2023届广东省兴宁市一中高三第二次诊断性检测英语试卷含解析

1、2023届高考英语模拟试卷考生须知：1全卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，全部在答题纸上作答。选择题必须用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题的答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔写在“答题纸”相应位置上。2请用黑色字迹的钢笔或答字笔在“答题纸”上先填写姓名和准考证号。3保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1Large quantities of time _ for practising guided writings. Awas neededBare neededC needsDis needed2Mr, White, do yo

2、u have anything _?No, nothing. You can take a rest now.Atype Btyped Cto type Dto be typed3-May! How is your plan? I heard you started it last Sunday.-Oh! I for it, but I havent decided where to start it.Ahave preparedBhad preparedChave been preparingDwas preparing4Passengers _ talk to the driver whi

3、le the bus is moving, because it will take his focus off the road.Awould notBmust notCmay notDneed not5You can only be sure of _ you have at present; you cannot be sure of something _ you might get in the future.Athat; whatBwhat; /Cwhich; thatD/; that68 students and 2 teachers at Santa Fe High Schoo

4、l 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 killed7Allen followed his customer across the yard and stood on the step of the house, two shopping bags.AliftedB

5、having liftedCto liftDlifting8I felt it very difficult to carry on the work all by myself. I could have helped you, but you _me to.Ahadnt askedBdidnt askChavent askedDdont ask9Amazing! You wear slippers at work.Dont you know its a fashion?AmustBshouldCcanDmay10We offered to pay our half of the cost

6、that was needed to restore the shared doorway but Charles would have of it.AnothingBanythingCnoneDany11_ blood if you can and many lives will be saved.AGivingBGivenCTo giveDGive12We all agree that it is good to help those in need, but when _ comes to giving away our money, things become strange.Atha

7、tBthisCitDone13 How do you find your new classmate? Oh, she is really _ of a musician, who can not only sing very beautifully, but also compose skillfully.AsomethingBsomebodyCeverythingDeverybody14He let me write down his instructions sure that I would know what was after he went away.Amaking; doing

8、 Bmaking; to doCto make; to do Dto make; to be done15Maybe some of you are curious about what my life was like on the streets because Ive never really talked about it _.Ain placeBin turnCin forceDin depth16We believe _ you have been devoted to _ naturally of great necessity.Athat; beingBall that; be

9、Cthat all; areDwhat; is17-My room gets very cold at night. -_.ASo is mineBSo mine isCSo does mineDSo mine does18 Which driver was to blame?- Why, _! It was the childs fault, clear and simple. He suddenly came out between two parked cars.AbothBeachCeitherDneither19If we forgave criminals, we might be

10、come a society of endless excuses _ no one accepts responsibility for anythingAwhichBwhereCwhenDas20It was John who broke the window. Why are you talking to me as if I it?Ahad doneBhave doneCdidDam doing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）In a world full of Kates and Sarahs, you m

11、ight think itd be nice to have a unique name to help me stand out in a crowd.Being named Stacia (pronounced stay-sha) is not so lucky to me. I11 get the occasional. “Your name is so pretty after introducing myself, but eventually my name causes me more frustration than happiness. For example, Micros

12、oft Word always tries to tell me my name isnt a real word. I was never able to buy a cheesy Mickey Mouse keychain from Disneyland as a kid (in other words, I didnt have a childhood). I couldnt even pronounce my own name correctly until I was five.I once had a professor who pronounced my name differe

13、ntly each class. After a while I stopped correcting him, and thats been my reaction to strangers ever since. In other cages, Id rather tell the cashier my name is Staci and save both of us, as well as the people standing behind me in line, valuable time.Meeting new people gives me anxiety, and Ive r

14、ealized its easier just to lie about my name altogether in certain cases. Actually I didso many times that Brittany is now my chosen “going out name. It may have caused some confusion with my friends at first, who would let out a small laugh or confused look, but Ive trained them to keep a straight

15、face whenever I came up with this fake(假的)nameNow going out on weekends means I get to have a shift of identity.Frustrations aside, being the owner of a unique name has made me appreciate the little things in life. Someone pronouncing or spelling my name correctly on the first try brings me more joy

16、 than it probably should. I also love when I meet another Stacia and we get to bond over our shared struggles.To any other Stacias reading thisI feel you, girl. P.S. I apologize to any real Brittanys out there. Thanks for letting me borrow your name !1、36How does the author often feel about her name

17、?AAnnoyedBHappyCDisappointedDProud2、38Why does the author use a fake name?ATo enjoy a different identityBTo stand out in a crowdCTo save time and troubleDTo make a fool of herself3、40Whats the reaction of her friends to “Brittany finally?AThey are laughing at herBThey are used to itCThey are strongl

18、y against herDThey are confused about it4、42How does the author sound when telling the story?AGuiltyBCautiousCCuriousDHumorous22（8分）Early in the Iliad, Homers epic poem（史诗）about the legendary, Trojan War, there occurs a famous anecdote known as the catalogue of ships, which names all the Greek leade

19、rs and contingents(小分队) who came to fight at Troy. Before unfolding this impressive muster roll (花名册)，Homer makes a special, public appeal to the Muses to ensure he gets the facts right:Tell me now, Muses, who have your homes on Olympus- for you are goddesses, and ever-present, and know all things,

20、and we hear only rumour: nor do we know anythingThese lines reflect a central claim of epic poetrythat through the inspiration of the Muses, daughters of Memory, it can preserve the knowledge of people and the events of the past a formidable power in the non-literate, oral cultures in which the Ilia

21、d evolved. The Iliad was composed around 750-700 BC, but its origins lie at least some five centuries earlier, deep in the Mycenaean Bronze Age-the world the Iliad poetically evokes.The Iliad is keenly aware of its role as the keeper of memory, and credibility is central to its storytelling. The epi

22、c is a work of fiction, and relates the events of a few weeks in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War fought between Greeks and Trojans over beautiful Helen, the Greek queen who deserted her husband to elope with a Trojan prince. Its cast of characters includes not only warriors and their capt

23、ives and families, but the immortal Olympian gods, who perform many supernatural acts in the course of their eager participation in the action around Troy.The Iliad has the reputation for being an exclusively(专门地) male epic, weak on female characters, but to choose only one exampleHomers delicate ch

24、aracterization of Helen as a woman driven by reluctant remorseful(悔恨的) passion is as hauntingly（萦绕心头地）credible as any Anna Karenina.Longinus, a scholar in the 1st Century AD wrote that in recording as he does the wounding of the gods, their quarrels, vengeance, tears, imprisonment and all their pass

25、ions Homer has done his best to make the men in the Iliad gods and gods men. The scene between Achilles and Priam displays this inversion and crystallises what the Iliad poets had learned in the course of the epics Journey. That the gods we worship might not answer, and on occasion humanity must ris

26、e to fill their place. That glory is closely associated with painful loss. That the victor shares the humanity of the most vulnerable of the vanquished（战败者）; that there is no such thing as pure victory in war.1、The Iliad about the legendary Trojan War, might date back to _.Athe third century BC Bthe

27、 seventh century BCCthe eighth century BC Dthe thirteenth century BC2、According to the passage,_.Abeing reliable is essential to the storytelling of the IliadBTrojan War between Greeks and Trojans lasted over a decadeCTrojan War ended owning to the Olympian gods absenceDbeautiful Helen is a woman wo

28、rth respecting in the Iliad3、Why does the Iliad have the reputation for being an exclusively male epic?ABecause it focuses only on men and war.BBecause too few females were well depicted.CBecause its cast of characters includes only males.DBecause Helen was described as a passionate woman.4、Which of

29、 the following statements doesnt agree with the authors idea?APure victory in war does not exist at all.BGlory is naturally accompanied with saddening loss.CThe victor gains everything without any emotional loss.DBoth the victor and the vanquished share the same humanity.23（8分） Christmas at the moun

30、tain cline would have to wait. The banks beside Mary Breckinridges Wendover, Kentucky, clinic were ruined after a heavy rain. She had to find a way to get her five patients to the hospital in Lexington.With a neighbors help, Mary and the nurses built a boat. They named it Ambulance, and on the morni

31、ng of December 30,1926. Mary another nurse, and the patients set off down the river. After sixteen wild miles on the dangerous river, they arrived at the train station in Krypton. As she watched the train pull away with her patients safely on board. Mary smiled and waved.Mary had not planned to be a

32、 nurse. She was the daughter of a wealthy Kentucky politician. As a child, Mary was influenced by her family who had always been concerned about the poorer people of the state. When she grew up, Mary was inspired to become a nurse. So in 1925 Mary hired a few British-trained nurses and, with some mo

33、ney from her family, started the Frontier Nursing Service in Wendover, Kentucky.Before Mary and her nurses came, the mountain people lived a hard life. Families made so little money that they could not afford doctors or medicine. Many children had diseases and nearly every person was malnourished fo

34、r lack of food.Mary and the nurses built clinics and a small hospital deep in the forests of Leslie County. There were no paved roads, electricity, or telephones. Each day the nurses rode on horseback to outlying farms, often in bad wenther, to answer calls for help. They worked hard to keep an eye

35、on their patients.To the grateful mountain people, Mary and the nurses seemed to be everywhere. They treated everything from cut fingers to pneumonia(肺炎), gave shots, and delivered babies. The proud countrymen liked the nurses because they treated everyone with respect.The Frontier Nursing Service g

36、rew. Today their Nursing Service reaches far beyond the Kentucky mountains. Medical professionals from all over the world come to Wendover to study rural health care in action. When these men and women go back to their own countries, they are prepared to help people in need.1、How did Mary Breckinrid

37、ge get her five patients to Krypton?ABy trainBBy carCBy waterDOn horseback2、The underlined word “malnourished” in Paragraph 4 most probably means .AmysteriousBlacking nutritionCcarelessDin danger of dying3、We can learn from the text that Mary Breckinridge .Aremains a great influence on health care t

38、odayBwanted to set up more clinics to help the sickCwiped out diseases in the Kentucky mountainsDtrained all of her assistants herself4、What is the main idea of the text?AMary and her family were always helpful to othersBThe Frontier Nursing Service set up many branchesCRural nurses found creative w

39、ays to transport supplies and patientsDMary and other nurses provided kind medical care to rural people24（8分） Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that deepens our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Recently, A study conducted by res

40、earchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia showed that bees could perform arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction (减法).Solving math problems requires a complex level of involving the mental management of numbers, long-term rules and short-term working memory. The finding that

41、even the tiny brain of a honeybee can grasp basic mathematical operations has a possible effect on the future development of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in improving rapid learning.RMITs Professor Adrian Dyer said numerical (数字的) operations like addition and subtraction are complex because

42、 they require two levels of processing. “You need to be able to hold the rules around adding and subtracting in your long-term memory, while mentally using skillfully a set of given numbers in your short-term memory,” Dyer said. “On top of this, our bees also used their short-term memories to solve

43、arithmetic problems, as they learned to recognize plus or minus as abstract concepts.”The findings suggest that advanced numerical cognition (认知) may be found much more widely in nature among non-human animals than previously suspected.“If math doesnt require a massive brain, there might also be new

44、 ways for us to include interactions of both long-term rules and working memory in designs to improve rapid AI learning of new problems,” said Dyer.Many species can understand the difference between quantities and use this to search for food, make decisions and solve problems. But numerical cognitio

45、n, such as exact number and arithmetic operations, requires a more complex level of processing.Previous studies have shown some primates (灵长目动物), birds, babies and even spiders can add and/or subtract. The new research, published in Science Advances, adds bees to that list.1、What have the researcher

46、s from RMIT University discovered?AThe relationship between brain size and brain power.BLong-term rules and short term working memory.CBees can perform complex arithmetic operations.DBees can do basic mathematics.2、According to Adrian Dyer, bees numerical cognition _.Arequires addition and subtracti

47、on two complex processingBhas a possible effect on the future development of AIConly involves their short-term working memoryDcalls for a lot of maths knowledge3、What does the finding of the new research suggest?ABees can recogize the exact number.BArithmetic operations exist in human and bees.CNume

48、rical cognition has been found in many more species.DSome primates, birds and even spiders can add and substract.4、What can be the best title for the text?AA Discovery About the Tiny Brain of BeesBNew Findings About Bees Having Numerical CogintionCNumerical Cognition Requires a Complex Level of Proc

49、essingDThe Relationship Between Brain Size and Brain Power25（10分）Before Christmas Eve in 1870 Richard Wagner and his wife, Cosima, had agreed not to buy each other Christmas presents. They were simply too poor. But Wagner was planning a surprise gift.For more than two months he had been crafting a p

50、iece of music to be performed outside Cosimas bedroom door on Christmas morning. He had based it on themes later to be used in his opera Siegfried, plus a little nursery song he had written for their children two years earlier. He completed the Siegfried Idyll three weeks before Christmas and arrang

51、ed for conductor Hans Richter to choose the members of the small orchestra. Richter conducted secret rehearsals, first in Zurich then at a hotel in Lucerne.Wagner invited philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the final rehearsal on Christmas Eve at the Hotel du Lac and they arrived together at the Wagn

52、ers home in the village of Trihschen. There they found Cosima decorating the Christmas tree and preparing presents for the children.At seven oclock on Christmas morning the musicians arrived and quietly arranged themselves on the stairs outside Cosimas room. They began to play.“As I awoke to the lig

53、ht of dawn,” Cosima said later, “my mind passed from one dream into another. Familiar sounds from Siegfried came to my ears. It was as if the house or more accurately our entire being, was rising up in music and going up to heaven. Sacred memories, birdsong and sunrise, interwoven with music from Si

54、egfried calmed my heart and I came to realize that I was not dreaming, and yet was experiencing the most wonderful one of all dreams. Now at last I understood all of Richards writing in secret.”And yet Wagner had kept his promise not to buy his wife a Christmas present. December 25th was Cosimas bir

55、thday.1、Why did the Wagners agree not to buy Christmas presents for each other?AThey both didnt like to buy presents. BThey were only too poor.CThey were very rich. DThey didnt have the habit.2、What was Cosima doing when the final rehearsal was conducted on Christmas Eve at the Hotel du Lac?ACosima

56、was sleeping.BCosima was playing with the children at home.CCosima was busy with the preparation for Christmas.DCosima was cooking in the kitchen.3、What does the underlined word “themselves” in Paragraph 4 refer to?AChristmas. BThe musicians.CThe stairs. DThe children.4、What is the main idea of the

57、passage?AA great Christmas. BA great love.CA good birthday. DA surprise gift.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）Charlie was a rich boy who had more toys than you could imagine. His family had a lot of money, and 1 he liked something, they would buy it

58、 for him. Then, he had no idea what things cost, and wouldnt 2 to take care of what he had. Nor did he realise how difficult it was for other children to get toys like the ones he had.A time came, though, when he was 3 used to all his toys and various stuff that he began to want something 4 One of h

59、is uncles found a fine horse and he gave it to Charlie. Charlie was very 5 at having a horse. He had never got something like that before.However, he 6 the horse just as badly as he did all his other toys, and it soon started looking 7 For the first time in his life Charlie became truly 8 He loved t

60、he horse, and the fact that his family had offered to exchange it for a new one meant nothing to him. One day, while in the countryside, he saw a girl with a horse. The girl looked very poor, but the horse seemed happy and looked great.Wondering how she had 9 this, Charlie secretly followed her, wat