江苏省南通、扬州、泰州20xx届高三第三次调研考试5月英语

江苏省南通、扬州、泰州20xx届高三第三次调研考试5月英语内容摘要：

onsumer culture,which has recast it as Black Friday shopping rushes and oneclick Do It has e to mean Just Buy it. Alongside this is the growing fashionable belief of efficiency and time management that has driven us towards tightscheduled living,turning the spontancity(自然发生 )of Just Do It into a culture of Just Plan It. A third hijacked is digital entertainment that is replacing energetic life experiences with sereen than Just Do It,we increasingly Just Watch It instead. Finally carpe diem has been hijacked by the mindfulness mindfulness has many proven benefits,from reducing strese to helping with depression,one of its unintended has been to encourage the narrow edea that seizing the day is primanly about living in the here and Do It has bee Just Breathe. Challenged by these hijacked,the art of seizing the day is disappearing and we urgetly need to do something about it. or else risk losing touch with the carp diem wisdom of humanity that has accumulated over the past two thousand years. 58. What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 2? often create different situations for carpe diem. diem should be better interpreted than before. usually scratch the surface of carpe diem. diem should 1m187。 replaced with new terms. mentioning Shakfspeare in Paragraph 3, the author wants to emphasize . A. we should try to expand the length of our life B. we should treasure every moment of our life C. we should use effective medicine to cure diseases D. we should check our phones to avoid distraction of the following can best prove carpe diem has been hijacked? A. Just Do It has e to mean shopping rushes. B. Just Do It has e to mean a casual way of life. C. Just Do It has e to mean workout in the gym. D. Just Do It has e to mean a really relieved mind. 61. What is the author39。 s purpose in writing thin passage? A. To justify some different applications of carpe diem. B. To explain the four hijackers of carpe diem nowadays. C. To advocate returning to the original meaning of carpe diem. D. To pare people39。 s different interpretations of carpe diem today. C Larger brain size linked to longer life in deer The size of a female39。 brain may determine whether they live longer and have more healthy offspring (后代 ),according to new research led by the University of Cambrige. The study ,published in the Royai society Open Science journal,shows that female red deer with larger brains live longer and have more surviving offsping than those with smaller size id passed down through the is the first extensive study of individual differences in brain size wild mammals and draws on date paring seven generationd of deer. Across species of manals,brain size varise is thought to be a consequence of specific differences in the benefits and costsof a larger brain. manals with large brains may,for example have greater cognitive abilities that enable them to adapt better to environmental changes or they may have longer lifespans(寿命 )。 But theremay alsobe disadvantages for instance,larger brains require more energy,so individuals that possess them may show reduced fertility(繁殖力 ). The researchers,based at the University of Cambridge39。 s Zoology Department and Edinburgh University39。 s University39。 s Institute of Evolutionary Biology, wanted to lest if they could find more direct geic or nongeic evidence of the costs and benefits of large brain size by paring the longevity (长 寿 ) and survival of individuals of the same species with different sized brains. Using the skull of 1,314 wild red deer whose life histories and breeding success had been monitored in the course of a longterm study on the else of Rum, they found that females with larger endocranial volmnrs (胸 腔 容 量 )lived longer and produced more surviving offspring in the course of their lives. Lead author Dr Corina Logan, a Gates Cambridge School , says, “ The reasons for the association between brain size and longevity arc not known, but other studies have suggested that larger brains are a consequence of the longerlived species having longer developmental periods in which the brain can grow. These hypotheses (假 设 ） were generated from cross species correlations； however, testing such hypotheses requires invcsugftuons at the within species level, which is what we did. Dr Logan adds, We found that some of the cross species predictions about brain size held for female red deer. and that none of die predictions were supported in male red deer. This indicates that each sex likely expenrienes its own set of tradeoffs (权 衡 ， 协调 ） with regard to brain size.” The study also showed that females39。 relative endocranial volume is smaller than that of males, despite ovidence of selection for larger brains in females. Professor Tim ClutionBrock,who set up the Rum Red Deer studybwith Fiona Guinness in 1972 and initiated the work on brain size,points out ,“ The reason that this kind of study has not been conducted before is that it requires long term records of a large number of indi。