东华高级中学2023届高三年级上学期模拟考试
英 语
第二部分：阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15个小题；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
Schaumburg District 54, a school district in Schaumburg, Illino, has implemented a happiness curriculum. A key component of the curriculum is gratitude, where students develop four habits that take up just 21 minutes each day through exercises and learn to be thankful for not what they may want, but what makes them happy right now. And the four happiness habits are listed.
Two minutes of emailing
Write a two-minute maximum email each day praising or thanking a different person in your life. Not only do you often receive positive emails back, but this habit significantly increases your social connection, which is the greatest predictor of long-term happiness and is also as predictive of how long you will live as obesity or high blood pressure.
Fifteen minutes of movement
Fifteen minutes of movement each day can be the equal of taking an antidepressant, and acts as a gateway drug because people who do this start adding on entire groups of positive habits.
Two minutes of meditation
Two minutes of meditation—simply watching your breath go in and out—improves accuracy on tasks by 10 percent, significantly reduces stress, improves sleep and raises engagement scores.
Two minutes of journal
Two minutes of journal about a positive, meaningful experience each day can significantly decrease pain symptoms and stress and increase the amount of meaning you feel in your life. Simply think of one meaningful event that happened over the past 24 hours and then on a sheet of paper, write down some details you can remember, which is called “Doubler”. Your brain struggles to tell the difference between visualization and actual experience , so you are doubling a meaningful event each day.
What does the new curriculum focus on?
Being grateful. B. Being energetic.
C. Physical health. D. Interpersonal relationship.
Which habit promote you to develop good habits?
A. Two minutes of journal. B. Two minutes of emailing.
C. Two minutes of meditation D. Fifteen minutes of movement.
3. What is the benefit of keeping a diary?
A. Improving sleep. B. Boosting optimism.
C. Gaining insight into life. D. Increasing social connection.
B
For most people, graduation is an exciting day the celebration of years of hard work. My graduation day... was not.
I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse. What I thought would take a week dragged into two. and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as 1 was before. And the due date to begin paying back my student loans was creeping ever closer.
You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed with fear? Fear about something you can’t control—that sense of approaching failure that remains over you as you hope that everything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life. And the most frustrating part was no matter how much 1 tried, 1 just couldn’t seem to make any progress.
So what did I do to maintain my sanity（理智）? I wrote. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer — a little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. And if you want something badly enough... sometimes a little hope is all you need! So I channeled my frustration into a children’s book. And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world — just a lot of hard work and perseverance — I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.
The moral of this story is... don’t give up. Even if things look bleak now, don’t give up. Things change If you work hard, give it time, and don’t give up, things will always get better Oftentimes all we need is the courage to push beyond the river.
4. From Paragraph 2, we can learn that the author probably_________.
A. was having an exciting graduation
B. was getting into financial difficulties
C. missed the life in the university
D. had just applied for the student loans
5. How did the author change the frustrating situation?
A. By sending applications. B. By offering contracts.
C. By keeping writing. D. By publishing books.
6. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “bleak” in the last paragraph?
A. Unattractive B. hopeless C. thrilling D. promising
7. What does the author mainly want to convey in the passage?
A. Success belongs to the persevering.
B. A contented mind is a perpetual（长久的）feast.
C. A smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner.
D. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
C
Awe is generally defined as the sense that you are in the presence of something larger and more consequential than yourself. According to a study called “awe walks”, people who took a fresh look at the world around them during brief, weekly walks felt more upbeat and hopeful in general than walkers who did not. Feeling a sense of awe also seems to up our overall feelings of gladness and improve health.
Previous studies have linked increased physical activity to greater happiness and reduced risks for anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses. But no studies had looked into whether mixing awe and activity might increase the benefits of or, on the other hand, reduce them. So, for the new study, scientists concentrated on people in their 60s, 70s and 80s, an age when some people can face risks for declining mental health.
The scientists asked 52 study volunteers to add a weekly 15-minute walk to their normal schedules. All of them were physically healthy and psychologically well-adjusted, with little anxiety or depression. Then they were randomly divided into two groups. One, as a control group, was asked to start walking, preferably outside, but given few other requirements. The other group was not only asked to walk once a week, but also were instructed in how to cultivate awe as they walked. “Basically, we told them to try to go and walk somewhere new, since novelty helps to cultivate awe,” says Virginia Sturm, an associate professor who led the new study.
Both groups were asked to take a few selfies (自拍) during their walks and upload them to a lab website and also complete a daily online assessment of their current mood. After eight weeks, the scientists compared the groups’ responses and photos. Not surprisingly, the awe walkers felt happier, less upset and more socially connected than the control group members.
The findings are subjective, though, since awe, like other emotions, is difficult to quantify, but Dr. Sturm thinks awe walks could be a simple thing for small wonders without any downside.
8. What makes the new study different from the previous ones?
A. It concentrated on older people.
B. It found the solution to mental health.
C. It associated physical exercise with happiness.
D. It took both activity and awe into consideration.
9. What can we learn from paragraph 3?
A. The volunteers were suffering mental diseases.
B. Only the control group practiced weekly walks.
C. The study volunteers were divided by age.
D. Novelty can produce awe feelings.
10. Why are the findings regarded subjective?
A. The number of volunteers is small.
B. The awe emotion is hard to measure.
C. The daily assessments are difficult to complete.
D. The period of the experiment isn’t long enough.
11. What is the attitude of Dr. Sturm to “awe walks”?
A. Skeptical. B. Supportive. C. Indifferent. D. Critical.
D
Celebrity has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty (忠诚) returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion - like celebrity - has always been temporary.
12．Fashion magazines today ________.
A．seldom put models on the cover
B．no longer put models on the cover
C．need not worry about celebrities’ market potential
D．judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
13．“Loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels” in Paragraph 3 echoes the idea that _______.
A．ordinary consumers are more concerned with price rather than brand name
B．celebrity branded products can be an instant success
C．consumer’s enthusiasm for celebrity branded products prove to be inconstant
D．to consumers, quality matters more than the outside of products.
14．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly _______.
A．decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of his products
B．damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public
C．cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
D．influence the price of a celebrity’s products
15．The passage is mainly about ________.
A．celebrity and personal style B．celebrity and market potential
C．celebrity and fashion design D．celebrity and clothing industry
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。
How to Show Emotion
If anyone has ever told you to “open up more” or “show some emotion，” you may wonder what they really meant. It’s easy for us to get caught up in our own little worlds and hide what we’re feeling from other people. 16 .But if you can open up more to others, you’ll see how rewarding it is to connect on a deeper level.
17 . Relax and think through your feelings as they come to you.Whenever you feel something, take a second to sit with what you’re feeling.Think about how you feel and let the emotion wash over you naturally.
Name your emotions as they come to you. Giving your feeling a name makes it easier to understand. Once you’re comfortable with a feeling, give the emotion a name. Are you anxious about something? If you don’t feel anything particularly moving, are you bored, or content? This process will make you more self-aware. 18 .
Maintain a journal for your feelings. One way to help you to open up emotionally to others is to keep a daily journal. 19 . Every day, write down a paragraph or two about your day and how it makes you feel. This will help you track your feelings over time and put you more in tune with yourself.
Engage in fun activities to share experiences with others. Do things you enjoy with people you love to share positive emotions.Dedicate one night a week to go out and grab dinner with your family. 20 , or go on a 20-minute walk every day.Being emotionally available and sharing how you feel is a lot easier when you have fun with the people you care about.
Push yourself to share every day
B. Take a minute to process emotions
C. Take a cooking class with your partner
D. Open up and get used to sharing how you feel
E. It will also help you express what you’re feeling
F. Treat it as a special space for you to open up and be honest
G. Sometimes, we don’t even realize we’re being guarded or hiding our feelings
语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15个小题；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。
Lewis B. Smedes once said, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” For years Tom Anderson’s life was?withered?up?(枯萎)?by the memory of?his? ?21 ?in an?adventure that?? 22? ??the death of one of his classmates. He and his wife?? 23 ??after six years of marriage. Then the news about Tom changed. His wife Betty came back; he?? 24? ?a fine position. One day he told me what had changed his life, “I used to think nothing could?? 25? ?what I had done. The thought of my?? 26 ??would stop me in the middle of a smile. It put a?? 27 ??between my wife and me.?Then I had an?? 28 ??visit from the person I?dreaded?(恐惧)?most to see -- the mother of the college classmate who died. ‘Unless you forgive, you cannot love.’?She said, ‘And without love, life has no?? 29 ??.’ She paused, and then said? ?30? ?,?‘You are the one person who hasn’t forgiven Tom Anderson.’?I found there?in her eyes?? 31?????to be the person I might have been if her boy had lived. For the first time in my life I felt?? 32 ???to love and be loved.” Forgiveness is truly the?? 33 ??grace?(慈悲), through which we gain the freedom to learn from experience. But forgiving our shortcomings doesn’t mean??? 34 ???that they exist. On the contrary, it means facing them? ? 35 ??.?
A. reputation B. possession C. part D. identity
A. accounted for B. figured out C. participated in D. depended on
A. registered B. separated C. withdrew D. transformed
A. presented B. promoted C. earned D. guaranteed
A. reveal B. confirm C. enhance D. undo
A. drawback B. guilt C. survival D. label
A. wall B. reminder C. reserve D. accusation
A. impossible B. unexpected C. undoubted D. unbearable
A. concept B. standard C. principle D. meaning
A. deliberately B. humbly C. sincerely D. morally
A. occupation B. passion C. permission D. attempt
A.worthy B. significant C. valuable D. innocent
A. forgetting B. saving C. challenging D. demanding
A. denying B. assuming C. clarifying D. opposing
A. emotionally B. diligently C. temporarily D. realistically
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The term “Lost Generation” refers to the generation of people who 36. _____ (reach) adulthood during or immediately following World War I. Psychologists used the term “lost” to describe the “directionless” feeling that many 37. _____ (survive) felt after what had been one of the most terrible wars in modern history.
In a deeper sense, the lost generation was “lost” 38. _____ it found the conservative moral and social values of their parents to be 39. _____ (relevant) in a post-war world. In the United States, President Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy (常态)” campaign, which called 40. _____ a return to the way of life before World War I, left the members of the Lost Generation feeling 41. _____ (spiritual) distanced when facing what they believed would be hopelessly isolated, materialistic and emotionally empty lives.
Having witnessed 42. _____ they considered pointless death on such a massive scale during the war, many members of the generation rejected more traditional ideas of proper behavior, morality and gender roles. They 43. _____ (consider) to be “lost” due to their tendency to act aimlessly, even carelessly, often 44. _____ (focus) on building personal wealth.
In literature, the term also refers to a group of well-known American authors and poets, including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot, 45. _____ works often detailed the internal struggles of the “Lost Generation”.
写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假定你是李华，正在Columbia University 求学，想利用暑假时间在肯德基KFC当一名服务生。请你给店长Steven写一封申请信，内容包括：
自我介绍
申请的理由
联系方式
注意：
1. 词数80左右
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
Dear Steven,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Yours,
Li Hua
（满分25分）
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给的段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Lungs nearly bursting, I struggled to lift my head out of the water. Inch by inch, my tired body reached for the end of the pool.
The extent of my swimming career was purely recreational, while the competitive swimmer nearby thought nothing of the seemingly simple task of a 500-meter swim test. Pushing myself to finish what I had started, I could only think: why not take the easy way out?
Earlier that week, I had turned in my first job application at a local pool. Overqualified, I was hired on the spot. However, the tasks were boring: helping confused visitors and measuring the height of children before they went down the slide, those sorts of things. I was capable of more.
So a swim test was required, establishing the mere fact that I was not completely helpless in a pool. Midway through, the manager administrating the test remarked, “ This looks really easy for you. Why aren’t you applying to become a guard?”
“The thought hadn’t crossed my mind.”
“Well, lifeguarding demands more responsibility, strength and respect. Thus the position pays $2 more per hour. Your swimming skills are strong enough. All you need to do is complete a certification class.”
Inside I was unsure of myself, but his words inspired me-- You never know what you are capable of until you force yourself to do it.
Soon I passed the swim test. All left was to practice and learn first aid, CPR and procedures for different land and water-based emergencies.
Work started soon. A well-intentioned yet anxious feeling in me soon passed. Days, weeks, and months went by without incident; emergencies were rare. The skills and training I had so carefully studied and acquired seemed unnecessary.
Today appeared to be another uneventful day. However shortly after the other guards signaled to the children to exit the pool, I noticed one boy was still in the middle while the others had climbed up.
注意：
续写词数应为150词左右。
请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
“Something must have gone wrong with him,” I thought to myself.
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Having the boy on the floor, I put my ear to his mouth and my fingers at his neck.
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英语参考答案
1-3 ADC 4-7 BCBA 8-11 DDBB 12-15 ADAB
16-20 GBEFC
21-25 CABCD 26-30 BABDC 31-35 CABAD
36. reached 37. survivors 38. because 39. irrelevant 40. for
41. spiritually 42. what 43. were considered 44. focusing 45. Whose
应用文写作范文：
Dear Steven,
I am Li Hua, a student from Columbia University. I am writing to apply to be a waiter in your KFC to earn some pocket money during this summer vacation.
I am outgoing and can get along well with my colleagues and customers. I worked in a restaurant last summer and earned much related experience. Above all, I am a quick learner, which can enable me to adapt to my job as soon as possible.
It will be highly appreciated if my application is taken into account. Please contact me by 123456@gmail.com.
Yours,
Li Hua
读后续写范文：
“Something must have gone wrong with him,” I thought to myself. Sure enough, with a closer look, I found the boy waving his hands desperately. I quickly dived into the water, swimming towards the boy at full speed. By the time I reached him, he had sunk to the bottom of the pool, his head hanging down, which filled my heart with fright and concern. I picked the boy up and headed to the poolside, keeping his head above the water.
Having the boy on the floor, I put my ear to his mouth and my fingers at his neck. I could tell that he had no heartbeat and wasn’t breathing. Every second counted! Without hesitation, I did first aid, giving him mouth-to-mouth breathing and doing CPR as trained. Other guards watching anxiously, I carried on, sweating. Suddenly, a stream of water burst out of his mouth and the boy coughed intensely. Seeing the boy regain consciousness, those around broke into cheers. Exhausted, I sighed with relief. I thought had I accepted that easy position, I would have been nothing but a bystander. I’m happy I didn’t take the easy way out.
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