重庆市第一中学2021-2022学年高三上学期开学摸
底考试英语试题
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1. The Olympic flame:
The Olympic flame is a symbol carried over from the ancient Olympics, where a flame burned at the altar (神坛) of Zeus throughout competition. It was finally reintroduced at the 1924 Amsterdam Games, and again burned in 1932.
Carl Diem, chairman of the organizing committee for the 1936 Berlin Games, propod that the flame be lit in Greece and transported to Berlin via a torch relay. The idea was adopted, and continued at every Olympic Games since 1952.
The flame is lit at the ancient site of Olympia by the natural rays of the sun reflected off a curved mirror. It is lit at a ceremony by women dresd in robes rembling tho worn in ancient times, who then pass it to the first relay runner.
Olympic motto:
“Citius, altius, fortius” is a Latin phra meaning “swifter, higher, stronger”, which Baron de Coubertin borrowed from Father Henri Martin Dideon of Paris. Dideon was headmaster of Arcueil College, and ud the phra to describe the athletic achievements of students at the school. He had previously been at the Albert Le Grand school, where the Latin words were carved in stone above the main entrance.
Olympic oath (宣誓)
“In the name of all competitors, I promi that we shall take part in the Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.”怀孕腰疼是怎么回事
Written by Baron de Coubertin, the oath is taken by an athlete from the host nation while holding a comer of the Olympic flag. The athletes’ oath was first t aken by Belgian fencer Victor Boin at the 1920 Antwerp Games. A judge from the host country also speaks the oath, with slightly different wording.
【小题1】The Olympic flame was first burned at ________ in modem times.
A．the 1952 Games B．the 1924
Games
C．the 1932
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D．the 1936
Games
强调句句型【小题2】From the passage we can learn that ________.
A．the torch relay was held at every Olympic Games since 1936
B．the Olympic motto was originally written by Baron de Coubertin C．the Olympic athletes’ oath was first taken at the Antwerp Games D．the Olympic judges make a vow with completely different wording 【小题3】This passage is probably taken from ________.
A．the Olympic official website B．a daily news report
C．a promotional advertiment D．an acadernic rearch
2. A short cooking video posted by a netizen on TikTok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag “Chine food”, the video not only showed off the chief’s superb skills in making Chine dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China’s unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200, 000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chine dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. “Even the most basic Chine dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to ha ve sharp eyes, but also valuable experience,” said Wang, an experienced Chine chef in Guangzhou.
Chine cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include “odd food” challenges, traditional Chine dishes and Chine snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
“I have been a fun of Chine food ever since my Chine friend cooked me di san xian at university.
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I was surprid by the dish’s taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me becau I noticed we share similar cooking skills,” said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
“I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. The videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying ‘I want to try it’, I felt the videos can narrow the gap between th e two cultures,” said Mr. Bear, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chine cooking.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “omnivore” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．People eating meat B．People eating vegetables C．People eating odd food D．People eating diver food
【小题2】How does Bianca find Chine food?计算器计算
A．Common and dear B．Special and
familiar
C．Weird and
delicious
D．Similar and
disconnected
【小题3】What do we know about Mr. Bear from the last paragraph? A．The majority of his fans tasted the food he cooked.
B．His roommate encouraged him to cook Chine food.
C．He is an expert determined to become a Chine chef.
D．His videos make a difference to cultural communication.
【小题4】The passage mainly tells us that ________ .血块多是什么原因
A．advanced technology plays A great part in modem society
B．online videos can make young people internationally famous C．Chine cooking has become popular among young vloggers D．master-level Chine dishes are attracting more foreign fans
3. The vaccine (疫
苗) news continues to em very encouraging. Britain started its mass vaccination effort and the U. S. isn't far behin d. But there is still one dark cloud hanging over the vacc ines that many people don't yet understand. The vaccines wil l be much less effective at preventing death and illness if they are introduced into a population where the coronavirus is still vere 一as is now the ca in the U. S.
A vaccine is like a fire ho (消防龙头). A vaccine that is 95 percent effective, as Moderna's and Pfizer's versions appear to be,
is a powerful fire ho. But the size of a fire is still a bigger determinant of how much destruction occurs.
At the current level of infection in the U. S. (about 160, 000 confirmed new infections per day), a vaccine that is 95 percent effective 一 distributed at the expected pace 一 would still leave a terrible toll (伤亡人数) after it was introduced. Almost 36 million
or so Americans have caught the virus, and more than 60, 0000 have died. This is far wor than the toll in a different situation where the vaccine was only 50 percent effective. However, it's worth
三鲜豆腐pausing for a moment on this comparison. If the U. S. maintained its current infection rate and Moderna and Pfizer announced that their vaccines were only 50 percent effective. a lot of people would panic.
But the reality we have is actually wor. How could this be? No vaccine can get rid of a pandemic immediately, just as no fire ho can put out a forest fire. While the vaccine is being distributed,
the virus continues to do damage.
肝病的早期治疗There is one positive way to look at this: Measures that reduce
the virus's spread 一 like mask - wearing, social distancing and
rapid - result testing 一 can still have great conquences. They
will save many lives in coming months.
【小题1】How does the author mainly prent his argument?
A．By giving definitions B．By classifying facts
C．By drawing comparisons D．By appealing to emotions
【小题2】According to the passage, what is the public's attitude to the effects of the vaccine?
A．Critical B．Optimistic C．Worried D．Neutral
【小题3】Which does the author think is a better way to save lives?
A．Improving the effectiveness of the vaccines B．Producing a greater variety of vaccines
C．Looking at the situation in a positive way D．Wearing masks and practicing social distancing
【小题4】We can infer from paragraph 3 that ________ . A．fewer people will die if the infection rate is lower B．the US have controlled the spread of the coronavirus C．the death toll in the next months will be reduced a lot D．the vaccines are less effective than expected
4. When I was younger, I thought science would make good things for everybody. It was obviously uful; it was good. But then during the war I worked on the atomic bomb. This result of science was obviously very rious—it reprented the destruction of people and put our future at risk. I had to ask mylf, “Is some evil involved in science?” I thought long and hard about this question, and I will try to answer it in this talk.
The first way in which science is of value is familiar to everyone: scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad—but it does not carry instructions on how to apply it. Such power has obvious value—even though the power may be denied by what one does with it.
Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with. When we look at any question deeply enough, we feel the excitement and mystery coming into us again and again. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, inspiring one to look deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may let us down, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness, just like opening a box of chocolate.
I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of great importance. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has an idea as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt.
Our freedom to doubt was born out of deep and strong struggle against authority in the early days of science. In order to progress, we must not forget the importance of this struggle; we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Permit us to question, to doubt, to not be sure.
【小题1】What is the purpo of the first paragraph?
A．To criticize a common view. B．To introduce the topic. C．To explain a viewpoint. D．To prove an argument.
【小题2】As to the value of science, the author ________ .
A．thinks science always does harm to all B．never doubted the goodness of science
C．interprets it from various perspectives D．thought deeply but got no answers to it
