湖南省郴州市苏仙区多校2022-2023学年高二上学期期末线上联考测试英语试题（原卷版）

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2022-2023 学年苏仙区上学期多校线上期末联考

高二英语

一、选择题(共20 题，每小题 2.5 分，共 50 分)

第一部分听力(共两节,满分 30 分)略

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。

Recent development has made possible machines that print

cook, and serve foods on a mass

scale. And the industry isn’t stopping there.

Food production

With a 3D printer, a cook can print complicated chocolate sculptures and beautiful pieces for

decoration on a wedding cake. Not everybody can do that — it takes years of experience, but a

printer makes it easy. A restaurant in Spain uses a Foodini to “re-create forms and pieces” of food

that are “exactly the same,” freeing cooks to complete other tasks. In another restaurant, all of the

dishes and desserts it serves are 3D-printed, rather than farm to table.

Sustainability(可持续性)

The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and some analysts estimate

that food production will need to be raised by 50 percent to maintain current levels. Sustainability

is becoming a necessity. 3D food printing could probably contribute to the solution. Some experts

believe printers could use hydrocolloids (水解胶体) from plentiful renewables like algae( 藻类)

and grass to replace the familiar ingredients( 烹饪原料). 3D printing can reduce fuel use and

emissions. Grocery stores of the future might stock “food” that lasts years on end, freeing up shelf

space and reducing transportation and storage requirements.

Nutrition

Future 3D food printers could make processed food healthier. Hod Lipson, a professor at

Columbia University, said, “Food printing could allow consumers to print food with customized

nutritional content, like vitamins. So instead of eating a piece of yesterday’s bread from the

supermarket, you’d eat something baked just for you on demand.”

Challenges

Despite recent advancements in 3D food printing, the industry has many challenges to

overcome. Currently, most ingredients must be changed to a paste( 糊状物) before a printer can

use them, and the printing process is quite time-consuming, because ingredients interact with each

other in very complex ways. On top of that, most of the 3D food printers now are restricted to dry

ingredients, because meat and milk products may easily go bad. Some experts are skeptical about

3D food printers, believing they are better suited for fast food restaurants than homes and high-end

restaurants.

1. What benefit does 3D printing bring to food production?

A. It helps cooks to create new dishes.

B. It saves time and effort in cooking.

C. It improves the cooking conditions.

D. It contributes to restaurant decorations.

2. What can we learn about 3D food printing from Paragraphs 3?

A. It solves food shortages easily.

B. It quickens the transportation of food.

C. It needs no space for the storage of food.

D. It uses renewable materials as sources of food.

3. According to Paragraph 4, 3D-printed food ________.

is more available to consumers

B. can meet individual nutritional needs

is more tasty than food in supermarkets

D. can keep all the nutrition in raw materials

When Anika Puri visited India with her family four years ago, she was surprised to come

across a market in Bombay filled with rows of ivory jewelry ( 象牙饰品) and statues. Globally,

ivory trade has been illegal for more than 30 years, and elephant hunting has been prohibited in

India since the 1970s.

“I was quite shocked,” the 17-year-old from New York, recalls, “Because poaching ( 偷猎) is

illegal, how come it is still such a big issue?”

Curious, Puri did some research and discovered a shocking statistic: Africa’s forest elephant

population had declined by about 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. Years later, the numbers

continued to drop. Puri, a wildlife lover, wanted to do something to help protect the species and

others still threatened by poaching.

Over the course of two years, Puri created EISa, a low-cost product of a machine learning-

driven software that analyzes movement patterns in thermal infrared ( 热红外) videos of humans

and elephants. Puri says the software is four times more accurate than existing state-of-the-art

detection methods. It also eliminates the need for expensive high-definition thermal cameras,

which can cost thousands, she says. EISa uses a $250 FLIR ONE Pro thermal camera with 206 *

156 resolution that plugs into an off-the-shelf iPhone 6. The camera and iPhone are then attached

to a drone ( 无人机), and the system produces real-time inferences as it flies over parks as to

whether objects below are humans or elephants.

Its potential impact on society earned her the Peggy Scripps Award for Science

Communication. “Research isn’t a straight line,” Puri says. “It makes me resourceful. It helps me

develop into a more creative thinker.”

4. What inspired Anika Puri to make the invention?

A. One study trip to Bombay. B. The deep passion for law. C. One

visit in India. D. Her love for ivory.

How does the author explain the situation of Africa’s forest elephant?

A. By listing figures. B. By making comparison.

C. By showing an example. D. By referring to some former studies.

6. What’s the research like in Anika Puri’s eyes?

A. It’s tough and can’t reach the goal. B. It’s beneficial to one’s development.

C. It really requires a variety of resources. D. It should be further developed

because of the need.

7. What may be the best title of the text?

A. Poaching Is a Shocking Problem

B. Drones Were Applied to the Ban on Poaching

C. A Fantastic Discovery Was Eventually Made by a Brilliant Teenager

D. A Teenager Invented a Low-Cost Tool to Spot Elephant Poachers in Real Time

One day when I was five, my mother scolded me for not finishing my rice and I got angry. I

wanted to play outside and not be made to finish eating my old rice. In my angry movement to

open the screen door with my foot, I had kicked back about a 12-inch part of the lower left hand

corner of the new screen door. But I had no remorse, for I was happy to be playing in the backyard

with my toys.

Today, I know if my child had done what I did, I would have scolded my child, and told him

about how expensive this new screen door was, and I would have delivered a spanking for such

behavior. My parents never said a word. They left the corner of the screen door be, creating an

opening, a breach (裂缝) in the defense against unwanted insects.

For years, every time I saw that corner of the screen, it would constantly remind me of my

mistake. For years I knew that everyone in my family would see that hole and remember who did

it. For years, every time I saw a fly buzzing in the kitchen, I would wonder if it came in through

the hole that I had created with my angry foot. I would wonder if my family members were

thinking the same thing, silently blaming me every time a flying insect entered our home, making

life more terrible for us all.

My parents taught me a valuable lesson, one that a spanking or stern (严厉的) words perhaps

could not deliver. Their silent punishment for my behavior delivered a hundred stern messages to

me. Above all, it has helped me become a more patient person and not burst out so easily.

8. The underlined word “ remorse” in Paragraph 1 most probably means_____________.

A. injury B. sense

C. regret D. notice

9. When the author damaged the door, his parents_____________.

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