湖南省株洲市天元区名校2023届高三上学期12月月考（A）英语试卷

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英语试题（A）

第一部分阅读（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。

Young Writers Awards

About the Contest

Bennington College has a unique literary tradition. We’ve had twelve Pulitzer Prize winners,

three US poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, and two of Time magazine’s 100 most

influential people. In celebration of this, Bennington launched the Young Writers Awards to

promote excellence in writing at the high school level. Students are invited to enter with the

following work:

•Poetry: A group of three poems

•Fiction: A short story (1,500 words or fewer) or one-act play

•Nonfiction: A personal or academic essay (1,500 words or fewer)

A first-, second-, and third-place winner is selected in each category. We welcome

participation of both US and international students.

Awards & Rules

First-place winners in each category are awarded a prize of $1,000; second-place winners

receive $500; third-place winners receive $250.

•No charge for entrance. Fees for accidents caused by participants are required.

•All entries must be original work reviewed, approved and guided by a teacher. We will use

your teacher as a contact for the competition should we have any questions. For homeschooled

students, please contact one to assist in your writing even if you have experience in such

competitions.

Young Writers Awards finalists and winners are also qualified for undergraduate scholarships

at Bennington. Young Writers Awards finalists who apply and gain admission to Bennington will

receive a $10,000 scholarship every year for four years, for a total of $40,000. Young Writers

Awards winners reaching the standard will receive $15,000 every year, for a total of $60,000.

1．What can be learned about the Young Writers Awards?

A．It rewards three winners at last.

B．It’s a tradition of Bennington College.

C．It accepts participants worldwide.

D．It offers scholarships to undergraduates.

2．What are the participants asked to do?

A．Hand in a personal essay. B．Have related writing experience.

C．Pay an entry fee on time. D．Find a teacher to help with the entry.

3．How much will the second-place winner to be admitted into Bennington gain in total?

A．$10,500. B．$15,500.

C．$40,500. D．$60,500.

In August 2012, when thousands of honeybees landed on the wings of a Delta aircraft headed

to New York, interrupting refueling and baggage loading, Ben Shertzer, wildlife administrator at

Pittsburgh International Airport, turned to master beekeeper Steve Repasky. Shertzer learned from

Repasky that honeybee numbers have sharply declined in recent years. Perhaps, thought Shertzer,

the airport could host some hives (蜂箱).

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), first reported in 2006 by Pennsylvania beekeeper David

Hackenberg, occurs when the vast majority of bees in any given colony — generally worker bees

— die out unexpectedly. Therefore, Hackenberg transports his hives across the country to pollinate

( ……对授粉) crops: They might travel from Pennsylvania to California, and then, a few months

later, those same hives might be moved to Maine for the blueberry crop. In 2006, Hackenberg had

left 400 hives in a field to pollinate Brazilian pepper trees; when he returned to the hives a month

later, all but 36 hives had been abandoned. The bees had just disappeared, leaving behind the

queen and a few baby bees. By 2013, more than 10 million bee colonies had been lost worldwide.

Shertzer and Repasky approached airport management about placing hives in 2013, but were

told that the program didn’t fit the airport’s vision. It wasn’t until Christina Cassotis came on

board as CEO in 2015 that things turned around. The airport currently has 110 colonies. The

program actually benefits the airport as well as the honeybees.

“Swarming (成群飞行) is reproductive behavior,” says Repasky. “In the spring, a healthy

colony will divide into two parts, and will take off in a swarm to locate a new home, traveling

upwards of a mile or more. While they’re searching, they’ll stop to rest on the first solid object

they can find, whether it’s the wing of an aircraft, a runway taxi light, or a baggage cart.” To

prevent this behavior, Shertzer and Repasky have placed 15 “swarm traps” around the airfield

offering the bees alternative landing spots. It’s worked: Whereas the airport used to have 15 or

more swarms a year interrupting air operations, in the past year it has had just three.

4．Why did Shertzer contact Repasky in 2012?

A．To let him help with baggage loading.

B．To learn how to refuel a Delta aircraft.

C．To ask him to help relocate the honeybees.

D．To seek advice on how to raise honeybees.

5．What is Hackenberg’s purpose of traveling around?

A．To come to crops’ rescue. B．To do research on CCD．

C．To build more new hives. D．To search for bee colonies.

6．What do “swarm traps” mentioned in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Baggage carts. B．Beehives.

C．The wings of an aircraft. D．Runway taxi lights.

7．What is a suitable title for the text?

A．Fun facts about honeybees B．Colony Collapse Disorder

C．The latest in airport jobs: beekeeper D．Unwanted visitors at an airport

Was your school noisy or peaceful? It might not seem important, but a growing body of

research suggests that sounds can have an impact on learning, performance and creativity.

Whether background sounds are beneficial or not seems to depend on what kind of noise it is

—and the volume. In a series of studies published last year, Ravi Mehta from the College of

Business at Illinois and his colleagues tested people's creativity while exposed to a soundtrack

made up of background noises—such as coffee-shop chatter and construction-site drilling—at

different volumes. They found that people were more creative when the background noises were

played at a medium level than when volume was low. Loud background noise, however, damaged

their creativity.

This makes sense for a couple of reasons, says psychologist Dr Nick Perham, at Cardiff

Metropolitan University in the UK, who studies the effect of sounds on learning but was not

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