河南省濮阳市第一高级中学2023-2024学年高二下学期5月期中考试 英语 含解析

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濮阳市一高 2022 级高二下学期期中质量检测
英语试题
（时间：120 分钟 满分：150 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。
A
The United Kingdom is a land of natural beauty and history, with many of its finest attractions discovered
through hiking. Now, dust off your boots, plan according to the following routes presented by a survey of senior
hikers and an incredible experience will wait for you.
Wales Coastal Path
Wales is the only country in the world that has an official walking path covering its whole borders. The Wales
Coastal Path is a footpath stretching 870 miles from Chester to Chepstow. Walking the whole thing might be
demanding, but there are plenty of stretches that can be enjoyed over a day or two.
Southwest Coast Path
You need a fair amount of annual leave, a casual 52 days or so, to undertake this in one go. The route runs
from Somerset all the way to Dorset, via rugged cliffs, cute fishing villages and surfing spots along the coastline.
You can surely jump on to any point as you like, but you can't afford to miss all the pubs full of jokes and laughter
on the way!
Coast to Coast Walk
This long-distance trail isn’t official, but popular in the country, taking hikers from the Irish Sea to the North
Sea as it rolls into historic Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire. Following local footpaths, the route takes you through
three UK National Parks: the Lakes, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.
Cleveland Way
You’ll want nine days to folly complete this hike, which explores both the North York Moors and the county’s
world-famous coastline. Just make sure you allow enough time to properly enjoy spots like Roseberry Topping hill
and pick up a gentle afternoon walk at Whitby’s clifftop church.
1. Who will be more interested in the routes?
A. Explorers in the UK. B. Hiking lovers.
C. Nature photographers. D. Field researchers.
2. What is highly recommended about Southwest Coast Path?
A. Fishing villages. B. Surfing spots.
C. Local pubs. D. National parks.
3. What do the four routes have in common?
A. They include cliffs worth visiting. B. They are official and demanding.
C. They run along the coast. D. They can be completed in a month.
B
About a decade ago, Lawson was at a beach in Virginia watching his kids build castles right next to the waves.
“I kept trying to get them to come back because I thought it was a terrible idea,” he remarked. He wanted them
to build their sandcastles closer to the dunes. But they found it more exciting to build right where the waves hit,
seeing their sandcastles get destroyed, and then rebuilding them with whatever debris washed up from the ocean.
“It seemed so symbolic, somehow, of how life works more than just building your perfect sandcastles,” said
Lawson. When he decided to turn that sunny day into a children’s book, the idea came to just use pictures. “It
seemed like it would work beautifully without words,” he said.
A Day for Sandcastles is illustrated by Qin Leng. It’s the second wordless picture book for Lawson and Leng
since 2021’s Over the Shop. Leng’s illustrations stay pretty true to real life. Three siblings spend the day building
sandcastles and watching them get destroyed by a flying hat. “To me it’s a celebration of childhood and the simple
joys of life. These are the things I like to capture,” said Leng.
Leng spent part of her childhood in France, and she was inspired by European comic books. “What I love to
do when I illustrate a picture book is add side stories to the main storyline. I always think about the readers and the
longevity of the book, and I want them to be able to discover something new every time they revisit the book,”
Leng explained.
At the end of the day, the sleepy-eyed kids pile into the bus that will take them home. “Those last pages are
some of my favorite. They capture that feeling like at the end of the day on the beach, when it’s getting dark and
you feel completely exhausted,” Lawson said. It must be a universal childhood feeling: happy with sand, sticky
from the salt, hot from the sun, and ready to fall asleep the moment you get into the car.
4. Why does Lawson mention the scene where the kids built sandcastles?
A. To suggest a way to enjoy leisure. B. To remind readers of the childhood.
C. To convince us of how life works. D. To tell us the inspiration for his book.
5. What do you know about the two books mentioned?
A. They are purchased by kids universally. B. Readers can only find pictures in them.
C. They carry no elements of comic books. D. The stories are literally works of fantasy.
6. How does Lawson feel when telling us the last pages in the last paragraph?
A. Relieved. B. Pleased. C. Disturbed. D. Exhausted.
7. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. Childhood in sandcastles B. Beautiful childhood memories
C. Popular illustrated books D. Explore the mystery of nature
C
The words “caring” and “empathetic” (共情的) aren’t ones normally associated with technology. Yearsley, an
Australian enterpriser who is expert in artificial intelligence (AI), is trying to change that.
Yearsley is the founder of Akin, a robotics startup that currently uses a tablet-based system to help users
manage the tasks related to home life, whether that’s planning meals or reminding you to pay your cell phone bill.
Current home devices made by Google or Amazon or Apple use predictive AI to track patterns, strengthen
behaviors and manipulate (操控) buying decisions, some of which, she assumes, are questionable or just unhealthy.
In contrast
,
the AI that she is developing will be designed to run the human home, encouraging healthful
decisions such as taking a nightly walk, refilling the fridge and supporting social interactions like lunches or
birthday celebrations with friends. “It’s the hardest AI I have ever built for it’s a complex system,” Yearsley says.
Yearsley began developing the Akin technology in 2017, when she realized the need to better manage the
home is hugely ignored. Besides, she realized that women unequally bear the burden of household work. A United
Nations’ report estimates that women do2.6 times the amount of unpaid care and domestic work that men do, or
close to 30 hours per week in the U. S. alone.
While Yearsley pictures an army of robots someday helping with routine homemade tasks, the first display for
Akin will take time and money. Akin has received some early seed money from a handful of investors, and was
recently selected as a finalist for tech giant LG Nova’s Mission for the Future program, an annual challenge that
seeks to identify businesses having potential to improve life and lead society into the future.
8. What might the Akin’s AI system suggest?
A. Consuming more drinks to enjoy yourself. B. Staying up late working to make more money.
C. Spending more time staying with your family. D. Purchasing products that may attract you.
9
.
What made Yearsley develop the Akin’s AI system?
A. The high cost of current home devices. B. Akin’s becoming a finalist for a program.
C. Financial support from investors. D. Heavy burden of housewives.
10. What can be used to describe the Akin’s AI system?
A. Questionable and unhealthy. B. Unstable and insecure.
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