2023届福建省泉州第五中学高三下学期二模英语试题含答案

2023届高中毕业班适应性检测（二）

英 语 试 题

考试时间：2023年 6 月 2 日

                         命题人：_______

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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

21st Century Wonders of Engineering

Great Engineering has selected five wonders of 21st century engineering for our Excellence Prize. Now we’re asking you to vote for one and tell us why!

Falkirk Wheel(Falkirk, Scotland 2001)

The Falkirk Wheel is the world’s only rotating boat lift. Its steel arms each hold a water-filled tank into which boats can sail. As the wheel rotates, so do the arms, raising and lowering the boats a distance of 25 meters, using power equal to only eight boiling tea kettles.

Millau Viaduct(Millau, France 2005)

The 2.46-kilometer-long Millau Viaduct over the River Tam in the south of France is 270 meters high—the highest bridge in the world. It took just three years to build. It is a beautiful bridge that adds to the natural beauty of the river valley.

Langeled Pipeline(The North Sea 2007)

This pipeline under the ocean carries natural gas across the 1,200 kilometers of rocky sea bed from Norway to Britain. It is the longest pipeline of its kind. It runs through some of the most dangerous waters in the world.

Three Gorges Dam(Yichang, China 2009)

Three Gorges Dam is the largest dam for electric power in the world. Its 1.6-kilometer-long wall across the Yangtze River rises 183 meters above the valley floor. It can hold back 39 million cubic meters of water.

Venice Tide Barrier(Venice, Italy 2011)

In 1966,the city of Venice was flooded in two meters of ocean water. To prevent this from happening again, the Italian government has built 78 walls, each about 600 square meters, which will rise from the sea floor when the level of the Adriatic Sea is dangerously high and threatens the city.

21．Which wonder consumes surprisingly little power when working?

A．Three Gorges Dam. B．Langeled Pipeline.

C．Venice Tide Barrier. D．Falkirk Wheel.

22．How many wonders rank the top of their own kinds?

A．Two. B．Three. C．Four. D．Five.

23．What does the author invite readers to do concerning the five wonders?

A．To pay them a visit. B．To tell the difference.

C．To participate in a study. D．To choose one out of five.

B

I was eleven years old when I spotted my neighbour, Julie, working in her garden. “There’s a hedge(树篱)growing over the pathway near here,” Julie said. “It’s become so overgrown. I was planning to cut it back myself. Would you like to help out?” The following Sunday, we wheeled Julie’s garden bin down to the hedge and reduced it.

We posted photos of our handiwork on Our Malmesbury, our local Facebook Group. One person, a wheelchair user, was so grateful that they didn’t have to go on the road anymore to pass the hedge. The comments and reactions just kept on coming. The whole town of Malmesbury in Wilts hire seemed to welcome our team spirit and felt inspired to follow our lead. Many people raised their hands to volunteer and do more to keep our town tidy. This was the beginning of many community projects completed by volunteers in our community.

With many willing hands, our town has transformed. Before, the town looked a bit run-down, but now, the place looks cleaner and tidier.

When we first started, everything was done out of my parents’ garage. But as time went on, donations came in from the local community. Our garage got filled up so quickly with brushes, gardening tools, and even donated power tools like leaf blowers. It got so big that we had to move this all to Julie’s spare garage.

I created a Facebook page and website to support our projects. Our Facebook page ‘Helping the Community of Malmesbury’ currently sits at 669 members and is a place for all the locals to share what litter picking and cleaning up they have been up to. When community members plan a clean-up, they can contact us via the website to access any tools and equipment they need to complete a project.

24．What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A．Handiwork photos. B．Amazing reactions.

C．Increasing volunteers. D．Community projects.

25．What does the underlined phrase “run-down” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Messy. B．Ordinary. C．Deserted. D．Dynamic.

26．Which can best describe the author?

A．Pushy. B．Loyal. C．Competent. D．Careful.

27．What can we learn from the text?

A．Justice has long arms. B．One’s meat is an other’s poison.

C．God help those who help themselves. D．Small efforts make a big difference.

C

Chances are you can name a few animals that are facing extinction. But what about plants? With some 40% of plant species under threat of extinction—and given humankind’s reliance on the plant world-one might think there’d be more urgency around protecting them. Yet in the United States, for example, plants receive less than 4% of federal funding for endangered species, despite comprising 57% of the endangered species list.

Much of mankind suffers from “plant blindness”. Defined by botanists Elisabeth Schussler and James Wandersee, plant blindness is the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment, which leads to the inability to recognize the importance of plants in the biosphere (生物圈) and in human affairs.

Now a paper published by Oxford University Press might have found a cure for that. Having noticed that nature shows increased viewers’ interest in the animals on the shows, the researchers set out to discover if nature documentaries could do the same for plants. For the paper, they focused on The Green Planet, the 2022 BBC plant-focused documentary narrated (解说) by Sir David Attenborough.

To figure out if the documentary engaged viewers enough to want to learn more, the researchers looked at people’s online behavior around the time of the broadcast. They noted which species appeared on the show and then looked at data on Google Trends and Wikipedia page hits for those same species before and after the episodes (集) of the documentary aired. The researchers found some 28. 1% of search terms representing plants mentioned in the BBC documentary had peak popularity in the UK, measured using Google Trends, the week after the broadcast of the relevant episode. Wikipedia data showed this as well. Almost a third (31%) of the Wikipedia pages related to plants mentioned in The Green Planet showed increased visits the week after the broadcast. The investigators also note that people were more likely to do online searches for plants that enjoyed more screen time on The Green Planet.

28．What problem does the author talk about in the first paragraph?

A．Mass animal extinction. B．Humans’ heavy reliance on plants.

C．Sharp increase in endangered species. D．Insufficient plant conservation efforts.

29．How did the researchers evaluate the influence of The Green Planet?

A．By interviewing the viewers online.

B．By analyzing data on TV viewing habits.

C．By studying online searches of certain species.

D．By noting the number of nature documentaries aired.

30．What might be the conclusion of the research paper?

A．Screen time determines website visits.

B．Nature documentaries increase plant awareness.

C．Watching more TV will help protect biodiversity.

D．Well-made documentaries enjoy peak popularity.

31．What is the best title for the text?

A．A Wild Reason to Watch More TV

B．Best-ever Documentary: The Green Planet

C．A Great Chance to Stop Wildlife Extinction

D．Most Common Phenomenon: Plant Blindness

D

Fifty or sixty years ago, computers were very simple machines, but even then scientists believed that one day machines would be able to “think” and that they would probably be as intelligent as humans. The question was, “How can we measure the intelligence of a machine?” Alan Turing, who had helped to break the German Enigma code during the Second World War, came up with an answer. He said we need to ask, “Can this computer talk? Can it have a conversation like a human?” If it can, he argued, then it is intelligent and it can think. In a Turing test, judges sit at a screen and have a chatroom conversation with the chatbot program. They don’t know if they are chatting with another person or with a chat bot. After exchanging messages for five minutes, the judge decides if he or she is chatting with a human or a machine.

An American called Hugh Loebner was fascinated by Turing’s idea, and he offered a prize of $100,000 to the creator of the first chat bot to pass the Turing test. In order to win the $100,000, a chat bot must convince at least 30% of the judges that it is human. Many chat bots have entered the competition,but so far no chat bot has won the big money prize.

But is the Turing test a good way to decide if a machine is intelligent? Critics argue that the chat bots in the competition are merely imitating humans. Humans are the only animals on Earth that can speak, and that’s why Turing chose to focus on it. But what is really impressive, critics say, is that machines do things that we can’t do. For example, it is amazing that Google can search hundreds of millions of websites for a single word in a matter of seconds. The achievements like this are far more interesting and useful than a chat bot’s.

Fans of the Turing test, on the other hand, feel that humans are themselves machines. It’s just that our brains are far more complex than computers. As philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett said in a recent interview, “It’s not impossible to have a conscious robot. You’re looking at one.”

32．According to the Turing test, what would a computer be able to do if it could think?

A．Break the Enigma code.                 B．Chat with another computer.

C．Talk to people like an ordinary person does.  D．Have a chatroom conversation for five minutes.

33．What can be inferred about the chat bots that enter the Loebner competition?

A．They have a 30% chance of winning.   B．They share prize money of $100,000.

C．They will never win the big money prize.

D．They need to appear human to about a third of the judges.

34．What do the critics of the Turing test argue?

A．Google can do a great deal better than humans.

B．The winner simply has to copy human behaviour.

C．Turing focused on the wrong type of intelligence.

D．Chatbots are designed to do things that we can’t do.

35．Which of the following would Daniel Dennett probably agree with?

A．Humans are just very complex robots.      B．Humans will lose consciousness one day.

C．Humans and computers are equally clever.  D．Humans are more intelligent than computers.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）　　

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

One morning last week I looked out of my study window and saw that it was a fine day. No, it was a wonderful day: the sun shone down from a sky without even a single cloud. But later that day, hard at work at my desk, I heard a loud noise on the roof. Turning to the window, I saw that the sky was now the color of charcoal. Two minutes later the rain poured, making rivers of water.

   36   It’s extremely variable. Go ahead with your picnic in the local park by all means, but don’t suppose that because the sun is shining now, it will be when you open your pack of sandwiches.       37    

The weather in Britain is not always bad.    38   This is one of the biggest reasons why the British talk so often about the weather. Wherever there are strangers standing or sitting close together, and talk can not be avoided. The conversation focuses on the weather: “Yes, the weather has been good, hasn’t it?” or “    39    ”

The unexpected change of the weather is something that every British can agree on.   40    Even those with different opinions on everything else in the world, such as the argument in the UK about membership of the European Union, can talk about the weather without leading to a quarrel.

A．It is just changeable.

B．That makes it a safe topic of conversation.

C．You’d better take an umbrella, just in case.

D．What shocking weather we’ve been having!

E．Strangers will choose to talk about the weather to break the ice.

F．This story will give you some idea about weather in Britain.

G．Are you going for a picnic?

第三部分  语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）　　

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally    41    me, I almost never lost temper    42   ; of course I felt hurt, but I didn’t show it.

Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell in love with him, a proud    43    who loudly discusses things even with himself when he’s not happy. Things, however, got worse for me when we started    44    on things. He seemed really angry while I seemed polite. Truth is that I was    45    too, but I was used to not showing it on the outside. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of    46    discontent started to expand until they became hours, sometimes even days.

I felt this had to change and the conversation went    47    like this:

Me: “Either you change your    48    when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, otherwise this will    49    our relationship.”

Him: “Did you  50  the Mpemba Effect? If you put two  51   containers filled with the same amount of the same water into the freezer except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient (周围的)  52 , the boiling water will  53  faster than the ambient water. Baby, you got to boil first, to cool down faster. That’s why the Italians live longer than Canadians.”

The connection he suggested is to be    54   , but I have learned a fact I didn’t know, one that has inspired me to understand that if I’m angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the outside or otherwise it is like hiding    55    under the carpet: your house might look clean, but it is not.

41．A．praise B．impress C．attack D．defend

42．A．in turn B．in public C．in secret D．in time

43．A．Chinese B．American C．Canadian D．Italian

44．A．disagreeing B．operating C．working D．trying

45．A．boiling B．struggling C．controlling D．preparing

46．A．inner B．outer C．extra D．distinct

47．A．up and down B．by and by C．sooner or later D．more or less

48．A．vision B．viewpoint C．attitude D．attention

49．A．improve B．affect C．mend D．clarify

50．A．learn from B．worry about C．hear about D．hear from

51．A．mobile B．relevant C．solid D．similar

52．A．temperature B．sound C．level D．environment

53．A．explode B．burst C．freeze D．flow

54．A．suspected B．proven C．inspected D．created

55．A．money B．water C．treasure D．dust

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

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。

China will build the world’s largest national park system, and a layout plan will be released soon. The plan is being drafted    56    (meet) the requirements of building a system with the largest scale of protection, the most diverse geographical features and the highest conservation value in the world. Under the plan, which    57    (launch) by the administration in 2019, about 50 areas have been selected as candidates for national parks. The parks are expected to cover 10 percent of the     58    (country) land area and preserve more than 80 percent of the key national     59    (protect) wild plant and animal species. In October, China announced its first group of five national parks, covering     60    total land area of more than 230,000 square kilometers. Since their establishment, the parks    61    (make) achievements in environmental and species protection. “At the same time, a new group of national parks are being established    62    an orderly manner and will be put into use as soon as possible,” emphasized Li, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration official. Li also said at the news conference on Monday     63    China’s planted forest conservation area has reached 87.6 million hectares,  64  (rank) Nolin the world. China is also one of the 12 countries with   65   (rich) biodiversity in the world, he added.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）　

你是学校排球队长，即将结束在国外中学的交流访问，你将代表球队在答谢宴会上致辞，请准备一篇答谢辞，内容包括：

1.感谢接待;    2.你们的收获;    3.表达祝愿。

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。

第二节（满分25分）

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。

Twelve Days of Kindness

Although it was less than two weeks before Christmas, I found it difficult to be in a festive mood. We had moved to Canada, and holidays were difficult for us because we missed our friends and relatives in Minnesota. Our family was also going through a very difficult year, with health problems and a serious work-related problem for my husband.

“Mom, How I wish we could spend Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma in Minnesota. I really miss them and my friends there.” said my fifteen-year-old daughter, Rachel.

“I know, Rachel. So would I,” I said. “But Minnesota is 2,000 kilometers away. Don’t you remember how hard it was to drive in that snowstorm last year? And then the temperature dropped to-30℃ on our way back?”

“I remember,” she said and ducked her head disappointedly.

We thought driving to Minnesota for Christmas was too risky and buying airline tickets for three people was out of the question. We would be spending Christmas alone in Canada, and had no money for a Christmas tree or a Christmas dinner.

We were surprised when the doorbell rang. It was dark and cold outside, and we weren’t expecting anyone. Hesitantly, Rachel stood up and went forward to open the door, and then said, “Mom, there’s a big box on the doorstep and nobody is out here!” My husband also went and looked. But there was nobody insight.

They brought the box in. We were surprised to find that the box contained many packages covered in bright Christmas paper. Each had a typewritten note: Open Dec.14, Open Dec.15...There were a total of twelve—the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” The note read: Our LOVE is given anonymously(匿名地), so enjoy fun with your family, but don’t tell anyone please.

注意：1.续写短文的词数应为150左右;2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

参考答案：

A：DBD

B:BACD

C:DCBA

D:CDCA

七选五：FCEDA

完型：CBDAA  ADCBC  DACBD

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