苏州四市五区2023~2024学年第一学期期中调研高三英语试题答案评标听力原文2023.11.0728.Who is vertically attached according to the text?A.Mike,who feels at ease with his teachers.B.Maggie,who enjoys film time alone at weekends.C.Tom,who feels burnt out after a family get-together.D.Lisa,who often turns to her dad when things are hard.29.What is the popular belief among parents?A.Younger generations should be self-disciplined.B.Being sociable is a desired quality for their children.C.Their children need more friends than they themselves do.D.Different generations should have different circles of acquaintances30.What advice is given to vertically-attached people?A.Be that as it may,just leave it as it is.B.Never underestimate your inner power.C.Hang out more with friends and adjust to it.D.Treat others the way you want to be treated.31.What is the author's attitude towards vertically-attached people?A.Sympathetic.B.Objective.C.UnconcernedD.Critical.DA new study conducted by researchers from the University of Bath illustrates that floweringplants escaped relatively unharmed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 millionyears ago.While they suffered some species loss,the devastating event helped flowering plantsbecome the dominant type of plant they are today.Numerous mass extinctions have occurred throughout Earth's history,the most famouscaused by an asteroid()hit 66 million years ago.The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg)extinction event wiped out at least 75%of all species on Earth,including the dinosaurs,but untilnow it has been unclear what kind of impact it had on flowering plants.Plants do not have skeletons (or exoskeletons like most animals,meaning fossils arerelatively rare compared to animals,making it very difficult to understand the timeline ofevolution from fossil evidence alone.Dr.Jamie Thompson of the Milner Centre for Evolution and Dr.Santiago Ramirez-Barahonaof Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico analyzed evolutionary "trees"constructed fromchanges in the DNA sequences()of up to 73,000 living species of floweringplants-一angiosperms(被子植物).Using complex statistical methods,,they fitted"birth-death”models to estimate the rates of extinction throughout geological time.While the fossil record shows that many species did disappear,the ancestry to which theybelong,such as families and orders,survived enough to flourish and then dominate.Evidencesuggests that the vast majority of angiosperms families around today existed before the K-Pgevent,of which some once shared Earth with the dinosaurs.Dr.Thompson said,"After most ofEarth's species became extinct at K-Pg,angiosperms took the advantage,similar to the way inwhich mammals took over after the dinosaurs,and now pretty much all life on Earth depends onflowering plants ecologically."So what made them tough enough to survive despite being immobile and relying on the sunfor energy?Dr.Ramirez-Barahona said,"Flowering plants have a remarkable ability to adapt.They use a variety of seed-dispersal and pollination mechanisms.Some have copied their5/13
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