2023届上海市青浦区高三上学期期末(一模)英语试卷

试卷第1页，共11页 2023届上海市青浦区高三上学期期末（一模）英语试卷

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、用单词的适当形式完成短文

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent

and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the

proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Clues at Ancient Lake Site Reveal Earliest Known Cooked Meal

Scientists have found the earliest known evidence of cooking at an archaeological site in

Israel. The discovery has suggested prehistoric humans were able to deliberately make fires to

cook food at least 780,000 years ago.

The detailed study of fish teeth unearthed at the Gesher Benot Ya’ aqov site revealed that

some of our early ancestors — most likely Homo erectus ( 直立猿人) believed to be the first

hominin ( 古人族) ____1____ (migrate) outside Africa — were able to cook fish, said Dr. Irit

Zohar, a researcher at Tel Aviv University’ s Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.

No human remains ____2____ ( find) at the site before, but the stone tools matched

____3____ found at Homo erectus sites across Africa, Zohar said. She said the lake would

have been shallow, and it might have been easy to catch large fish like the extinct

Luciobarbus longiceps, which ____4____ grow up to. 5 feet (2 meters), by hand.

This is an incredibly important discovery ____5____ the shift to eating cooked meals

meant humans spent less energy on the intensive work of searching for and digesting raw

food, freeing up ____6____ . Diet has had a big impact on the evolution of our species. It has

been suggested ____7____ the consumption of meat in particular contributed to the increase

in relative brain size of our early Homo ancestors — but they risked ____8____ ( contract)

diseases while consuming the uncooked meat which was likely to be contaminated by

infective bacteria, ” Linscott said.

“Cooking, however, kills bacteria and increases the energetic value of meat, ____9____

( create) a new reliable food source for early hominins. Understanding when this happened is

therefore a topic of great interest, because it might help to explain _____10_____ our

hominin ancestors evolved the way in which they did. ”

试卷第2页，共11页 二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be

used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A．motivate B．accidentally C．highlighting D．plantations E. engaging

F. apparent

G. purpose H. sensitive I. increasingly J. decent K. treat

Ball- Rolling Bumble Bees Just Wanna Have FunPlaytime isn’ t just for children. Lab-

kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no

____11____ purpose other than fun, a new study reveals. It supports evidence that bees

experience pleasure,____12____ the importance of protecting them in the wild and treating

them well in their natural habitats.

“It is super cool,” says Elizabeth Tibbetts, an evolutionary biologist at the University of

Michigan. “We usually think about insects as being so different that they lack complex

behaviors.” But not everyone is convinced the behavior is in fact play.

Lars Chittka, a behavioral ecologist at Queen Mary University of London, and his

colleagues____13____ came across the new evidence. The team was studying how bumble

bees learn complex behaviors from their comrades by training the insects to move wooden

balls to specific locations. If a bee moved a ball to the right place, it got a sugary ____14____.

The researchers noticed that some bees moved the balls even when no reward was offered.

They just seemed to like going back to them and playing around with them and rolling them

all over the place. The careful design of the experiments has convinced him the bees are

indeed ____15____ in play.

Because play implies a capacity to experience emotions, documenting it in insects could

have____16____ implications. Insects are ____17____ being raised for animal feed, and

there are no regulations governing their welfare. Honey bees are also known to become

stressed and more ____18____ to disease and bee communities collapse when industrialized

beekeepers transport them long distances on trucks to ____19____ and vast fields without

diverse flowers nearby, Chittka says. The researchers hope their findings might also

_____20_____ greater fellow feeling for — and protection of — wild insects.

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