2023-2024学年广东四校联考高三（上）月考英语试卷（9月份）
发布：2024/8/24 1:0:8
第一部分 选择题（共二节，满分37.5分）第一节 阅读理解（共4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。
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（1）Which work is Southwark Carpenters capable of？
A．Laying new flooring.
B．Custom-building a house.
C．Repairing old furniture.
D．Supplying good-quality woods.
（2）What do you need to do for a carpentry service？
A．Email the staff your budget.
B．Make a phone call during the day.
C．Discuss with the staff online.
D．Provide related data in advance.
（3）Who praised Southwark Carpenters for its low price？
A．Trankle.
B．Loren.
C．Dancy.
D．Herbert.组卷：1引用：2难度：0.5 -
2． In early 2021，I hit a rut in my studies.As a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago in Illinois，I worked to design safer，more effective materials for vaccine delivery.Although I had been productive early in my graduate career，my long hours and hard work were no longer translating into success in the laboratory，and I felt hopeless about achieving my goals.Something had to change.
As I began to search for the cause of my struggles，I became increasingly aware that my "quiet time" at the lab bench — for instance，when I was running columns or experiments — was anything but.Instead of thinking about science，I was watching television or interacting with social media on my smartphone.Although I could cover up this inefficiency with longer hours，my work felt chaotic （混乱的） and disorganized.I would come home from a long day in the lab and respond to e-mails or messages over dinner or in bed.This all came to a head last summer，when my inability to balance work and life led me to seek help from the university's student mental-health services.
Through a combination of consultation and personal reflection，I came to understand my problem.To regain my focus，I chose to reduce my connectivity by using a basic mobile phone without an Internet connection during work hours，and removing unnecessary apps from my smartphone when I did use it.
Underscoring the addictive nature of smartphones，I experienced symptoms of withdrawal when I first did this.With time，however，I began to make practical use of my quiet time.I started reading papers during long experiments，and developed a habit of writing in my down time.
Perhaps most importantly，I have felt my anxiety decrease and my productivity and creativity improve dramatically，trading my chaotic work-life relationship for one with clearer boundaries and plenty of new scientific ideas.Now，even when I do carry my smartphone，I feel less forced to check for e-mails or messages，and can concentrate more closely on whatever task is at hand.
（1）What does the underlined part "hit a rut" in paragraph 1 mean？
A．Stopped progressing smoothly.
B．Had very slow reactions.
C．Accepted hard work's value.
D．Overcame a big problem.
（2）What made the author struggle？
A．Running columns or experiments.
B．His inability to get mental-health services.
C．Replying to e-mails or messages.
D．His addiction to the phone.
（3）What did the author choose to do during his quiet time later？
A．Reflect on his successes and failures.
B．Learn practical writing.
C．Watch television news.
D．Do some reading.
（4）How does the author feel now？
A．More courageous.
B．More sociable.
C．More focused.
D．More understanding.组卷：3引用：2难度：0.3 -
3． When the company OpenAI developed its new artificial intelligence （AI） program，ChatGPT，in late 2022，educators began to worry.ChatGPT could create text that seemed like a human wrote it.How could teachers discover whether students were using language created by an AI chatbot to cheat on a writing task？
As a linguist who studies the effects of technology on how people read，write and think，I believe there are other more pressing concerns besides cheating.These include whether AI，more generally，threatens student writing skills，the value of writing as a process，and the importance of regarding writing as a tool for thinking.
As part of my research on the effects of AI on human writing，I surveyed young adults in the U.S.jye.ai some issues related to those effects.One participant said that at some point if you depend on predictive text，you're going to lose your spelling abilities.Enter "Was Rom" into a Google search and you're given a list of choices like "Was Rome built in a day".Type "ple" into a text message and you're offered "please" and "plenty".These tools complete our sentences automatically，giving us little chance to think about our spelling，and continuously asking us to follow their suggestions.
Evan Selinger，a philosopher，worried that predictive texting reduces the power of writing as a form of mental activity and personal expression. "By encouraging us not to think too deeply about our words，predictive technology may change how we deal with each other，" Selinger wrote. "We give others more algorithms （算法） and less of ourselves.Automation can stop us thinking and the resulting text didn't feel like mine anymore."
I asked ChatGPT whether it was a threat to humans' motivation to write.The bot responded： "There will always be a demand for creative，original content that requires the unique viewpoint of a human writer." It continued： "Writing serves many purposes beyond just the creation of content，such as self-expression，communication，and personal growth，which can continue to encourage people to write even if certain types of writing can be automated."
I was glad to find the program had seemingly admitted its limitations.
（1）What is the author's main concern about ChatGPT？
A．Whether it will lead to students' cheating.
B．Whether it will shape students' writing style.
C．How students will make use of it at school.
D．What effects it will have on students' writing.
（2）What will predictive technology do to us according to Evan Selinger？
A．Give us more creative ideas.
B．Make us write like a machine.
C．Encourage us to think more deeply.
D．Make us tend to ignore grammatical mistakes.
（3）What can we learn from ChatGPT's response？
A．Writing will become completely automated.
B．Robots will work with humans in writing.
C．Robot writing will become more creative.
D．Human writing will still matter a lot.
（4）What can be the best title for the text？
A．What impact will AI bring to writing？
B．What is the future of modern literature？
C．How to improve writing with AI's help？
D．How to apply AI technology to education？组卷：6引用：4难度：0.3
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分15分）第一节 （满分15分）
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8．假如你是李华，你的好友Caroline即将参加你们学校举办的留学生中文写作大赛的决赛，写信询问你的建议。请你给她写封邮件，内容包括：
（1）表达祝贺；
（2）提供建议；
（3）表达祝愿。
注意：
（1）词数80左右；
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Caroline，
______
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua组卷：3引用：2难度：0.5
第二节（满分25分）
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9．阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
Edward walked slowly past the school blacktop where his older brother，Leon，was playing basketball with his friends.Leon didn't notice Edward until he turned to shoot the ball.Leon really loved basketball and was good at it.But Edward was another story.
Edward would beg to play with them but Leon's friends complained a lot.For some reason，in that last game，Edward's playing was worse than ever.He couldn't do anything right.He was completely unable to keep possession of the ball.He missed even the easy rebounds.His dribbling was useless，and none of his throws were anywhere near the basket.Leon had to turn his brother away.
Edward was always a whiz at math.He was so advanced that he already knew how to solve long division problems before he was taught in school.Word problems，even the complicated ones with several steps，were no problem.
One day，Leon's math teacher，pulled him aside. "You need to do better，a lot better，or you're not going to pass this class.There's a big test coming up. "
Leon's heart sank.When he got home，he talked with Edward about it.The boys agreed that over the next two weeks they intended to spend an hour each day after school working on math problems and then an hour playing basketball.
"Here is a good one，" Edward said and pointed to a word problem. "Why don't you read it？"
Leon looked at the book for several seconds. "I'm dizzy already!" He exclaimed.
"Do you know what the first step is？" asked Edward，"The first step is to stay cool and focused." Edward talked Leon through the problem. "Think about what you need to find out.Don't let the problem trick you." Step by step，together they figured it out and got the right answer.Leon soon discovered that Edward was really good at helping him.
Paragraph 1.
Soon it was time for basketball practice._____
Paragraph 2.
The morning of the math test came all too soon for Leon._____组卷：32引用：5难度：0.2
