2024年3月13日发(作者：)
重庆市2023-2024学年高三上学期10月第二次质量检测英语
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一、阅读理解
If you’re on the go, use a free music streaming app to listen to your tunes just about
anywhere.
Pandora
For most people, Pandora may be the best app for streaming music. Enter your favorite
artist, and Pandora plays their songs along with similar artists. As you listen, rate songs so
that the app will play more of the music you like. The service learns and improves
suggestions based on your ratings.
TuneIn
If you love radio but want the convenience of a mobile device, check out this free app.
Enter a song, and you instantly have a list of all the radio stations around the country that play
the song. With a push of a button, you can listen to that radio station. TuneIn also offers a vast
selection of podcasts including sports, entertainment, technology and many more.
Sound Cloud
Sound Cloud contains tons of audio uploaded by other users, including homemade audio
and music. Search for music and audio, and follow other users to keep track of their new
uploads. A combined 10-plus hours of audio is posted every minute, which means you can
find something interesting.
LiveOne
LiveOne, previously called LiveXLive, has pre-programmed streaming radio stations for
about every free version includes ads, and can’t play music on demand. You can
upgrade to get those features.
i Heart Radio
If you need a radio app for your mobile device, i Heart Radio has you covered. You can
create music stations based on your favorite songs. It also lets you access podcasts and look
in categories like 80s and 90s hits, holiday, classical, rock, and more to find the music you
like.
1
．
Which app recommends music based on users’ feedback?
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A
．
Pandora. B
．
TuneIn. C
．
Sound Cloud. D
．
LiveOne.
2
．
What do TuneIn and i Heart Radio have in common?
A
．
Users can download music.
C
．
Users can follow sports news.
3
．
What is special about Sound Cloud?
A
．
It includes user-recorded works. B
．
It stores audio and music for hours.
B
．
Users can listen to podcasts.
D
．
Users can create radio stations.
C
．
It provides a powerful search function. D
．
It helps users find music to their taste.
When I was five, I once peeled off the paper that enveloped my crayons and snapped
them in two. My great enthusiasm was dampened to find just more crayon inside. When I
started writing words with pencils, I would twist them inside a sharpener to see if the pencil
lead went all the way through the body. Growing up, I saw my television taken apart to reveal
the inner workings that only made sense when I did a degree in physics.
Then I landed a career in engineering, spending six years as part of the team that
designed the Shard, a famous building in London. Actually, whether I knew it or not, I was
already on a mission to understand how things are formed.
After exploring the big, I decided to turn to the small. I realized whatever matter forms
human-made objects, complex devices are made up of fundamental building blocks, without
which our complex machinery wouldn’t exist.
It is this idea that inspired my book where I select what I believe are seven core elements
that form the basis of the world-the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the pump
and the string. Together they compose a vast range of innovations in terms of their underlying
(
潜在的
) scientific principles and the fields of engineering they touch. They’ve changed our
technology, and had a sweeping impact on our history, arts, culture, communication, political
and power structures, etc.
The blender we use to make baby’s food relies on gears (
齿轮
), which couldn’t exist
without the wheel. The speaker on the phone relies on a magnet. Even when we think of
larger and more complex objects-diggers, skyscrapers, satellites-we come back to the same
seven foundational innovations.
So, look around you, and ask questions about what you see: reignite(
重燃
) that
childhood curiosity. Hopefully, that will inspire you to investigate and lead you to a better
understanding of the building blocks of our world.
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4
．
Why does the author mention crayons in paragraph 1?
A
．
To explain his choice of college major.
B
．
To demonstrate his fascination with tools.
C
．
To highlight his disappointment at the discovery.
D
．
To show his early passion for the insides of objects.
5
．
What made the author’s book possible?
A
．
His experience in designing buildings.
B
．
His understanding of the origin of things.
C
．
His finding of the components of machinery.
D
．
His perspective on the operation of the world.
6
．
What do we know about the seven core elements?
A
．
They throw light on scientific principles.
B
．
They have a profound influence on society.
C
．
They mark an era of technological innovation.
D
．
They represent the advancement in engineering.
7
．
What can be the best title for the text?
A
．
Small Things That Count
C
．
Ask the Right Questions
I don’t think translation apps will make learning foreign languages completely outdated.
No program can accurately recreate the implication of real conversation. For example, by
dropping “will” or “am going to” in “Tomorrow I start my diet,” I am implying a previous
delay of the diet. A typical translation by apps would be “Tomorrow I am going to start my
diet,” which gets across the basic idea but lacks the intended implication.
However, technology is eliminating the need to learn foreign languages for practical
purposes such as re serving hotel rooms or ordering meals in a foreign country, since
practicality is why most people want to learn a new language.
Douglas Hofstadter, a cognitive scientist, sees his mastery of foreign languages as a
reflection of his identity. As an enthusiastic language learner myself, I don’t entirely share his
perspective, but I do agree with the writer Graeme Wood, who has noted “to actively enjoy
piecing together how other languages work is an individual quirk (
怪癖
), not a human
universal.” True enthusiasts learn new languages for the sheer joys of discovery or
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B
．
Big Dreams That Reward
D
．
Understand Core Elements
accomplishment. Most people, however, are uninterested in this odd desire.
Some would say a foreign language is a window into a new way of processing the world.
But did the humble level of French or Spanish we picked up in school provide us with a new
lens on the world? If our goal is getting directions to the bus station in Rome, technology now
makes that possible at the press of a button.
As someone endlessly fascinated by languages, I am working hard to accept this new
reality. With an iPhone handy and an appropriate app downloaded, foreign languages will no
longer present most people with the barrier they once did. Learning a new language will
likely become a pursuit of interest to a much smaller but more committed set of enthusiasts.
8
．
What is paragraph 1 mainly about?
A
．
The function of real conversation. B
．
The importance of accurate translation.
C
．
The limitation of translation technology. D
．
The necessity of learning foreign
languages.
9
．
Why does the author learn new languages?
A
．
To satisfy an inner desire.
C
．
To serve practical purposes.
B
．
To display his individuality.
D
．
To explore his core identity.
10
．
What does the author think of foreign language lessons in school?
A
．
Uninspiring. B
．
Irrelevant. C
．
Inflexible. D
．
Insufficient.
11
．
What does “this new reality” in the last paragraph refer to?
A
．
Language enthusiasts will lose their passion.
B
．
Foreign languages won’t pose big challenges.
C
．
Many people will quit learning new languages.
D
．
Learning languages is no longer a personal choice.
We typically think of our sense of hearing as being concerned with sounds. But silence,
whatever it is not a sound. Then what is it that we hear when we hear nothing at all? Are we
detecting silence? Or are we just hearing nothing and interpreting that absence of sound as
silence? A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins may have found the answers to these
questions.
The scientists tested 1,000 participants with a series of auditory illusions (
听觉错
觉
).The first test compared a single longer sound with two shorter sounds that added up to the
same amount of time as the longer one. But when people listened to them, they perceived the
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single sound as lasting longer.
Then they replaced the sounds in the illusion with silences, reworking it into what they
called the one-silence-is-more illusion. They used sounds of restaurants, busy marketplaces,
trains or playgrounds, and integrated moments of silence into them for listeners to compare.
In the silence-based illusion, a long silence was perceived as being longer than the total of
two shorter silences.
Other tests placed silence in different contexts to produce more auditory illusions. In
every case they tested, the illusions that scientists thought could only be triggered with
sounds worked just as well when the sounds were replaced by silences. “If you can get the
same illusions with silences as you get with sounds, that may be evidence that nothing is also
something you can hear.” said Chaz Firestone, an author of the study.
Dr. Yousif from the University of Pennsylvania said the study shows that people can hear
more than just sounds. He also appreciated how the researchers used sound illusions and
tweaked them for silence. “It’s very clever in the way that it uses known phenomena and
applies them to silences instead,” he said.
12
．
What question was the study intended to address?
A
．
Is silence an illusion?
C
．
How do we hear silence?
13
．
How was the research conducted?
A
．
By making shorter silences longer. B
．
By mixing up sounds of multiple places.
B
．
Can silence be heard?
D
．
Why do we hear nothing?
C
．
By applying auditory illusions to silence. D
．
By comparing sounds of various lengths.
14
．
What did the scientists find out?
A
．
Participants were tricked into hearing nothing.
B
．
People reacted to silences as they did to sounds.
C
．
Tests in varied contexts yielded different outcomes.
D
．
Silences were perceived as lasting longer than sounds.
15
．
What does the underlined word “tweaked”mean in paragraph 5?
A
．
Created.
B
．
Generated. C
．
Selected. D
．
Adjusted.
二、七选五
The summer heat and humidity can make even the most dedicated outdoor runner feel un
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