2024-2025学年江苏省南京市宁海中学高三英语3月月考试卷
全卷满分：150分 考试时间：120分钟
2025.03
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四个选项选出最佳选项。
A
WAKING A SLEEPWALKER IS BAD FOR THEIR HEALTH ①
Sleepwalking typically occurs during the non-rapid eye movement stage of sleep. Several factors can lead to walking while sleeping, including alcohol use, stress and even brain injury. However, there is a genetic explanation for sleepwalking. Studies have shown that children with one or both sleepwalking parents are 40 to 60 per cent more likely to sleepwalk themselves. As for the consequences of waking a sleepwalker, there is no evidence that it will hurt or harm him, but will likely cause disorientation and confusion.
LYING ON YOUR BACK MAKES YOU SNORE MORE
②
Snoring, namely breathing noisily, is caused by airflow being restricted through the body’s airways during sleep. When you lie on your back, gravity pulls tissues that surround your airways downwards, narrowing them. As air passes through the passage through the nose, it causes tissue to vibrate (振动) with every breath and can create a snoring sound. When you sleep on your side this tissue doesn’t move downwards, opening up the airways s and reducing the volume of snoring.
YOU ONLY USE TEN PERCENT OF YOUR BRAIN ③
This common theory in question dates back to the early 1900s, when the philosopher and founder of American psychology William James suggested that we only use a small portion of our potential. In a 1907 paper titled The Energies of Men, James wrote: “We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.” It’s sustained by a book How to Win Friends and Influence People, where American writer Lowell Thomas wrote that “professor William James of Harvard used to say that the average person develops only ten per cent of his potential 1mental ability”.
However, the truth is that your brain is firing on all cylinders (气缸) and not limited to just ten percent of its power.
1. Which section of a magazine does this passage probably belong to?
A. Educational features. B. Medical science.
C. Psychology forum. D. Classified ads.
2. Which of the following pictures best illustrates SNORING SCIENCE?
A. B.
C. D.
3. Which of the following best fits into the numbered blanks ①-②-③?
A. MYTH—FACT—FACT B. FACT—MYTH—FACT
C. MYTH—FACT—MYTH D. FACT—MYTH—MYTH
B
When Hurricane Douglas came barreling toward Oahu in 2020, David Sischo quickly packed up and drove to higher ground. But he wasn’t shifting his family. He was shifting snails.
Sischo works with some of the rarest endangered species on the planet, kāhuli — Hawaii’s native tree snails. The colorful, jewel-like snails were once so abundant. It’s said they were like Christmas ornaments covering the trees. Almost all of the 750 different species were found only in Hawaii. Today, more than half of those species are gone, the extinctions happening in the span of a human lifetime. Sischo and his team with Hawaii’ s Department of Land and Natural Resources have the heavy task of saving what’s left.
To stave off extinction, 40 species of snails, each about the size of a dime, live in human care inside an unremarkable trailer near Honolulu. For some, it’s the only place where they’ re found, their wild populations having completely disappeared. “Most people, when they think endangered species going extinct, they think of pandas and tigers and elephants, but imagine having 40 different species that are all as rare as pandas are,” Sischo says.
This winter, one species of snail will inch toward an auspicious milestone. It will be released in a special enclosure in the mountains of Oahu, one that has been painstakingly prepared to give the snails the best chance of survival in their natural environment.
