福建省厦门第一中学2022-2023学年高二下学期6月月考英语试题
福建
高二
阶段练习
2023-08-02
145次
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适中
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主题、语篇范围
一、阅读理解 添加题型下试题
Childhood is a time of limitless possibilities. And old age is the time of wisdom. But for children who face the monster of cancer, their lives are fast-forwarded into profound wisdom. Not only do they have hand-to-hand struggle with the limits of life, they face it with raw truth and courage. For them, life is hard-won yet full of unbelievable hope, and is to be lived to the fullest.
We have much to learn from these children.
That’s what art therapist, Lisa Murray, believed as she worked to help children with cancer to release their feelings through their drawings, which have turned into a book, Angels & Monsters.
Murray found that in their struggle, kids would tell her constantly, “I’m just a regular kid; I just want to play, to go to school, to go outside ... I just happen to have cancer.”
She was moved and inspired by their simple will to survive. The children were facing the disease head on. She saw some powerful images in their artwork. “What courage does it take to do that?” said Murray.
Murray selected 25 children aged 13 months to 18 years. She asked the four-year-olds and up, “If you could tell the world what it is like to have cancer, what would you say, what would you draw?” For two-to three-year-olds, she asked, “What do you want to tell people about yourself?” And for the youngest, she just took their handprints. It’s such a human expression, “Here’s my mark,” said Murray.
She then asked them about their pictures and wrote down exactly what they said. This gave the artwork a powerful voice. Coupled with Murray’s photographs of the children in the book, the three forms of expression leave both a permanent record and lasting impression with the viewer.
As a therapist, Murray doesn’t give the kids the impression that the drawing process is right or wrong. Whatever they draw is unconditionally acceptable. “Children play, they draw, and that’s the natural language of children. That’s why art therapy is so wonderful,” she said.
1. What are children with cancer like in the eyes of Murray?A.They are energetic and active. | B.They are wise and hardworking. |
C.They are courageous and optimistic. | D.They are thoughtful and kind-hearted. |
A.She lets them draw whatever they like. |
B.She teaches them how to draw naturally. |
C.She gives them advice about what to draw. |
D.She makes sure what they draw are acceptable. |
A.Their drawings, their voices and the book. |
B.Their drawings, their handprints and the book. |
C.Their drawings, their words and the photos of them. |
D.Their drawings, Murray’s questions and the children’s answers. |
For many Chinese consumers, a satisfying breakfast is one that includes either hot porridge or steamed buns (馒头). Cold sandwiches, which are popular with Westerners, are probably one of the last options on their minds. But that is not to say that consumers, especially those in an international city like Shanghai, would avoid everything considered Western for breakfast. For instance, coffee, which has steadily grown in popularity in the country, is one drink that many cannot do without today.
To satisfy this growing demand for breakfast sets that combine elements from the East and the West, food companies have been rolling out (推出) a host of new offerings to attract the customer. One example is Shanghai Qiao Coffee, launched by local time-honored food company Qiaojiashan at the end of 2019. Apart from its traditional dim sum (点心), the store also sells various types of coffee.
According to Shen Yan, deputy manager of Qiaojiashan, the most popular breakfast set now is the steamed vegetable bun paired with black coffee. “The calories that one gets from a meal consisting of Chinese dim sum and coffee are less than those of a Western breakfast. Since a steamed bun has nearly 200 calories and a cup of black coffee barely has any calories, this combination can be considered healthy and delicious,” said Shen.
Even the smaller shoppers in the food scene are jumping on the East-West breakfast trend. Western food companies, too, have been rolling out Chinese breakfast options. “Consumers and even cultural heritage will also benefit from the increased competition. If not for the current trend which has revived interest in certain traditional dim sum, these foods could soon be lost to history,” Shen said.
4. What can we learn about breakfast in Shanghai in Paragraph 1?A.Coffee is a must for many people. |
B.Cold sandwiches are a popular choice. |
C.People avoid western food for breakfast. |
D.People prefer porridge and steamed buns. |
A.Because it’s traditional. |
B.Because it’s tasty and healthy. |
C.Because it’s newly created. |
D.Because it contains more vegetables. |
A.Western food companies dislike East-West breakfast. |
B.Big companies have the ability to seize the market share. |
C.The competition for breakfast sets is of no benefit to consumers. |
D.Some traditional foods may disappear without the combination trend. |
A.Chinese consumers show more interest in western food. |
B.Western breakfast is warmly welcomed by Shanghai people. |
C.The Chinese-Western breakfast set is becoming a hit in Shanghai. |
D.Shanghai Qiao Coffee has won great success for its breakfast sets. |
What’s the effect of poetry on our brain? Scientists have been investigating the neuronal (神经元的) connections and brain circuits that can work in the reading of poetry for some time. And, even though the research has only just begun, the results are already fascinating.
Poetry has the oldest recorded texts in literature. Although it’s impossible to say exactly when it began to be used in the oral tradition, we dare to say that it’s accompanied humanity forever. This gives us an idea of the impact that poetic language can have on our emotional and cognitive state. The emotional response to literature in general shares areas of activation with music. However, more areas of the right hemisphere (半球) seem to be related to poetry. The researchers measured the goosebumps resulting from the tingling (强烈感受) sensation in reading poetry. This type of sensation has also been proven to result from music. However, the tingling sensations produced by poetry activate different areas of the brain compared to those activated by music.
Dr. Eugen Wassiliwizky’s team collected data on behavioral responses in people reading or listening to poetry. They proved that poetry is capable of causing emotional responses and rich emotional experiences. In addition, a poem expresses the poet’s ideas. From a psychological view, poetry is a game of language that manages to group words in a surprising way. We could compare this with how a chef combines ingredients that seem impossible to combine, producing extraordinary results. Poetry is based on rules of construction. It sets up a rhythm, which then breaks, before finally returning to it. The play on the meanings of words, sometimes several meanings in just one word, is extremely intellectually inspiring. We can read a poem a thousand times, and still find its new meanings.
Generally, our passage through the wonderful world of poetry is cut short by a rather reduced exposure during childhood and the overly analytical approach of this literary genre (类型),which is given in most schools. Although, the studies that experts have conducted on poetry get a lot of interesting results, poetry still holds a mystery that science hasn’t yet been able to investigate. For example, why a perfect cadence (抑扬顿挫) and rhythm can lift the spirit of people is the new challenge for the research.
8. What is the main difference between poetry and music?A.Music causes fewer goosebumps. |
B.Poetry creates more tingling sensations. |
C.They work on different parts of the brain. |
D.They are processed in different parts of the brain. |
A.It is vague in its meaning but rich in emotional experience. |
B.It combines ingredients and extraordinary results. |
C.It expresses something about the poet. |
D.It’s a pure game of language that surprises to give readers. |
A.We analyze this literary genre too much. |
B.We make children more exposed to it. |
C.We haven’t read a poem a thousand times. |
D.We rely too much on our teachers. |
A.Findings about poetry. | B.The history of poetry. |
C.How to write poetry. | D.How to appreciate poetry. |
A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington D.C. made a bit of aviation (航空) history last December, completing a 600-mile trip that the airline hopes will prove the first leg of a journey to a greener future.
In a first, one of the two engines on the 737 Max 8 was powered entirely by fuel made from used cooking oil and waste fat from beef, pork and chicken. Refined (提炼) at a Southern California plant, the fuel produces about 80% less emissions (排放) than conventional aviation fuel. Biofuel had been mixed with conventional fuel in the past, but United Airlines said it had never been used by itself in the engine of a commercial flight.
The Chicago carrier made the flight to show the progress it has made toward its goal of getting rid of greenhouse gas emissions by2050. It’s a goal shared by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
For now, the biggest challenge is producing enough low-emission, sustainable aviation fuel that can be used in existing commercial planes without adjustment to power the world’s airlines. The world’s refineries now produce about 26.4 million gallons of low-emission, sustainable aviation fuel a year. That is only a tiny part of the 18.3 billion gallons of fuel burned by U.S. carriers alone in 2019.
“There is no question there is a challenge,” Gene Gebolys, chief executive of World Energy, a Boston biofuel energy company, said. “It’s all about scale (规模).”
World Energy’s Paramount, California, facility now has the capacity to refine cooking oil and animal fat into 15 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel a year. The company is investing $1.5 billion to modernize the facility and enable it to produce up to 370 million gallons a year.
“Standing where we are right now, it is going to be an extremely ambitious goal to get to net zero by 2050,” Gebolys said. “Do I think it’s possible? Absolutely.”
12. What is the experiment of United Airlines?A.Using fuel from fat and oil alone in engines. |
B.Refining cooking oil and waste fat. |
C.Mixing biofuel energy with conventional fuel. |
D.Developing biofuel-powered carriers. |
A.The stability of the refined cooking oil. | B.The lack of raw materials. |
C.The limited production capacity. | D.The energy consumption in production. |
A.Favorable. | B.Intolerant. | C.Doubtful. | D.Unclear. |
A.Energy Company Discovers a New Green Fuel |
B.Global Airlines Promise a Low-emission Future |
C.Is Biofuel Energy Ready for Mass Production? |
D.Could Cooking Oil Help Airlines Reach Zero Emissions? |
Communion is a very difficult art. To commune with one another over many problems that we have requires listening and learning, which are both very difficult to do.
When you commune with your own heart, when you commune with your friend, when you commune with the skies, with the stars, with the sunset, with a flower, then surely you are listening so as to learn. It does not mean that you accept or deny.
I think it is important to understand that a man who accumulates can never learn. Self-learning implies a fresh and eager mind-a mind that is not committed, that does not belong to anything and that is not limited to any particular field. It is only such a mind that learns.
A.Most of us hardly listen, and we hardly learn. |
B.Here is a personal story that illustrates this difference. |
C.The mind that is accumulating knowledge never learns. |
D.How can we make the shift from accumulating to learning? |
E.It seems to me of the utmost importance that we do listen in order to learn. |
F.From this inquiry comes the movement of learning, which is never accumulative. |
G.You are learning and either acceptance or denial of what is being said puts an end to learning. |