2022学年第二学期质量监控
高三英语试卷
(时间120分钟，分值140分)
2023年4月I.Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and a question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. To his office.    B. To a meeting room.
C. To the front desk.
D. To the bus stop.
2. A. At a school    B. In a hospital.    C. At a restaurant.    D. In a swimming pool.
3. A. On foot.    B. By car.    C. By bus.    D. By bike.
4. A. To join a club.    B. To register for school.
C. To organize a charity event.
D. To go on a trip to the theater.
5. A. It’s clean there.    B. It’s relaxing there.
C. It’s beautiful there.
D. It’s noiseless there.
6. A. Law.    B. Art.    C. History.    D. Children’s education.
7. A. Trip plans.    B. Ticket prices.
C. Tourist destinations.
D. Holiday celebrations.
8. A. She will be busy with her study.
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B. She will go hiking with her family.
C. She will meet her new partners online.
D. She will browse through the Internet for fun.
9. A. She enjoys traveling this summer vacation.
B. She is considering whether to travel abroad.
C. She speaks highly of her experience last year.
D. She had an unpleasant experience in Chicago.
10. A. How customers could be best served.
B. What kind of stores can offer lower prices.
C. Whether online stores will replace high-street stores.
D. Why some people prefer to buy products in physical stores.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11.  A. A host.    B. A patient.    C. A doctor.    D. A volunteer.
12.  A. Lawyer.    B. Driver.    C. Researcher.    D. Government officer.
13.  A. By reading books regularly.
B. By changing your demanding job.
C. By developing some challenging hobbies.
D. By exercising regularly and eating healthily.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14.  A. About 150.    B. About 12.    C. About 15.    D. About 5.
15.  A. They have limited access to friends’ updates.
B.They get pressure from their friends in real life.
C.They make virtual friends with their employers.
D.What they post online may offend their friends.
16.  A. Online friendship is of significance for teenagers.
B.Teenagers interact with their friends mostly on line.
C.Teenagers’ online friendship is superior to that in real life.
D.A majority of teenagers prefer to make new friends online.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17.  A. Repainting the walls.    B. Furnishing the kitchen.
C.Renting an apartment.
D. Discussing the pipe system.
18.  A. It is in a rural area.    B. The fridge works well.
C. It is next to the office.
D. Laundry is included in the rent.
19.  A. For a week.    B. For a month.
C.For about three years.
D. For at least a year.
20.  A. $200.    B. $180.    C. $720.    D. $800.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Successor GPT-4
OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest version of its hugely popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
The new model can respond to images by providing recipe suggestions from photos of ingredients as well as writing captions and descriptions. It can also process up to 25,000 words, about eight times as many as ChatGPT. Millions of people have used ChatGPT since it (21) __________ (launch) in November 2022. Popular requests for it include writing songs, poems, marketing copy, co
mputer code, and helping with homework, (22) __________ teachers say students shouldn’t use it. ChatGPT answers questions (23) __________ (employ) natural human-like language, and it can also imitate other writing styles such as songwriters and authors, using the Internet as its knowledge database.
There are concerns that it could one day take over many jobs currently (24) __________ (do) by humans. OpenAI said it (25) __________ (spend) six months on safety features for GPT-4, and on human feedback. However, it warned that it (26) __________ still be subject to sharing disinformation.
GPT-4 will initially be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, (27) __________ pay $20 per month for easy access to the service. It’s already powering Microsoft’s Bing search engine platform. The tech giant has invested $10b (28) __________ OpenAI.
GPT-4 has “(29) __________ (advanced) reasoning skills” than ChatGPT, OpenAI said. The model can, for example, find available meeting times for three schedules.
OpenAI also announced new partnerships with language learning app Duolingo and Be My Eyes, an application for the visually impaired, (30) __________ (create) AI Chatbots which can assist their use
rs using natural language.
However, like its predecessors (被替代的事物), OpenAI has warned that GPT-4 is still not fully reliable and it may invent facts or make reasoning errors.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. breakthroughs
B. core
C. driver
D. empower
E. fully
F. increasingly
G. mounting
H. potential
I. promoting
J. seeks
K. serves
Companies Help Integrate (整合) Digital Real Economies Chinese platform companies are doubling down on the most advanced digital technologies to seek new drivers in revenue(财政收入)growth, as the country puts greater emphasis on (31) _________ the in-depth integration of the digital and real economies, experts and company executives said.
Despite the depressing global outlook and (32) __________ uncertainties, China’s platform economy is playing a(n) (33) _________ vital role in boosting technological innovation and high-quality development.
During an earnings conference with investors on Thursday, Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Aliba
ba Group, said that cloud computing is one of the company’s (34) ________ strategies for the future, and Alibaba Cloud is also the foundation through which the company (35) _________ the real economy and drives the integration of the digital and real economies.
Noting that this is a critical period for technological (36) __________ and development in cloud computing and AI, Zhang said he believed in the vast (37) ____________ of industrial digitalization and the role of cloud computing as the focus of the digital economy.
Revenue in the cloud business, Alibaba’s main growth (38) __________ besides e-commerce, reached 20.18 billion yuan during the October-December period, an increase of 3% year-on-year, mainly driven by public cloud growth.
The company is making efforts to make use of digital technologies to help small and medium-sized enterprises and speed up industrial transformation (工业转型) in an effort to (39) __________ the real economy.
The tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference in mid-December said that platform companies will be supported to “(40) _________ display their capabilities” in encouraging economic growth, job creation and international competition. The conference also emphasized the need to energetically de
velop the digital economy.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
It is Nobel Prize week, the one week every year when people from all corners of the globe celebrate science, read about ribosomes (核糖体), and give their best shot at trying to understand particle physics. It is also the one week when science is guaranteed some prime headline space on mainstream news outlets. And yet the science Nobels (in medicine, physics, and chemistry) present a(n) (41) ______ view of science.
The problem starts with the (42) ______ of prize-winners selected every year. The rules governing the Nobel Prize (43) ______ it to just three winners in each category. This means that for every discovery that is awarded a Nobel, the majority of contributing scientists end up being (44) ______.
As a matter of fact, science has never been a(n) (45) ______ effort. Isaac Newton stood on the “shou
lders of giants”; Neil Armstrong’s “one small step” was a dream realized by hundreds of thousands of engineers and scientists. Science is, and always has been, and repetitive process where individuals draw on discoveries made by others to (46) ______ advance the boundaries of human knowledge. Yes, Albert Einstein famously won the Nobel Prize all by himself for a paper he alone authored, but he could not have made his discoveries without (47) ______ work by Max Planck, James Maxwell, and several others.
To make matters worse, typical of the Nobel Prizes, none of the (48) ______ was a first author on any of the publications cited by the prize announcements. The first author of a scientific paper is typically the person who did the hands-on laboratory work, usually a graduate student or young post-doctoral researcher. It is precisely these (49) ______ researchers who are in greater need of the Nobel Prize money than their generally tenured (终身的) supervisors.
More basically, awarding the prizes to only three scientists spreads a vision of science as an individual enterprise. By ensuring that graduate students are not given (50) ______ recognition, the prizes reinforce (加强) the mistaken image of a scientist as an old white man in a lab coat. This can only (51) ______ gender and racial inequalities in science, especially further along in an academic career.
Any one of these reasons is sufficient to (52) ______ the Nobel Prizes. Here is one idea: Award the Nobel Prizes not to (53) ______ but for discoveries; donate the prize money to an

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