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2023届福建省厦门市高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题

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一、阅读理解

1

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Where can we read about a cat?

A

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On page 90.

B

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On page 110.

C

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On page 22.

D

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On page 104.

2

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Which article attracts Louise most?

A

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Renoir’s Invitation To A Party.

B

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The Day At The Beach.

C

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A Pretty Good Teacher, For A Cat.

D

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Exploits Of Charles.

3

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What is this text?

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A

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Readers’ review.

B

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Editor’s note.

C

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Authors’ reflection.

D

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Publisher’s acknowledgement.

The Mustard Seed Project is getting closer to one of its initiatives-building affordable

senior housing on the Key Peninsula, Washington.

The Nonprofit carries out the project so that people don’t have to leave the Key

Peninsula as they age and have home care needs. “We hope to build in Key Center, a good,

central location for our community. Our vision is to have a campus with a cafe and meeting

spaces, 10 independent living cottages that have one or two bedrooms with laundry,

housekeeping and one meal a day provided, and then assisted living for 30 residents,” said

board president Sara Thompson. “We want this to be a place that draws the entire community

in, rather than a setting that sets elders aside in an isolated environment.”

More than a year ago, a longtime supporter of the organization made a major gift to

undertake a long-desired study to understand both the needs of the community and the

financial feasibility (

可行性

) for senior housing. As a result, The Mustard Seed Project had a

meeting in November at the Key Peninsula Civic Center to explain the results of the study

and to plan for the next steps.

“We’ll be applying for a predevelopment loan to do all the necessary planning,”The

Mustard Seed Project Executive Director Edie Morgan said. “We’re aware of affordable loans

for the assisted living section of the project, and can get standard financing for the other

buildings. But there will be a funding gap, and we expect to need to raise nearly $3 million to

make this happen. I believe we can do it.”

The entire project, once the project manager is identified, is expected to take about two

years.

4

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Why is the organization building affordable senior housing?

A

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To offer free assistance to seniors.

B

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To create job opportunities for residents.

C

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To provide access to aging in place.

D

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To improve facilities for the community.

5

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What do we learn about the organization from Paragraph 3?

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A

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It holds meetings regularly.

B

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It prepares holiday gifts for elders.

C

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It adapts to sponsors’ needs.

D

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It takes the housing project seriously.

6

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What is Morgan mainly talking about?

A

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Sources of funds.

B

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Application for loans.

C

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Costs for construction.

D

．

Distribution of donations.

7

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Why is the text written?

A

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To attract more visitors.

B

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To introduce an organization.

C

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To report on a project.

D

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To entertain the seniors.

On September 1, 1985, Dr. Robert Ballard and his crew spotted one of Titanic’s boilers.

They erupted with cheers. By the time of the crew’s discovery, 73 years had passed since the

ship sank. Several missions had set off to look for it, including a 1977 one led by Ballard.

In the early 1980s, Ballard asked the U. S. Navy to fund the development of the Argo, an

unmanned camera sled that could be dragged behind a surface ship at depths of up to 20, 000

feet. The Navy were interested in using the Argo to survey the wrecks (

沉船

)of the U. S. S.

Thresher and Scorpion, two nuclear submarines (

潜水艇

)that had been lost in the North

Atlantic. They eventually agreed that if Ballard could successfully locate and map the two

subs, he could use whatever time left to look for Titanic.

While photographing Thresher and Scorpion, Ballard noticed that the current had carried

debris (

碎片

)from the ships as they fell to the seafloor, creating a long chain. With this in

mind, he decided not to search for Titanic’s main body. Instead, he would use Argo to search

for its much larger debris track, which might stretch as far as a mile. Once he found it, he

could use it to track down the ship itself. With the new approach, after a few days, they

discovered the boiler. Argo stalked the debris track, and the following morning, Titanic’s bow

came out of the inky depths.

“The Titanic lies now in 13, 000 feet of water,” Ballard said at a press conference,

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“There is no light at this great depth and little life can be found. It is a quiet and peaceful

place-and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Forever may it

remain that way.”

8

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Why did the Navy support the development of the Argo?

A

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To develop underwater robots.

B

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To locate the wreck of Titanic.

C

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To find two nuclear submarines.

D

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To map the North Atlantic.

9

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What gave Ballard inspiration for the new search method?

A

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The 1977 search attempt.

B

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The surface ship with the Argo.

C

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The photographs of Titanic.

D

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The debris chain of the submarines.

10

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What does the underlined word “stalked” in paragraph 3 mean?

A

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Traced.

C

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Cleared.

B

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Recognized.

D

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Dragged.

11

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What is the purpose of Ballard’s statement at the press conference?

A

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To share the exact position of Titanic.

B

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To advocate leaving Titanic undisturbed.

C

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To launch surveys on sea tragedies.

D

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To show respect for Ballard’s crew.

In a new study, Iowa Psychologist Ed Wasserman gave the pigeons complex

categorization tests that high-level thinking would not aid in solving. Instead, the pigeons, by

trial and error, eventually were able to memorize enough situations in the test. This basic

process of making associations — considered a lower-level thinking technique — is the same

between the test-taking pigeons and the latest AI advances.

The researchers sought to figure out two types of learning: one declarative learning, is

based on exercising reason according to a set of rules or strategies — a so-called higher level

of learning owned mostly by people. The other, associative learning, centers on recognizing

and making connections between objects or patterns, such as “sky-blue” and “water-wet. ”

Wasserman’s team designed a difficult test to find out whether the pigeons use

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declarative or associative learning. Each test pigeon was shown a stimulus (

刺激

)and had to

decide, by pecking

(

啄

) a button on the right or on the left, to which category that stimulus

belonged. What made the test so demanding was that no rules or logic would help finish the

task. They have to memorize the individual stimuli or regions from where the stimuli occur.

Over hundreds of tests, the four test pigeons eventually upped their score from 50% to an

average of 68% right.

“The pigeons are like AI masters” Wasserman says. “Both of them employ associative

learning, and yet that base-level thinking is what allowed the pigeons to ultimately score

successfully.” If people were to take the same test, they’d score poorly and would probably

give up because they rely so heavily on rules or strategies. Those rules would get in the way

of learning. The pigeon doesn’t have that high-level thinking process. But it doesn’t get in the

way of their learning. In fact, in some ways it facilitates it.

“People are stunned by AI doing amazing things using a learning algorithm (

算法

) much

like the pigeon,” Wasserman says, “yet when people talk about associative learning in

humans and animals, it is discounted as inflexible and uncomplicated. ”

12

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Which of the following is a typical example of associative learning ?

A

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Tom refuses to put hands on hot stoves after burns.

B

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Dolphins detect obstacles using sound waves.

C

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Chimpanzees use physical gesture strategies.

D

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Emily figures out math problems with logic.

13

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How did the pigeons improve their performance in the test?

A

．

By pecking the stimuli.

B

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By finding rule or logic.

C

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By competing with each other.

D

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By making numerous attempts.

14

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What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A

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AI and man use the same learning pattern.

B

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Associative learning is underestimated.

C

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People think highly of declarative learning.

D

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Pigeons finish tasks with AI algorithms.

15

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Which can be a suitable title of the text?

A

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Pigeon’s Peck Can Mirror High Tech

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