重庆市乌江新高考协作体2023-2024学年高三上学期12月期中英语试题

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高三英语试题

(分数：120 分，时间：100 分钟)

第二部分阅读(共两节，满分 50 分)

第一节(共15 小题：每小题 1.5 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。

STEM Summer Programs for High School Students

STEM is a term that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here is a list of some of the

best STEM summer camps for high school students.

Future Matters Program

It is an 8-week paid summer research experience for high school students. This is a hands-on program for

students interested in going after a career in medical research. Students will attend seminars led by the faculty and

participate in discussions with peers.

Simons Summer Research

It is a seven-week program located at Stony Brook University. Students will have the opportunity to

participate in special workshops, tours and events free of charge. They will conclude the program producing a

written research abstract and a research poster.

Research Science Institute

It is the first cost-free summer program of its kind. During this six-week program, students will dive deeper

into the world of science and engineering by experiencing the entire research cycle. In this program students will

attend classes conducted by famous professors and prepare written and oral presentations to present their research.

Program in Math for Young Scientists

This is a six-week intensive mathematics program designed for students across the globe. Unlike common

programs, it offers a great deal of independence for students to choose their own schedules and decide what they

want to study. Besides learning, there is also “mandatory (强制的) fun time” built into the weekly schedule so that

students are able to have non-math related activities.

1. Which program best suits students who want to be doctors?

A. Future Matters Program. B. Simons Summer Research.

C. Research Science Institute. D. Program in Math for Young Scientists.

2. What do Simons Summer Research and Research Science Institute have in common?

A. The topic. B. The expense. C. The duration. D. The content.

3. What’s special in Program in Math for Young Scientists?

A. Cultivating independent skills. B. Attending non-math activities.

C. Tailoring personal schedules. D. Enrolling international students.

As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for

a lifetime.” This is the way the charity organization Heifer International ( 国际小母牛慈善组织 ) wants to end

world hunger.

It began in the 1930s when an American farmer, Dan West, went to Spain to help people in need. He tried to

feed the people with milk. But it seemed that there would never be enough milk. It made him think that what they

needed was “not a cup, but a cow”.

Dan West returned to America. He worked together with some friends to find ways to end hunger. He believed

giving animals and providing training would stop world hunger. With his help, Heifer International was set up.

On Heifer International’s website, you will see a list of animals like cows, chickens, pigs and even fish and

bees. You can offer help by buying some animals for one certain family. Those animals will have babies. With more

and more animals, these families will be able to support themselves. Once these families get better lives, they will

pass on the act of kindness to others. More importantly, you are buying the resources ( 资源) for programs run by

Heifer International to help more families.

The programs also help small-sized farms. As a rule, each farmer must give his animal’s first female ( 雄性)

baby to another in need. Heifer International also provides training on animals health and feeding. And these

farmers all agree to teach others what they have learned as another rule.

However, there is still a long way to go. The milk may run out. But if families have their own cows, they can

get plenty of milk to feed themselves. The organization wants the farmers to go on working together, helping each

other and learning from each other. Maybe hunger can really be stopped.

4. According to the passage, we know that Dan West_________.

A. set up a team in Spain B. helped people with enough fish

C. was a Spanish farmer D. helped set up Heifer International

5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the charity organization Heifer International?

A. Heifer International makes a list of animals on its website.

B. Farmers in the program must teach others how to feed animals.

C. Farmers in the program must give all the animals’ babies to others.

D. Heifer Intermational provides training on animals' health and feeding.

6. If we put the passage into four parts, which of the following is the best?

（①=Para.1 ②=Para.2 ③=Para.3 ④=Para.4 ⑤= Para.5 ⑥= Para.6）

①；②③；④⑤；⑥ B. ①；②③；④；⑤⑥ C. ①②；③；④⑤；⑥

D. ①②③；④；⑤；⑥

7. The best title of this passage may be “________”

A. Advice on Feeding Cows B. A Cow Instead of a Cup

The Charity Organizations D. An American Farmer

Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, was once of motor racing’s most influential engineers. Between

1962 and 1978 Lotus won seven Formula One constructors championships. He summed up his philosophy as

“simplify, then add lightness”. It appears to be an uncommon insight. A paper published in Nature suggests that

humans struggle with subtractive(减法的) thinking. When asked to improve something, they tend to suggest adding

new things rather than removing what is already there, even when additions lead to subpar(低于标准的) results.

The research was motivated by everyday observation rather than psychological theory, says Gabrielle Adams,

the paper’s first author, who cites folk wisdom such as “less is more” and “keep it simple”. Perhaps the need for

such reminders was evidence of a blind spot in people’s thinking?

Along with colleagues at the University of Virginia, Dr. Adams conducted a series of observational studies. In

one, when participants were asked to alter an essay they had written, 16% cut words while 80% added them. Others

gave similar results. Of 827 suggestions received by the new boss of an American university for how the institution

could be improved, 581 involved adding new things and just 70 suggested removing something.

Having established that addition does indeed seem to be more popular than subtraction, the next step was to

work out why. One possibility was that people were considering subtractive options, but deliberately choosing not

to pursue them. Another was that they were not even thinking of them in the first place.

Let’s enter a new set of experiments. One experiment asked participants to redesign a lopsided( 不平衡的 )

Lego structure so that it could support a house-brick. Participants could earn a dollar for fixing the problem, but

each piece of Lego they added cut that reward by ten cents. Even then, only 41% worked out that simplifying the

structure by removing a single block, rather than strengthening it by adding more, which was the way to maximise

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