第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
答案及听力原文
答案：1~5 ACACC 6~10 ABBBC 11~15 BABAC 16~20 AACBC
听力原文：
Text 1
M:Excuse me,where is the closest place to eat
W:Down the street about four blocks.It is just in front of the hospital.
Text 2
M:Mary,just stay here.Don’t get into the water; the sea is getting rough now.
W:I see,and I prefer it here on the sand.
Text 3
M:Do you think you feel energetic enough to walk to our study group session tonight
W:If there is one! I guess you haven’t heard the weather report.It’s said a foot of snow is expected.
Text 4
M:Before we go to the movie theatre,I have to stop at the bank and get some money.
W:Don’t worry about that.This is my treat.
Text 5
W:Mary says that both sides of the streets will be decorated with colored flags and flowers to welcome the famous film stars.Is it true
M:Yes.It is the first time that our city has had so many superstars at the same time.
W:Then we will have a most exciting weekend.
Text 6
W:Um,yes.The car is in pretty good condition.I only use it to go to work and back.
M:Yes,but the body’s rather rusty(生锈的).Look at these scratches here.It needs a lot of work.
W:Mmm.But it’s got a new battery and um,three new tires.Oh,and it’s just been serviced.The engine is almost perfect.
M:All right.I’ll give you＄2,000.
W:Oh,no.It’s worth a lot more.
M:2,000 in cash.Take it or leave it.
W:Um,I’m sorry.I’d rather wait for a better offer.
M:OK,it’s up to you.
Text 7
W:Are you being helped,sir
M:No,I’m just looking around.Well,I wonder what is the difference between the Chinese ink painting and Western oil painting.
W:I think oil paintings are created by colours and brush touches while traditional Chinese paintings are by lines and strokes.
M:I see.Thank you.Isn’t this painting of a pretty girl chasing a butterfly done with fine and delicate strokes
W:Right you are,sir.It’s of a school of painting known as Gongbi in China.
M:Fine,and I also like that painting of mountains and waters.
W:Ah,this is a landscape painting in the free-sketch style.We call it “Xieyi” or impressionistic painting.
M:Sounds great!I’ll take these two.By the way,are they reproduced by your studio
W:Yes,the process of making a reproduction is quite complicated.It usually involves more than ten steps.
Text 8
M:Hi.I’m going door to door tonight to tell people about the student action union.Do you have a few minutes
W:Sure.You know I think I read something in the newspaper last week.
M:Yeah.There was an article about this in the last issue.See,we’re trying to protect some of the open spaces on campus.
W:That’s right.You’re the group that’s opposing the extension of the parking lot next to Swing Hall,right
M:That’s us.We just feel that it’s important to save some of the natural beauty of the campus.Some of those trees are hundreds of years old.
W:It is a pretty spot.My friends and I have had picnics over there.
M:Then you understand how we feel.We’re organizing a meeting on Thursday afternoon to get the administration to reconsider the parking-lot plan.
W:Well,I have a class on Thursday afternoon.
M:But,maybe you could sign this petition(请愿书).We’re going to submit it to the administration to demonstrate how the students feel about this.
W:Sure,I’ll sign it.
M:And let me leave you this pamphlet about the student action union.Maybe you could come to some of our meetings.We get together once a month.
W:OK.But it depends on whether I am free at that time.
Text 9
W:Why are you rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off
M:I’ve been invited to my American friend’s house tonight.
W:So why are you in such a hurry
M:I was told the party would start at eight.
W:Relax.Relax.In America if someone tells you a party starts at eight,you’d better arrive between 8:30 and 9:00.
M:You are joking! How come
W:Oh,I don’t know.It’s just the custom here.
M:I’ve never been to a party in America before.Can you give me some ideas about what it’s like
W:Well,there is almost always alcohol—beer,wine,whisky—and generally some small snacks to eat and sometimes a late-evening snack is served about 11 or 12 o’clock.
M:And what do people do at parties
W:Sometimes they just sit or stand around in groups and talk,but often parties involve music and dancing.
M:I can’t dance.
W:You don’t have to dance if you don’t want to,but you should try it a few times.Maybe you’ll like it.
M:If I stand around and talk to others all night,I’ll never get to this party.
W:OK.Have a good time.
M:Thanks.
Text 10
Many cities have interesting nicknames.However,New Orleans,Louisiana probably has more nicknames than any other American city.One website lists more than twenty nicknames.The most famous is The Big Easy.It describes the gentle,slow and easy-going way of life in New Orleans.
So how did the city get this nickname In the early nineteen hundreds,there was a dance hall in New Orleans called The Big Easy.But the nickname did not become famous until the early nineteen seventies.That was when a Louisiana newspaper writer began calling New Orleans by this name.She compared the easy-going way of life there to the hurried pace of life in New York City.
In nineteen seventy,James Conaway wrote a crime novel called The Big Easy.The story was set in New Orleans.In nineteen eighty-seven,that book was made into a film which made the nickname even more popular.
New Orleans has other nicknames.One of them is“The Crescent (新月状物) City”.During the nineteenth century,new neighborhoods expanded out from what is now known as the French Quarter.These areas followed the great curve of the Mississippi River,giving New Orleans the shape of a crescent.
Another nickname is“The Birthplace of Jazz”because that kind of music started in New Orleans.It is also called “Mardi Gras City” for the wild celebrations and parades that take place there every year.And,there is a nickname that uses the short way to write New Orleans and Louisiana.If you do not want to use the complete name,you can call the city NOLA.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
A
【答案】21. C 22. D 23. B
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章向读者推荐了四本书，认为这几本书改变了自己的人生。
【21题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段“Puttermesser, a woman of magic, takes some dirt from a flower pot and makes a half man and half god creature which will make her mayor of New York. During her administration, the city is free of all hate and crime, for a while. The reader who has a strong heart and stomach can stick with Puttermesser to her sad and brutal end.( Putermesser，一个会魔法的女人，从花盆里拿出一些泥土，做出了一个半人半神的生物，这将使她成为纽约市长。在她执政期间，这座城市暂时没有了仇恨和犯罪。但凡心胸坚强的读者，都能坚持到Puttermesser悲惨而残酷的结局)”可知，The Puttermesser Papers是一本奇幻小说（a fantasy novel），里面角色有半人半神的生物。故选C项。
【22题详解】
推理判断题。根据第二段“In this novel, Anne Eliot is the daughter of a foolish noble. Their home must be rented out and Anne goes to stay with her younger sister Mary. Here she is thrown into the company of Captain Wentworth who offered to marry Anne eight years earlier. But Anne was persuaded to turn him down. He hasn’t forgiven her. Anne is forced to watch the man she still loves attach himself to this and that pretty woman.(在这部小说中，安妮·艾略特是一个愚蠢贵族的女儿。他们的房子必须租出去，安妮去和她的妹妹玛丽住在一起。 这里，她进入了温特沃斯船长的公司工作，他在八年前向安妮求婚。但安当时安妮被说服拒绝了他。他还没有原谅她。安妮被迫看着她仍然爱的男人和这个那个漂亮的女人们恋爱)”可知，安妮和温特沃斯之间的爱情是复杂的。故选B项。
【23题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章标题“Books That Changed My Life(改变我人生的书籍)”并通读全文可知，文章介绍了著名作家的四本文学作品，由此推断，该文可能出现在杂志的文学栏目。故选B项。
B
【答案】36. D 37. D 38. A 39. D
【解析】
【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者有一年夏天去爱尔兰旅行的经历，她和一位同样有爱尔兰血统的英国人参观了多尼戈尔走廊，发现了其背后独特的历史意义，并认识到了很多新事物。
【36题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段“Every summer, as a child, I spent with my parents the annual family holiday, flying away from our home in the West Midlands to their birthplace in Ireland. (小时候，每年夏天，我都会和父母一起度过一年一度的家庭假期，从西米德兰兹郡的家飞到他们在爱尔兰的出生地)”和第二段中“I then went and ran into an Englishman who also came of Irish stock, and we both felt the urge to renew our knowledge of Ireland. (然后我去了，碰到了一个同样是爱尔兰血统的英国人，我们都感到迫切需要更新我们对爱尔兰的认识)”可知，作者和这位英国人都有爱尔兰祖先。故选D项。
【38题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第二段中“I enjoyed it, but once, I behaved differently and left home. (我很喜欢，但有一次，我表现得不一样，离开了家)”，以及画线词的下文“my family tradition that summer (那年夏天我的家庭传统)”可推知，此处指上文提到的作者在那年夏天没有遵循以往的家庭传统，而是独自一人去旅行，revolt against意思应该是“反抗，不遵循”，与disobey意思相近。故选D项。
【37题详解】
细节理解题。根据倒数第三段“At St John’s Point, we were standing right under the Donegal Corridor, a long narrow area of airspace in which Ireland ensured safe passage during World War II to planes in the RAF (Royal Air Force) from bases in the UK-governed North of Ireland. The stone markings acted as reference points to aircrews. (在圣约翰角，我们正站在多尼戈尔走廊的正下方，这是一个狭长的空域，在第二次世界大战期间，爱尔兰确保了英国皇家空军RAF的飞机从英国统治的北爱尔兰基地安全通过。这些石头标记充当了机组人员的参考点)”可知，这些白色巨石在二战中很重要是因为它们是英国皇家空军机组人员的参考点。故选A项。
【39题详解】
主旨大意题。通读全文，尤其是最后一段中“I fulfilled my aim of discovering something new and absorbed all Donegal has to offer: empty golden beaches, mysterious ancient stone circles, folk music and crafts, and tasty food. I had fallen in love with Ireland all over again (我实现了发现新事物的目标，并吸收了多尼戈尔所能提供的一切：空旷的金色海滩、神秘的古代石圈、民间音乐和手工艺，以及美味的食物。我又一次爱上了爱尔兰)”可知，文章讲述了作者有一年夏天去爱尔兰旅行的经历，她和一位同样有爱尔兰血统的英国人参观了多尼戈尔走廊，发现了其背后独特的历史意义，并认识到了很多新事物。因此，B项“发现未被发现的多尼戈尔”符合文章大意，适合作为标题。故选D项。
C
【答案】26. D 27. B 28. A 29. A
【解析】
【分析】本文是说明文。 文章介绍了一项研究结果：新的AI技术可以通过跳舞者独特的跳舞“指纹”来识别他们。
【26题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段中“They recently made an accidental discovery while trying to see if an ML machine, a form of artificial intelligence, would be able to identify which kind of music was playing based on how the participants of the study were dancing.（最近，他们在尝试看人工智能ML机器是否能够根据研究参与者跳舞的方式来识别出播放的音乐时，有了一个意外发现。）”可知， 研究人员期望用ML机器根据舞蹈者的动作识别音乐。故选D。
【27题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第三段中“It was the movement of participants’ heads, shoulders and knees that were important markers in distinguishing between individual.（参与者头部、肩膀和膝盖的运动是区分个体的重要标志。）”可知， 跳舞者的脚部运动不能帮助AI技术确定跳舞者的身份。故选B。
【28题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第四段中“researchers say that they are not as interested in possible surveillance (监视) uses of this technology, but rather what the results of this study say about how humans respond to music.（研究人员说他们感兴趣不是这种技术的监视用途，而是这项研究关于人类对音乐是如何反应的结果。）”可知，研究人员想用这个研究的结果来了解人类对音乐的反应。故选A。
【29题详解】
主旨大意题。文章第一段提到“whatever it is, the way we dance to a beat is so noticeable to an individual that a computer can now identify us by our unique dancing “fingerprint”. （不管是什么舞蹈，我们跟着节拍跳舞的方式对一个人来说是如此明显，以至于电脑现在可以通过我们独特的跳舞“指纹”来识别我们。）”；第三段中提到研究人员Pasi Saari 所说的话“It seems as though a person’s dance movements a kind of fingerprint. Each person has a unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is playing.( 一个人的舞蹈动作就好像是一种指纹。每个人都有自己独特的动作特征，无论演奏什么音乐，这些特征都是不变的。)”由此可知，文章是关于新的AI技术能够通过独特的跳舞“指纹”来识别跳舞者。A项“新的AI技术能够通过你的跳舞“指纹”来识别你”可以作为本文标题。故选A。
D
【答案】43. A 44. A 45. B 46. D
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章以Swarthmore College学校简化入学申请手续为例，讨论了让申请入学变得容易并不是招生成功的关键。
【43题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段“Between the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school nationally renowned for its academic rigor, changed the requirements for students for admission into its next freshman class. It made filling out the proper forms easier.( Swarthmore College是一所以学术严谨而闻名全国的学校，在上个申请季和当前的申请季之间，该校改变了下一届新生的入学要求。它使填写适当的表格更容易)”以及第二段“Swarthmore is hardly alone in the desire to eliminate obstacles for a bounty of applicants.(Swarthmore并不是唯一一个希望为大量申请者消除障碍的人)”可知，Swarthmore College简化了入学申请手续。故选A。
【44题详解】
词义猜测题。根据划线词上文“So, many colleges methodically generate interest only to frustrate it.(因此，许多大学有条不紊地激发学生的兴趣，结果却让他们失望)”以及后文“for the purpose of turning them down”可知，两句话前后为照应关系，“大学引起学生兴趣”是为了“吸引申请者”，但又“让他们挫败失望”，即在“拒绝他们”。故画线词意思是“吸引”。故选A。
【45题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段“It’s a recognition that top scores on those tests correlate with high family income and may say more about an applicant’s economic advantages — including, say, private SAT tutoring — than about their academic potential.(人们认识到，这些考试的高分与高家庭收入有关，可能更多地说明申请人的经济优势——包括私人SAT辅导——而不是他们的学术潜力)”可知，Kathleen McCarney认为考试的高分与家庭收入相关。故选B。
【46题详解】
推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“But will Swarthmore’s applicants this year give quite as much thought regarding whether it is suitable and the right home for them I’m betting not.(但是，今年斯沃斯莫尔学院的申请者是否会像以前一样认真考虑这里是否适合他们？我打赌不会)”以及最后一段“When it’s very easy for a student to apply to yet one more college and each school is simply another desirable box of cereal on the top shelf that he or she is determined to reach, there’s inadequate thought to a tailored match, which is what the admission process should strive for. It’s what the measure of success should be.(当一个学生很容易再申请一所大学，而每一所学校都只是他或她决心要达到的另一盒理想的麦片时，就没有充分考虑量身定制的匹配，而这正是录取过程应该努力做到的。这才是衡量成功的标准)”可知，作者认为，当申请大学变得容易，申请者只会下定决心申请到这个学校，而非认真思考这所学校是否适合。即作者认为一所学校录取成功在于在申请人和学校之间找到合适的匹配。故选D。
第二节 七选五（共5个小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
【答案】17. B 18. A 19. C 20. E 21. G
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章从几个方面介绍了阅读的好处。
【17题详解】
上文“They may be distracted or bored. They may not want to focus. They may be not confident readers.(他们可能会分心或无聊。他们可能不想集中注意力。他们可能不是自信的读者)”列举了有些人不阅读的几个原因，结合空后“Here’s why.(这里是原因)”以及下文内容可知，下文描述了阅读的好处，故空处应是说不阅读的行为应该停止，下文解释原因，B项“不管是什么原因，今天它必须停止”符合语境，故选B。
【18题详解】
根据本段小标题“Reading keeps your mind active.(阅读使你的思维活跃)”下文“When people get old, their muscles begin to worsen. They get weaker and their strength leaves them. Exercise can prevent this loss. The same thing happens to people’s brains when they get older.(当人们变老时，他们的肌肉开始恶化。他们变得越来越弱，他们的力量离开了他们。运动可以防止这种损失。当人们变老时，大脑也会发生同样的事情)”可知，锻炼可以预防身体老化，大脑也会老化，但阅读可以使你的思维活跃，故阅读就像锻炼一样，可以保持大脑的活跃，A项“这对你的大脑来说就像是一种锻炼”符合语境，故选A。
【19题详解】
结合本段小标题“Reading enlarges your vocabulary.(阅读扩大你的词汇量)”下文“You will be able to speak, write, and think more wisely.(你将能够更明智地说话、写作和思考)”可知，此处是描述扩大词汇量的好处，故C项“拥有更大的词汇量可以帮助你更好地表达自己”符合语境，故选C。
【20题详解】
空处是本段小标题，根据本段内容“It can help you see things in a different light. It can make you know about the world better. You can learn how people live in faraway places. You can learn about cultures different from your own.(它可以帮助你从不同的角度看问题。它可以让你更好地了解这个世界。你可以了解远方的人们是如何生活的。你可以了解不同于你自己的文化)”可知，本段主要讲述阅读可以开阔你的视野，故E项“阅读开阔你的视野”符合语境，故选E。
【21题详解】
上文“The benefits of reading far outweigh those of acting like a stupid person.(读书的好处远远超过像个傻瓜一样行事的好处)”提到阅读有好处，空处所在句总结上文，结合空后“take as much as you can from it(你要尽可能多地从中汲取知识)”可知，此处应是说下一次在阅读时要尽量多从中汲取知识，故G项“下次你有阅读任务的时候要好好利用”符合语境，故选G。
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【答案】41. B 42. C 43. C 44.D 45. C 46. C 47. A 48. C 49. A 50. C 51. A 52. A 53. D 54. A 55. B
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇记叙文。作者因雨大，把孩子们留在车上，自己跑到商店买东西，返回后发现孩子们不见了，焦急之中发现孩子们给她开了个玩笑。
【41题详解】
考查形容词、副词词义辨析。句意：天开始下大雨，所以我决定在冲进商店之前把孩子们留在车里。A. heavy沉重的；B. hard大；C. big大的；D. hardly几乎不。根据上文“It began to rain (天开始下雨)”以及下文“I decided I would leave the children in the car (我决定把孩子留在车内)”可推理出雨下得很大，故选B项。
【42题详解】
考查连词词义辨析。句意：同上。42. A.looked into 考察，调查B. faded into逐渐消失 C. rushed into冲进 D. leapt into 跃进，突然进入。根据句意可知，作者在冲进商店之前把孩子们留在车内，故选C项。
【43题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我警告女孩们不要碰任何东西，并告诉她们我几分钟内就会回来。A. talk说；讲；B. reach伸手够到；C. hear听见；D. touch碰。根据上文“I decided I would leave the children in the car(我决定把孩子留在车内)”以及“I warned the girls not to (我警告孩子们不要……)”可知，作者把孩子们留在了车里，并警告孩子们，可推理出作者警告孩子们不要碰车里的东西，故选D项。
【44题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：同上。A. away远离；B. out外面；C. back向后；回到原处；D. along沿着。根据下文“within a few minutes. (几分钟以内)”以及“I returned to the car in less than five minutes (我不到五分钟就回到了车上)”可知作者告知孩子们很快就会返回，故选C项。
【45题详解】
考查代词词义辨析。句意：然后我锁上了所有的门，让他们开心地看着窗外。45. A. herself她自己；B. her她；C. them他们；D. themselves他们自己。根据上文“I decided I would leave the children in the car (我决定把孩子留在车内)”以及下文“happily looking out of the window. (高兴地看着窗外)”可知，作者把孩子们留在了车内，他们高兴地看着窗外，故选C项。
【46题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我不到五分钟就回到车上，但女孩们已经不见了。46. A. discovered发现；B.described描述；C.disappeared消失；D. delivered发表；提交。根据下文“on the back seat were only two coats (后座位上只有两个外套)”可知孩子们不见了，故选C项。
【47题详解】
考查名词词义辨析。句意：我不能相信我的眼睛。47. A. eyes眼睛；B. words话语；C.ears耳朵；D. heads
头。根据上文“I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had disappeared (我不到五分钟就回到车上，但女孩们已经不见了)”以及下文“The car doors were still locked, the windows tightly shut (车门仍然锁着，车窗紧闭)”可知，作者回来发现孩子们不见了，而车门仍然锁着，车窗紧闭，作者无法相信自己的眼睛，故选A项。
【48题详解】
考查副词词义辨析。句意：车门仍然锁着，车窗紧闭，后座上只有两个外套。A. even甚至；B. again再；C. still仍然；D.already已经 。根据下文“locked (锁着)”可知，作者离开的的时候车门锁着，回来的时候车门仍然锁着，故选C项。
【49题详解】
考查形容词词义辨析。句意：我吓坏了，跑到街角，那里没有他们的踪迹。49. A. frightened害怕的；B. proud自豪的；C.foolish愚蠢的；D. pleased高兴的。根据根据上文“I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had disappeared (我不到五分钟就回到车上，但女孩们已经不见了)”以及上文“The car doors were still locked, the windows tightly shut (车门仍然锁着，车窗紧闭)”可知作者返回后发现孩子们不见了，奇怪的是车门依然紧锁，感到害怕，故选A项。
【50题详解】
考查定语从句引导词辨析。句意：同上。50. A.that(关系代词，无含义)；B. which(关系代词)哪一个；C. where(关系副词，表示地点)在哪儿；D. when(关系副词，表示时间)什么时候；分析句子结构，这是一个包含定语从句的复合句，先行词是the street，因空白处在句子中作状语指地点，使用where引导定语从句，故选C项。
【51题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我感到非常害怕，坐在驾驶座上，试图停止颤抖。 A. fear害怕B. rapture 狂喜C. satisfaction 满意D. embarrassment尴尬。空白处应填“害怕”含义的动词，故选A项。
【52题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我感到非常害怕，坐在驾驶座上，试图停止颤抖。52. A. tried试图；B. had有；C. tired 使疲劳；D. ought应该。根据上文“I sat on the driver’s seat (我坐在驾驶座上)”以及下文“to stop trembling (停止发抖)”可知，作者坐在驾驶座上，试图使自己镇静下来，停止发抖，空白处应填“试图”含义的动词，故选A项。
【53题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：突然，我听到身后传来欢快的笑声。A. felt摸。B. listened听；C. smelt闻到；D. heard听到。根据下文“a merry laugh behind me (身后传来欢快的笑声)”可推理出作者听到了身后的笑声，故选D项。
【54题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：很明显，他们把后座拉了出来，爬到后座后面，然后再也推不动了。54.A.pulled out拉开B.pick out挑选C.drop out离开，退出D.put out扑灭，伸出，生产。故选A项。
【55题详解】
考查动词词义辨析。句意：我含着泪水，身体前倾，扯了扯他们的耳朵。A.look forward期待 B.leaned forward身体前倾C.fall over 摔倒D.fall apart 分崩离析。故选B项。
第Ⅱ卷（共40分）
第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。
【答案】56. connected
57. the munication 59. has reached
60. joining 61. immediately
62. on 63.are 64. who
65. to compare
【解析】
【导语】这是一篇议论文。文章介绍了微信给人们带来方便的同时，也存在着一些弊端。
【56题详解】
考查形容词。句意：随着现代技术的发展，人们可以很容易地与家人和朋友保持联系，不管他们相距多远。系动词stay后用形容词connected作表语，意为“有联系的”，stay connected with“与……保持联系”。故填connected。
【57题详解】
考查冠词。句意：微信是中国最常用的通讯方式之一。根据句意和most frequently可知，句中使用多音节副词frequently的最高级形式作状语，应加定冠词the。故填the。
【58题详解】munication
【59题详解】
考查时态及主谓一致。句意：据报道，到目前为止，微信的用户数量已经超过11亿。分析句子可知，提示词是从句谓语动词，结合时间状语so far可知，应使用现在完成时，“the number of+复数名词”作主语时，谓语动词使用第三人称单数形式。故填has reached。
【60题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：一旦加入微信，人们会发现越来越多的人开始添加他们为好友。分析句子可知，join(加入)与连词Once一起构成时间状语，应用非谓语动词，与其逻辑主语people之间是主动关系，应用现在分词，表主动。故填joining。
【61题详解】
考查副词。句意：它也非常方便，人们可以通过微信立即更新他们正在做的事情。根据句意可知，此处修饰动词update，应用副词形式immediately，意为“立即，马上”。故填immediately。
【62题详解】
考查介词。句意：然而，对微信上瘾会剥夺人们本该花在更重要事情上的时间。spend time on sth.为固定搭配，意为“花时间在……上”，句中使用了其被动语态形式time be spent on sth.。故填on。
【63题详解】are
【64题详解】
考查定语从句。句意：朋友圈里那些所谓的朋友其实并不是真正的朋友，他们只是想在朋友圈里放广告或者卖东西。分析句子可知，空格处为非限制性定语从句，修饰先行词friends，指人，关系词代替先行词在定语从句中作主语，应使用关系代词who引导。故填who。
【65题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：此外，微信上的人更有可能将自己与他人进行比较，这将使他们在发现一些人似乎很成功时感到糟糕。be likely to do...是固定搭配，意为“有可能……”。故填to compare。
第Ⅱ卷（共40分）
Ⅰ. 单词填空（共15题；每题1分，满分15分）
66. assumption 67.phenomena 68.inconvenience
69.beneficial 70.belonging 71. generosity
72.particularly 73.impact 74.surrounded by 75.evident
76. typical; feature 77.fading away
第二节作文 (满分25分)
【答案】Dear parents,
How are you doing I have just spent a meaningful and unforgettable Dragon Boat Festival with my classmates and teachers.
Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the lunar calendar. This year, it fell on June 22. It is believed that the festival is celebrated in memory of the famous ancient poet Qu Yuan. We had a three-day vacation. We watched a dragon-boat racing, which left a deep impression on me. I ate zongzi in my best friend’s home. It was so delicious. What’s more, we hung herbs on the front door to clear the bad luck of the house.
What a wonderful day! Now I have a better understanding of Chinese culture. Hopefully, you will enjoy the festival with me some day!
Yours,
Eric
【解析】
【导语】本文是应用文。假设你是在重庆新华中学就读的美国交换生Eric，刚刚在重庆度过了一个有意义的端午节（Dragon Boat Festival），现在给你的父母写一封邮件介绍端午节，要点如下：日期和起源；你参加的活动；你的感想。
【详解】1.词汇积累
有意义的：meaningful→significant
难忘的：unforgettable→memorable
为了纪念：in memory of→in honor of
此外：What’s more→Moreover
2.句式拓展
合并简单句
原句：Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the lunar calendar. This year, it fell on June 22.
拓展句：Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the lunar calendar, which fell on June 22.
【点睛】[高分句型1] It is believed that the festival is celebrated in memory of the famous ancient poet Qu Yuan. (运用了that引导的主语从句)
[高分句型2] We watched a dragon-boat racing, which left a deep impression on me.(运用了which引导的非限制性定语从句)万州二中教育集团高2023级高一下期期中联考
英语试题
第Ⅰ卷（共110分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
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。
1.What is the man probably going to do
A.Have a meal. B.Look for a hotel. C.Visit a patient.
2.Where does the woman want to stay
A.In the sea. B.On the bench. C.On the beach.
3.What does the woman imply
A.The session may have to be canceled.
B.She’s eager to attend the session.
C.She’ll he too tired to walk to the session.
4.What does the woman mean
A.Admission to the movie is free.
B.She’ll lend the man some money.
C.She’ll buy the tickets for the movie.
5.Why will the city be decorated
A.To make the city beautiful.
B.To celebrate a festival.
C.To welcome the film stars.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白,每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6.What are the two speakers talking about
A.A second-hand car. B.A machine. C.A new car.
7.How much does the man offer
A.＄1000. B.＄2000. C.＄3000.
听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。
8.Where does the conversation probably take place
A.At an art museum. B.At an art studio. C.At an art school.
9.How many paintings does the man like
A.One. B.Two. C.Three.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。
10.How did the woman first learn about the student action union
A.By attending one of their meetings.
B.Through her roommate.
C.By reading the newspaper.
11.What is the student action union trying to do
A.Secure more student parking spaces.
B.Protect an open space on campus.
C.Get more funding for their group.
12.What does the woman agree to do
A.Sign a petition(请愿书).
B.Help the man plan a student meeting.
C.Make a donation to support the group.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。
13.When should you arrive when invited to a party at 8:00 in America
A.From 8:00 to 8:30. B.From 8:30 to 9:00. C.From 9:00 to 9:30.
14.What will be provided at a party besides alcohol and food
A.Music. B.Cigarettes. C.Games.
15.What would probably be served at midnight during a party
A.Beer. B.Wine. C.Cookies.
16.What do we know about the man
A.He will attend a party.
B.He has never been to a party.
C.He is good at dancing.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。
17.Who first made the nickname “The Big Easy” popular in the early 1970s
A.A newspaper writer. B.A crime novel writer. C.A politician.
18.What is the way of life in New York City
A.Gentle and slow. B.Easy-going. C.Quick and busy.
19.Why is New Orleans called “Mardi Gras City”
A.For its yearly music festival.
B.For its wild celebrations each year.
C.For its shape.
20.Which of the following is not a nickname of New Orleans
A.NOLA.
B.The Crescent City.
C.The Birthplace of Rock and Roll.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Books That Changed My Life
Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal
Shakespeare’s Kitchen not only reveals, sometimes surprisingly, what people were eating in Shakespeare’s time but also provides recipes that today’s cooks can easily re-create with readily available ingredients.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
In this novel, Anne Eliot is the daughter of a foolish noble. Their home must be rented out and Anne goes to stay with her younger sister Mary. Here she is thrown into the company of Captain Wentworth who offered to marry Anne eight years earlier. But Anne was persuaded to turn him down. He hasn’t forgiven her. Anne is forced to watch the man she still loves attach himself to this and that pretty woman.
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Puttermesser, a woman of magic, takes some dirt from a flower pot and makes a half man and half god creature which will make her mayor of New York. During her administration, the city is free of all hate and crime, for a while. The reader who has a strong heart and stomach can stick with Puttermesser to her sad and brutal end.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dickens showed me what to do with my life. I was twelve when my mother read me David Copperfield about how David’s young mother dies and leaves him in the brutal step-father’s care. My favorite character is the young lawyer who responds to misfortune with cheerful goodness. That’s what I wanted to do.
21. Which book do you choose if you prefer a fantasy novel
A. Shakespeare s Kitchen. B. Persuasion.
C. The Puttermesser Papers. D. David Copperfield.
22. What can we learn from the books mentioned in the text
A. People cooked and ate unhealthily in Shakespeare’s time.
B. The young lawyer holds a negative attitude towards misfortune.
C. Puttermesser is likely to end up living happily with her creature.
D.Anne and Wentworth’s love story may turn out complicated.
23. Which column of a magazine can the text probably be found
A. Tourism. B. Literature. C. Sports. D. Entertainment.
B
Every summer, as a child, I spent with my parents the annual family holiday, flying away from our home in the West Midlands to their birthplace in Ireland.
I enjoyed it, but once, I behaved differently and left home. Package tours and long-distance flights became my idea of a holiday. I then went and ran into an Englishman who also came of Irish stock, and we both felt the urge to renew our knowledge of Ireland.
It was important for us to discover something different from our childhood visits. So that’s how we came to drive along the winding St John’s Point Peninsula (半岛) in Donegal, part of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, to visit a unique part of the 20th-century history — the Donegal Corridor.
When anyone drives to the point where the land runs out, he sees giant white stones fixed firmly in green grass spelling out “EIRE” and “70”, while the Atlantic wind fiercely blows across the headland and the ice-white waves smash into the rocks below. The meaning behind the stones They date back to the Second World War when St John’s Point was number 70 in a total of 83 Look Out Points (LOPs), observation stations set up and maintained by Ireland all around its coast.
There lies a bit of curious UK-Ireland history. Although Ireland was officially neutral during the war, the Battle of the Atlantic was being fought close to Irish shores, and these LOPs, staffed by local volunteers known as Coast watchers, passed on information on activities connected with the sea and weather fronts to London.
At St John’s Point, we were standing right under the Donegal Corridor, a long narrow area of airspace in which Ireland ensured safe passage during World War II to planes in the RAF (Royal Air Force) from bases in the UK-governed North of Ireland. The stone markings acted as reference points to aircrews.
Standing on this rough area of land surrounded by the wild and windy ocean brought home to us the conditions in which the Coast watchers and aircrews in the RAF cooperated in a shared history.
I revolted against my family tradition that summer, and I fulfilled my aim of discovering something new and absorbed all Donegal has to offer: empty golden beaches, mysterious ancient stone circles, folk music and crafts, and tasty food. I had fallen in love with Ireland all over again.
24. What can we learn about the author from paragraphs 1 to 3
A. She met a childhood friend from Ireland that year.
B. She explored the Wild Atlantic Way with her family members.
C. She took package tours and long-distance flights every year.
D.She and that Englishman both had Irish ancestors.
25. The expression “revolted against” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. worried about B. passed on C. celebrated D. disobeyed
26. The giant white stones were important during WWII because .
A. they functioned as reference points to aircrews in the RAF
B. weather information from the UK was sent through them
C.the Battle of the Atlantic took place right close to them
D. they ranked at the top in the 83 LOPs around the Irish coast
27. Which might be the best title of the passage
A. A Global Journey B. Escaping from the West Midlands
C. Happy Holidays D. Discovering Undiscovered Donegal
C
When music comes on, some people are toe-lappers or head-bobbers, others shake their hips，and then there are those who let the rhythm move them to a full-body boogie (布吉舞) . But, whatever it is, the way we dance to a beat is so noticeable to an individual that a computer can now identify us by our unique dancing “fingerprint”.
Researchers at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research at Finland's University of Jyv skyl have been using motion capture (动作捕捉) technology to study what a person's dance moves say about his or her mood, personality, and ability to sympathize. They recently made an accidental discovery while trying to see if an ML machine, a form of artificial intelligence, would be able to identify which kind of music was playing based on how the participants of the study were dancing. In their study, the researchers motion captured 73 participants with the AI technology while they danced to eight different music genres: electronica, jazz, metal, pop, rap, reggae, country, and blues. The only instruction the dancers were given was to move in a way that felt natural.
But what it could do was more shocking. The computer was able to correctly identify which music one of the participants was dancing to 94 percent of the time, regardless of what kind of music was playing, based on the pattern of a person's dance style. It was the movement of participants’ heads, shoulders and knees that were important markers in distinguishing between individual. “It seems as though a person’s dance movements a kind of fingerprint. Each person has a unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is playing,” said Pasi Saari, a co-author of the study, in a class.
It’s possible that dance-recognition software could become something similar to face-recognition software but it doesn’t seem as practical. For now, researchers say that they are not as interested in possible surveillance (监视) uses of this technology, but rather what the results of this study say about how humans respond to music. So don’t worry about being identified at nightclub by an AI via your signature dance moves yet.
28. What did the researchers expect to do with the ML machine
A. Test the dancers’ flexibility.
B. Make dancers accustomed to the beat.
C. Check the accuracy of motion capture technology.
D. Identify the music using dancers' moves.
29. What might not help the AI technology determine a dancer’s identity
A. Head movement. B. Foot movement.
C. Knee movement. D. Shoulder movement.
30. What do researchers want to use the results for
A. Learning about the human response to music.
B. Programming it to work at nightclub.
C.Putting it on the application market.
D. Developing a software like face-recognition.
31. What can be the best title of the text
A. New AI can identify you by your dancing “fingerprint”.
B. New AI can generate your next dance move.
C. A dance-recognition software will become more popular.
D. A music style matters less than its beat.
D
Between the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school nationally renowned for its academic rigor, changed the requirements for students for admission into its next freshman class. It made filling out the proper forms easier.
Swarthmore is hardly alone in the desire to eliminate（消除） obstacles for a bounty of applicants. Over the last decade, many elite colleges have adjusted their applications in ways that remove disincentives and maximize the odds that the number of students contesting to get in remains robust — or, even better, grows larger.
In one sense, that’s an egalitarian (平等主义的) approach worth compliment and a sensible attempt to be sure that no qualified candidate is missed. But there’s often a less pure motive in play. In our increasingly status-oriented society, a school’s reputation is improved by a low acceptance rate, which can even influence how U. S. News & World Report ranks it. And unless a school is shrinking the size of its students body, the only way to bring its acceptance rate down is to get its number of applicants up. So, many colleges methodically generate interest only to frustrate it. They woo applicants for the purpose of turning them down.
And there can be other justifications for what looks like a loosening of application demands. Smith College and several other similarly prominent colleges no longer require the SAT or ACT, and Kathleen McCarney, the president of Smith College, said that that’s not a bid for more applicants. It’s a recognition that top scores on those tests correlate with high family income and may say more about an applicant’s economic advantages — including, say, private SAT tutoring — than about their academic potential.
Jim Bock, Swarthmore’s dean of admissions, said that by lightening the essay load for its current applicants, the college was less concerned about increasing its overall number of applicants than about making sure candidates of great merit didn’t miss out on Swarthmore and vice versa. He mentioned the hypothetical example of a high school student from a low-income family who works 10 or more hours a day and doesn’t have sufficient time to do different essays for different schools.
But will Swarthmore’s applicants this year give quite as much thought regarding whether it is suitable and the right home for them I’m betting not.
When it’s very easy for a student to apply to yet one more college and each school is simply another desirable box of cereal on the top shelf that he or she is determined to reach. there’s inadequate thought to a tailored match, which is what the admission process should strive for. It’s what the measure of success should be.
32. What changes has Swarthmore College made in the application process
A. It simplified its application procedure.
B. It lowered its requirements for admission.
C. It expanded the size of its next freshman class.
D. It eliminated obstacles for minority applicants.
33. The underlined word “woo” (Para.3) is closest in meaning to _________.
A. pursue B.respect C. impose D. cheat
34. Kathleen McCarney holds that the results of the SAT or ACT _________.
A. should pay an essential role in the admissions process
B. are closely related to test-takers’ family income levels
C. reflect test-takers’ academic potential to a large extent
D. conceal the uneven distribution of educational resources
35. According to the author, the success of a school’s admission process lies in _________.
A. improving the school’s reputation nationwide
B. increasing the overall number of applicants for the school
C. recruiting as many genuine students as possible
D. making suitable matches between applicants and the school
第二节（共5个小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
Did you know that some people don’t do their reading tasks It’s shocking, but it’s true. Some students don’t even read short texts they are given in class. There are many reasons for this. They may be distracted or bored. They may not want to focus. They may be not confident readers. ____36____ Here’s why.
Reading keeps your mind active.
____37____ When people get old, their muscles begin to worsen. They get weaker and their strength leaves them. Exercise can prevent this loss. The same thing happens to people’s brains when they get older.
Reading enlarges your vocabulary.
Even a “boring” text can teach you new words. ____38____ You will be able to speak, write, and think more wisely. What’s boring about that Do not just discount (低估) a text because it is unfamiliar to you. Each time you read, you are exposed (接触) to new ideas.
____39____
It can help you see things in a different light. It can make you know about the world better. You can learn how people live in faraway places. You can learn about cultures different from your own.
Reading benefits your state of mind.
It has a calming effect. It can lower your stress levels and help you relax. You can take a break from your troubles for a moment when you read, and it’s a positive break.
The benefits of reading far outweigh those of acting like a stupid person. So keep in mind: ____40____, take as much as you can from it.
A.It is like a workout for your brain.
B. Whatever the reason is, it has to stop today.
C. Having a larger vocabulary will help you better express yourself.
D. if you find it is difficult to accept reading
E. Reading broadens your view.
F. Reading encourages you to communicate well with others.
G.the next time you get a reading task
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last Tuesday I took my two daughters to town by car. It began to rain ____41____so I decided I would leave the children in the car before I ____42____ a shop. I told them not to ____43____anything and told them I would be ____44____within a few minutes. Then I locked all the doors and left ____45____ happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had ____46____! I could hardly believe my____47____. The car doors were ____48____locked, the windows tightly shut and on the back seat were only two coats. Being _____49_____, I ran to the corner of the street_____50_____there was no sign of them. I rushed up to an old lady nearby and asked whether she had seen two small girls but she said “No”.
Feeling quite sick with _____51_____, I sat on the driver’s seat, and _____52___to stop trembling (发抖). Suddenly, I____53_____a merry laugh behind me. I got out of the car, ran round to open the boot (车尾行李箱) and inside were two very red-face and excited children. They had obviously ______54_____ the back seat, climbed behind it and then been unable to push the seat forward again. With tears in my eyes, I ______55_____ and pulled their ears.
41. A. heavy B. hard C. big D. hardly
42. A.looked into B. faded into C. rushed into D. leapt into
43. A. talk B. reach C.touch D. hear
44. A. away B. out C.along D. back
45. A. herself B. her C. them D. themselves
46. A. discovered B.described C.disappeared D. delivered
47. A. eyes B. words C.ears D. heads
48. A. even B. again C.still D. already
49. A. frightened B. proud C.foolish D. pleased
50. A.that B. which C. where D. when
51. A. fear B. rapture C. satisfaction D. embarrassment
52. A. tried B. had C. tired D. ought
53. A. felt B. listened C. smelt D. heard
54.A.pulled out B.pick out C.drop out D.put out
55.A.look forward B.leaned forward C.fall over D.fall apart
第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。
With the development of modem technology, people can stay ____56____ (connect) with their families and friends easily, however far apart they are from each other. WeChat is one of ____57____ most frequently used means of ______58_______ (communicate) in China. It is reported that the number of the WeChat users ____59____ (reach) over 1.1 billion so far.
Once ____60____ (join) the WeChat, people can find more and more people start to add them as friends. They don’t have to consider time zones when communicating. Another reason why it becomes so popular is that it costs nothing. It’s also very convenient for people to ____61____ (immediate) update what they are doing by WeChat.
However, addiction to WeChat will rob people of the time that should otherwise be spent ___62___ something more important. And the many so-called friends on it ____63____(be) not really friends at all, ____64____ simply want to put ads or sell items on Moments. Besides, people on the Wechat are more likely ____65____ (compare) themselves with others, which will make them feel bad when finding some people seem to be successful.
第Ⅱ卷（共40分）
第一节 单词填空（共15题；每题1分，满分15分）
66. His actions were based on a false ____________(设想）。
67. The object of these experiments was to find the connection between the two _____________（现象）.
68. We apologize for any ____________ (不方便) caused during the repairs.
69. Having green spaces in a city is very b____________ for urban residents. 70. Jane and her colleagues looked at 3200-year-old fossil bones b________(属于) to a single individual of an extinct cattle species.
71. These charities depend on the compassionate feelings and g________(慷慨) of the general public.
72. Traffic is bad outside the school gate, p______ at 7:15 am, when the students are rushing in from every direction.
73.Her speech had a profound i on everyone.
74. I found myself ______ _____(包围) large numbers of horses.
75.It is e_________ that barriers still exist for women in the work place.
76. 这不是典型的中文，而是泰语的一个特点。
This is not _________ of Chinese, but is a _________ of the Thai language。
77.达成协议的希望看来已经逐渐渺茫。
Hopes of reaching an agreement seem to be _________ _________.
第二节 作文 (满分25分)
假设你是在重庆新华中学就读的美国交换生Eric，刚刚在重庆度过了一个有意义的端午节（Dragon Boat Festival），现在给你的父母写一封邮件介绍端午节，要点如下：
(1)日期和起源；(2)你参加的活动；(3)你的感想。
注意：(1)词数100左右；(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；(3)开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：dragon-boat racing 划龙舟 zongzi 粽子 herb 香草
Dear parents,
How are you doing
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Eric万州二中教育集团高 2023 级高一下期期中联考
英语试题
第Ⅰ卷（共 110 分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节（共 5小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）
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。
1.What is the man probably going to do
A.Have a meal. B.Look for a hotel. C.Visit a patient.
2.Where does the woman want to stay
A.In the sea. B.On the bench. C.On the beach.
3.What does the woman imply
A.The session may have to be canceled.
B.She’s eager to attend the session.
C.She’ll he too tired to walk to the session.
4.What does the woman mean
A.Admission to the movie is free.
B.She’ll lend the man some money.
C.She’ll buy the tickets for the movie.
5.Why will the city be decorated
A.To make the city beautiful.
B.To celebrate a festival.
C.To welcome the film stars.
第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）
听下面 5段对话或独白,每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每
小题 5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第 6和第 7两个小题。
6.What are the two speakers talking about
A.A second-hand car. B.A machine. C.A new car.
7.How much does the man offer
A.＄1000. B.＄2000. C.＄3000.
听下面一段对话，回答第 8和第 9两个小题。
8.Where does the conversation probably take place
A.At an art museum. B.At an art studio. C.At an art school.
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9.How many paintings does the man like
A.One. B.Two. C.Three.
听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。
10.How did the woman first learn about the student action union
A.By attending one of their meetings.
B.Through her roommate.
C.By reading the newspaper.
11.What is the student action union trying to do
A.Secure more student parking spaces.
B.Protect an open space on campus.
C.Get more funding for their group.
12.What does the woman agree to do
A.Sign a petition(请愿书).
B.Help the man plan a student meeting.
C.Make a donation to support the group.
听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。
13.When should you arrive when invited to a party at 8:00 in America
A.From 8:00 to 8:30. B.From 8:30 to 9:00. C.From 9:00 to 9:30.
14.What will be provided at a party besides alcohol and food
A.Music. B.Cigarettes. C.Games.
15.What would probably be served at midnight during a party
A.Beer. B.Wine. C.Cookies.
16.What do we know about the man
A.He will attend a party.
B.He has never been to a party.
C.He is good at dancing.
听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。
17.Who first made the nickname “The Big Easy” popular in the early 1970s
A.A newspaper writer. B.A crime novel writer. C.A politician.
18.What is the way of life in New York City
A.Gentle and slow. B.Easy-going. C.Quick and busy.
19.Why is New Orleans called “Mardi Gras City”
A.For its yearly music festival.
B.For its wild celebrations each year.
C.For its shape.
20.Which of the following is not a nickname of New Orleans
A.NOLA.
B.The Crescent City.
C.The Birthplace of Rock and Roll.
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第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 50 分）
第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 A、B、C 和 D 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该
项涂黑。
A
Books That Changed My Life
Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal
Shakespeare’s Kitchen not only reveals, sometimes surprisingly, what people were eating in
Shakespeare’s time but also provides recipes that today’s cooks can easily re-create with readily
available ingredients.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
In this novel, Anne Eliot is the daughter of a foolish noble. Their home must be rented out and
Anne goes to stay with her younger sister Mary. Here she is thrown into the company of Captain
Wentworth who offered to marry Anne eight years earlier. But Anne was persuaded to turn him
down. He hasn’t forgiven her. Anne is forced to watch the man she still loves attach himself to this
and that pretty woman.
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Puttermesser, a woman of magic, takes some dirt from a flower pot and makes a half man and
half god creature which will make her mayor of New York. During her administration, the city is
free of all hate and crime, for a while. The reader who has a strong heart and stomach can stick with
Puttermesser to her sad and brutal end.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dickens showed me what to do with my life. I was twelve when my mother read me David
Copperfield about how David’s young mother dies and leaves him in the brutal step-father’s care.
My favorite character is the young lawyer who responds to misfortune with cheerful goodness.
That’s what I wanted to do.
21. Which book do you choose if you prefer a fantasy novel
A. Shakespeare s Kitchen. B. Persuasion.
C. The Puttermesser Papers. D. David Copperfield.
22. What can we learn from the books mentioned in the text
A. People cooked and ate unhealthily in Shakespeare’s time.
B. The young lawyer holds a negative attitude towards misfortune.
C. Puttermesser is likely to end up living happily with her creature.
D.Anne and Wentworth’s love story may turn out complicated.
23. Which column of a magazine can the text probably be found
A. Tourism. B. Literature. C. Sports. D. Entertainment.
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B
Every summer, as a child, I spent with my parents the annual family holiday, flying away from
our home in the West Midlands to their birthplace in Ireland.
I enjoyed it, but once, I behaved differently and left home. Package tours and long-distance
flights became my idea of a holiday. I then went and ran into an Englishman who also came of Irish
stock, and we both felt the urge to renew our knowledge of Ireland.
It was important for us to discover something different from our childhood visits. So that’s how
we came to drive along the winding St John’s Point Peninsula (半岛) in Donegal, part of Ireland’s
Wild Atlantic Way, to visit a unique part of the 20th-century history — the Donegal Corridor.
When anyone drives to the point where the land runs out, he sees giant white stones fixed
firmly in green grass spelling out “EIRE” and “70”, while the Atlantic wind fiercely blows across
the headland and the ice-white waves smash into the rocks below. The meaning behind the stones
They date back to the Second World War when St John’s Point was number 70 in a total of 83 Look
Out Points (LOPs), observation stations set up and maintained by Ireland all around its coast.
There lies a bit of curious UK-Ireland history. Although Ireland was officially neutral during
the war, the Battle of the Atlantic was being fought close to Irish shores, and these LOPs, staffed by
local volunteers known as Coast watchers, passed on information on activities connected with the
sea and weather fronts to London.
At St John’s Point, we were standing right under the Donegal Corridor, a long narrow area of
airspace in which Ireland ensured safe passage during World War II to planes in the RAF (Royal Air
Force) from bases in the UK-governed North of Ireland. The stone markings acted as reference
points to aircrews.
Standing on this rough area of land surrounded by the wild and windy ocean brought home to
us the conditions in which the Coast watchers and aircrews in the RAF cooperated in a shared
history.
I revolted against my family tradition that summer, and I fulfilled my aim of discovering
something new and absorbed all Donegal has to offer: empty golden beaches, mysterious ancient
stone circles, folk music and crafts, and tasty food. I had fallen in love with Ireland all over again.
24. What can we learn about the author from paragraphs 1 to 3
A. She met a childhood friend from Ireland that year.
B. She explored the Wild Atlantic Way with her family members.
C. She took package tours and long-distance flights every year.
D.She and that Englishman both had Irish ancestors.
25. The expression “revolted against” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. worried about B. passed on C. celebrated D. disobeyed
26. The giant white stones were important during WWII because .
A. they functioned as reference points to aircrews in the RAF
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B. weather information from the UK was sent through them
C.the Battle of the Atlantic took place right close to them
D. they ranked at the top in the 83 LOPs around the Irish coast
27. Which might be the best title of the passage
A. A Global Journey B. Escaping from the West Midlands
C. Happy Holidays D. Discovering Undiscovered Donegal
C
When music comes on, some people are toe-lappers or head-bobbers, others shake their hips，
and then there are those who let the rhythm move them to a full-body boogie (布吉舞) . But,
whatever it is, the way we dance to a beat is so noticeable to an individual that a computer can now
identify us by our unique dancing “fingerprint”.
Researchers at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research at Finland's University of Jyv
skyl have been using motion capture (动作捕捉) technology to study what a person's dance moves
say about his or her mood, personality, and ability to sympathize. They recently made an accidental
discovery while trying to see if an MLmachine, a form of artificial intelligence, would be able to
identify which kind of music was playing based on how the participants of the study were dancing.
In their study, the researchers motion captured 73 participants with the AI technology while they
danced to eight different music genres: electronica, jazz, metal, pop, rap, reggae, country, and blues.
The only instruction the dancers were given was to move in a way that felt natural.
But what it could do was more shocking. The computer was able to correctly identify which
music one of the participants was dancing to 94 percent of the time, regardless of what kind of
music was playing, based on the pattern of a person's dance style. It was the movement of
participants’ heads, shoulders and knees that were important markers in distinguishing between
individual. “It seems as though a person’s dance movements a kind of fingerprint. Each person has a
unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is playing,” said Pasi
Saari, a co-author of the study, in a class.
It’s possible that dance-recognition software could become something similar to
face-recognition software but it doesn’t seem as practical. For now, researchers say that they are not
as interested in possible surveillance (监视) uses of this technology, but rather what the results of
this study say about how humans respond to music. So don’t worry about being identified at
nightclub by an AI via your signature dance moves yet.
28. What did the researchers expect to do with the MLmachine
A. Test the dancers’ flexibility.
B. Make dancers accustomed to the beat.
C. Check the accuracy of motion capture technology.
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D. Identify the music using dancers' moves.
29. What might not help the AI technology determine a dancer’s identity
A. Head movement. B. Foot movement.
C. Knee movement. D. Shoulder movement.
30. What do researchers want to use the results for
A. Learning about the human response to music.
B. Programming it to work at nightclub.
C.Putting it on the application market.
D. Developing a software like face-recognition.
31. What can be the best title of the text
A. NewAI can identify you by your dancing “fingerprint”.
B. NewAI can generate your next dance move.
C. A dance-recognition software will become more popular.
D. Amusic style matters less than its beat.
D
Between the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school
nationally renowned for its academic rigor, changed the requirements for students for admission
into its next freshman class. It made filling out the proper forms easier.
Swarthmore is hardly alone in the desire to eliminate（消除） obstacles for a bounty of
applicants. Over the last decade, many elite colleges have adjusted their applications in ways that
remove disincentives and maximize the odds that the number of students contesting to get in
remains robust— or, even better, grows larger.
In one sense, that’s an egalitarian (平等主义的) approach worth compliment and a sensible
attempt to be sure that no qualified candidate is missed. But there’s often a less pure motive in play.
In our increasingly status-oriented society, a school’s reputation is improved by a low acceptance
rate, which can even influence how U. S. News &World Report ranks it. And unless a school is
shrinking the size of its students body, the only way to bring its acceptance rate down is to get its
number of applicants up. So, many colleges methodically generate interest only to frustrate it. They
woo applicants for the purpose of turning them down.
And there can be other justifications for what looks like a loosening of application demands.
Smith College and several other similarly prominent colleges no longer require the SAT or ACT,
and Kathleen McCarney, the president of Smith College, said that that’s not a bid for more
applicants. It’s a recognition that top scores on those tests correlate with high family income and
may say more about an applicant’s economic advantages— including, say, private SAT tutoring—
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than about their academic potential.
Jim Bock, Swarthmore’s dean of admissions, said that by lightening the essay load for its
current applicants, the college was less concerned about increasing its overall number of applicants
than about making sure candidates of great merit didn’t miss out on Swarthmore and vice versa. He
mentioned the hypothetical example of a high school student from a low-income family who works
10 or more hours a day and doesn’t have sufficient time to do different essays for different schools.
But will Swarthmore’s applicants this year give quite as much thought regarding whether it is
suitable and the right home for them I’m betting not.
When it’s very easy for a student to apply to yet one more college and each school is simply
another desirable box of cereal on the top shelf that he or she is determined to reach. there’s
inadequate thought to a tailored match, which is what the admission process should strive for. It’s
what the measure of success should be.
32. What changes has Swarthmore College made in the application process
A. It simplified its application procedure.
B. It lowered its requirements for admission.
C. It expanded the size of its next freshman class.
D. It eliminated obstacles for minority applicants.
33. The underlined word “woo” (Para.3) is closest in meaning to _________.
A. pursue B.respect C. impose D. cheat
34. Kathleen McCarney holds that the results of the SAT or ACT _________.
A. should pay an essential role in the admissions process
B. are closely related to test-takers’ family income levels
C. reflect test-takers’ academic potential to a large extent
D. conceal the uneven distribution of educational resources
35. According to the author, the success of a school’s admission process lies in _________.
A. improving the school’s reputation nationwide
B. increasing the overall number of applicants for the school
C. recruiting as many genuine students as possible
D. making suitable matches between applicants and the school
第二节（共 5个小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。
Did you know that some people don’t do their reading tasks It’s shocking, but it’s true. Some
students don’t even read short texts they are given in class. There are many reasons for this. They
may be distracted or bored. They may not want to focus. They may be not confident readers.
____36____ Here’s why.
Reading keeps your mind active.
____37____ When people get old, their muscles begin to worsen. They get weaker and their
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strength leaves them. Exercise can prevent this loss. The same thing happens to people’s brains
when they get older.
Reading enlarges your vocabulary.
Even a “boring” text can teach you new words. ____38____ You will be able to speak, write,
and think more wisely. What’s boring about that Do not just discount (低估) a text because it is
unfamiliar to you. Each time you read, you are exposed (接触) to new ideas.
____39____
It can help you see things in a different light. It can make you know about the world better. You
can learn how people live in faraway places. You can learn about cultures different from your own.
Reading benefits your state of mind.
It has a calming effect. It can lower your stress levels and help you relax. You can take a break
from your troubles for a moment when you read, and it’s a positive break.
The benefits of reading far outweigh those of acting like a stupid person. So keep in mind:
____40____, take as much as you can from it.
A.It is like a workout for your brain.
B. Whatever the reason is, it has to stop today.
C. Having a larger vocabulary will help you better express yourself.
D. if you find it is difficult to accept reading
E. Reading broadens your view.
F. Reading encourages you to communicate well with others.
G.the next time you get a reading task
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）
第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last Tuesday I took my two daughters to town by car. It began to rain ____41____so I decided
I would leave the children in the car before I ____42____ a shop. I told them not to
____43____anything and told them I would be ____44____within a few minutes. Then I locked all
the doors and left ____45____ happily looking out of the window.
I returned to the car in less than five minutes but the girls had ____46____! I could hardly
believe my____47____. The car doors were ____48____locked, the windows tightly shut and on
the back seat were only two coats. Being _____49_____, I ran to the corner of the
street_____50_____there was no sign of them. I rushed up to an old lady nearby and asked whether
she had seen two small girls but she said“No”.
Feeling quite sick with _____51_____, I sat on the driver’s seat, and _____52___to stop
trembling (发抖). Suddenly, I____53_____a merry laugh behind me. I got out of the car, ran round
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to open the boot (车尾行李箱) and inside were two very red-face and excited children. They had
obviously ______54_____ the back seat, climbed behind it and then been unable to push the seat
forward again. With tears in my eyes, I ______55_____ and pulled their ears.
41. A. heavy B. hard C. big D. hardly
42. A.looked into B. faded into C. rushed into D. leapt into
43. A. talk B. reach C.touch D. hear
44. A. away B. out C.along D. back
45. A. herself B. her C. them D. themselves
46. A. discovered B.described C.disappeared D. delivered
47. A. eyes B. words C.ears D. heads
48. A. even B. again C.still D. already
49. A. frightened B. proud C.foolish D. pleased
50. A.that B. which C. where D. when
51. A. fear B. rapture C. satisfaction D. embarrassment
52. A. tried B. had C. tired D. ought
53. A. felt B. listened C. smelt D. heard
54.A.pulled out B.pick out C.drop out D.put out
55.A.look forward B.leaned forward C.fall over D.fall apart
第二节 语法填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入 1个恰当的单词或者括号内单词的正确形式。
With the development of modem technology, people can stay ____56____ (connect) with their
families and friends easily, however far apart they are from each other. WeChat is one of
____57____ most frequently used means of ______58_______ (communicate) in China. It is
reported that the number of the WeChat users ____59____ (reach) over 1.1 billion so far.
Once ____60____ (join) the WeChat, people can find more and more people start to add them
as friends. They don’t have to consider time zones when communicating. Another reason why it
becomes so popular is that it costs nothing. It’s also very convenient for people to ____61____
(immediate) update what they are doing by WeChat.
However, addiction to WeChat will rob people of the time that should otherwise be spent
___62___ something more important. And the many so-called friends on it ____63____(be) not
really friends at all, ____64____ simply want to put ads or sell items on Moments. Besides, people
on the Wechat are more likely ____65____ (compare) themselves with others, which will make
them feel bad when finding some people seem to be successful.
第Ⅱ卷（共 40 分）
第一节 单词填空（共 15 题；每题 1分，满分 15 分）
66. His actions were based on a false ____________(设想）。
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67. The object of these experiments was to find the connection between the two _____________（现
象）.
68. We apologize for any ____________ (不方便) caused during the repairs.
69. Having green spaces in a city is very b____________ for urban residents. 70. Jane and her
colleagues looked at 3200-year-old fossil bones b________(属于 ) to a single individual of an
extinct cattle species.
71. These charities depend on the compassionate feelings and g________(慷慨 ) of the general
public.
72. Traffic is bad outside the school gate, p______ at 7:15 am, when the students are rushing in
from every direction.
73.Her speech had a profound i on everyone.
74. I found myself ______ _____(包围) large numbers of horses.
75.It is e_________ that barriers still exist for women in the work place.
76. 这不是典型的中文，而是泰语的一个特点。
This is not _________ of Chinese, but is a _________ of the Thai language。
77.达成协议的希望看来已经逐渐渺茫。
Hopes of reaching an agreement seem to be _________ _________.
第二节 作文 (满分 25 分)
假设你是在重庆新华中学就读的美国交换生 Eric，刚刚在重庆度过了一个有意义的端午节
（Dragon Boat Festival），现在给你的父母写一封邮件介绍端午节，要点如下：
(1)日期和起源；(2)你参加的活动；(3)你的感想。
注意：(1)词数 100左右；(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；(3)开头已给出，不计
入总词数。
参考词汇：dragon-boat racing 划龙舟 zongzi 粽子 herb 香草
Dear parents,
How are you doing
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Eric
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