2023-2024学年浙江省五校联盟高三下学期3月联考英语试题

2023-2024学年浙江省五校联盟高三下学期3月联考英语试题

Oklahoma School Testing Program for English Language Arts

Purpose

This testing assessment system utilizes different types of assessment to gather multiple pieces of evidence to provide timely, relevant, actionable, and reliable information about what students know and can do relative to a set of standards. Test Structure, Format, and Scoring

The English Language Arts operational test is meant to be administered in two sessions within one day with a break between sessions or on two instructional days in a row. Each section of the test consists of 25 operational items and 5 field-test items.

Short constructed-response items provide students with the opportunity to respond to items in their own words. A typical response is 1-3 sentences. Each multiple-choice item is scored as correct or incorrect. Technology-enhanced items are worth one point and are scored as correct or incorrect. Test Administration Details

Paper/pencil testing is administrated in this test. Due to the nature of a paper test booklet, students may have to flip pages to read passages and to read the associated test items.

Students will be able to use scratch paper and/or unmarked grid (方格) paper for the paper. The scratch paper must be collected and destroyed by the test administrator immediately following the test. 1. How many test items are there in total?

A．25.

B．30.

C．50.

D．60.

2. What is prohibited in the test?

A．Taking away scratch paper. C．Using unmarked grid paper. 3. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A textbook.

It is October again. It has been a year since my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer; a year since she started her good, brave fight. It has been a year marked with so many milestones, so many shared smiles and secret fears.

Usually, children, with eyes that see all and minds that are still free to wonder, are extraordinarily accepting the changes in routine, the shift in seasons. This week, however, when I took my two younger boys with me for a visit to Mom’s without telling her in advance, Sean ran into her bedroom

B．A course plan.

C．An exam paper.

D．An exam guideline.

B．Using a Pencil. D．Flipping pages.

to greet her, then quickly returned to the living room to talk to me. “Mom,” my four-year-old whispered, careful not to be overheard or offending, “Grandma has no hair.”

Mom came through her surgery that removed the tumor (肿瘤) in her lung with faith and grace. She also came through thin and tired. And the side effect was total hair loss. It should grow back eventually, but my mother decided to have a wig (假发) to cover her head. She wears it mostly for the comfort of others. When she is alone, she usually leaves her head uncovered, finding the wig uncomfortable when unnecessary.

“Grandma has no hair,” Sean said, because we had caught her by surprise.

“I know, Sean. Isn’t it funny?” I asked him as my mom joined us in the living room. We explained to him that Grandma had to take medicine that made her hair go away, but it would come back. “Would you like to touch my head, Sean?” my mother asked as my son stared at her, his blue eyes filled with questions and curiosity. It is surprising to see your mother—or anyone you love—without hair, but surprisingly it’s something that you can get used to quickly. We are, after all, not really these bodies—these are just the shells that transport who we are, and no matter what the physical changes, those connected by love seem to be able to recognize their own. 4. What has happened to Grandma over the year?

A．She has refused others’ visits. C．She has lost her fight with the tumor. 5. Why was Sean surprised when visiting Grandma?

A．Because he found Grandma tired and thin. B．Because just overheard Grandma’s cancer. C．Because he couldn’t accept Grandma’s appearance. D．Because he had never seen Grandma hairless before. 6. Which of the following can best describe Grandma?

A．Loving and optimistic. C．Humble and committed.

7. What message does the author convey in the text?

A．Every cloud has a silver lining. C．Love goes beyond physical changes.

Users of Google Gemini, the tech giant’s artificial-intelligence model, recently noticed that asking it to create images of Vikings, or German soldiers from 1943 produced surprising results: hardly any of the people depicted were white. Other image-generation tools have been criticized because they tend to show white men when asked for images of entrepreneurs or doctors. Google wanted Gemini to

B．Never judge a book by its cover. D．What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. B．Loyal and honest. D．Generous and humorous. B．She has pulled through the cancer. D．She has recovered without side effects.

avoid this trap; instead, it fell into another one, depicting George Washington as black. Now attention has moved on to the chatbot’s text responses, which turned out to be just as surprising.

Gemini happily provided arguments in favor of positive action in higher education, but refused to provide arguments against. It declined to write a job ad for a fossil-fuel lobby group (游说团体), because fossil fuels are bad and lobby groups prioritize “the interests of corporations over public well-being”. Asked if Hamas is a terrorist organization, it replied that the conflict in Gaza is “complex”; asked if Elon Musk’s tweeting of memes had done more harm than Hitler, it said it was “difficult to say”. You do not have to be a critic to perceive its progressive bias.

Inadequate testing may be partly to blame. Google lags behind OpenAI, maker of the better-known ChatGPT. As it races to catch up, Google may have cut corners. Other chatbots have also had controversial launches. Releasing chatbots and letting users uncover odd behaviors, which can be swiftly addressed, lets firms move faster, provided they are prepared to weather (经受住) the potential risks and bad publicity, observes Eth an Mollick, a professor at Wharton Business School.

But Gemini has clearly been deliberately adjusted, or “fine-tuned”, to produce these responses. This raises questions about Google’s culture. Is the firm so financially secure, with vast profits from internet advertising, that it feels free to try its hand at social engineering? Do some employees think it has not just an opportunity, but a responsibility, to use its reach and power to promote a particular agenda? All eyes are now on Google’s boss, Sundar Pichai. He says Gemini is being fixed. But does Google need fixing too?

8. What do the words “this trap” underlined in the first paragraph refer to?

A．Having a racial bias. C．Criticizing political figures. 9. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Gemini’s refusal to make progress. C．Gemini’s prejudice in text responses.

B．Gemini’s failure to give definite answers. D．Gemini’s avoidance of political conflicts. B．Responding to wrong texts. D．Going against historical facts.

10. What does Eth an Mollick think of Gemini’s early launch?

A．Creative.

B．Promising.

C．Illegal.

D．Controversial.

11. What can we infer about Google from the last paragraph?

A．Its security is doubted. C．It needs further improvement.

“Tie an Italian’s hands behind his back,” runs an old joke, “and he’ll be speechless.” This rests on a national stereotype: Italians are talkative and emotional, and all that arm-waggling supposedly goes to prove it.

Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago has a rather different view. Emotions come out in lots of ways: facial expressions, posture, tone of voice and so on. But people are doing something

B．It lacks financial support. D．Its employees are irresponsible.

different when they use gestures with speech, which she sums up in the title of her new book, “Thinking with Your Hands”. It is a masterly tour through a lifetime’s research.

Virtually everyone gestures, not just Italians. Experimental subjects, told after a research session that they were being watched for gestures, apologize for not having made any — but were doing so the entire time. People born blind gesture when they speak, including to each other. A woman born without arms but with “phantom limb syndrome (幻肢综合征)” describes how she uses her phantom arms when she talks — but not when she walks. All this suggests that cognition is, to some extent, “embodied”; thinking is not all done in your head.

In fact, gestures that accompany speech are a second channel of information. Subjects watch a film in which a cat runs but are told to lie and say it jumped. They do so in words — while their hands make a running motion. People who say they believe in sexual equality but gesture with their hands lower when talking about women are not indicating women’s height; they can be shown to have biases of which they may be unaware.

In “The Crown”, a historical drama series, Lady Diana is warned that her hands may betray her real emotions, which could be dangerous; they are tied together so she can learn to speak without gesticulating. No one who reads Susan’s book could ever again think that gesturing shows only a lack of control. It is about thinking and communication, and is a sophisticated aid to both. 12. Why does the author mention the old joke in Paragraph 1?

A．To present an argument. C．To lead in the topic.

B．To describe a scene. D．To clarify a doubt.

13. Which statement will Susan Goldin-Meadow probably agree with?

A．The disabled seldom use gestures. C．Thinking only occurs inside the brain.

B．Gestures literally embody cognition. D．Gestures are improper in communication.

14. What does the author try to prove in the last two paragraphs?

A．Gestures may express what the speaker really thinks. B．People are unaware of the meanings of their gestures. C．Gesturing during speech shows only a lack of control. D．Speakers can lie more easily with the help of gestures. 15. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A．Speech: A Direct Channel of Information B．Gestures: A Vital Form of

Communication C．Italian’s Body Language: A National Stereotype

D．Thinking with Your Hands: A Lifetime’s Research

We watch our salt and fat intake to protect our hearts. We exercise and take calcium to protect our bones. We use sunscreen to protect our skin. But what can we do to protect our eyes, all year round? A lot. 16 . Invest in quality sunglasses

To shield your eyes, wear sunglasses certified to block out 99 to 100 per cent of UVA and UVB light. 17 . “In fact, if the lenses are dark but not UV-protected, that’s worse for your eyes, because when you’re looking through dark lenses your pupils dilate, which lets more UV light inside to do damage,” says Dr Esen Akpek, a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Wear safety glasses when needed

You don’t have to be doing construction work or factory work to need protective eyewear. 18 . It’s estimated that up to 90 per cent of sports-related eye injuries are actually preventable with proper eye protection. “I see people who’ve been gardening, leaned forward and got poked in the eye by a branch,” says Dr Davinder Grover, an ophthalmologist at Glaucoma Associates of Texas. Invest in an air purifier

19 . Outdoor cold and wind can be drying, too, while pollution and allergens can cause irritation. In addition to lubricating eye drops, “air purifiers and humidifiers are our friends,” says Akpek. See an eye specialist regularly

Routine checkup helps maintain good eye health, so please don’t forget to see an eye specialist for a checkup regularly, if possible. 20 . A．Safety comes first for various outdoor activities B．Surprisingly, dark lenses aren’t necessarily the most protective C．Indoor heating and air conditioning can dry out the air — and the eyes D．Gardening, home repairs and sports all pose the risk of trauma to the eye E．Not all eye problems are noticeable, and all are best treated when found early F．By incorporating these lifestyle steps, your eyes will stay healthy throughout the year G．We have asked experts what lifestyle steps people should take to protect their vision and eye health

Forty years ago, Mrs. Austen was my first-grade teacher, an old lady with salt-and-pepper hair, firm but kind, patient and _________ . She let us bake gingerbread men in the school cafeteria —a delightful _________ that amazed me. And whenever we read the “Jack and Janet” books, she wouldn’t let the other kids _________ my classmate Jack or me.

But I came to truly _________ Mrs. Austen when a dress-up day was _________ . On that day, we were encouraged to wear clothes in the _________ of the mid-1800s. My mother, a superb tailor, made a pioneer-style dress for me. I was so proud _________ it as I walked to school that day. When I got there, however, I was the only one in my class who had dressed up, feeling kind of _________ . Mrs. Austen oohed and aahed over my _________ and then went to her office. It didn’t take long

before she __________ in a frontier-style dress! She explained that she had asked her husband to bring the costume.

We moved away two years later, and I still __________ that I never told Mrs. Austen how __________ I was to her, a teacher who went out of her way, and even __________ her husband’s help, to keep a little girl from feeling __________ . I had many wonderful teachers throughout the years, but Mrs. Austen has always held a(n) __________ place in my heart. 21.

A．neighborly 22.

A．treat 23.

A．call on 24.

A．remember 25.

A．appointed 26.

A．field 27.

A．making 28.

A．surprised 29.

A．cookies 30.

A．reappeared 31.

A．assume 32.

A．dedicated 33.

B．cowardly

B．view

B．relate to

B．appreciate

B．canceled

B．style

B．holding

B．frightened

B．present

B．displayed

B．regret

B．important

C．grandmotherly

C．journey

C．laugh at

C．believe

C．established

C．course

C．wearing

C．disappointed

C．costume

C．announced

C．imagine

C．attached

D．scholarly

D．story

D．engage with

D．approach

D．scheduled

D．show

D．owning

D．embarrassed

D．material

D．modeled

D．pretend

D．grateful

A．sought 34.

A．at ease 35.

A．typical

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

For thousands of years, Chinese people 36 (value) the large family with three, four, or even five generations living under the same roof. In this way of life, the older generation can enjoy a happy and easy late life with their children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren growing up beside them and keeping them 37 being lonely. However, as society advances and people enjoy a 38 (comfortable) life, the big families begin to break up. Along with the growth of so-called “empty nestles”, which means the young birds have flown away and only 39 old are left alone, young parents are living with their own nuclear families. It goes without saying 40 the collapse of big families and the popularity of smaller ones are the result of our times.

It is a time when people think highly of individual freedom 41 happiness. Young people like to have a space all alone to themselves, which helps avoid conflicts 42 (cause) by different living habits from their parents. It’s also a time when problems of old age and childcare have been socialized gradually. Senior citizens can live together and 43 (take) good care of by specialized nurses. Therefore, there is every reason to believe that this trend of families in reduced size is 44 (agree) to our times. To create a brighter future, we should do our best to build our society into one in 45 every member lives healthily and harmoniously.

46. 假定你是李华，外教Brian要求同学们在课上推荐一款兼顾趣味与英语学习的app，请你写一篇发言稿。内容包括： 1. 介绍这款app； 2. 分享使用体验。 注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。 Hi, everyone.

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B．special

C．obvious

D．ideal

B．in order

C．out of place

D．under control

B．deserved

C．offered

D．declined

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47. 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。 Our school holds an annual book fair each January, where new and used books are available for students to purchase. Our librarian, Mr. Egan, is the school sponsor (主办者) for it. Traditionally, the tenth-grade students are responsible for the planning, set-up, and selling at the fair. I am sure that Mr. Egan consulted our teacher, Ms. Cates, for suggestions as to who would be the student directors, and I was pleasantly surprised when he approached me to be one of the students in charge. I was even more surprised when he told me that the student I would be working with was Charlie Lyons. Charlie and I have known each other since kindergarten but have never been close. Ever since we were partners for the science project last year, there is very little we choose to say to each other. Needless to say, the science project fell short of our expectations. In light of that event, I was shocked that Mr. Egan and Ms. Cates found us a suitable match.

At the meeting with Mr. Egan, we divided the responsibilities between us. I would be in charge of setting up the room and getting the volunteers to work the sale for all three days. Charlie would be in charge of all the books. We were both quite satisfied with our jobs, and even more satisfied that there would be little contact between us.

With only two weeks to plan, I knew I could not waste time. I asked John and Rachel to help me with the set-up and twelve other classmates to work at the fair. I figured that, between Mr. Egan, the friends who volunteered to help, and me, we would be just fine.

Meanwhile, I tried on two separate occasions to start a conversation with Charlie about the progress he was making, but each time his response was, “Everything’s cool.”

On the day of the set-up, my friends and I arrived, only to find Charlie with his head in his hands, surrounded by a million boxes of books. I asked him, “Charlie, what’s wrong?” 注意：

1. 续写词数应为150个左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1: He responded in despair, “There are a lot more books here than I expected.”

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: After the book fair was over, I couldn’t stop wondering why Mr. Egan put us together.

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