福建省厦门第一中学2023-2024学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题

福建省厦门第一中学2023-2024学年高二上学期11月期中英

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一、阅读理解

Specialties

Welcome to LoveMama! We are a NY-based Malay, Vietnamese and Thai influenced

Southeast Asian Restaurant and Caterer providing you tasty dinner in our Manhattan dining

area. We also provide takeout, and catering for individuals and groups or for private events.

History

Established in 2013. With humble beginnings as a food cart, the popularity of Love

Mama’s Malaysian street food boosted to opening a Manhattan restaurant in 2014.

Popular ltems

The most commonly ordered items and dishes from this restaurant are as follows:

Edamame Dumpling, Korean popcorn chicken, Lucky Noodle, Steak and Bread Pudding.

Reviews

I love this place. The food, customer service and prices were all great. We ordered the

RotiCanai Planta, Rendang NasiIemak with chicken. Vegetable Salad Vietnamese Style, and

Uncle Plump’s Dumplings The Rendano Nasi Lemak was the highlight of the meal.

My boyfriend forgot to tell them about allergies and told them halfway as they were

preparing our order. They responded really well. In the end. we even got to have a nice

conversation with the owner of the restaurant. Super great guy! We were pleasantly surprised

with the low price at the end of the meal too. If you are in New York, you have to check out

LoveMama. Best meal I have had in a while.

——Mary Brooklin

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Stopped by here for Valentine’s Day and we were not disappointed. We got 3 different

dishes all from the Malaysian portion of the menu as none of us had ever had Malaysian food.

The service was fast but not supper attentive, which we didn’t mind at all. For $20 each with

tip and feeling full and happy, this is a spot I’d definitely recommend!

——Peter Anderson

1

．

Where is the LoveMama restaurant?

A

．

In Thailand. B

．

In Malaysia. C

．

In Vietnam. D

．

In America.

2

．

What is special about this restaurant?

A

．

It can’t provide takeout orders.

B

．

It has customer-friendly business strategies.

C

．

It operates on a first-come-first-served basis.

D

．

It is state-owned and runs around the clock.

3

．

How do Mary and Peter find this restaurant?

A

．

Disappointing. B

．

Cost-effective.

“It’s a windy day in Laguna San Ignacio, and the waves seem to come from all

directions,” said Sara Clemence in Bloomberg Businessweek. My children and I are riding on

a 18-foot boat—small enough that we can reach down into the water if a gray whale swims

up alongside. And then we see what we’ve come for: a heart-shaped shower of water and a

dark mass rushing below it. As instructed, we splash (

溅泼

) the water strongly to signal the

huge whale, which turns out to be a mother with her weeks-old baby. The baby soon swims

beneath our boat, emerges to blow mist in my face, then “lies onto its side like a 2-ton puppy.”

Leaning down, I touched its skin gently. “It feels electric. Also, a bit like petting a hard-boiled

egg.”

San Ignacio is one of very few places where a person can pet a whale. The whales come

each year to the coast of Baja California to give birth and to mate. If you’re lucky, you can

“shake hands with a leatheryfin (

鳍

)” or even “plant a kiss on a cold, salty cheek.” I usually

worry about such interactions, because wild creatures can become deeply stressed by human

contact. But boat numbers are strictly limited in these protected waters.

And any whale that

approaches a boat

does

so

on

its

own

terms

. Like that baby whale: “We see him a few times,

and he seems to like being petted and splashed.”

So we are two species, connecting through touch, but also through eye contact: “More

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C

．

Time-honored. D

．

Average.

than once, after nosing around our boat, a young gray turns on its side so one dark,

baseball-size eye is looking up at us.”

Whalers

used

to

call

gray

whales

“devil

fish”

because

these

magnificent

creatures

tu

rn

violent

when threatened—“or, say, when their babies are harmed.” That makes it feel

even more of a blessing when, on our third day there, a large mama whale approaches the

boat. “I’m splashing when I feel her nose press up into my hand.” Though she’s “wiser and

apparently more alert” than her child, “she still decides to trust us.”

4

．

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A

．

The writer was on a whale-touching trip.

B

．

The writer’s boat went down with a huge wave.

C

．

The baby whale splashed water all over the writer.

D

．

The mother whale’s skin felt as hard as a boiled egg.

5

．

By “

does

so

on

its

own

terms

” (in paragraph 2), the writer means whales in San Ignacio

are ______.

A

．

mad with too many visitors

C

．

restricted in swimming routes

B

．

ready for hands-on attention

D

．

enclosed in their safety zones

6

．

Gray whales got the name of “devil fish” from their ______.

A

．

strange appearance

C

．

surprisingly enormous size

B

．

inborn violence

D

．

fierceness in danger

7

．

The writer’s implied purpose in the passage is to ______.

A

．

popularize the knowledge of whales

C

．

share an experience of the sea voyage

nature

The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided

experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king

could discover the true, unlearned language of human beings.

Scientists now know that human language requires social learning and interaction with

other people, a property shared with multiple animal languages. But why should humans and

other animals need to learn a language instead of being born with this knowledge?

Given that the ways honeybees communicate are quite complex, we decided to study

how they learn to communicate to answer this language question.

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B

．

show admiration for whales’ motherhood

D

．

advocate harmony between man and

Bees possess one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication. They

can tell each other where to find resources such as food, water, or nest sites with a physical

“waggle (

摇摆

) dance”, by circling around in a figure eight pattern centered around a waggle

run. This dance conveys the direction, distance and quality of a resource to the bee’s

nestmates.

Bees begin to dance only as they get older. Could they be learning from practiced

teachers?

We thus created isolated experimental colonies of bees (

蜂群

) that could not observe

other waggle dances before they themselves danced. Like the ancient experiment described

by Herodotus, these bees could not observe the dance language because they were all the

same age and had no older, experienced bees to follow. In contrast, our control colonies

contained bees of all ages, so younger bees could follow the older, experienced dancers.

We recorded the first dances of the bees. The bees that could not follow the dances of

experienced bees produced dances with significantly more directional, distance and disorder

crrors than the dances of control bees.

We then tested the same bees later, when they were experienced dancers. Bees who had

lacked teachers now produced significantly fewer errors, possibly because they had more

practice or had learned by eventually following other dancers. The dances of the control bees

remained just as good as their first dances.

Complex communication is often difficult to produce even when individuals are born

with some knowledge of the correct signals. Bees are born with some knowledge of how to

dance, but they have to learn how to dance even better by following experienced bees.

8

．

Why does the author say the experiment on the two children is a misguided experiment?

A

．

Language learning is a social activity.

C

．

Children are born with human speech.

B

．

Language learning has changed greatly.

D

．

Children develop differently in language.

9

．

What does the underlined word “isolated” in paragraph 6 indicate?

A

．

Old bees could not produce waggle dances.

dances.

C

．

Young bees were separated from older ones. D

．

Young bees could follow

experienced bees.

10

．

What do we know about the bees whose dances remained as good as their first dances?

A

．

They had little practice in waggle dances.

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B

．

Old bees could not observe waggle

B

．

They had learned waggle dances without teachers.

C

．

They were experienced in teaching waggle dances.

D

．

They had learned waggle dances before their first dances.

11

．

What does the last paragraph serve as?

A

．

A guide to complex communication.

B

．

An answer to why language should be learned.

C

．

An example of nonhuman communication.

D

．

A proof that bees are born with some knowledge.

A new service gives new life to the past by using artificial intelligence to change still

images into moving videos.

Called Deep Nostalgia, the service creates animations (

动画

) by using deep learning to

analyze a single facial photo. Then, the system animates the facial image through a “driver"

— a pre-determined sequence (

次序

) of movements and gestures. The process is completely

automated.

Launched by the Israeli genealogy company My Heritage, some of Deep Nostalgia's

early results are impressive. But that's not to say the animations are perfect. There's still an

uncanny air to the images, with some of the facial movements appearing slightly unnatural.

What's more, Deep Nostalgia is only able to create deepfakes of one person's face from the

neck up, so you couldn't use it to animate group photos, or photos of people doing any sort of

physical activity.

But for a free deep-fake service, Deep Nostalgia is pretty impressive, especially

considering you can use it to create deepfakes of any face, human or not. So, is creating

deepfakes of long-dead people a bit frightening? Some people seem to think so. “Some

people love the feature with Deep Nostalgia and consider it magical while others think it is

scary and dislike it, ”My Heritage wrote on its website. “We invite you to create movies using

this feature and share them on social media to see what your friends and relatives think. This

feature is intended for nostalgic (

怀旧的

) use, that is, to give life back to beloved ancestors.”

Deep Nostalgia isn't the first project to create deepfakes from single images. In 2019,

researchers working at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow published a paper describing how

machine-learning techniques can produce deepfakes after “looking" at only one or a few

images.

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While the results from the Samsung researchers were impressive, the Deep Nostalgia

project shows how deepfake technology is advancing at a rapid pace. As these tools have

become increasingly popular, media experts have raised concerns about how bad actors might

use deepfakes and “cheap fakes” to trick the public. My Heritage seemed to sense Deep

Nostalgia's potential or abuse, writing: “Please use this feature on your own historical photos

and not on photos of living people without their agreement.”

12

．

What can we infer from the passage?

A

．

Deep Nostalgia enhances the images to make the animations perfectly natural.

B

．

Deep Nostalgia is able to create deepfakes of people's physical activity.

C

．

People hold different opinions about Deep Nostalgia.

D

．

The Samsung Al Center in Moscow produced deepfakes after Deep Nostalgia.

13

．

Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined word in Paragraph 3?

A

．

Strange.

B

．

Artificial.

C

．

Perfect.

D

．

Impressive.

14

．

What attitude does My Heritage hold towards the future use of deepfakes?

A

．

Optimistic.

B

．

Alarmed.

C

．

Ambiguous.

D

．

Pessimistic.

15

．

What could be the best title for the passage?

A

．

Deepfake technology raises concern among experts.

B

．

Deepfake technology advances at a fast pace.

C

．

Deep Nostalgia brings old photos to life.

D

．

Deep Nostalgia goes viral on social media.

二、七选五

Joseph Conrad, a famous English novelist, said that his goal as a writer was “to make

you hear, to make you feel, and above all, to make you see. That, and no more, is everything.”

16 Often it leaves a single sharp impression to be turned over and over in the mind. After

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