江苏省徐州市沛县2022-2023学年高二下学期第二次学情调研英语试题

江苏省徐州市沛县2022-2023学年高二下学期第二次学情调

研英语试题

学校

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姓名：

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班级：

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考号：

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一、阅读理解

Peer (

同伴

) Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) is a peer-facilitated learning programme

available to students enrolled (

注册

) in most core units of study in our business school.

PASS involves weekly sessions where you work in groups to tackle specially prepared

problem sets, based around a unit of study you’re enrolled in.

PASS doesn’t re-teach or deliver new content. It’s an opportunity to deepen your

understanding of the key points from lecture materials while you are applying your skills to

solve problems.

You work interactively with your peers. As a peer group, you decide what is covered in

each session. That way, PASS directly responds to your needs and feedback.

Registration in Term 2 will open at 9 am, 21 September 2022.

Waiting lists

If a session is full, you can register for the waiting list. We will email you if a place

becomes available or if a new session is to be held.

When you are placed on a waiting list, we will email you a number which tells you

where you are on the list. If you are close to the front of the list, you have a good chance of

gaining a place in the programme in the near future.

Deregistering

If you miss two PASS sessions in a row, you will be deregistered and your place will be

given to someone on the waiting list. Make sure you fill in the attendance sheet at each

session to record your attendance.

You’ll be informed by email if you are being deregistered as a result of missing sessions.

If you believe you have received the email in error, email the PASS office

at

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1

．

In PASS, students ________.

A

．

attend new lectures

C

．

prepare problem sets in groups

2

．

What can students do if a session is full?

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B

．

decide their own schedules

D

．

use their skills to solve problems

A

．

Fill in the attendance sheet.

C

．

Report their needs and feedback.

3

．

Students will be deregistered if ________.

A

．

they send emails in error

C

．

they give their places to others

B

．

Sign up for the waiting list.

D

．

Email the office their numbers on the list.

B

．

they fail to work interactively

D

．

they miss two sessions in a row

My name is Alice. Early last year, I was troubled by an anxiety that crippled (

削弱

)

my ability to do anything. I felt like a storm cloud hung over me. For almost a year I

struggled on, constantly staring at this wall that faced me. My perfectionist tendencies were

the main root of this: I wanted to be perfect at whatever I did, which obviously in life is not

possible, but it consumed me.

One day, I attended a presentation by wildlife conservationist Grant Brown at my high

school. His presentation not only awed and inspired me, but also helped emerge an inner

desire to make a difference in the world. I joined a pre-presentation dinner with him and that

smaller setting allowed me to slowly build up my courage to speak one-on-one with him—an

idea that had seemed completely impossible. This first contact was where my story began.

A month later, Brown invited me to attend the World Youth Wildlife Conference.

Looking back, I now see that this would be the first in a series of timely opportunities that my

old self would have let pass, but that this new and more confident Alice enthusiastically

seized. Shortly after I received his invitation, applications to join the Youth for Nature and the

Youth for Planet groups were sent around through my high school. I decided to commit to

completing the applications, and soon I was a part of a growing global team of young people

working to protect nature. Each of these new steps continued to grow my confidence.

I am writing this just six months since my journey began and I’ve realised that my

biggest obstacle (

障碍

) this whole time was myself. It was that voice in the back of my

head telling me that one phrase that has stopped so many people from reaching their potential:

I can’t. They say good things come to those who wait; I say: grab every opportunity with

everything you have and be impatient. After all, nature does not require our patience, but our

action.

4

．

What was the main cause for Alice’s anxiety?

A

．

Her inability to act her age.

C

．

Her desire to be perfect.

B

．

Her habit of consumption.

D

．

Her lack of inspiration.

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5

．

How did Grant Brown’s presentation influence Alice?

A

．

She decided to do something for nature.

C

．

She learned about the harm of desire.

B

．

She tasted the sweetness of friendship.

D

．

She built up her courage to speak up.

6

．

The activities Alice joined in helped her to become more ________.

A

．

intelligent B

．

confident C

．

innovative D

．

critical

7

．

What can we learn from this passage?

A

．

Practice makes perfect.

C

．

Action is worry’s worst enemy.

A machine can now not only beat you at chess, it can also outperform you in debate.

Last week, in a public debate in San Francisco, a software program called Project Debater

beat its human opponents, including Noa Ovadia, Israel’s former national debating champion.

Brilliant though it is, Project Debater has some weaknesses. It takes sentences from its

library of documents and prebuilt arguments and strings them together. This can lead to the

kinds of errors no human would make. Such wrinkles will no doubt be ironed out, yet they

also point to a fundamental problem. As Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical

engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, put it: “There’s never a stage

at which the system knows what it’s talking about.”

What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to

what distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines. A

computer works with symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules to transform one string of

symbols into another. But it does not specify what those symbols mean. Indeed, to a computer,

meaning is irrelevant. Humans, in thinking, talking, reading and writing, also work with

symbols. But for humans, meaning is everything. When we communicate, we communicate

meaning. What matters is not just the outside of a string of symbols, but the inside too, not

just how they are arranged but what they mean.

Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction, not of computation, interaction

that shapes the content of the symbols in our heads. The rules that assign meaning lie not just

inside our heads, but also outside, in society, in social memory, social conventions and social

relations. It is this that distinguishes humans from machines. And that’s why, however

astonishing Project Debater may seem, the tradition that began with Socrates and Confucius

will not end with artificial intelligence.

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B

．

Patience is a cure of anxiety.

D

．

Everything comes to those who wait.

8

．

Why does the author mention Noa Ovadia in the first paragraph?

A

．

To explain the use of a software program.

B

．

To show the cleverness of Project Debater.

C

．

To introduce the designer of Project Debater.

D

．

To emphasize the fairness of the competition.

9

．

What does the underlined word “wrinkles” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A

．

Arguments. B

．

Doubts. C

．

Errors. D

．

Differences.

10

．

What is Project Debater unable to do according to Hammond?

A

．

Create rules.

C

．

Talk fluently.

11

．

What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A

．

Social interaction is key to understanding symbols.

B

．

The human brain has potential yet to be developed.

C

．

Ancient philosophers set good examples for debaters.

D

．

Artificial intelligence ensures humans a bright future.

According to the Solar Energy Industry Association, the number of solar panels

installed(

安装

)has grown rapidly in the past decade, and it has to grow even faster to meet

climate goals. But all of that growth will take up a lot of space, and though more and more

people accept the concept of solar energy, few like large solar panels to be installed near

them.

Solar developers want to put up panels as quickly and cheaply as possible, so they

haven’t given much thought to what they put under them. Often, they’ll end up filling the area

with small stones and using chemicals to control weeds. The result is that many communities,

especially in farming regions, see solar farms as destroyers of the soil.

“Solar projects need to be good neighbors,” says Jordan Macknick, the head of the

Innovative Site Preparation and Impact Reductions on the Environment(InSPIRE)project.

“They need to be protectors of the land and contribute to the agricultural economy.” InSPIRE

is investigating practical approaches to “low-impact” solar development, which focuses on

establishing and operating solar farms in a way that is kinder to the land. One of the easiest

low-impact solar strategies is providing habitat for pollinators(

传粉昆虫

).

Habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change have caused dramatic declines in

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B

．

Comprehend meaning.

D

．

Identify difficult words.

pollinator populations over the past couple of decades, which has damaged the U.S.

agricultural economy. Over 28 states have passed laws related to pollinator habitat protection

and pesticide use. Conservation organizations put out pollinator-friendliness guidelines for

home gardens, businesses, schools, cities—and now there are guidelines for solar farms.

Over the past few years, many solar farm developers have transformed the space under

their solar panels into a shelter for various kinds of pollinators, resulting in soil improvement

and carbon reduction. “These pollinator-friendly solar farms can have a valuable impact on

everything that’s going on in the landscape,” says Macknick.

12

．

What do solar developers often ignore?

A

．

The decline in the demand for solar energy.

B

．

The negative impact of installing solar panels.

C

．

The rising labor cost of building solar farms.

D

．

The most recent advances in solar technology.

13

．

What does InSPIRE aim to do?

A

．

Improve the productivity of local farms.

B

．

Invent new methods for controlling weeds.

C

．

Make solar projects environmentally friendly.

D

．

Promote the use of solar energy in rural areas.

14

．

What is the purpose of the laws mentioned in paragraph 4?

A

．

To conserve pollinators.

C

．

To diversify the economy.

B

．

To restrict solar development.

D

．

To ensure the supply of energy.

15

．

Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A

．

Pollinators: To Leave or to Stay

C

．

InSPIRE: A Leader in Agriculture

B

．

Solar Energy: Hope for the Future

D

．

Solar Farms: A New Development

二、七选五

Health and fitness help a person live a good and healthy life. Often due to various

pressures, we tend to ignore our health. 16 It is the fitness level of our body that

helps us fight these diseases.

17 We need to be fit to have a healthy body. Similarly, if we are healthy we shall

naturally be attracted towards maintaining the fitness of our body. Health is the state of our

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