2024年6月4日发(作者：鲍丹亦)
湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学2022-2023学年高一下学
期期中英语试题
学校
:___________
姓名：
___________
班级：
___________
考号：
___________
一、阅读理解
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
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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.
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.
试卷第2页，共11页
B
．
In a magazine.
D
．
In a guidebook about cameras.
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,” 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.”
4
．
What helped Sirine get through her difficult times?
A
．
Britain’s Got Talent.
C
．
Support from her parents and doctors.
5
．
What can we learn from the passage?
A
．
Sirine displayed all her passion on stage.
five.
C
．
Her parents focused on treatments all the way.
judges’ decision.
6
．
What does the underlined “it” refer to in the second paragraph?
A
．
Music. B
．
Clothes. C
．
Talent. D
．
Microphone.
D
．
Sirine was not surprised at the
B
．
Sirine lost her sight totally at the age of
B
．
Her passion for music.
D
．
Encouragement from four judges.
7
．
Which of the following would be the best title for the story?
A
．
Never give up your dream.
C
．
True happiness lies in competition.
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
试卷第3页，共11页
B
．
Music lights up the world.
D
．
Life can be too good to be true.
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 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.”
8
．
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.
9
．
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.
10
．
What can be shown from the verb used in the language Mian?
A
．
The time. B
．
The gender. C
．
The space. D
．
The event.
11
．
What is the author’s attitude towards the language spoken in Pormpuraaw?
A
．
Favorable.
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B
．
Cautious. C
．
Negative. D
．
Objective.
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.
12
．
Why does the author mention “the fish” in the first paragraph?
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.
13
．
What does the underlined word “allure” mean in the second paragraph?
A
．
Target. B
．
Attraction. C
．
Setting D
．
Access.
14
．
What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A
．
Human beings are being treated like machines.
试卷第5页，共11页
B
．
Money matters much behind the AI competition.
C
．
Computers are skilled at completing cognitive tasks.
D
．
People should trust software more than themselves.
15
．
What does the text mainly talk about?
A
．
ChatGPT has both benefits and risks.
tools.
C
．
More intelligent technology is always better. D
．
Human’s cognitive competence is
irreplaceable.
B
．
Human depends overly on intelligent
二、七选五
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. ____16____ 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.
____17____. 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.
____18____ 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.
____19____ 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.
____20____
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2024年6月4日发(作者：鲍丹亦)
湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学2022-2023学年高一下学
期期中英语试题
学校
:___________
姓名：
___________
班级：
___________
考号：
___________
一、阅读理解
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
试卷第1页，共11页
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.
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.
试卷第2页，共11页
B
．
In a magazine.
D
．
In a guidebook about cameras.
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,” 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.”
4
．
What helped Sirine get through her difficult times?
A
．
Britain’s Got Talent.
C
．
Support from her parents and doctors.
5
．
What can we learn from the passage?
A
．
Sirine displayed all her passion on stage.
five.
C
．
Her parents focused on treatments all the way.
judges’ decision.
6
．
What does the underlined “it” refer to in the second paragraph?
A
．
Music. B
．
Clothes. C
．
Talent. D
．
Microphone.
D
．
Sirine was not surprised at the
B
．
Sirine lost her sight totally at the age of
B
．
Her passion for music.
D
．
Encouragement from four judges.
7
．
Which of the following would be the best title for the story?
A
．
Never give up your dream.
C
．
True happiness lies in competition.
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
试卷第3页，共11页
B
．
Music lights up the world.
D
．
Life can be too good to be true.
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 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.”
8
．
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.
9
．
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.
10
．
What can be shown from the verb used in the language Mian?
A
．
The time. B
．
The gender. C
．
The space. D
．
The event.
11
．
What is the author’s attitude towards the language spoken in Pormpuraaw?
A
．
Favorable.
试卷第4页，共11页
B
．
Cautious. C
．
Negative. D
．
Objective.
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.
12
．
Why does the author mention “the fish” in the first paragraph?
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.
13
．
What does the underlined word “allure” mean in the second paragraph?
A
．
Target. B
．
Attraction. C
．
Setting D
．
Access.
14
．
What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A
．
Human beings are being treated like machines.
试卷第5页，共11页
B
．
Money matters much behind the AI competition.
C
．
Computers are skilled at completing cognitive tasks.
D
．
People should trust software more than themselves.
15
．
What does the text mainly talk about?
A
．
ChatGPT has both benefits and risks.
tools.
C
．
More intelligent technology is always better. D
．
Human’s cognitive competence is
irreplaceable.
B
．
Human depends overly on intelligent
二、七选五
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. ____16____ 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.
____17____. 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.
____18____ 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.
____19____ 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.
____20____
试卷第6页，共11页