2024年2月20日发(作者：段干华)
考点17--词义猜测之猜测句子的意思--练模拟--熟能生巧
1.【2022届山西省山西大学附属中学校高三5月三模】
Please don't feel singled out, special, or view yourself as a chosen one. She bites everyone.
This is just the nature of the beast. There is absolutely no truth to the persistent myths that
mosquitoes fancy females over males; that they prefer blondes and redheads over those with
darker hair；or that the darker or rougher your skin, the safer you are from her bite. It is true,
however, that she does play favorites and feasts on some more than others.
Blood type O seems to be the choice over types A and B or AB．People with blood type O get
bitten twice as often as those with type A, with type B falling somewhere in between.
Those who have higher natural levels of certain chemicals in their skin, particularly lactic
acid
（乳酸），also seem to be more attractive. From these elements, she can analyze which blood
type you are. These are the same chemicals that determine an individual’s level of skin bacteria
and unique body smell.
Mosquitoes are also attracted by perfumes, soaps, and other applied fragrances. While this
may seem unfair to many of you, she also has a desire for beer drinkers.
Wearing bright colors is also not a wise choice, since she hunts by both sight and smell, the
latter depending chiefly on the amount of carbon dioxide sent out by the potential target. So she
can smell carbon dioxide from over 200 feet away. When you exercise, for example, you emit
more carbon dioxide through both breath and output. You also sweat, releasing those appetizing
chemicals, primarily lactic acid, that invites the mosquito's attention.
Lastly, your body temperature rises, which is an easily identifiable heat signature. On average,
pregnant women suffer twice as many bites, as they have a slightly raised body temperature.
Please don't go on a shower, exercise or give up your beloved beer and bright T-shirts just yet.
Unfortunately, 85% of what makes you attractive to mosquitoes is fixed in advance in your genetic
circuit board
（电路板）.At the end of the day, she will find blood from any exposed target of
opportunity.
12．What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A．To explain the reasons for mosquito bites.
B．To introduce a new discovery to the readers.
C．To prove that everyone suffers mosquito bites.
D．To arouse the interest of the readers in the topic.
13．Which element has nothing to do with mosquito bites?
A．Blood type.
C．Color of clothes.
B．Chemicals of bacteria.
D．Body temperature.
14．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A．All the mosquito bites are caused by your genetic circuit board.
B．Your blood will be targeted by mosquitoes at every opportunity.
C．Mosquito bites can be avoided if you give up some relevant habits.
D．Your genes determine your attractiveness to mosquitoes to a great extent.
15．What is the most suitable title for the passage?
A．Keep off Mosquitoes
C．Why are You a Mosquito Feeder
B．Mosquito Bites Let Nobody off
D．Mosquitoes, a Threat to Our Health
2.【2022届河北衡水中学高考英语押题卷1】
Crowing up in a village in eastern Nepal’s Bhojpur Mountains, Mira Rai had dreams that
went far beyond the traditional expectations for Nepali women. The eldest daughter of five
children, she was expected to fetch water, tend crops and livestock, and help out at home. By age
12, she no longer regularly attended school, and instead carried heavy bags of rice up and down
steep trails — often barefoot — to trade at the market. It was hard work, but great training for a
future trail runner.
“As a girl,” Rai recalls, “I would constantly be told to know my place, lower my voice, and
act in a certain manner. For me, breaking free from these traditions itself was a big dream.”
Several years ago, Rai’s dream became reality. She was running outside Kathmandu when
two male trail runners invited her to enter her first trail race, the Kathmandu West Valley Rim 50K.
She had never run 50 kilometers before, had no special equipment or training for such a distance,
and was also the only woman in the competition. But despite all difficulties, she beat everyone —
even the men. From there, a community of runners came together to give her a chance to compete
in international trail running competitions.
Today, the running world recognizes Rai as a high-altitude trail racing talent. Now she is on a
mission to help both women and men of Nepal through sports. Rai believes her work to empower
others has just begun. “We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop
competitive athletes,” she says. Rai is blazing a trail, not just in terms of being able to speak
nationally on gender equality, but also by getting young people into running.
4．What can we learn about Mira Rai?
A．She won her first victory easily.
C．She dropped out of school at 12.
B．She gave up chasing her dream.
D．She benefited from her early life.
5．What was other runners’ attitude toward Mira Rai?
A．Doubtful. B．Supportive. C．Tolerant. D．Indifferent.
6．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A．She is pioneering in some areas.
C．She is getting professional training.
7．What is the best title of the passage?
A．A Defining Moment in Life B．A Fate-changing Trail Race
B．She is fighting for Nepalese rights.
D．She is setting new records in running.
C．A Fighter for Women’s Rights D．A Dream-pursuing Sky Runner
3.【2022届江西省萍乡市高三第一次质量检测】
Nothing energizes office workers more than complaining about meetings. And it seems some
of the world's greatest tech successes agree. Here's some of their advice.
Mark Zuckerberg: A decision or a discussion?
The Facebook CEO reportedly improved the effectiveness of meetings by asking managers to
explain the point of a meeting: to make a decision or to have a discussion.
"If there's no point, then there are no decisions," Microsoft founder Bill Gates might agree.
He is supposed to have said, "You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the
question."
Elon Musk: It is not rude to leave.
Elon Musk once sent out an email to staff in which he made some "recommendations".
"Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value," he
went on. "It is not rude to leave; it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time."
Jeff Bezos: The "two--pizza rule".
The Amazon founder meets investors for just six hours a year, and tries to avoid early
morning meetings.
Business Insider reports that Mr. Bezos also has a strict policy: Never have a meeting in
which you couldn't feed the whole group with two pizzas. The businessman believes small groups
are far more efficient than large ones, and the "two-pizza rule" helps him prevent large meetings.
Steve Jobs: No need for PowerPoint.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs shows the creative genius behind the iPhone
making an attack on slideshow users. "People who know what they are talking about don't need
PowerPoint," he said.
"Generally PowerPoint presentations are a great distraction(使人分心的事物), unless it's
data or a graph," said Professor Andre Spicer. "Long slides mean no information being conveyed."
1．What did Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both stress?
A．How to have a meeting.
C．The purpose of having a meeting.
2．Why was the "two-pizza rule" put forward?
A．To offer better services for a meeting.
C．To encourage short meetings.
B．To reduce the cost of a meeting.
D．To limit the size of a meeting.
B．When to have a meeting.
D．The importance of having a meeting.
3．From the underlined part in the last paragraph, Andre Spicer's opinion on slides is ______ .
A．less is more
C．something is better than nothing
B．the more the merrier
D．a picture is worth a thousand words
4.【2022届宁夏银川市高三质量检测（一模）】
Diane Henderiks, a former athlete, pursued a career in nutrition to combine her passions of
food, health and physical activity throughout her life. “The field of nutrition is so big,” she says. “I
found my place in teaching people how to cook and eat well.”
Attracted by media, specifically television, Henderiks made regular on-air appearances and
served as an editorial contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America. “From my first local TV
appearance, I knew this was going to be the medium for me to share my knowledge and skills with
a lot of people at one time,” she says.
As the host of the show Fresh to Frozen and Back, Henderiks uses her expertise as a
registered dietitian (营养师) and chef to create recipes with fresh and simple ingredients. “My
audience are home cooks and families who want to improve nutrition at home,” Henderiks. says.
“I believe simplicity is key. The first step to healthier eating is to try to eat as close to nature as
possible.”
Henderiks finds joy in cooking for family and friends, and also in volunteering and working
with nonprofit organizations. Beyond her TV show and volunteer work, Henderiks doescatering
(酒席承办) and is a private chef. “The positive feedback I receive is that organizations, TV shows
and individuals all love my passion for cooking,” she says. “The lasting impressions and solid
relationships speak for themselves.”
A true inspiration to fellow nutrition professionals and students, Henderiks presents this
encouraging advice, “Follow your passion and never give up. Volunteer and give back as much as
you can to organizations that mean something to you. Work very hard to be one of the go to
experts in nutrition!”
4．What can we learn about Henderiks?
A．She is pursuing a career in athletics.
B．She dislikes sharing cooking knowledge.
C．She enjoys spreading cooking skills on TV.
D．She founded a new school to teach cooking.
5．According to Henderiks, what is the first step to healthy eating?
A．Eating natural food.
C．Eating nutritious food.
B．Eating handmade food.
D．Eating expensive food.
6．What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 show?
A．Henderiks’s passion for cooking.
C．Henderiks’s popularity.
B．Advantages of TV shows.
D．Deliciousness of food.
7．Which of the following can best describe Henderiks?
A．Serious and passive.
C．Determined and controlled.
B．Careful and reliable.
D．Professional and passionate.
5.【2022届山东省潍坊市高三下学期3月高中学科核心素养测评】
In recent years, there has been a rise in the volume of audiobook sales, which is easily aided
by the dominance of the smartphone. Other contributors to the rise beyond technology?
One thing is obvious: Reading even a short book involves a significant investment of time
and prevents any other activity. You can’t drive or garden while reading. Andy Miller, the author
of The Year of Reading Dangerously, said: “I was hunting for a book to read.” Kit Waal, my friend,
said, “you should get the audiobook Old Filth; it’s fantastic.” She was right. I could walk the dog
and still be reading a brilliant novel, or have one read to me brilliantly. I loved that book and I
loved that way of reading it. So I’m a recent convert.”
Does he worry audio provides too different an experience to reading itself? “Clearly on audio
you are at the mercy of the reader’s skills,” he says. “But then , ego (自己) aside, the same is true
of reading a book on the page. We’re all at the mercy of our own skills and tastes, aren’t we? But
on audio you are influenced by someone else’s interpretation. And you might simply dislike the
voice of the reader. But at its best audio offers a complementary (互补的) experience to the actual
book.”
Will audiobook distract us from the page before us? Better to focus on what we might gain.
As someone who frequently interviews authors on stage, I'm aware of the unique insight to a text
produced by hearing someone read their own work; I’ve frequently re-interpreted a passage after
such an experience. But that has had no impact on whether or not I'll read a book by a writer I will
never hear reading.
I once met the writer Don Delillo. In response to a question about the process of writing, he
remarked that he sometimes became attracted by the shape of particular letters, by the way
individual words appeared before him, their beauty beyond meaning and the relationship to
meaning. He sounded hippy-dippy; then it made perfect sense. Reading does start with shapes,
which slowly resolve to make a certain meaning, filtered through our own subjectivity and our
senses. That will never change.
8．What does Andy Miller mean by “I’m a recent convert” in paragraph 2?
A．I like the reader’s voice.
C．I fall in love with audiobook.
B．I enjoy my daily routines.
D．I am addicted to reading novels.
9．What does Andy Miller think of the audiobook?
A．It has a good voice.
C．It controls our skills and tastes.
B．It limits our interpretation.
D．It misleads our interpretation.
10．What is Don Delillo’s attitude to reading the actual book?
A．Unclear. B．Objective. C．Opposed. D．Favourable.
11．What is the best title of the text?
A．Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook?
B．The audiobook-a growing trend in reading
C．Slow reading-the decline of the actual book?
D．A new experience: the appearance of audiobook
6.【2022届四川省攀枝花市高三第二次统一考试】
“I’m not a reader.” It’s a common reply that Julia Torres, a teacher-librarian in Denver Public
School, has heard throughout her 16-year career. She’s seen students tear up books, throw them
away or check them out only to immediately return them all because they didn’t have confidence
in their ability to read.
As a librarian, Torres feels strongly that libraries should be spaces of liberation, places where
students can develop a love of reading at any stage. Reading is a skill that everyone can grow to
love, but too many negative experiences during a child’s literacy (读写能力) education can result
in boredom, lack of interest or even anger. When a student has a poor experience like being
shamed for their reading choices, they can begin to associate reading with painful feelings of
insecurity, shame and stress.
To prevent reading disorder (阅读障碍) practices, as Torres notes, librarians first can build an
inclusive (内容丰富的) library where classified collections can make it easier for students to find
out the books they want and also help identify gaps in the collections. Reevaluating librarians’ role
is necessary, which allows students to take control of the library and have a say in what’s
purchased for the collection, directly exciting students’ reading interest. Instead of hosting
traditional book fairs where students have to pay for books, it is better to open up a True Book Fair,
where students are invited to choose books intentionally to their interests without any costs.
Librarians are recommended to read what students are reading. Another two important approaches
to preventing reading disorder are to take a look at the library policies and redefine (重新定义)
what counts as reading. It is necessary to get rid of fines, check-out limits, security gates, and
punishment policies. Plus, students are encouraged to listen to audiobooks or read picture books.
Find a way to teach important skills like comprehension or critical thinking with the texts that
excite and interest students.
4．What does the underlined sentence “I’m not a reader” in Paragraph 1 infer?
A．Some students are not interested in reading.
B．Some students have no ability to read books.
C．Some students don’t borrow books from the library.
D．Some students haven’t tried to read for entertainment.
5．What is directly linked with exciting students’ reading interests?
A．Getting rid of library rules.
C．Librarians’ recommendation.
6．What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．What leads to students’ difficulty in reading.
B．How negative reading experiences affect students.
B．Making their own choices.
D．Reducing charges caused by reading.
C．How to reduce reading disorder as student librarians.
D．Why to decrease reading disorder as student librarians.
7．What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?
A．To do a research on reading disorder.
B．To offer suggestions to the librarians.
C．To analyze why reading disorder forms.
D．To draw attention to reading disorder prevention.
7.【2022届新疆维吾尔自治区高三年级第二次诊断性测试】
Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I
have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.
In recent years, stress has been regarded as a cause of a whole range of medical problems,
from high blood pressure to mental illness.
But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm. It is time you
considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve little. If you are stuck at
home with no stress, then your level of performance will be low. Up to a certain point, the more
stress you are under, the better your performance will be.
Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally
a breakdown. You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking
yourself a number of questions. Do you, for instance, feel that too much is being expected of you,
and yet find it impossible to say no? Do you find yourself getting impatient or annoyed with
people over unimportant things?... If the answer to all those questions is yes, you had better
control your stress, as you probably are under more stress than is good for you.
To some extend you can control the amount of stress in your life. Doctors have worked out a
chart showing how much stress is involved in various events. Getting married is 50, pregnaney 40,
moving house 20, Christmas 12, etc. If the total stress in your life is over 150, you are twice as
likely to get ill.
4．What can we learn about the stress from Paragraph 2?
A．It makes you expect too much.
B．It lets you never say “no” when asked for.
C．It can prevent you from getting angry easily.
D．It may let you have got the sickness of high blood.
5．Which can best explain the sentence “If there were no stress in your life, you would achieve
little.”?
A．The more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.
B．With much stress, your level of performance will be low.
C．It’s time for you to control your stress.
D．Too much stress is harmful.
6．If the total stress in your life is 160, what does that mean?
A．You are fine.
C．You are likely to have medical problems.
7．What does the text mainly talk about?
A．An unknown word “stress”.
C．Various events.
B．Stress — good or bad?
D．The cause of high blood.
B．Everything is OK.
D．You have nothing to worry about.
8.【2023届四川省内江市高中新高三零模考试】
Famous for its tolerance (宽容) as well as its narrow houses and broad canals (运河),
Amsterdam is undergoing a change of attitude when it comes to the millions of tourists that come
to see it each year. Tolerance has reached its limits in the capital of Dutch, which is now actively
urging visitors to head elsewhere.
Ellen van Loon, a partner at Dutch architectural firm OMA says, “We don’t want to turn into
a Venice. While tourism earns the Dutch economy around 82 billion Euros a year, the problem we
are currently facing is that Amsterdam is so loved by tourists, we just have so many coming to the
city.”
Netherlands tourist officials recently took the decision to stop advertising the country as a
tourist destination. Their “Perspective 2030” report, published earlier this year, stated that the
focus will now be on “destination management” rather than “destination promoting”. The
document also describes the country’s future strategy, acknowledging that Amsterdam’s livability
will be severely influenced by “visitor overload” if action isn’t taken.
Solutions (解决办法) listed include working to discourage groups of visitors by either
limiting or completely shutting down accommodation and entertainment products aimed at them,
as well as spreading visitors to other parts of the Netherlands. Some of these measures have
already come into play. Last year, the famous “I Amsterdam” sign was removed from outside the
Rijksmuseum, the city’s main art gallery. The two-meter high letters have been moved to various
“lesser-known neighborhoods” in order to entice travelers to leave the center of the city.
But will the measures being put in place be enough to save it from being damaged by its own
success? Like many other locals, Van Loon fears Amsterdam has lost its uniqueness forever. “The
reason tourists come here is that there’s something in the character of Amsterdam they love,” she
explains. “But at a certain point, when the number of tourists is increasing and increasing, they
actually kill what they loved in the first place.”
8．What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 indicate?
A．Amsterdam doesn’t necessarily copy Venice.
B．Venice does more poorly than Amsterdam.
C．Amsterdam is more popular than Venice.
D．Venice is suffering from over-tourism.
9．Why did Amsterdam advise visitors to head elsewhere?
A．To avoid much spending on city management.
B．To turn the focus on destination promoting.
C．To promote the development of other areas.
D．To reduce its pressure of mass visitors.
10．What does the underlined word entice in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Promise. B．Persuade. C．Inform. D．Allow.
11．What’s Van Loon’s attitude to the measure?
A．Skeptical. B．Intolerant. C．Ambiguous. D．Positive.
9.
【山东省济南市2022届高三年级1月学情检测（一模）】
When people hear “Artificial Intelligence (AI),” many think of big data. The reason is that
some of the most significant AI breakthroughs have relied on enormous data sets. But AI is not
only about large data sets, and research in small data approaches in the past decade has grown
extensively, with Transfer Learning (TL) (迁移学习) as an especially promising example, which
is helpful in settings where you have few data on the task of interest but sufficient data on a
related problem.
Small data approaches like TL offer numerous advantages over more data-intensive methods.
By the use of AI with fewer data, they can facilitate progress in areas where few or no data exist,
such as in forecasting natural disasters that occur relatively rarely. More importantly, TL is of great
help in terms of generalization. A challenge in the use of AI is that models need to generalize
beyond their training data—that is, to give good “answers” to a more general set of “questions”
than what they were specifically trained on. TL models work by transferring knowledge from one
task to another, so they are very helpful in improving generalization in the new task, even if only
limited data are available.
AI experts such as Andrew Ng have stated that the approach will be the next driver of getting
machine learning success in industry. There are some early signs of successful adoption and it has
been applied for cancer discovery and much more.
Despite the increase in research, TL has received relatively little visibility. While many
machine learning experts and data scientists are familiar with it, techniques such as TL do not
seem to have reached the awareness of the broader space of policy makers and business leaders in
positions of making important decisions about AI funding and adoption.
By acknowledging the success of small data techniques like TL and supporting their
widespread use, we can help overcome some widespread misconceptions regarding the role of
data in AI and promote innovation in new directions.
1．What does the author think of TL?
A．It is a potential technique.
B．It is of help in large data sets.
C．It is an important AI breakthrough.
D．It is a reliable solution to multitasks.
2．In which aspect does TL show its advantages?
A．Acquiring knowledge.
B．Discovering questions.
C．Collecting training data.
D．Improving generalization.
3．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A．TL has little value.
B．TL is a heated topic.
C．TL draws public attention.
D．TL is not well recognized.
4．What’s the purpose of this text?
A．To clarify some misconceptions.
B．To introduce a small data approach.
C．To predict the promising future of AI.
D．To emphasize the significance of data.
10.【河北省衡水市冀州区第一中学2022届高三上学期期末】
The idea of low material desire, low consumption and refusing to work, marry and have
children, concluded as a “lying down” lifestyle, recently struck a chord with many young Chinese
who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society.
Many millennials (千禧一代) and generation Zs complained to the Global Times that
burdens, including work stress, family disputes (纷争) and financial strains, have pushed them
“against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution (内卷),” joking that they would rather give
up some of what they have than get trapped in an endless competition against peers.
“Instead of always following the ‘virtues’ of struggle, endure and sacrifice to bear the stresses,
they prefer a temporary lying down as catharsis (宣泄) and adjustment,” said a scholar. “It is no
wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the
mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of millennials and Gen Zs reached by the Global Times, who claim
to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, acknowledged that they only accept a temporary
lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some
Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard
work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel
guilty about their constant loss of morale (士气) far beyond their reach.
“Young people on campus have both aspirations and confusion about their future, but most of
us have rejected setting ourselves up in chains to waste opportunities and challenges,” a
postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and
face the reality sooner or later.”
1．What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 1 mean?
A．Warned.
C．Touched.
B．Criticized.
D．Amused.
2．What might have caused the “lying down” lifestyle among the young?
A．Improvements in living conditions.
B．Growing pressure from family and social life.
C．Increasing material possessions from families.
D．Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions.
3．What’s the scholar’s attitude toward the “lying down” group?
A．Understanding.
C．Supportive.
B．Intolerant.
D．Unclear.
4．What can be inferred about the young generation from the text?
A．They never really drop their responsibilities.
B．They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle.
C．They find their dreams far beyond their reach.
D．They would rather escape than take challenges.
2024年2月20日发(作者：段干华)
考点17--词义猜测之猜测句子的意思--练模拟--熟能生巧
1.【2022届山西省山西大学附属中学校高三5月三模】
Please don't feel singled out, special, or view yourself as a chosen one. She bites everyone.
This is just the nature of the beast. There is absolutely no truth to the persistent myths that
mosquitoes fancy females over males; that they prefer blondes and redheads over those with
darker hair；or that the darker or rougher your skin, the safer you are from her bite. It is true,
however, that she does play favorites and feasts on some more than others.
Blood type O seems to be the choice over types A and B or AB．People with blood type O get
bitten twice as often as those with type A, with type B falling somewhere in between.
Those who have higher natural levels of certain chemicals in their skin, particularly lactic
acid
（乳酸），also seem to be more attractive. From these elements, she can analyze which blood
type you are. These are the same chemicals that determine an individual’s level of skin bacteria
and unique body smell.
Mosquitoes are also attracted by perfumes, soaps, and other applied fragrances. While this
may seem unfair to many of you, she also has a desire for beer drinkers.
Wearing bright colors is also not a wise choice, since she hunts by both sight and smell, the
latter depending chiefly on the amount of carbon dioxide sent out by the potential target. So she
can smell carbon dioxide from over 200 feet away. When you exercise, for example, you emit
more carbon dioxide through both breath and output. You also sweat, releasing those appetizing
chemicals, primarily lactic acid, that invites the mosquito's attention.
Lastly, your body temperature rises, which is an easily identifiable heat signature. On average,
pregnant women suffer twice as many bites, as they have a slightly raised body temperature.
Please don't go on a shower, exercise or give up your beloved beer and bright T-shirts just yet.
Unfortunately, 85% of what makes you attractive to mosquitoes is fixed in advance in your genetic
circuit board
（电路板）.At the end of the day, she will find blood from any exposed target of
opportunity.
12．What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A．To explain the reasons for mosquito bites.
B．To introduce a new discovery to the readers.
C．To prove that everyone suffers mosquito bites.
D．To arouse the interest of the readers in the topic.
13．Which element has nothing to do with mosquito bites?
A．Blood type.
C．Color of clothes.
B．Chemicals of bacteria.
D．Body temperature.
14．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A．All the mosquito bites are caused by your genetic circuit board.
B．Your blood will be targeted by mosquitoes at every opportunity.
C．Mosquito bites can be avoided if you give up some relevant habits.
D．Your genes determine your attractiveness to mosquitoes to a great extent.
15．What is the most suitable title for the passage?
A．Keep off Mosquitoes
C．Why are You a Mosquito Feeder
B．Mosquito Bites Let Nobody off
D．Mosquitoes, a Threat to Our Health
2.【2022届河北衡水中学高考英语押题卷1】
Crowing up in a village in eastern Nepal’s Bhojpur Mountains, Mira Rai had dreams that
went far beyond the traditional expectations for Nepali women. The eldest daughter of five
children, she was expected to fetch water, tend crops and livestock, and help out at home. By age
12, she no longer regularly attended school, and instead carried heavy bags of rice up and down
steep trails — often barefoot — to trade at the market. It was hard work, but great training for a
future trail runner.
“As a girl,” Rai recalls, “I would constantly be told to know my place, lower my voice, and
act in a certain manner. For me, breaking free from these traditions itself was a big dream.”
Several years ago, Rai’s dream became reality. She was running outside Kathmandu when
two male trail runners invited her to enter her first trail race, the Kathmandu West Valley Rim 50K.
She had never run 50 kilometers before, had no special equipment or training for such a distance,
and was also the only woman in the competition. But despite all difficulties, she beat everyone —
even the men. From there, a community of runners came together to give her a chance to compete
in international trail running competitions.
Today, the running world recognizes Rai as a high-altitude trail racing talent. Now she is on a
mission to help both women and men of Nepal through sports. Rai believes her work to empower
others has just begun. “We have realized that Nepal has tremendous potential to develop
competitive athletes,” she says. Rai is blazing a trail, not just in terms of being able to speak
nationally on gender equality, but also by getting young people into running.
4．What can we learn about Mira Rai?
A．She won her first victory easily.
C．She dropped out of school at 12.
B．She gave up chasing her dream.
D．She benefited from her early life.
5．What was other runners’ attitude toward Mira Rai?
A．Doubtful. B．Supportive. C．Tolerant. D．Indifferent.
6．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A．She is pioneering in some areas.
C．She is getting professional training.
7．What is the best title of the passage?
A．A Defining Moment in Life B．A Fate-changing Trail Race
B．She is fighting for Nepalese rights.
D．She is setting new records in running.
C．A Fighter for Women’s Rights D．A Dream-pursuing Sky Runner
3.【2022届江西省萍乡市高三第一次质量检测】
Nothing energizes office workers more than complaining about meetings. And it seems some
of the world's greatest tech successes agree. Here's some of their advice.
Mark Zuckerberg: A decision or a discussion?
The Facebook CEO reportedly improved the effectiveness of meetings by asking managers to
explain the point of a meeting: to make a decision or to have a discussion.
"If there's no point, then there are no decisions," Microsoft founder Bill Gates might agree.
He is supposed to have said, "You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the
question."
Elon Musk: It is not rude to leave.
Elon Musk once sent out an email to staff in which he made some "recommendations".
"Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value," he
went on. "It is not rude to leave; it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time."
Jeff Bezos: The "two--pizza rule".
The Amazon founder meets investors for just six hours a year, and tries to avoid early
morning meetings.
Business Insider reports that Mr. Bezos also has a strict policy: Never have a meeting in
which you couldn't feed the whole group with two pizzas. The businessman believes small groups
are far more efficient than large ones, and the "two-pizza rule" helps him prevent large meetings.
Steve Jobs: No need for PowerPoint.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs shows the creative genius behind the iPhone
making an attack on slideshow users. "People who know what they are talking about don't need
PowerPoint," he said.
"Generally PowerPoint presentations are a great distraction(使人分心的事物), unless it's
data or a graph," said Professor Andre Spicer. "Long slides mean no information being conveyed."
1．What did Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both stress?
A．How to have a meeting.
C．The purpose of having a meeting.
2．Why was the "two-pizza rule" put forward?
A．To offer better services for a meeting.
C．To encourage short meetings.
B．To reduce the cost of a meeting.
D．To limit the size of a meeting.
B．When to have a meeting.
D．The importance of having a meeting.
3．From the underlined part in the last paragraph, Andre Spicer's opinion on slides is ______ .
A．less is more
C．something is better than nothing
B．the more the merrier
D．a picture is worth a thousand words
4.【2022届宁夏银川市高三质量检测（一模）】
Diane Henderiks, a former athlete, pursued a career in nutrition to combine her passions of
food, health and physical activity throughout her life. “The field of nutrition is so big,” she says. “I
found my place in teaching people how to cook and eat well.”
Attracted by media, specifically television, Henderiks made regular on-air appearances and
served as an editorial contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America. “From my first local TV
appearance, I knew this was going to be the medium for me to share my knowledge and skills with
a lot of people at one time,” she says.
As the host of the show Fresh to Frozen and Back, Henderiks uses her expertise as a
registered dietitian (营养师) and chef to create recipes with fresh and simple ingredients. “My
audience are home cooks and families who want to improve nutrition at home,” Henderiks. says.
“I believe simplicity is key. The first step to healthier eating is to try to eat as close to nature as
possible.”
Henderiks finds joy in cooking for family and friends, and also in volunteering and working
with nonprofit organizations. Beyond her TV show and volunteer work, Henderiks doescatering
(酒席承办) and is a private chef. “The positive feedback I receive is that organizations, TV shows
and individuals all love my passion for cooking,” she says. “The lasting impressions and solid
relationships speak for themselves.”
A true inspiration to fellow nutrition professionals and students, Henderiks presents this
encouraging advice, “Follow your passion and never give up. Volunteer and give back as much as
you can to organizations that mean something to you. Work very hard to be one of the go to
experts in nutrition!”
4．What can we learn about Henderiks?
A．She is pursuing a career in athletics.
B．She dislikes sharing cooking knowledge.
C．She enjoys spreading cooking skills on TV.
D．She founded a new school to teach cooking.
5．According to Henderiks, what is the first step to healthy eating?
A．Eating natural food.
C．Eating nutritious food.
B．Eating handmade food.
D．Eating expensive food.
6．What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 show?
A．Henderiks’s passion for cooking.
C．Henderiks’s popularity.
B．Advantages of TV shows.
D．Deliciousness of food.
7．Which of the following can best describe Henderiks?
A．Serious and passive.
C．Determined and controlled.
B．Careful and reliable.
D．Professional and passionate.
5.【2022届山东省潍坊市高三下学期3月高中学科核心素养测评】
In recent years, there has been a rise in the volume of audiobook sales, which is easily aided
by the dominance of the smartphone. Other contributors to the rise beyond technology?
One thing is obvious: Reading even a short book involves a significant investment of time
and prevents any other activity. You can’t drive or garden while reading. Andy Miller, the author
of The Year of Reading Dangerously, said: “I was hunting for a book to read.” Kit Waal, my friend,
said, “you should get the audiobook Old Filth; it’s fantastic.” She was right. I could walk the dog
and still be reading a brilliant novel, or have one read to me brilliantly. I loved that book and I
loved that way of reading it. So I’m a recent convert.”
Does he worry audio provides too different an experience to reading itself? “Clearly on audio
you are at the mercy of the reader’s skills,” he says. “But then , ego (自己) aside, the same is true
of reading a book on the page. We’re all at the mercy of our own skills and tastes, aren’t we? But
on audio you are influenced by someone else’s interpretation. And you might simply dislike the
voice of the reader. But at its best audio offers a complementary (互补的) experience to the actual
book.”
Will audiobook distract us from the page before us? Better to focus on what we might gain.
As someone who frequently interviews authors on stage, I'm aware of the unique insight to a text
produced by hearing someone read their own work; I’ve frequently re-interpreted a passage after
such an experience. But that has had no impact on whether or not I'll read a book by a writer I will
never hear reading.
I once met the writer Don Delillo. In response to a question about the process of writing, he
remarked that he sometimes became attracted by the shape of particular letters, by the way
individual words appeared before him, their beauty beyond meaning and the relationship to
meaning. He sounded hippy-dippy; then it made perfect sense. Reading does start with shapes,
which slowly resolve to make a certain meaning, filtered through our own subjectivity and our
senses. That will never change.
8．What does Andy Miller mean by “I’m a recent convert” in paragraph 2?
A．I like the reader’s voice.
C．I fall in love with audiobook.
B．I enjoy my daily routines.
D．I am addicted to reading novels.
9．What does Andy Miller think of the audiobook?
A．It has a good voice.
C．It controls our skills and tastes.
B．It limits our interpretation.
D．It misleads our interpretation.
10．What is Don Delillo’s attitude to reading the actual book?
A．Unclear. B．Objective. C．Opposed. D．Favourable.
11．What is the best title of the text?
A．Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook?
B．The audiobook-a growing trend in reading
C．Slow reading-the decline of the actual book?
D．A new experience: the appearance of audiobook
6.【2022届四川省攀枝花市高三第二次统一考试】
“I’m not a reader.” It’s a common reply that Julia Torres, a teacher-librarian in Denver Public
School, has heard throughout her 16-year career. She’s seen students tear up books, throw them
away or check them out only to immediately return them all because they didn’t have confidence
in their ability to read.
As a librarian, Torres feels strongly that libraries should be spaces of liberation, places where
students can develop a love of reading at any stage. Reading is a skill that everyone can grow to
love, but too many negative experiences during a child’s literacy (读写能力) education can result
in boredom, lack of interest or even anger. When a student has a poor experience like being
shamed for their reading choices, they can begin to associate reading with painful feelings of
insecurity, shame and stress.
To prevent reading disorder (阅读障碍) practices, as Torres notes, librarians first can build an
inclusive (内容丰富的) library where classified collections can make it easier for students to find
out the books they want and also help identify gaps in the collections. Reevaluating librarians’ role
is necessary, which allows students to take control of the library and have a say in what’s
purchased for the collection, directly exciting students’ reading interest. Instead of hosting
traditional book fairs where students have to pay for books, it is better to open up a True Book Fair,
where students are invited to choose books intentionally to their interests without any costs.
Librarians are recommended to read what students are reading. Another two important approaches
to preventing reading disorder are to take a look at the library policies and redefine (重新定义)
what counts as reading. It is necessary to get rid of fines, check-out limits, security gates, and
punishment policies. Plus, students are encouraged to listen to audiobooks or read picture books.
Find a way to teach important skills like comprehension or critical thinking with the texts that
excite and interest students.
4．What does the underlined sentence “I’m not a reader” in Paragraph 1 infer?
A．Some students are not interested in reading.
B．Some students have no ability to read books.
C．Some students don’t borrow books from the library.
D．Some students haven’t tried to read for entertainment.
5．What is directly linked with exciting students’ reading interests?
A．Getting rid of library rules.
C．Librarians’ recommendation.
6．What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．What leads to students’ difficulty in reading.
B．How negative reading experiences affect students.
B．Making their own choices.
D．Reducing charges caused by reading.
C．How to reduce reading disorder as student librarians.
D．Why to decrease reading disorder as student librarians.
7．What is the author’s purpose of writing the text?
A．To do a research on reading disorder.
B．To offer suggestions to the librarians.
C．To analyze why reading disorder forms.
D．To draw attention to reading disorder prevention.
7.【2022届新疆维吾尔自治区高三年级第二次诊断性测试】
Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I
have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.
In recent years, stress has been regarded as a cause of a whole range of medical problems,
from high blood pressure to mental illness.
But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm. It is time you
considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve little. If you are stuck at
home with no stress, then your level of performance will be low. Up to a certain point, the more
stress you are under, the better your performance will be.
Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally
a breakdown. You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking
yourself a number of questions. Do you, for instance, feel that too much is being expected of you,
and yet find it impossible to say no? Do you find yourself getting impatient or annoyed with
people over unimportant things?... If the answer to all those questions is yes, you had better
control your stress, as you probably are under more stress than is good for you.
To some extend you can control the amount of stress in your life. Doctors have worked out a
chart showing how much stress is involved in various events. Getting married is 50, pregnaney 40,
moving house 20, Christmas 12, etc. If the total stress in your life is over 150, you are twice as
likely to get ill.
4．What can we learn about the stress from Paragraph 2?
A．It makes you expect too much.
B．It lets you never say “no” when asked for.
C．It can prevent you from getting angry easily.
D．It may let you have got the sickness of high blood.
5．Which can best explain the sentence “If there were no stress in your life, you would achieve
little.”?
A．The more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.
B．With much stress, your level of performance will be low.
C．It’s time for you to control your stress.
D．Too much stress is harmful.
6．If the total stress in your life is 160, what does that mean?
A．You are fine.
C．You are likely to have medical problems.
7．What does the text mainly talk about?
A．An unknown word “stress”.
C．Various events.
B．Stress — good or bad?
D．The cause of high blood.
B．Everything is OK.
D．You have nothing to worry about.
8.【2023届四川省内江市高中新高三零模考试】
Famous for its tolerance (宽容) as well as its narrow houses and broad canals (运河),
Amsterdam is undergoing a change of attitude when it comes to the millions of tourists that come
to see it each year. Tolerance has reached its limits in the capital of Dutch, which is now actively
urging visitors to head elsewhere.
Ellen van Loon, a partner at Dutch architectural firm OMA says, “We don’t want to turn into
a Venice. While tourism earns the Dutch economy around 82 billion Euros a year, the problem we
are currently facing is that Amsterdam is so loved by tourists, we just have so many coming to the
city.”
Netherlands tourist officials recently took the decision to stop advertising the country as a
tourist destination. Their “Perspective 2030” report, published earlier this year, stated that the
focus will now be on “destination management” rather than “destination promoting”. The
document also describes the country’s future strategy, acknowledging that Amsterdam’s livability
will be severely influenced by “visitor overload” if action isn’t taken.
Solutions (解决办法) listed include working to discourage groups of visitors by either
limiting or completely shutting down accommodation and entertainment products aimed at them,
as well as spreading visitors to other parts of the Netherlands. Some of these measures have
already come into play. Last year, the famous “I Amsterdam” sign was removed from outside the
Rijksmuseum, the city’s main art gallery. The two-meter high letters have been moved to various
“lesser-known neighborhoods” in order to entice travelers to leave the center of the city.
But will the measures being put in place be enough to save it from being damaged by its own
success? Like many other locals, Van Loon fears Amsterdam has lost its uniqueness forever. “The
reason tourists come here is that there’s something in the character of Amsterdam they love,” she
explains. “But at a certain point, when the number of tourists is increasing and increasing, they
actually kill what they loved in the first place.”
8．What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 indicate?
A．Amsterdam doesn’t necessarily copy Venice.
B．Venice does more poorly than Amsterdam.
C．Amsterdam is more popular than Venice.
D．Venice is suffering from over-tourism.
9．Why did Amsterdam advise visitors to head elsewhere?
A．To avoid much spending on city management.
B．To turn the focus on destination promoting.
C．To promote the development of other areas.
D．To reduce its pressure of mass visitors.
10．What does the underlined word entice in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Promise. B．Persuade. C．Inform. D．Allow.
11．What’s Van Loon’s attitude to the measure?
A．Skeptical. B．Intolerant. C．Ambiguous. D．Positive.
9.
【山东省济南市2022届高三年级1月学情检测（一模）】
When people hear “Artificial Intelligence (AI),” many think of big data. The reason is that
some of the most significant AI breakthroughs have relied on enormous data sets. But AI is not
only about large data sets, and research in small data approaches in the past decade has grown
extensively, with Transfer Learning (TL) (迁移学习) as an especially promising example, which
is helpful in settings where you have few data on the task of interest but sufficient data on a
related problem.
Small data approaches like TL offer numerous advantages over more data-intensive methods.
By the use of AI with fewer data, they can facilitate progress in areas where few or no data exist,
such as in forecasting natural disasters that occur relatively rarely. More importantly, TL is of great
help in terms of generalization. A challenge in the use of AI is that models need to generalize
beyond their training data—that is, to give good “answers” to a more general set of “questions”
than what they were specifically trained on. TL models work by transferring knowledge from one
task to another, so they are very helpful in improving generalization in the new task, even if only
limited data are available.
AI experts such as Andrew Ng have stated that the approach will be the next driver of getting
machine learning success in industry. There are some early signs of successful adoption and it has
been applied for cancer discovery and much more.
Despite the increase in research, TL has received relatively little visibility. While many
machine learning experts and data scientists are familiar with it, techniques such as TL do not
seem to have reached the awareness of the broader space of policy makers and business leaders in
positions of making important decisions about AI funding and adoption.
By acknowledging the success of small data techniques like TL and supporting their
widespread use, we can help overcome some widespread misconceptions regarding the role of
data in AI and promote innovation in new directions.
1．What does the author think of TL?
A．It is a potential technique.
B．It is of help in large data sets.
C．It is an important AI breakthrough.
D．It is a reliable solution to multitasks.
2．In which aspect does TL show its advantages?
A．Acquiring knowledge.
B．Discovering questions.
C．Collecting training data.
D．Improving generalization.
3．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A．TL has little value.
B．TL is a heated topic.
C．TL draws public attention.
D．TL is not well recognized.
4．What’s the purpose of this text?
A．To clarify some misconceptions.
B．To introduce a small data approach.
C．To predict the promising future of AI.
D．To emphasize the significance of data.
10.【河北省衡水市冀州区第一中学2022届高三上学期期末】
The idea of low material desire, low consumption and refusing to work, marry and have
children, concluded as a “lying down” lifestyle, recently struck a chord with many young Chinese
who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society.
Many millennials (千禧一代) and generation Zs complained to the Global Times that
burdens, including work stress, family disputes (纷争) and financial strains, have pushed them
“against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution (内卷),” joking that they would rather give
up some of what they have than get trapped in an endless competition against peers.
“Instead of always following the ‘virtues’ of struggle, endure and sacrifice to bear the stresses,
they prefer a temporary lying down as catharsis (宣泄) and adjustment,” said a scholar. “It is no
wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the
mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of millennials and Gen Zs reached by the Global Times, who claim
to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, acknowledged that they only accept a temporary
lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some
Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard
work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel
guilty about their constant loss of morale (士气) far beyond their reach.
“Young people on campus have both aspirations and confusion about their future, but most of
us have rejected setting ourselves up in chains to waste opportunities and challenges,” a
postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and
face the reality sooner or later.”
1．What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 1 mean?
A．Warned.
C．Touched.
B．Criticized.
D．Amused.
2．What might have caused the “lying down” lifestyle among the young?
A．Improvements in living conditions.
B．Growing pressure from family and social life.
C．Increasing material possessions from families.
D．Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions.
3．What’s the scholar’s attitude toward the “lying down” group?
A．Understanding.
C．Supportive.
B．Intolerant.
D．Unclear.
4．What can be inferred about the young generation from the text?
A．They never really drop their responsibilities.
B．They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle.
C．They find their dreams far beyond their reach.
D．They would rather escape than take challenges.