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1、2023届天河区普通高中毕业班综合测试（二）英语本试题卷共8 页，全卷满分120分，考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1.答卷前，考生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、姓名、班级、座位号和考生号填写在答题卡相应的位置上，再用2B铅笔把考号的对应数字涂黑。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，再选涂其他答案：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，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔或涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4.考生必须保证答

2、题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节供15小题海小题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。AWhile you may be a master of buying Secret Santa gifts or white elephant gifts,shopping fbra college student can be quite tricky.Whether youre shopping fbr a soon-to-be graduate or acollege freshman,ou

3、r guide has you covered on the best gifts for college students.For the goal setter:Ban.do 12-month PlannerGifts for college students that help them achieve their academic targets are always a goodidea.This 12-month planner includes year,month and week views to keep classes andextracurriculars organi

4、zed;while the handwriting on the cover（endless possibilities）providespositive inspiration.Theres also fun artwork,a coloring page and stickers to customize（定制J）theirplanner.For the tech lover:Apple 10.2-inch iPadIf your college student is glued to their laptop,the addition of an iPad will be a welco

5、me one.It has ten hours of battery life,two cameras and a wide 10.2-inch display thats perfect fbr notetaking,movie watching and snapping photos.This useful tech gift also pairs with a set of AirPodsor an Apple Pencil to help maximize its usage.For photograph beginners:Fujifilm Instax Mini Link Smar

6、tphone PrinterGot a teen whos always taking photos with their iPhone or camera?Fujifilm InstaxSmartphone Printers will definitely delight everyone.Ifs one of the greatest gifts forphotographers because it allows them to easily print their favorite shots with just the click of abutton.For the coffee

7、lover:Ember Temperature-Controlled Coffee CupFuture programmers can keep their Joe warm with this app-controlled smart cup.Coffeestays hot for up to 1.5 hours,or all day when paired with the included charging coaster（杯垫）.Youcan even select the exact temperature you prefer.It9s a thoughtful and usefu

8、l gift for coffee lovers.Stop hunting for the best products and deals get our latest information on secret sales anddiscounts,gift ideas for everyone and can t-miss products.1.Who is the most likely intended receiver of a Ban.do 12-month Planner?A.A soon-to-be graduate with a gift for art.B.A colleg

9、e freshman good at handwriting.C.A junior college student who enjoys planning.D.A senior college student with regular extracurriculars.2.How will an Apple 10.2-inch iPad function best?A.When connected to a laptop.B.When charged for ten hours.C.When paired with Apple products.D.When equipped with a 1

10、0.2-inch display.3.What do the last two gifts have in common?A.They can be charged by cellphones.B.They can be controlled by cellphones.C.They meet individuals different requirements.D.They are designed for students with IT-smart brains.B试卷第2 页，共 12页One part of the oath（誓言）taken by physicians requir

11、es us to remember that there is art tomedicine,and that warmth,sympathy and understanding may outweigh the surgeons knife or thechemisfs drug.When I,along with my medical school class,recited that oath at my white coatceremony a year ago,I admit that I was more focused on the biomedical aspects than

12、 the art”.Actually,medical professionals can get too easily caught up in treating to remember there isstill space for healing.As doctors learn to communicate with patients beyond the restrictedlanguage of physical indicators,drug protocols and surgical interventions that may go againsthealing,they a

13、re reaching for new tools poetry.One clinical trial studied the effect of music or poetry on the pain,depression,and hopescores of 65 adult patients under cancer treatment.They found that both types of art therapy（疗法）produced similar improvements in pain and depression scores.Only poetry,however,inc

14、reasedhope scores.Researchers assumed that poetry can break the so-called law of silence,according towhich talking about ones perception of illness is taboo.After listening to poetry,one participantsaid,I feel calmer when I hear those words.They show me that Im not alone.Insights like these are alre

15、ady making their way into the clinic.Sarah Friebert runs a carecenter where children are visited by a writer who helps them create poems and stories forpublication.Eric Elshtain uses poetry on the wards to teach children the power of self-expression.Hes found that many of his patients write haikus a

16、bout things like sports or their favorite stuffedanimal,rather than their experience in a hospital bed.Poetry,as he said,is a way to both acceptthe hospital encounter and escape from it.While a poem a day wont cure,it might help relieve.Tve decided that ril learn how to meetmy patients beyond the ch

17、art documents;that Fil encourage them to write their own stories;that Iwill heal as well as treat.In other words,Til honor each and every word in the oath I took lastyear.4.According to the text,the author is p r o b a b l y.A.a young poet B.a clinical expertC.a medical student D.an experienced phys

18、ician5.What insight can we gain from the clinical trial in paragraph 3?A.Music works better in reducing depression.B.Poetry makes people open about their illness.C.Patients are likely to lose hope without poems.D.Art therapy is the key to cancer treatment.6.What can we infer about the author accordi

19、ng to the last paragraph?A.He will change his career path.C.He begins to take his work seriously.7.Where is the text taken from?A.A news report.C.A public speech.B.He will well remember the oath.D.He has better understood his job.B.A research paper.D.An application letter.CThis paragraph is not ordi

20、nary.Look at it.At first,it wont look too odd.Just a normalparagraph you may think.But look at it again and you might find it a bit unusual.Can you spotit?Is anything.missing?What youve just read is a lipogram-a text without a particular letter.It is the hardest kind asit doesnt contain the letter E

21、-the most common letter in the English language.Try writing oneyourself and youll imagine the task faced by the French writer Georges Perec,when a friendchallenged him to write a whole novel without using E-a letter which is even more common inFrench.Perec was a frighteningly clever writer,a lover o

22、f word games and puzzles and also a masterof the Chinese board game Go.As well as writing crossword puzzles for Paris magazines,he hadalready written a 5000-word palindrome,a text that reads the same forwards and backwards,likethe well-known A man,a plan,a canal-Panama.But his friends thought this t

23、ask would bebeyond him.Perec took up the challenge.He was unable to use more than 70%of the French words,including those most commonly used.Surprisingly,he discovered this“impossible“rule unlockedhis imagination.He later claimed he wrote this novel faster than any of his other books.He wasforced to

24、think and fight for every sentence.He had no choice but to be original.The result was La Disparition,a detective story about the mysterious disappearance of acharacter named A.Vowl.The only Es were the four in his name on the cover.Despite the dozensof clues about the fantastically difficult rule,ma

25、ny original reviewers failed to spot what was试卷第4 页，共 12页staring them in the faces-the missing letter.Embarrassing for the critics,but hilarious for thewriter and his friends.Fortunately,the game Perec was playing did not destroy the book itself.Every sentenceseems twisted slightly out of shape,and

26、the resulting style is unique.8.Why does the writer start with a lipogram?A.To prove Perec?s work is hard.B.To introduce Perecs tough task.C.To demonstrate what a lipogram is.D.To challenge readers to write one.9.Which of the following is NOT a palindrome?A.Madam.B.Nurses ran.C.No X in Nixon.D.No le

27、mons,no melon.10.What did Perec think of the challenge he took up?A.It forced him to write faster.B.It enriched his writing styles.C.No writer but he could make it.D.It freed his creativity in writing.11.What does the underline word hilarious mean in paragraph 5?A.Confusing.B.Surprising.C.Very lucky

28、.D.Extremely funny.DA small device no bigger than a toaster has generated oxygen on the surface of Mars,bringing the chances of surviving on the red planet a step closer.The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment,better known as Moxie,has beengenerating oxygen from the atmosphere on Mar

29、s,as part of Nasas Perseverance rover（漫游者）mission.Moxie produced breathable oxygen in seven hour-long tests conducted in various weatherand atmosphere conditions since landing.During each test,the device produced six grams ofoxygen,about the same as a small tree and enough to sustain an astronaut fo

30、r 15 minutes.It?s alsofound that even in extreme temperatures and after a Martian dust storm,Moxie continued toproduce high-purity oxygen.“This is the first demonstration of actually using resources on the surface of another planetand transforming them chemically into something that would be useful

31、for a human mission,“saidJeff Hoffinan,a retired astronaut and professor at MIT.Nasa and the MIT team are planning to build a bigger version of Moxie,as they hopeadvanced models will produce enough oxygen to support a crewed mission to Mars.We have tobring a lot of stuff from Earth to support a huma

32、n mission,but oxygen is a big problem.If you canmake it there,go for it and youre way ahead of the game,Hoffinan said.The device uses pumps that absorb in carbon dioxide which is heated to 800 andprocessed to separate the carbon and oxygen.Carbon monoxide（一氧化碳）is emitted as wastewhile the pure oxyge

33、n is left behind.Expanding the device to support a human mission to Mars presents challenges.It is needed torun continuously for 400 days,a leap from the one-hour tests and its inner temperature should becontrolled stably.Moxie has proved to endure the extreme conditions on Mars,however,and theteam

34、plans to assess the machines limits in the coming months when atmosphere is thick andcarbon dioxide levels are high.They say they just want to set everything as high as they dare andmake as much oxygen as they can.12.What can we learn about Moxie?A.It works well in a series of tests.B.It aims to pur

35、ify breathable oxygen.C.It is stopped by extreme conditions.D.It produces oxygen enough for a team.13.By quoting Hoffinans words in Paragraph 5,the author intends to.A.present a plan to further explore MarsB.demonstrate Nasas ambition to win the gameC.show the plentiful and useful resources on MarsD

36、.highlight the significance of making oxygen on Mars14.Which of the following best describes the team according to the last paragraph?A.Cautious and ambitious.B.Confident and intelligent.C.Practical and independent.D.Courageous and imaginative.15.What can be a suitable title for the text?A.A Nasa Ma

37、rs rover landed successfully.试卷第6 页，共 12页B.Challenges for a human mission to Mars.C.Human survives with oxygen made on Mars.D.A little oxygen on Mars,a great leap forward.第二节（共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。We often idealize the act of cooking.In my minds eye,I can see

38、 myself swanning throughthe kitchen with smooth hair as I stir a pot of spaghetti in slow motion.16 As the appointed chefof my household,making dinners after a long days work is an annoying chore（杂务）.So,when we knew about a weekly meal delivery service,I jumped at the chance.17 一Each meals ingredien

39、ts came wrapped up in a separate paper bag,each labelled with a recipecard.The actual cooking was easier,too.I was delighted by pre-processed vegetables andproperly-portioned dressings.Think about the hunt for recipes,the cuts and bums,and the spilledbottle of olive oil.18.A few weeks into our subsc

40、ription,however,I realised that gone with the frustration ofcooking was its joy.19 You choose ingredients from the supermarket shelves.You wash them,peel them,chop them,season them or combine them.You see them transform from one thing intoanother over the process.Remove that process and what are you

41、 left with?20 For busy families who couldnt afford the connection with food,these boxes offerfresh,healthy,waste-free meals that require minimal effort and time.But if I have the time andenergy to indulge in that luxury,I think its worth doing.A.These were all things of the past.B.In fact,cooking ca

42、n connect you with your food.C.In practice,there is rarely anything ideal about cooking.D.Cooking is messy,tiring,and most of the time,annoying.E.Soon came our box of ingredients that made everything easier.F.So clean and ready,the ingredients no longer look or feel like food.G.Of course,I do realis

43、e the practical advantages of meal subscription boxes.第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分3 0分）第一节（共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Aged 25,Id been driving home when my wheels hit a puddle and I lost control.The car flewthrough the air,and when it landed,my body was soaked in blood.21,a driver s

44、topped to help me and I was cut out of my vehicle.Looking up in theambulance,I saw a familiar face,You 22 us not long ago,“I said to Dr Stephen Rashford,my former teacher.Before he could reply,I began to 23:How would I become a doctornow?Seeing the fear in my eyes,he tried to 24 me.Everything will b

45、e okay,“he said.Ifyou want to get back to 25 after this,youll find a way.”When I was alone in hospital,I 26 completely.Tm crippled（痛）!I cried,noting themany tubes coming out of me.After eight months in hospital,I went back home,having 27 some upper limb（_h肢）function and the ability to sit up again.B

46、ut I had no movement in my fingers and legs.28 all the misfortunes,over lime,I began to 29 what had happened to me and Icould still enjoy life.As time passed,academics at university 30 me.If you want to come back,nowis the time one told me.However,returning to study after five years away was a 31.Tn

47、 2016,1 passed my exams in university and was eventually offered a 32 atGold Coast University Hospital.I can do everything from ultrasounds（超声波）to insertingcannulas（插管），but I know the most 33 part of being a good doctor is having a heart.The patients never showed any 34 about having me,a person with

48、 walking disability,as their doctor.In foct,a man in a wheelchair even expressed his confidence in me.Youunderstand what Im 35he said.21.A.ApparentlyB.LuckilyC.AccidentallyD.Actually22.A.praisedB.curedC.helpedD.lectured试卷第8 页，共 12页23.A.panicB.hesitateC.regretD.shake24.A.cheatB.remindC.comfortD.persu

49、ade25.A.workB.hospitalC.medicineD.life26.A.broke upB.broke downC.broke throughD.broke out27.A.renewedB.regainedC.performedD.improved28.A.DespiteB.BesidesC.WithD.Except29.A.realiseB.valueC.forgetD.accept30.A.mentionedB.questionedC.contactedD.encouraged31.A.chanceB.missionC.blessingD.challenge32.A.pos

50、itionB.treatmentC.courseD.scholarship33.A.usefulB.importantC.demandingD.relevant34.A.distrustB.impatienceC disrespectD.impoliteness35.A.doingB.seekingC.undergoingD.expecting第二节(共10小题:每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。British people often feel embarrassed about responding to 36(offer)wit