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高二英语阅读限时训练1
时间：60分钟 满分：80分
一．阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2.5分，共37.5分）
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Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. Here are some select ones that will absolutely blow your kids’ mind.
Sphero Indi($124.99)
Coding is a matter of problem-solving and pattern recognition. Sphero Indi teaches both, no screen required. Instead, kids use different-colored cards to move a robotic car from point A to B—green cards increasing its speed, pink cards telling it to turn left, and so on. “We really wanted to bring these abstract concepts into the physical world,” says Jef Wiencrot, one of the product developers.
Sproutel Purrble($49.99)
For children who are upset for some reason, Purrble comes to their rescue. An interactive toy equipped with seven sensors that respond to touch, Purrble’s heartbeat speeds up when it senses somebody’s playing with it. Kids can then comfort their companion with gentle petting, slowing Purrble’s rapid heartbeat to a purr(咕噜声)—calming themselves as well in the process.
Thames & Kosmos Mega Cyborg Hand($39.95)
The effort to get kids interested in science just got a helping hand—a cyborg hand, to be precise. Kids build a robotic arm that copies their hand gestures, while they learn about engineering and robotics. Once assembled(组装)and slipped on like a glove, the device passes forces from the user’s fingers to the extended ones of the robotic hand.
Lego recycled brick(Unpriced)
The Lego Group, intending to make all Lego bricks from sustainable sources by 2030, spent the past three years testing different recycled PET plastic materials, and finally developed its first recycled PET brick that is nearly identical to the usual brick. The Danish toy company hopes to integrate the recycled blocks into Lego sets in the next 18 to 24 months.
1. What do Sphero Indi and Thames & Kosmos Mega Cyborg Hand have in common
A. They train kids in programming. B. They are invented by kids.
C. They need fitting together first. D. They combine fun with learning.
2. Which invention best suits kids who need emotional comfort
A. Sphero Indi. B. Sproutel Purrble.
C. Thames & Kosmos Mega Cyborg Hand. D. Lego recycled brick.
3. What makes Lego recycled brick special
A. It is environmentally friendly. B. It can be mass-produced.
C. It looks distinct from the usual one. D. It is a solution to testing plastics.
B
For many adults, the time spent running around their neighborhoods or hanging by the playground swings was a highlight of their childhood. However, children today often can't say the same. Many of themseldom play outside for long periods, even on weekends. And they spend more time indoors thanprevious generations did.
Scientists from the University of Exeter studied 2,568 children aged between 7 and 12 years old in Bradford. They discovered that 34% of children didn't play outdoors on school days, while 20% didn't play outdoors on weekends. Researchers also found that there were different patterns of outdoor play throughout the week based on ethnicity, with benefits therefore gained at different times of the week. For
example, British heritage children played outside more on school days while South Asian heritage children played outside more on weekends. The study also revealed that children living in wealthy communities benefited more from outdoor play than those in low-income communities.
According to a report by the Raising the Nation Play Commission, children today face many challenges to outdoor play. Traffic-dominated neighborhoods, poorly designed housing estates, inadequate facilities,and a lack of parks and green spaces are limiting children's freedom and opportunities to play outdoors.
Additionally, modern parents, often driven by safety concerns, tend to prefer indoor activities that are perceived as more secure and structured.
"Outdoor play is essential for children's growth and development. We need to take effective steps to encourage outdoor activities and ensure children lead healthy and active lives. Simple measures, such as creating play-friendly residential areas and safer urban environments where families can relax, exercise,
socialize, and play, can make a significant difference. But it's important to remember cultural differences and engage with communities to make these initiatives successful," the lead researcher, Dr Mark Ferguson, said.
4. What phenomenon does the author describe in paragraph 1
A.Children have worse physical health than their parents.
B.Children spend less time playing outdoors than before.
C.The forms of outdoor activities have become more limited.
D.Public play areas have lost popularity among new generations.
5. What did the new study reveal
A.Outdoor play patterns varied with children's social background.
B.Outdoor activities contributed to children's overall development.
C.British children played outside more on school days than on weekends.
D.Children benefited more from outdoor play on weekdays than on weekends.
6. What is paragraph 3 mainly about
A.Causes of the decline in children's outdoor play.
B.The importance of reducing children's screen time.
C.Reasons for the loss of children's public play spaces.
D.The necessity of offering more outdoor spaces to children.
7. What is the main purpose of Dr Mark Ferguson's words in the last paragraph
A.To encourage people to go outside more frequently.
B.To emphasize the benefits of outdoor play for children.
C.To provide tips for promoting children's outdoor activities.
D.To call on people to take action to protect children's safety.
C
Across southern Africa, elephant populations are on the rise. According to a 2024 study, the regional population has grown steadily since 2000 and now stands at around 290,000. In South Africa, roughly 44,000 elephants are kept within 94 reserves, most on privately or communally owned land, occupying less than 3 percent of the country's area. A decline in ivory poaching ( 象 牙 盗 猎 ) and enhanced conservation efforts have contributed to the population growth. However, the available space has become insufficient to support these expanding herds (畜群). As a result, some landowners have turned to killing the growing herds.
"Elephants have to be managed. You can't keep filling a water bottle beyond its capacity," says Sean Hensman, a wildlife conservationist. Yet keeping such sizable animals contained — let alone well distributed across the landscape — is no easy feat. "Elephants are constantly breaking out of reserves,"Hensman says.
Hensman's latest project — an AI-powered gate and sound system — aims to address the problem facing South Africa's elephants. The gate is equipped with a camera and a sound system. One of the gate's key features is an AI image-recognition system to identify individual elephants, which is designed as a security precaution to make sure all animals in a herd are accounted for. The sound system, meanwhile, is used to train the elephants to associate specific sounds coming from the gate with something desirable. Elephant managers installed the gate on the boundary between the two reserves. Once the elephants have been trained, managers will be able to use the sounds to guide them between the two reserves.
With more gates installed, more connections become possible. "We can connect one reserve to another and guide elephants through corridors (走廊地带)," Hensman says. Ultimately, the vision is to use the gate to create extended elephant migration routes across South Africa, connecting green areas with migration corridors that avoid cities and other human-developed areas. Not only does the smart gate demonstrate the technology's potential to support the coexistence between humans and wildlife, but it also offers valuable insights for protecting other large animals.
8. What causes landowners in South Africa to kill elephant herds
A.The lack of conservation policies. B.The development of the ivory trade.
C.The expansion of human settlements. D.The rapid growth in elephant numbers.
9. What does Hensman want to explain by mentioning a water bottle in paragraph 2
A.The right way to relocate elephants.
B.The difficulty of containing elephants.
C.The necessity of elephant herd management.
D.The importance of building up enough reserves.
10. How does Hensman's AI-powered gate and sound system manage elephants
A.It blocks them from entering human lands.
B.It frightens them away from crowded areas.
C.It attracts them to new areas with loud sounds.
D.It guides them to move freely between reserves.
11. What is the ultimate goal of Hensman's project
A.To expand the elephants' migration range safely.
B.To establish connected wildlife corridors globally.
C.To use the technology for elephant population control.
D.To promote human-wildlife coexistence in urban areas.
D
Elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth, and understanding them better could lead to big scientific breakthroughs in science. Both delicate and sturdy, elephant trunks (象鼻) can grasp a single leaf but can also carry nearly 600 pounds. Scientists think that they are an incredible inspiration for the next generation of bio-inspired robots.
By conducting a high-resolution motion capture analysis of elephants' trunks, researchers found elephants have a set of simple movements that they can integrate freely to handle objects of various shapes and sizes. For example, elephants use suction (吸力) to pick up lightweight objects. However, to pick up heavier things, they use suction to secure the position of the objects and trunk wrapping to hold and lift things. "It's not the whole trunk that is lengthening or shortening — it's different parts, depending on what the elephant is doing," said Milinkovitch, professor of the physics of biology at the University of
Geneva, Switzerland.
Researchers also performed CT scans and MRIs on the trunk of a dead elephant. They used high-resolution cameras to create a 3D model of a trunk, allowing them to better understand the structure of an elephant's muscle groups, skin and connective tissues. The study data will be used to help design an innovative "soft" robotic arm. "The data is exceptional, but now the effort is to translate this biological data into some engineering specifications," Milinkovitch said. "We need to extract some simplifying principles that can make the robot's behavior simple enough to be effective and adaptable to changes."
The project is also fueling advancements in material science, as researchers have developed a new material similar to the useful properties of elephant skin and can be 3D printed for robotic prototypes (原型). The new materials may be commercialized for a wide range of uses.
12. What does the underlined word "sturdy" in paragraph 1 probably mean
A.Broad. B.Strong. C.Rough. D.Sensitive.
13. How does an elephant handle different objects
A.By sucking them with all the strength.
B.By stretching its trunk based on things' sizes.
C.By securing the position of these objects at first.
D.By combining suction with trunk movements flexibly.
14. Why do researchers translate the biological data
A.To test the safety of the robotic arm.
B.To improve the behavior of the robot.
C.To upgrade the appearance of the robot.
D.To study the structure of muscle tissues.
15. Which of the following is the best title for the text
A.Elephant Trunks: The Inspiration for Soft Robotics
B.Elephant Trunks: The Theory of Movement in Robotics
C."Soft" Robotic Arms: An Innovation in 3D-printed Robots
D."Soft" Robotic Arms: A Major Breakthrough in Material Science
二．七选五阅读（共5小题，每小题2.5分，共12.5分）
People have tried everything to get more sleep. But unlike almost every other area of life, effort is not rewarded.____16____The more you try, the less you are likely to succeed. Here are some ways to improve your sleep that might just work.
____17____There is nothing you can do between now and bedtime to guarantee that you will sleep tonight. There is, however, plenty you can start doing to improve your chances of sleeping well next month. So instead of worrying about the night ahead, make sleeping well a long-term goal and expect to see progress in a few weeks rather than tomorrow.
Have a late night. Adults need to be awake for at least 16 hours to generate enough sleep-drive to sleep for eight hours at night. Having an early night can mean you won’t be sleepy enough to fall asleep quickly and easily. Don’t pay too much attention to the exact times or he hours of sleep you are getting — the details don’t matter. And don’t take naps (小睡) in the day.____18____
Smile more. Smiling can reduce tension and promote relaxation. As you turn the light out at night, try to think of something funny and smile lo yourself in the dark.____19____Even a fake smile is enough to send a message to the brain to change your mood and retrain the brain to be comfortable with being awake, thus reducing tension and allowing sleep to follow.
Stop reading articles about sleep. None of the researching, monitoring or analyzing actually leads to better sleep. In fact, constantly looking for a solution is undoubtedly making things worse.____20____Make this the last article you read on the subject, then go and find something more interesting to think about.
A. Try to stay awake at night.
B. In fact, it is actively punished.
C. Give up trying to sleep tonight.
D. So give sleep less of your attention.
E. They take the edge off your appetite for sleep.
F. It doesn’t have to be a genuine, heartfelt smile.
G. You have to do things differently to get a different outcome.
三．完型填空（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）
I’m obsessed (迷恋) with music. As a teenager, I couldn’t leave the house without my ___41___. My summers were filled with festivals, and my shelves with ___42___.
But one day last year something changed. I became aware of a faint tapping sound in my left ear. It wasn’t loud enough to be ___43___, but the next day it turned into a whooshing sound. By the weekend it had started to become hard to ___44___ in my left ear.
I was then sent to see specialists. They said it was the mitochondrial disease that caused the ___45___, but they couldn’t say for sure. So ___46___, I am still undiagnosed (没有确诊).
I was given hearing aids, but they didn’t work. I’ve signed up for a lip-reading course and am ___47___ British Sign Language. My friends have been ___48___, some have offered to learn BSL, but I feel it’s really me who has to ___49___ this new life.
Other deaf people have warned of feeling isolated (孤立) and I’m determined not to make that my ___50___. I do get ___51___ when I have to go out of my comfort zone. Going to a bar and asking for a drink is fine ___52___ they start making small talk—at that point I’ll declare I’m deaf.
I’ve always preferred to ___53___ ahead, but since this happened I take life day by day. The doctors have speculated (推测) that my ___54___ might come back. The future is ___55___, but I’m at peace with that.
21. A. assignments B. headphones C. schoolbags D. uniforms
22. A. textbooks B. toys C. records D. flowers
23. A. annoying B. impressive C. pleasant D. heartbreaking
24. A. strike B. clean C. see D. hear
25. A. pain B. deafness C. awareness D. anxiety
26. A. technically B. gradually C. similarly D. confidently
27. A. teaching B. speaking C. promoting D. learning
28. A. great B. curious C. excited D. awkward
29. A. withdraw from B. leave behind C. break off D. adapt to
30. A. job B. hobby C. life D. aim
31. A. reward B. anxiety C. criticism D. pleasure
32. A. because B. if C. until D. when
33. A. plan B. contact C. depart D. write
34. A. memory B. appetite C. hearing D. sight
35. A. promising B. unbelievable C. predictable D. uncertain
四．短文语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）
Many people may throw away the pits (核) or nuts after eating fruits, but inheritors (传承人) of nut carving have instead collected them and turned them into artworks.
“One nut,____36____ (range) from 0.8 to 6 centimetres, can be made into delicate fan pendants (扇坠), earrings, buttons, seals, ect,” said Tan Wanhai,____37____ inheritor of Weifang nut carving.
Weifang nut carving ____38____ (date) back to the Qing Dynasty. During that time, retired imperial craftsman Wang Dayan spread the skill to the local people in Shandong Province. Craftsmen back then often used peach pits ____39____ (show) off their artistic skills. Due to the rigorous (严谨缜密的) carving skills____40____ its rich artistic content, Weifang nut carving____41____ (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
Tan couldn’t forget____42____ impressed he was when he first saw a nut carving. Yet, the 48-year-old craftsman also admitted that the journey of bringing this kind of masterpiece to life is not all smooth sailing. “Unlike some pits____43____a flat surface, each peach pit has its own unique texture (纹理),” Tan said, adding that craftsmen have to study and trace each peach pit to carefully plan out their artwork.
“Now, the number of inheritors is about 1,000. But I believe it could be ____44____ (high) as more craftsmen give up the tradition of passing down the skill only through the family and open up the _____45_____ (occupy) to anyone who is interested,” added Tan.1-3 DBA 4-7 BAAC 8-11 DCDA 12-15 BDBA
16-20 BCEFD
21-25 BCADB 26-30 ADADC 31-35 BCACD
36.ranging 37.an 38.dates 39.to show 40.and
41.was listed 42.how 43.with 44.higher 45.occupation

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