湖南省益阳市安化县第二中学2024届高三下学期三模试题 英语 含答案

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2024 届高三全真模拟考试试题
英 语
考试时量：120 分钟 总分: 150 分
第一部分　听力(共两节,满分 30 分)略
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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Have you heard of these four monuments?
Carhenge. Floralis Genérica. Traffic Light Tree. Hand of the Desert — these are four unusual
monuments from around the world you might like to visit.
• Carhenge
Carhenge is in Alliance, Nebraska (USA). As the name suggests, it has a lot in common with
Stonehenge, the famous stone circle on Salisbury Plain. But while Stonehenge was built with
stones, Carhenge was created with cars. The monument was made in 1987 by a local artist Jim
Reinders and his family. He used old cars and even an ambulance. At first, the people of Alliance
didn’t like it, but they soon changed their minds after it became popular with tourists, who brought
lots of money to the town.
• Floralis Genérica
Floralis Genérica is a massive statue of a flower. It stands in a pool of water in front of the
National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eduardo Catalano, a native of
Argentina, gave the statue as a gift to the city in 2002. Every morning, the flower opens. Ask
anyone who has seen it and they’ll tell you that watching it open is an unforgettable sight. In fact,
many people believe it is one of the most beautiful statues in the world.
• Traffic Light Tree
The Traffic Light Tree is situated at Heron Quay, in one of London’s financial districts. The
tree has 75 sets of traffic lights. It was created by French artist, Pierre Vivant, and was installed in
1998. A computer controls the lights, which are turned on and off randomly. The roundabout
where the tree is was voted the most popular roundabout in the UK in a recent survey.
• Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert)
The Hand of the Desert is in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The sculpture was designed by the
Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrazabal. From a distance, it looks as if there’s a giant in the sand who
has stuck his hand out of the ground.
If you’re looking for something new to see, you know where to go!
1．Why did the people of Alliance change their attitude toward Carhenge?
A．It reminded them of Stonehenge. B．It brought them financial benefits.
C．It added beauty to their community. D．It displayed the creativity of the designer.
2．Which of the four monuments was designed by a foreign artist?
A．Carhenge. B．Floralis Genérica.
C．Traffic Light Tree. D．Mano del Desierto.
3．Where is the text probably from?
A．A guide book. B．A news report.
C．A science magazine. D．An architecture advertisement.
B
In 1975, a San Diego homemaker named Marjorie Rice came across a column in Scientific
American about tiling ( 瓷 砖 ). There is a problem which has interested mathematicians since
ancient Greek times. After Rice’s chance encounter with tiling, family members often saw her in
the kitchen constantly drawing shapes. “I thought she was just drawing casually ( 随 意 ),” her
daughter Kathy said. But Rice who took only one year of math in high school, was actually
discovering never-before-seen patterns.
Born in Florida, she loved learning and particularly her brief exposure to math, but tight
budget and social culture prevented her family from even considering that she might attend
college. “For Rice, math was a pleasure,” her son David once said.
Rice gave one of her sons a subscription to Scientific American partly because she could
read it carefully while the children were at school. When she read Gardner’s column about tiling
as she later recalled in an interview: “I thought it must be wonderful that someone could discover
these beautiful patterns which no one had seen before.” She also wrote in an essay, “My interest
was engaged by the subject and I wanted to understand every detail of it. Lacking a mathematical
background, I developed my own symbol system and in a few months discovered a new type.”
Astonished and delighted, she sent her work to Gardner, who sent it to Doris, a tiling expert
at Moravian College. Doris confirmed that Rice’s finding was correct.
Later, Rice declined to lecture on her discoveries, citing shyness, but at Doris’s invitation,
she attended a university mathematics meeting, where she was introduced to the audience. Rice
still said nothing of her achievements to her children, but they eventually found out as the awards
mounted.
4．Why did Rice often draw shapes in the kitchen?
A．To become a mathematician. B．To explore the secret of tiling.
C．To fill her leisure time. D．To show her passion for drawing.
5．What can we learn about Rice from Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A．She longed to start a column. B．She was rejected from a college.
C．She was good at designing patterns. D．She succeeded in developing a system.
6．What is the text mainly about?
A．The magic of math. B．The efforts of Rice.
C．The humility of Rice. D．The patterns of tiling.
7．What can we learn from the Rice’s experience?
A．Nothing is impossible to a willing mind. B．Actions speak louder than words.
C．Every cloud has a silver lining. D．Practice makes perfect.
C
Jennifer Destefano answered a call from a number she did not recognize. “Mom, I messed
up,” her daughter’s voice told her, crying. “These bad men have me.” A man proceeded to demand
money, or he would drug her daughter and leave her in Mexico. But while she kept him on the
phone, friends managed to reach her daughter, only to discover that she was, in fact, free and well
on a skiing trip in Arizona. The voice used on the phone was a fake.
Voice cloning’s influences will be huge. For several years, customers have been able to
identify themselves over the phone to their bank and other companies using their voice. Not even
a gifted mimic(巧 于模仿 的人 ) could fool the detection system. But the arrival of cloning will
force adaptation in order to prevent cheating.
Creative industries could face the impact too. Voice actors’ skills, trained over a lifetime, can
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