海南省琼海市嘉积中学2022-2023学年高二下学期5月期中英语试题

海南省琼海市嘉积中学2022-2023学年高二下学期5月期中

英语试题

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Not a regular napper? That’s OK. “Everyone needs to rest, but not everyone necessarily needs to nap,” says Med nick.

1．During which phase may you have a dream?

A．Stage 1.B．Stage 2.C．Stage 3.D．Stage 4. 2．How long may the first 3 stages last?

A．A quarter.B．One hour.C．Half an hour.D．One and a half hours.

3．Which section is the text probably taken from in a newspaper?

A．Entertainment.B．Education.C．Lifestyle.D．Health.

Every year in May, art galleries and museums prepare shows to honor Leonardo Da Vinci, who died in France on May 2, 1519. He is remembered as one of the greatest artists and creative thinkers of all time. His most famous paintings are The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Recently, researchers have been studying a painting-Landscape 8P which, they think, is Da Vinci’s earliest-known artwork. They used special lighting to study the artwork and discovered there were two images, not one. One drawing is on the back of the piece, which dates back to August 5,1473.

The drawing on the front was painted when Leonardo was 21 years old. It shows a river valley and a castle outside the city of Florence. There is little left of the drawing on the back, perhaps because it was wiped off. Only a bridge over a river can be seen. But there is writing on both sides.

The writing on the front gives the date and goes from right to left. Some people would call this “mirror-writing”. It’s a way Leonardo often wrote in his notebooks. The writing on the back goes from left to right and tells about an agreement, probably to produce a work of art.

Cecilia Frosinini is an art historian. She said, “Leonardo was born left-handed, but was taught to write with his right hand from a very young age. By looking at his writings, including from this drawing, we can see his right-handed handwriting is educated and well done.”

Experts compared the two handwriting samples(样本)and said they were both made by Leonardo. They show he could write well using his left hand or his right hand.

The drawing is known as Landscape 8P from its number in an art list. It will be part of an exhibit at Italy’s Uffizi Gallery. The gallery director, Eike Schmidt, said by studying the

drawing researchers gave us a new way of looking at Leonardo’s drawing technique and his abilities in writing.

4．What does the writing on the back probably tell about?

A．A statement about the painting.B．An agreement to produce a painting. C．An introduction about Leonardo.D．Something about the city of Florence. 5．What can we learn about Leonardo from Cecilia’s words?

A．He did bad in right-handed handwriting.

B．He wasn’t good at writing with his left hand.

C．He could write with either of his hands.

D．He taught himself to write with right hand.

6．The following artworks are Da Vinci’s paintings EXCEPT__________

A．The Mona Lisa.B．The Last Supper.

C．Landscape 8P.D．Impression, Sunrise.

7．What’s Eike Schmidt’s attitude towards the research?

A．Unclear.B．Indifferent.

C．Positive.D．Doubtful.

Scientists in Australia have discovered that they can use the world’s smelliest fruits to make devices that could power electric cars. A durian is a fruit that looks like a pineapple. It is a delicacy in some Asian countries, but its smell is so unpleasant that some of those countries have banned it from public places. Its smell has been compared to rotting eggs and even smelly old gym socks.

Vincent Gomes and his colleagues at the University of Sydney, in Australia, used a durian and a jackfruit — another fruit known for its terrible smell — to make energy storing devices called supercapacitors.

Supercapacitors are an alternative to batteries. They can’t store as much energy as a normal battery does, but they are much quicker to recharge. Durians and jackfruits contain some of the chemicals used in supercapacitors, which gave Gomes the idea. To make the fruit-based devices, the team heated and then freeze-dried the uneatable cores of the durian and jackfruit to make a special kind of material called an aerogel.

Aerogels are one of the world’s lightest solid materials. Often called “frozen smoke”, they are made by removing the liquid from a gel and replacing it with air. They have many