新疆乌鲁木齐市实验学校2023-2024学年高三上学期1月月考试题 英语 含解析

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乌鲁木齐市实验学校 2023-2024 学年高三上学期 1月月考
英语试题
总分 120 分 考试时间 120 分钟
一、阅读理解(共40 分)
EUROPE is home to a variety of cultural treasures. Lonely Planet, the world’s largest travel guide publisher, has
offered pairs of cities for culture-hungry but time poor travelers.
London and Paris
It takes you about two hours to travel from London to Paris by Eurostar, a high-speed railway service. The two
capital cities have been competing in fashion, art and nightlife for decades — but each secretly looks up to the
other.
No one can doubt the grand and impressive beauty of Paris’ Louvre Museum, but if you want to save money, you
cannot skip the British Museum free to visit. Compared with London, Paris has more outdoor attractions, such as
the beautiful green walkway La Promenade Plantee.
In Paris, you’ll see diners linger(逗留) over red wine. While in London, you can try some afternoon tea, eat fish
and chips or salted cake.
Vienna and Bratislava
Austrian capital Vienna and Slovakia city Bratislava are an hour apart by train. But since they are linked by the
Danube River, the best way to travel is by ship. A tour of the two cities is the perfect way to experience everything
from 17th century’s Habsburg dynast splendor to sci-fi restaurants.
Vienna is famous for Mozart and imperial palaces. You can appreciate the perfect blending(融合) of architecture
and nature in the grand Scholoss Schonbrunn Palace, and reward yourself with a cup of Vienna coffee, which has
made its way to the world’s cultural heritage.
Bratislava is best known for its fine dining—the remarkable UFO restaurant. You can enjoy a meat-filled dinner
here in an amazing setting.
1. What’s the relationship between London and Paris according to the text?
A. They help each other. B. They attack each other.
C
.
They admire each other. D. They don’t like each other.
2. What are the advantages of Paris mentioned in the article?
a. Louvre Museum b. Free access to museums
c. More outdoor attractions d. Better wines and perfumes
A. ac B. cd C. acd D. bcd
3. Lonely Planet recommends these two pairs of cities because _________.
A. they are not expensive to visit
B. they are best known to the world
C. they are always enemies between each other
D. they are close but different in many aspects
“The first domestic geese may have lived about 7,000 years ago in what is now China. That may make them
the earliest bird to be domesticated, ” says Masaki Eda at the Hokkaido University Museum in Sapporo, Japan. Eda
is part of a team that has unearthed an archaeological (考古的)site in Eastern China called Tianluoshan, which was
a Stone Age village between about 7, 000 and 5, 500 years ago. “Its resident lived basically by killing wild animals
and looking for plants that can be eaten, ”says Eda, “but they also grew rice. ”
The team has now identified 232 goose bones at Tianluoshan, four of which belonged to immature geese that
were less than 16 weeks old, with the youngest probably less than 8 weeks old. This implies they must have
hatched at Tianluoshan, because they were too young to have flown in from elsewhere. Some of the adult geese
also seem to have been locally bred(饲养), based on the chemical make-up of their bones, which reflects the water
they drank. These locally bred birds were all almost the same size, indicating captive breeding( 圈养) . Finally, the
team carbon-dated the bones and found that the locally bred geese lived about 7, 000 years ago.
“The main thing that stood out for me is the fact they actually did radiocarbon dating on the bird bones, ” says
Julia Best at Cardiff University in the UK. This makes the dating much more reliable than if the team had simply
dated the surrounding materials. ”If geese were domesticated 7, 000 years ago, that would make them the first bird
to be domesticated, ”says Eda. The other candidate is the chicken, but there has been an argument over when and
where this first appeared, A study published in 2014 reported that chickens were domesticated in Northern China
as early as 10, 000 years ago, based on DNA from bones. However, the bones weren’t directly dated and “a lot of
the things they claimed were chickens were pheasants(野鸡)”, says Best.
“Domestic chickens only appeared around 5,500 years ago. With the firm evidence we currently have, I think
it is true, ”she says, but adds that the domestication of chickens is understudied, so the story could well change as
more evidence emerges.
4. What can we say about Tianluoshan?
A. It appeared at least 10, 000 years ago.
B. It was a Stone Age village in Northern China.
C
.
Its residents grew rice and kept geese as pets.
D. Its residents were essentially hunter-gatherers.
5. What is stressed in the second paragraph?
A. The main characteristics of geese
B. The proof of goose domestication
C. The challenges for immature geese
D. The chemical make-up of goose bones
6. What does Julia Best currently tend to believe?
A. Geese were domesticated before chickens.
B. Radiocarbon dating on goose bones was unreliable.
C. Domestic chickens were first spotted in Eastern China.
D. The analysis of DNA from chicken bones was dependable.
7. What is the main purpose of this text?
A. To advertise. B. To persuade. C. To report. D. To instruct.
Sometimes one plus one does equal three
,
as was the case when McNee, a basketball coach, met Mandekic.
When Mandekic, a math teacher, told McNee how hard it was to get students excited about math at a gathering, he
suggested, “Why not throw in something they enjoy, like sports?” “You are kidding!” Mandekic dismissed his idea
at the moment.
The idea of mixing basketball and mathematics got its first shot two years later, when Mandekic and McNee,
the now colleagues - who had launched a tutoring non-profit - were invited to run a summer-school program for
kids who’d failed Grade 9 math at Vanier School.
When the students showed up for their first day, they weren’t exactly thrilled. Over the next few hours,
Mandekic and McNee gave the kids techniques to improve their shooting while also helping them calculate their
field-goal percentage - which, in turn, taught them math knowledge. At the end of the game, the winning team was
determined based on which group had the highest total percentage and had done the most efficient math. “When the
bell rang, they were so focused on collecting their data and figuring out which team won that they didn’t leave,”
says Mandekic. The classes, later named BallMatics, soon spread to other schools.
Later, McNee and Mandekic established a private school called Uchenna. At the school, kids with excellent
basketball skills study all subjects, train at their sport and work part-time helping out with the BallMatics after-
school programs. For the school’s first graduates, the value of BallMatics is clear: all of the 16 boys landed
university scholarships for their performance in the classroom, not on the court. “The school’s commitment to
academics is the key reason for our success. The coaches would bench students who didn’t keep up in class.”
Abbott, one of them, says, “At Uchenna, we were student athletes, after all, not athlete students.”
8. How did McNee’s suggestion sound to Mandekic at first?
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