2024年3月16日发(作者：)

2022-2023

学年江西省吉安市吉州区江西省吉安市第一中学高二上学期

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月月考英语试题

For many travelers these days, finding a way to make travel more meaningful has become a top

priority. They are increasingly pursuing journeys that include time to volunteer, work on a

conservation project, protect endangered animals or to do other activities that allow for giving back

while exploring a new part of the world. Here are some opportunities that combine travel with doing

good deeds.

The Azores

The trips offer the opportunity to work on carefully selected projects alongside famous scientists

while also enjoying encounters with some of the world’s most fascinating sea creatures in water. It

allows participants to join a research team in the Azores that s studying the animals to support future

conservation of the species. Advanced diving experience is required.

Red Sea, Egypt

Combining an opportunity for world-class diving with being part of an important research effort

conducted by Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association. The seven-night

trip includes learning how to gather water data with state -of- the -art scientific equipment and

conducting onboard and underwater experiments.

Australia

Explore Queensland, Australia, while also supporting a registered charity that rescues farm animals

from abuse, neglect, and situations where they’re in danger. Participants help with daily cleaning of

barns (

牲口圈

) and cages. feeding, health checks, light repair, monitoring animals’ movements, and

intensive care of ill, old and baby animals. The experience includes free accommodations with Wi Fi

and a swimming pool.

Romania

Work with bears at Romania’s largest bear sanctuary (

庇护所

), a place that was created as a heaven

for bears that have been abused. Located in the Carpathian Mountains, the sanctuary needs

volunteers to help with preparing food, monitoring animal well-being and leading conservation tours.

The sanctuary is home to 84 bears, with 20 more due to be rescued.

1. What do the first two trips have in common?

A

．

Both involve underwater activities.

B

．

Both provide free accommodations.

C

．

Both require advanced diving experience.

D

．

Both teach how to use scientific equipment.

2. Which place best suits a girl who likes horses?

A

．

The Azores. B

．

Red Sea. C

．

Australia. D

．

Romania.

3. Why are the bears adopted by the sanctuary in Romania?

A

．

They have no food.

C

．

They should be monitored.

It’s a sunny afternoon, and my wife Barbara is at the park again, counting and recording the number

of eggs laid by monarch butterflies. After collecting her data, she’ll share it with the professional

scientist who recruited (

招募

) her. Nobody is paying Barbara, but she considers herself lucky to be

“Citizen Scientist”.

Citizen science is a valuable research technique that invites the public to assist in gathering

information. Some of the volunteers are science teachers or students, but most are simply amateurs

who enjoy spending time in nature. One of the earliest projects of this type is the Christmas Bird

Count, started by the National Audubon Society in 1900. However, citizen science projects are

burgeoning more than ever: over 60 of them were mentioned at a meeting of the Ecological Society

of America not long ago.

Some might argue that citizen scientists cannot maintain the necessary attention to detail, or that

amateurs will misunderstand the context of the investigation and make mistakes when collecting and

organizing information. So, can citizen science be considered truly reliable? In a study. a scientist

asked volunteers to identify types of crabs along the Atlantic coast of the US. He found that almost

all adult volunteers could perform the task and even third graders in elementary school had an 80%

success rate.

The best citizen science projects are win-win situations. On the one hand, the scientific community

gains access to far more data than they would otherwise have while spending less money. On the

other hand, citizen science gets people out into the natural world and involved in scientific processes.

Additionally, when people take part in a well- designed study that includes training to use equipment,

collect data, and share their findings, they have the satisfaction of learning about new ideas and

technologies.

As I see it, it’s time for us to expand the old, conservative view of science for people to include a

more advanced one by people.

4. What do citizen scientists do in the projects?

A

．

Monitor the life cycles of insects in laboratories.

B

．

Compare their data with that of other volunteers.

C

．

Earn some money for the information they gather.

D

．

Report on their results or activities to professionals.

5. What does the underlined word “burgeoning” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A

．

Causing arguments.

C

．

Losing popularity.

B

．

Increasing rapidly.

D

．

Receiving awards.

B

．

They are badly treated.

D

．

They need to live in mountains.

6. Why does the author emphasize an 80% success rate in Paragraph 3?

A

．

To demonstrate the high quality of the overall results.

B

．

To contrast negatively with the adults’ success rate.

C

．

To emphasize how many types of crabs there are.

D

．

To reveal the elementary students’ lack of skills.

7. What is the main idea of this article?

A

．

There is a long history of citizen science.

B

．

Citizen science is practical and beneficial.

C

．

Scientific research should rely on specialists.

D

．

Citizen science has replaced traditional science.

When Jason Esterhuizen was 23 in 2011, an accident blinded him. Now, eight years later, special

glasses and a device (

装置

) inside his brain are allowing him to make out some details of the world

around him.

In 2018, Jason moved from South Africa to California to join in a study that offered the possibility

of helping him with his sight. Run by University of California and a company called Second Sight,

the study aimed to lest an unusual medical product called Orion.

There are three important pieces to Orion. One part looks like a pair of glasses holding a camera on

the person’s head, which also sends wireless signals .The second part is a tiny computer processing

(

处理

) the video from the camera ― that’s where the sight comes from. The third part is a tiny

device implanted (

植入

) directly into the patient’s brain, which is new and different about Orion.

For years, Second Sight and other companies have been working on ways to send visual information

into the brains of blind people. Most of the efforts have focused on connecting to the retina (

视网

膜

).By sending electrical signals to the retina, some visual information can be sent to the brain. So

far Second Sight has given about 350 people retinal implants.

But a retinal implant wasn’t possible for Jason. That’s why Orion’s direct connection to the brain

was especially interesting to him. Dr. Nader Pouratian, who gave Jason his implant, said, “With the

system we’re testing now, you don’t even need to have eyes for the device to work.” Jason is one of

the six trying out the Orion in the world.

Although Jason still can’t see normally, he can tell dark from light. He says he sees little white dots

on a black background, like looking up at the stars at night. “Now I can do things that I couldn’t do

before. It’s making my life much easier.”

8. What does the underlined words in the first paragraph mean?

A

．

ignore

C

．

recognize

9. What is mainly talked about in paragraph 3?

B

．

understand

D

．

prove

A

．

Where our sight comes from.

C

．

How people with glasses see.

10. Why did Mr. Esterhuizen agree to test the Orion?

A

．

He was interested in Orion.

C

．

He wanted to move to America.

11. What can we infer from the passage?

A

．

Orion is worn by the patient on the head.

B

．

Orion has been implanted in 350 people.

C

．

Orion brings simple sight to the blind.

D

．

Orion isn’t fit for patients without retinas.

Now, an increasing number of cities are suspending recycling services, partly out of fear that

workers might contact the coronavirus from one another while sorting through used water bottles,

food containers and boxes. One solution: Let robots do the job.

Since the coronavirus took hold in the United States last month, AMP Robotics has seen a

“significant” increase in orders for its robots that use artificial intelligence to sort through recycled

material, and weed out trash. Some facilities that were looking at getting one or two robots are now

saying, “We need quite a bit more.” The Colorado company’s chief executive, Matanya Horowitz

said, “It’s all moving quite fast.”

Before the pandemic, automation had been gradually replacing human work in a range of jobs, from

call centers to warehouses and grocery stores, as companies looked to cut labor costs and improve

profit.

But labor and robotics experts say social-distancing directives, which are likely to continue in some

form after the crisis become less strong, could cause more industries to accelerate their use of

automation. And long-lasting worries about job losses or a broad unease about having machines

control vital aspects of daily life could disappear as society sees the benefits of restructuring

workplaces in ways that minimize close human contact.

Recycling is one industry that may be altered permanently by the pandemic. Some workers, who

earn as little as $10 an hour, have been concerned about coming to work during the crisis and some

cities have been competing to find enough protective gear (

防护装备

) for all of their employees.

Federal health officials have assured them that the risks of transmission from household refuse is

low. But workers in recycling facilities often work side by side sorting material, making social

distancing difficult.

At AMP Robotics, executives like Mr. Horowitz say their robots will enable recycling facilities to

space out their employees, who stand at conveyor belts weeding through the used plastic and paper.

12. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?

B

．

Orion is equipped for free.

D

．

Orion helps him recover some sight.

B

．

How the product Orion works.

D

．

What differences Orion has.

A

．

The pandemic becomes less strong.

C

．

Recycling services aren’t satisfying.

B

．

Robots are in greater demand now.

D

．

Unemployment is sharply on the rise.

13. How do people feel about automation after the pandemic?

A

．

Panicked. B

．

Doubtful. C

．

Appreciative. D

．

Unconcerned.

14. In which aspect will robots help most in recycling industry?

A

．

Sorting out recycled material.

C

．

Replacing the jobs of cheap labor.

15. What is the text mainly about?

A

．

Pandemic accelerates automation.

C

．

Recycling industry is changing.

We are so focused on building relationships with others that we often forget the essential first step:

being friends of ourselves. 16 . How can we have good relationships with others if we don’t even

have good relationship with ourselves?

The problem might be worse than we expect. 17 Here is a simple checklist; is there anything you

don’t like about yourself from the list?

•Your past

Maybe you have made mistakes in the past which you feel bad about. You might be disappointed

with yourself on why you could make such mistakes. Even if that happened in distant past, your

subconscious mind still has a reason not to like yourself.

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You might wish that you were born in a different family. Maybe you could not accept the fact that

you are not as lucky as others, who seem to get whatever they want effortlessly just because of their

background.

•Your personality traits

You might have some personality traits that you don’t like. For example, you may be an intro vert

(

性格内向者

) and you don’t like it; you wish you are an extrovert. 19 , and no matter how hard

you have tried, it might seem impossible for you to match them. You might then think that it’s

because you are not smart enough or don’t have enough talents. All these give reasons to you not to

like yourself. That in turn makes it difficult for you to be a good friend to yourself.

Fortunately, there are always things you can do to fix the situation. Forgive yourself, accept things

you can’t change, focus on your strengths and always be true to yourself! Even if I have lost every

other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left. 20 .

A

．

It shall be down inside of me

B

．

Robots cause severe unemployment.

D

．

Social distancing is still important.

B

．

Minimizing close human contact.

D

．

Producing enough protective gear.