河南省鲁山县第一高级中学2020届高三上学期第二次调研考试英语试卷

2019-2020学年度上学期
高三学年第二次调研考试英语试卷
第一卷
第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30 分）
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Terrific New Technologies
•A fashionable smart speaker
The new Amazon Echo smart speaker has the same popular feature as the original--an always listening voice assistant ready to play music and news, set timers, and use third-party apps. Only now it's actually stylish.The $120 speaker comes in different finishes, including fabric and wood. •A helping hand for parents
10 Suzy Snooze helps babies and kids sleep so parents can catch up on their own sleep. It's a sound machine and a nightlight. It connects with an app over wi-fi and turns into an audio monitor. If a kid cries at midnight, it'll detect the sound and try to calm him back to sleep. It can also let early risers know when it's OK to get out of bed. Made by Bleep Bleeps, the $249"smart nightlight"has an adorable little face.
•Safety for ding dongs
Doorbells used to just ring, ding, and dong. But thanks to modern technology, doorbells can now double as Internet-connected- surveillance(监视) devices.Rings $249 Video Doorbell Pro can record HD video of your front steps, even at night. It includes motion sensors and two-way audio, so you can yell "get off my lawn" from anywhere. You can also use the app to see what's going on in front of your house while you're at work or in the backyard.
•The must-have kitchen gadget
The Instant Pot makes food fast in one pot. The surprise kitchen hit is a combination of pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker and even yogurt maker. It has sensors and settings to make cooking as safe as possible. Starting at $80, an Instant Pot can make dishes in less time than it typically takes to cook them.
1. What can Suzy Snooze do for parents?
A. Provide sunlight.
B. Play with babies.
C. Comfort crying babies.
D. Remind parents to wake up kids.
2. What is the advantage of the Video Doorbell Pro compared with traditional doorbells?
A. It can play HD videos.
B. It can make a sound of ding-dong.
C. It can communicate with the users.
D. It can take on the work of a monitor.
3. Who are most probably interested in the Instant Pot?
A. Those who love fast food.
B. Those who enjoy cooking.
C. Those who are busy working.
D. Those who like going camping.
B
This year marks the 170th anniversary of Paul Gauguin's birth. He lived for just 54 years but he packed his brief life with activity.
The French painter spent his early childhood in Peru before returning to France. As an adult, he continued to travel a lot. Most famously, he spent much of the last decade of his life in Tahiti, an island in southern Pacific Ocean. Indeed, Gauguin is best known for his colorful paintings of Tahitians and their culture.
The restlessness of this great painter has been normal among modern artists since the middle of the 19th century. They're never satisfied for long with a certain style or way of life. Once something becomes conventional, it's turned down.
The artistic culture that Gauguin developed from was that of Impressionism (印象派). Painters like Claude Monet had wanted to paint how they saw the world, not how their teachers taught them it should be seen. Gauguin, and similar artists like his friend Vincent van Gogh, moved even further away from "respectable" art than the Impressionists. For them, it was not simply a matter of seeing the world differently, but feeling and thinking about it differently, too.
Gauguin saw, felt and thought differently from most members of European society. He
thought that European culture was too fancy and not spontaneous. This is why he turned to the traditions of other parts of the world, like Africa, and, eventually, Tahiti. Artists like Gauguin used the word "primitive" for these cultures, but not as a negative term. For him, Europe, in becoming modern , industrial and scientific, seemed less natural than other parts of the world.
In truth, Gauguin's paintings may be unconventional but they are certainly not "primitive". They are the work of a painter with great awareness of what he was doing. It was this awareness that made him such an important painter for those that came after, in the 20th century. When we look closely at the works of Gauguin we begin to understand Pablo Picasso, and especially Henri Matisse, a little better.
4. What can we infer about Gauguin's life ?
A. He had an unhappy childhood.
B. He lived most of his life in Peru.
C. He enjoyed painting in Tahiti.
D. He preferred a traditional life style.
5. What's the main purpose of Paragraph 4?
A. To explain why Gauguin's works were popular.
B. To point out where Gauguin's inspiration came from.
C. To show Gauguin's different understanding of painting.
D. To compare Gauguin's painting style with Vincent van Gogh's.
6. Which of the following best explains "spontaneous" underlined in Paragraph 5?
A. Natural
B. Modern
C. Industrial
D. Scientific
7. The author mentions Picasso and Matisse in the last paragraph to show ________.
A. their styles are different from Gauguin's
B. great artists share many similarities
C. they are as important as Gauguin
D. Gauguin's influence on their works
C
Although toys' packaging says it's' educational , it doesn't make it so. That's the finding from a new study in JAMA Pediatrics that found some toys being marketed as language promoters got in the way of learning.
Research shows that for kids to understand, speak and eventually read or write a language, they need to hear it -- lots of it. And it's' never too early for parents and to caregivers to get talking. That explains the booming industry in talking electronic toys that claim to help kids learn language.
Professor Anna Sosa, of Northern Arizona University, led the study and says she gave families three different kinds of toys to play with: books, traditional toys like humble blocks and a shape sorter, and electronic toys. Sosa says she picked those toys because they are advertised in their packaging as language-promoters for babies between the ages of 10 and 16 months.
"We had a talking on farm-animal names and things," Sosa says of the electronic toys. "We had a baby cell phone. And we had a baby laptop. So you open the cover and start pushing buttons, and it tells you things. The parent-child couples were asked to play separately with each type of toy over the course of three days."
"When there's something else that's doing some talking, the parents seem to be sitting on the sidelines and letting the toy talk for them and respond for them, "Sosa says. "That's bad because the best way a toy can promote language in infants and toddlers is by stimulating interaction between parent and child. There's simply no evidence that a young child can learn language directly from a toy. It isn't responsive enough. It isn't social."
As for the other toys, traditional blocks and puzzles stimulated more conversation than the electronic toys, and books outscored them all. But don't underestimate the humble block. While traditional toys fell short of books in interaction quantity, Sosa notes, they kept pace in terms of quality.
8. What is the finding of the research led by Professor Anna Sosa?
A. Toy industry is facing new challenge in marketing.
B. Kids should be taught to learn with toys as early as possible.
C. People might be misled by the statements of some toy makers.
D. Parents need to be cautious when choosing toys for their kids.
9. According to the passage, why are talking electronic toys so popular?
A. Because they represent the latest creations.
B. Because they arouse the interest learning.
C. Because they are used as an educational tool.
D. Because they are easy for the kids to control.
10. We can infer from the passage that it is necessary for the parents ______________.
A. to share their experiences of reading with their kids
B. to spare more time to stay with their kids at home
C. to encourage their kids to attend social activities
D. to get involved in the conversations on with their kids
11. What is the author's attitude to electronic toys as language promoters?
A. Critical.
B. Doubtful.
C. Supportive.
D. Objective.
D
You can relax if remembering everything isn't your strong suit. Recent research makes the case that being forgetful can be a strength--in fact selective memory can even be a sign of stronger intelligence.
Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything. But looking through years of recent memory data, researchers found that the neurobiology of forgetting 10 02001U0 can be just as important to our decision-making as what our minds choose to remember.
Making intelligent decisions doesn't mean you need to have all the information at hand. It just means you need to hold onto the most valuable information. And that means clearing up space in your memory palace for the most up-to-date information on clients and situations. Our brains do this by creating new neurons(神经元) in our hippocampus, which have the power to overwrite(重写) existing memories that are influencing our decision-making.
If you want to increase the number of new neurons in our brains' learning region, try exercising. Some aerobic exercise like jogging, power walking and swimming has been found to increase the number of neurons making important connections in our brains.
When we forget the names of certain clients or details about old jobs, the brain is making a choice that these details don't matter. Although too much forgetfulness can be a cause for concern, the occasional lost detail can be a sign of a perfectly healthy memory system. The researchers found that our brains facilitate decision-making by stopping us from focusing too much on unimportant past details. Instead, the brain helps us remember the most important part of a conversation.
We can get blamed for being absent-minded when we forget past events in perfect detail. These findings show us that total recall can be overvalued. Our brains are working smarter when they aim to remember the right stories, not every story.
12. How can we help our brains produce more neurons?。