2023 学年第二学期零陵中学高二年级期中考试
英语学科
考试时间 120 分钟，满分 140 分
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
People who eat breakfast high in refined carbs rated less attractive
If you want to look your best in the morning, it may be worth swapping the ultra-processed pastries and fruit juice for wholemeal toast and tea without sugar. Researchers in France found that people who ate a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates were rated less attractive than ____21____ who started the day with healthier unrefined carbs.
Scientists at the University of Montpellier believe the subtle shift in facial attractiveness may be driven by changes in blood sugar and insulin____22____ can affect skin appearance and have longer-term effects on sex hormones.
“It’s surprising to consider but our dietary choices can have rapid effects on our appearance,” said Dr Claire Berticat, an evolutionary biologist and the first author on the study. “These physiological changes could subtly alter facial features, impacting ____23____ others perceive attractiveness.”
The researchers recruited 52 men and 52 women ____24____ (age) 20 to 30 and randomly assigned them to have a 500-calorie breakfast rich in either refined or unrefined carbohydrates. The refined carbs breakfast____25____ (include) a French baguette made from industrially milled flour, jam, apple or orange juice, and tea or coffee with sugar available. The unrefined carbs meal was stoneground whole meal bread with butter and cheese, an orange or apple, and tea or coffee without sugar.
The scientists measured blood sugar levels of volunteers before and after they ate and then took headshots of the participants under controlled lighting conditions. The photos were then passed to groups of raters to estimate how old, how masculine or feminine and how attractive the individuals looked.
____26____ (write) in Plos One, the researchers claim that eating refined carbohydrates for breakfast decreased facial attractiveness for men and women, though the longer-term effects of eating such foods, gleaned from questionnaires completed by the volunteers, were more complicated.
“The effect varies by gender and meal type, underscoring the complex relationship between diet and attractiveness,” Berticat said. “Our findings serve as a ____27____ (compel) reminder of the far-reaching impact of dietary choices not only on health but also on traits having particular social importance____28____facial attractiveness.”
Refined carbohydrates can produce spikes in blood sugar, which the body counters by releasing insulin. The response can drive sugar levels too low, a condition called hypoglycaemia, and affect blood flow and skin appearance. In the study, only the refined carbs breakfast produced hypoglycaemia.
David Perrett, a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews, who has studied facial cues for health, said there should be no surprise ____29____ diet affects attractiveness. Fruit and vegetables improved attractiveness by increasing plant pigments called carotenoids in the skin, he said, ____30____ high-sugar diets could age the skin.
From: The Guardian
【答案】21. those
22. that##which
23. how 24. aged
25. included
26. Writing
pelling
28. such as
29. that 30. while
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了饮食对人的影响。
【21题详解】
考查代词。句意：法国研究人员发现，早餐中含有丰富的精制碳水化合物的人被认为没有那些以更健康的未精制碳水化合物开始一天的人有吸引力。此处使用代词those，指代“那些人”。故填those。
【22题详解】
考查关系代词。句意：蒙彼利埃大学的科学家们认为，面部吸引力的微妙变化可能是由血糖和胰岛素的变化引起的，这些变化会影响皮肤外观，并对性激素产生长期影响。分析句子结构可知，本空引导限制性定语从句，先行词是changes，指物，关系词代替先行词在从句中作主语，应用关系代词that或which引导。故填that或which。
【23题详解】
考查宾语从句。句意：这些生理变化可能会微妙地改变面部特征，影响其他人对吸引力的看法。分析句子结构可知，本空引导宾语从句，从句缺少“如何，怎样”，用how引导。故填how。
【24题详解】
考查形容词。句意：研究人员招募了52名年龄在20至30岁之间的男性和52名女性，并随机分配他们吃500卡路里的早餐，其中富含精制碳水化合物或未精制碳水化合物。分析句子结构可知，本空用形容词“……岁”aged，作定语，修饰52 men and 52 women。故填aged。
【25题详解】
考查动词时态。句意：精制碳水化合物早餐包括由工业面粉、果酱、苹果或橙汁、茶或加糖咖啡制成的法式长棍面包。include“包括”，根据语境可知事情发生在过去，故时态用一般过去时，谓语用过去式included。故填included。
【26题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：研究人员在《公共科学图书馆·综合》上发表文章称，早餐吃精制碳水化合物会降低男性和女性的面部吸引力，尽管从志愿者完成的问卷调查中收集到，吃这种食物的长期影响要复杂得多。本句谓语为claim，此处为非谓语动词，且the researchers与write“写”为主动关系，应用现在分词，作状语。故填Writing。
【27题详解】
考查形容词。句意：我们的研究结果有力地提醒我们，饮食选择不仅对健康有深远影响，而且对面部吸引力等具有特殊社会重要性的特征也有深远影响。本空应用形容词compelling“令人信服的，非常强烈的”，作定语，修饰 reminder。故填compelling。
【28题详解】
考查固定短语。句意：我们的研究结果有力地提醒我们，饮食选择不仅对健康有深远影响，而且对面部吸引力等具有特殊社会重要性的特征也有深远影响。空后为具体的举例，本空应用固定短语such as“例如”。故填such as。
【29题详解】
考查同位语从句。句意：圣安德鲁斯大学的心理学教授大卫·佩雷特研究了面部暗示与健康的关系，他说，饮食会影响吸引力，这不足为奇。分析句子结构可知，本空引导同位语从句，从句不缺少含义或成分，从句用that引导。故填that。
【30题详解】
考查连词。句意：他说，水果和蔬菜通过增加皮肤中称为类胡萝卜素的植物色素来提高吸引力，而高糖饮食可能会使皮肤衰老。分析句子结构可知，空前后为对比关系，应用while引导。故填while。
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.breakdown B.masterpieces C.committed D. reduced E.extreme F.allowances G.memorable H.security I. attribute J.tribute K.conducted
The little thief: How Charlie Chaplin survived his hungry childhood
A recently unearthed interview with an old friend recalls how the actor was looked after by a kindly ‘foster mother’ who made sure he did the right thing.
The ___31___ poverty endured by Charlie Chaplin while growing up in the slums (贫民窟) of Victorian London___32___him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him, according to an interview with one of his childhood friends that has remained unheard in the British Film Institute for almost 40 years.
Effie Wisdom, whose aunt gave him a home from home when he needed it most, lamented that Chaplin “had a terrible life” as a child, “always hungry”, dressed in “ragged”, filthy clothes - no doubt later inspiring the comic genius who created the Tramp, society’s eternal victim and one of cinema’s most ___33___ characters.
In 1983, aged 92, Wisdom gave an interview in which she recalled first meeting Chaplin when he was five and she was seven, with her aunt becoming his “foster mother”, as he used to tell her.
She recalled: “My aunt used to feed him because there was no social___34___ in those days, no free milk, no children’s ___35___, nothing. You never starved and yet you were on the breadline.”
“He used to go up Lambeth Walk and pinch . He’d come home with four eggs one day in his pocket. He came home with a pair of boots one day he’d nicked.”
Her aunt scolded him: “Do you want me to get the police If you go on doing this, you’ll be locked up. You realize that, don’t you ”
The interview was ___36___by Kevin Brownlow, one of Britain’s leading experts in silent films after researching Unknown Chaplin, the acclaimed three-part 1983 documentary series that he made with David Gill. It has been stored in the British Film Institute’s archive (档案) ever since.
Chaplin’s parents were music-hall performers and his mother was abandoned by her husband. His mother was then___37___to an asylum (精神病院).
After Chaplin’s death in 1977, Wisdom had written to his widow (遗孀), with memories of his mother’s desperate concern for her sons, Charlie and Sydney “I told Lady Chaplin I knew Charlie when he was a little boy. I used to play with him out in the street. When his mother had a nervous___38___, she said to my aunt, ‘If I had to go away, you wouldn’t let my lovely sons go into an orphanage ’ My aunt said, ‘No, I’ll look after them, don’t you worry’. My aunt looked after them, fed them and clothed them.”
Chaplin never forgot that. Wisdom paid ___39___to his generosity towards her after finding success in America: “He used to send my aunt so much money because she used to look after him.”He also wrote to her.
Chaplin, with his derby hat (圆顶窄边礼帽)，toothbrush moustache and impossibly large boots, was the protagonist in such___40___as City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight.
Wisdom, who left school at 13 and worked in a London pub into her 80s, recalled his natural comedic talent, “He was always falling about being funny. He’d get an old table out in the yard, and he’d get all the kids in there, and get up there, put an old pair of trousers on, an old coat and a stick when he was 12. The kids loved that, he used to fall off the table, then he’d get up.” But she joked: “I never thought he’d get to where he got.”
She remembered him writing to her aunt from America, telling her that he would visit on his return to England: “He said, I’m not like when I left England with nothing. I’m going on to be a rich man.”
She added that Chaplin stayed at the Ritz (一家豪华酒店) and turned up at his aunt’s home in-a chauffeur (私人司机)-driven Rolls-Royce: “He invited my aunt and my uncle and me to the Ritz. My aunt says to me, ‘Of course I’d never been in a place like that’.”
From the Gardian
【答案】31. E 32. D
33. G 34. H
35. F 36. K
37. C 38. A
39. J 40. B
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文，主要讲的是卓别林是如何被Effie Wisdom照顾以及卓别林是如何报答Effie Wisdom的。
【31题详解】
考查形容词。句意：Charlie Chaplin在维多利亚时代伦敦的贫民窟中长大，经历了极度的贫困，这使他沦落到偷窃和被照顾他的女人责骂的地步。这段采访在英国电影学院(British Film Institute)近40年来一直闻所未闻。由下文“growing up in the slums”可知，他家住在贫民窟的，因此此处表示“经历了极度的贫困”，空格处意为“极度的”，用形容词作定语，修饰名词poverty，是extreme，故选E。
【32题详解】
考查动词时态。句意：Charlie Chaplin在维多利亚时代伦敦的贫民窟中长大，经历了极度的贫困，这使他沦落到偷窃和被照顾他的女人责骂的地步。这段采访在英国电影学院(British Film Institute)近40年来一直闻所未闻。由“him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him”可知，此处表示“Charlie Chaplin”，空格处意为“经历了极度的贫困，这使他沦落到偷窃和被照顾他的女人责骂的地步”，是reduce sb. to do sth.是固定短语，意为“迫使某人做某事”，句子描述过去的事情，时态用一般过去时，空格处用过去式，故选D。
【33题详解】
考查形容词。句意：Effie Wisdom的姑姑在他最需要的时候给了他一个家，她悲叹卓别林小时候“过着可怕的生活”，“总是饥肠辘辘”，穿着“褴褛”、肮脏的衣服——毫无疑问，这启发了后来创造流浪汉的喜剧天才，流浪汉是社会的永恒受害者，也是电影中最令人难忘的角色之一。由上文“the Tramp, society’s eternal victim and one of cinema’s most”和客观事实可知，流浪汉是电影中最令人难忘的角色之一，空格处意为“令人难忘的”，用形容词作定语，修饰名词characters，是memorable，故选G。
【34题详解】
考查名词。句意：以前是我阿姨养活他的，因为那时候没有社会保障，没有免费牛奶，没有儿童津贴，什么都没有。由下文“no free milk”可知，此处表示“那时候没有社会保障”，空格处意为“保障”，是security，是不可数名词，故选H。
【35题详解】
考查名词。句意：以前是我阿姨养活他的，因为那时候没有社会保障，没有免费牛奶，没有儿童津贴，什么都没有。由上文“there was no social__4___ in those days, no free milk, no children’s”可知，此处表示“那时候没有社会保障，没有免费牛奶，没有儿童津贴”，空格处意为“津贴”，是allowances，故选F。
【36题详解】
考查被动语态。句意：这次采访是由英国默片专家Kevin Brownlow在研究了1983年与David Gill共同制作的广受好评的三集纪录片《无名卓别林》(Unknown Chaplin)后进行的。由上文“The interview”和下文“Kevin Brownlow”可知，此处表示“这次采访是由Kevin Brownlow进行的”，空格处意为“进行”，是conduct，采访是被进行，句子用被动语态，空前有was，空格处用过去分词，故选K。
【37题详解】
考查被动语态。句意：他的母亲随后被送进了精神病院。由“to an asylum”可知，此处表示“他的母亲随后被送进了精神病院”，空格处意为“把……关进医院”，是commit，他的母亲是被送进精神病院，因此句子用被动语态，空前有was，空格处用过去分词committed，故选C。
【38题详解】
考查名词。句意：当他的母亲精神崩溃时，她对我姑姑说。由上文“When his mother had a nervous”和下文“If I had to go away”可知，此处表示“当他的母亲精神崩溃时，她对我姑姑说”，空格处意为“崩溃”，是breakdown，空前有a，空格处用单数，故选A。
【39题详解】
考查名词。句意：在美国取得成功后，Wisdom赞扬了他对她的慷慨。由下文“his generosity towards her”可知，此处表示“在美国取得成功后，Wisdom赞扬了他对她的慷慨”，pay tribute to是固定短语，意为“称赞，赞扬”，因此空格处是tribute。故选J。
【40题详解】
考查名词。句意：戴着圆顶礼帽、留着牙刷胡子、穿着大得令人难以置信的靴子的卓别林，是《城市之光》、《大独裁者》和《舞台春秋》等杰作中的主角。由下文“as City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight”可知，空格处意为“杰作”，是masterpiece，不止一个，因此空格处用复数。故选B。
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, too much of a good thing may end up ___41___ attention and learning in young children, according to research published in Psychological Science.
Psychology researchers Anna V. Fisher, Karrie E. Godwin and Howard Seltman of Carnegie Mellon University looked at whether classroom displays affected children’s ability to maintain ___42___ during instruction and to learn the lesson content. They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted, spent more time off-task and demonstrated smaller learning ___43___than when the decorations were removed.
“Young children spend a lot of time — usually the whole day — in the same classroom, and we have shown that a classroom’s ___44___ environment can affect how much children learn,” said Fisher, lead author and associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Should teachers ___45___ their visual displays based on the findings of this study
“We do not suggest by any means that this is the answer to all ___46___ problems. Furthermore,___47___ research is needed to know what effect the classroom visual environment has on children’s attention and learning in real classrooms,” Fisher said. “___48___, I would suggest that instead of removing all decorations, teachers should consider whether some of their visual displays do make it difficult for young children to ___49___.”
For the study, 24 kindergarten students were placed in ____50____classrooms for six introductory science lessons on topics they were unfamiliar with. Three lessons were taught in a heavily decorated classroom, and three lessons were given in a sparse (稀疏的) classroom. The results showed that while children learned in both _____51_____ types, they learned more when the room was not heavily decorated. Specifically, children’s _____52_____ on the test questions was higher in the sparse classroom (55% correct) than in the decorated classroom (42% correct).
“We were also interested in finding out if the visual displays were removed, whether the children’s attention would _____53_____ to another distraction, such as talking to their peers, or the total amount of time they were distracted would remain the same,” said Godwin, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and fellow of the Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research.
However, when the researchers totaled all of the time children spent off-task in both types of classrooms, the rate of off-task _____54_____ was higher in the decorated classroom (38.6% time spent off-task) than in the sparse classroom (28.4% time spent off-task).
The researchers hope these findings will lead to further studies into developing guidelines to help teachers design classrooms _____55_____.
41.
A. attracting B. distracting C. holding D. paying
42.
A. confidence B. relationship C. consistency D. focus
43
A. gains B. opportunities C. needs D. disabilities
44.
A. social B. natural C. physical D. visual
45.
A. turn over B. take down C. try out D. look into
46.
A. athletic B. environmental C. educational D. communicative
47.
A. additional B. prior C. national D. independent
48.
A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Meanwhile
49.
A. stretch B. adapt C. concentrate D. explore
50.
A. decorated B. empty C. transitional D. laboratory
51.
A. teaching B. classroom C. school D. personality
52.
A. accuracy B. emphasis C. impact D. perspective
53.
A. refer B. listen C. respond D. shift
54.
A. questions B. behaviors C. incidents D. tasks
55.
A. originally B. innovatively C. appropriately D. exclusively
【答案】41. B 42. D 43. A 44. D 45. B 46. C 47. A 48. C 49. C 50. D 51. B 52. A 53. D 54. B 55. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。主要介绍了卡内基梅隆大学的心理学研究人员安娜·V·费舍尔、凯瑞·E·戈德温和霍华德·塞尔特曼研究了课堂展示是否会影响儿童在教学过程中保持注意力和学习课程内容的能力。他们发现，与没有装饰的教室相比，在装饰得很好的教室里，孩子们更容易分心，花更多的时间不在任务上，学习成绩也更差。研究人员希望这些发现将导致进一步的研究，以制定指导方针，帮助教师设计教室。
【41题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：然而，根据发表在《心理科学》上的一项研究，过犹不及可能会分散孩子的注意力和学习能力。A. attracting吸引；B. distracting使分心；C. holding举办；D. paying支付。根据下文“They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted”提到在高度装饰的教室里，孩子们更容易分心，由此可知，此处应表示过犹不及可能会分散孩子的注意力和学习能力。故选B项。
【42题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：卡内基梅隆大学的心理学研究人员安娜·V·费舍尔、凯瑞·E·戈德温和霍华德·塞尔特曼研究了课堂展示是否会影响儿童在教学过程中保持注意力和学习课程内容的能力。A. confidence自信；B. relationship关系；C. consistency一致；D. focus专注。根据上文提到的过犹不及可能会分散孩子的注意力和学习能力，结合下文“and to learn the lesson content”可知，此处应表示心理学研究人员究了课堂展示是否会影响儿童在教学过程中保持注意力和学习课程内容的能力。故选D项。
【43题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：他们发现，与没有装饰的教室相比，在装饰得很好的教室里，孩子们更容易分心，更多时间没有花在学习上，学习成绩也更差。A. gains获得的东西；B. opportunities机会；C. needs需要；D. disabilities残疾。根据上文“They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted”提到在装饰得很好的教室里，孩子们更容易分心，由此可知，此处应表示孩子们花更多的时间不在任务上，学习所得很少。故选A项。
【44题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：研究报告的主要作者、迪特里希人文与社会科学学院心理学副教授费舍尔说：“年幼的孩子们在同一个教室里呆了很长时间，通常是一整天。我们已经证明，教室的视觉环境会影响孩子们学习的程度。”A. social社会的；B. natural自然的；C. physical身体上的；D. visual视觉的。根据上文“They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted, spent more time off-task and demonstrated smaller learning ___3___than when the decorations were removed.”可知，他们发现，与没有装饰的教室相比，在装饰得很好的教室里，孩子们更容易分心，花更多的时间不在任务上，学习成绩也更差，这说明教室的视觉环境会影响孩子们的学习量。故选D项。
【45题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。句意：教师是否应该根据这项研究的结果取消他们的视觉展示？A. turn over翻转；B. take down取消；C. try out尝试；D. look into调查。根据上文“a classroom’s ___4___ environment can affect how much children learn”可知，教室的视觉环境会影响孩子们的学习量，因此此处提问教师是否应该取消他们的视觉展示。故选B项。
【46题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我们并不认为这是解决所有教育问题的办法。A. athletic运动的；B. environmental环境的；C. educational教育的；D. communicative交流的。根据下文“Furthermore,___7___ research is needed to know what effect the classroom visual environment has on children’s attention and learning in real classrooms”由此可知，此处说明这是在解决教育方面的问题。故选C项。
【47题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：此外，还需要进一步的研究来了解课堂视觉环境对孩子们在真实课堂上的注意力和学习有什么影响。A. additional额外的；B. prior优先的；C. national全国的；D. independent独立的。根据上文“We do not suggest by any means that this is the answer to all educational problems.”提到作者并不认为这是解决所有教育问题的办法。由此可知，此处说明还需要额外的研究来了解课堂视觉环境对孩子们在真实课堂上的注意力和学习有什么影响。故选A项。
【48题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：因此，我建议老师们不要拆除所有的装饰，而是应该考虑一下他们的一些视觉展示是否会让孩子们难以集中注意力。A. However然而；B. Besides此外；C. Therefore因此；D. Meanwhile同时。根据上文提到的需要进一步研究课堂视觉环境对孩子们影响，结合下文“I would suggest that instead of removing all decorations…”由此可知，前后句是因果关系。故选C项。
【49题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：因此，我建议老师们不要拆除所有的装饰，而是应该考虑一下他们的一些视觉展示是否会让孩子们难以集中注意力。A. stretch伸展；B. adapt适应；C. concentrate专注于；D. explore探索。根据上文“a classroom’s ___4___ environment can affect how much children learn”提到教室的视觉环境会影响孩子们的学习。由此可知，此处说明我建议老师们应该考虑一下他们的一些视觉展示是否会让孩子们难以集中注意力。故选C项。
【50题详解】
考查形容词和名词词义辨析。句意：在这项研究中，24名幼儿园学生被安排在实验室教室里，学习他们不熟悉的主题的六堂入门科学课。A. decorated被装饰的；B. empty空的；C. transitional过渡的；D. laboratory实验室。根据空前的“For the study”可知，在这项研究中，说明应该是在实验室做实验。故选D项。
【51题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：结果表明，虽然孩子们在两种类型的教室里都学到了东西，但当房间没有过度装饰时，他们学到的东西更多。A. teaching教学工作；B. classroom教室；C. school学校；D. personality性格。根据上文“Three lessons were taught in a heavily decorated classroom, and three lessons were given in a sparse (稀疏的) classroom.”由此可知，此处应表示孩子们在两种类型的教室里都学到了东西。故选B项。
【52题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：具体来说，孩子们在稀疏装饰的教室答题的正确率(55%)比在装饰教室答题的正确率(42%)要高。A. accuracy准确率；B. emphasis强调；C. impact影响；D. perspective视角。根据下文“…was higher in the sparse classroom (55% correct) than in the decorated classroom (42% correct).”由此可知，此处应表示孩子们在稀疏装饰教室答题的正确率(55%)比在装饰教室答题的正确率(42%)要高。故选A项。
【53题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我们还想知道，如果视觉显示被移除，孩子们的注意力是否会转移到另一种分心的东西上，比如和同龄人说话，或者他们分心的总时间是否会保持不变。A. refer提及；B. listen听；C. respond回复；D. shift转移。根据下文“such as talking to their peers, or the total amount of time they were distracted would remain the same”提到和同龄人说话，或者他们分心的总时间是否会保持不变。由此可推知，此处应表示如果视觉展示被移除，孩子们的注意力是否会转移到另一种分心的东西上。故选D项。
【54题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：然而，当研究人员将两种教室中孩子们的任务外活动时间加在一起时，发现在装饰好的教室中孩子们的任务外活动时间比例(38.6%)高于在稀疏的教室(28.4%)。A. questions问题；B. behaviors行为；C. incidents事件；D. tasks任务。根据句意以及下文“…was higher in the decorated classroom (38.6% time spent off-task) than in the sparse classroom (28.4% time spent off-task).”由此可知，此处应表示装饰好的教室中孩子们的任务外活动时间比例(38.6%)高于在稀疏的教室(28.4%)。故选B项。
【55题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：研究人员希望这些发现将导致进一步的研究，以制定指导方针，帮助教师适当地设计教室。A. originally最初地；B. innovatively创新地；C. appropriately合适地；D. exclusively仅仅，单独地。根据常识和空前“The researchers hope these findings will lead to further studies into developing guidelines to help teachers design classrooms”可知，研究人员希望这些发现将导致进一步的研究，以制定指导方针，帮助教师适当地设计教室。故选C项。
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
A
I was about 13 when an uncle gave me a copy of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World. It was full of ideas that were new to me, so I spent the summer with my head in and out of that book. It spoke to me and brought me into a world of philosophy (哲学).
That love for philosophy lasted until I got to college. Nothing kills the love for philosophy faster than people who think they understand Foucault, Baudrillard, or Confucius better than you — and then try to explain them.
Eric Weiner’s The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers reawakened my love for philosophy. It is not an explanation, but an invitation to think and experience philosophy.
Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context (背景) of one thing they can help us do better. The end result is a read in which we learn to wonder like Socrates, see like Thoreau, listen like Schopenhauer, and have no regrets like Nietzsche. This, more than a book about understanding philosophy, is a book about learning to use philosophy to improve a life.
He makes philosophical thought an appealing exercise that improves the quality of our experiences, and he does so with plenty of humor. Weiner enters into conversation with some of the most important philosophers in history, and he becomes part of that crowd in the process by decoding (解读) their messages and adding his own interpretation.
The Socrates Express is a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and gradually pulls them in deeper thoughts on desire, loneliness, and aging. The invitation is clear: Weiner wants you to pick up a coffee or tea and sit down with this book. I encourage you to take his offer. It’s worth your time, even if time is something we don’t have a lot of.
56. Who opened the door to philosophy for the author
A. Foucault. B. Eric Weiner.
C. Jostein Gaarder. D. A college teacher.
57. Why does the author list great philosophers in paragraph 4
A. To compare Weiner with them.
B. To give examples of great works.
C. To praise their writing skills.
D. To help readers understand Weiner’s book.
58. What does the author like about The Socrates Express
A. Its views on history are well-presented.
B. Its ideas can be applied to daily life.
C. It includes comments from readers.
D. It leaves an open ending.
59. What does the author think of Weiner’s book
A. Objective and plain.
B. Daring and ambitious.
C. Serious and hard to follow.
D. Humorous and straightforward.
【答案】56. C 57. D 58. B 59. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。作者在13岁时开始喜欢哲学，随后Weiner的书The Socrates Express唤起了作者对哲学的热爱。文章通过介绍了The Socrates Express这本书，倡导读者花时间去读这本书。
【56题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段“I was about 13 when an uncle gave me a copy of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World. It was full of ideas that were new to me, so I spent the summer with my head in and out of that book. It spoke to me and brought me into a world of philosophy(哲学).(我13岁的时候，一个叔叔给了我一本Jostein Gaarder的《 Sophie的世界》。书里面的观点对我来说都很新奇，所以我整个夏天都在钻研那本书。它对我说话，把我带入一个哲学的世界。)”可知，Jostein Gaarder为作者打开了通往哲学的大门。故选C。
【57题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中“Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context (背景) of one thing they can help us do better. The end result is a read in which we learn to wonder like Socrates, see like Thoreau, listen like Schopenhauer, and have no regrets like Nietzsche. (Weiner在每一章的开头都描述了一个城市之间火车旅行的场景，然后将每一位哲学家的著作框定在一个他们能够帮助我们做得更好的事情上。最终的结果是，我们学会了像苏格拉底一样思考，像梭罗一样看，像叔本华一样听，像尼采一样没有遗憾。)”可知，作者在第四段开头描写了Weiner书的内容，接着作者通过列举了几位伟大的哲学家来描写读完这本书后我们能从中学到的东西，由此可推知，作者列举了几位伟大的哲学家是为了帮助读者理解Weiners的书。故选D。
【58题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段中“This, more than a book about undestanding philosophy, is a book abour learning to use philosophy to improve a life.(这不仅仅是一本关于理解哲学的书，更是一本关于学习运用哲学来改善生活的书。)”可知，作者喜欢The Socrates Express这本书，是因为它的思想可以应用到日常生活中。故选B。
【59题详解】
推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中“He makes philosopical thought an appealing exercise that improves the quality of our experiences, and he does so with plenty of humor.(他使哲学思想成为一种有吸引力的练习，可以提高我们经验的质量，而且他在做这件事的时候充满了幽默感。)”可知，Weiners的书很幽默，根据最后一段中“The Socrates Express is a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and gradually pulls them in deeper thoughts on desire, loneliness, and aging. (The Socrates Express是一本有趣而尖锐的书，它以其表面上的简单吸引着读者，并逐渐将他们拉进对欲望、孤独和衰老的深层思考中。)”可知，Weiners的书简单易懂，由此可知，Weiners的书既幽默又简单易懂。故选D。
【点睛】
B
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60. If Karen is addicted to railway journeys, ________ are most likely to be her favourites.
A. Cairns and the Ghan
B. Uluru and Melbourne
C. Melbourne and the Ghan
D. Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
61. If you have decided to join the tour, which of the following statements is true
A. You may be charged an extra 349 in total for daily breakfasts.
B. You will enjoy a day trip to Daintree Rainforest, a world heritage.
C. You may choose to stop in both Singapore and Dubai at no extra cost.
D. You will be offered a meal with drinks when heading north by train in the Ghan.
62. If Jonathan and his two male friends, who have booked the travel, will depart UK on April 5th, 2025, with a two-night stopover in Bangkok, then at least how much will they have to pay for the whole trip in total
A. 17,791 B. 18,822 C. 18,841 D. 19,572
【答案】60. A 61. D 62. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇应用文。这是一次远途旅行的宣传广告。
【60题详解】
推理判断题。根据Day 12-14部分中的“The Ghan Experience one of the world’s most impressive rail journeys. (在甘河体验世界上最令人印象深刻的铁路之旅之一。)”和Days 18-21部分中的“Days in Cairns include a scenic railway journey to Kuranda, and a day trip to the nearby World Heritage listed Daintree Rainforest. (在凯恩斯的游览包括前往库兰达的风景火车之旅，以及附近被列入世界遗产名录的丹特里雨林的一日游。)”可知，如果凯伦对铁路旅行上瘾，凯恩斯和甘河最有可能是她的最爱。故选A。
【61题详解】
细节理解题。根据Day 12-14部分中的“Enjoy all inclusive Gold Service with on board meals included as are a wide selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. (享受全套黄金服务，包括车上餐食，以及各种酒精和非酒精饮料。)”可知，如果你决定参加这次旅行，你将在乘坐火车北上途中获得一顿饭和饮料。故选D。
【62题详解】
细节理解题。根据表格中的05 Apr 2025一行中可知，每人单价为 6,245，根据表格下粗体部分“Book by 30th April 2024 and enjoy a twin room for a two-night stopover from only 29 per person ( 48 for single occupancy). (在2024年4月30日前预订，可以享受一间双人房，中途停留两晚，每人只需29英镑（单人房48英镑）。)”可知，两名女生每人需要付29英镑房费，乔纳森需要付48英镑，所以总计是6,245*3+29*2+48=18841(英镑)。故选C。
C
Flinging brightly coloured objects around a screen at high speed is not what computers’ central processing units were designed for. So manufacturers of arcade machines invented the graphics-processing unit (GPU), a set of circuits to handle video games’ visuals in parallel to the work done by the central processor. The GPU’s ability to speed up complex tasks has since found wider uses: video editing, cryptocurrency mining and most recently, the training of artificial intelligence.
AI is now disrupting the industry that helped bring it into being. Every part of entertainment stands to be affected by generative AI, which digests inputs of text, image, audio or video to create new outputs of the same. But the games business will change the most, argues Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital (VC) firm. Games interactivity requires them to be stuffed with laboriously designed content: consider the 30 square miles of landscape or 60 hours of music in “Red Dead Redemption 2”, a recent cowboy adventure. Enlisting AI assistants to churn it out could drastically shrink timescales and budgets.
AI represents an “explosion of opportunity” and could drastically change the landscape of game development. Making a game is already easier than it was: nearly 13,000 titles were published last year on Steam, a games platform, almost double the number in 2017. Gaming may soon resemble the music and video industries in which most new content on Spotify or YouTube is user-generated. One games executive predicts that small firms will be the quickest to work out what new genres are made possible by AI. Last month Raja Koduri, an executive at Intel, left the chip maker to found an AI-gaming startup.
Don’t count the big studios out, though. If they can release half a dozen high-quality titles a year instead of a couple, it might chip away at the hit-driven nature of their business, says Josh Chapman of Konvoy, a gaming focused VC firm. A world of more choices also favors those with big marketing budgets. And the giants may have better answers to the mounting copyright questions around AI. If generative models have to be trained on data to which the developer has the rights, those with big back-catalogues will be better placed than startups. Trent Kaniuga, an artist who has worked on games like “Fortnite”, said last month that several clients had updated their contracts to ban AI-generated art.
If the lawyers don’t intervene, unions might. Studios diplomatically refer to AI assistants as “co-pilots”, not replacements for humans.
63. The original purpose behind the invention of the graphics-processing unit (GPU) was to ________.
A. speed up complex tasks in video editing and cryptocurrency mining
B. assist in the developing and training of artificial intelligence
C. disrupt the industry and create new outputs using generative AI
D. offload game visual tasks from the central processor
64. How might the rise of AI-gaming startups affect the development of the gaming industry
A. It contributes to the growth of user-generated content.
B. It facilitates blockbuster dependency on big studios.
C. It decreases collaboration between different stakeholders in the industry.
D. It may help to consolidate the gaming market under major corporations.
65. What can be inferred about the role of artificial intelligence in gaming
A. AI favors the businesses with small marketing budgets.
B. AI is expected to simplify game development processes.
C. AI allows startups to gain an edge over big firms with authorized data.
D. AI assistants may serve as human substitutes for studios.
66. What is this passage mainly about
A. The evolution of graphics-processing units (GPUs).
B. The impact of generative AI on the gaming industry.
C. The societal significance of graphics-processing units (GPUs).
D. The challenges generative AI presents to gaming studios.
【答案】63. D 64. A 65. B 66. B
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了人工智能对游戏产业带来的影响，人工智能有望简化游戏开发过程，可以被用来创造新的游戏内容，并且可能改变游戏开发的格局。小型公司可能会更快地意识到人工智能可能带来的新机遇，但大型工作室也能够利用人工智能技术来增强他们的业务。
【63题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段中“Flinging brightly coloured objects around a screen at high speed is not what computers’ central processing units were designed for. So manufacturers of arcade machines invented the graphics-processing unit (GPU), a set of circuits to handle video games’ visuals in parallel to the work done by the central processor. (在屏幕上高速抛出色彩鲜艳的物体并不是计算机中央处理器的设计目的。因此，大型机台制造商发明了图形处理器(GPU)，这是一组电路，可以在中央处理器完成工作的同时处理视频游戏的视觉效果)”可知，发明图形处理器最初的目的是将游戏视觉任务从中央处理器中转移出来。故选D项。
【64题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段中“Gaming may soon resemble the music and video industries in which most new content on Spotify or YouTube is user-generated. One games executive predicts that small firms will be the quickest to work out what new genres are made possible by AI. (游戏行业可能很快就会像音乐和视频行业一样，Spotify或YouTube上的大多数新内容都是用户生成的。一位游戏行业高管预测，小型公司将最快发现人工智能可能带来的新类型)”可知，人工智能游戏初创公司的崛起可能会促进用户生成内容的增长。故选A项。
【65题详解】
推理判断题。根据第二段中“Every part of entertainment stands to be affected by generative AI, which digests inputs of text, image, audio or video to create new outputs of the same. (娱乐的每个部分都将受到生成式人工智能的影响，它可以消化文本、图像、音频或视频的输入，以创造相同的新输出)”和“Games interactivity requires them to be stuffed with laboriously designed content: consider the 30 square miles of landscape or 60 hours of music in “Red Dead Redemption 2”, a recent cowboy adventure. Enlisting AI assistants to churn it out could drastically shrink timescales and budgets. (游戏的互动性要求它们充满精心设计的内容：想想最近的牛仔冒险游戏《荒野大镖客2》中30平方英里的风景或60小时的音乐。招募人工智能助手来制作它可以大大缩短时间和预算)”可推知，游戏领域的人工智能有望简化游戏开发过程，节省大量的的时间和投入。故选B项。
【66题详解】
主旨大意题。通读全文，尤其是第二段中“AI is now disrupting the industry that helped bring it into being. Every part of entertainment stands to be affected by generative AI, which digests inputs of text, image, audio or video to create new outputs of the same. But the games business will change the most (人工智能现在正在颠覆帮助它诞生的行业。娱乐的每个部分都将受到生成式人工智能的影响，它可以消化文本、图像、音频或视频的输入，以创造相同的新输出。但变化最大的将是游戏行业)”可知，文章主要围绕生成式人工智能对游戏行业的影响展开，介绍了人工智能有望简化游戏开发过程，可以被用来创造新的游戏内容，并且可能改变游戏开发的格局。小型公司可能会更快地意识到人工智能可能带来的新机遇，但大型工作室也能够利用人工智能技术来增强他们的业务。故选B项。
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
As guochao 3.0, spearheaded by the New Chinese Style in fashion, continues to grow, we see many global brands trying to tap into the interest in traditional culture and aesthetics. ____67____
McDonald’s has recently launched a partnership with the Sanxingdui Museum, a historical ruins-turned-museum in Sichuan, with a new flavour of burger and packaging. ____68____At the end of March, McDonald’s teased that it would launch a collaboration with the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan. The collaboration is centred around the McSpicy chicken thigh burger (different from the UK chicken breast version), as Sichuan is known for its hot and spicy food. Not only is the regular McSpicy brought back with exclusive bronze-looking Sanxingdui-themed packaging, a Sichuan-style hot pot flavour has also been added to the menu to add authenticity to the collab. The iconic “Ba da ba ba ba” jingle was also modified to become “ba la ba ba ba” (“吧辣吧吧吧”, with “la” meaning hot and spicy).
Along with the Sanxingdui Museum, McDonald’s released a couple of microdrama commercials. ____69____ The microdrama ads show office workers wearing the mask while enjoying the McSpicy burger at work. One of the episodes gained over 42,000 likes on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sister app.
Sanxingdui (“三星堆”, lit. Three Star Mount) is the ruins of the ancient Shu civilization. It is known for its idiosyncratic bronze ware. The museum went through a creative rebranding in 2020, resulting in several collaborations over the years, most recently an online-to-offline collab with the popular video game Genshin Impact.
Museum collaborations, especially with historical museums, have been popular among brands but as part of the “guochao 3.0” trend, as it adds cultural credibility to their “guochao” efforts. It is still not common for international brands. The country of origin fit between partners in a co-branding campaign is a key element, however, sometimes other aspects of fit can make up for it. ____70____Other international brands have already experimented with museum collaborations. Interestingly many of the latest examples involve the Palace Museum in Beijing as partners.
A. Sanxingdui, located in China and the source of nearly 13,000 artifacts which have been recovered to date, poses almost as many questions now as the day it was found.
B. The fast-food chain invited a makeup artist to create a wearable mask based on the iconic Sanxingdui gold foil mask.
C. Starbucks’ collaboration with rural artists in Yunnan successfully launched the coffee chain in the guochao sphere.
D. This can be seen as the international fast-food chain’s exploration of the guochao trend.
E. Like temples, museums, especially that of history or traditional Chinese culture, have been a key element for guochao marketing.
F. The exhibitions in this large-scale museum date back to the Bronze Age, covering a wide range of relics, such as bronze masks, jade articles, and some gold objects.
【答案】67. E 68. D 69. B 70. C
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。许多全球品牌都在努力挖掘人们对传统文化和美学的兴趣，文章主要说明了国际品牌开始尝试与博物馆合作。
【67题详解】
由上文“As guochao 3.0, spearheaded by the New Chinese Style in fashion, continues to grow, we see many global brands trying to tap into the interest in traditional culture and aesthetics. (随着“国潮3.0”的持续发展，我们看到许多全球品牌都在努力挖掘人们对传统文化和美学的兴趣。)”可知，本空要对此进行举例说明，由后文“McDonald’s has recently launched a partnership with the Sanxingdui Museum, a historical ruins-turned-museum in Sichuan, with a new flavour of burger and packaging. (麦当劳最近与四川三星堆博物馆（由历史遗迹改造而成的博物馆）合作，推出了一种新口味的汉堡和包装。)”可知，本空要用麦当劳与博物馆的合作进行举例说明，故E选项“Like temples, museums, especially that of history or traditional Chinese culture, have been a key element for guochao marketing. (与寺庙一样，博物馆，尤其是历史或中国传统文化博物馆，一直是国潮营销的关键要素。)”能承上启下，符合题意。故选E。
【68题详解】
由上文“McDonald’s has recently launched a partnership with the Sanxingdui Museum, a historical ruins-turned-museum in Sichuan, with a new flavour of burger and packaging. (麦当劳最近与四川三星堆博物馆（由历史遗迹改造而成的博物馆）合作，推出了一种新口味的汉堡和包装。)”可知，这是麦当劳的首次国潮探索，故D选项“This can be seen as the international fast-food chain’s exploration of the guochao trend. (这可以看作是国际快餐连锁店对国潮趋势的探索。)”能承接上文，符合题意。故选D。
【69题详解】
由上文“Along with the Sanxingdui Museum, McDonald’s released a couple of microdrama commercials (除了三星堆博物馆，麦当劳还发布了几则微剧广告。)”可知，本空要说跟“微剧广告”有关的话题，由后文“The microdrama ads show office workers wearing the mask while enjoying the McSpicy burger at work. (在微剧广告中，上班族们戴着口罩，一边工作一边吃着麦当劳汉堡。)”可知，本句谈论微剧广告中的口罩，故B选项“The fast-food chain invited a makeup artist to create a wearable mask based on the iconic Sanxingdui gold foil mask. (这家快餐连锁店邀请了一位化妆师，以三星堆标志性的金箔口罩为基础，制作了一款可穿戴口罩。)”能承上启下，符合题意。故选B。
【70题详解】
由后文“Other international brands have already experimented with museum collaborations. Interestingly many of the latest examples involve the Palace Museum in Beijing as partners. (其他国际品牌已经开始尝试与博物馆合作。有趣的是，最近的许多例子都有北京故宫博物院作为合作伙伴。)”可知，本句要举例其他国际品牌与博物馆的合作，故C选项“Starbucks’ collaboration with rural artists in Yunnan successfully launched the coffee chain in the guochao sphere. (星巴克与云南乡村艺术家的合作，成功地在国潮领域推出了咖啡连锁店。)”能引起下文，符合题意。故选C。
IV．Summary Writing
71. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
The Problem With Fast Fashion
There’s nothing quite like new clothes, is there The UK certainly loves them. According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s. That’s more than any other nation in Europe and amounts to around
26.7 kg per person.This results in 235 million garments being dumped into landfills - victims of fast fashion.
Fast fashion is defined as “an accelerated fashion business model ”involving “increased numbers of new fashion collections every year,” “quick turnarounds(周转期)”and “lower prices,” according to the EAC. Globalization means that clothing is made in countries where labour is cheaper. These savings are passed on to consumers, who then consider the clothes they own disposable - easily replaceable with something more trendy. And that creates problems.
First, there’re the environmental costs. Manufacturing any kind of textile costs resources. For example, synthetic fibres, which are made from plastic, have a larger carbon footprint than natural ones. Natural fibres, although more carbon-efficient, still require more water to grow. And further resources are used as the cloth is dyed, made into clothing and transported to retail for sale. Secondly, the fast-fashion industry is under pressure to put the latest trending items on shelves faster, which can lead to workers being exploited and forced to labour in poor working conditions. In countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Philippines, workers are paid wages that are insufficient to live on. One worker in Ethiopia told the BBC that they had to deal with intolerable conditions, such as withheld overtime payments, verbal abuse, and unsanitary toilets.
So what can be done in the UK to reduce clothing waste The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government, from increasing tax on purchases to fund recycling centres to introducing more sewing lessons in schools, encouraging a make do and mend attitude when things become worn out.
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【答案】The pursuit of fast fashion in the UK has led to the over consumption of clothing. Consumers have been misled into thinking clothes are disposable because of their low prices and quick turnarounds, which has thus created more waste. Consequently, problems like pollution and workers being exploited have arisen. The UK government has been advised to work to solve the problem. (60 words)
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了在英国，对快时尚的追求导致了服装的过度消费。由于低廉的价格和快速的循环，消费者被误导认为衣服是一次性的，从而产生了更多的浪费。因此，出现了污染和工人被剥削等问题。有人建议英国政府努力解决这个问题。
【详解】1.要点摘录
①According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s.
②This results in 235 million garments being dumped into landfills - victims of fast fashion.
③Fast fashion is defined as “an accelerated fashion business model ”involving “increased numbers of new fashion collections every year,” “quick turnarounds(周转期)”and “lower prices,” according to the EAC.
④These savings are passed on to consumers, who then consider the clothes they own disposable - easily replaceable with something more trendy.
⑤And that creates problems.
⑥First, there’re the environmental costs.
⑦Secondly, the fast-fashion industry is under pressure to put the latest trending items on shelves faster, which can lead to workers being exploited and forced to labour in poor working conditions.
⑧The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government.
2.缜密构思
将①、②两个要点进行整合，③、④、⑤三个要点进行重组，⑥、⑦两个要点进行整合
3.遣词造句
Consumers have been misled into thinking clothes are disposable because of their low prices and quick tuma rounds, which has thus created more waste.
Consequently, problems like pollution and workers being exploited have arisen.
【点睛】[高分句型1]
Consumers have been misled into thinking clothes are disposable because of their low prices and quick tuma rounds, which has thus created more waste.（运用了which引导非限制性定语从句）
[高分句型2]
Consequently, problems like pollution and workers being exploited have arisen.（运用了现在分词的被动语态作后置定语）
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 让我们拭目以待该名运动员能否打破世界纪录。(remain) (汉译英)
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【答案】It remains to be seen whether the athlete can break the record.
【解析】
【详解】考查主语从句和时态。根据句意可知，本句用whether引导的主语从句，it作形式主语，结合提示词，remain to be done :某物有待于被做，根据句意，可用一般现在时，故用it remains to be seen whether...，固定句型，表示“让我们拭目以待……”，主语从句主语为the athlete“该名运动员”，谓语+宾语为 can break the record,。故翻译为：It remains to be seen whether the athlete can break the record.。
73. 教育工作者有责任和义务提倡独创性，激发创造力，鼓励创新。（It）（汉译英）
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【答案】It is educators’/teaching staff’s responsibility and obligation to promote originality, inspire creativity and encourage innovation.
【解析】
【详解】考查it作形式主语和动词不定式。此处用it作形式主语，to do不定式为真正的主语。表示“教育工作者”应用educators或teaching staff。表示“责任和义务”应用responsibility and obligation。表示“提倡独创性”应用promote originality，表示“激发创造力”应用inspire creativity，表示“鼓励创新”应用encourage innovation。此处描述客观事实，应用一般现在时。再结合其它汉语意思，故翻译为It is educators’/teaching staff’s responsibility and obligation to promote originality, inspire creativity and encourage innovation.。
74. 在过去的一年里，坚定的韧性帮助我们度过了暴风雨时期的起起落落。(ups and downs) (汉译英)
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【答案】Over the past year, the keen resilience has helped guide us over the ups and downs of what was certainly a stormy time.
【解析】
【详解】考查动词和名词和宾语从句。表示“在过去的一年里”应用over the past year，在本句中作状语，为现在完成时的标志；表示“坚定的韧性”应用the keen resilience，在本句中作主语；表示“帮助我们度过起起落落”应用has helped guide us over the ups and downs ，其中ups and downs表“起落”，为固定搭配；表示“暴风雨时期的”应用of what was certainly a stormy time，其中what引导宾语从句并在从句中作主语，指事物，从句描述过去的情况，用一般过去时。故翻译为Over the past year, the keen resilience has helped guide us over the ups and downs of what was certainly a stormy time.
75. 观众被美妙的钢琴曲吸引住了，钢琴家表演结束的时候，他们几乎忘了向他鼓掌。(applaud) (汉译英)
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【答案】Attracted by the beauty of the piano music, the audience almost forgot to applaud the pianist when he finally finished it.
【解析】
【详解】考查非谓语动词、短语、时态和时间状语从句。表示“被美妙的钢琴曲吸引”应用过去分词短语attracted by the beauty of the piano music，z作状语，与主语the audience构成逻辑上的动宾关系，表示被动；表示“几乎”应用副词almost；表示“忘了要做某事”短语为forget to do sth.；表示“向他鼓掌”翻译为applaud the pianist；后跟when引导时间状语从句，主语为he；表示“表演结束”翻译为finally finish it，为一般过去时。故翻译为Attracted by the beauty of the piano music, the audience almost forgot to applaud the pianist when he finally finished it.
VI. Guided Writing
76. Directions: Write an English composition in 150-180 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
随着全球化进一步发展，我国非遗之一的地方戏剧文化正在遭受前所未有的冲击。作为中国十大戏曲之一的沪剧也面临着消亡的危机。针对这种现象，我校此次校园文化节准备推广沪剧，请你为此设计一个活动方案。
内容包括：1. 沪剧文化现今状况 2. 活动的主题 3. 活动的安排 4. 活动的意义
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【答案】In the face of globalization, local operas in China, such as Shanghai Opera, one of China’s top ten operatic forms, are under unprecedented threat of fading away. To address this alarming cultural concern, our school is poised to champion Shanghai Opera during our upcoming campus cultural festival.
Our event will be themed “Echoes of the Bund: A Journey Through Shanghai Opera.” The festival will include a series of meticulously arranged activities: live performances by accomplished Shanghai Opera artists, interactive workshops where students can learn the basics of performance art, and an exhibition detailing the history and evolution of Shanghai Opera. Most importantly, we will hold a competition for students to perform pieces of Shanghai Opera, encouraging active participation and creative expression.
This initiative isn’t simply about preserving a cultural element; it’s a movement to breathe new life into Shanghai Opera. We aim to kindle a lasting appreciation among the youth, ensuring that such a vibrant facet of our heritage not only endures but continues to flourish in the hearts of future generations.
【解析】
【导语】本篇书面表达属于开放性作文。要求考生为校园文化节准备推广沪剧设计一个活动方案。
【详解】1.词汇积累
处理：address→tackle
包括：include→consist of
表演：perform→show
遗产：heritage→legacy
2.句式拓展
同义句替换
原句：Most importantly, we will hold a competition for students to perform pieces of Shanghai Opera, encouraging active participation and creative expression.
同义句：Crucially, we plan to organize a contest that allows students to perform segments of Shanghai Opera, fostering their active involvement and artistic creativity.
【点睛】【高分句型1】The festival will include a series of meticulously arranged activities: live performances by accomplished Shanghai Opera artists, interactive workshops where students can learn the basics of performance art, and an exhibition detailing the history and evolution of Shanghai Opera. (运用了where引导的定语从句)
【高分句型2】We aim to kindle a lasting appreciation among the youth, ensuring that such a vibrant facet of our heritage not only endures but continues to flourish in the hearts of future generations.(运用了现在分词作作状语和that引导宾语从句)2023 学年第二学期零陵中学高二年级期中考试
英语学科
考试时间 120 分钟，满分 140 分
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
People who eat breakfast high in refined carbs rated less attractive
If you want to look your best in the morning, it may be worth swapping the ultra-processed pastries and fruit juice for wholemeal toast and tea without sugar. Researchers in France found that people who ate a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates were rated less attractive than ____21____ who started the day with healthier unrefined carbs.
Scientists at the University of Montpellier believe the subtle shift in facial attractiveness may be driven by changes in blood sugar and insulin____22____ can affect skin appearance and have longer-term effects on sex hormones.
“It’s surprising to consider but our dietary choices can have rapid effects on our appearance,” said Dr Claire Berticat, an evolutionary biologist and the first author on the study. “These physiological changes could subtly alter facial features, impacting ____23____ others perceive attractiveness.”
The researchers recruited 52 men and 52 women ____24____ (age) 20 to 30 and randomly assigned them to have a 500-calorie breakfast rich in either refined or unrefined carbohydrates. The refined carbs breakfast____25____ (include) a French baguette made from industrially milled flour, jam, apple or orange juice, and tea or coffee with sugar available. The unrefined carbs meal was stoneground whole meal bread with butter and cheese, an orange or apple, and tea or coffee without sugar.
The scientists measured blood sugar levels of volunteers before and after they ate and then took headshots of the participants under controlled lighting conditions. The photos were then passed to groups of raters to estimate how old, how masculine or feminine and how attractive the individuals looked.
____26____ (write) in Plos One, the researchers claim that eating refined carbohydrates for breakfast decreased facial attractiveness for men and women, though the longer-term effects of eating such foods, gleaned from questionnaires completed by the volunteers, were more complicated.
“The effect varies by gender and meal type, underscoring the complex relationship between diet and attractiveness,” Berticat said. “Our findings serve as a ____27____ (compel) reminder of the far-reaching impact of dietary choices not only on health but also on traits having particular social importance____28____facial attractiveness.”
Refined carbohydrates can produce spikes in blood sugar, which the body counters by releasing insulin. The response can drive sugar levels too low, a condition called hypoglycaemia, and affect blood flow and skin appearance. In the study, only the refined carbs breakfast produced hypoglycaemia.
David Perrett, a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews, who has studied facial cues for health, said there should be no surprise ____29____ diet affects attractiveness. Fruit and vegetables improved attractiveness by increasing plant pigments called carotenoids in the skin, he said, ____30____ high-sugar diets could age the skin.
From: The Guardian
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.breakdown B.masterpieces C.committed D. reduced E.extreme F.allowances G.memorable H.security I. attribute J.tribute K.conducted
The little thief: How Charlie Chaplin survived his hungry childhood
A recently unearthed interview with an old friend recalls how the actor was looked after by a kindly ‘foster mother’ who made sure he did the right thing.
The ___31___ poverty endured by Charlie Chaplin while growing up in the slums (贫民窟) of Victorian London___32___him to stealing and being scolded by the woman who took care of him, according to an interview with one of his childhood friends that has remained unheard in the British Film Institute for almost 40 years.
Effie Wisdom, whose aunt gave him a home from home when he needed it most, lamented that Chaplin “had a terrible life” as a child, “always hungry”, dressed in “ragged”, filthy clothes - no doubt later inspiring the comic genius who created the Tramp, society’s eternal victim and one of cinema’s most ___33___ characters.
In 1983, aged 92, Wisdom gave an interview in which she recalled first meeting Chaplin when he was five and she was seven, with her aunt becoming his “foster mother”, as he used to tell her.
She recalled: “My aunt used to feed him because there was no social___34___ in those days, no free milk, no children’s ___35___, nothing. You never starved and yet you were on the breadline.”
“He used to go up Lambeth Walk and pinch . He’d come home with four eggs one day in his pocket. He came home with a pair of boots one day he’d nicked.”
Her aunt scolded him: “Do you want me to get the police If you go on doing this, you’ll be locked up. You realize that, don’t you ”
The interview was ___36___by Kevin Brownlow, one of Britain’s leading experts in silent films after researching Unknown Chaplin, the acclaimed three-part 1983 documentary series that he made with David Gill. It has been stored in the British Film Institute’s archive (档案) ever since.
Chaplin’s parents were music-hall performers and his mother was abandoned by her husband. His mother was then___37___to an asylum (精神病院).
After Chaplin’s death in 1977, Wisdom had written to his widow (遗孀), with memories of his mother’s desperate concern for her sons, Charlie and Sydney “I told Lady Chaplin I knew Charlie when he was a little boy. I used to play with him out in the street. When his mother had a nervous___38___, she said to my aunt, ‘If I had to go away, you wouldn’t let my lovely sons go into an orphanage ’ My aunt said, ‘No, I’ll look after them, don’t you worry’. My aunt looked after them, fed them and clothed them.”
Chaplin never forgot that. Wisdom paid ___39___to his generosity towards her after finding success in America: “He used to send my aunt so much money because she used to look after him.”He also wrote to her.
Chaplin, with his derby hat (圆顶窄边礼帽)，toothbrush moustache and impossibly large boots, was the protagonist in such___40___as City Lights, The Great Dictator and Limelight.
Wisdom, who left school at 13 and worked in a London pub into her 80s, recalled his natural comedic talent, “He was always falling about being funny. He’d get an old table out in the yard, and he’d get all the kids in there, and get up there, put an old pair of trousers on, an old coat and a stick when he was 12. The kids loved that, he used to fall off the table, then he’d get up.” But she joked: “I never thought he’d get to where he got.”
She remembered him writing to her aunt from America, telling her that he would visit on his return to England: “He said, I’m not like when I left England with nothing. I’m going on to be a rich man.”
She added that Chaplin stayed at the Ritz (一家豪华酒店) and turned up at his aunt’s home in-a chauffeur (私人司机)-driven Rolls-Royce: “He invited my aunt and my uncle and me to the Ritz. My aunt says to me, ‘Of course I’d never been in a place like that’.”
From the Gardian
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, too much of a good thing may end up ___41___ attention and learning in young children, according to research published in Psychological Science.
Psychology researchers Anna V. Fisher, Karrie E. Godwin and Howard Seltman of Carnegie Mellon University looked at whether classroom displays affected children’s ability to maintain ___42___ during instruction and to learn the lesson content. They found that children in highly decorated classrooms were more distracted, spent more time off-task and demonstrated smaller learning ___43___than when the decorations were removed.
“Young children spend a lot of time — usually the whole day — in the same classroom and we have shown that a classroom’s ___44___ environment can affect how much children learn,” said Fisher, lead author and associate professor of psychology in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Should teachers ___45___ their visual displays based on the findings of this study
“We do not suggest by any means that this is the answer to all ___46___ problems. Furthermore,___47___ research is needed to know what effect the classroom visual environment has on children’s attention and learning in real classrooms,” Fisher said. “___48___, I would suggest that instead of removing all decorations, teachers should consider whether some of their visual displays do make it difficult for young children to ___49___.”
For the study, 24 kindergarten students were placed in ____50____classrooms for six introductory science lessons on topics they were unfamiliar with. Three lessons were taught in a heavily decorated classroom, and three lessons were given in a sparse (稀疏的) classroom. The results showed that while children learned in both _____51_____ types, they learned more when the room was not heavily decorated. Specifically, children’s _____52_____ on the test questions was higher in the sparse classroom (55% correct) than in the decorated classroom (42% correct).
“We were also interested in finding out if the visual displays were removed, whether the children’s attention would _____53_____ to another distraction, such as talking to their peers, or the total amount of time they were distracted would remain the same,” said Godwin, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and fellow of the Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research.
However, when the researchers totaled all of the time children spent off-task in both types of classrooms, the rate of off-task _____54_____ was higher in the decorated classroom (38.6% time spent off-task) than in the sparse classroom (28.4% time spent off-task).
The researchers hope these findings will lead to further studies into developing guidelines to help teachers design classrooms _____55_____.
41.
A. attracting B. distracting C. holding D. paying
42.
A. confidence B. relationship C. consistency D. focus
43.
A. gains B. opportunities C. needs D. disabilities
44.
A social B. natural C. physical D. visual
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A. turn over B. take down C. try out D. look into
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A. athletic B. environmental C. educational D. communicative
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A. additional B. prior C. national D. independent
48.
A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Meanwhile
49.
A. stretch B. adapt C. concentrate D. explore
50.
A. decorated B. empty C. transitional D. laboratory
51.
A. teaching B. classroom C. school D. personality
52.
A. accuracy B. emphasis C. impact D. perspective
53.
A. refer B. listen C. respond D. shift
54.
A. questions B. behaviors C. incidents D. tasks
55.
A. originally B. innovatively C. appropriately D. exclusively
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
A
I was about 13 when an uncle gave me a copy of Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World. It was full of ideas that were new to me, so I spent the summer with my head in and out of that book. It spoke to me and brought me into a world of philosophy (哲学).
That love for philosophy lasted until I got to college. Nothing kills the love for philosophy faster than people who think they understand Foucault, Baudrillard, or Confucius better than you — and then try to explain them.
Eric Weiner’s The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers reawakened my love for philosophy. It is not an explanation, but an invitation to think and experience philosophy.
Weiner starts each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher’s work in the context (背景) of one thing they can help us do better. The end result is a read in which we learn to wonder like Socrates, see like Thoreau, listen like Schopenhauer, and have no regrets like Nietzsche. This, more than a book about understanding philosophy, is a book about learning to use philosophy to improve a life.
He makes philosophical thought an appealing exercise that improves the quality of our experiences, and he does so with plenty of humor. Weiner enters into conversation with some of the most important philosophers in history, and he becomes part of that crowd in the process by decoding (解读) their messages and adding his own interpretation.
The Socrates Express is a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and gradually pulls them in deeper thoughts on desire, loneliness, and aging. The invitation is clear: Weiner wants you to pick up a coffee or tea and sit down with this book. I encourage you to take his offer. It’s worth your time, even if time is something we don’t have a lot of.
56. Who opened the door to philosophy for the author
A. Foucault. B. Eric Weiner.
C. Jostein Gaarder. D. A college teacher.
57. Why does the author list great philosophers in paragraph 4
A. To compare Weiner with them.
B. To give examples of great works.
C. To praise their writing skills.
D. To help readers understand Weiner’s book.
58. What does the author like about The Socrates Express
A. Its views on history are well-presented.
B. Its ideas can be applied to daily life.
C. It includes comments from readers.
D. It leaves an open ending.
59. What does the author think of Weiner’s book
A. Objective and plain.
B. Daring and ambitious.
C. Serious and hard to follow.
D. Humorous and straightforward.
B
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60. If Karen is addicted to railway journeys, ________ are most likely to be her favourites.
A. Cairns and the Ghan
B. Uluru and Melbourne
C. Melbourne and the Ghan
D. Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
61. If you have decided to join the tour, which of the following statements is true
A. You may be charged an extra 349 in total for daily breakfasts.
B. You will enjoy a day trip to Daintree Rainforest, a world heritage.
C. You may choose to stop in both Singapore and Dubai at no extra cost.
D. You will be offered a meal with drinks when heading north by train in the Ghan.
62. If Jonathan and his two male friends, who have booked the travel, will depart UK on April 5th, 2025, with a two-night stopover in Bangkok, then at least how much will they have to pay for the whole trip in total
A. 17,791 B. 18,822 C. 18,841 D. 19,572
C
Flinging brightly coloured objects around a screen at high speed is not what computers’ central processing units were designed for. So manufacturers of arcade machines invented the graphics-processing unit (GPU), a set of circuits to handle video games’ visuals in parallel to the work done by the central processor. The GPU’s ability to speed up complex tasks has since found wider uses: video editing, cryptocurrency mining and most recently, the training of artificial intelligence.
AI is now disrupting the industry that helped bring it into being. Every part of entertainment stands to be affected by generative AI, which digests inputs of text, image, audio or video to create new outputs of the same. But the games business will change the most, argues Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital (VC) firm. Games interactivity requires them to be stuffed with laboriously designed content: consider the 30 square miles of landscape or 60 hours of music in “Red Dead Redemption 2”, a recent cowboy adventure. Enlisting AI assistants to churn it out could drastically shrink timescales and budgets.
AI represents an “explosion of opportunity” and could drastically change the landscape of game development. Making a game is already easier than it was: nearly 13,000 titles were published last year on Steam, a games platform, almost double the number in 2017. Gaming may soon resemble the music and video industries in which most new content on Spotify or YouTube is user-generated. One games executive predicts that small firms will be the quickest to work out what new genres are made possible by AI. Last month Raja Koduri, an executive at Intel, left the chip maker to found an AI-gaming startup.
Don’t count the big studios out, though. If they can release half a dozen high-quality titles a year instead of a couple, it might chip away at the hit-driven nature of their business, says Josh Chapman of Konvoy, a gaming focused VC firm. A world of more choices also favors those with big marketing budgets. And the giants may have better answers to the mounting copyright questions around AI. If generative models have to be trained on data to which the developer has the rights, those with big back-catalogues will be better placed than startups. Trent Kaniuga, an artist who has worked on games like “Fortnite”, said last month that several clients had updated their contracts to ban AI-generated art.
If the lawyers don’t intervene, unions might. Studios diplomatically refer to AI assistants as “co-pilots”, not replacements for humans.
63. The original purpose behind the invention of the graphics-processing unit (GPU) was to ________.
A. speed up complex tasks in video editing and cryptocurrency mining
B. assist in the developing and training of artificial intelligence
C. disrupt the industry and create new outputs using generative AI
D. offload game visual tasks from the central processor
64. How might the rise of AI-gaming startups affect the development of the gaming industry
A. It contributes to the growth of user-generated content.
B. It facilitates blockbuster dependency on big studios.
C. It decreases collaboration between different stakeholders in the industry.
D. It may help to consolidate the gaming market under major corporations.
65. What can be inferred about the role of artificial intelligence in gaming
A AI favors the businesses with small marketing budgets.
B. AI is expected to simplify game development processes.
C. AI allows startups to gain an edge over big firms with authorized data.
D. AI assistants may serve as human substitutes for studios.
66. What is this passage mainly about
A. The evolution of graphics-processing units (GPUs).
B. The impact of generative AI on the gaming industry.
C. The societal significance of graphics-processing units (GPUs).
D. The challenges generative AI presents to gaming studios.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
As guochao 3.0, spearheaded by the New Chinese Style in fashion, continues to grow, we see many global brands trying to tap into the interest in traditional culture and aesthetics. ____67____
McDonald’s has recently launched a partnership with the Sanxingdui Museum, a historical ruins-turned-museum in Sichuan, with a new flavour of burger and packaging. ____68____At the end of March, McDonald’s teased that it would launch a collaboration with the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan. The collaboration is centred around the McSpicy chicken thigh burger (different from the UK chicken breast version), as Sichuan is known for its hot and spicy food. Not only is the regular McSpicy brought back with exclusive bronze-looking Sanxingdui-themed packaging, a Sichuan-style hot pot flavour has also been added to the menu to add authenticity to the collab. The iconic “Ba da ba ba ba” jingle was also modified to become “ba la ba ba ba” (“吧辣吧吧吧”, with “la” meaning hot and spicy).
Along with the Sanxingdui Museum, McDonald’s released a couple of microdrama commercials. ____69____ The microdrama ads show office workers wearing the mask while enjoying the McSpicy burger at work. One of the episodes gained over 42,000 likes on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sister app.
Sanxingdui (“三星堆”, lit. Three Star Mount) is the ruins of the ancient Shu civilization. It is known for its idiosyncratic bronze ware. The museum went through a creative rebranding in 2020, resulting in several collaborations over the years, most recently an online-to-offline collab with the popular video game Genshin Impact.
Museum collaborations, especially with historical museums, have been popular among brands but as part of the “guochao 3.0” trend, as it adds cultural credibility to their “guochao” efforts. It is still not common for international brands. The country of origin fit between partners in a co-branding campaign is a key element, however, sometimes other aspects of fit can make up for it. ____70____Other international brands have already experimented with museum collaborations. Interestingly many of the latest examples involve the Palace Museum in Beijing as partners.
A. Sanxingdui, located in China and the source of nearly 13,000 artifacts which have been recovered to date, poses almost as many questions now as the day it was found.
B. The fast-food chain invited a makeup artist to create a wearable mask based on the iconic Sanxingdui gold foil mask.
C. Starbucks’ collaboration with rural artists in Yunnan successfully launched the coffee chain in the guochao sphere.
D. This can be seen as the international fast-food chain’s exploration of the guochao trend.
E. Like temples, museums, especially that of history or traditional Chinese culture, have been a key element for guochao marketing.
F. The exhibitions in this large-scale museum date back to the Bronze Age, covering a wide range of relics, such as bronze masks, jade articles, and some gold objects.
IV．Summary Writing
71. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
The Problem With Fast Fashion
There’s nothing quite like new clothes, is there The UK certainly loves them. According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s. That’s more than any other nation in Europe and amounts to around
26.7 kg per person.This results in 235 million garments being dumped into landfills - victims of fast fashion.
Fast fashion is defined as “an accelerated fashion business model ”involving “increased numbers of new fashion collections every year,” “quick turnarounds(周转期)”and “lower prices,” according to the EAC. Globalization means that clothing is made in countries where labour is cheaper. These savings are passed on to consumers, who then consider the clothes they own disposable - easily replaceable with something more trendy. And that creates problems.
First, there’re the environmental costs. Manufacturing any kind of textile costs resources. For example, synthetic fibres, which are made from plastic, have a larger carbon footprint than natural ones. Natural fibres, although more carbon-efficient, still require more water to grow. And further resources are used as the cloth is dyed, made into clothing and transported to retail for sale. Secondly, the fast-fashion industry is under pressure to put the latest trending items on shelves faster, which can lead to workers being exploited and forced to labour in poor working conditions. In countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Philippines, workers are paid wages that are insufficient to live on. One worker in Ethiopia told the BBC that they had to deal with intolerable conditions, such as withheld overtime payments, verbal abuse, and unsanitary toilets.
So what can be done in the UK to reduce clothing waste The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government, from increasing tax on purchases to fund recycling centres to introducing more sewing lessons in schools, encouraging a make do and mend attitude when things become worn out.
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V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 让我们拭目以待该名运动员能否打破世界纪录。(remain) (汉译英)
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73. 教育工作者有责任和义务提倡独创性，激发创造力，鼓励创新。（It）（汉译英）
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74. 在过去的一年里，坚定的韧性帮助我们度过了暴风雨时期的起起落落。(ups and downs) (汉译英)
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75. 观众被美妙的钢琴曲吸引住了，钢琴家表演结束的时候，他们几乎忘了向他鼓掌。(applaud) (汉译英)
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VI. Guided Writing
76. Directions: Write an English composition in 150-180 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
随着全球化进一步发展，我国非遗之一的地方戏剧文化正在遭受前所未有的冲击。作为中国十大戏曲之一的沪剧也面临着消亡的危机。针对这种现象，我校此次校园文化节准备推广沪剧，请你为此设计一个活动方案。
内容包括：1. 沪剧文化现今状况 2. 活动的主题 3. 活动的安排 4. 活动的意义
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