广东省开平市忠源纪念中学2022-2023学年高三上学期阶段性检测英语试题

高三英语 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A When it comes to Albert Einstein (1879-1955), it's easy to imagine an old, crazy-haired genius. But before he ever came up with the theory of relativity, Einstein was a 23-year-old patent clerk, working for the minimum wage. Young Einstein decided to earn some extra cash tutoring physics. He put up an ad, and Maurice Solovine, a student of philosophy, responded. The two did not do much traditional studying, but instead chatted about philosophy. Conrad Habicht, a mathematician and a friend of Einstein, joined their debates. They jokingly called themselves the Olympia Academy. We've gathered together some books the members of the Olympia Academy read and dis-cussed. Maybe the literature that inspired Einstein can inspire you to be clever , too. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume David Hume, a 18th-century Scottish philosopher, was always suspicious. He believed “everything we know is really just a matter of probability”. He argued “reason doesn't motivate people”, which led to all sorts of questions, such as “So what's motivating you to write this?” “The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application,” Hume wrote. Analysis of Sensations by Ernst Mach An Austrian philosopher Ernst Mach wrote about how mysterious senses are. In an at-tempt to figure out how humans experience balance, Mach cleverly built a turning chair, which used shades of gray bands to show that the colors people saw were deeply affected by the colors around them. Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare Henri Poincare, a 19th-century French philosopher, was also a theoretical physicist, an engineer and a mathematician. At college, he was fantast