2024年4月12日发(作者：)

2022-2023高三开学摸底考试

英语试题

（考试时间：100分钟 满分120分）

本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分

第Ⅰ卷（选择题部分 共70分）

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在

答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Here are some fun and engaging ways to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals

(SDGs) of the United Nations and what you can do to take action to make them a reality.

Freerice from WFP

Freerice is a free online educational game where people of all ages can do their part—simply

by playing. Every right answer on Freerice brings a real financial donation to the UN World Food

Programme (WFP) from sponsors worth about 10 grains of rice. Use your time and knowledge to

help provide food for people in need.

Frieda

Storytelling is a powerful communications tool and helps children remember lessons and

virtues that they will use in everyday life. The idea behind the production of the story of Frieda was

to simplify the lessons of the SDGs so young children can better understand the SDGs.

SDG Pandas

Inspired by real life animal ambassadors（大使）Qiqi and Diandian, SDG Pandas are stickers

that you can use in your WhatsApp conversations to help spread the SDGs and inspire action for a

better world.

SDG Elyx

Elyx, the United Nations' digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help

demonstrate the meaning of each Sustainable Development Goal. Created by French artist YAK,

Elyx has no race, sex or nationality and is a universal character promoting the importance of the

United Nations' work.

1. Which program uses a game to promote the SDGs?

A. Freerice from WFP.

C. SDG Pandas.

2. What are inspired by real animals?

A. The WFP's programs.

C. The virtual stickers.

3. What's Frieda meant to do?

A. Promote students' story-telling ability.

B. Encourage financial donation for the SDGs.

C. Guide children in practicing virtues in daily life.

D. Make the SDGs easier for children to understand.

【答案】

1. A 2. C 3. D

B. Frieda.

D. SDG Elyx.

B. Frieda's stories.

D. The digital ambassadors.

B

Luke Grenfell

—

Shaw had a rare form of cancer. It started as a pain in his shoulder and the

tumour spread to his lungs, making it stage four. The Oxford graduate was teaching English in

Siberia when he suffered a shoulder pain and saw the school nurse. It was her reaction to a lump on

his back that sent him back home to Bristol. “I was 24 years old. I had done an ultramarathon,” Luke

says. “48 hours later. I was back in hospital in the UK.” On 19 June, 2018, doctors told Luke that he

had cancer.

“I had kind of worked out that it was cancer, but what kind of blew me away was the fact that it

was stage four cancer,” says Luke. “That day, my life felt like it had disintegrated. My life had been

comfortable and conventional. I had worked hard and got rewards in terms of education, jobs, things

like that. That was all taken away.” On the day of his diagnosis, Luke had one clear thought in his

mind that he wanted to cycle around the world. It was something he had always hoped to do, but the

cancer news made him realize that he couldn’t put it off.

“I realized that the future had to become now,” Luke explains. He decided to cycle from Bristol

to Beijing

—

more than 5,000 miles

—

on a tandem bike, because he wanted to bring people along to

share the experience with him. Luke will not only be joined by family and friends for certain legs of

his trip, but also by other young people who are living with cancer. “This trip is something I’m going

to enjoy,” says Luke. “I’s going to be the richest and most fulfilling experience that I can have.”

4. What made Luke realize the potential threat of the illness?

A. A lump on his back.

C. The school nurse’s reaction.

B. The pain on his shoulder.

D. The Oxford graduate’s warning.

5. The underlined word “disintegrated” in Paragraph 2 means “________”.

A. changed

C. disappointed

B. broken

D. protested

6 Why did Luke decide to cycle around the world?

A To enjoy the rest of his life peacefully.

B. To seek the best doctor treating his cancer.

C. To conquer the cancer in his own way.

D. To make his dream come true.

7. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Luke intended to change his future life by cycling.

B Luke planned to challenge the cancer with young men.

C. Luke wanted to end his life during the cycling trip.

D. Luke expected to challenge the tough journey.

【答案】

4. C 5. B 6. D 7. D

C

The food delivery industry now is a hotly competitive business, attracting the world's biggest

moneybags such as Amazon, Alibaba and Soft-Bank. Balancing the needs of diners, cooks and

couriers

（快递员）

is complicated. Most new companies lose money. Yet they have received more

than $30bn from venture capitalists in the past five years. And they are likely to get more.

（投资家）

The food-delivery business can be divided into two camps: mostly profitable veterans

（老牌

公司）

and loss-making newcomers. The veterans, founded at the start of the century, are led by

publicly traded Grubhub in America, and Just Eat and Takeaway in Europe. They account for the

largest share of the market, offering customers online access to restaurants. Their relatively simple

business model, in which they take a cut of the bill from the restaurants, has enabled Grubhub and

Just Eat to turn a profit for years. Takeaway makes money in its home market of the Netherlands.

The newbies, born more recently, have turned a once-tidy business into a food fight. For most

of them, delivery is their core business, so they share their cut of the bill with riders as well as

restaurants. This substantially broadens the market to restaurants but profit suffers.

The only mouthwatering aspect of the delivery business is its potential size. According to

Bernstein, a brokerage

（经济公司），

almost a third of the global restaurant industry is made up of

home delivery, takeaway and drive-throughs, which could be worth $l tm by 2023. In 2019 delivery

amounted to $161bn, leaving plenty of room for online firms to expand.

Yet it is by no means clear if anyone can make money by delivering meals. In fact, the

economics may be even worse. Delivery businesses have ways to cut their losses. One is to diversify

further, by delivering groceries, flowers, booze, and even people, as well as meals. Another is to

provide cheaper meals by centrally supplying ingredients to restaurants. In the dog — eat — dog

world of food delivery, it will still be hard.

8. How can the veterans make a profit?

A. They get lots of support from capitalists.

B. They offer customers great convenience.

C. They draw a part of profit from restaurants.

D. They balance the complicated needs successfully.

9. What makes the delivery business attractive?

A. Massive profits.

C. Satisfying service.

B. Development prospect.

D. Efficient management.

10. What is the author's attitude towards making money by delivering meals?

A. Positive.

C. Uncertain.

B. Definite.

D. Confident.

11. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Delivery businesses balance some complicated needs.

B. Meal delivery attracts the world's biggest moneybags.

C. The two camps of delivery businesses compete fiercely.

D. The food-delivery business is anything but a tasty business.

【答案】

8. C 9. B 10. C 11. D

D

Delivering medical supplies to hard-to-reach places has been an issue for years. Worldwide,

more than two billion people lack access to essential life-saving supplies, such as blood and

vaccines. In the African nation of Rwanda, for example, several remote health clinics do not

（疫苗）

have sufficient quantities of blood and other healthcare products. A company called Zipline is trying

to address this problem. It uses drones

（无人机）

to transport medical supplies around Rwanda. A

drone can now deliver medicine in 30 minutes.

Drones are also assisting emergency organizations after natural disasters. In 2015, for example,

a powerful hurricane destroyed thousands of buildings in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

Around 75,000 people lost their homes, and at least 15 died. After the storm, drones photographed

the damage. These surveys helped emergency workers assess the situation quickly and answer

important questions: Which areas were hardest hit? Were crops damaged? What roads were

affected?

Drones are also helping to protect wildlife populations in parts of Africa and Asia. Every year,

poachers kill thousands of elephants, rhinos, and other endangered animals. To stop them;

（偷猎者）

the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund is using drones to find where poachers are

hiding and if they are carrying weapons. Equipped with infrared video cameras, drones can easily

identify people and animals at night. These drones are not only helpful, they are affordable.

As well as finding poachers, drones can be used to track animals. Scientists at Liverpool John

Moores University

（

LJMU

）

plan to employ drones for an ambitious conservation project:

documenting the world's wildlife. The long-term project will start with scientific surveys of animal

populations. And animal species can then be identified using special software.

Ironically, a tool originally created for military use is increasingly being used to save

（讽刺地）

lives instead of taking then. Drones have the potential to provide solutions that will benefit both

humans and animals.

12. What does the text focus on?

A. Importance of saving lives.

B. Development of drones.

C. Applications of drones.

D. Ways to protect animals.

13. What can drones be used for according to Paragraph 2?

A. Helping predict disasters.

B. Providing data for evaluation.

C. Organizing emergency workers.

D. Reporting local weather.

14. What do the scientists at LJMU intend to do?

A. Track poachers.

B. Design new practical drones.

C. Record wild animals in detail.

D. Develop an assessing software.

15. What can be inferred about drones?

A. They need to be fitted with video cameras.

B. They are unavailable to ordinary people.

C. They should be limited to military use.

D. They have a promising prospect.

【答案】

12. C 13. B 14. C 15. D

第二节（共

5

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

10

分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中

有两项为多余选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Slash(

斜杠)

Careers

What is your job? Are you a teacher or a businessperson? Or maybe you are a lawyer/writer or

a teacher/photographer.____16____The term “slash career” comes from the punctuation mark(

标识

符)—

a slash that comes between job titles.

People with slash careers often have a primary job that provides for most of their needs. The

primary job usually comes before the slash.____17____This secondary job can help supplement the

person’s income.

Why would anyone want more than one job? Some people look to their jobs for opportunities

to develop their interests. But most people have too many interests for one job. Secondary jobs can

be enjoyable if they include interests that the primary job doesn’t touch. Some people who

encourage slash careers say they actually help with work-life balance.____18____

On the other hand, a slash career can be dangerous for work-life balance.____19____One

might give up necessary things like relaxation, exercise or time with one’s family. People with slash

careers need to think carefully about how they use their time. This includes knowing when to stop

working.

The clear advantage to slash careers is the extra income that secondary jobs provide. It’s