青海省西宁市青海湟川中学2022-2023学年高二上学期12月月考英语试题

湟川中学2022~2023 学年度第一学期学情调研测试 高二英语试题 注 意 事 项 考生在答题前请认真阅读本注意事项及各题答题要求 1．本试卷满分为120 分，考试时间为90 分钟。考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。 2．答题前，请务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用0.5 毫米黑色墨水的签字笔填写在答题卡的规定位 置。 3．作答选择题，必须用2B 铅笔将答题卡上对应选项的方框涂满、涂黑；如需改动，请用橡皮擦干 净后，再选涂其他答案。作答非选择题，必须用0.5 毫米黑色墨水的签字笔在答题卡的指定位置作 答，在其他位置作答一律无效。 第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40 分） 第一节（共15 小题；每小题2 分，满分30 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答案。 According to 'a study, being exposed to a 360-degree video of nature can provide emotional wellbeing benefits for people who cannot access the outdoors. So let’s check out some ideas of free virtual trips you can take right now! Take a tour in Central Park, New York As one of the world's biggest attractions, Central Park is a part of natural beauty located in the very heart of Manhattan. With this tour offered by youvisit. com, you’ll be able to see the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, the Belvedere Castle and “walk” through the park's scenic meadows. If you’re in the mood for greenery, this tour will definitely suit you. Explore the wonders of Japan Take a tour across this beautiful country with a 360-degree VR movie from the Japan National Tourism Organization: you’ll be able to explore tradition, modernity and nature all at once, and enjoy the mixture of fascinating cultural sites and the most appealing natural spots. Enjoy the breathtaking views of the Grand Canyon, Arizona Are you up to witnessing one of the most magnificent views in the world?No wonder the Grand Canyon in Arizona is considered one of the world's treasures. The virtual tour, provided by the National Park Service U.S. lets you discover ancient places within the canyon and explore archaeological excavations (考古挖掘) in an interactive way. Climb Everest for an unforgettable adventure Experience what it feels like to climb the world's tallest mountain with Everest VR: Journey to the top of the world, a docu series especially made for Virtual Reality headsets. Have you ever imagined experiencing an Himalayan avalanche or a rock-climbing fall? Or just admiring the sunset from the top of the mountain's unique perspective? This journey will take you to places you never thought possible. 1．Which of the following is the best choice for green plant lovers? A．Japan. B．Everest. C．Central Park. D．The Grand Canyon. 2．What’s unique to the trip to the Grand Canyon? A．The virtual tour. B．The magnificent views. C．The interactive viewing way. D．The 360-degree video of nature. 3．What do the four virtual trips have in common? A．Free admission. B．Scenic meadows. C．Cultural sites. D．Rock-climbing falls. Two high school students have identified four new planets in distant space about 200-light-years from Earth, making them “the youngest astronomers” to make such a discovery. Kartik Pingle, 16, and Jasmine Wright, 18, who both attend schools in Massachusetts, participated in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP). With the help of Tansu Daylan, an MIT doctor for Astrophysics and Space Research, the students studied and analyzed data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Together they focused on Tess Object of Interest (TOI) 1233, a nearby, bright sun-like star and here they found four planets rotating (旋转) around the star. “We were looking to see changes in light over time,” Pingle explained, “the idea is that if the planet transits the star, or passes in front of it, it would periodically cover up the star and decrease its brightness.” While studying 1233, Pingle and Wright had at least hoped to find one planet, but were overwhelmed with joy when a total of four were spotted. “I was very excited and very shocked.” Wright said. “We knew this was the goal of Daylan's research, but to actually find a multi-planetary system, and be part of the discovering team, was really cool." Three of the newly discovered planets are considered as “sub-Neptunes”, which are gaseous (气态的), but smaller than the Neptune that lives in our solar system. While observing the planets, the team determined each one completes their orbit around 1233 every six to 19.5 days. However, the fourth planet is labeled a “super-Earth” for its large size and rockiness--- this one orbits around the star in just under four days. “We have long been studying planets beyond our solar system and with multi-planetary systems, the two young students are kind of hitting the jackpot. They are really blessed.” Daylan said, “The planets originated from the same disk of matter around the same star, but they ended up being different planets with different atmospheres and different climates due to their different orbits. So, we would like to understand the fundamental processes of planet formation and evolution using this planetary system.” Daylan added that it was a “win-win" to work with Pingle and Wright on the study. “As a researcher, I really enjoy interacting with young brains that are open to experimentation and learning and have minimal bias.” he said, “I also think it is very beneficial to high school students, since they get exposure to cutting-edge research and this prepares them quickly for a research career.” 4．How did the two students identify the four planets? A．By helping professor Tansu Daylan with the data. B．By analyzing the change of brightness of star 1233. C．By studying Neptune that lives in our solar system. D．By interacting with other young talented brains. 5．What is special about the discovery? A．It was made by two high school students. B．It was made with an innovative approach. C．It was meant to be made by Tansu Daylan. D．It found the largest number of planets at a time. 6．Which of the following is closest in meaning to “hitting the jackpot” in paragraph 5? A．Making a discovery difficultly. B．Achieving the goal easily. C．Succeeding in something luckily. D．Performing a task carefully. 7．According to the article, what benefits does the study bring? A．It allows the scientists to work with young people without prejudice. B．It equips future astronomers with better researching capabilities. C．It provides more perspectives and thus boosts more discoveries. D．It arouses students’ interest in exploring the unknown universe. Facebook has developed a kind of Al （人工智能），translating between any pair of 100 languages without depending on first translating to English. Facebook's system was trained on a data set of 7. 5 billion sentence pairs collected from the web across 100 languages though not all the languages had an equal number of sentence pairs. "What I was really interested in was cutting out English as a middle man. Globally there are plenty of countries where they speak two languages that aren't English," says Angela Fan of Facebook Al who led the work. For some language pairs, the new system shows obvious improvements in translation quality. For example, translating from Spanish to Portuguese is extremely strong because Spanish is the second-most spoken first language worldwide, meaning the researchers can get a lot of data. Translation between English and Belarusian also is improved because the Al can translate- Russian into English, which shares similarities with Belarusian. While the system isn't in use on the social network site, Facebook plans to put it to work soon to manage the 20 billion translations made every day when people click “Translate“ on posts （帖子） written in more than 160 languages. " Future work will be done on other language," says Fan. "especially for languages where we don't have a lot of data, like South-East Asian and African languages. " The work “ breaks away from the English-centric models and tries to build more different models", says Sheila Castilho of the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. "That's pretty new and different. But it's hard to know if the Al does right translation work," says Castilho. “The users may not know the other language, so they cannot judge the correctness of the translation." 8．What's Angela Fan's purpose of making the research? A．To collect data of all kinds of people. B．To make learning different languages easier. C．To achieve her dream of becoming a trans