1、2023届安徽省、云南省、吉林省、黑龙江省高三下学期2月适应性测试英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读理解Family-Friendly Events in JanuaryZooLights: Glow Wild Jan. 1-19The Phoenix Zoos yearly holiday light show is on until Jan. 19, allowing families one or more opportunities to enjoy the citys zoo, with millions of lights giving an added dimens
2、ion to the festivities.Glow Wild, 455 N. Galvin Pkwy. , Phoenix, phoenixzoo.org, $11. 95 members, $13. 95 general admission.Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts Jan. 4-18The Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts features the work of established and emerging artists, including those who create woodwork, m
3、etal crafts, food items, art, photography and gifts.On Macdonald, off of Main Street in Downtown Mesa, , free admission.Family Fun Winterfest Jan. 4OdySea Aquarium in the Desert is hosting the third annual Family Fun Winterfest in its Desert Courtyard, featuring real snow for the kids to play in. Th
4、is free event features everything from bounce houses to rides, games, snowflake crafts and face painting to go with various stands set up by local sellers, with food and other offerings for sale at the event.9500 E. Via de Ventura, Scottsdale, , free.Youth Fine Arts Course Jan. 18-Mar. 7Mesa Arts Ce
5、nter is hosting an eight-week youth arts course on Saturdays to teach artistic skills and knowledge through fun and challenging art classes in a wide variety of art materials, including painting, drawing, mixed media and sculpture, ensuring mentally stimulating sessions for all.Mesa Art Center, 1 E.
6、 Main St. , Mesa, , $93.1How can you get a discounted ticket to the ZooLights show?ABring a friend.BGet a membership.CJoin a tour group.DBook a ticket online.2What can you do at Family Fun Winterfest?AHave free food.BEnjoy real snow.CTake art classes.DMeet local artists.3Which event lasts the longes
7、t?AZooLights:Glow Wild.BDowntown Mesa Festival of the Arts.CFamily Fun Winterfest.DYouth Fine Arts Courses.As a young girl growing up in France, Sarah Toumi dreamed of becoming a leader who could make the world a better place. Her passion to help others was awakened when, from the age of nine, she a
8、ccompanied her Tunisian father to his birthplace in the east of the country during holidays. There she organized homework clubs and activities for children. Toumi witnessed first-hand the destructive effect of desertification. “Within 10 years rich farmers became worse off, and in 10 years from now
9、they will be poor. I wanted to stop the Sahara Desert in its tracks.” A decrease in average rainfall and an increase in the severity of droughts (干旱) have led to an estimated 75 percent of Tunisias agricultural lands being threatened by desertification.Toumi recognized that farming practices needed
10、to change. She is confident that small land areas can bring large returns if farmers are able to adapt by planting sustainable crops, using new technologies for water treatment and focusing on natural products and fertilizers (肥料) rather than chemicals.In 2012, Toumi consolidated her dream to fight
11、the desert. She moved to Tunisia, and set up a programme named Acacias for All to put her sustainable farming philosophy into action. “I want to show young people in rural areas that they can create opportunities where they are. Nobody is better able to understand the impact of desertification and c
12、limate change than somebody who is living with no access to water.”By September 2016, more than 130, 000 acacia trees had been planted on 20 pilot farms, with farmers recording a 60 percent survival rate. Toumi estimates that some 3 million acacia trees are needed to protect Tunisias farmland. She e
13、xpects to plant 1 million trees by 2018. In the next couple of years, Toumi hopes to extend the programme to Algeria and Morocco.4How did Toumis holiday trips to Tunisia influence her?AThey made her decide to leave the country.BThey helped her better understand her father.CThey fired her enthusiasm
14、for helping others.DThey destroyed her dream of being a teacher.5What is the main cause of the desertification of Tunisias farmland?ALow rainfall.BSoil pollution.CCold weather.DForest damage.6Why did Toumi set up Acacias for All in Tunisia?ATo create job opportunities for young people.BTo help the c
15、hildren obtain a basic education.CTo persuade the farmers not to use fertilizers.DTo facilitate the protection of their farmland.7Which of the following can be the best title for the text?ASaving Water in TunisiaBPlanting Trees of Native SpeciesCHolding back the SaharaDFighting Poverty in North Afri
16、caFor years, David James, who studies insects at Washington State University, had wanted to examine the migration (迁徙)patterns of West Coast monarch butterflies (黑脉金斑蝶). The route the butterflies travel has been hardly known because the populations are too small to follow. For every 200 monarchs tag
17、ged (打标签)by a researcher, only one is usually recovered at the end of its trip, James says, and finding even 200 in the wild to tag is unlikely. Knowing the route is vital to conservation efforts, but James had no way to figure it out- until he got a phone call from Washington State Penitentiary in
18、Walla Walla.The prison was looking for new activities to improve the mental health of those serving long-term sentences. So James began working with prisoners to raise monarchs through the whole process of their transformation. The adult insects were then tagged and released from the prison. Over fi
19、ve years, nearly 10, 000 monarchs flew from the facility. Elsewhere in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, researchers released another few thousand.The tags included email addresses, and soon after the first butterflies took off, James started receiving messages from people who had spotted them. The butt
20、erflies, the reports confirmed, wintered in coastal California. Twelve of them landed at Lighthouse Field State Beach in Santa Cruz. Several more headed to Bolinas and Morro Bay.The work helps researchers identify ideal places to plant milkweed and other vegetation that are important to the life cyc
21、le of West Coast monarch butterflies. It also brought out the gentler side of some of the prisoners. “They were very worried that they were going to harm the butterflies, ”James says. Watching the monarch change their form also touched the men. “This butterfly changed, ” James recalls prisoners tell
22、ing him, “and maybe we can too. ”8What was hard for David to do in his study?AGain financial support.BHire qualified workers.CBuild a new laboratory.DFind enough monarchs.9Why are the butterflies tagged before being released?ATo guarantee their safety.BTo enable them to fly longer distances.CTo trac
23、k their travel routes.DTo distinguish them from other species.10What makes the prisoners feel that they can change?AThe patience the butterflies showed.BThe hardship the butterflies underwent.CThe transformation of the butterflies.DThe devotion of James to the butterflies.11What is the last paragrap
24、h mainly about?AThe impact of the research.BThe findings of James study.CThe release of the prisoners.DThe life cycle of the butterflies.We all know that unpleasant feeling when were talking about something interesting and halfway through our sentence were interrupted. But was that really an interru
25、ption? The answer depends on whom you ask, according to new research led by Katherine Hilton from Stanford University.Using a set of controlled audio clips (录音片段), Hilton surveyed 5, 000 American English speakers to better understand what affects peoples perceptions of interruptions. She had partici
26、pants listen to audio clips and then answer questions about whether the speakers seemed to be friendly and engaged, listening to one another, or trying to interrupt.Hilton found that American English speakers have different conversational styles. She identified two distinct groups: high and low inte
27、nsity speakers. High intensity speakers are generally uncomfortable with moments of silence in conversation and consider talking at the same time a sign of engagement. Low intensity speakers find it rude to talk at the same time and prefer people speak one after another in conversation.The differenc
28、es in conversational styles became evident when participants listened to audio clips in which two people spoke at the same time but were agreeing with each other and stayed on topic, Hilton said. The high intensity group reported that conversations where people spoke at the same time when expressing
29、 agreement were not interruptive but engaged and friendlier than the conversations with moments of silence in between speaking turns. In contrast, the low intensity group perceived any amount of simultaneous (同时) chat as a rude interruption, regardless of what the speakers were saying.“People care a
30、bout being interrupted, and those small interruptions can have a massive effect on the overall communication,” Hilton said. “Breaking apart what an interruption means is essential if we want to understand how humans interact with each other.”12What does Hiltons research focus on?AWhat interruptions
31、mean to people.BWhether interruption is good or not.CHow to avoid getting interrupted.DWhy speakers interrupt each other.13What do participants of the study need to do?ARecord an audio clip.BAnswer some questions.CListen to one another.DHave a chat with a friend.14What do low intensity speakers thin
32、k of simultaneous chat?AIts important.BIts interesting.CIts inefficient.DIts impolite.15What can we learn from Hiltons research?AHuman interaction is complex.BCommunication is the basis of life.CInterruptions promote thinking.DLanguage barriers will always exist.二、七选五There has been a very serious de
33、cline in the numbers of shallow-water fish as a result of overfishing. People still want to eat fish, so the fishing industry must look at other sources, especially the deep waters of the Atlantic. _16_ Conservation measures will have to be put in place if these deep-sea fish are to survive. Researc
34、h on five such species shows that numbers have declined by between 87 percent and 98 percent. _17_ Many species could well disappear completely if the present trend continues. These are species that have been swimming in our oceans for hundreds of millions of years.The problem is emphasized by the f
35、act that the decline in numbers happened in less than twenty years. Deep-sea fish take a long time to reproduce and normally live for many years. _18_ The average size of such fish also declined, with one species showing a 57 percent decline in average size. This is of particular concern, as large f
36、ish tend to produce more offspring than small ones._19_ The deep-sea species have been caught as if they were the fast-breeding (快速繁殖) fish like sardine and herring. It is like killing elephants as if they reproduced at the same rate as rabbits.The damage done by overfishing goes beyond the sea envi
37、ronment. Millions of people make a living in the fishing industry. _20_ Measures must be taken to not only conserve ecosystems, but also sustain livelihoods and ensure food security.ABillions of people rely on fish for protein.BMany people now choose not to eat deep-sea fish.CUnfortunately, their re
38、production rate is very low.DThis puts them in the category of “critically endangered”.ENone of these facts has been taken into account by the fishing industry.FOverfishing is a major cause of decline in populations of ocean wildlife.GThis has resulted in a sharp decline in the numbers of many of th
39、e species caught.三、完形填空Dr. Smith of New York works at a center for children who cant learn well. One day a father brought his son to him for_21_ at his office.The father told Dr. Smith about his son. “My son has _22_ in learning and cant even play baseball. He isnt doing well because he doesnt try.
40、I have done everything for him. I have even shouted at him. But nothing _23_. ”After Dr. Smith tested the boy, he _24_ his father. He asked the father to sit in front of a _25_ and then gave him a pencil and a piece of paper. There was a _26_ on the paper. He asked the father to look only in the mir
41、ror and _27_ the lines of the star with the pencil. The father made the same _28_ anyone makes. Every time he _29_ the pencil, it went the wrong way. The fathers face became red.At this _30_ the doctor shouted at him, “Hurry up! Why are you _31_ so long? You cant do such an _32_ thing! You dont know
42、 left from right!” These _33_ made the father very angry.“Now you can _34_, cant you?” The doctor said to him. “Your son has felt just like that all the time. You scolded (训斥) him too often, so he didnt try any more. He was afraid of making mistakes. ”_35_ the father understood everything. He put hi
43、s face down. Now he felt so sorry.21AtestingBactingCteachingDplaying22AconfidenceBinterestCexperienceDdifficulty23AreturnsBhelpsCappearsDremains24Awaited forBsearched forCbelieved inDcalled in25AmirrorBtelevisionCpaintingDdesk26AfaceBlineCnumberDstar27AremoveBfollowCcrossDcut28AdecisionsBchoicesCmis
44、takesDpatterns29AtouchedBdroppedCmovedDsharpened30AspeedBcornerCendDpoint31AstayingBtakingCpreparingDwriting32AeasyBimportantCobviousDexciting33AideasBwordsCquestionsDinstructions34ArelaxBleaveCunderstandDpromise35AInterestinglyBAbsolutelyCSuddenlyDUnfortunately四、用单词的适当形式完成短文阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内
45、单词的正确形式。The government has awarded $5 million to three different local nonprofit organizations. The money will _36_(distribute) over a four-year period and is aimed at helping approximately 1, 000 homeless people in the county of Arvada.One agency, _37_(base) in Woodbridge, is expected _38_(receive)
46、 $1. 5 million. The agency director says that they will focus their resources on _39_(educate) the homeless. “We will probably build another school-home with this money,” he said. “A school-home is exactly _40_ it sounds like. It is a school and a home. We have already built four school-homes throug
47、hout the county. We get the homeless off the street, _41_ we educate them so they dont have to return to the street. We teach them how to be gardeners, painters, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, and air-conditioning repairmen.”“You wouldnt believe _42_ success that we have had. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, our office air-conditioning went out. My secretary called a repairman. To our surprise, the repairman _
