福建省厦门第二中学2023-2024学年高三上学期10月月考英语试题

福建省厦门第二中学2023-2024学年高三上学期10月月考英语试题

一、短对话

1．What does the man want to do in the future?

A．Start his own business. B．Teach in a private school.

2．What does the man probably do?

A．A hotel manager. B．A bank clerk. C．A taxi driver.

C．Work at a London restaurant.

3．Why is the woman unhappy with the man?

A．He was late to meet her.

B．He didn’t tell her his location.

C．He didn’t return the book on time.

4．What does the woman probably want to buy?

A．Clothes.

5．What is the man doing?

A．Walking through a forest.

flowers in his garden.

B．Visiting the woman’s house. C．Planting

B．Colorful lights. C．Skin care products.

二、长对话

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6．What role does the woman wish to take in the school play?

A．The violinist. B．The writer. C．The actress.

7．Which instrument does the man learn to play recently?

A．The guitar.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8．Why does the woman give up getting her car fixed?

A．It is beyond repair.

B．She has to spend a lot fixing it.

C．Her grandfather will buy her a new one.

B．The violin. C．The guzheng.

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9．How does the woman plan to get to school?

A．By bus.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10．What will the weather be like over the weekend?

A．Rainy. B．Windy. C．Sunny.

B．On foot. C．By bike.

11．What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Friends. B．Classmates. C．Family members.

12．What is the woman going to do next Tuesday?

A．Meet friends in a park.

B．Stay at home and watch TV.

C．Help her father with some housework.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13．Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．In a gym. B．In an office. C．In a restaurant.

14．When does the conversation take place?

A．In the morning. B．In the afternoon. C．In the evening.

15．How is the woman feeling?

A．Pleased. B．Anxious. C．Confident.

16．Which department does the woman probably work in?

A．Support services.

B．Technology. C．Marketing.

三、短文

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17．What does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．His school life. B．His writing career. C．His work experience.

18．What did the speaker end up studying at university?

A．Science. B．Literature. C．Journalism and communication.

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19．When will the science fiction be published?

A．In 6 months. B．In 8 months. C．In 14 months.

20．How can the speaker be described?

A．Aimless.

B．Determined. C．Overconfident.

四、阅读理解

There is no doubt that books have the power to change how people think about the world and the universe

around them. These 3 astronomy books have had a significant impact on the way humans think about our place and

purpose in the universe:

On the Heavens (about 350 BC) by Aristalle

Aristotle proposed a geocentric (以地球为中心的) model of the universe in the book. This work is significant

as a master work of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated (支配) intellectual thinking

for almost 2000 years．Eventually，almost everything in it was proven incorrect, but On the Heavens, which is still

in print, provides a fascinating view of astronomical evolution.

The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus

In this book, Copernicus argued that the Sun rather than the Earth lies in the center of the universe. The Earth

moves as a planet around the Sun. The most important advantage offered by Copernicus was a vision of the

universe as an integrated system, where all the planets move together in elegant harmony.

The Mechanism of the Heavens (1831) by Mary Somerville

Different from his book Physical Geography, this book was embraced as an important contribution to the

understanding of celestial motion (天体运动). It became extremely valuable to both astronomers and students and

it was used as a textbook for more than half a century. The book went through many revisions, keeping pace with

astronomical developments over time. It proves that given the opportunity, women could match the men in science

step for step.

21．What can we learn about the book On the Heavens?

A．It is banned from printing.

B．It mainly focuses on philosophy.

C．It is used by many schools today.

D．It has proven almost completely wrong.

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22．What do On the Heavens and The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres have in common?

A．They revealed the truth of the universe.

B．They are master works of the same era.

C．They explored the center of the universe.

D．They regard the universe as an integrated system.

23．Which book brings more motivation to women in science?

A．On the Heavens.

B．Physical Geography.

C．The Mechanism of the Heavens.

D．The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.

When the designer and typographer (排印工) Marcin Wichary chanced upon a tiny museum just outside

Barcelona five years ago, the experience tipped his interest in the history of technology into an obsession (痴迷)

with a very particular part of it: the keyboard.

“I have never seen so many typewriters under one roof. Not even close,” he shared on the Internet at the time.

“At this point, I literally have tears in my eyes. I’m not kidding. This feels like a miracle.”

He’d had a discovery while wandering through the exhibit: Each key on a keyboard has its own stories. And

these stories are not just about computing technology, but also about the people who designed, used, or otherwise

interacted with the keyboards.

Take the backspace key for example, he explains, “I like that the concept of backspace was originally just that

— a space going backward. We are used to it erasing now, but for a hundred years, erasing was its own incredibly

complex effort. You needed to master a Comet eraser, or Wite-Out, or strange correction tapes, and possibly all of

the above… or give up and start from scratch whenever you made a small mistake in typing.”

The deeper he researched, the more obsessive he became. Amazed that no comprehensive books existed on the

history of keyboards, he decided to create his own. When not working at his day job as the design leader for the

design software company Figma, he began producing Shift Happens, a two-volume, 1,216-page hardcover book —

and raised over $750,000 for the project on Kickstarter in March of 2023. Wichary was only a bit surprised by the

support and the keyboard’s wide appeal. As he points out. “It’s such a crucial device that occupies a lot of our

waking life.”

24．After the museum experience, Wichary’s interest in technology ________.

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A．took off B．died out C．grew stronger D．became more concrete

25．What did Wichary discover while admiring the keyboards?

A．The stories behind them.

C．The secret of the keyboards.

B．The wisdom of human.

D．The history of technology.

26．What does Wichary want to tell us about the backspace key in Paragraph 4?

A．It is a simple but powerful key.

B．It can be used to move back one space.

C．It is the result of long-term improvement.

D．It allows people to make mistakes when typing.

27．Why did Wichary write his own book?

A．To fill a gap.

In the days before the Internet, critical thinking was the most important skill of informed citizens. But in the

digital age, according to Anastasia Kozyreva, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development,

and her colleagues, an even more important skill is critical ignoring.

As the researchers point out, we live in an attention economy where content producers on the Internet compete

for our attention. They attract us with a lot of emotional and eye-catching stories while providing little useful

information, so they can expose us to profit-generating advertisements. Therefore, we are no longer customers but

products, and each link we click is a sale of our time and attention. To protect ourselves from this, Kozyreva

advocates for learning the skill of critical ignoring, in which readers intentionally control their information

environment to reduce exposure to false and low-quality information.

According to Kozyreva, critical ignoring comprises three strategies. The first is to design our environments,

which involves the removal of low-quality yet hard-to-resist information from around. Successful dieters need to

keep unhealthy food out of their homes. Likewise, we need to set up a digital environment where

attention-grabbing items are kept out of sight. As with dieting, if one tries to bank on willpower not to click

eye-catching “news,” he’ll surely fail. So, it’s better to just keep them out of sight to begin with.

The next is to evaluate the reliability of information, whose purpose is to protect you from false and

misleading information. It can be realized by checking the source in the mainstream news agencies which have

their reputations for being trustworthy.

The last goes by the phrase “do not feed the trolls.” Trolls are actors who intentionally spread false and hurtful

B．To get famous. C．To make money. D．To record history.

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information online to cause harm. It may be appealing to respond to them to set the facts straight, but trolls just care

about annoying others rather than facts. So, it’s best not to reward their bad behaviour with our attention.

By sharpening our critical ignoring skills in these ways, we can make the most of the Internet while avoiding

falling victim to those who try to control our attention, time, and minds.

28．What can we learn about the attention economy from paragraph 2?

A．It offers little information.

C．It saves time for Internet users.

B．It features depressing stories.

D．It seeks profits from each click.

29．Why does the author mention dieters in paragraph 3?

A．To discuss the quality of information.

B．To prove the benefits of healthy food.

C．To show the importance of environments.

D．To explain the effectiveness of willpower.

30．What should we do to handle Internet trolls according to the text?

A．Reveal their intention.

C．Correct their behaviour.

31．What is the text mainly about?

A．Reasons for critical thinking in the attention economy.

B．Practising the skill of critical ignoring in the digital age.

C．Maximizing the benefits of critical ignoring on the Internet.

D．Strategies of abandoning critical thinking for Internet users.

Annissa Jobb, with a walking stick, went to the office of Riam Shammaa, a pain specialist in Toronto, in 2017.

Jobb’s back pain first appeared about a decade earlier due to an undiagnosed herniated disc, which had pressed a

nerve. As the pain worsened, Jobb clenched her teeth and tried to keep going. Now she was desperate for help. “I

had a drawer full of pain medication. None of it was working.” said Jobb.

Historically, the treatment of such back pain has been less than ideal, sometimes causing patients to become

addicted to painkillers or to undergo major surgery, which is suitable for only about 1 in 20 patients. Hunting for a

solution beyond these limited options, Dr. Shammaa turned to stem cells—the building-block cells found in various

tissues in adult bodies—which can generate a set of different cells. Specifically, he’d been studying bone

marrow(骨髓)stem cells, and he invited Jobb to participate in a study with 23 other patients. He hoped that

B．Turn a deaf ear to them.

D．Send hard facts to them.

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injecting(注射)the stem cells, known as MSCs, into the patient’s herniated disc would multiply and heal the

damaged tissue.

The procedure took three and a half hours. It began with the collection of Jobb’s bone marrow—the most

painful step—which was immediately distilled(蒸馏)and concentrated into bone marrow mixture, or BMAC, then

injected into the discs. Guided by a special type of X-ray, Dr. Shammaa inserted a needle through Jobb’s spine to

place the BMAC into the discs. Jobb remained awake for the entire procedure in order to alert Dr. Shammaa if he

touched a nerve. Afterward, Jobb recovered in bed for two weeks and then, slowly, began to walk.

A month later she stepped swiftly into the clinic, a moment Dr. Shammaa recalled with delight. “While Jobb

had previously described her pain as ‘beyond ten’, she says that it’s now a two.”

32．What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A．Annissa Jobb’s back pain experiences

B．The desperate situation of Annissa Jobb

C．The treatment of Annis Jobb’s illness

D．The cause for Annissa Jobb’s visit to a pain specialist

33．Why does the author mention the treatment of back pain in history?

A．To introduce the process of the previous treatment

B．To explain the necessity of Dr. Shammaa’s research

C．To show the development of the treatment of back pain

D．To provide the supporting evidence for Dr. Shammaa’s research

34．What can we know about the stem cells in the treatment?

A．They can function in any part of human bodies

B．They are able to help cells reproduce and recover

C．They will be injected into the tissues nearby herniated disc

D．They will be concentrated before collecting patients’s bone marrow

35．What can we infer from Dr. Shammaa’s words in the last paragraph?

A．Jobb has a poor comment on her treatment.

B．Jobb has only two pain spots after the treatment.

C．Jobb’s back pain has been dramatically relieved.

D．Jobb’s back pain is evaluated more precisely than before.

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五、七选五

Are you an elementary or high school student with all kinds of invention ideas? You might not know what to

do with all of these ideas or how to turn them into workable inventions. 36

Identify a problem worth solving.

Look at the world around you and ask yourself: What could work better? What task could be done better or

faster? What annoys you and how could you fix it? 37 Not every idea will be a great one, but don’t be afraid

to think outside the box.

Draft your idea.

Draw out a basic illustration of what your invention will look like. 38 List the types of materials you

would use to build the finished project. Don’t hesitate to make multiple drafts of the same design until you are

satisfied with the result.

39

You don’t need to use the highest quality materials, but simply ones that will give you a functional working

device. Try checking second-hand stores and yard sales for parts that you can use. This will be much more

cost-effective and you will also be eco-friendly.

Build your invention.

If you will be working with power tools or other dangerous materials, you will likely need adult supervision.

Ask your parents when they have enough free time to sit down with you and start building. 40

After everything is completed, it’s time to test out and market your invention. If it turns out well-received, you

may even have your invention patented and mass- produced down the road.

A．Or turn to your older peers if they can help you out as well.

B．If you enjoy creating things, you may consider becoming an inventor.

C．With some planning and practice, you can make these ideas into a working device.

D．Be creative with your ideas.

E．Gather the necessary materials.

F．Look around your home for recycled materials that you may be able to use.

G．Make notes about how various pieces will go together.

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六、完形填空

Rain or shine, a Tibetan mailman, Tsering Chopa treks (跋涉) for long hours to deliver mail.

Pumachangthang in Tibet, China’s highest township, has very 41 oxygen level and the annual average

temperature is -7℃. However, these weren’t the biggest challenges for a 42 service. A single 43 to all

the six villages of less than 2,000 people can be as long as 160 km. The extraordinary 44 required under

such conditions needs no further explanation.

The 45 time for Tsering Chopa is between July and August each year, when students are waiting for

their 46 letters from various universities. He recalls one summer he had to deliver mail to one student whose

family had already moved away. He had to quiz (询问) neighbors several times for the new 47 . Even though

the road to the village was 48 because of rain, he trekked for more than 20 km to finally deliver the letter. “I

don’t mind the 49 , because it was my 50 to deliver the mail on time,” he says.

One night in February, 2019, a local resident Nyima Tsering’s daughter had fainted and 51 needed

help. Knowing that, the mailman 52 a car right away and sent her to the county hospital. He also gave

some 53 to the family for the girl’s treatment to help her recovery.

In 2019, Tsering Chopa 54 the China Youth May Fourth Medal. And he says, “It is a great 55

of what I do and a symbol of encouragement as well, to bring the world closer to them and take them closer to the

world.”

41．A．intense

42．A．postal

43．A．flight

44．A．diligence

45．A．busiest

46．A．application

47．A．name

48．A．blocked

49．A．letters

50．A．opportunity

51．A．originally

52．A．hoped for

B．light

B．consulting

B．holiday

B．perseverance

B．best

B．recommendation

B．address

B．widened

B．benefits

B．responsibility

B．possibly

B．kept off

C．high

C．domestic

C．trip

C．creativity

C．fastest

C．admission

C．idea

C．extended

C．potentials

C．ability

C．gradually

C．arranged for

D．low

D．public

D．choice

D．curiosity

D．earliest

D．proposal

D．explanation

D．smoothed

D．hardships

D．secret

D．desperately

D．pulled over

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53．A．bills

54．A．received

55．A．requirement

B．changes

B．missed

B．attitude

C．cash

C．declined

C．gratitude

D．comfort

D．competed for

D．acknowledgment

七、用单词的适当形式完成短文

阅读下面短文,

在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

On the east bank of Chaohu, China’s fifth-largest freshwater lake, rests a 56 (mystery) ancient “kingdom”

of jade called Lingjiatan.

In Chinese culture, jade plays a significant role and has been long considered 57 essential symbol of

harmony. Phrases like “replace weapons of war with gifts of jade and silk” and “gentle as jade” perfectly show

58 jade symbolizes in the minds of Chinese people. Taiping Village, 40 kilometers north of Lingjiatan, has a

volunteer team called “Taiping Women”, which 59 (found) by Wang Zilian several years ago. The name of the

team, like jade, represents women who promote peace and harmony. Whenever any villager needs help, Wang and

her teammates serve 60 the first responders. Because many young men left the village for big cities to work,

women, children and the elderly, including 61 (she), were left behind. Wang organized all the 62

(housewife)who stayed behind and started the first support group for such women in Taiping Village. Group

members would 63 (definite) make every effort to assist one another and solve problems.

The volunteers not only take care of the aged and look after children but also resolve conflicts, Wang noted,

64 (add) that if disagreements, quarrels, 65 any other fights occur, “Taiping Women” will be there to

help.

八、用单词的适当形式完成句子

66．Offering aid to other countries shows that we are global citizens (interest) in world

(stable) and that we are ready to build a community with a (share) future for mankind.

（所给词的适当形式填空）

67．The career you have decide your life, and so (take) time to think about it is an essential

exercise.

（所给词的适当形式填空）

68．The need to trade and the desire (enhance) relationships will drive China (reach) out

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across the sea far into the future.

（所给词的适当形式填空）

69．I (show) the boys a chemistry experiment when the (mix) was bubbling out of the

test tube (spill) everywhere.

（所给词的适当形式填空）

九、申请信

70．假定你是李华，正在澳大利亚某中学学习，你校将举办跨文化演出活动。请你给活动负责人写封邮件，申请当主持人。内容包括：1.写信目的；2.你的优势；3.期待答复。

注意：1.词数100左右；2.参考词汇：跨文化演出cross-cultural performance

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十、读后续写

71．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。

“Mommy, don’t go,” my three­year­old son screamed as I walked to the door. My fifteen­year­old leaned

against the kitchen counter with his arms folded across his chest, not screaming, but glaring at me as I pulled his

little brother off my legs.

“Are you mad at me too?”

“You spend all your time taking care of other people’s kids, but what about us?” Dylan left angrily.

I was shocked and a little hurt. How could my own child not understand that the work I was doing was saving lives?

Then the answer hit me.

He didn’t know, because he had never seen what Healing the Children actually did. Dylan

had heard the stories of sick children, but had never once looked into the eyes of a child and understood the hard

truth—that without our help, the children would likely die.

“Get dressed. You are going with me,” I said.

I spent the drive explaining the case of Hector to my son, who pretended to ignore me the entire time. “He’s seven,

only weighs thirty pounds and is very sick. He has a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, which could kill him.

It is a miracle (奇迹) that he is still alive.”

I went on to explain that it took a team of volunteer medical staff to get Hector to the hospital from his remote

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village and care for him while he was there. Still, Dylan seemed unimpressed.

We stopped at a convenience store for water and snacks. Dylan had one large and one small Slurpee (思乐冰饮料). He said the small one was for Hector. I doubted whether the little guy would be able to drink it, but

remained silent. This was the first interest Dylan had shown in being there. I wasn’t about to ruin it.

I stopped at the nurses’ station to check on Hector’s progress while Dylan went to his room. Our patient was

recovering physically, but the nurse was concerned that Hector was struggling emotionally. She said, “Kids usually

bounce back fast, but he hardly speaks and never smiles.”

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2．请按如下格式作答。

Imagine my surprise when I heard laughter from Hector’s room

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On the way home that night, Dylan asked me several times whether Hector would be okay.

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