2024年4月10日发(作者：)

江西省南昌市第三中学2022～2023学年高一下学期期中考试

英语试题

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姓名：

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一、阅读理解

Where to Eat on Christmas Day in London?

Bob Bob Ricard

The best choice for smaller child-free parties—or pairs—that think of Christmas as an

excuse to enjoy distinctly adult treats, let’s say: caviar, oysters, steak, followed by cheese and

fries, all washed down with wine (ordered by pressing a button, obviously).

Location: 1 Upper James St, Soho, London W1F 9DF, UK

Contact************

Min Jiang Restaurant

If a typical modern Chinese banquet (

宴会

) is required to refresh the family’s Christmas

spirit, book a table atop the Royal Garden Hotel and look out over Hyde Park while sharing a

feast that includes traditional Chinese dishes. Since it’s Christmas, it’s probably worth going

all out by pre ordering a whole or hall Beijing (Peking) duck, too.

Location: 2-24 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 4PT, UK

Contact************

The Alexandra

A special case: The Alexandra in Wimbledon offers n wonderful Christmas dinner to

anyone spending Christmas Day alone, no charge under whatever circumstances. It is a place

of spirit, refuge, and generosity.

Location: 33 Wimbledon Hill Rd, Wimbledon. London SW19 7NE, UK

Contact************

The Pem

Sally Abé’s newest restaurant is serving up a classic three courses in Westminster, for

£130 a head (children under six, free if accompanied by adults). Guests can choose between

smoked sea fish and crab mousse or a special ham for a starter, with bee Wellington or a plate

of goose coming as main dishes, followed by Christmas pudding and ice scream. We offer a

10% discount if the total cost is over £500.

Location: 22-28 Broadway, London SW1H 0BH, UK

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Contact************

1

．

Which number should you dial if you love Chinese food?

A

．

***********. B

．

***********. C

．

***********. D

．

***********.

2

．

What can The Alexandra provide for a homeless man on Christmas?

A

．

A family banquet. B

．

A wine party. C

．

A living place. D

．

A free dinner.

3

．

How much should two couples with a 4-year old pay for their dinner at The Pem?

A

．

£468.

How do you kill your time when you go to work? Most of us stare at our cell phones,

and refuse to make eye contact with others. We just read, chat with others online or play

games online. Or maybe we’re using the time between stops to do our makeup, catch up on

emails, or read a few chapters of a book. However, Dina Alfasi takes a very different

approach.

Each day she has to travel hours on buses and trains to get to her engineering job at a

hospital in Israel. Rather than look at her cell phone in silence, she uses one very special way

to have connection with strangers. It is portraits of the people she meets on public transport

every day that she is taking. The photographs catch those quiet and personal moments of

people readying themselves for the day ahead. Some people lean (

倚靠

) their head against the

window and go to sleep, some stare into space and have a daydream, and others sit quietly to

read their documents or books. Each picture catches one tiny moment in people’s lives, ripe

with potential for your imagination. It is wonderful for her to look at someone’s commute (

上

下班

) and make up an entire story about the rest of their daily existence, from the father

travelling with a baby to the woman welcoming a change.

“What inspires me very much are the little moments that happen every day,” Dina told

My Modern Met. “My work is to tell stories through a single portrait, and it proves that all

you need is just to look around and find those magic moments.”

4

．

What will most people do when going to work?

A

．

Enjoy reading a book loudly.

B

．

Make eye contact with others.

C

．

Have face-to-face talks with others.

D

．

Concentrate on their mobile phones.

5

．

What makes Dina different from others?

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B

．

£520. C

．

£585. D

．

£650.

A

．

Staring into the space and having a daydream.

B

．

Leaning against the window and relaxing herself.

C

．

Using her mobile phone to appreciate pictures she draws.

D

．

Drawing people while travelling on buses and trains to work.

6

．

Which word can best describe Dina Alfasi?

A

．

Cool.

C

．

Generous.

7

．

What is the main idea of the text?

A

．

Little moments make Dina special.

B

．

Cell phone is used to take special portraits.

C

．

Dina takes portraits of others when commuting.

D

．

People go to work with different ways to kill time.

There is such a thing as a free lunch, it turns out, as long as you don’t mind too much

what it is. Tamara Wilson found hers a few streets away from her west London home — and

as well as picking up some unwanted bread and fruit that would otherwise be thrown away,

she made a new friend.

Wilson is one of 3.4 million people around the world using an app designed to encourage

people to give away rather than throw away surplus (

剩余的

) food. “It’s such a small thing,

but it makes me feel good and my neighbour feel good. And a lot of small acts can end up

making a big difference,” she said.

The last few years have seen an explosion in creative ways to tackle food waste by

linking supermarkets, cafes, restaurants and individual households to local communities. Olio,

the app used by Wilson, saw a fivefold increase in listings during 2022, and the signs are that

this rapid growth is continuing into 2023, said Tessa Clarke, its CEO and co-founder.

About a third of all food produced globally is wasted, according to the UN’s Food and

Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Almost 1.4 billion hectares of land — close to 30% of the

world’s agricultural land — is dedicated to producing food that is never eaten, and the carbon

footprint of food wastage makes it the third contributor of CO2. Reducing food waste is one

of the most effective ways of tackling the global climate crisis.

Olio, Clarke said, was an attempt to change this on a small, local scale. “The app

connects people with others who have surplus food but don’t have anyone to give it to

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B

．

Careful.

D

．

Considerate.

because so many people are disconnected from their communities.” Users of Olio post images

of surplus food that others in the neighbourhood might want. Olio also has a network of

24,000 volunteers who collect surplus food from local supermarkets and stores for app users

to claim.

Despite the success of the app, it was hard to make a difference to the huge scale of food

waste, Clarke added. “Even though we’re doing well, we’ve only scratched the surface (

触及

表面

). But if everyone makes small changes in the world, we’d dramatically reduce the

amount of food that ends up in bins (

垃圾桶

).”

8

．

What does the author want to show by telling Wilson’s story?

A

．

People tend to use apps to order food.

C

．

People find a high-tech fix to food waste.

other.

9

．

What’s the consequence of food waste according to the text?

A

．

Global warming.

inequality.

10

．

What does Olio do to help tackle food waste?

A

．

It sells surplus food to those in need. B

．

It allows volunteers to slay connected.

B

．

Loss of land. C

．

World hunger. D

．

Poverty and

B

．

People prefer to make friends on apps.

D

．

People show more concern for each

C

．

It provides a platform for people to promote food. D

．

It fills the information gap between

green communities.

11

．

What does Clarke think of the work on reducing food waste globally?

A

．

It is a great success.

C

．

It is beyond human power.

Feeling extremely stressed by your to-do list can make you unhappy, but a new study

suggests that more free time might not be the magic way most of us dream it could be.

The researchers analyzed data from 35,000 subjects about how Americans spend their

free time. They found that people with more free time generally had higher levels of

subjective happiness — but only up to a point. Compared to those with less time, people with

up to two hours of free time a day generally felt better. However, people who had five or

more hours of free time a day generally felt worse. So the free-time “sweet spot” might be

two to three hours per day.

Part of finding this “sweet spot” is connected with how people spend their free time. In

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B

．

It requires joint efforts.

D

．

It has won public support.

an online experiment, the subjects were asked to imagine having four to seven free hours per

day and spending that time doing “productive” or “unproductive” activities. Most of them

believed their well-being would suffer if they had a lot of free time during the day — but only

if they used it unproductively. Though that experiment was based on the previous

assumptions, which is one limitation, it agrees with other experiments showing that being in a

state of flow (

心流状态

) can benefit people’s mental health.

Of course, for you, any activities that increase your happiness are “productive”. If

watching soap opera in your free time makes you feel better, you should do that due to

self-care. And some traditionally productive activities can be easy and fun. For example,

walking and cooking can help burn stress and put people in a state of flow.

“In cases where people find themselves with large amounts of free time, such as

retirement or unemployment,” Sharif said, “our results suggest they can benefit from

spending their newfound time with purposes.”

12

．

How much free time one day do people have that can generally make them feel better?

A

．

About 60 minutes.

C

．

From 120 to 180 minutes.

B

．

About 90 minutes.

D

．

From 180 to 210 minutes.

13

．

What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A

．

How being in a state of flow can benefit people’s mental health.

B

．

How the researchers analyzed data from the 35,000 subjects.

C

．

How “productive” activities are different from “unproductive” ones.

D

．

How people make use of their free time influences their happiness.

14

．

How can we understand the “productive” activities in paragraph 4?

A

．

They must be fun and easy.

B

．

They are mostly traditional ones.

C

．

They depend on one’s own sense.

D

．

They generally rely on one’s own physical condition.

15

．

What did Sharif say to people who have a lot of free time?

A

．

People should spend their time with aims.

B

．

It is not easy for people to have newfound time.

C

．

People can benefit from large amounts of free time.

D

．

Retired and unemployed people can’t deal with free time well.

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二、七选五

Music is an international language that is beautiful to people all over the world. It seems

to be a natural need for us. __16__

Music plays a significant role in education. Studies have indicated that music physically

develops the part of the brain known to be involved with language. ___17___ Therefore the

development of one promotes the growth of the other, and musical training not only develops

a child's language skills but also promotes the learning of a second language. Music also

causes improvement in brainpower. The thought patterns that are formed while studying

music may help improve the ability to learn other subjects.

__18__ First, music is beneficial with its ability to reduce stress. And stress is associated

with many illnesses, which can be prevented with stress reduced. When people are very

stressed, there is a tendency to avoid listening to music. ___19___ But as we know,

productivity increases when stress is reduced.

Additionally, music can have positive influence on mood, and many people will turn to

certain songs to improve their moods. The main reason behind this phenomenon is that music

has the ability to express one's feelings better than any other medium. ___20___ It also

increases self-confidence.

A

．

So how does it help us?

B

．

The two are so closely related.

C

．

Let's see how people enjoy music.

D

．

Perhaps it feels like a waste of time.

E

．

The key is to choose the right type of music.

F

．

Music has some sort of psychological effect.

G

．

Good music also makes us remember the moments when we were happy.

三、完形填空

I adopted (

收养

) Didga as a twelve-week-old kitten, and now she’s nearly 11. In 2017,

Didga ____21____ twenty-four different tricks in less than a minute while skateboarding,

which got her into the Guinness Word Records.

I’ve been in the animal-training ____22____ for 40 years. Eleven years ago, I thought

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