高三英语晚自习高效训练

高三英语晚自习高效训练
一、阅读理解
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Books to Read in Your 20s
The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
As a Middle Eastern and North African Studies student, I have a great interest in books about what takes place in this area. I first read this book in high school and really enjoyed it because of its accurate language. If any of you is interested in reading this book and hasn’t yet, I highly recommend (推荐) it.
Firefly Lane
By Kristin Hannah
This is my favorite book. It is a story about friendship, love and life lessons. The story covers the lives of two best friends, Tully and Kate, from childhood to adulthood. I learned so much about friendship and life. So, read Firefly Lane! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and then you’ll share this book to your best friend.
Half the Sky
By Nicholas Kristof
For any person of any age, Half the Sky is a must-read. It describes the struggle of women and the most pressing human rights problems of our time: the common oppression of women and girls.
The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint
This children’s book is simple. It might seem like a wrong book to recommend to someone in their twenties but perhaps that’s what makes it a good choice. It sings praises to exploration and shows the importance of making friends.
1. Who is the writer of the book The Kite Runner?
A．Khaled Hosseini. B．Kristin Hannah.
C．Nicholas Kristof. D．Antoine de Saint.
2. What can you learn from Firefly Lane?
A．It’s written by Tully and Kate.B．It’s about friendship, love and life lessons.
C．It’s a simple book for children.D．It’s a book written for any person of any age.
3. Which book will you read if you want to know about human rights problems? A．The Kite Runner. B．Firefly Lane.
C．Half the Sky. D．The Little Prince.
B
Around the country and around the world, there is no shortage of human suffering. Poverty, disease, violence, hurricanes, wildfire and more are constantly
troubling humanity, and even our best efforts thus far can’t address all of everybody’s needs. Many are looking for places to cut funding, and one of the first places that comes up in conversation is excessive spending on space exploration. What good is it to conduct microgravity experiments repeatedly when children are starving? Why launch so many space-related projects when nuclear war threatens our planet?
This is a line of thinking that has been coming up throughout history. Yes, it’s short-sighted, in that it fails to recognize that our greatest problems require long-term investment, an d that society’s greatest advances come about through hard work, research, development of decades after that is made. Investing in science is investing in the betterment of humanity.
Over these years, much of the results of the space research have been ada pted to be applicable to our daily lives. For example, NASA’s advancements in the areas of robotics have given manufacturers an additional basis for the development of more advanced artificial limbs. Additionally, certain nutritional enrichment ingredients that were developed by NASA have been integrated into baby food formula.
Space technology has also helped improve economies. Within the next three years, the space exploration and space tourism industry are expected to be valued at 3 trillion USD．It is true that for every dollar we spend on the space program, the US economy receives about $8 of economic benefit. Space exploration can also serve as amotivation for children to enter the fields of science and engineering.
To many people, the idea of space travel may still seem far from practical. However, I believe that it is important that we keep going forward or we’ll risk delaying further discoveries and technological advancements that will be beneficial for us.
4. According to paragraph 1, what do some people think of space exploration? A．Useless. B．Wasteful.
C．Beneficial. D．Harmful.
5. What does the underlined word “that” in the second paragraph refer to?
A．The advance. B．The development.
C．The investment. D．The problem.
6. How does NASA’s advancements co ntribute to the development of artificial limbs? A．By providing a foundation.
B．By adding certain materials.
C．By acting as a driving force.
D．By helping realize the mass production.
7. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A．The payback of space programs is very high.
B．Space travel appears to be within people’s reach.
C．More and more children are interested in science.
D．New technological discoveries have been delayed.
C
The average age is rising around the world - a demographic (人口) shift that may pose a significant challenge to efforts to control climate change.
Hossein Estiri at Harvard University and Emilio Zagheni of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany have found that energy use rises as we get older and not just because we tend to get wealthier. The study suggests that a larger greying population would mean a greater proportion of society would be consuming more energy. They combined two decades worth of data from thousands of U.S. households and used this to build a model to reveal how energy use varied across 17 age groups between 1987 and 2009. They found that, on average, children’s energy consumption climbs as they grow up, before dipping slightly when they leave home. Consumption then rises again when people hit their 30s, before briefly dropping after 55, and then beginning to climb again.
The study controlled for factors such as income, local climate and the age, type and size of a person’s home. The increase in energy use at various points in our lifespan seems to be down to lifestyle and how our needs change as we age. Why does demand surge so much in our 30s? “We need more of everything. More space, a bigger TV, two fridges,” says Estiri. The study found that in warmer parts of the U.S. energy use intensifies in people over the age of 65 probably as a result of the increased use of air conditioning. This suggests that there is a feedback effect between climate change and an ageing population that will only make matters worse.
Heatwaves have become more common in the U.S. in recent years and are expected to become more frequent due to global warming. More older people using more electrical energy to keep cool as temperatures rise could add to emissions, and thus drive more warming until our energy supply becomes entirely fossil fuel-free. “This mix of population, ageing and climate change on energy demand is really important to start thinking about,” says Estiri Benjamin Sova-cool at the University
of Sussex. U.K, says the work shows the importance of demographics when it comes to cutting carbon emissions. Most modeling of climate change mitigation assumes people’s energy consumption either stays the same or only changes by a small amount over time.
“This study directly challenges that entire body of research b y forcing it to solve the temporality and complexity of the consumption of energy.” says Sova-cool. “Houscholds do not behave in ways easy to predict or comprehend.”
8. Which of the following graphs can best illustrate how people consume energy? A．B．
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9. What can be inferred from paragraph 3 and 4?
A．An ageing population is remotely connected with climate change. B．Factors like people’s income have little to do with energy consumption. C．Global warming would be reversed if more fossil fuel-free energy were used. D．Demand for energy is high in regions with large populations of older people.
10. Which of the following is Sovacool most likely to agree with?
A．People’s energy consumption stays steady over time.
B．It is necessary to predict how households use energy.
C．The consumption of energy varies with circumstances.
D．Population structure matters the most in cutting our carbon footprint.
11. What is the passage mainly about?
A．Seniors over 65 are to blame for the ever increasing carbon emissions. B．Various factors should be taken into account to address global warming. C．Climate change calls for a greater emphasis on the control of the birthrate. D．Our ageing population could make it even harder to combat climate change.
二、七选五阅读
Twenty years ago, the word “smartphone” didn’t exist. By necessity, neither did the word “dumbphone.” In two decades, we might talk about all of our appliances in similar ways. From ovens to garage doors to insulin pumps to vehicles, many of our devices are going to be connected to the Internet in the same sense that our phones are now. One company, SmartThings sells devices that help consumers control their lights and locks while they’re not at home, for example. Eventually, these items will be able to respond to signals from one another independent of human input. 12 .
That could be great, but it also vastly expands the universe of things that could go wrong, particularly when it comes to privacy. Take dishwashers. At heart, they're very simple machines. But a hacked dishwasher might start running on overdrive, going through multiple cycles, wasting gallons of water and costing you extra and possibly flooding your house. Although the folks who make dishwashers may be fantastic engineers, or even great computer progra mmers, it doesn’t necessarily imply they’re equipped to protect Internet users from the beginning,
13 Hacking is just an extreme case. Short of that, there are all kinds of security problems that could crop up in an Internet of Things situation. Ma ny of these devices are pumping out vast amounts of data. According to Hagins, a modest 10,000 households have SmartThings installed. Together, those homes produce 150 million data points a day.
14 As early as 2010, Siemens said it was capable of using its smart meters to learn some pretty incredible things about our energy usage: “We, Siemens, have the technology to record it every minute, second, microsecond”. From that we can infer how many people are in the house, what they do, whether they're upstairs, downstairs, do you have a dog, when do you habitually get up, when do you have a shower: masses of private data. 15
One difference between data-hungry businesses like Google and your future home network of Internet-enabled objects is that some of those devices may not need to talk to each other over the public Internet. If they’re connected to the same Wi-Fi network, maybe those devices won’t need to transmit data across the Web. “Utilize bu t keep the data within the home boundary, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Lee Tien suggested ‘‘Keep the interesting variations within the home boundary.”A．Securing that data is something that even big-name tech companies struggle with. So how do we fix that?
B．“It’s not just that the consumers don’t understand the technology,” said Jeff Hagins, co¬founder of SmartThings. It’s also that the people building it don’t understand it. Just because I know how to program doesn’t mean I understand these vulner abilities at all.”
C．That raises another potential problem, though. If your home Wi-Fi password is all that stands between a spy or hacker and your networked devices, you wind up with a single point of failure.
D．The information may be relatively unimportant, such as battery levels or temperatures, but when in adds up, it can produce extremely detailed profiles of your behavior.
E.The same holds true for the auto industry, where many companies have begun experiment with new technologies that let cars communicate with one another.
F.Your bathroom scale might tell your refrigerator that you’re overweight, and your fridge might start recommending healthier recipes.
三、完型填空
Most forms of conventional advertising — print, radio and broadcast television — have been losing ground to online ads for years; only billboards, dating back to the 1800s, and TV ads are holding their own. Such out-of-home advertising, as it is known, is expected to 16 by 3.4% in 2022, and digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising, which includes the LCD screens found in airports and shopping malls, by 16%. Such ads draw viewers5 attention from phones and cannot be skipped or
17 , unlike ads online.
Billboard owners are also 18 the location data that are pouring off peopl e’s smartphones. Information about their owners’ locations and online browsing gets collected and sold to media owners. They then use these data to work out when different groups —“business travellers”, say — walk by their ads. That 19 is added to insights into traffic, weather and other external data to produce highly relevant ads. DOOH 20 can deliver ads for coffee when it is cold and iced drinks when it is warm.
Such 21 works particularly well when it is accompanied by “programmatic” advertising methods, a term that describes the use of data to automate and improve ads. In the past year billboard owners such as Clear Channel and jcDecaux have 22 programmatic platforms which allow brands and media buyers to select, purchase and place ads in minutes, rather than days or weeks. It is said that outdoor ads will increasingly be bought like online ones, based on audience and views as well as
23 .
That is possible because billboard owners claim to be able to 24 how well their ads are working, even though no “click-through” rates are involved. Data firms can tell advertisers how many people walk past individual advertisements at
particular times of the day. Advertisers can estimate how many individuals 25 to an ad for a handbag then go on to visit a nearby shop (or website) and buy the product. Such metrics make outdoor ads more 26 -driven, automated and measurable, argues Michael Provenzano, co-founder of Vistar Media, an ad-tech firm in New York.
However, the outdoor-ad revolution is not 27 -free. The collection of
mobile-phone data raises privacy concerns. And 28 of the online-ad business for being vague, and occasionally dishonest, may also be targeted at the OOH business as
it becomes bigger and more complex. The industry is ready to 29 such concerns, says Jean-Christophe Conti, chief executive of VIOOH, a media-buying platform.
One of the 30 of following the online-ad pioneers, he notes, is learning from
their mistakes.
16. A．shrink B．grow C．disappear D．emerge
17. A．obtained B．blocked C．separated D．arranged
18. A．making progress in B．getting engaged in C．becoming part of D．taking advantage of
19. A．value B．record C．knowledge D．feeling
20. A．opponents B．providers C．learners D．instructors
21. A．adding B．collecting C．targeting D．producing
22. A．changed B．forbidden C．cleared D．launched
23. A．marketing B．evolution C．location D．branding
24. A．measure B．wonder C．notice D．forget
25. A．devoted B．opposed C．related D．exposed
26. A．concept B．data C．customer D．research
27. A．stress B．conflict C．injury D．problem
28. A．aspects B．demands C．criticisms D．details
29. A．address B．share C．reflect D．emphasize
30. A．benefits B．difficulties C．challenges D．conditions
四、语法填空
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。

Incense (香) is material that releases fragrant (芳香的)smoke when burnt. Yang Jinqing, an inheritor of Qingyuan traditional incense making, has a burning desire
31 (develop) popular fragrances. For decades, Yang has committed himself 32 the traditional incense craft in Qingyuan, 33 was named a national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council in June 2021.
The country boasts a profound incense history 34 (date) back to before the Qin Dynasty. The craft and its culture thrived during the Song Dynasty. It found wider 35 (popular) during the Ming and Qing dynasties when it was used to fend off diseases, insects, mosquitoes and preserve people’s health.
Qingyuan saw many incense workshops set up during the Song Dynasty, thanks
to its close geographical location to abundant herbal resources 36 (hide) in the Taihang Mountains.
Nowadays, with the 37 (increasing) expanding market, more than 50,000 people 38 (engage) in the incense business in more than 500 local incense businesses.
Yang Jinqing has helped to establish an engineering center for herbal incense in Hubei that specializes in studying ancient recipes 39 developing new crafts based on the fragrance. “We might think incense culture is very elegant and, therefore, far away from us, but it is actually very close to our lives.” he says. “When drinking tea, playing chess, reading or writing, 40 (light) an incense stick can help calm the nerves and conc entrate the mind.”
“I want future generations to appreciate the charm of China’s incense culture and craft.” he adds.
五、应用文写作
41. 你校英语学习社团(English Club)于上周举办了“走进经典”英语读书活动。

请你代表该社团写一篇活动报道，内容包括：
1.活动目的；
2.活动内容：
3.活动反响。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.活动报道的题目已为你写好。

Read Classics, Learn English
参考答案
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41. Read Classics, Learn English
In order to promote students’ interest in English masterpiece reading, our school will hold an English masterpiece reading salon named Into Classics.
The reading salon will be held at the Student Center next Saturday. It will begin at 9:00 am and is expected to last two hours. It is advisable that you prepare a lecture to talk about your favorite English classic work, for every member has an opportunity to have a speech in the salon. In addition, our foreign teacher, Mr. Smith, will recommend us English classics suitable for middle school students, which must be helpful to us.
If you want to improve your English, don’t miss this opportunity. Look forward to your participation.
English Club。