广东省肇庆市2023-2024学年高二上学期期末教学质量检测试题 英语 含解析

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肇庆市 2023-2024 学年第一学期高二年级期末教学质量检测
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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。
A
Liberty Hill Farm
Liberty Hill Farm, recognized as Vermont's first Green Agritourism Enterprise, offers visitors opportunities to
milk and feed Robeth Holstein cows. It also has a small hotel with seven guest rooms, which makes it a perfect
destination for those looking to enjoy a relaxing vacation along with a farm tour.
Walker Honey Farm
Curious about how honey goes from beehive ( 蜂箱) to bottle? Visit the family-owned Walker Honey Farm in
Texas, where you can take a guided walking tour of the farm's facilities and hear first-hand from beekeepers. The 45-
minute tour also includes a stop at Dancing Bee Winery on the farm's property, where guests can try honey wine, one
of the oldest wines still consumed today.
Charleston Tea Plantation
Charleston Tea Plantation is North America's only tea plantation. Guests can see the acres of tea plants and visit
the only tea factory in America. There's also an option to take an amazing tour with Bill Hall, a third-generation tea
taster who oversees the daily operations here. Want to take some tea to go? Visit the on-site gift shop to buy specialty
teas and related items like tea cups.
Thoroughbred Heritage Horse Farm Tours
On the three-hour and guided tours, guests can see and learn more about Calumet Farm, a farm famous for
excellent horses and racing operations covering nearly 800 acres. Tours also include glimpses (体验) of movie filming
locations for films like Secretariat, Seabiscuit and Dreamer.
1. Which of the following tours provides accommodation for tourists?
A. Liberty Hill Farm. B. Walker Honey Farm.
C. Charleston Tea Plantation. D. Thoroughbred Heritage Horse Farm Tours.
2. What do Walker Honey Farm and Charleston Tea Plantation have in common?
A. They are unique in their areas.
B. They both include a 45-minute tour.
C. They are world-famous tourist attractions.
D. They offer direct communication with the staff.
3. Why are Secretariat, Seabiscuit and Dreamer mentioned?
A. To explain the visiting process. B. To introduce some famous movies.
C. To stress the popularity of the farms. D. To present an eye-catcher of the tours.
B
After most people complete their undergraduate degree, they either take a break or jump into a job. Few, like
Brianna Craft, set out to save the world.
It started when she was a freshman sitting in an environmental studies class in 2006. Craft was shocked when the
professor described the harm climate change was having on people. She records the moment in her new book,
Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir.
After graduation, Craft spent a year in AmeriCorps, focusing on protecting the environment. AmeriCorps is an
organization connecting individuals and organizations to help communities tackle their toughest challenges. "That
helped me figure out that my future was not in doing science," she says. Instead, she wanted to work with people and
policy.
She then had an opportunity to attend the UN climate negotiations ( 磋商). That, in turn, prepared her for her
current role as a senior researcher at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development
(IIED). Her focus is to ensure that the lowest contributors to greenhouse gases and those most affected by climate
change have a voice in international climate negotiations.
For five years, Craft attended and supported climate conferences around the world, leading to the signing of the
Paris Agreement in 2015. Craft says, "I wanted people to care about the work I did in the climate negotiations, and
why we pushed so hard to form this agreement." That led her to write Everything That Rises: A Climate Change
Memoir.
Craft brings the viewpoint of an African American woman from a rural northwest community. She weaves (编织)
together several storylines-including her difficult childhood with an irresponsible parent, her self-discovery in college
and her work to help work towards climate agreements and ensure that even the smallest countries have a voice.
4. What motivated Craft to work on climate change?
A. A course. B. A book. C. A scientist. D. A program.
5. How did the experience in AmeriCorps help Craft?
A. She made achievements. B. She fell in love with science.
C. She got inspiration for her book. D. She was clearer about her career path.
6. What does Craft do as a senior researcher at the IIED?
A. She promotes equal rights to speak among countries.
B. She focuses on removing greenhouse gases in London.
C. She ensures climate negotiations are the UN's top priority.
D. She speaks for the countries producing the most greenhouse gases.
7. Which of the following words best describes Craft's job?
A. Boring. B. Risky. C. Fruitful. D. Well-paid.
C
Scientists have been able to track the entire life of a mammoth ( 猛犸象) that lived more than 17,000 years ago.
The team figured out where in Alaska it likely was at any given point of its 28-year life.
To do so, the researchers closely studied a 1. 8-meter-long mammoth tusk ( 象 牙 ) dating back around 17,100
years. Mammoth tusks grow by adding layers of tissue almost daily, forming rings like a tree that can reveal detailed
information.
The main thing the researchers analyzed was strontium isotopes (锶同位素), which can act almost like an ancient
GPS. Different areas have different isotopic features, which start in minerals deep underground and make their way to
the top of the land, into plants and water. Finally, they can be seen on the animals that consume those plants and water.
Previous studies had produced an isotopic map of Alaska by analyzing isotopes in the teeth of hundreds of small
animals, which don't travel far in their lifetimes and so represent a local area. The researchers can then compare
isotopic signals from each part of the mammoth's tusk to this map, to get an idea of where the mammoth most likely
wandered throughout its life.
The scientists started from where its remains were found. Working backwards, the scientists then looked at the
isotopic feature of where the mammoth was about a week before death, then searched the map for the best match in a
nearby area. A model then worked backwards stepwise to determine the most likely routes the mammoth might have
taken.
According to the research, the mammoth seems to have spent his early years in the Yukon River Basin and
Alaska, constantly trekking between several territories in a predictable pattern. The team says that this behavior seems
to be like modern elephants, moving regularly from place to place.
8. What is the key to reading the mammoth's tusk?
A. The length of the tusk. B. The age of the mammoth.
C. The area the mammoth lived in. D. The tissue found in the tusk's layers.
9. What can be inferred from paragraph 3?
A. Plants and water are main carriers of isotopes.
B. The isotopes in the tusk came from the underground.
C. It was difficult to analyze the isotopic features of an area.
D. The researchers were surprised to find isotopes in the tusk.
10. How do previous studies benefit the present one?
A. By explaining the significance of tusks.
B. By recording the animal species of Alaska.
C. By offering researchers a map to compare with.
D. By proving the possibility of analyzing isotopes.
11. What does the underlined word "trekking" in the last paragraph mean?
A. Looking for food. B. Escaping from dangers.
C. Making a long journey. D. Sending warning signals.
D
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