2023届四川省绵阳市高三第二次诊断性考试英语试题
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一、阅读理解
The following list focus on the top4not-to-be-misd world-class muums,helping tourists explore and experience the best the New York City has to offer.
COOPER HEWITT,SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM
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The Cooper Hewitt,Smithsonian Design Muum(CHSDM)was founded in1897.It is the only muum in the U.S.devoted to historic and contemporary design.Exhibitions feature more than650objects throughout four floors of the building,many of which draw from the muum’s permanent collection of more than210,000objects.Free guided tours are provided from11:30AM to1:30PM on weekdays and1PM to3PM on weekends.
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
The Muum of the Moving Image(MOMI)is houd on the original13-acre lot that made up the historic
Kaufman Astoria Studios.Lo yourlf in the permanent exhibit, Behind the Screen,which introduces visitors to the history of the moving image from
19th-century optical(视觉的)toys to today’s digital tools ud to edit and produce films.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
One of the world’s largest natural history muums with more than33million exhibits, the AMNH educates and entertains visitors,keeping them busy for hours on end.The muum offers lf-guided tours,including one featuring exhibits from the movie,Night at the Muum with Ben Stiller.There are a handful of places to eat inside should the kids get hungry.The kid sleepovers at the AMNH are impressive.
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The New-York Historical Society(NYHS)was founded in1804as New York’s first muum.The Henry Luce II Center for the Study of American Culture on the fourth floor has been redesigned to showca The Gallery of Tiffany lamps,displayed in a glass gallery.The Center for Women’s History is the first of its kind in a U.S.muum devoted to this subject.It offers free daily tours at2and3:30PM.
1．When can you get free guided tours at the CHSDM?
A．At12:30PM Monday.B．At2:30PM Thursday.
C．At10:30AM Saturday.D．At11:30AM Sunday.归字成语
2．Which muum provides special care for children?
A．CHSDM B．MOMI.C．AMNH.D．NYHS. 3．What is special about NYHS?
A．It has the longest history.
B．It focus on human history.
C．It provides free tours all day long.
D．It tells the history of the moving image.
What are the most sustainable crops to grow for food curity?Perhaps,in your growing zones,oranges or peaches win for best fruit crop.Hot,dry climates might call for dates or grapes.For me,growing organic apples is the best.Perhaps that’s becau my hometown knows more about gro
wing and prerving apples than any other fruit.
Some apples may have worms in them.“It’s not that bad.It’s organic.Just cut the worm out.”I laugh even as I type this.For us,“organic”is how we grow apples,but it does mean carving good fruit away from black worm holes.Modern techniques for growing organic apples include worm traps,fruit barriers,and organic incticides,like bacterial poisons that only target worms.
Wormy apples are just fine for apple juice and jam,Mom says.Cut off the good part and throw it in the pot.Throw the bad part to the chickens.Boil the fruit and put juice into canning jars.Apple jam become pancake topping and the replacement“oil”in recipes—that is,if we don’t eat it directly out of the jar.
Apples are now so symbolic to American life that other countries try out the market.When I was younger,I might have laughed at that becau of how connected apples and American stories have become,despite the fact that apples aren’t native to North America.But a good friend,after visiting veral farms in his motherland Nigeria,showed me photos of Nigerian apples.The skin texture(质地)and color rembled American apples,but they were shaped more like oxheart tomatoes.So even though apples have taken on symbolic significance in America,they can contribute to food curity in all kinds of places. 4．What’s the passage mainly about?
A．Organic food and modern techniques.
B．American and African apples.
C．Climate and growing crops.
D．Apples and food curity.
5．What happens to the good parts of wormy apples?
A．They are thrown away.B．They are made into apple juice. C．They are sold to customers.D．They are fed to the chickens. 6．What does the author learn from his friend?
A．Apples are not native to North America.
B．Other countries are also growing apples.
C．Apples outside America are ugly-looking.
D．People of other countries don’t like apples.
7．What can be inferred from the passage?
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固定资产管理方案A．America produces the best apples of the world.
B．Poisons are no longer ud on apples in America.
C．The author is proud of apples grown in his hometown.
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D．Apple juice and jam are actually made from wormy apples.
Kjell Inge Roekke is a billionaire owner of an oil company from Norway.As a young man,he was a high school dropout who moved to the US to become an ordinary fisherman. Now he is the tenth-richest man in his country.Worth two billion dollars,he plans to give much of his money away and is starting with cleaning up our oceans.In the Pacific Ocean, there is an island called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,which is twice the size of the continental United States.It consists of nothing but small pieces of plastic and the dead bodies of a life and birds.The billionaire is buying a state-of-the-art ship.With the latest equipment on board,the ship will remove five tons of plastic from our oceans daily.
Kjell started his business empire building industrial fishing boats.He believes he owes his fortune to the ocean and wants to pay the debt back.“I want to give back to society the majority of what I’ve ear
ned.This ship is a part of it.”said the agoing man.Managed by the conrvation organization WWF,the ship’s mission is to get the poisonous things out of the oceans.
It couldn’t come at a better time.Earlier this year a killer whale washed up on a UK shore was poisoned by man-made chemicals.The whale called Lulu was the most poisoned on record.It was20years old and had never reproduced becau her body had been badly damaged.
Kjell has given WWF complete control of the boat.The conrvation organization is not comfortable with the practices of the Norwegian’s oil business.Yet in the struggle to save the environment,unlikely partners must work together.Without the world’s oceans,life on Earth wouldn’t exist.
8．What has Kjell decided to do?
A．Make our oceans clean again.
B．Put an end to his oil business.
C．Stop using plastics in his daily life.
D．Remove the rubbish with his own hands.
9．What does“state-of-the-art”in Paragraph4probably mean?
A．Beautiful.B．Advanced.C．Expensive.D．Comfortable. 10．Why is Lulu the whale mentioned in the passage?
A．To ask people to help the creature.
B．To invite people to join in the effort.
C．To stress the conquence of the pollution.
D．To draw attention to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
11．Why does WWF decide to work with Kjell?
A．Ocean pollution calls for combined action.
B．It is comfortable to work with a billionaire.
经期能喝咖啡吗C．His business is friendly to the environment.
D．He has given up control of his newly bought ship.
If you are forgetful or make mistakes when in a hurry,a new study from Michigan State University(MSU)found that meditation(冥想)could help you to become less likely to make mistakes.
The rearch,published in Brain Sciences,tested how open monitoring meditation (OMM)changed brain activity in a way that suggests incread error recognition.The findings suggest that different forms of meditation can have different effects.“Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object,commonly your breath,but OMM is a bit different,”Lin said.“It has you pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay clo attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery.”
Lin and his MSU co-authors—William Eckerle,Ling Peng and Jason Mor—employed more than200participants to test how OMM affected how people detect and respond to errors.The participants,who had never meditated before,were taken through a 20-minute OMM exerci while the rearchers measured brain activity through EEG(脑电图).
While the meditators didn’t have immediate improvements to actual task performance, the rearchers’findings offer a promising window into the potential of sustained meditation.“The findings are a strong demonstration of what just20minutes of meditation can do to enhance the brain’
s ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes,”Mor said.“It makes us feel more confident in what meditation might really be capable of for performance and daily functioning right there in the moment.”
Looking ahead,Lin said,“The next pha of rearch will determine whether changes in brain activity can translate to behavioral changes with more long-term practice.It’s great to e the public’s enthusiasm for meditation,but there’s still plenty of work from a scientific viewpoint to be done to understand the benefits it can have,and equally importantly,how it actually works.”预习琥珀
12．How does OMM differ from other forms of mediation?
A．It fixes your focus on your breath.
B．It keeps your mind and body calm.
C．It makes you caught up in the scenery.
D．It enables you to be aware of everything.
13．What does the results of the rearch show?
A．The mediators acquire the habit of meditating regularly.励志的话简短霸气
B．The mediators can improve their ability to recognize errors.
C．Meditation has an immediate influence on task performance.
D．Meditation can increa people’s confidence about themlves.
14．What will the rearch team try to find out next?
A．How to monitor brain activity.
B．How to sustain meditation practice.
C．Meditation’s influence on behavior.
D．The public’s respon to meditation.
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