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2022-2023学年湖北省黄冈市十一校高二下学期4月期中联考英语试题

1. With a new year come new opportunities, and there’s no time like the present to start learning

more about parts of the world you’ve never dreamed of before. Forget the standard bucket list:

Machu Picchu, Mt Everest, Galapagos Islands—these places are over-visited. And besides, why

follow the beaten path when you can get off it?

Black Sands in Central America

Lush green forests, amazing surf breaks, and village ruins greet visitors to El Salvador. Compared to

the popular Costa Rica, the country’s coastline is a surf-enthusiast’s dream. If you’d rather be under

the water than gliding along it, then grab the chance to dive in a live volcano. Lake Ilopango sits 460

meters above sea level, near the capital of San Salvador. Freshwater sponges, along with freshwater

fish, lava flows along underwater cliffs and pillow lava deposits are just some of the incredible sites.

Thanks to the hot vents in the lake bed the water is a balmy 85F.

Rainbow Mountains in China

Hike the multicolor peaks in Zhangye, Gansu Province, which is also home to hidden caves, rock

formation, and temples balanced precariously on cliff faces. The otherworldly colors look just like a

painted rainbow and give Peru’s much-visited mountains of the same name a run for their money.

Untouched Paradise in Oceania

Made up of 10 islands, two large and eight smaller ones, there are very few tourists who make it all

the way to Samoa. Packed with natural wonders: ocean trenches, epic waterfalls, and stunning

beaches, it’s a must do for outdoor enthusiasts. There’s ample hiking too, from World War II

heritage trails to a “cloud rainforest” hike and a trek up to the peak of Mount Alava.

Red Crabs in Australia

Technically an external territory of Australia, Christmas Island is dominated by around 50 million

red crabs. Head to this remote island to witness the stunning spectacle of their annual migration, plus

keep an eye out for manta rays, dolphins, and whale sharks that patrol the 80km of coastline. It’s not

an easy place to get to, but the near-deserted beaches and friendly community make it worth the

adventure.

1. If you are a surfing lover, which country are you supposed to go?

A．Costa Rica. B．El Salvador. C．Samoa. D．Australia.

2. What attracts outdoor enthusiasts to Samoa?

A．It is community friendly.

B．It has incredible freshwater sponges.

C．There are plenty of fantastic wonders.

D．Its otherworldly colors look like a painted rainbow.

3. What does Christmas Island and Samoa have in common?

A．There are hidden caves. C. There is ample hiking.

B．They are easy to reach. D. They have beaches.

2. Late last month, a Dutch man, Johannes Emanuel Monfils visited Hubei University of Medicine

in Shiyan, Hubei province to sign a body donation agreement, as he wants to contribute to medical

research at the university after his death.

“There are still many diseases for which there is no good treatment, and many medical problems can

be solved by studying human remains. It was not a big deal — I just needed to fill in the form and

sign my name.” The silver-haired Monfils, who smiled frequently as he completed the donation

agreement, said.

As a chemical engineer in the Netherlands, Monfils was assigned by his company to work in many

areas of China, including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Nanjing. He met his wife, who comes from

Shiyan, when she was working in Shanghai. After retiring in 2012, Monfils traveled to Shiyan to

join his wife, who wanted their daughter to start school in the city.

Monfils, who has long embraced the idea of organ donations, has lived a simple and self-disciplined

life. He likes to read and enjoys soccer and table tennis.

“Every year in my home country of the Netherlands, millions of people decide to donate their organs

and bodies, which can save many lives,” he said. He decided to donate his body for medical research

after reading news reports of such contributions. “I figured I should do a little something for China.

My wife is very understanding and supports my decision.” Monfils said.

He is the first foreign resident in Shiyan to donate his body for medical research, according to Li

Yong, deputy director of the morphology laboratory at Hubei University of Medicine. The local

authorities printed an English-language copy of the donation agreement for him, provided by the

Red Cross Society of China’s Shiyan branch.

However, due to traditional customs, many people have doubts about donating their remains, while

numerous medical schools are short of resources for medical research. There has been a shift in the

public’s view of organ donations in Shiyan, with the number of applications for body donations

received by Hubei University of Medicine rising in the past two years.

The efforts made by China to promote organ donations, which grabbed Monfils’ attention, have also

resulted in more Chinese breaking from tradition to become registered organ donors. As of

September, more than 5 million people had registered to be donors, according to the China Organ

Donation Administrative Center, compared with 1.2 million in March 2019.

1. What is the purpose of Monfils’ organ donation?

A．For organ transplant.

C．For medical research.

2. Which statement is true about Monfils?

A．He is the first foreigner to donate his body in China.

B．His action inspired people to be organ donors.

B．To show off.

D．For public’s view.

C．He met his wife while traveling in Shanghai.

D．He had little knowledge of body donation before coming to China

3. Which words can best describe Monfils?

A．Generous and energetic.

C．Warm-hearted and devoted

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Foreigners’ contribution to China.

B．The rising of organ donation in China.

C．Organ donors’ inspiring others to follow suit.

D．Valuable contributions made to medical research.

3. New research has found a direct correlation between how a child visually tracks his mother’s eyes

and the condition. How a toddler responds to baby talk could help diagnose autism (自闭症) years

before symptoms begin, according to the new research.

A study examined responses to parents’ use of playful, emotional, exaggerated tones, known as

“motherese” (mother’s ‘baby talk’), to capture a child’s attention. Eye-tracking tests showed that

children who did not respond had weaker social and language abilities. Professor Karen Pierce, of

California University in San Diego, co-author of the research, said, “We know the earlier we can

introduce treatment, the more effective it is likely to be. But most children don’t get a formal

diagnosis until around the age of three or four. There is a real need for easy and effective tools that

can be used on young children. Eye-tacking is a great place to start.”

In experiments, 653 toddlers aged one to two years old were exposed to two one-minute videos

featuring a woman speaking motherese or abstract scenes. Their eyes controlled which one played.

Participants without ASD (autism spectrum disorder) showed consistently high interest in the

woman speaking motherese, spending an average 80 percent of the time watching it. They largely

ignored the second video which showed a busy highway, abstract shapes and numbers and had

accompanying electronic music.

However, attention levels of peers diagnosed with ASD spanned the full range of concentration

levels, with some focusing 100 per cent on the random images. A group who fixed on motherese less

than 30 per cent of the time could be accurately identified as having ASD through this measurement

alone. These children also showed lower scores on subsequent tests of language and social skills.

Whether less attention to motherese is the cause of reduced sociability or merely a symptom has yet

to be determined. However, researchers found it appears to be a highly accurate biomarker for the

condition. Prof Pierce said, “The fact we can reliably identify children with autism using such a

simple and rapid eye-tracking test is really remarkable. In future, we hope to use a child’s attention

to motherese as a clue for which treatments they may most benefit from and as a tool for measuring

how well those treatments work.”

1. What is the purpose of the study?

B．Caring and self-disciplined

D．Helpful and optimistic.

A．To diagnose autism early.

C．To test a child’s reaction to motherese.

2. What can we know according to Pierce?

A．Eye-tracking test is a good way to cure autism.

B．It is essential to bring in ASD treatment in early time.

C．There is an urgent need for complex tool applied to young children.

D．Most children don’t get an informal diagnosis before the age of three or four.

3. How did participants without ASD responded to the videos in experiments?

A．They mainly overlooked the second one.

B．They fixed 80 percent on the random images.

C．They focused on motherese more than 30% percent of time.

D．They showed occasionally high interest in the woman speaking motherese.

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．How to heal autism.

B．The process of eye-tracking test.

C．How to improve toddlers’ language and social skills.

D．The connection between a child’s reaction to motherese and autism.

4. Artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, has been a hot topic of online discussions

mainly for its “chatty” nature. The pre-trained, large-scale chatbot models, led by ChatGPT, could

be one of the most important developments in the field of AI and play a key role in future AI

products and applications.

As a pre-trained AI model, ChatGPT is based on the GPT-3 family of large language models and is

fine-tuned to monitor and reinforce (增强) learning techniques. The GPT-3, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, has already caused a sensation. It has gained wide popularity since its debut

in November and revolutionized the AI field due to its advanced conversational capabilities. So we

can say it is an optimized language model based on the development of AI technology.

Also, the fact that ChatGPT is good at multi-tasking is a breakthrough. This is beyond the

imagination of many people, because in the past AI models could perform only a single task. For

example, if you used an Al program to translate something, the program would just translate the

piece. Now with ChatGPT, multi-tasking is easy to achieve.

As a pre-trained language model, ChatGPT is equipped with a massive volume of data, so it can

accurately decide which word comes next in a sentence and thus stabilize its reliable performance,

especially in the era of deep neural networks. That’s why many users are surprised at its ability to

B．To check a child’s eyesight.

D．To catch a child’s attention.

come up with human-like responses, creating the impression that it could replace humans in certain

jobs one day.

Another feature of ChatGPT is that it has the ability to reinforce learning through feedback. It can

recalculate figures or rewrite reports according to the user’s feedback on the answer. And this is one

of the reasons why its performance is being optimized.

Yet it still has its shortcomings. For one thing, it could only be applied in a limited number of fields

as it is a content-generating model. And the content it generates depends on what it has been pre-trained in. Therefore, despite writing articles, essays, jokes and even poetry, ChatGPT could be used

only as reference, just like a search engine. It can never be a substitute for professional, in-depth

knowledge and research.

Due to these limitations, investment in ChatGPT should focus on research and development, and

investors should not expect quick returns on investment. Yet as a promising AI development,

ChatGPT is likely to advance in the medium, if not the short term.

1. What does the underlined word in paragraph 2 mean?

A．panic B．hit C．happiness D．awareness

2. Compared to the previous language models, what’s the advantage of ChatGPT?

A．It has a larger size.

B．It can calculate figures or write reports.

C．It is capable of handling several tasks at one time.

D．It can serve as a substitute for professional research.

3. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．ChatGPT could be applied to a large number of fields.

B．ChatGPT is only available to the scientists and engineers.

C．ChatGPT can give responses just as human beings do.

D．ChatGPT may take the place of humans in all jobs in the future.

4. What’s the purpose of this passage?

A．To introduce a new AI model.

B．To persuade readers to invest ChatGPT.

C．To emphasize the importance of technology.

D．To predict the promising future of ChatGPT.

5. Consisting of 39 episodes, the drama Knockout (狂飙) was directed by Xu Jizhou in 2021. It stars

actors Zhang Songwen and Zhang Yi, who respectively play a fishmonger-turned-gang boss and a

devoted police officer, recounting how they turn from friends to enemies over a period of two

decades. Not only does it become a hit in China, 1 .

Set against the background of two decades of major social development in China and progress in it

law-enforcement methods and capabilities, the story earned 8.6 points out of 10 on Douban and has

won the market largely, 2 . Zhang Songwen’s character Gao appears as a humble fishmonger who

relies on his small business to take care of two younger siblings. 3 . Luckily, he occasionally

receives protective assistance from police officers he knew before. After tasting the benefits brought

by guanxi, or “a special relationship” Gad is seduced (引诱) by the criminal underworld, a dark

network that he once hated and fought against. In contrast, the police officer An Xin (played by

Zhang Yi) is a lonely hero and idealist. 4 .

The show’s popularity index has reached 11,800—normally, 8000 marks a hit—on iQiyi. 5 .

Despite describing the drama as “a shrimplike delicacy”, referring to its plain beginning and end, but

with an excellent middle section, many viewers suggest the show signals the rise in quality of

domestic TV offerings and express their hope that more, equally appealing, homegrown series will

be forthcoming.

A．for it’s an in-depth examination of the complexity of humanity.

B．it was released on Feb 1 and reported by some domestic media.

C．it has also been streamed overseas and translated to more than eight subtitled languages.

D．However, he is bullied by two villains (恶棍) frequently and can’t do anything about it.

E．Many viewers spent their Spring Festival holiday following the Suspense-filled drama.

F．He makes people believe that even the darkest corner can be brightened by a glimmer of

light.

G．The company believes the drama’s success can be attributed to creative writing and the

multifaceted characters.

6. There once lived a great master who, though quite old, was still able to defeat any challenger. His

reputation ________ far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study under

him.

One day a(an) ________ young man arrived at the village. He was ________ to be the first man to

________ the great master. Along with his ________, he had an terrible ability to spot and

________ any weakness in an opponent. He would wait for his opponent to make the first move,

thus ________ a weakness, and then would strike with ________ force and lightning speed. No one

had ever lasted with him in a match ________ the first move.

Much against the advice of his students, the old master accepted the young man’s challenge. As the

two got ready for ________, the young man began to insult the master. ________, the old master

stood there, motionless and calm. Finally, the young man ________ himself. Knowing he was

defeated, he left ________ of himself.

________, the students gathered around the master and asked him, “How could you ________ such

an indignity? How did you drive him away?”

“If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, to whom does the gift belong?”

asked the master. “To the one who tried to deliver it”, replied one of his students.

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults”, said the master.

1.

A．guaranteed

2.

A．desperate

3.

A．willing

4.

A．attack

5.

A．strength

6.

A．take control of

7.

A．enduring

8.

A．merciless

9.

A．within

10.

A．conflict

11.

A．Moreover

12.

A．relieved

13.

A．absorbed

14.

B．enhanced

B．infamous

B．anxious

B．catch

B．spirit

B．take advantage of

B．revealing

B．generous

B．beyond

B．agreement

B．Therefore

B．cheered

B．amazed

C．enlarged

C．optimistic

C．determined

C．defeat

C．passion

C．take care of

C．awaiting

C．influential

C．toward

C．cooperation

C．However

C．disturbed

C．afraid

D．extended

D．enthusiastic

D．astonished

D．skip

D．version

D．take charge of

D．measuring

D．miserable

D．above

D．battle

D．Meanwhile

D．exhausted

D．ashamed

A．Curiously

15.

A．polish B．oppose C．tolerate D．adopt

B．Amusedly C．Frankly D．Surprisingly

7.

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。

The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, or Dragon-Head-Raising Festival, falling on the second

day of the second lunar month every year, 1 (recognize) the start of spring and farming. Ancient

people believed after this day, rainfall increases because the rain-bringing Dragon King has

awakened from his winter sleep. A well-known phrase goes, “Er yue er, long tai tou’”, 2 (mean),

“On the second day of the second month, the dragon lifts his head.”

While some of 3 (tradition) ways to celebrate it are no 4 (long) practiced, others persist. Some

believe that going to the barber on this day gets rid of bad luck while others believe getting 5

haircut during the first month of the lunar calendar brings bad luck.

People eat toufu balls in East China’s Fujian province during the festival, and often make tofu and

vegetable balls to pray 6 family and business. 7 (fry) beans are the traditional festival fare for

people in 8 (part) of Shandong province. Eating chengyao cakes, 9 are made with sticky rice

during the festival, is tradition in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in tribute to the saying, “If you eat

chengyao on Longtaitou, your waist won’t hurt all year.”

Meanwhile other foods, like dumplings, spring rolls and popcorn, 10 (name) after dragon body

parts to mark the day. Noodles are dragon’s beard (long xu), dumplings are dragon’s ears (long er),

spring rolls are dragon’s scales (long lin), and popcorn dragon seeds (long zi).

8.

因为工作繁忙，现在很多人都会熬夜，因此养成了吃宵夜的习惯。假如你是中学生李华，请你根据要点提示用英语写篇短文给校报投稿，内容包括：

1.

吃宵夜的坏处；

2.

你的看法或建议。

注意：

1.

词数80左右；

2.

可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：夜宵night snack

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9.

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Last year during the year-end holidays, I had an opportunity to participate in a Youth Camp

organized by the Boy Scouts Association of my school. Since it was the first camp that I had ever

taken part in, I really looked forward to it.

The camp was located in a field by a river. It was on the first day of the camp that I met Leo. He had

the body size of a bear. During the lunch hour, all the campers queued up (排队) to get their food.

After getting my share, I was looking for a suitable spot to sit down and enjoy my lunch when Le or

an into me, spilling (洒) soup on me. Instead of apologizing, Leo laughed at me. “Don’t you think

you should apologize to me, clumsy (笨拙的) bear?” It old him off as I was really annoyed.

“Apologize? It was only a minor accident. By the way, how could you call me a clumsy bear?” Leo

said.

I ignored him.

On the second day, Leo was late for roll call. As a consequence, he was punished and had to do

push-ups.

“It serves you right. You should have apologized to me,” I told Leo after roll call.

In the afternoon, all of the campers went canoeing (划艇) on the river. As it was my first experience,

I rolled my canoe over. Leo laughed at me loudly, remarking what a terrible canoeist I was. Very

much embarrassed and angry, I swam towards his canoe. Fortunately, some other campers managed

to hold me back before I did something I’d regret. We went jungle exploring on the afternoon of the

third day. While carrying out the activity, I injured my ankle accidentally and got left behind.

Though the pain was terrible, I kept walking since I did not want to be left too far behind. While I

was crossing a narrow bridge, I lost my balance and fell down into a ditch (沟). Due to my foot

injury and the depth of the ditch, I faced a lot of difficulty getting out.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

I was desperate and could only hope that help would arrive soon.

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I was deeply touched by Leo’s kind act.

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