2021届江苏省南通市通州区高三上学期英语第一次诊断测试试题

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A

、

B

、

C

和

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Railcards

Want to save on the price of your train tickets?Then you'll need to buy a National

first step is to pick the right Railcard,but don't worry!We'll walk you through each type and help you

find the one most suited to your needs.

The Network Railcard

Spend

E30

on

a

Network

Railcard

for

the

year

and

look

forward

to

1/3

off

your

train

tickets

during off- peak(

非高峰）

discounted travel across 16 counties(

郡）

in the South East,even

including the whole of London!It is a great option for anyone who doesn't fall into any of the other

Railcard categories,as people of any age can hold one.

The Student Railcard

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1

·

At

the

cost

of

just

E30,this

Railcard

is

excellent

value

for

r

you

have

an

early

morning lecture or you're rolling home in the early hours after a night out, you can still get 1/3 off on

all passenger rail services within the UK!The only requirement for this Railcard is that you need to be

within the ages of 16 and 25.

The Millennial Railcard

This Railcard is available for all who are between the ages of 26 and 30, regardless of peak or

off-peak r,it is currently only available digitally, with users being required to download

the

Railcard

app

and

show

ticket

inspectors

during

train

ticket

g

just

E30,the

new

Railcard can be used across the UK.

The Disabled Persons Railcard

Any

passenger

with

a

disability

is

eligible(

符合条件的）

to

apply

for

only

costs

?

20,making your overall discount for the year even better!The most important thing is that any types of

tickets

can

be

purchased

throughout

the

UK

rail

network.

Besides,it

can

also

get

you

discounts

on

London attractions.

Railcard just applies to train services in part of the UK?

Network Railcard.

Student Railcard.

Millennial Railcard.

Disabled Persons Railcard.

is required for the Student Railcard?

hours.

B. Railcard category.

range.

e charge.

is special about the Millennial Railcard?

cannot be used during peak times.

offers discounts on London attractions.

is the cheapest among the four Railcards.

requires its owners to download an app.

B

Cedar,a third-generation beekeeper from the countryside of New South Wales, Australia,says

that he was inspired to try and design a simpler hive(

蜂箱）

after his brother was stung(

蜇）

during one of

their honey-gathering tasks.

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2

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The

young

guy

knew

that

there

must

be

a

clever

way

to

gather

honey

without

having

to

wear

protective suits,open the hive,and disturb the little several years,Cedar and his father Stuart

finally perfected their invention-the , which can save beekeepers hours of work simply by

channeling all of its honey into a tap that can be turned on and off at will.

Four

years

after

their

initial

success,the

Flow

Hive

has

had

a

big

influence

on

honeybee

populations

around

the

father

and

his

son

say

that

they

have

successfully

shipped

over

51,000

hives

to

150

different

they

introduced

the

hive

in

2015,the

number

of

beekeepers in the has increased by over 10%.

Their success is particularly significant since honeybee populations have been steadily decreasing

as a result of habitat 's why now Stuart and Cedar Anderson are donating their hive earnings

to international honeybee advocacy groups.

＂

We're proud to have donated 100% of profits from the sale of our Flow Pollinator(

传粉昆虫）

House

to

nine

local

pollinator

projects

in

Australia

and

the

U.S.

that

are

at

work

protecting

wild

habitats all around the world,

to

grow

healthily-the

more

we

can

do

to

conserve

native

habitats,the

more

opportunities

these

tiny

environmental champions will have to do their important work.

can we learn about Cedar?

A. He is often hurt by honeybees.

is from a big city in Australia.

knows a lot about beekeeping.

dislikes working with his brother.

of the following best describes the Flow Hive?

is friendly to the environment.

can improve the quality of honey.

can help bees produce more honey.

simplifies the honey-gathering process.

do the Andersons make donations?

expand their business.

protect bees' habitats.

build more Flow Hives.

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help the poor in Australia.

would be the best title for the text?

A.“Honey on Tap

Cost of Beekeeping

Growth of a Beekeeper

Facts About Honeybees

C

In

order

to

help

discover

spoilage(

变

质

）

and

reduce

food

waste

for

supermarkets

and

consumers,researchers have developed new low-cost,smart phone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors

for meat and fish packaging.

One in three UK consumers throw away food just because it reaches the use-by date(

保存期），

but 60%(4.2 million tonnes)of the ?

12.5 billion- worth of food we throw away each year is safe to eat.

The

researchers,whose

findings

were

published

in

ACS

Sensors,say

the

sensors

could

also

eventually replace the use-by date-a widely used indicator of being fresh and eatable.

The

sensors

cost

two

US

cents

each

to

as

electrical

gas

sensors(PEGS)

detect

spoilage

gases

like

ammonia(a

poisonous

gas

with

a

strong

unpleasant

smell)in meat and fish information provided by the electronic nose is received by a smart

phone,and then you can know whether the food is fresh and safe to eat.

The

Imperial

College

London

researchers

who

developed

PEGS

made

the

sensors

by

printing

carbon electrodes(

电极）

onto a special type of materials are eco-friendly and harmless,so

they don't damage the environment and are safe to use in food sensors,combined with a

tiny electronic system,then inform nearby mobile devices,which identify and understand the data about

spoilage gases.

Lead author Dr Firat Guder,of Imperial's Department of Bioengineering,said,

＂

Although they're

designed to keep us safe,use-by dates can lead to eatable food being thrown don't always

reflect

its

actual

fact,people

often

get

sick

from

foodborne

diseases

due

to

poor

storage,even when an item is within its use-by date.

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＂

These

sensors

are

cheap

enough

so

we

hope

to

see

supermarkets

using

them

within

three

goal is to use PEGS in food packaging to reduce unnecessary food waste.

The

authors

hope

that

PEGS

could

have

applications

beyond

food

processing,like

sensing

chemicals

in

agriculture,air

quality,and

detecting

disease

markers

in

breath

like

those

involved

in

kidney disease.

is the function of PEGS according to the text?

improve the service of stores.

help supermarkets store foods.

improve the taste of food products.

help people test food freshness.

role does the smartphone play while PEGS are functioning?

A. It acts as an electronic nose.

reads the data collected by PEGS.

discovers the spoilage gases from foods.

helps print the gas sensors onto paper.

does Dr Firat Guder say about use-by dates?

A. They are not completely reliable.

can help reduce food waste.

are not accepted by consumers.

are based on scientific research.

does the author mainly talk about in the text?

process of researching spoilage sensors.

B.A new technology in packaging to reduce food waste.

-by dates 'influence on supermarkets and consumers.

application of spoilage sensors beyond food processing.

D

Muazzez

Kocek,46,is

considered

one

of

the

best

whistlers

in

Kuskoy,a

village

in

Turkey's

northern Giresun whistle can be heard over the area's vast tea President of

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Turkey

visited

Kusk?

y in 2012,she greeted

him and proudly whistled,

uses kus

dili,or

of years,this

whistled form of communication has been

critical

for

farming

in

this

place,allowing

complex

conversations

over

long

distances

and

making

animal herding(

放牧）

easier to r,because of the increased use of cellphones,the language is

at risk of dying out.

Turkey is one of a handful of countries in the world where whistling languages attract

linguistic(

语言学的）

exp erts very is a long-held belief that language interpretation occurs

mostly in the left hemisphere(

大脑半球）

，

and tunes and singing on the a study conducted in

Kuskoy suggests that whistling language is processed in both hemispheres.

Organ

Civelek,37,who

can

whistle

in

full

sentences,explained

that

they

are

very

proud

of

their

linguistic

custom

and

want

to

share

it

with

1997,Kuskoy

village

has

been

hosting

an

annual Bird Language,Culture and Art Festival,where the community gathers to practice and compete.

While technology is contributing to the language's disappearance,it is also being used by some to

preserve

k,who teaches bird language

to children during the summer,uses

an application

called

＂

You

can

lose

or

break

a

phone,but

as

long

as

you

can

breathe,you

can

whistle,

said

k.

cellphones,what did Turkish farmers mainly use kus dili to do?

with wild birds.

respectable guests.

with people far away.

farm animals of risks.

might be concluded based on the study conducted in Kuskoy?

right hemisphere interprets sounds.

ing language isn't unique to Turkey.

structures processing language aren't fixed.

left hemisphere helps us understand conversations.

of the following can best convey k's opinion on technology?

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