2022-2023学年陕西省西安市大联考高二（下）期末英语试卷一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共 30.0分）A阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child,but researchers said puzzleshelp children with math-related skills.Psychologist Susan Levine,an expert on mathematics development in young children at the University ofChicago,found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatialskills.Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition（认知）after controlling fordifferences in parents1 income,education and the amount of parent talk,Levine said.The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home andfound children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills whenassessed at 54 months of age.The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not,on tasks that assessedtheir ability to rotate（旋转）and translate shapes,Levine said in a statement.The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would,and about half of thechildren in the study played with puzzles at one time.Higher-income parents tended to have children playwith puzzles more frequently,and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatialskills.However,boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls,and the parents of boysprovided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than the parents of girls.The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.1.In which aspect do children benefit from puzzle play?A.Building confidence.B.Developing spatial skills.C.Learning self-control.D.Gaining high-tech knowledge.2.What did Levine take into consideration when designing her experiment?A.Parents1 age.B.Childrens imagination.C.Parents*education.D.Child-parent relationship.3.How do boys differ from girls in puzzle play?A.They play with puzzles more often.B.They tend to talk less during the game.C.They prefer to use more spatial language.D.They are likely to play with tougher puzzles.BNo one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo.But a new study suggests they useda little rocknroll.Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled themacross the sand,the scientists say.*Technically,I think what theyre proposing is possible,physicist Daniel Bonn said.People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks.And theres no obviousanswer.On average,each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck.TheEgyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away.The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths.Many scientistssuspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds（滑板）.Then they would have dragged themalong paths.To make the work easier,workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or withthe fat from cattle.Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects oversand.Evidence from the sand supports this idea.Researchers found small amounts of fat,as well as a largeamount of stone and the remains of paths.However,physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way,who led the new study.Westsaid,I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped withpyramid construction.!thought,*Why don*t they just try rolling the things?A square could be turned intoa rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides,he realized.That,he notes,should make ablock of stonea lot easier to roll than a square.So he tried it.He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block.That action turnedthe block into somewhat a wheel.Then they placed the block on the ground.They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulIed.The researchers found they could easily rollthe block along different kinds of paths.They calculated that rolling the block required about as much forceas moving it along a slippery（滑的）path.West hasnt tested his idea on larger blocks,but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding.At least,workers wouldnt have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.4.Ifs widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by.A.rolling them on roads B.pushing them over the sandC.sliding them on smooth paths D.dragging them on some poles5.The underlined partlubricated the pathsuin Paragraph 4 me a n s.A.made the paths wet B.made the paths hardC.made the paths wide D.made the paths slippery6.What does the underlined worduitin Paragraph 7 refer to?A.Rolling the blocks with poles attached.B.Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels.C.Rolling poles to move the blocks.D.Rolling the blocks with fat.7.Why is rolling better than sliding according to West?A.Because more force is needed for sliding.B.Because rolling work can