2024届河南省豫南名校高三下学期第二次质量检测英语试卷.docx

1、2024届高三押题信息卷英语（二）注意事项：1. 本卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2. 选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3. 非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4. 考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。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分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，

2、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 the speakers have on Wednesday?A. Chicken. B. Noodles. C. Dumplings.2. What is the man reading about?A. A space exploration.B. Recent moon landings.C The latest scientific achievements.3. When will the woman go to the art

3、show?A. This Saturday. B. Next Friday. C. Next Sunday.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A holiday. B. Their sister. C. Some wedding photographs.5 What does the woman think of the new schools food?A. Expensive. B. Delicious. C. Terrible.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

4、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. What is the man concerned about?A. The rooms size. B. His pet. C. The apartments location.7. What does the woman suggest doing next?A. Looking for a better place.B. Putting in an offer right away.C

5、. Making a call for more information.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What is the woman doing?A. Cooking dinner. B. Shopping for groceries. C. Making an art project.9. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. A couple. B. Good neighbors. C. Colleagues.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What can we learn about the womans

6、 brother?A. He loves movies. B. He owns a company. C. He is a professional director.11. What is the man good at?A. Dancing. B. Singing. C. Storytelling.12. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a classroom. B. In a studio. C. At a bus stop.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does the woma

7、n want the man to do?A. Tidy up her hair. B. Cut her hair short. C. Change the color.14. What did the woman do?A. A career advisor. B. A salesperson. C. A fitness coach.15. How does the woman describe herself?A. Shy. B. Uncompetitive. C. Ambitious.16. How does the woman most probably feel about gett

8、ing the new position?A. Regretful. B. Pessimistic. C. Confident.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What will the audience take part in?A. A music exchange program.B. A sports exchange program.C. A language exchange program.18. Where is the speakers father from?A. Spain. B. America. C. France.19. What can be lear

9、ned about the speaker?A. He teaches Chinese. B. He is a music teacher. C. He has been to many countries.20. How can the program benefit the participants according to the speaker?A. It will improve their Spanish-speaking skills.B. It will open their eyes to the American culture.C. It will deepen the

10、understanding between their countries.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。AIf you want to learn more about traditional Chinese culture, try these awesome offerings at the following places in Chinatown Singapore during the Five Foot way Festival 2024, which wil

11、l last from 9 to 17 March, 2024.Chinatown Visitor CentreStart an exciting journey with us to explore the fascinating traditional Chinese weddings and modern adaptations. Here you will also have the chance to try traditional Cantonese wedding cakes. Dont miss this unique opportunity to deepen your un

12、derstanding and appreciation of Chinese culture!Time: 16 March.11:00 12:30Ticket: $15.00Xin Sheng Poets SocietyThe masters and students from Xin Sheng Poets Societys calligraphy group are presenting a calligraphy workshop. Sign up now to experience the beauty of their written Chinese characters and

13、take home your own work.Time: 10 March, 14:00 16:00Ticket: $18.00Ping Sheh Open HouseCome and join our workshop to explore the costumes and make-ups of Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou the basic roles of Peking Opera. Understanding the designs and their symbolic meanings is crucial for appreciating the Pe

14、king Opera performances.During our interactive session, youll learn the basic skills of Peking Opera singing and acting. Get ready to enjoy a truly unique experience!Time: 10 March, 14:00 16:00Ticket: $20.00Theatre Circle TeahousePrepare to dive into Cantonese Opera through our professional workshop

15、s. To enhance your experience, we will wrap up the evening with a Cantonese Opera performance led by a very famous actress, Ms Hu Gui Xin.Time: 15 March.14: 00 15: 00Ticket: $32.001. When will the Five Footway Festival start?A. On 9 March.B. On 10 March.C. On 16 March.D. On 17 March.2. How much shou

16、ld each visitor pay for the Chinese-character-writing activity?A. $15.00.B. $18.00.C. $20.00.D. $32.00.3. What can visitors do at the last two places?A. Try some famous Chinese teas.B. Watch Peking Opera performances.C. Study basic poem-writing skills.D. Learn about traditional Chinese operas.BThe U

17、nited Kingdom is hosting the AI Safety Summit, bringing politicians, computer scientists and big AI company leaders to a site chosen for its symbolism: Bletchley Park, the birthplace of computing and code-breaking (密码破译).During World War II, a group of mathematicians, chess masters and other experts

18、 gathered at the Victorian country house 72 kilometers northwest of London to start a secret war against Nazi Germany. Their goal was to break a set of constantly changing codes produced by Nazi Germanys Enigma machine. To do it, Bletchley Parks wartime scientists building on work done by Polish cod

19、e-breakers developed Colossus, the first programmable digital computer. Some historians say cracking the code helped shorten the war by up to two years.“It has oversimplified its true contribution by describing Bletchley Park as a playground for Turing and other scientists.” said historian Chris Smi

20、th, author of The Hidden History of Bletchley Park. “Although it fits into the romantic idea that a group of smart men with a bit of wool and some yards of wire can win the war. In fact, almost 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park during the war. Three quarters of them were women. Its basically a

21、factory. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. When peace came, the code-breakers returned to civilian life and promised to keep secret about their wartime work. It was not until the 1970s that the work at Bletchley Park became widely known in Britain.”In 1994, the site opened as a museum, aft

22、er local historians banded together to prevent it from being pulled down to build a supermarket. It was restored to its 1940s appearance, complete with old typewriters, phones and cupsincluding the one tied to a heater in Hut 8, where Turing led the Enigma team.4. What can we learn about Colossus?A.

23、 It was invented by Nazi Germany.B. It was designed to send secret messages.C. Polish code-breakers also made a contribution to it.D. The projects goal was to produce the first computer.5. What did Chris Smith most probably imply?A. Womens hard work was overlooked.B. The secret should not be kept fo

24、r so long.C. The computer ought to be more powerful.D. It is silly to say the machine shortened the war.6. Why is the cup mentioned in the last paragraph?A. To highlight the governments support.B. To show the perfect restoration of the site.C. To stress Turings important role in the project.D. To te

25、ll the difficulty in collecting the lost items.7. What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To advocate womens equal rights with men.B. To advertise a newly restored computer museum.C. To show the significance of an important meeting.D. To add some background to the AI safety meeting.CKeith

26、 Payne realized he was poor for the first time when he was in the fourth grade. The awareness came to him when a new lunch lady in the cafeteria asked him to pay for his lunch.“Previously, the lunch lady had just waved me on because Id always been on free lunch,” he says. “But this new lady didnt kn

27、ow how things worked, and it was the first time that I had been asked to pay for my lunch.”It was an agonizing moment and all of a sudden, he realized why he got free lunch while many of his classmates were paying for their meals every day.“Its not like I was poorer the day after that than I was bef

28、ore. Nothing objective had changed. But because of that subjective awareness, I began constantly comparing myself with my classmates and felt really unhappy,” he says.Keith Payne is now a social psychologist at the University of North Carolina and shares how the awareness of inequality affects the w

29、ay that both our minds and our bodies respond.“As we walk through the world, it is very natural for us to compare our lives with those of others. We think about ourselves in terms of being on a certain ladder (梯子) with some people above us and it can cause serious psychological consequences,” he say

30、s.One is that it makes us more willing to seek out risks and engage in high-risk, high-reward sort of behaviors. It affects us in ways that are similar to physical threats.“But I think there are wiser and less wise ways to make those social comparisons,” he says. “Upward social comparisons feel terr

31、ible, but they can be motivating. Downward social comparisons feel great, and yet they can be demotivating. So one of the things I recommend is that we can be more strategic in making upward and download social comparisons, Neither one is good in itself. It just depends on what your goal is.”8. Whic

32、h of the following best explains “agonizing” underlined in paragraph 3?A. Painful.B. Brief.C. Important.D. Happy.9. What does the author want to show by telling the story?A. Poor people should be treated equally.B. He wants to blame the new lunch lady.C. There were a lot of poor people in his countr

33、y.D. We can be influenced by the awareness of inequality.10. What does Keith Payne feel about making social comparisons?A. Unimportant.B. Acceptable.C. Annoying.D. Unnecessary.11. What will Keith Payne most probably advise us to do if we feel stressed?A. Talk to psychologists immediately.B. Hang out

34、 with top performers.C. Compare with less successful persons.D. Stay alone and enjoy ourselves.DThe number of universities has grown very fast in recent decades. Higher-education institutions across the world now employ 15 million researchers, up from 4 million in 1980. Governments are also happy to

35、 spend on higher education because it is supposed to produce scientific breakthroughs that can be available to all. In theory, therefore, universities should be an excellent source of productivity growth.In practice, however, the productivity has slowed down during the last decades. In the 1950s and

36、 1960s, workers output per hour across the rich world rose by 4% a year. But in the last decade, 1% a year was the norm. Even with the wave of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), productivity growth remains weak less than 1% a year, which is bad news for economic growth.A new paper by Ashish

37、 Arora and his team suggests that universities rapid growth and the rich worlds slowdown productivity could be two sides of the same coin. The paper suggests that scientific breakthroughs from public institutions “caused little or no response from businesses” over a number of years. A scientist in a

38、 university lab might publish brilliant paper after brilliant paper. Often, however, this has no impact on corporations own patents, with life sciences being the exception. And this, in turn, points to a small impact on the overall productivity.Why do companies struggle to use ideas produced by univ

39、ersities?The paper says that, free from the demands of the market, researchers in university labs focus more on satisfying their curiosity than finding breakthroughs that will change the world or make money. “To some degree, such kind of research is not a bad thing; some breakthrough technologies, s

40、uch as penicillin, were discovered almost by accident,” it writes, “But if everyone is doing that, the economy suffers.”Perhaps, with time, universities and the business world will work together more tightly. Tougher competition could force businesses to beef up their internal research. In fact, res

41、earchers in companies labs, rather than universities, are driving the current AI innovations. At some point, governments will need to ask themselves hard questions. In a world of weak economic growth, huge spending on universities may come to seem an unjustifiable luxury.12. What are the statistics

42、in paragraph 2 mainly about?A. The weak economy around the globe.B. Universities contribution to employment.C. Governments spending on higher education.D. The slow productivity growth in the rich world.13. Which of the following is benefiting from university labs breakthroughs?A. The investors.B. Th

43、e workers.C. Life sciences.D. Al industries.14 What does the new paper imply about the researchers in university labs?A. They are very eager to make more money.B. They are less concerned about applications.C. They usually find breakthroughs by accident.D. They should be left alone to do their resear

44、ch.15. What is the best title for the text?A. A Study Suggests Universities Fail to Increase ProductivityB. Universities and the Business World May Work Together SoonC. It Is Important for Companies Labs to Lead the AI InnovationD. It Is a Big Waste to Spend So Much Money on Higher Education第二节（共5小题

45、；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。Its one of lifes simple pleasures to take in the nice smell of fresh apples, or to bite into juicy tomatoes bursting with sweetness and flavor. _16_. Fortunately, there are some tried-and-true methods that can help you maximize the taste and

46、 shelf-life of your fruits and vegetables.Having a look at the produce in your local grocery store, you might notice that a lot of products are wrapped in plastic. But many of them, like mushrooms, are about 70 to 90 percent water. _17_. So you should transfer them to a paper bag as soon as you get

47、home. A paper bag creates drier conditions and can slow down the aging process._18_. For example, tomatoes are usually harvested unripened, so that between the farm and grocery store they ripen over time. Therefore, putting fully ripened tomatoes in the fridge can keep them fresher and extend their

48、shelf-life.Take note of what foods youre storing together. A lot of fruits and vegetables release ethylene, a colorless gas that occurs naturally in produce and is known as the “fruit ripening hormone”. _19_. Tomatoes are also ethylene producing heavyweights. If nearby vegetables like carrots, broccoli, and cucumbers are exposed to the gas, they will age much faster together. _20_.A. Therefore, it is better to put them on the counterB. The most well-known ethy