河北省石家庄市28中高三年级2021-2022学年第一学期期中考试英语试题(wd无答案)
一、阅读理解
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    1. I believe these ingetions can inspire you a lot.
    Fairphone
    More than 50 million tons of electronic waste, such as used smartphones, is created each year. But Fairphone makes phones from eco-responsible materials. Made of up to 40% recycled plastic, Fairphone has an expected life-span of five years. It has replaceable parts. You can change your battery, screen, or camera by yourself. It’s hoped that it can be marketed in the near future.
    AlterEgo
    This headset lets you communicate with a computer without touching a keyboard or spea
king. Want to task, such as searching for a weather forecast? Ask the question to yourself silently. Sensors read signals from your face. Then the device uses a web connection to complete the task or your smartphone. Experiments have found that it understands 92% of what its user said, and it’ll be improved before going to the market.
    Meeting Owl Pro
    It is a 360° tabletop camera. It changes its lens and microphone to whoever is speaking. In online classes, participants will have a better feeling for what’s happening in the room. “It’s able to follow the conversation,” says Max Makeev, who is a cofounder of Owl Labs. It’s widely used by K-12 schools.
    CrazyCap
    Guduru created a bottle cap. It uses cleansing UVC light. It sanitizes (消毒) water in 60 seconds. It has two settings, One purifies water from taps and fountains. The other purifies water from streams and ponds. The cap is rechargeable. People can use it conveniently especially when they’re on the go. It’s supposed to reach consumers soon.
【题1】What’s special about Fairphone?
replaceable
A．It’s completely from plastic.
B．It is environment-friendly.
C．It can be update y soon.
D．It is cheaper than a smartphone.
【题2】What’s the disadvantage of AlterEgo?
A．It requires its user to speak aloud.
B．It needs is user to avoid its sensors.
C．It doesn’t fully follow the user.
D．It sends limited information.
【题3】Which of the inventions is on the market?
A．Meeting Owl Pro.
B．СrаzуСар.
C．AlterEgo
D．Fairphone.
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    2. On the morning of June 3, 1944, the day Maureen Flavin Sweeney turned 21, she, as a young worker at Blacksod lighthouse, dispatched a weather report from Blacksod Bay-a bay of the Atlantic Ocean in Erris, forecasting an impending storm from the Atlantic Ocean.
    Later that morning she received a phone call from an English woman asking that she “please check…please repeat” the report. Examining the barometer (气压计) again, Maureen confirmed that a storm would indeed hit the English Channel on June 5th. At the time she didn’t know this was the initial date chosen by Allied command (盟军指挥部) for the invasion of Normandy, an operation that required clear skies for air support and calm water to ensure the safety of water-based landing boats. Based on this, US General Dwight D Eisenhower postponed the D-Day landing by 24 hours.
    The Sweeney family had been recording the weather every hour throughout the war. They sent their observations to the Irish Met Service in Dublin, which were then forwarded without their knowledge to the headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force in England.
    This hourly reporting continued until an automatic meteorological (气象的) station was brought into operation in Belmullet in 1956. Only then, in 1956, did Maureen learn about the history-changing. event that their reports had contributed to in 1944.
    On June 22, 2021, this 98-year-old Irish woman was presented with an award by the US House of Representatives. “Her skill and professionalism were crucial in ensuring Allied victory, and her spirit will live on for generations to come. While the number of people who died on D-Day was big, it could have been a lot more were it not for the report from her weather station,” wrote Congressman Jack Bergman. Her son, Vincent Sweeney, said his mom was proud of this, but primarily “happy that she got it right”.
【题1】What does the underlined word “dispatched” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．Read.
B．Checked.
C．Sent.
D．Exchanged.
【题2】How did Allied command find Maureen’s weather forecast initially?
A．Doubtful.
B．Accurate.
C．Worthless.
D．Magical.
【题3】Why did the US government decide to honor Maureen?
A．She worked secretly for it during WWⅡ.
B．She influenced the course of the war positively.
C．She helped collect water-based landing boats.
D．She built the automatic meteorological station.
【题4】What does the last paragraph focus on about Maureen?
A．Her courage in the face of death.
B．Her feelings about the award.
C．Her role in winning the campaign.
D．Her effect on the next generation.
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    3. Christian Clot, an explorer and researcher, who leads the Human Adaptation Institut
e (HAI), an interesting experiment, Clot was joined by seven other men and seven women who entered Lombrives cave, one of the largest caves in Europe, in mid-March, 2021. The experiment was designed to help answer some big questions, such as “How do humans handle things when they are out in a completely new and unusual situation?” The campers lived inside the dark cave with no connection to the outside world.