江苏省连云港市2022-2023学年高二上学期期末英语试
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一、阅读理解
1. Whether you plan to head out to the theater, or sit on the couch, our critics have gathered together their favorite films of 202
2. You can search by genre and where you can see it. Have at it!
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Bianca Stigter’s documentary turns three minutes of pre-World War II vacation video into a 69-minute detective story. It’s fascinating and exhaustive—but never exhausting. The film becomes a narrative of discovery, an exploration of memory and a reflection on loss and cinema.
Genre: History, Documentary
Moonage Daydream
As a committed music documentary watcher, I was completely unprepared for the puzzling IMAX world building that director Brett Morgen brought to his authorized biography of Dav id Bowie. Morgen made a film that both celebrates Bowie’s music and conveys the intellectual, philosophical and spiritual currents of a splendid life.
Genre: Music and Musicals, Documentary, Biography
Retrograde
genreFilmmaker Matthew Heinemen stayed in Afghanistan as American forces left and the result is a fascinating portrait of a tragedy in real time—the abandoned bases and villages, the fall of Kabul back into Taliban hands as refugees(难民) fled to an airport in chaos. Retrograde is war cinema coming from reality, powered by the responsibility to bear witness.
Genre: History, Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras’ documentary interweaves(交织) the origin story of photographer Nan Goldin with her mission to hold the Sackler family accountable for the drug addiction crisis caused by its company, Pu
rdue Pharma. Goldin attacks major museums, forces the
Sacklers to listen to the stories of their victims and removes the Sackler name from museum walls.
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary
1. Which film will attract the viewers who are interested in music?
A．Three Minutes: A Lengthening. B．Retrograde.
C．All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. D．Moonage Daydream.
2. What do these four films have in common?
A．Relating to wars. B．Recording real events.
C．Telling art stories. D．Describing historical figures.
3. What is All the Beauty and the Bloodshed about?
A．The crisis of a company. B．Laura Poitras and her career.
C．The deeds of a photographer. D．Nan Goldin and her family roots.
2. I am an Africa wildlife filmmaker. But wildlife filmmakers from Africa are rarer than mountain gorillas(大猩猩). To understand why there are so few, we need to remember our recent history.
When the colonialists(殖民者) ruled Africa, they seized control of the continent’s wildl ife and other natural resources. They saw African wildlife as “big game” and the continent’s first protected natural areas were game reserves created by driving away locals for the benefit of white hunters. Later, game reserves were renamed national parks and big game hunting gave way to wildlife tourism. But African wildlife was still there for White people’s enjoyment and benefits.
That locals could have an interest in preserving wildlife for its own sake was rarely considered. Africans -like me who tried to get involved in wildlife conservation were made to feel out of place. When I was first interviewed by a British film crew, my interview was cut at the editing stage and replaced by a white man, just because I was an African.
Africa was the setting for some of the most popular films about wildlife, but these films were made by western-owned production companies for Western audiences, and most Africans never even got to see them. What Africa needed was to see themselves and their view points in the films. We urgently n
eeded wildlife films made by Africans, about Africans and for Africans. As producer of the documentary TV series “Wildlife Warriors”, I set out to find African conservation heroes who could play a role in the documentary. I soon discovered that we had some talented African filmmakers across the continent.
Today things are changing fast. Companies like National Geographic and the BBC are leading the way with new approaches to global storytelling that deliver diversity and
equality. Our African wildlife filmmakers’ mission is to draw on the power of local storytelling to inspire our people to save our continent’s rich wildlife.
1. Why are African wildlife filmmakers rare?
A．They lack the talent in making films. B．They live in the shadow of westerners.
C．They are still colonized by the westerns. D．They aren’t interested in filming wildlife.
2. What message does the cut of my interview convey?
A．The strictness of the crew. B．The preference for the British.
C．The prejudice against Africans. D．The benefits of local communities.
3. What can we learn from paragraph 4?
A．The locals enjoy wildlife films set in Africa.
B．Africans play a leading role in wildlife film-making.
C．Films made by westerners are the most popular ones.
D．Africans long for having a say in wildlife film-making.
4. What is the purpose of the author writing the text?
A．To introduce how African wildlife are protected.
B．To urge people to better preserve African wildlife.
C．To show that the author was ignored by westerners.
D．To explain why more African filmmakers are needed.
3. Small changes in atmospheric pressure can start a landslide in certain weather conditions. Understanding why will help us assess which slopes(斜坡) are at most risk of failing.
Just over a decade ago, there was huge surprise when it was discovered that the occasional sliding of the Slumgullion landslide in the San Juan mountains of south-west Colorado was caused by changes in atmospheric pressure.
We knew that landslides are initiated by earthquakes or heavy rains, but the Slumgullion findings raised the possibility that changes in atmospheric pressure could be setting hillsides on the move in other places too.
Now, Lucas Pelascini at the University of Rennes in France and his colleagues have fed weather and landslide data from Taiwan-where steep hillsides and typhoons are a recipe for frequent landslides—into a landslide model.
They found that typhoon events can get hillsides ready by bringing heavy rain and increasing the water pressure in the pores (气孔) between grains, but the condition of landslides depends on the weather over the previous months.
The model showed that heavy rain after a dry period pushes the water table up suddenly, causing a large and rapid change in pore pressure and an immediate landslide.
A typhoon’s rain falling no already soaked(浸湿的) ground, however, didn’t change pore pressure enough to cause a slide. A following change in atmospheric pressure—as the eye of the storm passes over, for example—was then enough to set things in motion. “The atmospheric effect will only provide the last push when rainfall can’t sink anymore, or when it is faster and affects the slope before the rainfall does,” says Pelascini.
The findings help to explain why some landslide events don’t occ ur until hours or even days after heavy rain has fallen. They also explain why Typhoon Morakot in 2009—Taiwan’s deadliest typhoon in recorded history-was so disastrous. The dry period before the typhoon meant the water table was low and resulted in a large and very sudden change in pore pressure, which immediately caused multiple landslides.
1. What is the cause of the Slumgullion landslide?
A．The force of earthquake. B．The warmth of climate.
C．The change in air pressure. D．The frequency of typhoon.
2. Wh at does the underlined word “initiated” mean in paragraph 3?
A．Started. B．Limited. C．Disturbed. D．Changed.
3. What can be learnt from the landslide model?
A．Heavy rain after a dry period can cause a landslide.
B．A typhoon’s rain can be enough to cause a landslide.
C．The landslide model is based on theoretical reasoning.
D．Landslides have nothing to do with the previous weather.
4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Earthquakes always give rise to landslides.
B．Air pressure changes can set off landslides.
C．Heavy rains caused the Slumgullion landslide.
D．Typhoon Morakot led to the deadliest landslide.
4. Willpower might be key to getting off the couch to exercise, but bacteria may lend
a helping hand. Studies in mice suggest microbes(微生物) in the gut(肠道) may be behind differences in the desire to work out.
To explore why some people like to exercise and others don’t, microbiologist Christoph Thaiss studied mice bred to have a lot of genetic and behavioral variation. His team found huge difference in how far the mice ran on wheels in their cages.
The active and lazy mice didn’t show any significant differences in their genetics. But the researchers did notice one clue: When treated with antibiotics(抗生素), mice that
were normally highly energetic tended to exercise less. Follow-up studies showed the antibiotic treatment affected the brains of the formerly active mice. The activity of certain brain genes declined, along with levels of dopamine(多巴胺), a material linked to “runner’s high”—the sense of well-being that comes with more exercise.
The team also found that “bacteria-free” mice, which lack gut bacteria, become more active when given some of the gut microbes from energetic mice. It appears those bacteria send a signal that interf
eres with a material responsible for breaking down dopamine in the brain, causing the material to build up in the brain’s reward center.
Will the finding hold in people? Studies have found that marathoners have high levels of a particular gut microbe, suggesting an exercise connection in people. And much work has proved the key role dopamine plays in motivating overall behavior. As Christoph Thaiss puts it, “This reward system is such a central aspect of physiology that it’s something almost certainly true in other mammals”—including humans.
1. What may contribute to the difference in mice’ desire to run?
A．Microbes. B．Brain. C．Gut. D．Genes.
2. What can we know about dopamine from the paragraph 3?
A．It affects the height of running mice.
B．It controls the activity of certain brain genes.
C．It is produced less when treated with antibiotics.
D．It is the sense of well-being coming with exercise.
3. What’s the structure of the text?
①=para 1      ②=para 2      ③=para 3      ④=para 4      ⑤=para 5
A．①②—③—④⑤B．①②—③—④—⑤
C．①—②③④—⑤D．①—②—③④⑤
4. What field is more likely to benefit from the study?
A．Medicine. B．Chemistry. C．Food. D．Ecology.
二、七选五
5. Anger is the most destructive emotion. When you are in a temper, you make quick ill-considered decisions that you will probably regret.    1    How to stop being angry? Here are four ways that you can fight the causes of anger.
Firstly, you need to change your attitude to the way the world works. You have to accept that sometime
s things do go wrong and that people are not always lovely. The

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