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2023届上海市崇明区高三下学期二模英语试卷

Section B

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the

box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. applications B. connections

G. sacred H. shared

C. emotions D. identify E. intervene

I. specialize J. stressed K. technological

F. notifications

Animal Communication

Many pet owners long to talk with their animals. After all, if pets were able to talk, people

could take care of them more easily and have closer emotional 31 to them, so a number of

companies are working on devices and apps that could translate what animals say.

One such app is called MeowTalk. Using voice recognition software, this app recognizes

different sounds a cat makes and offers English translations of them. For example, one type of

sound might mean “feed me” while another could be translated “let me outside.” The app can use

machine learning to assess its translations and improve at recognizing one particular cat’s voice. In

other words, it can

32 in understanding your cat in particular. This is important because cats do not all have a(n)

33 language, but individual cats frequently use particular sounds to mean certain things.

In the future, MeowTalk could connect to a smart collar that would hear the cat meow and

play the translation out loud. Perhaps if the cat is outside and needs to be let in, it could even

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to the owner’s phone.

For dogs, a Japanese company called Inupathy has developed a harness (保护带) with a

heart rate monitor and an app. The heart rate monitor is used to assess a dog’s 35 . This is

possible because, like humans, dogs’ heart rates go up when they are excited or 36 . The

harness also has a light that turns red when the dog is excited, but when the dog is relaxed, the

light is blue.

The most obvious use of this technology is to help pet owners 37 with and provide for

their pets better. The more owners know about their pets, the easier it is to meet their needs.

There are other 38 of technology that help us understand animals. For example, some

sheep farmers are using artificial intelligence to scan and determine if they are in pain, which

helps them find out sick animals. As a result, they can 39 more quickly to treat the animal.

Anyone who interacts regularly with animals could benefit from understanding their animals

better. Thus these 40 developments might transform the way we interact with the creatures

around us.

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2023届上海市嘉定区高三下学期二模英语试卷

Section B (10分)

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the

box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.

A. conventional B. tolerable C. layer D. stranded E. pile F. insightful

G. difference H. placed I. hazards J. anchor K. rays

Inspired by Arctic Life

Polar bears are warm-blooded animals with heavy fat and fur that can survive in freezing

Arctic temperatures. A team of students from the Royal Danish Academy, inspired by polar bears,

designed a pop-up igloo (弹出式冰屋)—an emergency tent that might make survival in sub-zero

areas much more ___31___.

Led by Henry Glogau, the team said that their design can help those

lost or ___32___ in extreme conditions. With little visibility and no

phone coverage, people may face severe ___33___ while waiting for

rescue in cold polar areas. Rather than fight against the extreme

conditions, the team looked to use them to its advantage. “Inspired by

snow caves and the ___34___ winter-used tents, we treat snow as a

building material rather than a burden,” the team told Vigour Times

website.

The pop-up igloo adopts a mylar (聚酯薄膜) material, which works similarly to polar bears’

skin. Besides their thick fat and fur, polar bears have black skin underneath, which is ideal for

absorbing ___35___ from the Arctic sun. In the same way, the mylar material reflects heat into the

area within the tent to keep people feeling comfortable. The pop-up igloo also features an

origami-like (像折纸的) design, which helps to trap the snow and ___36___ the tent. The origami

pockets create areas where snow can ___37___ up on the outside. It prevents heat from escaping

from the tent, while holding the tent to the ground. This adds another protective ___38___to

everything inside.

To check its capabilities and limits, the team put the design through intensive testing for one

month in Alaska. The analysis indicates that an average 37°C ___39___ in temperature between

indoors and outdoors could be maintained. In the future, the pop-up igloos could be ___40___

along hiking routes in cold areas like the Arctic, where they could be set up in seconds when

needed.

2023届上海市奉贤区高三下学期二模英语试卷

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used

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a pop-up igloo

only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. manually B. alternative C. approaches D. trained

G. categories H. advanced

Will AI be the first to discover ET or alien life?

From the hills of West Virginia to the flats of rural Australia, some of the world’s largest

telescopes are listening for signals from distant alien civilizations. The search for

extraterrestrial(地球外的) intelligence, known as SETI, is an effort to find signals that might have

come from a(n) ____31____ civilization in a far-away solar system. Machine learning, a subset of

artificial intelligence (AI), is used to help astronomers quickly filter the vast amounts of data. As

AI reshapes many scientific fields, what ____32____ does it hold for the search for life beyond

Earth?

“It is a new era for SETI research that is opening up thanks to machine-learning technology,”

says Franck Marchis, a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

When it comes to analyzing data, going through millions of observations ____33____ isn’t

practical. A common ____34____ method is to use algorithms(算法) that look for signals

matching astronomers’ expectation. But those algorithms can overlook ____35____ interesting

signals that are slightly different from what astronomers are expecting.

When it comes to AI, machine-learning algorithms are ____36____ on large amounts of data

and can learn to recognize the Earthly interference. Thus, it makes them very good at ____37____

out the noise. Machine learning is also good at picking up the extraterrestrial signals that don’t fall

into conventional ____38____ and so might have been missed by earlier methods, says Dan

Werthimer, a SETI scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Peter Ma, a mathematician

and physicist at the University of Toronto, Canada, agrees. “We can’t always be ____39____ what

ET might send to us,” he says.

Still, SETI will probably continue to use a mixture of classical and machine-learning

____40____ to screen through data, says Jean-Luc Margot, an astronomer at UCLA. Classical

algorithms remain excellent at picking up candidate signals, and machine learning is “not a

cure-all”, he says. “The machines can’t do it all, yet,” agrees Werthimer.

2023届上海市杨浦区高三下学期二模英语试题

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used

I. potentially

E. promise F. sorting

J. equivalent K. anticipating

A. replacing

B. tolerate C. extremes

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D. experiencing E. average

K. continued F. estimates G. impact H. reserved I. assess J. cover