2023-2024学年重庆市巴蜀中学校高三上学期高考适应性月考卷(二)英语试题

2023-2024学年重庆市巴蜀中学校高三上学期高考适应性月考卷（二）英语试题 Great Apps That’ll Make Your Life Easier 1. Freedom

One-sentence Benefit: Have a distraction-free workday by blocking websites.

Freedom prevents the guilty pleasures that we all have of checking our emails, social media, or other websites that distract us from getting things done. What’s useful about this productivity app is that you can use it on any of your devices(i. e., mobile, tablet, desktop), and it allows you to schedule blocked-off times ahead of time. 2. Hemingway App

One-sentence Benefit: It’s basically your personal editor.

Hemingway has been a dear friend of mine ever since I’ve started blogging back in 2013.Whenever I write an important post for my blog, I go to Hemingway to make sure my writing is error-free. All you have to do is copy and paste your article into Hemingway, and it will analyze your writing from its readability, grammar errors, alternative suggestions, and so on. 3. Wunderlist

One-sentence Benefit: Meet the ultimate to-do list organizer.

I used to have one giant to-do list, where I would write down all of my tasks for the week. It didn’t quite occur in my mind that I should be creating different categories within my to-do list, in order to keep it organized and focused, until my friend recommended Wunderlist.

Now I have over 15 different lists, from personal, work, health, and so on, and it certainly gives me a peace of mind. 4. News Feed Eradicator

One-sentence Benefit: Replace your friend’s vacation photos with inspirational quotes. Scrolling (滚屏) through your News Feed can be a workout on its own. While I love staying up-to-date with my friends, I haven’t felt the need to depend on to do this. While there’s no data to back this up, my level of productivity and overall happiness seems to have increased since I’ve stopped consuming what others are up to, and started focusing on what I want to do.

1. Which of the following apps can help you organize your tasks?

A．Freedom. C．Wunderlist.

2. What is an advantage of Hemingway App?

A．It helps polish your writing.

B．It increases your reading fluency. B．Hemingway App. D．News Feed Eradicator.

C．It offers a sample writing for your essay.

D．It provides you with inspirational quotes.

3. What do Freedom and News Feed Eradicat or have in common?

A．They are designed to block posts. C．They remind you of important tasks.

As a printmaker (版画家), drawing is a tool to make my prints, rather than an end result in itself. I make three kinds of drawing when I am developing a print: observational sketches,composition thumbnails (缩略图) and then what I call the “ design drawing”, which is the final design to transfer onto my block. Here’s how all three methods work for me.

Firstly, I see observational drawing as visual note taking and I take a ma gpie approach to collecting ideas. Sometimes that means an organised sketchbook and special pencils; sometimes I have to beg a pencil from a stranger and use the back of a paper bag. The trick is to take down anything that catches my fancy, even if it is just a couple of lines.

I am careful to keep this collection of sparks safe—— it often takes me a couple of years to get around to using. an idea, especially some of the more random ones! I regularly scan through my collection, hunting for ideas and often combining several together, old and new, to create a print. I then use thumbnail sketches to plan my print’s composition and to develop the ideas got from my observational work. I use a soft pencil and cheap paper for this because I am seeking information, not an appealing drawing. Thumbnails help me to run through many options and experiments with little effort, while their very simplicity allows me to check my shapes are good and that I have the right balance of light and dark areas—— the key to a strong composition.

The final step is to draw the final design as the basis for my print. I always try to develop the image as a whole rather than focusing on fragments, working over the entire drawing very loosely with lots of scribbled (潦草的) pencil lines. Then I edit repeatedly, keeping relevant lines and erasing others, sometimes cropping the work or enlarging it, often sacrificing pleasing details for the good of the whole.

4. How does the author collect ideas?

A．By communicating with strangers. B．By keeping the sparks in a notebook. C．By visiting museums and art galleries. D．By recording any possible inspirations.

5. Which of the following can best describe the author’s way of doing composition?

A．Better to be safe than sorry. B．Progress through trial and error. C．Always put your best foot forward.

B．They can improve your efficiency. D．They can only be used on the computer.

D．Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing. 6. Which principle does the author follow in the final step?

A．Focusing on the overall effect. B．Achieving simplicity and harmony. C．Working on the details persistently. D．Combining different painting styles. 7. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To reveal some tricks in art design. B．To share experience in artistic creation. C．To discuss the elements of good prints. D．To analyze techniques of art expression.

The conventional wisdom about insects has been that they are unthinking, unfeeling creatures whose behavior is entirely hardwired (天生的). But in the 1990s researchers began making surprising discoveries about insect minds. Some species of wasps (黄蜂) recognize their nest mates’ faces and acquire impressive social skills. For example, they can infer the fighting strengths of other wasps relative to their own just by watching other wasps fight among themselves.

Given the substantial work on the complexity of insect cognition (认知), it might seem surprising that it took scientists so long to ask whether, if they are that smart, could also be sentient, capable of feeling. Since we have no direct window into the inner world of an animal that cannot verbally communicate its thoughts and feelings, the question of whether insects are sentient remained academic.

15 years ago, I performed an experiment in which we asked whether bumblebees could learn about t hreat from their natural enemies. We built a plastic spider model with a mechanism that would briefly trap a bumblebee between two sponges before releasing it. The bumblebees showed a significant change in their behavior after being attacked by the robotic spider. Perhaps

unsurprisingly, they learned to avoid flowers with spiders and meticulously scanned every flower before landing. Curiously, however, they some times even fled from imaginary threats, scanning and then abandoning a perfectly safe, spider-free flower. Although this incidental observation did not constitute formal ev idence of an emotionlike state, it did open the door to the idea that such states might exist in insects.

Some research suggested that insects might have positive states of mind. Researchers discovered that bees actively seek out drugs such as nicotin e and caffein e when given the choice and even treat themselves with nicotin e when sick. Male fruit flies stressed by being robbed of mating

opportunities prefer food containing alcohol, and bees even show withdrawal symptoms when removed from an alcohol-rich diet.

Why would insects consume mind-altering substances if there isn't a mind to alter? But these suggestive hints of negative and positive mind states still fell short of what was needed to demonstrate that insects are sentient.

8. What does the example of the wasps indicate?

A．Insects show signs of intelligence. B．Insects can do complex calculations. C．Insects can socialize in a skillful way. D．Insects live in highly complex societies.

9. What does the underlined word “meticulously” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Hesitantly.

B．Casually.

C．Eagerly.

D．Carefully.

10. What was unexpected about the bumblebees’ behavior in the experiment?

A．They avoided flowers with spiders. B．They settled on flowers despite threats. C．They might abandon spider-free flowers. D．They might get scared away by other insects. 11. What does the text mainly discuss?

A．What insects' various behavior can reveal. B．How insects communicate their thoughts. C．What amazing powers insects possess. D．Whether insects are capable of feeling.

The scientist’s job is to figure out how the world works, to “torture (拷问)” Nature to reveal her secrets, as the 17th century philosopher Francis Bacon described it. But who are these people in the lab coats(or sports jackets, or T-shirts and jeans) and how do they work? It turns out that there is a good deal of mystery surrounding the mystery-solvers.

“One of the greatest mysteries is the question of what it is about human beings—— brains, education, culture etc.—that makes them capable of doing science at all,” said Colin Allen, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University.

Two vital ingredients seem to be necessary to make a scientist: the curiosity to seek out mysteries and the creativity to solve them. “Scientists exhibit a heightened level of curiosity,” reads a 2007 report on scientific creativity. “They go further and deeper into basic questions showing a passion for knowledge for its own sake.” Max Planck, one of the fathers of quantum physics, once said, the scientist “must have a vivid and intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction(推论), but by an artistically creative imagination.”

But others disagree with this universal scientific mind. They believe that scientists have special

abilities that set them apart. Discovering these abilities may be hard, Allen thinks, as many scientists will be reluctant to reveal them and would prefer to preserve the mystery of creativity, fearing that if it became an object of study it would lose its magic.

But for Allen, this is all part of a bigger question of what lies behind anyone’s behavior.“We are only just beginning to understand how the characteristics of organisms, including ourselves, aren’t the fixed products of either genes or of environment/culture, but each of us is the product of a

continual interactive process in which we help build the environments that in turn shape us,” he said. “As long as our best technology for seeing inside the brain requires subjects to lie nearly motionless while surrounded by a giant magnet, we’re only going to make limited pro gress on these questions,” Allen said.

12. Why does the author mention Max Planck in paragraph 3?

A．To introduce a famous scientist. C．To compare different views on science.

B．To stress the role of creativity in science. D．To illustrate what is curiosity inscience.

13. What do Allen's words in the last two paragraphs suggest?

A．Human behavior is changeable and unpredictable. B．We are passively influenced by our genes and culture. C．Our interaction with the environment makes us who we are. D．Current technology has revealed a lot about human behavior. 14. What is Allen’s attitude to the current study on the human brain?

A．Cautious.

B．Indifferent.

C．Approving.

D．Pessimistic.

15. What is a suitable title for the text?

A．Who Are The Mystery-solvers C．Great Mystery: What Makes A Scientist

Emotions are inherent (固有的) in the human experience and play a significant role in children's lives. Emotional resilience is a critical component of success, helping children navigate life's

inevitable ups and downs. 16 . Parents can try the following steps to help their children develop this power.

Step 1: Build an emotional toolkit

Children aren't born knowing how to manage and express difficult feelings, such as anger or hurt. They need to learn about various emotions and what behaviors are acceptable. 17 .When parents openly express their emotions, regardless of whether they are appropriately expressed, children watch; listen, and learn. So, parents should establish healthy emotional habits to serve as a guide for children.

B．Scientists Are Not Born But Made D．Solving Mysteries: Inside A Scientist's Mind

18 . Some children may seek comfort in hugs, while others prefer physical space. Some may find gentle music soothing (安抚的), while others find it irritating. Parents can assist children in finding emotional resources based on their personality and individual needs. Step 2: 19 Helping children connect with their emotional lives includes all emotions, not just pleasant ones. For instance, well-intentioned adults may say, “Don't be angry” or“There is nothing to be sad about”, but this may shut down the exploration of those feelings rather than addressing them. When this avoidance is repeated, it interferes with the understanding and mastery of difficult emotions. Step 3: Help children regulate and co-regulate

Children often need parents to help them navigate intense emotions. 20 . This process is called“co-regulation,” when one person soothes another.

Co-regulation does not mean parents should always rush in to“fix” children's discomfort,particularly if they don't want help. Children also need space to work through struggles on their own to build emotional competence.

A．It is a potential superpower B．Accept and validate all emotions C．Children learn by observing adults D．Be a good parent by always being there E．Building an emotional toolkit is no easy task F．Finding preferred coping skills is a personal process G．They rely on adults' more mature nervous systems to find stability

The walk I’d plotted was 22 miles to the coast. It is enough to get the legs _______ and the mind cleared. But the real _______ for me was walking to a definite point in our country’s outline. I was wondering if I’d have the endurance (耐力) and determination to do it. I am, after all, in my late 40s. I _______ the coast at 7: 00 am. I was, for the day, an arrow. My line of flight was as straight and short as I could make it.

_______ the five-hour mark, I was in a good state of body and mind. The_________of the usual routine had been eased by daydreams. From this point on, the _______ seemed to change. The banks on either side were larger, and the grasses longer, even though the sea was still miles off.

Things were getting _______ . Despite feeling like I was nearly “there”, I still had four miles to go. I was hurting, my knees. I _______ the painkillers down with my secret weapon: coffee. Studies have shown caffeine _______ endurance and it kept me going.

Try as I might, I still couldn’t see my walk’s end. I could even smell a(n)________ in the air, but the horizon remained ________ in salt marsh (盐沼地). Then, almost without realizing it, I was “there”.

Where I had hoped to see the________ , I saw salt marsh, like the chocolate milkshake of the North Sea!

Feeling like a bit of a fool, I headed down into the nearest marsh and left my boot prints in the mud. The seven-and-a half-hour walk had hurt my ________ , but I’d acted on an old idea, done it, and ________ it off my list. I was now free to think of new ones and move on, in this dawn of

possibilities we all face. Life is too short to let ideas stagnate (停滞); now’s the time to turn them to ________ . 21.

A．aching 22.

A．excuse 23.

A．settled in 24.

A．Recognizing 25.

A．inconvenience 26.

A．landscape 27.

A．flatter 28.

A．put 29.

A．reduces 30.

A．sweetness 31.

A．updated 32.

A．sea

B．relaxing

B．move

B．set about

B．Approaching

B．comfort

B．weather

B．better

B．washed

B．controls

B．fragrance

B．locked

B．horizon

C．bending

C．draw

C．arrived at

C．Ignoring

C．boredom

C．shape

C．stranger

C．broke

C．boosts

C．saltiness

C．broadened

C．land

D．recovering

D．trick

D．left for

D．Missing

D．peace

D．spirits

D．wilder

D．cooled

D．maintains

D．bitterness

D．limited

D．forest

33.

A．expectations 34.

A．crossed 35.

A．curiosity

B．reality

C．imagination

D．destination

B．shown

C．shaken

D．turned

B．feelings

C．arms

D．knees

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A Yunnan snub-nosed monkey named Bailian, or White Face, was a superstar within his troop in Xiangguqing village, Yunnan province. Local people have many 36 (appeal)anecdotes about him. The primate lived for 30 years, 37 is almost 90 human years. However, in October,Bailian was found dead in the wild.

In his prime (盛年), 38 a commanding male, he had a large family with four 39 (wife) and three offspring. However, in 2012, he was challenged and defeated by a younger,stronger monkey. He 40 (replace) as one of the troop leaders, and all his family members left him,with one 41 (except). A female monkey, 10 years older than Bailian, stayed with him,and 42 male monkey took good care of her until she died in 2016.

Overwhelmed by grief, Bailian groomed her fur as usual and carried her body with him 43 he moved with the other monkeys in the troop. When forest rangers removed the decaying body,Bailian tried 44 (stop) them—baring his teeth and howling as if in great pain.

In 2019, he formed his second family, this time with a 6-year-old female, and 45 (father) an infant the following year.

However, his happiness was short-lived. In October 2020, Bailian broke his legs in a fight and lost his family once again. Rescued by forest rangers, he resumed his nomadic lifestyle until his death. 46. 假定你是李华，上周六你校举办了一场以“变废为宝”为主题的环保时装秀。请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括： 1.参加人员； 2.活动情况； 3.活动反响。 注意：

1.写作词数应为 80左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

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47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 It was my sixth-grade year. I was overjoyed when the U. S. Navy band came to perform in our town. It was an event I’d never forget, and one instrument stood out above all others. That day, at 12 years old, I fell in love with the heavenly sound that came from the trumpets (小号),and a dream was born. Someday, I wanted to join a military band onstage as a guest performer.

My father took notice of my enthusiasm and bought me a used trumpet. I practiced every day, training my lips, mastering my breathing, until I felt at one with the instrument. I made first chair and played trumpet through high school. “Someday I’ll play along with a military band,” I told my friends. The details I left to God to figure out, while I pursued a more practical life course. Rather than declaring a performance major in college, I studied to be a music teacher.

Now I was blessed to be at this military band concert, a magic al after noon that had brought with it a trip down memory lane.

After the concert, I made my way to the stage to thank Colonel (上校) Carino, the conductor of the military band. When he learned I taught music in town and played trumpet, he invited me to play a trumpet solo (独奏) at their next concert in the park.

A solo? I couldn’t remember the last time I’d taken my trumpet out of its case. I doubted I’d even be able to get a decent note out of it. “Sir, that’s impossible. I’m sorry, but there’s no way.” “In the Army,” the colonel thundered, “you don’t say no!”

I felt scared and trapped. Yet, a lingering thought took root: “Is it possible that life is opening the door to my childhood dream?” I said yes to the invitation. I knew I had to do my part and practiced for hours every day. My lips swelled and then bled. 注意: 1.续写词数应为 150 左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

As time passed, Colonel Carino took an unexpected role in my preparation.

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