1、江苏省决胜新高考2023-2024学年高三下学期4月大联考试题英 语 2024. 04.17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，并 标在试卷的相应位置。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 has the man been doing? A. Doing his work. B. Revising for tests. C. Planning for his vac
2、ation. 2. When was the man waken up? A. At 6:00. B. At 7:00. C. At 8:00. 3. What will the man do next month? A. Work with the woman. B. Turn in his resignation letter. C. Devote himself to his own business. 4. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At a bank. B. At a shop. C. At a gym.
3、5. What does the woman think of the hotel? A. Its expensive. B. Its untidy. C. Its poorly equipped. 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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What kind of c
4、ar did the man book? A. A mid-size car. B. A small car. C. An SUV. 7. What does the man have to do at last? A. Cancel the reservation. B. Change to another model. C. Wait patiently for the desired car. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The womans job. B. The woman
5、s boss. C. The womans workmates. 9. What happened last week? A. The staff had trouble locking the cafe. B. The woman met a rude customer. C. The workers left work early. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What does the woman say about the first package? A. It is basic and slow. B. It includes a wireless ro
6、uter. C. It offers a free personal firewall. 11. How much will the man pay each month? A. $30. B. $50. C. $100. 12. Why does the woman say the man is lucky? A. The package price is lower. B. The pen drive is cheaper. C. The setting-up is free. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What do we know about the mu
7、seum? A. It can be explored in one day. B. It houses a good many exhibits. C. It can hold thousands of people at one time. 14. Where are the speakers? A. In Egypt. B. In the U.K. C. In Greece. 15. What did the speakers fail to see this morning? A. The modern artwork. B. The ancient sculptures. C. Th
8、e American carvings.16. When will the museum close? A. At 3:00. B. At 4:00. C. At 5:00. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What is the common belief about our brains processing speed? A. It reaches its peak at the age of 20. B. It doesnt decrease before 40. C. It remains constant until 60. 18. What was th
9、e age range of the people included in the study? A. From 10 to 60. B. From 20 to 80. C. From 10 to 80. 19. Why do older people make decision more slowly according to Dr. von Krause? A. They become more careful. B. They process information slower. C. They need more time to get information. 20. What b
10、enefit can people get from the study? A. It may help increase the mental processing speed. B. It may improve peoples ability to concentrate. C. It may contribute to the research on diseases. 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 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项 涂黑。 A M
11、agazines make great reading materials for kids. Libraries often have a large selection of periodicals (期刊) for every age group and reading level, and for many areas of interest. And some magazines may even have issues going back years and even decades! Below is a list of some of them! Military Kids
12、Life It is about finding the bright side of life as a military kid! Inside each quarterly issue, your child will encounter inspiring stories, articles, and photographs! (8 to 16 years) Faces With articles, folk tales, and hands-on projects, Faces magazine takes young readers around the world for an
13、honest and objective view of how children in other regions live. (9 to 14 years)Make Make magazine publishes tested projects, skill-building tutorials, in-depth reviews and inspirational stories, accessible by all ages and skill ranges. (9 to 18 years) Brio Brio magazine for teen girls has a fresh n
14、ew look that includes more pages filled with inspiring profiles, cultural insights, health & beauty tips, faith-filled features and added fun! (13 to 18 years) Please note: Though all the magazines on this list are written for children, some issues may contain content that you may feel inappropriate
15、 for your child. As always, please review all reading materials before giving them to your child to read. 21. Which magazine can help develop kids international awareness? A. Military Kids Life. B. Faces. C. Make. D. Brio. 22. What can be learned from the text? A. Only magazines for kids are accessi
16、ble in libraries. B. Some magazines have long-ago issues in libraries. C. All the magazines have inspiring stories. D. All the magazines are proper for children. 23. What is the purpose of this passage? A. To inform. B. To argue. C. To entertain. D. To persuade. B There can be no doubt that Stephen
17、King, New York Times Best-Selling author, has found success in many aspects, but it wasnt always like this. King witnessed tragedy and horrors from the very beginning. When he was 2 years old, his father told his mom that he was going out to get cigarettes but in fact, he never came back, he had aba
18、ndoned his family. This left his mother Ruth to care for Stephen and his elder brother David on her own. Ruth was forced to move often, desperately looking for work as she was now the only provider of the family, and she had to rely on relatives most of the time. One day Stephen went out to play wit
19、h friends and when he came back, he wasnt even able to speak a single word, it seemed he was hurt mentally or something, but he still got the courage to continue forward. It turned out that one of his friends was hit by a train and died, which left an emotional scar on him. King, later on, dropped o
20、ut of school due to some serious health concerns and was told that he had to enlist (入伍) again the next fall, which demotivated him too. Although Stephen King didnt see his childhood as something extraordinary or special, he did say that he was always fascinated by scary things. People used to ackno
21、wledge the King family by their love of literature, in fact whenever Stephens mom had to go out, she didnt hire a babysitter, for the kids used to read novels to each other so they would not get bored. Stephen Kings love of stories was developed from a very young age and he carried that tradition wi
22、th his own children along with his wife Tabitha. In 1973, Stephen King started his amazing journey of success when he published his first novel Carrie, which is scary. The rest followed from after that as he published many amazing books like The Shining, IT, Firestarter, and Cujo. All of these books
23、 became instant classics and got their own movie and television shows adaptions. 24. What is mainly talked about about Stephen King in the first two paragraphs? A. His achievements in writing. B. His unfortunate childhood. C. His difficulty in supporting the family. D. His mothers bitter experiences
24、. 25. What left Stephen King not even speaking a single word? A. He was knocked down by a passing train. B. He was badly criticized by a close friend. C. He was depressed by the constant moves. D. He was heart-struck by a terrible accident. 26. What does the underlined word “demotivated” in paragrap
25、h 3 mean? A. Discouraged. B. Relaxed. C. Embarrassed. D. Inspired. 27. Why didnt Stephens mom hire a babysitter? A. The family was too poor to hire a babysitter. B. The family could not find a proper babysitter. C. The children could actually entertain themselves. D. The children didnt like to be ca
26、red for by others. C It was long theorized that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex (额叶皮层) of the brain, which is considered the seat of higher-order thinking. However, Yale researchers have found that three distinct brain circuits from
27、the frontal cortex connecting to different brain regions are involved in making good decisions, bad ones, and determining which of those past choices to store in memory. The study of decision-making in rats may help scientists find the roots of bad decision-making common to mental health disorders s
28、uch as addiction, the authors say. They used a new tool to manipulate (操纵) brain circuits in rats while they were making choices between actions that led to them receiving rewards or no rewards. If the rats made the right decision, one that ended in a reward, one of the brain circuits was activated,
29、 but another was activated if the rats made the wrong choice and received no reward. The third circuit stored past experiences and decisions to help the rats with future choices. Stephanie Groman, lead author of the research says, “A comparison would be deciding on a restaurant for dinner. For insta
30、nce, without the good choice circuit you may not return to the restaurant with good food and without the bad choice circuit you might not avoid the restaurant with bad food. The third memory circuit is crucial in making decisions such as whether to return to the restaurant after receiving one bad me
31、al after several good ones.” Changes in these circuits may help explain a typical feature of addiction why people continue to make harmful choices even after repeated negative experiences, The Yale researchers previously showed that some of the same brain calculations were disrupted (扰乱) in animals
32、that had taken methamphetamine. “Because we used a test that is similar to those used in studies of human decision making, our findings have direct relevance to humans and could aid in the search for novel treatments for substance abuse in humans,” Groman said. 28. How was Yales research different f
33、rom the previous theory? A. It defined the function of different brain regions. B. It identified specific circuits involved in decision-making. C. It focused on the connection between choices and memories. D. It highlighted the role of the frontal cortex in higher-order thinking. 29. What can be inf
34、erred from Stephanie Gromans words? A. Memories are related to all the three circuits. B. People base their decisions on personal preferences. C. The three circuits are all of vital importance in making decisions. D. The circuit related to rewards is the foundation of deciding wisely. 30. What does
35、the last paragraph mainly focus on? A. The limitations of the present study. B. A description of the research method. C. A possible reason for the study findings. D. The potential application of the conclusion. 31. What might be the best title for the text? A. How people get addicted and cured B. Ho
36、w making decisions influences our brain C. How our brain develops when facing choices D. How the brain helps us make good decisions and bad ones D Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messa
37、ging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them. Social media, texting
38、 and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information. But they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism theatrical metaphor (隐喻), these new forms of commu
39、nication provide a stage on which we create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and i
40、nsignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and protect a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.
41、 So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital
42、exchanges. Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person? Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the digital self could obey different rules and regulations, as if he could c
43、ontinually push the limits of whats acceptable without facing the consequences of “real life.” 32. The author compares e-mail with snail mail to show _. A. the influence of high-tech on our life B. the history of different types of mails C. the value of traditional communications D. the rapid develo
44、pment of social media 33. What can we know about new communication tools? A. Destroying our life totally. B. Posing more dangers than good. C. Helping us to hide our faults. D. Replacing traditional letters. 34. What is the potential threat caused by the novel communication tools? A. Sheltering us f
45、rom virtual life. B. Removing face-to-face interaction. C. Leading to false mental perception. D. Making us rely more on hi-tech media. 35. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs? A. Technologies have changed our relationships. B. The digital world is a recipe for pushing limits. C. Love
46、can be better conveyed by text message. D. The digital self need not take responsibility. 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。选 项中有两项为多余选项。 “Find your passion!” When discussing future career options or selecting a major in college, your parents often say this. T
47、he very expression is meant to inspire. But is it good advice? “Finding” a passion implies that it already exists and is simply waiting to be discovered. Unfortunately, this idea is not what science tells us. 36 To study this, researchers use a framework of “fixed” and “growth” mindsets. They argue
48、that encouraging people to “find” their passion may cause them to eventually believe that interests and passions are inborn and relatively unchangeable. 37 In contrast, people who view interests and passions as developed have a growth mindset of interest. Researchers have revealed that a fixed mindset of interest can decrease creativity. If
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