广东省广州市广雅中学2022-2023学年高三下学期2月阶段检测英语试卷

2023届高三下学期2月阶段测试 英语 本试卷分共8页, 满分120分, 考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答题卡前, 考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的校名、姓名、考号等相关信息填写在答 题卡指定区域内。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后, 用2B 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, 再选涂其它答案；不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位 置上；如需改动, 先划捭原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案； 不准使用铅笔和涂改液. 不按以上要 求作答的答案无效。 第一部分阅读(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 Most of us have dreamed of being a great inventor to create something great. However, just because someone's invented something, it doesn't mean that they're happy with the end result. Albert Einstein—The Atomic Bomb It's Albert Einstein's work that made the creation of the atomic bomb possible. However, years later Einstein regretted having signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to support the research into nuclear chain reactions, because he believed the Germans were already working on it. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, ”he said, “I would have never lifted a finger, ” Ethan Zuckerman—The Pop-up Advertisement If you've ever found yourself yelling at your computer screen in frustration as yet another pop-up ad leaps into view, Zuckerman is the person to blame. “The business model that got us funded was advertising. The model was analyzing users' personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser's toolkit: the pop-up ad, ”Zuckerman explained. Bob Propst—The Office Cubicle In the 1960s, Bob Propst introduced the office cubicle to Americans. It was designed to “give knowledge workers a more flexible environment than the rat-maze boxes of offices” . Companies saw his invention as a way to save money, doing away with individual offices an d re placing them with open plans and cubicles. However, Propst came to complain his invention. “The cubiclizing of people in modem corporations is extremely mad and stupid, ”he said. 1. What is the initial purpose of