2024年5月31日发(作者：束小星)
2022-2023
学年广东省珠海市第一中学高三上学期
11
月月考英语试题
1.
Most Helpful Apps for Students
There's almost an app for everything nowadays, and this can make student life easier, cheaper, safer
and more fun. Whether you want help with taking notes, revising, waking up on time or keeping fit
，
read on for our student app picks
．
Lecture recording apps
Just a few years ago, students attending lectures would have to spend the entire time writing wildly
on notepads, in order not to miss any vital bit of information. Then along came technology, and now
，
lecture recording apps are a reality.
Sound Note is a popular lecture recording app for iPad users. You can store an entire lecture in both
visual and audio form. Other good quality lecture recording apps include Notes Plus and Audio
Memos Free—The Voice Recorder.
Student planner apps
Organization is key for success and well-being at university, and student planner apps are becoming
increasingly popular. As well as saving on paper, many student planner apps also send reminders
and warnings straight to your phone or device. Popular student planner apps include Timetable, My
Class Schedule and Class Timetable.
Student safety apps
A number of apps for students have been developed promoting personal safety if out alone at night.
The Circle of Six app is particularly useful for locating lost friends on nights out and also allows
users to send their circle of six friends an instant call for help at the touch of a button. The GPS
tracker will mark your location on your friends" devices, ensuring you'll always be able to find one
another if necessary. Other student apps that promote safety include bSafe and React Mobile.
Healthy eating apps
If you're interested in eating healthily while keeping to a student budget, consider downloading a
few healthy eating apps. Examples I've come across which are perfect apps for students include
Rockin Ramen
，
a student app featuring a number of nutritious recipes with Ramen as a main
ingredient, and MealBoard, an app which plans healthy meals, grocery shops and recipes based on
what you've got in the fridge.
1. Which apps send reminders to users?
A
．
Student planner apps.
C
．
Student safety apps.
2. What can we learn about the Circle of Six app?
A
．
It allows users to seek help during an emergency.
B
．
Lecture recording apps.
D
．
Healthy eating apps.
B
．
It encourages users to communicate with friends.
C
．
It enables users to store an entire lecture.
D
．
It helps users to lead a healthy life.
3. The main purpose of the passage is to .
A
．
categorize apps
C
．
evaluate apps
2. In my mind, the effect that experience had on me lasted forever. I was determined to learn
swimming at the age of ten. There was a pool, at the K.P.L.B., offering the opportunity. My mother
constantly warned against it, and bore fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river.
But the K.P.L. B. pool was safe.
My fear of water started from childhood. It began when I was four years old and father took me to
the beach. There the huge waves knocked me down and swept over me.
The K.P.L.B. pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to
wait for others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With
that he picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed
water. But I was not frightened out of my wits—when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big
jump, come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed
and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but
water. I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly. When I came to
consciousness, I found myself on the bed in the hospital.
I never went back to the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me
as the years rolled by. It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get
an instructor. Piece by piece, I practiced hard and finally he built a swimmer. Several months later,
the instruction was finished, but I was not. Sometimes the terror would return.
This went on till July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I
was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed
and said, “Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?”
I had conquered my fear of water.
1. Why was the author frightened of water originally?
A
．
His swimming skill was very poor.
B
．
An experience at the beach affected him.
C
．
He had an unpleasant memory of the pool at the age of four.
D
．
His mother warned him about the danger of being drowned.
2. Which of the following is right about the author’s experience in the K.P.L.B. pool?
B
．
introduce apps
D
．
compare apps
A
．
The experience made him aware that the pool was safe.
B
．
The big boy eagerly helped him conquer the fear of water.
C
．
When thrown into water, he knew someone would save him
D
．
While he had no skill in swimming, he struggled to go upwards.
3. Which of the following can be used to describe the author?
A
．
Diligent and cautious.
C
．
Dependable and adaptable.
4. What does the author try to tell us?
A
．
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
B
．
Do one thing at a time, and do well.
C
．
Deed divides beings into lower and higher ones.
D
．
Success always comes from daring to challenge.
3. Being highly connected to a strong social network has its benefits. Now a new study is showing
the same goes for trees, thanks to their underground neighbors. The study is the first to show that the
growth of adult trees is linked to their participation in fungal (
真菌
) networks living in the forest soil.
Though past research has focused on young trees, these findings give new insight into the
importance of fungal networks to older trees — which are more environmentally beneficial for
functions like capturing carbon.
“Large trees make up the main part of the forest, so they drive what the forest is doing,” said
researcher Joseph Birch, who led the study. When they live in the forest soil, fungal networks act as
a sort of highway, allowing water, nutrients and compounds to flow back and forth among the trees.
The network also helps nutrients flow to resource-limited trees like family units that support one
another in times of stress.
Cores taken from 350 Douglas firs (
花旗松
) showed that annual tree ring growth was related to the
extent of fungal connections a tree had with other trees. They had much higher growth than
those
that had only a few connections. The research also showed that trees with more connections to many
unique fungi had much greater growth than those with only one or two connections. “If you have
this network that is helping trees grow faster, that helps capture more carbon year after year. These
networks may help trees grow more steadily even as conditions become more stressful, and could
even help protect them against death.” said Birch.
Birch hopes his findings lead to further studies in different kinds of forests in other geographical
areas, because it’s likely that the connections among trees change from year to year. He said,
“Knowing whether fungal networks are operating the same way in other tree species could inform
how we reforest areas after harvesting them, and inform how we plant trees to preserve these
networks.”
1. In what way do the new findings differ from the previous ones?
B
．
Determined and grateful.
D
．
Humorous and courageous.
A
．
They reveal the value of fungal networks to adult trees.
B
．
They clarify misunderstandings of fungal networks.
C
．
They demonstrate a new way to capture carbon.
D
．
They confirm the benefits of fungal networks.
2. How do fungal networks help trees?
A
．
By acting as the center of family units.
B
．
By maintaining the balance of resources.
C
．
By fighting against diseases.
D
．
By bettering forest soil conditions.
3. What does the underlined “those” refer to in Paragraph 3?
A
．
Tree rings.
B
．
Cores from Douglas firs.
C
．
Douglas firs.
D
．
Fungal networks.
4. What can be inferred from what Joseph Birch has put?
A
．
The fungal networks support one another in times of stress.
B
．
The fungal networks enable us to know more about reforestation.
C
．
The findings can apply to different kinds of forests in other geographical areas.
D
．
The fungal networks will help trees grow more steadily if conditions become more stressful.
4. Albert Einstein’s 1915 masterpiece The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity is the first
and still the best introduction to the subject, but it probably wouldn’t be publishable in a scientific
journal today. Why not? After all, it undoubtedly would pass the tests of correctness and
significance. And while it’s believed that the paper was incomprehensible to its first readers, in fact
many papers in theoretical physics are much more difficult. As the physicist Richard Feynman wrote,
“There was a time when the newspapers said that only 1.2 men understood the theory of relativity,
which is not true. After reading the paper, a lot of people understood the theory of relativity in some
way or other, certainly more than 1.2.”
No, the problem is its style. It starts with a leisurely philosophical discussion of space and time and
then continues with an explanation of known mathematics. Those two sections, which would be
considered extraneous today, take up half the paper. Worse, there are zero citations of previous
scientists’ work, nor are there any graphs. Those features might make a paper not even get past the
first editors.
A similar process of professionalisation has transformed other parts of the scientific landscape.
Requests for research time at major laboratories are more strictly structured. And anything involving
work with human objects, or putting instruments in space, involves piles of paperwork.
We see it also in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the Nobel Prize of high school science
competitions. In the early decades of its history, the winning projects were usually the sort of clever
but naive, amateurish efforts one might expect of talented beginners working on their own. Today,
polished work coming out of internships at established laboratories is the norm.
These professionalising tendencies are a natural consequence of the explosive growth of modem
science. Standardisation and system make it easier to manage the rapid flow of papers, applications
and people. But there are serious downsides. A lot of unproductive effort goes into jumping through
bureaucratic hoops(
繁文缛节
).
Of course, Einstein would have found his way to meeting modern standards and publishing his
results. Its scientific core wouldn’t have changed, but the paper might not be the same taste to read.
1. According to Richard Feynman, which statement about Einstein’s 1915 paper is true?
A
．
It attracted few professionals.
C
．
It needed further improvement.
B
．
It turned out to be comprehensible.
D
．
It was a classic in theoretical physics.
2. What does the underlined word “extraneous” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A
．
Unrealistic. B
．
Imprecise. C
．
Unattractive. D
．
Irrelevant.
3. According to the author, what is affected as modern science develops?
A
．
The selection of young talents.
C
．
The principle of scientific research.
4. Which would be the best title for this passage?
A
．
How to write quality papers?
C
．
Could Einstein get published today?
5. Supporting Others
We’re always being told that the secret to happiness lies in helping others. Indeed, it’s natural to
want to support those we care about, especially if we are in a position to do so. 1
When we offer support, it may not always be wanted. 2 In this case, offering support in the manner
of “... if l were you, I would ...” can feel like a scolding rather than support. If our support feels
conditional, it can feel burdensome.
3 When someone is trying to manage illness or a house move, just saying “What would help you
today?” can be amazingly supportive. Or, suggest what you can do for them: picking up some
shopping, taking the dog for a walk. Even if it’s not needed, just knowing you’ ve been thought of
can be supportive in itself.
B
．
Will science be professionalised?
D
．
How will modern science make advances?
B
．
The evaluation of laboratories.
D
．
The application of research findings.
2024年5月31日发(作者：束小星)
2022-2023
学年广东省珠海市第一中学高三上学期
11
月月考英语试题
1.
Most Helpful Apps for Students
There's almost an app for everything nowadays, and this can make student life easier, cheaper, safer
and more fun. Whether you want help with taking notes, revising, waking up on time or keeping fit
，
read on for our student app picks
．
Lecture recording apps
Just a few years ago, students attending lectures would have to spend the entire time writing wildly
on notepads, in order not to miss any vital bit of information. Then along came technology, and now
，
lecture recording apps are a reality.
Sound Note is a popular lecture recording app for iPad users. You can store an entire lecture in both
visual and audio form. Other good quality lecture recording apps include Notes Plus and Audio
Memos Free—The Voice Recorder.
Student planner apps
Organization is key for success and well-being at university, and student planner apps are becoming
increasingly popular. As well as saving on paper, many student planner apps also send reminders
and warnings straight to your phone or device. Popular student planner apps include Timetable, My
Class Schedule and Class Timetable.
Student safety apps
A number of apps for students have been developed promoting personal safety if out alone at night.
The Circle of Six app is particularly useful for locating lost friends on nights out and also allows
users to send their circle of six friends an instant call for help at the touch of a button. The GPS
tracker will mark your location on your friends" devices, ensuring you'll always be able to find one
another if necessary. Other student apps that promote safety include bSafe and React Mobile.
Healthy eating apps
If you're interested in eating healthily while keeping to a student budget, consider downloading a
few healthy eating apps. Examples I've come across which are perfect apps for students include
Rockin Ramen
，
a student app featuring a number of nutritious recipes with Ramen as a main
ingredient, and MealBoard, an app which plans healthy meals, grocery shops and recipes based on
what you've got in the fridge.
1. Which apps send reminders to users?
A
．
Student planner apps.
C
．
Student safety apps.
2. What can we learn about the Circle of Six app?
A
．
It allows users to seek help during an emergency.
B
．
Lecture recording apps.
D
．
Healthy eating apps.
B
．
It encourages users to communicate with friends.
C
．
It enables users to store an entire lecture.
D
．
It helps users to lead a healthy life.
3. The main purpose of the passage is to .
A
．
categorize apps
C
．
evaluate apps
2. In my mind, the effect that experience had on me lasted forever. I was determined to learn
swimming at the age of ten. There was a pool, at the K.P.L.B., offering the opportunity. My mother
constantly warned against it, and bore fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river.
But the K.P.L. B. pool was safe.
My fear of water started from childhood. It began when I was four years old and father took me to
the beach. There the huge waves knocked me down and swept over me.
The K.P.L.B. pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to
wait for others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With
that he picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed
water. But I was not frightened out of my wits—when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big
jump, come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed
and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but
water. I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly. When I came to
consciousness, I found myself on the bed in the hospital.
I never went back to the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me
as the years rolled by. It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get
an instructor. Piece by piece, I practiced hard and finally he built a swimmer. Several months later,
the instruction was finished, but I was not. Sometimes the terror would return.
This went on till July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I
was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed
and said, “Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?”
I had conquered my fear of water.
1. Why was the author frightened of water originally?
A
．
His swimming skill was very poor.
B
．
An experience at the beach affected him.
C
．
He had an unpleasant memory of the pool at the age of four.
D
．
His mother warned him about the danger of being drowned.
2. Which of the following is right about the author’s experience in the K.P.L.B. pool?
B
．
introduce apps
D
．
compare apps
A
．
The experience made him aware that the pool was safe.
B
．
The big boy eagerly helped him conquer the fear of water.
C
．
When thrown into water, he knew someone would save him
D
．
While he had no skill in swimming, he struggled to go upwards.
3. Which of the following can be used to describe the author?
A
．
Diligent and cautious.
C
．
Dependable and adaptable.
4. What does the author try to tell us?
A
．
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
B
．
Do one thing at a time, and do well.
C
．
Deed divides beings into lower and higher ones.
D
．
Success always comes from daring to challenge.
3. Being highly connected to a strong social network has its benefits. Now a new study is showing
the same goes for trees, thanks to their underground neighbors. The study is the first to show that the
growth of adult trees is linked to their participation in fungal (
真菌
) networks living in the forest soil.
Though past research has focused on young trees, these findings give new insight into the
importance of fungal networks to older trees — which are more environmentally beneficial for
functions like capturing carbon.
“Large trees make up the main part of the forest, so they drive what the forest is doing,” said
researcher Joseph Birch, who led the study. When they live in the forest soil, fungal networks act as
a sort of highway, allowing water, nutrients and compounds to flow back and forth among the trees.
The network also helps nutrients flow to resource-limited trees like family units that support one
another in times of stress.
Cores taken from 350 Douglas firs (
花旗松
) showed that annual tree ring growth was related to the
extent of fungal connections a tree had with other trees. They had much higher growth than
those
that had only a few connections. The research also showed that trees with more connections to many
unique fungi had much greater growth than those with only one or two connections. “If you have
this network that is helping trees grow faster, that helps capture more carbon year after year. These
networks may help trees grow more steadily even as conditions become more stressful, and could
even help protect them against death.” said Birch.
Birch hopes his findings lead to further studies in different kinds of forests in other geographical
areas, because it’s likely that the connections among trees change from year to year. He said,
“Knowing whether fungal networks are operating the same way in other tree species could inform
how we reforest areas after harvesting them, and inform how we plant trees to preserve these
networks.”
1. In what way do the new findings differ from the previous ones?
B
．
Determined and grateful.
D
．
Humorous and courageous.
A
．
They reveal the value of fungal networks to adult trees.
B
．
They clarify misunderstandings of fungal networks.
C
．
They demonstrate a new way to capture carbon.
D
．
They confirm the benefits of fungal networks.
2. How do fungal networks help trees?
A
．
By acting as the center of family units.
B
．
By maintaining the balance of resources.
C
．
By fighting against diseases.
D
．
By bettering forest soil conditions.
3. What does the underlined “those” refer to in Paragraph 3?
A
．
Tree rings.
B
．
Cores from Douglas firs.
C
．
Douglas firs.
D
．
Fungal networks.
4. What can be inferred from what Joseph Birch has put?
A
．
The fungal networks support one another in times of stress.
B
．
The fungal networks enable us to know more about reforestation.
C
．
The findings can apply to different kinds of forests in other geographical areas.
D
．
The fungal networks will help trees grow more steadily if conditions become more stressful.
4. Albert Einstein’s 1915 masterpiece The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity is the first
and still the best introduction to the subject, but it probably wouldn’t be publishable in a scientific
journal today. Why not? After all, it undoubtedly would pass the tests of correctness and
significance. And while it’s believed that the paper was incomprehensible to its first readers, in fact
many papers in theoretical physics are much more difficult. As the physicist Richard Feynman wrote,
“There was a time when the newspapers said that only 1.2 men understood the theory of relativity,
which is not true. After reading the paper, a lot of people understood the theory of relativity in some
way or other, certainly more than 1.2.”
No, the problem is its style. It starts with a leisurely philosophical discussion of space and time and
then continues with an explanation of known mathematics. Those two sections, which would be
considered extraneous today, take up half the paper. Worse, there are zero citations of previous
scientists’ work, nor are there any graphs. Those features might make a paper not even get past the
first editors.
A similar process of professionalisation has transformed other parts of the scientific landscape.
Requests for research time at major laboratories are more strictly structured. And anything involving
work with human objects, or putting instruments in space, involves piles of paperwork.
We see it also in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the Nobel Prize of high school science
competitions. In the early decades of its history, the winning projects were usually the sort of clever
but naive, amateurish efforts one might expect of talented beginners working on their own. Today,
polished work coming out of internships at established laboratories is the norm.
These professionalising tendencies are a natural consequence of the explosive growth of modem
science. Standardisation and system make it easier to manage the rapid flow of papers, applications
and people. But there are serious downsides. A lot of unproductive effort goes into jumping through
bureaucratic hoops(
繁文缛节
).
Of course, Einstein would have found his way to meeting modern standards and publishing his
results. Its scientific core wouldn’t have changed, but the paper might not be the same taste to read.
1. According to Richard Feynman, which statement about Einstein’s 1915 paper is true?
A
．
It attracted few professionals.
C
．
It needed further improvement.
B
．
It turned out to be comprehensible.
D
．
It was a classic in theoretical physics.
2. What does the underlined word “extraneous” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A
．
Unrealistic. B
．
Imprecise. C
．
Unattractive. D
．
Irrelevant.
3. According to the author, what is affected as modern science develops?
A
．
The selection of young talents.
C
．
The principle of scientific research.
4. Which would be the best title for this passage?
A
．
How to write quality papers?
C
．
Could Einstein get published today?
5. Supporting Others
We’re always being told that the secret to happiness lies in helping others. Indeed, it’s natural to
want to support those we care about, especially if we are in a position to do so. 1
When we offer support, it may not always be wanted. 2 In this case, offering support in the manner
of “... if l were you, I would ...” can feel like a scolding rather than support. If our support feels
conditional, it can feel burdensome.
3 When someone is trying to manage illness or a house move, just saying “What would help you
today?” can be amazingly supportive. Or, suggest what you can do for them: picking up some
shopping, taking the dog for a walk. Even if it’s not needed, just knowing you’ ve been thought of
can be supportive in itself.
B
．
Will science be professionalised?
D
．
How will modern science make advances?
B
．
The evaluation of laboratories.
D
．
The application of research findings.