2024年3月16日发(作者：)

2023-2024

学年广东省茂名市信宜市第二中学高三上学期

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月月考英语试题

The Chicago Botanic Garden opened more than 45 years ago as a beautiful place to visit, and it has

matured into one of the world’s great living museums and conservation science centers.

Group Visit Packages

Garden Package

♦$41 per person

♦One activity/tour of your choice

♦Private dining area for one hour and lunch

Tours

Grand Tram Tour

♦35-minute guided tour departs on the hour starting at 10 am

♦Travels 2. 6 miles and shows the entire Garden grounds, including such highlights as 81 acres of

lakes, nine islands, and beautiful gardens

♦Maximum capacity of 76 people

♦Available during peak season (April-October)

Activities

Butterflies & Blooms

For $6 more per person, put yourself in a habitat filled with more than 500 butterflies native to South

America and North America. From late May through early September, 10 am — 5 pm. This visit

takes approximately 20 minutes.

Model Railroad Garden

For $6 more per person, add a unique adventure to your package: 15 model trains journey coast-to-

coast across bridges, through tunnels, and past miniature (

微型的

) scenes of America’s favorite

landmarks. From mid-May to late October, 10 am—5 pm. This visit takes approximately 30 minutes.

Specialty Tours

Library Tour

This tour package includes a rare book viewing, a library tour, and an exhibition tour. Maximum 30

people per tour. This tour takes approximately 50 minutes.

Garden Highlights Walking Tour

On this tour, you will be taken to a garden in full bloom. Areas for touring are determined on the day

of your visit and are based on blooms and the group’s capacity to walk. This tour takes

approximately 35 minutes.

1. What do we know about Grand Tram Tour?

A

．

It has no time restriction.

B

．

It offers eight tours a day.

C

．

It is available all year round.

D

．

It limits the number of visitors.

2. How much should you pay to enjoy the wonderful scene of butterflies?

A

．

$6. B

．

$20. C

．

$41. D

．

$ 47.

3. Which of the following can help you learn about landmarks in America?

A

．

Library Tour.

C

．

Butterflies & Blooms.

The power of “seeing”

A spoon-billed sandpiper (

勺嘴鹬

) steps into the frame, heading straight for a small bug placed

there. It swallows its food with its spoon-shaped beak.

The performance is for Joel Sartore, founder of Photo Ark, a personal effort to document animals

around the world.

The critically endangered bird, of which there are fewer than 1,000 individuals in the wild, is the

13,000th species Sartore has photographed in 16 years. His goal is 20,000.

Before he started Photo Ark, Sartore spent more than a decade working as a photographer for

National Geographic, mainly covering conservation stories in the field. He had seen wildlife

decreasing firsthand, but felt like the public wasn’t interested.

Sartore thought of a new way to inspire people. He picked up his camera and set about taking shots

of wildlife-but rather than recording animals in the wild, he wanted to photograph them outside their

natural habitat. He visited zoos, aquariums and rehabilitation (

康复

) centers and photographed

portraits of individual animals against a white or black backdrop (

背景幕

).

“This allows you to look them in the eye and see that there’s great beauty there and that they are

worth saving,” he said. “We are primates and we respond to eye contact above all else.”

The response has indeed been huge. Sartore has more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram and a

best-selling series of Photo Ark books. Part of the proceeds (

收益

) from his books goes to fund on-

the-ground conservation efforts.

Gary Ward who works at London Zoo where Sartore has shot before, said, “Seeing is the first step to

caring, and caring is the first step to conservation action.”

By choosing animals outside their natural habitat, Sartore admits he will only show a small part of

the world’s wildlife. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are

more than 2 million described species on the planet, and he plans to photograph just 1% of them.

B

．

Model Railroad Garden.

D

．

Garden Highlights Walking Tour.

But doing so allows him to spotlight species that are already extinct in the wild, and those that would

be difficult to take portraits of in their natural habitat. It also enables him to shoot in a controlled

environment, meaning the animal can be kept safe and comfortable, with zookeepers or carers on

hand to advise on its behavior.

4. What is Sartore doing at the beginning of the text?

A

．

He is feeding a bird.

C

．

He is photographing a bird.

5. What does Sartore aim to do with his Photo Ark?

A

．

Make a record of conservation stories.

B

．

Broaden his experience in saving animals.

C

．

Gather information on endangered species.

D

．

Raise people’s awareness of protecting wildlife.

6. What is Gary Ward’s attitude towards Sartore’s work?

A

．

Unclear. B

．

Approving. C

．

Doubtful. D

．

Objective.

B

．

He is training a bird.

D

．

He is studying a bird’s behavior.

7. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A

．

Why Sartore focuses on animals in human care.

B

．

Why Sartore can’t cover all animals in the world.

C

．

The benefits of working with zookeepers or carers.

D

．

The difficulties of photographing animals in the wild.

It is a self-evident fact that music study boosts your artistic ability, but have you thought of that your

academic performance is actually hugely benefited? Music study has been linked to academic

achievements in many studies and serious music training is reported to be associated with success in

many other fields. I hope you would not be too surprised to hear that many outstanding professionals

in industries from tech to finance to media are found to be amateur musicians and playing music as

their regular past-times.

The phenomenon extends beyond the widely-known math-music association. Strikingly, many high

achievers told me music opened up the pathways to creative thinking. And their experiences suggest

that music training sharpens other qualities: Collection-the ability to listen, a way of thinking that

joins together separate ideas, and the power to focus on the present and the future at the same time.

It is in this context that the connection between math and music grabs the most attention. Both are at

heart modes of expression. Bruce Kovner, the founder of the hedge fund (

对冲基金

) Caxton

Associates, says he sees similarities between his piano playing and investing strategy; as he says,

both “relate to pattern cognition, and some people extend these patterns across different senses”.

For Roger McNamee, whose Elevation Partners is perhaps best known for its early investment in

Facebook, “music and technology have met and befriended,” he says. He became expert on

Facebook by using it to promote his band, Moonalice, and now is focusing on video by live-

streaming its concerts. He says musicians and top professionals share “the almost desperate need to

dive deep”. This capacity of getting into something in a real way seems to unite top performers in

music and other fields.

“I’ve always believed the reason I’ve gotten ahead is by outworking other people,” he says. It’s a

skill learned by “playing that solo one more time, working on that one little section one more time,”

and it translates into “working on something over and over again, or double-checking or triple-

checking.” He adds, “there is nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard

enough, it does get better. You see the results.” That’s an observation worth remembering at a time

when music as a serious pursuit is in decline in this country.

8. Based on the passage, music training can enhance all of the following abilities EXCEPT

A

．

handling the present with a long-range

vision

C

．

listening to different opinions patiently

B

．

thinking from other people’s perspective

D

．

identifying connection between different

ideas

9. Which of the following is considered bearing similarities with music?

A

．

Hedge fund. B

．

Patterns. C

．

Different senses. D

．

Mathematics.

10. What does Roger McNamee mean by saying “music and technology have met and befriended”?

A

．

Musical techniques are directly used in managing business.

B

．

Advanced technology makes sound better than before.

C

．

Facebook has become a platform for promoting music albums.

D

．

Technology has increased the channels by which music is promoted.

11. What does the underlined word “observation” in the last paragraph refer to?

A

．

The claim that music is the key to success.

B

．

The belief that results determine the value of music.

C

．

The idea that hard work keeps getting you ahead.

D

．

The proposal that one should pursue music seriously.

Do rewards really bring desirable results? Three researchers, psychologists Mark Lepper, David

Greene, and Richard Nisbett, watched a classroom of preschoolers for several days and identified the

children who chose to spend their “free play” time drawing. Then they conducted an experiment to

test the effect of rewarding an activity these children clearly enjoyed.

The researchers divided the children into three groups. The first was the “expected-award” group.

They showed each of these children a “Good Player” certificate decorated with a blue ribbon and

featuring the child’s name and asked if the child wanted to draw in order to receive the award. The

second group was the “unexpected-award” group. Researchers asked these children simply if they

wanted to draw. If they decided to, when the session ended, the researchers handed each child one of

the “Good Player” certificates. The third group was the “no-award” group. Researchers asked these

children if they wanted to draw, but neither promised them a certificate at the beginning nor gave

them one at the end.

Two weeks later, back in the classroom, teachers set out paper and markers during the preschool’s

free play period while the researchers secretly observed the students. Children previously in the

“unexpected-award” and “no-award” groups drew just as much, and with the same relish as they had

before the experiment. But children in the first group-the ones who’d expected and then received an

award-showed much less interest and spent much less time drawing. Even two weeks later, those

appealing prizes-so common in classrooms-had turned play into work.

Based on the research, contingent (

连带的

) rewards-if you do this, then you’ll get that-had

significant negative effect on people. “If-then” rewards require people to sacrifice some of their

autonomy. They’re no longer fully controlling their lives. And that can spring a hole in the bottom of

their motivational bucket, draining an activity of its enjoyment.

Other researchers found similar results with adults. These insights proved so surprising, which called

into question a standard practice of most companies and schools: promising and giving rewards,

especially material ones, to desirable behaviors and results. As one leading behavioral science

textbook puts it, “People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person’s

motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often bear the unintentional and hidden cost of

weakening that person’s inner motivation toward the activity.”

12. It can be inferred from the passage that Lepper, Greene, and Nisbett’s experiment was designed

to ensure that ________.

A

．

all children who were part of the expected-award group were not distracted by the promise

of an award while drawing

B

．

all children who participated in the experiment were known to enjoy drawing

C

．

all children who displayed equal levels of enthusiasm for drawing would be grouped

together

D

．

all children who did not receive an award would maintain their motivation to draw

13. The underlined word “relish” most nearly means ________.

A

．

diversity B

．

flavor C

．

pleasure D

．

style

14. Based on the passage, which of the following activities would most likely affect people’s inner

motivation in a negative way?

A

．

Orally encourage students who have helped in group projects.

B

．

Offer sheets of paper academic reports to students about their performance of the semester.

C

．

Promise to award students financially who used to contribute to the class activities

voluntarily.