黑龙江省海林市朝鲜族中学2023届高三上学期第三次月考英语试卷

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第二部分阅读(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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Nobody likes to spend money on a new book only to face disappointment when it doesn’t
live up to your expectations. Here are the best book review sites to help you avoid buying books
that you’ll regret reading.
Goodreads
Goodreads is the leading online community for book lovers. If you want some inspiration for
which novel or biography to read next, this is the best book review site to visit. There are an
endless number of user-generated reading lists to explore.
Fantasy Book Review
Fantasy Book Review should be high on the list for anyone who is a fan of fantasy works.
The book review site publishes reviews for both children’s books and adults’ books. It has a
section on the top fantasy books of all time.
Booklist
Booklist is a print magazine that also offers an online portal. Trusted experts from the
American Library Association write all the book reviews. You can see parts of reviews for
different books. However, to read them in full, you will need to subscribe.
YouTube
YouTube is not the type of place that immediately springs to mind when you think of the best
book review sites online. However, there are several engaging YouTube channels that frequently
offer opinions on books they’ve read.
Although it’s easy to be attracted by an impressive book cover, it’s always best to have a
quick look at the book reviews before actually buying a copy. This way, you can save your money
and spend it on the books that you’ll be proud to display on your shelves for a long time.
1. Which site best suits people who want to buy a biography?
A. Goodreads. B. Fantasy Book Review.
C. Booklist. D. YouTube.
2. What can visitors do on Booklist?
A. Edit book reviews. B. Discuss with experts.
C. Read full reviews after payment. D. Find information about writers.
3. What is recommended before buying a book?
A. Noting the book cover. B. Reading the book reviews.
C. Preparing a display shelf. D. Checking the book’s ratings.
B
It’s a classic story: A kid is forced to learn an instrument from a young age, they play it
throughout their childhood, and they develop a bittersweet relationship with it. Is the constant
battle between the love for the music and the hate for the constant challenge worth the fight? For
me, it was.
I started playing the piano when I was four-that was 15 years ago! This was huge
commitment, so there must have been something worth holding on to, right?
The easy guess is that I was purely in love with music and piano. Although that’s the sweeter
tale, it’s a bit more complicated. I struggled a lot with piano. Family and peers were, at least in my
own head, constantly placed beside me in competition. I felt pressure to be the best in order to
prove something to others-and more devastatingly (破坏性地) to prove something to myself. The
seed of my musical interest was grown in the sunlight of competition and doubt. Hate sprouted (滋
生) when my self-criticism hit too hard.
It’s difficult to learn to love something that didn’t originate from love. For a while, piano was
more of an annoyance than a hobby. But somehow, love grew. It was deeply buried. But it was
there, and by high school,it was strong enough that when I was truly on the verge of quitting any
kind of formal training. I found the strength to hold on tighter, and dig further. I switched teachers,
and got incredibly lucky with one who helped me tunnel into what I loved. I learned pieces for
myself, I composed for myself, and I found confidence not because I got “good enough,” but
because I learned that anything I had was good enough.
The love and hate I’ve had for the piano were both planted and grown. If you too have
learned to hate something, remember that with commitment, it can be uprooted, and love can
make a home in its place. There is always time. There is always room.
4. What does the author want to show by telling a classic story?
A. The benefits of music.
B. Kids’ struggle in learning instruments.
C. Kids’ bittersweet childhood.
D. The popularity of learning instruments.
5. What can we know about the author’s experience of playing the piano?
A. She finally quit formal training.
B. She never treated it as her hobby.
C. She was in pure love with music and piano.
D. She once experienced great pressure from herself.
6. What helped the author find confidence?
A. Her attitude. B. Her training.
C. Her compromise. D. Her achievement.
7. What message is mainly delivered in the passage?
A. Practice makes perfect.
B. Love is a thing that grows.
C. Content is better than riches.
D. Chance favors the prepared mind.
C
Around the globe far more bird species are losing ground than gaining, according to an
expansive review of a half-century of bird population research published in the journal Annual
Review of Environment and Resources in May.
The review, entitled The State of the World’s Birds, showed that more than 5,200 different
species of birds-just shy of half the world’s total-are known or suspected to be declining. Around
3,800 species are relatively stable, and fewer than 700 species show increases. Among birds on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, almost 400 birds worldwide have had their conservation
status changed for the worse in the past three decades (moving from vulnerable to threatened, or
threatened to endangered) — five times more than the number of bird species with an IUCN
status that has changed for the better.
“After documenting the loss of nearly 3 billion birds in North America alone (according to a
2019 study published in the journal Science), it was disturbing to see the same patterns of
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