江苏省新沂三中2023届高三英语限时练(5)
限时:40分钟
一、 阅读理解
A
Climate change leads to threat to the world’s sandy beaches, and as many as half of them could disappear by 2100, a new study has found. Even by 2050 some coastlines could be unrecognizable from what we see today, with 10% to 12% facing serious erosion (侵蚀).
Using updated sea level rise predictions, the researchers analyzed how beaches around the world would be in a future with higher seas and more damaging storms. They also considered natural processes like wave erosion, as well as human factors—like coastal building developments, all of which can affect a beach’s health. The study found that sea level rise is expected to outweigh these other factors, and that the more heat-trapping gases human put into the atmosphere, the worse the influences on the world’s beaches are likely to be.
It’s hard to overstate just how important the world’s beaches are. They cover more than one third of the world’s coastlines, and protect coastal areas from storms. Beaches are also important economic engines, supporting relaxation, tourism and other activities. And in some areas, the beach is more than a vacation destination. In places like Australia, life near the coast revolves (围绕) around the beach for much of the year.
Some of the world’s most popular beaches are already taking action. Places like Miami Beach are trucking in thousands of tons of sand to patch up (修复) badly eroded shorelines, while others have built sea walls and breakwaters in an attempt to hold precious sand in place. But the financial and environmental costs of these projects are huge, and scientists say rising seas and more powerful storms, as well as a warmer climate, may make this a losing battle.
However, the researchers did find that humans have some control over what happens to the world’s beaches. If the world’s governments are able to continue cutting heat-trapping gas pollution, the researchers found that 22% of projected beach losses by 2050 could be prevented, a number that grows to 40% by 2100 if greenhouse gases are limited.
1. Which of the following mainly causes serious beach erosion
A. Higher seas. B. Human factors. C. Damaging storms. D. Wave erosion.
2. What can we infer from Paragraph 3
A. Storms damage one third of world’s coastlines.
B. Significance of beaches can’t be underestimated.
C. Economic activities may cause damage to beaches.
D. Beaches are the only economic engine for Australia.
3. How do researchers think of the actions taken to protect beaches
A. Costly but failed. B. Enormous but not constant.
C. Orderly but slow. D. Effective but not enough.
4. What is the text mainly about
A. Actions have been taken to protect beaches.
B. Beaches are facing the threat of disappearing.
C. Life in coastal areas mainly depends on beaches.
D. There exist challenges to protect eroded beaches.
B
In the villages of the English countryside, there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about.
Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the world’s biggest community. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.
SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in. Farmer has made program publicly available, among much criticism. A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites that are easy to steal in.
But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far, events have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.
So is the Net becoming more secure Far from it. In the early days, when you visited a Website, your browser simply looked at the content. Now the web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your own machine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.
But let’s look on the bright side. Given the lack of locks, the Internet is surely the world’s biggest (almost) crime-free society. Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest. Or that there currently isn’t much to steal. Or because vandalism (蓄意破坏) isn’t much fun unless you have a special dislike for someone.
Whatever the reason, let’s enjoy it while we can. But expect it all to change, and security to become the number one issue, when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for.
5. What docs the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean
A. Many Internet sites are not well protected.
B. Those happy times appear still to be with us.
C. There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about.
D. Hackers don’t actually break into an Internet site.
6. What can SATAN be used to do
A. To prevent hackers breaking into websites.
B. To investigate the security of Internet sites.
C. To improve the security of the Internet system.
D. To download useful programs and information.
7. What’s the author’s attitude to SATAN
A. Favorable B. Indifferent C. Cautious D. Doubtful
8. What’s the purpose of the passage
A. To promote and sell the SATAN program.
B. To advocate people fleeing from the Internet.
C. To make netizens aware of the security of the Internet.
D. To inform netizens that the Internet is safe with SATAN.
第二节(共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Evaluating Sources of Health Information
Making good choices about your own health requires reasonable evaluation. A key first step in bettering your evaluation ability is to look carefully at your sources of health information. 1 . Besides, how to separate fact from opinion, how to recognize poor reasoning, and how to analyze information and the reliability of sources are of great importance. The following suggestions can help you sort through the health information you receive from common sources.
Go to the original source. 2 . Find out for yourself what a study really reported, and determine whether it was based on good science. Think about the type of study. And examine the findings of the original research.
Watch for misleading language. Some studies will find that a behavior “contributes to” or is “associated with” an outcome; this does not mean that a certain course must lead to a certain result. Be aware that information may also be incorrectly explained by an author’s point of view. 3 .
Use your common sense. If a report seems too good to be true, probably it is. 4 . The goal of an ad is to sell you something. Evaluate “scientific” statements carefully, and be aware of quackery (江湖骗术).
5 . Friends and family members can be a great source of ideas and inspiration, but each of us needs to find a healthy lifestyle that works for us.
Developing the ability to evaluate reasonably and independently about health problems will serve you well throughout your life.
A. It’s right for you to make choices.
B. Make choices that are right for you.
C. Media reports often simplify the results of medical research.
D. Be especially careful of information contained in advertisements.
E. Carefully read or listen to information in order to fully understand it.
F. Reasonable evaluation includes knowing where and how to find relevant information.
G. Reasonable evaluation can distinguish between research reports and public health advice.
第三部分:语言运用(共两节,满分30分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“Ladies and gentlemen, the time train has arrived at the terminal!” It felt like I had woken up from a dream, 1 soon discovered I had come to 2035. Suddenly, I heard a strange voice calling my name. I turned around, only to find a robot 2 to me enthusiastically. “I’ll show you around the city in 2035!” I nodded immediately, 3 what the city would be like.
Once I walked out of the train station, many crossed air lanes came into view. The robot, seeing how 4 I was, explained the new traffic system to me. The system was put into place by many famous engineers using highly 5 technology. In fact, it eliminated (消除) the issue of traffic jams entirely.
Next we made our way to a restaurant nearby, Just as I 6 that there was no menu, a waiter began to scan my body with a special 7 , which gave me a big fright, so I 8 out of my seat immediately. The robot explained it was just a machine that was able to figure out what our body needed and chose the recipe that 9 us most. The waiter then introduced me to the electronic screen that allowed me to choose the environment according to my 10 . I pressed the “beach” button on the screen and 11 I felt a sea breeze. I couldn’t help but 12 at how rapidly technology had advanced.
We 13 returned to the train station. Just as I 14 the train, I heard a familiar voice calling my name. I opened my eyes to see my mom standing over me. What a 15 dream!
1. A. while B. so C. if D. but
2. A. singing B. waving C. screaming D. flying
3. A. getting B. knowing C. wondering D. wandering
4. A. astonished B. scared C. bored D. moved
5. A. standard B. useless C. unusual D. advanced
6. A. told B. realized C. heard D. reminded
7. A. instrument B. button C. engine D. accelerator
8. A. took B. left C. jumped D. danced
9. A. attracted B. suited C. provided D. offered
10. A. temperature B. taste C. gene D. place
11. A. suddenly B. sadly C. absolutely D. casually
12. A. aim B. guess C. sigh D. stare
13. A. immediately B. hardly C. occasionally D. eventually
14. A. put off B. brought in C. got on D. looked into
15. A. terrible B. practical C. awful D. fantastic
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
When 1.__________ (ask) to talk about air and water quality in his hometown by a TV reporter, Qi Mu noted, “The air is great now and we can take more 2.__________ (walk) and enjoy being outdoors again.” He felt quite pleased because the villagers were living 3.__________ (harmony) with nature once more. However, he could not forget about an earlier time 4.__________ his village had been struggling with a serious air quality problem.
In the 1990s, garbage from a nearby city was usually brought to the village. “How can we make use of this ” the villagers wondered. Soon they found that garbage could be used to feed pigs. “Over the next few years, dozens of pig farms 5.__________ (set) up,” Qi recalled. But then nobody in the village wanted to open their windows. “The smell from the garbage and pig waste was making us sick.” Qi said. The numbers of mosquitoes and files were also 6.__________ (horrify). “7.__________ such circumstances, no single women wanted to marry anyone in our village and move here,” Qi sighed.
The villagers could no longer tolerate the situation. So an initiative was launched 8.__________ a “clean-up” campaign was added to the government agenda, 9.__________ (include) restricting larger vehicles from passing through the village, Garbage from the city was no longer disposed of in the village, and more tees were planted. “We can all breathe more feely now that the natural beauty of our village 10.__________ (restore),” said Qi.
1-4 ABDB
5-8 ABAC
1-5 FCEDB
1-5 DBCAD
6-10 BACBB
11-15 ACDCD
1. asked
2. walks
3. harmoniously
4. when
5. were set
6. horrifying
7. Under/In
8. and
9. including
10. has been restored