2024届高三英语二轮专题复习第8周作业2（含答案）

English Assignment(2)
第一部分：阅读理解 (每小题2.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项．
A
Educational APP Store
Busuu
Busuu helps you learn English language on the go and the lesson’s quality is guaranteed as it is based on CEFR language framework. Lessons range from beginners to advanced learners. Busuu is actually a great English app if you want to improve your spoken English by talking with native speakers.
Duolingo
Duolingo is one of the best English language apps today and highly recommended for English beginners. The system of the app helps you learn English quickly by spending twenty minutes a day. Duolingo structures your lessons that teach you about seven new words based on a topic and skill points being awarded for completing the lesson.
Memrise
Memrise uses some creative and easy ways to remember English words. The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English words in an effective way. Memrise also offers an offline mode to continue learning without Internet connection.
Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is designed differently from average language apps on the marketplace today. It’s trying to teach us English the way we’d learn it if we were children starting to learn the language. It has exercises designed to help you learn basic words. A variety of lessons are offered that Rosetta Stone has been using for years.
1. Which is most helpful for speaking
A. Busuu. 　 B. Duolingo. C. Memrise. D. Rosetta Stone.
2. What is unique about Memrise
A. It works online or offline. B. It serves English beginners.
C. It promises quick progress. D. It helps develop vocabulary.
3. What does the Educational APP Store intend to do here
A. Inspire language learners. B. Show its high technology.
C. Compare ways of learning. D. Promote its latest products
B
A company testing driverless cars has received permission from the state of California to operate the vehicles without human drivers. The tests will be carried out by Cruise, the self-driving car company owned by General Motors.
Cruise reported last week that it got a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to let the self-driving cars travel on their own. The company plans to have them operating in San Francisco by the end of this year. Cruise is still just testing its self-driving vehicles. But it plans to offer ride-sharing services in major cities across the United States in the future.
Until now, testing has only been carved out with human backup drivers in all Cruise vehicles. Rules required the backup drivers to be inside the cars and ready to take control of the vehicles if necessary. Cruise has completed enough testing to feel that it is now ready to safely operate the cars without humans, said company spokesman Ray Wert. Wert said that Cruise would go neighborhood-by-neighborhood in San Francisco before spreading the driverless car to the whole city.
The permission in California followed a similar decision in Arizona. Arizona state officials approved a request by Waymo, a company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. , to open its ride-sharing service to the public in vehicles without human drivers. The service was launched last week in the city of Phoenix. Progress toward driverless vehicles slowed after one such vehicle hit a passer-by during a test in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018. That vehicle was operated by Uber Technologies.
Steven Shladover is a research engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. He has studied self-driving for 40 years. Shladover said that although Cruise and Waymo program their vehicles to drive more conservatively than humans, both still need to progress safely. He noted that Cruise will first use its vehicles in easier areas in San Francisco before sending them into complex traffic situations.
4. What has Cruise done until now
A. It has done driverless car testing in other states.
B. It has helped other companies test their self-driving cars.
C. It has completed some testing with human drivers.
D. It has offered ride-sharing services using self-driving cars.
5. What caused the testing of self-driving cars to slow down
A. Taxi drivers’ fear of losing their jobs.
B. The high cost of doing it in big cities.
C. An accident caused by a self-driving vehicle.
D. The small number of companies taking part in it.
6. Which of the following does Steven Shladover agree with
A. Self-driving vehicles shouldn’t go without safety.
B. Self-driving vehicles drive less carefully than humans.
C. Self-driving vehicles can’t get into complex traffic situations.
D. Companies should program their vehicles to drive faster.
7. What can be the best title for the text
A. California Allows Company to Test Cars with No Drivers
B. Two Companies’ Self-Driving Tests Get Approved
C. Self-Driving or Human-Driving, Which Should We Depend on
D. Cruise or Waymo, Which Is Leading the Self-Driving Technology
C
In 2016, a young British father was trampled（踩踏）to death by an elephant on the island of Koh Samui in ThaiJand. The tragedy once again raised questions over whether it is ethical to use elephants as entertainment.
For many visitors, the chance to interact with elephants is at the top of their holiday wish list. There's no shortage of opportunities to do so, from taking photos of baby elephants to riding them through the jungle, to watching them dance.
But what most visitors don’t realize is elephants are involved in extremely cruel methods to make them behave. They are often kept in terrible conditions. This includes being chained up when not performing, without interaction with other elephants, a poor diet, etc. They are also subjected to training practices including beatings. Away from their natural habitat and forced to repeat the same routines day in day out, which continues throughout their dramatically-shortened lives.
Unfortunately, riding elephants is still one of the most popular tourist activities in Asia. The World Animal Protection investigated 3,000 elephants at tourist sites across Southern Asia in 2017. The study found that 77% of them were living in "severely cruel" conditions. It also found that there had been a 30% rise in the number of elephants at tourism venues in Thailand since 2010.
Many parks advertise themselves as sanctuaries(庇护所)but they aren’t. Real sanctuaries will limit contact with the elephants and visitors can only observe them from a distance most of the time.
The government needs to play a much bigger role in putting an end to elephant tourism. As travelers, please avoid any place offering riding or allowing interacting sessions with elephants. When you see abuse happening, do your bit by leaving your review on review sites and social media to warn other tourists. Many parks are now becoming ride-free as a result of pressure from tourists, the industry and the media.
8. What does the underlined word “ethical” most probably mean
A. Safe B. Welcome C. Moral D. Available
9. What’s the third paragraph mainly about
A. The cause of elephant tourism.
B. The way of interacting with elephants.
C. The opportunities tourist can get.
D. The worse condition elephants are in.
10. How does the writer support the main idea in Paragraph 4
A. By making different comparisons
B. By following the order of time and places.
C. By analyzing cause and effect.
D. By giving examples and listing numbers.
11. What can we infer from the last paragraph
A. The media and internet worked greater.
B. Riding elephants is free with tourists’ efforts.
C. Ending elephant tourism is necessary but hard.
D. Governments and tourists solved the problem together.
D
Having a microchip implanted in a man’s brain may be common in sci-fi movie plots, but it may soon become an actual possibility.
Elon Musk—a US tech tycoon, founder of Space X—has been working on this technology. On Aug 28, Musk gave a display of the chip, which was implanted into the head of a pig named Gertrude.
The chip, developed by Musk’s company Neuralink, is the size of a coin. But don’t let its size fool you. The tiny chip has over 3, 000 electrodes(电极) attached to flexible threads, which can monitor about 1, 000 neurons(神经元). It collects neural signals from an area of the brain, and then transmits those signals wirelessly to nearby computers, according to MSN. That enabled researchers to monitor Gertrude’s brain activity while she was walking around in the display.
Though the technology is still in its early stage, it is encouraging for humans. This technology would solve a lot of brain injuries and is essential for AI symbiosis, which will allow the human brain to combine with an artificial intelligence.
When the device can be applied to humans, its main goal will be to help those who have mobility difficulties. Musk hopes this technology can also be used to help those with hearing and eyesight issues.
Although such a device could repair those problems, putting it into practice is by no means a piece of cake. Currently, the device can transmit signals from about 500 neurons in the pig’s brain. Compared to 80 billion neurons in a human brain, this number is tiny. And to cover the whole human brain also means the electrodes have to be much smaller.
Also, implanting the chip into the brain poses a potential danger. There is a risk of the immune system attacking this foreign body.
Right now, the hope of controlling the brain via controlling a few neurons seems overly optimistic. “There are many technological challenges to overcome before Neuralink can put its devices to the purposes, ” Yuan Lanfeng, an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, told China Daily.
12. What do we know about Elon Musk’s microchip
A. It was inspired by sci-fi movie plots.
B. It is able to collect wireless signals.
C. It is tiny in size but powerful in function.
D. It has been implanted into a human’s brain.
13. What does the underlined word “That” in Paragraph 3 refer to
A. The operation of the chip in Gertrude’s brain.
B. The attachment of electrodes to flexible threads.
C. The development of neurons inside Gertrude’s brain.
D. The transmission of signals from a nearby computer.
14. What is the major target of the microchip
A. To monitor animals’ brain activity.
B. To help people with mobility issues.
C. To develop a cure for immune system problems.
D. To contribute to the research on AI technologies.
15. How does Yuan Lanfeng feel about implanting the chip into the human brain
A. Worried. B. Excited. C. Optimistic. D. Challenged.
第二节: 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
It should come as no surprise that the more stressed parents are at work, the greater the burden on their family is. ___16___ After all, the more time parents spend working, the less time and energy they have to plan and prepare healthful meals.
For years, most studies have focused on the role of working mothers while fathers were ignored. They didn’t look at the family as a whole.___17___It adds a new wrinkle to the relationship between work stress and family nutrition.
Moms’ work related stress is still a central factor in how well families eat because they typically do most of the food shopping and cooking. ____18____The study found that when mom or dad experience high levels of work related stress, their families are eating one-and-a-half fewer family meals per week, and the parents themselves report eating fewer fruits and vegetables, more fast food, and are less likely to eat breakfast regularly.
It’s worth noting that the study looked mainly at low income families who belonged to ethnic or minority groups.___19___ But the implications are wide ranging.
___20___ Teaching kids, especially teenagers, to help with grocery shopping and to cook actual meals, instead of just putting a frozen pizza in the microwave, could be an important piece of the puzzle in helping families improve their eating habits.
A. But dad’s work related stress has a large impact, too.
B. As to family nutrition, the entire family plays a role even kids.
C. Yet, the kids’ stress may affect the families’ nutrition, too.
D. So the findings don’t necessarily apply directly to other types of families.
E. It’s also probably not a surprise that this can negatively affect a family’s nutrition.
F. However, a recent study does and looks at the role of fathers in particular.
G. It is parents who give their kids a good model to develop a good eating habit.
第二部分 完形填空: 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给选项中选出最佳答案。（每小题1分）
Anuar Abdullah is a 61-year-old diving instructor in Malaysia. When he isn’t 21 ---he’s back out in the water 22 , studying, and restoring coral reefs(珊瑚礁) .
Now, as climate change becomes an 23 threat,governments, corporations, and others are coming to him for 24 .
Abdullah has no degree in marine biology or 25 training—just an amount of experience. In just the past decade, thousands have 26 to him to learn how to grow corals, and he now has around 700 volunteers 27 and has already restored hundreds of acres of coral reefs.
In 2017, Thailand’s government asked Abdullah to 28 the recovery of one of its most famous tourist attractions, Maya Bay, because it had 29 half its coral population. 30 were kept out of the site for three years while Abdullah led a team of 120 people in 31 new corals.
In 2021, after Typhoon Rai, the island of Cebu in the Philippines asked Abdullah to save what was 32 of the shoreline’s coral reefs. And earlier this year, Abdullah launched a new effort to build the world’s largest coral nursery in the Red Sea.There was a 33 on the nursery at the U.N.climate change summit(峰会) , COP27, but Abdullah did not attend.He __34 conferences, he says. And he had 35 to do.
21. A.teaching 22. A.picking 23. A.early 24. A.help 25. A.temporary 26. A.devoted 27. A. at once 28. A.initiate 29. A.regained 30. A.Visitors 31. A.guarding 32. A.hidden 33. A.contest 34. A.witnesses 35. A.interviews B. diving B. judging B. artificial B .money B. formal B. led B. at first B. evaluate B. lost B. Researchers B. decorating B. left B. presentation B. records B. trips C. learning C. describing C. apparent C. power C. natural C. backed C. in demand C. highlight C. increased C. Volunteers C. planting C. preserved C. course C. schedules C. work D.reporting D.observing D.uncertain D.honor D.complex D.traveled D.in action D.justify D.removed D.Officials D.maintaining D.ruined D. topic D.hates D.trade
第二节 语法填空（每小题1.5分,满分30分）在空格处填入适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
A
___1___（wave）Chinese flags in their hands, audiences sang My people, My country together at the start of the film,___2___(it) theme song that serves as a thread throughout the movie. The song is a patriotic(爱国的) Chinese classic, known in every household. It was ___3___(origin) performed by Li Guyi in 1985.
Featuring seven short stories from seven directors, the film draws on the nation’s___4___(great) technological and___5___(culture) achievements of all time starting with the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Yet the film doesn’t focus on the historical___6___(move) themselves, but rather shows events through the eyes of ordinary people who were devoted to ___7___affected by them.
The short story, Going Home, Simon Yam plays a clock repairer who witnessed the return of Hong Kong from British rule to china in 1997. The actor himself___8___（experience）the power of hope. He felt it wasn’t just a return to the motherland, ___9___the return of hearts.
The film certainly struck a patriotic chord(和音) with many. In a survey ranking audience satisfaction, My People, My Country came in first among 267 domestic films___10___（release） since 2015. The survey was done by the China Film Art Research Center.
B
When HarmonyOS, the Chinese self-developed operating system for Huawei mobile devices, 1________ (release) on August 9, it quickly became a hot topic on 2________ (society) media.
Many believe it not only represents the rise of the country as a tech power, but also 3________ (show) respect for classical Chinese culture by 4________ (name) the system “Hongmeng” in Chinese.
Besides “Hongmeng”, Huawei has also registered many of its 5________ (product) under the names of legendary creatures from Chinese mythology. For example, the company’s server chip is called “Kunpeng”, a mythical creature 6________ changed from a fish into a giant bird.
In fact, Huawei is not alone in using traditional culture for modem enterprises. 7________ (base) on the well-known work of classical Chinese mythology The Investiture of the Gods, Ne Zha is shown as a rebellious underdog, who has to overcome hardship and his dark fate to become a hero, 8________ (like) his attractive heroic character in previous cinematic works.
As Global Times put 9________, “Ancient mythology has the power to stimulate contemporary imagination in young people.” After all, imagination is 10________ beginning of creation.
作业（二）II卷
Name________ Number____________
语法填空(1)（满分15分，目标分数________）
1. ____________ 2._____________ 3.___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________
6. ___________ 7.______________ 8.___________ 9.___________ 10.___________
语法填空(2)（满分15分，目标分数________）
1. ____________ 2._____________ 3.___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________
6. ___________ 7.______________ 8.___________ 9.___________ 10.___________
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the
作业二答案：
阅读理解：（A）篇：AAD (B)篇：CCAA （C）篇：CDDC（D）篇：CABD
七选五：EFADB 完形填空：ADCAB DDABA CBBDC
语法填空：
(A) 1. Waving 2. its 3. originally 4. greatest 5. cultural
6. movements 7. or 8. experienced 9. but 10. released
(B) 1. was released 2. social 3. shows 4. naming 5. products
6. that/which 7. Based 8. unlike 9. it 10. the