1、2023-2024学年甘肃省定西市高三第一次模拟考试英语试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1 carefully for long time,the opening ceremony won a great success.AHaving prepared BTo be prepared CBei
2、ng prepared DHaving been prepared28 students and 2 teachers at Santa Fe High School by a 17-year-student armed with a shotgun and a pistol. This is one of the many gun-related tragedies that have happened in the last 2 years.Akilled Bwere killedChave killed Dhave been killed3Im interested in a blue
3、dress. Do you have any _?AconvenientBavailableCpossibleDpersonal4Thats the third time youve done that!Yeah, _?Awhat of it Bwhats onCwhat about Dwhat for5It is not how much money you will give us but that you are present at the ceremony _ really matters.AwhichBitCwhatDthat6_ annoys the teacher most i
4、s that all the students are too quiet in class.AWhat BThatCWhen DWho7_ which university to attend, the girl asked her teacher for advice.ANot knowingBKnowing notCNot knownDKnown not8Lets take a coffee break, shall we?I wish I _, but I have a really tight schedule.AcanBshallCcouldDshould9People tend
5、to love agricultural products _ without the use of fertilizers, pesticides or chemical additives.AgrowingBgrownCbeing grownDhaving been grown10The Tang Dynasty is generally regarded as a golden chapter by people worldwide, _ the Chinese civilization influenced many neighboring countries.AwhereBwhenC
6、whichDwho11Recently, a programmer criticized the “996” work schedule _ employees work from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, with the prospect of ending up in an intensive care unit.AwhereBwhenCwhichDwhose12More and more people prefer to live in the countryside, _ appeal for them lies in the quiet and sl
7、ow-paced life.AwhoBWhichCwhoseDwhat13The worse working conditions we are looking forward to _ must have attracted the local governments attention.Asee improvedBseeing improvedCsee improvingDseeing to improve14That student admitted in the math exam, that he would never do that again in the future.Ato
8、 have cheated, promisingBcheating, promisedCto cheating, promisedDhaving cheated, promising15Despite the fact that his scores were good, they were hardly as excellent as a student with his intelligence .AachievedBhad achievedCwould achieveDshould have achieved16 Lets have a game of tennis; the loser
9、 has to treat the other to an ice-cream. _.AIm afraid so BIts a deal CYouve got a point DI suppose not17Beijings new international airport into operation in 2019 will serve 72 million passengers annually.Abeing put Bto be putCput Dto put18People _ with anyone who is always talking about how wonderfu
10、l he is.Afall inBkeep companyCcatch upDget fed up19I would appreciate you could come to my birthday party.AthatBthat itCifDit if20-Mum, I dont think I am qualified enough to do this.-Honey, be confident! You should know it is _ a man thinks of himself _ really determines his fate.Athat; that Bhow; t
11、hat Cwhat; that Dhow; that 第二部分 阅读理解（满分40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。21（6分）Despite his knee and finger injuries, Kobe Bryant ignores his pains as the NBA season nears. He is leading the Los Angeles Lakers in their attempt to win a third NBA championship in a row, as they did at the beginning
12、of the century. The Los Angles Lakers superstar has the perfect record since his start in 1996. He has five NBA championships, 12 NBA All-Stars and a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.But along with the awards, there has long been talk about Bryant. People say he is a selfish player with only a few
13、 friends. He won three NBA championship titles with Shaquille ONeal, but rather than becoming friends, they couldnt get along well with each other. Lakers Coach Phil Jackson still remembers a talk he and Bryant had. “I talked to him a little bit about leadership and his ability to be a leader, and h
14、e said he was ready to be a captain ” Jackson told ESPN. “ But I said no one was ready to follow him. Bryants path of self-discovery took him Light years. ONeal left the Lakers in 2004. Bryant went on to lead the team to victory last year and again this summer. Last week, NBA rookies(新秀）voted Bryant
15、 their favorite player.Mark Medina, sports reporter with the Los Angles Times has seen Bryant grow. “ Kobe has been improvinghis relationship with teammates and accepts that sometimes less is more,” he wrote. “ He has learned that he has to give to get back in return. And so he has become a giver ra
16、ther than a demanding leader. That has been great for him and great to watch,” Jackson told Medina. Bryant has shown through talent and hard work that others can follow his lead.1、What can we know about Kobe and ONeal?AThey were in conflict. BThey were good friends.CThey envied each other. DThey oft
17、en helped others.2、What can we learn from Jacksons words?AHe didnt like Kobe or ONeal.BKobe had no talent for leadership.CKobes leadership should be improved.DKobes teammates preferred ONeal to him.3、Kobe developed his relationship with his teammates by .Ainviting ONeal to come back Blearning to bec
18、ome a giverCwinning the trust of the coach Dturning a demanding leader4、What may be the best title for the passage?AA grown-up NBA starBA hard-working NBA starCThe high praise from Kobes coachDThe relationship between two NBA stars22（8分）According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading alou
19、d was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Readers were “listeners attentive to a reading voice,” and “the text addressed to the ear as much as to the eye.” The significance of reading aloud continued well into the nineteent
20、h century.Using Charles Dickenss nineteenth century as a point of departure, it would be useful to look at the familial and social uses of reading aloud and reflect on the functional change of the practice. Dickens habitually read his work to a domestic audience or friends. In his later years he als
21、o read to a broader public crowd Chapters of reading aloud also abound in Dickenss own literary works. More importantly, he took into consideration the Victorian practice when composing his prose, so much so that his writing is meant to be heard, not only read on the page.Performing a literary text
22、orally in a Victorian family is well documented. Apart from promoting a pleasant family relationship, reading aloud was also a means of protecting young people from the danger of solitary (孤独的) reading. Reading aloud was a tool for parental guidance. By means of reading aloud, parents could also int
23、roduce literature to their children, and as such the practice combined leisure and more serious purposes such as religious cultivation in the youths. Within the family, it was commonplace for the father to read aloud Dickens read to his children: one of his surviving and often-reprinted photographs
24、features him posing on a chair, reading to his two daughters.Reading aloud in the nineteenth century was as much a class phenomenon as a family affair, which points to a widespread belief that Victorian readership primarily meant a middle-class readership, Those who fell outside this group tended to
25、 be overlooked by Victorian publishers。Despite this, Dickens, with his publishers Chapman and Hall, managed to distribute literary reading materials to people from different social classes by reducing the price of novels. This was also made possible with the technological and mechanical advances in
26、printing and the spread of railway networks at the time.Since the literacy level of this section of the population was still low before school attendance was made compulsory in 1870 by the Education Act, a considerable number of people from lower classes would listen to recitals of texts. Dickenss r
27、eaders, who were from such social backgrounds, might have heard Dickens in this manner. Several biographers of Dickens also draw attention to the fact that it was typical for his texts to be read aloud in Victorian England, and thus illiteracy was not an obstacle for reading Dickens. Reading was no
28、longer a chiefly closeted form of entertainment practiced by the middle class at home.A working-class home was in many ways not convenient for reading: there were too many distractions, the lighting was bad, and the home was also often half a workhouse. As a result, the Victorians from the non-middl
29、e classes tended to find relaxation outside the home such as in parks and squares, which were ideal places for the public to go while away their limited leisure time. Reading aloud, in particular public reading, to some extent blurred the distinctions between classes. The Victorian middle class defi
30、ned its identity through differences with other classes. Dickenss popularity among readers from the non-middle classes contributed to the creation of a new class of readers who read through listening.Different readers of Dickens were not reading solitarily and “jealously,” to use Walter Benjamins te
31、rm. Instead, they often enjoyed a more communal experience, an experience that is generally lacking in todays world. Modem audiobooks can be considered a contemporary version of the practice. However, while the twentieth- and twentieth-first-century trend for individuals to listen to audiobooks keep
32、s some eharacteristics of traditional reading aloud-such as “listeners attentive to a reading voice” and the ear being the focusit is a far more solitary activity.1、What does the author want to convey in Paragraph 1?AThe significance of reading aloud.BThe history of reading aloud.CThe development of
33、 reading practice.DThe roles of readers in reading practice.2、How did the practice of reading aloud influence Dickenss works?AHe started to write for a broader public crowd.BHe included more readable contents in his novels.CScenes of reading aloud became common in his works.DHis works were intended
34、to be both heard and read.3、How many benefits did reading aloud bring to a Victorian family?A2. B3.C4. D5.4、Where could a London steel worker possibly have gone to for reading?ATrafalgar Square. BHis/her own house.CNearby bookstores DWorking place.5、What change did reading aloud bring to Victorian s
35、ociety?ADifferent classes started to appreciate and read literary works together.BPeople from lower social classes became accepted as middle-class.CA non-class society in which everyone could read started to form,DThe differences between classes grew less significant than before.6、What is likely to
36、be discussed after the last paragraph?ANew reading trends for individuals.BThe harm of modem audiobooks.CThe material for modem reading.DReading aloud in contemporary societies.23（8分）Whenever we see a button, we want to press it because we know that something will happen. This is true in most cases,
37、 for example, on a doorbell. But some buttons are actually fake (假的), like the “close” button on a lift.Many people are in the habit of pressing the “close” button because they dont have the patience to wait for the lift doors to shut. But lifts “close” buttons are a complete trick, at least in the
38、US the doors will not close any faster no matter how hard you press.It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in the US, making sure that all lifts stayed open long enough so that people with disabilities could enter. Only US firefighters and repairmen can use the b
39、uttons to speed up the door-closing process if they have a code or special keys.But to normal lift riders, the buttons arent completely useless. According to psychologists, fake buttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control.“A sense of control is very important. It red
40、uces stress and increases well-being,” said Ellen J. Langer, a psychology professor at Harvard University. Experts also added that a lot of buttons that dont do anything exist in our lives for this same purpose.For example, pedestrian crosswalk buttons dont live up to their names either. Pressing th
41、em used to help make the traffic signals change faster, but that was before computer controlled traffic signals were introduced.But psychologists found it interesting that even when people are aware of these little “white lies, they still continue to push fake buttons because as long as the doors ev
42、entually close, it is considered to be worth the effort.1、What is the authors purpose in writing the text?ATo analyze the functions of fake buttons. BTo describe different fake buttons.CTo explore various habits of pushing buttons. DTo explain the disadvantages of fake buttons.2、What can we learn ab
43、out the “close” buttons on a lift in America?AThey work when people press them hard. BThey were designed for a sense of control.CThey never speed up the door-closing process. DThey take the safety of the disabled into account.3、What can we infer about pedestrian crosswalk buttons?AThey can make peop
44、le feel better. BThey help computers work faster.CThey can control the traffic signals. DThey help pedestrians cross safely.4、Which may be the best title for the passage?AButtons in the USA BButtons Always LieCButtons May not Work D“Close” Buttons on Lifts24（8分）XXX: The Return of Xander CageRelease
45、date: January 20,2017Starring: Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Donnie Yen, Kris WuRating: Plot: Xander Cage (Vin Diesel)is left for death after an incident, and then he secretly returns to action for a tough assignment designed for him.Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons(妖魔) IIRelease dat
46、e: January 28,2017Starring: Kris Wu, Kenny Lin, Yao Chen, Jelly LinRating: Plot: The film is a sequel (续集)to the 2013 film, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, which was directed by Stephen Chow. Tang Sanzang (Kris Wu), along with his three disciples, sets out on the Journey to the West. Alt
47、hough they appear to be harmonious, in reality, they are plotting against each other. After a series of adventures where they capture demons, they start to understand one anothers pains and heart, and finally solve their internal conflicts, working together to become the most united demon-killing team.Live by NightRelease date: January 13,2017Starring: Ben Affleck, Scott Eastwo
