store the fish as a year-round
food supply.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce declared a disaster for Yukon River fishing
for 2020 and 2021, making aid money available. Alaska has sent emergency fish shipments to
areas affected by the salmon shortages.
Scientists have mostly blamed the problems on a series of heat waves in the Bering Sea and
North Pacific Ocean from 2014 to 2019. The warm ocean waters affected salmon’s living in the
sea before they returned to lay eggs.
Climate change may also be affecting what the salmon are eating. Fishing experts say young
salmon are likely filling up on nutrient-poor food because warmer waters drive away healthier
organisms (有机物) they normally feed on. “In my opinion, the salmon are starving with climate
change,” said Brooke Woods in the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
The effects of climate change on freshwater environments have also been studied. Vanessa
von Biela is a biologist who looked at the rivers, streams and lakes where salmon live. Her team
found that Chinook salmon show heat stress at temperatures above 18℃. They start dying above
20℃. In 2019, temperatures on the Alaskan side were above 18℃ for 44 straight days, a recent
study found.
The effects of warming waters can be reduced by climate-driven glacier (冰川) runoff, which
brings cooler water into rivers and streams. But scientists still expect salmon to begin slowly
moving to new areas within Alaska. “Salmon will find a way,” said Biela. “but it’s going to be
hard for communities in places where there might not be salmon anymore.”
34．What do the locals rely on salmon for?
A．Food supply. B．Scientific study. C．Green tourism. D．Water
improvement.
35．What did the declaration of the disaster bring about?
A．Financial losses. B．Relief funds. C．Economic growth. D．Fast delivery.
36．Which of the following is the effect of climate change in Yukon River?
A．No healthy organisms are left there. B．Salmon there lose the ability to lay eggs.
C．Salmon there go short of nutritious food. D．The temperature remains above 18℃ till
now.
37．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Measures to protect salmon are effective. B．Salmon will not find a way out of the crisis.
C．The amount of salmon will increase greatly. D．Salmon are likely to leave the river for
survival.
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。
Traveling alone gives you the freedom to create your own schedule and do as you please.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司___38___ For example, a travel partner can provide practical support and celebrate in the rewards
of first-hand experience with unfamiliar locations and cultures. Here are several steps to find a
travel partner who will improve your journey.
___39___ Traveling should be fun. When you are on a trip, you will want to do lots of
activities that you enjoy. Preferably, your companion will want to do the same things as you.
Discuss financial plans. Before you travel, you should plan a budget. ___40___ You don’t
want to be planning an expensive getaway when your friend is looking for budget travel.
Have an honest conversation. If you are thinking about traveling with a companion, take
some time to have an open discussion. Schedule a time to sit down and talk. Try saying, “I know
we’ve talked about the idea of traveling through Europe together. Let’s have a coffee this week
and actually talk that through.” ___41___ You should also talk about your travel style.
Find someone who is flexible. Choose a travel partner who can adjust. ___42___Maybe it
will rain on the day you planned to visit the Grand Canyon. Or you might not be able to get
reservations at that French restaurant you’ve been dying to try.
A．Look for someone with common interests.
B．You should discuss your goals for the trip.
C．Travel with a friend who is pretty easygoing.
D．But traveling with a partner has its benefits, too.
E．Make sure that you are on the same page concerning money.
F．Try to meet your new travel partner in person before your trip.
G．No matter how carefully you plan your trip, it is likely that something will go wrong.
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。
At a young age, Patti Wilson was an epileptic (癫痫病患者). Her father, Jim Wilson, is a
morning jogger. One day Patti said, “Daddy, what I’d really love to do is ____43____ with you
every day, but I’m ____44____ I’ll have a seizure (癫痫发作).” Her father told her, “If you do, I
know how to ____45____ it so let’s start running!”
That’s just what they did every day. It was a ____46____ experience for them to share and
there were no seizures at all. After a few weeks, she told her father, “Daddy, what I’d really love to
do is ____47____ the world’s long distance running record for women.” Her father ____48____
the Guiness Book of World Records and found that the ____49____ any woman had run was 80
miles. As a freshman in high school, Patti ____50____, “I’m going to run from Orange County up
to San Francisco.” (A distance of 400 milcs.)
____51____ her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she
____52____ the handicap of being an epileptic as simply an inconvenience. She focused not on
what she had lost, but on what she had ____53____.
In her sophomore year (二年级) Patti’s classmates got ____54____ her. They built a giant
poster that ____55____, “Run, Patti, Run!” She finished her second marathon Portland,
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司____56____ her last mile with the governor of Oregon. After four months of almost ____57____
running from the West Coast to the East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington. She told the media, “I
wanted people to know that epileptics are ____58____ human beings.”
I told this story at one of my seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came
up to me, ____59____ his big hand and said, “Mark, my name is Jim Wilson. You were talking
about my daughter, Patti.” Because of her constant ____60____, he told me, enough money had
been ____61____ to open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country.
If Patti Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform (超出) yourself
in a state of total ____62____?
43．A．work B．run C．stay D．play
44．A．afraid B．sure C．curious D．careful
45．A．help B．handle C．fix D．ignore
46．A．private B．different C．wonderful D．essential
47．A．keep B．destroy C．seize D．break
48．A．checked B．reviewed C．afforded D．examined
49．A．latest B．farthest C．slowest D．newest
50．A．responded B．invented C．announced D．argued
51．A．In view of B．In contrast with C．On behalf of D．In memory of
52．A．stuck to B．took on C．made up D．looked at
53．A．earned B．deserved C．left D．desired
54．A．around B．over C．about D．behind
55．A．read B．sounded C．engaged D．felt
56．A．leaving B．completing C．attempting D．fighting
57．A．free B．frequent C．continuous D．regular
58．A．tough B．cautious C．typical D．normal
59．A．extended B．took C．felt D．withdrew
60．A．pressure B．failure C．efforts D．challenge
61．A．spent B．drawn C．lost D．collected
62．A．wealth B．wellness C．honour D．action
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。
A male elephant that broke away from the wandering elephant group __63__(send)back to
its forest home on Wednesday in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s
Yunnan Province, local authorities said.
Yuxi City headquarters in charge of monitoring the pack’s migration (迁徙) took the
___64___ (decide) early Wednesday morning ___65___ ( prevent) the lone animal from entering
heavily populated areas. At 3 p. m., the elephant was caught and returned to the nature reserve.
The animal appeared healthy and didn’t suffer from any ___66___(injure).
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司The pack of 15 wandering wild Asian elephants travelled about 500 kilometers north from
their forest home. The male elephant separated ___67___ the pack on June 6, and moved around
in the cities of Kunming, Anning and Yuxi, with an activity area of 140 square kilometers and a
walking ___68___ (distant) of 190 kilometers. It had relied mainly on ___69___ was provided
by the locals. The ___70___ (remain) 14 elephants have been moving southward recently but are
still far from the reserve.
Asian elephants are under A-level state protection in China, where they are mostly found in
Yunnan. Due ___71___ determined protection efforts in recent decades, the wild elephant
population in the province ___72___ (grow) to about 300.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
73．假定你是李华，外教Smith 邀请你本周日陪他去大明湖游玩，但你因故不能前往。请
你写一封电子邮件，内容包括：1．感谢邀请;2．说明原因;3．另约时间。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右;
2．请按格式在相应位置作答。
Dear Smith,
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
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。
There I was stuck AGAIN. This was the same feeling that overwhelms me every year. But
this year it was different, because if I failed this exam I would not graduate. I sat there, panic
stricken, unable to move. Pressure crushed in on me. What if I could not go to high school? Would
Dad and Mum kick me out of their house?
I took two deep breaths and looked up. I could see the teacher pacing up and down. The
classroom was dead silent except for the clock. Tick Tock. Tick Tock. I checked the clock for the
third time. Ten minutes left! I clenched (握紧) and unclenched my fist in an attempt to calm
myself. Think! I told myself. I knew I could do this. My hand couldn’t help trembling. Then I
scribbled (胡乱写下) the first few words that hit me.
“It isn’t my fault...”
I stared blankly at those words. At the comer of my eye, I could see my teacher walking
towards me. She was checking on our progress! Dread built up within me. Then, I glanced at the
four words again. Without any warning, my hand moved to write.
Hair on my arms stood as the teacher leaned in and started to read my work. I peered over to
see my teacher’s expression, praying that my work had not brought in disappointment. To my
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司astonishment, she displayed a clear satisfaction! That was good, wasn’t it? I hurriedly looked
down at my essay.
I skimmed it through. I felt proud. Now, there’s something I was still worried about. I
checked the clock. Two minutes left! I was still writing!
I bit my lip, took a deep breath, and concentrated on writing. I heard the teacher leave.
“There’s one minute left. Please check your work.” the teacher reminded us.
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1:
“One minute left?” I exclaimed.
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
A week later, the teacher handed the papers back to us.
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
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