2023_2024学年5月广东梅州梅县区梅雁中学高二下学期月考英语试卷

这是一份2023_2024学年5月广东梅州梅县区梅雁中学高二下学期月考英语试卷，共7页。试卷主要包含了阅读理解，完形填空，语法填空，单词拼写，完成句子，翻译，书信写作，书面表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。

2023~2024学年5月广东梅州梅县区梅雁中学高二下学期月考英语试卷
一、阅读理解
The magical wrld f The Little Prince brught t life!
Abut the exhibitin
French visual artist Arnaud Nazare-Aga has wrked with Antine de Saint-Exupéry Yuth Fundatin, and tgether they have designed a unique
turing art exhibitin f sculptures inspired by the riginal waterclr illustratins f Antine de Saint-Exupéry’s bk, The Little Prince, as well as
phts, manuscripts (手稿) and drawings.
The exhibitin will be presented fr the very first time in Auckland frm 1st June t 25th June, 2023 t celebrate the 80th anniversary f the
publicatin f The Little Prince.
Entitled “The Little Prince in the Dark”, the exhibitin attempts t bring Saint-Exupéry’s illustratins t life in a different way. The artist has
created 13 all-white sculptures with relief (浮雕). They are displayed in the dark t be discvered by the senses f tuch and hearing. All the magic,
dreams and petry f Saint-Exupery’s belved bk will thus be revealed in a new way never imagined befre.
What t d
First, start ff frm the entrance n the first flr t see histrical phtgraphy describing the great adventure f the pineering pilt Latécère.
Then, mve up t the secnd flr, where yu can find rare riginal manuscripts and drawings by Antine de Saint-Exupéry. After that, climb up t the
third flr t experience the sculptures. Finally, dn’t frget t stp ff n yur way ut at the gift shp right next t the entrance and pick up sme
Little Prince memrabilia t remember yur visit.
Prices
The exhibitin is free fr everyne!
Opening Times
Tuesday t Sunday, 10 a.m. t 4 p.m.
Lcatin
Huse f Minima, 26 Greek Street, Auckland
【小题1】Why is the exhibitin presented?
A．T intrduce a special city tur.
C．T prmte a French art fundatin.
【小题2】What is special abut the exhibitin?
A．It presents the illustratins in the dark.
C．It ffers a unique night-time experience.
【小题3】On which flr(s) can visitrs buy gifts?
A．The first flr.
B．T hnur the prductin f a bk.
D．T celebrate the birthday f a writer.
B．It can be explred with hands and ears.
D．It displays sculptures f the little prince.
B．The secnd flr.
D．All flrs.
C．The third flr.
Fr many years, Bruce Bexler dreamed f ging where n human had gne befre. He wanted t cut a path thrugh unexplred lands and discver
rare, extic species.
That might sund like an impssible dream, but Bexler turned it int a reality.
In December 2015, he and a team f Australian and American scientists ventured int an islated trpical rain frest n the island f New Guinea.
They were the first peple ever t enter the mist-cvered regin. “As time was limited, we were drpped in by helicpter. Once we were n the grund,
there were n trails anywhere; it was really hard t get arund, ” Bexler says.

Within minutes f landing, the team sptted a black chicken-like bird with strange range skin hanging frm its neck. The scientists sn determined
that the unusual creature was a type f hneyeaters — the first new bird species t be sighted n New Guinea in 60 years.
The hneyeater wasn’t the nly surprise fr the scientists. They discvered mre than 40 previusly unknwn plant and animal species — 13 birds
f paradise, 20 frgs, fur butterflies, and five palms. “We were like kids in a candy stre,” Bexler recalls. “Everywhere we lked, we saw amazing
things we had never seen befre.”
The newfund species didn’t shy away frm the scientists. Tw lng-nsed echidnas — primitive egg-laying mammals — let the visitrs pick them
up and take them back t camp t study them. An echidna lks like a hedgehg and is als called a spiny anteater.
Bexler thinks the animals weren’t scared because they had never seen humans befre. “In almst all parts f New Guinea, animals are hunted fr
fd, and because f this, they are very cautius f peple,” he explains. “This area gives scientists a place where they can g t study the behaviurs
f animals that have nt yet learned t be afraid f peple. ”
Scientists believe the area is prbably the largest untuched frest in Asia. Lcal peple called Kwerba hunt and cllect plants frm the uter-edges
f the frest but tld Bexler that nt even their ancestrs had gne s far int the wds. The wded area is apprximately a 10-day walk frm the
nearest village.
Bexler and his team did nt have enugh time during the expeditin t study the area cmpletely. They hpe t return and expect t recrd many
mre undiscvered species. “We just scratched the surface,” Bexler says. “Anyne wh ges there will cme back with a mystery.”
【小题1】Which wrd can best describe Bruce Bexler?
A．Adventurus.
B．Cautius.
C．Optimistic.
D．Careful.
【小题2】What des Bruce Bexler mean by saying “We were like kids in a candy stre”?
A．They didn’t have enugh fd and were hungry.
B．They were very excited abut what they saw.
C．They were misbehaving like naughty children.
D．They knew that if they kept searching, they’d find sugar in the frest.
【小题3】What can we cnclude abut the area Bruce Bexler explred?
A．The best way t explre the area is by helicpter.
B．The lcals live in the centre f the frest.
C．The area still cntains many plants and animals unknwn t science.
D．The lcals are unwilling t allw the scientists t enter the deep wds.
If yu think search engines pwered by artificial intelligence prvide yu with useful-sunding answers, it is mre likely that yu are wrng,
researchers have fund. “In these current systems, accuracy is negatively related t perceived usefulness,” says Nelsn at Stanfrd University. “The
things that lk better end up being wrse.”
Micrsft is just ne f many cmpanies ffering AI-pwered search tls, which generate results in digestible paragraphs that cite ther websites
rather than simply returning a list f links. T investigate these tls, Nelsn and his clleagues fed 1,450 ppular searches int Bing Chat and ther such
tls, including NeevaAI and PerplexityAI. These questins included examples such as “What are the latest technlgical discveries?” The team then
asked peple t rate whether the cntent used as citatins (引文) in the results actually supprted the statements made by the AIs.
Accrding t this assessment, nly 75% f citatins supprted the sentences they were attached t, and nly 52% f statements were supprted by
citatins at all. “That means the rest either have n citatins, r they are just wrng.” says Nelsn.
The researchers als asked peple t rate fluency f respnse and hw useful they seemed, and discvered a negative crrespndence. Fr every 0.1
increase in fluency ratings, the precisin decreased by 10.6%.
Aravind Srinlvas, a c-funder f PerplexityAI, says he welcmes the study. “The results are similar t the wrk the cmpany has cnducted, and
imprvements are pssible. Never judge an upcming technlgy by what it is tday, but rather by the ptential fr what it can be in the future,” he
says. But Nelsn isn’t sure whether AI-pwered search is the right apprach. “I’m a little mixed n whether such search tls shuld be rlled int
systems,” he says.
【小题1】Hw did Nelsn’s team examine the AI-pwered search tls?
A．They interviewed different experts n this field.
B．They invited Bing Chat users t rate the cntent.
C．They cmpared the results f different cmpanies.

D．They input cmmnly searched questins int the tls.
【小题2】Why did Nelsn’s team cnduct the study n AI-pwered engines?
A．T ffer surces and citatins.
B．T demnstrate their ptentials.
D．T test their accuracy and fluency.
C．T highlight their psitive aspects.
【小题3】What is Aravind Srinlvas’s attitude twards the future f AI-pwered engines?
A．Optimistic. B．Intlerant. C．Skeptical.
D．Wait-and-see.
【小题4】Which f the fllwing can be the best title fr the text?
A．AI Is Cming t Search Engines
B．Hw t Live with Artificial Intelligence
C．Can We Trust AI-Pwered Search Engine
D．Micrsft Adpts AI-Pwered Search Engine
One truth abut mdern life is that nbdy has any time.
【小题1】
S let's try a simple thught experiment.Imagine that yu came int
pssessin f a magical new set f technlgies that culd autmate r prmte every single part f yur jb.
【小题2】 Maybe yu'd pick up a hbby,r have mre children,r learn t relax and enjy yurself in the additinal leisure.But what if I tld
yu that yu wuldn't d any f thse things:Yu wuld just wrk the exact same amunt f time as befre.
【小题3】 But there are simple reasns fr this.
Better technlgy means higher expectatins-and higher expectatins create mre wrk.Fr mst f histry,humans were frced t suffer frm their
wn dirty and unpleasant substances.Mst families' clthes were washed twice a year.The fleet f husewrk technlgies that came int the wrld
suddenly between the late-19th and mid-20th century created new nrms(标准）f cleanliness －fr ur flrs,ur clthes,urselves.
【小题4】
Autmatic washers and dryers raised ur expectatins fr clean clthes and encuraged peple t g ut and buy new shirts and
pants;husewives therefre had mre lads f laundry t wash,dry,and fld.
In shrt,technlgy made it much easier t clean a huse t 1890s standards.
【小题5】
They wanted a mdern hme-with dustless
windwsills(窗台）and shiny flrs-and this dustless shiny required a 40-t-50-hur wrkweek,even with the assistance f mdern tls.
A．Yu are wasting yur time.
B．This might seem impssible.
C．New nrms meant mre wrk.
D．What wuld yu d with the extra time?
E．That means yu can have mre time t relax.
F．Everybdy is busy,burned ut,verladed.
G．But by mid-century,Americans didn't want that ld huse.
二、完形填空
I was an bsessive (痴迷的) lver f bks, wh was
way thrugh the library, gradually getting less picky as the ptins
sixth-grade teacher lent me a cpy f Watership Dwn, a(n)
at tw and plishing ff chapter bks by kindergarten. In grammar schl I wrked my
. Hwever, what I wanted t read was science fictin. It was t find. A
experience.
I am sick. My symptms (症状) are dd, and n ne really knws what my
is. I grew weaker and mre islated, but I gt a ride t the library
nce a week and all the nvels I culd carry. I kept reading my disability.
Later, I met a technical nnfictin writer, wh explained t me hw t make a living
subscribed t Writer’s Digest but wrte a fantasy nvel instead.
fr magazines. At last, smething I culd
! I
After
and where my disability wuldn’t shut me ut. I wrte tw science fictin nvels, which later gt published.
It turns ut that in writing science fictin being unique can be a , practice eventually wrks, and persistence (坚持不懈) is really what matters.
that first nvel, I made writer friends nline. I thught my life
at last. Here was a career path where all my reading wuld
Withut
【小题1】
, I wuldn’t have had anything t aspire t, and I wuld never have
smething I culd share with the wrld.

A．sleeping
【小题2】
B．reading
C．thinking
D．playing
D．thinned
A．increased
【小题3】
B．remained
C．appeared
A．quick
B．gd
C．hard
D．ppular
【小题4】
A．transfrmative
【小题5】
B．disappinting
B．ccupatin
C．infrmative
C．peratin
D．embarrassing
D．disability
A．pssibility
【小题6】
A．kept back
【小题7】
B．gave away
C．checked ut
D．turned dwn
D．despite
A．withut
【小题8】
B．beynd
C．within
A．writing
【小题9】
B．drawing
C．editing
D．recrding
A．find
B．d
C．prmise
D．change
【小题10】
A．finishing
【小题11】
A．settled dwn
【小题12】
A．pay ff
【小题13】
A．nature
B．adapting
C．translating
D．reviewing
B．fell apart
C．mved n
D．made sense
D．take ff
B．cme back
B．challenge
C．run ut
C．benefit
D．restrictin
D．business success
D．accepted
【小题14】
A．disease
【小题15】
A．expressed
B．science fictin
C．encuragement
B．learned
C．created
三、语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Richfield Museum f Fine Art is presenting a new exhibitin, aiming
【小题1】
(display) the artistic genius f ancient China.
The highlight f the exhibitin
【小题2】
【小题3】
(be) the painting Clearing After Snw n a Muntain Pass, ne f the great wrks f Tang Yin. Brn
(recgnize) as ne f the greatest artists China has ever knwn. This painting, shwing high
during the Ming Dynasty, Tang gained
muntains, trees, and huses cvered in snw, was made
as 【小题5】 day it was created.
【小题4】
extrardinary skill. Thugh ver 500 years ld, it lks as fresh and full f life
Als, there are many fine
China and expanded, trade alng the Silk Rad bmed. Chinese sculpture thus fund itself
frm India and Central Asia thrugh the Silk Rad. Initially these wrks f exceptinal beauty and quality
【小题6】
(example) f Tang Dynasty sculptures and mst f them are f Buddhist rigin. As Buddhism entered
【小题7】 (high) influenced by Buddhist art brught
【小题8】 (intend) t spread Buddhism.
(lk) at the faces f the figures in these sculptures, ne sees the faces f the past. Histry is brught t life.
【小题9】
This is just a small taste f
【小题10】
is in stre in the exhibitin, which will transprt us acrss time and space with its amazing cllectin f
wrks.

At sme time in the past Yellwstne must have blwn up with a
式填空)
(vilent) far beynd the scale f anything knwn t humans. (用所给词的适当形
Brn at an internatinal crane
(fund), Emma was raised by human caretakers. (所给词的适当形式填空)
Accrdingly, newspapers were read almst nly by rich peple in
(plitical) r the trades. (用所给词的适当形式填空)
Mr Smith made an
(appint) fr his sn t see the dctr. (所给词的适当形式填空)
They were
(randm) divided int fur grups and expsed t varius nise levels in the backgrund, frm ttal silence t 50 decibels (分贝), 70
decibels, and 85 decibels. (用所给词的适当形式填空)
四、单词拼写
It’s difficult t
(计算) what effect all these changes will have n the cmpany. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
(劳动者) shrtages have frced the Japanese int making heavy use f industrial rbts. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
If yu are wrng, admit it. Yu wn’t lse
(尊严), but will gain respect. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
What delighted the fans was that Tm perfrmed well in the table tennis
(锦标赛). (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
Persns present std t
(鼓掌) his unfrgettable act f curage. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
五、完成句子
他对没有为人工智能的发展提供资金感到内疚。
He
nt funding AI develpments.
他有强烈的作诗的欲望。
He
cmpse petry.
你服下这个药，一切疼痛就会消失。
If yu take this medicine, all yur pains and aches will
.
我要向这些年来为我们做了很多的所有老师、父母和家人们表示感谢。
I wuld like t t all ur teachers, parents and families, wh have dne s much fr us ver the years.

主修科学或工程，毕业后找工作不会有问题。
science r engineering, yu’ll have n truble finding wrk after graduatin.
六、翻译
拉里（Larry）劝她说机器人不会伤害她，也不会让她受到伤害。(汉译英)
对我个人来说，澳大利亚让我最喜欢的就是这里的人民。（汉译英）
他们对待生活的态度简单直率、随性酒脱，他们的友善和热情让我无论走到哪里都有宾至如归的感觉。(汉译英)
近年来，贸易増长迅猛，未来几年也将继续增长。(汉译英)
中国已经在这些沿线地区的运输系统和服务上投入了数十亿美元，这将促进整个地区实现大发展，有利于未来的贸易和文化交流。(汉译英)
七、书信写作
假定你是李华，最近收到好友Ben来信，信中说他因为使用人工智能完成作业而受到老师批评。请你写一封回信，内容包括：
1. 对使用人工智能完成作业的看法；
2. 你的建议。
注意：
1. 词数80词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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八、书面表达
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I was a shy 13-year-ld by that year, afraid t speak befre peple and pr at cmmunicating with thers. My parents were wrried s they
intrduced a part-time jb in a restaurant tme during the summer vacatin, hping it wuld make a difference t me. Althugh I hated it and didn’t
believe it wuld bring any change t me, I had t accept it. The part-time jb fell n Mnday f each week.
On the first Mnday, I simply dared nt lk at peple in the restaurant. And when I was speaking with them, my face turned red and my vice was
lw. On my way back hme, I felt s bad. But when I reached hme, my bad feelings disappeared. I fund my parents had brught hme a pet cat, which
I had expected t get fr a lng perid f time. The cat was s lvely.
Hwever, ne Thursday, he secretly ran ut and disappeared. We lked fr him everywhere the whle day but fund nthing. We lived in the city,
clse t a high-traffic rad, and this cat didn’t have “street smarts”. I guessed he wuld prbably die and wuldn’t be hme again. And after three
days f lking fr the cat with n sign f him, I quite believed he wuldn’t be hme again. My parents tld me “A miracle (奇迹) may happen as lng
as yu dn’t give up.” Hwever, I quite dubted it.

On the mrning f the fllwing Mnday, I left fr wrk 45 minutes earlier and started walking t the bus stp a blck away. While waiting fr the
bus there, I thught abut the wrk and felt upset. It wuldn’t be helpful t me and it was tiring! Hw much I wanted t quit the jb! And thinking f
the cat, I felt even wrse.
Since it was still early, I suddenly wanted t spare sme time t lk fr the cat again thugh I had little hpe. I tld myself, “If I still fail t find him
this time, I wn’t lk fr him again.” Then, I decided t walk t the next bus stp t lk fr him arund. Minutes later, suddenly, a dirty and weak cat
sitting by a tree caught my eye.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
My eyes widened, and I was surprised t find it was just ur cat.
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Encuraged, I rushed t the bus stp and decided nt t give up the part-time jb.
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