2023-2024学年广东省深圳市龙岗区高级中学理慧高中高二下学期第一次段考英语试卷

2023-2024学年广东省深圳市龙岗区高级中学理慧高中高二下学期第一次段考英语试卷1. Their facial features were virtually _________, making it difficult to tell them apart.
A．perfect B．identical C．invisible D．graceful
2. The term “hutong”, _________ meaning “water well” in Mongolian, appeared first during the Yuan Dynasty.
A．temporarily B．potentially C．originally D．intently
3. Unless you are trying to lose weight to please yourself, it’s going to be tough to keep your
_________ level high.
A．motivation B．compassion C．intelligence D．tenderness
4. She sat by the window, _________ her years of hard and rewarding work as a doctor.
A．restoring B．recalling C．liberating D．acclaiming
5. Nothing can be more fascinating than a smile, which can produce hope in even _________ situations.
A．immoral B．heartfelt C．desperate D．secure
6. Her commitment to redecorating the big house kept her ________ for a whole week.
A．refreshed B．dominated C．occupied D．restricted
7. The issue whether they should _________ the old buildings in the town gets a lot of attention these days.
A．demand B．deliver C．acknowledge D．preserve
8. To be creative engineers, we need to _________.
A．think outside the box B．put ourselves into others’ shoes
C．be on the same boat D．think first and speak later
9. If you want to become a member of our club, you’d better ______ it first
A．be attracted to B．be suitable for C．be addicted to D．sign up for
10. As a teenager, your body is ________ many physical changes, which need to be supported by a healthy, balanced diet.
A．passing down B．going through C．reflecting on D．catching up 11. Either you or your partners _________ to attend the meeting there.
A．is B．are C．were D．will be
12. The biodiversity in Tibet is vast, with a wide range of species ________ in their natural habitats.
A．existing B．existed
C．exist D．being existed
13. ________ embraces and respects the local customs will find it easier to fit in better with the local culture.
A．Who B．Whom C．Anyone D．Whoever
14. Finally they arrived at a place, __________ sold cigarettes and other small articles.
A．where B．which C．in which D．what
15. ________seems strange to us is ________the troublesome boy is getting along well with his teachers now.
A．It; that B．What; whether C．It; how D．What; that Reading a good book at the end of the day can be relaxing. But if you don’t have the right app, the reading experience is not as good as it could have been. The following reading apps can offer you different options.Media365
Media365 is a free reading app for Android that lets you read all of the books in its library. Authors can self-publish on the Media365 platform, but there are also a large number of popular published books available, like the Harry Potter book series.Hoopla Digital
Check out the Hoopla Digital app, another excellent app making use of your kid’s library card. It’s great for all ages, giving kids the ability to borrow free digital eBooks, audiobooks, plus music and other media available in your loca l public library. No wonder it’s one of the top 15 book apps in the App Store.Literal: An Addictive Reader
What makes Literal: An Addictive Reader such a cool reading app for tweens and teens is that it takes both classic titles along with newer books and turns the format into something Gen Z knows well: Group Chats. Kids can read books together with their friends through a book group, which is easy to use through the Literal iXology
ComiXology is one of the oldest and most popular services for reading comic books digitally. The ComiXology online store, now owned by Amazon, offers thousands of new and classic comic books from major publishers like Marvel, DC Comics, and Image Comics.
16. What is special about Media365?
A．It features classic books.
B．It is only available on iPhones.
C．It is a free reading app for all ages.
D．It allows writers to self-publish their works.
17. Which app best suits people who wish to read books through group chats?
A．Media365. B．Hoopla Digital.
C．Literal: An Addictive Reader. D．ComiXology.
18. Which column is the text most likely from?
A．Science Study. B．Culture Focus.
C．Learning Kit. D．Book Review.
I was 68 when I first stepped on stage as a comedian in 2003. I’d never set foot in a comedy club before. I’ve always been a performer —I’ve worked as a singer, actor and musician —but all that came to an end after 9/11. I live in New York, and we watched the twin towers fall from my apartment building. For a year afterwards, nobody wanted to go out or be entertained.
It was then that I started to think about comedy. I realised people needed to laugh, to enjoy themselves again, and thought that with a little training I could do it. I took a few classes, tried to work out a routine, and finally plucked up the courage to get up on stage. That first time was terrifying. I had no idea what the audience would make of me.
In New York, comedians are typically you ng men with beards. It’s hard enough to break through as a woman, even harder as someone old enough to be their grandmother. As I stepped on stage that first time, people laughed nervously. They were clearly surprised to see me. I introduced myself, stated my age and tried my first joke. There was silence. But by the time I got to the third line, people were properly laughing, I was addicted.
Now my sets differ. I might be on stage for 10 minutes in front of a dozen people, or my one-woman show is a full h our in front of a crowd of 100. Even today, I’m nervous before I step out. My first line is, “Hello, everybody. I’m 88 and three-quarters years old. I’m telling you that in case I don’t make it all the way through the show.” Then people laugh and I relax.
After a show, people young and old come up to me, saying what an inspiration I am. They say they want to be as active as me when they reach my age. I’m pleased I can show that as an older person you don’t need to take a back seat in life.
I’ve no intention of stopping comedy. I’m taking all these pills, trying to stay alive, and I hope to still be performing when I’m 100. My goal is to still be up there making people laugh. It’s hard work, but it stops me being bored. I’d only be playing golf otherwise
19. What made the writer take up comedy?
A．She wanted to overcome her fears B．She wanted to brighten others’ lives
C．She was unwilling to quit performing D．She wanted to work out a routine
20. Why does the writer mention young men with beards in Paragraph 3?
A．To show the challenge she was facing B．To explain her attraction to the job
C．To illustrate her special advantage D．To describe her new friends in comedy 21. How has the writer made progress since her first performance?
A．She now performs before larger audiences
B．She no longer feels nervous before performances
C．She remains on the stage for a longer time
D．She has learned to make a joke of her age
22. Which of the following statements would the writer agree with?
A．Age is just a number B．Old age brings greater wisdom
C．Old age means a chance to sit back D．Being elderly means you have to slow
down
Winning a remarkable science award is really a big deal, especially if you are 12 years old. But Shanya Gill, a middle schooler from San Jose, California, won the top award in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for designing a fire detection system that is superior to existing ones, as stated in the press release.
“The top winners have exhibited boundless curiosity,” Maya Ajmera p resident and CEO of Society for Science, said in the press release. “Their remarkable research not only reflects their talent but also paves the way for an exciting new future.”
Shanya’s inspiration came after a fire destroyed a restaurant in her neighborh ood during the summer of 2022, reported The Washington Post. “I had never really experienced something like that before,” she told The Washington Post about the early morning fire at Holder’s Country Inn, which started in the kitchen. “They had smoke detectors. and yet it still burned down,” she added.
After she studied fire statistics, Shaya spent over a year developing a fire detection system that she believes could have prevented the fire. Unlike traditional smoke detectors that sense active fires from the smoke in the air, Shanya’s thermal (热的) imaging device is designed to stop fires from occurring.
With a thermal camera and a Raspberry Pi, a tiny computer the device detects when a heat source has been left unattended for ten minutes and sends a text message warning. Creating the
prototype(原型) was difficult and the hardest part was the programming, “I had two designs, and my first design completely failed. It was a really big challenge I had to go through.” she said. The final device outperforms smoke detectors in speed and accuracy. Shanya wants to bring the costs down to make it even more common than hardwired smoke detectors.
“Shanya saw a problem, went after it and tried to solve it, and that’s what we need to encourage with all young people,” said Ajmera. She also highlighted the significance of supporting individuals, especially girls and kids of color, in STEM fields, as research indicates that many young people drop out of these areas.
23. What can we learn about Shanya from the first two paragraphs?
A．She gained a lot of money in the award. B．She showed a curious nature as a
schooler.
C．She set a big stage for young people her age. D．She was junior to other winners in performance.
24. What motivated Shanya to develop her fire detection system?
A．Her desire to win the science award. B．Her experience of a destructive fire.
C．Her interest in computer programming. D．Her goal to improve STEM education for
girls.
25. What is an advantage of Shanya’s invention?
A．It consists of two parts that are easier to conduct.
B．It can send out a warning against a potential fire.
C．It can detect active fires from the smoke in the air.
D．It functions when a fire breaks out within 10 minutes.
26. Which of the following can best describe Shanya?
A．Reliable. B．Cooperative. C．Innovative. D．Generous. Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, in the US, have developed a piece of software that can read minds. The project, supported by Facebook, hopes to help people who, because of medical conditions, are unable to communicate with others.
Until now, technologies that have helped speech-impaired (语言障碍) people communicate have been too slow to allow a natural conversation. People find these things upsetting to use. This new way uses brain signals to c hange a person’s thoughts into text. When we want to speak, the brain sends signals to make the lips, jaw and tongue move in the right way to make an understandable sound. By discovering these brain signals, the new software is able to predict what a person want to say quickly enough to hold a conversation.
The brain-reading software was tested on three volunteers who could all speak like healthy people. They were being treated for epilepsy (癫痫). As part of their treatment for epilepsy, each patient had electrodes(电极) placed on to their brain. Edward Chang, whole d the study, used these electrodes to record the signals in the patients’ brains while they listened to a list of questions and answered them.
Chang and his team then built a computer program that l earned to match the patients’ brain signals to the words the patients heard and the words the patients spoke. For the questions, the software matched the correct words 76%of the time. For the answers, it matched the correct words 61%of the time.
Now, the mind-reading software works only for the limited set of sentences on which it was trained. Scientists hope that this early system will help them develop a more powerful one that could understand thoughts in real time to give people their voices back. Chang said, “We as scientists should try our best to help people to bring that most important and basic human ability back.”
27. What is the disadvantage of previous technologies?
A．They couldn’t read people’s minds correctly.
B．They couldn’t make communication understandable.
C．They couldn’t serve the purpose of natural conversation.
D．They couldn’t let medical conditions change for the better.
28. How does the software help people?
A．By changing people’s mind into text.B．By sending signals to their lips.
C．By organizing conversations for them. D．By training them how to speak.
29. What can we know about the mind-reading software according to the last paragraph?
A．It has been used on a wide scale.
B．It has restored the basic human ability.
C．It still has plenty of room for improvement.
D．It has enhanced human real-time conversation.
30. What is the attitude of the author towards the mind-reading software?
A．Favorable. B．Objective.
C．Intolerant. D．Doubtful.
Are you interested in attracting good luck and experiencing more success in your life? In this article, we’ll show you how to use positive thinking to create your opportunities and attract good fortune.
Define luck for yourself. Your desires serve as the roots of “luck”. One person might feel most lucky in passing an exam while another person in scoring her first hole. 31 If you feel unlucky, maybe it is because you have not identified what you want to be doing.
Be bold. The “unlucky” are often experts in making themselves comfortable and safe, but achieve little. 32 It takes courage to accept failure as a short-lived misfortune. Instead of wasting time avoiding tough situations, they would come up with reasons to act.
See challenges as opportunities to succeed. You’ve just been offered an exciting but strikingly new responsibility at work? Take it with passion. You’ve been asked to speak in front of a huge crowd of people? Write a great speech. 33
34 Unlucky people owe luck to accident, applying it as a chance to make excuses. Lucky people, however, build it into more good fortune. The only difference between the lucky and the unlucky, as reported, was that the former kept an eye out for luck, and the unlucky — given the exact same advantage — missed it.
Work hard. Sow the seeds of luck with labor. If you’re working twice as hard at work, your work will be twice as good, and you’ll tend to feel twice as lucky for having it done. 35 For example,
don’t worry about everything you’ve got to do for t he rest of the week on Monday and just think about this moment.
It was the 2019 summer break. I traveled to a town in rural Xiamen for two weeks to_________local children with after-school courses.
Although Xiamen is a developed city, there are still many left-behind children in the rural areas who need_________to summer activities. I overcame many difficulties there, including mosquitoes and the_________schedule. I also experienced, for the first time in my life, planting rice in the fields, standing ankle-deep in_________.That experience was a(n)_________part of my
life._________teaching the students, we were also receiving life lessons in overcoming difficulties. The experience of working at the_________level also broadened my horizons and provided insights I could never have_________in the college library.
Nowadays, many college students are willing to_________ volunteer work to their graduation choices. I think they will be more down-to-earth and gain a deeper understanding of__________ conditions after seeing a different China, a country in times of__________.
Like me, most university st udents are their family’s only child, and they have __________met difficulties. As such, they have to__________their living environment and the rural working by themselves. By__________volunteer work, they learn unforgettable lessons in life and become more sensible and__________.
36.
A．equip B．provide C．occupy D．bother
37.
A．approaches B．solutions C．commitment D．access
38.
A．intense B．flexible C．new D．loose
39.
A．mud B．water C．dust D．sand
40.
A．typical B．challenging C．valuable D．interesting
41.
A．If B．Once C．While D．After
42.
A．senior B．international C．individual D．grassroots
43.
A．discovered B．presented C．imagined D．discussed
44.
A．apply B．add C．prefer D．contribute
45.
A．economic B．political C．national D．international 46.
A．evolution B．reform C．freedom D．danger
47.
A．rarely B．constantly C．accidentally D．personally
48.
A．contribute to B．attend to C．react to D．adapt to
49.
A．designing B．accepting C．undertaking D．summarizing 50.
A．grateful B．attractive C．enthusiastic D．practical
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Many people don’t know that Nuo opera (傩戏) is considered as one of the most popular folk operas in 51 (south) China. Jiangxi Nuo, also called G an No (赣傩) is most popular in the counties of Nanfeng and Shangli in Jiangxi. A local temple, 52 was said to have been built in the Ming Dynasty, still functions well 53 attracts many visitors today. 54 (probable) 80 Nuo opera programmes from the past still exist today. 55 number of Nuo opera masks in Jiangxi is over2, 000, and there are about 2, 000 professional folk artists of Nuo opera.
Nuo dancing, one of the most ancient 56 (art) and necessary ingredient in Nuo opera, 57 (stay) alive in Nanfeng, Jiangxi over the past 2, 000 years. The moves of Nanfeng Nuo dancing are simple but powerful, 58 (keep) their ancient characteristics. Nanfeng Nuo dancing was even seen 59 “The Active Fossil of Chinese Dancing Art”. In 1996, Nanfeng county 60 (call) “The Village of Chinese Folk Art-Nuo Art” by the govermment of China.
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. objected
B. choices
C. inequality
D. combination
E. paid
F. respond
G. personality H. fade I. reduce J. inherited K. environmental
What makes us happy?
You probably know the type of personality in some people: they seem to be hopeful in almost everything. Are they simply born happy? Is it the product of their environment? Or does it come from their life decisions?
If you are familiar with genetics research, you will have guessed that it is a 61 of all three. A 2018 study of 1516 Norwegian twins suggests that around 30% of the differences in people’s life satisfaction is 62 . Much of this seems to be related to personality traits.
To put this in context, the heritability of IQ is thought to be around 80%, so 63 factors clearly play a role in our happiness. These include our physical health, the size and strength of our social network, job opportunities and income. It seems that the absolute value of our salary matters less than whether we feel richer than those around us, which may explain why the level of 64 predicts happiness better than GDP.
Interestingly, many important life 65 have only a little influence on our happiness. Consider marriage. A 2019 study found that, on average, life satisfaction does rise after the wedding, but the feeling of happiness tends to 66 over middle age.
Parenthood is even more complex. For decades, social scientists have found that people with children at home are significantly less happy than those without. More recent research, however, suggests that there are important regional differences.
Analyses show that these differences can be almost completely explained by variations in 67 parental leave, flexible working hours, affordable childcare and holiday leave, which together 68 the potential for work-family conflict. The effects of these policies may play out across generations. In addition to the legacy of their genes, parents’ own emotional well-being will influence the family vigour, which will, in turn, shape the 69 of their children.
Our life satisfaction, then, is shaped by our genes, health, economic prospects, relationships and the culture around us. While many of these things may be beyond your control, there is now good evidence that certain psychological strategies will help you to 70 to your circumstances in the happiest way possible.
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The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor in a family with little money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention.
I was happy and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, they could still afford
a dream.
My dream was sports. By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field. I was also lucky: My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who taught me the difference between sticking to a dream and just showing determination. One particular incident with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket — cash for hanging out with friends, certainly, money for a new bike and new clothes, and the start of savings for a house for my mother. The prospect of a summer job was appealing, and I wanted to jump at the opportunity.
Then I realized I would have to give up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. I was fearing this, but I had to.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as mad as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said. “Your playing days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his disappointment in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, kid?” he demanded. “Three twenty-five an hour,” I replied. “Well,” he asked, “is $3.25 an hour the price of a dream?”注意：
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Paragraph 1:
That question struck me like a flash of lightning.
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Paragraph 2:
I went on the stage to collect the prize for the best baseball player.
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