2023届福建省厦门市高三毕业班第二次质量检测英语试题
一、阅读理解
1．Where can we read about a cat?
A．On page 90.
B．On page 110.
C．On page 22.
D．On page 104.
2．Which article attracts Louise most?
A．Renoir’s Invitation To A Party.
B．The Day At The Beach.
C．A Pretty Good Teacher, For A Cat.
D．Exploits Of Charles.
3．What is this text?
A．Readers’ review.
B．Editor’s note.
C．Authors’ reflection.
D．Publisher’s acknowledgement.
The Mustard Seed Project is getting closer to one of its initiatives-building affordable senior housing on the Key Peninsula, Washington.
The Nonprofit carries out the project so that people don’t have to leave the Key Peninsula as they age and have home care needs. “We hope to build in Key Center, a good, central location for our community. Our vision is to have a campus with a cafe and meeting spaces, 10 independent living cottages that have one or two bedrooms with laundry, housekeeping and one meal a day provided, and then assisted living for 30 residents,” said board president Sara Thompson. “We want this to be a place that draws the entire community in, rather than a setting that sets elders aside in an isolated environment.”
More than a year ago, a longtime supporter of the organization made a major gift to undertake a long-desired study to understand both the needs of the community and the financial feasibility (可行性) for senior housing. As a result, The Mustard Seed Project had a meeting in November at the Key Peninsula Civic Center to explain the results of the study and to plan for the next steps.
“We’ll be applying for a predevelopment loan to do all the necessary planning,”The Mustard Seed Project Executive Director Edie Morgan said. “We’re aware of affordable loans for the assisted living section of the project, and can get standard financing for the other buildings. But there will be a funding gap, and we expect to need to raise nearly $3 million to make this happen. I believe we can do it.”
The entire project, once the project manager is identified, is expected to take about two years.
4．Why is the organization building affordable senior housing?
A．To offer free assistance to seniors.
B．To create job opportunities for residents.
C．To provide access to aging in place.
D．To improve facilities for the community.
5．What do we learn about the organization from Paragraph 3?
A．It holds meetings regularly.
B．It prepares holiday gifts for elders.
C．It adapts to sponsors’ needs.
D．It takes the housing project seriously.
6．What is Morgan mainly talking about?
A．Sources of funds.
B．Application for loans.
C．Costs for construction.
D．Distribution of donations.
7．Why is the text written?
A．To attract more visitors.
B．To introduce an organization.
C．To report on a project.
D．To entertain the seniors.
On September 1, 1985, Dr. Robert Ballard and his crew spotted one of Titanic’s boilers. They erupted with cheers. By the time of the crew’s discovery, 73 years had passed since the ship sank. Several missions had set off to look for it, including a 1977 one led by Ballard.
In the early 1980s, Ballard asked the U. S. Navy to fund the development of the Argo, an unmanned camera sled that could be dragged behind a surface ship at depths of up to 20, 000 feet. The Navy were interested in using the Argo to survey the wrecks (沉船)of the U. S. S. Thresher and Scorpion, two nuclear submarines (潜水艇)that had been lost in the North Atlantic. They eventually agreed that if Ballard could successfully locate and map the two subs, he could use whatever time left to look for Titanic.
While photographing Thresher and Scorpion, Ballard noticed that the current had carried debris (碎片)from the ships as they fell to the seafloor, creating a long chain. With this in mind, he decided not to search for Titanic’s main body. Instead, he would use Argo to search for its much larger debris track, which might stretch as far as a mile. Once he found it, he could use it to track down the ship itself. With the new approach, after a few days, they discovered the boiler. Argo stalked the debris track, and the following morning, Titanic’s bow came out of the inky depths.
“The Titanic lies now in 13, 000 feet of water,” Ballard said at a press conference, “There is
no light at this great depth and little life can be found. It is a quiet and peaceful place-and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Forever may it remain that way.”
8．Why did the Navy support the development of the Argo?
A．To develop underwater robots.
B．To locate the wreck of Titanic.
厦门英语C．To find two nuclear submarines.
D．To map the North Atlantic.
9．What gave Ballard inspiration for the new search method?
A．The 1977 search attempt.
B．The surface ship with the Argo.
C．The photographs of Titanic.
D．The debris chain of the submarines.
10．What does the underlined word “stalked” in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Traced. B．Recognized.
C．Cleared. D．Dragged.
11．What is the purpose of Ballard’s statement at the press conference?
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