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（北京）股份有限公司 高二英语试题第1页（共12 页） 厦门一中2022-2023 学年度第一学期高二年级质量检测 英语试题 本试卷分四部分，共12 页。满分150 分。考试用时120 分钟。本试题附有答题卡。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡 上。写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50 分） 第一节（共15 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分37.5 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Grand Canyon National Park Located entirely in northern Arizona, the park covers 277 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands. One of the most spectacular examples of erosion anywhere in the world, Grand Canyon is unmatched in the incomparable vistas it offers to visitors on the rim. Grand Canyon National Park is a World Heritage Site. Park Openings and Closings The Village and Desert View on the South Rim are open all year and park entrances remain open 24 hours a day. North Rim facilities open mid-May and close mid-October. Park entrances remain open 24 hours a day during this time. Hours for visitor centers and businesses vary throughout the year. Park Information The park produces a Pocket Map with a North Rim and South Rim edition that contains a map and information about services, facilities, and park ranger programs. It is available in French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. A hiking brochure is available for those planning to hike one of the park’s main trails down into Grand Canyon. Obtain （北京）股份有限公司 高二英语试题第2页（共12 页） publications at entrance stations, visitor centers, or at go.nps.gov/136ojl. Accessibility Many of the facilities at Grand Canyon are historic and built before current accessibility standards were set. The terrain is rugged with narrow, rocky trails and steep cliffs. Visitors using wheelchairs or having visual impairments may need assistance. For more information about accessibility in Grand Canyon National Park, see go.nps.gov/1rtxl2. Park Entrance Fees Fees collected support projects in the park. Admission to the park is $35 per private vehicle; $30 per motorcycle; and $20 per person entering the park via Grand Canyon Railway, park shuttle bus, private rafting trip, walking, or riding a bicycle. The pass can be used for seven days and includes both rims. Pay fees at park entrance stations or at some businesses outside the park. Every year the National Park Service offers entrance fee free days. For complete fee information, including Annual, Active Military, Senior, and Access passes, visit go.nps.gov/y5uu6f. Sustainability Grand Canyon National Park incorporates sustainability into all aspects of its operations. Use your refillable water bottle to fill up on free Grand Canyon spring water at major trailheads, visitor centers and grocery stores. Please recycle – recycling containers are conveniently located and as common as trash bins. Discover what else you can do to protect the environment while traveling here and beyond at go.nps.gov/1b2rzt. 21. People with physical disabilities can find detailed information on park facilities designed for them by visiting . A. go.nps.gov/y5uu6f B. go.nps.gov/1rtxl2 C. go.nps.gov/136ojl D. go.nps.gov/1b2rzt 22. What is the admission fee if you and your parents plan to go on a ten-day vacation to Grand Canyon National Park by driving a car? A. $35. B. $60. C. $70. D. $120. 23. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. Visitors have year-round access to every corner of the national park. B. Hikers who can only speak Chinese cannot explore the North Rim without an interpreter. C. The Grand Canyon features is one of the world's most visually breathtaking landscapes. D. Visitors are forbidden to leave any trash in the National Park to maintain sustainability. （北京）股份有限公司 高二英语试题第3页（共12 页） B Even when communing with nature we depend on technology for help — but then, so did Thoreau (梭罗) at Walden Pond (瓦尔登湖). Walking in the same woods yesterday, I let myself wander at random, communing with nature. I took in beautiful scenery near and far thanks to my progressive-lens eyeglasses. Occasionally I’d pull out my smartphone to take pictures on anything interesting. I recorded an inner monologue with a background of all sounds of the forest. At times, I consulted my smart watch to check on my heartbeat, mileage and calorie burn. Eventually I realized I was quite lost. Not a problem of course. Online maps came to my rescue. But something bothered me. In what I’d intended as a nature experience, here I was using very high technology to help myself out. This insight triggered a reconsideration of everything that happened during my “nature walk,” which had been technologically enhanced every step of the way. I’d been functioning as a man-machine combination: a cyborg. What would the true naturalist Thoreau think of that? My first thought was that he’d be shocked. But later I did some research. Thoreau enjoyed what his spyglass discovered, like this eagle from his journal: Lying on the ground with my glass, I could watch him very easily ... till I almost lost him in the clouds ... I think I have got the worth of my glass now that it has revealed to me the white-headed eagle. Famously, Thoreau always set out equipped with a walking stick, which he used not only for support but also to take measurements of water and snow levels. His hat was also a tool, which he called his “botany-box.” And he was prepared even with needles and thread, so when coming out of the woods, he was “the best dressed.” Clearly, Thoreau was a bit of a cyborg himself. Thinking more deeply, I realized we’ve come a long way from our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who walked from necessity and relied on nature’s gift. Cyborgs are us. 24. What is the purpose of the text? A. To recommend Thoreau’s book Walden Pond. B. To argue that humans have developed into cyborgs. C. To share the reflections on man’s reliance on nature. D. To question whether people are technology-dependent. （北京）股份有限公司 高二英语试题第4页（共12 页） 25. Which picture best illustrates a cyborg in the author’s eye? A． B． C． D． 26. Why does the author quote Thoreau’s journal? A. To introduce a literary work on nature. B. To explain how to prepare for a nature walk. C. To prove that even naturalists use technology. D. To describe the natural beauty Thoreau enjoyed. 27. What is the author’s attitude towards being a cyborg? A. Favorable. B. Intolerant. C. Doubtful. D. Unclear. C Some penguins (企鹅) adapt their calls to become more similar to their partners over time, an ability that was previously known in only a few species, including humans. Luigi Baciadonna at the University of Turin, Italy, and his coworkers recorded African penguins from three different colonies (群体) over three years, and also observed the behavioral patterns of one of the colonies to see which penguins were partners or friendly. They then analyzed specific vocal (声音的) calls, which the penguins made when they were alone or trying to keep track of their friends. They compared four distinct vocal signatures such as the frequency of the calls. The signatures became more similar over time for penguins that were partners or in the same colony, and for penguins that heard more of each other’s calls. This adaptation could make it easier for penguins to find their partners and friends in a colony. “Imagine that you are in a pub, you are with your friends and your environment is quite （北京）股份有限公司 高二英语试题第5页（共12 页） noisy,” says Baciadonna. “What you do is try to talk in a certain way so that your communication is more effective.” The ability to adapt calls in response to the environment, known as vocal accommodation, is a key part of vocal learning, a more complex set of skills such as producing new sounds through learning. Identifying which species display vocal accommodation could provide clues for how vocal learning developed. Baciadonna and his team also propose that this accommodation could help with group harmony and social bonds between individual penguins. The distance of penguins from humans on the evolutionary tree suggests that vocal accommodation could be common to many species, but a lot m