1、2023届贵州省六盘水市高三下学期3月适应性考试英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读理解Architecture in RotterdamRotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands, offers anything from unique food to wonderful landscapes. However, its incredible architecture that makes the city stand out. MarkthalThe building, the scale (规模) of whic
2、h is impressive, is home to almost 100 fresh food stalls (摊位), shop units, restaurants and over 200 apartments. Opened in 2014, it was built near where Rotterdam was first founded in 1270. Besides delicious food, you shouldnt miss its large walls and ceiling covered with images of flying fruits, flo
3、wers and insects. This artwork, titled Horn of Plenty and created by the artists Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam, is one of the biggest in the world and covers an area of about 11,000 square meters. Erasmus BridgeThe bridge stretches over the river Maas, connecting the city center with the neighborhood
4、of Kop van Zuid. Named after the citys famous scholar Desiderius Erasmus, the bridge is 808 meters long and weighs as much as 1,700 adult elephants. The bridge has a nicknamede zwaan (the swan). It does require a bit of imagination to see how this giant piece of steel resembles an actual swan, but i
5、f you look at it from above, it becomes a bit clearer. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Depot It was born out of a desire to share artworks with as many people as possible and has gained over 150,000 pieces. Open since the summer of 2021, it has given visitors a unique behind-the-scenes look into the w
6、orld of art conservation, art restoration and museum management. Most importantly, visitors have free access to the rooftop garden, which offers panoramic (全景的) views of the city. De Rotterdam De Rotterdam is a building complex of three interconnected towers. Located on the south side of the city, i
7、t has 45 floors. It houses commercial office spaces, residential apartments, cafs, restaurants and luxurious hotels. With a total floor space of about 160,000 square meters, its well-known as the largest group of buildings in the Netherlands.1What can you do at Markthal?APlay with beautiful swans.BA
8、dmire a quite large artwork.CInteract with famous local artists.DExplore 100-year-old Rotterdam.2Where can you view the whole city of Rotterdam?AAt Markthal.BAt De Rotterdam.CAt Erasmus Bridge.DAt Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Depot.3What is De Rotterdam famous for?AIts large scale.BIts unusual shap
9、e.CIts good service.DIts unique location.Linda Brown is a softly-spoken realtor (房地产经纪人) with a passion for helping the homeless. Shes moving mountains by combining her understanding of real estate (房地产) with her kindness-fueled determination to create beautiful permanent homes for disabled homeless
10、 people in her community. In 2020, Mrs. Brown was awarded the Good Neighbor Award. This honor is initiated by The National Association of Realtors in the US. As its website details, working alongside her husband, Dr. David Brown, she has been transforming abandoned mobile homes into villages of tiny
11、 homes that offer permanent housing for homeless people whore disabled. The wish to help homeless people, and restore their dignity and self-worth, as Mrs. Brown explains, had been a joint mission for some years. As local blogger Aaron Nichols shares, the couple ran a local evening drop-in center fo
12、r local homeless people called Gardening Tree, for almost a decade. This functioned as a shelter where people experiencing homelessness could grab a bite, shower, do laundry and relax. But they wanted to do more than that. With local individual organizations help, the couple succeeded in raising alm
13、ost $5 million, which enabled them to transform unused mobile homes and a deserted trailer park into a small village of tiny homes that opened in 2018. They named the shelter “Eden Village”. As Mrs. Brown revealed in her award acceptance speech about her journey to creating Eden Village, helping hom
14、eless people is something personal, “I watched as my homeless friends walked off into the darkness to a hidden, wet and cold camp while we went home to a warm bed. I had to do something.”Today, Eden Village includes a 4,000-square-foot community center offering cooking and laundry facilities, as wel
15、l as a medical center and community gardens. Additionally, more sites are being developed thanks to the land donated to the nonprofit founded by the Browns. Eden Village 2 and 3 are at the planning stage. In the next six years, Mrs. Brown hopes to create five similar villages housing up to 200 peopl
16、e experiencing homelessness.4How does the author introduce the couples devotion to helping the homeless?ABy mentioning local realtors praise.BBy referring to related online descriptions.CBy recording homeless peoples evaluations.DBy detailing their interaction with the homeless.5What else plays a ro
17、le in building Eden Village besides the couples devotion?AHomeless peoples requests.BOfficial favorable policies.CThe support from the society.DThe prize from many associations.6Why is Mrs. Browns award acceptance speech mentioned in paragraph 5?ATo express her sympathy for her friends.BTo highlight
18、 the influence of the village.CTo show her sincere gratitude for the award.DTo give her reason for setting up the village.7What can we learn about the couples project?AIt is still a concept.BIt keeps expanding.CIt is carried out globally.DIt lacks future plans.Youve heard of Black Friday, Small Busi
19、ness Saturday and Cyber Mondaytheyre major shopping days. Now theres another shopping day, and its called Secondhand Sunday, which is the brainchild of Poshmark, a social commerce marketplace that enables users to buy and sell clothing online, mostly used. Poshmark asked global research firm Morning
20、 Consult to assess the secondhand market. It found over 90% of American adults say they would be willing to receive a secondhand or resold gift this season, but that only 34% are likely to buy them for others. This suggests a massive opportunity to close the gapa task that Poshmark has undertaken wi
21、th enthusiasm. Thus, Secondhand Sunday was born. Poshmark is a platform on which individual sellers run their own shops and make extra cash. Secondhand Sunday has become a hit among them. While sellers have varying motivations for doing business, most are driven by the belief that buying secondhand
22、items is important for the environment. One such seller is Ashley Wheeler. Her husband worked as a truck driver at a landfill (垃圾填埋) site. They were both shocked at the amount of secondhand items that were getting dumped (倾倒), just because they were considered old or useless. Even when her husband a
23、sked to bring home items that still had value, he was rejected, because companies had paid the landfill site to deal with their garbage. Wheeler said, “For us, that was a wake-up call. We realized it wasnt just about us bringing our pre-owned items back into the market but finding other used items t
24、hat companies were ready to deal with and help recycle back into use. Thats when we started to learn about Goodwill Outlets and other similar stores, where we source a majority of items. She now buys cast-off items from Goodwills “last chance” bins and resells them on Secondhand Sunday. Amber McCasl
25、and, vice-president of Global Brand and Communications, said, “Secondhand Sunday is our first joint effort to change how people shop and gift during the holidays. The hope is that, instead of running out to buy new items as gifts, people will realize that its acceptable and even preferable to source
26、 used items instead.”8What drove Poshmark to start Secondhand Sunday?AThe findings of an assessment.BThe increasing shopping waste.CBooming gift-exchange seasons.DBuyers strong desire for old items.9What is the key factor for the popularity of Secondhand Sunday according to the text?AThe great deman
27、d for more shopping days.BSome local landfill sites generous donation.CShoppers curiosity about running businesses.DThe improved public environmental awareness.10What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 5 probably refer to?AWorking as a truck driver at a landfill site.BBeing rejected by som
28、e brand companies.CSeeing valuable used items dumped and landfilled.DLooking for secondhand items to resell.11What does Secondhand Sunday encourage people to do?ABuy used items as gifts on holidays.BBe cautious of online shopping.CDonate used items to companies.DForm the habit of recycling waste.The
29、re are electric cars, boats, trains and small planes that are a sustainable way to travel. Larger airplanes have not been able to make the transition because the lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries are too heavy and not strong enough to provide the power for the airplanes to take off. Until now. NASA is wor
30、king on a new innovative solid-state battery, which can be used by the aviation (航空) industry, according to a news release from the space agency. The batteries, called Solid-state Architecture Batteries for Enhanced Rechargeability and Safety (SABERS) do not suffer from any of the limitations of lit
31、hium-ion batteries and can outperform the batteries that are available now. “SABERS continues to go beyond its goals,” Rocco Viggiano, an investigator for SABERS at NASAs Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, said in the news release. “Were starting to approach this new frontier of battery research th
32、at could do so much more than lithium-ion batteries can. The possibilities are pretty incredible.”The solid-state batteries that NASA researchers are working on carry more energy, are considerably lighter, and much safer to use. Thats because solid-state batteries do not contain liquids which can le
33、ad to overheating, fires and charge loss. Liquid batteries require each cell to be inside its own steel casing. Solid-state batteries can be massively stored in a single casing and that reduces the weight. The battery can also run at much higher temperatures that require much less cooling. All of th
34、is makes NASAs new battery very promising.Now that NASA has demonstrated the new batterys features, the agency is looking at all its potential uses. SABERS is cooperating with researchers from Georgia Tech, Argonne National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well as other NASA
35、 centers.“Georgia Tech has a big focus on micromechanics of how the cell changes during operation. That can help us look at the pressure inside the battery, which then helps us improve the battery even more,” Viggiano said in the news release. “It can also lead us to understand from a practical stan
36、dpoint how to manufacture a cell like this.”12What does the word “outperform” underlined in paragraph 2 probably mean?AGet out of.BFit in with.CDo better than.DKeep track of.13What is paragraph 4 mainly about?AAdvantageous features of the new battery.BCurrent main tasks of NASA researchers.CPotentia
37、l problems of traditional batteries.DWorking principles of lithium-ion batteries.14What can be inferred from Rocco Viggianos words in the last paragraph?ASABERS appears too optimistic about its future.BThe stability of SABERS has been proved perfect.CIts necessary for SABERS to pursue cooperation.DP
38、utting SABERS into production seems impossible.15Which of the following is the best title for the text?ANASAs Electric Airplanes Are Ready to Take OffBGreat Changes Are Taking Place in the Aviation IndustryCA Promising Sustainable Future Has Already Taken RootDSolid-state Batteries May Help Larger E
39、lectric Airplanes Fly二、七选五Its well-known that being in green spaces is good for physical and mental health. _16_ A population-based study published in Scientific Reports looked at the effect of urban waterways on mental health and found that proximity (接近) to water increased positive feelings of wel
40、lbeing. “If youre in a body of water, your internal state just becomes calm,” Dr Natalie Azar, NBC News medical contributor, told TODAY. “_17_ However, weve never really been intentional about it.”Being near water gives people a consciousness of something greater than themselves. The sounds and move
41、ment of water can get people to focus their attention and this invites calm. “You dont have to go to the coast to experience this wellbeing,” said Azar. “Any waterway will do, including lakes, rivers, canals or ponds. _18_”A new study conducted by Kings College London has also proved that spending t
42、ime near urban canals and rivers is linked to feeling happy and healthy, stressed a press release from the college. Moreover, it has found that urban waterways are superior to feelings of wellbeing than just being near the ocean. “_19_ This means their capacity to improve mental wellbeing is likely
43、to be due to the multiple benefits associated with both green and blue spaces,” said Andrea Mechelli, professor of early intervention in mental health at Kings College London. The study has also found that there are continuous improvements to mental wellbeing for up to 24 hours after visiting urban
44、waterways. _20_ In England and Wales, people have access to 3,218 kilometers of rivers and canals that are readily accessible. In fact, 9 million people live within 1 km of a canalsomething that is easily walkable.AThese results remain to be tested.BEven a flowing fountain will work.CThis is good ne
45、ws for urban people.DIts something that I think weve all experienced.EOur findings show that blue spaces are naturally calming.FCanals and rivers contain not only water but also trees and other plants.GNow scientists have discovered blue spaces are also connected to better mental health.三、完形填空Choosi
46、ng to be an author is rewarding but challenging. The most well-known authors struggled earlier in their careers to gain more _21_. Many famous authors recently _22_ about their embarrassing book signing events in response to a Twitter thread about another authors _23_ experience. Chelsea Banning, a
47、fantasy author, tweeted her _24_ on December 4 after just two people _25_ to the signing event for her first novel Of Crowns and Legends. She wrote, “Only two people came to my signing event yesterday, so I was very _26_.”The tweet caught the _27_ of the author of My Sisters Keeper Jodi Picoult, who
48、 responded, “Ive sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone _28_ and ask me where the bathroom is.” It didnt _29_ there as Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaids Tale, also wrote, “I arranged a signing event to which nobody came, except a guy who wanted to buy some tape and thought I was the _30_.” David Nicholls, the author of One Day, shared his own experience and wrote, “The on
