2022-2023学年北京市海淀区高三下学期期中练习英语试题

海淀区2022—2023学年第二学期期中练习

高三英语

2023.04

本试卷共10页，100分。考试时长90分钟。

考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分:知识运用(共两节，30分)

第一节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Before Jenny passed away from cancer,she made her husband, Steve, and their daughter，

Brittany,promise her one thing: he would 1 Brittany, a high school senior, to the homecoming

(返校节)game, where she was 2 for homecoming was important to her that her

daughter should ny and Steve 3 .

Days later, on the morning of Friday，September 24, Jenny g their 4 , that

very afternoon, an emotional Brittany walked arm in arm with her father across the football field

with the other nominees (被提名者) to await the 5 of the voting.

Brittany wasn't named homecoming queen that day;Nyla , like many in the close-knit

community, Nyla had heard about Jenny and her noble deeds for the a(n)_ 6

gesture,moments after receiving the crown,Nyla walked over to Brittany, removed the crown from

her head, and placed it atop her friend' two embraced, 7 holding each other tightly for

support.

“She'd rather have her mom than a crown,”Nyla handing it to Brittany,"I was telling

her that she was her mom's queen,and that she was loved by many, especially me.”

“I felt so much love from her, and I just felt so much love for her,”said Brittany, who paid

Nyla the ultimate praise,"I can see my mom through have the same caring, 8

spirit.”

“Nyla is no less queen for lack of a crown,”said a 's a saying that real queens

9 each other's the truth is，real queens give up their crowns to let other queens

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第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，共15分)

阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在

给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

A

I've loved photography since I was a parents recorded many home videos of my

siblings and hed family moments 11 (document).Revisiting them was like opening a

treasure chest.I'm grateful for these visual records 12 showed our youth and had a

big influence on me.I love the emotions conveyed by the story on a decade I worked as

a freelance filmmaker and photographer.I recorded a wide range of genres，therefore 13

(collect)tens of thousands of images—both still and moving.

B

“Conventional wisdom tells us that we can feel happier if we smile or that we can get

ourselves 14 a more serious mood if we scowl(怒视),"said Nicholas Coles, a PhD at Utah

team combined data from 138 studies testing more than 11,000 participants and

found facial 15 _(express) do have impact on example,smiling makes people

happier，scowling makes them feel angrier, and frowning makes them 16 (sad).These findings

are exciting because they provide a clue about how the mind and body interact 17 (influence)

our conscious experience of emotion.

C

By drawing patterns such as bamboos on the surface of a cup of tea, Chabaixi, an ancient

Chinese tea trick 18 (go) viral are a dozen steps,from grinding tea for fine

powder, to pouring boiled water, stirring the mixture for thick froth(泡沫), and finally drawing

water is used to put into the the water 19 (touch) the surface of tea,

it turns into a white color and disappears in 20 process before drawing is known

as“diancha".The quality of it is crucial to 20 the patterns can be successfully produced later.

第二部分:阅读理解（共两节，38分)

第一节(共14小题;每小题2分，共28分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡

上将该项涂黑。

A

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aims to .

college students to achieve academic success

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age students to participate in hands-on learning

are students supposed to do to earn the required credits?

out STEM research.

various seminars.

the courses online.

in experiential learning.

ing to the passage, students living on campus .

organize social activities

have access to a single room

provided with good security

advised to direct comedy shows

B

“I can't connect with your characters."

I kept hearing the same feedback and was unable to understand why and not sure what to do.I

was a character-driven could I mess up the one thing I was supposed to be good at? I

was determined to convince my agent that these characters were all, I knew they were

main character Lotus had lived inside me for years.I just needed to clarify her on the page.

I wrote and edited for a year, trying to respond to this agent's Lotus' personality

began to disappear.I tried to have her make“better" decisions, wear smarter fashion, and have

more friends, as my agent said she acted“immature ”and was“isolated".And when this agent

ultimately parted ways with me, I felt like I had with time and distance, I realize I tried

to fit Lotus into a neurotypical style to please my as a result, Lotus lost her Lotus- ness.

When that agent discouraged me from writing Lotus as autistic (自闭的)，he said that would

make Lotus seem more“vulnerable (脆弱的)”or an“obvious victim”.I didn't want Lotus to seem

' autism is what makes her powerful, I tried to from a neurotypical

perspective, Lotus' autism could only be seen as a weakness.

Unsure of how to convince my agent of the strength and power autistic women hold, I began

to write Lotus as“neurotypical”.And I failed all, what do I know about being

neurotypical? My whole life, autism was my being diagnosed until 2020, I assumed

the way I saw the world was“normal".

My current agent encourages me to write from my neurodivergent (神经多样性的)

this invitation, I revisited Lotus and saw her the way I first wrote when I

did, the characters and the entire narrative began to make more sense.

Identifying my characters as neurodivergent not only gives me joy as a writer, but it has

produced my strongest so long, I've combatted the advice to“ write what I know' ', in

part because I didn't know what I actually knew.I didn't know I was as I mine

the specificity of my lived experience, my writing is is a power to our lived

's not a limitation on our craft, but a swinging open of the gates.

did the author feel when receiving the repeated response from the first agent?

ed.

ced.

ined.

ointed.

' personality got lost because .

no longer lived inside the author

author attempted to please the agent

agent failed to sympathize with Lotus

was considered childish and lonely

do we know about the author?

regretted parting with the agent.

owed her success in life to autism.

was aware of her autism in the early years.

was empowered by her autistic experience.

has the author learned frorm her own experience?

to your dream despite discouragement.

true to yourself and write from your heart.

in to authority is the barrier to success.

ne is born an original instead of a copy.

C

To a chef, the sounds of lip smacking, slurping and sallwing are the highest form of fltery (恭

维).But to someone with a certain type of misophonia (恐音症), these same sounds can be

scans are now helping scientists start to understand why.

People with misophonia experience strong discomfort, annoyance or disgust when they hear

particular can include chewing, swallowing, slurping, throat clearing, coughing and

even audible chers previously thought this reaction might be caused by the brain

overactively processing certain , however, a new study published in Journal of

Neuroscience has linked some forms of misophonia to heightened“mirroring” behavior in the

brain: those affected feel distress while their brains act as if they were imitating the triggering

mouth movements.

"This is the first breakthrough in misophonia research in 25 years," says psychologist

Jennifer , who directs the International Misophonia Research Network and was not

involved in the new study.

The research team, led by Newcastle University neuroscientist Sukhbinder Kumar, analyzed

brain activity in people with and without misophonia when they were at rest and while they

listened to included misophonia triggers (such as chewing), generally unpleasant

sounds (like a crying baby), and neutral brain's auditory (听觉的) cortex, which

processes sound, reacted similarly in subjects with and without in both the resting

state and listening trials,people with misophonia showed stronger connections between the

auditory cortex and brain regions that control movements of the face, mouth and throat, while the

controlled group didn' found this connection became most active in participants with

misophonia when they heard triggers specific to the condition.

“Just by listening to the sound, they activate the motor cortex more in a way it

was as if they were doing the action themselves, ”Kumar mirroring is typical in most

humans when witnessing others' actions; the researchers do not yet know why an excessive (过分

的) mirroring response might cause such a negative reaction, and hope to address that in future

research.“Possibilities include a sense of loss of control, invasion of personal space, or

interference with current goals and actions," the study authors write.

Fatima Husain, an llinois University professor of speech and hearing science, who was not

involved in the study, says potential misophonia therapies could build on the new findings by

counseling patients about handling unconscious motor responses to triggering sounds- not just

coping with the sounds this works, she adds, one should expect to see reduced

connected activity between the auditory and motor cortices.

can be learnt from the new study that .

onia sufferers can't help imitating the triggers

with misophonia are more likely to flatter chefs

brains of people with misophonia overreact to sounds strongly

onia sufferers tend to have similar annoying activities in their brains

ed with people without misophonia, people with misophonia .

less severely at the resting state

markedly different brain structures

more negatively at a mirroring response

control of their facial movements easily

might be the significance of the study?

ing speech and hearing science.

ping a treatment for misophonia.

g people's attention to misophonia.

ing human brain structure research.

D

At a museum in Vietnam, Lena Bui's film Where Birds Dance Their Last reflected on the

beauty and vulnerability of Vietnamese feather farms after Bird a festival in Rwanda,

Ellen Reid's audio experience Soundwalk was shared in a hopeful discussion about music, parks

and mental health. These are a few of the things I have helped bring to life over the years, working

at the intersection of scientific research, the arts and advocacy to support science in solving global

health challenges.

Science is key to addressing these it isn't the only achieve its potential and

for its advances to be implemented and reach all who could benefit, science depends on trust and

good might not always see science as relevant, trustworthy or meaningful to

their are reasons why some see science as having a chequered past, from nuclear

weapons to eugenics(优生学), and are therefore uninterested in, or suspicious of, what it

feel excluded by the incomprehensibility of hyperspecialist knowledge.

In its capacity to build upon and test an evidence base, science is powerful, but researchers

and funders haven't been as good at ensuring this evidence base responds to the needs and

interests of diverse communities, or informs policy makers to take e might be

perceived as distancing itself from the personal, the poetic and the political, yet it is precisely

these qualities that can be most influential when it comes to public interest in a topic or how a

government prioritizes a decision.

A moving story well told can be more memorable than a list of is where the arts

come s can give us diferent perspectives with which to consider and reimagine the world

can redress the proclaimed objectivity in science by bringing stories- subjectivities-

into the picture,and these can help foster a sense of connection and hope.

In 2012, I set up artist residencies in medical research centres around the was

attached to the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in head of the research

team was delighted, finding that Bui, as a Vietnamese artist, had license to be in, and to share

useful insights from, villages where infectious disease researchers weren't years later,

I led Wellcome's Contagious Cities program, which established artist residencies worldwide to

support locally led explorations of epidemic recent pandemic made this work

more noticeable, and has informed our Mindscapes program which is currently sharing

experiences of mental health through the work of artists.

With pandemic, climate and mental health crises upon us, rising inequality and what feels

like an increasingly broken world, never has there been more need to build and nurture hopeful

and imaginative spaces to grow human connection and shared purpose for the common

e and the arts can work hand in glove to achieve this.

author lists two works in Paragraph 1 mainly to .

the gap between science and art

his competence in both science and art

uce successful science-related artworks

that science can be promoted in art forms

does the underlined word“chequered" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

and remote.

and bad.

and unusual.