辽宁省凤城市第一中学2024届高三英语12月月考试题
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节, 满分40分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A
Do you want to buy some toys for your children? I will give you some choices. Little Live Scruff-A-Luvs
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These unloved and abandoned pets are in need of your help! When you buy a pink Scruff-a-Luv, it may arrive as a sad ball of fur. But once you bathe it, dry it, brush it and love it, you will discover what kind of pet it really is! Just like real pets, the more time you spend caring for it, the cuter it'll become. FurReal Munchin's Rex
Price: $39.48 Sale: $20.68 Shipping: $3
When kids wave at him or feed him his treats, the baby dinosaur responds with 35 sound-and-motion combinations. It has cool dinosaur-habitat sounds---maybe this is what a prehistoric jungle sounded like. Ages 4 and up. 4*1.5v AA batteries required. Batteries included. LEGO Technic Porsche
Price: $100 Sale: $78 Shipping: $6
Build a recreation of the ultimate Porsche, featuring true-to-life orange body work, headlights and taillights, as well as low-profile tires. The package includes a special collector's book recording the history of LEGO Technic and Porsche GT cars. LEGO Technic building toys are matched with all LEGO construction sets for creative building.
VTech Touch & Swipe Baby Phone
Price: $15.99 Sale: $14.96 Shipping: $5
This is a touch-screen kid's phone with 12 light-up pretend apps, including the pretend calendar, clock, and weather. The 12 apps respond to touch and light up. Home button saves your phone number so that kids can pretend to call home. The baby phone is designed for six-month to three-year olds. 1. What do we know about those Scruff-a-Luv toys? A. They need more care from kids than real pets. B. They don't seem to be very happy toy pets. C. They don't look appealing at first. D. They should be bathed every day.
2. What can LEGO Technic Porsche offer kids?
A. The fun of competing with others. B. The chance to develop their creativity.
C. The opportunity to learn responsibility. D. The pleasure of owning various toy cars.
3. On a tight budget, which of the following will Mike probably buy? A. FurReal Munchin's Rex
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B. LEGO Technic Porsche C. Little Live Scruff-A-Luvs D. VTech Touch & Swipe Baby Phone B
NASA is launching its latest spacecraft this week, the Parker Solar Probe(探测器). The robotic craft will fly closer to the Sun than any man-made object has
ever been before, sending back invaluable new data on the star's properties(特性) and atmospheric conditions over a seven-year period. The project is named in
honour of American physicist Eugene Parker who first put forward the theory on the nature of solar winds in 1958.
The probe will be attached to a rocket and sent into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on the morning of Saturday 11 August. The rocket is second only to spaceX's Falcon Heavy in terms of power. It will travel at a speed of 125 miles a second on the way, making it one of the fastest ever built. It is
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scheduled to use the gravity of Venus on October 2 this year—slowing its approach
and allowing greater control—and hit the first perihelion (the point in its orbit
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when it is closest to the Sun) by November 5. On arrival, the Parker Solar Probe
will orbit around the Sun 24 times until late 2025, each complete orbit taking 88 days, passing at a distance of 3.83 million miles from the Sun's surface on its closest approach.
Specifically, the project is intended to gather new information on “space weather” conditions that influence the earth, what causes solar winds to accelerate and behave as they do and what causes the huge eruptions astronomers have observed. “We don't have a strong understanding of the mechanisms that drive that wind towards us, and that's what we're heading out to discover,” said project scientist Dr. Nicky Fox of the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. 4. The passage probably came out__________________.
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A. On August 11, 2024. B. On October 2nd, 2024
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C. On August 6, 2024. D. On November 5, 2024
5. From the second paragraph, we can know _______________.
A. The rocket to which the probe will be attached is more powerful than SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
B. The probe will be the closest to the sun in 2025.
C. The probe will travel at a speed of 7,500 miles per minute on the way. D. The probe will travel slow and then speed up a bit.
6. The project is named the “Parker Solar Probe”_________________. A. In honor of the designer of the probe. B. To honor a pioneer in the field. C. In memory of the place of the launch. D. To mark a special occasion.
7. One of the objectives of the launch is ____________________. A. to observe the earth at a distance.
B. to supervise the activities of astronomers. C. to explore solar winds.
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D. to accelerate solar winds. C
Heart attacks can affect anyone, but are especially threatening for women. Not only do the symptoms appear differently in women, but a new study suggests the gender of the medical provider who treats a woman having a heart attack may mean the difference between life and death.
Research published this week found that a woman is more likely to survive a heart attack if she receives care from a female emergency room doctor. The study was based on 582,000 patients in Florida hospitals from 1991 to 2010. Alarmingly, the study showed that women patients were less likely to survive heart attacks than male patients, and that the largest gap in survival rates between genders occurred under male doctors.
Among heart attack patients treated by women doctors, 11.8 percent of men died compared with 12 percent of women---a relatively small disparity. But the gap was larger for heart attack patients under the care of male doctors. In that group, 12.6 percent of men died and 13.3 percent of women died. The data took into account factors such as race, age and medical history.
The finding “suggest that having training programs that are more
gender-neutral, or showing how men and women might present symptoms differently, could improve outcomes for female patients,” Seth Carnahan, one of the study's authors, said in a statement.
One of the main factors affecting the quality of care that women patients receive is communication with their doctors, according to Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a fellow of the American Heart Association. “What I tell all women is that they need to really understand that how they communicate is the most important thing,” said Steinbaum. “If they believe that they're having a heart issue or are unsure of what's going on, it becomes important for them to say ‘I think it might be my heart,' because then the doctor will look for problem with it.”
Effective communication is a vital part of receiving quality treatment, but the study also highlights a need for doctors to change the way they treat women's medical symptoms. Research shows many doctors really don't take women's pain seriously.
8. After analyzing data from 582,000 patients, what did the researchers find? A. female doctors knew about heart attacks better.
B. women patients preferred to be treated by female doctors. C. women were better at working as emergency room doctors. D. female doctors could help women heart attack victims better. 9. What does the underlined word “disparity” in Paragraph 3 mean?
辽宁省凤城市第一中学2024届高三英语12月月考试题
