2024年6月4日发(作者：赫连阳曜)
2022-2023
学年湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学高一下学期期中英语试题
1.
The 3 best cameras to film a TikTok
While a high-end smartphone can record TikToks at a capable quality, using a camera has several
advantages. They usually have interchangeable lenses and better dynamic range. They also have
high image quality. Here are the 3 best TikTok cameras to create wonderful content with:
1. Canon Powershot G7X Mark III
The Canon Powershot G7X Mark III is an outstanding high-end pocket camera. The 1-inch sensor
and Digic 8 processor capture stunning 4K video clips up to 10 minutes long. This pocket camera
can livestream directly to YouTube and has a flip-out screen for a pleasant vlogging (
拍摄并上传视
频
) experience.
Advantages
Impressive color
Live video streaming
Flip LCD, ideal for vlogging
Disadvantages
Below average battery life, up to an hour
10 minute limit on 4K video
2. Panasonic Lumix GH5
Panasonic Lumix GH5 is an outstanding mirrorless camera that steadily drops in price. It boasts
excellent low-light performances. If you’re looking for a camera that is great for TikTok but also
captures beautiful stills (
剧照
), consider the GH5.
Advantages
Breathtaking image quality
Affordable for a mirrorless
Almost no noise
Disadvantages
Fairly large and heavy
Below average battery life, up to 120 minutes
3. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K is no toy and it’s not for beginners. It’s a camera with
excellent build and controls. With an incredible dynamic range, the BPCC 6K captures stunning
color with a great light sensitivity range. It’s the best camera for the most experienced content
creator.
Advantages
Best of the best
Outstanding build and controls
Compatible with a range of Canon EF lenses
Disadvantages
Price tag to match the skills
Complex for TikTok
What’s next?
Let’s get started! Entertain and amaze your viewers with the best content on TikTok in 2023. If you
are unsure where to start, click on how to use TikTok for a step-by-step guide.
1. What belongs to the advantage of Panasonic Lumix GH5?
A
．
Flip-out screens.
C
．
Small size and light weight.
B
．
Excellent build and controls
D
．
Excellent low-light performances.
2. Who would you recommend Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K to?
A
．
Those who enjoy vlogging. B
．
Those who are senior photographers.
C
．
Those who just get started in photography. D
．
Those who are unwilling to spend much
money.
3. Where can you see the text probably?
A
．
On a website.
C
．
In a newspaper.
2. Sirine Jahangir has been singing, writing and performing music since she was a little girl. She lost
all her vision in one eye by the time she turned 5, so now the teen uses her gift “as a way to —not
escape, but to help me through.” Not only did her passion get her through some difficult times, but
when she was 14 it also brought her to the “Britain’s Got Talent” stage, where she impressed
everyone with her performance.
Sirine has a rare condition that left her completely blind by the time she was 10 years old. While her
parents and doctors have tried to find treatments for her, there isn’t much they can do. So her parents
focused on helping her adjust to her new life, which was when her dad said she was first introduced
to music. “I remember one day, we were driving in the car. This is about when she was getting to the
stage where she couldn’t look out the window anymore to see things, and I didn’t know what to do. I
just put the music on really loud. She started singing in the car, and she was so happy. And then she
just found happiness every time I put it on,” her father said.
It didn’t take long for them to realize Sirine has tremendous talent. When she appeared on “Britain’s
Got Talent”, she told everyone just how much her passion means to her. “I guess music is my vision,”
B
．
In a magazine.
D
．
In a guidebook about cameras.
she said. “That’s just what I live by, and music is my thing.” Then she headed over to the piano,
where she played the piano and sang beautifully enough to bring the audience to tears!
Unsurprisingly to everyone but Sirine, all four judges voted her into the next round of the
competition!
Afterward, she said, “I can’t even say it’s a dream come true, because I didn’t even dream of it at
I never thought that would be realistic in my life.”
1. What helped Sirine get through her difficult times?
A
．
Britain’s Got Talent.
C
．
Support from her parents and doctors.
2. What can we learn from the passage?
A
．
Sirine displayed all her passion on stage. B
．
Sirine lost her sight totally at the age of
five.
D
．
Sirine was not surprised at the judges’
decision.
B
．
Her passion for music.
D
．
Encouragement from four judges.
C
．
Her parents focused on treatments all the
way.
3. What does the underlined “it” refer to in the second paragraph?
A
．
Music. B
．
Clothes. C
．
Talent. D
．
Microphone.
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the story?
A
．
Never give up your dream.
C
．
True happiness lies in competition.
3. I am standing next to a five-year old girl in Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal (
土著的
) community
in northern Australia. When I ask her to point north, she points precisely and without hesitation. My
compass says she is right. Later, back in a lecture hall at Stanford University, I make the same
request of an audience of excellent professors. Many refuse; they do not know the answer.
A five-year-old in one culture can do something with ease that great scientists in other cultures
struggle with. This is a big difference in cognitive (
认知的
) ability. What could explain it? The
surprising answer, it turns out, may be language.
Around the world people communicate with one another using a variety of languages— 7,000 or so
all told— and each language requires very different things from its speakers. For example, suppose I
want to tell you that I saw Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street. In Mian, a language spoken in Papua New
Guinea, the verb I used would reveal whether the event happened just now, yesterday or in the
distant past, whereas in Indonesia, the verb wouldn’t even give away whether it had already
happened or was still coming up. In Russian, the verb would reveal my gender.
Research in my lab and in many others has been uncovering how language shapes even the most
basic concept of human experience: space, time, and relationships to others. Unlike English, the
language spoken in Pormpuraaw does not use relative spatial terms such as left and right. Rather
speakers talk in terms of absolute directions. Of course, in English we also use direction terms but
B
．
Music lights up the world.
D
．
Life can be too good to be true.
only for large spatial scales (
标度
). We would not say, for example, “They set the salad forks
southeast of the dinner forks!” But in Pormpuraaw, absolute directions are used at all scales. This
means one ends up saying things like “the cup is southeast of the plate” or “the boy standing to the
south of Mary is my brother.”
1. How does the author mainly explain the role language plays in the different cognition?
A
．
By giving numbers.
C
．
By describing personal experiences.
B
．
By making comparisons.
D
．
By presenting different viewpoints.
2. What contributes to the girl’s success in pointing the direction?
A
．
Her training in Stanford University.
C
．
The language she speaks.
B
．
The challenge from professors.
D
．
The English culture she absorbs.
3. What can be shown from the verb used in the language Mian?
A
．
The time. B
．
The gender. C
．
The space. D
．
The event.
4. What is the author’s attitude towards the language spoken in Pormpuraaw?
A
．
Favorable.
4. In the book Consciousness Explained, the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett describes a kind of
fish, which wanders through the sea looking for a suitable rock to make its home for life. On finding
one, the fish no longer needs its brain and eats it. Humanity is unlikely to adopt such an eating habit
but there is a worrying trend that people are dumping themselves down by becoming overly
dependent on “intelligent” machines, especially when ChatGPT comes out.
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has drawn 1 million people to register during the first
week. Its allure is obvious: ChatGPT can produce jokes, write undergraduate essays and create
computer code from a short writing prompt (
提示
).
But this is a false impression. Computers have become more capable but they lack genuine thinking,
developed in humans through constant social practices. ChatGPT does not know what it is doing; it
is unable to say how or why it produced a response; and cannot tell if it is making sense. So why all
the fuss? Google’s new AI-powered search tool, Bard was released in March 2023, making its
ambition obvious in its promotional video. The profit-driven competition to fill our daily lives with
artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly fierce.
Humans have a long track of turning a blind eye to the risks of new breakthroughs. Web companies
want to draw their users to think extremely highly of their AI tools, encouraging humanity to think
them far beyond human’s cognitive competence. As we know, the rise of civilization through art and
agriculture contributes mostly to the remarkable human mental powers. No one knows what will
happen to such technologies if the software engineers of the future make themselves become
software programs. Maybe the danger is not machines being treated like humans, but humans being
treated like machines.
1. Why does the author mention “the fish” in the first paragraph?
B
．
Cautious. C
．
Negative. D
．
Objective.
A
．
To stress the importance of intelligent machines.
B
．
To introduce a new kind of eating habit in animals.
C
．
To compare with human’s unwillingness to think.
D
．
To praise the excellence of human thinking ability.
2. What does the underlined word “allure” mean in the second paragraph?
A
．
Target. B
．
Attraction. C
．
Setting D
．
Access.
3. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A
．
Human beings are being treated like machines.
B
．
Money matters much behind the AI competition.
C
．
Computers are skilled at completing cognitive tasks.
D
．
People should trust software more than themselves.
4. What does the text mainly talk about?
A
．
ChatGPT has both benefits and risks. B
．
Human depends overly on intelligent
tools.
D
．
Human’s cognitive competence is
irreplaceable.
C
．
More intelligent technology is always
better.
5. When I was a child, my grandparents bought a second home in Arkansas and would bring me
there every single summer. I would spend a lot of time outside. 1 We would collect cool-looking
rocks and refill the hummingbird feeders. Almost every afternoon we would drive down to Bull
Shoals lake, the “swimming hole,” and take a swim.
I always remember my grandparents calling me over to the window when a deer family was in the
yard or a few hummingbirds were at the feeders so that I could watch them. 2 . I remember
repeating to myself “oak trees, dogwood trees, maple trees” over and over so that I could impress
him by remembering. I would search around the yard, and if I was lucky I would find a turtle. If I
did find a turtle I would go to get my grandfather so that he could pick it up and put it in the kiddy
pool for me to observe for a few minutes. 3 After I finished observing the turtle, my grandfather
would pick it back up and return it to the bush I found it in. I would watch in amazement as it slowly
stuck its legs out and crawled back under.
4 It was quiet and full of interesting natural things I never got to see in Illinois. I could definitely
tell that my grandparents had an appreciation for nature as well. They disturb the land around them
as little as possible and didn’t see it as annoyance, rather a beautiful view.
I think we should take the time to appreciate and observe the natural world around us. When we do
this, we find that it brings us happiness and has a great value beyond just that of resources.
Preservation of the natural world is important as we are dependent upon it for life. 5
2024年6月4日发(作者：赫连阳曜)
2022-2023
学年湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学高一下学期期中英语试题
1.
The 3 best cameras to film a TikTok
While a high-end smartphone can record TikToks at a capable quality, using a camera has several
advantages. They usually have interchangeable lenses and better dynamic range. They also have
high image quality. Here are the 3 best TikTok cameras to create wonderful content with:
1. Canon Powershot G7X Mark III
The Canon Powershot G7X Mark III is an outstanding high-end pocket camera. The 1-inch sensor
and Digic 8 processor capture stunning 4K video clips up to 10 minutes long. This pocket camera
can livestream directly to YouTube and has a flip-out screen for a pleasant vlogging (
拍摄并上传视
频
) experience.
Advantages
Impressive color
Live video streaming
Flip LCD, ideal for vlogging
Disadvantages
Below average battery life, up to an hour
10 minute limit on 4K video
2. Panasonic Lumix GH5
Panasonic Lumix GH5 is an outstanding mirrorless camera that steadily drops in price. It boasts
excellent low-light performances. If you’re looking for a camera that is great for TikTok but also
captures beautiful stills (
剧照
), consider the GH5.
Advantages
Breathtaking image quality
Affordable for a mirrorless
Almost no noise
Disadvantages
Fairly large and heavy
Below average battery life, up to 120 minutes
3. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K is no toy and it’s not for beginners. It’s a camera with
excellent build and controls. With an incredible dynamic range, the BPCC 6K captures stunning
color with a great light sensitivity range. It’s the best camera for the most experienced content
creator.
Advantages
Best of the best
Outstanding build and controls
Compatible with a range of Canon EF lenses
Disadvantages
Price tag to match the skills
Complex for TikTok
What’s next?
Let’s get started! Entertain and amaze your viewers with the best content on TikTok in 2023. If you
are unsure where to start, click on how to use TikTok for a step-by-step guide.
1. What belongs to the advantage of Panasonic Lumix GH5?
A
．
Flip-out screens.
C
．
Small size and light weight.
B
．
Excellent build and controls
D
．
Excellent low-light performances.
2. Who would you recommend Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K to?
A
．
Those who enjoy vlogging. B
．
Those who are senior photographers.
C
．
Those who just get started in photography. D
．
Those who are unwilling to spend much
money.
3. Where can you see the text probably?
A
．
On a website.
C
．
In a newspaper.
2. Sirine Jahangir has been singing, writing and performing music since she was a little girl. She lost
all her vision in one eye by the time she turned 5, so now the teen uses her gift “as a way to —not
escape, but to help me through.” Not only did her passion get her through some difficult times, but
when she was 14 it also brought her to the “Britain’s Got Talent” stage, where she impressed
everyone with her performance.
Sirine has a rare condition that left her completely blind by the time she was 10 years old. While her
parents and doctors have tried to find treatments for her, there isn’t much they can do. So her parents
focused on helping her adjust to her new life, which was when her dad said she was first introduced
to music. “I remember one day, we were driving in the car. This is about when she was getting to the
stage where she couldn’t look out the window anymore to see things, and I didn’t know what to do. I
just put the music on really loud. She started singing in the car, and she was so happy. And then she
just found happiness every time I put it on,” her father said.
It didn’t take long for them to realize Sirine has tremendous talent. When she appeared on “Britain’s
Got Talent”, she told everyone just how much her passion means to her. “I guess music is my vision,”
B
．
In a magazine.
D
．
In a guidebook about cameras.
she said. “That’s just what I live by, and music is my thing.” Then she headed over to the piano,
where she played the piano and sang beautifully enough to bring the audience to tears!
Unsurprisingly to everyone but Sirine, all four judges voted her into the next round of the
competition!
Afterward, she said, “I can’t even say it’s a dream come true, because I didn’t even dream of it at
I never thought that would be realistic in my life.”
1. What helped Sirine get through her difficult times?
A
．
Britain’s Got Talent.
C
．
Support from her parents and doctors.
2. What can we learn from the passage?
A
．
Sirine displayed all her passion on stage. B
．
Sirine lost her sight totally at the age of
five.
D
．
Sirine was not surprised at the judges’
decision.
B
．
Her passion for music.
D
．
Encouragement from four judges.
C
．
Her parents focused on treatments all the
way.
3. What does the underlined “it” refer to in the second paragraph?
A
．
Music. B
．
Clothes. C
．
Talent. D
．
Microphone.
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the story?
A
．
Never give up your dream.
C
．
True happiness lies in competition.
3. I am standing next to a five-year old girl in Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal (
土著的
) community
in northern Australia. When I ask her to point north, she points precisely and without hesitation. My
compass says she is right. Later, back in a lecture hall at Stanford University, I make the same
request of an audience of excellent professors. Many refuse; they do not know the answer.
A five-year-old in one culture can do something with ease that great scientists in other cultures
struggle with. This is a big difference in cognitive (
认知的
) ability. What could explain it? The
surprising answer, it turns out, may be language.
Around the world people communicate with one another using a variety of languages— 7,000 or so
all told— and each language requires very different things from its speakers. For example, suppose I
want to tell you that I saw Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street. In Mian, a language spoken in Papua New
Guinea, the verb I used would reveal whether the event happened just now, yesterday or in the
distant past, whereas in Indonesia, the verb wouldn’t even give away whether it had already
happened or was still coming up. In Russian, the verb would reveal my gender.
Research in my lab and in many others has been uncovering how language shapes even the most
basic concept of human experience: space, time, and relationships to others. Unlike English, the
language spoken in Pormpuraaw does not use relative spatial terms such as left and right. Rather
speakers talk in terms of absolute directions. Of course, in English we also use direction terms but
B
．
Music lights up the world.
D
．
Life can be too good to be true.
only for large spatial scales (
标度
). We would not say, for example, “They set the salad forks
southeast of the dinner forks!” But in Pormpuraaw, absolute directions are used at all scales. This
means one ends up saying things like “the cup is southeast of the plate” or “the boy standing to the
south of Mary is my brother.”
1. How does the author mainly explain the role language plays in the different cognition?
A
．
By giving numbers.
C
．
By describing personal experiences.
B
．
By making comparisons.
D
．
By presenting different viewpoints.
2. What contributes to the girl’s success in pointing the direction?
A
．
Her training in Stanford University.
C
．
The language she speaks.
B
．
The challenge from professors.
D
．
The English culture she absorbs.
3. What can be shown from the verb used in the language Mian?
A
．
The time. B
．
The gender. C
．
The space. D
．
The event.
4. What is the author’s attitude towards the language spoken in Pormpuraaw?
A
．
Favorable.
4. In the book Consciousness Explained, the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett describes a kind of
fish, which wanders through the sea looking for a suitable rock to make its home for life. On finding
one, the fish no longer needs its brain and eats it. Humanity is unlikely to adopt such an eating habit
but there is a worrying trend that people are dumping themselves down by becoming overly
dependent on “intelligent” machines, especially when ChatGPT comes out.
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has drawn 1 million people to register during the first
week. Its allure is obvious: ChatGPT can produce jokes, write undergraduate essays and create
computer code from a short writing prompt (
提示
).
But this is a false impression. Computers have become more capable but they lack genuine thinking,
developed in humans through constant social practices. ChatGPT does not know what it is doing; it
is unable to say how or why it produced a response; and cannot tell if it is making sense. So why all
the fuss? Google’s new AI-powered search tool, Bard was released in March 2023, making its
ambition obvious in its promotional video. The profit-driven competition to fill our daily lives with
artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly fierce.
Humans have a long track of turning a blind eye to the risks of new breakthroughs. Web companies
want to draw their users to think extremely highly of their AI tools, encouraging humanity to think
them far beyond human’s cognitive competence. As we know, the rise of civilization through art and
agriculture contributes mostly to the remarkable human mental powers. No one knows what will
happen to such technologies if the software engineers of the future make themselves become
software programs. Maybe the danger is not machines being treated like humans, but humans being
treated like machines.
1. Why does the author mention “the fish” in the first paragraph?
B
．
Cautious. C
．
Negative. D
．
Objective.
A
．
To stress the importance of intelligent machines.
B
．
To introduce a new kind of eating habit in animals.
C
．
To compare with human’s unwillingness to think.
D
．
To praise the excellence of human thinking ability.
2. What does the underlined word “allure” mean in the second paragraph?
A
．
Target. B
．
Attraction. C
．
Setting D
．
Access.
3. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A
．
Human beings are being treated like machines.
B
．
Money matters much behind the AI competition.
C
．
Computers are skilled at completing cognitive tasks.
D
．
People should trust software more than themselves.
4. What does the text mainly talk about?
A
．
ChatGPT has both benefits and risks. B
．
Human depends overly on intelligent
tools.
D
．
Human’s cognitive competence is
irreplaceable.
C
．
More intelligent technology is always
better.
5. When I was a child, my grandparents bought a second home in Arkansas and would bring me
there every single summer. I would spend a lot of time outside. 1 We would collect cool-looking
rocks and refill the hummingbird feeders. Almost every afternoon we would drive down to Bull
Shoals lake, the “swimming hole,” and take a swim.
I always remember my grandparents calling me over to the window when a deer family was in the
yard or a few hummingbirds were at the feeders so that I could watch them. 2 . I remember
repeating to myself “oak trees, dogwood trees, maple trees” over and over so that I could impress
him by remembering. I would search around the yard, and if I was lucky I would find a turtle. If I
did find a turtle I would go to get my grandfather so that he could pick it up and put it in the kiddy
pool for me to observe for a few minutes. 3 After I finished observing the turtle, my grandfather
would pick it back up and return it to the bush I found it in. I would watch in amazement as it slowly
stuck its legs out and crawled back under.
4 It was quiet and full of interesting natural things I never got to see in Illinois. I could definitely
tell that my grandparents had an appreciation for nature as well. They disturb the land around them
as little as possible and didn’t see it as annoyance, rather a beautiful view.
I think we should take the time to appreciate and observe the natural world around us. When we do
this, we find that it brings us happiness and has a great value beyond just that of resources.
Preservation of the natural world is important as we are dependent upon it for life. 5