2020年昌平区亭自庄学校高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案

2020年昌平区亭自庄学校高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案

第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

If you are planning to visit the historic capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, a travel destination that people crowd to from around the world, and want to attend one Festival while you are there, keep on reading to discover more information.

AKA. Imaginate Festival When: 22 May – 2 June 2021

Where: Traverse Theater, Assembly Roxy

A festival where kids take overEdinburgh. With a whole range of free pop-up performances, take your kids to see some of the most inspiring theatre and dance from a whole range of talented performers.

EdinburghInternational Film Festival When: 19 June – 29 June 2021

Where: Film House, Festival Theater

Originally the very best in international film, it was established in 1947. The dynamic programme features everything from documentaries to shorts, along with a range of experimental cinema, in an attractive setting with a spray of red carpet charm.

EdinburghArt Festival When: 25 July – 25 August 2021

Where: City ArtCenter, The Scottish Gallery

With over 40 exhibitions to attend, the Edinburgh Art Festival is theUK’s largest visual arts event where you can see everything from historical works to contemporary masterpieces.

The RoyalEdinburghMilitary Tattoo When: 2 – 24 August 2021

Where:EdinburghCastle

With a different theme every year, over 200,000 visitors crowd toEdinburghto see the military bands and the symbolic piper set against the backdrop ofEdinburghCastle.

1. Who is the AKA. Imaginate Festival intended for?

A. Children.

B. Talented performers.

C. Parents.

D. Dancers.

2. What’s special about Edinburgh Art Festival?

A. It includes all forms of arts.

B. It is about great works in history.

C. It is the largest festival in the world.

D. It lasts for the longest time.

3. Which Festival offers performances by soldiers?

A. Edinburgh Art Festival

B. AKA. Imaginate Festival

C. The RoyalEdinburghMilitary Tattoo

D.EdinburghInternational Film Festival

B

A team of engineers atHarvardUniversity in trying to create the first robotic fly. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

"The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of its components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own’ said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings hasa number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to,” said Wood.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites，in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. "Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around，” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal，but using these robots instead” he said. "So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”

4. What is the typical characteristic of the robotic fly?

A. It's automatic.

B.It's very small.

C. It's controllable.

D. It's quite powerful.

5. We can infer from the passage that the robotic flyer can____ .

A. act as a spy plane

B. help do farm work