英语江苏省泰州市届高三上学期期末英语试题含答案文档格式.docx

1、less fattening Japanese hot pot that has an attractive visual element is Mille-Feuille Nabe. Made with mostly pork and cabbage, its easy to prepare since this hot pot requires fewer ingredients（原料）than other kinds of nabemono. The remaining soup can also be enjoyed with steamed rice or noodles.Yamin

2、abeYaminabe is a dining experience like no other. Everyone brings their own ingredients to add to the pot,but with their eyes covered, they dont know what else is being added. Therefore,no one knows exactly what theyre picking out of the pot. Sounds like the ultimate surprise,doesnt it.Thats only th

3、e tip of the iceberg when it comes to nabemono. These hot pots are just the start of a wonderfully delicious nabemono journey! （1）Where does Shabu-Shabu get its name from?The taste of the meat as its eaten.BThe town called Osaka in the 1950s.CThe sound of food boiling in the pot.DThe flavor coming f

4、rom a citrus sauce. （2）According to the text. what kind of nabemono are the people in the right picture probably eating?Shabu-Shabu.Chankonabe.Mille-Feuille Nabe.Yaminabe. （3）Where is this text most likely from?A food and travel blog.A history textbook.A Japanese cookbook.A news website.2.The govern

5、ment of India has announced that it will replace the single-use plastic cups used for tea in 7,000 train stations around the country with traditional clay cups called kulhads. This will reduce the amount of waste thrown away every day, thus helping further the governments goal of making India free f

6、rom single-use plastics, and it will provide much-needed employment for two million potters.Jaya Jaitly, a politician and handicrafts expert, has advocated since the early 1990s for clay cups to be reintroduced in train stations. She explained that employing potters to provide these cups was a way t

7、o support them at a time when they lost jobs due to new Internet technology.It is reported that a potters average monthly income will increase from 135 a month. The government is distributing electric wheels to those who do not have them and funding a switch from wood-fueled to gas-fueled kilns（窑炉）i

8、n villages that already have gas devices for cooking. Jaitly said this would reduce smoke pollution.She also said that one reason why earlier efforts to reintroduce kulhads failed was that the government was unwilling to accept non-standardized sizes and shapes of cups. This time they will have to a

9、ccept it because the handmade pieces cannot possibly be the same, particularly with production being so scattered（分散）. Variation in appearance is a small price to pay for the environmental benefits.This is happy, hopeful news from India, a country that has long struggled to deal with plastic waste,

10、partly because of its huge population and inadequate waste processing infrastructure across vast rural regions. This policy is an excellent example of getting at the root cause of a problem and fixing it, rather than just trying to clean up the mess afterward. To use the bathtub metaphor（比喻）thats co

11、mmonly cited when talking about plastic pollution, this is like turning off the plastic-producing tap, instead of wasting time trying to mop up the overflow, wishing it would go away.【长难句分析】This will reduce the amount of waste thrown away every day, thus helping further the government翻译：这将减少每天扔掉的垃圾数

12、量，从而帮助进一步实现政府让印度摆脱一次性塑料的目标，而且它将为200万陶工提供急需的就业机会。句子分析句子主干：This will reduce the amount.and it will provide.employment for.potters.其他成分：1）This will reduce the amount of waste thrown away every day和it will provide much-needed employment for two million potters.为and连接的两个分句，二者之间为并列关系；2）thrown away every d

13、ay为过去分词短语作后置定语；3）helping further the governments goal of making India free from single-use plastics为现在分词作结果状语。聚沙成塔：1）make.free from使摆脱/免于2）provide sth for sb提供某物给某人，为某人提供某物 （1）What is special about the policy announced by Indian government?It promotes awareness of traffic issues.It collects enough r

14、evenue to fight poverty.It promises to be eco-friendly and favorable.It rids India of the long-term unemployment. （2）What can we learn from Paragraph 2?Jaya Jaitly is a short-sighted politician and economist.Advances in Internet technology cost potters their jobs.Clay cups were first introduced in I

15、ndian railway stations.Potters were employed at stations to get financial support. （3）What effort does the government make for the potters?It raises their monthly income.It offers new cooking devices to them.It standardizes the size of clay cups for them.It provides funds for them to upgrade their d

16、evices. （4）Which of the following is similar to the bathtub metaphor?Put the cart before the horse.Treat the foot when the foot hurts.Stop the boiling by taking off the fire.Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.3.Foryears I hadnt known much about gardening. I grew up in the countryside but got h

17、ooked on music and drawing and put a great deal of effort into books. As a teenager, the fields beyond my home became a green barrier to the big city I so longed to be part of.I was always full of life,free from worries.Breaking up with Josh changed everything. I felt so lost and alone. Yet I didnt

18、turn to gardening for recovery straight away. That summer I went to a dozen festivals,danced my way through sleepless weekends and relied on kind friends. But none of them worked for long.Thenone day I walked to the balcony,seeing sunflowers blooming brightly in the wind. They made me realize that p

19、lants always carried on. “How small my heartbreak is in the grand scheme of things, I said to myself. I had no idea where Id end up living, but I could rely on those cycles of growth,decay（衰退）and renewal. There was something enormously comforting in that.Gradually,the need for green space became a h

20、abit that changed my life. When I was staying with friends, Id hunt out parks. Within a couple of months, Id signed up as a volunteer at a local community garden and would get there early on Sunday mornings, as if it were my own kind of church.Itsnot surprising that being outdoors and surrounding my

21、self with nature helped me through this difficult time. Studies by the Royal College of Physicians have found that gardening can lower blood pressure,relieve anxiety and depression, boost mood,and burn calories.Fifteen months later, I found a new home,nestled in a patch of south London woodland.I ha

22、ve 30 houseplants in total and my balcony blooms all year around,so it feels like both an oasis（绿洲）and somewhere to think.Lifeis still sometimes frustrating.Difficult things still happen. But these days I know how to treat myself: I make sure I go outside, breathe in, look at whats growing, and I al

23、ways feel better. （1）Which can best describe the author in her teenage years?Stubborn but innocent.Diligent and carefree.Productive and optimistic.Ambitious but selfish. （2）What actually drew the author to gardening?It reminded her of the childhood.It helped her ease negative feelings.It broke down

24、the barrier to the big city.It relieved the symptoms of sleeplessness. （3）The underlined part in Paragraph 4 probably refers topraying to God in the churchthe need for green space in lifehunting out as many parks as possiblethe voluntary work in the community garden （4）What does the text focus on?Cu

25、re of nature.Curse of fate.Obstacle to peace.Openness to change.4.Itgoes without saying that many Western wedding customs are completely different from those of Asian cultures. Some are so rooted in history that many Westerners have no idea whether they even exist.Traditionally,June has been the mos

26、t popular month for people to get married. One reason is that June 1 was the date of an ancient Roman festival celebrating the marriage of the god Jupiter and his wife Juno.Another reason will likely. astonish you. Centuries ago, taking a bath was not as common as it is today. Some people took a bat

27、h only once a year, typically in May. Since June was a time most wedding guests would not be too smelly, that month was preferred.Another wedding custom is for the bride to wear something old, something new,something borrowed,and something blue.Having something old is said to protect the newlyweds future baby, while the new item shows optimism for the future. Meanwhile, something borrowed is meant to bring good luck, and something b