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江苏省扬州中学2022-2023学年度第一学期9月双周练
高三英语
2022.09
（试卷满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟）
注意事项：
1. 作答前，请考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号等写在答题卡上并贴上条形码。
2. 将选择题答案填写在答题卡的指定位置上，非选择题一律在答题卡上作答，在试卷上答
题无效。
3. 考试结束后，请将机读卡和答题卡交监考人员。
第I卷（选择题，共95分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，每题1.5分，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 will James do tomorrow?
A. Watch a TV program. B. Give a talk. C. Write a report.
2. What can we say about the woman?
A. She's generous. B. She's curious. C. She's helpful.
3. When does the train leave?
A. At 6:30. B. At 8:30. C. At 10.30.
4. How does the woman go to work?
A. By car. B. On foot. C. By bike.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient.
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。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6. What does the woman regret?
A. Giving up her research.
B. Dropping out of college.
C. Changing her major.
7. What is the woman interested in studying now?
A. Ecology. B. Education. C. Chemistry.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8. What is the man?
A. A hotel manager. B. A tour guide. C. A taxi driver.
9. What is the man doing for the woman?
A. Looking for some local foods.
B. Showing her around the seaside.
C. Offering information about a hotel.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In an office. B. At home. C. At a restaurant.
11. What will the speakers do tomorrow evening?
A. Go to a concert. B. Visit a friend. C. Work extra hours.
12. Who is Alice going to call?
A. Mike. B. Joan. C. Catherine.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13. Why does the woman meet the man?
A. To look at an apartment.
B. To deliver some furniture.
C. To have a meal together.
14. What does the woman like about the carpet?
A. Its color. B. Its design. C. Its quality.
15. What does the man say about the kitchen?
A. It's a good size. B. It's newly painted. C. It's adequately equipped.
16. What will the woman probably do next?
A. Go downtown. B. Talk with her friend. C. Make payment.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17. Who is the speaker probably talking to?
A. Movie fans. B. News reporters. C. College students.
18. When did the speaker take English classes?
A. Before he left his hometown.
B. After he came to America.
C. When he was 15 years old.
19. How does the speaker feel about his teacher?
A. He's proud. B. He's sympathetic. C. He's grateful.
20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. How education shaped his life.
B. How his language skills improved.
C. How he managed his business well.第二部分 阅读理解(共三节，满分55分)
第一节 单项选择 (共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)
A
Admission
Everyone entering the theatre must have a ticket. We strongly encourage all parties to arrive
30-45 minutes prior to any show time.
Adults Students
2 D Movies $5 $4
3 D Movies $6 $5
What is on？
Diving Deep：The Life and Times of Mike deGruy （2 D）
This film tells the story of Mike deGruy, a curious and enthusiastic underwater filmmaker who
died suddenly in 2012. He filmed the oceans for more than three decades.
Spies in Disguise （3 D）
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is
smooth, fashionable and confident. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes
up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his missions. But
when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a
whole new way.
Dolittle （2 D）
Dr. John Dolittle lives in his large country house in 19th-century England. His only
companionship comes from animals that he speaks to on a daily basis. But when young Queen
Victoria becomes seriously ill, the doctor starts an adventure to an island to find the cure.
How to Build a Girl （2 D）
The film tells the story of Johanna Morrigan, an ambitious music journalist in 1990s
Wolverhampton. It is a comedy film based on Caitlin Moran's novel of the same name.
21. How much should a 13-year-old girl and her parents pay to watch Diving Deep？
A. $13. B. $14. C. $15. D. $16.
22. Which film focuses on close cooperation between partners？
A. Diving Deep. B. Dolittle. C. Spies in Disguise. D. How to Build a Girl.
23. What type of film is Dolittle？
A. Adventure. B. Crime. C. Thriller. D. Action.
B
A study of violinists found that merely good players practised as much as better players,
leaving other factors such as quality of education, learning skills and perhaps natural talent to
account for the difference.
This finding challenges the 10, 000-hour rule promoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s 1993 study of
violinists and pianists. Gladwell states that enough practice will make an expert of anyone. “The
idea has been popular and entrenched in our culture for years. It’s not an idiom but an
overstatement,” said Brooke Macnamara, the lead author. “When it comes to human skill, acomplex combination of environmental factors and genetic factors explains the performance
differences across people.”
Macnamara and her colleagues set out to repeat part of the 1993 study to see whether they
reached the same conclusion. They interviewed three groups of 13 violinists regarded as best,
good, or less accomplished about their practice habits, before having them complete daily diaries
of their activities over a week. While the less skillful violinists reached an average of about 6,000
hours of practice by the age of 20, there was little to separate the good from the best, with each
reaching an average of about 11,000 hours. In all, the number of hours spent practising accounted
for about a quarter of the skill difference across the three groups.
Macnamara believes practice is less of a driver. “Once you get to the highly skilled groups,
practice stops accounting for the difference. Everyone has practised a lot and other factors are at
play in determining who goes on to a higher level,” she said. “The factors depend on the skill
being learned: in chess it could be intelligence or working memory; in sport it may be how
efficiently a person uses oxygen. To complicate matters further, one factor can drive another.
Children who enjoy playing the violin, for example, may be happy to practise because they do not
see it as a trouble.”
The authors of the 1993 study are unimpressed. Macnamara said it was important for people
to understand the limits of practice, though. “Practice makes you better than you were yesterday,
most of the time,” she said. “But it might not make you better than your neighhour or the other kid
in your violin class.”
24. What does the underlined word “entrenched” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Rooted. B. Advanced. C. Changed. D. Unconfirmed.
25. What can we learn about Macnamara’s study?
A. It convinced Malcolm Gladwell. B. It involved violinists and pianists.
C. Its process was similar to the 1993 study. D. Its result is consistent with the 1993 study.
26. What does Macnamara find about highly skilled people?
A. Practicing for 11,000 hours is their main driver.
B. They enjoy keeping diaries about their progress.
C. Environmental factors have little relation to their success.
D. More practice makes little difference to their further progress.
27. What is the best title for the text?
A. What makes an expert? B. Does practice make perfect?
C. The early bird catches the worm D. Enthusiasm is the key to success
C
What may well be the oldest metal coins in the world have been identified at an ancient
abandoned city known as Guanzhuang in China. Like many Bronze Age (青铜时代) coins from
the region, they were cast in the shape of spades with finely carved handles. These ancient coins
existed during an in-between period between barter (以物易物) and money, when coins were a
novel concept, but everybody knew that agricultural tools were valuable.
Reading about this incredible discovery, I kept thinking about the way modern peoplerepresent computer networks by describing machines as having “addresses”, like a house. We also
talk about one computer using a “port” to send information to another computer, as if the data were
a floating boat with destination. It’s as if we are in the Bronze Age of information technology,
grasping desperately for real-world reference to transform our civilization.
Now consider what happened to spade coins. Over centuries, metalworkers made these coins
into more abstract shapes. Some became almost human figures. Others’ handles were reduced to
small half-circles. As spade coins grew more abstract, people carved them with number values and
the locations where they were made. They became more like modern coins, flat and covered in
writing. Looking at one of these later pieces, you would have no idea that they were once intended
to look like a spade.
This makes me wonder if we will develop an entirely new set of symbols that allow us to
interact with our digital information more smoothly.
Taking spade coins as our guide, we can guess that far-future computer networks will no
longer contain any recognizable references to houses. But they still might bring some of the ideas
we associate with home to our mind. In fact, computer networks — if they still exist at all — are
likely to be almost the indispensable part of our houses and cities, their sensors inset with walls
and roads. Our network addresses might actually be the same as our street addresses. If climate
change leads to floods, our mobile devices might look more like boats than phones, assisting us to
land.
My point is that the metaphors of the information age aren’t random. Mobile devices do offer
us comfort after a long day at work. In some sense, our desire to settle on the shores of data lakes
could change the way we understand home, as well as how we build computers. So as we cast our
minds forward, we have to think about what new abstractions will go along with our information
technology. Perhaps the one thing we count on is that humans will still appreciate the comforts of
home.
28. Why were many Bronze Age coins made into the shape of a spade?
A. Because a lot of emphasis was put on agriculture.
B. Because this stylish design made the coins valuable.
C. Because these coins also served as agricultural tools.
D. Because the handles made the coins easily exchanged.
29. Why does the author relate computers to spade coins in Paragraph 2?
A. To show they both used to be new concepts when first invented.
B. To explain abstract digital worlds are different from concrete coins.
C. To suggest computers will experience dramatic changes as coins did.
D. To highlight their same importance in our civilizational transformation.
30. What does the underlined word “indispensable” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A. Flexible. B. Essential. C. Wasteful. D. Alternative.
31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. What Coins and Computers Bring Us
B. How Agriculture Loses to Digital IndustryC. How Bronze Age Develops to Information Age
D. What Ancient Money Tells Us About the Future IT
D
People with a rare genetic disorder known as Prader-Willi syndrome never feel full, and this
excess hunger can lead to life-threatening obesity (肥胖症). Scientists studying the problem have
now found that the fist-shaped structure known as the cerebellum (小脑) -- which had not
previously been linked to hunger -- is key to regulating satiation (饱食) in those with this
condition.
This finding is the latest in a series of discoveries revealing that the cerebellum, long thought
to be primarily involved in movement harmony, also plays a broad role in cognition, emotion and
behavior. “We’ve opened up a whole field of cerebellar control of food intake,” says Albert Chen,
a neuroscientist at the Scintillon Institute in California.
The project began with an accidental observation: Chen and his team noticed they could make
mice stop eating by activating small pockets of neurons (神经元) in regions known as the
anterior deep cerebellar nuclei (aDCN), within the cerebellum. Fascinated, the researchers
gathered data using functional MRI to compare brain activity in 14 people who had Prader-Willi
syndrome with activity in 14 unaffected people while each testee viewed images of food -- either
immediately following a meal or after fasting (禁食) for at least four hours.
New analysis of these scans revealed that activity in the same regions Chen’s group had
accurately pointed out in mice, the aDCN, appeared to be significantly disturbed in humans with
Prader-Willi syndrome. In healthy individuals, the aDCN were more active in response to food
images while fasting than just after a meal, but no such difference was identifiable in participants
with the disorder. The result suggested that the aDCN were involved in controlling hunger. Further
experiments on mice, conducted by researchers from several different institutions, demonstrated
that activating the animals’ aDCN neurons dramatically reduced food intake by weakening how the
brain’s pleasure center responds to food.
For years neuroscientists studying appetite focused mainly either on the hypothalamus, a
brain area involved in regulating energy balance, or on reward-processing centers such as the
nucleus accumbens (伏隔核). But this group has identified a new feeding center in the brain, says
Elanor Hinton, a neuroscientist at the University of Bristol in England who was not involved with
the study. “I’ve been working in appetite research for the past 15 years or so, and the cerebellum
has just not been a target,” Hinton says. “I think this is going to be important both for Prader-Willi
syndrome and, much more widely, to address obesity in the general population.”
32. Before the recent study, what had scientists assumed?
A. The cerebellum helped control everyday food intake.
B. The cerebellum played a minor role in movement harmony.
C. The cerebellum had nothing to do with appetite regulation.
D. The cerebellum had a direct link to behavioral development.
33. According to the project conducted by the researchers, which of the following is true?
A. The healthy testees were more likely to overeat after fasting.B. Food images increased the appetite of the testees with Prader-Willi syndrome.
C. The aDCN in the healthy testees responded to food images more actively after fasting.
D. The aDCN in the testees with Prader-Willi syndrome made no response to food images.
34. What does Elanor Hinton imply about future appetite research?
A. It may help in the early diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome.
B. It will have broader implications for the treatment of obesity.
C. The potential feeding center in human brain remains to be discovered.
D. More studies are needed to understand the link between appetite and reward-processing.
35. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. How our brain controls overeating.
B. How the aDCN works up our appetite.
C. How Prader-Willi syndrome can be prevented.
D. How lowering food intake benefits our overall health.
第二节 七选五阅读 (共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
The Hardest Novel I’ve Ever Read
For the last three months, I have glared at its fat heavy form on my floor with a vague sense
of personal failure. I have opened Ulysses twice, determined to finish it, and managed to get all the
way to page 46. I have read so little both times that I have never bothered using a bookmark.
____36____ I like the community this book has created, its inherent sense of freedom and
celebration of all things rude and true. I like that the style and language allow for readers to choose
how they read it — some recommend skipping chapter three, others suggest reading it only after
reading ABOUT it but I still get stuck.
Why do I get stuck? ____37____ On the “Most Difficult Novels” list on the Goodreads
website, Joyce takes the top two spots, with Ulysses ranking first and Finnegans Wake following
it. I think what is restricting me to page 46 is the language: the big fat burst of Chaucerian English
with slang and jaunty dialogue that, while entertaining me, is also leaving me a little lost.
There are a few other “worthy” works of literature I have yet to read, including Infinite Jest
and War and Peace. ____38____ I really want to love Ulysses. I feel deeply frustrated that I can’t
finish it, all the while appreciating its uniqueness, weightiness and special “joyousness”.
The English writer Virginia Woolf thought Ulysses was nonsense as she complained in her
diaries about the pressure to finish reading it. By contrast, Vladimir Nabokov, the author who
wrote Lolita expressed deep love for it. ____39____ I have read it similar to a long marriage
(something unpleasant, big reward at the end), modern Jazz-fusion (an innovative genre) and
boxing match with oneself (wanting to punch yourself in the face), which is how I felt by page 46.
Some people love Ulysses, so where am I getting wrong? My ultimate hope is that the
struggle will be worth the effort and I can proceed victorious onto page 800 or so, on my third
fourth, eighteenth try. ____40____
A. I’m not entirely sure myself.B. Something tells me I will get there in the end.
C. A lot of them are weighty great books, but I like big ones.
D. It seems that reading Ulysses is a big different experience for everyone.
E. Even when staring at pages without absorbing a word, I thought nice thoughts about it.
F. They, however, only cause me a slight sense of shame that I have not read or enjoyed them.
G. I have been amused and charmed by the first two or three chapters, and then puzzled and
bored.
第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节 完形填空(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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处
的最佳选项。
How Running Helped Me Turn My Life Around
I've never been an athlete. Aside from excelling at all academic disciplines at school, my main
goal was to ___41___ PE at all costs. In my twenties, I went for an occasional yoga or Zumba
class, but that was really the summary of all my athletic accomplishments.
That was until the end of 2016, when I was unexpectedly laid off. The ___42___ of getting a
new job soon were not in my favor and ___43___ thoughts of not being good enough started to
kick in. I was feeling quite depressed but pushed myself to go and ___44___ for the TCS NYC
Marathon runners as the course was going through our neighborhood.
However, while being there, I got phenomenal ___45___ from all the runners, smiling,
applauding and high-fiving constantly. Not a runner myself, I thought maybe I could give running
a ___46___, just to try, to use my neglected gym membership and see where it ___47___ me.
And so I tried. I went to my local gym the next morning and got on a treadmill (跑步机). I was out
of breath by minute five, but I ___48___ down, walked for a bit and then restarted.
While I saw my body starting to look more toned, I also noticed my negative thoughts didn't
occur that ____49____ And it sparked a thought—what if I could set a running ____50____ and
sign up for my first- ever race? I did and races sort of became a new hobby.
In the meantime, I was able to ____51____ a few freelance (自由职业的) projects. They
offered me a good ____52____, and, most importantly, the time to work out for the big race. Also,
when I was going for interviews, I started to feel very confident in my abilities, experience and
skills.
I got my full-time job ____53____ at my dream company just a couple of weeks before the
half marathon. Although I got an injury from overtraining right before the race, I still went for it
and still finished within my ____54____ time.
I still have a long running ____55____ ahead of me — I'd love to work on my speed, my
technique and I dream of running a marathon outside of the US. Running gives me faith that I can
do anything I set my mind to.
41．A．attend B．avoid C．pursue D．postpone
42．A．options B．plans C．hopes D．odds
43．A．dark B．deep C．critical D．random44．A．call B．look C．cheer D．stand
45．A．sympathy B．pleasure C．luck D．energy
46．A．lift B．shot C．break D．choice
47．A．meets B．leaves C．takes D．drops
48．A．came B．fell C．went D．slowed
49．A．readily B．frequently C．normally D．occasionally
50．A．goal B．limit C．record D．standard
51．A．create B．secure C．approve D．continue
52．A．service B．position C．future D．income
53．A．offer B．permit C．schedule D．application
54．A．appointed B．expected C．original D．spare
55．A．show B．route C．distance D．journey
第II卷 （非选择题，共55分）
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Adventures of Mid-Autumn Festival, a show featuring singing, dancing and language
programs, ___56___ (inspire) by a famous poem about Mid-Autumn Festival by Song Dynasty
(960-1279) scholar Su Shi. A translation by renowned translator Xu Yuanchong ___57___ (go),
"Men have sorrow and joy; they part or meet again. The moon is bright or dim and she may wax or
wane. There has been nothing perfect ___58___ the olden days. So let us wish that man
___59___(will) live as long as he could! Though miles apart, we'll share the beauty she displays."
It's a tradition for the Chinese to worship the moon. ___60___ (reunite) is also the festival's
main theme. Not only ___61___ (be) the show presented from an international perspective, but it
also tries to move viewers with humanity, ___62___ (promote) traditional Chinese culture to a
larger audience. Legend ___63___(have) it that when Chang'e secretly eats a pill of immortality
her body becomes light and she floats up to the moon. In the show, Chang'e realizes that laying the
past to rest is also a kind of satisfaction, ___64___ conveys the idea that even in a fast-paced
society, people can pay attention to their ___65___(in) heart, cultivate their moral character and
become the best versions of themselves.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 应用文写作（满分15分）
假定你是李华。你所在的城市将举行国际中文写作大赛。请给在你校学习过两年的交
换生Jack发一封邮件，邀请他参加比赛。内容包括：
1. 主题：China in My Eyes；
2. 截稿时间：10月20日；
3. 投稿邮箱：intlwriting@suho.net。
注意：
1. 词数80左右，已给部分不计入总词数；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。Dear Jack,
I'm Li Hua, one of your classmates in China. _________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节 读后续写（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。
Having worked at a small food store for two years, I thought I had become successful at
what our manager called "customer relations". I firmly believed that a friendly smile and an
automatic “sir" "madam", "thank you" and "sorry" would see me through any situation. But
on a Christmas night an old woman shook my belief that such a glib response (巧言应对)
could smooth over any difficulty while dealing with other human beings.
The moment she entered the store, the woman presented a sharp contrast to our shiny
store with its bright lighting and neatly arranged shelves. Walking as if each step were
painful, she slowly pushed open the glass door. On such a zero-degree night, she was wearing
only a faded print dress, a thin sweater too small to button, and black slippers with the backs
cut out to expose heels. There were no stockings or socks on her blue-veined legs.
After walking around the store for several minutes, the old woman stopped in front of
the rows of canned vegetables. She looked at the row of cans, finally picked up a can of corn
and stared at the label. At that point, I decided to be a good and polite employee and asked her
if she needed help. As I stood close to her, my smile became harder to maintain. An
unpleasant smell of sweat rose from her torn clothing.
"I need some food," she muttered in reply to my bright "Madam, can I help you?"
"Are you looking for corn, madam?"
"I need some food," she repeated, looking down at the can in her hand, "Any kind."
"Well, the can of corn is ninety-five cents, madam." I said in my most helpful voice. "Or,
if you like, we have a special on bread today."
After a short pause, she lifted her head and said, "But I… can't pay."
For a second, it was on the tip of my tongue to tell her that she could take the corn.
注意:
1. 续写词数应为150左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Then the employee rules flooded into my mind: Remain polite but do not let the customers
get the best of you. ______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Moments after she left, I rushed out of the door with the can of corn._________________
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