1、江西省赣中南五校2023-2024学年高三第二次联考英语试卷注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号和座位号填写在试题卷和答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（B）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码粘贴在答题卡右上角条形码粘贴处。2作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试题卷上。3非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。4考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试
2、结束后，请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）1The number of stay-at-home fathers reached a record high last year, new figures show, _ families saw a rise in female breadwinners.Aif BasCbecause Dthough2 What do you want to do next? We have half an hour until the basketball game. _. Whatever you want t
3、o do is fine with me.A. Its up to youBGlad to hear thatCYou cant miss itDIt just depends3The living room is clean and tidy, with a dining table already _ for a meal to be cooked.AlaidBlayingCto layDbeing laid4Little about her own safety, though she was in great danger herself.Adid Rose careBRose did
4、 careCRose does careDdoes Rose care5 ，dear! Things wont be as bad as you think. There certainly will be chances for you.AHurry upBLook upCCheer upDMake up6I usually do the washing up and leave the cooking to my wife，_shes a better cook than meAunlessBasCeven thoughDin case7August 8th，2008 is a speci
5、al day，_，I think，that will be remembered by the Chinese forever .AoneBwhatCwhichDthe one8Following the girl, we went into a hall; on _ walls hung a few pictures of some famous scientists.Aits BwhichCwhose Dthose9 Who recommended Nancy for the post? It was James _ admiration for her was obvious.AwhoB
6、thatCwhoseDwhom10 Do you like the book you father bought you? Very much. Its exactly_I wanted.AwhichBthatCwhatDhow11The high-anxiety focus on reading score may have narrowed student_to knowledge about the world that can improve their reading.Aidea Baid Cbelief Daccess12More than one doctor _ involve
7、d in the rescue that took place after the earthquakeA was B is C were D are13Im _Chinese and I do feel _Chinese language is _most beautiful language .A/, the, aBa, /, theCa, the, /Da, /, a14Uncle Wang is in hospital.Oh, really? I _. I _ go and visit her.Adidnt know; am going to Bhadnt known; wouldCh
8、avent known; will Ddidnt know; will15_ they choose Chinese company is that China has the most advanced technology of high speed railway in the world.AWhenBThatCWhereDWhy16Peter is helping set tables in the hall, where Johns birthday party _.Ais holding Bhas heldCis held Dwill be held17Though small,
9、the country has _ plants from desert grasses to tropical jungle.Aextreme BabundantCartificial Dpoisonous18It was in that small house _ was built with stones by his father _ he spent his childhood.Athat; whereBwhich; thatCwhich; whichDthat; which19You know, people have different opinions about the co
10、nstruction of the project.We welcome any comments from them, favorable or _.AsoBotherwiseCelseDrather20I am always delighted when receiving your invitation, _ the party on June 9th after the national college entrance examination, I shall be pleased to attend.AOn account ofBWith regard toCIn response
11、 toDIn view of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）Microsoft has developed a new smartphone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phone.The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphones
12、camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real time and convert them into letters, words and sentences.For people suffering from ALS（渐冻症）, also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.“Current eye-tracking input systems fo
13、r people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not strong and healthy under sunlight, and require frequent re-check and lots of relatively fixed setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.“To ease the drawbackswe created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture
14、communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, stable, hand-held and easy to learn.”The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye
15、 movements to make in order to communicate.The sticker shows four grids of letters, which each correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids (格) the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence computational procedure is then
16、able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say.Zhangs research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May.1、Who will benefit from the newly-developed App?AALS vict
17、ims.Bpeople with eye disabilities.Csmartphone addicts.Dtechnology researchers.2、What are not the basic elements used in the App?AArtificial intelligence.BA smart phones camera.CUsers eye movements.DHand-written letters.3、What did the researchers do to improve the current eye-tracking input systems?A
18、To check the eye signals twice to make it fixed.BTo create a stable and convenient eye-gesture communication system.CTo point the smartphone at the speaker.DTo look up, down, left or right.22（8分） March 3 marks World Hearing Day. This years theme is “Check your hearing!” Many experts and health organ
19、izations, including those who pay attention to the hearing-impaired (听力障碍), are working to help people realize the importance of protecting their hearing and avoid hearing loss.When we talk about music, what kind of feelings does it bring? Excitement and relaxation. But what if the music lasts for h
20、ours?We interviewed a group of musicians based in Beijing during the weekend. They all said that hours of exposure to loud music can cause discomfort. One added that band members like to play at maximum volume (音量) and forget the harm that loud music can cause. The same thing not only occurs to musi
21、cians. Its also not rare for daily users since listening to loud music on loud sound equipment has become a part of modem life. According to the WHO, the practice has put more than a billion people around the world, aged 12-35, at risk of losing their hearing.We also interviewed some headphone users
22、 in the street, and most of them said that they are not heavy users but admitted they use headphones for hours on the subway and in the office or home. Its easy for these people to gradually increase the volume without awareness, especially in a noisy environment. Often, headphone users fail to real
23、ize theyre listening to audio at unsafe levels until serious hearing problems suddenly occur.There are many reasons for hearing loss, including loud acoustic (听觉的) sources, drug abuse, and diseases. Experts suggest frequent medical checks and prevention measures.Whether congenital (先天的) or acquired,
24、 loss of hearing is usually irreversible. “Once the hearing loss occurs, its already too late to be changed back to what it was before,” said Yang Shiming, expert of the Chinese PLA General Hospital. “Early prevention, early identification and early treatment. If everyone could do these things, hear
25、ing loss and its harm could be kept to a minimum,” Yang said. Of course, this applies to every one of us.1、What might be a reason for hearing loss?AListening to music.BTaking medicines.CIgnoring sound pollution.DUsing headphones.2、What does Yang Shiming advise people to do about hearing loss?AGet ri
26、d of drug abuse.BMake prevention ahead of time.CStop playing music in bands.DChoose music with the help of musicians.3、Which can best explain “irreversible” underlined in the last paragraph?AIncurable.BUnavailable.CUnbelievable.DInvisible.4、What can be a suitable title for the text?APreventing Heari
27、ng LossBReasons for Losing HearingCThe Origin of World Hearing DayDRaising Awareness of Protecting Hearing23（8分）I walked to Mrs. Windsors house and waited outside. She was working with another student, and I was not supposed to bother them by ringing the bell. I stood against the wall and daydreamed
28、 what Id rather be doing. I had been tutored enough to read, understand, and even write some musical compositions, but I just didnt have a gift for it. Mrs. Windsor had offered to give me the lessons for free, so I felt my duty to try.The door opened and Wendy Barton came out. I walked in, sat down
29、on the piano bench and began to sort through my sheet music. Today Mrs. Windsor introduced her niece Pasha to teach me. With a smile, Pasha sat beside me on the piano bench, opened my sheet music to the beginning page and asked me to play. I arranged my fingers on the keys. Then I frowned(皱眉) and co
30、ncentrated to make the notes on the page match the finger movements. I had to admit I was a rather mechanical (呆板的) pianist.After about a page or two, Pasha gently put her hand on top of mine as if to calm my fingers. There was a long pause. “What are you hearing in the music?” I looked at her rathe
31、r strangely and admitted I didnt know what she meant. “Like a story. Here, let me try and you listen,” Pasha advised.She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting her fingers dance lightly over the keys. Then, she began to play. “See, it begins here beside some kind of river. Hear the water fl
32、owing beside you?”Her fingers rose and fell gently on the keys. “Now the princess appears and shes picking flowers from the waters edge.” A happy piece of music filled the air in time to Pashas dancing fingers. “Oh, but she slips!” The music changed. “And our princess is being carried off by the fas
33、t-flowing stream. Quickly, the princess horse sees her plight (困境) and races to the rivers edge where he swims out to let her catch hold of him. Luckily, they make it to the bank.” Pasha said.I played many pieces of music that afternoon, finding the stories in the music and learning that sometimes i
34、t takes a friend to pull you out of the river onto dry land again.1、By describing herself as a mechanical pianist, the author meant _.Ashe could remember the notes in a short timeBshe was playing the piano without emotionCher fingers couldnt move freelyDit had been a long time since she played last
35、time2、Which of the following can best describe Pasha?ACreative.BHonest.CHumorous.DBrave.3、Pashas magic of playing the piano lies in that she _.Aimagined herself as a princessBknew its original background storyChad a strong desire to make a friendDcombined the music with a story4、Which of the followi
36、ng is the best title for the text?AA Friend ForeverBNever Give upCA Piano LessonDMy Favorite Piece of Music24（8分） The regular world presented to us by our five sensesyou could call it reality 1.0is not always the most user-friendly of places. We get lost in unfamiliar cities; we meet people whose la
37、nguage we dont understand. So why not try the improved version: augmented reality (AR) or reality 2.0? AR technology adds computer-produced images (图像) on the real world via a mobile phone camera or special video glasses.Early forms of AR are already here. With the right downloads, smart phones can
38、deliver information about nearby ATMs and restaurants and other points of interest. But thats just the beginning. A few years from now the quantity of information available will have increased hugely. You will not only see that theres a Chinese restaurant on the next block, but you will be able to s
39、ee the menu and read reviews of it.This is where the next revolution in computing will take place: in the interface (界面) between the real world and the information brought to us via the Internet. Imagine bubbles floating before your eyes, filled with cool information about anything and everything th
40、at you see in front of you.Lets jump ahead to ten years from now. A person trying to fix their car wont be reading a book with pictures; they will be wearing a device that projects animated 3-D computer graphics onto the equipment under repair, labelling parts and giving step-by-step guidance.The wi
41、ndow onto the AR world can be a smart phone or special video glasses. But in ten years time these will have been replaced by contact lenses (隐形眼镜) with tiny LEDs, which present something at a readable distance in front of the eye. So a deaf person wearing these lenses will be able to see what people
42、 are saying.The question is, while we are all absorbed in our new augmented reality worlds, how will we be communicating with each other?1、What does the text mainly talk about?AThe next information technology revolution.BEarly forms of augmented reality technology.CThe differences between reality 1.
43、0 and reality 2.0.DThe relationship between people living in reality 2.0.2、What does the underlined word “it” refer to in Paragraph 2?AThe menu.BThe block.CThe revolution.DThe restaurant.3、What are tiny LEDs used to do?AProtect peoples eyes.BShow text and images.CWarn users of dangers.DReplace video
44、 glasses.4、Whats the authors attitude towards AR technology?ADoubtful.BDisapproving.CFavourable.DAmbiguous.25（10分） Norman Garmezy, a development psychologist at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. A nine-year-old boy in particular stuck with him. H
45、e has an alcoholic mother and an absent father. But each day he would walk in to school with a smile on his face. He wanted to make sure that no one would feel pity for him and no one would know his mothers incompetence.” The boy exhibited a quality Garmezy identified as “resilience”.Resilience pres
46、ents a challenge for psychologists. People who are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity (逆境) wont know how resilient they are. Its only when theyre faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, comes out. Some give in and some con
47、quer.Garmezy s work opened the door to the study of the elements that could enable an individuals success despite the challenges they faced. His research indicated that some elements had to do with luck, but quite large set of elements was psychological, and had to do with how the children responded to the environment. The resilient children had what psychologists ca
