湖北省武汉市第一中学2024-2025学年高三上学期10月月考英语试题一、阅读理解Discovery PassWith a NSW TrainLink Discovery Pass, you can• get unlimited booked travel to more than 365 destinations on the NSW TrainLink Regional train and coach network• choose a pass that suits your travel plans: 14 days, one month, three months or six months • choose a class of travel that suits your style: Economy or First Class (Premium).Please note that you cannot book a child ticket online with a Discovery Pass. You will instead need to call 13 22 32 or visit a sales agent.Before purchasing a pass, please read the relevant terms and rules. A NSW TrainLink Discovery Pass is non-refundable and it cannot be assigned to another person.PricesHow to purchase a pass and book tripsStep 1: Purchase a Discovery PassChoose a time limit and class of travel that suits your needs.Step 2: Book your tripsAfter you purchase a Discovery Pass, you have up to one month to book your first trip. The time limit on your pass will start from the departure date of your first booked trip. All trips must be booked and taken before the expiry (到期) date indicated on the pass. You must book each trip before you travel.Find out more about ways to book your ticket? Visit our website:https: //tickets-opal/regional-tickets-fares/ways-to-book-your-ticket 1．You can use a NSW TrainLink Discovery Pass to ______.A．book a child ticket online B．choose a class of travel that suits youC．choose a weekly, monthly or yearly pass D．get booked travel to unlimited destinations 2．If a mother with a child wants to buy a one-month NSW TrainLink Discovery Pass for Economy Class, she should pay .A．$353B．$418C．$693D．$8763．What can we know about a NSW TrainLink Discovery Pass?A．A pass can be given to another person.B．A pass can be refunded to NSW Trains.C．The time limit on a pass starts from the day of your purchase.D．You should book your first trip within one month after your purchase.When I was named CEO of a global company in 2006, I was determined to run the company so that it would both deliver good short-term performance and thrive in the long term, years after I was gone. It was already in good shape, but I dreamed of creating a defining corporation of the 21st century, proud of its root, yet global and responsible in the shifting times.For months, I quietly read all I could about the big social trends influencing business. I walked the market, and examined employees’ feedback. I also dug deep into the obligations of public corporations. From all of this emerged a vision for the company that guided us for the next dozen years or so. I called it “Performance with Purpose”. The goal was to deliver great financial returns, as we always had, with three additional clear objects: to nourish humanity and the communities, to protect our environment and to cherish our people.My motivation was wholly to “future proof”, or de-risk. And it worked. In my 12 years as CEO, total shareholder return was 149%, and net profit jumped 80%. We cut the salt, fat, and sugar in so da and chips, added more healthful brands and products, and lowered the amount of water needed. We kept innovation going and our design studios won many awards. Our talent academy was so brilliant that nine senior managers left to take CEO jobs elsewhere.I believe that leaders must think from the future back, even when things are going fine. And we now have a framework to help: the evolving templates (模板) for environmental, social, and governance metrics (ESG衡量标准) that, in essence, serve to de-risk companies and markets. These criteria force discussion of hard truths for anyone with the ambition to stay relevant in the long term. If the metrics are carefully selected, ESG is not contrary to investors’ interests. Importantly, de-risking the company actually creates shareholder value.“Performance with Purpose” presented tough moments for me, including when one investor questioned, “Who do you think you are? A philanthropist (慈善家)?” But skepticism faded when a collective mission took hold that included both the bottom line and much beyond. This was my hope from the start.4．The author’s new vision for the company came from _________.A．its unique cultural root B．her thorough researchC．customers’ fundamental needs D．shareholders’ strong requirements 5．According to “Performance with Purpose”, an ideal company should _________.A．shift its strategies properly B．value employees’ feedbackC．shoulder social responsibility D．prioritize financial returns6．What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?A．The risks a company may face.B．The author’s ambition to create value.C．The interests investors seek after.D．The author’s recipe for successful business. 7．As CEO, the author can be best described as _________.A．inspiring and warm-hearted B．determined and far-sightedC．ambitious and generous D．modest and strategicIn 2022, the Nature Conservancy launched two 5-year pilot projects at working ranches (牧场) in Kansas and New Mexico to determine if virtual fences enable land managers to betterperform regenerative management practices and to assess potential benefits for biodiversity and for ranchers’ bottom lines, as well as impacts on soil carbon storage.Applauded by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as a climate adaption strategy, virtual fencing is an innovative technology that enables ranchers to use a smartphone or web app to remotely monitor and control where and when cattle graze (吃草). Virtual fences can reduce the need for physical fences, which require significant time, expense and labor to maintain. Physical fences also limit land managers in their ability to change grazing boundaries to adapt to seasonal changes in vegetation or to exclude cattle from ecologically sensitive areas.The cows are outfitted with battery-operated, GPS-enabled collars that send out a radio frequency to communicate with reception towers, creating virtual grazing boundaries set by a rancher. When a cow approaches the edge of the virtual boundary, the collar produces a sound suggesting it turning around. If the cow proceeds to cross the boundary, it receives a momentary mild shock, indicating that it’s gone too far and should rejoin its group.Grasslands are the least protected habitat on earth and one of the most effective carbon sinks, storing up to 20%of the world’s soil organic carbon. Unfortunately, grasslands are continuing to rapidly disappear for several reasons. For ecological health, most grassland ecosystems need periods of disturbance to aerate (使透气) the soil, stimulate plant growth and recycle nutrients into the soil. Ranchers complete this disturbance-rest cycle by managing the timing, location, herd size and intensity of grazing activities, all of which can be time-consuming and painstaking.“Currently, the costs of virtual fencing are still high, but in the long run it can help land managers better carry out management practices that regenerate land health, help address climate change and biodiversity loss,” said William Burnidge, director of the Nature Conservancy. 8．What’s stressed concerning virtual fencing in paragraph 2?A．Its smart design.B．Its wide application.C．Its major advantages.D．Its working principles.9．What does the mild shock signal to the cow?A．It’s time to graze.B．It’s time to return.C．It’s in danger.D．It’s in a wrong direction.10．What’s unavoidable for ranchers to complete the disturbance-rest cycle?A．Polluted soil.B．Intense efforts.C．Financial failure.D．Ecological imbalance.11．What’s Mr. Burnidge’s attitude to virtual fencing?A．Objective.B．Intolerant.C．Dismissive.D．Conservative.You might not think that an AI capable of making music would stimulate your emotion, but others think differently, particularly those who gathered at Mexico City’s Symphony Hall in 2019 for Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, which I finished using melodies generated by an AI.As the orchestra (管弦乐团) finished Schubert’s original work and began the music the AI and I had written, I could feel the crowd’s energy shift from astonishment to indignation and fear. They seemed afraid that an AI might be able to make emotional symphonic music. You can see their point: an AI that makes emotional music could affect the emotional lives of thousands or even millions of people in a small, but profound way, just like a human musician does.Positive and negative, people reacted very strongly to AI’s symphonic debut (首秀). Even though most people don’t believe that AI can create something enjoyable, they, at least partly, did enjoy the Unfinished Symphony.Enjoyment in music implies that there’s something in the music that the listener connects to, a perception of shared emotion. But, in the case of AI music, an emotion shared with who? AI, as of yet, has no emotions. So what is the meaning of music made without an emotional composer? The unsatisfying answer is that music has no objective meaning. A composer can decide how a piece of music sounds, but it’s the listener that decides what it means.No matter how it’s created, music doesn’t exist in a vacuum (真空) to the listener. The meaning we assign to music depends on its context — how the piece connects to other elements in our lives. Without context, music is like the results of a game whose rules have been lost. The context for a music is part of who you are. The music is emotional to you because you have the context to appreciate it. As it continues to evolve, AI music will develop its own context. Certainly, it’ll be different from human-made music. It’ll mix existing genres to create new ones; it’ll combine instruments that we wouldn’t think of combining. Its rules will be different.I’m now always asked the same question: “Who put the emotion in that music: you, the composer, or the AI?” But that’s not the question they really want to ask, though. There’s a deeperquestion that most people are too afraid to ask right now: “Are my emotions so simple that they can be maneuvered by a machine?”In my experience, this could be possible one day. If a modestly capable music AI in 2019 could stir up emotions of an audience, maybe AI can have a more powerful effect on our emotional lives than we’d like to admit.12．The audience reacted strongly to the symphony mainly due to ______.A．their doubts about AI’s capabilities B．their uneasiness about AI’s influenceC．the orchestra’s brilliant presentation of AI music D．the likeness between AI music and the original work13．What might the author agree with?A．AI poses little impact on people’s emotions.B．Music bears no intended emotional meaning.C．AI music will outperform human-made music.D．The context reflects people’s interpretation of music.14．What does the word “maneuvered” underlined in Paragraph 6 most probably mean?A．Refreshed.B．Challenged.C．Revealed.D．Directed. 15．Which would be the best title for the passage?A．Are Composers To Be Replaced?B．Would AI Music Be a Rising Trend?C．Could AI Make Music That Moves You?D．Was the Unfinished Symphony Successful?While technology addicts teens to their devices, they are not helpless against the draw of it. Here are five ways educators can support their students’ digital well-being.Explore design tricks companies use. The technology we use daily is designed to catch and hold our attention. Companies know what keeps our eyes on the screen. To help, teachers can unpack design tricks and explain how companies employ features like auto-play to get users to stay on their apps. 16Talk about how technology can increase feelings of anxiety. The decline in youth mental health is associated with an increase in social media use. 17 We can help our students by allowing them to consider the benefits of technology and then to think about changing the habits that aren’t serving their well-being.18 Social media can bring the feeling: “All my friends have better lives than me.” Plus, design features like “read receipts” can lead to teens knowing their messages have been seen and stressing about why friends haven’t yet replied. These are classic examples of thinking traps. Identifying them can help teens get rid of some negative thoughts.Uncover the ways that AI can play a role in misinformation. AI is rapidly transforming the world. Recommendation algorithms (算法), which determine what we do and do not see on our feeds and in our search results, can have very real consequences. 19 By understanding how these technologies work, students can start to enjoy more benefits of technology.Encourage families to have meaningful conversations with their child. Take the time to share with families the topics and resources you’re teaching in class. 20 Knowing we’re all in the same boat is crucial.A．Social media is ruining our life.B．Connect them with their inner world.C．Build their awareness of thinking traps.D．This by no means indicates all technology is bad.E．They can pull us toward increasingly extreme views.F．It turns out adults and kids all pursue digital well-being.G．Knowing these can motivate students to get back their attention.二、完形填空When Shelby Lattimore, a math and science teacher, saw her third graders weren’t attending class, she found a fun way to change that. The 25-year-old teacher started her class 21 to encourage them not only to 22 but to get excited about learning.In the class, students can choose from a variety of “ 23 ” from being a door holder to being a cleanup crew. They get “paid” every two weeks and the 24 they get depends on which job they take on. The money is not real but play money spent on a homework pass, a seat change, and so on.Each month, Lattimore’s students also have to pay “rent” for their class desk and chair. To keep things interesting, Lattimore also introduced a new 25 to her current class. At thebeginning of the school year, she 26 students $5 and then once the new year hit, the 27 increased to $7. “So that was kind of an 28 that they had to make,” she said.Students can buy rewards once a month. The reward 29 low, medium and high price ranges, with $2 candy being the cheapest option to a more 30 $5 “lunch with Ms. L” reward. Students can also 31 to “take someone’s job” for $20 or work up toward the most expensive reward, being the teacher for $30.Today, Lattimore has seen how much they’ve learned about various 32 from budgeting and saving to reading a receipt and 33 change. She has also heard from students’ families, who are 34 of this idea because their kids are learning something they never learned at this age. “That’s really the goal here, to not just 35 them this year, but to keep it going,” she added.21．A．report B．economy C．interaction D．survey 22．A．get through B．take over C．set out D．show up 23．A．tools B．areas C．jobs D．parts 24．A．amount B．outcome C．position D．honour 25．A．term B．test C．choice D．idea 26．A．awarded B．charged C．returned D．refused 27．A．bonus B．fine C．rent D．income 28．A．appearance B．exception C．adjustment D．impression 29．A．covers B．reveals C．follows D．combines 30．A．general B．expensive C．suitable D．tasty 31．A．save up B．settle down C．go around D．move on 32．A．opinions B．roles C．comments D．skills 33．A．sharing B．donating C．spending D．counting 34．A．careful B．supportive C．tolerant D．aware 35．A．accept B．praise C．impact D．bless三、语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(一个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。
