高三英语

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，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 would the woman like to do?

A. Have the papers checked.

B. Help someone type papers.

C. Go over the papers herself.

2. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A position B. A weekend plan. C. The man's company.

3. Where will the woman go this afternoon?

A. An office party. B. A shopping mall. C. An opera house.

4. What does the woman prefer to do?

A. Work out alone.

B. Eat breakfast at the cafe

C. Exercise with someone.

5. What does the woman like most about the city?

A. The parks. B. The old buildings. C. The French restaurant.

第二节（共 15 小题；每题 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5 秒钟时间阅读各个小题；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。

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6. What happened to the woman's flight?

A. It failed to take off on time.

B. It was called off without notice.

C. It arrived about two hours earlier.

7. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a restaurant. B. On a plane. C. At the airport.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8. How long is the woman going to stay at the hotel?

A. Two nights. B. Three nights. C. Four nights.

9. Why are the prices for the two rooms different?

A. The rooms have different views.

B. The rooms are different in size.

C. The rooms are of different shapes.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10. Why does the woman express thanks to the man?

A. He'll shop with her.

B. He'll drive her home.

C. He'll entertain her friends.

11. What's the advantage of a convenience store for the man?

A. The lower price.

B. Much more selection.

C. Longer opening hours.

12. What will the woman do next?

A. Eat hamburgers.

B. Stay at the cash counter.

C. Compare different brands.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13. How does the man find the approach?

A. It boosts kids' creativity.

B. It gives kids more time to play.

C. It encourages kids to be active.

14. Why won't the woman attend the training?

A. She has to work.

B. She wants to visit her friends.

C. Her son's birthday is at this weekend.

15. What's the woman's concern?

A. The training time.

B. Her performance.

C. The grouping method.

16. What can teachers gain in this training?

A. Improved teaching materials.

B. Deeper understanding of children.

C. Better relationship with colleagues.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17. When is Sweetest Day?

A. On the third Sunday in October.

B. On the third, Saturday, in October.

C. On the second Saturday in October.

18. Why is Sweetest Day celebrated?

A. To make friends.

B. To bring joy to people.

C. To make cities more beautiful.

19. Who did the Cleveland man help?

A. His friends and relatives.

B. The aged and his neighbors.

C. The city's orphans and patients.

20. How did the Cleveland man celebrate Sweetest Day?

A. By offering hugs.

B. By distributing some cash.

C. By giving away small gifts.

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上

将该项涂黑。

A

What is PayQuick?

PayQuick is a fast payment service for shopping in the biggest supermarket in UK — Tesco. It allows you to

add your credit or debit card details to the app so you can use your smartphone to pay for your shopping with just

one scan, which means you can go wallet-free in all UK Tesco stores.

What are the benefits?

Collect your Tesco points automatically

Pay for your weekly shopping up to 250

Use PayQuick offline, even with no signal

Track your spending in Tesco

However, only one qualifying deal per week will collect the extra Tesco points. Additional payments in the

same week won’t receive extra points. Tesco points will be added to your future Tesco points statement.

How to get your PayQuick?

Available to new customers who sign up by 3rd March2024, the PayQuick app can be downloaded from the

App Store or our official website. Once you have the app on your phone, register your personal details on the app to

get an account. Note that for each customer, only one account is allowed and a family shared account will not be

acknowledged. Finally, with all the preparation work done, you’ll be ready to shop using just your phone.

Plus, there’s no need to worry about your bank details being stored on your phone — they’re all securely

protected in our data centers. So not only is it quicker and easier, it’s safer than going shopping with your wallet as

well.

1. If customers use PayQuick in UK Tesco stores, they can ______.

A. purchase things only offline

B. get their Tesco points automatically

C. keep track of their daily spending

D. pay for their shopping without limit

2. Which is NOT a must for PayQuick users?

A. To register by 3rd March 2024.

B. To download the PayQuick app.

C. To bring their phones with them.

D. To share the account with their family.

3. What is the author’s intention in writing this passage?

A. To ensure the safety of PayQuick.

B. To stress the importance of PayQuick.

C. To popularize the use of PayQuick.

D. To illustrate the application of PayQuick.

B

At 98, Dick Van Dyke still sings with his group, The Vantastix, and still makes it all look easy. When asked

how important it is that he’s having fun when he’s doing it, Van Dyke replied, “My whole career has relied on that.

It’s such a blessing to find a way of making a living that you love. I feel so sorry for people who hate their job. I

look forward to going to work every morning!”

And some of his work helped define a generation. Take “The Dick Van Dyke Show”; it ran for five years on

CBS, and it was such a hit that they’re bringing it back. This week, CBS aired a two-hour tribute (致敬), “Dick Van

Dyke, 98 Years of Magic”, and for the occasion, they recreated the original Dick Van Dyke Show” set, down to

that well-known sofa.

Early in his career Van Dyke was quoted as saying he only wanted to make films his children could watch.

That got the attention of Walt Disney, who promptly cast him in “Mary Poppins”. And his next few films were

equally family-friendly, like “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” which happened to have been co-written by James Bond

creator Ian Fleming. From then on, Van Dyke was almost always assigned to play the good guy, though he claims

to have missed out on a choice part: “Yeah, I could have been James Bond. When Sean Connery left, the producer

said, ‘Would you like to be the next Bond?’ I said, ‘Have you heard my British accent?’ That’s a true story!”

It seems that in show biz the true legends never stop. In an interview from 2017 with his friends, Van Dyke

described what it was like hitting 90: “People are more afraid of aging than they are of death these days. And I want

to say that remain young in heart and there’s a lot of good living to do.”

4. What can we infer from Dyke’s reply in Paragraph 1?

A. He enjoys his job. B. He hates morning work.

C. He sees his job as a burden. D. He prefers leisure to work.

5. What did CBS do for Dyke?

A. They created a new set for his show.

B. They bought a famous sofa for him.

C. They made a special program for him.

D. They invited young generation to watch his show.

6. Which statement is true about Dyke’s career?

A. His films are rarely family-friendly.

B. His films are only made for his children.

C. Van Dyke was always playing the good guy.

D. Van Dyke had the chance to play James Bond.

7. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Forever Young. B. Work Comes First.

C. Always Have Fun. D. Legends Are Timeless.

C

3M and Discovery Education announced Sean Jiang from Gilman School as one of the top ten finalists from

across the nation for the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge. It’s a competition that encourages students to

identify an everyday problem and submit a video showing the science behind the solution he or she came up with.

14-year-old Jiang decided to help those who can’t see. Blind people had a hard time navigating (导航) objects

that are medium to far range. So Jiang wanted to design something to give them a heads-up on obstacles (障碍) that

may be incoming.

Jiang’s inspiration came from the powers of the hearing system. “I learned in school that bats and whales are

able to use echolocation (回声定位) to help them navigate and just use their sense of hearing and I also saw on

YouTube some very skilled blind people that use echolocation to help them walk,” said Jiang.

Jiang started with a virtual reality setting and then made it a reality. His creation uses a depth camera that can

detect how close objects are, thus giving enough time to dodge the obstacles. When a blind is walking with the

device, the sensor of the depth camera gathers the information regarding the obstacles’ position and distance. Then

the AI system in it will turn the distance data into musical sound guidance. This could significantly increase the

walking speed of a blind person as well as decrease the number of obstacles they hit.

Some other similar programs were alright at finding objects that were in close range but Jiang still wanted the

,

blind to experience the world even fuller so they were able to see stuff that was much further away than their circle

of reach.

In October, the top ten finalists will compete in person in Minneapolis for the title of “America’s Top Young

Scientist” and a $25, 000 prize.

8. What can we learn about Jiang from the first two paragraphs?

A. He was the champion of the 2023 3M event.

B. He invented technology to remove road obstacles.

C. He sought to assist the blind in walking smoothly.

D. He developed a new navigation app for his school.

9. Why did Jiang mention “echolocation”?

A. To show the development of technology.

B. To present the difficulties the blind face.

C. To stress the significance of hearing.

D. To explain the inspiration of his invention.

10. What does the underlined word “dodge” mean in paragraph 4?

A. Avoid.

B. Encounter.

C. Challenge.

D. Remove.

11. What is the text mainly about?

A. 3M facilities intended for the blind.

B. A teen using sound to help the blind.

C. An invention to cure vision problems.

D. A competition to improve the blind’s life.

D

Moon dust is the absolute worst. Not only does electrostatics (静电) cause it to stick to virtually everything, but

it also has the consistency and feel of finely ground fiberglass. It was a genuine problem for the six Apollo crews

who visited the moon’s surface — moon dust covered their suits, worked their way into engines and electronics, and

even ruined a few of their extremely expensive spacesuits.

These are all serious issues to consider ahead of NASA’S planned return to the moon’s surface in 2025, but a

team of college undergraduates at Washington State University just developed a solution to moon dust — spraying

liquid nitrogen (氮) onto moon dust. The team developed a new spray that takes advantage of the Leidenfrost effect.

Named after its discoverer, an 18th-century German doctor Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, it occurs when a liquid comes

into close contact with a significantly hotter surface, causing it to quickly form a protective layer of vapor (蒸汽) that

briefly keeps it from evaporating, such as when water forms into drops and runs across a very hot frying nan. The

same principle works similarly in space. In this case, a liquid nitrogen spray (typically around -320) comes into

contact with a surface’s relatively warmer lunar dust coating, causing the particles to turn into things like drops and

float away on the nitrogen vapors.

To test their spray, the research team first dressed a Barbie doll wrapped with a material used to make spacesuits.

They then sprayed it with liquid nitrogen in a normal atmospheric condition as well as the circumstances similar to

outer space. Not only did the liquid nitrogen spray perform better in the latter circumstances, but also it only resulted

in minimal damage to the spacesuit material. In past lunar missions, astronauts’ specialized brushes for the moon

dust task often caused damage to spacesuits after a single use. In comparison, the liquid nitrogen spray took 75 uses

before similar issues occurred.

Going forward, the team hopes to further research the complexity that makes the cleaning process so effective,

as well as secure funding to construct testing rooms more closely resembling the lunar surface’s gravity. With any

luck, maybe a can of their Moon-Dust-Gone will be aboard a future Artemis mission, ready to help astronauts avoid

one of the lunar surface’s annoying things.

12. Why does the author mention “Apollo” in the first paragraph?

A. To prove moon dust is a real headache.

B. To compare past and present moon programs.

C. To show the achievements in moon exploration.

D. To offer readers insights into the Apollo program.

13. What does the underlined word “particles” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Liquid waste. B. Moon dust. C. Nitrogen spray. D. Protective coating.

14. What did the research team find about their spray in Paragraph 3?

A. It belonged to single-use items for astronauts.

B. It performed better in normal atmospheric conditions.

C. It increased the strength of the material of spacesuits.

D. It protected spacesuits better compared with the brush.

15. What may the follow-up research of the spray focus on?

A. Test subjects. B. Complex lunar surface.

C. Other applications. D. Reasons for efficient cleaning.

第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分)

One might hope that children’s capacity for boredom would be matched by an appetite for all things new — If

only parenting were so easy. ____16____Here are expert-approved tips on how to get your kids to attempt new things

without frightening them off.

Start with what they know. Take something your kids already like or are good at, and push them to try it in a

new environment or a slightly different way. If you want your kids to feel confident about their strengths and use that

as a springboard to try something new, think:____17____How can you help them advance in that? There is no need

to learn a new thing — you just create an opportunity to push your kids to try something new with the skill they

know.

Make a list. Ask your children what new things they want to try out or have them write a list. Help them figure

out what it is that they are worried about when they avoid new things.____18____It’s a way to help them feel in

charge of their emotions and understand the connection between thoughts and actions.

____19____You should both recognize your children’s fears and express certainty that they can handle the task.

It is important to project confidence in your children. Say you believe they have capacity to handle those challenges

and tolerate the discomfort or worries or negative feelings that might come along with doing new or scary things.

Consider if they are doing enough. You should also do some reflecting of your own. Do your children really

need to try tofu or martial arts? If your kids are functioning overall, they are doing the basics and they have some

friends, then be encouraging.____20____Sometimes doing that stops you from focusing on the things they are doing.

A. Sympathize and encourage.

B. Be tolerant and open-minded.

C. What are your kids comfortable with?

D. Why are your kids fascinated by new things?

E. Don’t overstress on everything they are not doing.

F. Sometimes the act of identifying and naming fears can help decrease them.

G. Trying new things is difficult for many children, whether a different food or skill.

第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）

第一节（共 15 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）

I was ten when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Prior to that, she had been a(n) ___21___ woman, active

to an extent most people found astonishing. As a child, I was amazed by her accomplishments. But at thirty-one, her

life ___22___. And so did mine.

She could do anything, I ___23___. She won tennis tournaments. She took photographs and held her own

exhibition. She ___24___ as a newspaper columnist, and she cooked Spanish dishes for the family.

Now, she faced her illness with the same ___25___. Words like “disabled” and “physical therapy” became part

of a(n) ___26___ new world we entered together. ___27___, I began to help take care of her. And it became routine

to ___28___ her into the kitchen, where she instructed me in the ___29___ of peeling carrots and potatoes and how

to prepare a decent breakfast.

Every accomplishment was a ____30____ for us both: the electric typewriter, the car with power steering and

brakes, her return to ____31____, where she earned a master’s degree in special education. She eventually founded

an activist support group called The Handicappers. One day, without ____32____ much beforehand, she took me to

a Handicappers meeting. I had never seen so many people with so many ____33____. I returned home, thinking how

____34____ we really were.

Because my mother accepted her condition with such optimism, I rarely felt sad or resentful about it. Instead, I

viewed her drive to look forward to things I ____35____ as a great mystery and powerful inspiration in my life.

21.

A. gentle B. energetic C. talented D. decent

22.

A. changed B. failed C. improved D. paused

23.

A. imagined B. admitted C. doubted D. believed

24.

A. applied B. spoke C. wrote D. studied

25.

A. success B. sincerity C. enthusiasm D. wisdom

26.

A. familiar B. strange C. exciting D. changeable

27.

A. Gradually B. Particularly C. Alternatively D. Finally

28.

A. drag B. pull C. guide D. wheel

29.

A. art B. significance C. safety D. plan

30.

A. solution B. milestone C. dream D. warning

31.

A. hospital B. court C. work D. college

32.

A. saying B. hiding C. pretending D. showing

33.

A. gifts B. disabilities C. weaknesses D. privileges