广东省江门市第一中学2024-2025学年高二下学期第一次月考英语试题

江门一中2024-2025学年度第二学期第一次学段考

高二级英语试卷

本试卷共12页，考试用时120分钟。

II. 阅读理解 (共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

第一节  阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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High School Science Exploration Challenge

We are thrilled to announce the first-ever Exploration Challenge for high school students on campus. This challenge calls on you to dive into interesting scientific topics and present your thoughts creatively.

What You Can Do

Choose any science topic that interests you and present what you’ve learned through one of the following project types:

·Experiment and Report: Conduct a simple experiment and write about your findings.

·Poster or Digital Presentation: Create an informative poster or a digital presentation on science.

·Video or animation (动画片): Produce a video or animation to explain a scientific phenomenon you enjoy.

·Essay or Blog Posts: Write an essay or a series of blog posts with the theme of “Science and Me.”

How to Enter

Submit your projects to our e-mail address science@challenge.com. Please keep in mind your projects are sent as attachments in the e-mail before Aug. 31st.

Judging and Prizes

Projects will be judged on creativity, accuracy, and engagement. Prizes include scholarships, science kits, and opportunities to visit a university science lab. The winners’ projects will be displayed in our school science magazine.

Award Ceremony

The award ceremony will be broadcast live on our official account, featuring a demonstration of the top 10 entries along with the stories behind them. It will then be followed by an award presentation and dinner for all.

For detailed rules and more information about the challenge, please subscribe to our official account. We can’t wait to see your creations!

1. What may be a possible project for the challenge?

A. A book on physics. B. A report on law study.

C. A poster about music. D. A video on plant growth.

2. Which of the following is a reward for winners?

A. Dining with a scientist. B. Receiving a gold medal.

C. Having their projects published. D. Making their family stories known.

3. What is the purpose of the challenge?

A. To attract magazine subscribers. B. To conduct scientific field research.

C. To encourage science exploration. D. To improve digital presentation skills.

B

I used to want to be a zookeeper, but after becoming a wildlife rescue worker, I found that this work is even more valuable than I thought. Not only can I help injured wild animals, but I can also facilitate their return to the wild. We make every effort to accomplish this goal: hiding food under rocks and fallen leaves to simulate (模拟) a natural environment, or doing our best to maintain some distance from the animals and prevent them from bonding with humans.

I am often asked whether I feel at all sad when it’s time to release the animals — to tell you the truth, I’m always pretty willing to let them go. All of my efforts have been toward allowing them to return to the wild, and the wild is where they belong, so there’s no reason for reluctance on my part. But it is true that sometimes there is no way for an animal to go back to the wild, or to keep it from bonding with humans.

Last year, I rescued a light-vented bulbul (白头鹎). The bird, initially lacking feathers, recovered under our care. It was scheduled for release during its adolescent period, during which it’s relatively easy to socialize. But an injury to its flight feathers delayed its return to the wild. The bird imprinted on humans during the following two months, which was a critical cognitive (认知的) development period, leading it to return to us after being released.

When we engage in wildlife rescue, we have to teach animals how to maintain a high degree of caution around humans. If they become too trusting of humans, it is very likely that way, our success depends not on the animals, or on our work here, but more so on the attitude humans would not be a bad thing, and our release attempt could then be successful.

4. What do we know about the author’s job?

A. It was his initial career choice.

B. It forbids close interaction with animals.

C. It mainly aims to cure the injured animals.

D. It involves both rescue and release efforts.

5. Which of the following best describes the author’s feeling to release the rescued animals?

A. Ambitious. B. Cheerful. C. Sorrowful. D. Anxious.

6. Which is closest in meaning to “imprinted on” in paragraph 3?

A. Was attached to. B. Was aware of.

C. Was sensitive to. D. Was cautious of.

7. What is the key to the success of wildlife rescue work?

A. Animals’ faith in humans.

B. Human’s knowledge in the work.

C. Human’s attitude towards animals.

D. Animals’ ability to survive in the wild.

C

Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them.

Social media, texting and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information, but they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism. To use a theatrical metaphor (隐喻), these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we can each create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and project a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine, and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.

So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges.

Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person? Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the