2023届广东省茂名高州市高三第一次模拟考试英语试题学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
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There are many scientific breakthroughs made by women in the Antarctic.Here are four landmarks in Antarctica and they’re named for the female pioneers.
Jones Terrace(梯田)
The ice-free terrace in eastern Antarctica’s Victoria Land bears Jones name.In1969, geochemist Lois M.Jones led the first all-female rearch team from the US to work in Antarctica.Jones and her team studied chemical weathering(风化作用)in the McMurdo Dry Valleys,an ice-free area of Antarctica.Through chemical analys of rocks they had collected,Jones and her team discovered many geochemical characteristics of the valley’s ice-covered lakes.
Mount Fineness
8,202-foot-high Mount Fineness,located on Antarctica’s largest island—Alexander Island-is named for Ginny Fineness.She established and maintained80-foot-tall radio towers in the Antarctic.In1985,Finene
ss became the first female invited to join the Antarctic Club, a British supper club open to individuals who have spent extended time in the Antarctic region.Francis Peak
Francis Peak
The3,727-foot-tall peak on Antarctica’s Adelaide Island is named after Dame Jane Francis,who is the first female director of the British Antarctic Survey,the national polar rearch institute of the UK.Her collection of fossils on Seymour Island helped conclude in a 2021paper that Antarctica’s abundant plant fossils indicate the continent once had a much warmer climate than it currently does.
Peden Cliffs
Peden Cliffs near Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land are proof of the labor of Irene Peden. She was the first American female scientist to both live and work in the Antarctic,where she ud radio waves to study ice sheets.Peden and her team determined how very low frequency radio waves spread over long polar distances by measuring pathways in the ice.They also ud varying radio wave frequencies to measure the thickness of Antarctica’s ice sheets. 1．Which of the following is named after a builder of radio towers in the Antarctic?
A．Peden Cliffs.B．Francis Peak.
C．Mount Fineness.D．Jones Terrace.
驾驶证记分2．Who helped prove the previous higher temperatures of the Antarctica?
A．Irene Peden.B．Dame Jane Francis.
C．Ginny Fineness.D．Lois M.Jones.
3．What was special about Irene Peden according to the text?
A．She could judge the thickness of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
B．She discovered a lot of ice-covered lakes in the Antarctic.
C．She was the first female American to explore the Antarctic.
D．She correctly measured the spreading speed of radio waves.
The famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso once said,“I always do what I can’t do so that I can learn how to do it.”It strikes a chord(引起共鸣)with me becau that’s exactly what I’ve done the years.
One of my earliest memories of doing before learning is of baking scones(烤饼)when I was about10years old.I wanted to bake them to surpri my mother when she returned home.
Before that I’d obrved how my mother baked them many times.As I started to try,I didn’t know I shouldn’t handle the dough(面团)with my hands too much once I’d added the baking powder(发酵粉).However，I knew exactly how to roll out the dough and u a cookie cutter to cut the scones,becau my mom had already taught me.
By the time my mom arrived home,the smell of freshly baked scones welcomed her into the kitchen.They were baked to golden brown perfection—flat,as a result of over handling the dough,but they tasted OK.My mom sweetly praid me for my attempt,rather than scolding me for the state of the kitchen,which was like a tornado had just blown!
Have my attempts always been successful?I wish!Some of my kitchen disasters were of such proportions that even the dogs wanted nothing to do with them.My gardening failures didn’t live to e another ason.
But my habit of doing before learning is still helpful.Whatever computer program or application I have to learn,I do so by simply starting to u it.I do,learn,and improve.So if you ask me whether I regret t
hat I tend to do first and learn later,I’d say I don’t,becau what I have discovered from tho is the wisdom to know when it’s OK to do and then learn,and
when it’s probably better to learn and then do!
红茶上火还是降火4．What can we learn about the author’s first experience of baking scones?
A．She practiced hard before actually trying.
B．She turned to her mom when necessary.
C．She wanted to perform better than her mom.
D．She managed to do it despite a little imperfection.
中国劳动合同法5．How did Mom respond to the author’s attempt?
A．She made improvements to the scones.
B．She expresd her appreciation for the job.
C．She shared her first experience of baking.
D．She was surprid by the mess in the kitchen.
6．What does the author think of her practices of“doing before learning”?
A．They are just a barely usable method.
B．Most of them have ended up in failure.
C．They contribute a lot to her lf-improvement.
D．They only apply to the learning of specific skills.
7．What is the author’s purpo in writing the text?
A．To stress the importance of keeping learning.
B．To show the benefits of doing before learning.
C．To encourage people to do something they can’t do.
D．To call on readers to change their way of learning.
Scientists believe nature is good for our well-being.But what’s the cret that brings about the benefit?A recent study by rearcher Craig Anderson and his workmates suggests it could be awe(敬畏)—that n of being in the prence of something greater than ourlves that fills us with wonder.
电脑属性The first part of the study had some people go on a four-day river rafting(漂流)trip.They rowed through dangerous rapids in the forested areas in California.They also camped out in the wild.Before and after the trip,they reported on their well-being,including their stress levels and satisfaction with life.During the trip,they kept diaries about their ntiments, including whether they’d felt awe,peace,gratitude,joy,or pride that day.At the end of the trip,their well-being had incread greatly.After the trip,the rearchers discovered
awe—above other positive emotions—emed to explain the improvement.
In the cond part,Anderson studied whether awe played a role in more ordinary, everyday nature experiences.The answer is also yes.This is good news,says Anderson, becau sometimes it’s not that easy for people to have long wilderness trips.“You don’t have to do amazing experiences in nature to feel awe,”says Anderson.“By taking a few minutes to enjoy flowers or a sunt,you also improve your well-being.“
Anderson says that awe may benefit well-being by causing a“small lf”—a n that you will have when you’re in the prence of something bigger than yourlf,which may make worries and stress less significant by comparison.
But he also says that there could be other ways that nature experiences improve our well-being,besides causing awe.For example,the related physical exerci in nature could have made a difference,too.Anyway,Anderson believes there’s enough evidence to encourage us to add more nature to our daily life.”People need to slow down and make space for that in their lives,”Anderson says.
8．What did the study by Anderson and his workmates mainly find?
A．The benefits a trip has on people.
B．What interests travelers in nature.
C．The views people have about nature.
D．What makes being in nature beneficial.
9．What does the underlined word“ntiments”in paragraph2mean?
A．Feelings.B．Desires.风流村庄
C．Discoveries.D．Experiences.
10．How does awe take effect according to the text?
A．By stressing the greatness of nature.
B．By helping people forget their worries.
C．By encouraging people to be lost in nature.白族人民
D．By making people’s problems em less rious.
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11．What does Anderson suggest people do?
A．Make time to do exerci.B．Show respect to nature.
C．Get in touch with nature.D．Make a comparison with others.
Osa is an athletic yet stubborn62-pound German shepherd(德国牧羊犬).The
圆柱的特点six-year-old dog has mastered the art of sniffing(嗅)out cancer and is key to a rearch project that has the potential to change oncology(肿瘤学).
Osa is part of an ambitious effort launched five years ago at the University of Pennsylvania that aims to develop one of the most powerful scent-detection machines in the world:the canine no.She is able to distinguish between blood samples taken from cancer patients and their healthy peers simply by sniffing them.
In fact,Osa is one of five cancer-detection dogs trained by Annmarie DeAngelo and her co-workers at the university’s Penn Vet Working Dog Center.The most important goal is to develop an“electronic sniffer”that can approach the cancer-sniffing superpowers of Osa and her partners.Osa arrived at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center from a breeder at two months of age.Ever since,she has taken training.The process is demanding,challenging and repeated until the dog has mastered the most esntial task of all.Finally,she has succeeded in sniffing out cancer.To transform Osa’s remarkable abilities into an electronic no,rearchers u a similar approach to train the machine.
An electronic no prototype(雏形)has been built,and it’s successful in sniffing out cancer90to95per cent of the time.That team has also correctly detected different types of cancer,and is building a can
cer-detecting device for the National Institutes of Health.One objective is to be able to distinguish between early-and late-stage cancer.“It would be incredible to identify people at an early stage and really have an impact on saving lives,”says a rearcher.“The dogs have been able to detect that.With that ability,a blood test could be nt to a central lab,or ideally performed in a doctor’s office,making some hidden cancers a thing of the past.We expect that the cancer-sniffer device will be complete in a short time.”12．What can we learn about Osa from the first two paragraphs?
A．She ud to be a strong German dog.
B．She was hard to deal with in the rearch.
C．She us her no to know the prence of cancer.
D．She can change the development of the oncology.
13．Which word can best describe the training Osa received?
A．Strict.B．Complex.C．Unstable.D．Endless. 14．What can we infer from the rearcher’s words in the last paragraph?
A．Blood tests will be more difficult in the future.
B．There will be more dogs ud for detecting cancer.
