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1、高中英语人教版(2019)必修第二册Unit 4 History and Traditions单元基础提高卷时间:100分钟 分值:120分第I卷(选择题)第一局部阅读(共两节,总分值50分)第一节(共15小题;每题2. 5分,总分值37.5分)阅读以下短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最正确选项。AWe love food and drink. We love to celebrate the good stuff and criticize the bad. This is our take on the top three food cultures and destinat
2、ions. Its time to find out once and for all, which cuisine is king as you plan where youll travel next:No. 3 FranceYou can spend an entire two-week vacation exploring combinations of wines and cheeses around the country.YumEscargot credit the French for turning garden-dwelling pests into a delicacy.
3、Massive respect for making them taste amazing too.Baguette the first and last thing that youll want to eat in France . The first bite is superb; the last will be full of longing.DumbFoie gras - it tastes like 10,000 ducks roasted in butter then reduced to a velvet pudding.No. 2 ChinaThe people who g
4、reet each other with Have you eaten yet?” are arguably the most food-obsessed in the world. The Chinese almost cook and sell anything, and they also make it taste great.YumSweet and sour pork - a guilty pleasure that has taken on different forms.Dim sum - a grand tradition from Hong Kong to New York
5、. The best to start a day as breakfast.DumbSharks fin soup - calling fbr Chinese restaurants to ban the dish has been a goal of green campaigners in recent years.No. 1 ItalyItalian food has enslaved taste-buds around the globe for centuries, with its tomato sauces, and those clever things they do wi
6、th wheat flour and desserts .YumPizza simple yel satisfying dish . Staple diet of bachelors and college sludenls . Coffee cappuccino is for breakfast? Forget it. We want it all day and all night.DumbBuffalo mozzarella those balls of water buffalo milk. The flavors so subtle you have to imagine it.1.
7、 Which food would you not try as an environmentalist?A. Sharks fin soupB. Foie grasC. Sweet and sour porkD. Escargot2. Which will be the best choice for hungry students in Italy?A. PizzaB. CoffeeC. Buffalo mozzarellaD. DessertsWhich will be the best breakfast?A. CappuccinoB. BaguetteC. CheeseD. Dim
8、sumBA robot navigates through the strawberries, detecting ripe ones, picking without bruising and placing them in its basket. It sounds futuristic but it is possible now thanks to Rubion, the picking robot for strawberries. This piece of Belgian innovation is not only an answer to the labor shortage
9、 in the agricultural industry, but also allows growers to increase the quality of its produce - which in the end benefits the consumer.Demographic (人口结构的)and socio-economic numbers show that the labor shortage in the agricultural industry is a fact. But fbr Octinion the fbcus is clearly on adding qu
10、ality. Thanks to robotics, we have so many possibilities, much more than a human could ever do. Harvest prediction, picking according to market needs, simply picking when the berries are ripe instead of when workers are available - these are just a few examples of what is possible now for a grower,s
11、ays Tom Coen, CEO of the Octinion Technology Group. The consumer will also notice the difference, as strawberries will be fresher and show less bruising.Introducing robots in an industry where almost everything gets done by hand is more of a revolution than an evolution. It calls for close cooperati
12、on with all stakeholders (利益相关者).Tom Coen: not only have we been working together with growers and test centers across the world for the past couple of years, breeders have also been keen on being part of the technological developments.In 2014 a team of Belgian engineers started the development of t
13、he robot. Tn the meanwhile, Octinion wasnt the only company presenting a concept. Product Manager Laura Guillaume says its not a surprise that the company from Leuven is the first to actually present a commercial product: by developing the robot from the beginning, we are able to make it practical i
14、n greenhouses or tunnels. Octinion plans on launching harvesting robots fbr other crops in the upcoming years.3. What can we know about the robot?A. It can help solve the problem of labor shortage.B. It makes little difference to the quality of the fruits.C. It is developed by a group of Belgian eng
15、ineers independently.D. It has been put into use around the globe.4. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?A. The good news of the robotic picking.B. The advantages of the robotic picking.C. How the robotic picking works.D. Different attitudes to the robotic picking.5. What can we infer from the last par
16、agraph?A. The robot was introduced to the market in 2014.B. Octinion is the only company to put forward the idea of the robot.C. The robot can be used in any situation.D. Various harvesting robots are on the way.6. What can be the best title for the text?A. How robots pick strawberries.B. Fruits wil
17、l be picked by Robots.C. Strawberry-picking robots are presented.D. A new robot was invented.CMost people would say they are familiar with dogs. As companions and working animals, they have coexisted with humankind for thousands of years. But there are some weird dog facts that can surprise even the
18、 biggest dog lovers.To begin with, every dog owner will say that their dog is entirely one of a kind. What they may not realize is that their dog can be identified by a total stranger, and ifs “as plain as the nose on their face. (Its actually the nose on their face.) As it turns out, each dogs nose
19、 print is as unique as a humans fingerprint, and it can be used to positively identify a dog in the same way. In some areas, a dogs nose print can be used to reunite it with its human family if that dog gets lost or separated from its owners. In China, the AI company Megvii allows users to photograp
20、h their dogs noses and upload those pictures to an online database of nose prints that vets can check against a database of lost dogs.Dogs and their habits have even helped humans in unexpected ways. For example, the way dogs shake off water is an incredibly efficient way of removing water from thei
21、r fur. In long-haired breeds(品种),the movement can cause hairs to accelerate nearly as fast as a whip cracking(鞭笞).A dog can shake off up to 70% of the water on its body in just four seconds. The method is so effective that it has been studied by washing machine manufacturers to form better ways to d
22、ry clothes.The most interesting feature of dogs is probably how much they love us. Theres science behind that, too, but it might be better to leave it a wonderful mystery.7. What does the underlined part as plain as the nose on their face“ in the second paragraph most likely mean?A. Obvious.B. Sensi
23、tive.C. Unusual.D. Cute.8. How is an AI company in China related to dogs nose prints?A. It discovered the uniqueness of dogs nose prints.B. It has made a database of nose prints to track lost dogs.C. It found that nose prints have a relationship to dogs health.D. It proved that artificial intelligen
24、ce cant recognize dogs nose prints.9. What can be inferred about washing machines in the passage?A. Dogs are often afraid of washing machines.B. Dogs inspired the invention of the washing machine.C. Ifs effective to use washing machines to properly clean dogs clothes.D. Improvements of washing machi
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