山西省忻州一中等2022-2023学年高三第四次模拟考试英语试卷含解析

1、2022-2023学年高考英语模拟试卷考生请注意：1答题前请将考场、试室号、座位号、考生号、姓名写在试卷密封线内，不得在试卷上作任何标记。2第一部分选择题每小题选出答案后，需将答案写在试卷指定的括号内，第二部分非选择题答案写在试卷题目指定的位置上。3考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，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）1-Excuse me, could you tell me the time, please?-Sorry, I dont have a watch with me.- _AThanks a lot.BWhat a pity.CI

2、m sorry to hear thatDThanks all the same2What do you think of teaching, Bob?I find it fun and challenging. It is a job _ you are doing something serious and interesting.AwhichBwhereCwhenDthat3The flat is good value for money because not only did they sell it to me at a cheap price, but they threw in

3、 some old furniture _.Aat their commandBfor good measureCbeyond my reachDbeneath their dignity4He messed the project up, but he behaved as if nothing _.Ahad happenedBhappenedCwould happenDwould have happened5It is widely acknowledged in foreign companies that employees should be _ in terms of innova

4、tion capability.Aexamined BevolvedCevaluated Dencouraged6There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds _ they are not objectively true, and that giants, witches, two-headed dragons etc do not exist.AthatBwhatCwhichDwhen7Pity you missed Georges wedding.Well, I _.Ahavent been invite

5、d Bwouldnt be invitedChadnt been invited Dam not invited8Sorry, I didnt hear the door bell ring.Your bell . Perhaps it needs repairing.Anever workedBis never workingCnever worksDhad never worked9 Mum, would you please buy me an MP5 player? If you can help do some housework the whole vacation，you _ h

6、ave one as a reward.AmustBneedCwouldDshall10You are subject to punishment if you fail to _ to the customs when carrying the prohibited articles listed above.Astate BdeclareCannounce Dcommunicate11Oh！I can feel something _ up my leg！It must be an insectAto climbBclimbingCclimbDclimbed12Her doctor ind

7、icated that even adding a(n) _ amount of daily exercise would dramatically improve her health.AmodestBequalCexactDconsiderable13_almost one hundred jin, the stone was moved by him alone.AWeighedBWeighingCIt weighedDTo weigh14The infrastructure of a country is _ makes everything run well, including t

8、hings like transport, irrigation, electricity and schools.Awhich BthatCwhere Dwhat15So popular _ in his adopted hometown that he has been named honorary citizen of Beijing.AStephon Marbury isBStephon Marbury will beCis Stephon MarburyDwill Stephon Marbury be16The engineer is thought to be capable an

9、d modest, so his promotion to manager is a popular _.AachievementBappointmentCcommitmentDemployment17To make a breakthrough in his scientific research, the scientist has been making a(n) _amount of effort.Amodest BmiserableCoptional Dtremendous18_ children believe they can succeed, they will never b

10、ecome totally independent.AIf BSince CUnless DThough19Music treatment involves a specialist playing an instrument or sing _ the patients mood.Aby means ofBwith regard toCin response toDon account of20If you _ come to our village, Ill show you around.AwillBshallCmustDshould第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所

11、给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。21（6分）A typical school day in the UK starts around 8:30 am. This is often even earlier elsewhere in the world, with students sitting down to their first lesson at 7:30 am in the US. The average teenager ideally needs eight to nine hours sleep each night, but in reality a lot of

12、 teenagers struggle to get this much. A lot of the problems arise because our sleep patterns are not fixed, and they change as we grow.So a later school start time could help to solve this problem, by ensuring to get their eight plus hours of sleep and react properly to their bodys natural rhythms (

13、规律). There has been a general shift over the past 25 years to shorten the school day. This is not at the cost of teaching time (which has remained constant) but at the cost of natural breaks, which has led to reduced lunch time and lesson breaks.Later start times could help teens grades and health.

14、This is mainly because it makes the management of children easier. Supervising (监管) hundreds of children “playing” requires effective staffing (人员配备). And there is always the fear that behavior worsens during breaks. So the theory goes that having them in class and strictly supervised must be better

15、.But this means that students barely have enough time to absorb what they were doing in maths before suddenly they are thrust into ancient history. And teaching staff also transit from one class to another, with hardly a rest or time to refocus.Clearly rethinking the school day could benefit everyon

16、e involved. Anyway, it could also lead to better achievement in teenagers and less of a struggle for parents in the mornings. For teachers, it could also mean a less stressful day all around and what could be better than that?1、Mow do schools often shorten the school day?AThey increase more holidays

17、.BThey reduce the teaching timeCThey properly adjust children natural rhythmsDThey reduce childrens lunch time and lesson breaks2、Whats the purpose of the children short lesson breaks according to the text?ATo reduce childrens excitementBTo make children quickly take in what they learnedCTo supervis

18、e children more easilyDTo make children behave better in class3、What can we learn about later school start time from the text?AIt will add to the teachers pressureBIt has always been there for 25 yearsCIt benefits the students onlyDParents may support it4、What can be the best title for the text?AThe

19、 benefits of a less stressful dayBHow to solve teenagers sleep problemCThe benefits of later school start timeDThe reasons why teenagers sleep differently22（8分）Half an hour into a cooking competition at Green Street Academy, Tyana Givens, 15, dipped a plastic spoon into a pot with tomatoes, bell pep

20、pers, onions, garlic and mushrooms over a burner in a science classroom. She and the two other students, Kalimah Ball and Maya Smith, were making meat sauce.The girls had spent the past five weeks learning how to grow their own produce using food computers-tabletop greenhouses controlled by computer

21、 programs-at Green Street Academy, a charter school in Baltimore. The course, which weaved together lessons on programming, food systems and agriculture, ended with an “Iron Chef”-style cooking contest.With the help of instructor Melanie Shimano, the girls finished their contest successfully using t

22、he food they planted in tabletop greenhouses. The tabletop greenhouses can control temperature, light and water inside using the computer code that the students wrote by themselves. Shimano, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, piloted(试行)the course as part of Green Street Academys junior biotechnology class

23、 in the spring and will expand the program to other schools in the fall.“Technology is not something that a lot of teachers have a lot of resources for all the time, but its something thats not difficult to do with a relatively low amount of funding,” Shimano said. “Baltimore is a center for startup

24、s and food, so kind of fostering that culture of being into technology and into design and seeing all the pieces fit together is really cool.”While her course is unique to Baltimore, its part of a broader program born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab called the Open Agricultur

25、e Initiative, or OpenAg, which aims to create inventive, sustainable food systems through open-source technology. In addition to 10 full-time staff and researchers, OpenAg is primarily an online community of about 1,400 educators, growers, chefs and retailers in 47 countries, according to Hildreth E

26、ngland, OpenAgs assistant director.“The interest level across the board generally comes from folks who are concerned about food systems and concerned about the environment, and its usually a combination of the two,” England said.1、Whats special about the course taken by Tyana Givens?AIts a cooking c

27、ourseBIt involves several subjectsCIt is intended for a contestDIt is controlled by tabletop greenhouses.2、Why did the students have to write computer codes to grow food?ATo win a cooking contestBTo finish homeworkCTo create a greenhouseDTo control the growing conditions3、Whats Shimanos opinion abou

28、t technology education?AIt calls of teachers with many resourcesBIt calls for a lot of moneyCIt is supposed to combine skills togetherDIt can only be carried out in big cities.4、What can be learned about the Open Agriculture Initiative?AIt is participated by full-time. M. I. T researchers as well as

29、 people from different walk of lifeBIt will help create a better education systemCIt only covers the USADIt focuses on food and catering industry.23（8分）Researchers with the University of Cambridge say they have the first real evidence of a new state of matter, some 40 years after it was first theori

30、zed.Known as “quantum spin liquid(量子旋转水)”, the matter state causes normally unbreakable electrons to break into pieces called “Majorana fermions.” These fermions are an important discovery. Physicists believe the material is vital to further develop quantum computing. Computers employing Majorana fe

31、muons would be able to carry out calculations beyond the scale of modern computers quickly, they say.Quantum spin liquid explains some of the eccentric behaviors inside magnetic(磁性的) materials. In these materials, the electrons should behave like small bar magnets, all adjusting towards magnetic nor

32、th when a material is cooled. But not all magnetic materials do thisif the material contains quantum spin liquid, the electrons dont all line up and become involved.“Until recently, we didnt even know what the experimental fingerprints of a quantum spin liquid would look like,” researcher Dr.Dmitry

33、Kovrizhin says. “That created a challenge for the researchers, so they decided to employ neutron scattering(神经扫描) techniques to look for evidence of break”. What they found surprised them. The features matched nearly exactly with quantum spin liquid models theorized by physicist Phil Anderson in 197

34、3. The results of their breakthrough were then published in the scientific journal Nature Materials on Monday.Dont get too excited just yet on its applications, though. Kovirzhins work is only the beginning and as weve seen with quantum computing there is a lot of work to be done. But its still exci

35、ting regardless.“Its an important step for our understanding of quantum matter,” Kovrizhin says. “Its fun to have another new quantum state that weve never seen beforeit presents us with new possibilities to try new things.”1、What can we learn about “Majorana fermion” according to Paragraph 2?AIt is

36、 an important discovery 40 years ago.BIt is a surprising theory raised by Phil Anderson.CIt is a key piece in developing quantum computer.DIt is an unbreakable electrons employing computer.2、Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “eccentric” in Paragraph 3?AStrange. BComplex. CP

37、ermanent. DObvious.3、How did the researchers make the breakthrough?ABy adjusting magnetic materials.BBy using neutron scattering techniques.CBy repeating maths calculations.DBy changing electronic structure.4、What is the authors tone about the future of quantum matter?ANegative. BDoubtful. CIndiffer

38、ent. DOptimistic.24（8分） Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May the 14th, 1984. He is the creator of the social media site Facebook. He was a star student at school, winning prizes in astronomy, maths and physics. He was also good at Classical studies. He studied Psychology and Computer Science at Ha

39、rvard University, which is where he created Facebook. His invention led to his becoming Time magazines Person Of The Year for 2010.Zuckerberg excelled in everything he did in his youth. He was captain of the school fencing team, spoke many languages and was a highly skilled computer programmer. Whil

40、e other kids played computer games, he designed them. He created his first network while in high school to connect all of the computers - in his fathers dental surgery. He also built a media player which attracted the interest of Microsoft and AOL.Zuckerberg started at Harvard in September 2002. In

41、his first year, he created Facemash, a Facebook predecessor (前身), which let students select the colleges best looking people from a selection of photos.He launched Facebook from his Harvard room in February 2004. It was the start of a rollercoaster ride that would connect half a billion people world

42、wide and make him the worlds youngest billionaire.Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the most influential people on the planet. He has dined with the president of the USA and regularly attends global economic summits and technology conferences. He stated: “The thing I really care about is the mission, ma

43、king the world open.” In 2010, Zuckerberg signed a promise, in which he promised to donate at least half of his life wealth to charity.1、The underlined word “excelled in” can be replaced by _.Awas addicted toBdid well inCwas absorbed inDlooked forward to2、The 2nd paragraph is mainly about young Zuck

44、erbergs _.Aadvantages in sportsBcomputer programming abilityCbrilliant performance in many fieldsDgreat attraction to Microsoft and AOL.3、When did Zuckerberg invent Facebook?AIn 1984BIn 2010CIn 2002DIn 20044、What can we infer from the text?AZuckerberg built his social media site after graduating fro

45、m university.BZuckerbergs Facebook predecessor helped him become world famous.CZuckerbergs donation made him Time magazines Person Of The Year for 2010.DZuckerberg is not only an intelligent computer giant but also a kind billionaire.25（10分） The first organized system for sending messages began in E

46、gypt around 1500 BCThis system developed because the pharaohs frequently needed to send messages up and down the Nile River in order to keep their empire running smoothly. Later, the Persians developed a more efficient system for sending messages using men and horses. Messages carriers rode along th

47、e road system stretching from one end of the Persian Empire to the other. Along these roads, fresh men and horses waited at special stations to take and pass along any messages that needed to be sent. The stations where riders passed messages back and forth were built 23 kilometers apart, so the men

48、 and horses were able to travel quickly between them. The Romans later took up his idea and improved it by using a more advanced and extensive road system.In China, however, Kublai Khan had built up his own system for delivering messages. This system worked in the same basic way as the Roman system.

49、 The difference was that Kublai Khan kept 300,000 horses along the roads of this delivery lines. There were over 10,000 stations where a message would be passed from one rider to another with a fresh horse. In this way, Kublai Khan could receive messages from anywhere in the country in only a few da

50、ys.It was not until the 1500s that a well-organized postal system appeared again in Europe. One family, the von Taxis family, gained the right to deliver mail for the Holy Roman Empire and parts of Spain. This family continued to carry mail, both government and private, throughout Europe for almost

51、300 years.In 1653, a Frenchman, Renouard de Velayer, established a system for delivering post in Paris. Postal charges at that time were paid by the recipient , but de Velayers system was unique by allowing the sender to pre-pay the charges, in a similar way to the modern stamp. Unfortunately, de Ve

52、layers system came to an end when jealous competitors put live mice in his letter boxes, ruining his business. Eventually, government-controlled postal systems took over from private postal businesses, and by the 1700s government ownership of most postal systems in Europe was an accepted fact of lif

53、e.The thing that all these early systems had in common was that they were quite expensive for public use, and were intended for use by the government and the wealthy. However, in 1840, a British schoolteacher named Roland Hill suggested introducing postage stamps, and a postal rate based on weight.

54、This resulted in lowering postal rates, encouraging more people to use the system to stay in touch with each other, His idea helped the British postal system begin to earn profits as early as 1850. Soon after that many other countries took up Mr. Hills idea. And letter writing became accessible to a

55、nyone who could write. Today, the Roland Hill awards are given each year to encourage and reward fresh ideas which help promote philately (stamp collecting).1、What is the main topic of the passage?AHow international letters travel.BA surprising method for delivering mail.CThe history of postal syste

56、ms.DChanges in the methods of communication.2、Which of the following statements about Renouard de Velayer is true?AHis was a government-controlled system.BHis competitors destroyed his business.CHis system lasted for hundreds of years.DIn his system, the person who received the letter paid the posta

57、ge fees.3、Which of the systems mentioned in the passage was most like the postal system today?AEgyptian.BChinese.Cde Velayers.Dvon Taxiss.4、What was Roland Hills greatest achievement?AHe made letter writing accessible to the average person.BHe made a lot of money for the British postal system.CHe ma

58、de stamp collecting a popular hobby.DHe won an award for letter writing.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项26（30分）This happened several weeks ago. On my way to work, I accidentally got on the wrong bus because I was 1 the news on my phone. I had to 2 and wal

59、k several blocks to work, a path I had never taken.I met a man sitting on a bench looking very 3 , so I asked him what was wrong. He said his 4 had been dragged away (拖走) from a public lot and that he had no 5 to get to the airport to meet his wife. I told him that I could help him out and let him 6

60、 there.I went to the 7 one block away and got cash. When I returned, the man was standing there, watching me 8 him. When I gave him the cash, he hugged me, thanked me, and started 9 !I nearly cried, too. I wished him to get to the airport safely, explained 10 he could take public transport to get th