辽宁省大连市滨城高中联盟2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷
辽宁
高二
期中
2024-05-18
84次
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Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land running along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
A short flight from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your accommodation in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing paths through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your destination, you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets.
Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and the Uros homes are made of water plants from the lake.
So come and experience what Peru has to offer: everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries — old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and a beautiful coastline.
1. What is special about the Machu Picchu Tour?A.People can explore the rainforest with a local guide. |
B.People can stay with a local Uros family on an island. |
C.People can enjoy the plants and animals unique to the forest. |
D.People can know about the Incas’ dry stone method of building. |
A.Amazon Rainforest Tour. | B.Machu Picchu Tour. |
C.Cusco Tour. | D.Lake Titicaca Tour. |
A.On a science website. | B.In a travel brochure. |
C.In an environmental report. | D.In a biology magazine. |
Following a design shown on her cell phone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd (葫芦), completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible (非物质) cultural her it age of northwest China’s Gansu Province.
Coming from a family engaged in gourd sculpture for almost 90 years in Lanzhou, Ruan is not satisfied with just perfecting her technique. Instead, the fourth-generation inheritor (继承人) aims to bring traditional craftsmanship closer to young people through marketing and sharing.
Dating back over 1, 600 years, gourd sculpture was first developed as a decoration on people’s portable wine pots made of gourds. The pronunciation of “gourd” in Chinese, which resembles that of “luck and fortune”, partly explains its lasting popularity.
For Ruan, the fragrance of gourds is the smell of home. Upon graduating from college, she started learning gourd sculpture from her mother, sitting for hours every day practicing calligraphy and painting, which she views as the essential training to become a qualified sculptor. Later, Ruan developed innovative products such as gourd mirrors and gourd necklaces to tap the market potential, believing they can help the craft reach more people.
Her family opened a gourd sculpting studio in 2010, displaying their works as well as a history of the art. Ruan likes talking with visitors to the studio, and their interactions inspired her to launch a curriculum for people to experience the craft in 2016. According to Ruan, around 800 people attend the courses every year. Among them are students eager to learn something new, and young parents who bring their kids along to enjoy some lovely family time. “Many participants told me that our courses enable them to know more about the history of Lanzhou, and help make the city’s memories last longer,” said Ruan.
Under Ruan’s influence, her mother is now live streaming on social media everyday sharing her stories of gourd sculpture with viewers across the country. “Sharing is inheriting,” said Ruan. “When we share our skills and knowledge with more people, the traditional culture will naturally be spread on a wider scale,” said Ruan.
4. What do we know about Ruan?A.She is a designer of manned spacecraft on a gourd. |
B.She took up gourd sculpture under the influence of her family. |
C.She first sculpted on a portable wine pot made of a gourd. |
D.She is good at teaching young people the craftsmanship. |
A.Inspiring and touching. | B.New and memorable. |
C.Popular and enjoyable. | D.Lovely and practical. |
A.Spreading the gourd sculpture is to share the stories. |
B.Stories of gourd sculpture a reviewed across the world |
C.Live streaming on social media is the best way to share. |
D.Traditional culture will be spread wider through sharing. |
A.Ruan Xiyue: an Inheritor of an Intangible Cultural Heritage. |
B.Gourd Sculpture: a Traditional Craft Popular with the Chinese. |
C.Social Media: a Useful Tool to Share Gourd Sculpture. |
D.Cultural Courses: an Approach to Learning Something New. |
Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.
Edward Tian, a computer science major at Princeton University, has built an App called GPTZero to detect whether a text is written by Chat GPT, which is a popular chatbot that has caused fears over its possibility for immoral uses in American academic circles. His motivation to create the computer program was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism (剽窃). Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, there have been reports of students using the language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own. Many teachers have reached out to him after he released GPTZero, telling him about the positive results they’ve seen from testing it.
To determine whether an essay is written by a computer program, GPTZero uses two indicators: “confusion” and “burstiness (突发性)”. The first indicator measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is confused by the text, then it has a high complexity and it’s more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to GPTZero — because it’s been trained on such data — then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated. Besides, the second indicator compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.
In a demonstration video, Tian compared the App’s analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a Linked In post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing between human and AI. However, GPTZero isn’t foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. He said he’s still working to improve the model’s accuracy.
Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT. GPTZero is “not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used,” he said. “But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have protections.”
8. What have some students done since ChatGPT was released?A.They have built language models from ChatGPT. |
B.They have copied AI-written text from ChatGPT |
C.They have accessed their assignments through ChatGPT. |
D.They have passed their writing exams through ChatGPT. |
A.The more uniform the text is, the more likely it is to be AI-generated. |
B.The less complex the text is, the more likely it is to be human-written. |
C.GPTZero sometimes confuses human-written texts with AI-generated texts. |
D.GPTZero is more familiar with human-written texts than with AI-generated texts. |
A.User-friendly. | B.Time-efficient. |
C.Perfectly legal. | D.Completely reliable. |
A.Favorable. | B.Disapproving. | C.Objective. | D.Ambiguous. |
Kenya is home to Africa’s predators (捕食者), particularly lions, which frequently hunt farmers’ livestock (牲畜). To protect their animals, farmers often use poisons. While these have been successful in protecting farmers’ livestock, their use has resulted in a sharp decline in the lion population, which stands at just 2,500 now.
At the age of nine, Turere was asked to care for his father’s cattle beside Nairobi National Park, one of Kenya’s most famous wilderness areas, where people frequently experienced conflicts with lions. Turere couldn’t bear to see lions harmed by humans when lions hunted cows, because he loved these creatures deeply. Determined to find a solution benefiting both local farmers and wildlife, Turere started experimenting. But no way worked at first. The only thing that worked later was when he wandered around the livestock pen with a torch in hand. The sight of him walking around at night with a light made the animals runaway.
This inspired Turere to develop the Lion Lights system, a series of flashing LED lights strategically placed on the cattle fences to scare away predators. “The lights flash irregularly to trick lions into thinking that someone is walking around with a flashlight. Thanks to it, we went from losing three cows a week to none,” says Turere. This innovative solar-powered light system—which can also run on wind power—costs just $20.5 per unit, making it affordable and eco-friendly.
Turere’s invention is not only protecting the livelihoods of local communities, it, is also changing the viewpoints of local communities on wild life. “Since the introduction of the Lion Lights system, there have been no predator-related incidents. As a result, local people no longer view wildlife as the enemy,” he notes. “This is great news for these wonderful animals as it means that local communities are more open to wildlife conservation.”
12. What is the problem with farmers using poisons in Kenya?A.It threatens the lion’s survival. |
B.It often harms their livestock. |
C.It arouses the public’s opposition. |
D.It damages the local environment. |
A.To take good care of his father’s cattle. |
B.To stop farmers from hunting lions. |
C.To protect the livestock from being killed. |
D.To find ways for farmers and lions to coexist. |
A.It can keep domestic animals from running away. |
B.It works with all the lights on all the time. |
C.It’s inexpensive and environmentally friendly. |
D.Only three cows have been lost since it was used. |
A.Exploring the world is a must for children. |
B.Local communities have been preserving the wildlife. |
C.Protecting the livestock of local communities is the top priority. |
D.Turere’s invention contributed to wildlife conservation. |