甘谷一中2024——2024学年第一学期高三第二十一周周考
英语试题
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Thirteen Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin
You can’t escape misfortune in life. But you can change how you respond to it. Do you struggle to get over your failures? Getting over these obstacles can have a great influence on your everyday life. Morin shares how her most successfully cured patients overcame these difficulties. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Would you worry about something? Why can’t you stop worrying? Fortunately, there would be a way to deal with those worries. By defining the source of your stress, you can get over it. Carnegie came up with a timeless formula that helps you deal with any over thinking situation. Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson
We’re supposed to graduate from high school at 18, enter university, become a professional person, get married and have children. This lifestyle may be limiting and keep us away from opportunities in which we might get better. Everyone has potential. If you don’t know what yours is, it just means you haven’t discovered it yet. Or perhaps you have it, but it was dismissed early in life. Find out how you can break free of society’s strict rules and find your calling in life.
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Do your emotions hold you back? Would you do better if your emotions were removed and you became unfeeling, logical creatures? Did you know if your pulse rate rises above 100 bpm, you’re believed too emotional to think rationally? You probably let feelings cloud your judgment more often than you know. Goleman explains how you can avoid letting your emotions rule you and make better decisions in life. 1．Which book can help you discover your own potential? A．Emotional Intelligence. B．Finding Your Element.
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C．How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.
D．Thirteen Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do. 2．Who is a writer and doctor?
A．Amy Morin. B．Dale Carnegie. C．Daniel Goleman. D．Ken Robinson. 3．What theme are the four books about? A．Life plans. B．Learning methods. C．Self-improvement. D．Relational processing.
B
For many people, the “golden years” are a time to slow down and recall past achievements. Nola Ochs—a Guinness record holder as the world’s oldest college graduate at the age of 95—saw age as an opportunity to take on new challenges and satisfy unfulfilled goals.
Born in 1911 in Illinois, Nola always loved learning. She was a good student who graduated from high school in 1929 and began college via correspondence course（函授课程）from Fort Hays State University in Kansas. After getting the degree of the college, she taught in county schools for four years before marrying her husband, Vernon Ochs.
Soon, the realities of farming stopped any thoughts of furthering her education, though Nola lived a good, full life on the farm, raising four sons. She always yearned to learn more about the world she lived in, but not until after Vernon died in 1972, did Nola consider resuming her formal education. “I just thought something off the farm would be fun,” Nola explained. “Really, I had no thought of ever graduating. For 10 years, I just took classes that were of interest to me, mostly history and composition. And then one of the professors came to me and told me if I would take college algebra, I would have enough credit hours to graduate. And I finally made it.”
For most people, graduating at the age of 95 with a 3.7 GPA might be enough of an accomplishment, but not for Nola. In May 2010, at the age of 98, Nola Ochs received her master’s degree, making her the oldest person to receive that distinction.
By the time Nola passed away in 2016, at the incredible age of 105, she had achieved her goal of writing a book about her life experiences. At one point in the process, when asked for her life advice, she said, “Buy the plane ticket!” She meant that people should take advantage of life’s opportunities and not wait until tomorrow. 4．What did Nola do before getting married?
A．A farmer. B．A writer. C．A scientist. D．A teacher.
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5．Which of the following can replace the underlined word “resuming” in paragraph 3? A．beginning B．changing C．restarting D．stopping 6．How many degrees did Nola get according to the text? A．Two. B．Three. C．Four. D．Five. 7．What can we learn from Nola?
A．Respecting old people is a virtue everyone should have. B．Knowledge is important for everyone including old people. C．People should get their college degrees as young as possible. D．People should grasp every chance to pursue goals in life.
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The audiences of the UK will have an opportunity to enjoy a feast of Chinese culture when the China National Peking Opera Company returns to the country for the fourth time for a series of workshops and performances. Events will be held at the British Library, Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the world-famous dance theater of Sadler’s Wells, featuring artists including Lisa Lu, Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu.
On Thursday at the British Library, Lisa Lu, who also played a role in recent cinema hit Crazy Rich Asians, will lead a group of artists from China, the US and the UK to discuss their experiences of working across a variety of artistic fields in different cultures over many decades.
The series of activities also include interactive workshops, which explain the intricacies（错综复杂）of the attractive art of Peking Opera. The secrets behind a great opera, from music to instruments, from make-up to martial arts, will be revealed at the British Library workshops on Saturday and Sunday.
Events end on Oct 19 and 20 at Sadler’s Wells in North London, with two performances of The Emperor and the Concubine, one of the most celebrated operas, as well as The Crossroads Inn and The Monkey King and The Leopard.
Li Shengsu, who led the cast of The Emperor and the Concubine, explained that the show is the beautiful love story championed by Peking Opera Master Mei Lanfang, and it is one of the very few works from the Master Mei’s that had been handed down since 1920s.
The productions are being presented in partnership with London-based Sinolink Productions, a company that promotes Chinese art, culture and performance to British audiences.
Zhang Kewei, producer and director of Sinolink, said, “It is delightful to see that the China National Peking Opera Company returns to London for the fourth time with another two masterpieces this year. The performances so far have received very positive comments from audiences and the United Kingdom’s media and we are looking
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forward to further expanding our program.”
8．Why are Chinese Peking Opera artists going to the UK? A．To perform Peking Opera with British artists. B．To present traditional Peking Opera to British people. C．To share their working experience with American media. D．To teach foreign artists how to perform Peking Opera. 9．Which place will hold seminars to talk about Peking Opera? A．The British Library.
B．Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. C．Sadler’s Wells. D．Sinolink Productions.
10．What can be inferred from the text?
A．Peking Opera has attracted British great attention since 1920s. B．The British are accepting Chinese Peking Opera little by little. C．It’s the fourth time for Sinolink Productions to promote Peking Opera. D．The events will end up with performing The Emperor and the Concubine. 11．What may be the best title for the text? A．Chinese Traditional Art and British Artists B．Peking Opera is Popular with the British C．Peking Opera will Return to the UK D．Chinese Traditional Treasure—Peking Opera
D
Throughout the world, parents talk differently to babies than they do to adults. With their young kids, parents use baby talks, featuring long pauses and a roller coaster of pitch（音高）changes.
While parents may feel a bit silly using baby talks, they shouldn’t in fact. Babies not only prefer listening to them, but they also learn new words more easily from them. By highlighting the structure of speech, such as the differences between the vowels（元音）“a” and “o”, baby talks help babies translate sounds into meaningful units of language.
Actually, the timbre（音色）plays a role. The timbre of an instrument clearly affects how we experience music, but its role in language is less obvious. Looking into the timbre of baby talks, researchers made some surprising discoveries. In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers reported for the first time that mothers
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shifted their overall vocal timbre when speaking to their babies, as if they were changing their voice into a different instrument to address these unique little listeners.
In the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers study how children learn, they recorded English-speaking mothers while they talked with their 7-to-12-month-old babies and while they spoke to an adult experimenter, and found that adult-directed and baby-directed speech had consistently different timbres.
Most surprising, in a second sample of non-English-speaking mothers, researchers found that this timbre shift was also highly consistent across nine diverse languages. This suggests these timbre shifts may represent a universal form of communication with babies.
Being able to identify baby talks across multiple languages could give us rich information about the amount and type of language children hear at preschool across different cultural environments. This could help researchers and educators predict and improve outcomes such as vocabulary and success at school.
Parents should feel self-conscious about their own baby talks: with them they’ re helping their baby learn. 12．What is the advantage of parents’ using baby talks? A．It is good for babies to change pitch.
B．It helps translate sounds into different languages. C．It makes babies learn more language. D．It helps babies improve their language ability. 13．What did the study find?
A．Mothers usually changed their timbre when talking with their babies. B．Mothers avoided using the sound like instruments to talk with babies. C．Non-English-speaking mothers spoke to babies with consistent timbre. D．English-speaking mothers were good at changing timbre to speak with adults. 14．What is paragraph 6 mainly about? A．The aim of the research. B．The process of the research. C．The effect of parents’ timbre shifts. D．The meaning of studying baby talks.
15．What may be the author’s suggestion to parents with babies? A．Teaching babies to talk early. B．Practicing mothers’ timbre often.
C．Using baby talks to communicate with babies.
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2024届甘肃省甘谷县第一中学高三上学期第21周周考英语试题
