安徽省安庆市示范高中2021-2022学年高二上学期8月测试英语试题

安庆市示范高中2021-2022 学年高二8 月测试 英语试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共15 小题，共30.0 分） A Four Great Destination Cities to Visit on a Vacation to Australia Adelaide Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is known for its beauty and outdoor natural areas, many of which are protected and preserved for the use of the people that live there and those that visit there too. Adelaide has a number of popular attractions including attractive swimming beaches, an exciting nightlife, interesting shopping opportunities, great restaurants, and much more. Canberra The city of Canberra dates back to 1913 when it was purposefully built to be the capital of the nation of Australia. It has grown over time to not only be the location of the government of the nation, but also a city in its own right with a particular culture and atmosphere of its own. Canberra offers the chance to see the more official side of Australia and learn a little bit about how the country was founded, formed, and how it developed Darwin Unlike other major cities in Australia, Darwin is of the rather small size. Darwin sits in the north- central region of Australia, right on the Timor Sea. The lifestyle in Darwin has been described as laid back by many who have visited there before. A visit to Darwin is a visit to one of Australia's truly unforgettable cities. Sydney The most famous, most traveled to, and most popular city in all of Australia is the city of Sydney. Sydney sits on the shores of Sydney Harbour and is an exciting city that offers an unbelievable experience to those travelers. Sydney has been the main point of tourism in Australia for decades and it will continue to be that so long as it keeps offering the amazing experiences that it does right now. Travel to Australia with Travelocity, get discounts on www. couponcodes.com. 1. What can visitors learn about in Canberra？ ______ A. The development of Australia. B. The outdoor natural areas. C. An exciting art show. D. The attractive swimming beaches. 2. What is Darwin special for compared with the other three places？ ______ A. Its position. B. Its history. C. Its size. D. Its attractions. 3. Which city attracts the most tourists？ ______ A. Adelaide. B. Canberra. C. Darwin. D. Sydney. B One day, Lisa Holman told her family she would be out that night visiting her friend, only about half an hour drive from her house. So it was not alarming as the night grew on and she did not arrive home. As 11 pm passed, her family began to worry. They called her but did not get any answer. They then reached out to Lisa's friend, who said Lisa had left to drive home at 9 that night. The family thought about calling the police that evening but the police typically don't define a person missing unless there is no contact for 24 hours. The next morning there was still no sign of Lisa. All the family could do was sit home and wait. Lisa's son decided to drive along Lisa's route and carefully look for her. He found Lisa's car had crashed into a tree. What's worse, there was no sign of Lisa at all. The family called the police. The police began their search. But due to the heavy rain the search team was called back. The family was very disappointed but still hopeful and continued the search. 700 feet from Lisa's car, they finally found Lisa under a rock. After a few days in hospital, Lisa recovered. She explained that she passed out after her car slid off the road in the rain. After she came to herself, Lisa managed to climb out of the car. While walking to find help, Lisa was exhausted and unable to figure out the direction. So she couldn't walk on and climbed under a rock as it started raining again. Scared as she was, she turned to her faith in hopes of living to see her son again. 4. When should Lisa arrive home after visiting her friend？ ______ A. About 9 pm. B. The next morning. C. About 11 pm. D. About 9：30 pm. 5. Why did the family give up calling the police that night？ ______ A. The police usually refused to come at night. B. They had been out of touch with Lisa for less than a day. C. They thought Lisa would come back herself. D. The heavy rain had blocked all the roads up. 6. Who found Lisa under the rock？ ______ A. The friend she had visited B. A hiking team passing by. C. The police search team. D. Lisa's family. 7. Why was Lisa unable to go home by herself？ ______ A. She was lost. B. Her legs were badly injured. C. She was locked in her car. D. She was caught by heavy rain. C A new app uses Artificial Intelligence（AI）to tell you what your pet is thinking. It's called Happy Pets and it analyses an animal's facial features, tells you what breed（血统）it is and indicates which of the five most common animal emotions happy, angry, neutral, sad and scared. The Happy Pets app uses AI， or machine learning. It's a technology that's used for vision in robotics and self-driving cars and it works by taking in images and assigning importance to them. One common use for Al is in facial recognition technology. Many of us can unlock our mobile phones with an image of our face and it's an important part of security processes in, for instance, airports. But this is the first time this kind of technology has been used for animals. It then had to learn to recognise facial features. This is sophisticated because photos can be taken in so many different ways： from the side, above, below, in bright light. And different animals can have such different facial features. Think about how different the noses of a border collie（边境牧羊犬）and a bulldog are, for instance. Once the AI behind Happy Pets had learned all this, it then had to be able to detect emotions based on specific facial features that are associated with each emotion, which it has learnt from thousands of examples. For instance,if a dog tightens its eyes and mouth while changing the position of its ears in a particular way,it's a sign of being scared. In an online article for Melbourne University's Pursuit, the researchers write they're happy with how the app performs. The researchers would love feedback about how they could develop the app further. 8. Which of the following may go beyond Happy Pets' function？ ______ A. Learning the kinds of pets. B. Teaching pets' facial recognition. C. Showing pets' main feelings. D. Analyzing the pets' facial features. 9. What is the facial recognition technology commonly used as now？ ______ A. The robots' eyes. B. The vision of self driving. C. A security system. D. A machine learning system. 10. What does the underlined word "sophisticated" in paragraph 3 mean？ ______ A. Typical. B. Complex. C. Scientific. D. Traditional. 11. Why does Happy Pets have to learn to recognize faces？ ______ A. Because faces can show animals' feelings. B. Because it wants to have emotions of humans. C. Because it is learning to use facial expressions. D. Because the types of animals are based on the looks. D The word "orange" describes both a color and a fruit. Which one came first might be surprising. "Orange" when used as the name of the fruit came before "orange" as a word to describe color. While the shade itself existed before the fruit, there was not a name in the English language for the color. Before the introduction of the fruit to English-speaking countries, the color was usually described as a shade of red or yellow. In the early 16th century, Portuguese traders brought oranges from India to Europe. The Europeans had not seen the bright colored fruit before and didn't have a name for it. The fruits were named "narancia" by Italians and "narange" by the French and were sometimes referred to as "golden apples" by English speakers. "Orange" was first used in a phrase to describe shades of colors, including in a third-century Greek text translated into English, in 1576. It describes Alexander the Great's servants as dressed in "orange colour velvet（天鹅绒）" . In 1578， a Latin-American dictionary defined "melites" as "a precious stone of orange color". While orange represents the color of the objects, it needed