湖南省长沙市2023-2024学年高二下学期第一次学情检测试卷英语试卷

Where to Eat in Malaysia

Malaysia offers a wide range of food choices, ranging from fine dining to street food. Elsewhere, restaurants and food stalls are readily available.

Old China Cafe

Eating here is a little like dining in a museum as the walls are lined with photos and memorabilia of the local Chinese laundryman's association. Chinese and Asian dishes keep regulars and travellers coming back for more. The menu changes monthly.

San Pedro

This restaurant serves Portuguese cuisine. Try the baked fish (seabass or red snapper), curry debal chicken (can be quite spicy), fried brinjals and the black pepper crabs. Call ahead to reserve a table (and your fish), because once their fish runs out, they will close for the day.

The Bungalow

Facing the hotel pool and the beach, this restaurant has indoor and outdoor seating. At night, the atmosphere is very romantic. The Chinese menu concentrates on traditional Hainanese dishes, but includes dishes such as fish curry, chicken rice and filet mignon.

No. 7 Sup Corner

Even if you miss this buffet-style restaurant at the road bend, you will not miss the number of cars parked at the road shoulder or the locals heading to it during lunchtime. It serves Malay dishes. First get your plate of rice, and then take whatever you would like to eat. Present your food plate to the lady at the counter and pay for it. Closed on Fridays and during Ramadan (斋月). Come early as there's always a crowd outside.

At the first exhibition of Henri Rousseau's paintings in 1886, the public laughed out loud, and critics made fun of his original, unschooled style, one writing "Monsieur Rousseau paints with his feet, and his eyes covered."

Despite heavy criticism throughout his life, Rousseau kept painting, confident in his gift. He never received formal training in the arts because his family was too poor. For more than twenty years, he worked at the Paris customs office. It wasn't until the age of 40 that he took up the brush, teaching himself to paint by copying works at the Louvre and studying nature. "Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see." he said.

Though his best-known paintings are of jungle scenes with monkeys, lions, and small woods, Rousseau never left France or saw a jungle. To paint foreign plants and animals, he relied on books, botanical gardens(植物园) in Paris, and his imagination. "When I go into the glasshouse and I see the strange plants of faraway lands," he once said, "it seems to me that I enter into a dream."

Rousseau claimed to have invented a new style of painting called the landscape—portrait, in which he paints a background view and then adds a person in the foreground later, as he did in Myself: Portrait-Landscape (1890).

Called a naive (天真) artist due to his childlike, untrained style, Rousseau painted colors one at a time, starting from the top and working his way down. While critics described his works as flat and inexact descriptions of nature, he earned the respect of artists like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, who thought Rousseau was onto something new.

Though his work was never accepted by the art world in his time, Rousseau's paintings hang in museums around the world today. And Rousseau's original approach to art has inspired countless artists to follow their own unique views.

With the explosion of chatbots like ChatGPT driving the tech boom, many people have considered the fear in mind: will AI replace human beings? Discussion in the media would have us believe that such fear is unnecessary. However, the runaway success of a Chinese AI-powered digital portrait generator (生成器) has ignited such fears again, especially among social media users.

Users of the mobile app need to pay 9.9 yuan ($1.4) and upload at least 20 recent portraits each to get a digital clone, which can be used to create different types of portraits fit for ID purposes, formal occasions or even everyday lifestyle.

According to an online survey from lifestyle platform Xiaohongshu, 72% of the users preferred the photo created by the generator to those created by a renowned professional portrait photography chain in China. Facial expressions, lighting, overall appearance ... the whole range of technical aspects seemed superior. Take me for example, most importantly, I didn't need to spend more time and money in dressing up and striking unnatural poses in front of a group of unfamiliar people. I could get various photos at the price of, say, a cup of Starbucks coffee, without having to step out of my home.

So, in the next step, will photographers, image specialists and such people lose their jobs? Unlikely.

Tech without the human touch has its own shortcomings. I soon discovered that many of my friends also tried out the app, and their portraits had the same or similar poses and costumes etc.—a kind of one-size-fits-all setting. Which is to say that homogenization (均质化) makes offline photo studies a necessity still. It's too early to say that AI portrait apps will replace offline photo studios.

Some people feel AIGC (生成式人工智能) may be just a passing tech trend. A real- world assessment took place between AI doctors and human doctors in June. To everyone's surprise, human doctors scored an average of 7.5 out of 10, while AI doctors scored 7.2. AI doctors' recommendations, however, were found to be 96 percent as good as those of top-level physicians.

Ma Ting, a professor of neuroinformatics (神经信息学) said when doctors make decisions based on patients' diagnoses, they consider multidimensional data, which are difficult for AI to access and assess. "To fully allow AI to move from its general understanding to advanced intelligence, we still need more research, more data and more intelligent algorithms(算法)." Ma said.

After nearly 70 years of space exploration, Earth is now surrounded by space junk. Recently, an accident made the cleanup more difficult to start.

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists plan on testing their "junk truck", ClearSpace-1, in 2025. It's a spacecraft with four arms that can catch debris (碎片) and bring it back to Earth. They have chosen to bring back VESPA, a 113-kilogram, two-meter-wide rocket part. However, in August, it was hit by another piece of space junk, creating new pieces. The ESA is now revising its cleanup plan.

Most satellites today are sent into Earth's low orbit, which reaches up to around 2,000 kilometers above the Earth. There, spacecraft are most likely to crash with each other. There may be as many as 170 million pieces of space junk in orbit. Big or small, any of the pieces can cause harm to a spacecraft.

In terms of the cleanup, scientists have some other ideas. One popular plan is to equip a spacecraft with harpoons (叉) and magnets (磁铁). The craft would shoot the harpoon to stick into the debris before "throwing" it back to Earth. Magnets could move the debris, changing its direction. The debris would burn after entering Earth's atmosphere so there wouldn't be much left when it reaches Earth. Scientists are also considering shooting lasers (激光) from spacecraft to heat up the debris' surface, creating a small push that would change the debris' orbit. This change would allow the debris to be caught by Earth's gravity.

Space junk can be very dangerous, and space agencies around the world are testing and planning the cleanup. But why haven't they done anything yet? One reason is the expense.

It would take between $4, 000 and $60, 000 per kilogram to catch one piece of debris larger than 10 cm. And around $300 million is needed to develop the laser technology.

Are you frequently depressed by the feeling that life is leaving you behind particularly when you look over social media sites and are faced with all the exciting things your friends are up to? 

FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out refers to the perception that other people's lives are superior to our own. It appears as a deep sense of envy, and constant exposure to it can have a weakening effect on our self-esteem (自尊).

While feelings of envy and lack of confidence seem to be human nature, social media seems to have added fuel to the fire.  Social media, with its built-in appeal, allows us to share only the best presentations of our life, while leaving out the more boring aspects. Although this could be characterized as dishonest, it is the atmosphere social media seems to demand. So how do we avoid being trapped into our own insecurities by social media?

Consider your own social media posts. Well, so have others. And what they've left hidden is the fact that boredom, loneliness and unpleasant chores are an unavoidable part of everyone's life, and you're not the only one feeling left out.

 You may not be a regular at fancy parties or a climber of dizzying peaks, but you have your health, a place to live and real friends who appreciate your presence in their lives.

Learn to shake it off. We are all flooded daily with photos of other people's perfections, but really, what does it matter? And even if you are more easily affected than others by social media envy, all you need to do is to look around you and acknowledge that you are doing pretty well after all.

A.If so, you are not alone.

B.Value your friends in real life.

C.Learn to appreciate the positives.

D.Why does it have such a stimulating effect?

E.They are probably no more real than the funniest reality TV show.

F.The feeling that we are left out has long-term damaging psychological consequences.

G.Have you ever chosen photos that lead others to the rosiest conclusions about your life?

Brennon had been an experienced barber for a shop for years. He 1 half a year ago because he wanted to do something meaningful. Later, on a busy2 in Philadelphia, with a chalkboard saying "Haircuts for the Homeless", he was3 free haircuts to any homeless person around Philadelphia.

Such a4 is sure to draw the eye of average passers-by. Sean Johnson was no 5 . He was willing to give Brennon a job. However, Brennon said he had to6 because he didn't do this to get paid but just to7 the homeless.

A month later, Sean invited Brennon to his new barbershop after8 Brennon again who was giving haircuts on another street. Sean did something9 when they got inside — he gave Brennon the10 saying, "It's yours now."

"You see many bad things in this city. When you see11 things, you just want to be a part of them," Sean said. Brennon saw this as an12 to do even further good for the homeless and accepted Sean's13 .

Tuesday through Sunday, Brennon's barbershop would be just a14 one, serving the paying customers. But every Monday would be set aside 15 for providing haircuts for the homeless, still free of charge.

It is no secret that China has an incredibly rich, complex and ancient history and culture. My first (expose) to Chinese culture came totally by chance. At 8, I walked into a bookshop and picked a book from one of the (shelf). Nevertheless, the book turned out to be the "Tao Te Ching", a deeply philosophical book of Taoism. As an 8-year-old, the book's content was (obvious) lost on me, but it provided me with an early connection to a profound philosophical tradition by I am still influenced today. At school I began studying Chinese. My interest in the language developed early on, (combine) my love of travelling with my love of meeting new people.

Culture and food are closely connected and perhaps nowhere else can this be seen more clearly  in China. In recent years there  (be) a rise in restaurants offering a variety of foods here. I have introduced many of my friends to Chinese history and culture through a  (share) love of food.

is safe to say that my journey has only just begun. These first steps are only a drop in the ocean of lifelong learning, but as the Chinese philosopher Laozi said, "A journey of a thousand miles (begin) with a single step."

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2.简单介绍郑和及郑和下西洋的意义；

3.建议他看电影前先了解相关的历史。

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Dear Peter,

Yours, 

Li Hua

"Bang…!" Sara pushed the door open. She threw her school bag onto the floor and called out, "I'm home!" No answer. The house was silent. It sounded empty, but she knew it wasn't. Her mum and dad were working upstairs.

Sara got a glass of orange juice, went into the conservatory (玻璃房) and sat down in her favourite chair. The garden was still in the dark afternoon. On one side, her mum's garden was neat and tidy with boring short grass, boring straight flowerbeds and boring straight paths. But on the other side, Sara's Nature Garden looked wild and exciting with big dead sunflowers and tall grasses.

"Nobody is interested in me. Mum and dad only think about their work," she thought sadly.

Then she recalled: One month earlier, she learned in a magazine that many dogs were abandoned because their owners got bored with them; One hour earlier, she saw a cute dog wagging its tail and licking her friend's face.

Sara knew today was special. Today things were changing. She couldn't wait any longer. It's time to talk to her parents.

So Sara got up from her chair and climbed all the way to the loft ( 阁楼). "Mum, I want a talk." said Sara. "Just a minute!" Her mum clicked on the keyboard, took off her glasses and turned to her daughter. Sara coughed, took a deep breath, and told her mum that she wanted a dog. "No, Sara. That's impossible," her mum said firmly. Sara went to her father but got the same answer. She rushed into her room angrily and slammed the door shut.

Later, Sara's mum knocked at the door and went in. "Darling, we know this is important to you. You can have a dog if you take the responsibility. But look at your Nature Garden, your school bag, your bedroom! What a mess! Do you think you can take good care of a dog?" said her mum.

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Sara was lost in thought and decided to make some changes.

With the dog's company, Sara began her busy but joyful life.