河南省信阳市信阳高级中学2022-2023学年高三下学期开学考试英语试题

河南省信阳市信阳高级中学2022-2023学年高三下学期

开学考试英语试题

一、阅读理解

Monthly educational subscription boxes for students can be a great way to develop

an interest in a particular subject. If you want to learn something at home while having

fun, you can have educational subscription boxes delivered monthly straight to your

house.

Spangler Boxes

Spangler Boxes feature a range of hands-on scientific experiments designed by Steve

Spangler, who previously hosted a popular science education program on News for Kids

Projects focus on STEM-science, technology, engineering and math Examples of projects

include exploring lava (岩浆) science, the sound waves, and physical laws.

Finders Seekers Boxes

After receiving a Finders Seekers Box, you’ll explore characters of a new city and

culture every month while solving puzzles. Think of a Finders Seekers Box as an escape

room challenge that takes place in your living room. Clues and online research tools are

available to help in case you get stuck solving the mystery. Each puzzle takes

approximately two to four hours to complete.

Creation Boxes

Creation Boxes teach students electronics, digital tips and high-level problem-

solving. Each box teaches a lesson and is progressively more challenging. A sampling of

the projects includes a mood lamp, an electronic memory game, and a distance detector

using an ultrasonic sensor (超声传感器).

Kiwi Doodle Boxes

Kiwi Doodle Boxes are among the most popular boxes on the market. They feature a

variety of themes customized to students aged from 8 to 18 and focus on art and design

with projects such as a felt botanic garden,an artificial leather sample set, and a

handmade soap. These projects introduce students to new crafting materials and

techniques and all craft supplies are included in the box.

1. What did Steve Spangler use to be?

A．A scientist. B．An educator. C．A TV host. D．An engineer.

2. Which of the following is included in Finders Seekers Boxes?

A．Features of cities. B．Online instructions.

C．Historical mysteries. D．Escape room challenges.

3. If you are interested in handicraft art, which box would you subscribe?

A．Creation Boxes. B．Spangler Boxes.

C．Finders Seekers Boxes.

D．Kiwi Doodle Boxes.

As a child growing up in a suburban town in the Northeast of the United States, the

arrival of spring had little meaning for me.

Sure, we had a weeklong spring vocation from school, but the key word there was

vacation, not spring.

For the kids in my neighborhood, the arrival of spring was a non-event. There were

two important seasons: winter, when we could go skating and sledding or build snow

forts, and summer, when we could finally make proper use of the beach about 100 meter

east of my family home. Spring and autumn were just technical details, weeks and weeks

of waiting for the good times' return.

Admittedly, spring later developed its own attractions for me—"In the spring a

young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love", ns the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson noted—

however, it was not spring itself, but the other stuff bat got my attention.

In short, I never thought much at all about spring…. and then I arrived in China. I

had been in Beijing for about three months when my first Spring Festival rolled around,

and it could hardly be ignored. Aside from the random bursts of fireworks at any time

day or night, what stood out most for me was that the capital seemed to be empty.

It was as though the crowds and streams of cars and trucks commonly seen in the

capital had all gone into hiding. My puzzlement cleared up when I returned to work. My

colleagues explained that Chinese traditionally travel, if necessary, to visit their families

during Spring Festival, and that many Beijingers were not natives of the capital.

I also got my first knowledge of something about Spring Festival that never ceases to

amaze me. Regardless of when the holiday is set to begin, there is m almost immediate

and sudden change for the better in the weather. Spring really does arrive.

I can't begin to figure out how the ancient Chinese could create a system for the

millennia hat would almost always accurately predict when the season would shift year

after year after year. But they did.

4. What did the author think of spring as a child?

A．Eventful. B．Hopeful C．Dull. D．Trilling.

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The author never had a spring vacation before he came to China.

B．Spring to the author is a season when he could do nothing.

C．Empty streets and random bursts of fireworks upset the author.

D．Spring Festival tends to indicate the coming of Spring.

6. What' the author's attitude towards China's traditional culture?

A．Doubtful. B．Admirable. C．Objective. D．Confused.

7. Which of the following can be the best title?

B．Springtime—a season of senses

A．Springtime—a season of waiting

awakening

C．Spring Festival—a time of

D．Spring Festival—a time of loneliness

celebrating

Living in a city is a well-known risk factor for developing a mental disorder, while

living close to nature is largely beneficial for mental health and the brain. A central brain

region, the amygdala (大脑杏仁核) involved in stress processing, has been shown to be

less activated during stress in people living in rural areas, compared to those who live in

cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature. “But so far the hen-and-egg problem

could not be resolved, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or

whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions,” says Sonja

Sudimac.

To achieve causal evidence, the researchers from the group examined brain activity

in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-

hour walk in Grunewald forest or a shopping street with traffic in Berlin. The results

revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that

nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress.

“The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and

brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain

activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and showed no increases,

which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress,”

explains Simone Kühn, head of the group.

The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in

stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk. This

contributes to the understanding of how our physical living environment affects brain and

mental health. Even a short exposure to nature decreases amygdala activity, suggesting

that a walk in nature could serve as a preventive measure against developing mental

health problems and reducing the potentially disadvantageous impact of the city on the

brain.

In order to investigate beneficial effects of nature in different populations and age

groups, the researchers are currently working on a study examining how a one-hour walk

in natural versus urban environments impacts stress in mothers and their babies.

8. What does the hen-and-egg problem mean by Sonja Sudimac?

A．Living in rural areas actually affects brain activity.

B．People in cities tend to have a higher risk of mental problems.

C．It’s unnecessary to work out the complex issue of stress and health.

D．It’s hard to clarify the impact of living environment on mental health.

9. How did researchers collect evidence for the study?

A．By quoting authoritative experts.

B．By interviewing healthy volunteers.

C．By researching on a previous theory.

D．By comparing volunteers’ amygdala activities.

10. What contribution did Simone Kühn and his team mainly make?

A．Confirming the assumption of nature’s benefits to brain health.

B．Supporting a commonly held view of urban exposure.

C．Revealing the link between age and mental health.

D．Identifying the causes of mental health problems.

11. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Benefits of a regular walk in nature.

B．The focus of the follow-up research.

C．An appeal for living in urban regions.

D．Nature’s positive effects on women and children.

Search “toxic parents”, and you’ll find more than 38, 000 posts, largely urging young

adults to cut ties with their families. The idea is to safeguard one’s mental health from

abusive parents. However, as a psychoanalyst (精神分析学家), I’ve seen that trend in

recent years become a way to manage conflicts in the family, and I have seen the severe

impacts estrangement (疏远) has on both sides of the divide. This is a self-help trend that

creates much harm.

“Canceling” your parent can be seen as an extension of a cultural trend aimed at

correcting imbalances in power and systemic inequality. Today’s social justice values

respond to this reality, calling on us to criticize oppressive and harmful figures and to

gain power for those who have been powerless. But when adult children use the most

effective tool they have – themselves – to gain a sense of security and ban their parents

from their lives, the roles are simply switched, and the pain only deepens.

Often, what I see in my practice are cases of family conflict mismanaged, power

dynamics turned upside down rather than negotiated. I see the terrible effect of that trend:

situations with no winners, only isolated humans who long to be known and feel safe in

the presence of the other.

The catch is that after estrangement, adult children are not suddenly less dependent.

In fact, they feel abandoned and betrayed, because in the unconscious, it doesn’t matter

who is doing the leaving; the feeling that remains is “being left”. They carry the ghosts of

their childhood, tackling the emotional reality that those who raised us can never truly be

left behind, no matter how hard we try.

What I have found is that most of these families need repair, not permanent break-up.

How can one learn how to negotiate needs, to create boundaries and to trust? How can we

love others, and ourselves, if not through accepting the limitations that come with being

human? Good relationships are the result not of a perfect level of harmony but rather of

successful adjustments.

To pursue dialogue instead of estrangement will be hard and painful work. It can’t be

a single project of “self-help”, because at the end of the day, real intimacy (亲密关系) is

achieved by working through the injuries of the past together. In most cases of family

conflict, repair is possible and preferable to estrangement – and it’s worth the work.

12. Why do young people cut ties with the family?

A．To gain an independent life. B．To restore harmony in the family.

C．To protect their psychological well-D．To follow a tendency towards social

being. justice.

13. What does the underlined word “catch” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Response. B．Problem. C．Operation. D．Emphasis.

14. To manage family conflict, the author agrees that young adults should________.

A．break down boundaries B．gain power within the family

C．live up to their parents’ expectations D．accept imperfection of family members

15. What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To advocate a self-help trend. B．To justify a common social value.

C．To argue against a current practice.

二、七选五

How Can I Fight Laziness?

D．To discuss a means of communication.