广东省揭阳市2022-2023学年普通高中高三上学期教学质量测试英语试卷
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一、阅读理解
Travel Writing
· Starting date: 24th April, 2023
· Duration: 8 weeks
· Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
· Occurs: Monday
·Fees: £355
 Location: Online
Course overview
In this writing for travel course you will learn how to evoke(唤起)a sense of place, structure your story, and how travel writers connect with the travel industry to get “hospitality”.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at those with some writing experience who want to develop their ideas for travel writing. It also suits photographers looking to add words to their pictures and bloggers looking to engage more readers. This course is not suitable for those who wish to improve their English.
Benefits
Learning from an industry expert and seasoned journalist, you will learn not only techniques to create compelling features, but also how to get them published in print or online.
The course is open to anyone who regularly writes or reports as part of their job.
Taught over 8 weekly evening classes and delivered from our central London location, our Travel Writing course offers expert guidance and tuition and the flexibility of part-time study.
Assessment and certificates
Informal assessment will take place through group discussion, classroom activities, and question-and-answer sessions as guided by your tutor.
1．How long is the total class hours?
A．24 hours. B．20 hours. C．8 hours. D．2.5 hours.
2．Who may be interested in the course?
A．A photographer hoping to improve his skills.
B．An experienced journalist travelling in London.
C．An exchange student learning English literature.
D．A travel blogger aiming to attract more readers.
3．Which of the following is an advantage of the course?
A．A flexible study schedule.
B．A face-to-face discussion.
C．Professional instruction.
D．Reasonable tuition fees.
 
Elephants are endangered animals because of efforts to hunt them for their ivory tusks(象牙).Selling ivory has been illegal for more than 30 years worldwide. So, 17-year-old Anika Puri was astonished to see a market filled with rows of ivory jewelry and statues on her visit to India 4 years ago.
Curious, Anika did some research and discovered a shocking statistic: Africa’s forest elephant populations declined by about 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. Years later, the numbers continue to drop. As a wildlife lover, Anika wanted to do something to help protect the animals still threatened by illegal hunting.
“Drones(无人机)are currently used to detect and capture images of hunters, but they are not that accurate,” Anika explained. However, after watching videos of elephants and humans, she saw how the two differed in their movements andspeed. She realized she could use it to “increase the detection accuracy of potential illegal hunters”.
Over the next two years, Anika worked on inventing a software, which can classify a figure as either an elephant or a human based on the speed, group size,how it turns and other patterns in videos.
The software is four times more accurate than existing detection methods and is much cheaper. It uses a $ 250 camera that plugs into a smart phone, which is then attached to a drone.The camera records thermal infrared(红外线的)videos using heat, not visible light. This allows the device to produce real-time inferences as it flies over parks as to whether objects below are humans or elephants, no matter in daylight or at night.
“Research isn’t a straight line or a smooth sailing,” Anika said. “It has made me more resourceful. It also helped me develop into a more innovative thinker. I have learned a lot along the way.”
4．Why was Anika surprised?
A．Elephant populations were small.
B．Elephants were losing their habitats.
C．Elephant tusks were illegally traded.
D．Elephants were an endangered species.
5．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A．The speed. B．The difference.
C．The work. D．The software.
6．What is paragraph 5 mainly about?