2022-2023学年广东省佛山市第四中学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注意事项1考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。2试题所有答案必须填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。第一部分必须用2B 铅笔作答；第二部分必须用黑色字迹的签字笔作答。3考试结束后，考生须将试卷和答题卡放在桌面上，待监考员收回。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1As one of the most popular artists in the US, not only_ with her hit songs, but has inspired women with her devotion to charity. Ahas Beyonce

2、 influenced pop culture Binfluenced pop culture has BeyonceCBeyonce has influenced pop cultureDinfluenced pop culture Beyonce has 2You 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/; that3My daughter, _ all k

3、inds of meat, would not like to eat any vegetable, which worries me a lot.Adevoted toBaddicted toCaccustomed toDexposed to4Before you hand in your final report, _ there are no spelling mistakes.Amake sureBto make sureCmade sureDmaking sure5I think Ana _ her packing since she started getting things r

4、eady early this morning.Afinishes Bhas finishedChad finished Dwould finish6Justin a book about his adventures in TibetI hope he can find a good publisher when it is finishedAwas writingBis currently writingChas already writtenDwrote7Creating an atmosphere _ employees feel part of a team is a big cha

5、llenge.AwhereBwhoseCthatDwhich8It is not surprising the new course on electronic games has attracted many students.Awhat BwhichCthat Dwhere9Jason will never forget about his 18th birthday, saw his being admitted to Harvard. AwhenBwhichCthatDit 10Dont leave matches or cigarettes on the table within _

6、 of children.AstretchBexpandCreachDextend11He finished writing his first novel last year, and we all think that is _ his career really took off.AwhereBwhenChowDwhy12Good food，good sleep，no exerciseThats he gained weight Ahow Bwhen Cwhat Dwhether13Some womena good salary in a job instead of staying h

7、ome， but they decided not to work for the sake of the familyAmust makeBshould have madeCwould makeDcould have made14A man can fail many times, he is a real failure when he begins to blame someone else.Abut Bor Cand Dso15The Lushan Mountain, occupying an area of 302 square kilometers, possesses rich

8、cultural and geological _.AattractionsBamusementsCentertainmentsDpresentations16The car accident happened _ his car was out of order _ I cant drive.Anot that; but thatBnot only; but alsoCnot because; but becauseDnot because; but as17If the traffic so heavy, I could have been back by 6 oclock.Ahadnt

9、beenBwasntCcouldnt beDhasnt been18Ive got something weighing on my mind. Could you give me some advice?_. Tell me all about it and Ill do what I can.ADont mention itBNo wonderCMy pleasureDNo problem19After the argument Colin ran away and_since.AIsnt heard ofBwasnt heard ofChasnt been heard ofDhadnt

10、been heard of20Thank God I passed the interview yesterday. I was sweating heavily.Me too. I _ when I was sitting outside waiting.Alooked down my noseBlet my hair downChad butterflies in my stomachDchanced my arm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）Imagine having an idea, drawing it

11、 on paper, bring it to a store and seeing it turned into an object. This is new possible with the help of 3D printers. Such machines were once used just by universities and big companies, but now, stores with 3D printing services are appearing around the United States.Bryan Jaycox and his wife opene

12、d The Build Shop LLC in Los Angeles two years ago. The Jaycoxs offer 3D printing classes and services for anyone who is interested. “I think 3D printing is going to be huge. Its going to have a huge influence on society as a whole.” says KiChong Tran, one of the students in a recent class. He plans

13、to open a 3D printing business in Cambodia.3D printing services are coming into American peoples life. The UPS Store is a nationwide retailer that provides copying and other services. The UPS Store recently put 3D printers in three of its independently-owned stores. Burke Jones owns one of the store

14、s in San Diego. “The demand has been amazing. There has been a lot of interest from people. Its been much more than I would have imagined.” The UPS Store plans to add 3D printers in three more stores.At the UPS Store, the cost of the object depends partly on the amount of materials used. The store a

15、lso changes up to $95 an hour to design the object with computer software that creates a digital file to guide the printer. Mr Jaycox thinks that within five years, 3D printing technology could become more consumer-friendly. But KiChong Tran says even todays technology can make a difference in a dev

16、eloping country like Cambodia. “With 3D printing you can give them tools, so they are responsible more for their own development and they learn skills beyond just like learning English and becoming a tour guide or something like that. You can actually create things that give value to the world.” He

17、says its not just Cambodia but anywhere where there is a 3D printer, it can turn a good idea into reality.1、What do we know about the UPS Store according to the text?AIt will add 3D printers in 3 more stores to meet peoples demand.BIt provides various services around the world.CIt charges customers

18、for the time to design the object only.DIt offers 3D printing classes and services.2、Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the text?A3D printing is becoming popular in the world.BThere is no 3D printing business in Cambodia.CThe UPS Store is the biggest 3D printing company.D3D printi

19、ng plays the most important role in daily life.3、The attitude of KIChong Tran towards the development of 3D printing technology is_.AuncertainBcriticalCobjectiveDpositive4、What is the best title for the text?A3D Printing HistoryB3D Printing Services in AmericaC3D Printing TechnologyD3D Printing Deve

20、lopment22（8分）Journalism FellowshipsIn this important year for Europe, here is your chance to become one of the finest reporters and launch a career at two of the most globally famous news organizationsThe Economist & the Financial Times. Below are the details.What do the prizes involve and who has t

21、he right qualifications?Two awards are on offer: one, for a British applicant, will consist of a three-month fellowship (职员身份) in continental Europe at The Economist; the other, for an applicant from elsewhere in the European Union, will be in London at the Financial Times also lasting three months.

22、 Both winners will also receive 6,000 to cover accommodation and travel. The fellowships are open only to European Union citizens.Who are the fellowships suited for?The fellowships are established specially for those ambitious early-career journalists with bold ideas and a lively writing style, each

23、 capable of adapting to the excitement and pressures of a modern newsroom. The fellow should have a particular interest and curiosity about European affairs, as the prize aims to help continental writers understand Britain and British writers understand Europe.What is this years subject?What is Euro

24、pes greatest weakness? Please choose the country, institution, or issue that is of greatest concern.How to apply?Please send a submission on the subject above, together with a CV (简历) and covering letter. The submission can be: an unpublished written article, blog post or data-rich essay of max 850

25、wordsan unpublished 2-minute videoEntries should be sent, by the closing date of May 16th 2018, by e-mail to ncprize. Successful applicants will be informed by the end of July 2018.1、Why is the British winner to be posted at The Economist?AFor him or her to tour more places.BFor him or her to know E

26、urope better.CTo help him or her understand economics.DFor him or her to become a European Union citizen.2、Who are the fellowships intended for?ACollege students. BAmateur writers.CNew journalists. DEuropean politicians.3、Which of the following can be accepted as a proper submission?AA published blo

27、g post. BAn unpublished 800-word essay.CAn unpublished photo. DA 3-minute video.23（8分） Thirteen can be a challenging age. Not only did I have to adapt to my changing body, I also had to deal with my parents bitter divorce, a new family and the upsetting move from my country home to a crowded town.Wh

28、en we moved, my beloved companion, a small brown pony had to be sold. I was heartbroken and terribly lonely. I couldnt eat or sleep and cried all the time. Finally, realizing how much I missed my pony, my father bought me another horse, Cowboy.Cowboy was without doubt the ugliest horse in the world.

29、 But I didnt care. I loved him beyond all reasons.I joined a riding club. When Cowboy and I entered the events where the horse was judged by appearance, we were quickly ”shown the gate”. I knew nothing could turn Cowboy into a beauty. My only chance to compete would be in the timed speed events. I c

30、hose the jumping race.For the whole next month we practiced running and jumping for hours in the hot sun and then I would walk Cowboy home, totally exhausted.All of our hard work didnt make me feel confident by the time the show came. One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. S

31、he always won the blue ribbons. I sat at the gate and sweated all out while I watched Becky and her horse charge through the court and finish in first place.My turn finally came. At the signal, we dashed toward the first fence, jumped over it without trouble and raced on to the next one. Cowboy then

32、 flew over the second, third and fourth fences like a bird and I turned him toward the finish line.No cheers filled the air. The end of our run was met with surprised silence. Cowboy and I had beaten Becky and her fancy horse by two seconds.I gained much more than a blue ribbon that day. At thirteen

33、, I realized that no matter what the odds, Id always come out a winner if I wanted something badly enough to work for it. I can be the owner of my fate.1、Why did the author like Cowboy so much in spite of its ugliness?ABecause she loved horses more than anything else.BBecause Cowboy was a strong and

34、 smart young horse.CBecause Cowboy had a lot in common with her pony.DBecause she was sad and lonely and needed a companion.2、The audience fell into silence at the end of the run probably because_.Athey didnt expect Cowboy would win the eventBthey were unhappy that Becky was beaten in the eventCthey

35、 didnt like cowboy, for it was too uglyDthey never saw a horse running as fast as Cowboy3、After the competition, the author came to realize that _.Ashe ought to gather the courage to solve all the problemsBit was time to forget her pony and treat Cowboy betterCshe needed to work harder to win more b

36、lue ribbonsDshe could be the god of her own fate if she tried hard enough4、It can be inferred from the story that _.Aall of their hard training was totally in vainBa blue ribbon must be the second highest prizeCCowboy lost in the event of being judged by appearanceDboth Becky and the author won in t

37、he jumping event24（8分） In A History of Reading, the Canadian novelist Alberto Manguel describes a remarkable transformation of human consciousness, which took place around the 10th century AD: the arrival of silent reading. Human beings have been reading for thousands of years, but in ancient times,

38、 the normal thing was to read aloud. With the arrival of silent reading, Manguel writes, the reader was at last able to establish an unrestricted relationship with the book and the words. The words no longer needed to occupy the time required to pronounce them. The readers thoughts inspected them at

39、 leisure, drawing new ideas from them, allowing comparisons from memory or from other books.To read silently is to free your mind to reflect, to remember, to question and compare. The cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf calls this freedom “the secret gift of time to think”. A thousand years later, cri

40、tics fear that digital technology has put this gift in danger. The Internets flood of information, together with the distractions of social media, threatens to overwhelm the space of reading, leaving us in what the journalist Nicholas Carr has called “the shallows”. In Carrs view, the “endless, temp

41、ting buzz” of the Internet endangers our very being: “One of the greatest dangers we face,” he writes, “as we give up control over the flow of our thoughts and memories to a powerful electronic system, is a slow damage to our humanness and our humanity.”Theres no question that digital technology pre

42、sents challenges to the reading brain. But seen from a historical perspective, digital reading and silent reading look like differences of degree, rather than of kind. To the extent that digital reading represents something new, its potential cuts both ways. Done badly, the Internet reduces us to mi

43、ndless clickers, racing numbly to the bottom of a bottomless feed; but done well, it has the potential to expand the very contemplative (沉思的) space that we have prized in ourselves ever since we learned to read without moving our lips.In the fifth century BC, Socrates worried that writing would weak

44、en human memory, and stifle(扼杀) judgment. In fact, as Wolf notes in her 2007 book Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain, the opposite happened: Faced with the written page, the readers brain develops new capacities.The Internet may cause our minds to wander off, and yet a

45、quick look at the history of books suggests that we have been wandering off all along. When we read, the eye does not progress steadily along the line of text; it alternates between saccades little jumpsand brief stops, not unlike the movement of the mouses cursor across a screen of hypertext.Its tr

46、ue that studies have found that readers given text on a screen do worse on recall and comprehension tests than readers given the same text on paper. But a 2015 study by the German educator Johannes Naumann suggests the opposite. He gave a group of high-school students the job of tracking down certai

47、n pieces of information on websites; he found that the students who regularly did research online were better at this task than students who used the Internet mostly to send email, chat, and blog.A new generation of digital writers prefers to include interactive features. The 2014 iPad novel, Pry, t

48、ells the story of a demolition(爆破) expert returning home from the first Gulf War. The story is told in text, photographs, video clips, and audio. It uses an interface(界面) that allows you to follow the action and shift between levels of awareness. As you read text on the screen, describing characters

49、 and plot, you draw your fingers apart and see a photograph of the chief character, his eyes opening on the world. Pinch your finger shut and you visit his troubled unconscious; words and images race by, as if you are inside his memory. Pry is the opposite of a shallow work; its whole play is betwee

50、n the surface and the depths of the human mind. Reading it is stimulating.1、In Alberto Manguels opinion, silent reading _.Ais an abnormal thing to human consciousnessBoffers readers mind freedom and time to thinkCstrengthens readers power of memory and reflectionDallows readers to gain an insight in

51、to books and words2、Why is digital technology considered to have endangered our being?AIt presents challenges to the reading brain.BIt harms our humanness and humanity gradually.CIt is very likely to expand our contemplative space.DIt leaves our thoughts and memories out of control.3、The sentence “T

52、he fear of technology is not new.” should be placed in _.ABCD4、What can we infer from Johannes Naumanns study?AIts easier to collect information on the Internet than in books.BPeoples habit of using the Internet influences their performance.CThe Internet isnt supposed to be used as a tool of enterta

53、inment.DPaper reading is better than screen reading in improving comprehension.5、The 2014 iPad novel, Pry, is mentioned in the last paragraph to _.Aintroduce the occurrence of a reading revolutionBshow the technology employed in digital readingCprove digital reading not shallow but attractiveDillust

54、rate the impact digital reading has on our life.6、What is probably the best title for the passage?AThe deep space of digital readingBThe timely arrival of silent readingCThe development of traditional readingDThe potential damage of electronic books25（10分）Dormitory management officials in universiti

55、es say that lately they are noticing something different: students seem to lack the will and skill to address their ordinary conflicts. “We have students who are mad at each other and they text each other in the same room,” says a teacher. “So many of our roommate conflicts are because kids dont kno

56、w how to negotiate.”And as many psychologists will tell you, bottled emotions lead to silent unhappiness that can boil over into frustration and anger. “At Florida University, emotional outbreaks occur about once a week,” the dormitory director says. “It used to be: Lets sit down and talk about it,”

57、 he says. “Recently, roommate conflicts have increased. The students dont have the person-to-person discussions and they dont know how to handle them.” The problem is most impressive among freshmen; dormitory officials say some students even never seem to catch on till graduation, and they worry abo

58、ut how such students will deal with conflicts after college.Administrators suppose that relying on cell phones and the Internet may have made it easier for young people to avoid uncomfortable meetings. Why express anger in person when you can do it in a text? Facebook makes the situation worse as co

59、mplaints go public. “Things are posted on someones wall on Facebook: Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,” says Dana Pysz, an assistant director in the housing office at California University. “Its a different way to express their conflicts to each other.” In recent group discussions at No

60、rth Carolina State University, students said they would not even accuse the noisy neighbors on their floor face to face.Administrators also point to parents who have fixed their childrens problems in their entire lives. Now in college, the children lack the skills to attend to even modest conflicts.