广东省清远市清远市第三中学教育集团2024-2025学年高一下学期5月期中英语试题

2024～2025学年清远市三中教育集团高一下学期期中考试

英语

满分120分，考试用时120分钟。

第一部分  听力【听说考试代替，满分30分】

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

Some of the best museums across China are putting their exhibitions online in VR format for free. Why not take a detailed online tour at museums that you would not otherwise have time for?

The Palace Museum

The Palace Museum is known as the Forbidden City. Visitors can browse all the buildings of the Palace Museums. More than 400,000 imperial artifacts have been digitized online, which can definitely help you gain knowledge and immerse yourself in a cultural atmosphere.

The websites: https://pano.dpm.org.cn

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum is a large and famous museum, which collects over 120,000 precious artistic relics from more than 5,000 years ago to the Qing Dynasty. The marvelous bronze, ceramics, paintings and calligraphies offer a visual feast for the eyes, and also provide a good chance for people to learn the profound Chinese history and culture.

If you are into ancient Chinese arts and crafts, then the online Shanghai Museum is definitely worth your time. The website: https://www.shanghaimuseum.net

Mogao Caves

The Mogao Caves, also known as Thousand Buddha Grottoes, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near Dunhuang in northwest China’s Gansu Province.

Now visitors can directly browse dozens of classic caves and appreciate the murals (壁画) by cave rooms through the “Digital Dunhuang”, the website of the Mogao Caves. The development of “Digital Dunhuang” not only shocks visitors in a visual sense but also “moves”

the Mogan Grottoes outside.

The website: https://www.e-dunhuang.com

21．The people interested in ancient Chinese arts and crafts should visit ____________.

A．https://www.e-dunhuang.com B．https://www.dpm.org.cn

C．https://pano.dpm.org.cn D．https://www.shanghaimuseum.net

22．What can the visitors see through “Digital Dunhuang”?

A．Precious imperial artifacts. B．Classic caves and the murals.

C．Ancient people living in the caves. D．All the artistic relics of Dunhuang.

23．What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A．To guide what to do at weekends. B．To support the sickness prevention.

C．To recommend an online tour. D．To invite visitors to real scenic spots.

B

Around 1,500 endangered and rare languages are at a high risk of being lost in the next century, according to a study published on Thursday in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The study found that around half of the world’s 7,000 documented languages are endangered. It also found that greater road density was associated with higher risk of endangerment.

“It’s as if roads are helping dominant languages overwhelm other smaller languages,” co-author and professor at the Australian National University Lindell Bromham said in a press release.

Greater endangerment was also associated with higher average years of schooling, suggesting that formal education contributes to loss of language diversity. “Mainstream education in a dominant language can lead to loss of competence in minority languages. We urgently need to invest in bilingual (双语的) education and develop programs that allow communities to bring their heritage language into schools, to make sure the language stays strong and is passed on to future generations,” Bromhall told CBS News.

The study found that unless there is intervention (干预), the world could lose at least one language per month, with language loss three times more in the next 40 years. The authors recommended “urgent investment” in community-based programs like bilingual education programs and language documentation. And some of the recommendations that experts made 20

years ago are still the same: governments should remove bans on languages and adults should encourage children to speak other languages — including their native language.

“Each language is a reflection on the creativity and inventiveness of human minds, a beautiful and fascinating solution to complex communication challenges,” Bromham told CBS News. “Most importantly, for many people, language symbolizes cultural identity and belonging. Many groups mourn (悼念) the decline of unique languages and long for competency in languages no longer spoken.”

24．What was related with higher risk of language endangerment?

A．Less road density.

B．Unpopularity among language learners.

C．Greater competence of small languages.

D．Higher average years of schooling.

25．What should government do to preserve language diversity?

A．Stop bans on languages.

B．Create more language education programs.

C．Put more investment in language research.

D．Encourage people to speak other languages.

26．What do we know from the text?

A．Investment is needed in bilingual education.

B．Language loss results in mainstream education.

C．Half of the world’s current languages are lost.

D．Dominant languages are symbols of cultural identity.

27．What is the text mainly about?

A．The causes of language loss. B．The high risk of language loss.

C．The measures of language protection. D．The importance of language diversity.

C

Hard work really does pay off. Scientists find that perseverance（坚持不懈）leads to better grades and higher achievements in school.

“Being passionate（热情的）is not enough to ensure academic success,” says researchers, who ought of "courage" as a key to success. This is also regarded as effort in reaching long-term