glysomed江苏省常州市教育学会2022-2023学年高三下学期期初
学业水平监测英语试题
一、阅读理解
The Chine written language originated very early. However, people began to like the art of writing, and pay attention to the creator’s thinking and spirit since the period between the Late Han Dynasty and Wei Jin Dynasty. The Chine calligraphy fonts(字体) gradually evolved from oracle, Chine bronze inscriptions and silk manuscripts to the following five main schools:
1. The difference between Seal Script and Official Script lies in ______.
研究生补习班A．the difficulty to write B．their function in u
丑女贝蒂C．who often wrote them D．how cursive they are
2. Which school is compared to people walking according to the text?
A．Official Script. B．Running Hand.
C．Cursive Hand. D．Regular Script.
3. If you want to practice both Regular Script and Running Hand, who is a better choice to choo bad on this article?
A．Ouyang Xun. B．Yan Zhenqing.
C．Zhang Xu. D．Wang Xizhi.
A small accident led to profound changes in the life of Yang Li, an artisan (手艺人), who is from the Miao ethnic group. In 201l, Yang, from Tongren city in Guizhou province, created leaf vein (脉络) em
broidery (刺绣) three months after a leaf cut her hand.
The work is a perfect combination of traditional embroidery patterns and the natural textures (纹理) of the leaves. It has a unique aesthetic appeal of traditional embroidery matched with the characteristics of contemporary craftsmanship.英语四六级作文模板
As a native Miao woman with an inborn love of embroidery, Yang opened a folk culture products shop with her sister in 2011. “People are becoming less familiar with traditional handicrafts, and I want to co ntribute all I can to change this situation,” Yang says. At first, the small shop did not earn a significant income as there were many similar products on the market. She gradually realized that it was important to establish her own brand and launch products with distinct features.
That’s when she was inspired by the cut. In July 2011, Yang accidentally cut her hand on a thorny leaf when she was hiking in Fanjing Mountain. A bold idea came into her head: “There are leaf-vein bookmarks and leaf-vein paintings. Why has nobody created leaf-vein embroider yet?”
Obviously, the reason behind this is that embroidering on leaves requires delicate skills that few posss. The biggest technical challenge Yang faced was improving the flexibility of the leaves and making them as soft as cloth. On Oct 16, a day she will never forget, Yang finally created a shiny, thi
n and unbreakable piece of leaf vein. Her idea of leaf-vein embroidery came to completion after hundreds of experiments.
Two years later, Yang opened an embroidery processing factory and offered jobs to more than 500 laid-off female workers, rural women and people with disabilities. “I will keep doing the leaf vein embroidery for the rest of my life becau it is meaningful,” she says.
4. What do we know about Yang Li’s folk culture products shop?
A．It was inspired by a cut by a leaf in her hand.
B．It was a failure before she began to ll similar products.
C．It was intended to prerve traditional Chine handicrafts.
D．It perfectly combined traditional Chine books and drawings.
5. What is Yang Li’s difficulty in making her leaf-vein embroidery?
A．Finding cloth with vein-like texture.
B．Creating a new embroidery pattern.
C．Changing leaves into unbreakable cloth.
D．Softening up leaves for better flexibility.
6. Which of the following best describes Yang Li?
A．Ambitious and innovative. B．Caring and patient.
C．Persistent and demanding. D．Humorous and optimistic.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A．An embroidery skill. B．A promising career.
C．A cultural shop. D．An admirable artisan.
Humans have always assumed that there is a huge gulf between animal behavior and human development. However, recent rearch into animals shows that animals are continuously designing innovative methods to finish their tasks. Examining the nature and results of their creativity can help
us understand evolution.
Rearch shows that animals too can be creative. By inventing new behavioral patterns and adjusting their behavior to new contexts, as well as to changes in social and ecological environments, rearchers show that animal innovation too can be diver. For instance, chimpanzees (猩猩) u tools such as sharp spines and stalks to remove the hearts of palm vegetables from trees. Herring gulls (鲜鱼海鸥) found out quite a cruel way of killing rabbits-drowning them in the a.
Innovative species tend to survive when they enter new places, but novel behavior cannot be recognized unless “normal” behavior is studied. Rearchers can now count and document the innovations that have been created by species, which would help them to quantify their creativity. Studies also show us that all animals are not equally inventive, with primates (灵长目动物) tending to be more innovative due to their bigger brains.
表示风景优美的成语The greatest scientific significance has been the innovation shown by animals such as apes, capuchins and macaques among primates. The species of primates posss the biggest brains in proportion to their body sizes. They are also heavy tool urs. Their broad diets and complex forms
of learning are also insightful. They indicate an evolutionary strategy that gave them new solutions to life’s challenges.
However, even if the animals show innovativeness, they do not have the ability to improve upon solutions of others. Unless they share information accurately and copy each other’s inventions. their creative inventions are likely to vanish before they can be
innovated further. This ability can be managed only by humans, for we are able to build on shared knowledge.
8. What doe s the underlined word “gulf” in the first paragraph mean?
A．Difference. B．Conflict. C．Balance. D．Connection.
9. Why does the author mention “chimpanzees” and “Herring gulls” in Paragraph 2? A．They are both creative.
cureB．They are both heavy tool urs.
C．They create innovations in different ways.
D．They kill other animals in the same cruel way.
10. What can we learn about animal creativity?
A．It is equally distributed among animals.
B．It helps animals adapt to the environment.
C．Animals’ innovations are easy to be identified.solstice
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D．Animals’ innovations are facing huge challenges.
队长的英文11. What aspect of animals does the last paragraph mainly talk about?
A．Their ability to share information accurately.
B．Their willingness to learn from each other.
C．Their inability to take creativity forward.
D．Their unwillingness to cooperate effectively.
Personally, there is nothing I love more than asking “stupid” questions, especially the ones that have no right answers. I remember once asking some kids what time it was, at home, in Singapore, and finally on the Moon, After a long giggling silence, finally a shy girl ventured (试探地说) to say that it was “every time” followed by an energetic Einstein who shouted it was “no time”. Both kids shared that week’s Noble Prize, becau no humans live in that distant world and time is a human construct.
As a matter of fact, we are all good at asking questions by nature, but sadly as we age, we get accustomed to the world around us and take things for granted. We became more results-oriented (注重结果的) and concentrate our efforts on success. If something is working, don’t fix it or worry about the cau; just relax and go with the flow. Conventional wisdom may work well, but that does not mean it is always right. Throughout history, it has been tho who have questioned conventional wisdom and tho who have challenged our common-n notions of the world that have been the ones to have ushered in (开) the major advancements of human civilization.
In 500 BC, the ancient Greeks wondered whether the Earth was round becau sailors on the a had noticed that the farther south they went, the more different stars they saw in the sky. Why was the sky changing? Nearly 2,000 years later, the Italian
this way pleaastronomer Galileo Galilei became interested in this question and ended up demonstrating the “crazy” concept of heliocentrism (日心说), in which the Sun lies at the center of the univer while the Earth revolves (旋转) around it at 30 kilometers per cond. But if the Earth is spinning around so quick ly, why aren’t we being thrown off of the surface of the planet? The answer to this question would not end up being revealed to us for another century.
People like routine, but past performance is no guarantee of future results. While tho who challenge conventional wisdom tend to be subjected to abu, the progress of humankind would have otherwi been impossible without the persistent people and their “stupid”questions.
12. What is the best title of this article?
A．Asking “stupid” questions.
B．Is conventional wisdom uless?
C．Some major advancements of human civilization
D．What caud them to ask conventional questions?
13. What commonly happens to us when we grow older according to the author? A．We lay too much emphasis on process.
B．We still refu to relax and go with the flow.
C．We start to challenge common-n notions of the world
D．We gradually lo the ability to question conventional wisdom.
14. Who might have solved the question “why aren’t we being thrown off of the surface of th e planet?”
A．An ancient Greek scientist living in 500 BC
B．Galileo Galilei living between 1564 and 1642.
C．Isaac Newton living between 1643 and 1727.
D．Albert Einstein living between 1879 and 1955.
15. How does the author develop his writing on the whole?
A．By comparison and contrast.
B．By using supporting examples.
C．By using time and space order.
D．By generalization and definition
二、七选五
