高中试卷答案网国泰中学23-24上学期第2次月考试卷
高二英语
注意事项：
1.本试卷由四部分组成。其中第一二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第二节和第四部分为非选择题。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上的指定位置。
3.回答选择题时，每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案用黑笔直接写在答题卡上对应的答题区域内，写在其他位置无效。
第I卷(选择题)
第一部分听力(共两节，满分20分)
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。
一、短对话
1. What color is the woman’s cat
A. Black. B. Red. C. White.
2. Where did the man leave his bag
A On the bus. B. At school. C. At his friend’s.
3. What caused the mark on the woman’s arm
A. An insect. B. A child. C. A dog.
4. Why is the man in such a rush
A. He missed his train.
B. He went to the wrong station.
C. He needed to buy a train ticket.
5. What are the speakers discussing
A. Kinds of restaurants. B. Types of food. C. Areas of town.
二、长对话
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. How does the woman feel
A. Lucky. B. Sorry. C. Worried.
7. What will the man do next
A. Report to the boss.
B. Leave the foot prints.
C. Clean the floor again.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. What do we know about the speakers
A. A couple. B. Strangers. C. Friends.
9. What will the man do for the woman
A. Offer her a free meal.
B. Make plans with her and her family.
C. Help her create a restaurant business.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
10. When did the woman start work
A. At 6:00 a.m. B. At 8:00 a.m. C. At 10:00 a.m.
11. Why is the woman tired
A. She didn’t sleep. B. She had a long day. C. She did boring work.
12. What is the woman
A. A patient. B. A doctor C. A nurse.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13. Where does the conversation take place
A. In a club. B. In a sports center C. In a concert hall.
14. What does the man dislike about large music concerts
A. The high price. B. The bad sound. C. The dark atmosphere.
15. How did the man get the tickets
A. From his sister. B. From a friend. C. From a website.
16. What instrument does the woman play
A. The violin. B. The guitar. C. The piano.
三、短文
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
17. What will the weather be like near the ocean this weekend
A. Windy. B. Snowy. C. Sunny
18. What is the speaker’s suggestion for those living in the mountains
A. Traveling to the coast. B. Staying inside. C. Playing in the snow.
19. What warning are local officials giving
A. Temperatures could be very low.
B. Roads may become dangerous.
C. People might lose electricity.
20. When will good weather begin
A. On Tuesday. B. On Friday. C. On Saturday.
第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。
A
Here’s our pick of the most beautiful European cities with hardly any tourists:
Aarhus, Denmark
Denmark’s second largest city is considered to be less attractive than its capital Copenhagen. But Aarhus makes a perfect choice for a Danish long weekend thanks to its pretty beaches towering Domkirke and the great ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.
ARoS’s Wine and Food Hall is one of the best places in the city to try delicious Nordic food.
Norwich, England
The saying goes that Norwich has a pub for every day of the year and a church for every Sunday. While that’s perhaps far from the truth, this most typical of English cities is certainly home to some of the most attractive medieval architecture in England.
Norwich Cathedral dates back to 1096 and the streets of Colegate and Elm Hill are home to picturesque, centuries-old homes.
Orange, France
While Avignon draws in thousands of tourists thanks to its summer festival and amazing Popes’ Palace, nearby Orange is usually unnoticed. Easier to travel around, with far fewer visitors, the city’s key attraction is the Roman Theater, which was built in the first century AD.
Antwerp, Belgium
The UNESCO-protected Cathedral of Our Lady occupies the Antwerp skyline, but there’s so much more to this Belgian city than its most famous building.
There’s also the Red Star Line Museum, located on Antwerp’ old docks, which shows the city’s past as a center for migration(移民)to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1. Which city will you visit if you want to enjoy a delicious meal
A. Orange, France. B. Norwich, England.
C. Aarhus, Denmark. D. Antwerp, Belgium.
2. What can visitors experience in Orange, France
A. See amazing Popes’ Palace. B. Visit Roman Theater.
C. Attend a summer festival. D. Be surrounded with visitors.
3. What do Norwich and Antwerp have in common
A. They both have a cathedral. B. They are famous for museums.
C. Old pubs can be seen everywhere. D. People there go to church every Sunday.
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了几个欧洲最美、颇具特色但游客稀少，适合度假的城市。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据Aarhus, Denmark中的“ARoS’s Wine and Food Hall is one of the best places in the city to try delicious Nordic food.（ARoS的葡萄酒和食品大厅是品尝美味的北欧食品的最佳场所之一。）”可知，想要享受一顿美食大餐，可以到丹麦的奥尔胡斯。故选C。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据Orange, France中的“Easier to travel around, with far fewer visitors, the city’s key attraction is the Roman Theater, which was built in the first century AD.（这座城市的主要景点是建于公元一世纪的罗马剧院，游客少得多，旅游起来也更方便。）”可知，在奥兰治可以看到罗马剧场。故选B。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据Norwich, England中的“Norwich Cathedral dates back to 1096 and the streets of Colegate and Elm Hill are home to picturesque, centuries-old homes.（诺维奇大教堂的历史可以追溯到1096年，高勒盖特和榆树山的街道上有许多风景如画、历史悠久的房屋。）”和根据Antwerp, Belgium中的“The UNESCO-protected Cathedral of Our Lady occupies the Antwerp skyline, but there’s so much more to this Belgian city than its most famous building.（联合国教科文组织保护的圣母大教堂占据了安特卫普的天际线，但这座比利时城市的意义远不止它最著名的建筑。）”可知，这两座城市的一个共同点是它们都有一个大教堂。故选A。
B
Sobhi from Egypt, who has worked as a bodybuilder for almost 60 years, often says that age is just a number. Whenever people ask him when he is going to retire, his only answer is “never”.
It is generally accepted that people grow less active and lose passion for life as they age. However Sobhi believes that age can never block ambitions if people still have strong wills.
Sobhi’s love for sports started when he joined his school gymnastics team. He once won the third place in Cairo’s Gymnastics Championship. In university, he started to pay more attention to bodybuilding, not only for a better shape, but also for a better health.
His body is so well-shaped that it even helped him appear in a famous film. Sobhi played a minor role of a muscleman in the film, which was filmed in Egypt and tells the story of an Ancient Roman soldier who was sent to Egypt by Julius Caesar to monitor one of his commanders.
As an 80-year-old man, Sobhi said training hard and having a good exercise schedule as well as a healthy diet are the real foundations of bodybuilding. He warned young people that taking bodybuilding supplements (补充剂) can lead to health risks. He recommended them to go for vitamins and other all-natural supplements that do not cause harm.
“Sobhi is 40 years older than me, but he does his exercises as if he is much younger than me,” Gabr, an athlete, said. He also said Sobhi is a great example for all athletes at the club, where Sobhi has been working out for the past 40 years. They are lucky to do sports with such a “hero” “We watch him working out in shock. We wish we could just be like him when we are at his age,” Gabr added.
4. What does the underlined word “passion” in Paragraph 2 probably mean
A. Production. B. Encouragement
C. Love. D. Dislike.
5. What did Sobhi once work as
A. An advisor. B. An actor.
C. A teacher. D. A fitness trainer.
6. What did Sobhi advise young people to do
A. Train as hard as they can. B. Exercise whenever they like.
C. Pay more attention to body shape. D. Take all-natural supplements.
7. What did Gabr show for Sobhi in the last paragraph
A. Admiration. B. Indifference.
C. Dissatisfaction. D. Disagreement.
【答案】4. C 5. B 6. D 7. A
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。介绍了埃及健身爱好者Sobhi的故事。
【4题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第二段最后一句“However Sobhi believes that age can never block ambitions if people still have strong wills. (然而，Sobhi认为，如果人们仍然有坚强的意志，年龄永远不能阻止野心。)”可知，Sobhi是一个有雄心，热爱生活的人；根据画线单词所在句上半句“It is generally accepted that people grow less active (人们普遍认为人们越来越不活跃)”可知，Sobhi是一个有雄心，热爱生活的人，与人们普遍认为的不一样，正好相反；故可以推断出，人们普遍认为，年龄越大会越不活跃，会失去对生活的热爱，即划线单词passion是“热爱”的意思。故选C项。
【5题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“Sobhi played a minor role of a muscleman in the film, which was filmed in Egypt and tells the story of an Ancient Roman soldier who was sent to Egypt by Julius Caesar to monitor one of his commanders. (Sobhi在这部电影中扮演了一个肌肉男的次要角色，这部电影是在埃及拍摄的，讲述了一个古罗马士兵的故事，他被尤利乌斯·凯撒派往埃及监视他的一名指挥官。)”可知，Sobhi曾经做过演员。故选B项。
【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据倒数第二段最后一句“He recommended them to go for vitamins and other all-natural supplements that do not cause harm. (他建议他们服用维生素和其他不会造成伤害的全天然补充剂。)”可知，Sobhi建议年轻人吃全天然补充剂。故选D项。
【7题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段第二句“He also said Sobhi is a great example for all athletes at the club, where Sobhi has been working out for the past 40 years. (他还说Sobhi是俱乐部里所有运动员的好榜样，Sobhi在过去的40年里一直在那里训练。)”可知， Gabr说Sobhi是俱乐部里所有运动员的好榜样，由此可以推断出，Gabr表现出了对Sobhi的钦佩，选项A. Admiration意为“钦佩”；选项B. Indifference意为“漠不关心”；选项C. Dissatisfaction意为“不满”；选项D. Disagreement意为“不同意”。故选A项。
C
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
8. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly
A. They did not have sufficient fund.
B. No ready-made components were available.
C. There was no model in their mind.
D. It was hard for them to assemble the components.
9. What do we know about the robotic fly
A. The robotic fly has been put into wide application.
B. The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.
C. The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.
D. The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.
10. Which of the following can be learned from the passage
A. The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.
B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C. The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
11. What is the main idea of the passage
A. The development of robotic fly.
B. Robotic fly promotes engineering science.
C. Harvard’s efforts in making robotic fly.
D. Robotic fly imitates real life insect.
【答案】8. B 9. D 10. A 11. D
【解析】
【导语】本文为说明文。文章介绍了哈佛大学团队创造了第一只机器人苍蝇。机械苍蝇已成为一系列新的高科技集成系统的平台，它可以做自然苍蝇做的事情，还可以在空中并执行飞行任务。但最终目标是为它配备内置电源，以便它有朝一日可以在救援地点、农田或战场上进行数据收集工作。
【8题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句““The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.(“像这样的项目的额外困难在于，实际上这些组件都不是现成的，因此我们必须自己开发它们，”他说)”可知，制作机器人苍蝇的困难在于需要自己开发小的组件。故选B。
【9题详解】
细节理解题。由文章第三段“They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to.” said Wood. (他们设计了一系列系统来启动和驱动机器人苍蝇。伍德说：“看似简单的系统，只是移动机翼，它的各个部件之间有许多相互依赖的关系，每个部件都必须各自表现良好，但必须与它所连接的所有部件都匹配良好。”)”可知，机器人苍蝇虽然由各个小组件组合而成，但它们互相配合良好。故选D。
【10题详解】
推理判断题。由最后一段“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. (“你知道，你可以开始考虑用它们来回答开放的科学问题，以对动物来说很难的方式研究生物学，而是使用这些机器人。”)”可知，可以用这些机器人去代替实验中的动物们。故选A。
【11题详解】
主旨大意题。由文章第一段“A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks. (哈佛大学的一个工程师团队受到大自然的启发，创造了第一个机器人苍蝇。机械飞已成为一系列新型高科技集成系统的平台。设计用于做苍蝇自然做的事情，这个微型机器只有一只胖家蝇那么大。它的迷你机翼使其能够停留在空中并执行受控的飞行任务)”可知，这篇文章主要介绍科学家们研究出来世界上第一只机器人苍蝇，可以做生物苍蝇做的事情，同时还可以执行任务，即机器人苍蝇可以模仿真正的昆虫。故选D。
D
In India, vendors (小贩) travel around with iron boxes full of hot coals which they use to iron clothes. Vinisha Umashankar noticed that six of these vendors were present in her town of Tiruvannamalai, when she was 12 years old. Concerned about the environmental effect of burning charcoal (木炭), the young lady went to work designing an innovative solution: a solar-powered ironing cart (小推车) attached to a bicycle. Now at age 15, her idea has turned into a real invention.
Umashankar became interested in science from a young age. At age eight, she learned of the climate crisis, which drove her to come up with a clean-energy solution to the ironing vendors in India. In 2019, the then-tween spent months researching college-level physics to learn about solar panels. She made a design for a bicycle car with solar panels to power a steam iron. Her design received recognition at the National Innovation Foundation, which assigned engineers to help her create the cart, known as the Iron-Max.
The cart stores sunshine in a battery for cloudy days. Five hours of sunshine provide enough energy for six hours of ironing. The bike also has a cellphone charging port so the vendor can earn extra income by charging for a charge. The Iron-Max is free from the matter and greenhouse gases released by the traditional coal carts.
The invention had entered several international competitions. Umashankar was one of 15 finalists at the first-ever Earthshot Prize. Although she did not win the prize, she was the youngest finalist in the “Clean Our Air” category. She also won last year’s Children’s Climate Prize.
With her invention, Umashankar made a powerful five-minute speech at COP26, the UN’s climate summit, which has been making headlines. Umashankar said in her speech, “You are deciding whether or not we will have a chance to live in a habitable world. You are deciding whether or not we are worth fighting for, worth supporting, and worth caring for.”
12. Why did Umashankar design a solar-powered ironing cart
A. To free vendors from carrying heavy boxes.
B. To promote the sales of clean-energy bicycles.
C. To attract more vendors to her town to iron clothes.
D. To reduce the environmental effect of burning charcoal.
13. What is paragraph 2 mainly about
A. What vendors in India need most. B. What makes the Iron-Max popular.
C. How Umashankar made her invention. D. How Umashankar finished her college
14. What can be inferred about the Iron-Max
A. It fails to work on cloudy days. B. It is not attached to a bicycle.
C. It has gained some recognition. D. It can still lead to air pollution
15. Which of the following can best describe Umashankar
A. A modest speaker. B. A hard-working vendor.
C. A talented engineer. D. A practical environmentalist.
【答案】12. D 13. C 14. C 15. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了Vinisha Umashankar设计了一辆连接在自行车上的太阳能熨烫车，介绍了这种设备的特点以及优势。
【12题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段“Concerned about the environmental effect of burning charcoal (木炭), the young lady went to work designing an innovative solution: a solar-powered ironing cart (小推车) attached to a bicycle.(考虑到燃烧木炭对环境的影响，这位年轻的女士着手设计了一个创新的解决方案：一辆连接在自行车上的太阳能熨烫车)”可知，Umashankar设计一辆太阳能熨烫车是为了减少燃烧木炭对环境的影响。故选D。
【13题详解】
主旨大意题。根据第二段“Umashankar became interested in science from a young age. At age eight, she learned of the climate crisis, which drove her to come up with a clean-energy solution to the ironing vendors in India. In 2019, the then-tween spent months researching college-level physics to learn about solar panels. She made a design for a bicycle car with solar panels to power a steam iron. Her design received recognition at the National Innovation Foundation, which assigned engineers to help her create the cart, known as the Iron-Max.(Umashankar从小就对科学感兴趣。8岁时，她了解到气候危机，这促使她为印度的熨烫机供应商想出了一个清洁能源解决方案。2019年，当时只有两岁的她花了几个月的时间研究大学水平的物理学，以了解太阳能电池板。她设计了一辆自行车，用太阳能电池板为蒸汽熨斗提供动力。她的设计得到了美国国家创新基金会的认可，该基金会指派了工程师帮助她设计这款名为“Iron-Max”的购物车)”可知，第二段的主要内容是Umashankar如何创造她的发明。故选C。
【14题详解】
推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“The invention had entered several international competitions.(这项发明曾参加过几次国际竞赛)”以及最后一段“With her invention, Umashankar made a powerful five-minute speech at COP26, the UN’s climate summit, which has been making headlines.(凭借她的发明，Umashankar在联合国气候峰会COP26上发表了一篇强有力的五分钟演讲，这篇演讲一直是头条新闻)”可推知，Iron-Max 已经获得了一些认可。故选C。
【15题详解】
推理判断题。根据第一段“Concerned about the environmental effect of burning charcoal (木炭), the young lady went to work designing an innovative solution: a solar-powered ironing cart (小推车) attached to a bicycle.(考虑到燃烧木炭对环境的影响，这位年轻的女士着手设计了一个创新的解决方案：一辆连接在自行车上的太阳能熨烫车)”以及第三段“The cart stores sunshine in a battery for cloudy days. Five hours of sunshine provide enough energy for six hours of ironing.(手推车用电池储存阳光以备阴天使用。5小时的日照提供的能量足够6小时的熨烫。这款自行车还有一个手机充电接口，这样小贩就可以通过充电获得额外收入)”可推知，Umashankar是一个实际的环保主义者。故选D。
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Be Strong-minded
Most successful people have one characteristic in common: they are strong-minded. Someone with a strong mind is mentally tough but they aren’t too stubborn to grow and adapt to new situations, either. You can achieve it with some work and patience, just like you would train your body in a gym. ____16____
Quiet your mind. Practice letting go of unnecessary worries and distractions, so you can focus on more important things. If you want to regain focus in the moment, you can try writing down what keeps popping up in your head. When you get these thoughts out of your head, you’ll be able to focus better._____17_____.
Discover what brings you joy. Ask yourself when you’ve felt happiest or most fulfilled and why. Then, identify the reasons why those experiences were so rewarding for you. Try to reproduce these experiences more often. Also, ask people who you’re close to about yourself._____18_____. This can be a powerful tool in self-discovery.
_____19_____Think about what drives you to achieve in your day-to-day life. If you often find yourself just trying to get through the day, ask yourself what you would do with your time if you didn’t have to worry about basic concerns like money.
Create actionable short-term goals. Now that you have a general understanding of where you want to go, break those long-term goals down. _____20_____. Try to set SMART. goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound.
A. Find out what motivates you
B. Take more opportunities to help others
C. Try the following tips if you want a stronger mind.
D. Being strong-minded can help you achieve the unachievable.
E. Devote some time later to attending to these thoughts or ideas
F. Ask them what characteristics describe you when you’re at your happiest
G. This keeps you from getting overwhelmed and helps you stay on track
【答案】16. C 17. E 18. F 19. A 20. G
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了大多数成功人士都有一个共同的特点：他们意志坚强。意志坚强的人在精神上很坚强，但他们也不会因为太固执而无法成长和适应新环境。你可以通过一些努力和耐心来实现它，就像你在健身房锻炼身体一样。文章介绍了变得意志力坚强的方法。
【16题详解】
根据上文“Most successful people have one characteristic in common: they are strong-minded. Someone with a strong mind is mentally tough but they aren’t too stubborn to grow and adapt to new situations, either. You can achieve it with some work and patience, just like you would train your body in a gym.(大多数成功人士都有一个共同的特点：他们意志坚强。意志坚强的人在精神上很坚强，但他们也不会因为太固执而无法成长和适应新环境。你可以通过一些努力和耐心来实现它，就像你在健身房锻炼身体一样)”可知，上文提到了意志坚强的特点，结合后文主要论述了建立坚强品质的建议。故C选项“如果你想要一个更强大的头脑，试试下面的建议”符合语境，故选C。
【17题详解】
根据上文“Quiet your mind. Practice letting go of unnecessary worries and distractions, so you can focus on more important things. If you want to regain focus in the moment, you can try writing down what keeps popping up in your head. When you get these thoughts out of your head, you’ll be able to focus better.(让你的大脑安静下来。练习放下不必要的担忧和干扰，这样你就可以把注意力集中在更重要的事情上。如果你想重新集中注意力，你可以试着写下你脑海中不断出现的东西。当你把这些想法从脑子里赶出去时，你就能更好地集中注意力)”可知，上文提到了写下你脑海中不断出现的东西，以及为了集中注意力把这些想法从脑子里赶出去，本句为本段最后一句，故说明应该如何处理这些想法，E选项中thoughts or ideas对应上文thoughts。故E选项“稍后花些时间来关注这些想法或创意”符合语境，故选E。
【18题详解】
根据上文“Also, ask people who you’re close to about yourself.(另外，问问你亲近的人关于你自己的事情)”以及后文“This can be a powerful tool in self-discovery.(这是自我发现的有力工具)”可知，本句主要是在说明让亲近的人问关于你的什么样的问题，从而让你进行自我发现，F选项中them指代上文people who you’re close to。故F选项“问他们你最快乐的时候有什么特点”符合语境，故选F。
【19题详解】
根据本段内容“Think about what drives you to achieve in your day-to-day life. If you often find yourself just trying to get through the day, ask yourself what you would do with your time if you didn’t have to worry about basic concerns like money.(想想你在日常生活中取得成就的动力。如果你经常发现自己只是在努力度过一天，问问自己，如果你不必担心像钱这样的基本问题，你会如何利用你的时间)”可知，后文提到了想想你在日常生活中取得成就的动力，即寻找自己的动力所在，A选项中motivates对应后文drives。故A选项“找出你的动力”符合语境，故选A。
【20题详解】
根据上文“Create actionable short-term goals. Now that you have a general understanding of where you want to go, break those long-term goals down.(制定可行的短期目标。既然你对自己的目标有了大致的了解，那么就把这些长期目标分解一下)”可知，上文提到了分解长期目标，故本句承接上文说明这么做的意义：让你避免不知所措，帮助你保持正轨。故G选项“这可以让你避免不知所措，帮助你保持正轨”符合语境，故选G。
第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。
I visited my best friend Sean, whose mom, Cheryl could only communicate by her gesture I couldn’t understand. I felt ____21____ and fetched a notepad (记事本) to explain to her the reason for my visit.
Then I went to see Sean several times. Each time I entered her house, my mind flooded with guilt and anxiety. I always needed someone to ____22____ to me, but her daughter-in-law, even her grandchildren, wouldn’t take the time to learn sign language.
That night I saw that look of ____23____ on her face. The next time I saw Cheryl, I didn’t get the notepad or let my friend Sean help me, but decided to ____24____, whatever it would take.
I could see ____25____ appearing on her face as I spelled out each word with gesture. I knew how she felt knowing that someone ____26____ enough to learn to communicate with her.
Within three weeks I had learned ____27____ American Sign Language (ASL). One night, everyone was signing, when suddenly I could follow the ____28____, Cheryl slapped her hand, looked at me in the eyes, and ____29____ directly to me. She knew my heart and how much I loved her culture.
About a month ago, Cheryl, Sean, my dad, and I took a trip to California State University, Northridge, where I would study. As we sat in the deaf student advisor’s office, no one ____30____ but I understood. He explained the ____31____ I would receive there would help me become a sign language interpreter and how he’d like me to start in an advanced ASL class.
I left the university and felt so ____32____. So many people don’t know about deaf people because of their ____33____ to communicate with them. Now I would be able to help.
That night Cheryl and I sat in our hotel room; she ____34____ and signed with smiling eyes. Unlike the days in her living room with a notepad, I ____35____ and signed back, “I love you, too!”
21. A. pleased B. interested C. relieved D. embarrassed
22. A. lead B. point C. explain D. expose
23. A. hope B. approval C. satisfaction D. loneliness
24. A. leave B. learn C. check D. escape
25. A. pleasure B. anger C. disappointment D. sadness
26. A. grew B. cared C. changed D. reserved
27. A. advanced B. entire C. skillful D. basic
28. A. conversation B. belief C. instruction D. task
29. A. signed B. admitted C. talked D. apologized
30. A. translated B. repeated C. interrupted D. occurred
31. A. permission B. regulation C. education D. suggestion
32. A. shocked B. excited C. upset D. worried
33. A. will B. promise C. turn D. inability
34. A. set out B. worked out C. reached out D. moved out
35. A. finished B. admitted C. understood D. refused
【答案】21. D 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. A 29. A 30. A 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. C
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者去看望好朋友Sean，发现自己不能理解Sean妈妈——Cheryl的手语，同时作者也看出了Cheryl内心的孤独。后来作者下决心去学习手语，希望能帮助更多聋哑人。
【21题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我感到很尴尬，然后取了记事本，来向她解释我拜访的原因。A. pleased高兴的；B. interested感兴趣的；C. relieved感到宽慰的；D. embarrassed尴尬的。根据前文的“Cheryl could only communicate by her gesture I couldn’t understand”可知，作者不懂朋友妈妈——Cheryl的手语，所以感到很尴尬。故选D。
【22题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我总是需要有人帮我解释，但是她的儿媳，甚至她的孙子们，都不会花时间去学手语。A. lead带领，通向；B. point指；C. explain解释；D. expose暴露。上文“Cheryl could only communicate by her gesture I couldn’t understand.”提到作者不懂手语，所以需要有人给她解释，故选C。
【23题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：那天晚上我从她脸上看到了孤独。A. hope希望；B. approval支持；C. satisfaction满足；D. loneliness孤独。根据上文的“her daughter-in-law, even her grandchildren, wouldn’t take the time to learn sign language. ”可知，她的家人不懂她的手语，她无法与他们交流，所以她感到孤独。故选D项。
【24题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：句意：下一次我看见Cheryl时，我没有使用记事本或者让Sean帮我，我决定自己学，无论付出什么代价。A. leave离开；B. learn学习；C. check核查；D. escape逃避。根据下文的“Within three weeks I had learned”可知，作者在学习手语，故选B。
【25题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：当我用手势拼出每个单词时，我可以看到她脸上流露出的喜悦。A. pleasure高兴；B. anger愤怒；C. disappointment失望；D. sadness悲伤。根据下文的“she felt knowing that someone ________ enough to learn to communicate with her”以及上文提到的她的家人不理解她的手语可知，有人能和她交流了，她感到开心，故选A项。
【26题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我知道，知道有人很在意她并且学着和她交流时她的感觉是怎么样的。A. grew成长，种植；B. cared关心，在意；C. changed改变；D. reserved保护。结合下文“enough to learn to communicate with her.”可知，作者学手语是因为在意Cheryl不被人了解的感受。故选B项。
【27题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：句意：在三周内我学习了美国手语基础知识。A. advanced高级的；B. entire整个的；C. skillful有技巧的；D. basic基本的。根据three weeks可知，在如此短的时间里作者学习的应该是“基础手语”。故选D项。
【28题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：一天晚上，大家都在比划手语，我突然跟得上对话了，Cheryl为我鼓掌，她看着我的眼睛，然后对我比划手语。A. conversation对话；B. belief信念；C. instruction指导；D. task任务。结合上文“everyone was signing”可知，聋哑人的手势，即“sign”就是他们的对话。故选A项。
【29题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：一天晚上，大家都在比划手语，我突然跟得上对话了，Cheryl为我鼓掌，她看着我的眼睛，然后对我比划手语。A. signed打手势，比划手语；B. admitted承认；C. talked谈论；D. apologized道歉。联系上下文Cheryl不会说话可知，她“对我比划手语” 符合逻辑。故选A项。
【30题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：当我们坐在失聪学生指导老师的办公室时，没有人翻译，但我能理解。A. translated翻译；B. repeated重复；C. interrupted诠释；D. occurred发生。结合but可知，上下文是转折关系，虽然没人把老师的手语翻译成普通语言，但是作者理解老师说的话。故选A项。
【31题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他说我即将在那儿接受的教育会帮助我成为一个手语翻译者，而且表达了他想要让我从高级ASL课程开始。A. permission许可；B. regulation规则；C. education教育；D. suggestion建议。根据前文的“California State University, Northridge where I would study. ”可知，作者是到Northbridge学习，即接受的教育。故选C项。
【32题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我离开了学校，觉得很高兴。A. shocked震惊的；B. excited兴奋的；C. upset沮丧的；D. worried担心的。根据下文的“Now I would be able to help.”可知，作者为自己可以帮助那些失聪的人而感到高兴。故选B项。
【33题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：很多人因为失聪的人无法与他们进行交流，而不理解失聪者。A. will意愿；B. promise承诺；C. turn转弯，轮流；D. inability无能。根据前文的“So many people don’t know about deaf people”可知，人们不理解失聪者是因为失聪者无法和他们交流。故选D项。
【34题详解】
考查动词短语词义辨析。句意：那晚，Cheryl和我坐在酒店的房间里，她伸出手来，面带微笑的比划手语。A. set out出发；B. worked out解决；C. reached out伸出手；D. moved out搬走。根据语境及常识可知，手语是用手来表达的，故此处用“伸出手”符合逻辑。故选C项。
【35题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：不像那些在她家用笔记本和她交流的日子，我理解并用手语回答道“我也爱你”。A. finished完成；B. admitted承认；C. understood理解；D. refused拒绝。根据前文的“Unlike the days in her living room with a notepad”可知，以前作者不理解Cheryl所以用笔记本和她交流，今天和以前不一样，故推出今天她理解了Cheryl的手语。故选C项。
第二节(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Giant Panda National Park, ____36____ lies in Central China stretching across Sichuan, Ningxia, and Shaanxi provinces, is in development ____37____ will include 67 existing panda reserves.
The giant panda is ____38____ symbol of China and one of the most adorable creatures across the globe. This national park ____39____（feature）a population of 1,864 giant pandas, accounting for 80% of the Chinese giant panda population. Apart from the small number of pandas located in zoos around the world, all other giant pandas can be found within China.
Connecting the 67 existing reserves and ____40____（establish）protected areas between them allows the pandas to travel between the different regions, strengthening the panda population. This is a focused effort ____41____（help）increase the panda population.
The combination of these over 60 panda reserves is a commitment by the Chinese government to protect the species. What makes people ____42____（amaze）is that the population is growing. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has upgraded the species ____43____ endangered to threatened. Although this improvement is ____44____（incredible）positive, there is much the world needs to do to help secure the ____45____（survive）of the species.
【答案】36. which
37. and 38. a
39. features
40. establishing
41. to help
42. amazed 43. from
44. incredibly
45. survival
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了大熊猫国家公园中大熊猫的相关信息以及为增加大熊猫数量而作出的努力。
【36题详解】
考查定语从句。句意：大熊猫国家公园位于中国中部，横跨四川、宁夏和陕西三省，目前正在开发中，它将包括67个现有的熊猫保护区。分析句子结构可知，所填词引导的是一个非限制性定语从句，从句缺少主语，先行词是Giant Panda National Park，指物，因此使用关系代词which引导定语从句，故填which。
【37题详解】
考查连词。句意：大熊猫国家公园位于中国中部，横跨四川、宁夏和陕西三省，目前正在开发中，它将包括67个现有的熊猫保护区。“Giant Panda National Park is in development”和“will include 67 existing panda reserves”之间为顺承关系，因此使用并列连词and，故填and。
【38题详解】
考查冠词。句意：大熊猫是中国的象征，也是全球最可爱的生物之一。此处意为“大熊猫是中国的一个象征”，表泛指，且symbol以辅音音素开头，使用不定冠词a，故填a。
【39题详解】
考查时态和主谓一致。句意：这个国家公园拥有1864只大熊猫，占中国大熊猫总数的80%。此处叙述的是一般性事实，使用一般现在时，主语是this national park，使用所给动词的第三人称单数形式，故填features。
【40题详解】
考查动名词。句意：连接这67个现有的保护区以及在它们之间建立保护区可以使熊猫在不同地区之间移动，增加熊猫的数量。该空连接的短语与connecting短语并列作主语，使用所给词的动名词形式，故填establishing。
【41题详解】
考查动词不定式。句意：这是一个专注于增加熊猫数量的努力。an effort to do sth.意为“为做某事所做的努力”，此处的动词不定式作后置定语，修饰名词effort，故填to help。
【42题详解】
考查形容词。句意：让人感到惊奇的是，熊猫的数量正在增长。此处使用形容词作宾语补足语，且指人们“感到惊叹”，即amaze的形容词amazed，故填amazed。
【43题详解】
考查介词。句意：国际自然保护联盟已将该物种从濒危升级为受威胁。from…to…为固定搭配，意为“从……到……”，故填from。
【44题详解】
考查副词。句意：尽管取得了极大的进展，但世界各国还有很多工作需要做，以帮助确保物种的生存。作状语修饰形容词positive，使用incredible的副词形式，故填incredibly。
【45题详解】
考查名词。句意：尽管取得了极大的进展，但世界各国还有很多工作需要做，以帮助确保物种的生存。根据空前的the及空后的of可知，此处用所给动词的名词作宾语，需要的词义为“生存”，即survival，故填survival。
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
46. 假定你是校学生会主席李华。你校拟举办“汉字缘” (My Story of Chinese Hanzi)活动，请你给留学生Chris写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加。内容包括：
1.发出邀请；
2.告知相关事项；
时间、地点：3月25日，学校音乐大厅内举行；
活动内容：请提前做准备，发表三分钟演讲等。
3.期待参加。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
【答案】Dear Chris,
Knowing you’re into Chinese culture, I’m writing to invite you to join in “My Story of Chinese Hanzi”, an activity intended for foreign students.
It is scheduled for May 25 in the school concert hall. As is required, participants will deliver a 3-minute speech on a given theme. With abundant preparations, you cannot fail to fancy this special experience. Plus, the top winners will be awarded some Chinese classics. For more detailed information, you might as well ask me at any time.
Looking forward to your active participation and your story.
Regards,
Li Hua
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于应用文。假定你是校学生会主席李华。你校拟举办“汉字缘” (My Story of Chinese Hanzi)活动，请你给留学生Chris写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加。
【详解】1.词汇积累
参加：join in→take part in
针对：be intended for→be designed for
主题：theme→topic
演讲：speech→lecture
2.句式拓展
简单句变复合句
原句：For more detailed information you might as well ask me at any time.
拓展句：If you would like to acquire more detailed information, you might as well ask me at any time.
【点睛】[高分句型1] Knowing you’re into Chinese culture, I’m writing to invite you to join in “My Story of Chinese Hanzi”, an activity intended for foreign students. (运用了省略that宾语从句)
[高分句型2] With abundant preparations, you cannot fail to fancy this special experience. (运用了不定式作宾语)
2.读后续写
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was early spring and Nana was in the backyard with her grandchildren. Amy, Michael, and Justin were playing when Nana said, “I’m going to start planting my garden. Who wants to help me ”
“What are going to plant, Nana ” asked Amy. “I like big, yellow sunflowers.”
“I’m going to plant vegetables. That way we can have them to eat when they are ready,” said Nana.
“How long does that take ” asked Michael. He liked vegetables sometimes, especially carrots.
“It will take a few months before anything is ready to eat,” answered Nana. The children were surprised.
“Months Why would you do all that work and then have to wait so long ” asked Amy. “You should just go to the store and buy them.”
“Patience, my sweeties! Don’t you know food always tastes best when you grow it yourself ” replied Nana. “And if all of you come to help, it won’t be too much work.”
“I’ll help you, Nana,” offered Justin. He put down the soccer ball and went to look at the gardening tools Nana had laid out. “What do we do first ” Michael and Amy came over to look, too.
Nana taught Justin how to use a trowel (小铲子) to dig small rows of holes for the seeds. Next Nana showed Amy how to pour the seeds into each hole. And it was Michael’s job to cover up the holes with soil. Finally, Amy wrote the vegetable names on sticks that Justin pushed into the ground. “This way we can remember which vegetable seeds we have planted,” said Nana.
When they had planted everything, the children took turns filling up the watering can so that Nana could make the soil nice and wet for the seeds to start to grow.
“Now we just water them a little every day, and with some time and sunshine, we’ll have some delicious things to eat in the summer,” said Nana.
注意:1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Whenever the grandchildren came to visit, they would dash into the garden.
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Finally, Nana said it was time for the first harvest.
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【答案】Possible version1 :
Whenever the grandchildren came to visit, they would dash into the garden. Not surprisingly, they were going to see how the garden was growing. After watering the vegetables, they would remove the weeds that popped up around the plants and apply organic fertilizer under Nana's instruction if necessary. As time went by, the plants were growing taller and stronger. When they noticed the vegetables flowering and producing fruits, their eyes were sparkling like diamonds. Never had they looked forward to summer like this before. But they clearly knew that it's worthwhile to wait for the inviting results.
Finally, Nana said it was time for the first harvest. Hearing that, the children all jumped into the air and cheers filled the whole garden. Nana gave them each baskets and, together they gathered some of the cucumbers, carrots and tomatoes, which were turned into delicacies. “Who wants to help eat this fresh salad ” Nana asked. “Me!” everyone responded loudly. Tasting the salad, they thought nothing could be more delicious, because it was they who grew these vegetables. They all learned that many hands make light work and patience really pays off.
Possible version 2 :
Whenever the grandchildren came to visit, they would dash into the garden. Eager to help grow the vegetables well, they first took turns to water the plants. Then Nana showed them which plants needed trimming or which needed tying up to grow tall and straight. Day after day, spring turned into summer and finally, the plants started revealing their colorful secrets. The children were thrilled to see the tomatoes turning red, the cucumbers hiding under the green leaves and the peppers growing bigger. Not until then did they realize that Nana was right-- all they needed was patience.
Finally, Nana said it was time for the first harvest. With baskets ready, Nana and the children started out on their business. Nana took them around the garden and picked some tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and cabbages. Then for the following hour, they were busying making vegetable salad. The children helped wash the dirt off the food while Nana chopped up the vegetables. When Nana asked who wanted to try the fresh salad, everyone expressed their willingness excitedly. “OK. Amy, get the plates. Justin, get the water and cups, and Michael, get the forks. Let's celebrate the harvest!”
【解析】
【分析】本文以奶奶和孙子们在后院一起种植蔬菜为线索展开，讲述了那年早春，娜娜和她的孙子们在后院，艾米、迈克尔和贾斯汀正在玩耍，奶奶提出要种植蔬菜，一开始孙子们建议奶奶去商店买，因为自己种植蔬菜要做那么多工作，然后还要等这么长时间，奶奶让孙子们耐心点，因为自己种的食物总是味道最好的，奶奶认为如果大家都来帮忙，工作也不会太多。孙子们听了都乐意来帮忙，奶奶给孙子们分了工，奶奶耐心教导，当他们把所有的东西都种好后，孩子们轮流往水罐里灌满水，这样奶奶就能把土壤弄湿，让种子开始生长。奶奶说只要每天给它们浇水，再加上一些时间和阳光，夏天就可以吃到美味的东西了。
【详解】段落续写（以version1为例）：
①由第一段首句内容“每当孙子们来拜访时，他们都会冲进花园。”可知，第一段可描写孩子们怎样照顾这些植物们，以及看着蔬菜开花并结出果实时的兴奋心情。
②由第二段首句内容“最后，娜娜说是第一次收获的时候了。”可知，第二段可描写孩子们听到消息的喜悦之情，他们一起收集蔬菜，并把这些变成了美味佳肴，们认为没有什么比这更美味了，付出总有回报。
续写线索：冲进花园——看如何生长——照顾花园——开花结果——高兴
词汇激活
行为类
①冲进：dash into /storm in
②除草：remove weeds/clean out weeds
③注意：notice/note/find
情绪类：
①骄傲地：loudly/with pride
②兴奋：jump into the air/ be up in the air
【点睛】[高分句型1]. After watering the vegetables, they would remove the weeds that popped up around the plants and apply organic fertilizer under Nanas instruction if necessary. (由关系词that引导的限制性定语从句)
[高分句型2]. Never had they looked forward to summer like this before.(否定词never提于句首的部分倒装句)
[高分句型3]. They all learned that many hands make light work and patience really pays off.(由连接词that引导的宾语从句作learned的宾语)
听力答案：1-20CABBA BCBAA BCCBA CABCA国泰中学23-24上学期第2次月考试卷
高二英语
注意事项：
1.本试卷由四部分组成。其中第一二部分和第三部分的第一节为选择题。第三部分的第二节和第四部分为非选择题。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上的指定位置。
3.回答选择题时，每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。回答非选择题时，将答案用黑笔直接写在答题卡上对应的答题区域内，写在其他位置无效。
第I卷(选择题)
第一部分听力(共两节，满分20分)
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置，听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。
一、短对话
1. What color is the woman’s cat
A. Black. B. Red. C. White.
2. Where did the man leave his bag
A. On the bus. B. At school. C. At his friend’s.
3. What caused the mark on the woman’s arm
A. An insect. B. A child. C. A dog.
4. Why is the man in such a rush
A. He missed his train.
B. He went to the wrong station.
C. He needed to buy a train ticket.
5. What are the speakers discussing
A. Kinds of restaurants. B. Types of food. C. Areas of town.
二、长对话
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. How does the woman feel
A. Lucky. B. Sorry. C. Worried.
7. What will the man do next
A. Report to the boss.
B. Leave the foot prints.
C. Clean the floor again.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. What do we know about the speakers
A. A couple. B. Strangers. C. Friends.
9. What will the man do for the woman
A. Offer her a free meal.
B. Make plans with her and her family.
C. Help her create a restaurant business.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
10. When did the woman start work
A. At 6:00 a.m. B. At 8:00 a.m. C. At 10:00 a.m.
11. Why is the woman tired
A. She didn’t sleep. B. She had a long day. C. She did boring work.
12. What is the woman
A. A patient. B. A doctor C. A nurse.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
13. Where does the conversation take place
A. In a club. B. In a sports center C. In a concert hall.
14. What does the man dislike about large music concerts
A. The high price. B. The bad sound. C. The dark atmosphere.
15. How did the man get the tickets
A. From his sister. B. From a friend. C. From a website.
16. What instrument does the woman play
A. The violin. B. The guitar. C. The piano.
三、短文
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
17. What will the weather be like near the ocean this weekend
A. Windy. B. Snowy. C. Sunny
18. What is the speaker’s suggestion for those living in the mountains
A. Traveling to the coast. B. Staying inside. C. Playing in the snow.
19. What warning are local officials giving
A. Temperatures could be very low.
B. Roads may become dangerous.
C. People might lose electricity.
20. When will good weather begin
A. On Tuesday. B. On Friday. C. On Saturday.
第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。
A
Here’s our pick of the most beautiful European cities with hardly any tourists:
Aarhus, Denmark
Denmark’s second largest city is considered to be less attractive than its capital Copenhagen. But Aarhus makes a perfect choice for a Danish long weekend thanks to its pretty beaches, towering Domkirke and the great ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.
ARoS’s Wine and Food Hall is one of the best places in the city to try delicious Nordic food.
Norwich, England
The saying goes that Norwich has a pub for every day of the year and a church for every Sunday. While that’s perhaps far from the truth this most typical of English cities is certainly home to some of the most attractive medieval architecture in England.
Norwich Cathedral dates back to 1096 and the streets of Colegate and Elm Hill are home to picturesque, centuries-old homes.
Orange, France
While Avignon draws in thousands of tourists thanks to its summer festival and amazing Popes’ Palace, nearby Orange is usually unnoticed. Easier to travel around, with far fewer visitors, the city’s key attraction is the Roman Theater, which was built in the first century AD.
Antwerp, Belgium
The UNESCO-protected Cathedral of Our Lady occupies the Antwerp skyline but there’s so much more to this Belgian city than its most famous building.
There’s also the Red Star Line Museum, located on Antwerp’ old docks, which shows the city’s past as a center for migration(移民)to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1. Which city will you visit if you want to enjoy a delicious meal
A. Orange, France. B. Norwich, England.
C. Aarhus, Denmark. D. Antwerp, Belgium.
2. What can visitors experience in Orange, France
A. See amazing Popes’ Palace. B. Visit Roman Theater.
C. Attend a summer festival. D. Be surrounded with visitors.
3. What do Norwich and Antwerp have in common
A. They both have a cathedral. B. They are famous for museums.
C. Old pubs can be seen everywhere. D. People there go to church every Sunday.
B
Sobhi from Egypt, who has worked as a bodybuilder for almost 60 years, often says that age is just a number. Whenever people ask him when he is going to retire, his only answer is “never”.
It is generally accepted that people grow less active and lose passion for life as they age. However Sobhi believes that age can never block ambitions if people still have strong wills.
Sobhi’s love for sports started when he joined his school gymnastics team. He once won the third place in Cairo’s Gymnastics Championship. In university, he started to pay more attention to bodybuilding, not only for a better shape, but also for a better health.
His body is so well-shaped that it even helped him appear in a famous film. Sobhi played a minor role of a muscleman in the film, which was filmed in Egypt and tells the story of an Ancient Roman soldier who was sent to Egypt by Julius Caesar to monitor one of his commanders.
As an 80-year-old man, Sobhi said training hard and having a good exercise schedule as well as a healthy diet are the real foundations of bodybuilding. He warned young people that taking bodybuilding supplements (补充剂) can lead to health risks. He recommended them to go for vitamins and other all-natural supplements that do not cause harm.
“Sobhi is 40 years older than me, but he does his exercises as if he is much younger than me,” Gabr, an athlete, said. He also said Sobhi is a great example for all athletes at the club, where Sobhi has been working out for the past 40 years. They are lucky to do sports with such a “hero” “We watch him working out in shock. We wish we could just be like him when we are at his age,” Gabr added.
4. What does the underlined word “passion” in Paragraph 2 probably mean
A. Production. B. Encouragement
C. Love. D. Dislike.
5. What did Sobhi once work as
A. An advisor. B. An actor.
C. A teacher. D. A fitness trainer.
6. What did Sobhi advise young people to do
A. Train as hard as they can. B. Exercise whenever they like.
C. Pay more attention to body shape. D. Take all-natural supplements.
7. What did Gabr show for Sobhi in the last paragraph
A. Admiration. B. Indifference.
C. Dissatisfaction. D. Disagreement.
C
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
8. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly
A. They did not have sufficient fund.
B. No ready-made components were available.
C. There was no model in their mind.
D. It was hard for them to assemble the components.
9. What do we know about the robotic fly
A. The robotic fly has been put into wide application.
B. The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.
C. The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.
D. The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.
10. Which of the following can be learned from the passage
A. The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.
B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C. The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
11. What is the main idea of the passage
A. The development of robotic fly.
B. Robotic fly promotes engineering science.
C. Harvard’s efforts in making robotic fly.
D. Robotic fly imitates real life insect.
D
In India, vendors (小贩) travel around with iron boxes full of hot coals which they use to iron clothes. Vinisha Umashankar noticed that six of these vendors were present in her town of Tiruvannamalai, when she was 12 years old. Concerned about the environmental effect of burning charcoal (木炭), the young lady went to work designing an innovative solution: a solar-powered ironing cart (小推车) attached to a bicycle. Now at age 15, her idea has turned into a real invention.
Umashankar became interested in science from a young age. At age eight, she learned of the climate crisis, which drove her to come up with a clean-energy solution to the ironing vendors in India. In 2019, the then-tween spent months researching college-level physics to learn about solar panels. She made a design for a bicycle car with solar panels to power a steam iron. Her design received recognition at the National Innovation Foundation, which assigned engineers to help her create the cart, known as the Iron-Max.
The cart stores sunshine in a battery for cloudy days. Five hours of sunshine provide enough energy for six hours of ironing. The bike also has a cellphone charging port so the vendor can earn extra income by charging for a charge. The Iron-Max is free from the matter and greenhouse gases released by the traditional coal carts.
The invention had entered several international competitions. Umashankar was one of 15 finalists at the first-ever Earthshot Prize. Although she did not win the prize, she was the youngest finalist in the “Clean Our Air” category. She also won last year’s Children’s Climate Prize.
With her invention, Umashankar made a powerful five-minute speech at COP26, the UN’s climate summit, which has been making headlines. Umashankar said in her speech, “You are deciding whether or not we will have a chance to live in a habitable world. You are deciding whether or not we are worth fighting for, worth supporting, and worth caring for.”
12. Why did Umashankar design a solar-powered ironing cart
A. To free vendors from carrying heavy boxes.
B. To promote the sales of clean-energy bicycles.
C. To attract more vendors to her town to iron clothes.
D. To reduce the environmental effect of burning charcoal.
13. What is paragraph 2 mainly about
A. What vendors in India need most. B. What makes the Iron-Max popular.
C. How Umashankar made her invention. D. How Umashankar finished her college
14. What can be inferred about the Iron-Max
A. It fails to work on cloudy days. B. It is not attached to a bicycle.
C. It has gained some recognition. D. It can still lead to air pollution
15. Which of the following can best describe Umashankar
A. A modest speaker. B. A hard-working vendor.
C. A talented engineer. D. A practical environmentalist.
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Be Strong-minded
Most successful people have one characteristic in common: they are strong-minded. Someone with a strong mind is mentally tough but they aren’t too stubborn to grow and adapt to new situations either. You can achieve it with some work and patience, just like you would train your body in a gym. ____16____
Quiet your mind. Practice letting go of unnecessary worries and distractions, so you can focus on more important things. If you want to regain focus in the moment, you can try writing down what keeps popping up in your head. When you get these thoughts out of your head, you’ll be able to focus better._____17_____.
Discover what brings you joy. Ask yourself when you’ve felt happiest or most fulfilled and why. Then, identify the reasons why those experiences were so rewarding for you. Try to reproduce these experiences more often. Also, ask people who you’re close to about yourself._____18_____. This can be a powerful tool in self-discovery.
_____19_____Think about what drives you to achieve in your day-to-day life. If you often find yourself just trying to get through the day, ask yourself what you would do with your time if you didn’t have to worry about basic concerns like money.
Create actionable short-term goals. Now that you have a general understanding of where you want to go, break those long-term goals down. _____20_____. Try to set SMART. goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound.
A. Find out what motivates you
B. Take more opportunities to help others
C. Try the following tips if you want a stronger mind.
D. Being strong-minded can help you achieve the unachievable.
E. Devote some time later to attending to these thoughts or ideas
F. Ask them what characteristics describe you when you’re at your happiest
G. This keeps you from getting overwhelmed and helps you stay on track
第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。
I visited my best friend Sean, whose mom, Cheryl could only communicate by her gesture I couldn’t understand. I felt ____21____ and fetched a notepad (记事本) to explain to her the reason for my visit.
Then I went to see Sean several times. Each time I entered her house, my mind flooded with guilt and anxiety. I always needed someone to ____22____ to me, but her daughter-in-law, even her grandchildren, wouldn’t take the time to learn sign language.
That night I saw that look of ____23____ on her face. The next time I saw Cheryl, I didn’t get the notepad or let my friend Sean help me, but decided to ____24____, whatever it would take.
I could see ____25____ appearing on her face as I spelled out each word with gesture. I knew how she felt knowing that someone ____26____ enough to learn to communicate with her.
Within three weeks I had learned ____27____ American Sign Language (ASL). One night, everyone was signing, when suddenly I could follow the ____28____, Cheryl slapped her hand, looked at me in the eyes, and ____29____ directly to me. She knew my heart and how much I loved her culture.
About a month ago, Cheryl, Sean, my dad, and I took a trip to California State University, Northridge, where I would study. As we sat in the deaf student advisor’s office, no one ____30____ but I understood. He explained the ____31____ I would receive there would help me become a sign language interpreter and how he’d like me to start in an advanced ASL class.
I left the university and felt so ____32____. So many people don’t know about deaf people because of their ____33____ to communicate with them. Now I would be able to help.
That night Cheryl and I sat in our hotel room; she ____34____ and signed with smiling eyes. Unlike the days in her living room with a notepad, I ____35____ and signed back, “I love you, too!”
21. A. pleased B. interested C. relieved D. embarrassed
22. A. lead B. point C. explain D. expose
23. A. hope B. approval C. satisfaction D. loneliness
24. A. leave B. learn C. check D. escape
25. A. pleasure B. anger C. disappointment D. sadness
26 A. grew B. cared C. changed D. reserved
27. A. advanced B. entire C. skillful D. basic
28. A. conversation B. belief C. instruction D. task
29. A. signed B. admitted C. talked D. apologized
30. A. translated B. repeated C. interrupted D. occurred
31. A. permission B. regulation C. education D. suggestion
32. A. shocked B. excited C. upset D. worried
33. A. will B. promise C. turn D. inability
34. A. set out B. worked out C. reached out D. moved out
35. A. finished B. admitted C. understood D. refused
第二节(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Giant Panda National Park, ____36____ lies in Central China stretching across Sichuan, Ningxia, and Shaanxi provinces, is in development ____37____ will include 67 existing panda reserves.
The giant panda is ____38____ symbol of China and one of the most adorable creatures across the globe. This national park ____39____（feature）a population of 1,864 giant pandas, accounting for 80% of the Chinese giant panda population. Apart from the small number of pandas located in zoos around the world, all other giant pandas can be found within China.
Connecting the 67 existing reserves and ____40____（establish）protected areas between them allows the pandas to travel between the different regions, strengthening the panda population. This is a focused effort ____41____（help）increase the panda population.
The combination of these over 60 panda reserves is a commitment by the Chinese government to protect the species. What makes people ____42____（amaze）is that the population is growing. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has upgraded the species ____43____ endangered to threatened. Although this improvement is ____44____（incredible）positive, there is much the world needs to do to help secure the ____45____（survive）of the species.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)
46. 假定你是校学生会主席李华。你校拟举办“汉字缘” (My Story of Chinese Hanzi)活动，请你给留学生Chris写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加。内容包括：
1.发出邀请；
2.告知相关事项；
时间、地点：3月25日，学校音乐大厅内举行；
活动内容：请提前做准备，发表三分钟演讲等。
3.期待参加。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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2.读后续写
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
It was early spring and Nana was in the backyard with her grandchildren. Amy, Michael, and Justin were playing when Nana said, “I’m going to start planting my garden. Who wants to help me ”
“What are going to plant, Nana ” asked Amy. “I like big, yellow sunflowers.”
“I’m going to plant vegetables. That way we can have them to eat when they are ready,” said Nana.
“How long does that take ” asked Michael. He liked vegetables sometimes, especially carrots.
“It will take a few months before anything is ready to eat” answered Nana. The children were surprised.
“Months Why would you do all that work and then have to wait so long ” asked Amy. “You should just go to the store and buy them.”
“Patience, my sweeties! Don’t you know food always tastes best when you grow it yourself ” replied Nana. “And if all of you come to help, it won’t be too much work.”
“I’ll help you, Nana,” offered Justin. He put down the soccer ball and went to look at the gardening tools Nana had laid out. “What do we do first ” Michael and Amy came over to look, too.
Nana taught Justin how to use a trowel (小铲子) to dig small rows of holes for the seeds. Next, Nana showed Amy how to pour the seeds into each hole. And it was Michael’s job to cover up the holes with soil. Finally, Amy wrote the vegetable names on sticks that Justin pushed into the ground. “This way we can remember which vegetable seeds we have planted,” said Nana.
When they had planted everything, the children took turns filling up the watering can so that Nana could make the soil nice and wet for the seeds to start to grow.
“Now we just water them a little every day, and with some time and sunshine, we’ll have some delicious things to eat in the summer,” said Nana.
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Whenever the grandchildren came to visit, they would dash into the garden.
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Finally, Nana said it was time for the first harvest.
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