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2023 届大湾区普通高中毕业班联合模拟考试（二）
英语
本试卷共10页, 满分120分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：1. 答卷前, 考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、考场号、座位号和准考证号填写在答题卡上, 将条形码横贴在答题卡“条形码粘贴处”。
3. 非选择题必须用黑字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答无效。
4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。考试结束后, 将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第二部分阅读（共两节, 满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2. 5分, 满分37. 5分）
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。
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Natural World Photography Competition Now Open！
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Prizes
Big Picture is open to all photography worldwide to compete for a chance to win the $5, 000 grand prize. Winning images include images named as grand prize, first place, and finalist images. They will be displayed at the California Academy of Sciences for all visitors to enjoy.
Competition Period
The Big Picture Photo Competition begins at 12:00 am on December 1, 2022 and closes at 11:59 pm on March 1, 2023.
Entry Fees
Each photographer can enter photos as follows:
$ 25 for up to 10 single image submissions in any category.
$ 15 for each 6 - 8 image Photo Story submission.
Photographers are limited to up to 10 image submissions per registered email address and may register an unlimited number of email addresses. Entry fees are used to provide the competition prizes and help the Academy in its mission and can not be returned.
Participants
巴瑶族为什么不能上岸Big Picture is open to all photography enthusiasts and professionals alike worldwide, except employees, volunteers and Board Members of the Academy （as well as their sponsors） and the immediate families and individuals living in the same household.
21. Where is the text most likely from?
杨洋郑爽A. A picture book.
B. A science journal.
C. A camera guidebook.
D. A conservation website.
22. If a photographer submits 17 single images, how much will he pay?
A. $ 25.
B. $ 40.
C. $ 50.
D. $ 15.
23. Who can participate in the competition?
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A. Amateurs unrelated to the Academy.
贾玲疑新恋情曝光B. Experts as members of the Academy.
C. Volunteers working for the Academy.
D. Enthusiasts of the board member's family.
B
My love for animals began through watching wildlife documentaries when I was a kid. I went on to study Environmental Science at university, and became interested in marine（海洋的）biology when I did my master＇s degree. That＇s when I realised that there was a possibility to do more for Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, many people would associate marine life only with seafood, and few people would consider it as a part of nature to be appreciated. Although our marine life is highly diverse,
our waters have been overfished for more than 40 years. Records show that, decades ago, Hong Kong had such high production of seafood that it supported about 90% of the local demand. Today, a
t least 90% of the seafood we eat has to be imported to meet local demand, as our waters are so overfished that they can no longer support the local appetite.
Despite this shift, we are still a city in love with seafood-according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Hong Konng has the second highest annual seafood consumption per capita （人均）in Asia-but consumers are barely aware of where their seafood comes from and which species are threatened.
There is a lot of room for improvement in Hong Kong. Improving local fishery management policies and increasing the coverage of Marine Protected Areas, as well as conducting the relevant research to inform decisions, could move the city towards greater sustainability in this area. And consumers should avoid eating seafood that is on the threatened species list. As a general rule of thumb, if people are not sure what the species is, they should choose something else that they are more familiar with.
With the marine ecosystem already weak and easily destroyed, the greatest threat is continued ignorance and inaction. It is time for us to show that we can also be a part of the solution. If each person plays their part - even for just one meal a day-Hong Kong would already be on its way to making considerable progress towards sustainable seafood consumption.
24. How does the author introduce overfishing in Paragraph 2?
A. By listing reasons.
B. By offering examples.
C. By giving exact figures.
D. By making comparisons.
25. What is true about HK people according to the passage?
A. They all see marine life as a part of nature.
B. They consume 90% of the seafood in Asia.
云南景点推荐C. They have a rather big appetite for seafood.
D. They are aware of the source of the seafood.
26. What does the author suggest people do when eating seafood?
A. Keep off unfamiliar species.
B. Ignore dangerous species.
C. Choose endangered species.
D. Avoid non-threatened species.
27. What is the author's purpose of writing this article?
主持人王欢A. To stop consuming seafood.
B. To protect the marine ecosystem.
C. To improve local fishery management policies.
D. To criticize the overfishing situation in Hong Kong.
C
Look up how to increase your life expectancy（预期寿命）, and you will probably see plenty of result
s recommending that you have a healthy diet, get sufficient sleep, work out and cut out tobacco and too much alcohol consumption. But what many of us don't know is that our relationships also affect our life expectancy. Social integration is associated with greater life satisfaction, better health and increased life expectancy. People with wide social networks are more likely to be happy, experience fewer health issues, enjoy better mental health and to live a lot longer.
Now this doesn't mean that we should dive head first into a relationship whenever we're lonely in order to avoid dying young. Harmful relationships can be as isolating as being alone, so who we choose to break bread with is absolutely vital to our overall health.
Have you ever wondered why some people are single and happy, while others are drowning in suffering? Or why some married couples exist in a consistent state of bliss, while others are practically enemies?
Research shows that marriage has greater benefits for men than it does for women. Being coupled allows men to receive the essential emotional support that they would lack if they were single. They also get the added benefit of being physically taken care of thanks to the gender roles society still subscribes to.
Women, on the other hand, don't have as much luck when it comes to being coupled. A woman in a harmful relationship is likely to experience the mental, emotional and physical consequences that come with that. On the contrary, a woman in a healthy relationship is likely to live well. Research shows that the women who are happily married tend to be coupled with partners who take on their fair share of household responsibilities.
But that's not all, age gaps also need to be factored in to determine relationship satisfaction. Couples with wider age gaps are more likely to be harmonious compared to their peers.
28. What does the writer intend to emphasize in Paragraph 1?
A. Some health problems.
B. Ways to increase life expectancy.
C. The effect of sleep on people's health.
D. The importance of human relationships.
29. What does the underlined word “bliss” mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Happiness.
B. Kindness.
C. Loneliness.
D. Friendliness.
30. What can we learn from the research?
A. Marriage benefits men and women equally.
B. Women benefit more from marriage than men.
C. Men are better taken care of because of the gender roles.
D. Good relationship can effectively prevent people from dying lonely.
31. What would be probably discussed in the next paragraph of this passage?
A. The influence of a harmonious marriage.
B. Relationship satisfaction for older couples.
C. Gender differences in marriage satisfaction.
D. The benefits of wider age gaps in marriage.
D
An artificial intelligence can decode （解码） words and sentences from brain activity with1 surprising accuracy. Using only a few seconds of brain activity data, the AI guesses what a person has heard. It lists the correct answer in its top 10 possibilities , researchers found in a primary study.
Developed at the parent company of Facebook, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help thousands of people around the world who are unable to communicate through speech, typing or gestures.
Most existing technologies to help such patients communicate require risky brain surgeries to put in electrodes （电极）. This new approach “could provide a possible path to help patients with communication problems, avoiding the use of surgeries, ”says neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King, a Meta AI researcher.
King and his colleagues trained a computational tool, also known as a language model, to detect words and sentences on 56, 000 hours of speech recordings from 53 languages. The team applied an AI with this language model to databases from four institutions that included brain activity from 169 volunteers. In these databases, participants listened to various stories and
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