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2023届浙江省温州市普通高中高三第一次适应性考试英语试
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一、阅读理解
Nobody likes to spend money on a new book only to face disappointment when it
doesn’t live up to your expectations. Here are the best book review sites to help you avoid
buying books that you’ll regret reading.
Goodreads
Goodreads is the leading online community for book lovers. If you want some
inspiration for which novel or biography to read next, this is the best book review site to visit.
There are an endless number of user-generated reading lists to explore.
Fantasy Book Review
Fantasy Book Review should be high on the list for anyone who is a fan of fantasy
works. The book review site publishes reviews for both children’s books and adults’ books. It
has a section on the top fantasy books of all time.
Booklist
Booklist is a print magazine that also offers an online portal. Trusted experts from the
American Library Association write all the book reviews. You can see parts of reviews for
different books. However, to read them in full, you will need to subscribe.
YouTube
YouTube is not the type of place that immediately springs to mind when you think of the
best book review sites online. However, there are several engaging YouTube channels that
frequently offer opinions on books they’ve read.
Although it’s easy to be attracted by an impressive book cover, it’s always best to have a
quick look at the book reviews before actually buying a copy. This way, you can save your
money and spend it on the books that you’ll be proud to display on your shelves for a long
time.
1
．
Which site best suits people who want to buy a biography?
A
．
Goodreads.
B
．
Fantasy Book Review.
D
．
YouTube.
C
．
Booklist.
2
．
What can visitors do on Booklist?
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A
．
Edit book reviews.
C
．
Read full reviews after payment.
B
．
Discuss with experts.
D
．
Find information about writers.
3
．
What is recommended before buying a book?
A
．
Noting the book cover.
C
．
Preparing a display shelf.
It’s a classic story: A kid is forced to learn an instrument from a young age, they play it
throughout their childhood, and they develop a bittersweet relationship with it. Is the constant
battle between the love for the music and the hate for the constant challenge worth the fight?
For me, it was.
I started playing the piano when I was four-that was 15 years ago! This was huge
commitment, so there must have been something worth holding on to, right?
The easy guess is that I was purely in love with music and piano. Although that’s the
sweeter tale, it’s a bit more complicated. I struggled a lot with piano. Family and peers were,
at least in my own head, constantly placed beside me in competition. I felt pressure to be the
best in order to prove something to others-and more devastatingly (
破坏性地
) to prove
something to myself. The seed of my musical interest was grown in the sunlight of
competition and doubt. Hate sprouted (
滋生
) when my self-criticism hit too hard.
It’s difficult to learn to love something that didn’t originate from love. For a while, piano
was more of an annoyance than a hobby. But somehow, love grew. It was deeply buried. But
it was there, and by high school,it was strong enough that when I was truly on the verge of
quitting any kind of formal training. I found the strength to hold on tighter, and dig further. I
switched teachers, and got incredibly lucky with one who helped me tunnel into what I loved.
I learned pieces for myself, I composed for myself, and I found confidence not because I got
“good enough,” but because I learned that anything I had was good enough.
The love and hate I’ve had for the piano were both planted and grown. If you too have
learned to hate something, remember that with commitment, it can be uprooted, and love can
make a home in its place. There is always time. There is always room.
4
．
What does the author want to show by telling a classic story?
A
．
The benefits of music.
B
．
Kids’ struggle in learning instruments.
C
．
Kids’ bittersweet childhood.
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B
．
Reading the book reviews.
D
．
Checking the book’s ratings.
D
．
The popularity of learning instruments.
5
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What can we know about the author’s experience of playing the piano?
A
．
She finally quit formal training.
B
．
She never treated it as her hobby.
C
．
She was in pure love with music and piano.
D
．
She once experienced great pressure from herself.
6
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What helped the author find confidence?
A
．
Her attitude.
C
．
Her compromise.
B
．
Her training.
D
．
Her achievement.
7
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What message is mainly delivered in the passage?
A
．
Practice makes perfect.
B
．
Love is a thing that grows.
C
．
Content is better than riches.
D
．
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Around the globe far more bird species are losing ground than gaining, according to an
expansive review of a half-century of bird population research published in the journal
Annual Review of Environment and Resources in May.
The review, entitled The State of the World’s Birds, showed that more than 5,200
different species of birds-just shy of half the world’s total-are known or suspected to be
declining. Around 3,800 species are relatively stable, and fewer than 700 species show
increases. Among birds on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, almost 400 birds
worldwide have had their conservation status changed for the worse in the past three decades
(moving from vulnerable to threatened, or threatened to endangered) — five times more than
the number of bird species with an IUCN status that has changed for the better.
“After documenting the loss of nearly 3 billion birds in North America alone (according
to a 2019 study published in the journal Science), it was disturbing to see the same patterns of
population declines and extinction occurring globally,” says review coauthor Ken Rosenberg,
a conservation scientist now retired from the Cormell Lab of Omithology.
The review points to disappearing and degraded habitat-resulting from climate change,
urbanization, agricultural intensification, and international trade-as the leading driver of bird
declines worldwide. In a note of hope, the authors cite a 2020 study indicating that restoring
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just 5% of habitat in priority areas around the world could avert 60% of likely extinctions.
Lead author Alexander Lees, a research associate at the Cormell Lab, also points to the
need for substantial changes in human behavior to prevent further losses. “Loss and
degradation of habitat is often driven by demand for resources,” says Lees. “We need to better
consider how commodity flows such as beef, oil, and seed crops can contribute to
biodiversity loss and try to reduce the human footprint on the natural world.”
8
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In what order are threatened species arranged on the IUCN’s Red List?
A
．
Species quantity.
status.
9
．
How does Ken Rosenberg feel when saying the words?
A
．
Hopeful. B
．
Relieved. C
．
Doubtful. D
．
Concerned.
B
．
Living habitat. C
．
Declining rate. D
．
Conservation
10
．
What does the underlined “avert” mean in paragraph 4?
A
．
Prevent. B
．
Increase. C
．
Cause. D
．
Face.
11
．
What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A
．
Extra reasons for bird extinction.
C
．
Substantial changes in human behavior.
Why do some men settle down to form families with the mothers of their children, and
others don’t? Biology plays a role. Work published by Lee Gettler of the University of Notre
Dame, in Indiana, clarifies how testosterone, the principal male hormone (
荷尔蒙
), operates.
Previous studies suggest that high levels of testosterone are bad for family life. Fathers
with lower testosterone levels provide more child care while high-testosterone males are less
likely to stick around. Dr. Gettler has shown something further. This is that a man’s adult
testosterone level seems correlated with whether his father was present during his teenage
years.
His data come from a survey begun in the Philippines in 1983. This monitored the health
and nutrition of 966 men enrolled as babies. It also collected extensive information on
whether the fathers of these men were around and providing parental care in the households.
It further documented whether participants got married, had children and whether they
participated in child care. Crucially, it also measured their testosterone levels at the ages of 21,
26 and 30.
Overall, Dr. Gettler and his colleagues found that on becoming fathers, men had lower
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B
．
Possible solutions to habitat loss.
D
．
The prospect of biodiversity loss.
testosterone levels if their own fathers had been involved in their care during their teenage
years. It has two possible explanations. One is that it is directly genetic (
基因的
). The other is
that teenage experience actually modulates (
调节
) testosterone levels. This explanation,
which Dr. Gettler favors, could lead to high-testosterone men abandoning their sons, who thus
become high-testosterone in their turn.
He also found some of those in the survey whose fathers were absent during their
adolescence, and who ended up with high levels of the hormone, did become caring fathers.
Why this pattern should exist is an unanswered question. But a zoologist looking at these data
might take it as an example of developmental plasticity (
可塑性
), in which the same genes
produce different, but appropriate, outcomes in different circumstances.
Dr. Gettler’s discovery throws a useful light on the problem of fatherless families,and
how to try to end it.
12
．
What is Gettler’s study mainly about?
A
．
Family life.
C
．
Adult testosterone.
B
．
Fathers’ roles.
D
．
Child care.
13
．
What can be learnt about Dr. Gettler’s study?
A
．
It was conducted among babies.
B
．
The finding is far from satisfactory.
C
．
The data used were relatively reliable.
D
．
It monitored the nutrition of participants.
14
．
Why is the zoologist mentioned in the passage?
A
．
To suggest a follow-up study.
B
．
To contradict Gettler’s ideas.
C
．
To point out the study limitations.
D
．
To give a possible explanation.
15
．
Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A
．
Like Father, Like Son?
B
．
Caring Father, Happy Son?
C
．
Good Father, Good Son
D
．
Love Me, Love My Son
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