广东省七校联合体2021届高三上学期英语第二次联考（11月）试题

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My daughter was being thrown out of the sixth grade. The teacher said, "She may not be up to what we're trying to accomplish." He was really saying she didn't have the intelligence. I got mad because I knew she was smart, just as my father had known I was smart when I was failing in school. We had her tested. I decided to get myself tested as well, and found that the troubles she was having were exactly what I had had — dyslexia. By then I was a successful television writer, and had won an Emmy Award for "The Rockford Files."

If I had known earlier that something beyond my control could explain why I was a low achiever, I may not have worked so hard in my late 20s and early 30s. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me, because I did badly in all my courses.

I once asked a friend who had always gotten an A, "How long did you study for this?" He said, "I didn't. I just glanced at it." So he must be smarter. I began to ask, "What will happen to me when I'm not good at anything?" Despite my doubts, I did become successful, and people now say to me, "So you've overcome dyslexia."

No. You don't overcome it, you learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are very hard for me. Most people who go through college read twice as fast as I do. I avoid dialing a phone if I can, because I sometimes have to try three times to get the number right.

Despite my weaknesses I view dyslexia as a gift, not a curse (诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right-brain, abstract thought, and that's what my kind of creative writing is. And I can write quickly, and can get up to 15 pages a day. Writing is my strength.

The real fear I have for dyslexic children is not they have to struggle in school, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school. Parents have to create victories for them, whether it's music, sports or art. You can make your dyslexic child able to say, "Yeah, reading is hard. But I have other things I can do."

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The kakapo, a bird that lives in New Zealand, is not designed for survival. Weighing up to 4 kilograms, it is the world's fattest parrot. It mates (交配)only when the rimu tree is in fruit, which happens every few years. It developed gradually in the absence of land-based natural enemies, so instead of flying above the trees it walks like a duck across the dry forest floor. When it moves unsteadily across something that might kill it, it will stand still.

Such unusual characteristics turned it into fast food for human settlers, and for the cats and rats they brought with them. It seemed to have disappeared by the 1970s, until scientists came across two undiscovered populations in the country s south. These survivors were eventually moved to small enemy -free islands, where researchers have spent decades trying to get them to breed (繁殖).

The scientists' patience is finally rewarded. The rimu was in fruit this year, and more than 80 chicks hatched, making this the best breeding season, on record. Many have survived into adolescence, increasing the number of adult kakapos by a third, to 200 birds.

Another danger to the kakapo is a lack of genetic diversity. This is one reason why fewer than half of kakapo eggs hatch. By arranging the genome (基因组) of every living bird, scientists can identify closely-related individuals and put them on different islands. Every bird is fitted with something to track its slightest movement. If a female mates with an "unsuitable" male, the process can be stopped.

All these efforts cost almost New Zealand $1 .3 million this breeding season. Yet the kakapo's future still looks unsafe. Earlier this year a severe disease tore through the population. And tiny as the number of kakapos is, space is running out on the two islands where most of them live. New enemy-free settlements must soon be found.

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Never play games with a bot(robot)—it will find a way to cheat if it can. A team from OpenAI, an artificial intelligence lab in San Francisco, has developed artificially intelligent bots that taught themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek. The bots also learned how to use basic tools to help them win.

Bowen Baker at Open AI and his colleagues wanted to see if the team-based dynamics of the OpenAI Five could be used to produce skills that could one day be useful to humans.

The researchers set their bots loose in a simulated (模拟的) environment filled with fixed walls, movable boxes and ladders, and left them to play team games of hide-and-seek. The bots each had their own view of the world and couldn't communicate with each other directly.

At first, the hiders simply ran away. But they soon worked out that the quickest way to stop the seekers was to find objects in the environment to hide themselves from view. The seekers learned that they could move boxes around and use them to climb over walls. The bots then discovered that being a team-player -passing objects to each other or cooperating on a hideout -was the quickest way to win.

But the real surprise came when the bots started making use of problems or faults. Seekers found that if they pushed a ladder towards a wall, they could launch themselves into the air and spot hiders from above. Hiders found that they could get rid of the ladders by pushing them aside.

It shows that AIs are able to find solutions that humans miss, says Baker. "Maybe they'll even be able to solve problems that humans don't yet know how to." However, it is a large leap (跳跃) from virtual hide and seek to real problem-solving. "The main limitation is that it is in simulation," says Chelsea Finn at Stanford University.

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

If you've been feeling a lot sleepy in your daily life, here are some tips to picking up your energy levels. But first, you should make sure if you're experiencing some serious illnesses., keep these tips in mind.

The first recommendation is to exercise. Although it may seem difficult to work out when you're tired, it turns out that physical activity can actually give you more energy. The second thing to work on is to go to sleep early enough to get a full night's sleep, preferably so that you wake up naturally without the need for your alarm.. Thus, another useful tip is to take a nap during the afternoon. Naps can restore your mind and body without taking up too much time, regaining your energy and raising working efficiency. The best length of time for a nap is about 20 minutes. Shorter, and you won't get much out of it..

. Drinking plenty of water and fluids throughout the day is one important way to stay energized, since dehydration (脱水) leaves us in low sprits. Some experts say that eating smaller meals more often throughout the day can help maintain energy and balance blood sugar levels. Be aware also that people who are overweight are more likely to experience tiredness easily., reducing extra weight could help you gain more energy.

A. If you're overweight

B. If you feel uncomfortable

C. As you know, it is quite a good habit

D. However, this goal is hard to achieve in practice

E. longer, and you may find it harder to sleep at night

F. If you're otherwise healthy but just need some extra energy

G. Other ways to increase energy involve our diet and consumption

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My journey to isolation (隔离) was somewhat accidental.

I saw an advertisement for a job as a leader for an expedition (探险) to Antarctica-and I have to1it was the penguin in the ad that2my attention. The ad noted that they were looking for someone to lead a3of expeditioners in one of the most4and isolated places on the planet. I took part in an5and then got a job that I knew I would regret if I didn't6it. Leading 18 strangers for a full year-through months of darkness and with no7from the freezing cold —--I learned some8lessons.

After the journey, I wrote two best-selling books and became a motivational speaker. Being in isolation meant I had to do lots of self9.I kept a10, and every day I would think11of how I had operated as a leader. That discipline of12myself taught me how to tell right from wrong.

I often think back to13I saw the picture of the penguin that14me to look at the ad for the job. It's a moment that15my life completely.

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    Have you ever been too shy to express thanks towards someone? Well, a new study says you should not worry about that so much.

    Recently, researchers have published a study on how people gave and(receive) letters of thanks.they found was that expressing and receiving appreciation increased(happy) for both sides, but people's self-consciousness (自我意识) often madeless possible for them to express their appreciation.

    In the experiments, the researchers asked(hundred) of participants to write an email to someone close to them(express) their appreciation and givingspecific example of how that person made their lives better.

    The writers often underestimated (低估) the positive effect that the emails would havethe receivers. They thought that the receivers would feel(awkward) and uncomfortable over the letters than they actually were. Contrary to the writers' belief, the receivers were thankful, warm and understanding.

    So next time you feel hesitant about expressing your appreciation for others, remember that it will most(probable) go a lot better than you think.

假定你是李华，正在英国Hogwarts高中交流学习，下周学业结束即将回国。请你写一篇发言稿在班里做一个简短的演讲，内容包括：

1）表示感谢；

2）你的收获；

3）你的期望。

注意：1）写作词数应为80左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。发言稿的开头已经给出。

Good morning, everyone in Hogwarts high school.

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

When I was little, I lived in a house with a beautiful garden full of all kinds of flowers, and roses were the most beautiful of them. There was nothing I enjoyed more than sitting in the garden with my mother as she read stories to me. When I was in primary school and old enough to read, I enjoyed reading stories aloud to her.

I will never forget one day when I was in the third grade. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed (排练) my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator's (旁白、解说员) part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her word, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn't tell my mother what had happened when I went home after school that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.

It was May and roses were blossoming and, under the trees, we could also see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass, as if a painter had painted our garden with red, yellow and green. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. "I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds," she said, pulling it up by its roots. "From now on, we'll have only roses in this garden."

"But I like dandelions," I protested. "All flowers are beautiful —— even dandelions."

My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every flower is beautiful in its own way, isn't it?" She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. "And that is true of people too," she added. "Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that." Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled reassuringly.

注意：

1）续写词数应为150左右；

2）请按如下格式作答

"But you will be a beautiful narrator," she said,

……

After the play, I took home the flower.