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2023届山东省济宁市三模英语试题

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一、阅读理解

A Day Out at the City Farm

Come and join us for a day of fun! Get in touch with

nature and learn about the importance of growing our own food. Bring back your own mini

garden to start your urban farming journey!

Date:

28 May 2023 (Sunday)

Time:

to

Venue:

City Farm

GUIDED TOUR

or

Free registration (registration ends 5 minutes before tour starts)

Our friendly guide will share interesting facts about some common local plants and their

uses. You will have an opportunity to touch, smell and taste some of the vegetables and fruits.

Our guide will also highlight some farming methods that are environmentally friendly.

WORKSHOPS

1

．

What can a visitor enjoy during the guided tour?

A

．

Trying out new farming methods.

B

．

Tasting some vegetables and fruits.

C

．

Visiting the farm without registration.

D

．

Sharing knowledge of plants with the locals.

2

．

How much need a couple with one child pay for My Miniature Garden?

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A

．

$40. B

．

$55. C

．

$65. D

．

$80.

3

．

What is the main purpose of the event?

A

．

To instruct visitors to prepare gifts.

B

．

To advocate the protection of the farm plants.

C

．

To publicize the sale of organic produce.

D

．

To encourage people to grow their own food.

Keeping a language alive can strengthen people’s sense of identity and most importantly

lead to the preservation of a whole culture. This is probably why a group of Cherokee music

artists decided to create a music album (

唱片

) exclusively in the Cherokee language, a highly

endangered Native American language. Currently, there are fewer than 2,000 fluent speakers

of the language remaining in the world, and the number is declining every year.

The album, tilted DOAP oaV and pronounced ‘Ah’ ‘Nuh’ ‘Duh’ ‘Nah’ ‘Lees’ ‘Gi’,

means “Performers” in English. It is comprised of a range of contemporary styles, including

Pop, Reggae, Country, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, and Folk. With a planned release date of Labor

Day weekend, the record company is using the platform of the National Cherokee Holiday to

give this album as much exposure as possible.

Jeremy Charles, a key figure in getting this album off the ground, has said that the

“music will shine a spotlight on Cherokee artists and speakers, and increase exposure to our

culture and language worldwide”. He aims for the album to be an inspiration to the next

generation of Cherokee language learners. Featuring 12 Cherokee artists ranging from ages

14 to 50, you can see how this album is going to do a lot for the promotion of Cherokee

music and can inspire people of any age to make music that connects with their heritage (

遗

产

).

The youngest contributor on the album, Lillian Charles, is only in 8th grade but had a

major contribution to the Goth-pop song

“Circus”—a song she wrote at the age of 12. It

originally written in English, she worked with translators Bobbie Smith and Kathy Sierra to

be able to fully express herself in Cherokee.

Projects like the DOOAP oaV album bring a modern approach to revitalizing language

and culture and encourage a younger audience, to get involved and start learning the

Cherokee language. On average, a native language is lost forever every two weeks, and these

people want to make sure that the Cherokee language isn’t one of them.

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4

．

What can we learn about the album from paragraph 2?

A

．

It has various musical styles.

B

．

It is titled Performers in English.

C

．

It sings high praise of Labor Day.

D

．

It was exposed to the public by chance.

5

．

What’s Jeremy Charles’s expectation of the album?

A

．

It will make a huge profit for the record company.

B

．

It can help the 12 artists rise to fame overnight.

C

．

It will satisfy the fans’ demand for pop music.

D

．

It can fuel the youth’s interest in Cherokee language.

6

．

Which can best replace the underlined word “revitalizing” in the last paragraph?

A

．

Translating. B

．

Reviewing. C

．

Restoring. D

．

Creating.

7

．

What’s the best title of the text?

A

．

Alarming! The Cherokee Language is Dying

B

．

Amazing! An 8th Grader is Releasing an Album

C

．

Bringing Music to Life with Modern Technology

D

．

Preserving a Language Through the Power of Music

What is the 15-minute city? It’s the urban planning concept that everything city residents

need should be a short walk or bike ride away—about 15 minutes from home to work,

shopping, entertainment, restaurants, schools, parks and health care. Supporters argue that

15-minute cities are healthier for residents and the environment, creating united

mini-communities, boosting local businesses, and encouraging people to get outside,walk,

and cycle.

Many cities across Europe offer similar ideas, but Paris has become its poster child.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo has sought to fight climate change by decreasing choking traffic in the

streets and fuel emissions. In 2015, Paris was 17th on the list of bike-friendly cities; by 2019,

it was 8th. Car ownership, meanwhile, dropped from 60 percent of house holds in 2001 to 35

percent in 2019. The 15-minute city figured largely in Hidalgo’s successful 2020 re-election

campaign. The idea has also gained support in the U.S.

It clearly won’t work everywhere: Not every city is as centralized and walkable as Paris.

Some car-dominated cities like Los Angeles and Phoenix would be hard-pressed to provide

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everything people need within walking distance. In addition, some urban planners argue that

the 15-minute city could increase the separation of neighborhoods by income. Neighborhoods

equipped with all the conveniences required by the 15-minute city also tend to have high

housing costs and wealthier residents.

Despite some resistance, the basic principles behind the 15-minute city are influencing

planning in cities around the world, including Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires,

Singapore, and Shanghai. Urban designer and thinker Jay Pitter says cities where basic needs

are within walking distance create more individual freedom than needing to drive every

where. “In a city where services are always close by,” he says, “mobility is a choice: You go

where you want because you want to, not because you have to. My fight is not against the car.

My fight is how we could improve the quality of life.”

8

．

Which best describes the 15-minute city?

A

．

Modern.

C

．

Entertaining.

B

．

Convenient.

D

．

Smart.

9

．

What’s the original intention for Paris to advocate the 15-minute city?

A

．

To address climate issues.

C

．

To promote the bike industry.

B

．

To beautify the city.

D

．

To help Hidalgo get re-elected.

10

．

What’s some urban planners’ worry about the 15-minute city?

A

．

It slows the city’s expansion.

B

．

It represents a setback for society.

C

．

It may widen the gap between neighborhoods.

D

．

It can cause the specialization of neighborhoods.

11

．

What’s Jay Pitter’s attitude to the concept of 15-minute city?

A

．

Doubtful.

C

．

Critical.

Thousands of years have passed since humans discovered silk, but scientists are still

finding new uses for this remarkable material. Now researchers say it could help tackle a

growing environmental and health concern: Micro-plastics.

Micro-plastics that are now found worldwide are increasingly recognized as a serious

pollution threat, and have been found in the bloodstream of animals and people. Some of

these micro plastics are intentionally added to a variety of products to generally protect some

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B

．

Favorable.

D

．

Uninterested.

specific active components from being degraded by exposure to air. For example, vitamins

are often delivered in the form of micro capsules packed into a pill or capsule,and

herbicides(

除草剂

)are similarly enveloped. But the materials used today for such

micro-encapsulation are plastics that stay in the environment for a long time. To date, there

has been no practical, economical alternative available that would biodegrade naturally.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chemical company BASF

developed a silk-based biodegradable alternative to these capsules.

Silk is recognized as safe for food or medical use, as it degrades naturally in the body.

The silk protein used in the new alternative material is widely available and inexpensive and

the silk fibers can simply be dissolved(

溶解

), lead researcher Benedetto Marelli says. Besides,

the processing is so simple and tun-able that the resulting material can be adapted to work on

existing manufacturing equipment.

Replacing non-biodegradable micro-capsules with silk might not work in every case,but

given the current and future challenges related to food insecurity, agricultural production, and

a changing climate, the silk-based material is of great importance. Products using silk-based

micro-capsules are expected to be commercially available in a few years. And the researchers

will next try encapsulating active components that could require a different manufacturing

approach, such as those that must remain in liquid or gas forms.

12

．

What can be inferred from paragraph 2?

A

．

Removing plastic pollution is a piece of cake.

B

．

Micro-plastics can degrade quickly and naturally.

C

．

Micro-plastics have become a severe pollution threat.

D

．

Developing an alternative for micro-plastics is urgent.

13

．

What’s the major concern of researchers choosing silk as an alternative?

A

．

It is economical.

C

．

It is widely available.

B

．

It is biodegradable.

D

．

It is skin-friendly.

14

．

What’s the last paragraph mainly about concerning the silk-based material?

A

．

Its promising future.

C

．

Its existing limitations.

B

．

Its marketing method.

D

．

Its making approach.

15

．

In which part of a magazine can the passage probably be found?

A

．

Climate.

C

．

Technology Advances.

B

．

Agriculture.

D

．

Health Guidelines.

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二、七选五

Growing plants is often seen as a very “green” thing to do, but like many products, they

take a huge amount of energy to produce.____16____For example, they use geothermal(

地热

的

) energy to heat greenhouses and solar power to supply electricity and lighting. While

domestic growing doesn’t involve the same carbon footprint as commercial growing, it’s

important to consider what we can all do to minimize our own impact while still enjoying

growing plants.

Over-consumption of plants is a big issue. It’s so easy to get overexcited when you see

all these incredible plants, and you can end up carrying home huge numbers of

them.____17____ The more plants you have, the more limited your time and resources

become, and plants can suffer. This leads to another issue-many people may end up throwing

away their plants which don’t look perfect or stop flowering, in a similar way to the world of

fast fashion. ____18____.

If you are ready and able to increase your collection, propagate(

繁殖

) from your own

plants rather than buying more, and share plants with others. ____19____Meanwhile, we can

build a community of like-minded, passionate plant people.

Recycling takes a huge amount of input, which can end up more damaging to the

environment, so instead of buying something of lower quality that needs replacing every year,

buy fewer things of a higher quality. ____20____And they can be passed down the

generations.

A

．

But large collections call for an enormous amount of work.

B

．

Many commercial growers continue to market their produce.

C

．

This removes the need to buy plants and encourages a sharing culture.

D

．

These will last many years and be more cost-effective in the long term.

E

．

So it’s important to assess your collection and buy plants you have time to look after.

F

．

Throwing them away will greatly reduce your gardening footprint on the environment.

G

．

Many large-scale growers have used technology to minimize their impact on the

environment.

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