2025届江苏省如皋中学2025届高三上学期期初考试-英语试题+答案

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江苏省如皋中学2024—2025学年度高三年级测试

英 语

命题人: 审题人:

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 did the man do yesterday?

A. He played music.

B. He watched a competition.

C. He practiced running in the track.

2. What did the woman order for lunch?

A. Fries. B. A sandwich. C. Mushroom soup.

3. What kind of movie does the man want to watch?

A. An action movie. B. A comedy. C. A horror film.

4. Why is the man in a hurry?

A. He is rushing home.

B. He is late for a meeting.

C. He is doing the running exercise.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. She thinks the man told a lie.

B. She believes it was dangerous for the man.

C. She feels sorry about the man’s experience.

第二节(共 15 小题; 每小题 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,你将有时间阅读各个

小题, 每小题 5 秒钟;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。

听第 6 段材料,回答第 6、7 题。

6. How many daily things did the woman do yesterday?

A. Three B. Four C. Five

7. Where does the man need to go today?

A. To the bank. B. To the supermarket. C. To the post office.

听第 7 段材料,回答第 8 至 10 题。

8. According to the man, what do you know about his wife?

A. She is fond of shopping.

B. She is only likes certain things.

C. She works in a department store.

9. What color did the man want?

A. Black. B. Brown C. Blue.

10. What did the man buy?

A. A scarf. B. A pair of gloves. C. A sweater.

听第 8 段材料,回答第 11 至 13 题。

11. Which state does the woman think had the best weather?

A. South Carolina. B. Geogia. C. North Carolina.

12. How many types of fish did the woman catch?

A. One. B. Two C. Three.

13. When might the woman go back to fish next time?

A. In July. B. In October. C. In December.

听第 9 段材料,回答第 14 至 16 题。

14. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Colleagues. B. Teacher and student. C. Parent and child.

15. What does the woman suggest the man do?

A. Save all the work for the final week.

B. Use the trip time to study for the exams.

C. Form good habits and get started early.

16. What are the speakers mainly talk about?

A. A research paper.

B. The classroom management.

C. The plan for the end of term.

听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What did the customer think of the first fries?

A. They were unsatisfying.

B. They were delicious.

C. They were salty.

18. Why did George Crum serve the customer extremely thin fries?

A. He wanted the customer to be happy.

B. He was bothered by the customer’s requests.

C. He wanted to try making a new style of fries.

19. How did the customer react to the last plate of fries?

A. He found them nice.

B. He refused to eat them.

C. He complained to the chef.

20. What did George Crum do with his new invention?

A. He sold the chips in stores.

B. He sold the recipe to his customer.

C. He sold the snack idea to other restaurants.

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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

A Selection of Museums and Attractions in Washington DC

The Tidal Basin

The basin, part of the West Potomac Park, is surrounded by a path that’s perfect

for walking, running or cycling. The memorials to Thomas Jefferson and Martin

Luther King Junior are two highlights surrounding the lake. It is the location most

associated with Washington’s Cherry Blossom (樱花) Festival that takes place each

spring.

National Museum of African American History and Culture

The museum opened in late 2016 after more than a decade of planning. It is

dedicated to African American history and culture and is organized like a vertical

timeline, starting with the Atlantic slave trade on the 1400s and moving up to the 21st

century. Higher up are exhibitions on African American music, theatre and art. It’s a

powerful experience and also very popular: you’ll have to apply for a timed ticket to

enter.

The Newseum

Further along Pennsylvania Avenue is the Newseum, loved for the 800

newspaper front pages from around the world that are hung outside every morning.

Inside, there are moving exhibits showing how important historical events have been

reported, such as the September 11 attacks. Alongside newspaper pages from the day

after the attacks, there’s a video exhibit highlighting the work of journalists reporting

on the Twin Towers falling. A must if you’re interested in journalism.

National Gallery of Art

The art gallery is an impressive space: two buildings, linked underground, and a

sculpture garden next door. Inside the light-filed East Building there’s modern art,

including a roomful of Jackson Pollock’s murals (壁), Andy Warhol’s Green Marilyn

and Roy Lichtenstein’s Look Mickey.

The classical West Building tends to house older artwork: the European

impressionists and Italian Renaissance art (from artists including Da Vinci and

Raphael) are two highlights.

21. Which of the following requires reserving a ticket in advance?

A. The Newseum.

B. The Tidal Basin.

C. National Gallery of Art.

D. National Museum of African American History and Culture.

22. What can visitors do at the Newseum?

A. Learn about the stories about news.

B. Learn how to report important events.

C. Talk with journalists about the 9/11 attacks.

D. Read 800 recently published newspapers.

23. Why is Green Marilyn exhibited in the East Building?

A. It is a painting of modern art.

B. It is a painting of traditional art.

C. It is a painting by a famous artist.

D..It is a priceless painting of the gallery.

B

I know next to nothing about baseball. When in the right field during P. E. as a

boy, I prayed the ball wouldn’t come to me. It took a miracle for me to catch it. Yet I

later became the father of two boys, Will and Tim (8 and 5), who were both interested

in baseball. On Saturday mornings, I’d take Will out to the playground and play catch

with him. Thanks to my weak arm, the ball dropped before he could catch it. After

many misses one day, he said, “How am I ever going to make the major leagues?”

“You got the wrong dad, kid,” I thought. Baseball isn’t my thing.

Still, I wanted to give my kids confidence on the field. There was an official

Little League in our area, but it was super-competitive and primarily targeted older

boys. What if we had something more low-key, something that welcomed boys and

girls, and younger ones?

I shared the idea with some neighbors. “That would be great!” they said. Now

who could organize such a thing? Not me. I tried to put the idea aside, but it wouldn’t

leave me. I finally decided that I must do something about it. So I called the city’s

recreation department, explaining that some families wanted to start a baseball league

in our neighborhood. Were there any fields for that? They bounced me around.

Finally, I spoke to the official in charge. I got butterflies in my stomach. What if he

said no? “Yes, we have something for you,” the man said, hearing my request. We got

two fields for four hours every Sunday morning. Our league was founded. What a joy

it was to sit on the benches, watching Will and Tim playing baseball! How grateful I

was for other parents who did the coaching! And I became the most unlikely baseball

commissioner (专员) ever.

Many years have passed. Now Will and Tim are new dads, and I can’t wait to see

what they’ll have to do. I know better than anyone: Parenthood calls you to do the

most unlikely things.

24. Why did the author think his son Will got the wrong father?

A. He lacked confidence. B. He had poor baseball skills.

C. He had little energy or time. D. He didn’t know Will’s dream.

25. What special feature did the author expect the baseball league had?

A. Being easy to join. B. Having its own fields.

C. Focusing on training kids. D. Having professional coaches.

26. How did the author probably feel while talking to the official?

A. Confident. B. Peaceful. C. Nervous. D. Hesitant.

27. What does the author want to stress in the text?

A. The need to challenge oneself.

B. The greatness of parental love.

C. The responsibility of parenthood.

D. The role of sports in kids’ growth.

C

One by one, prejudices are disappearing in the West. People may hold private

suspicions that other people’s race or sex makes them inferior — but to say so openly

is totally taboo (禁 忌 ). One old prejudice remains undisturbed, though. Just ask a

childless person.

They are not charged to special taxes, as they were in Soviet Russia; nor are they

driven from their homes, as they still are in some poor countries. The childless

nonetheless come in for a lot of criticism. Some point out that non-parents are failing

to produce the future workers who will pay for their pensions. Childless politicians

are charged with not having a proper stake in society. “He talks to us about the future,

but he doesn’t have children!” complained Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of the

National Front party, of Emmanuel Macron, who went on to win the French

presidency. Similar attacks on Theresa May and Angela Merkel also failed but

researchers find that many voters quietly agree.

If non-breeders are selfish, they have a strange way of showing it. They are more

likely to set up charitable foundations than people with children, and much more

likely to donate money to good causes. According to one American estimate, the mere

fact of not having children raises the amount a person leaves to charity by a little over

$10,000. The childless are thus a small but useful counterweight to the world’s

parents, who stop social stability by passing on their social and economic advantages

to their children.

The charge that childless people fail to pull their weight in population is correct,

but is less serious than it appears. Those who do not have children do put pressure on

public pension systems. Governments have to do unpopular things like making

pensions less generous, as Japan has done, or accepting more immigrants, as some

Western countries have done. But to sustain public pensions in the long term,

countries do not actually need more parents. What they need instead is more babies. It

is possible to combine a high rate of childlessness with a high birth rate, provided

people who become parents have more than one or two children. That was the pattern

in many Western countries a century ago. Ireland, yet another country with a childless

leader, still manages it today.

The childless also do everyone else a favor by creating wonderful works of art.

British novelists have been especially likely to have no offspring: think of Hilary

Mantel, P.G Wodehouse and the Bronte sisters. In September last year Britain put

Jane Austen on its ten-pound note. That decision was controversial, though it was

hard to see why. Few people have written as shrewdly about money or about families

even though Austen did not marry, and had no children.

28. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. The childless often come under sharp criticism.

B. Childlessness is to future workers’ disadvantage.

C. Many highly successful people have no children.

D. The childless politicians get attacked in society.

29. The childless are prejudiced because people think the childless ______.

A. have a strange way to show selfishness

B. set a bad example for young people

C. are not as generous as those with children

D. are the government’s financial burden

30. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. Accepting more immigrants.

B. Reducing the pensions for the aged.

C. Encouraging parents to have more children.

D. Supporting the political leaders with no children.

31. What is the best title for the passage?

A. In defense of the childless. B. Prejudice against non-breeders.

C. Why don’t they have children? D. Measures to address childlessness.

D

Shadows are often associated with darkness and uncertainty. Now, researchers

from the National University of Singapore (NUS) are giving shadows a positive spin

by demonstrating a way to harness this common but often overlooked optical (光学

的) effect to generate electricity.

The team created a device called a shadow-effect energy generator (SEG), which

makes use of the contrast in illumination (照明) between lit and shadowed areas to

generate electricity. It’s made up of a series of thin strips of gold film on a silicon

layer, which is then placed on a flexible plastic base.

“In conventional optoelectronics (光电子学) where a steady source of light is

used to power devices, shadows are undesirable, since they degrade the performance

of devices. In this work, we took advantage of the illumination contrast caused by

shadows as an indirect source of power. The contrast in illumination causes a voltage

(电 压 ) difference between the shadow and illuminated sections, resulting in an

electric current. This novel concept of harvesting energy in the presence of shadows is

unprecedented.” explained research team leader Professor Tan Swee Ching.

Mobile electronic devices such as smart phones, smart glasses and e-watches

require efficient and continuous power supply. As these devices are worn both

indoors and outdoors, wearable power sources that could harness surrounding light

can potentially improve the function of these devices. While commercially available

solar cells can perform this role in an outdoor environment, their energy harvesting

efficiency drops significantly under indoor conditions where shadows are persistent.

This new approach to maximizing the efficiency of energy harvesting is both exciting

and timely.

“When the whole SEG is under illumination or in shadow, the amount of

electricity generated is very low or none at all. When a part of the SEG is illuminated,

a significant electrical output is detected. We also found that the best surface area for

electricity generation is when half of the SEG is illuminated and the other half in

shadow, as this gives enough area for charge generation and collection respectively.”

said co- team leader Professor Andrew Wee.

The NUS researchers are also looking at developing wearable SEGs attached to

clothing to harvest energy during normal daily activities. Another promising area of

research is the development of low- cost SEG for efficient harvesting of energy from

indoor lighting.

32.Why are shadows considered undesirable in traditional optoelectronics?

A. They serve no useful purpose.

B. They weaken device performance.

C. They are rare in outdoor conditions.

D. They are difficult to control or predict.

33.What do we know about the SEG?

A. It’s specially designed to work in open areas.

B. It will replace existing solar cells once and for all.

C. It’s most effective when fully positioned in light or in shadow.

D. It requires a balance of light and shadow to maximize electricity generation.

34.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. The SEG is unlikely to work efficiently in dark places.

B. The researchers are looking to reduce the cost of the SEG.

C. The development of SEG is limited by its high production cost.

D. The researchers are developing wearable SEGs attached to smart phones.

35.What does the text mainly talk about?

A. An innovative use of shadows to generate electricity.

B. The problems with shadows in conventional optoelectronics.

C. The challenges of adapting technology for wearable devices.

D. A need for efficient power supply in mobile electronic devices.

第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有

两项为多余选项。

Who can imagine life today without an Automated Teller Machine (ATM)? They

are available in considerable numbers throughout the world.

The first ATM was the brainchild of an enterprising Turkish-American inventor

Luther George Simjian. When the idea of an automated banking machine struck him

,

he registered 20 patents before any bank agreed to give it a trial run. It is easy to

assume that the inventor of such a popular machine was laughing all the way to the

bank. ____36____ Within six months of its operation in New York in 1939, the

device was removed due to lack of customer acceptance.

It was not until 1967, nearly 30 years later, that Barclays Bank, in a careful

launch, rolled out a self-service machine in London, England, which proved

successful. ____37____ The first cash machine relied on customers’ use of prepaid

tokens (代币) to get envelopes with a fixed amount of cash inside.

____38____ The banks’ principle was seemingly customer service. But it would

be foolish to minimize the many advantages that cash machines provided to the banks

themselves. By the late 1970s, the highest fixed cost for the average large bank was

its branches. The greatest variable cost and loss to profits were its staff. Bank

accounts swiftly recognized that self-service operations could reduce bank branch

staff cost by70 percent.

Experts quickly determined that public acceptance of ATMs counted on

convenience, simplicity, speed, security and trust. ____39____ For maximum

efficiency, ATMs had to be located near public transport or in a shopping mall, not at

a branch. The busier and more crowded the location, obviously, the better. Now,

roughly 75 percent of all cash provided by banks to their customers comes from cash

machines. ____40____.

Public acceptance of deposits (存款) by machine was significantly slower than

customers’ usage of ATMs for withdrawals. In general, it seems that customers

sometimes still prefer and trust an over-the-counter transaction (交易) for deposits.

A. Location, in particular, was a key factor.

B. His cash machine, however, didn’t prove durable.

C. The device was relatively primitive, at least by today’s standards.

D. However, cash machines posed some interesting, unanswered questions.

E. An interesting factor was the issue of bio-statistics for customer identification.

F. Devices originally dismissed by the public are now recognized as essential

institutions.

G. Soon afterwards, many other banks became admittedly champions of the cash

machine.

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)

阅读下面短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的

最佳选项。

Have you ever heard of and seen Canadian geese? Do you know that they

___41___ fresh grass and seeds?

Canadian geese have a good ___42___ for their politeness. They always bow

down to you whenever you walk by. However, I have recently found that they can

sometimes be ___43___ to their peers, especially on occasions when they quarrel for

food——yes, these ___44___ gentlemen do quarrel, just for something to eat.

Yesterday I witnessed two Canadian Geese arguing ___45___ for a clump(草丛)

of beautiful fresh grass. The clump was ___46___ right in the middle of them, while

the two were shouting noisily, stretching their necks as long as they could to look

aggressively at each other. It’s __47___ to witness the “impolite” side of Canadian

geese. Hence, I couldn’t help ___48___ my morning walk, standing still to watch

these “gentlemen” quarreling. Interestingly, after a short while, a truck roared past

their feast, disturbing their ___49___ conversation. The two geese were equally

___50___ by the massive “monster”, thus giving up their conversation.

Would they start quarreling again? I stood still, ___51___ the ridiculous question

and waited. Beyond my expectation, right after the truck’s passing by, the two geese

immediately lost their ___52___for quarreling as if they had forgotten all about what

had happened. Even the two turned around and left the ___53___ in opposite

directions as if nothing had happened. They left only me there, imagining what might

have happened without the ___54___.

They got along harmoniously again. Sometimes it’s not that bad to be ___55___.

41. A. draw on B. focus on C. feed on D. try on

42. A. desire B. reputation C. affection D. appetite

43. A. generous B. faithful C. weird D. rude

44. A. well-informed B. well-dressed C. well-behaved D. well-balanced

45. A. fiercely B. blindly C. cautiously D. gently

46. A. deserted B. located C. fixed D. laid

47. A. frequent B. rare C. common D. constant

48. A. restricting B. changing C. pausing D. speeding

49. A. desperate B. simple C. serious D. disharmonious

50. A. frightened B. annoyed C. crashed D. injured

51. A. finding out B. dealing with C. looking into D. wondering about

52. A. passion B. reason C. talent D. anxiety

53. A. scene B. destination C. landscape D. park

54. A. looker-on B. passer-by C. truck D. clump

55. A. upset B. forgetful C. mean D. greedy

第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1. 5 分, 满分 15 分)

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。

World Poetry Day takes place each year ____56____ March 21 to promote the

teaching of poetry, as well as the publishing, writing, and reading of this form of

writing around the world.

It ____57____ (declare) by UNESCO in 1999 in the hopes of supporting

language diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for

endangered languages ____58____ (hear). World Poetry Day was about giving fresh

drive and ____59____ (recognize) to international, regional, and national poetry

movements. It also focused on promoting a return to the oral (口头的) tradition of

poetry recitals, as well as ____60____ (strengthen) the association between poetry

and other forms of expression, such as dance, music, and painting.

The day is celebrated ____61____ (global). Government agencies, community

groups and individuals get involved in promoting or participating in the day, which

enables children to learn and enjoy ____62____ (variety) of poetry. It is a time

____63____ students are busy examining poets and learning about different types of

poetry. Poets may be invited to read and share their work to audience at book stores

and schools. Ceremonies are held to honor poets of ____64____ (remark)

achievements.

All in all, it’s a day for poetry: _____65_____ ancient art form that still enriches

our understanding of humanity today.

第四部分 写作(共两节, 满分 40 分)

第一节(满分 15 分)

习 近 平 总 书 记 一 直 提 倡“厉行节约,反对浪费”的社会风尚,多次

强调要制止餐饮浪费行为。请以此为 主 题 , 写 一 封“节约粮食,反对

浪费”的倡议书。要点如下: 1. 争做爱粮、节粮的倡导者。2. 爱粮、

节粮的具体措施。注意:1. 参考词汇:厉行节俭,反对浪费 practice

strict economy and combat waste;2. 字数:100 词左右。

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第二节(满分 25 分)

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。

I was always afraid of water. This fear could not be explained, but I knew that the

moment I stepped near any body of water, my legs would turn to jelly (果冻). I would

imagine myself drowning in the water and thrashing around (乱扑腾) helplessly. That

was why I had never gone into a swimming pool until swimming became a school

requirement. My school wanted all pupils to pass a swimming test, and if they could

not, then they would have to attend weekly swimming lessons in school, which made

me tremble.

Thus, my parents signed me up for swimming lessons at the pool near my house.

With great unwillingness, I attended those weekly lessons, and each one was great

suffering for me. I was naturally clumsy, and my fear of water did not help at all.

Every lesson, I would be spending my time thrashing about in the water, while my

classmates would be swimming countless laps effortlessly and even turning over like

dolphins in the water. How was I going to pass the test at this rate?

In my swimming class, there was an exceptionally athletic girl. Tall and

muscular, her name was Kathy. She was the best swimmer in our class and always

looked at me with disdain (鄙视), especially when I thrashed about hopelessly in the

water.

Once, after a particularly long and hard swimming lesson, I spotted Kathy

swimming gracefully in the pool. Gathering my courage, I asked gently, “Kathy, can

you teach me to swim?” She stared at me coldly. It was as if I stood at the edge of an

endless ocean of inadequacy, my fears appearing like dark storm clouds threatening to

drown me. Yet, in that moment, a glimmer of hope flashed within me, a desperate

longing for guidance and acceptance. Would Kathy’s icy exterior (外表) melt under

the warmth of empathy, or would I remain forever thrashing in the sea of my own

fears?

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