广东省揭阳市揭东第一中学等三校2022-2023学年高二下学期4月期中联考英语试题含答案

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揭阳市 2022-2023 学年度高二级下学期三校联考

英语科试题

（考试时间：120 分；满分：120 分）

第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 50 分）

第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 60 times between 1901 and 2022.These women have made

outstanding contributions to the worlds of medicine,science,literature and so on.Here are four of them.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Award:Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Year:1964

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist whose interest in research began when,as a child,she received a

chemistry book containing experiments with crystals.She studied at Oxford University and developed protein

crystallography,which advanced the development of X-rays.This earned her the Nobel Prize.

Gertrude B.Elion

Award:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Year:1988

Gertrude Elion won the Nobel Prize for her discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.Elion had

watched her grandfather die of cancer,so she decided to fight the disease throughout her life.Elion,together with

George Hitchings,with whom she shared the award, created a system for drug production that relies heavily on

biochemistry.

Toni Morrison

Award:Nobel Prize in Literature

Year:1993

Toni Morrison,whose book"Beloved"earned her the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award,was the

first Black woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.Born in Ohio, Morrison was a writer whose works

are mostly about life in the Black community.She taught writing and served as an honorary professor at Princeton

University.

Esther Duflo

Award:Nobel Prize in Economics

Year:2019

Esther Duflo shared her prize with her research colleagues Michael Kremer and Abhijit Banerjee,who is her

husband.Duflo has spent much of her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,where she earned her

doctorate degree in 1999.Duflo and her partners were awarded the Nobel Prize for their approach to fighting

poverty around the world.

21.What won Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin the Nobel Prize?

A.Her book about crystals. B.Her contribution to X-ray development.

C.Her research on medicine. D.Her discovery of a new protein crystal.

22.What do Toni Morrison's books mainly focus on?

A.Educational issues. B.Community service.

C.Writing techniques. D.Black American's life.

23.What do Gertrude B. Elion and Esther Duflo have in common?

A.They won the Nobel Prize in the same year.

B.They devoted themselves to fighting diseases.

C.They shared the Nobel Prize together with others.

D.Their life experiences committed them to their fields.

From cottages surrounded by impressive gardens to days spent exploring sandy beaches and deep woods

filled with wildlife, in My Family and Other Animals, English writer Gerald Durrell provided a vivid account of

his family's time on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.

Come for the arresting descriptions of Corfu landscapes and stay for Durrell's laugh-out-loud tales of his

unusual family.This book,Durrell wrote humorously in the introduction,"was intended to be a nostalgic （怀旧

的）account of natural history，but in the first few pages，I made the mistake of introducing my family."

Durrell,later known for his zoo keeping and the preservation of wildlife,was just a child during his family's

five-year stay in Corfu.He is 10-year-old Gerry in the book-curious, passionate about animals and a detailed

storyteller of his strange family: his imaginative elder brother Larry with his literary ambitions,lovestruck sister

Margo,sporty brother Leslie and his ever-calm,loving mother.

Durrell's attention to detail is what makes the book so winning,with every sight,sound and smell of the

island brought to life.One minute you'll be laughing as Larry's clever literary friends walk down to the daffodil-

yellow cottage,the next you'll be catching your breath as Durrell describes swimming at night in the Ionian

Sea:“Lying on my back in the silky water,staring at the sky,only moving my hands and feet slightly,I was looking

at the Milky Way stretching like a silk scarf across thesky and wondering how many stars it contained."

My Family and Other Animals is quite difficult to classify,being one part travel,one part autobiography,one

part natural history,and one part comedy,with a thread of descriptive language running throughout that sometimes

raises it nearly to poetry.

As a real delight to read,it's the perfect literary escapism for any adult or older teenager who is currently

walking down a tough road in life.

24.Which word best describes Durrell's life in Corfu?

A.Risky. B.Busy. C.Tough. D.Diverse.

25.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 2?

A. I introduced my family by mistake.

B.I shouldn't have introduced my family.

C. I couldn't help introducing my family.

D. I gave wrong information about my family.

26. What are Paragraph 4 and 5 mainly about?

A.The book's writing feature.

B.DurreIl's rich imagination.

C. Some interesting plots of the book. D. Some vivid descriptions of the island.

27.What is the purpose of this text?

A.To share an experience.

C.To introduce a writing style.

B.To recommend a book.

D.To describe an unusual place.

In a paper published recently in Nature Communications, the authors, including experts from China's

Tsinghua University, said that most of the current electricity demand in advanced, industrialized nations can be

met by some combination of wind and solar power. “Wind and solar could meet more than 80 percent of demand

in many places without crazy amounts of storage or additional generating ability，which is the critical point（临

界点），”said co-author Steve Davis，UCI professor of Earth system science ，“if we want to have a zero-

carbon emission（排放）future without using fossil energy resources".

The team analyzed 39 years' worth of hourly energy demand data from 42 major countries to evaluate the

adequacy of wind and solar power resources to serve their needs. They found that a full shift to sustainable power

resources can be easier for lower-latitude（低纬度的）countries， which can rely on solar power availability

throughout the year.The researchers highlighted Germany as an example of a relatively smaller country, in terms

of land mass, at higher latitude which will make it more challenging to meet its electricity needs with wind and

solar resources.

“Historic data show that countries which are farther from the equator （赤道）can occasionally experience

periods during which there is very limited solar and wind power availability,"said lead author Dan Tong,assistant

professor of Earth system science at Tsinghua University.“One recent occurrence of this phenomenon in Germany

lasted for two weeks,forcing Germans to turn to dispatchable （可调度的）generation，which in many cases is

provided by fossil fuel-burning plants. Among the approaches the researchers suggested to alleviate this problem

are building up generating capacity,developing long-term storage capabilities and pooling resources of multiple

nations on a continental land mass to make the burden lighter to a certain country.

“Europe provides a good example to help people produce net-zero carbon electricity,”said Tong.“A lot of

consistency and reliability could be provided by a system that includes solar resources from Spain,Italy and

Greece with plentiful wind available in the Netherlands,Denmark and the Baltic region.

28.What does Steve Davis imply by saying “critical point”?

A.Carbon emission will be reduced by using wind and solar power.

B.Electricity demand will be beyond human control in the future.

C.Electricity generating can be replaced by wind and solar power.

D.Fossil energy will be used with zero-carbon emissions in the future.

29.What can make a country rely on solar power all the year?

A.Having a large land of its own. B.Having a small population.

C.Being developed in all respects. D.Being located near the equator.

30. What does the underlined word “alleviate” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A. Ease. B. Stress. C. Accept. D. Arrange.

31.What can we learn from Tong's words in the last paragraph?

A.People can solve increasing energy demand in the future like Europe.

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