2024届河南省信阳高级中学高三下学期二模测试(十五)英语试题
河南
高三
二模
2024-05-25
57次
整体难度:
适中
考查范围:
主题、语篇范围
一、阅读理解 添加题型下试题
Spring Break Camps are offered at PacSci in Seattle and Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue for grades K-5. Ignite (点燃) your child’s curiosity at one of our innovative week-long camps from April 8 — 12, 2024.
PLANT PALS Grades: K-5 Time: 9 a.m. — 4 p.m. Price: $ 545 Grab your shovel and watering can and get ready for a botanical bonanza! Campers will join us as we take a closer look at the plant life that surrounds us in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Whether viewing leaves under a microscope, or brainstorming how to farm in outer space, young botanists will explore it all! |
BLOSSOMING BOTANISTS Grades: K-5 Time: 9 a.m. — 4 p.m. Price: $ 530 Calling all friends of flora! Join us for a week of vegetation exploration at Mercer Slough. Discover how to identify trees, the secrets behind how fruit grows, and the wonders of native greenery. Let the science of plants take root this spring! |
CLIMATE CLOVE Grades: K-5 Time: 9 a.m. — 4 p.m. Price: $ 560 Adventure awaits! Join our mission throughout Pacific Northwest waters and beyond as we launch from Mercer Slough. Prepare yourself for a nautical week of tracking ocean currents, navigating sea storms, and searching for a treasure trove of tidal knowledge. Set sail with us on this environmental excursion! |
Extended care is an optional add-on on the last day, which promptly ends at 6 p.m. Any unplanned extended care or late pick-ups from camp results in a fee of $ 20 for 1 — 10 minutes late, plus $ 10 for every 10-minute interval (间隔) thereafter.
1. What do PLANT PALS and BLOSSOMING BOTANISTS have in common?A.They explore vegetables. | B.They introduce some botanists. |
C.They teach skills of gardening. | D.They provide plant-related experience. |
A.$ 560. | B.$ 600. | C.$ 570. | D.$ 585. |
A.Parents. | B.Nature lovers. |
C.Teachers. | D.Students in grades K-5. |
Anna Steed doesn’t look much older than her students, but she is a practitioner of behavioral and motivational science, a shoulder to cry on, and the high school debate coach. Her class, which began as an elective class to give students exposure to skills that prepare them for college, has become the class on campus that creates winners.
Speech and debate test the teenage character perhaps more than any other activity. The shy and the unsure often have no desire to look up from their screens and engage in the oldest human interaction: persuasive oral arguments. It’s dreadful territory for the average teenager. Research, writing, delivering a speech in front of your peers --it all sounds like the kind of class students would be most likely to skip. But Anna draws them in.
Classroom 161 is always full. Anna’s debate teams have a case full of medals; most importantly, they have gone on to become leaders of their communities and examples to their families.
“This activity has changed my life. Just building connections with people I never, ever imagined building connections with,” relates Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez. Alexander suffered from social anxiety throughout his childhood. Then he discovered debate as a freshman, and it changed his life.
What drives young people to stand up and passionately deliver a speech in front of a crowd full of strangers, a panel of judges and opposing teams from more privileged high schools? The person who will always have their back: Anna Steed.
“I want them to just have the memory of making it through, succeeding in a place like that and expressing a story that leaves that place better,” Anna says.
That better place begins in room 161 when unsure and nervous students enter for the first time. After setbacksand adjustments, a lot of hugs, encouragement, and hours of late-night study and practice, they roll out a few years later with their shoulders back and a full tank of confidence, ready to take on the next stage of life.
4. What is paragraph 2 of the text mainly about?A.The challenging nature of debate. |
B.The value of being a debate teacher. |
C.The influence of debate on teenagers. |
D.The difficulties of winning awards in debate. |
A.a stage to showcase his talent. |
B.a drive for academic excellence. |
C.a platform to establish social bonds. |
D.a chance to connect with Anna Steed. |
A.Anna’s class. | B.The privileged classroom |
C.Unfamiliar territory. | D.The next stage of life. |
A.Devoted and generous. | B.Hard-working and honest. |
C.Courageous andtolerant . | D.Impactful and supportive. |
The first word on an ancient Roman scroll carbonized by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. has recently been decoded, opening the door to eventually decoding the rest of the texts which haven’t been read in the past 2,000 years.
The scroll, along with some 800 scrolls unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, looks more like a burnt log. It’s so fragile (易碎的) that it would fall apart if researchers tried to unroll it. Early attempts to unroll and read it caused irreversible (不可逆的) damage and no such attempts have been made since the 19th century.
Brent Seales, a computer scientist from the University of Kentucky has been perfecting CT scan technology to see what’s inside the scrolls without actually touching them, a process he calls “virtual unwrapping”. Because commonly the ink contains metal, it can be seen on Seales’ CT scans. Unfortunately, the Herculaneum scrolls were written in carbon-based ink made from charcoal (木炭) and water. When Seales scanned them, nothing appeared to the naked eye.
Earlier this year, Seales’ team launched “the Vesuvius Challenge”, encouraging people to use AI to further explore researchers’ scans. In early August, a contestant called Casey Handmer got a reward of $10,000 for being “the first person to find substantial, convincing evidence of ink within the unopened scrolls.” As a follow-up, a 21-year-old computer science student Luke Farritor drew inspiration from his discovery and created a machine-learning algorithm (算法) that identified ten clear letters spelled as the English word “purple”, marking the first dive into an unopened ancient book.
These discoveries are critical steps toward decoding the remaining unopened scrolls. “Some 95 percent of the material from this important philosophical periods of humanity is lost,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist at the University of Bristol. “Recovering them would transform our knowledge of the ancient world in ways we can hardly imagine. The impact could be as great as the rediscovery of manuscripts during the Renaissance,” he adds.
8. Which of the following can be the reason why the scroll has become fragile?A.It was made of a burnt log. | B.It was unearthed 200 years ago. |
C.It was unrolled by some researchers. | D.It was carbonized by a volcanic eruption. |
A.Because the scrolls were wet with water. |
B.Because the carbon-based ink dirtied the scrolls. |
C.Because the writing material contained no metal. |
D.Because virtual wrappers were touched by hands. |
A.The influence of the research. | B.The further plans to unroll the scrolls. |
C.The reason for launching the program. | D.The process of decoding the text with AI. |
A.Imaginary. | B.Groundbreaking. | C.Conventional. | D.Unidentifiable. |
Humans have moved species of plants and animals around, introducing them to new habitats, for as long as we’ve been on Earth. Many of these introduced species have been beneficial, such as European honeybees that have proved to be excellent pollinators (传粉者) in the US. But that’s not the case for European beachgrass introduced to sand dunes (堆) on the coast of California. Beachgrass was planted to stabilize the ever-shifting dunes and it worked well. But the beachgrass is usually the only species living on dunes where there once were a large variety of native grasses and wildflowers.
It’s true that not all non-native species become invasive, but those that do adapt to the local environment, spread rapidly and outcompete native wildlife, often due to the absence of natural enemies that can keep their population in check. The spread of invasive species leads to the extinction and biodiversity loss on Earth, causing financial and ecological damage, according to the leading scientists.
Some campaigns have been launched to eradicate invasive species, including pesticides spray, manual removal and biological controls. Interestingly, a growing number of chefs and conservationists even have a far simpler idea: Eat them to beat them. Apart from providing favorable habitats for local species, perhaps the best way to fight invasive species is to prevent them from occurring in the first place. When boating, clean the boat thoroughly before transporting it to a different body of water. Don’t “pack a pest” when travelling, for fruit and vegetables, plants, insects and animals can carry pests or become invasive themselves. If you plan to own an alien pet, do your research and plan ahead to make sure you can commit to looking after it instead of releasing it into the wild. When you transfer an organism, you can also transfer its neighbors. Think before you move an animal or plant around!
12. What phenomenon does the author describe in paragraph 1?A.Introduced species may cause unexpected results. |
B.The beachgrass led to the biodiversity on the dunes. |
C.Humans have a long history of working with nature. |
D.The honeybees were forced out of Europe by humans. |
A.The balanced ecosystem. | B.The competitive native wildlife. |
C.The absence of natural enemies. | D.The extinction of invasive species. |
A.Increase. | B.Introduce. | C.Wipe out. | D.Take over. |
A.Release organisms into the wild. | B.Provide favorable habitats for them. |
C.Mind the acts of transferring species. | D.Keep the wildlife population in check. |