2020-2021学年西藏日喀则第二高级中学高三（上）月考英语试卷（10月份）
一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共30.0分）
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In no particular order,here are some songs on the Music app of my phone：
On a Sunday Afternoon by Lighter Shade of Brown-A student of mine introduced this rap song to me all the way back in the early 1990s,when I was teaching Spanish at a local university.The story in the song takes place not too far from where I live in Los Angeles.It's a good "driving" song,nothing complicated or " deep".
Say Something by A Great Big World-A more recent song about a couple losing contact with each other.The piano part is of very little playing but beautiful.
American Pie by Don McLean-Another song from my youth in the 1980s,very popular with almost every American of my generation.It retells some of the key events of the middle 20th century,a song of happy memories of the past and wanting to return to tho better times.
The Weight by The Band-Another old song,originally made public in 1968吉他拨片，but one I didn't
hear until I was in high school more than 10 years later.I don't understand the words to the song completely,but the feeling of the song is very comforting to me.
Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers-This Los Angeles group wrote a song that I ud to listen to when I first moved to LA more than 25 years ago.I didn't know anyone here when I first arrived.When I got bored,I ud to drive up and down the major streets that cross the city from east to west,listening to this song about "the city of angels" being as "lonely as I am".（Don't worry！I have plenty of friends now.）
1.What does the underlined word "deep" probably mean？ ______
A. With skill. B. With comfort.
C. With a normal meaning. D. With a significant meaning.
2.When did the author probably hear The Weight by The Band？ ______
A. In 1968. B. In 1970. 人体背部的经络图C. In the 1980s. D. 幼儿园餐前活动In the 1990s.
3.When the author first moved to LA，the song he ud to listen to was ______ .
A. Say Something B. American Pie
C. The Weight D. Under the Bridge
B
Dogs are our best friends.That's especially true after a disaster,such as an earthquake.When buildings fall down,arch and rescue dogs help find trapped people.Dogs' amazing nos can pick up the smell of survivors.Now scientists have developed an electronic tool that does the same thing.It's taking smell detection（探测） to a whole new level.
The new invention is a sort of electronic no,which can detect extremely low levels of many compounds（化合物） from people's skin.This isn't the first time engineers have developed such an object.Earlier models,however,have been bulky and expensive.They could not detect low levels of target compounds either.The new one is inexpensive and small enough to fit inside hand-held equipment.
The electronic no can detect extremely slight smell of more than one compound at the
same time. "Being able to do this,in such a small object,is the significant discovery," says Sotiris E.Pratsinis,Professor of Process Engineering & Materials Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.His team tested it in special spaces.They were like the small spaces where people might be trapped.Chemicals given off by the volunteers built up inside.The electronic equipment detected tho compounds at unbelievably low levels.
The results were good news for the rearch team.But they may be not for our four-legged friends,who could soon be out of a job."Ideally,this technology could replace arch and rescue dogs," Pratsinis says.
Stephen Taylor,an electrical engineer,agrees that the new technology has some benefits over dogs.Still,he thinks it may be too soon to have our trusty friends retire.He suspects,"I foree that such an object could add to the fine work done by the dogs." Taylor also pointed out some potential limitations of the new invention. "E-nos are uful.But they can be very likely to be affected by unstable readings and interruption," he says.
4.Why does the author talk about dogs at the beginning？ ______
A. To catch the readers' attention.
B. To introduce the topic about e-nos.
C. To show what arch and rescue dogs do.
D. To add background information for discussion.
5.Which of the following best explains "bulky" underlined in Paragraph 2？ ______
skinhead
表示震惊的成语A. Complex. B. Fragile. C. Handy. D. Large.
6.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about？ ______
A. What e-nos' working principle is.
B. How e-nos are made.
C. What differences between dogs and e-nos are.
D. How powerful e-nos are.
7.What does Stephen Taylor mean？ ______
A. Dogs and e-nos could work together.
B. Search and rescue dogs will retire soon.
C. E-nos are more reliable than nos of dogs.
D. Dogs are better at finding out trapped people.
C电脑模式
As the richest man in the world,Bill Gates is no stranger to success.So when the billionaire offers advice,it's smart to listen.On Monday,Bill Gates hosted an "AMA" or "ask me anything" ssion（会议）on Reddit,during which a participant asked,"If you could give 19-year-old Bill Gates some advice,what would it be？"
Gates said："I would explain that smartness is not single dimensional and not quite as important as I thought it was back then.I would say you might explore the developing world before you get into your forties.I wasn't very good socially back then,but I am not sure there is advice that would fix that-maybe I had to be awkward and just " In short：Intelligence isn't one-dimensional-and it's not the only ingredient required for succ
ess.
This isn't the only time Gates has given out advice on navigating your years as a young adult.One of his best pieces of wisdom comes from fellow billionaire and friend Warren Buffett：Keep things simple.In a 2009 interview with CNBC，Gates said："You look at his calendar；it's pretty simple.You talk to him about a ca where he thinks a business is attractive,and he knows a few basic numbers and facts about it.And if it gets less complicated,he feels like then it's something he'll choo to invest（投资）in.He picks the things that he's got a model of,a model that really is predictive and that's going to continue to work over a long-term period.And so his ability to boil things down，to just work on the things that really count,to think through the basics-it's so amazing that he can do that.I t's a special form of genius（天才）."
8.What can we learn about 19-year-old Bill Gates英明决策？ ______
A. He was not a smart youth.
B. He overvalued the importance of smartness.
C. He had developed great social skills.
D. He thought intelligence was multi-dimensional.
9.What's Warren Buffett's motto？ ______
A. Keep learning.
B. Keep things simple.
C. Intelligence isn't one-dimensional.
D. Intelligence is the key to success.
10.What does the underlined phra "boil things down" mean？ ______
A. Take things down clearly and in detail.
B. Break things down into many smaller pieces.
C. Make things shorter by leaving out unnecessary parts.
D. Do things at a slower pace in order to be careful.
11.What does Bill Gates think about Warren Buffett？ ______
A. Hard to understand. B. Easygoing and talkative.
C. Fearless in investment. D. Wi and extraordinary.
D
"Years ago when I was at the Grand Canyon,I remembered someone coming up to the canyon's edge,taking a shot with a camera and then walking away,like 'Get It Done'，barely even glancing at the magnificent scene in front of him," Linda Henkel,a scientist at Fairfield University,US told Live Science.
Henkel was surprid by how obsd （痴迷的） people are with taking pictures the days-before dinner,during friends' birthday parties,on muum tours and so on.
They keep taking pictures becau they think that it helps record the moment,but as Henkel's latest study has just found out,this obssion may prevent their brains remembering what actually happened,reported The Guardian.
In her study,Henkel led a group of college students around a muum and asked them to simply obrve 15 objects and photograph 15 others.The next day the students' memory
of the tour was tested,and the results showed that they were less accurate in recognizing the objects and they remembered fewer details about them if they photographed them.
"When people rely on technology to remember them-counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themlves,it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences," Henkel explained.
But there is also an exception：if students zoomed in to photograph part of an object,their memory actually improved,and tho who focud the lens然纸上（镜头）on a specific area could even recall parts that weren't in the frame.
So basically,this study is saying that constantly taking pictures can harm your memory.But shouldn't reviewing pictures we have taken help wake up our memories？This is true,but only if we spend enough time doing it.
"In order to remember,we have to access and interact with the photos,rather than just collect them," Henkel told The Telegraph.However,previous rearch has shown that most people never take the time to look over their digital pictures simply becau there are too many of them and they aren't usually very organized on their computers.
