2022-2023学年江苏省东台中学高二下学期3月月考英语试题含答案

  东台中学2023学年度高二年级3月份阶段性测试

英 语 试 题

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

The following are newly released devices all designed to help make your life more convenient, beautiful and vivid.

Tonal

＄2, 995 AT TONAL. COM

Tonal makes lifting and resistance training truly easy and accessible from your own home. It is great because I hate any sort of public weight training. Tonal has a remarkably easy user interface and gives data and feedback in a helpful manner. It also makes you feel great by keeping track of clear improvements.

Hisense 75″ U800GR 8K ULED Roku TV

＄1, 800 AT BEST BUY

8k sounded like a luxury, but now that brands like Hisense, which focus on a more affordable end of the spectrum, have gotten some time with the tech, you can finally bring the deep color output and stunning detail into your living room. Calling it “affordable” may be a stretch, but compared to most 8k TVs which all run over ＄5, 000, it’s the most cost-efficient version of the tech we’ve got.

VIVE Flow

＄499 AT VIVE. COM

Vive goggles will bring an extremely accessible and refreshing approach to the VR world. They are a pair of goggles not unlike something you’d wear to snowboard. They’re extremely lightweight with a lightning fast set-that s connected with things like watching Netflix. It’s the calmest headset I’ve ever worn and uses cameras to let you control everything with just your hands. This one’ s for the not-gamers.

Dyson Purifier Humidify＋Cool Formaldehyde

＄920 AT WALMART

For people who easily sneeze because of dog hair or something like that outside, Dyson has created a machine that saves them for time at home. This new purifier doubles as a humidifier, plus it has a cooling function, making it the end all be all for stuffy, hot, dry apartments.

21．Which device will get your money worth best?

A．Tonal.

B．Hisense 75″ U800GR 8K ULED Roku TV.

C．VIVE Flow.

D．Dyson Purifier Humidify＋Cool Formaldehyde.

22．What statement of Vive goggles is TRUE?

A．They appeal to gamers.

B．They help keep track of weight.

C．They are user-friendly.

D．They are intended for who are allergic to dust.

23．Where is the text probably take from?

A．A consumer review. B．A science report.

C．A product brochure. D．An online journal.

B

All animals—from humans to birds，worms and crocodiles—sleep，however，not all species sleep alike. Scientists have long puzzled over which aspects are truly fundamental. Now a new study on lizards(蜥蜴)suggests that sleep states once thought to occur only in mammals and birds have much older evolutionary origins.

Scientists had long doubted that birds and mammals are the only vertebrates(脊椎动物)to experience rapid eye movement(REM)，a sleep state in which the body is mostly immobile but the brain is overworking. During REM sleep，the brain produces high-frequency waves of electrical activity and the eyes turn suddenly from time to time. In humans，REM is closely linked to dreaming. REM is a pattern of slow-wave sleep,a state in which brain activity weakens and the waves become more consistent. This slower state is widely thought to be important to memory formation and storage.

“But scientists who looked for signs of REM and slow-wave sleep in reptiles(爬行动物) have had‘confusing’ results，”says Gilles Laurent，a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt,Germany. So he and his colleagues had planned to examine how the lizards—a common pet in Germany use visual information to chase treats. Using camera，the team found that the sleeping lizards’ eyes twitched during the REM-like stage，just like other animals. They also found a very familiar pattern within the slower phase of the lizards’ brain waves. Some scientists believe these waves help transform new information into memories by replaying past events quickly.

Although more studies are still needed to determine whether the function of these brain wave patterns is the same across species，the results suggest that these REM and slow-wave sleep patterns could date all the way back to the common ancestor of reptiles，birds，and mammals.

24．What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．The origin of human dream.

B．The features and course of memory.

C．The definition and effect of REM.

D．The advantages and disadvantages of REM.

25．Which of the following can best replace the underlined word“twitched”in paragraph 3 ?

A．opened wide   B．moved quickly    C．stayed closed D．kept still

26．How does the lizards’ brain waves turn information into memories according to some scientists?

A．By playing back the past events quickly.

B．By changing their pattern occasionally.

C．By increasing their frequency slowly.

D．By connecting visual information effectively.

27．What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The function of the brain wave is the same.

B．All the animals have the common ancestor.

C．The sleep pattern of all the animals is the same.

D．The study about sleep pattern has a long way to go.

C

The words “caring” and “empathetic”(共情的) aren’t ones normally associated with technology. Yearsley, an Australian enterpriser who is expert in artificial intelligence (AI), is trying to change that.

Yearsley is the founder of Akin, a robotics startup that currently uses a tablet-based system to help users manage the tasks related to home life, whether that’s planning meals or reminding you to pay your cell phone bill. Current home devices made by Google or Amazon or Apple use predictive AI to track patterns, strengthen behaviors and manipulate(操控) buying decisions, some of which, she assumes, are questionable or just unhealthy.

In contrast, the AI that she is developing will be designed to run the human home, encouraging healthful decisions such as taking a nightly walk, refilling the fridge and supporting social interactions like lunches or birthday celebrations with friends. ”It’s the hardest AI I have ever built for it’s a complex system, Yearsley says.

Yearsley began developing the Akin technology in 2017, when she realized the need to better manage the home is hugely ignored. Besides, she realized that women unequally bear the burden of household work. A United Nations report estimates that women do 2. 6 times the amount of unpaid care and domestic work that men do, or close to 30 hours per week in the U. S. alone.

While Yearsley pictures an army of robots someday helping with routine homemade tasks, the first display for Akin will take time and money. Akin has received some early seed money from a handful of investors, and was recently selected as a finalist for tech giant LG Nova’s Mission for the Future program, an annual challenge that seeks to identify businesses having potential to improve life and lead society into the future.

28．What might the Akin’s AI system suggest?

A．Consuming more drinks to enjoy yourself.

B．Staying up late working to make more money.

C．Spending more time staying with your family.

D．Purchasing products that may attract you.

29．What made Yearsley develop the Akin’s AI system?

A．The high cost of current home devices      B．Akin’s becoming a finalist for a program.

C．Financial support from investors        D．Heavy burden of housewives.

30．What can be used to describe the Akin’s AI system?

A．Popular and promising                B．Stable and secure

C．Thoughtful and innovative             D．Mature and ideal.

31．What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce a futuristic AI system

B．To compare two companies’ AI systems

C．To call on people to care about housewives

D．To seek support for an AI expert

D

Saying farewell to someone you love, even for a night, can be difficult, much less saying goodbye for a lifetime or forever in death. Juliet bid Romeo adieu (再见) for the evening with the words, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Sweet sorrow is an oxymoron. But this seeming contradiction is true in the context of relationships.

Relationships are based on feelings, emotions, and passion. Deep friendships and loving relationships are measured by the level of emotional attachment. Emotions intensify over time. People spend time with the people they like. The more one person likes another person, the closer the relationship becomes. Each person in the relationship receives an emotional benefit from knowing the other person.

Saying goodbye means separating from the people who make up a significant part of your emotional identity. Separation, even a temporary absence, from the people you have a deep emotional connection with can cause sorrow because you will no longer be able to enjoy their company.

The sweet side of saying goodbye is the emotional fulfillment of being in a close relationship. The time spent together is emotionally rewarding, especially if that person is seen as a soulmate. Humans are social beings. We seek the love and comfort of other people. Loneliness devastates the human condition and leads to sadness. Sad people will do anything they can to find fulfilling relationships. Likewise, happy people will do anything they can to maintain or enhance relationships. Herein lies the essential point of the emotional problem.

The more intense relationships become, the more devastating the emotional loss that is felt upon separation. The exhilaration of relationships cannot be truly measured without experiencing the overwhelming loss of a deep emotional connection.

Enjoy the company of the person you are with as long as you can; knowing the pain you will feel at the end of the relationship is the true measure of the relationship. If it doesn’t hurt to say goodbye, perhaps it wasn’t worth saying hello.

32．Which of the word group can create the same effect as “sweet sorrow”?

A．icy cold      B．deafening silence    C．clicking sound     D．endless speech

33．What can we learn from paragraph 3?

A．Saying goodbye is unavoidable in our daily life.

B．The companion of close friends can lessen sorrow.

C．A person’s identity is connected with relationship.

D．Separation is the sorrowful part of saying goodbye.

34．What gives a person emotional satisfaction in social life?

A．Making more communication with others.

B．Comforting friends with love and intense feelings.

C．Building deep emotional connections with others.

D．Being a thoughtful person by standing in others’ shoes.

35．What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Sweet sorrow is very common in close relationships.

B．The pain of separation is the measure of relationships.

C．Human beings are eager to get emotional fulfillment.

D．Happiness is meaningless without sadness to compare it.

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。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Looking for a way to be happier? Are you seeking deeper connections with friends or looking for more friends?    36   Try a little compassion.

Compassion, as one scholar describes, is “experiencing feelings of loving kindness toward another person’s suffering”. The compassionate tend to have deeper connections with others and have more friends. They are more forgiving and have a stronger sense of life purpose.   37    The compassionate tend to be happier, healthier, more self-confident, and less self-critical.

Practicing compassion doesn’t have to cost you money. All you need is a quiet place.   38___     Focus on your breath and try to clear your mind. Then mentally focus on your heart area and think about someone you feel tenderness toward. This could be your friend or your family.   39   As time allows, add more people to that circle. This may sound a little strange, but studies have shown this simple exercise really strengthens your sense of compassion.

Even short-term exercises like this broaden your attention, your thinking and your overall sense of well-being in a way that lasts.   40  Compassion helps your brain become more flexible, and lets your brain have a wider sense of what’s going on, and it gives you access to more ideas on how to act.

This practice is beneficial to physical health and can help reduce physical signs of stress. And the happiness that can come from compassion training is the kind that lasts.

A．Want to relate better to other people?

B．That’s in part because it changes your brain.

C．Compassion training is helpful to reduce stress.

D．In that quiet space, sit in a comfortable position.

E．Compassion also has direct personal benefits.

F．However, it is important to create a comfortable environment.

G．Then expand that feeling to yourself and to others.

第三部分 语言运用 (共二节，满分30分)

第一节 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

After I gave birth, it seemed my brain had been dragged out of me along with my newborn son. Everything became  41  and conversation often lost in mid-sentence. I thought these  42  .       mistakes may be just ‘mommy brain’ while I coped with middle-of-the-night feedings. However, after little Nicholas began to   43  through the night, I remained in a constant state of.   44   .

I told myself I’d feel intelligent again. I thought about my  45  life. What engaged my brain then? I wandered through the house and found   46  staring me in the face: books. I looked online and found the exact  47  : 50 Book Challenge. Read 50 books in a year, whatever  48  I wanted. Within days I discovered new books of interest and ordered some fresh  49  . I had my resolution: 50 books.

My competitive spirit began to  50  . I found time where it had never existed before. I read as my son watched Sesame Street. I read when I  51  a bus, I read before bedtime... My brain   52  .from hibernation (冬眠) and I had new and exciting things to discuss. I had started with a  53  .goal to bring my  54  back. I did that, and got more. I showed my son Nicholas the   55   of reading. Now it’s common for my first-grader to bring a pile of books to the couch for reading. We’re together and reading, and all is right with the world.

41．A．sunny  B．foggy   C．smooth   D．possible

42．A．mental  B．psychological  C．social    D．physical

43．A．sleep   B．cry    C．wake up   D．stay up

44．A．tension  B．security   C．confusion   D．depression

45．A．pre-school  B．pre-baby   C．pre-marriage  D．pre-teen

46．A．answers  B．questions   C．stars    D．eyes

47．A．website  B．comment   C．title    D．motivation

48．A．price   B．color    C．size    D．subject

49．A．dishes  B．reads    C．flowers   D．fruits

50．A．take care  B．take place   C．take effect   D．take advantage 

51．A．saw   B．drove    C．caught   D．rode

52．A．awoke  B．froze    C．damaged   D．suffered

53．A．common  B．simple   C．different   D．similar

54．A．power  B．time    C．brain    D．son

55．A．talent   B．pleasure   C．process   D．Skill

第二节 (共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Arbor Day is a holiday that celebrates the planting, upkeep and preservation of trees. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, usually in spring, when the weather is suitable  56   planting.

The origin of Arbor Day can be traced back to the 19th century, when J. Sterling Morton,  ___57___ American journalist and politician, proposed a tree-planting day in Nebraska, ___58___ lacked trees and forests. He wrote, “Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.” The first Arbor Day    59    (hold) on April 10, 1872, and more than one million trees were planted in Nebraska that day.

Since then, Arbor Day    60    (spread) to other states and countries, each   61  (have)  their own date and way of celebrating. Some common activities include planting trees in public or private lands,    62    (donate) trees to schools or communities, holding educational events or contests about trees and forests, and honoring people who have contributed to tree conservation.

Arbor Day is more than just a day    63    (plant) trees. It is also a day to appreciate the benefits and beauty of trees, to raise    64    (aware) of environmental issues and challenges, and to inspire people to take action for a    65    (green) future.

第四部分 写作 (满分40分)

第一节  (满分 15分)

假定你是学生会主席李华。你校上周邀请Smith教授为同学们做了场有关科学研究的讲座。请你代表全校同学用英语给Smith教授写一封邮件，

内容包括：

1.表示感谢：

2.感谢缘由：

3.你的期待。

注意:

1.词数100左右:

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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第二节 (满分25分)

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I must admit, I haven’t always liked animals. In fact, I distrusted them greatly while growing up, and I still fear the ones I don’t know personally. What set my beliefs in stone was being attacked—not once but many times, including the summer after second grade when I was bitten by a rabbit. Then, when I was nine and riding my dirt bike down the road, a large dog charged me and tried to bite my ankle. After all those negative experiences, there was one thing I knew for sure: All creatures, great and small, were no friends of mine.

After college in California, I returned to live the single life in Las Vega. Then I met Lisa. In no time at all, we fell in love, married and moved into a new house. Despite my avoidance of animals, Lisa had a dog called Bailey. Bailey didn’t like me, but he tolerated my existence once he realized I wasn’t going anywhere.

Things changed as spring came. We welcomed a new member of our family: our son Evan. One evening Evan grabbed hold of the dog’s tail. The irritated dog paused and turned to look at his stuck tail but waited patiently until being released. Still the stories I’d heard of animals attacking babies worries me.

Then my worst fear occurred. I sat on the couch (沙发) reading after a long day while my wife worked at the dining-room table paying the bills. I saw Evan crawl across the family-room carpet as he made his way behind the couch. One minute, all was quiet and then Bailey entered the room and headed to where Evan had crawled. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard the dog start a fearful barking behind me.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Throwing the book away, I rushed around the couch with great fear.

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Having witnessed our dog killing a scorpion (蝎子) and saving my son, I was speechless.

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