2022-2023学年江苏省徐州市沛县高二下学期第二次学情调研英语试题

2022-2023

学年江苏省徐州市沛县高二下学期第二次学情调研英语试题

1. Peer (

同伴

) Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) is a peer-facilitated learning programme available

to students enrolled (

注册

) in most core units of study in our business school.

PASS involves weekly sessions where you work in groups to tackle specially prepared problem sets,

based around a unit of study you’re enrolled in.

PASS doesn’t re-teach or deliver new content. It’s an opportunity to deepen your understanding of

the key points from lecture materials while you are applying your skills to solve problems.

You work interactively with your peers. As a peer group, you decide what is covered in each session.

That way, PASS directly responds to your needs and feedback.

Registration in Term 2 will open at 9 am, 21 September 2022.

Waiting lists

If a session is full, you can register for the waiting list. We will email you if a place becomes

available or if a new session is to be held.

When you are placed on a waiting list, we will email you a number which tells you where you are on

the list. If you are close to the front of the list, you have a good chance of gaining a place in the

programme in the near future.

Deregistering

If you miss two PASS sessions in a row, you will be deregistered and your place will be given to

someone on the waiting list. Make sure you fill in the attendance sheet at each session to record your

attendance.

You’ll be informed by email if you are being deregistered as a result of missing sessions. If you

believeyouhavereceivedtheemailinerror,***************************************..

1. In PASS, students ________.

A

．

attend new lectures

C

．

prepare problem sets in groups

2. What can students do if a session is full?

A

．

Fill in the attendance sheet.

C

．

Report their needs and feedback.

3. Students will be deregistered if ________.

A

．

they send emails in error

C

．

they give their places to others

B

．

they fail to work interactively

D

．

they miss two sessions in a row

B

．

Sign up for the waiting list.

D

．

Email the office their numbers on the list.

B

．

decide their own schedules

D

．

use their skills to solve problems

2. My name is Alice. Early last year, I was troubled by an anxiety that crippled (

削弱

) my ability to

do anything. I felt like a storm cloud hung over me. For almost a year I struggled on, constantly

staring at this wall that faced me. My perfectionist tendencies were the main root of this: I wanted to

be perfect at whatever I did, which obviously in life is not possible, but it consumed me.

One day, I attended a presentation by wildlife conservationist Grant Brown at my high school. His

presentation not only awed and inspired me, but also helped emerge an inner desire to make a

difference in the world. I joined a pre-presentation dinner with him and that smaller setting allowed

me to slowly build up my courage to speak one-on-one with him—an idea that had seemed

completely impossible. This first contact was where my story began.

A month later, Brown invited me to attend the World Youth Wildlife Conference. Looking back, I

now see that this would be the first in a series of timely opportunities that my old self would have let

pass, but that this new and more confident Alice enthusiastically seized. Shortly after I received his

invitation, applications to join the Youth for Nature and the Youth for Planet groups were sent

around through my high school. I decided to commit to completing the applications, and soon I was

a part of a growing global team of young people working to protect nature. Each of these new steps

continued to grow my confidence.

I am writing this just six months since my journey began and I’ve realised that my biggest obstacle

(

障碍

) this whole time was myself. It was that voice in the back of my head telling me that one

phrase that has stopped so many people from reaching their potential: I can’t. They say good things

come to those who wait; I say: grab every opportunity with everything you have and be impatient.

After all, nature does not require our patience, but our action.

1. What was the main cause for Alice’s anxiety?

A

．

Her inability to act her age.

C

．

Her desire to be perfect.

B

．

Her habit of consumption.

D

．

Her lack of inspiration.

2. How did Grant Brown’s presentation influence Alice?

A

．

She decided to do something for nature.

C

．

She learned about the harm of desire.

B

．

She tasted the sweetness of friendship.

D

．

She built up her courage to speak up.

3. The activities Alice joined in helped her to become more ________.

A

．

intelligent B

．

confident C

．

innovative D

．

critical

4. What can we learn from this passage?

A

．

Practice makes perfect.

C

．

Action is worry’s worst enemy.

3. A machine can now not only beat you at chess, it can also outperform you in debate. Last week, in

a public debate in San Francisco, a software program called Project Debater beat its human

opponents, including Noa Ovadia, Israel’s former national debating champion.

B

．

Patience is a cure of anxiety.

D

．

Everything comes to those who wait.

Brilliant though it is, Project Debater has some weaknesses. It takes sentences from its library of

documents and prebuilt arguments and strings them together. This can lead to the kinds of errors no

human would make. Such wrinkles will no doubt be ironed out, yet they also point to a fundamental

problem. As Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at

Northwestern University, put it: “There’s never a stage at which the system knows what it’s talking

about.”

What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to what

distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines. A computer

works with symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules to transform one string of symbols into

another. But it does not specify what those symbols mean. Indeed, to a computer, meaning is

irrelevant. Humans, in thinking, talking, reading and writing, also work with symbols. But for

humans, meaning is everything. When we communicate, we communicate meaning. What matters is

not just the outside of a string of symbols, but the inside too, not just how they are arranged but what

they mean.

Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction, not of computation, interaction that shapes

the content of the symbols in our heads. The rules that assign meaning lie not just inside our heads,

but also outside, in society, in social memory, social conventions and social relations. It is this that

distinguishes humans from machines. And that’s why, however astonishing Project Debater may

seem, the tradition that began with Socrates and Confucius will not end with artificial intelligence.

1. Why does the author mention Noa Ovadia in the first paragraph?

A

．

To explain the use of a software program.

B

．

To show the cleverness of Project Debater.

C

．

To introduce the designer of Project Debater.

D

．

To emphasize the fairness of the competition.

2. What does the underlined word “wrinkles” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A

．

Arguments. B

．

Doubts. C

．

Errors. D

．

Differences.

3. What is Project Debater unable to do according to Hammond?

A

．

Create rules.

C

．

Talk fluently.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A

．

Social interaction is key to understanding symbols.

B

．

The human brain has potential yet to be developed.

C

．

Ancient philosophers set good examples for debaters.

D

．

Artificial intelligence ensures humans a bright future.

B

．

Comprehend meaning.

D

．

Identify difficult words.

4. According to the Solar Energy Industry Association, the number of solar panels installed(

安

装

)has grown rapidly in the past decade, and it has to grow even faster to meet climate goals. But all

of that growth will take up a lot of space, and though more and more people accept the concept of

solar energy, few like large solar panels to be installed near them.

Solar developers want to put up panels as quickly and cheaply as possible, so they haven’t given

much thought to what they put under them. Often, they’ll end up filling the area with small stones

and using chemicals to control weeds. The result is that many communities, especially in farming

regions, see solar farms as destroyers of the soil.

“Solar projects need to be good neighbors,” says Jordan Macknick, the head of the Innovative Site

Preparation and Impact Reductions on the Environment(InSPIRE)project. “They need to be

protectors of the land and contribute to the agricultural economy.” InSPIRE is investigating practical

approaches to “low-impact” solar development, which focuses on establishing and operating solar

farms in a way that is kinder to the land. One of the easiest low-impact solar strategies is providing

habitat for pollinators(

传粉昆虫

).

Habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change have caused dramatic declines in pollinator

populations over the past couple of decades, which has damaged the U.S. agricultural economy.

Over 28 states have passed laws related to pollinator habitat protection and pesticide use.

Conservation organizations put out pollinator-friendliness guidelines for home gardens, businesses,

schools, cities—and now there are guidelines for solar farms.

Over the past few years, many solar farm developers have transformed the space under their solar

panels into a shelter for various kinds of pollinators, resulting in soil improvement and carbon

reduction. “These pollinator-friendly solar farms can have a valuable impact on everything that’s

going on in the landscape,” says Macknick.

1. What do solar developers often ignore?

A

．

The decline in the demand for solar energy.

B

．

The negative impact of installing solar panels.

C

．

The rising labor cost of building solar farms.

D

．

The most recent advances in solar technology.

2. What does InSPIRE aim to do?

A

．

Improve the productivity of local farms.

B

．

Invent new methods for controlling weeds.

C

．

Make solar projects environmentally friendly.

D

．

Promote the use of solar energy in rural areas.

3. What is the purpose of the laws mentioned in paragraph 4?

A

．

To conserve pollinators.

C

．

To diversify the economy.

B

．

To restrict solar development.

D

．

To ensure the supply of energy.