2024届高三级11月四校联考英语试题佛山市第一中学、广州市第六中学汕头市金山中学、中山市第一中学试卷总分：120分考试时间：120分钟注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

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ABEST BODY FITNESSAbout usYou don’t want just a gym membership. You want a membership that means something. And that means you need support, expert help and a community.Best Body Fitness isn’t just a gym: it’s full-service fitness membership made for you. Here’s how it works:STEP ONE: Your assessmentWe begin with an assessment session. This is a chance for you to see what we do at Best Body. Our assessment plans are no-cost and no-risk. We’ll also make a training plan specifically for you. STEP TWO: Your trainingWhen you decide to become a Best Body member, we show you what to do, how to do it and why you are doing it. After a few sessions with an expert private trainer you will feel comfortable working out on your own.STEP THREE: Your membershipMembership works on a month-to-month basis. There are no sign-up fees and no cancellation fees. Start and stop whenever you want. And the best part? Our fees are the most competitive in the whole downtown area.STEP FOUR: Your communityAt Best Body Fitness, we see everyone as part of a big team. And when you work with a team, you can do great things. Join any of our specialized classes, led by expert trainers. Come to our nutrition classes. Participate in our regular social events. Everything is included in your fee.Finally, we want to share with you some reasons why our members say that they have chosen us over any other fitness centre in the city.It’s so EASYEasy to start, stop, cancel or refund a membership.Easy to access ―we’re open 24/7, we never close.Easy results ― our trainers and equipment give you success, fast.Come and visit us for a personal tour!21. What can one do in the second step?A. Have a full assessment.B. Work with a team.C. Learn from the private trainer.D. Make a training plan.22. If you become a member of this gym, you can ________.A. get refund when you cancel your membershipB. get expert training but you need to pay extra feeC. go to the gym only from 6:00 am to 10:00 pmD. go to the gym only from Monday to Saturday23. What do you think the above passage is?A. A story book.B. A science magazine.C. A TV show.D. An advertisement.BIt’s perhaps the world’s most famous underwater att raction that remained in film and in legend: the Titanic. But now experts say the ocean liner, once a wonder of the high seas, is falling to pieces.Capt. Alfred McLaren, the scientist who in July led the most recent expedition to the ship’s underwater grave, said his team saw clear signs of the accelerating damage of the wreck (残骸). There was damage likely caused by rust and sea life, and the captain’s cabin had collapsed.“I was absolutely astonished,” McLaren said.Worse still, the fallen mast (桅杆) that crushed the ship’s deck is believed by many to be the result of an unapproved salvage (打捞) operation. “It was almost depressing to see how quickly she was getting worse,” McLaren says. “I would be really surprised if there’s very much standing upfrom the bottom, two decades from now.”Ed Kamuda, who runs the Titanic Historical Society in Springfield, Mass., says adventure tourists ― who pay $36,000 each to visit the wreck ― are also contributing to the destruction of it.“This is something I expected. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly,” Kamuda said. “People are going down just as an ego trip to say ‘I was there.’ All this takes a fare on the ship.”The Titanic has sat at the bottom of the Atlantic since it sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage on April 14, 1912. More than 1,500 people died that night. The ship came to rest at the bottom of the freezing North Atlantic, more than 2 miles beneath the waves. The wreck was discovered in 1985, and since then it has been repeatedly visited by treasure hunters.But still some scientists say those divers, and other thrill seekers are not necessarily to blame for the Titanic’s current problems.Capt. Craig McLean of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration went on an expedition to the Titanic in June as part of a government study that is monitoring the condition of the ship. He says it’s unclear what part of the damage is from Mother Nature and which is from human nature.“It’s too early and there isn’t enough evidence to put our fingers on anything,” McLean said.Regardless, most agree there’s little that can be done for this most famous of wrecks. And soon, the mighty Titanic could well be lost again.24.McLaren expected that in twenty years _______.A.Only a minor part of the wreck would remain as it isB.The wreck would be getting worse at a faster speedC.Only salvage operation with the purpose of research would be approvedD.The wreck would be completely destroyed by unapproved treasure hunters25.What is the tourist’s purpose of visiting the w reck, according to Kamuda?A.To contribute to the breaking down of the Titanic.B.To help finance the preservation of the Titanic.C.To satisfy their curiosity and adventurousness.D.To better understand the history of the Titanic.26.Craig McLean is one of the scientists who believe _______.A.Visitors should not be prohibited from the Titanic and other famous wrecksB.The influence of the thrill seekers on the wreck will finally be determinedC.The government should contribute more to the monitoring of the TitanicD.The damage of the Titanic is not necessarily attributed to the adventure tourists27.The author is most likely to agree that the future of the Titanic is _______.A.promisingB. discouragingC. controllableD. vagueCIn department stores and closets all over the world, they are waiting. Their outward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles, patterns, materials, and colors. But they are eventually the biggest deception (欺骗) that exists in the fashion industry today. What are they? They are high heels ― a woman’s worst enemy (whether she knows it or not). High heel shoes are the downfall of modern society. Fashion myths have led women to believe that they are more beautiful or stylish for wearing heels, but in reality, heels succeed in creating short as well as long term troubles. Women should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in order to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.For the sake of fairness, it must be noted that there is a positive side to high heels. First, heels are excellent for aerating lawns (草坪通气). Anyone who has ever worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about. A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies gets rid of all the need to call for a lawn care specialist, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all those messy blocks of dirt lying around. Second, heels are quite functional for defending against potential enemies, who can easily be scared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion items.Regardless of such practical uses for heels, the fact remains that wearing high heels is harmful to one’s physical health. Talk to any podiatrist (足病医生), and you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing women. High heels are known to cause problems such as deformed feet and torn toenails. The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three times higher for a high heel wearer than for a flat shoe wearer. Wearing heels also creates the threat of getting a heel caught in a narrow sidewalk gap and being thrown to the ground ― possibly breaking a nose, back, or neck. And of course, after wearing heels for a day, any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain as she tries to comfort her aching feet.28. Women don’t take the disadvantages of high heels too seriously because of _______.A. their attempt to show off their statusB. the rich variety of high heel stylesC. their wish to improve their appearanceD. the multi-functional use of high heels29. What’s the author’s tone in presenting the positive sides of high heel shoes?A. ironicB. favorableC. sympatheticD. objective30. The writer uses “those babies” (Paragraph 2) to refer to high heels _______.A. to show their fragile characteristicB. to show women’s affection for themC. to emphasize their small sizeD. to indicate their trendy appearance31. It can be inferred from the passage that women should _______.A. refuse to buy the products of the fashion industryB. go to a podiatrist regularly for adviceC. avoid following fashion too closelyD. see through the very nature of fashion mythsDCarried by the wind, dust particles (微粒) from places such as the Sahara Desert can float halfway around the world before settling to the ground. As the plastics abandoned by humans break down into tiny pieces in the environment, they, too, travel through the atmosphere. Now scientists are a step closer to understanding how these microplastics travel in the globe ― both locally and on long-distance flights.Researchers spent more than a year collecting microplastics from 11 national parks and wilderness areas in the western U.S. They examined the particles that settled on dry days and those that fell along with rain or snow. In addition to making clear how microplastics move around, the results, published on Thursday in Science, reveal the seriousness of the problem: more than 1 million kilograms of microplastics ― the weight of 120 million to 300 million plastic water bottles ― fall on protected lands in the country’s western region each year.The new findings add to scientists’ concern over microplastic pollution’s potential impacts o n the environment and human health. “We’re not supposed to breathe in this material,” says Steve Allen, a microplastics researcher at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, who was not involved in the new study. Plastics in the environment “carry all s orts of pesticides (农药), heavy metals and all the other chemicals that we’ve made over time,” he adds. “They’re going to carry them directly into our lungs.”Since their discovery in oceans in the 1970s, microplastics ― which can be as large as a grain of rice or smaller than a particle of dust ― have been found nearly everywhere researchers have looked: in cities, in Arctic snow, on remote mountaintops. Their presence in areas distant from the place where human live has pointed to them being carried by winds.32.What do the scientists further understand now?A. Why Sahara Desert is expanding to the south of Africa.B. How plastic particles travel on the wind.C. Why it is hard for plastics to break down.D. How dust particles are spreading through the wind.33. What do we know about the new study?A. The results showed the amount of microplastics is huge.B. Researchers collected microplastics across the U.S.C. Researchers focused on plastic particles in dry days.D. Numerous plastic water bottles were found each year.34. What does Steve Allen say about plastics?A. They should be recycled.B. They do harm to weather.C. They can be used to make all sorts of pesticides.D. They carry harmful chemicals to human lungs.35. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Dust Particles Is Harmful to Our LungsB. The Environment Is Threatened by PlasticsC. Microplastics Are Falling from the SkyD. Microplastics Do Harm to Health第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。