2023届河北省衡水中学高三下学期五调考试英语试题
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1. Call for Entries: Young Women Writers Competition
Guardian Weekend magazine is launching a writing competition for UK women aged 16-21 on the theme of “Conversations”.
How to Enter
All you have to do is submit a 700-word personal essay that shows off your talents-on the theme of “Conversations”. Did you have an unforgettable conversation with your grandmother about her youth that changed how you viewed her? Do you find having certain conversations really hard, and if so, why? Is there a conversation you regret, or one you regret you never had? We’re keen to hear about your personal experiences.
The Prizes
There will be one winner and two runners-up. The three winners will each receive ￡250. The winners wil
l be notified by email or telephone on or before June 30, 2023 and given details of how to claim their prizes. As part of the editing process, the three winners will participate in a video call with a Guardian Weekend editor to discuss and edit their essay for publication. The one overall winner will also receive a one-to-one workshop with an editor.
Rules
Follow all the rules carefully to prevent disqualification.
■Only one entry is permitted per person. Entries on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed.
■The competition opens at 9:00 am on May 22, 2023 and closes at 11: on June 9, 2023. Entries received outside this time period will not be considered.
■Your entry must not be copied, and must not contain any third-party materials or content that you do not have permission to use.
■You must include your name, age and contact details, including your email address and phone number.
1. What’s the theme of the writing competition?
A．Regrets. B．Conversations. C．Grandmother’s youth.D．Personal experiences.
2. What extra prize will the overall winner receive?
A．An additional ￡250.
B．A video of the competition.
C．A prior notification of the win.
D．A one-to-one workshop with an editor.
3. Which of the following will result in disqualification?
A．Co-authoring an entry.
B．Including contact details.
C．Mailing your entry on June l, 2023.
D．Using others’ content with permission.
2. My eighteen-year-old daughter Julia called twenty minutes after she left, saying she had an accident. I grabbed my shoes and was in the car in less than a minute. When I finally saw her, I hugged her tightly. Then I looked at the other driver. Learning that he fell asleep behind the wheel at about seventy miles an hour when the speed limit was forty-five, I could have choked him.
“It could have been worse,” I reminded myself as she cried all the way to the doctor’s office. Luckily, four days after the accident, Julia felt better. At her appointment, her doctor cleared her to resume normal activities, including driving. But I could tell by her look that she had no intention of getting behind the wheel.
Later that day, I sat with Julia as she spoke on the phone with our insurance agent. On the phone, she was professional, telling the agent what had happened in a clear, brief way. I realized she sounded like an adult. And adults drive cars. I realized that no matter how I felt about it, allowing Julia to give in to her fear wasn’t good for her. When she hung up, I hugged her. “You’re stronger than you think,” I said. “And tomorrow you’re going to drive my car and meet your friends for lunch. You just have to push through the fear and do it, and it will get easier each time you do.” I ignored the fear in her eyes and the way my heart  sped up when I thought about Julia behind the wheel again.
The next day, Julia drove my car to meet her friends. As I watched her leave, I felt nervous and proud. She texted me when she got to the restaurant, and I felt my heart rate return to normal. The tears I’d been holding back all week flooded my eyes. Watching her leave the house without me for the first time since the accident was frightening, but it was also necessary.
1. What was the author’s reaction to the driver’s behavior?
A．She almost burst with anger. B．She felt guilty for her daughter.
C．She felt sympathy for him. D．She was choked with sorrow.
2. What did the doctor suggest to Julia?
A．Staying away from driving. B．Attending a driving lesson. C．Contacting the insurance agent. D．Retaking her routine activities.
3. What did the author realize when Julia spoke on the phone?
A．The driver took the blame for the accident.
B．The accident had been worse than expected.
C．Julia should overcome the fear to drive.
D．Julia was smart to deal with any trouble.
4. Why did the author cry at Julia’s text?
A．Julia was good at learning to drive.
B．Julia recovered mentally and physically.
C．Julia had supportive friends and parents.
D．Julia could look after herself when driving.editor怎么读英语发音
3. Set on a sloped plot (山坡) above Prague in the city’s Troja district, Villa Sophia has no keys, no light switches and a piano that can play by itself. The house can close the windows when it rains and read aloud materials it has selected from the Internet, based on the owners’ interests.
“The house is like a brain,” said Michaela Pankova, who shares the home with her husband, Karel Panek, and their daughters. “It makes decisions for you based on previous experience.” The home, de
signed by the Prague-based firm Coll Coll, is intended to go beyond automated to autonomous. “As we say, if we have to control it ourselves, it’s not smart enough,” said Mr. Panek, a computer scientist.
The couple wanted no compromises in quality and efficiency. When they couldn’t find a technology that met their standards, Mr. Panek, the brain behind his home’s brain, designed his own system. While family members go about their daily lives, the system collects data and evaluates that data in real time, then comes up with solutions and implements (实施) th em. It can accept deliveries when the family isn’t he, thanks to individual door from afar and valuation of the home’s external context. It can preheat the driveway to clear snow and ice(but only if it predicts its use, saving energy otherwise)and lock the doors.
Put energy home security and convenience aside, the system’s benefit is that in developing beyond a smart home system to a smart home it free the homeowner from the burden of constant control.
Mr. Panek calls himself a technology optimist, and Mrs. Pankova said it took her some time to wram up to the system. “In the beginning I wasn’t into the idea of living in
an AI house,” she said. “During the time of the preparation and later the constructio n, I slowly started to be open to the idea.”
1. What can be inferred about the house from Paragraph 1?
A．It is located at the foot of a hill. B．It operates automatically.
C．It frees the family from wind and rain. D．It is poorly equipped with furniture. 2. Who did some extra work to improve the control system of the house?
A．Coll Coll. B．Mrs. Pankova. C．Mr. Panek. D．The couple’s kids.
3. What is the best advantage of the smart home?
A．Picking up deliveries. B．Saving energy.
C．Preheating the driveway. D．Removing the task of constant control.
4. What do the underlined words “warm up to” probably mean in the last paragraph? A．Apply to. B．Adapt to. C．Turn to. D．Keep to.
4. Foods high in sugar are unhealthy, but these additives are too delicious for many of us to give up or reduce in a way. What if we could somehow enjoy their taste without actually eating them? A student te
am has now designed a spoon with a structure that stimulates taste buds (味蕾) to produce a sense of sweetness without adding calories or chemicals. The project follows previous work involving favor — enhancing cutlery like chopsticks that increase sweetness with a mild electric current.
The five undergraduate and graduate research students wanted to create a new spoon called Sugarware for people with such disorders as diabetes, with which sugar is largely off their menu.
The new spoon would have several bumps (凸起) on its underside to press against the tongue. The bumps can be covered with a permanent layer of molecules (分子) called ligands. These ligands bond with taste-cell receptor proteins that typically react to sugar molecules or artificial sweeteners. The bond can activate nerve signals, causing the brain to register a sense of sweetness. A diner could thus stimulate sweetness receptors without actual intake of sugar or artificial sweeteners.
This idea is similar to the previous work in that they all use cutlery to enhance taste with out a user having to actually consume any sugar. “But the mechanism for stimulating the taste buds is completely different,” Shiyu Xu, one of the student researchers, says, “It uses bumps and taste-bud-stimulating molecules rather than electricity.”
The id ea is “very creative,” says Paola Almeida, who is the global director of corporate innovation at c
andy maker Mars. But the product’s commercial success would require a significant behavioral shift among consumers: instead of adding the usual sugar or artif icial sweeteners, “now we’re saying, ‘Use this cutlery,’” Almeida says, “It remains to be seen whether favor —enhancing cutlery will catch on.”
1. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．How the new invention works. B．How a diner feel sweetness.
C．How ligands and proteins link. D．How sugar molecules function.
2. In what way is the previous flavor — enhancing cutlery different from Sugarware? A．It makes food more delicious. B．It sends out signals to the brain.
C．It uses electricity to enhance taste. D．It reduces users’ food consumption. 3. What is Paola Almeida’s attitude to the future of Sugarware?
A．Positive. B．Uncertain. C．Critical. D．Worried.
4. What’s the best title of the text?
A．Struggling for Low Sugar? — Try This Spoon
B．Looking for Delicious Food? — This is How
C．Working for Commercial Success? — Be Creative
D．Dieting for Better Health? — Mind Sweeteners
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5. How to Increase Your Levels of Optimism
The way in which you achieve your goals, face challenges, and overcome failures depends largely on your levels of optimism. Not everyone sees life in the same
way.    1
Change your negative thoughts. Your mind takes in negative memories and makes them bigger and more significant than they really are.    2    The next step is to reduce them by comparing them to related or similar memories that are more pleasant. In this way, you gradually change them and select new thoughts. This requires a learning process that’ll take some time to practice. However, with patience, you’ll achieve the desired results.
Express gratitude. When you face a challenge, it’s advisable to figure out what’s going well. By taking the time to do this, you allow yourself to register the positive aspects that  you experience. To help your brain store these positive events, you should take time each week to analyze what you should be grateful for.    3    Repeat positive affirmations(肯定). One key element for increasing your levels of optimism that you get with previous two steps is positive affirmations. In fact, these messages that you repeat to yourself most regularly are the ones that you believe in and that determine your vision of life.    4    You can start with one or two affirmations that represent the values you want to live by and the goals you want to achieve. For example,

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