2024届江西省吉安市第一中学高三下学期三模英语试题（原卷版）

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吉安一中 2023—2024 学年度下学期全真模拟考试

高三英语试卷

一. 听力（略）

一、阅读理解

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Millions of learners have their own stories and their own reasons for learning a new language. Lancom cares

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1. Who can provide Lancom with a huge potential for innovation in learning?

A. Culture researchers. B. AI specialists.

C. Language experts. D. Art designers.

2. What lies at the core of the Lancom app?

A. A flexible system. B. An intelligent technology.

C. The brain-training technique. D. The informative content.

3. Lancom claims that it is unique in its ________.

A. personalised courses B. multiple languages

C. pricing policy D. service team

My name is Alice. Early last year, I was troubled by an anxiety that crippled (削弱) my ability to do anything.

I felt like a storm cloud hung over me. For almost a year I struggled on, constantly staring at this wall that faced

me. My perfectionist tendencies were the main root of this: I wanted to be perfect at whatever I did, which

obviously in life is not possible, but it consumed me.

One day, I attended a presentation ( 报告 ) by wildlife conservationist Grant Brown at my high school. His

presentation not only awed (使惊叹) and inspired me, but also helped create an inner desire to make a difference in

the world. I joined a pre-presentation dinner with him and that smaller setting allowed me to slowly build up my

courage to speak one-on-one with him—an idea that had seemed impossible. This contact was where my story

began.

A month later, Brown invited me to attend the World Youth Wildlife Conference. Looking back, I now see that

this would be the first in a series of timely opportunities that my old self would have let pass, but that this new and

more confident Alice enthusiastically seized. Shortly after I received his invitation, applications to join the Youth

for Nature and the Youth for Planet groups were sent around through my high school. I decided to commit to

completing the applications, and soon I was a part of a growing global team of young people working to protect

nature. Each of these new steps continued to grow my confidence.

I am writing this just six months since my journey began and I’ve realized that my biggest obstacle ( 障碍) this

whole time was myself. It was that voice in the back of my head telling me that one phrase that has stopped so

many people from reaching their potential: I can’t. They say good things come to those who wait; I say: grab every

opportunity with everything you have and be impatient. After all, nature does not require our patience, but our

action.

4. What was the main cause for Alice’s anxiety?

A. Her desire to be perfect. B. Her habit of consumption.

C. Her inability to act her age. D. Her lack of inspiration.

5. How did Grant Brown’s presentation influence Alice?

A. She learned about the harm of desire.

B. She tasted the sweetness of friendship.

C. She decided to do something for nature.

D. She built up her courage to speak up.

6. Which of the following is the best description of Alice’s situation after the activities?

A. intelligent B. independent C. innovative D. confident

7. What can we learn from this passage?

A. Practice makes perfect. B. Patience is a cure of anxiety.

C. Action is worry’s worst enemy. D. Everything comes to those who wait.

Deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power. They are spacious, relatively flat, and

never short of sunlight. So researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the

Sahara, into a large solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand.

While the black surfaces of solar panels absorb most of the sunlight that reaches them, only around 15% of

that incoming energy gets turned into electricity. The rest is returned to the environment as heat, affecting the

climate. If these effects were only local, they might not matter in a thinly populated desert. But the area of the

installations in the Sahara would be vast, covering thousands of square miles. Heat released from an area this size

will be redistributed by the flow of air in the atmosphere, having regional and even global effects on the climate.

A 2018 study used a climate model to assess the effects of building massive solar farms in the Sahara. The

model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20% of the total area of the Sahara, the heat released by

the darker solar panels creates a big temperature difference between the land and the surrounding oceans that

ultimately lowers surface air pressure and causes wet air to rise and condense ( 凝结) into raindrops. With more

rainfall, plants grow and the desert reflects less of the sun’s energy since vegetation absorbs light better than sand

and soil. With more plants present, more water is evaporated ( 蒸发 ), creating a better environment that causes

vegetation to spread.

So, a large solar farm could generate enough energy and at the same time turn one of the most abominable

environments on Earth into a habitable place. Sounds perfect, right? Not quite. In a recent study, we used an

advanced Earth system model to closely examine how Saharan solar farms interact with the climate. It showed

there could be unintended effects in remote parts of the land and ocean.

We are only beginning to understand the potential consequences of establishing massive solar farms in deserts.

Solutions like this may help society reduce the use of fossil energy, but Earth system studies like ours underscore

the importance of considering the numerous coupled responses of the atmosphere, oceans, and land surface when

examining their benefits and risks.

8. What can be learned about solar farms?

A. They are mainly located in deserts.

B. They can affect the local and even global climate.

C. They can make the best use of incoming energy.

D. They satisfy the world’s current energy demand.

9. What will happen if 20% of the Sahara is covered with solar panels according to the 2018 study?

A. It might become greener.

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